Feng Yi and Kong Xirong left, and the night was already dark.
Han Qian wanted to rest, but his mind was full of things, so he sat in the yard and asked Zhao Ting'er to make tea.
Xi Rong, who was sitting aside and reading a book out of boredom, suddenly stood up, like a female leopard about to pounce out and knock its prey to the ground.
Han Qian looked up and saw a figure squatting on the wall of the courtyard. His petite face was covered with a black cloth, but those eyes as deep as stars were undoubtedly Yao Xishui. He put down the teacup in his hand and signaled that he would wake up from the outer courtyard.
The guard who came over ignored what was going on here, stood up, stretched, and asked:
"Miss Yao is really so anxious to see me alone?"
"Why do you want to submit a letter to ask your adoptive father to serve as military supervisor in Xuzhou?" Yao Xishui did not jump off the courtyard wall, but squatted quietly on the wall like a nimble civet cat and asked.
"I need someone in Xuzhou who can lure out all the forces secretly resisting my father and son. Except for Mr. Zhang, there is no other suitable candidate for the time being." Han Qian said without concealing anything.
"You and your son are already the local overlords of Xuzhou. Will you really help Emperor Blessed to seize Tanzhou?" Even though he knew Han Daoxun and Han Qian's overall plan, Yao Xishui still had doubts about Han Qian's true intentions.
"Xuzhou is under the jurisdiction of the ancient Yelang Kingdom. Has Miss Yao ever heard of the word Yelang is arrogant?" Han Qian asked rhetorically.
Han Qian meant that he would not be so arrogant that Yelang would dare to fight against the imperial court by occupying Xuzhou, but Yao Xishui did not quite believe it.
"If you want to send more spies to Xuzhou, I won't definitely not allow it, but I hope you can inform me in advance. If something happens next and your people are accidentally injured, I won't be able to forgive you, right?"
Han Qian said again.
Yao Xishui did not respond to these words, and disappeared into the night like a civet cat...
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The camp and the land clearing were all under the jurisdiction of Han Qian. Feng Yi and Kong Xirong woke up early in the morning and followed their brother Feng Liao out to Furong Garden. They saw Han Qian was sending Zhao Kuo, Han Laoshan, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others
People were summoned to the east courtyard to give instructions.
Feng Liao thought about avoiding Feng Yi and Kong Xirong first, but Han Qian stopped them and said, "You guys wait here for a while."
Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong stood aside and listened to Han Qian tell Han Laoshan to do something:
"Although who should be appointed as the military supervisor is decided by the imperial court and not by us. However, in order to avoid traveling back and forth, it is only natural that Mr. Zhang Ping and Zhang will stay in Qianyang City on standby. The county.
The guards of the palace still have to escort my father's memorial to Jinling. In order to prevent possible misfortune to Mr. Zhang Ping, please find a building adjacent to this courtyard in the alley east of Furong Garden.
Lord Zhang Ping and Zhang and the others have moved in temporarily, and the guards at Furong Garden will also be responsible for this."
"Then it would be better to just imprison Zhang Ping, the eunuch." Feng Yi muttered in a low voice.
Feng Liao stretched out his hand and tugged on Feng Yi's sleeve, asking him to be careful when he spoke. After all, they were living under someone else's roof. Han Qian seemed to treat them as friends, but in the end it was the Han family and his son who had not yet fully established themselves in Xuzhou.
, but their Feng family still has some uses.
They themselves need to be able to figure out the appropriateness here.
After giving instructions, Han Qian asked Han Laoshan to leave first and called Feng Liao, Zhao Kuo, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others to sit down in the back room.
Zhao Kuo and Gao Shao's sihu and judicial officers had to wait until the imperial court had surrendered before they could be officially appointed, but Han Qian obviously couldn't have the patience to wait another month or two.
Everything must be pushed out as quickly as possible.
The current state judicial officer is Feng Changyu's eldest son, Feng Jin, who is in charge of prisons, arresting and stealing, and other matters. State prison matters are also within the jurisdiction of the state judicial officer.
Han Qian sent Gao Shao to serve as a judicial officer and join the army. In addition to the matters of jailing and arresting thieves, he also wanted to incorporate the four major surnames, the large guest families, the infiltration of people in Tanzhou, and the surveillance inside and outside Qianyang City into the law.
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In addition, forcing the clearing of land and other matters will inevitably encounter resistance. Han Qian cannot directly use the elite of the camp to carry out bloody suppression when encountering any situation.
Qingzhang Tianmu will start with the guest registration in Qianyang County. However, as long as the large guest households do not gather to engage in armed confrontation, Han Qian will not be able to send out elite troops to suppress it. In most cases, even if it involves arrest and interrogation, it will be necessary.
It was Fa Cao who came forward.
The affairs, responsibilities and even authority that the Fa Cao had to bear were extremely heavy. In addition to Feng Yi, Han Qian also transferred Guo Nuer, Guo Queer and others to Gao Shao.
Hucao was actually responsible for clearing land and other matters, which was mainly technical work and required technical subordinates from Dali.
A considerable number of Zuosi's generals and their children were left in Jinling. It was hard for Han Qian to expect them to charge into battle regardless of their own safety, but as ordinary subordinates, the elite scouts trained by Zuosi were all qualified, and even most of Zuosi's
The younger generation all mastered the art of surveying and mapping.
Zhao Kuo and Feng Liao took charge of the affairs of the Hucao. They selected twenty or thirty people from the Feng family's slaves, and then transferred seventy or eighty people from the Wuliuxi construction site. The Hucao now had more than a hundred junior subordinates responsible for cleaning up the abbot.
Acres.
Measuring acres of land is one of them, but in addition to this year's land tax collection according to the new law, those who had hidden fields and small households for autumn grain last year will have to make up for the tax according to the newly measured acres.
"Replenishing the autumn grain supply?" Feng Liao said hesitantly, "Is this going to cause trouble?"
Feng Liao had served as an official in Yuezhou Prefecture and County for a long time and was very knowledgeable about practical matters. He speculated that the Han family and his son were so radical in promoting the land tax reform because they were short of money and food. However, he was also worried that doing so would destroy the Han family and his son's foundation in Xuzhou.
becomes more precarious.
In addition to alerting the enemy, there are only 25,000 dan left in the warehouses of Wuqiaoxi, Longya City and Qianyang City. Without the supplementary collection of last year's land tax and tax, they will not be able to survive until May, let alone wait.
This year’s field tax is here to stay.
"Without bloodshed, how could my father and son stand firm in Xuzhou?" Han Qian waved his hand to erase Feng Liao's doubts and told him to just cooperate with Zhao Kuo.
Hearing Han Qian's words, Feng Liao's heart trembled, and without saying anything more, he resigned with Gao Shao, Zhao Kuo and others, and immediately went to the state government office to take over the relevant power and move forward with the matter of clearing the land.
The soldiers and horses previously controlled in Xuzhou were divided into prison camps, state camps and water camps. They are now reorganized into the first, second and third battalions. They are just renamed. Tian Cheng, Xi Chang and Yang Qin
, Lin Zongjing, Zhao Qi and others will also officially serve as battalion commanders, deputy commanders and other generals - Lin Haizheng will serve as the chief engineer and join the army, Chen Jijian, Du Junyi, Zheng Tong and others will serve as engineers, craftsmen camp, and labor camp.
Even the Wufengshan Plantation and the construction, cultivation, craftsmanship and other tasks undertaken by it were merged into Gongcao.
As a result, the six state officials, in addition to the meritorious service officers, the scholar officers, and the medical, post, teaching, and market affairs, the most core work officers, the law officers, the household officers, and the soldier officers were all under the direct control of Han Qian.
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For a long time, the state government has never figured out how many acres of land and households there are in Xuzhou. It is said that Xuzhou has a total of 12,000 households, more than 97,000 people, and more than 310,000 acres of grain fields.
It is also the data approved during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the previous dynasty, more than seventy years have passed since then.
Over the past seventy years, in addition to the proliferation of the population in Xuzhou itself, frequent wars in Tanxiang also prompted an influx of large numbers of refugees, and several civil strife broke out in Xuzhou itself.
Some of the fields were newly cultivated, but some were abandoned due to floods and military disasters. The actual number of acres of land at this time must be very different from that of more than seventy years ago.
Qingzhang Tianmu has been forcibly promoted around Qianyang City since late February.
This is also the area where Han Daoxun and Han Qian have the strongest control. They have already surveyed the nearby fields earlier. Hu Cao has mobilized a total of more than 200 people to measure the acres. The progress is the fastest. By mid-March, it will be completed
The fields owned by the guests around Qianyang City were clearly measured.
Excluding the nearly 30,000 acres of newly reclaimed grain fields in Wufengshan Plantation and the more than 107,000 acres of taxable land previously included in the field rolls, the number of hidden fields found in the Qing Dynasty is as high as 143,000 acres.
Qianyang County is the area with the largest concentration of guest residents in Xuzhou. Before Han Daoxun and Han Qian came to power in Xuzhou, there were already 33,000 people there, which was five times more than the 22,000 reported all year round.
become.
Since Damyang and Langxi counties have been under the absolute control of native-registered households for a long time, the number of guest residents who have moved in and settled in these two counties in recent years is much smaller, but the total number of people in the two counties should be 20,000, and the number of acres of cultivated land is
It will not be less than 150,000 acres, which is still double the number of acres compiled before.
This does not include the newly cultivated fields from the middle section of Zhongfang Mountain to the north to Longya Mountain.
The number of acres of land owned by guest residents in Qianyang County has been cleared, and the next step is to make up for last year's autumn grain.
The supplementary taxation involves almost all the large customers in Qianyang County, so it is not an easy task.
In early March, Han Daoxun issued an order to recruit government officials and reserve generals for the Xuzhou camp from all the refugees in Qianyang.
As long as a young man with a family and a disciple in Xuzhou applies for recruitment, in addition to receiving a monthly salary of 400 yuan, his family will also be given ten acres of Anjia grain land, one acres of homestead, and two acres of mulberry and hemp land.
Wufengshan Plantation has now reclaimed nearly 30,000 acres of grain fields in the northwest of Qianyang City, and mainly recruits homeless people with families to work on it.
The state government issued a recruitment order and granted such preferential treatment. In fact, the refugees recruited by the plantation in the past year were directly naturalized as new households in Qianyang County.
Since they are all employees of the plantation, the basic situation is relatively clear, so there is no need for additional screening, and the recruitment can be completed in just a few days.
By the end of March, the Xuzhou army had rapidly expanded to 2,500 men, and the state government's government team had also expanded to 300 men.
After several major anti-tax households were arrested and imprisoned, the supplementary tax collection in Qianyang County quickly progressed. By early April, the state government had collected more than 16,000 grains from Qianyang County.
stone, plus more than three thousand tax money.
In addition, Wufengshan Plantation can still harvest more than 6,000 tons of wheat after deducting expenses, which can almost delay Xuzhou's financial crisis until the end of June.