The Red Army of later generations was many times more powerful than the Breaking Army in terms of grassroots political power building, talent echelon training, military techniques and tactics, etc.
But even such a powerful Red Army could only control the Hunan-Jiangxi border during the Agrarian War. The Hubei-Henan border was a barren base located at the junction of warlord forces and in deep mountains and hills.
You, Li Laiheng, only have 5,000 soldiers. If you act like this, the gentry from all over the world will attack you. You can be killed with just one finger!
This is what Fang Yiren meant.
"The Northern Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties were able to implement the land equalization system because the imperial court controlled a large amount of idle land and could conduct accurate household registration surveys through the power of officials. However, although there were some unowned and abandoned fields in Suizhou, the number was not large, and officials...
How can there be any officials in the army now? Those subordinate officials who hold the fish scale book are also killed by Hao Yaoqi and Aizhuo. How can we balance the land?"
Fang Yiren's opposition actually hit the mark, not only because he was born in the Fang family in Tongcheng, and his own family was also considered a large real estate owner, but it was more or less out of consideration for safeguarding the future prospects of Li Laiheng and Huguang Chuangjun.
"As Leshan said, most of the subordinate officials in Suizhou were caught and killed by us. And the fish scale books used by the imperial court to control and investigate the land were also lost in large numbers. Although we also seized some yellow books, there was no guidance from Zaoli.
The intruders simply cannot understand these extremely complicated land documents."
When Bai Wang heard what Li Laiheng and Fang Yiren said, he also felt that it was not only extremely difficult to equalize land and exempt from taxes, but also that the army seriously lacked the administrative resources to implement it. He couldn't help asking: "We don't have a fish scale book. How much land does Suizhou have?
How many household heads are confused. Will rashly forcibly equalizing farmland trigger a civil uprising? I am also afraid that the truly honest and honest farmers who have been exploited by the court and officials will not be able to farm, and some rogue green-skinned peasants will not be able to farm.
The stick will take the opportunity to seek huge profits in the equalized fields."
Suizhou is a river valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. The terrain is relatively complex, with fertile soil and high-yield paddy fields, as well as dry fields and terraced fields in hilly valleys.
In the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there have been layers of yellow records, and local subordinate officials can dominate the sky. In the most basic areas, their power is even higher than that of the feudal officials. They can be called real feudal lords and princes of ten miles.
Li Laiheng sent people to catch all the subordinate officials in Suizhou and kill them completely. Although he did a good thing that pleased people's hearts. When Hao waved the flag and arrested a group of Zaoli and went out, the people of Suizhou attacked the temple in groups.
When a low-level official with a bad temper breaks things, the crowd calls him "beat the little devil".
But without the help of these "little devils", Chuang Jun could not figure out Suizhou's land property data at all.
Of course, Li Laiheng could also cut the knot quickly and ignore the land distribution situation in Suizhou before it was occupied by the invaders. He could just divide up all the land without distinguishing between good and bad.
However, this kind of crude method, which is similar to "distributing floating wealth", will inevitably greatly damage the interests of the farmers in Suizhou and cause the Chuang army to lose the support of the general public.
"This is indeed a dilemma, a dilemma!"
Fang Yiren sighed, but Bai Wang thought that since Li Laiheng appointed him as the camp envoy to Suizhou, he must have a strategy in mind, so he asked in a deep voice: "It seems that Jieshuai has a good strategy to break the situation? I don't know who Jieshuai is.
What ideas have you come up with that can sort out such a mess, the internal and external situation?"
Li Laiheng laughed. He led the rebels back to the commander's mansion from the school grounds of the public trial. All the people along the way stopped to watch the majesty of the closed-door emperor. Li Laiheng also looked unstressed, riding on his horse.
From time to time, he waved to the onlookers while continuing to explain the policies and methods for equalizing land with Bai Wang.
"Since I don't have the manpower, I won't do the land equalization!"
Li Laiheng said casually, but Bai Wang was surprised when he heard what he said. Since Li Laiheng had already inspected all aspects of Juntian and sent it to himself as the Suizhou camp envoy, how could he suddenly give up on Juntian at this time?
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When the Chuang army invaded Suizhou City, part of the gate of the Shuai Mansion was burned down by Hao Yaoqi. Although it has been repaired and improved, many burnt marks can still be seen on the door pillars and screen walls, which reminds people of the Chuang Dynasty.
The army's position in Suizhou is not really stable.
It's just that the officers and soldiers are temporarily unable to free their hands.
Bai Wang's nerves were also tense because of the burnt corner of the door. He hesitated and asked: "What does it mean to be handsome? Do we really have to give up equalizing land? In that case, all our wages will be just
If we can count on torture and plunder, not only will we not be able to expand our troops to deal with Ding Qirui, but will Song Yihe's subsequent counterattack also require better troops and simpler administration?"
"Ha ha!"
"Old Bai, when I said we wouldn't work on equalizing the land if we don't have the manpower, I really meant it from the bottom of my heart."
Li Laiheng laughed loudly and did not seem to be stressed. Bai Wang also let go of the tension in his heart. He knew that Li Laiheng had other ideas when he said this, so he no longer asked anxiously and quietly waited for the commander's answer.
"Since we can't change the status quo, why not admit the status quo for the time being."
Bai Wang didn't quite understand Li Laiheng's words. He thought for a while and said: "Jie Shuai means...? The land of the squire still belongs to the squire, and everything in Suizhou City still pays food? So what should we do if we are exempted from taxes?
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The corners of Li Laiheng's mouth turned up. In fact, the method he used was not created by himself, but by Li Xiucheng, the most outstanding businessman of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations.
"If we continue to pay grain as usual, wouldn't our war be in vain? What I mean is not to acknowledge the previous status quo, but to acknowledge the current status quo, which is to pay grain to tenant farmers."
"Paying food as a tenant?"
Neither Bai Wang nor Bai Jiuhe could quite understand the four words Li Laiheng said. They understood it literally and could only think that it had something to do with tenant farmers.
"Yes, tenants pay grain. The current situation recognized by Chuang Jun is not that the land of the squire still belongs to the squire, but that whoever cultivates this land, the income of this land and the land rent that needs to be paid will belong to whoever."
Li Laiheng further explained: "We don't have the manpower and resources to clean up the field properties and household head information accumulated in Suizhou over the years, so we have to cut it all off. No matter who the field belonged to before, it now only belongs to the people who cultivated it. Even if
If you are a wealthy gentry, as long as you work on the field, the income from the field will belong to you, but even if you are a poor and hungry person, if you do not cultivate the field, you will still have no food."
Sharing grain with tenants was a method that Li Xiucheng devised after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Suzhou and Hangzhou, the richest cities in China, based on the already developed tenant system in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
It avoids an all-out war between the peasant army and the gentry class to a certain extent, and can stabilize and clear up the land situation with the minimum administrative resources possible. It can also increase the fiscal revenue of the peasant military regime while reducing the burden on the middle and lower-class farmers.
The so-called transfer of grain from tenants means that we do not start with the issue of land ownership, which has the most complicated relationships and the most acute conflicts. Instead, we temporarily put aside the issue of land ownership and deal with the land issue from the perspective of land management rights and production rights.
"No matter how much land you originally had, or even half an inch of land, as long as you can reclaim, cultivate, and produce for me now, then the harvest of this land will belong to you, and the rent that was originally supposed to be paid on this land will also belong to you.
.In this way, we don’t have to sort out the messy fish scale books, but can only supervise the farming situation of the people in Suizhou afterwards, and don’t let the fields lie idle.”
As a transitional policy, Li Laiheng did not intend to completely break up with the gentry class now, as that would greatly hinder his efficiency in managing Huguang in the next step. It was already the end of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and the Qing Dynasty
The army doesn't have much time left for him to develop.
Li Laiheng said to Bai Wang again: "Although the Chuang Army has opened night shifts in Suizhou City and the military camp, and hired some accountants to teach the soldiers how to read, time is tight after all, and there are too few literate manpower. And even if they are literate, they need to
It also requires a lot of experience for soldiers who are accustomed to military life to master statistics and the experience and skills of managing land. Therefore, we must first use the method of tenant farming to reduce the difficulty of collecting food from the army, so that those brothers who can read can
Little by little, we have gained experience in grassroots management.”
The grassroots is always the most important thing. It was because the Ming Dynasty court lost its strong control over the grassroots that it lost its population of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions to the Manchu Qing, whose core population was only a few hundred thousand.
Li Laiheng's plan was to let some soldiers who were unable to fight on the front line due to disabilities retire first and accumulate rural administrative experience bit by bit in the process of implementing the sharecropping system.
In this way, after accumulating a large number of qualified administrative cadres, Li Laiheng could truly implement the land system and farming system he envisioned on a larger scale.
After four years of operation, Sun Kewang was able to use the barren Yunnan, which was defeated by a large county in the south of the Yangtze River, to support 200,000 elite troops to conquer the east and west, and to lay a solid material foundation for Li Dingguo to become king.
Not to mention that under such ultra-high-intensity military mobilization, Yunnan not only did not resort to militarism, but instead had "a prosperous people and a strong military", which made people in Hunan and Jiangnan at the same time envious of "the people in central Yunnan are happy and happy, and the people in Yunnan are peaceful.
"If you don't know that there is a war going on", "Southern Yunnan is a happy land in the world. Its people are isolated from mountains and seas, but now they still live in the crown belt."
The population, land, and development level of Huguang are much higher than that of Yunnan. If a stable camp system can be successfully implemented in Huguang, it can be said that it will be easy to establish a political power that can compete with, overwhelm, and defeat the Qing army in two years.
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