stubborn thief

Chapter 332 The Tenant
The Yamen of the magistrate of Kangning Prefecture.

In the sun room of the back house, Chengyun flipped through the ledger with one hand and fiddled with the abacus with the other. After a while, he frowned and relaxed, and took a pen to write down a line of data in the ledger.

In Kangning in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the people of the counties harvested 19 shi of staple food, purchased 23 shi from outside the territory, and robbed [-] shi from the Changhe River, totaling [-] shi.

The average yield per mu is six buckets of Lianghe, 93 catties of five taels of raw grain, and roughly [-] catties of finished grain after processing.

This number means that in this land, the prefect Yang Dingrui can proudly write a sentence when he sends a letter to the Marshal's Mansion, Chongzhen has five years, the weather is good, and Kangning has years.

A bumper harvest, a bumper harvest worth recording.

Chengyun is even more happy from the bottom of his heart, because this year's yield per mu does not seem to be much, but in fact there are many unexpected factors.

For example, the newly opened land under his leadership has lowered the yield per mu in Kangning Mansion; and since last autumn, the rebellion in seven counties has also partially affected the harvest.

So many accidents can still ensure that the living conditions of the people are better than before. In Chengyun's heart, the Kangning Mansion that the second brother took down will not be considered truly stable until he finishes the calculation.

Rebellion is nothing, they have institutional advantages, and food is the most important factor in stabilizing the situation.

Even though the cost of the garrison, township officials, civilians, and inspections is calculated, the average common people only have more than [-] catties of finished food, but this is enough.

They also have ghee produced by livestock, grown vegetables and fruits, and wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains. As long as people have hope, they can survive this difficult period.

What's more, people's life is not difficult. The vast majority of the people can proudly announce to the world that through hardworking hands, their rations this year have tripled that of the year before.

When Chengyun rushed to look for Yang Dingrui with the account book, Yang Dingrui was listening to the anti-insurgency battle report sent by Cao Yao, and the content of the battle report fixed Chengyun.

The style of the battle report is a bit strange: "Marshal's Mansion inspected the archers and killed Dalu Huachi, the soldiers of the Supreme Dharma King surrounded Liangxiang, and the Lotus Bodhisattva snatched [-] catties of highland barley noodles."

After hearing this, Chengyun shook his index finger and said with a smile: "This group of monsters... Sir, the harvests of the counties last year have been calculated, and it is a bumper harvest."

Just as Liu Shizi expected, shortly after the main force of the Marshal's Mansion was transferred from the Kangning Mansion to the north, many nobles who had previously taken refuge in the mountains couldn't hold back their excitement and joined forces everywhere to prepare for the restoration.

But what happened next was different.

According to the thinking of the nobles, when the master returned to the land ruled by generations, wouldn't the people on the land who had been ruled for generations not be right in an instant?
Even if some idiots take advantage of the Han people, they can easily defeat them by virtue of force. After all, they are composed of nobles and guards loyal to the nobles. They may not be opponents to deal with the main force of the commander-in-chief.

But when they returned to their territory, everyone still remembered the friendship between master and servant, and instead of reporting them, they told them stories about how their lives were getting better every day when the noble lord was away.

Although Liu Chengzong's Southern Expedition lasted only a short time, it profoundly changed the people's ideas.

Kangning has a large land area and few people, and there is soil for equalization of land. Even if the per capita land is only a little over one mu, wasteland and water sources can be seen everywhere.

Under the magistrate's yamen to encourage and organize the people to reclaim wasteland, most of the people already own their own land, even if the land has not been reclaimed, it is still their own property.

The most important thing is that the five years of Chongzhen's Kangning have a good weather, people have more and more iron farm tools, and labor efficiency is getting higher and higher, and the planting technology from Xining gives seeds more opportunities to germinate.

The grain they harvest is between nine and ten times that of the grain they grow, and one mu of land can produce more than a hundred catties of grain, which is placed under the snow-capped mountains on the plateau, which is a good harvest.

People's lives are better than before, and they have better expectations. Not only do they not want to support the restoration of the noble lords, they even want to instigate the noble lords to farm together.

The progress of the people's concept has brought higher requirements to the restored nobles. Relying on the old feudal nobles will not be able to recruit soldiers.

If they want to recruit soldiers, the concept of the nobles must also improve. They must also use the bureaucratic system like cats and dogs, and give more power to the serfs.

Throughout the autumn, the military information submitted to the magistrate's yamen in the seven counties was urgent everywhere.

The noble lord picked up the official title of his ancestors and let it go, and even conferred the official position of the Marshal's Mansion on his generals, making the battle report show a scene of demons dancing wildly.

The Living Buddha Dharma King sits firmly in the middle army, Tubo Zanpu's Yuben protects the left and right, and Genghis Khan's Dalu Huachi sweeps the formation for him. At the front, there are nobles who claim to be inspectors and various Bodhisattvas fighting side by side.

Originally, according to Cao Yao's idea, the regular army of the Kangning Mansion should adopt a defensive position under the premise of ensuring food collection, and wait for the nobles who want to rebel and the common people who don't know what to do to jump out, and when they start to take shape, they will catch them all.

Unexpectedly, the rebel army actually used the official title of the Marshal's Mansion. It may be a matter of misunderstanding. Some Dharma Kings and Bodhisattvas call themselves magistrates.

This is a good move, the official county magistrates of Kangning Mansion are furious, rebellion is rebellion, why replace my official position?

Even the old monk Gama, who has always been easy to get along with, was angry. He was originally the real King Nangqian, who was appointed by Liu Chengzong as the county magistrate of Makang, so he recognized it with a pinch of his nose. .

In a fit of rage, the magistrate of Gama immediately set up a flag of recruiting soldiers in front of the county yamen, summoned the people in the county and all townships to inspect, and personally led the peasants and soldiers wielding hoes and sickles to wipe out the thieves. It's a demon.

For a while, the dance-shoveling class peasants fought against gods and Buddhas all over the sky, and the battle reports that were introduced to the prefect’s yamen throughout the winter were like a list of gods. At first, they killed Dalu Huachi and Tubo generals, and later turned into defeating Arhats and capturing bodhisattvas alive.

There was no need for Cao Yao to take any action during the whole process, and even Luo Rucai and Li Laozhen only occasionally sent troops to help out. Gama and other county magistrates led the township soldiers to fight back and forth with the rebels.

According to the analysis of the magistrate's yamen, this situation is entirely due to too many positive bonuses stacked on Gama magistrate.

The younger brother of the previous Nangqian King, the successor of the genuine Nangqian, is more orthodox than the restored nobles; the master of Genbang Temple is also a religious leader, and is more proficient in Buddhism than the rebellious Dharma King Bodhisattva; .

When the restored nobles fought against Gama, first of all, they were already three points weaker in terms of confidence.

Therefore, Yang Dingrui, Liu Chengyun, Cao Yao and others who are in charge of the Kangning Mansion now cannot take this rebellion seriously. These nobles are far less far-sighted than the peasants in northern Shaanxi. The advantage of the terrain is mobile combat.

No matter how strong the temple is, it needs soldiers without soldiers, food without food, guns without guns or cannons without cannons. Could it be easier to defend and harder to attack than the Nangsuo Qianmo Palace built on the snow mountain?
Cao Yaole saw that the rebel army established a stronghold, and strictly ordered Ga Ma, Bai Cang and others to encircle and suppress the rebel army only on the periphery, and kept pushing them to the temple in the mountain. Finally, Luo Rucai and Li Laozhen led the regular army to fight against the nest.

To this day, the escaped Gods and Buddhas can only do things like highway robbers, and they are chased and intercepted by patrols all over the country, and the shit is beaten.

"Harvest is good." Yang Dingrui's report on the carrier was as expected. Looking at the data of the per capita grain yield of just over a hundred catties, he nodded and said: "Continue to recruit immigrants to reclaim the fields. In five years, Kangning Prefecture will catch up with Ningzhou in terms of acres before the drought. fields, I am content."

Although Ningzhou is very small, with only one state, and Kangningfu is very large, with seven counties, it is not an easy goal to achieve the standard of living in Ningzhou before the drought.

To be exact, Ningzhou had more than 100 million mu of fields before the drought.

In today's Kangning Prefecture, the arable land for growing grain in the seven counties is only 33 mu, and even including the fruit and vegetable land, it is less than 50 mu.

Reclaiming 50 mu of land in five years is not an easy task.

However, this does not mean that Kangning Prefecture must be poorer than Ningzhou. Even before the drought, Ningzhou only had a population of 2, while Kangning Prefecture had 20 people and more than 8000 million mu of pasture land.

There are a lot of sheep, cattle, and horses in this place, mainly in pastoral areas. The purpose of finding available places to cultivate and grow grain is to make people's lives better.

After all, ordinary herdsmen can't eat meat at all. Even if the animals die, they have to replace the meat with grain.

So if there are 100 million mu of land, Kangning Mansion will be very powerful. The annual consumption of finished grains for the common people is expected to exceed [-] catties. Not to mention how high this standard of living is, at least compared with myself, it can be called a world-changing place.

However, in order to achieve this goal, there must be a prerequisite.

Yang Dingrui handed the job report letter on the table to Chengyun, and said, "I've been thinking about the tax that Kangning will pay to Xining in the future."

They haven't started to collect taxes yet. The current food tax is [-]%. This is the food tax that Liu Chengzong asked Cheng Yun to negotiate with Yang Dingrui before. It is between [-]% and [-]%.

The plan is to start harvesting this year, but the government office has some grain in stock. It is the autumn that the common people collect the grain and sell it to the government for copper coins. Except for their own use, the counties have shipped some to the government office.

Chengyun took the letter and read it carefully. In the letter, Yang Dingrui stated in detail the difficulty of transporting grain. From Nangqian to Xining, there were 22 stations on the way. It took more than [-] days to transport grain with one cart, one man and two mules.

During these [-] days, the two mules used [-] catties of food and the driver used [-] catties of grain, and one cart transported more than [-] catties of grain, which was only enough for one cart to reach Xining.

In case of any accident along the way, it may not be enough to get to Xining, and it is necessary to change trains and animals at the post station and repeat the load, because there is a station along the way where it is difficult for vehicles to walk.

Unless the nomadic method is used to transport the animals once a year, like Liu Shizi's southern and northern expeditions, sending the animals there does not require the animals to have heavy labor, and can be maintained by grazing along the way.

The two provinces of Xikang are too far apart, and the route is too desolate, which brings too much trouble to transport food.

Yang Dingrui mentioned in the letter that his idea was to use part of the grain as a waste and supply it to Kangning Prefecture to deliver goods such as precious metals, corundum, gems, armor, gunpowder, livestock, salt and other materials to Kangning Prefecture as taxes. pay.

The carrier thought about it, and this is indeed the case in the two prefectures. It is more cost-effective to consume food to transport high-value materials. If the food is transported to the north, even if it is made into dry food, I am afraid that it will not be able to reach [-] catties. The gain is not worth the loss.

But regarding the delivery of materials proposed by Yang Dingrui, Chengyun shook his head and smiled: "Sir, this salt is not needed, and there is no shortage of salt in the north."

Chengyun thought and thought, took out the account book and wrote: "Corning produces sulfur, gold, silver and copper are a must, iron can be directly made into weapons and armor by the Kangning Military Bureau, and there is no shortage of livestock in Xining. There is too much food, why not recruit more people... Yutong sauerkraut, yes!"

He excitedly said: "Compared to transporting food, it is better to transport sauerkraut. The soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion cannot do without this. If we open up more land this year and have more food, we can probably collect [-] shi. It is not a small number to exchange for supplies."

Yang Dingrui nodded, but he was still not relaxed, and said to Cheng Yun: "But now the marshal's mansion is short of food, and there is a letter from the post station in the north, and the marshal wants to recruit you back."

"Hey... How can the Marshal's Mansion be short of food?" Cheng Yun was stunned: "When did it happen?"

"The letter just arrived today, your letter is on the table. The letter from the commander-in-chief mentioned that the population of Xining has increased by 8 people, and the food reserves are not enough. We will fight the east to take Hehuang."

At this moment, Chengyun saw a letter addressed to him on the table, and hurriedly opened it. At first, his expression was serious, but the more he looked at it, the more relaxed he became, and even eager to try. Finally, he pushed the letter to Yang Dingrui and said, "Sir, look at me." My brother said this, the land is owned by one commune, and there are four stewards in each commune, to collect grain in a unified way, and to build a communal school and communal medicine, which is very interesting."

"Ok?"

Yang Dingrui took the letter and looked at it carefully. After reading it for a long while, his face was both shocked and smiling. He pointed to the letter and said to Chengyun, "This, isn't this the Fan clan's field!"

Yang Jinshi had goosebumps all over his neck, but his shock did not come from this plan, but from Liu Chengzong's jumping thinking. He raised his hand and slapped the table and said, "Chengyun, do you know Fan's Clan Field?"

"I know, I have it at home. I ate clan rice when I was a child." Chengyun said happily: "I don't tell you, I really can't remember it. It's really similar, but it's different."

"That's right, the Fan clan's long-term prosperity is due to the clan's land, and the humble children of the clan can not run around for food and clothing, and can read and understand the law and become Jinshi from generation to generation, and their prosperity continues in turn."

The hairs on Yang Dingrui's body stood up one by one: "This is to treat a country as a clan; in the past, the whole clan joined forces to fight against the outside world. Once this order is successfully implemented, the whole country will join hands to fight against the outside world!"

After giving himself blood, Yang Dingrui regained consciousness in a blink of an eye, raised his hand and said to Chengyun very cautiously: "Since you know the family land, you must also know that the family members of the Fan family land are not allowed to be tenant farmers...The tenant farmers work hard, so that their children and grandchildren will be happy." Running for hunger and cold."

Yang Dingrui's next words hit the nail on the head. He raised his hand and tapped the table and said, "The country's land, the commander-in-chief's, is not only guaranteed by the family land, but also has the labor of the tenant farmers. When you go back, you have to tell the commander-in-chief how much you will be charged for the civil society." Food needs to be extra cautious.”

"This is directly related to whether this government regards a country as a family, or treats all people in the world as tenants."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)