The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 322
On May 5, Ding Yi went to Jinshan left office in Dengzhou.

Accompanying him were Du Ruhai, Ruan Siqing (replacing Lu Chao in Jinshan Zuosuo Qianhu), Wang Weizhong, and Yuan Gui (members of the Intelligence Department, who were transferred back to Dengzhou to serve as deputy Qianhu due to their meritorious service.)
After he arrived in Dengzhou, he first asked to resume the salt industry as soon as possible. After all, the former area could provide Lushun with a monthly profit of [-] to [-] yuan. In the past two years, there have been continuous domestic wars and the price of salt has also risen steadily. The profit will definitely increase. high.

After fighting in Dengzhou for so long, Ding Yi also lost 10,000+ profits.

Now with the support of Zhu Dadian, Jinan and Qingzhou can share a share of the big cake. It is estimated that after it is fully rolled out, it can earn at least 4 to [-] taels a month, which can support Ding Yi's expenses for draining the victims.

The second is to speed up the accumulation of land and build castles, and gather refugees from all over the country.

At this time, because the scope of the Peasant Army was not large, and the imperial court suppressed it vigorously, there were still relatively few refugees, but Lu Lu Jiji had already come to Shandong.

Moreover, the Dengzhou Rebellion caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, and the officials also wanted to move people here.

Du Ruhai has about [-] surrendered soldiers in his hands, and they are all young and strong men. According to Ding Yi's request, he started to build a fort and store up land from the left side of Jinshan.

This side is far away from the sea and the hinterland, so if there is any accident, the impact will be small.

The military fields here are all ready-made. Lu Chao has acquired nearly 25 mu of land in Denglai and Denglai for Ding Yi. Right now, there are fields and no one else.

The 150 surrendered troops were divided into [-] teams according to Lushun's method, and a fort was built every hundred, and one fort chief and two deputy fort chiefs were selected.

Every 1 people are in charge of 15 mu of land, and more than [-] soldiers hoard [-] mu of land.

Now from Jinshan Zuo to the west to Qishan, south to Haiyang, and then to the east of Huang County, Dengzhou, more than 1 surrendered troops are in this area, built more than 100 forts, and hoarded 15 mu of land .

This area was greatly affected by the war at that time, and there were ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

What Liu Yuan and Ding Yi did was to move all the living people in the villages and towns to Dengzhou and allocate houses.

Because when the rebels guarded Dengzhou, many people died and ate a lot, so that the popularity of Dengzhou was first gathered.

There are also some people with fields who are unwilling to move. The government buys their fields with money and moves them to Dengzhou, and replaces them with a field of the same area in Dengzhou city. They all intended to do so.

Soon, by the end of May, outside Dengzhou City, there were almost no households left, and all of them were surrendering soldiers and building forts and hoarding fields.

Moreover, the fields are all ready-made, and the surrendered soldiers only need to plant the fields. After sowing the seeds in May, they will start building forts, and build a gathering place for every 100 people.

A fortress and two deputy fortresses are elected and re-elected every two years.

After the fort was built, Wang Weizhong's soldiers and horses would organize troops to start team training. They farmed the fields when the farming was busy, and trained and learned how to shoot guns when they were not busy.

The fort isn't finished yet, and there's work everywhere along the way.

Ding Yi and the generals rode for a whole morning, pointing out some places along the road with Du Ruhai, Wang Weizhong, Yuan Gui, etc., indicating that these roads must be repaired in the future.

All the generals are firmly in mind.

On the 9th, Ding Yi called 100 fort chiefs and 200 deputy fort chiefs to meet.

The surrendered soldiers were not as scared as before. The soldiers of the Heavenly King Weizhong guarded them and basically didn't beat or scold them very much, unless they were old soldiers, and most of them were cut off.

They eat three meals a day, can eat fish once in three days, and eat meat once in five days, and everyone feels pretty good.

At first some people wanted to run, but after half a month, almost no one wanted to run.

Because those who wanted to run were either killed, or felt that this place was not bad, and they didn't want to run away.

It was May at this time, and the summer broadcast would start soon. Ding Yi called everyone together and announced loudly.

The minimum requirement for each castle is to plant [-] mu of land. From now on, each castle chief will first divide five acres of land, and the deputy chief of the castle will share two acres. [-]% of the income from the field will be given to each thousand households, and the rest will belong to themselves. .

The soldiers who surrendered were in an uproar, and couldn't believe it, suddenly there was a field?
Ding Yi also said that there is no salary here, but [-]% of the [-] mu of land hoarded by each fort, except for the fort chief and deputy fort chief, will be handed over to the Thousand Households Office, and the rest will be shared equally by the sergeants of each fort.

After the fort chiefs and deputy fort chiefs go back, they must inform all the soldiers who surrendered.

In addition, after one year of hoarding the land, [-]% of one mu of land will be awarded to the Thousand Households.

After hoarding the land for two years, two acres of land will be awarded, and [-]% will be given to the Thousand Households.

After three years of hoarding the land, three mu of land will be awarded, and [-]% will be given to the Thousand Households.

Each person can plant up to five acres, and the minimum payment is [-]%.

These news spread to the soldiers who surrendered, and the soldiers were even more reluctant to leave.

Each of them now manages about ten acres of land, and paying [-]% means that they still have one acre of income, which can basically support themselves.

After the second year, there will be an extra mu of land. Except for the distribution and payment of grain, I may not be able to eat all my own grain.

After three years, you can support your family.

According to Ding Yi's idea, after five years, these 1 people will have about 7 mu of land, but [-]% will be handed over to the Thousand Households Office.

It is equivalent to dividing less than 1 mu, and he still has [-] mu in his hands, and these [-] people will be more loyal to him in order to protect their own fields.

Ding Yi formulated a new policy of hoarding land to stabilize the hearts of the surrendered troops. After training, these surrendered troops can still be used as soldiers without paying money.

The only expenses are building the fort in the early stage, buying cattle, farm tools, food, etc., which also cost a lot of money.

Fortunately, he confiscated nearly a million dollars here, so he will not use Lushun's silver for the time being.

There are also people from the Propaganda Department here, reminding them every day that your food and accommodation are all arranged by Deputy General Ding, and Deputy General Ding will give you the land. Do you know who treats you best in this world?
But there are not only so many fields in Dengzhou. Ding Yi asked Wang Weizhong, Yuan Gui and others to continue to build forts in the future, collect refugees, and use them to stock up a lot of fields and get more people.

In mid-May, Ding Yi returned to Lushun, and Lushun also began to divide the land.

The distribution of land is not based on the official position of the court, but according to the interior of Dongjiang.

Each battalion chief officer (battalion, and court garrison level) has [-] mu, each bureau supervisor (thousand general) has [-] mu, the general has [-] mu, the captain (small flag captain) has [-] mu, and the armor chief (very long) ) ten acres.Each deputy is slightly less.

The distribution of fields for ordinary soldiers will start with the newly stocked fields on Changsheng Island, and then the new fields in Jinzhou, Fuzhou. (The fields in Lushun must ensure the food and rice of the whole army, and the soldiers will not be divided for the time being.)
The method of dividing the land is the same as that of the surrendered soldiers in Dengzhou, but the surrendered soldiers have land but not paid, and here they are still paid.

In fact, many people think that in ancient times, land was valued very much, and the Ming Dynasty liked to occupy the land, which caused the people to live in poverty.

After Ding Yi came here for a few years, he found that the fields are not of much use to Lushun personally at the moment. The biggest role may be to stabilize people's hearts, or traditional concepts.

Like the generals in the Lushun camp, Zhang Jing, Zhao Dashan and others are all on guard and in charge of the camp. Ding Yi pays 50 taels of silver every month.

There is never enough to use up, and three meals are eaten in the camp, and there is no need for food.

After Ding Yi gave Zhao Dashan a hundred acres of land, Zhao Dashan and others were very entangled.

There is no one at home.

Moreover, in Ding Yi's army, everyone has no family members. Ding Yi himself only has two hundred soldiers, and everyone else has less than ten soldiers, and no more than ten.

You can't let the soldiers help you to farm, right?
Zhao Dashan married Xiang Huailai's sister last year, and his wife and Xiang Huailai were the only ones in the family, so they couldn't grow a hundred acres of land.

Moreover, Xiang Huailai is now at the battalion level and has [-] acres. The three members of the family have divided [-] acres, so there is no way to plant them.

So they could only ask the Liao people in Lushun to help them plant. After the Liao people planted the fields, they would take [-]% and [-]% for Zhao Dashan.

[-]% to [-]% is the minimum goal set by Ding Yi. For example, Zhang Jing later felt that the family had too much food to eat, so he only got [-]% to [-]% and let the Liao people get [-]%.

Therefore, dividing the land is of no great use to most generals in Lushun Phi Island, nor can they change their living habits, nor can they improve their quality of life. (Everyone is in Dongjiang, you can’t spend more money.)
However, the division of land has two other functions. One is to provide many Liao people with a way to make a living. They can help those who have land to farm, and they can get a lot of grain and rice to improve their lives.

The second is to let ordinary soldiers understand more the truth of being an official. Only when an official can they divide the land.

But if you want to be an official, you have to stand in the first row and fight more.

Then Ding Yi ordered that the subordinates of the soldiers who died in battle and those who were disabled in the war can also choose to get silver every month or land, choose one of the two.

It turned out that most people still choose to take the land.

(End of this chapter)