The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 361 The Court's Means

Originally, Ding Yi promised nearly [-] surrendered soldiers that after one year of hoarding the land, each person would share one mu of land, and pay [-]% to each thousand households (in fact, it was to Ding Yi).

From January last year to now, in fact, it has not been a year, only ten months, but an incident happened not long ago, which made Ding Yi plan to divide the land in advance.

In July when Ding Yi was on an expedition to Japan, the imperial court decreed that Yang Duan, a hundred households in the Haiyang Institute, was transferred to the former office of Xiahe Village.

This place is located in the north of today's Rizhao City, in the coastal area. It was established during the Hongwu period.

Ding Yi was not there at that time, Yang Duan did not dare to resist the order, so he could only go to Xiahe Village to take up his post, and after reporting for duty, he would find an excuse to come back.

Kong Youde's military rebellion did not spread there, so there are complete thousand households, deputy thousand households, etc., and he went to a hundred households, so naturally he has no influence.

But both Wang Weizhong and Liu Yuan knew that this was a temptation from the imperial court.

Now it is a transfer of one hundred households, and Yang Duan has taken office honestly. How about transferring a thousand households next time?

When Ding Yi came back, he was naturally furious.

Yang Duan, Zhou Yougen and others are all old brothers who ran out together with Xu Dabao. Now they are transferred away. If he doesn't care, it will easily shake the hearts of the brothers.

But it is not easy for him to openly resist the order at the moment.

After returning, he found out that all the original battalion soldiers in Yang Duan's hands were still at the original station. He went to Xiahe Village alone, and the court transferred another hundred households named Chen Jimin from Xiahe Qianhu Station.

At this moment, Ding Yi brought Du Ruhai, Wang Weizhong, Yan Xiong, Liu Yuan, Zhou Yougen, Fang Duotai, Yang Duan and others to the Haiyang Institute.

Haiyangsuo is a thousand-household office, which belongs to Dengzhou Dasongwei. Kong Youde’s military chaos swept here. The original thousand-household army households here were either killed or surrendered to Kong Youde. The court later asked Yang Duan to lead the battalion to transfer Garrison households, there were vacancies in Qianhu households at that time, and the vacancies were only two to three hundred because there were not enough people.

But at this time in Haiyang Institute, thousands of people gathered on the playground.

"121, 121, 121, stand."

"Turn right-turn, turn left-turn"

One after another, the playground was filled with the sound of soldiers training.

Ding Yi's troops are training.

Although Yang Duan was transferred away, Yang Duan's subordinates and two or three hundred Lushun soldiers were still there.

Du Ruhai and Wang Weizhong, in April, out of the more than 1 soldiers who surrendered, more than 800 people with better performance were transferred to join the original Lushun soldiers with two or three hundred soldiers, so the current Haiyang Institute is full of 1106 soldiers.

Of course, there are only 260 nuclear soldiers in the imperial court (the number of battalions that Yang Duan transferred to the original camp), and the imperial court will only pay so much. The extra people are all temporarily supported by Ding Yi.

There are more than 1000 people here, and the farmland is more than 1 mu, with an average of [-] mu per person. After harvesting grain in early November, they are now focusing on training.

As soon as Ding Yi brought people there, hundreds of households and general banners came to see him (appointed by Ding Yi.)
There are thousands of people in Haiyang Institute. At present, the imperial court has only appointed Yang Duan as a hundred households, but on Ding Yi's side, he has appointed ten hundred households and dozens of general banners.

Naturally, the people appointed by Ding Yi are the main ones.

"Where's Chen Jimin?" Yang Duan looked at his subordinates and smiled.

"It's in there."

Ding Yi followed the crowd into the Qianhu House.

"Peng." As soon as he entered the gate, he heard someone yelling inside.

Then I heard a person laughing and saying: "Must, touch yourself, hahaha."

There are three women and one man inside, playing mahjong.

Hearing a voice outside, Chen Jimin turned his head, his face changed slightly, and he quickly stood up.

Several women also stood up one after another.

These three women are all his wives and concubines, and two of them just married after arriving in Haiyang Institute this year.

"Yang Baihu." When Chen Jimin saw Yang Duan, his face changed drastically. Isn't this guy in Xiahe Village?Why did you go back to Haiyang?

Seeing the people behind Yang Duan again, he still knew some of them, and they were all Ding Yi's subordinates.

"Master Ding, this is Chen Jimin, Chen Baihu, this is our Master Ding."

Chen Jimin looked at the young man in front of him in disbelief, but Ding Yi was only 23 years old.

The Ming court said that Ding Yi was as domineering as Mao Wenlong, the head of the local army, but Chen Jimin did not expect to be so young.

He hesitated for a moment, then immediately knelt down.

"Chen Jimin, a hundred households in the Haiyang Institute, pay my respects to Ding Zongbing." Chen Jimin was very knowledgeable, but in fact he was not under Ding Yi's supervision, but he still knelt obediently.

After all, Ding Yi has a bad reputation.

Last year when Dengzhou was attacked, Jinyiwei Qianhu from the capital was almost killed by Ding Yi in the camp of the Chinese army. This is a well-known fact in Ming Dynasty.

"Chen Baihu, please get up." Ding Yi laughed loudly, stepped forward to help him up, and asked in a good voice: "Haiyang's place is comfortable, are you used to it?"

Chen Jimin immediately said: "This is really a good place. I bask in the sun every day, go fishing by the sea when I have time, and occasionally play mahjong. It's really fun."

"Is the money enough?" Ding Yi asked again.

"It's enough, it's enough. Brothers, you treat me like your own brothers. Yesterday Zhou Qianhu sent someone to deliver a few jugs of fine wine." Chen Jimin said with a smile.

"Just enough." Ding Yi looked at him with a smile: "I hope Chen Baihu can get used to the environment here and stay longer."

"I don't want to leave anymore." Chen Jimin laughed.

"Then go ahead, we won't bother you, Yang Duan, and give Chen Baihu another 100 taels of silver."

"promise."

Yang Duan handed over a large bag of money from behind, and Chen Jimin smiled like a flower on his face, thanking Ding Zongbing non-stop.

Ding Yi patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "The Ming Dynasty is very big and small, and it is fate that we can get along."

"Yes, yes, what the commander-in-chief said is true." Chen Jimin nodded desperately.

After Ding Yi finished speaking, he turned and left.

Chen Jimin smiled all over his face, nodded and bowed to send Ding Yi away, and when Ding Yi and others disappeared, the expression on his face was uglier than crying.

"Come on, come on, keep fighting." One of his concubines greeted him at this moment.

The one who beat the nun, Chen Jimin had a fierce look in his eyes, he really wanted to kill the concubine, but he didn't dare.

This concubine was introduced by Yang Duan after he arrived at Haiyang Institute.

Soon, he still had no choice but to play mahjong with the three women, turning his head while playing, wanting to look outside the door.

But the courtyard gate outside the gate was closed, and there were soldiers guarding it, so he couldn't see what was going on outside.

It wasn't until the next day that I found out that Ding Yi had come to divide the land today. There are 1100 people in the Haiyang Institute, and everyone has land.

Ordinary sergeants first divide one mu, and hand over 4% to the Thousand Households Office every year.

It sounds a bit much, but most of the military households are ex-resigned soldiers, so it is not bad if they can survive and share their fields.

The key is that Ding Yi is responsible for the usual food and clothing, and those who get it can be saved.

After the second year, it will be divided into two acres, and 3% will be handed over to the Thousand Households Office. At this time, Ding Yi doesn’t care about eating it, but their annual output of two acres is 5 shi. .

Every year, one more mu is allocated.

Ordinary sergeants are divided up to five acres, and [-]% is handed over to the Thousand Households Office.

Five years later, the annual output of military households is calculated at 13 shi. After paying [-]%, it is estimated that they can save more than a dozen taels of silver after selling grain for a year.

So when Ding Yi announced the rules for dividing the land in public, more than 1100 people at the scene were extremely excited.

For people and soldiers in this era, it is unimaginable to have their own land and only pay [-]% of it.

(End of this chapter)