The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 403 Controlling Dengzhou
Du Ruhai told Ding Yi that there are generally more than a thousand refugees coming to Denglai from various places every month, sometimes two or three thousand at a time, and there is an increasing trend.

According to Ding Yi's request, they selected skilled craftsmen, literacy masters, and doctors, and those with special skills were sent to Lushun first, and the rest were resettled on the spot near Dengzhou.

After the Dengzhou fields are stockpiled, we will consider developing in the direction of Laizhou. Ding Yi interrupts Du Ruhai here, asking to send 500 people to Jeju every month, and Du Ruhai quickly writes it down.

Then the two reported Deng Lai's latest statistics to Ding Yi.

Because of the statistical efficiency of this era, it takes about three months to count here.

This is already a remarkable efficiency. The main reason is that Ding Yi asked someone to count it once in the early stage, and added it one after another in the later stage.

Of course, there must be many that have not been counted, but in this era, it is considered relatively accurate.

At present, there are more than 13.7 households with more than 48 people in Terengganu, and more than 18.4 households with more than 71 people in Laizhou.

According to Liu Yuandao, before Kong Youde's rebellion, there were about 80 people in Dengzhou and about 90 in Laizhou.

It can be seen that Dengzhou has been seriously injured by soldiers. Ding Yi currently has better control over the Dengzhou area, and most of his farmland is also in Dengzhou.

Here Ding Yi owns 18 mu of land. Of course, Ding Yi came here last year and distributed a lot of land, but he also stabilized the heart of more than 1 soldiers.

Although Song Xiang is still young, he can still participate in Ding Yi's meeting now.

He is mainly responsible for leading people to search for mines. In the past year or so, he has found two gold mines in Denglai, both in Zhaoyuan and Laizhou, and they are also the main gold mines in later generations.

In addition, he accidentally found a coal mine between Dengzhou and Huangxian, along the coast, which made Ding Yi very happy.

At this time, most of the coal mines in Shandong were in the west and southwest of Shandong, and there was only this relatively large one in the Denglai area. Unexpectedly, Song Xiang found it by accident.

After listening to the report, Ding Yi asked, "How many people can we control now? How many territories? How many people do we want to support?"

Although there are more than 100 million people in Dengzhou and Dengzhou, most of them are beyond the control of Ding Yi and do not need him to support them.

Although Liu Yuan was the governor of Denglai, Dengzhou was fine. Laizhou suffered less damage during the war, and most of the gentry and officials were there, but he was definitely not as obedient as Liu Yuan.

According to Liu Yuan and Du Ruhai, it is basically the area with the most serious military chaos, and now it is the area where Ding Yi has the strongest control.

In the west, it starts from Wangxuqianzhai Qiansuo, to Zhaoyuan area, Huangxian County, Denglai, to the east is Yantai, Jinshan Zuosuo, Weihaiwei, Wendeng, south to Haiyangsuo, and the farthest to Laiyang.

Below Haiyang is Dasongwei, the commander He Zheng is a member of the court, and Yang Duan gives him 100 taels of silver every month. Although it is not much, the relationship is maintained well. This is also the end of Ding Yi's power.

On the whole, it is almost equivalent to the original Dengzhou border, because Wang Xuqianzhai is further down, and it is Laizhou.

In addition, the closer to Dengzhou, the stronger Ding Yi's control.

In addition, in the vicinity of Wang Xuqianzhai, Haiyang, and other thousands of households, there are all Ding Yi's hoarding troops and hoarding forts, and it is also the place where Ding Yi has the strongest control.

According to Du Ruhai, it is actually equivalent to more than 48 people in Dengzhou, which is a population that Ding Yi can control.

Moreover, after Ding Yi asked the hoarders to build forts at various intersections in the early stage, now Dengzhou is equal to every step of the way, and Ding Yi's control is quite strong.

It is not easy for outsiders to come in. They have to find remote trails to climb mountains and ridges.

Most of the common people do not need Ding Yi to support them. What Ding Yi needs to support is 1 hoarded soldiers, and more than [-] refugees who came in later, as well as their staff from Lushun. Now there are about [-] in total. about.

"What was the imperial court's tax per field last year?" Ding Yi asked again.

Not long ago, the imperial court just collected salaries and increased taxes. Over the past few years, Liao salaries have been increased frequently, and every time it falls on the common people.

It’s better here in Dengzhou, but with the addition of the payment just now, ordinary people’s silver payment has reached 0.12 taels.

You must know that at the earliest it was only 0.009 taels. Chongzhen added 0.012 for four years. Over the years, it has been added repeatedly, and it has now accumulated to 0.12 taels.

This is also the result of Ding Yi and Liu Yuan's control of Dengzhou. They are placed in Henan, Shaanxi and other places. Reasons for refugees.

The grain you planted is not enough to turn in, so why not turn it over?
Ding Yi knew in his heart that this 0.12 miles, and the benefits of officials at all levels in Dengzhou are in it. This is already Ding Yi here, and what they do is not so ugly. It is much more terrifying in other places.

But right now he can't change this matter, and needs their help to control Dengzhou.

Ding Yi's method is to gradually nibble away, slowly replacing the original officials and petty officials with people he cultivated.

When most of the people are replaced, he can naturally do things in his own way.

So after he finished listening, he was silent for a while and looked at everyone.

Liu Yuan, Du Ruhai, Yan Xiong, Zhou Yougen, Fang Duotai, Yang Duan, Song Xiang and others were present at the scene.

Because Wang Weizhong is going to send troops, he is not here today. He is preparing military equipment, food and grass.

"I want to establish—" Ding Yi said slowly: "Dengzhou office."

Everyone listened attentively and did not dare to speak out.

Ding Yi also established it before, when Lu Chao was there, he knew about it on a small scale and did little.

But it is different now, he wants to gradually control the whole territory of Dengzhou.

"Du Ruhai is in charge of the office and has full authority to handle the office's civil affairs, farming and other matters."

The office consists of Civil Affairs Section, Education Section, Craftsmanship Section (this is also not built but repaired), Resettlement Section (mainly responsible for refugee resettlement), Mining Section, Medical Section, Taxation Section, etc.

Liu Yuan's face was serious. Most of the functions of these departments are in Dengzhou Prefecture, and Ding Yi obviously has to do it alone.

Ding Yi looked at him at this time: "In the next few years, you will gradually replace the original officials in Dengzhou Prefecture with people from our various departments."

It's not easy to change officials casually, but officials are equivalent to hired personnel and can be changed at any time. Ding Yi intends to replace all the officials step by step with his own people, including the police and government officials.

"Understood." Liu Yuan nodded deeply.

"Establish the 32nd Battalion."

Yan Xiong was the commander of the battalion, and Yang Duan was the deputy. He drew 3000 soldiers from thousands of households such as Jinshanzuo and Haiyang, and turned them into combat soldiers. They were assigned to the Lushun Infantry Battalion.

In addition, [-] elites were selected from among the refugees, and replaced with the land that the original [-] households had hoarded.

Because Wang Weizhong went out to fight this time, Ding Yi asked Yan Xiong to form a battalion of soldiers and horses to guard Dengzhou.

They have [-] hoards of soldiers from a few thousand households, and they are training during the slack season. After more than a year, they are now organized casually, and they are a soldier.

In this case, Ding Yi will have to pay [-] soldiers more, which is a bit more.

But this was within Du Ruhai's tolerance.

As mentioned earlier, he has hoarded more than 40 taels of silver in his hands in the past few years (including the unused money that Ding Yi copied from big households back then, all in his hands).

Although the salt profit here is still counted in Lushun's income and expenditure, it is not listed here.

But the income here includes hoarding land and minerals, as well as commercial activities in Dengzhou City.

Because Ding Yi occupied many shops in Dengzhou City.

Now the population of Dengzhou City is slowly recovering, which also brings them an income.

According to Du Ruhai's estimate, their own field would have about 40 grains of grain after harvest this year, if there were no natural disasters.

Except for the subdivided land and the land hoarding refugees themselves, there should be 15 shi left, which is equivalent to a tax of 15 shi, which proves that the tax here is much lighter than that in Jeju.

It costs about 10 yuan to drain the victims and use it by yourself, and it is estimated that [-] stones can be saved in the end.

Of course, according to Ding Yi's regulations, the longer the refugees stay in Dengzhou, the less food they turn in, and Ding Yi will receive less and less later.

In the end, the tax was set at [-]% per mu, equivalent to half of Jeju Island.

The grain harvested in that way is enough for their own use, and it is estimated that there will be no savings.

Therefore, in addition to letting the refugees hoard the fields, they must hoard the fields themselves, that is, select the strong and strong from the refugees as hoarding troops, and train while hoarding the fields. Find tenants among the refugees to continue planting, so that the harvest can be greater than [-]%, at least [-]%, or even [-]%.

According to Ding Yi, when there were few people in the early stage, the refugees should be stabilized in the local area by dividing the land. In the later stage, when the population was large, no land would be given, and only tenants would be found, so as to ensure their own food supply.

(End of this chapter)