Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 109

After hearing this, the tenants were very happy.

Landlords and gentlemen pay [-]% of the rent, which is already higher than the tax set by the head teacher.

Moreover, the tenants’ poll tax and other taxes have never been less. If only [-]% of the tax is charged, everyone’s life will be better.

More importantly, Daozi Zhangjiao made it clear that the tenants do not have to pay rent to the landlord this year, but only pay taxes to the Changshengjiao. After paying the tax, the grain will belong to the tenants.

Immediately, a tenant stood up and shouted loudly: "Can you go to my house to collect taxes now? If you don't want to move, I will send the grain first."

Zhang Qingshan was amused in his heart.It seems that these tenants want to take advantage of the presence of the government officials to make things real, so that they don't have to worry about the landlords turning their faces and denying their accounts after the government officials leave.

The tax collector asked the villagers to sit down first, and asked six Taoist priests to stand beside him with a serious expression, and then continued: "Folks, we selected Taoist priests to implement the rules of the Longevity Sect. Taxes, everyone come to the Taoists and deal with them together. If the Taoists can’t handle it, go to the town to find the Taoists taught by the Mayor Sheng. Our Taoists are not the Baojia in the past, and we will not make all kinds of exorbitant taxes, because we A Taoist can receive twenty coins from the Longevity Sect every month..."

The villagers sighed unconsciously, twenty pennies is really not a small amount for ordinary villagers.

Zhang Qingshan heard about this during the training class, and he was very much looking forward to it at the time.At this time, when I heard the final announcement, most of the worries in my heart dissipated.

The tax commissioner took out six copper coins from his pocket, distributed them to six people in public, and took out the receipt for them to write the receipt.

Holding the pen, Zhang Qingshan felt his hands tremble a little.According to Changshengjiao, I can get a consistent copper coin every month in the future, and twelve copper coins a year.For Zhang Qingshan, this number is really just something to think about.

After the taxation rules were finished, the villagers saw that Zhang Qingshan and others had publicly taken money from the Longevity Sect, and decided that the village Taoist was really a member of the Longevity Sect.

That night, someone came to visit Zhang Qingshan's house, who was a local tenant.When they met, the tenant didn't even exchange pleasantries, and asked straight to the point: "Brother Qingshan, when will the land be distributed!"

Zhang Qingshan replied confidently: "The Longevity Sect said that the land will be divided after the autumn harvest. Everyone should finish harvesting the food anyway."

In Lin'an Longevity Church, Taoist Zhang Yuqing and Taoist Wu Youping are having a meeting.

Lu Liang wore the short clothes of ordinary people, and said with a dusty face: "Teacher Daoist, when dividing the land, we must pay attention to irrigation issues, and we must reserve rivers and canals."

Hearing this, Wu Youping couldn't help complaining, "Daoist Lu said earlier. Now some villages have started to work."

Daoist Lu was not unhappy because of Wu Youping's words, but instead sighed: "I'm really to blame for this matter. I really didn't expect the head teacher to do this."

There was some displeasure in the eyes of the Taoists, Zhang Yuqing took the lead in laughing and said, "Don't Master Lu support land distribution?"

"Of course I support it. People's life is too hard." Lu Liang sighed.

After finishing speaking, Lu Liang asked again: "Teacher Taoist, I think you want to build a big farm, why is that?"

At this time, Wu Youping asked: "Teaching the Taoist, cultivating the land requires a lot of labor. And a lot of the land is raw land. I'm afraid the harvest will not be good in the first year."

"It depends on how many farm tools can be used for development. Plowing deep enough and enough fertilizer can improve the yield. The manure accumulation depends on raising livestock. How is the preparation of our green fodder processing site?"

"Headmaster Daozi, we buy sheep from the western border. The people there don't know what to think, the price is not low. I think they want to beat our autumn wind."

"No matter what they think, we don't have to follow their thinking. Business is business, and we can't let them buy and sell.

Let's send people to further places to buy livestock, and when we go, we will tell those people clearly, early spring sheep and autumn sheep.As long as their prices are reasonable and they come to us, we will accept them. "

"Youping, the problem of the herdsmen you encountered is a blow to us, but it can be solved in this way. We can recruit herdsmen to work as administrators in our farms. If any herdsmen want to use their livestock to buy shares, that is the best. Animals are their equity .But after taking the shares, the animals will be owned by the ranch. After the animals they brought are slaughtered, we will give them dividends according to their labor.”

Wu Youping thought about it for a while, and felt unoptimistic, "The herdsmen will think that we tricked them to come here?"

"Animal husbandry always needs to be developed. If they still don't accept it after we try our best, then there is only one way." Zhang Yuqing said, looking at Lu Zhixin.

"Build a pasture in the pastoral area of ​​Lin'an, and we will send people to protect it."

Lu Zhixin was a little hesitant: "Teacher Taoist, our Taoist soldiers are not expanding fast enough. We have to wait until the end of the land reform to have so many troops."

"It takes up to 40 days for the first batch of green fodder to produce results. At that time, we distributed qualified green fodder to pastures in villages and towns, and some of them were transported to pastures in pastoral areas. What I actually care about is that cattle and sheep should be slaughtered as little as possible in pastoral areas. .”

After listening to it, Wu Youping thought for a while, and felt that he could borrow the contacts of the chamber of commerce, so he replied, "I will send someone to talk to the pastoral area."

Zhang Yuqing turned to Lu Liang, who was in charge of water conservancy: "Mr. Lu, the weather will be freezing in two months. Is there any temporary solution to solve the large-scale water supply for livestock in winter? About [-] livestock need clean water."

Lu Liang thought for a while, then sighed helplessly: "With such a large herd of livestock, it is impossible to dig through the ice to get water from the river. It is easy to cause mass infectious diseases. The safety factor of well water is high, but Lin'an has not yet brought machinery and equipment. I'm afraid it won't be able to catch up with manpower. But leave this problem to me, and I will try my best to solve it."

After finishing speaking, Lu Liang couldn't help asking: "Why does the head teacher care so much about raising livestock?"

Zhang Yuqing replied: "The land has been won from the landlords and gentry. With the land, the people of Lin'an can survive on a few acres of land per person, but if they want to have extra income, they must have jobs during the slack season."

Hearing this, Lu Liang felt that he had a clue to the content of the meeting. Now that Zhang Yuqing had made an overall plan for the water conservancy project and the breeding industry, Lu Liang became interested. job opportunities?"

Zhang Yuqing nodded, "This is one of the established rules, but the time in Lin'an is too short, and things are complicated. Only now has the basis for advancing this matter."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yuqing said to Lu Zhixin and others who attended the meeting: "Bandits are rampant everywhere after autumn. Cattle and sheep need to be fattened up, and bandits also want to rob things for the winter. We will never let the bandits go! We are going to start preparing to suppress the bandits."

"Yes."

The matter of suppressing bandits has never been difficult, and many things can be solved with some means. Lin'an is currently in such a situation.

The bandit suppression meeting started immediately. I thought it was Lu Zhixin who spoke first, but it was Wu Youping who spoke first.

"Teacher Taoist, I have made a plan, please take a look." After speaking, Wu Youping took out a roll of maps and spread them out on the table.

Everyone only took a few glances, and Cheng Ruofan sighed: "It's so meticulous!"

The map is hand-drawn, and the topography of the villages and towns in Lin'an is all on it. There are detailed standards for known bandits and bandits, ranging from large bandits to small bandits with sporadic activities. Their activity areas and numbers are clearly recorded. Chu.

In addition to these, it is clearly marked on the map that a large number of bandits have attacked the target.Based on the number of people in the attacked village, armed forces, terrain, time, and weather at that time, a clear deduction has been made on the direction, number, and escape route of the bandits and bandits.

Through such meticulous work, combined with the already known situation of bandits, Wu Youping made inferences about how many cases were committed by local bandits and how many cases were committed by foreign bandits.

Zhang Yuqing didn't expect Wu Youping, who was usually taciturn, to complete such an excellent staff job, and was about to ask.

Huangzhou, who was a staff officer, smiled and said, "Teacher Daozi, I've devoted myself to training soldiers recently, and I will only answer his questions when Youping comes to ask me for advice. He did all these things himself."

Lu Zhixin followed up and said, "Teacher Taoist, Youping asked me for the records of banditry submitted by Taoists in various villages.

Now our status in the hearts of the people is very good, and people from all villages are eager to tell us the news. It's really hard work. "

Zhang Yuqing understood the source of information and technical support of Wu Youping's plan, so he asked Wu Youping to describe the plan.

"Our military strength is only one thousand, and most of them are recruits who have just joined. If the military strength is scattered, there must be various omissions.

Now each village has a militia captain, and the militia can also be called after the land is divided.

The individual households among the bandits and thieves can be dealt with or even caught by the villages when they meet them head-on.For those who escaped, the standing armed forces team in the town is responsible for setting up checkpoints on the road after receiving the news from the village, and searching suspicious areas, it should also be able to deal with it.

The Dao soldiers don't need to deal with these individual households, but deal with those bandits who form groups. "

As he said that, Wu Youping pointed to the two largest bandits in the area.

"Destroy them first."

After finishing speaking, Wu Youping pointed to the surrounding terrain and roads, and began to talk about where to set up military checkpoints to cut off the escape route of bandits.

Then how to shrink the encirclement, gradually reduce the scope of activities of the bandits, and finally annihilate them in one fell swoop.

After talking about this, Wu Youping made a few more points.It is clearly marked on the map that they are all important traffic routes for foreign bandits to enter and exit the Lin'an area.

"Send troops in these areas and mobilize militias for defense. Prevent bandits from other places from coming in to commit crimes during our campaign to wipe out bandits."

When Wu Youping finished speaking, everyone was very impressed.

However, most of the admiration is for Wu Youping's intelligence collection and analysis.The specific tactics of suppressing the bandits are not complicated. Either besiege their lairs and wipe them out in one fell swoop, or chase after the bandits and bandits after they are discovered, and pursue them fiercely.

Everyone has discussed these methods, and Wu Youping used the same method.

But bandits and bandits are erratic, and they will never wait to die in one place foolishly.

Moreover, bandits and bandits come from complicated backgrounds, and many of them look like ordinary farmers on weekdays, and when they are called by their accomplices or see an opportunity, they will come out to commit crimes with their faces covered.

With Wu Youping's detailed analysis, the direction of action of the bandits and bandits has a rough outline.Even if it's just an outline, it can be targeted.

Zhang Yuqing was completely relieved at this time, and only added two points: "First, bandits and bandits are a security issue. If they can be captured alive, they should be captured as much as possible. Those who have blood debts in their hands will be executed after a public trial.

The accomplices were sent to reform through labor in labor camps.

Second, it is necessary to attack the bandits so that they can explain their accomplices and other bandits they know about.

This can't be done by extorting confessions by torture. Don't let them feel that they were just unlucky to be caught, and then pretend to be a hero in front of us, so as to cover up other thieves. "

Zhang Yuqing got up and said, "Now that we have a plan, everyone will revise the plan and start to implement it. If there is any problem, we can discuss it more."

Lu Zhixin, Wu Youping, Huang Zhou and others got up together and replied: "Yes!"

After checking the final accounts, six villagers were asked to sign and pledge.

Han Haitao put away the ledger carefully, and got up to say goodbye to the villagers.

"Han tax collector, let's go after dinner." Zhang Qingshan invited.

Han Haitao shook his head, "I have to hurry back to the town to pay the bill. If there is a training arrangement in the town, I will ask the mayor to issue an official document as soon as possible."

Hearing about the training, the people in the village are looking forward to it, Li Qingshan said with a smile: "We are all waiting for the good news from the town."

Li Zhengqing, captain of the militia, sent Han Haitao to the entrance of the village. Han Haitao admired Li Zhengqing the most in the village. He did not say goodbye immediately when he arrived at the entrance of the village. The captain hastened to study, the official document clearly stated, just a few key points."

Captain Li Zhengqing smiled and said: "Tax official Han, I still can't recognize those characters. If the town can send some people to the village to give pointers, I will try my best to learn."

"I will explain this to the mayor." Han Haitao agreed, "But Captain Li, I read the town's plan. This year, we will send people to the village to organize literacy, and Captain Li must participate. If Captain Li can read and judge Words can add wings to a tiger."

Captain Li smiled, "The tax collector Han thinks too highly of me."

Just about to say goodbye, Captain Li hesitated for a moment.The voice of this man who is very determined on weekdays is much lower, "Han tax collector, can I really learn those?"

Han Haitao persuaded: "It's not difficult. Captain Li participated in the training class. I heard a saying in the training class that literacy means mastering a skill. As long as it is not for the purpose of being superior to others after mastering this skill, then It's easy to learn."

(End of this chapter)