open sea

Chapter 96 Chaos
Chen Mu can understand eight thousand acres of wasteland and twenty thousand acres of mountainous land.

But what the hell is going on with Juntian rowing into the sea?

What is it if a monk occupies a field and occupies a thousand households?

"Magistrate Zhou, do you know about this?"

Chen Mu was not angry, and rubbed his hands, but decided to ask Zhou Xing first.

Because he took what Deng Zilong said and calculated it in his own mind. The tax he said was not calculated on the basis of [-] mu of military land, but on the basis of [-] mu of arable military land to pay taxes for two seasons. .

If this is how the Xiangshan Qianhu Office collects taxes, then the Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, and Guangdong capitals all know about it.

There must be something tricky here!

"Go back to Chen Qianhu, I know." Zhou Xing didn't pretend to be a quail, and told Chen Mu straightforwardly that he knew about it, "Not only do I know, but I also know that the military land of Xiangshan Qianhu is not [-] mu, but [-] mu. A thousand acres."

"The other [-] mu of land is in Haojing. The fields in Xiangshan are scarce. A few years ago, the Fanyi broke through the customs and took the route of Wang Bai, the deputy envoy of the sea route, and took Macao as their home. Not daring to cross Macao to cultivate land, so I asked the county magistrate Chen Yi to allocate another [-] mu of military land. Xiangshan is all civilian land, and there is no land to allocate, so we had to allocate the seaside sandy land opposite Huangliangdu to Qianhusuo. Not counting taxes, let the military households fish for a living."

"Most of the military fields on the mountain are tea gardens, and they can still pick wood. They can sell tea to buy grain, and they can also pay taxes. If thousands of households work hard, the wasteland will not be wasteland after two years. Only the military field occupied by Liurong Temple , to be honest, I’m in the lower county magistrate.” Zhou Xing shook his head slightly and said, “There’s no way, Qianhu can only get it back by himself.”

After what Zhou Xing said, Chen Mu felt that it made sense, no matter whether it was sea fields or mountain fields, they could all be used. As for the wasteland...Master Chen didn't plan to stay in the Xiangshan Thousand Households for the rest of his life, so let the [-] mu of land go to waste Let's go, if it's really not possible, wait until you have a lot of money in hand, and hire the people of Xiangshan to open up wasteland.

It was Chen Mu who was the least serious before. The mere [-] mu of land occupied by the temple in Guangcheng made Zhou Xing helpless, which aroused his curiosity and asked, "Why can't Brother Zhou do anything about it? ?”

"There are quite a lot of believers among the dignitaries in Guangcheng."

Zhou Xing raised his finger and pointed to it with a smile on his face, shook his head and said, "The field is in the hands of the monks. If Chen Qianhu wants to reason, it doesn't make sense. If he makes sense, no one will listen."

"However, if a thousand households lead troops to snatch them back and keep them, that would be a matter of great merit." Zhou Xing smiled, put his hands on the tea table, and said, "There are also common people's fields in the county that are occupied by monks. There are not enough yamen servants in the county, if a thousand households lead troops to take back the fields, I will save the thousand households from their heart disease."

"do not!"

Zhou Xing was still laughing, but Chen Mu had already waved his hand to stop, and said: "Chen doesn't care about the two thousand acres, let the monks farm if they like, this matter is definitely not as simple as you said, knocking at the door and grabbing it back, Zhou County Don't even try to push Chen out."

"And this heart disease, Brother Zhou has to help me solve it now, Gouding is in charge of the army."

"Without the Banner Army, it's a small matter that we can't grow food. It's a big deal if we can't suppress the Fanyi in Haojingao, and we can't complete the mission assigned by the governor. In this matter, the county magistrate Zhou must work together with Chen."

In fact, what Zhou Xing originally thought was that Chen Mu led the troops to snatch back the fields privately occupied by the monastery. He helped Chen Mu find some people who could not survive under the rule to be recruited into the army, but now Chen Mu didn't want to care about those army fields at all. He didn't want to help Chen Mu either.

We are also in the same boat!

"Many common people's fields are occupied by monks, and Zhou is unpopular, so how can he win for thousands of households?" Zhou Xing no longer looked at Chen Mu, but sighed: "If thousands of households can take the land from the monks, Come on, it’s a pity that Zhou was able to hook up two hundred households for Qianhu.”

Zhou Xing didn't say anything, Chen Mu was still not at ease, but now he heard that even if he took back the land, Zhou Xing only won two hundred banner troops for himself, so he was a little relieved.

It seems that the monk is not too difficult to deal with.

"Five hundred, if you can get five hundred households, Chen would like to try."

Chen Mu's biggest problem right now is the lack of troops in the Weisuo Banner. As for the army field occupied by Liurong Temple, he has plenty of ways to get it back.

"Five hundred!" Zhou Xing, who has always been calm and calm, raised his eyebrows. The shortage of guards has become a rule. He originally thought that 200 people would be enough for Chen Mu, so he hurriedly said, "Where can Zhou attract so many people? Up to two hundred, if there is more, there will be a civil uprising!"

Chen Mu raised three fingers, and said: "Three hundred Goujun, this is the least. Chen has to find more than 600 people, and the Xiangshan Qianhu Banner Army has to make up for it. County magistrate Zhou also wants to follow the example of Mr. Wu. What does the governor mean, how to manage Haojing well? Without the Banner Chen, you can’t suppress Fanyi, this is not helping me, but helping yourself.”

Zhou Xing frowned.

Chen Qianhu doesn't look as submissive as he was in the Governor's Mansion, especially when it comes to Fanyi.

"Chen Qianhu, it's true that Zhou wants to govern Haojing. You also want to suppress Fanyi, but how and to what extent do you want to suppress it?"

Chen Mu didn't speak for a while.

"Chen didn't think about how to suppress it. The way of Haidao's deputy envoy was cleared by the barbarians. What can Chen's small household do?" Chen Mu spread his hands and smiled, holding the handrail and rubbing his skin, saying: "In the past, Qingyuan Chen is a farmer, what ambition do you expect me to have?"

"I just want to take soldiers to Haojing to plant the [-] mu of land."

The young Qianhu in front of him said it easily, but Zhou Xing could hear his hidden meaning.

He wants to garrison troops in Haojingao.

"By the way, Brother Zhou, I have something else to tell you."

Chen Mu didn't care what Zhou Xing thought, he suddenly thought of what Yan Qing said, and said to Zhou Xing: "I heard in Guangcheng that Fanyi deceived the people of Ming Dynasty, and more than a dozen women from good families outside the city were deceived. Report to the police but no one cares.”

"Fan Yi is in Xiangshan, Brother Zhou and his parents don't care about this matter?"

"You heard that too?"

Zhou Xing sighed, and said to Chen Mu, "I can't wait for Chen Qianhu to come. Because of this, the Fanyi seduced the women of the people, and there was a lot of alarm in the world. The officials also sent people to sneak into Haojing to investigate secretly. Because, it has three large ships, hundreds of soldiers and servants, and it is a business of selling black fans, and Haojing is famous."

"The bandits in the Huangliang City are in chaos, and the yamen servants are not allowed to enter Macao. I can only negotiate with the merchants and the Fan merchants. The merchants are temporarily delayed for three months, so that thousands of households can fight against the local bandits in the Huangliang City. Through the mirror of Hao. road."

Huangliangdu, Chen Mu secretly chewed on the place name and asked, "The county magistrate said that the [-]-acre coast is located in Huangliangdu. How cute are they to start a rebellion right under their noses?"

"Rabbits don't eat grass by the side of their nests. They have been local bandits in Huangliang for several years. They have never caused harm to the village. They colluded with Japanese pirates and often jumped out of Jiangmen to attack Xinhui. When the officers and soldiers arrived, they fled to Haojing. When the officers and soldiers left, they came back. They are cunning. very."

"Zhou will buy three hundred for a thousand households, and the monks occupy the land?"

Still let up.

After all, he used Master Chen so much!
"This matter is on Chen, but brother Zhou, don't worry, you just want the fields back from the people, and if you can't hold them back, what can you do?"

"We've just planted rice seedlings, let them plant them first." Chen Mu raised his two fingers on the tea table, "When the rice grows, brother Zhou, you take the people to harvest the fields, and Mr. Chen leads the soldiers to escort you. The monk who turns around likes to accumulate virtue and do good deeds." , we let them grow it."

"I really can't believe that the monks and soldiers in his monastery could beat Chen's banner army in a few months!"

(End of this chapter)