Chapter 253 Working Group
At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, a team of 22 people arrived at Wangjiazhai after taking a boat and marching. Among them, 10 are medical personnel, Zhou Weiying came with the team as a medical personnel, and the other 12 are personnel who are responsible for taking over the follow-up work of Wangjiazhai. Wang Sheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, led the team to inspect the rural areas along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay, and had just returned to Jingdao, when he learned that the People's Army was coming to launch a battle to capture Wangjiazhai, Wang Sheng immediately took the initiative to ask the command headquarters to take responsibility for the follow-up work.
Originally, after Wang Sheng's investigation, the proportion of rural self-cultivators along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay was very large, there were only a small number of small landlords, and the fields generally owned were basically between 2 and 300 mu, and the number of tenants and hired farmers was not large, and each village was basically composed of blood relations. This is mainly because the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay is a relatively backward area, and close to the sea, the land is barren, so agricultural production is not developed, and the land contradiction is relatively relaxed, and there are no local tyrants and bullies like the Wang family.
In order to maintain the peasants' livelihood and local stability, the first German governor of Jiaoao, Luo Shenda, stipulated that the Chinese peasants in the German jurisdiction should continue to implement the Chinese land endowment system, and still levy it according to the amount and tax rate during the reign of the Qing government, called "township land tax", and all the original local officials were retained, so after the German occupation of Jiaozhou Bay, the lives of the peasants here did not change much.
Of course, the implementation of the Qing court's land endowment system in Jiaozhou Bay was only an expedient measure, and after Ye Shike, the second governor of Jiaoao in Germany, took office, he immediately began to investigate the land relations in the Jiaoao area and clarify the ownership of land rights, and negotiated with the gentry of towns and villages in various places, and if necessary, to verify the owners of the land registered in the tax register, if necessary, with himself or his heirs, so as to determine how much land there is under his jurisdiction and how much tax he can receive. However, the work was not completed by this time, but the materials that had completed the investigation were seized by the traversers in the Governor's Palace.
However, in this way, Wang Sheng also felt a little clueless, because most of the farmers had their own arable land to plant, so it was useless to fight local tyrants and divide the land in the old time and space. On the contrary, Wang Sheng could also feel that the peasants in these areas were more wary of the People's Army and obviously lacked a sense of trust. Of course, due to the barren land, the local residents live in poverty, and many families need to do odd jobs outside to support their families. This should be something that the traverser can take advantage of, but at the moment, there really isn't much that can be done.
In addition, Yin Island (i.e. Red Island) was not connected to the mainland at this time, but it was already very close to the land, and after the sea tide receded, you could even hike across the sea island. However, Wang Sheng and others did not investigate Yindao, because Yindao is an important salt-producing area in Jiaozhou Bay, which is enough for the entire Jiaoao leased area to eat. Salt was one of the most important commodities of people's livelihood in ancient China, and it could even be used as currency, and it was also an important industrial raw material. The traverser certainly won't let go of this cornucopia. Therefore, the investigation of Yindao is a very important matter, and the command headquarters believes that after the post-war work is over, it should organize personnel to go to the island to inspect the salt production industry in Yindao, so after the capture of Qingdao, the People's Army has not landed on Yindao. It was only through the boats from the island that the residents of the island were informed that Jiaozhou Bay had changed hands.
Wang Sheng believes that this is a good opportunity to try out the land system of traversers in Wangjiazhai and accumulate experience for future work. On the other hand, Gao Shi, an agricultural adviser in the advance team, also proposed that he hoped to set aside a part of the field to be cultivated by the traversers themselves, on the one hand, as an experimental field to develop local spatio-temporal agricultural technology, and on the other hand, to try to establish a large-scale farm-based agricultural management model, so as to provide a new model for some small landlords and even self-cultivated farmers.
Gao Shi even told the headquarters that the centralized management of large farms is the correct aspect of the development of modern agriculture, and since the traverser is the guiding lighthouse of this era, it should play a leading role in this regard.
Qin Zheng and others also felt that Wangjiazhai could be used as a pilot, after all, Wangjiazhai did not belong to the German concession area, which was an additional gain for the traversers. And there happens to be a bully-style local force, which can just take down the Wang family and implement the political concept of the traverser. Therefore, Wang Sheng's suggestion was agreed. Gao Shize's suggestion was also recognized by the command, Bi Jing's era was very different from the old time and space, and he needed to explore a new set of agricultural technology.
When the team arrived at Wangjiazhai, order in Wangjiazhai had been basically restored, and Luo Yue set up the headquarters of the People's Army in Wangjiazhai's mansion. Two platoons of troops were sent to guard it, while the rest of the troops were stationed outside the wall.
At the same time, the People's Army also searched and found a large amount of property in the Wang family's mansion, which generally included: more than 12,000 taels of silver, more than 200 taels of gold, 54 pieces of jewelry and jade, more than 5,000 stones of various grains, about 300 tons of contracts, and 25 jars of wine; 12 horses, 15 cattle, 25 pigs, 34 sheep, 8 dogs, 56 chickens and ducks in livestock; and other items included more than 50 pieces of leather, more than 200 pieces of cloth, 37 muskets, more than 220 pieces of cold weapons such as knives and guns, and so on. It can be said that the harvest is huge.
After recovering Wang Zhanyuan, Qingwen has won the full trust of the People's Army, and having such a person who is familiar with the inside affairs of the Wang family is of course of great help to the People's Army. And the other family members of the Wang family were also identified by Qingwen, and some people who usually used the power of the Wang family to oppress the people of the Wang family were also screened out, and they were also imprisoned, so that a total of 52 people were locked up, including 14 injured people, who were imprisoned separately and waited for the medical team to treat him. Although there is no punishment for them, basic treatment is still guaranteed.
The rest of the Wang family's family members, women and others, if they are from the village, will be released home to reunite with their families, while those who have no home to go will stay in the Wang family's mansion temporarily, and the injured can stay for treatment.
In the end, in addition to the injured, only 19 people remained, only 6 men, and the remaining 13 were women, and these people were not very old, the oldest was only in his early 20s, and they were basically orphans taken in by the Wang family. Because they are not very old and have no power in the Wang family, they have not bullied anyone yet.
These people were not imprisoned, but it only restricted their behavior, the men were managed by the People's Army, helping the troops to do some manual work, while the women let Qingwen take care of the management, taking care of the wounded first, and then making arrangements when the waiting team came.
In addition, the People's Army also found 27 prisoners in the dungeon of the Wang family, and after Qingwen's identification, 24 of them were farmers from the village, who were detained by the Wang family because they had violated the Wang family or did not pay the land tax, while the other 3 were the Wang family's family members, a cook, a groom, and a porter. They were imprisoned in the dungeon for different reasons, the cook was for stealing food, the groom injured Wang Zhanyuan's favorite mount, and the porter offended the Wang family's butler. And yesterday, when Ban Xiaowei and the others came to Wangjiazhai to reconnoitre, the family that was captured by Wang Kexing was also among them.
The arrested people of Benzhai were immediately released, and the family that was captured by Wang Kexing was injured, so they also stayed for the time being, and opened a special room to treat them when the medical team arrived. And the three arrested Wang family members had no home in the village, and they all stayed.
After the team arrived, Luo Yue took the group into Wangjiazhai and immediately began to arrange rooms for them. There are rooms in Wangjiazhai, but to prepare beds, beds, covers, and basic living items, Qingwen was waiting on the side, seeing this scene, she hurriedly took the initiative to come over and take this matter down, but asked the 6 men who stayed behind to send it themselves, because the girls couldn't move the beds.
Luo Yue thought about it for a while, and also felt that these trivial matters might as well be handed over to Qingwen to do, because the medical team came, and the wounded did not need to be taken care of by them, and they were all from the house and familiar with the situation, so they agreed, and ordered Yang Rui to take responsibility for management, first, Luo Yue was worried that Qingwen could not command those men, and secondly, now all the warehouses have been sealed, and if there is no traverser, Qingwen and Ben will not be able to get anything. After hearing this, Qingwen was also very happy, and immediately beckoned the other girls to do their work.
Looking at the back of Qingwen leaving, Wang Sheng smiled and said, "Where did this little girl come from, she is a very smart and clever person." ”
Luo Yue also smiled and briefly told Wang Sheng about Qingwen's life experience.
After listening to Luo Yue's speech, Wang Sheng also nodded and said, "Very good, this shows that we are right to attack Wangjiazhai, otherwise a bully like this will hurt more people." ”
Luo Yue also nodded, and said: "The evil deeds of the Wang family are not only this, there are many more, come, you can rest for a while, and when we have dinner, we will talk slowly." ”
At this time, Yao Shanxue, the captain of the medical team, said: "Battalion Commander Luo, let's take a look at the situation of the wounded first." ”
Luo Yue said: "You just came, let's rest for a while, the wounded are basically not in danger." ”
Yao Shanxue said: "Rest until you are not busy, the wounded are the most important, and you can't rest assured if you don't look at it." ”
Although Luo Yue wanted to say a few words to Zhou Weiying, what Yao Shanxue said was a big truth, so he had to order someone to take the medical team to see the wounded, but he could only catch an empty man, say hello to Zhou Weiying, and say hello.