Yanmen County

After some negotiations at Yanmen Pass, Han Cheng and Hu Chuquan, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu, unified their thoughts and basically reached a consensus.

The Southern Xiongnu army retreated to the northern part of Bingzhou, and Loufan Pass, Loufan County and Yinguan County, the land of these two counties and one pass, became Han Cheng's territory.

After the negotiation was over, the first thing Han Cheng did was to go to the wounded barracks first to comfort the wounded soldiers.

This is Han Cheng's routine, the soldier's physical injuries are already painful, but they can't be saddened anymore.

Han Cheng personally went to the wounded barracks, and even the seriously injured soldiers were deeply grateful in their hearts, because the general had not forgotten us, and the general still remembered their group of wounded people.

Han Cheng came out of the wounded barracks and ordered the soldiers who had nowhere to bury them together after they were killed, and built a martyr's shrine outside the south gate of Yanmen Pass.

In this battle, more than 8,000 war horses were captured, and after 6,000 war horses were returned to the Southern Xiongnu through negotiations, there were still more than 2,000 left. Of course, with Han Cheng's character, all those left behind must be excellent war horses.

The 2,000 soldiers who were captured by the Southern Xiongnu in Lou Fu Pass were all released.

Some of them deeply felt Han Cheng's great kindness and took the initiative to ask to join the Fenwu Army; But some people didn't want to participate in the war anymore and wanted to go home, but Han Cheng didn't approve it.

These soldiers and the 3,000 recruits recruited at that time were scattered and incorporated into his own Fenwu army.

Now is the time when Han Cheng is short of people, and Han Cheng doesn't want to let go of these good soldiers.

Besides, they can give their lives to the three major families of Yanmen County, but can't they give their lives to the Fenwu Army?

After some training and selection, those with excellent performance and superb riding skills or excellent archery skills were selected and added to the Qinglong Camp and the Strong Bow Battalion.

Although Han Cheng's army in Bingzhou has been sharply reduced from 14,000 before this war, to 12,000 now.

But these 12,000 people are all elite troops who have been baptized by war, and they are not comparable to the 14,000 people at the beginning.

Han Cheng's territory expanded from four counties and one pass to six counties and two passes, and the entire Yanmen County Pass belonged to Han Cheng's place, and Han Cheng also moved the county administration from Pingcheng County to Yinguan County.

Regarding the issue of the stationing of troops, Han Cheng listened to the advice of Chang Shi Fu and stationed them separately.

The Qinglong Battalion has expanded to more than 6,500 people, led by Pan Feng, and stationed outside Yinguan County.

Yinguan County is the seat of Yanmen County, and it is also a strategic place, according to the speed of the Qinglong Battalion, it takes up to two hours to reach Lou Fu Pass and Yanmen Pass; To reach other counties, the farthest is only four hours.

The 3,000 soldiers of the Qianggong Battalion, of which 2,000 were led by Wei Yan, plus 1,000 soldiers, a total of more than 3,000 people, were stationed at Yanmen Pass, guarding the prisoners and rebuilding the city wall, while strengthening the training of soldiers.

The remaining 1,000 strongbow battalions and 2,000 soldiers were led by Zhang He and stationed at Loufu Pass.

Since a large number of war horses have been captured, there are plenty of war horses in the army, and no less than 500 war horses have been arranged in each of the two passes, one is for the purpose of finding out the news, and the other is to train riding, so as to become the reserve force of the Qinglong battalion.

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The New Year is approaching, and Xu Miao and the officials of Pingcheng County are even busier.

The main thing is to prepare for the redivision of land after the year.

This requires both the measurement of the area of available land and the statistical verification of the personnel of each household according to the standards, which requires not only a lot of time, but also a lot of manpower, which makes Pingcheng officials busy.

Han Cheng, out of the compassionate compensation for the fallen soldiers, added another article to the land division order: Men in the family who died in the army can be divided into three acres of inferior land.

and tax-exempt for the first year; In the second year, only half of the tax is collected, and one out of eighteen is collected; In the third year, it will return to normal, and one of the nine will be regarded as a disguised way to make up for the dead soldiers.

As soon as the notice came out, the people who had joined the army and died in the family shouted Han Chengren's righteousness, which also disappointed the people who had not joined the army, or who had not been selected, that soldier didn't want the general to be like this?

Xu Miao divided the land into two steps, the first step was to make up the land of the original people in the city according to the standard of the land division order.

The families who originally lived in Pingcheng County had more or less land, but it was far from the amount of land that Han Cheng was going to distribute to them.

So after the New Year, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, before dawn, the people who owned land in Pingcheng County gathered outside the city to prepare for the division of land, waiting for the division of land.

Although the number of these people's families had already been handed over to the Pingcheng County Government a year ago, the County Government had already sent someone to verify and inform them that they could arrive at the land distribution site at the eighth day of the first lunar month, and promised to give them the land.

But in this era, land is the life of farmers, and with land, there is food and the possibility of living.

At this time, everyone couldn't stay at home, so they came early.

Even if the cold wind hunts, it can't stop the fire in the hearts of the people.

When Xu Miao, the county commander of Pingcheng County, led a group of officials to the place of land division, they saw this group of people from a distance, and the people saw Xu Miao coming, and they were excited in their hearts, finally here, our Xu County order and land are finally here.

Xu Miao was able to do things, and he didn't ink, so he immediately ordered and started to divide the land.

After Xu Miao finished speaking, the location of the land division changed from noisy to silent.

I only heard the lord of the county reading the list and the number of lands of the people on the list.

"Liu Sheng, one adult man, three old people, three children, and one woman in the family, a total of seven and a half acres of medium land, now there are three acres of medium land and four points of superior land, and there are two acres of three points of prime land left, in Li Township, east of the city, not far from your home. Let's go check it out first. ”

"Li Kai, one soldier in the family, two elderly people, no women and girls, a total of five acres of medium land and one acre of inferior land. Now there are four acres of inferior land, and there are still three and a half acres of inferior land and one acre of medium land, which is not far away in Siwu Township, west of the city. ”

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When the lord Bo finished reading, Peng, Shi and other officials in the county government sent the people to the township rank, Li Kui, and asked them to take the people to their own land to see the land, if the personnel are not enough, there will be pavilion chiefs, pavilions to help.

Because it was the first time to divide the land, the stakes were very important, and Han Cheng came to inspect the sub-site with a group of personal guards.

When I saw that everything was going on in an orderly manner, I agreed with Xu Miao's ability in my heart.

This Xu Miao is organized, has rules, is extremely capable, and has deep popular support, and is a good hand at governing the place.

When Han Cheng was thinking about Xu Miao, a couple walked up to Xu Miao with a child, didn't say a word, kowtowed, and said:

"Thanks to the prefectural ordinance, the land was given to us. It turned out that we only had two acres of inferior land, and we couldn't eat enough all year round. It doesn't matter if we don't have enough to eat, but the children are starving with us, and no one cares about us.

Now that the Xu County Order is here and gives us land, our children will not starve, and even if we are cattle and horses in the future, we will repay the great kindness of the Xu County Order. ”

When the surrounding people heard the words of these two people, they felt that they had said what they thought in their hearts, and there were no superfluous words, so they just knelt down together and bowed to Xu Miao, Xu Miao sighed: "The people are like this, whoever treats them well, they dare to pay it back with their lives." ”

If you usually deal with political affairs, it would be like this, but now in this situation, how dare Xu Miao accept their bow?

At this time, Xu Miao turned his head and suddenly saw Han Cheng standing not far away, and said with an embarrassed expression: "This is Lord Taishou's land division order, I just acted with the order." Taishou-sama is over there, so go and thank him. ”

Xin said: "The lord's guild will not think much about this, he just acted according to the order, but he did not incite the people." ”

Seeing the scene at this time, Han Cheng smiled slightly, and said loudly to the people:

"I came just now, everyone's gratitude, I, Han Cheng, saw it. Don't be excited, going home and planting the land is the greatest reward for me Han Cheng. After all, I don't farm, and I still have to eat the grain you grow. ”

Han Cheng's joke, the first sentence was obviously said to Xu Miao, and after Xu Miao heard it, his nervous nerves were relaxed;

The latter words made the people's mood even more excited, Lord Taishou is young and unpretentious, listen to this speech, how approachable the people are.

After hearing this, the people ignored the score for the time being, ran to Han Cheng and bowed again, and the voices of thanks were endless.

Han Cheng felt that he had not come to this world in vain, at least he could let the people on this side have land to plant, food to eat, and live better, and his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment.

After the land of the original people in the city was divided in the first step, the land of the people plundered by the Southern Xiongnu was distributed.

These people's land does not need to be replenished, and the land is divided as many people as there are in each family;

Xu Miao turned this kind of people in Pingcheng County into villages early on: as small as a village of 100 households, and as large as 500 households for a village.

Then the officials of the county government were ordered to distribute the land in accordance with the standards, and each village and household carried out the land distribution step by step.

In the following five days, the land division of Pingcheng County was in full swing.

Finally, on the morning of the 6th, the land distribution in Pingcheng County was concluded.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were about 180,000 people in Yanmen County, and with the departure of Ding Yuan, ethnic minorities often went south to plunder, causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee to the south of Bingzhou.

Although he had his life, he had no land, so he could only sell his sons and daughters to work as coolies for large families in exchange for a little food to survive.

When Han Cheng's policy in the northern part of the state spread to the southern part of the state, the people who fled from their homes in the northern part of the state and the displaced people from all over the country went to the north of the state to fight for a better life by sharing some land.

This was an unexpected situation for Han Cheng.