Time is like an arrow, and time is like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, a month and a half had passed.

In the case that most people don't understand, Zhang Rui still "insists on going his own way" and insists on his own point of view.

As early as the beginning, Zhang Rui went to the two county yali that govern the wasteland around Zhilian Mountain to learn about the situation. Zhilian Mountain was originally a bandit's den, and naturally there were no inhabitants around it, so the nearby thirty miles of land were ownerless wasteland.

Originally, this wasteland was owned by whoever opened it, but Zhang Rui still spent more than ten taels of silver to buy the thirty miles of wasteland by way of purchase and registered it in the government.

With the collection of summer taxes from the imperial court, countless landless and poor people came with their families every day. From more than 30 households at the beginning, there are now 170 households, and some families of the bandit suppression team members have moved in, and now the population of Zhilian Mountain is nearly 2,000 people.

At this time, Zhilian Mountain has slowly formed a new town, although the houses are all mud embryo bricks and grass roofs, but they are all marked with numbers, neat and consistent. Moreover, each house is an independent four-room style covering an area of more than 100 square meters, which is planned and designed around the mountain.

At present, the house is rented out for 30 yuan per month for the use of families who have come to the house. However, it was Zhang Rui who told them that if they could always abide by the rules of Zhilian Mountain in the future, then they would no longer be charged after one year. And families who have lived in it for three years will eventually own the home.

Such a fresh good thing naturally made the poor and white households who came happy, as if they saw the expectation of the future.

At the same time, Zhang Rui also arranged for people to collectively go to the surrounding areas to open up wasteland.

The enthusiasm of the poor people for the land far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people, and with the help of sufficient cattle in the cottage, 2,000 acres of fields have been opened up in just one month.

Although Guangxi is a mountainous place, Zhang Rui roughly estimated that within 30 miles of the Zhilian Mountain, there are at least 40,000 acres of fields suitable for cultivation.

According to Zhang Rui's meaning, these fields will eventually be distributed to the people who open up the wasteland to cultivate. Each family can get five acres. The land is not divided very much, but Zhang Rui's rent is low! Only two buckets of millet are harvested per acre, and the rent is never increased, even if it is two stones per mu. The rent of these two buckets still includes the taxes to be paid to the imperial court.

If that's the kind of rent, that's a great thing. Even if it is a newly opened field, as long as it is not a person who is too lazy to die, then every acre of land can produce eight or nine buckets of millet! Handed over two buckets, at least six. There are only three stones of millet left in those five acres.

What is the concept of millet that can have three stones left in a season? That is, the people in the family can eat enough every day. This is something that even Dafeng Nian would not have dared to imagine before, after all, there are too many taxes to pay.

This newly cultivated field will continue to increase with the cultivation yield, how much millet will it be at that time? Those who cannot open up the wasteland are not enthusiastic. As a result, the members of the reclamation team are working hard in the bright future described by Zhang Rui.

In the following days, Zhang Rui once again released exciting news. The bandit squad will recruit again, this time with a quota of 1,100.

This time, the recruitment of bandit suppressors will no longer give An family silver, but give ten acres of land. At the same time, the monthly salary also dropped to five cents of silver per month, but when he quit the bandit squad five years later, he could still get another ten acres of land.

A team member will be able to get 20 acres of land after five years, and this field will be directly transferred to the property in his name at that time, but at that time, he will have to pay the taxes of the imperial court.

Of course, you can also continue to name Zhang Rui here, the field is still your own, and you can sell and buy. Zhang Rui still only collects one acre and two buckets of millet and helps to take charge of the taxes of the imperial court.

This recruitment looks like there is no money to settle in, and the monthly income is also low. But it is a matter of interests, and even ordinary people who don't know how to count know which is more cost-effective.

At present, there are at least seven or eight taels of silver per mu of land, and the fertile land even reaches eleven twelve taels of silver, and sometimes there is no market. Therefore, the field will only be more valuable, and the silver will be gone.

With the news released by Zhang Rui, some families with many young men in the family are so happy that they don't want to. This kid will have 20 acres when he goes in, and the 5 boys will have 100 acres if he goes in.

One hundred acres! Then you will become a small landlord. If it weren't for this opportunity, a tenant farmer's family would not have been able to own so much land in their lifetime. Coupled with the rent of the sixth brother, it is not good if he is not enthusiastic. This is more visible and tangible than the five million lottery tickets in later generations.

"No, the family has to let the young man eat even if he doesn't eat in the past two days. When he is admitted to the sixth brother's bandit team, we don't have to worry. ”

Many people chanted

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What's the hottest topic these days? At that time, it was Zhang Rui, Zhang Liuge. Who doesn't know the whole county, who doesn't know?

Does a county master like Zhang Rui care about recruiting people? Don't report it?

The prefect also wanted to take care of it, but a few days ago, the prefect's master Zhang came to Zhang Rui and told him that he had made meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits before, and the prefect was ready to go to the court to give him a position.

Now that the prefect knows it, why should a small prefect meddle in his affairs, and Zhang Rui is not bad to him, a prefect, and knows how to be filial. Therefore, it is better to have more than one thing to know the county.

The recruitment went on as scheduled, and finally Zhang Rui recruited the team in his heart. A hundred men of swords and shields, three hundred pikemen, one hundred archers, thirty as scouts, and six hundred as musketeers.

As for the musketeers. The day before Zhang Rui released the news that he was going to recruit team members, he received a reply from Du Mu, who had already bought more than 1,300 new flintlock pistols in Macao. This gun was supposed to be sold to the Macao garrison when the Dutch robbed the British ship and was about to pull it to Macao, but the Macao garrison did not buy it.

At that time, Du Mu was very lucky to encounter this incident, and finally bought all the guns for the price of ten taels, and at the same time the Dutch accompanied two Englishmen.

The guns will eventually be sent back to Zhilianshan in the name of tea, where they are expected to arrive in the next few days. This incident made Zhang Rui very satisfied with Du Mu's ability to do things.

When recruiting the bandit team, Zhang Rui also innovatively recruited 100 female soldiers as a medical team. According to Zhang Rui's statement: Who said that women are inferior to men? Women can also hold up a piece of the sky.

Female soldiers, in this era, is something that is unimaginable. If it weren't for the fact that they were all poor people here, it is estimated that it would be impossible for Zhang Rui to recruit a female soldier.

Do poor people care that they can even sell themselves into slavery, and that their women become female soldiers with rich income?

So, the female medical team was full. In the future, they will be trained by doctors to nurse them, and they can be used to care for wounded soldiers in battles in the future.

The development of everything has made Liu Muxiu not react yet. What he didn't expect was that those old beggars could make Zhang Rui a person who told various stories every day.

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After Zhang Rui finished recruiting the team members, he was ready to follow the surrounding bandits in high spirits.

The "prosperous era" of the Qing Dynasty Qianlong Emperor loves Xinjueluo. Hongli is also in high spirits at this time.

As recorded in the history books

In June, Dawazi was obtained, and the Dzungar rebellion was quelled. Luo Buzang Tenzin and others were sent to the Beijing Division, where they were taken prisoner and captured at the Imperial Noon Gate.

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Emperor Qianlong was very happy tonight. After experiencing the Junggar rebellion that the Holy Ancestor Kangxi Ye and Yongzheng Ye did not pacify, but was put down by himself, doesn't this show more that he has the spirit of the Son of Heaven and his extraordinary ability?

In order to show his diligence, Hongli, who originally wanted to rest, decided to review the folds again. He believes that he should be an example of hard work in the world, and he should not get the notoriety of lazy government because of this.

So, he went to the south study to deal with the old things in the local area, after all, it had been delayed for a long time.

tonight

At this moment

Hongli picked up the recital of Yuan Meide, the prefect of Wuzhou, Guangxi.