Chapter 146: Sending troops to Zhaoqing
"Yes, sure." Chen Shantu replied without hesitation
At this moment, Chen Shantu didn't think about Zhang Rui's identity as an "anti-thief", nor did he think about what would happen if the Manchu Qing Dynasty came back. Now, his mind was occupied by the joy of being able to share his own land, and he wondered when he would be able to get his own land.
Another middle-aged man kneeling not far from Chen Shantu, after hearing Zhang Rui's words to Chen Shantu, also had the courage to ask Zhang Rui: "King, I want to ask if I can also get a share of the land?" ”
Zhang Rui heard the voice and looked over. I saw a middle-aged man who looked nearly forty years old kneeling on the ground and looked at him and asked.
The man was dressed in shabby linen clothes, and one braid was so greasy that it could almost stick to a fly, and if you were close to him, you should be able to smell heavy head oil.
"What do you call it," Zhang Rui asked, facing him
"Back to the king, the little one, Li Nineteen." The man replied respectfully
"Don't call me the king, call me the sixth brother. Get up and talk back! I ask you, do you have your own field at home? Zhang Rui continued to ask
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Sixth Brother. The villain is still kneeling, kneeling is more comfortable. There is no land in the villain's house, and many people in our village are tenant farmers, just like me. ”
"You! Have to stand, isn't it better to stand and talk? If you have no land in your home, you can naturally get a share of the land. If you have a field at home, I'm not afraid that you will lie to us, after all, these fields will be registered in the future! Zhang Ruiluo said with a warning
"Yes, we people naturally don't dare to deceive the Sixth Brother King." Li Shijiu lowered his head and replied
"Well, after a while, the city gate will be opened, and you can go back and tell the people in your village who don't have fields about the division of land here."
"In a family, a man can divide two acres of land and one acre of land; A woman can divide two acres of land; If there are children, each child may be divided into one acre of land; However, after the number of children exceeds eight, it will not be added. That's it for the time being, let's find out about it at the Yamen when the specific time comes! Zhang Rui said tirelessly
"Yes, villain understands." After Li Shijiu listened to Zhang Rui's words, he immediately had a good impression of the bandit army. At the same time, I was very happy in my heart, calculating how much land my family should share.
At this time, the guards who went to buy steamed buns also came back with a lot of meat buns. After Zhang Rui distributed the meat buns to them, he said goodbye to Chen Jiumei's family, and then continued to walk towards the yamen.
With Zhang Rui's departure, the news that every landless family could get a piece of land spread throughout the city after a while.
Each household can be allocated at least five acres of land, and each mu will receive two buckets of grain. You can pay such a low tax casually, and after paying the tax, it will be your own food, so you can eat white rice without worry.
At this time, in addition to some people whose families have more than five acres of land at home, they will say some sour things, and some people who are not optimistic about the bandit army will say some bad things. There are few people who can get the land, not to mention that the bandit army is good.
The people who can get the land hope that the bandit army will continue to be strong, and it is best to take Bauhinia City. In this way, the land will be taken back if it is not used at all.
Zhang Rui, who had conquered Wuzhou City, only let the bandit army rest for two days, and then continued to go to Zhaoqing City with 9,000 soldiers.
Since there are a large number of available population resources in Wuzhou City, there is no need for Zhang Rui to leave soldiers as auxiliaries to transport food this time. Of course, for these people who help transport grain and grass, they are given good wages, and they are not forcibly levied.
At the same time, because the bandit army quickly took Wuzhou City, the tax revenue that had just been collected in Wuzhou City was also captured by the bandit army.
Those big families who dared to assist the Qing army were all liquidated by the bandit army. However, apart from the diehards, there were not too many casualties. But there was no need to think about the property of their homes, and they were all forfeited as money for their sins.
Originally, Zhang Rui also wanted to make an example of killing and killing. However, considering that the massacre is easy to cause instability in the city, Zhang Rui now has to race against time. Even if there will be a lot of harm if such a person is left, Zhang Rui has to do the same.
In order to let these people hand over the silver quickly, Zhang Rui promised them that he would never pursue them again in the future, and would return a certain amount of silver to them.
is similar to a certain cat in later generations to engage in promotions, and few of the big households who were summoned to the scene were fools, and they would use their own heads to talk about "benevolence" with "anti-thieves". This "benevolence and righteousness" was originally abandoned by them early on.
The people present paid a little attention, and they all found that those present were all big families who went out to defend the city, and those who didn't go out to defend the city were fine.
Even those who were fired had no family to admit that it was enough for this group of "anti-thieves" to leave their families alive. If they are to be replaced by other people, they must not behead the whole family.
Now that they can save their lives and return the silver, they have to be hated and hated, and they hate Han Yuxin and Liu Feifeng and themselves for having nothing to do.
The clever big families have led the bandit army to raid their homes, and they have raided their own silver vaults. The silver winter melon in it was an eye-opener for the bandit army who had never seen any silver, but none of the bandit army dared to have the slightest idea of taking it privately.
After all, the military discipline set by Zhang Rui is not a joke, but the military officials emphasize it every day. Not to mention that there are people who come with them at this time, just the various benefits of the bandit army have been confiscated by them, and they will get a certain amount of silver. It also definitely made them dare not reach out that hand.
There are too many things that Zhang Rui has no time to deal with, after all, there are too many things to deal with.
At this time, Zhang Rui suddenly understood why those great men in history complained that they didn't have enough time, and they used to go home to blow the air conditioner, watch TV dramas and brag on the Internet as long as they got off work, but at that time, he didn't have such thoughts at all.
As soon as Liu Muxiu arrived in Wuzhou City, Zhang Rui threw all the government affairs to him, and then left a thousand sword and shield soldiers and two hundred musketeers to defend the city, and then took the rest of the men and horses to Zhaoqing City.
Due to the replacement of the barrels of the musketeers and the wear and tear of the barrels during training, although the musketeers recruited more than 4,000, the weapons have not been able to keep up.
This time, the two hundred novice musketeers brought by Liu Muxiu have just replaced some veterans to defend the city, so that these novices can experience the battlefield.
Zhaoqing, a famous county in Lingnan with a long history. It is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, with the Beiling on its back, facing the Xijiang River, controlling Cangwu on the upper part and the South China Sea on the lower side, which is the throat of western Guangdong. Choke the throat of the traffic between the two Guangzhou, control the main road of the Xijiang River, and have been a battleground for soldiers in the past dynasties.