Section 282 Census and Catching Floating Waves

Fu Yousan was dealt with severely. Not only did the entire Zhuangzi, including land, grain, and livestock, confiscate the entire population, but also confiscate the same area of land as the Fu family. Originally, the richest man in the village fell to less than 50 acres of land, which was only enough for a middle peasant household.

It didn't take long for Fu Yousan to go crazy - his fortune was ruined, and with it, the patriarchal authority collapsed. The resentment that the three sons had accumulated over the years all exploded. Now that there is no longer the possibility of inheriting property, Fu Yousan's paternalistic style is no longer heeded. Fu Erzhuang and Sanzhuang simply left Meiyang Village with their wives and children, and went to Bairen City to recruit workers as workers. Fu Yizhuang left him alone in the backyard and ignored him except for some food and drink.

The biggest gain in this Qing Zhang was Fu Buji, the fall of Fu Yousan's family made him the richest man in the village, not only that, Wang Ruixiang according to Wu De's instructions, to properly support new vested interest groups in the village, as the cornerstone of the new regime. A small rural landlord like Fu Fuji, who is willing to accept new things and has a strong enterprising spirit, is a suitable target. Therefore, it expresses a great deal of importance to Fu Fuji. Not only did he accept his invitation, but he also announced at the banquet that the county government would send him a plaque of "serving the public and abiding by the law", which made Fu Fuji's face red with excitement -- not to mention that this kind of honor is not available in this village, even if few people in the county have enjoyed it.

In addition to the honor, the more affordable thing is that Wang Ruixiang issued him a charter certificate, allowing him to waive the service fee of the Tiandihui for one year.

Fu Buji's status in the village immediately improved dramatically, and the villagers saw him as an agent of the Australians in the village, and he soon became a well-known figure. Of course, he has become one of the most loyal lackeys of the Crossing Group.

The next work of clearing the nearby villages was much easier: the news of Meiyang Village spread quickly: now everyone knows that Australians have "iron birds" that fly in the sky and "clairvoyance" that can see everything. Many people who conceal their fields at the time of declaration are restless.

Wang Ruixiang wasted no time in sending people everywhere to publicize the policy of "voluntary surrender"; all farmers who concealed their fields during the self-declaration stage could "confess and be lenient" as long as they came to the task force in time to "turn themselves in." If they were found out, they would not only have to confiscate the fields that had been concealed, but would also have to confiscate them twice.

As soon as the news spread, there was an endless stream of farmers who came to the work team's station to "turn themselves in." Wang Ruixiang was very satisfied with this effect, and now he didn't have to go out and yell at those poor insects -- it was very exhausting, and he had another thing to do -- the census.

What is the population of Lingao County? According to the county's yellow register, there are 6,231 registered county households, of which 4,795 are private households, and the rest are military households, miscellaneous service households, horse station households, and so on, and they bear different taxes and labor. The total population was 33,282, of which more than two-thirds were men and only about 4,000 women and women.

This figure makes it hard for the people on the executive committee to believe that it is a fact that the local population is not dense, but as far as everyone sees on a daily basis, it is definitely not so rare. Apparently there are a large number of "hidden people" among them.

Wu De specially called Zhou Qi to consult. On Sunday, they were told that their guess was not wrong, and that there were indeed many "hidden households" whose purpose was nothing more than to avoid taxes and labor. As for the population figures of this household, the county government is simply a confused account, and the figures published in this yellow book are still counted in the seventh year of Zhengde.

"Since the Wanli period of a whip law was carried out, the grain payment official was closed, and Li Jia no longer had to handle it," Zhou Qi explained, "This yellow book has long been useless, saying that it is repaired once every ten years, and later it is said that it is repaired once a year, but this thing cannot be used to collect taxes, and it is not used to levy and issue forced labor, so every year it is the number of households to copy the previous number, and then estimate it." Look—" He casually flipped through the back books and showed them to Wu De, and there was actually a yellow book of the ten years of the Apocalypse. Apparently "pre-made" haode in advance. This style of doing things made Wu De laugh dumbly, and it seems that many of the drawbacks are really the same.

"I see." Wu De nodded, "It's better to restore the Yellow Book now." ”

"Yes, yes," Zhou Qi agreed, wondering in his heart, what is the use of restoring the Yellow Book? This thing has long been a formality.

With the insight of Zhou Qi, the significance of the census cannot be grasped. Another important system of the crossing group, the household registration system, should also be established on the basis of the census. The household registration system in the Ming Dynasty used to be very strict, but by this time it would have collapsed to the point where it would not be what it was. The Crossing Group intends to transplant the system that once worked in another time and space here.

The implementation of the new household registration system will inevitably involve the establishment of a grassroots administrative system. In order to grasp the population situation of the whole county as soon as possible and carry out the next step of population development, the executive committee decided not to promote the household registration system in the whole county for the time being, but to conduct a census first. For this reason, they have developed a system of population cards. Registration is made on an individual basis. Only name, date of birth, sex, level of education, ethnicity, occupation and place of residence are registered on the card. Each card has a unique 12-digit number, which also provides the basis for the future implementation of the identity card system. Originally, Jihua posted photos on the card, but for the time being, it was not possible to print photos for so many people, so it was changed to fingerprint collection. Based on the collected cards, the village is summarized and registered into a population register for reference.

The census of Meiyang Village and several nearby villages will soon be over, and with the prestige of "Iron Bird" and "Clairvoyance", the census has been very smooth, and no one dares to evade registration. Everyone is saying that if you don't register, you will be arrested and sent to "labor reform" if you are seen by clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance actually saw something else -- Wang Ruixiang found something else in the image during an aerial reconnaissance of the hidden fields in Meiyang Village: the depths of the hills were scattered with makeshift shacks and small patches of fields, and he even saw a ragged and unkempt man looking up with his mouth wide open in surprise.

"Are there homeless people? It's not easy, to live in such a secluded place. Wang Ruixiang muttered to himself, drew a map of the distribution of shacks on the map, and handed it over to Huang Ande to lead the team to "catch the floating waves".

The so-called "catching the waves" is another thing in the census. Fulang refers to two kinds of people in the county, one is the migrant who lives in the mountains and reclaims a small piece of wasteland to live. Most of these displaced people came from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, but also from Vietnam, and in order to escape the government's servitude, they scattered in the inaccessible hilly and mountainous areas, cultivating a small area of land to grow a small amount of crops to make a living. Living a life of being unclothed and hungry, he can only barely survive. When they have the opportunity, they will also go to nearby villages to steal or gang up to rob.

The other is the so-called "second-rate" characters that are common in various villages. Most of them are not doing their jobs properly and make a living by petty theft, and there are also people who collude with bandits to commit "big deals" such as robbery and kidnapping.

The Crossing Group believes that allowing them to continue like this is a waste of labor first, and secondly, a factor of social instability. Therefore, at the same time as the census, a unified operation was carried out to contain and arrest two types of people. The former were purified and assigned to communes according to the procedures of emigration, while the latter were sent to forced labor in labor camps.

"There are a lot of 'blacks.'" Wang Ruixiang looked at the dotted markings on the map and thought, I don't know how many such settlements there are? Some settlements have been discovered during the reconnaissance operations of long-range exploration teams and special investigation teams, but most of them have not been discovered. And the number of registered population cards in Meiyang Village is almost 80 more than the number of households in the county yali -- there are hundreds of villages in the county, and I wonder how many more such black households will come? It seems that Lingao's population potential is far from being realized.

"Make sure you catch all of them without missing a beat." Wang Ruixiang stared at Huang Ande's face, "You only have ten people, you can't alarm the others when you arrest them, otherwise it will be troublesome to catch them as soon as you run away." Got it? ”

"Yes!" Huang Ande returned loudly. He already had a draft of how to arrest people - raid tactics. In the past, when I was a soldier in the Ming army, I heard soldiers from Liaodong say: the first is afraid of field battles, and the second is afraid of not collecting at night. The black lights stayed on the enemy platform and kept watch, and the Tartars quietly came up to sneak attack, and were either beheaded or captured alive.

In the non-commissioned officer training class, he has mastered new weapons and new tactics that neither the Ming army nor the Tartars have, and Huang Ande is now preparing to try his skills to see how the Australian's raid tactics are.

After receiving the order, Huang Ande gathered his soldiers. He is now only a squad leader of an infantry squad, and the deputy squad leader is his old partner Qian Duo. Qian Duo's ability is mediocre, and he is at a passing level in all aspects, relying on the benefits of the army's continuous expansion, and the seniors have also become corporal deputy squad leaders.

Hold a pre-war meeting before the operation, assign tasks, discuss details, and boost morale, this is the rule in the Australian army, and Huang Ande originally felt that it was redundant - the soldiers just had to rush up with knives and guns.

He found that the "initiative--nature" of soldiers and junior officers was particularly advocated in the Australian army, and while emphasizing obedience to orders and discipline, it was also required to have their own views on how to fight better, and to be able to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations.

Over time, he began to appreciate the benefits – in any case, the soldier would know what to do, rather than just being stunned or scattered.