In the next few days, the whole of Jiangdong fell into a busy, busy counting the population and registering the household registration, and busy distributing the Wang Tian of Jiangdong to the people.

And the people of Jiangdong were also in a state of rejoicing.

As long as they are farming, each family can get enough land, which makes them very satisfied.

In particular, those whose families have less than five people are even more happy, because although they have fewer people in their families, they do not have to be less than others.

However, a small number of families with a population of more than nine people, or some families with six or seven people, spontaneously divide their households when they register their household registration in order to divide more land.

On the other side, on the side of the Jiangdong nobles, although the king of Chu's action to divide the fields this time, because he did not do anything to their fields, also made them breathe a sigh of relief.

More importantly, this time Jiangdong suddenly had a large number of people belonging to the government, and in order to strengthen his control over Jiangdong, the king of Chu did not seal the Chu nobles to Jiangdong in order to strengthen his control over Jiangdong.

This also made them breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts.

When the king of Chu attacked the Jiangdong nobles, the problem they were most worried about, in addition to being implicated in the accident, the rest was that the Chu nobles poured into Jiangdong in large numbers and competed with them for Jiangdong's population territory.

If so, they will have a hard time in the future. Because now the Chu people control Jiangdong, once the original nobles in Jiangdong have a conflict with the nobles of the Chu State, there is no doubt that the government will definitely favor the Chu people.

They have no doubt about this, this is the same as what Yue did when Yue destroyed Wu in the past.

But now, the king of Chu has distributed all the fields belonging to the government to the people, cutting off the possibility of the Chu nobles coming to Jiangdong. From then on, Jiangdong was still their Jiangdong, but there was a different king, whether it was the king of Yue or the king of Chu, as long as they were honest and duty-bound, it would be the same.

For this reason, in order to complete the division of the land as soon as possible, in order to avoid the sudden change of mind of the king of Chu, the nobles of Jiangdong all contributed together, using their influence to promote the benevolence and righteousness of the king of Chu, and on the other hand, asking people to assist the government in handling affairs, so as to speed up the division of fields.

As a result, half a month later, the census of the population and the distribution of fields to households were basically completed.

On the tenth day of October, it will be audited.

After Tang Wu reported all the news sent back from all over the place, he said with a heavy face: "Wang, Wu Di, the division of land over there has been completed, and Shangyu Zhuji has also been completed, except for some problems that have arisen here.

Because there is little arable land on this side of Huiji, and a large number of saltwater swamps make it difficult to reclaim, so that the cultivated land around Huiji is not enough to be distributed this time. ”

"Not enough allocation?" Xiong Huai's face was retracted with a smile, and he looked at Tang Yu hesitantly and said: "Xianqing, when I counted the population and acres of land before, didn't I say that it was enough, why is there a sudden shortage of land now." ”

Tang Yu replied with a wry smile: "King, this is all because of the division of households and the thieves from the mountains, forests and swamps. Originally, the land of Huiji was sufficient, but in order to occupy more land, some people in the family of six people were also divided into two households, one family of five people, one household and one person, according to the king's edict, a family of five twenty-five acres of fertile land, and a family of twenty-five acres of fertile land.

Add to that those families with a population of more than ten or twenty people, and there are even more small families that have been separated. ”

Saying that, Tang Yu arched his hand and said, "So, now Wang Tian on this side of Huiji is no longer enough." ”

"Xianqing, you say, how much land is missing."

"According to the data reported from various places, there are still more than 10,000 households in the entire Huiji who have not been allocated land.

That is to say, there is still a shortage of more than one million mu of ordinary cultivated land, that is, 10,000 hectares of land. If it is a fertile land with a yield of more than eight stones per mu, it will lack 250,000 mu. ”

When Xiong Huai heard this, the gap was very big, and his eyebrows immediately tightened.

If this is placed in other places, it is not a big problem, a hundred miles of land, there are 90,000 hectares of land, most of the areas of Chu are vast and sparsely populated, and it is not difficult to reopen up 10,000 hectares of land.

However, although this place is also vast and sparsely populated, it is also located in the plain. But those saltwater swamps don't open up any arable land at all.

Let the people drink salty and bitter water, and cultivate on saline land.

This is the king of Chu to give grace to the people, this is simply a distribution, and it is also a distribution to the poor mountains and bad waters to wait for death.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai shook his head and sighed, then looked at Tang Yu and said: "The widow's Wang Tian has been divided, and now there is a lack of arable land, Xianqing is resourceful, I don't know what Qing has to say." ”

Tang Yu arched his hand and said: "King, the land around Huiji is difficult to cultivate, so the minister thinks that the current situation needs to be two-pronged."

First, now that the land has been divided, the people are singing about the king's benevolence, so the minister thinks that now is the right time to announce the title.

After the title is announced, it can be announced to the people that those who have reclaimed 100 acres of wasteland and can maintain a grain yield of more than two and a half stones per mu for five consecutive years can be promoted to the first rank and promoted from ordinary people to the first class of knighthood. In order to encourage the people to go to Wu or Shangyu to cultivate, they can also promise to provide free agricultural tools and exempt them from taxes for the first three years of reclamation.

There is little arable land in Huiji, which has always been a big problem in Huiji, and the people will understand this kind of thing. Coupled with the guidance of the title, the minister thought that most of the people would go to the wasteland. ”

"Feasible." Xiong Huai was silent for a moment, then nodded, and then, after a pause, he asked Tang Yu again: "Xianqing, although this method is feasible, but if you want to come, there should be many people who are unwilling to leave their hometowns and go to Shangyu Wu Land to reclaim wasteland. ”

"Therefore, there is a second way for the minister, that is, to determine the various rights and interests of the title, and those who do not have a title cannot be overcome. Those field house slaves and maids in Jiangdong who exceeded their own titles and nobles immediately issued a warning, requiring them to hand over the land and land house slaves and maids who exceeded their own titles.

As for the merchants in Jiangdong, all those who have no lords are treated according to the common people, and there are no concubines, no slaves and maids, no silk silks, no occupation of cultivated land, and so on.

In this way, a part of the arable land around Huiji will be vacated, and the minister thinks that with this arable land, it should be enough for the rest of the people to cultivate. ”

Xiong Huai pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, it's feasible." The aristocracy is easy to do, the big nobles who occupy a large amount of land either perished with the Yue Kingdom, or were purged not long ago, and the remaining small and medium-sized nobles, only a small part of the overpassing, the widows are not worried that they will cause trouble.

As for the merchants of the Yue Kingdom, as long as the widow later issued a decree on the promotion of the merchants, all the merchants would become the new supporters.

And Haoqiang's side..."