Zhao Qichang, this is Zhang Daqiao, the head of my household, and there are five people in the family, including adults and children," Zhang Jiachang from Fengwei Village said, pointing to the first person in his team.

Zhao Qichang first looked up at villager Zhang Daqiao, and then looked at the newly compiled household registration book, and soon found his name.

"Zhang Daqiao, huh? The family register does state that there are five people in the family.

According to the calculation of two taels of meat per person, he can receive ten taels of meat. Tell him to go and get the meat. ”

"Thank you, Captain Zhao. Second dog, don't go and get the meat yet. After Zhang Jiachang thanked him, he hurriedly urged his fellow villagers and brothers of the same clan.

"Thank you, thank you." Farmer Zhang Daqiao thanked him and walked to the meat cutting stall with a happy face to receive the meat.

In order to avoid getting dirty, he also specially brought a few dried lotus leaves to wrap the lamb he received.

After receiving a full ten taels of mutton, Zhang Daqiao couldn't help but grin happily. There is meat to eat, and the stinky boys in the house must be happy now.

Soon, the ten families managed by Zhang Jiachang all received the corresponding mutton according to the number of heads, and everyone was jubilant, as if they were celebrating the New Year.

This is the second time they have received the mutton distributed by the government, and this is not very good to receive the benefit of meat every three days.

Although the day's relief food would be stopped for one day when it was time to receive meat, not a single civilian would complain about it.

Even if the government doesn't distribute food on this day, as long as they go up the mountain casually to dig up some wild vegetables, bamboo shoots and other things to cook with this mutton, it will definitely be a very good dish.

Even if you don't add wild vegetables, as long as you eat it with soup and meat, you can barely eat enough.

You must know that this is real mutton, for many ordinary farmers who used to eat less than a few meals of meat a year, what person in their right mind would complain because they have meat and no food?

Zhang Daqiao, who had finished receiving the meat, looked behind him, and saw that there were many people who came to receive the meat, and the team was so long that it was almost impossible to see the tail.

All of them were led by the captains in groups of ten, or hundreds.

Seeing that there were still so many people waiting to receive the meat, Zhang Daqiao couldn't help but be speechless, how much mutton had to be prepared to divide it.

It seems that what the "Seeking Truth News" said is true, and the Ning family did get a large number of cattle and sheep from the Hu people, so there was so much mutton that could be distributed to the people.

This Ning family is really a living Bodhisattva, not only sent them relief food, but now they also distribute mutton every few days according to the number of heads, such a good day is really undreamable.

I heard that the Ning family is also going to sell the Hu cattle they snatched from the Hu people as farming cattle at a low price, but I don't know how much silver such a cow will cost.

Although I have never seen what a bearded cow looks like, it is also a cow after all, and it should be used to plow the fields.

If there is really something to sell in the town, and the price is not expensive, Zhang Daqiao plans to scrape together money with his cousin's family to buy one.

In this way, both families have cattle available, and they don't have to work so hard when turning the fields in the future.

And the government has posted a list saying that there is no need to pay taxes this year.

In this way, all the harvest of this year's land belongs to each family.

When Zhang Daqiao thought of this, he was even more overjoyed, and felt that the days ahead were full of rush.

These ideas of Zhang Daqiao basically represent the voices and thoughts of the vast majority of people in Jiangnan.

Since the Ning family gave free vaccination to the people of Jiangnan a few months ago, the displaced people in various places began to return to their hometowns to resume farming under the guidance of officers and soldiers, and only then did they settle down from displacement.

Immediately after the Ning family promulgated the policy of dividing land and tax exemption for one year, the people in all parts of Jiangnan became more and more full of good feelings towards the Ning family.

Now, the Ning family has made meat from the cattle, sheep and livestock stolen from the Hu people in the south, and distributed them to the people every three days according to the standard of two taels of meat per person, regardless of men, women and children, and immediately won the support and support of all the people.

People from all over the country praised the Ning family for their benevolence, righteousness and generosity, and they were willing to directly distribute such good meat to the common people, which was definitely an unprecedented good and benevolent government.

In the period of Emperor Shuntian and Emperor He'an, how could they have such a good life. The heavy taxes that have been increasing year by year have completely crushed them.

Only some people who really know the inside story know that the real reason why the Ning family regularly used meat as food was because of the lack of grain stocks, so they used the livestock they had stolen from the Hu people as a supplement to the relief grain.

If meat is distributed every three days instead of coarse grains, it is equivalent to saving one day's food every three days.

Don't look at it, it just saves a day's food, but it saves a day's rations for the people of Jiangnan, who have a population of tens of millions, and what is saved is a mountain of gold and silver.

If it weren't for the bumper potato harvest in the northeast and northwest in the past two years, as well as the large amount of grain stored by Chi Fei in exchange for grain from wealthy households in Jiangnan, and then Ning Zhiyuan launched a large-scale purge of various families in Jiangnan in the name of land inventory, the grain depot of the Ning family would have bottomed out long ago.

But even so, the store's grain stock is still insufficient to support until the autumn harvest.

After all, the population of Jiangnan is too large and far from being comparable to other regions.

Therefore, Chi Feicai suggested to Ning Zhiyuan that an expeditionary force be formed to attack the southern region and loot supplies and grain from the Hu people.

After careful calculations by Chi Fei, the result was that as long as meat was used as grain according to the current standard of once every three days, it would be possible to ensure that the people of the whole south of the Yangtze River would be able to eat before the autumn harvest, and there would be no famine.

As long as they survive the period of green and yellow before the autumn harvest, and when the autumn grain grows well, the people will no longer have to rely on relief grain to survive.

In the same way, the Ning family's side will also be correspondingly relieved of a great burden.

The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is warm and moist, the soil is fertile, and it is completely possible to achieve two crops a year or even three crops a year. With such abundant potential, it only takes one year to recover.

Therefore, Ning Zhiyuan only exempted Jiangnan for one year, not two or even three years, after all, the Northwest Army also needs a lot of military funds and grain and grass to maintain, and it can't be too generous.

In order to prevent local officials from enriching their pockets and deducting public rations, Ning Zhiyuan did not hand over the task of distributing relief food and relief meat to local officials, but let his soldiers do it, and by the way, he brushed up another wave of goodwill for his own family.

Sure enough, since the soldiers of the Northwest Army came to distribute relief food and relief meat to the people in various places, not only did the relief food fall into the hands of civilians in the slightest, but also more and more people were full of heartfelt welcome to the Northwest Army and the Ning family.

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In addition to regularly distributing relief food to the people in various places, the Ning family also implemented a strict armor protection system in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, as was the case in the northwest and northeast, so as to prevent the remnants of the Xie family or the Hu people from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

The so-called armor protection system is to set up a head of household in the village or town; Ten households are A, and the first is set up; The top ten are guaranteed, and the chief of the guarantee is established.

The head of the household is basically the head of the household, the head of the household is elected by the head of the household, and the chief of the household is elected by the chief of the household, and the chief of the household is directly under the jurisdiction of the local health office, and receives a monthly salary.

The most important feature of the armor protection system is mutual supervision and the practice of joint sitting.

If there is a suspicious person in the place where he belongs, or if someone is found to be doing evil, it is the responsibility of the head of the household to report the situation to the head of the household, and the head of the household will decide how to deal with it.

If it is a suspicious person, Captain A needs to go to investigate. If anyone does evil, stop it immediately.

If the captain is unable to deal with it because of the large number of people on the other side, he must immediately report to the security chief, and the security chief will send someone to deal with it.

If even the security chief can't handle it, it will have to be reported to the local security station to dispatch officers and soldiers.

Anyone who fails to report the information will not only be severely punished by the head of the household himself, but also other heads of the same household will also be implicated and punished.

Because this system covers everything from the guard to the common people.

Once a suspicious person or someone is found to be evil, it will be reported layer by layer and dealt with step by step.

In this way, it is effective to prevent the infiltration of small or suspicious persons.

This armor protection system has been in operation in the northwest and northeast for many years, and it is an extremely mature civil regulatory system.

After a month of implementation in various parts of the Yangtze River, law and order in various localities have indeed been greatly improved.

Not to mention that the number of suspicious people of unknown origin has been greatly reduced, and even petty theft has suddenly decreased a lot.

Seeing how useful this armor protection system was, many people were full of praise for it.

Chi Fei also took the opportunity of implementing the armor protection system to conduct a strict census of the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and formulated a new household register for the existing people.

For farmers like Zhang Daqiao, the location of their ancestral homes, the names of their grandparents, parents, wives and children, and their ages are all registered in the newly compiled household register, it is clear at a glance.

With these household registration information from all over Jiangnan, the Ning family can not only know the total population of the Jiangnan area, but also have a large amount of population information.

This information is extremely useful data for the governance of the imperial court.

Chi Fei also suggested to his father-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan, that in the future, it would be best to conduct a re-inventory of the nation's land and population household registration information every five years.

In this way, not only can the occupation of state-owned land by the wealthy be greatly reduced, but also a clear understanding of the population of the country.

In particular, the regular inventory of land cannot be slackened, once the imperial court relaxes, those insatiable families will definitely repeat the tricks and wantonly encroach on them.

Ning Zhiyuan felt that the words of the little son-in-law made a lot of sense, and decided to implement this matter as a rule in the future and check it every five years.

This is an achievement in people's livelihood, and in terms of military affairs, the Ning family is even more outstanding and has martial arts.

First of all, the Ning family strangled more than 200,000 Hu troops in the new capital, and then recovered the entire territory of Jiangnan in one fell swoop.

Immediately afterwards, the Ning family used nearly 100,000 cavalry to form an expeditionary force and launched a long-distance expedition against the southern areas occupied by the Hu people.

This expeditionary force, which had less than 100,000 men, relied on powerful firearms to beat the Hu people in the south to the ground and scattered.

In just four months, the expeditionary force not only recovered Jiangkou Prefecture, which was guarding the entrance to the south of the Yangtze River, but also broke through twelve cities in a row, recovering almost half of the southern territory.

If it weren't for the arrival of the rainy season, which affected the use of firearms in the army, the expeditionary force might have recovered the entire southern region in one fell swoop.

After the good news reached Jiangnan, the people were pleasantly surprised, and they were once again proud of the Northwest Army's courage and skill.

The two great feats of the Ning family, I dare not say that there is no one to come, but it is definitely an unprecedented feat

You must know that after the Liang and Wei dynasties, during the hundreds of years when the Han people and the Hu people were at war, the Hu people, who had a large number of war horses, were proficient in riding and archery, and fought fiercely, almost always pressed the Han people to fight.

Whether it was the Liang Dynasty or the Wei Dynasty, most wars usually ended in a crushing defeat for the Han army, and there were only a handful of battles that could really win the Hu people.

The disparity in combat power between the two sides has made the Hu people always take the offensive, and they are the side with obvious advantages. The Han people could only take a defensive position and defend passively.

However, the Ning family, which had powerful firearms, fundamentally reversed the situation of this war, making the Han army turn from defense to offense and become the party that took the initiative to attack.

Now the Northwest Army led by the Ning family is a truly invincible and powerful division in the world. It's no longer enough to be a problem.

The successive victories of the Northwest Army made the people of Jiangnan, who had just experienced the plague and war, rejoice and completely settle down.

After returning to their hometowns under the guidance of officers and men, the people in various localities have gradually normalized their lives while actively resuming farming and production.

Many of the shops that had been closed have also resumed business one after another, and more and more people are buying and selling in the market, and everything is starting to return to normal.

Everyone knew in their hearts that being able to live like this again was all due to the Ning family and the Northwest Army.

The vast majority of the people are very simple and kind, they just want to live a good life. Whoever is good to them, they will support that person with all their might.

For a time, the voices of the people in all parts of the Yangtze River who hoped that the Ning family would take over as the unification became increasingly loud and loud.

Many people believe that the Ning family, who is so benevolent, righteous, and loves the people and has outstanding military achievements, is the most suitable person to be the emperor. Except for the Ning family, no one has this qualification.

Although some stubborn scholars disagreed with it and even scoffed at it, in the face of such a surging public opinion, they did not dare to speak ill of the Ning family casually, so as not to be besieged and attacked.

Under such a high voice and popularity, the voice of hope that Ning Gong will ascend the throne is getting louder and louder.

At this time, the "Qiuzhen Daily", which has become an important source of information for people, published a bombshell news in the latest issue of the newspaper: the only two remaining princesses of the Xie royal family, the eldest princess of Qingping and Princess Yanfeng, together with hundreds of officials, once again implored Ning Gong to succeed him as the unification and Kuang Fu Sheji.

This time, Ning Gong did not refuse, but promised the two princesses to go back and think about it for a few days before making a decision.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted everyone's strong attention.

In addition, this is the third time that the two princesses and the hundred officials have persuaded Ning Gong to ascend the throne.

The vast majority of ordinary people who benefited from various preferential policies such as free vaccination, relief, land distribution, and tax exemption hoped that Ning Gong would agree to the request of the two princesses and hundreds of officials and become the new emperor.

Only those who have a keen political sense know carefully that this time the Ning family said this, indicating that the Ning family's play has been played.

On this day, it is really going to change.