Li Xiao calculated very clearly in his heart that if he could sort out 250,000 mu of wasteland that could grow grain, as well as 80,000 mu of mulberry fields and 130,000 mu of cash crop fields from Huangxian and Zhaoyuan, he would be able to arrange a large number of displaced people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to Li Xiaojun's original rules for granting land, each household with 20 mu of grain wasteland can be allocated 20 mu, and 12,500 displaced households can be arranged for the 250,000 mu of wasteland, and 37,500 people can be arranged based on the calculation of at least three people in a household.

The 80,000 acres of mulberry fields improved from light saline-alkali land, based on the calculation of 30 acres per household, can arrange at least 2,660 households, and at least 8,000 people can be arranged to become silkworm households.

As for the 130,000 mu of cash crop planting land improved from heavily saline-alkali land, as before, at least 2,160 households can be arranged based on the calculation of 60 mu contracted by each household, with a population of 6,480 people.

In this way, it can be calculated that if all these wastelands are developed, a total of at least 51,980 displaced people can be resettled.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, if the imperial court had rewarded Huang County and Zhaoyuan County to himself earlier, perhaps, he would not have thought about arranging captives to plant tobacco in Wuding Prefecture at all. After all, there was now enough land to accommodate his 45,000 captives.

"In this way, this official ordered An Qian, the governor of Jintang City, to recruit a large number of able-bodied homeless people gathered outside Jintang City to Chifengwei. If there is still a surplus of land, and then recruit displaced people from Henan and Shandong, it is necessary to prepare manpower before the spring thaws, so as to remediate the land and arrange production as soon as possible. ”

Li Xiao thought for a while, and then said to Chen Zilong and Xu Xiuqing: "After the displaced people are recruited, how to improve and divide the land will be up to the two of you, as well as Zheng Rubao, the head of the Silkworm Section, and the three of them are jointly responsible, and the wasteland and saline-alkali land must be rectified as soon as possible, without delay." ”

Chen Zilong and Xu Xiuqing stood up and gave Li Xiao an order: "Please rest assured, I will handle this matter as soon as possible." ”

After talking about the wasteland, Xu Xiuqing said to Li Xiao in a joking tone: "Lord Li, there have been many rumors in Huangxian and Zhaoyuan recently. It is said that the adults plan to annex and confiscate the land of the landlords and squires, and to distribute such land to the displaced people and poor peasants, but I don't know, do you really have such intentions? ”

After Xu Xiuqing finished speaking, when she saw Li Xiao's eyes, she suddenly became deep.

"Oh, there are such rumors coming out, in the opinion of the official, someone should have said such nonsense in order to provoke the relationship between the official and the squire." Li Xiao said lightly.

"From the student's point of view, there are indeed people who are deliberately going against our army, and there are such instigating rumors, can you investigate this matter thoroughly?" Chen Zilong said on the side.

Li Xiao shook his head: "Such rumors, it is useless to investigate, as long as our army does not really confiscate the land of those landlords and squires, this rumor will naturally be self-defeating." ”

Li Xiao paused, but there was a flash of light in his eyes, and he said slowly: "However, since such rumors have spread, our army can just take advantage of the situation to rectify the landlords and squires who occupy the land and are so rich." ”

Chen Zilong was taken aback: "Could it be Lord Li, do you really plan to confiscate the squire's land?" The strength of our army is still limited, and I am afraid that this is an offending to the anger of the people, and I am afraid it will not be good. ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "Wozi is too worried, of course this official will not be stupid enough to confront these squires." However, the official has a plan, calling the king to enter the urn, but he can let them obediently hand over the land. ”

Chen Zilong and Xu Xiuqing looked at each other in astonishment. Wouldn't it, this Lord Li has such a means?!

"Please elaborate." The two said in unison.

So, Li Xiao smiled and said the plan in his heart.

When Chen Zilong and Xu Xiuqing heard this, they all laughed and praised their plans.

"Since both of you agree, then this matter should be handled like this." Li Xiao smiled and made a final decision.

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"Brother Gu, Brother Gu, General Li of Chifengwei has issued a notice, saying that the rumors on the market that the land of the squire will be confiscated is purely false, but someone maliciously spread rumors, and I want us not to be gullible."

Wang Shengtong held a notice secretly torn from the street in his hand, and came to Gu Zhidao's Mansion with a smile on his face. As soon as he entered the door, he hurriedly shouted at the big landlord who was smoking hookah.

Wang Shengtong rushed to Gu Zhidao and was about to hand him the notice in his hand, but was pushed away by Gu Zhidao.

Gu Zhidao glanced at him and said with a faint smile: "The housekeeper has already told me about this matter, and Brother Wang got the news, but it was still a little late." ”

Wang Shengtong sneered: "It seems that when I was waiting for the bow and snake shadow, I was scared of myself. I don't know what kind of guy who chews his tongue to make up such rumors to confuse people's hearts, which is really hateful. ”

Gu Zhidao also had a smug smile on his face: "I'll just say, then Li Xiao will not be a completely reckless stunned young man, he will definitely be so arrogant and oppose us and other squires and landlords, and now that the government has issued a notice to explain this matter, it can be regarded as exposed." ”

Wang Shengtong nodded, he sat down on a chair, and asked softly: "Brother Gu, but behind this notice, it is said that the government wants each family to show the land deed to verify and register the land, but why?" ”

Gu Zhidao said with a smile: "Cough, don't you understand this, in the opinion of Xiao Lao'er, this must be Li Xiao's coming to recruit the bandits that day, let me wait to hand over the supply of grain and grass, and taste the sweetness." Now that Huangxian Zhaoyuan is under him, he must still want to let me and others grasp the amount of acres of land according to each of them and hand over the military rations, as he did last time. This guy, this abacus is well played. ”

Wang Shengtong hurriedly said: "In this way, wouldn't it be that I, the landlords and squires, have to pay a large number of taxes like those ordinary people?" ”

Gu Zhidao sighed: "That's right. Li Xiao has never been a good person, but compared to handing over all the land, he collects taxes like this, but it is already a light move. ”

Wang Shengtong shook his head again and again and said, "If that's the case, then I will lose a lot, brother." I heard that in the Chifeng Weizhong, each farmer collects taxes according to two buckets per mu, and collects them in summer and autumn a year, and the 5,000 acres of land handed down by the family can be 2,000 stone of rice grain a year. ”

Gu Zhidao snorted coldly: "You guy, what are you panicking about, as the old saying goes, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it." He has a policy, and we will naturally have a countermeasure. ”

"Brother Gu, what do you mean?"

"Brother Wang, why are you so stupid, he wants you to report the land deed, won't you report it less, in this way, the grain tax to be paid will naturally be much less." Speaking of this, Gu Zhidao laughed gloomily.

Listening to Gu Zhizhi's words, Wang Shengtong's eyes lit up.

"Brother Gu is really scheming and a good way. Now, Li Xiao wants to beat our idea, which can be regarded as a dog biting pig urine bubble. Wang Shengtong grinned. He thought about it, then lowered his voice and said to Gu Zhidao: "Then how much does Brother Gu plan to conceal?" ”

Gu Zhidao smiled and stretched out a finger.

"Oh, Brother Gu only concealed Yicheng?" Wang Shengtong was a little surprised.

Gu Zhidao shook his head: "Half." ”

"Ah, half?"

"Well, my family's more than 12,000 acres of land, if only half of it is reported, it will be less than 2,400 stone of grain a year." Gu Zhidao said with a smile.

"Okay, Brother Gu is calculating, and I, brother, will also hide half of it." Wang Shengtong gritted his teeth and said.

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Ten days later, the landlords and yeoman farmers in Huangxian, Zhaoyuan, and the former Chifengwei filed and verified all the land deeds with the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

The officials of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, according to the land deeds provided by each person, demarcated the land boundaries for each person, and reissued a new land land deed stamped with the official seal of Chifengwei.

At the same time, Li Xiao divided Huang County, which was newly assigned to Chifengwei, into five townships, and Zhaoyuan County, which was divided into six townships, and dispatched branches of the Civil Affairs Department to be responsible for the government operations of each township.

Then, grassroots semi-official personnel such as village chiefs and Li Zheng also designated a group of well-known local elders to serve as them. In this way, the complete control of the townships and towns has been realized.

As for the county seat of Huang County and the county seat of Zhaoyuan, Li Xiao was divided into Huang Town and Zhaoyuan Town, and sent officials to manage the county seat and collect commercial taxes from the county seat respectively. The commercial tax quota is also the same as that of Chi Fengwei, which takes one-eighth of the monthly sales.

Sure enough, after all the above things were done, the Chifengwei official office then ordered that the number of acres of land set by each person, like Chifengwei, should be divided into two pieces of land tax in summer and autumn according to the standard of two buckets per mu.

The way of the big landlord, the middle-class landlord Wang Shengtong and others, seeing that Li Xiao's trick was nothing more than that, they were all happy and secretly happy, and they were happy that they had already taken precautions.

Among them, Gu Zhidao's record in the government is only 5,000 acres of land, which is much less than the 6,000 acres he originally planned, which shows that he is greedy.

And Wang Shengtong was timid, he thought about it, but he hesitated to report 3,000 acres of land. Although he began to regret it as soon as he checked the land with the government, he was helpless.

In the end, the results of the land inventory came out, and there was more than half of the acres of land, which did not match the amount of land that Li Xiao had asked people to count.

Originally, Chifeng Wei had 180,000 mu of land for landlords and yeoman farmers, but after verification, only 100,000 mu of land was confirmed, and the other 80,000 mu belonged to terra nullius.

In the two places of Huang County and Zhaoyuan County, which were newly included in Chifengwei, only 270,000 mu of land were confirmed out of the 590,000 mu of land originally counted, and as many as 320,000 mu of land belonged to the terra nullius.

In this way, there are a total of 400,000 acres of land, which belongs to the unidentified terra nullius.

After getting this result, Li Xiao laughed, and Chen Zilong, Xu Xiuqing and others who were specifically counted were also full of smiles.

"My lord, your plan to invite you into the urn is wonderful, in this way, our army will take back the borderless land, and those landlords and squires can be described as dumb people who eat Coptis chinensis, and they can't talk about their suffering." Chen Zilong stroked his beard and smiled.

"The most ah, Lord Li is so good at planning, it is enough to give out one more county of land, and besides, most of the land that those squires concealed is Ueda and Nakata, so that such a calculating guy will lose a lot." Xu Xiuqing was also happy.

Li Xiao sighed with a smile on his face: "People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants. It's also a pity that such a guy has tried his best to secretly report taxes, but now he happens to bind himself. ”

Li Xiao pondered for a while, and then Chen Zilong said: "That's it, Wozi, during this time, you and the personnel of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department, and I will send soldiers to cooperate with you and other work, and all those borderless lands will be taken into public ownership." If there is a rebellion against the troublemaker, they will be captured on the spot and will not be spared! ”

Chen Zilong smiled and promised loudly.

Li Xiao said with a smile: "After this batch of land is returned to public ownership, as before, the families of our army's meritorious soldiers will be given priority to each household with 40 acres of land, and if there is any land left, it will be granted to the local poor peasants and displaced people, so that a lot of people can be resettled." ”

Chen Zilong's face was excited, and he arched his hand and said loudly: "My lord, I will definitely put this matter aside for my lord." Don't worry, my lord. ”

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"Master, master, something is wrong!"

When Gu Zhidao was leisurely eating shisha in the courtyard, the housekeeper ran in from outside with a crying voice.

"Look at your panicked appearance, what's wrong?"

Seeing the housekeeper's crying face, Gu Zhidao frowned.

"Master, a large group of officers and soldiers have come outside, and they want to confiscate all the land that was concealed in my house. The small one hurriedly sent his men to stop it, but was captured by those wolf-like soldiers in one fell swoop. The butler shouted with a sad expression.

"Ahh

Gu Zhidao thundered to the top, as if he had been bitten by a snake, and stood up from the rattan chair.

"Take me there!"

Gu Zhidao threw down the hookah, pulled the butler's clothes, and rushed out.

Spare him at such an age, but he runs fast. It can be seen that when he knew that he was going to lose more than 7,000 acres of land, it was estimated that all his physical potential exploded at this moment.

Fang ran not far, and Gu Zhidao saw from a distance that the officers and soldiers of the brigade and the officials of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry were measuring those so-called borderless lands.

Gu Zhizhi's face suddenly turned like earth.

Soon, as he ran closer and closer, he saw that a man dressed in a dark cloth cloth and a scholar was directing the personnel of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department to check the land, while several family members in his Gu Daofu were being grabbed by a group of fierce-faced officers and soldiers in a dejected manner, and they did not dare to move.

"Chen Zanhua, Chen Zanhua, and listen to the little old man!"

Gu Zhidao could see clearly that this scholar was the one he had seen in the official office of Chifeng City that day, Li Xiao's staff member Chen Zilong. He shouted loudly at Chen Zilong from a distance.

"Oh, it turned out to be Squire Gu, but why did he run so eagerly." Chen Zilong saw Gu Zhidao, who was panting and running closer, and deliberately asked in a surprised tone.

Gu Zhidao secretly hated in his heart, damn, what kind of garlic is pretending, don't you know what is going on!

It's just that although he thought so in his heart, a smile appeared on his face: "Lord Chen, you have misunderstood, these lands are my family's ancestral land, not the land of the borderless." ”

"Oh, that's it, I'll take a look at the deed first." Chen Zilong pretended to open a copy-style field deed booklet, looked at it carefully, and then said in a surprised tone: "No, according to the field deed, isn't the land boundary of your family's Gu Squire over there?" I'm not mistaken. ”

Gu Zhidao was extremely bitter in his heart, but he still had a hard smile on his face: "Lord Chen, these lands are indeed my family's." It is estimated that there was a mistake in reporting the land on the same day, and Gu's family still has the old land deed that was originally saved, and I asked the adults to take a look. ”

Listening to Gu Zhizhi's words, Chen Zilong's face sank: "Squire Gu, what are these words!" On the same day, when the government reissued the land deed, it specifically proposed that for fear of mistakes and omissions, it would allow you to wait for five days to come to the government to re-report. Now nearly ten days have passed, and there is no squire Gu who has come to the government to make a request for a new survey of the land division that is wrong. And when measuring the land that day, Squire Gu also came to confirm the boundary of the field in person, why did he say such things today! ”

When Chen Zilong said this, he deliberately accentuated his tone and snorted coldly: "Could it be that Squire Gu has a bad heart, and he wants to go against the government and swallow this borderless land!" ”

Seeing that Chen Zilong pretended to be confused and gave his face to himself, Gu Zhidao's intestines in his stomach were all repentant.

Regret it, you must know that in order to pay less land tax at that time, if you want to give away your ancestral land, Gu Zhidao will not hide the land from him.

"This, this 。。。。。。" Gu Zhizhi's face was red and white, scratching his ears and cheeks, but there was no countermeasure.

"Squire Gu, if there is nothing else to do, please go back to yourself. We have waited for the urgent matter of measuring the land, but we have no time to discuss it with you. Chen Zilong said coldly.

Gu Zhizhi's lips trembled, his face was as swollen as pig's liver, and in the cold early spring weather, cold sweat oozed from his face.

In a hurry, he no longer cared about his dignity, and like a scoundrel, he rushed to the front of those officials of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department at once, and rolled on the spot: "Conscience of heaven and earth, ladies and gentlemen, these lands are indeed mine!" You can't take it away like that! ”

Seeing that Daodao, who was one of the top big landlords in Zhaoyuan, was so disregarding his identity and letting go of Lai Sapo in public, everyone present was stunned. (To be continued.) )