The team has grown, and Lin Xiao is not worried at all about whether the counteroffensive operation can successfully achieve the goal, but a series of livelihood problems that will be encountered after the recovery of Heshan are indeed a headache.

At present, people everywhere are struggling to make a living, a hundred wastes are waiting to be rebuilt, the climate is abnormal during the Xiaoice River period, disasters are frequent, even in the grain production areas have been greatly reduced, the people are in dire straits, and the shortage of grain among the people has become the biggest problem.

Lin Xiao looked at Zhu Yu Jia, his fingers tapped on the table, and he frowned and groaned.

After a long time, he looked up at Chu Fang, and finally spoke slowly, but the speed of his speech was very slow, showing that he also had a trace of hesitation in his heart:

"There is still some food at the headquarters, but in the future, our troops will become more and more numerous, the territory will become larger and larger, and there will be more and more people in need of relief and pacification, and this food will not last long......

However, there is still a lot of silver in the headquarters, and there are some large households in various places, and they all have grain in their hands, so I pondered to buy some grain from them, but I am not allowed to sit on the ground and raise the price, but must buy and sell at a reasonable price...... Do you think it's possible? ”

Lin Xiao knew that the germ of capitalism in this era had already emerged, and in foreign trade, foreigners had actually earned a large amount of silver from foreigners by relying on goods such as porcelain, silk, and tea, and the whole society was short of food, but it was not short of money.

However, because the problem of land annexation has become extremely serious, the gap between the rich and the poor among the people is very huge, and a small number of people control the vast majority of social resources, while many more people live a life of hunger every day. Otherwise, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, would not have gathered millions of displaced people in just a few years and swept most of China.

And the huge amount of social wealth is mainly concentrated in the hands of three types of people.

Due to the preferential treatment policy formulated by Lao Zhu at the beginning, some families with meritorious names or ancestors who had been famous not only enjoyed the exemption from paying the annual taxes of the imperial court, but also relied on various forces to accumulate huge wealth through corruption and bribery, clever seizure of large tracts of fertile land, and the issuance of private usury, and even some treacherous people took the initiative to donate land to their families to avoid taxes.

The richer these people are, the more unscrupulous they are, what loyalty to the country, what national righteousness, in their eyes are all regarded as shit, poverty and luxury, material desires have become the trend that the upper class elites yearn for, as the so-called "after I die, who cares about the flood".

At the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen was empty in the treasury, in order to raise military salaries to resist the enemy, he once whispered and personally opened his mouth to collect donations from the courtiers and gentry in Beijing, but only raised more than 100,000 taels of silver, and after Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he looted 70 million taels of silver from the same group of people.

These local tyrants and inferior gentry, in Lin Xiao's plan, should be the target of attack once the land reform movement is carried out in the future.

Although it is not yet time to carry out land reform and divide land and land, in view of the current situation, if we first force them to provide some grain and rice at a reasonable price to help the villagers, although we will definitely offend these people, we will certainly be able to win the support of more poor people.

In addition, there are some wealthy businessmen and tycoons, or generations of landlords, who also have a lot of money and grain hidden in their hands.

Although this kind of people are not as bad as the first type of people, in the process of their primitive accumulation of wealth, they will inevitably resort to all kinds of treacherous means, and even collusion between officials and businessmen to buy and sell short, so to speak, most of their hands are not clean.

The third type of people are those royal clans. Especially the descendants of Lao Zhu, they are all hereditary princes, the Ming court in order to prevent them from rebelling, forced them to live in peace in various fiefdoms, although they have no real power in their hands, but each family does not work hard, enjoy extremely generous treatment.

These families were parasites, and according to the ancestral system, the local government had to provide them with a large amount of money and food every year, and in some poor places, this expenditure even became a heavy burden on the local finances.

In addition, these people are not honest, and their methods of annexing land and exploiting the people are more ferocious and fearless than others, and they have long since transformed into local tyrants, and the people are extremely angry.

It is said that this third type of people should be the most important to crack down on or even eliminate, otherwise the world will never want to be governed well, but at present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has eliminated more than ninety percent of the Ming clan in the country, and this kind of people are no longer a climate for the time being.

In the future, with the increasing expansion of the recovered territory, this kind of person will definitely resurge, and this tumor must be cut off at that time, if they encounter resistance again, Lin Xiao and they will not be afraid to tear their faces with the Ming Court, they are traversers, they have worked hard to fight the world, but they are not really here to restore the rule of the old Zhu family.

……

"This, if you offend the gentry, will people's hearts fluctuate?"

Chu Fang's answer pulled Lin Xiao back from her contemplation, she understood the meaning of Lin Xiao's words, but she was still a little worried or resistant in her heart.

Lin Xiao looked at Chu Fang and smiled bitterly, she was also from a big family, and the limitations of her status limited her vision to see the problem, she may think that the so-called popular will is the back of the gentry, and only by winning over the gentry class can it be regarded as gathering the hearts of the people.

Only the travelers from later generations can understand that the poor masses are truly trustworthy, and only by closely uniting the vast number of toiling people, helping them turn over, and giving them hope, can the world be peaceful forever.

Otherwise, how could the later Kaishen Gong who had worked hard and fought with others all his life escape and "transferred" to those small islands to spend his life in just three years after driving away Little Japan? Isn't it that it has not won the support of the broad masses of the people, and only relies on the four major families?

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao said in a deep voice:

"Don't be afraid! These people are the grass on the wall, don't look at them all day long about benevolence, righteousness and morality, in fact, the city changes the banner of the king, which king comes, they will serve, and when the Tartars come, they are not still loyal and obedient to the people? At best, some people who do not come out of the official position of the Tartars and adopt an attitude of non-cooperation and non-resistance can be regarded as dignified. The support of this kind of people, don't do it, what we want is the support of the poor people in the world! ”

"That's right, if you want me to say, that's it, it's just an expedient measure, no matter how much grain they have, they won't be able to last long, and they will be eaten soon,"

Zhu Yujia on the side saw Chu Fang still hesitating, and couldn't hold back his interjection, "I think we should simply divide their farmland and let the people really have land to cultivate, which is the long-term solution...... In other words, someone's land is also divided, and it is given to those tenant farmers to cultivate themselves, and they will not support you more? ”

Chu Fang glanced at him when he heard this, and said coquettishly:

"Okay, anyway, my father is gone, and I divided all our family's land, and I will rely on you to feed me in the future."

However, as soon as the words fell, she felt that something was wrong, and quickly covered her mouth, and her pretty face turned crimson.

"Uh...... Okay, it's a deal! I'll raise you haha! Zhu Yujia reacted quickly.

"You ......"

Chu Fang knew that he was speechless, he blushed, and a pair of beautiful eyes glanced at Zhu Yujia again, turned his head and said to Lin Xiao:

"Commander-in-chief, I listen to you, just divide it, anyway, I'm already in the army, and it's hard to say if I can come back in the future...... However, in any case, the spring plowing season is coming, we still have to start with farming, we have to let them settle down as soon as possible, and organize production. ”

Lin Xiao saw that the two of them were flirting, and his heart was also a lot more relaxed, and when he heard Chu Fang say this, he nodded approvingly and smiled: "Well, that's right...... What is grown as a staple food other than rice? ”

Chu Fang's words came to the point, the current spring ploughing determines the autumn harvest, and the next thing to consider is how to increase the yield.

(Question: Let's have a difficult one today!) What was the name of the Netherlands during this period? A. Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands; B. The Batavian Republic of the Netherlands; C. Kingdom of the Netherlands. ）

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