"Uncle, all the tenants in this village are Anjia, a total of one hundred and fifty households, one thousand two hundred and fifty people, including five hundred and twenty males."

Yang Huan said.

At this time, they are in the south of Huishan, outside a small village near the Liangxi River, and the scenery of the surrounding lakes and mountains is very good, but it is a bit bad with a piece of tattered thatched houses.

And the men were gathering in front of them.

It's all patches and patches.

The affluence here is only relative, and it is completely impossible to expect tenants to live in brick houses and wear clothes without patches, and in fact it is impossible not to starve. By the standards of modern people, they are still hungry every day, but they can barely eat two meals a day, and they only have food for each meal, which is much better than the current half-food and half-vegetable food in the northern countryside......

At least the face looks better.

There are also many old and weak women and children around who are excitedly watching their saviors.

Anyway, at this time, Yang Xin was really like a savior to them, how could they have heard of such a good official until now, even Hai Gangfeng couldn't catch up with Yang Yan, and Hai Gangfeng didn't dare to let the land rent drop to three or four percent! What's more, you don't have to pay any taxes, you don't have to worry about the harsh taxes of those officials, according to Yang Yanshi's rules, as long as you hand over the land rent to the Dangkou army in Henglin, no matter who else asks them to collect cash, they can directly go to the Jinyi Wei there to complain.

The county magistrate can't either.

What kind of land endowment, fire consumption, and salary, these are all exempted.

Because this is the emperor's land.

They are the tenants of the emperor, and they only need to pay rent to the emperor and do not need to pay taxes to the government, and whoever dares to collect it is disrespectful to the emperor.

And the yield per mu in this area has to be said less about the Four Stone Valley!

According to this rent, a peasant can plant one acre of land and have about two stones of rice left, at most three acres of grain can feed an adult, and a family of five can barely eat enough to eat with ten acres of land. And this does not include wheat or rape in winter, the yield of Sishi Valley per mu is only one season of rice, in fact, it is all double cropping, rice, wheat or rape rotation, of course, it may also be cotton.

With the addition of these fruits, ten acres of land is enough for abundant food and clothing.

In fact, because the fields cultivated by these tenants are still according to the previous ones, a family of five like a male is generally more than fifteen acres.

As long as there are no natural disasters, there will be surplus food in exchange for money, so that children can read and write.

It's an absolutely happy little day.

Yang Xin looked at the men with satisfaction.

"Lord Qingtian!"

Then one of the tenants fell to his knees as if he had suddenly come to his senses, and kowtowed to the man whom the gentry described as a demon with a crying voice, followed by the other tenants kneeling and kowtowing, and then the old and weak women and children around him......

"Don't kowtow to me, this is a good day for the Lord to reward you!"

Yang Xin said.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

A tenant who was estimated to be literate quickly turned his head and kowtowed to the north, and the others immediately followed.

In fact, the literacy rate of the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is very high, even the poor at the bottom are also many literate, it is said that the Ming Dynasty is flooded in this area, for example, Feng Menglong is next door to Suzhou, and it is also a famous family, and the few who have been locked up so far are at a level. If Yang Xin is harming Suzhou, it is estimated that Feng Menglong should be in his prison, if the literacy rate of the people is low, who will he show it, it is said that most of him is not in line with the taste of those scholars.

In the midst of the shouts of the mountains, Yang Xin fulfilled his duties as a courtier, and then motioned to them with satisfaction.

The Swingers in the back stepped forward with bundles of spears and even crossbows.

It was brought from Nanjing, where the armory had it, but the firearms were not given to the militia for the time being.

The tenants were in disarray.

Of course, that's what it means.

It was the job of the instructors who had been drawn from the northern Dangkou army, who were already very familiar with the spear formation.

"The emperor has given you a good life, and you have to be loyal to the emperor.

You don't need to be a military household, but you also have to be prepared to serve the emperor, in case there is something like rebellion and rebellion in the local area, you also have to help the Jinyi Guard and the Dangkou army, so some necessary training and ordnance are also essential. These weapons are for you, but before that, you have to first elect the head of the village, and then this head of the village will also be your battalion commander, take you to repair the channel, and also take you to fight, in addition, there will be several teams below, which are both production teams and combat teams, and the team must have a team.

Who of you is literate? ”

Yang Xin said.

This head must be literate.

Because this involves the transmission of government decrees in the future, the promotion of technology, including the payment of rent, must be literate.

In his plan, Henglin's garrison was responsible for collecting rent, and then gathering and transporting it to Jiangyin, where it was shipped north by his merchant ships.

The grain is apocalyptic, but the transportation can be contracted by him.

In this way, he can directly carry smuggled goods from the south to the north, in fact, just like his military transportation in Liaodong, he will also engage in combined transportation with Liaodong in the future, that is, directly transport the goods produced in the south to Jintaiji and Roasted Flower through this commercial network. Transporting grain is a disguise, the key is that it can be smuggled, and then these militias will definitely be excluded by the local gentry, who control the commercial network, and in the future, they will not accept the cloth woven by the militia, then they also need an internal commercial network.

In the end, it is still necessary to weave cloth.

An internal business network can completely solve the problem of the gentry crowding, and later, as the strongholds of the Dangkou army increase, more and more militias will be reformed after raiding the house, and even the apocalypse can be encouraged to reform the old guards, and finally a system that is completely parallel to the gentry will be established.

At that time, it was equivalent to putting a noose on the gentry.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in the Jiangnan, the military households of the guard could copy whoever they wanted, and if they wanted to force whoever moved north, they could uproot a family that had been hundreds of years old. Then they finally relied on the unremitting efforts of generations, and finally spent nearly three hundred years to corrode this noose around their necks into a shell, so that they could live a happy life, and now Yang Xin wants to replace them with a new one.

More than thirty of the tenants stood up at once.

Obviously, there are still quite a few literate people.

Of course, this still has to be assessed, after all, knowing 100 words is also called literacy.

And this is clearly not enough.

In the end, after Yang Xin's assessment, among the more than 30 people, seven more people who knew more than 500 words were found, and this was their candidate.

"This is him!"

Yang Xin placed a triangular piece of wood on the forehead of a candidate.

"And this is him!"

Immediately after that, he placed a circle on the other forehead.

……

In this way, the seven candidates turned into seven pieces of wood of different shapes.

"Go there one by one, someone will teach you how to do it, and if you think that any of the seven of them is worthy of your trust and can lead you to a good life, then draw a line under his woodchips, and whoever gets the most in the end will be your future battalion commander, and he will appoint the captains of each team. Then you will listen to him and these captains, and whoever dares to bully you will be beaten by them, and they will be re-elected in this way after five years, but if they take money from outsiders to betray you, you can also go to the Jinyi Guard. ”

Yang Xin said.

The tenants, or militiamen, immediately drew the line in turn.

It was a secret ballot, they took turns going by, and the line was drawn in the way, and they could only see the wooden board signs of the seven candidates.

This work will take some time.

Yang Xin stood there leisurely admiring the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in spring, and soon a boat on the Liangxi River in front of him entered his field of vision......

"Is that Qin Yong?"

He gestured in the direction of the boat and asked Yang Huan.

There were a few green worms standing on the boat, silently watching this side.

Yang Huan hurriedly raised the telescope, and then found the target......

"It's him, they're going to go into the lake? It's very Yaxing, why didn't my uncle arrest him too? No, who is this? Qian Qianyi, edited by the Hanlin Academy, Qian Qianyi, why is he also on the ship? ”

Yang Huan said unexpectedly.

"Qian Qianyi, that very personable middle-aged man?"

Yang Xin was stunned.

Immediately after that, his eyes were fixed on a green robe on the ship with the demeanor of a killer.

However, the latter definitely couldn't see them, he had super eyesight, and Yang Huan had a telescope, but the people on the boat didn't have these, and behind them were still those tenants in line.

"Yes, it's him, the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, he is a frequent acquaintance, before Ding Wei was at home, and he only returned to the Hanlin Academy last year, it is said that he should be in the capital at this time, how to run to this Wuxi? This person has a close relationship with the Donglin Party, and can even be regarded as the Donglin Party, and he is probably here to target his uncle. ”

Yang Huan said.

"The water is too cold!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"Uh, what do you mean the water is too cold?"

Yang Huan was stunned.

"It's nothing, I'll leave it to you here, I want to see what this guy wants to do?"

Yang Xin was instantly interested.

However, at this time, the water was too cold to be less than forty, and as for Liu Ru, it is estimated that he can just walk, so he should look for it and raise it at home......

"It's a beast!"

Yang Xin commented on himself very appropriately.

Then he quickly took off the flying fish suit outside, Yang Huan hurriedly called a tenant, took off the short brown on his body to Yang Yanshi, and then put on the straw sandals, buckled a square hat on the top of his head, and touched some standing cosmetics on his face, and a fairly handsome villager was born. Immediately after that, a tenant diligently supported a small boat, which must have been indispensable to the tenants here, and in fact the occasional fishing in the lake was also an important livelihood for them, Yang Xin took the blame from him and quickly followed a waterway into Taihu Lake......