Chapter 126: Akagi divides the fields
Chicheng County, which had been in turmoil for several years, finally stabilized, and Qin Wang's continuous grain release for more than half a month made this hungry city a little bit more vibrant, and there were more pedestrians on the streets, and some small shops were also open, and everything slowly became better.
Half a month later, a decree from the Akagi County government shook everyone in Akagi. The county government is ready to divide the land, and it is directly distributed to the people without compensation. According to the population composition, each person ranges from half an acre to two acres. Girls under the age of 14 have only half an acre of land and boys have one acre. For those over the age of 14 and under the age of 40, there are two acres for each person, and only one and a half acres for women. Elderly people over forty years of age, both men and women, have an acre. This is also calculated based on the rations needed by people of all ages. Although it is generally insufficient, it also solves most of the problems. As soon as this decree came out, it was like a major earthquake in Akagi, and there was a lot of discussion in the streets and alleys, and everyone's first reaction was not to believe it.
Thousands of years have passed, when will the land be completely owned by the peasants? Even the common people, who were accustomed to being tenants, had long since become accustomed to their status. Although they still have a thirst for land, they never imagined that it would one day be distributed to them free of charge. They also take it for granted that they have to pay a great deal to get the land.
But the next move of the Chicheng County Ya quickly dispelled their doubts. The people of the county government did not make any publicity, but sent out all the people of the county government to count the population of each household, how many old people, how many children, and how many young and strong people in the family, all of them were counted clearly, and their attitude was much better than that of the previous county soldiers.
Almost a month later, when the people from these county offices knocked on the door of the people again, all the people had a title deed in their hands. According to the situation of each family, the number of cooked fields, the number of raw fields, and the location of the fields are clearly written. Looking at the bright red Chicheng County Ya Da Yin, many people still felt that they were living in a dream after several days.
When these people realized that they really owned the land, everyone's first reaction was not to see where the land was or whether it was good or bad, but they all gathered at the gate of the Chicheng County Yamen and knelt down in a gloomy place. Qin Forget personally came forward to appease these simple people for a long time before sending these simple people away. Qin Wang's reputation was unparalleled in Chicheng for a while, and the notoriety of the Qin Demon also changed to that of Qin Shanren.
The county's land has been completely divided, and more than 52,000 acres of mature land have been distributed to 26,000 people. Qin forgot that the ownership of the land belonged to the county, in order to prevent the soil
Land annexation, no one can buy or sell at will. In the first three years, you only need to pay 2% of the tax, and after three years, you need to pay 3%.
As soon as this decree came out, the whole Akagi boiled again, and for thousands of years, the peasants finally had their own land, and the taxes were still so low. In just half a month, several ancestral halls of Qin Wang's life have popped up, and the common people are so hungry that they can't eat, and they also squeeze out a few grains of rice from between their teeth to build Qin Wang's new words. His immortal card has entered thousands of households, and people are grateful to their savior in the purest way.
When the people walked to their land according to the title deed, they were stunned by what they saw. On the vast field, the snow-white lime powder draws countless straight lines that crisscross the plain land, dividing the flat land into a huge chessboard. Each piece of land that is divided has the words name, place of origin, number of acres and so on, so that the common people can find their own land. Not only that, every dozens of acres of fields have reserved a gap of one zhang wide, which will be used for irrigation canals in the future, of course, there is no yet, and the people need to dig it themselves.
People have been staring at the land in front of them for a long time, and there are still many people who can't believe that this land belongs to them.
After a while, out of the crowd came an old man over sixty years old, his extremely thin body was still trembling excitedly, he trembled into the field with a cane, bent down with great effort to pick up a cup of loess, sucked hard, tears could not stop flowing, it seemed that the loess had become a panacea, the old man's face suddenly became red and abnormal, and his spirit was radiant.
"The old man has land!" He stood up and shouted loudly to the sky, "The old Meng family has been for more than ten generations, and finally has land!" ”
Encouraged by him, the other people either cheered or wept bitterly, and generally threw themselves into the ground in front of them.
It is worth mentioning that more than 5,000 people in Qinjia Village were also allocated land, and most of these people were aborigines of Chicheng who fled to Qinjia Village because of famine. They had land and houses in the countryside around Akagi and even in the county seat of Akagi, and when the land was allocated, it was also distributed according to their original property.
But most of them are reluctant to go out of Qinjia Village, and when they are ploughing in the spring, they go out of the mountains to live in their original homes, and if they don't have a home, they just build a shack. As soon as the spring ploughing was over, he immediately returned to the mountains to continue cultivating the land in the monkey nest. They don't give up the hardships of running around to create their own beautiful life.
The army has also been recruited, known as the Akagi Army, and all of them are young and strong people from poor backgrounds. Right now
Qin Forget was very short of silver, and his military salary could only be replaced by grain. Although the monthly salary is not high, three meals a day still attracts countless young people.
Now in Chicheng County, the reassuring sound of the army's training reverberates everywhere. Whenever I saw the army in black uniforms shuttling through the county, the eyes of those young men who were not selected were full of jealousy. Whether it was the village soldiers of Qinjia Village or the county soldiers of Chicheng, they were all dispersed to the Chicheng Army as veterans, and the outstanding talents in them directly served as middle and low-level officers. The Akagi Army still adopted the system of army, shi, capital, battalion, army, and box army, and all officers at all levels were veterans who had seen blood, and one veteran of the three soldiers led two recruits. The proportion of veterans of more than one-third made the combat effectiveness of the Akagi Army not to be underestimated from the very beginning of its construction.
There is also the Craftsman Division, after entering Chicheng, Qin Forget finally has a few decent craftsmen. Wang Laosan and Wang Tiehammer began to emerge in the craftsman department, and established the weapons department and the construction department respectively. The director of the Ordnance Department is the Wang Iron Hammer, and his subordinates are the men of his family, as well as the old blacksmiths who make agricultural tools in several villages. The construction division is the middle-aged man who Wang Tiehammer called the third uncle, Wang Laosan. He was a mason by himself, and now he is taking hundreds of people to rest the houses in Akagi Prefecture that have been crushed by heavy snow.
There is also the Animal Husbandry Division, the number of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep seized from Dulong Peak last time has more than tripled after a year of breeding. In addition, the number seized from the Li family and the Wang family this time has increased significantly. Up to now, Akagi has more than 400 head of cattle, which can barely meet the needs of Akagi's spring ploughing. There are more than 3,000 pigs and sheep, and tens of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese. It's just that these things can't be enjoyed by the people of Chicheng, even if it's Qin Wang, all these outputs will be handed over to Jincheng by Qin Wang, in exchange for the most scarce grain in Chicheng, and it's all coarse grain.
In fact, since Qin Wang and the others were difficult to come to the Qin family's village, all the big and small leaders led by Qin Wang, like ordinary people, were coarse food every day, and they were just barely fed. Although there is no shortage of them to eat, they understand that now is not the time to enjoy it at all, and their consistent poverty makes them have no complaints about such a life. Although the days are still very hard, their hearts are very happy, especially after entering Akagi, this kind of life in control of their own destiny makes them very excited.
Akagi, with the restoration of order and the infusion of materials, is rapidly recovering, even if there are still shortcomings of one kind or another, but everyone is full of confidence.