After turning over Lishan Mountain, you will enter Hongmen County.

As the gateway of the Guanzhong Plain, Hongmen County is backed by the Wei River, there are more than ten small rivers and streams in the territory, and the irrigation advantage is second only to the Nanling and Baling of the Ba Shangyuan.

However, it is precisely because of this that land annexation is very intense.

Zhang Yue and Liu Jin walked all the way, and the fields they saw were almost all connected, with no ridges and no dividing lines.

This means that the owner of these lands belongs to a certain person.

Liu Jinqi is choking enough!

My face is a little pale!

Now he is no longer a novice, he already understands that the strength of the empire is closely related to the number of yeoman farmers.

Taxes, conscription, and quality soldiers were all due to a strong yeoman peasant class.

"What are you going to do?" Liu Jin finally couldn't help but ask.

"Your Highness just look at it......" Zhang Yue smiled and said: "The minister will definitely get these landlords and powerful to agree to release the land and population......"

"We'll see," Liu Jin said with anticipation......

After the group arrived at Hongmen County, they went straight to the county office.

The county commander Gong Sui and the county lieutenant Xie Yannian hurriedly rushed out to greet them when they heard the news.

These two are outstanding young people recognized by Liu Jin after Hongmen was included in the Xinfeng system and selected from among the county officials.

It's just that the time to take office is a little little, and it has been less than two months so far, and the affairs of the county have not been fully mastered, and the powerful forces in the county do not take them seriously, thinking that they are hairy boys who have not dried up, so they deliberately handle it, and there is no way to carry out many things.

Now, Taisun and General Yingyang are in person, making them feel like they have seen relatives - they finally ushered in a backer.

Gong Sui and Xie Yannian invited Liu Jin and others into the county government, and then began to introduce the specific situation of Hongmen and the data they had.

This is also the characteristic of the Xinfeng system, from the beginning of the day did not like red tape, like to talk about data, do tables.

With the expansion of the Xinfeng system, this characteristic gradually flowed into the bureaucratic system.

Nowadays, the Three Princes and the Nine Secretaries have a judicial office, and if there is no data or form in the report to the superiors or the Son of Heaven, they will definitely be despised, and even punished, and will be regarded as perfunctory to the superiors and despising the Son of Heaven.

This is also one of Zhang Yue's biggest influences on the world.

After listening to their report, Zhang Yue and Liu Jin glanced at each other, which was basically not much different from Gong Sui's report, but there were more details and more background of the county's heroes.

It's just that......

These things are no longer within the scope of Zhang Yue's consideration.

Not to mention those so-called heroes, even the backers behind them are now not even qualified to carry shoes for Zhang Yue.

A title of heroism is enough to press them to the ground and rub them wantonly.

Therefore, Zhang Yue didn't listen very carefully, and after Gong Sui finished talking to Xie Yannian, he said: "The matter of Hongmen, I and His Royal Highness have already understood!" ”

"I'm here today, there's something to do, please do it!"

"Post a notice immediately, Xiaoyu County: Slave storage is very harmful, and a gentleman can't do it! Today, there are many slave holders in Hongmen, and His Royal Highness Taisun has many dislikes, and it is not easy to think of his father, so it is Xu Guanfu Pingjia to redeem the slave and maid! ”

After saying these two items, Zhang Yue waved his hand and said, "Let's do it immediately!" ”

When Gong Sui and Xie Yannian heard this, they looked at each other, and then bowed respectfully and said, "No! ”

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As a result, the entire Hongmen County instantly wailed all over the field.

As soon as the notice came out, the whole county shook!

"The government Pingjia to redeem slaves and maids?" A rich man with a big belly took a deep breath and couldn't help but say, "This is to buy and sell!" ”

The slaves, maidservants, and hostiles under his name, but his family spent twenty or thirty years, little by little, with a lot of hard work to accumulate wealth.

Now, in the above sentence, the empty white teeth want him to let him go?

How is this possible?

He won't agree to die!

However, his family was already frightened, and they persuaded one after another: "My lord, now the grandson and that Zhang Chiyou are personally sitting in Hongmen...... You'd better bear with me......"

"That's right, big brother, bear with me......"

"Left and right are just giving those mud-legged people a few days of freedom, where can they escape?"

"Maybe in a few days, life can't go on, and we have to sell ourselves to our family again, maybe we can make a fortune!"

"There are only people and no land, where can they run to?!"

Listening to the persuasion of his family, the rich man finally figured it out, nodded and said, "That's the case...... So I agreed......"

"But the price of that Pingjia must not be low!"

"At least 10,000 yuan a piece, I am willing to nod!"

In his heart, he couldn't help but make a small calculation, his family has more than 200 slaves, plus the number of people who are not in the slave register, such as sending guests and reverse travelers, but in fact, they are almost the same as slaves and maids who are completely dependent on him for survival, and the total number is almost 400.

Four hundred, 10,000 yuan per person is 4 million dollars.

And when these people were released, they didn't have any property, no land, not even a single piece of clothing.

Therefore, they must come back and continue to rely on themselves.

When the time comes, just send two or three thousand dollars, and maybe you can buy their deed of sale again.

In this way, if the left hand is reversed from the right hand, you can almost make two or three million!

Pure profiteering!

Thinking like this, he finally felt comfortable.

A smart person like this person, the whole Hongmen does not know how many people there are.

Therefore, when the official notice was posted, and Zhang Chiyou and His Royal Highness Taisun were in charge, knowing that it was impossible to twist the power, the landlords of Hongmen were 'aware of the times as Junjie', and cooperated with the work of the government, and immediately reported a large number of lists of registered slaves and maids to the county government.

Some guys even temporarily wrote a deed of sale with their own counter-travelers and senders who were originally pretended to be 'diners' and 'tenants', and then stuffed them into the list.

The county government never cared about these and accepted them all.

Moreover, the price offered by Pingjia is also very conscientious - it completely refers to the market price, and is redeemed at the price of 7,000 yuan for small slaves, 15,000 yuan for big slaves, and 10,000 yuan for female slaves.

And it is the money to redeem one, and give one.

So, in a few days, the landlords of the entire Hongmen were like a demon, with their own slaves, senders, and counter-travelers to the county seat, and even the landlords of several surrounding counties also heard the wind and begged to come to the door, wanting to stuff their own slaves and maids into it to make some hard-earned money.

However, the county government turned a deaf ear and accepted all the orders.

In just three days, the Hongmen County Ya ransomed more than 8,000 slaves and maids.

It's just that there is a strange place - after the redemption of these people, they were not given some money and food by the government and resettled on the spot as in the past, on the contrary, their freedom was completely restricted as in the past.

And it was placed next to the county seat by the county government, and was guarded and protected by a school captain who was ordered to come from Wannian County.

However, no one cared about it.

Everyone is busy making money, and they are all looking forward to buying back these slaves and maids at a low price after the rumors have passed.

When it comes to taking advantage of the public, the landlords are shrewd one by one.

Until the fourth day......

Countless people woke up and found that a large number of caravans had appeared on the galloping road.

And the banners of these caravans, each one of them is so loud!

The Yuan family, the Yang family, the Zhang family, the Tian family, and the Zheng family, each of which is a well-known giant family.

In addition to these big men, the white gloves of the princes and nobles in Guanzhong are also mighty, and they are constantly coming from the galloping road.

There are also a lot of well-known celebrities in other places!

And these people have a common characteristic - they are all workshop owners of the Xinfeng Workshop Department.

After they arrived in Hongmen County, they immediately entered the temporary residence of the ransomed slaves and maids who protected the Han army.

Then, countless people watched as these guys, smiling, came out of there with a smile.

Then, let these people put on brand new overalls, and gave them a bag of grain, a small bag of salt and oil, and then under the witness of Chen Wannian of Xinfeng County, Sang Jun, the official of Xinfeng Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Gong Sui, the commander of Hongmen County, and Xie Yannian, the county governor, these merchants signed a three-year contract with those ransom slaves and maids.

The contract consists of three parts.

The first part is the agreement between Hongmen County and the ransomed slaves.

The content is also very simple, that is, these people admit that they owe Hongmen County a certain amount of redemption fees, and promise to be willing to obey the management of Hongmen and obey the orders of the county government to repay the debts and interest owed.

Then, a contract was signed between Hongmen County and Xinfeng County, and the content was just as simple - the two counties expressed their willingness to cooperate on the road of jointly 'building a well-off and rejuvenating Taiping', and to this end, they carried out personnel and official exchanges.

Then, Hongmen County said that in order to help the development of Xinfeng Workshop Park, it was willing to send a number of migrant workers to Xinfeng Workshop Park.

Xinfeng said that the Hongmen brothers are welcome to join the big family of His Royal Highness Taisun, and are willing to create favorable conditions for the Hongmen fathers to come to Xinfeng to work.

Then, the Xinfeng County government signed a contract with the workshop owners who came over.

The slaves and maids who were redeemed by Hongmen were sent to various workshops to engage in manual production in workshops.

The workshop owners promised to pay them monthly and to cover the living expenses, living and lodging of the workers who were dispatched to the workshop.

And they are willing to pay for the ransom of these people right away!

No way!

Now Xinfeng's workshop industry is thriving, and the products are marketed throughout Guanzhong, and radiate to Heluo, Qichu, and Yanzhao.

Every day the orders are received softly, and their only headache is only one problem - no manpower!

They are so short of manpower!

Even if they buy all the Hun prisoners of war in Shaofu, they are still short of people!

The lack of labor led them to watch the five-baht money slip away from their eyes!

It's unbearable!

So, after hearing that there are thousands of surplus laborers here in Hongmen, who can still sit still?

Immediately, he brought up the five baht money at home and ran over with someone.

As a result, the landlords of Hongmen were so strong that they could only watch as the workshop owners of Xinfenglai divided their past slaves, senders, and counter-travelers away from them.

Even the children, they don't let go.

Women, especially those who can weave, have sparked a scramble!

When, the workshop owners, under the protection of the army and their own guards, left with thousands of Hongmen people.

The landlords of Hongmen were instantly on the wax.

Because they have almost sold their slaves and maids at home, even the senders and counter-travelers who have managed to hide for money.

Now, these people happily followed the Xinfeng workshop owners to the Xinfeng workshop.

And their land still needs to be cultivated and tended.

As a result, they instantly found themselves in a predicament - there was a large area of empty land, but no manpower.

There was no choice but to go to the remaining tenants and ask them to help with the farming.

However, the peasants are not fools either.

Seeing that these landlords clearly have no manpower to take care of the land and take care of the cultivated land, who will not sit on the land and raise the price?

In the past, the peasants were likely to be given the sticks of thugs raised by the landlords.

But now......

The landlords and the powerful have lost their deterrent power by raising the price of these peasants' land.

Because, that Zhang Chiyou is sitting in the Hongmen, who doesn't want to die, dare to do things against his moldy head, aren't you afraid of being killed by the whole family?

The house leak happened to rain overnight!

For the landlords of Hongmen, this August is a nightmare!

The slaves, maids, and counter-brigades that had been accumulated for decades were swept away, and only one day, the county government issued a notice to Xiaoyu all over the county, and sent a large number of officials to preach in the local township pavilions.

There is only one content of the notice and preaching - His Royal Highness Taisun took pity on the Hongmen fathers, so he specially gave grace and allowed the Hongmen fathers to work in the Xinfeng Workshop.

Wages and salaries are listed!

An adult man is paid twenty to fifty dollars a day, and a minor boy is paid ten dollars a day.

If you are a craftsman who knows carpenter, masonry, and iron smelting, you can negotiate with the workshop.

In addition, female workers were recruited, who knew how to weave best, and their wages were even higher than those of men, and skilled weavers received a salary of sixty cents a day.

In addition, Xinfeng also provides three meals a day.

At this moment, the entire tenants of Hongmen can't sit still!

They work for the landlords and the powerful, and they work hard for a year, only a few dollars?

Maybe you have to owe a lot to the old man!

Nowadays, how much income can Xinfeng workers have?

Who can sit still?!

In addition, this matter also has the endorsement of the government and the guarantee of the grandson.

So, every household packed their bags and rushed to the county seat.

The landlords suddenly panicked and wanted to stop it.

However, as soon as their thugs went out, they found that the cavalry of the Han army had appeared on the road.

The bright knives and guns were so frightened that these guys didn't even dare to get angry and shrank back.

At this point, the powerful landlords of Hongmen found that they had fallen into a desperate situation!

They now have empty land, but there is no one for them to plow.

Slaves, maids, and senders have gone to Xinfeng, and they may all have entered the workshop.

And the remaining tenants will also be abducted by Xinfeng.

In the past, the invincible off-the-plate moves, in the face of real power, were the same as mud - the master behind them, just hearing Zhang Chiyou's three words, was already frightened.

What to do?

It became a problem that each of them had to face.