Chapter 28 It's really busy to divide the fields and land
Qian Zheng commanded more than a dozen tables to be set up next to the gate, and put all the confiscated silver taels, jewelry, clothes, and other items on the table.
"Fellow villagers, these soldiers violated our military orders last night, trespassed into people's houses and shops without authorization, and they looted your property without permission, which is an unforgivable crime. Now that the silver taels, jewelry, jade, and clothes they had plundered were all placed on the table, they would later invite the families who had been plundered last night to come over and take their belongings. Ugly words are said in the front, and you must not have a clear conscience, if you find someone who deliberately takes his family's goods. Will be punished as severely as these violators! Qian Zheng stood up and announced loudly, pointing to the various belongings on the table.
Yu Zhilong walked up to these soldiers and said with a cold face: "Since you have joined our army, you must obey my military orders." Yesterday I already announced that there would be a marauder, kill, and whoever dared to insult a woman, kill! Dare to disrespect military orders, escape, kill! I Yu Zhilong will do what he says! Today, in public, we must not only understand military discipline, but also give an explanation to all the villagers. ”
"I remember that you have also suffered and suffered for many days in the quarry, you can rest assured that you will go well, and I will bury you well!"
When the soldiers kneeling on the ground heard this, they finally understood that Yu Zhilong was not playful, and they were so frightened that they pleaded with tears in their eyes, and swore that they would never do it again in the future, and only begged the Lord Qianhu to give him a chance to make meritorious contributions.
Wu Side was impatient when he heard this, and shouted: "Thief bird, what a woman!" If you are a hero, you dare to act, if you commit a crime yesterday, you will be punished today, as a matter of course! Do you think military orders are child's play? ”
Yu Zhilong waved his hand, not thinking about it, each executioner raised the steel knife in turn, and the knife fell in his hand, and they were killed one by one.
Hundreds of villagers were shocked and frightened when they saw these soldiers bleeding all over the ground one by one, and their corpses were halved, and they couldn't see that this young Qianhu Lord had killed his disobeyed soldiers so neatly. Over the years, they have seen and heard of many officers and bandits, but they have never heard of being executed by their commanders for violating military orders and plundering without permission.
Yu Zhilong comforted the villagers with warm words, explaining that his subordinates would not commit any crimes, and then asked Qian Zheng to preside over the claim of these confiscated property by the villagers one by one.
Dozens of villagers stepped forward one after another, and after a careful examination, they received some of their belongings in turn, but some silver taels and some clothes on the table were still left. Presumably, I am not sure how much I was robbed.
Later, Qian Zheng arranged for everyone to be responsible for the subsequent distribution of land deeds, rations, rations, etc.
Zhao Shi had already arrived on horseback before dawn this morning, and talked with Yu Zhilong for a long time on how to divide the land and wealth in Hujiazhuang before finally deciding on the implementation plan. According to Yu Zhilong's idea, the most important initial way of development is to divide the fields and land. In this era, the land economy was completely simple, and the land was the most important and fundamental resource, and if we wanted to win the support of the peasant households, giving them private land was the most direct way. With their own land, they may be willing to take up the sword to defend their property, and have a sense of intimacy and belonging to the managers of the land they have been given. It's just that land can't be created out of thin air, and in this process, it is necessary to crack down on those wealthy gentry, royal relatives and nobles, etc., seize their land and property, and redistribute them.
Zhao Shi, Wu Side, Qian Zheng and others listened to Yu Zhilong's explanation this morning, although they didn't understand it very well, but as former farmers, they had first-hand experience of the farmers' fiery feelings and desire to pursue land, so they all agreed with Zhilong's land division strategy.
Considering that the old title deeds were burned down and the land leased by the tenants was assigned to the tenants, it would be difficult to achieve effective results without a solemn form. Tenants may feel that the land and property are easy to come by, and it is difficult to have a sense of gratitude, or they may not dare to accept it for fear of retaliation from the government afterwards, so Yu Zhilong specially arranged for Qian Zheng to prepare a lot of new blank land deeds, the content of which is that Mr. Liu voluntarily distributed these good fields to the tenants, and then pressed everyone's handprints, and filled in the name of the third-party witness Yu Zhilong, and a freshly baked title deed was completed.
Yu Zhilong today canceled the order prohibiting entry and exit from Liujiazhuang, allowing the villagers to inform the villagers on the periphery of the news, encouraging them to come here to receive a new title deed, and at the same time they can also receive one tael of silver, two horses of cloth, three buckets of grain and rice, and distribute them according to the head.
As for the homesteaders, who already owned a small amount of land, Yu Zhilong also considered allocating several acres of land on a household-by-household basis.
Soon after the news came out, soon the villagers came to Liujiazhuang, and after seeing it was believing, they all happily received the new title deeds and property. Everyone praises the great kindness and virtue of a thousand households, saying that it is really a bodhisattva who came to life and an arhat who was reincarnated.
The villagers actually didn't know that Yu Zhilong was using the form of land deeds to tie these tenants and farmers to themselves invisibly, if the Yuan court officials and troops called, the Liu clan took the opportunity to retaliate, and it would be difficult for these people who divided the land to have a good end. Therefore, for the sake of the newly allocated acres, most of the farmers who have obtained new life will inevitably stand on Yu Zhilong's side. Yu Zhilong left the lives of the old and young members of the Liu family, firstly, he promised not to surrender at that time, and secondly, he could always remind the farmers who had won the land that the original landlord was still there, and the final result was still unknown.
In order to facilitate management in the future, Yu Zhilong directly asked these villagers to elect a person who can be respected and is not a relative of the Liu family to serve as the village chief to deal with miscellaneous matters.
In addition, someone was sent to inform the quarry that those who were old, weak and sick could be transferred to Hujiazhuang and Liujiazhuang to rest temporarily, after all, the conditions in the quarry were too poor. At the same time, an old scout brother was assigned to stay in the village and be responsible for supervising the exercise of the duties of the village chief.
When Yu Zhilong was busy, Chang Zhi came over to tell him that Shi Tou wanted to take the opportunity to escape last night, but was stopped by his subordinates outside the village, because most of these subordinates were the drivers of the quarry, and they hated Shi Tou to the core, so they took this opportunity to behead him. Since the person is dead, Yu Zhilong is gone, he originally wanted to make good use of him and listen to the news of Linqu County. For the hands-on soldiers, Yu Zhilong only commended them for their devotion to their duties.
After the main thing was done, seeing that it was almost noon, Yu Zhilong estimated that Linqu County had already received the news of what happened here, but he didn't know how the county would react.
Liu Zhengfeng has not heard from him for three or four consecutive days, and he left a mark all the way to explain his direction, it stands to reason that it should be time to come over to meet, but for some reason there has been no news, is it possible that there is a change?
Yu Zhilong arranged to leave 300 acres of land, set aside two adjacent courtyards for him to live in, and left some wealth and a few cows, the Liu family did not dare to defend at all, silently accepted it, and went to the courtyard. There are many thieves who kill people and set fires in this world, and the first time I see someone who can leave some wealth for the bitter lord is the first time I see it.
Yu Zhilong thought of the volunteers who were still being held in a blink of an eye, and it was time to decide what to do with them. Yu Zhilong asked Huang Er to inquire about the captured volunteers, and informed them of what they had done today, asking if they were willing to join the gang. If you don't want to, you can let those who have a family and a job go home; If you don't want to join the gang, you can do chores for yourself temporarily, and you can be a servant, but you must not allow destruction, otherwise you will be killed. After some inquiry, more than half of the volunteers were willing to join, and the leader of the volunteers who had fought with Yu Zhilong was also willing to join!
Yu Zhilong Daqi, asked, it turned out that the leader's surname was Luo Mingcheng, he was not a native of Benzhuang, he had a body of fists and feet, a year ago he was alone here, the old man of the Liu family saw that he was powerful, and one person successively won several of the best volunteers in the village, so he left him to be a leader of the volunteers. Today, seeing that Yu Zhilong is quite chivalrous in doing things, Luo Cheng feels that he is acting, so he is willing to join the gang. Yu Zhilong fought with him yesterday, fought a few moves, knew that he had real kung fu, and later saw that he was still guarding the Liu family in the end, which was a loyal protector and his duty. After asking the villagers again, he knew that he usually had no evil deeds, so he smiled and accepted it.
Yu Zhilong ordered Luo Cheng to take a few soldiers along the street to announce, saying that the sergeants and soldiers were short of cloth shoes and autumn clothes, and if the families in the village were willing to accept shoes and rush to make autumn clothes, they could go to the Liu family's mansion to receive cloth and needles, threads and other sundries, limited to five days, and the property would be handed over at that time, and briefly explained the specific value of shoes and clothes and the main manufacturing requirements. When the news broke, because of the good pay, many women from the farmers rushed to collect the sundries and cloth, and the villagers outside the village also joined in after learning about it.
In this era, shoes are not divided into left and right, only size, but fortunately, the texture of the shoes is softer, and it is uncomfortable to wear them. Yu Zhilong also found it interesting at first, and later he followed the local customs. If there were not enough sundries such as needles, threads, and brains, Yu Zhilong ordered people to go to the grocery store to buy a lot. Rushing to make cloth shoes and autumn clothes is completely unavoidable, these drives are either barefoot or straw sandals, and the clothes are in tatters, and it seems that autumn is about to begin, if there is no autumn clothes, the soldiers must be difficult to endure the bleak cool autumn.
Seeing that miscellaneous matters such as dividing fields and things have been carried out step by step, Yu Zhilong left some of the people on duty, and after inspecting the people, he gathered most of the troops in the square of the volunteer garrison to form again, made up for the establishment of each hundred household teams, appointed some small leaders, and preached the military discipline of the army in public.
For those who took the lead in this operation and had outstanding performance, Yu Zhilong asked each hundred households and the general banner to propose separately, and a total of more than 30 people were selected, and Yu Zhilong was commended in front of the army, and the meritorious service was recorded, and each person was rewarded with five taels of silver.
Subsequently, arrange for each hundred households to organize their own teams and step up training. The entire formation training is in the compound of this station and on the street outside. The first task is to let all the soldiers understand their own team flags, hundreds of households, brand heads, and know the flags of other teams. Understand how to stand in line under the password, whether it is a horizontal line or a column; How to understand the basic orders of the hundred households and the general banner, at least to distinguish the left and right, front and back, how to walk in unison, how to turn, etc.
Most of these hundred households and general banners are Yu Zhilong's old brothers, who have experienced many battle formations, and have also seen the layout and changes of the Yuan army with their own eyes. For a time, the small square was lively and full of jokes.
Although the combat strength of the various units of the Yuan army was strong and weak, once the army formation was formed and the deployment was measured, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for Yu Hai's troops to break down the Yuan army's formation, and even if they succeeded, they would often have to pay a great price. These old brothers still have vivid memories of the tragic battles in the past, so Yu Zhilong ordered his subordinates to conduct array training, and everyone agreed with it. It's just that everyone is a halfway monk, the level is uneven, the language expression is often not in place, and most of these soldiers are newcomers, so they don't have a clue about how to participate in the training, and the results of the queue training are varied, and there are all kinds of jokes. On the contrary, the volunteers have been trained many times, and they are the fastest to get started with these. The impatient Baihu faced a queue training that was difficult to work no matter what, and once he was in a hurry, he simply punched and kicked him.
Yu Zhilong knew that this matter was urgent, but he just asked each team to first familiarize themselves with how to line up, disband, distinguish between left and right, front and back, and how to turn. After observing the effect of the training, Yu Zhilong ordered those experienced soldiers and some volunteers to serve as the leaders of each ten-person team, and they would demonstrate and set an example for their own team, and then integrate them to keep up with the centurion; At the same time, in order to distinguish the left and right, all the soldiers tied a white cloth on their left hand and left foot, and a black cloth on their right hand and right foot. White, black! "If the soldiers don't understand, just look at the strips of cloth on their bodies and understand. Zhao Shi's subordinates rested and practiced in Hujiazhuang.
Approaching dusk, the last group of people from the quarry finally arrived in Liujiazhuang, because there were too many people, Yu Zhilong arranged for half of the people to turn to Hujiazhuang halfway to rest, the houses in the village were not enough, and they were arranged in the wings of each courtyard of the Liu family, and they all slept on the ground. Fortunately, the conditions here are far stronger than those in the quarry, there is food and drink, the wounded and sick are given medicine and treatment, and everyone has no complaints.