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In addition to food, the Tiger Bentuan also seized a large amount of money, cloth and other property from the local tyrants and inferior gentry in Gushi County.

As a result, the Tiger Regiment not only solved the food crisis, but also had enough money to pay for the army.

Provide a foundation and guarantee for them to recruit troops and expand their strength.

And the cloth can be used to make new military uniforms for the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment.

At this point, the Tiger Ben Regiment had mastered at least 80 percent of the land in the entire Gushi County.

Seeing that the time was ripe for land reform, Yang Chen ordered Li Da and Wen Xiansheng to lead three battalions and move the more than 10,000 fleeing people from Xiaoyang Village to Gushi County.

They were merged with the people of Gushi County and began to distribute land equally among them according to their population.

During the old feudal society, China's land was like this.

The landlords and rich peasants, who account for less than 10 percent of the total population, own nearly 90 percent of the land.

The poor, who account for more than 90 percent of the total population, own less than 10 percent of the cultivated land, or even less.

This is an extremely unreasonable distribution, and the method that Yang Chen is now adopting is the land reform policy used by our party.

According to the population, there is no distinction between men, women and children, and it is uniformly and evenly distributed.

Of course, there are also some landlords who have not done anything harmful, and their land has been handed down from their ancestors.

In response to this situation, Yang Chen adopted the compensatory means of replacing compulsory expropriation with capital contribution.

That is, the Tiger Bentuan paid for the purchase of land from these landlords at the price of the land at that time.

It was then distributed evenly to the poor people who had no arable land.

In this way, the poor people were given land, and the landlords who did not commit crimes were compensated, the best of both worlds.

Anyway, the money used by the Tiger Bentuan to buy land was also confiscated from the hands of local tyrants and landlords like the Qin family.

All this money is obtained by them from exploiting and oppressing the poor people on a daily basis, and now it can be regarded as taking it from the people and using it for the people.

However, the amount of work involved in land measurement and distribution is very large, and it will not be able to be completed in a short time.

So, Yang Chen, Wang Gui, Xu Hailang, Rake Ear and others personally led the representatives of the people and a small number of soldiers.

Every day, he began to go in and out of the fields, measured the land, and registered and distributed it to the people.

In addition, the more than 10,000 refugees who migrated from Huaibei have no place to live.

The few houses in the city that were raided were obviously not enough to accommodate the more than 10,000 people who settled down.

Fortunately, there was still a lot of open space in the city, so Yang Chen ordered Liao Yong to lead Liu Zheping, Xu Ming, Li Da and several other battalion commanders, with some troops and the people.

In the open spaces of those cities, houses were built for the people as their new homes.

A month later, the land was measured and allocated, and most of the houses were built.

Not only did the people have a new home, but they also got their own farmland.

For a time, the support for the Tiger Ben Regiment was so high that it could not be increased.

And the prestige of the Tiger Bentuan and Yang Chen has also been greatly improved.

Once you have the land, the next step is the problem of growing food.

Otherwise, just sitting and eating empty, even the little family background of the tiger group will not be able to withstand the consumption for long.

Especially after learning that the Tiger Ben Regiment was stationed in Gushi County, many people in the surrounding area rushed to vote.

This has further exacerbated the problem of food shortage!

What to plant?

Rice? Corn? Wheat?

First of all, Yang Chen excluded rice, not that the geographical conditions of Gushi County do not allow the cultivation of rice.

However, he did not have hybrid rice seeds in his hands, not to mention the long maturity cycle of ordinary rice, and the yield was also very small, which was not enough to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.

Wheat, corn, and other major crops were also vetoed by Yang Chen.

For the same reason, the yield is too small and the maturity cycle is long, which is not enough to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.

Therefore, the crops to be selected by Yang Chen must be crops with a short maturity cycle, high yield, and suitable for planting in all seasons.

As for whether it tastes good or not, whether it suits your appetite or not, it is secondary.

After all, living in this era of war and chaos, it is already a luxury to be able to fill your stomach.

As for enjoying life, it will have to wait until the little devils are defeated and peace is won.

As a result, a crop popped up in Yang Chen's mind.

Potato!

It is also known as potato, artichoke, yam egg and other names.

It is the fourth most important food crop in the world, after wheat, rice and maize.

Although Chinese rarely regard it as a staple food, many foreign countries and regions regard it as a staple food.

The yield of potatoes is very high, and the yield per mu can reach an astonishing 4,000-10,000 catties.

Before there was no hybrid rice and no high-tech pesticides and chemical fertilizers, the yield of ordinary rice per mu was almost less than 400 catties, or even less.

It can be said that the yield of potatoes is almost 10 times that of rice.

Moreover, if the temperature is right, it can be planted at least twice a year.

In other words, the yield per mu of potatoes in a year may even reach 20,000 catties!

It's terrifying!

For example, the rapid growth of Europe's population is inseparable from the huge credit of potatoes.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe relied on the introduction of potatoes, and the population increased by 17 in just 200 years.

Among them, potatoes had the greatest influence on the rise of Germany and Russia.

During the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648, the main battlefield was on the territory of German Prussia.

As the food in the granaries was plundered by the armies of various countries, the whole country was shrouded in the shadow of famine.

But when the farmers went to dig in the fields again, they found that a large number of previously undug potatoes were still edible, and they were freed from famine in one fell swoop.

Since then, potato cultivation has been widely promoted in Germany and has become a common food for German soldiers and civilians.

Germany had only 9 million people in 1500, 18 million in 1800, and 43 million in 1900.

The same is true in Russia, where there were only 12.2 million in 1500, 37 million in 1800, and a staggering 106 million in 1900.

In the more than 200 years that potatoes arrived in Europe, Britain dominated the seas, Germany launched World War I and World War II, and the rise of Russia completely changed the strategic landscape of the entire world.

It can be said that potatoes are completely a strategic crop!

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people of Gushi County, Yang Chen immediately promoted the potato planting method extensively.

At the same time, the seeds of the first season are provided to the people.

After settling the people and gaining great prestige.

Yang Chen began to prepare to recruit new soldiers and replenish the lost troops of the Tiger Ben Regiment.

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