Chapter 16: Tuntian
Since Qin Yiming announced the reward, the entire atmosphere of Pingli Fort has been changed all of a sudden, it has become a martial style, the men in every household have been actively training as soldiers, and those who have not been soldiers are also training every day, and they are usually idle if they don't train, and finally they simply go to the school to train with the soldiers, of course, some of them are also practicing in their own homes, or on the road, or in the farmland, and you can see those hard-working people everywhere. If it was put in the past, as a guard soldier, then the whole family was against it, they could escape, they really couldn't escape, as long as a family had a person to be a soldier, even if there were several sons, they would rather be idle at home, and would not let them be the head soldiers, but now it is different, not only the sons themselves want to be soldiers, but their parents and sisters are also very supportive.
But the good things they didn't expect were still to come.
According to the military tun system of the Ming Dynasty, each military household generally has 50 acres of fertile land, but for a long time, many of these military households have been occupied by those dignitaries or businessmen, and some military households do not even have an acre of fertile land, but the military household is hereditary, and when it is a military household, the children and grandchildren must be military households, all of them are military registration, and they can not move, can not engage in other industries, so they are becoming more and more poor, so the system of the guard is corrupt, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the guard is extremely low, and the source of soldiers is seriously insufficient.
Qin Yiming wants to change this state of De'an Thousand Households, first of all, he must let all the military households have enough fertile land to feed themselves, after all, these military households do not have the imperial court to pay food, not only that, according to the Ming system, the military households also have to pay food to the guard every year, sometimes these military households can only borrow money from rich merchants or loan sharks when they are in urgent need of money, which eventually leads to the continuous loss of acres.
To solve the problem of rations for the military households, there are only two directions, either to reclaim the wasteland, or to get the military households' tun fields back. Of course, Qin Yiming did not give up this method, so that at least a lot of dry land could be reclaimed, so that the military households could use it as vegetable fields and plant other crops.
Qin Yiming wants to get back the fertile land of the military households, which will involve various interests, and now he has more than 10,000 mu in his own hands, which can be divided first, and then the matter will be slowly resolved.
However, this idea was not shared by others.
"Young master, you are crazy, this 10,000 acres of fertile land is not easy for the master, and it took a lifetime to accumulate it!" Da Niu listened to Qin Yiming's thoughts, and his first reaction was that his young master was abnormal, his head was simply caught by the door, and the other officers were all fishing in his pockets, but Qin Yiming was sending it out from his own pocket.
The little monkey also disagreed with Qin Yiming's approach, "Young master, if we don't have this 10,000 mu of fertile land, we have no income, how can we cultivate our own family in the future?" After all, the little monkey's thoughts are a higher level, and the big bull nodded vigorously beside him.
Yang Baihu didn't say a word on the side, but in his heart, he was overturned, and he was very frightened.
If it is said that buying people's hearts, in fact, now that Qin Yiming has done it, there is no need to do it again, but since Qin Yiming wants to do this, after all, he has his reasons, just like the reward of ten taels of silver, he did not discuss this matter with anyone in advance, but the effect of it is obvious to all, not only to achieve the effect of buying people's hearts, but also to find out the number of strong men in Pingli Fort in a short period of time, and the atmosphere of the entire Pingli Fort has also changed, and now those men are all in good spirits, judging two people.
"Young Master Qin, I have no objection to the decision you made, but I want to remind you that the family is private property, but this guard is not, you can expand or decrease the family at will, but this guard is not what you want, and if there is a change in position one day, all this may not be yours, which is why the family is prevalent now, and the reason why the guard is withering, you can think about it clearly." Yang Baihu reminded beside him that although he greatly appreciated Qin Yiming's selfless spirit, he still had to remind Qin Yiming out of love for Qin Yiming.
"As a soldier to eat food, although I can change the attitude of the soldiers in a short period of time, but in the long run, this acre, I must divide it, and I must also take back the acres of land that have been left behind to the soldiers, and return them to their hands, only by solving their most basic survival problems, those soldiers can train with peace of mind and protect the country and the people! As for what Yang Baihu said, I also know it, but I am a thousand households of De'an Thousand Households, and I am in his position to seek his own government, which is also within my responsibility. Qin Yiming said seriously.
If you want to rely on your own private land to support your family, not only the cost is very great, but the effect is also very limited, but if you can build these thousand households well, it will be different, after all, the strength of the group is still much greater than the individual, if you want to build a strong army, you must first grasp the hearts of the people, so that you can concentrate the people's strength and mobilize the resources of the whole society.
My God, protect the country and the people? Isn't it all about being a soldier for yourself?
The big cow, the little monkey and Yang Baihu all looked at Qin Yiming with unfamiliar eyes.
Soon, the news spread, and Pingli Fort fried the pot again, but Ma Qianhu and Yang Baishi didn't believe it was true, and they both felt that it was just Qin Qianhu playing some tricks.
But what happened next shocked their eyes, Qin Yiming publicly asked the military households in Pingli Fort to report the acres of land, and announced that his more than 10,000 acres of fertile land would be returned to thousands of households, and he would make up for the military households with less than 50 acres!
Crazy, the whole people of Pinliburg are crazy.
Some people whispered in private, saying that this Qin Qianhu is not crazy, they are used to seeing those high-ranking officials encroaching on their good land, if Qin Qianhu wants to take away their land, they think it is normal, but this Qin Qianhu wants to give them land, do they think this person is stupid? Looking at the Ming Dynasty, there is no such fool, even the current emperor, who also cleverly set up a name and took the people's money.
"This Qin Qianhu must be a fool, a loser!"
As soon as these words came out, they would immediately be beaten badly, because more people could feel with their hearts that Qin Qianhu was really thinking about them poor soldiers, because land was the root of life, so they loved Qin Qianhu from the bottom of their hearts and respected Qin Yiming.
However, something unexpected happened to Qin Yiming, which was too strange to say.
Since Qin Yiming's fertile land was returned to Qianhu, those indignant military households actually surrounded Ma Qianhu and Yang Yanshi, if it weren't for the loyalty of their families, it is estimated that the two would have been divided by now.
"Give us back the good land, give us back the good land!"
"Lord Zheng Qianhu has returned the good land to the guard, why don't you Ma Qianhu and Yang Yanshi return it!"
"That's right, these fertile fields are also ours!"
"Give us back the fertile land!"
Outside the camp, many angry military households are confronting Ma Qianhu's family, the military households are angry, and the two sides even draw their swords against each other.
But in the end, everyone still didn't do it, after all, the military households were afraid that they were surrounded by high-ranking officials of the guard, and many people on their side were unarmed, and those families were well-equipped, but they were few people, and it was difficult to say who would suffer and who would take advantage of them in a real fight, so the two sides were so deadlocked.
"How can this be reasonable, this is a mutiny, this is a rebellion, whoever we recruit provokes, he Qin is a fool and loses the family, what does it have to do with us, these poor and crazy military households, why do they want to trouble us?" Ma Qianhu paced back and forth, very angry, his face was pale, he felt very wronged and aggrieved for his innocent lying gun, he felt that those military households were originally unreasonable stupid people, and all this was caused by Qin Yiming.
"If you want to blame that Evil Star Qin fool, it's really damned! He got off to a good start, and the soldiers were eyeing us. Yang Yishi was also very angry, but they couldn't directly settle accounts with Qin Qianhu about this matter, in the final analysis, these military households were poor and crazy, and their thoughts were incomprehensible to normal people, although Qin Yiming was ***, but he didn't force them to take out the acres.
In fact, the logic of the military households is too simple: if you have returned thousands of households, you should also pay back your deputy thousands of households! After all, 10,000 acres of fertile land is not enough for everyone!
The whole thing was finally suppressed after Qin Yiming arrived, in fact, Qin Yiming didn't know that these two people also had good land in their hands, but now they knew.
"So bold, do you dare to surround the deputy thousand households? What do you want to do? ”
Qin Yiming shouted, he opposed such persecution, in his opinion, this was no different from rebellion, and those military households were also buried in their heads.
"My lord, this Qianhu and the Lord also have the tuntian of the guard!"
"Yes, my lord, you have paid it back, but they won't pay it back!"
Qin Yiming borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and turned his head to look at Ma Yang and the others.
"Lord Qin, as long as you can take back the acres of land from the Hu family, the Xu family, and Lord Lei, you can take back the thousands of acres of fertile land in our hands at will!"
In fact, Qin Yiming didn't want to force the two of them to take out the family money, but the situation at that time, everyone was difficult to ride a tiger, if Ma Yang and the two did not agree to return the fields, it is estimated that those military households would not give up, the two of them are shrewd, if you want me to take it out, you can take the big head back for me first, otherwise you don't blame us for being stingy, it is he Lord Qin who is incompetent!
Four or two thousand catties, just like that, this matter was spread out to Qin Yiming again.
However, the military households knew very well that it was almost impossible to get back the acres of land from the Hu family and the Xu family.