Chapter 750: Dividing the Fields
On the fifth day of the ninth lunar month, Zhong Feng stood on the grain drying floor in a small village on the outskirts of Seoul and presided over a ceremony for the Korean people to divide the fields. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After the destruction of Korea by Ri Sik this time, he carried out a series of reforms in Korea.
First of all, it is to change the six provinces of Korea to the six provinces of Korea, and to change the counties below the six provinces to counties. There are no longer more detailed administrative units below the county level.
Imitated in the counties of the Ming Dynasty, each county in the DPRK has a magistrate, a police station, a tax bureau, a water conservancy bureau, and a number of middle and primary schools. Outside of the jurisdiction of the magistrate, there is a court - and now with the expansion of the court, Li Zhi has changed the name of the court to the court. Also outside the jurisdiction of the county is a secret guard office and a county office of the discipline inspection team.
The presence of courts, secret guards and discipline inspection teams can effectively supervise local officials and prevent corruption.
These institutions need a large number of officials, and Li Zhi cannot be filled at once. Li Zhi's method was to first recruit suitable personnel from Tianjin and Shandong to fill the positions of prefects and county governors, and at the same time recruit full tax officers from the tax bureau and start collecting taxes first.
Li Zhi was very generous to the Han people under his rule, and hid his wealth from the people in every possible way. But for the North Koreans, Ri Sik does not have so much benevolence. The troops stationed in North Korea alone cost Li Zhi a lot of silver, and Li Zhi could not do business at a loss.
Ruling Korea faced the problem of language barriers. But the question is not too acute, because North Korea originally used Chinese as the written language. In order to communicate with the Korean people, the grassroots officials only need to find some literate Korean scholars to act as translators -- the officials write down what they want to say, and the Korean scholars read it out in Korean.
In the future, Li Zhi's plan is that North Koreans will speak the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.
In the future, the official language of North Korea was the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and Korean only existed as a dialect. In the future, the children of North Korea will go to school and learn all the official language of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of North Korea will speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty when they are looking for official affairs. If you can't speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty, you will be charged a "translation fee" of one dollar a year per person when collecting taxes, as the cost of the official to hire a translator.
If you learn the official language of the Ming Dynasty, this translation tax can be exempted.
At the same time, all weights and measures in North Korea were abolished, and Lee Sik's weights and measures were used in the future.
Of course, these are the details. The biggest change that Ri Sik made to Korea was to abolish the two classes of nobles and distribute their fields to the peasants.
This time, two classes of Korean nobles conspired to dispatch their families to attack Li Zhi. Since Li Zhi destroyed Korea, he naturally would not let go of the two classes of nobles. Li Zhi wanted to destroy this class economically and culturally.
If the two classes of aristocracy were a class that was helpful to the country's strength like the Japanese samurai, Li Zhi might not have destroyed such a class, but would have taken advantage of it for foreign expansion. However, the fact is that the two classes of nobles have no other ability than to turn Korea into a dim Confucian power, except to maintain the rule of the Yi family.
Culturally, it is necessary to counter the Confucian inheritance of the two classes of nobles through the establishment of the concept of public morality. Through the promotion of the concept of public morality, let the people of North Korea know that Confucianism is not something that benefits the country and the people, and abandon the cultural reverence for the two classes of nobles.
And then through the propaganda of some historical facts, it proves the incompetence of the two classes of nobles - for example, during the Wanli Korean War, most of the Korean people's resistance to the Japanese army came from civilians, and after the war, a large number of civilians became nobles by virtue of military merits.
Economically, Li Zhi wanted to give all the land of the two classes of nobles to the Korean peasants.
What Zhong Feng presided over today was such a field division conference.
The venue was very simple, just a large blackboard on a threshing floor. North Korean peasants, dressed in tattered summer coats and some shirtless, sit cross-legged on the floor of the barn.
A class of Tiger Army recruits stood next to the blackboard, and next to them were two classes of local nobles, who were also the landlords of the local people.
The North Korean peasants looked with winceing glances at the Tianjin soldiers who were presiding over the meeting. Obviously, the Koreans are still a little sad about the demise of the country, but these peasants who are digging in the soil do not dare to resist the tiger army armed to the teeth.
Zhong Feng looked at the Korean people sitting on the ground, snorted coldly, and said, "You little people can see clearly!" Jiang Renjian, the head of the Jiang family and the landlord of the two classes, sent his family to join the rebel army of the Li family in the previous dynasty and attacked Liaodong Province of Jinguogong. In the end, only three of Jiang Renjian's 23 family members returned to Jiangba Village alive, and Jiang Renjian led to the death of 20 people. ”
"All the Jiang family's land and real estate were deprived, and the land became the public land of the Duke of Jinguo, which was cultivated by the original tenant farmers on the field."
Standing nearby, the interpreter translated Zhong Feng's words in Korean.
When the peasants heard that the Tiger Ben Army was going to kill Jiang Renjian, they didn't have a big reaction. The fact that Jiang Renjian rebelled against the Tiger Ben Army is in everyone's eyes, and now that he has finally been executed, it is also his own sin.
But when he heard that the Jiang family's land was going to be distributed to the tenants as public land, the Korean people below immediately became in a commotion. They whispered, not knowing how the Tiger Army would distribute the fields. How much can each family get? If it is treated as public land, how much rent will the tenant farmer have to pay after dividing it?
Zhong Feng waved his hand to the squad leader next to him, took over the field account book in the local county office, and said coldly: "You little people have a good life, and now you have all become the people under the rule of the Duke of Jinguo!" The Jiang family has a total of 73 male and strong female tenant farmers over the age of 15, and 12 children of the Jiang family, each of whom has 13 acres of paddy fields. ”
Although the Korean Peninsula is at a high latitude, the main food of North Korea is rice. North Korea's rice yield is generally about one stone and two buckets per mu. In fact, a family of two can support a family of two people by planting more than 20 acres of rice.
Hearing that Zhong Feng had given each person thirteen acres of paddy fields, the North Korean farmers below whispered. They looked at Zhong Feng with wide eyes and watched what Zhong Feng said about how to pay the rent.
In the past, tenant farmers had to pay 50% of the harvest for rent, and the farmers were very poor and precarious.
Zhong Feng looked at the nervous farmers and said, "The rent of the public land is thirty and a half. ”
The translator hurriedly translated Zhong Feng's words.
Hearing this policy, the tenant farmers below suddenly became excited. These tenant farmers used to get only 50 percent of the harvest, but now it suddenly became 60 percent and a half, and their income increased by 30 percent at once.
With this new income, the tenant farmers were able to make a few new clothes and eat a few pieces of fat each year.
Life is beautiful in an instant.
The tenant farmers' faces were smiling with excitement. They looked at the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army who gave them land, and there was no trace of sadness in their eyes, and they were full of excitement about living a good life.
The last trace of sorrow in the hearts of the North Korean people for the loss of their country has also been diluted by the beautiful life in the future and cannot be found.
Zhong Feng looked at the excited people, snorted coldly and said, "You Korean country died at the hands of the Duke of Jinguo, you are really happy!" ”