Chapter 29: Transformation

(Today, Monday, ask the big guy for a few red tickets, please, please!) )

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, everyone was stunned for a while, digesting and digesting the various policies that were thrown out so suddenly, Yan Chongxi, as the first wise general under Xiao Tianjian, found the problem and asked Xiao Tianjian: "The general said that the method today is not bad, but at the moment, with our existing grain reserves, it is simply not enough to afford the food and drink of so many people, and now it is winter, and the local people have very little grain in their hands, even if we want to use money to buy grain locally, I am afraid it will be difficult to buy so much grain!" ”

Xiao Tianjian Ma Shan nodded and said, "Brother Yan is right, he will get to the crux of the problem at once!" That's why I didn't say anything about our generals just now! Whether we can gain a foothold here this winter depends largely on you generals!

Let's not forget, what we do! If we rely on our little stock of grain alone, even if we add the grain obtained from Xiao Butcher's hands, not to mention the food and drink for so many craftsmen and miners in the craftsman camp, even if it is only for the soldiers and generals of our Xingtian Army, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain it until before the Chinese New Year!

So when I was thinking about these things, I didn't plan to live on our little food reserves! You can think about it, here in the west of the mountain is known as the granary of Shanxi known as the Jiezhou area, although the year before last had been plundered by the various rebels, but as far as I know, the original rebels were only in a small number of boundaries to make trouble, and like Jiezhou, Wenxi, Jiangzhou, Jiangxian, Quwo, Yicheng and other places, there are many gentry, these big families have a lot of grain, this winter and next spring if we want to spend here safely, then we have to go out of the mountain to grab a way! Hehe!

So I'm afraid that during this time of the year, you won't be able to be idle! I'm all up to you guys to get me food back by! I don't care who you rob, but as long as it's not from the boundary of Yangcheng and it's not a poor people, whether you go out, whether it's grabbing food or kidnapping tickets, as long as you get me back enough food for us! ”

After hearing this, the generals immediately laughed, Xiao Tianjian said well, they were originally born from poles, although they acted differently from ordinary poles, but in essence, there is not much difference between them, they have developed to such a point for nearly a year, isn't it all about robbing rich people, so they have developed like this? As soon as Xiao Tianjian said just now that they were not allowed to rob the people in the local area, these guys fell into a strange circle of thinking, and actually forgot their own business, Xiao Tianjian said that they were not allowed to harm the people in the local area, but he didn't say that they were not allowed to go out of Yangcheng County to loot the rich people outside, and when Xiao Tianjian reminded them like this, everyone understood what they should do next.

I think that Xiao Changshan and Zhao Datong lived here at the beginning, didn't they mainly rely on robbing outside to maintain their local expenses, if they only relied on the little things of the people in the local area, it is estimated that they would not be able to raise so many minions under each of them.

When the Xingtian Army first arrived here, before they solved the problem of self-sufficiency, it was obvious that this livelihood could not be put away, at least until next year's summer harvest, they still had to rely on this method to survive.

"General! If we all go out to collect food, who will be responsible for guarding this place? After all, we only knocked out Zhao Datong and Xiao Butcher, the two big local poles, and there are still Feng Tiancheng and many small poles entrenched everywhere here, if we all go out to fetch food, we will not be able to take advantage of the weakness, in that case, wouldn't we be busy in vain? Zhao Erdonkey then asked another question.

"This matter is easy to do, we now add new soldiers, the available soldiers are basically close to about 2,000 troops, so many people cannot be sent out to fetch food, you are divided into two ways of men, all the way to stay in the local area, all the way out to fetch food, in short, we must maintain half of the troops here, take turns to go out, one can let the brothers take turns to rest, and the other is not to let the local poles take advantage of the weakness!

Of course, the people who stay at home will not all be idle, Shi Ran's scout team is also divided into two parts for the time being, one part is you and Situ and the brothers who go out to collect food, and provide information for our food team outside, and the remaining part of the scouts will be handed over to Li Lingfeng to operate locally, find out the surrounding forces as soon as possible, and then tell them that either they will leave this place and find another way out, or they will simply join us and accept the reorganization! Otherwise! Hum! Do you think I'm going to keep them here and cause trouble? ”

Everyone immediately understood that Xiao Tianjian was going to uproot all kinds of local pole forces and completely control the area of Yangcheng County, it seemed that the comfortable life of Feng Tiancheng and those small poles was coming to an end!

When he saw that everyone had no doubts, Xiao Tianjian continued: "You have followed me Xiao all the way to come here, and I Xiao have nothing to repay the brothers!"

Since the formation of the Xingtian Army, the brothers have followed me from birth to death, and in the past, all I wanted was to have food to eat and be able to live, but this is not the only way to do it, and now the big guys are all bachelors, which is good to say, we will live here in the future, and the big guys will gradually have family affairs, and we can't just care about everyone's belly!

Therefore, I plan to write down 20 acres of fertile land in the name of each brother in the army, and when the conditions are ripe in the future, we will also have a larger territory, and after the big guys have wives, we will allocate them to the brothers, so that the brothers will have a family and land, and they will no longer be poor boys! I remember that Mencius has clouds, those who have constant birth have perseverance, and people who have no permanent birth have no perseverance, the big guy follows me to try to live better, as long as everyone works hard, I Xiao will never treat the brothers badly! ”

After listening to the generals, they were all overjoyed, to be honest, when Xiao Tianjian wanted to divide the land to the local landless people just now, some people had a sour feeling in their hearts, most of them were also farmers, and their desire for land was also very strong. Now they have finally found a place to settle, and seeing that they have land, they have to share it all with the people, but they have no share, and it is difficult to guarantee that some soldiers will not have opinions.

And now that Xiao Tianjian said this, it is obvious that they have already considered the generals of the Xingtian Army, so they have nothing to worry about, it seems that the days of following Xiao Tianjian in the future will indeed have a head, and sooner or later they will also get a share of the land and start a family, which Xiao Tianjian's words have given everyone hope again.

Of course, there is also a reason why Xiao Tianjian does not divide the land among his subordinates now, these soldiers and generals under him are basically bachelors, once the land is distributed to them, they are all busy taking care of their own fields, who will follow him out to kill!

Therefore, at present, he can't give these generals any fields for them to cultivate, only when he occupies more territory and controls more subjects, enough for him to select soldiers from the people, he can divide the fields among these generals, and then he doesn't have to worry about the problem of no soldiers available, only at that time, he can take troops from the people and build a stronger army.

But at the moment, he still has to rely on the brothers at hand to do things for him, and he still won't pay the military salary for the time being, if these guys want to marry a wife and have children here, then they can only rely on military merits to get a bounty, and the first to throw out this promise is to stabilize the military morale of his subordinates, and each person tentatively approves twenty acres of fertile land, which is far more than the treatment of ordinary people, although it is still just a blank check at the moment, but it also reassures the soldiers and generals, at least this has given them a head, Their days will definitely get better and better in the future.

Seeing the smiling faces of his generals one by one, Xiao Tianjian was relieved and began to assign tasks.

According to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, the Xingtian army soldiers were temporarily divided into two teams, one team was temporarily led by Yan Chongxi, accompanied by Zhao Erdonkey and Li Xuanzhu, and assigned them 600 soldiers, 400 recruits, and 400 soldiers to them.

Feng Gouzi, Luo Li, Liu Bao and others will stay behind and stay in the local area, responsible for leveling the poles of various small units in the vicinity, and also responsible for maintaining the division of the fields and providing protection for the newly established artisan camp.

The division of the field was entrusted to Fu Deming, and Luo Yingjie and more than a dozen scribes who were literate and able to write and calculate in the Xingtian Army assisted in the local division of the land and the registration of the population.

The newly established craftsman battalion was handed over to Zhang Chao to be responsible, Zhang Chao was originally the chief officer of the barracks, he had been supervising the craftsmen with the army, so this matter was handed over to him to be responsible, the location of the craftsman camp was located in the original Zhao Datong village in Dongye Town, although it had been looted by Feng Tiancheng and set fire to it once, but the infrastructure was still relatively sound, and there was a tributary that flowed to the local Python River, and it was relatively close to several iron ore mines and coal mines in Dongye Town. There is a geographical advantage to setting up a craft camp there.