Chapter Eighty-Six: Mountain Rain is Coming
Mo Li asked people to write a proclamation for the people, which roughly means that the original Lingchuan County ordered Han Chong to expropriate and extort money for many years, fish and flesh the people, fill his own pockets, and bend the law for bribes, etc., and now he has been driven away by the Fuxing Army, everyone can rest assured that they can continue to produce and live, and they no longer have to worry about being exploited, and the Fuxing Army will protect everyone's lives and property.
In addition, since the land deeds and other field files of the government were accidentally burned in a fire during the siege of the city, all the people are now requested to bring their own land deeds to the county government within half a month to re-register them.
In fact, this kind of policy is tantamount to land reform in disguise, and it will inevitably be resisted by the local landlords, large and small, and if it is implemented by the serious 800 government governments, of course, it will not work.
But now it is the Chinese Revival Army that implements this policy, which is a "bandit" in the eyes of others, and now the largest landlord, Haoqiang Han Chong, has already fled, and the remaining small landlords have no power to stir up trouble at all, and the powerful strength of the Revival Army is there, who dares to disagree?
Within 10 days, the field measurement work in Lingchuan basically came to an end, and as expected, almost all landlords had the phenomenon of concealing and omitting to report the land.
These lands, which belong to the name of the Xinlingchuan County Ya, were planned by Moli and leased to those who had fled.
In this era, the rent paid by hired farmers to landlords was usually 30 to 40 percent, and some were even as high as 60 percent, but Moli stipulated that all disaster victims who rented land under the name of the new county government were exempt from rent in the first year, and 10% of the rent was collected every year from the second year. In addition, it also provides free grain seeds and imparts advanced experience.
As soon as the news came out, the victims were boiling. It's a pie-in-the-sky thing! Countless victims flocked to ask for land to be planted in the new county. This can make those big and small landlords so angry that they can't eat, this is all their land! But there is no way, who said that he did not register so much land on the land deed in order to evade taxes!
And this also forced the landlords to lower the rent for the tenants to cultivate, otherwise the tenants would all run to rent the fields of the county government, who would come to cultivate for them!
However, a new problem has emerged, that is, there are too many victims, and the land of the new county government is not enough for them to cultivate, and at least nearly half of the victims have not been allocated fields.
At this time, it was the beginning of the lunar month, and the victims had not yet reached the time to cultivate, so they still had some leisure. So Moli asked people to divide the ownerless barren mountains outside the city into official fields, and organized the victims to open up the wasteland and make land, and work for relief.
This not only prevents the victims from doing nothing and is easy to make trouble, but also prevents them from breeding the idea of getting something for nothing, I will give you food, you help me open up the wasteland, it is very fair, and there is no mercy and charity.
As for the fields that have been cleared, Moli plans to make them into officially owned farms, and then hire the victims to cultivate them, which is equivalent to working long hours.
The people live on food, and the victims have fields to cultivate, and they have the hope of living, so naturally they will not cause trouble.
Wishes are beautiful, but reality is often cruel.
On the twelfth day of the twelfth month, the news finally came that the imperial court sent Cao Wenzhao, the deputy general of Yansui, as the commander-in-chief, Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, as the supervising army, and Lin Jianyue as the deputy commander of the Xianwu battalion of the Beijing camp, commanding more than 20,000 people of Cao Wenzhao's department, plus more than 10,000 men and horses of the Beijing camp Lin Jianyue's department, a total of 30,000 troops are rushing towards Lingchuan City, preparing to exterminate the revival army of Heiyunzhai in one fell swoop.
As soon as the officers and soldiers came, they had to stop the work of clearing the wasteland and withdraw to Lingchuan City with all their strength to prepare for the battle. However, fortunately, the work of clearing the wasteland has been completed six or seven times out of ten, and I received a report from the prospecting horse, saying that the imperial army had reached Lin County, Zhangde Prefecture, one hundred and eighty miles away.
Mo Li immediately ordered all the victims who participated in the reclamation to withdraw to Lingchuan City, and organized the young Zhuang among them to participate in the defense of the city as a reserve auxiliary force.
Because the Renaissance Army distributed land to the victims of the disaster and provided them with free grain and a series of other measures to benefit the people, it enjoyed a high prestige among the victims, and in addition, the Renaissance Army had a neat appearance, advanced equipment, strict military discipline, and no offense against the people, and such an army was unique in the country.
More importantly, the food of the soldiers of the Ba'ath Army was better than that of ordinary petty officials and small landowners, so many young and middle-aged people enthusiastically asked to join the Ba'ath Army.
Most of the victims are from Shaanxi, and the men on the Loess Plateau are generally more affectionate, and the Renaissance Army treats them well, gives them food, and divides fields for them to cultivate, which makes them all grateful to the Renaissance Army.
In just half a month, the Revival Army recruited more than 2,000 young and strong men into the army, bringing the number of troops to 6,000.
Of course, if these newly recruited young men want to form combat effectiveness, they must go through a series of intensive training, especially in terms of military discipline and military regulations, which must be strictly demanded, otherwise they will simply be a rabble, which will be harmful and useless.
When he attacked Lingchuan City, Mo Li asked He Zhendong, Wei Hong, Liang Peijun, Yun Han and others to lead a thousand men and horses to stay in Heiyun Village, and then take his wife and Yuan Chengzhi to the city after the situation stabilized. This is also to leave a partial division in Heiyun Village, so as not to have a reserve force if something happens in Lingchuan City.
Later, after capturing Lingchuan City, he was busy implementing land reform, recruiting troops, stabilizing order, etc., and he had no time to pick up Yuan Chengzhi's mother and son, and he received the news that the imperial army was coming, so he couldn't let Yuan Chengzhi's mother and son come to Lingchuan for adventure.
Linn County. Cao Wenzhao rushed to the Beijing camp and commanded Lin Jianyue and the eunuch Gao Qiqian to discuss with the two how to exterminate the bandits in Lingchuan City.
Jingying, set up at the beginning of Hongwu, is subordinate to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. In the thirteenth year (1380), it was subordinated to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. After Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, he set up the Beijing Division and the Nanjing Capital Camp, and the regulations were gradually perfected.
The Jingshi Jingying is also known as the three major battalions, including the five military battalions, the three thousand battalions and the Shenji battalion. The five military camps were divided into the middle army, the left and right sentry and the left and right sentry. In addition to the sergeants from the Beijing Division, the sergeants were also transferred to the Central Capital Guards Division and the Shandong, Henan, and Daning Divisions and Guards to take turns to guard and train in the Beijing Division, which was called the squad army.
When the three battalions were first established, they were quite combat-effective. The main force was exhausted in the civil engineering change. During the Jingtai period, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, reformed the establishment of the Beijing battalion and selected 100,000 elites from the three major battalions. It is divided into ten battalions for regimental training in case of emergency call, and is called the ten-regiment battalion.
The 10th regiment battalion is commanded by a general military officer, and the superintendent is a minister, a military secretary or a capital imperial historian as the commander. Each battalion is divided into governors, trumpet officers, commanders, commanders, team leaders, battalion and other officers. Later, it was added to the 12th regiment battalion, and the Xianwu battalion led by Lin Jianyue was one of the battalions.
In the pre-Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing camp was still very strong in combat effectiveness, and it was one of the main forces in the Ming army camp.
Later, due to the corruption of the government and the corruption of the battalion commanders, the combat effectiveness of the Beijing battalion deteriorated. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), the peasant army led by Li Zicheng entered Juyong Pass, to Shahe, and the Beijing army went out of the palace. The Beijing army was so weak that it died in the Ming Dynasty.
Cao Wenzhao saw Gao Qiqian and Lin Jianyue, and took the initiative to step forward and salute: "The last general has seen Gao Gonggong, and his father-in-law has worked hard all the way. ”
Gao Qiqian bowed slightly, and said with a smile on his face: "Where, General Cao is polite, it is our family's blessing and duty to be able to share the worries of the Son of Heaven, so why talk about hard work." ”
Cao Wenzhao nodded, and arched his hand towards Lin Jianyue and said, "This is Lord Lin, right?" The last general is courteous here. "At this time, although the Beijing battalion soldiers did not have much combat effectiveness, because they had lived in Beijing for a long time, they often boasted of being the Son of Heaven's own army, but that arrogance was full of pride, and it was a polite self-humility of Cao Wenzhao.
It stands to reason that Cao Wenzhao, as the commander of this army of bandits, is also a military attache from the second rank, and Lin Jianyue is only commanded from the Beijing camp and Xianwu camp of the third rank, and he is his deputy, so Lin Jianyue should also be humble.
But as soon as Lin Jianyue opened his mouth at this moment, he spoke in a tone as if he was the boss, and he said lightly: "General Cao, it is said that the bandits of Heiyunzhai have captured Lingchuan City half a month ago, and it seems that Ling's nephew is also among them, how do you think we should march into the army?" ”