Chapter 66: Clearing the Wasteland

What kind of yamen is this, the broken courtyard wall, only a pile of dirt slopes remains, which is not as big as the role of the fence.

The gate has rotted, and the copywriter Sashi was careful when he opened the door, for fear that he would use too much force and crush the door.

The walls of the hall are cracked, the roof seems to be full of skylights, and the sunlight shines into the hall to form pillars of light, completely without the effect of sheltering from the wind and rain.

"You live here?" Huangfu Li asked, looking at the copywriter Zuo Shi nodded, the dignified court officials, leading the fighting food and Zuo Shi of Yuefeng Eleventh Hu and Eight Hu, living in such a place, his heart was mixed: "You have worked hard!" Follow Cao Xian Temple in the future, everything will change! ”

The three Sashi were hopeless in their hearts and coped with a few nice words.

The county government can't move in, the entire county needs to be replanned and rebuilt, and the Cao army can't even enter the city, so they cut down trees outside the city to build fence walls, set up a large camp, and the defense is much stronger than the county seat.

Hu Chi'er was buried outside Zhenyang City, and Cao "sex" was in the temple of Zhenyang City, and built a Heroic Shrine for him alone, and cut off the heads of dozens of people in ambush and placed them on the offering table as sacrifices.

The officials and Haoqiang of Zhenyang townships and pavilions who came to visit were frightened by these mutilated heads.

During the memorial to Hu Chi'er, the tyrannical Cao "sex" was not easy to provoke at first glance, and no one in Zhenyang dared to touch his moldy head, and the 30,000 army quickly took over the important land in Zhenyang County by means of deterrence, and began to build a large number of buildings.

The fleet returned again, and a few days later it brought 50,000 soldiers, and then went again, except for leaving 10,000 young and strong soldiers, continuing to cultivate the fields reclaimed by the Cao family in Jiangxia County, purchasing wasteland, and establishing the Cao family manor, the rest all moved to Zhenyang.

The 100,000 troops in the north will be transferred south to fill the gap in the tuntian area of Jiangxia County.

In these Cao family manors in Jiangxia, perennial recruits broken households, displaced people, refugees, etc. to form new garrisons, and recruits young and strong people as the Cao army.

The same conscription offices were set up along the Yangtze River, along the coasts of Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou.

The Hydra Eight Banner Army was established, and the corresponding flag field system was also implemented.

Cao Jun's regular army military field system also began to be realized, those who became regular soldiers were given 30 acres of military land, auxiliary soldiers were given 5 acres of military land, and each of the soldiers, regardless of men, women, old and young, was given 1 mu of military land, and at the same time, 2 acres of official rented land of 10 taxes and 3 were provided.

Above the regular soldiers, the meritorious ones are awarded the dukes, the military field is changed to the jue field, and the jue field is awarded 100 acres at the beginning, and then the meritorious service is added.

Gongshi is a kind of aristocratic symbol that is one level higher than the children of the Eight Banners, but there are no three iron laws like the children of the Eight Banners.

There is no need to send one soldier per household, and if there are any government-supported business projects, they will also give priority to cooperating with these princes, and they can intermarry with anyone, and the children born can be included in the family tree.

Regardless of whether it is a duke field, a regular soldier, an auxiliary soldier, or a military field, all those who have been in the army for ten years are privately owned.

This point cannot be enjoyed by the Eight Banners Army, and the Eight Banners Banner Field must be used for generations, and can only be leased, not traded.

All private fields, jue, military, and banner fields are only subject to a positive tax, and all Cao military districts do not collect a field tax other than the regular tax.

Cao's regular army has expanded to 110,000 people, including 80,000 army and 30,000 naval divisions, which is 3.3 million mu of military land.

In addition to the nearly 450,000 cantonment soldiers, another 1.35 million mu of tuntian fields will be added.

There are not many Hydra Eight Banners, only more than 700 people, and the flag fields have also been allocated and implemented.

Of the nearly 5 million mu of military land and tuntian, 2 million mu of Cao's "sex" arrangement is in Zhenyang County.

Zhenyang is still in a poor and remote area, there is not much farmland, and there are owners, but there are many mountains and forests and wasteland.

Under the deterrence of more than 100,000 troops, and in the name of the official, the local heroes did not dare to occupy the ownerless mountains and forests and wasteland.

More than 100,000 garrison soldiers came all of a sudden, and there are still 100,000 garrison soldiers to come over after the year, and the first place to live must be solved, and the military fields and tuntian fields must also take advantage of the coming of winter to seize the time to reclaim them before spring ploughing.

The garrison of the brigade is based on battalions and qu units, and selects the gentle mountains and forests and wasteland on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, Lingqu, and Pearl River tributaries, supplemented by ordinary roads and waterways.

A wide fire barrier was opened, and the highest-value trees were mined, and then the low-value trees and jungles were left on fire.

After the ground is burned to the ground, a bamboo house or wooden house is built in the selected location, a fence is built, and a village is established.

Then the soldiers stepped forward, dug out one pit after another, piled up the ashes of plants and trees and the residue that had not been burned clean, piled up in the pits, placed reed straw pillars in the ditch to facilitate ventilation, and then splashed thin horse manure, human "urine" and dung mixed "liquid" and 5% lime and water, and then sealed a layer of soil, according to the method provided by Cao "Xing", to make a pile of fertilizer that did not exist in this era.

With flat land and stacked fertilizer, the grain output will be greatly increased, and then the cultivated cattle and ploughing horses that Cao Jun has purchased, raised, and multiplied all year round will be pulled out and used to reclaim the fields.

In the spring of the following year, the land will be planted with large legume crops, and in the next year, various coarse grains will be planted, and after three years of cultivation and fertilization, it will become an acre of rice fields.

Each village is composed of fifty soldiers, one mile, set up Lizheng, Tunbing Dubo, every five to fifteen villages, about 500 households, will circle a larger piece of wasteland for burning, build a pavilion on this burned land, set up a pavilion chief, a number of soldiers, and a number of officials.

Every five to fifteen pavilions, about 5,000 households, build a township, set up three elders, garrison soldiers, and a number of small officials.

In Zhenyang County, fires continue day and night, and enough land has been reclaimed for tuntian.

Trees of low value are also a resource, and the fire stopped after the land met the required amount of military land and tuntian.

The method of clearing the land has changed to cutting down all the trees, processing them into wood, charcoal, and firewood, and then burning the wasteland where only shrubs and thorns remain.

With abundant timber, a large number of brick kiln factories, ceramic clay pot kiln factories, and charcoal kiln factories were set up in the emerging township pavilions, and docks were established on the banks of the Xiangjiang River, Lingqu, and Pearl River tributaries to produce flat-land fishing boats, walkers, Mengchong, and fighting boats.

Zhenyang has abundant forest resources, and there are many kinds of high-quality timber of various vintages, but the tributaries of the Xiangjiang River and the Pearl River within Zhenyang's jurisdiction belong to the upper reaches.

Since the end of the war between Qin and Baiyue and Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, this section of the river, which was already small and close to the birthplace, lost its military value, and the riverbed lacked cleaning for many years, and it was no longer passable for large ships, and in some places even Mengchong could not pass.