Guan Feng and Ma Jinzhong led hundreds of people towards the north city gate, running with Han Chong's heels.

However, due to the chaos along the way, and the fact that he was not very familiar with the terrain and roads of Lingchuan City, by the time Guan Feng and Ma Jinzhong arrived at the North City Gate, Han Chong had already run away.

After chasing for nearly ten miles, Ma Jinzhong asked, "Commander Guan, what should we do?" Do you want to chase it? ”

Guan Feng thought for a moment and said: "Now that Lingchuan City is in chaos, adults don't know what to do, let's go back and control Lingchuan City first." Anyway, it doesn't matter if you leave this dog county order, don't let the adults have any accidents. ”

Guan Feng has followed Mo Li for the longest time, and he knows that Mo Li admires Cao Bianjiao very much, and Cao Bianjiao doesn't want to have too much enmity with the government, so it may not be a good thing for Han Chong, the bastard, to go, at least he doesn't have to waste food to feed him.

"Commander Guan is right! That's what I'm thinking, go! Return! Ma Jinzhong said with a smile.

At that moment, both of them turned their horses' heads and ordered the whole army to return to Lingchuan.

In Lingchuan City, Mo Li, Du Geng and others quickly took control of the key points in the city, pacified the people in the city, and restored order. Because Cheng Qingzhu set the fire in a planned way, the fire did not spread much, so the fire at the south city gate was quickly extinguished.

The people in the city were frightened at first, and they wanted to follow Han Chong to the north gate to escape, but they were guarded by Guan Feng and Ma Jinzhong, and they couldn't leave the city.

Later, when I saw that the discipline of the Fuxing Army was strict, it didn't look like a bandit at all, and even more official than the official army, everyone gradually felt at ease.

Mo Li brought people to the county office, and the officials and officials here almost ran away, because as soon as Han Chong ran, they immediately fell and scattered, and they also ran away. However, not many escaped, except for some of Han Chong's henchmen and cronies, the others were basically captured by the Renaissance Army. These officials, small officials, and people who didn't run away, Mo Li didn't embarrass them much, and all of them were interrogated one by one, but if they didn't have any bad deeds and didn't do anything bad that people and gods were angry about, let them continue to stay in office, what should they do, after all, a huge county town also needs someone to manage it.

However, how to manage it in the future, it will be carried out according to the renaissance army's own set of guidelines, if you are honest and willing to work hard, your salary will be paid as usual, and your life will be as good as it gets, but if you are disobedient or cheating and slippery, I'm sorry, go out of the gate and go to the left, and fall in love with wherever you go.

Han Chong will enjoy this guy, and he will cultivate the county government to be magnificent, and it is a bit reluctant to say that it is magnificent, but in this troubled era, this Lingchuan county government is already very good. Especially the backyard, which is his own private territory, where he usually lives in the middle, and it is even more comfortable and stylish.

And because Han Chong fled in a hurry, many small and soft items didn't have time to take away, so these good things were naturally going to be confiscated.

In the next whole day, the Fuxing Army was busy restoring order in Lingchuan City, cleaning up all personnel and affairs of the Yamen, and more importantly, sending troops to defend the north and south city gates, and strictly preventing the imperial court from sending troops to suppress them.

Mo Li and Du Geng, Cheng Qingzhu, Cao Bianjiao and others discussed how to manage the affairs of Lingchuan City in the county government next.

Du Geng believes that although Lingchuan City has been taken, due to the increasing number of refugees from the north recently, it is necessary to find a way to resettle it, otherwise there will be many victims, the people's will will be unstable, and it is easy to cause chaos.

Mo Li nodded and said, "The affairs of the disaster victims are very important, if we want to grow, we must recruit some young people from the refugees to enrich and expand the army, so that we can have the strength to fight against the Tartars in the future." However, only a small number of the victims are young and strong, and the rest of the old and weak women and children have to find a way to resettle them. ”

Cheng Qingzhu pondered for a while and said: "There is one more thing, I asked just now, this Han Chong has been rampant in Lingchuan for many years, and he has turned forty percent of Lingchuan's fields into his private property, which is really hateful!" But he still has the title deed in his hand, and I don't know how he got it. ”

Mo Li thought for a while and said: "This matter is easy to do, we only need to announce that the field registration files of each township and village have been burned or lost due to the war, and ask the people of each township and village to take their own land deeds to the county government office within ten days to re-register;

If you can't get the land deed, you have no basis for anything, and we will not recognize the land property it owns on behalf of the government, and if you can take out the land deed, you can measure the number of acres on the land deed, and if there is any surplus, you can use it to distribute it to the refugees who have suffered from the disaster. ”

Mo Li's trick seems simple, but it is actually very mysterious. All of a sudden, everyone had a feeling of being open, doing this is business, although it seems a little impersonal, but it is better than justice.

Without the title deed document as evidence, the land ownership will not be recognized, which is actually only secondary, and the government will not get a lot of land from it.

Because the title deed is usually the most hidden thing in a family, and for bandits, this thing is useless, just a piece of waste paper, no one deliberately searches for this thing, as long as there are still people, the title deed is usually unlikely to be lost.

On the contrary, the main thing is to have the land deed, and return the landlord's land according to the actual amount on the land deed, which is the essence of Moli's plan.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the local gentry and wealthy households have annexed a large number of land, and in order to evade taxes, tricks, false declarations and other means have emerged in an endless stream, and the tax land registered by the government has become less and less, and most of the land has disappeared inexplicably in the treacherous reversal again and again.

Of course, it is impossible for these lands to really disappear, but there is no record in the official register, and if there is no record in the official register, then the original owner will inevitably not be able to produce a valid title deed.

Mo Liyi's trick is equivalent to clearing the land again, but this is much simpler than the general sense of Qingzhang land, because only a small part of the land with a title deed is needed, and most of the "black fields" without a title deed are directly classified as terra nullius.

These "borderless lands" naturally became the property of the government, and only needed to be led and supervised by the officials of the new county, and the disaster victims who formed the Baojia model were distributed to cultivate them according to their capitation.

In this way, the landlords who had falsely reported the most in the past suffered the greatest losses, which was tantamount to lifting a stone and shooting themselves in the foot.

Mo Li said: "In the past two years, there have been more and more famines, with the reputation of our revival army, and then there will be more and more victims who come to Lingchuan, for the disaster victims, in addition to giving food so that they will not starve to death, more importantly, let them have a hope for the future, this hope is the land!" ”

"Land?" Cao Bianjiao was thoughtful.

Mo Li nodded and said: "Yes, land is undoubtedly the greatest hope for the common people!" With hope, no matter how difficult life is, the common people can often survive it, and they will not take risks to gather people to riot, so that we can stand more firmly on the base of Lingchuan. ”