Chapter 202 From the thief to the dragon (asking for a monthly pass)

Liu Chang nodded again and again, and was quite satisfied with the five hundred shells that came with the cannon, but Duncan shouted over there: "Why are there no shrapnels?" Mr. De Mons, I think these 500 shells should be shrapnels! ”

Duncan was introduced to Liu Chang by Demmons, but now that he shows his weight, Duncan has already said to Liu Chang: "Your Excellency, among all the shells, the shrapnel is the most powerful, whether it is a grenade or a shotgun, it has great limitations!" ”

Only then did Liu Chang remember that this shrapnel combines the advantages of a grenade and a shotgun, and it can be said that it is almost the same as a modern artillery shell, so he immediately asked: "Your Excellency De Mons, I want to ask, can you buy a shrappel for a twelve-pound mountain howitzer?" ”

Saying this, Demons could only tell the truth: "The concession authorities control the flow of shrapnels, but I will do everything possible to buy shrapnel for you!" ”

He quickly tried to change the subject: "Other than that......"

It's just that Duncan quarreled with Zena first: "Your Excellency Duncan, don't say it so easily, we make solid bullets very easily, but grenades and shotguns are different!" ”

Duncan was already shirtless and quarreled: "Grenades and shotguns are very easy, shotguns are similar to those used for mountain splitting, grenades are just a time fuse......"

He still has his MBO in mind, and Liu Chang has already discussed the next step with De Mons: "What else artillery?" ”

"There are also six nine-pounder field guns, which are the standard equipment of the British Army, and in addition, I have prepared a super surprise ......."

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Since Liu Chang left Huangyan County, the system operation of the entire Huangyan County has returned to its original appearance, and Shi Tinglan, also known as Shi Niangniang, has taken over the power of the entire Huangyan County, and only she can make the final decision on major issues.

It's just that compared with before, Shi Tinglan has won the support of the entire Jintang Second Company, not to mention, and there is Yang Changmei, an assistant in charge of finance in Hongjun, so her weight is heavier.

Now Gao Liangcai and Feng Sixian, a county in the government, have come to ask her how to collect this year's busy work.

Although nominally it was levied from February to May, it was actually levied from April after the wheat was ripe, and Shi Tinglan also told them the method of the kingdom of heaven: "Our kingdom of heaven collects grain directly from the tenants, and the total harvest is ten points, and the kingdom of heaven gets four points of rations, the tenants get three points of harvest, and Tian Dong gets three points of harvest." ”

This old method worked well in the areas controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the tenant farmers enthusiastically paid rent, while the landlords scolded them bitterly, and even rebelled repeatedly, because of this proportion.

"Forty percent? Rations are too much! Gao Liangcai served as the magistrate of many counties, and first thought of this question: "Forty percent, the dynasty has taken too much!" ”

He has become accustomed to using the dynasty to describe Liu Chang's newly established regime, although this regime has not officially adopted its own national name and regulations, he told Shi Tinglan: "The land rent has always been thirty taxes one, or fifteen taxes one, at least as much as one into five!" ”

What he meant was that the nominal land levy levied by the state was not very high, basically maintained at 3 to 7 percent, at least only 15 percent, and of course the overt and covert operations of local officials would at least double this percentage. But the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom directly took 40 percent, which can be said to be surprisingly high in all dynasties.

"But this method can directly control the grain, and the tenant farmers are vying to pay for the grain!"

This point of virtue and politics is also one of the reasons why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can maintain for more than ten years, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took away forty percent of the soldiers' rations, and the landlords took away thirty percent of the harvest, the tenant farmers still enthusiastically paid the grain, which can only explain one fact. …,

That is, the oppression of the tenant farmers in this era has far exceeded 70 percent, and the actual income of the tenant farmers is less than 30 percent, although the tenant farmers are nominally only required to pay 60 to 70 percent of the harvest, but there are often many additional expenditures, and the result is only about 20 percent of the harvest.

However, this system obviously offended the landlord class who controlled the locality, so Feng Sixian also said: "Tian Dong gets 30 percent, which is less, if Tian Dong gets 40 percent, the national dynasty conscripts 30 percent of the food for virtue and politics!" ”

Yang Changmei objected: "Even if Tian Dong gets forty percent of the grain, but what they originally gained is far more than that, is it because they have lost less to support us?" I don't think it's better to give this grain to the tenant farmers! ”

Gao Liangcai said: "Even if the levy of three percent of the military food is also high, but the army of food and salary is all in the field, Huangyan Taiping is the essence of the six counties of Taizhou, even if the levy of two percent of the military food is enough to support the army and township officials, but the remaining three counties will not be!" ”

He didn't mention Linhai County, Linhai County is also exempt from leviing 20% of grain, but the three counties of Ninghai, Xianju and Tiantai are not rich places, and he made a little statistics on the grain production of each county and said: "If there are township officials and garrison soldiers, then the whole Taiwan needs to collect grain, and there will be hundreds of thousands of stones!" ”

Feng Sixian also hesitated: "This year is a good year for Huangyan, but now is the time to soothe people's hearts, and there can be no more Su Jingrong!" ”

To appease the people's hearts, it is natural to control the degree of state exploitation to a certain scale, especially since the Huangyan incident has just gone through a military incident, and it is especially necessary to pay attention to appeasing the people's hearts and minds, so as not to provoke changes among the people.

Whether it was a rebellion in the landlord's regimental training or a tenant farmer's uprising, it was not something that Liu Chang and the entire Hong Army were willing to encounter, so Yang Changmei said: "Why don't we first determine the establishment of our Hong Army and the battalions and township officials in each county, and then estimate the number of grain to be levied!" ”

"That's a good idea!" Feng Sixian immediately praised: "Guan Jian is how many troops our Rainbow Army is scheduled to have, we have to wait for the inspection point to come back from the rock!" ”

"In addition, if you adopt Ye Niangzi's water master, I'm afraid there will be a lot of expenses!" Yang Changmei is in charge of finances, so she naturally knows that this water master has a huge spending: "I have to test Ye Niangzi's water master!" ”

"You can start by calculating a rough number!" Shi Tinglan had already thought of it: "In the short term, it will be roughly seven battalions, two regiments, and there can be some independent companies, is it wrong to estimate according to ten battalions?" ”

"Almost!" Over there, Yang Changmei had already replied: "Although the team will be expanded in the future, the number of people is at most ten battalions, and it may only be as many as nine battalions!" ”

"We have a battalion of the Rainbow Army, and there is a difference in strength!" Shi Tinglan continued: "More than five hundred, less than four hundred, for the time being, four hundred and fifty, right?" ”

"The cavalry battalion can't be counted like that!" Next to Feng Sixian said: "Raising horses costs more food......

"In that case, the cavalry battalion will have fewer men and horses, at most 5,000 soldiers, and the township officials will have ......"

Just as he was talking, someone over there was already shouting: "I've seen Shi Niangniang, I've seen Yang Niangniang, I've seen Gaozhi Mansion, I've seen Feng Zhixian!" ”

It was Fu Wendao who spoke, the platoon commander of the second company of Jintang who broke out from Huangyan on horseback to report the news, Shi Tinglan felt cordial when he saw that it was him: "Platoon Commander Fu, why are you!" ”

Fu Wendao said with a smile: "Someone asked to see the Kochi Mansion and Shi Niangniang. ”

"Who is it?"

Fu Wendao replied: "The person who came wore a cloak and wrapped his body, and he refused to say the way, but the way must be very big, if it was an ordinary cat or dog, I wouldn't let him come to see the two mothers and the Kochi Mansion!" ”

Feng Sixian was a little displeased, Fu Wendao's words excluded him, but he also knew that Fu Wendao was this character, so he just asked: "How can a big method?" "...," was personally brought by the three volunteer leaders in the county! Fu Wendao said: "I just don't want to tell the origin of this person!" ”

Now the so-called "righteous bravery" is those who have followed Liu Chang to beat Chen Shizhong's regimental training team, since they have already beaten Chen Shizhong, they can be regarded as embarking on the road of anti-Qing Dynasty, so Liu Chang decided to take this as their vote, major publicity, and the name of righteousness and bravery.

It's just that there are only a few such righteous braves in Huangyan County, and this person can actually be recommended by the leaders of the three righteous bravery, and he must be a very important person.

Therefore, Shi Tinglan had already knocked on the coffee table and said, "Platoon Leader Fu, I'm sorry for you!" ”

"Good!" Fu Wendao replied: "I'll go over and search my body, don't let him carry any weapons in front of the two mothers!" ”

Waiting for the Fu platoon commander to retreat, Gao Zhifu praised it: "This Fu Wendao, it is said that he made a miracle in this Huangyan offensive and defensive battle, why is he still the platoon commander?" ”

Shi Tinglan smiled: "The inspection has already booked him to be the company commander, but it has not been made public yet." ”

However, Feng Sixian's face was a little ugly, and the more he said that Fu Wendao handled it properly and made a contribution to the defense of Huangyan, it was equivalent to saying that there was a problem with his Feng Sixian's disposal.

But after glancing at Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei, he didn't dare to say anything, so he quickly shifted the question: "How is the situation in Linhai City now?" ”

"How's that, it's still the same!" Shi Tinglan had already heard clearly: "The army of my heavenly kingdom has entered Zhejiang, and the demon heads are terrified, and now they dare not send the demons to Taizhou, so that there will be no reinforcements overseas, and there will be no food and salary inside, I heard that Zhang Demon Head is now going to make a trick of hanging every day!" ”

"Governor Zhang, I know best!" Gao Liangcai immediately said: "His ability to make money is better than mine, but his determination to die calmly is not as good as mine!" ”

Gao Liangcai has already become a thief, which shows that he is by no means a person who calmly goes to death, this Zhang Yuzao is not as good as him in this regard, Shi Tinglan already understands what is going on with him making a fuss about hanging: "Then does he have the determination to abandon the city and leave?" ”

"I'm more determined than I am in this regard!" Gao Liangcai teased his former boss: "Just abandoning the city and leaving, it's still a dead end!" ”

As he was talking, Fu Wendao had already brought people in, but this person threw the cloak outside, revealing the tonic clothes inside, and knelt on the ground, first kneeling Gao Liangcai: "The sinners have seen the Kozhi Mansion!" ”

Gao Liangcai was taken aback, and his mouth couldn't close anymore: "Zhang Fuzun, why are you from ......?"

He just wanted to say that he was a thief, but he reacted quickly and immediately changed his words: "From the dragon...... This country is also a grand event! ”

The person who came was none other than Zhang Yuzao, the current governor of Taizhou in the Qing Dynasty.

ps: I originally wanted to break out in the third or fourth watch, but I was dizzy at night, and it is estimated that the outbreak was too fierce in the previous paragraph, and I didn't dare to write more, so I could only break out again tomorrow and ask for a monthly pass