"From today on, the task of our army will be to clear out the first-class mountain bandits and land tyrants composed of the Ming army's defeated troops and local heroes, and within the jurisdiction of our army, there can be no more mountain bandits within three months!"

Originally, there were more than 50,000 soldiers under his command, but after he and others were promoted, he wanted to share a part of the profit to Sheng Gao, so that he could form a military department.

Therefore, if they want to make the strength in their hands truly as strong as on paper, they still have a long way to go.

But fortunately, although the troops in his hands, together with the defeated soldiers of the Ming army who were resettled and contained, as well as the first-class people, they all had to share a part of Xiang Shenggao, but in the territory of the capital under his control, the bandits left over from the previous dynasty, and the defeated Ming Dynasty defeated by them, they could also provide a lot of people to come in.

After conquering countless lands in a row, the self-confidence of the Hongtang army had swelled unprecedentedly, and Shang Kexi was not at all worried that they would suffer losses in such a matter that was not a war at all.

Although, after dividing a part of the troops to Sheng Gao and raising them, in fact, the number of troops is still gratifying, and it is only a little more than 20,000 square miles, and he wants to control the territory of the capital, but it is hundreds of thousands of square miles of land centered on Jinyang Town.

On the other hand, there is also the Second Military Region centered on Baoding Prefecture in Shenggao in the east, the Third Military Region in Geng Zhongming in Pingyang Prefecture in the southwest, and Xiao Xiurong in the Fourth Military Region in the southeast on the territory of Guangping Province.

In addition, there is an army, which is headed by Wu Jie as the commander of the Chinese army, and in fact it is handed over to the Beijing Military Region under the control of Kong Youde.

In this way, after this expansion, the scale of the army sent by the Hongtang Liaodong Military Region to the Guannei will reach 500,000, an increase of about five times.

Of course, in a short period of time, it is naturally impossible for Shang Kexi's military regions to achieve full strength to the establishment pair, and even for a long time, Shang Kexi's army will be in a situation of emptiness.

After all, Hongmen occupies the territory of several northern provinces, and it still needs to leave enough manpower to maintain the livelihood of the people, and with the current situation of the withering population in the north, how many strong men can be used for the people of the Hongtang army!

Even, in the days when Wu Jie summoned several major cadres to Beijing to discuss the matter, the members of the government requisitioned by Hongmen from Dayuan Island had already begun to count the population and measure the land in the occupied territory, and they were basically preparing to block the dark methods of Shang Kexi's soldiers.

As an important town on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, most of the land around Jinyang City is a military tun, which is specially used to house the Ming Dynasty military households who have been stationed in Jinyang for generations.

With the Hongtang army hired to control this land, the original Ming Dynasty military household system was directly abandoned, and the land cultivated by the military households was now recovered by the staff who rushed to form the Jinyang County Government, and after re-measuring the land, it was distributed to each household according to the head of each household.

Among them, there is a lot of criticism about this, of course, the officers of the Ming Dynasty army, who have been the most seriously damaged, and they have already become local landlords by exploiting military households and annexing the land left by fugitive military households in recent years.

However, with the arrival of the Hongtang army, the Hongmen government personnel deprived them of the benefits that belonged to them, which made them how to be willing.

It's just that the riots and other actions that were secretly planned and brewed several times were simply suppressed by the Hongtang army, and at the same time, the Hongmen government's harsh disposal methods also made these local tyrants and gentry gradually begin to calculate the gains and losses, although they were unwilling, but they also had to gradually acquiesce in the fact that their interests were deprived.

"This land has been cultivated for a long time, and the cultivator should also be a good hand at cherishing the land, and it can be rated as first-class."

The staff of the Jinyang County Agricultural Bureau are seizing the time to measure and classify the land on the land outside Jinyang City that has not yet melted the snow.

Spring is about to begin, and the tasks of their Agricultural Bureau are the most important and cumbersome of the newly established government agencies today.

However, in today's Jinyang County, the population is not too large, and with Hongmen's land distribution policy, as long as a part of the land in the area is cleared out first, it can be distributed to the local residents nearby.

However, in the countryside of Jinyang, there are still many places because of remoteness, poverty and other reasons, still retain some big landlords, gentry families still exist, for these people who have a lot of land, the Hongmen government according to the market price, these local tyrants in the family of excess land to take back, and give the other party more than one percent of the land as compensation.

Of course, this action naturally caused many local people to cause riots under the instigation of these well-known local families, but in the end, the land recovery situation was carried out smoothly due to the division and co-optation of government members, cracking down on the first evil, and other factors, as well as the Hongtang army pressing on the side.

This set of land distribution methods, which are modeled after the later generations when New China was founded, do not need to be so extraordinarily complicated if we look at the current situation. You must know that at this time, within hundreds of miles around Jinyang, the density of the people living is extremely sparse, even if these families continue to hold the land they have managed for generations, it will not affect the landless or landless people who are allocated by Hongmen.

However, despite the extremely tough attitude of Li Tianyang, the leading leader of the Hongmen, and the insistence of countless supporters behind him, the Hongmen government decided to sacrifice the interests of a small number of people in exchange for long-term and lasting development.

Compared with Westerners, the speed of population expansion of the Chinese nation, even after the destruction and sacrifice of the Ming Dynasty for so many years, as long as they return to the peaceful years, they can restore their huge base with the efforts of just a few generations.

As an important area of the Central Plains, Hebei and Shanxi Jinzhong, although the population is sparse now, it can be expected that in the next few hundred years, the population expansion rate will reach an important balance with the current land.

On the other hand, although the recovery of the land of the local clans is actually unfair to these people, in Li Tianyang's view, at least in the early days of the establishment of their Hongmen government, it is not a problem to restore the balance of the current territory.

Now that the northern territory has been devastated, the number of these wealthy families is just at their weakest, and when they recover in the future, if they want to make such a move, I am afraid it will be much more difficult than now.