Soon after Liang Yizhang left, Zhao Daxian, who went to Kaifeng, led hundreds of family members, pushed a thousand taels of silver, and returned with several carts of supplies.

These truckloads of materials were sent by Zhao Daxian to Gao Zurong, and after Li Yan learned about it, he specially asked people to allocate a batch of materials, mainly some grain and farm tools, for Gao Yihuan to run Luyi County.

Li Yan also asked Zhao Daxian to bring a letter, instructing Gao Yihuan to manage Luyi well and show Li Zicheng a look.

Li Yan has always wanted to change the habit of breaking into the army, but the progress is very difficult, after Li Guo returned to the Kaifeng camp, he heard Li Guo talk about Gao Yihuan, and the matter of setting up officials in Guide Mansion, he immediately became excited, thinking that this was a good start.

Gao Yihuan read Li Yan's letter to him, and estimated that Li Yan hoped that he could be used as a pilot for the transformation of the army, and when the effect was made, it could be promoted in the army, but the second brother Gao was not optimistic about this.

He opened his eyes to heaven, and there is a lot of knowledge in later generations, it is not easy to run a county, and Liu Heizi and Chen Baoping must be more difficult.

Now there is too much shortage of talents in the army, and God does not give food to eat, and the seeds are sown and do not grow wheat, so no matter how you operate, it is in vain.

After the personnel returned, the second brother Gao temporarily settled them in the shanty in the city, preparing to be equal to Ying Long and Sun Yucheng, two sour talents, to sort out the population and acres of Luyi, and then evacuate them outside the city.

After barely solving the problem of housing, the second brother set his sights on solving the problem of eating and farming.

Early in the morning, the second brother Gao was in the courtyard, following a subordinate to play with a knife, and after practicing for a while, Yu Yinglong and Sun Yucheng came out of the room, stood aside and said: "Du Wei, go outside the city to check the fields today, is Du Wei with us, or come later." ”

Gao Yihuan retracted his knife when he heard this, "Let's go over together, you wait for me for a while." ”

The second brother threw the knife to the subordinate who led him to practice the knife, this person's name is Jin Xiangang, he is a member of the Ming army, he has good knife skills and some skills.

The second brother finished his knife practice, cleaned up briefly, went back to the house and changed his clothes, and then walked back to the yard.

He saw Liang Yizhang's little cub holding a wooden knife, humming and waving it on the side, so he squatted down and pinched his tender face, making the little cub cry, then stood up with a smile, waved his hand refreshedly, and said, "Let's go, let's go outside the city and have a look." ”

Luyi County is located on the south bank of the vortex, located on the East Henan Plain, and has a large amount of land that can be cultivated, but most of the cultivated land in Henan is the land of the feudal kings, and does not belong to the poor.

Although the second brother Gao occupies the county seat of Luyi, the villages outside the county are still in the hands of the squire.

In a plain area like Luyi, whether it is a bandit or an official army, it is a disaster for the people. All villages and towns outside the county, in order to protect themselves, must inevitably form villages like Gaojia Village.

Although the second brother of these villages is sure to defeat them, the second brother does not intend to do so, but acquiesces to their existence, as long as they give the second brother food, the second brother will not send troops to exterminate them for the time being.

After all, he has only a few hundred soldiers, and Luyi has a radius of more than ten miles, and he can't manage it at all.

These squires are the cornerstone of local stability, and the second brother does not plan to move for the time being, his goal is the land of the Ming Dynasty vassal king in Luyi County.

The reason why it is said that the squire is the cornerstone of local stability is because if a place suffers a disaster, the poor can ask the squire to borrow grain, and if they are afraid that they will take the land as a mortgage, they will be able to survive the disaster year.

If a place is full of poor people, and everyone is just as poor, then in the event of a famine, there will be no place to borrow, and the whole place will completely collapse, and you can only form a homeless people, or starve to death.

There are inferior gentry among the gentry, but not necessarily all of them are not good things, and the second brother needs them now, and if he doesn't move them, he can only target the domain.

The huge parasitic group of the Zhu family, in Henan alone, had five pro-domains, more than 80 county kings in the Longqing period, and a lot of generals below, so that the taxes of one province were not enough for these vassal kings for half a year.

The gentry have had different degrees of tax reduction and exemption in all dynasties, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but one of the main problems in the fall of the Ming Dynasty is mainly these clans.

This can be seen by looking at the fiefdom of the feudal kings, and then looking at the main areas where the rogues rebelled, not the areas where the gentry were concentrated, but the areas where the feudal kings were concentrated.

As the people at the top of the entire food chain, the place where the vassal kings are located is not only poor and weak, but even the gentry, a class that plays a stabilizing role in society, are not as good as other places, and even become the object of clan annexation.

If you want to solve this problem, it is not a matter of stopping the distribution of the clan and the gentry, and the gentry still pay some taxes, and the clan can't eat at all.

The manor of the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty was the private property of the royal government, and all the rented grain was owned by the royal government, which was not registered in the state and county, but was published in the register of the feudal government, which was an independent system and had nothing to do with the imperial court.

These feudal kings are rich and wealthy, and every time they slaughter the year, the people can't survive, so they will inevitably borrow money from others, and the clan can take the opportunity to lend money and annex land on a large scale, so that the big one will be evergrande, and the land will roll more and more.

Taking Fu Fan as an example, the feudal country is in Luoyang, but his land has actually spread all over Henan, and even to Suzhou and Bozhou in the south.

The imperial court could not enjoy the taxes of these feudal lands, so even if the imperial court stopped issuing and reducing the feudal clans, the Ming Dynasty would still collapse if this cancer was not resolved.

Regarding this point, because of the later political demand for the restoration of vision, you can't always say bad things about the Zhu family, otherwise how to call for the restoration of sight, so the responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is pushed to other aspects, mostly scolding the courtiers and bastards, rarely mentioning the problems of the Zhu family itself, or mentioning it is not in the main position, but the second brother Gao has just seen some information in this regard, so he knows a little more.

At present, the second brother's strategy in Luyi is to appease the squire, and then remove the Zhu family's land. Of course, this is a bit of a suspicion that the revolution is not complete.

The second brother and a few people went out of the city, so they walked along the whirlpool and took a serious look at the surrounding situation.

"Duwei, a large piece on the east bank of the river is the manor of King Zhou, and the west bank is the manor of King Chong of Runing." Yu Yinglong pointed to the distance, "We have roughly estimated these lands, and there should be tens of thousands of acres." ”

Gao Yihuan looked from afar and saw a large area of land, but only those near the river bank were turned over and still cultivated, and all of them were deserted in the distance.

"So much land?" Gao Yihuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Then you will measure this place clearly, divide it, and then distribute it." At present, each soldier is divided into 10 acres, the miscellaneous soldiers and logistics teams are 5 acres each, and the rest of the land is rented to the displaced people for cultivation. ”

Sun Yucheng frowned when he heard this, "Duwei, these are all pro-clan lands, will there be something wrong with this." ”

The second brother Gao was stunned for a moment, and reacted, these two people are still waiting for the court to recruit peace.

"Haha~" The second brother slapped his forehead and explained: "These places are also panicked, so it's better to let me use them." Besides, these feudal lands do not pay taxes, which is equivalent to a cancer of the country, and I am going to include them in the tax system of Luyi first, and as for the important land of the clan in the future, then I will talk about it. ”

When he said this, Sun Yucheng and Yu Yinglong could only reluctantly accept it and nodded slightly.

"Captain, even if these lands are divided, most of them cannot be cultivated." Sun Yucheng pointed to the wasteland in the distance, "In recent years, Henan has been experiencing successive droughts, the water volume of the Vortex River has decreased, and the fields far from the shore cannot be irrigated, so it has gradually become abandoned. Now, even if the fields are divided and allowed to be cultivated, God will not give them food and sow seeds, and wheat will not grow. ”

The second brother looked at the whirlpool, there was only a thin stream of one zhang wide left on the five-zhang wide riverbed, and the surrounding fields, except for those near the river that could barely be irrigated, had already panicked.

This is indeed a big problem, but since the whirlpool has not dried up, there is a way to solve this problem, the second brother of the high school groaned slightly, and then said: "Then build a dam to stop the water."