At the foot of Chaya Mountain, the Gao army set up several camps and surrounded Liu Hongqi's cottage, and several troops took turns to attack.

In order to ensure the safety of each unit of the rotational battle, each unit has two troops watching the battle on the left and right when attacking, one is to study and visit, and the other is to ensure that the attacking men and horses can be immediately put into support in case of ambush or unfavorable battle situation.

In this way, the bandits who were surrounded on Chaya Mountain were miserable.

The Tukou on the mountain knew that he was not Gao Jun's opponent and didn't want to fight, but he didn't expect Gao Jun to not accept surrender and force them to continue fighting, which made the Tukou want to die.

At the foot of Chaya Mountain, thousands of bandits were chased and beaten by more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, and the bandits scolded while running, "Gao Yihuan Laozi entered your ancestors, and they were all subdued, and they were fucking beaten~"

Liu Hongqi is simply ashamed and indignant, he has relented, expressing his unwillingness to continue to oppose Gao Yihuan, if Gao Yihuan does not accept it, it is not impossible to insist on his life, anyway, Gao Yihuan is strong, he can break the cottage and kill him, if so, Liu Hongqi will admit it, but this Gao Yihuan's behavior is really too deceitful.

He could obviously break the cottage, but every time he was about to break it, he came over with a different person, and beat him again according to the original routine.

Liu Hongqi couldn't fight and couldn't fight, and he didn't let him surrender if he surrendered, and even the way to escape was blocked by Gao Yihuan.

This made Liu Hongqi feel ashamed and angry, and gathered people several times to find Gao Yihuan desperately, but he was defeated by Gao Jun.

In a fit of anger, Liu Hongqi hid in the cottage and locked himself up, but soon, the food in the cottage was in an emergency, so he had to come out to grab the food again.

Gao Yihuan asked people to prepare a little food every time, let the cottage people come to grab it, and forced them to fight.

In a flash, it was April, Liu Hongqi was angry at the beginning, and now he has completely lost his temper, and even has a tacit understanding with Gao Jun, figured out some of Gao Jun's routines, and sometimes can beat the new Gao Jun out of his heart.

However, with the previous experience, the bandits knew that on the surface there was only one Gao army fighting with them, but in fact there were two men and horses watching the battle nearby, if they really beat the new Gao army too hard, they would immediately usher in the attack of these two men and horses, so the heroes all mastered the measure, and after a little fight, they immediately drilled back to the cottage.

The round battle in Chaya Mountain undoubtedly made the combat power of the Gao people rise rapidly, in fact, not only Gao Yihuan's people, but even the trapped bandits became more and more powerful.

Gao Jun always belongs to nine people, and when the first few parts just passed, they basically pressed the bandits to fight, and when they came later, the new ones were a little difficult, and they couldn't even beat the bandits when they first opened.

This made Gao Yihuan vigilant, and ordered that every time he passed, he must be protected by two elite soldiers.

The round battle in Chaya Mountain is still in full swing, although it costs a lot of money and spends money like running water, but it can make every soldier go up and down the battlefield and really fight, so that the new pawn can quickly become an old pawn, but Gao Yihuan thinks it is worth it.

At this time, the round battle was still going on, but Gao Yihuan had already left Suiping and returned to Ruzhou.

Along the banks of the Ru River, there are large tracts of arable land, and although a large part of these lands have been divided, hundreds of thousands of acres are still in the hands of Gao Yihuan.

Successive wars have caused the population loss in Henan to be very fast, and the situation in Runing is not as dilapidated as in eastern Henan, but the population density has also become sparse.

In November last year, after the second brother Gao occupied Runing, he began to conduct population statistics and re-measure the acres of land, but because of the great power in Runing, the inventory only made progress near Runing's mansion city, but could not be carried out in other counties.

Fortunately, in February, Gao Yihuan defeated Liu Hongqi, the giant of Runing, and surrounded him in Chaya Mountain to torture, which made the local tyrants and gentry in various counties cowardly.

At the beginning of March, when Shangcai County was investigated, another incident occurred, when the gentry Huang Shiren took advantage of Gao Yihuan's capture of Runing and the Chongwang Mansion, he took the opportunity to occupy more than 6,000 acres of Chongwang Domain in Shangcai County, and colluded with officials to forge land deeds in a vain attempt to take it for himself, and was denounced.

In addition, it was found that when the grain was distributed a year ago, Huang Shiren threatened and intimidated the people, let the people lose grain, and finally did not produce his own rice, but instead earned 500 stone of grain, which made Gao Yihuan furious, and sent a division of men and horses to attack Huang Shiren's manor and correct it, which completely frightened Runing's Haoqiang.

At the end of March, as Gao Yihuan's soldiers and horses became more and more sophisticated, all counties were stationed in a division of soldiers, and Haoqiang was deterred, and the population statistics and land inventory that could not be carried out were completed in early April.

In the end, statistics were obtained, under Gao Yihuan's rule of Runing Prefecture, plus Luyi, Chenzhou, Xiangcheng, and Shenqiu, the population totaled 930,000 people, and the acres of land were more than 7.14 million mu, of which 3.8 million mu were the domains of Chongfan, Fu, and Zhou, and the rest belonged to private land.

In 1578 AD, that is, in the sixth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng ordered the clearing of various types of land in the country, and to "order the responsibility" for the destruction of the Qingzhang, and finally the result of clearing was more than 700 million mu, and after a period of time, with the reclamation of acres, this number continued to increase.

The land under Gao Yihuan's rule is seven acres per capita, but when Gao Yihuan divided the land, he only gave five acres per ding, and after adding the military land, he still had nearly two million mu of land in his hands.

Of course, most of these lands are in a state of abandonment, some because no one cultivates them, and some because they are affected by the weather and cannot be irrigated.

At this time, on the edge of the Ru River, there are large fields on both sides, and there is a green one in it, and for every thousand acres of fields, there is a newly built village, and one hundred and ten men are either building warehouses or busy in the fields, outlining a beautiful picture of the fields.

"General, according to your orders, most of the more than 40,000 captives have been placed along the banks of the Joux, and hundreds of manors have been built." Yu Yinglong rode on a horse, pointed to the fields by the river, and spoke.

Gao Yihuan took a look and nodded with satisfaction. Most of these bandits are ordinary people, and the reason why they became bandits is roughly for two reasons, one is that they are affected by natural disasters and heavy taxes, so they really can't survive, and they can only be thieves, and the other is that they can still live and plant, but there is no stable environment, and they are robbed after planting, so they simply don't plant, and they have no choice but to be thieves.

After capturing these bandits, Lu Yifang's opinion was to divide the fields and resettle, but Gao Yihuan did not adopt them.

If they are settled, then they are good people, and the land allocated to them, Gao Yihuan can only collect 20% of the tax for the first three years, and after three years, the land is privately owned by them, and he can only collect 10% of the tax, but if he forms a manor and uses these people as tenants, he can collect up to 30% of the tax, and even directly become serfs, just take care of their food.

The second brother Gao's current territory is not well developed, and the bulk of the tax revenue is the field endowment, so he can levy more if he can, and these bandits also need to be given a certain amount of punishment, otherwise they will not be able to play a role in deterring and stabilizing the locality.

In troubled times, it is necessary to use heavy codes, laws and regulations must be strict, and mistakes must be severely punished.

"The manor is well built." Gao Yihuan stood on his horse, turned his head to look at the winding Rushui, and saw a large group of figures building a dam in the distance, and couldn't help but ask: "How is the water conservancy in Runing Mansion repaired?" ”

"General Hui, refer to the experience in Luyi and build new water conservancy along the Ru River." Yu Yinglong pointed to the earth robbers who were building a dam in the distance, "However, because we missed the season, the Ru River now has a large amount of water, and we need to repair the diversion embankment first, so the amount of work is very large, and I am afraid that it will not be completed until next year." ”

"The climate is very abnormal now, and the water conservancy is very important, and I hope that the dam will be built faster." Gao Yihuan looked at the busy crowd and said.

At this time, from the direction of Runing, there was a gallop over, "General Qiqi, there is news in Guanzhong!" ”

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