Chapter Forty-Eight: Dividing the Fields
On this day, the people of Jinyang City rushed to tell each other, their faces were full of joy, the reason is that the state pastoral government actually wants to distribute all the fields in Jinyang with the population, regardless of men, women and children, everyone is equal, which makes them a little unbelievable, especially those good fields, the yield per mu can reach four stones, has been in the hands of powerful people in the city, many people can only pay labor, can barely mix a mouthful of food every year.
The feeling of farming for others is completely different from farming for yourself.
"Don't believe it, something happened in the city some time ago." A well-known citizen lowered his voice and said: "There are people in the city who rebelled, and they were exterminated by the adults and their troops, and all their fields were confiscated, and the governor did not farm the land, so he distributed the fields to us." ”
"Nonsense, if you don't farm, you can give it to your officials, or you can hire people to plant, so many fields, is he willing to do it?" Someone retorted.
"At first glance, you haven't repaired the city wall, ten dollars a day, two meals, and meat every three or five times, have you ever encountered such a good thing before?"
"That is, the state pastor said that the land is divided, it must be the land, will it still lie to us, I am from Luoyang, and now I also live in a house, and a few acres of wasteland have been reclaimed outside the city, if it were not for the adult, our family would definitely die on the way to Chang'an."
Although the people were suspicious, they still couldn't resist their enthusiasm to go and see, and the spring ploughing began immediately, and if they could get a few more acres of land, it would be even better, and there might be surplus grain in the coming year.
According to the population of the land, it is Lu Bu who advocated it, the situation in Jinyang before, made him a little unbelievable, basically all the good land is in the hands of powerful people, the people only have barren land, after paying taxes every year, there is not much surplus grain, can only farm land for rich households, in order to barely feed a family, life is extremely difficult.
The equal division of land is undoubtedly a challenge to the system of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, for hundreds of years, it has been a common practice for the powerful to own more land, and some officials have a lot of land in their hands, they can't eat it all, they can stay and sell it, and the poor people can only get poorer and poorer, and the rich are getting richer and richer.
There is basically no good land in the hands of the people, and they naturally agree with the policy of dividing the land by the state pastoral government.
Li Su felt that his heart was a little unbearable, and his own lord didn't know where he learned it, as if everything was fighting against the family, it was foreseeable that once the people of Jinyang really divided the fields equally, how big the impact would be on the family in the world.
In the future, if you really control and merge the state, there will be unimaginable difficulties, and the other families can not care about the extermination of the Jinyang family, but if they share their interests with the ordinary people, they will definitely hold a grudge.
"Wei Gong, there is no need to say it, do what I say, the family, hmph, I don't believe that without them, this general will not be able to live, my soldiers, are there any people in the family? Why did they work so hard to fight, but the benefits were taken by the family. ”
Lu Bu's words moved the generals in the field for a while, this is their general, for the benefit of the soldiers, they do not hesitate to be enemies of the world's families, if anyone dares to scold Lu Bu for being a puppet, they will be the first to rush forward.
"Soldiers who have died in battle, receive a pension of 10,000 yuan, double the land with their families, and do not need to pay taxes, and in the future, their families do not need to pay taxes for all soldiers who merge with the state army." Lu Bu said in a deep voice.
If the generals in the hall just now still feel that the general is domineering, they are speechless at this moment, they can even imagine the excited appearance of the soldiers, being a soldier to protect the family and defend the country, it is a lie, the situation at home is good, no one will choose to be a soldier, only when they are soldiers, they will not worry about food and clothing.
"Okay, that's it, whoever has an opinion will say." Lu Bu glanced around at everyone.
The corners of Li Su's mouth moved, looking at the excited appearance of the generals around him, he had no doubt that if he put forward a different opinion, these martial artists would eat him.
Lu Bu didn't feel how shocking his behavior was, and in the future, he would let the soldiers under his command be treated better and better, so that they would be proud to be soldiers of the Bingzhou Army, instead of training numbly every day and participating in battles numbly.
If an army wants to be combative, it must let them have nothing to worry about, and what Lu Bu has to do is to make the soldiers under his command dare to serve on the battlefield.
The speed of the news spread very quickly, and in less than a day, all the people of Jinyang learned the news that they were going to divide the fields.
"Where the people of Jinyang, each person can get one acre of fertile land, two acres of middle field, four acres of lower field, my family of four people, will be divided into four acres of fertile land, eight acres of middle field, sixteen acres of lower field, this year I will work harder, next year will definitely be more." A man folded his hands and counted, the smile on his face became stronger and stronger, although his family's land was expropriated by the state pastoral government before, and he got significantly more land, including four acres of fertile land.
"What are you, I didn't see Zhao Lao's family next door, his kid is in the army, I heard that he is still a cavalry commander, and he has been allocated eight acres of fertile land, and he doesn't have to pay taxes."
The common man was stunned, with the same population, his neighbors have twice as many fields as himself, and he doesn't have to pay taxes, and the latter is the most critical, which means that he receives as much food as he wants.
Although there is no tax on the cultivated land within three years, how can it be compared to good land.
"And such a good thing, how I don't know."
"You kid just think about how much land you can get, how can you worry about the rest, the army is starting to recruit, I am going to let my eldest go to be a soldier, it is said that the soldiers will have a salary."
If the division of land has a great impact on the people, then the treatment of the soldiers' families has made all the people boil, as long as there is someone in the family who is a soldier, there is no need to pay taxes, the pensions for the dead and wounded are very clear, and even the salaries of soldiers at all levels are clearly stated.
Lu Bu began the biggest action in the history of the army, changing the existing situation of the army, really mobilizing every soldier, so that they can see why they are soldiers, and the benefits of being soldiers, the salary of ordinary soldiers in January is fifty yuan, the commander is eighty yuan, and the chief is 100 yuan, and the treatment of cavalry is doubled, as long as ordinary soldiers perform well, they can also be officers, and the performance of each soldier will be reported by the commander.
Coupled with the treatment of the soldiers' families, the morale of the army has obviously risen a lot, and the enthusiasm for training has become higher.
However, the army has also begun to implement the elimination system, and soldiers who fail to pass the training for three consecutive times will be kicked out of the army.
The city of Jinyang was in ruins, and under the drastic measures of the state pastoral government, a new military system was implemented, and the people got a share of the land.