After Yang Lin sat down, Master He of Hejiamiao handed over a huge red envelope.

Mr. He's family has more than 800 acres of fertile land, opened grocery stores, pharmacies and other large and small shops, is the largest landlord within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, and is also the richest family. (Lao Mao Xunwu investigated eight large landowners in Xunwu County who collected more than 2,000 quintals of rent, and 12 families who collected more than 500 quintals.)

Xunwu is located at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, with high mountains and dense forests, and there are only 300,000 people until now.

Peng'an County is located in the hills of northern Sichuan, has always been counted as a rich county in northern Sichuan, and now there are 730,000 people, so it can be inferred that Peng'an County in the late Ming Dynasty can be worthy of the early years of the Republic of China.

In order to be more just, there are two large landlords of 2,000 quintals in the county, and ten landlords of 500 quintals. ）

When I opened it, it turned out to be a gift list, the highest one He Master He had five taels of silver, and the less one also had two coins, and a rough calculation was as much as twenty taels of silver, which could catch up with the annual income of a middle-sized family.

Yang Lin smiled knowingly, it is good to be an official in China, especially in ancient times, not only is the power not constrained in any way, but also has a share of money, and can raise funds through various ways like candidates in Western countries (such as new officials taking office and leaving office, red and white happy events).

This is still a clean official, if it is a corrupt official who is bent on making money, there are more methods, corruption and bribery, rampant expropriation, it is simply lawless, and he is a local emperor.

Yang Lin thanked everyone, and everyone returned the salute and returned to their seats.

Master He cleared his throat and arched his hand: "Ru Zhen, now there are thieves everywhere, although Master Luo is highly respected, after all, he is over sixty years old, his body is not like before, and training soldiers and fighting is not his forte.

You are a young man, you are a first-class talent in our township, this rescue of Luo Gongzi is even more wise and brave, everyone has been elected as the chief of the guard, I hope you will preside over the affairs of the fort fairly, and more importantly, it is to train the local soldiers, so that the gangsters dare not make trouble in the place. ”

Thinking of this, Yang Lin stretched his brows and arched his hand: "Master He, the squires, our wishes coincide, but how to train the soldiers, how to protect the peace of the place, I don't know what you have in mind?" ”

Most of the people are from rural families, and although some of them know a thing or two, they have no idea about real military training.

Picking up a chopstick from the table, Yang Lin handed it to the thin Master He and broke it gently.

Then Yang Lin handed a handful of chopsticks to the butcher Zhang who killed the pig in the market, although he tried very hard, but he still kept breaking.

Everyone was puzzled, and Yang Lin said with a smile: "Everyone, although the local tyrants, ruffians, and bandits are very loud, they dare to run rampant in the township, loot the villages, and oppress the people, the main reason is that our villagers are scattered.

There are more than 100 people in the large courtyard, only twenty or thirty people in the small courtyard, and some are single-door, plus everyone just sweeps the snow in front of the door, so the local riot is like dealing with a chopstick rampant in the place.

Ladies and gentlemen, if we train the soldiers, everyone will watch and help each other, even if the local tyrants have three heads and six arms, they will never dare to make waves in the locality. ”

Everyone nodded yes again and again, and said frankly that people's hearts are not ancient, and in the past, there were things to help each other in the township, but now except for the same clan and relatives, it is no longer like in the past.

Everyone discussed and determined the mutual protection of the village, that is, the chief of the village trained hundreds of soldiers, one side was in trouble, the chief of the security took the soldiers from other places to reinforce, and the villagers around the village soldiers waved their flags and shouted, so that the net was laid out, and the local rioters were difficult to escape even if they had three heads and six arms.

However, the soldiers need money and food for training, and they need to collect donations in the local area, and now the government is expropriating and expropriating, and the fertile land is levied to 2 buckets of rice (the government rates 5 liters of fertile land, plus three salaries, and the local apportionment, so it is levied to 2 buckets), and the dry land is also more than 1 bucket and 2 liters, and the people are miserable, and it is very difficult to raise money and grain.

Butcher Zhang was extorted 10 taels of silver by the gangsters last year, and he hated the local tyrants quite much, and now he saw that some wanted to retreat, and said angrily: "The chief of the security just asked everyone to work together, and everyone had no opinion at first, why is it that money is not active one by one?"

The local thugs are coming, the gangsters are coming, and the first to harm is a rich and wealthy family like you. ”

Everyone was terrified when they heard this, a few days ago, Yang Lin led the villagers to kill several local tyrants, and the other party would definitely be counted on everyone's heads at that time.

Yang Lin also knew the seriousness of the problem, and he had a grudge with the local rioters and was worried about the retaliation of the other party, and the training soldiers gradually established their own weapons as a magic weapon for their own lives.

But he came to this world alive, he wanted money or not, only to give everyone expectations, Yang Lin stood up and said: "Everyone, I was born in a poor family with only about ten acres of thin fields, and I am a poor scholar.

But this is a fat shortage, although the harvest is a small amount of money, but like a cornucopia, it can gather small money to become big money.

Now in the troubled times, the folks are miserable, in addition to the money paid to the above, in addition to the daily expenses, I don't take a penny before the world is peaceful, everyone says okay? ”

Seeing that Yang Lin was so generous, everyone donated generously, so they gathered a thousand loads of grain, eight hundred taels of silver to train local soldiers (the villagers donated more grain, and most of this silver came from the income of the market. ）

In training soldiers, it is necessary to rectify the existing soldiers, and now there are soldiers in each division of the army who are floating in things, and their role in protecting the place is better than nothing.

Now it is necessary to recruit strong and brave warriors to enter the Li soldiers, and when the time comes, the villages will protect each other, that is, as long as the local tyrants dare to harm the surrounding villages, the Li soldiers will go to help.

In this era, officers and soldiers such as bandits often loot the township and cannot be relied on at all, and everyone is also worried about their own strength and is quite fearful.

Through discussion, Yang Lin wrote the regulations on the preferential treatment of soldiers in the form of a township convention, and the main conditions to be met were:

Once selected as a soldier, the individual will be exempted from the current year's Ding Fu (one penny and two cents of silver).

During training, eat and live.

During the period of duty, 1 cent of silver is subsidized per day. (Generally, the salary of a hired worker is about 3-5 cents, and the soldiers are originally in the nature of conscription.) ）

If the farm work is delayed when the farm is busy, the villagers will be arranged to help cultivate the fields by the villagers in Lijia.

If injured on duty, the squire shall raise money for the pension.

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Each team of 10 to 15 people is formed, and a team leader is appointed, and the salary is twice that of ordinary security guards.

Taking into account the surrounding terrain, it was decided to adopt a joint defense system, and Luojiabao was divided into four joint defense areas, the largest of which was the central defense area, including the market and the surrounding three villages, and there were more than 60 soldiers in the light of the group, nearly one-third of the whole group.

The soldiers adopt the system of voluntary registration and recommendation by the head of the league, and give priority to those who are strong and learn martial arts, and the shortfall is made up by the number of recommended personnel in the league.

Now that there are bandits in various places, everyone does not dare to be careless, and immediately after the meeting is dismissed, they go back one by one to select suitable candidates.

Luojiabao is the only big market within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, every 369 to catch the market, there are a total of seven markets in Xiangru County, of which there are three or four to catch the market three times every ten years, and the other three are to catch the market once every ten years.

Today is the first bazaar since Yang Lin took office as the chief of security, and everyone attaches great importance to it.