Chapter 142: Land Dividing and Protecting Fields

Within three days, Jiang's squad swept through all the villages around Liaoyang. Fastest updates

At the beginning, few of the Manchus were willing to surrender on their own initiative, and in the end, it was not until the various squads of the Jiang family army hung strings of human heads with pigtails with money rattails on Matou Mountain, and when they arrived at the villages, after throwing these heads in front of them, the speed of the village's annexation suddenly accelerated a lot.

Of course, there are some minor troubles in it. Some of the Manchu or Mongol minor aristocrats or the larger landlords did not live in the villages like the ordinary Manchus, but in small earthen cities surrounded by walls.

Of course, the height or thickness of these small earth cities cannot be compared with Liaoyang City, but they also have certain defensive capabilities, and it is indeed impossible for cavalry to directly attack on horseback.

Moreover, these small nobles generally have dozens or hundreds of private soldiers under their hands, so it is a little troublesome to deal with.

After receiving the news that the other villages had been flattened by the Jiang army, they all hid in the earthen city, organized those Han slaves to hold weapons, and defended the city under the leadership of private soldiers.

Those who went to the countryside were cavalry, and there was no way to take them for the time being. Finally, after an initial stalemate, the cavalry left some men to watch over them, while others continued to bypass the earthen towns and continue to clear the other villages.

When the news came up, Jiang Chuan directly ordered the cavalry to go to the countryside with the ballistas and trebuchets of the engineering battalion.

Although the range and power of trebuchets and ballistas are not as good as those of the red-coated cannons, they are still easy to deal with these earthen cities.

Under the onslaught of ballistas and trebuchets, the rammed walls of the city soon collapsed, and then the cavalry rode in.

After the cavalry of the Jiang family army broke in, there was a massacre, and all the men with weapons they encountered were cut down with a knife, and all the children who were higher than the wheels were also killed, leaving only some young women and children to be held as prisoners.

The remaining earthen castles were also destroyed after the addition of trebuchets and ballistas, and the fate was the same.

After all these earthen cities were breached, looking at the strings of human heads hanging from the high poles, none of the remaining villages dared to resist.

There was even a rebellion of Han slaves in a village, who took the initiative to capture and kill the Manchu slave owners in the village, and brought their heads to find the Jiang family's army.

After completely cleaning up these Manchu slave owners, Jiang Chuan implemented the second step of completely subduing these villages: dividing the land.

Liu Ji sent a small official from the Department of Civil Affairs to each village to measure the land, and after measuring all the land, he made a register one by one, and then distributed 30 acres of land to each of the Han people according to the head, and issued them a title deed and stamped the seal of the government.

The passion of the Han people who were assigned to the land was suddenly activated, and the benefits of Wu Anhou's rule over this land were really felt.

Jiang Chuan then sent someone to announce that all the peasants who were allocated land only needed to pay 20 percent of the land in the first year, and only 30 percent each year from the second year onwards, and the rest would be their own.

In addition, the government provided seeds and cattle for free.

This great good news made these Han people who had to work to die but could only starve to death, and they all felt like pie in the sky, and they couldn't believe it.

It wasn't until the government sent people to bring cattle and seeds to help them with spring ploughing that they knew what the government was talking about.

Later, after hearing about the fact that Wu Anhou, who now occupies Liaoyang City, was in Liaoyang last year, they were even more convinced that they were not dreaming.

As soon as these two policies for the benefit of the people came out, these Han people who had been oppressed really came to life, and a pair of eyes that were originally only sackcloth were filled with tears of hope, and this time they began to feel like people, with the hope and motivation to live, and they supported Jiang Chuan in their hearts.

Moreover, Jiangchuan also asked people to bring food from Liaoyang City to help these Han farmers who had just been liberated and reborn, so that they could get through this period of green and yellow scarcity.

These policies and practices made these Han people deeply feel that this Wu'anhou was indeed sincere to them, so they were all moved to kneel down in the fields one by one, and bowed down to Jiangchuan in Liaoyang, thanking Wu'anhou for his life.

Seeing that these Han people really had support for themselves, Jiang Chuan implemented the third step at this time.

He first gathered the captured Manchu slave owners, let people accuse them of their crimes, and guided these Han people to come forward to accuse these Manchu slave owners of oppressing and mutilating them, and finally let more Han people have emotional resonance, and the hatred of the Tatars was further intensified and fermented.

Many of them even wept bitterly at this kind of grievance meeting, and they were even more furious when they thought of their relatives and friends who were tortured and killed by these Tartars, and there were even incidents where Tartar slave owners were beaten to death in public by the Han people, and there were no corpses.

Jiang Chuan also expected these things, so he instructed the people below to let go and let the people vent, and try not to interfere.

Under Jiang Chuan's deliberate connivance, many surrendered Tartar slave owners were beaten to death by the oppressed Han people, and one of them was directly bitten to death by the people one by one, and after death, he could not even get together a relatively complete corpse.

After complaining about the grievances, the officials of the civil affairs department sent to each village guided the people who gave them their new life now and the good life in the future, so that the people finally understood that this was given to them by Wu'anhou Jiangchuan, so they should know how to be grateful and be loyal to Wu'anhou.

And the best way to be loyal to and thank Wu Anhou is to protect his current field property, don't let the Tartars take it away from his hands, and work hard in the future, just pay the grain and taxes on time and in quantity.

After the deliberate guidance of these officials, these enslaved Han people have a deeper understanding that their original suffering was caused by the murderous Tartars, and now the good life is won by Wu'an Hou with tens of thousands of soldiers in bloody battles, so their hearts have inspired their support for Jiang Chuan and their determination to defend their existing new life.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Jiang Chuan took advantage of the situation to let the Han people in various villages set up a field protection team, organized strong male villagers to join them, and armed them with old weapons from the armory of the Qing army in Liaoyang, and formed them according to the scale of 100 people in each village, and each village set up two captains and deputy captains.

The captain is a soldier of the Jiang family army who is assigned to serve as the captain, and the deputy captain is elected by the people themselves.

All the people who have joined the field protection team can pay half of the annual field tax less than others.

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