On this day, Yang Lin took Zhang Hong and Yin Chengqi and his party, dressed up as scholars, and followed a team of personal soldiers from a distance behind, and went out of the city to see the situation outside.

Now it is close to the end of spring ploughing, walking more than 30 miles, often see a lot of fields without stagnant water are also barren, looking at the abandoned fields, I can't help but sigh and say, "Hey, the Liukou is really a disaster, the Tartars are even more murderous demons, CD) The plain has always been a rich land, thousands of miles of fertile soil, rich in products, the country of abundance, and now there are so many wastelands."

Yin Chengqi next to him also sighed: "My lord, that day, Long Wenguang flooded CD City, and the place suffered a disaster, and Zhang Xianzhong was not completely cured.

In addition to the fact that in the past, when the population of various prefectures and counties was relatively sufficient, and there were not many disaster victims, there were many displaced people in other places, and there was also a large-scale desertion phenomenon.

In order to reclaim wasteland and prevent the displaced people from harming various localities, our volunteers controlled the household registration of the disaster victims in each county, cleared the wasteland, set up a special yamen to resettle the displaced people, and resettled more than 400,000 displaced people by lending seeds, ploughing cattle, and farm tools, and cultivated 5 million mu of wasteland.

In addition, more than 5,000 Zhuang men moved out of Shunqing Prefecture, which has a large population, to Dazhou, Bazhou, and Tongchuan Prefecture for tun farming, and this year it is more than 20,000 Zhuang men moved out to CD) Mansion and Guangyuan Mansion for tun farming, plus the villagers and prisoners rescued from Liukou, as well as refugees from all over the country, now there are more than 10 thousand people in the military tun in all parts of Sichuan (Sichuan), and the area of tun cultivation is more than 200 million mu.

This is still the government's statistics, plus the people who are not listed on the list and resettled by the people, the number of people resettled in the past two years is close to 400,000.

My lord, we have only 3 million people on the fourth (Sichuan) household registration, even if we take into account which ones are not included in the yellow book, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan before the most tens of millions, until now, hey, don't talk about other places, just say that there are so many wastelands in this rich CD) plain? ”

Yang Lin sighed and shook his head, and looked at the people around him: "The difficulties are temporary, as long as we deal with the floods well, as long as we re-stabilize the people and solve the problem of land abandonment, it will not take a few years for our four (Sichuan) economies to recover."

Tell the local government that there is a shortage of food in various places, but even then we cannot increase the burden on the people. In addition to the normal land endowment, Ding endowment, and commercial endowment, ordinary people cannot increase the slightest burden. ”

Yin Chengqi sighed and said: My lord, although this is beneficial to the displaced people, the harvest of the government is much smaller, so it is difficult to support a large-scale war without food. ”

Yang Lin shook his head and said, "Hey, this is also a way to do it." After Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and the Tartar disaster, the entire Si (Sichuan) local economy was almost on the verge of collapse.

You see, the entire four (Sichuan) registered population is only more than 300,000, even if those that are not included in the yellow book are deducted, the total will not reach 8 million, and now the number of displaced people is more than one million.

The day before yesterday, I read the household registration books sent from various places, and now there are more than 5 million people in CD) Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Boryeong Prefecture, Long'an Mansion and other places, deducting the millions of people who need to be resettled, there are still 4 million people, and the annual grain harvest is also 2 million quintals, and we currently have about 40,000 troops, plus the gentry from all over the country, the food is still barely enough to eat.

Everyone should look forward, with the passage of time, those Guantun military tun people, Naxiu resettled displaced people will pay taxes year by year, or in three or four years, more food will be paid, and then not only enough to eat, but also a slight surplus.

You also have to think about it, if we control the territory and get bigger and bigger, and we rule more and more people, these will not be a problem in the future."

Yin Chengqi couldn't say anything when he heard Yang Lin say this, so he nodded again and again.

Riding on a horse and walking for 20 miles, I watched from a distance that there were many people surrounding several teahouses, and they were sitting together in a dragon gate formation and talking about the volunteers.

The people were sleepy and tired, so the soldiers tied the horses, and the group came to the tea shed to sit down, while drinking tea, while listening to the chats of the next few people.

These people talked with a lot of eyebrows and foaming at the mouth.

Some claim that this volunteer army is really different from other troops, participating in the cultivation and planting crops to meet military needs when the farm is busy.

Officers and men from all over the country have just finished their farm work, and with the cooperation of local strong men, they have gone into the mountains to fight tigers in order to sweep away the tiger plague that has caused trouble to the people.

Some people are complaining that they raised two tigers at home, and after being killed by the government, not only did the tiger meat be distributed to the surrounding people, but they also had to pay for the soup and medicine.

Yin Chengqi smiled and explained in a low voice: "My lord, we four (Sichuan) people like to set up dragon gate formations, you know this.

But these children of official businessmen, although they are in troubled times, do not seem to be affected.

Look at it, due to the abnormal weather in the past few years, when it's hot, it's hot, and when it's cold, it's cold.

The villagers are very hard, you see, such a big sun, you also saw all the way, many people are dressed in tatters, and they are still busy outside, and these rich children are hiding here to set up a dragon gate array.

Yang Lin nodded, turned around for a long time and asked: "These old brothers, they should be the children of a rich and noble family, I heard that this CD) plain has been plagued, and there is a shortage of everything, I will come over and see what business is done?" ”

I saw a thirty-year-old man stand up and said with a smile: "Hey, you brother probably doesn't know, we are all like this here, the weather is hot, and I am bored at home, so my brothers will come out to drink tea, eat some tamales, and set up a dragon gate array."

A few years ago, it was called prosperity before the invasion of the Liukou, and at that time it was a small market, and ordinary farmers came to play during the slack time, and some farmers also drank two cups of tea or something.

Hey, in the past two years, there have been many deaths in the Tartar rebellion of Zhang Xianzhong, this bazaar is broken, and now only this tea house is still open, and the brothers have nothing to do to come to drink tea. ”

Yang Lin snorted haha, lamenting the decay of the former prosperity of the plain.

One next to him smiled and said: "Hey, you brother probably don't know, our son Hong is a figure who can be counted within a radius of dozens of miles, and Hongjiazhuang is also a famous village."

It's just that Yang Lin Fuchuan is really a fish and meat squire, pleasing the people in the market.

This time, the land was measured by the re-grading of the household registration, and everyone thought that some families had died, and they thought about registering the land of these dead families in their own names.

Hey, you don't know how troublesome this is, you have to check it three or four times, I heard that Wang Jiazhuang Wang Yuanwai had such a little bad intentions and was investigated and then paraded through the streets, and in the end more than 10 acres of land were confiscated.

And for those homeless people, for those people who have no land and little land, as long as the per capita land is less than 3 acres, as long as you are willing to reclaim wasteland, within 20 acres of land will be exempted from land taxes for three years, what is this not a fish and meat squire to please the people? ”

Yang Lin smiled and said: "Brother, you are also a person who understands the general situation, this land is the lifeblood of the people, if you let the rich family reclaim it by themselves, in the end, the land will not go to the rich family, and the ordinary people will not have land again?"

Didn't the yamen encourage the wealthy to subsidize the homeless and villagers to reclaim their land?

As long as you provide grain and cattle for the displaced people and tenant farmers to reclaim the wasteland, then the wasteland thus reclaimed will go to these rich families according to the amount of grain, cattle and seeds loaned. ”

This Hong Gongzi shook his head again and again and said: "Why do you want to take a detour, why doesn't the yamen let us rich families pay money to the homeless people, and then all these wastelands will belong to us rich families?"

The yamen encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, and many landless peasant households cultivated our landlords' land while running to reclaim wasteland, which only forced us to lower the land rent. ”

Yang Lin smiled and said, "So it seems that you actually understand this truth?"

In any case, the common people must have a way to live, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, and they will not rise up and rebel or anything.

Look at the rebellion of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong this time, thousands of miles of red land, and millions of dead and wounded, it is because ordinary people have no permanent business, as long as they encounter any famine year, they will have no way to live, stay at home and wait for death, run out or have a way to live.

In addition to enforcing various laws and regulations, the most important responsibility of the yamen is to ensure social and economic development, that is, to ensure social fairness and justice. ”

Although everyone was willing to oppose it, when they saw a few guards around Yang Lin, they sighed: "Hey, let's not talk about how our governor is a squire, just talk about another tyranny."

Our Hong Gongzi's family raised 2 tigers, that is like raising a family, for family protection, I heard that when the Tartars came, the tigers were released, and a few Tartars were bitten to death, brother, you said that this tiger is not a hero, and now because of this, Hong Gongzi was fined dozens of taels of silver by the Yamen. ”

Yang Lin frowned slightly, and sighed: "Brother, this CD) plain has always been a rich land, and now many people can see tigers on the road, do you need to rectify it."

I heard that the southern Sichuan is even more rampant tiger trouble, the common people go out, must go together, anyone with a little conscience for the political side, will take the lead in solving the tiger problem. ”

The man named Hong Gongzi shook his head and said, "You are a person, you know that the book is too angry at a glance." As the saying goes, harsh government is fiercer than tigers, in the past Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered my Sichuan people, and now Yang Lin has entered the four (Sichuan), not to mention killing the two tigers I raised, but also to me to compensate the injured villagers around 100 taels of silver as a decoction and medicine.

There is also a loss for the cost of soup and medicine, and he didn't give me tiger meat to eat, you don't know, this tiger meat is a treasure, and he didn't give it to me, it's really unreasonable.

This Yang Lin is too good to the common people, and he is our squire. “

Looking at Hong Gongzi's arrogant appearance, Yang Lin secretly scolded this kind of inferior gentleman for relying on power to steal in the past, and now he is complaining here after losing power.