Chapter 68: Return to Pengzhou
The Dashun army entered Boryeong Mansion and everyone was frightened, and a few days ago, the local people were panicked, and some wealthy families were preparing to drag their children back to the countryside.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong's troops and horses, in order to raise military rations, often looted the official grain depots, robbed local households, everyone walked all the way to eat all the way, and then moved to another place after eating a place and eating the mountains and empty land.
Because Sichuan is adjacent to Shaanxi, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have entered Sichuan many times in history, and everyone is familiar with the scourge of the Liukou, and they are complaining about the chaos in the world one by one.
Zhizhou Xu Kongtu came out in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "Ruzhen, why did you suddenly lead your troops back?" Could it be that it was the decree of the king of Shu? ”
Hearing its meaning, it seems that he has been ordered by the Shu Wangfu to control the military and political affairs of Pengzhou, but he didn't expect that the other party would be like this when he first met, Yang Lin frowned and shook his head again and again: "Lord Zhouzun, my Pengzhou soldiers were originally local soldiers, and it is the responsibility to defend the land and protect the family, but now the Liukou wants to offend my state and county, and the brothers can't bear to poison their hometown, so I am forced by everyone to lead the army back, I hope you and I can work together to defend the peace of the state." ”
With a long sigh of relief, Xu Kongtu sighed and said: "Now that the current affairs are difficult, everyone should abandon the previous suspicions, and now Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops are flocking to the provincial capital, and Li Yutian Ma Ke's Liaodong soldiers and horses are even more wanton in northern Sichuan, how to ensure the peace of the Quartet still needs to be paid attention to by Ru Zhenna." ”
In addition to cleaning up corrupt officials and recruiting blacksmiths, most of the others were advocated by Yang Lin in the past, and seeing that a few officials who were close to him were liquidated, Xu Kongtu couldn't bear it and pleaded for mercy.
Next to him, Yang Wei said angrily: "Why do you, a dog official, get angry in the same nostril as these corrupt officials and corrupt officials?" Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are rampant all over the world under the slogan of punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, you are now reluctant to even a few corrupt officials and corrupt officials, do you want to entrust hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in my Hezhou to the hands of the rogues? ”
Xu Kongtu was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything at all?
Now the world is turned upside down, for the sake of the day is to maintain local order, stabilize the people's hearts, after a little contemplation, Yang Lin formulated an administrative strategy, now the most important thing is to stabilize the people's hearts, is to increase taxes, is to enhance their own strength.
But now it is the autumn harvest season, such as recruiting soldiers and horses, training soldiers, and building weapons, these things cannot be done now, that will delay the agricultural time, what we need to do now is how to calm the people's hearts, how to increase taxes and such things, such as:
1. Establish a general yamen in the state city to handle relevant military affairs.
2. Release the conscripted laborers and make them go home to farm and help with the autumn harvest and autumn ploughing.
3. Dispatch troops and horses to other counties to control the local area and stabilize the people's hearts.
4. Clean up the corrupt officials in the yamen, especially the confiscation of the property of eight notorious officials such as the seal of the head of the county house
5. Cast anti-donation people.
6. Put an end to apportionment, according to the imperial court quota of 1 bucket per mu of fertile land, 6 liters per mu of dry land, and 1 money and 2 cents of adult Zhuang Ding Ding.
7. Resettle displaced people and distribute grain and livestock for farming.
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After the Pengzhou soldiers returned to help, Yang Wei's 2nd Division was stationed in Yingshan, and Liao Qifang was stationed in the 4th Division and stationed in Yilong, some local people who did good things did not dare to do evil anymore and fanned the flames to disturb the people's hearts.
In addition, after seeing what the government did, the people rushed to tell each other, and everyone was a little relieved.
First of all, two months ago, all the labor that was levied and paid for the military was released, which is a great news, because in ancient times, the men in the families were not developed, and the men were often called up for as short as half a year, and the elderly were several years, and sometimes their wives were separated and their families were ruined.
Now seeing that after returning from conscription, the family cried when they saw each other, and the family no longer had to be separated, and now they can live in peace.
Talking about life in the army, these hard laborers praised one by one in unison, Mr. Qian is really a good person, the brothers do not beat the military stick to punish when they run away, and often send people to reason with everyone, and now let everyone back,
Quickly a piece of news spread to all corners, and Qian always felt that the levy of labor would affect the livelihood of the people, and decided to establish a special baggage force in the army, and from now on no longer levy and labor.
Seeing that he was put back from conscription in the past, and after hearing that the lieutenant general was no longer conscripted for labor, everyone was grateful to Dade one by one, and said to everyone that the master of the sky was blue.
In addition to no longer levying labor, the greatest impact on the people is that the government has abolished all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, repainted slogans on the stone walls of major intersections, and announced one by one that the government will no longer levy labor to other counties from today, and from today onwards, the good land will be given 1 bucket of rice per mu, and the good dry land will be given 6 liters per mu.
As long as there are no natural disasters and paddy fields can receive 2 and 3 catties of grain a year (one hundred and fifty catties, and 350-450 catties of rice can be harvested in the general field), a bucket of rice needs about 1 bucket of 7 liters of grain, and the level of field tax collection has reached 8%, but it is at least nearly half less than in previous years.
Overnight, the story of President Qian's opposition to the government's expropriation and extortion spread again, and now everyone is competing to recite it, not to mention how urgent the government's expropriation was at the end of last year, and the people were shackled and shackled after a little delay, and some were even put in prison.
This thousand generals are really bodhisattvas, forcing officials in the state and county to collect taxes according to the imperial court quota, and for this reason, the corrupt officials were imprisoned again this year.
Chinese people have clean officials, they all look forward to meeting Qing officials, they all hope that the world is peaceful, Bao Zheng's story is false, false and true, and the people are happy to do it for thousands of years, and now after the thousand presidents who oppose apportionment and advocate collecting taxes according to the fixed amount of the imperial court come back, the only thing everyone expects is that God will bless each other with peace and security, and live a long life.
If it is said that the non-levy of labor has stabilized the people's hearts, and the collection of taxes according to the amount of the imperial court has not been forcibly apportioned to stabilize the people's feelings, and then the punishment of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is really very happy.
Fortunately, news came from the place again that those officials with great public resentment had their homes raided, and some were even executed in public.
For more than 20 years, the real power exceeds that of the county and the head of the Pengzhou household, and the seal of the owner of the house has been investigated, and the silver alone has been copied as much as 10,000 taels, which is simply shocking.
After the public interrogation, Wu Yinqi was thrown into a prisoner's car and paraded through the streets before being stabbed to death, and as many as eight officials were investigated at the same time.
Thinking of the past days when the government was rampant and expropriated, forcibly apportioned and separated everyone's wives and caused the destruction of their families, the convoy passed by everyone cheering and shouting, and some even threw sundries at the prisoner car.
The Chinese pay attention to the three fires of the new official taking office, and after Yang Lin led his troops back to Pengzhou, these three fires can burn everyone's hearts, and everyone talks about meeting the master of Qingtian.