After hearing that Yao Tian's troops were defeated and killed, Yuan Tao hurriedly led his troops to withdraw, and now after the direction of post-war disposal is roughly determined, Yang Lin led his troops to rush north.

Before leaving, Wang Rimeng was appointed as the inspector of the Qu County Inspection Department (an administrative unit established by the Ming Dynasty below the county, and in many places where there were not enough counties, such as the Penghu Inspection Division, or in some large counties to establish an inspection department as a branch of the county), to establish local power in the surrounding four or five bazaars to maintain local order.

Yang Wei's 2nd Infantry Division was left to garrison Baozhi Ferry to help deal with the resettlement of local rioters and stabilize local order.

With the 3rd Infantry Division of the Dragon Frame as the vanguard, he led his troops to advance to the Zengkou Inspection Division (in the Tang Dynasty, the Zengkou Inspection Division established Guiren County, and the county system was canceled in the Ming and Song dynasties).

Just left the Baozhi Ferry, the scout came to report that Li Hanyi, the director of the Ministry of Rites who was worried about Ding Wei in Qu County, raised an army to resist the Great Western Army and failed.

Ten days ago, when Yang Lin decided to preemptively lead his troops to meet the local tyrants, Li Hanyi, the director of the Ministry of Rites in Qu County, also raised troops to resist the Great Western Army.

Although the Great Western Army claims to be 500,000 into Sichuan, the actual number is only more than 100,000, and more than half of them are dependents of the army, or people who have been coerced to transport grain and grass for the army, and there are only tens of thousands of people who can really fight.

Nowadays, there are 184 counties in Sichuan, plus there are more county-level administrative units in Tingqing, although there are relatively few prefectures and counties that have not been fully developed in the Ming Dynasty, there are still more than a dozen prefectures, and more than 100,000 Western troops have entered Sichuan, just like the great river entering the sea, in addition to ensuring the absolute superiority of troops in the strategic offensive direction of the Hanzhong direction, the personnel in the local area are very limited.

Just like the past model of co-governance of officials and gentry, a county sends only a few soldiers and horses, so how easy is it to control a state and county with such a small number of manpower?

After the Great Western Army occupied Guang'an Prefecture last month, Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army of the Great Western Army, left hundreds of soldiers to guard Guang'an City and personally led the main force to attack Shunqing City.

In ancient times, the co-governance of the gentry was implemented, and the officials needed the cooperation of the gentry to effectively control the locality, and the local gentry had very great power and a very high prestige in the local area.

Li Hanyi Jinshi and the first, once served as the head of the Ministry of Rites in the imperial court, and there are many old protégés in the local area, it can be said that he responded to a hundred calls, gathered thousands of strong men in a short period of time, and then killed Guang'an Prefecture in a mighty way.

After hearing that three thousand strong men were besieging Guang'an Zhou City, Ma Yuanli was shocked and hurriedly led his troops back to help.

The two sides fought under the city of Guang'an, and three days ago Li Yi was defeated and killed, and his general Wang Shuji and others were scattered everywhere.

Yang Lin secretly sighed when he heard this, and he was frightened by the lack of information, and he felt quite melancholy because of the view of the Ming Portal.

After he led the army back to Pengzhou to take charge of the state affairs, although he won the support of the local squires, some officials thought that this matter was arrogant, and some thought that it was no different from a local tyrant.

After occupying the state and county, the local tyrants often proclaimed themselves kings and appointed state and county officials, which was no different from Yang Lin.

If there is a difference, the slight difference is that Yang Lin was born as a serious scholar, while the local tyrant is mostly a ruffian in the countryside.

Pengzhou soldiers are local soldiers, and local rioters are local mobs.

In addition, the two sides are the same, so some local gentry regard Yang Lin and Pengzhou soldiers as the second category, and are unwilling to tell secrets.

In addition to being disappointed, I also felt a sense of consolation, that is, the Li Hanyi incident once again proved that the Great Western Army was extremely weak in local rule, and that the Great Western Army needed time to consolidate the territory under its control.

After feeling worry-free, Yang Lin ordered to speed up the trip and head to the Zengkou Inspection Division.

Yuan Tao successively evacuated the Zengkou Inspection Division, Tongjiang County, and led the main force of the department to flee to Wanyuan County in the east, and in less than ten days, the officers and troops regained the above lost territory one after another.

Seeing the orderly withdrawal of the local rioters, they were worried about fraud, and the newly occupied territory needed time to consolidate, so the Zengkou Inspection Department of the Yang Lin garrison selected officials to consolidate the local rule and sent soldiers to clean up the local bandits.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the Zengkou Inspection Division had established a state and county, and now its old site has re-established Guiren County, and appointed Liu Xianfa, the county governor of Yingshan, as the county magistrate of Guiren County

Wang Guangxian, a Pengzhou official, was appointed as the magistrate of Tongjiang County.

In ancient times, the imperial court implemented the co-governance of monarchs and ministers, and the local government implemented co-governance of officials and gentry, and the new officials took office with three fires, and the first fire was that the squires from all over the country came to visit.

Xi opened more than 20 tables and looked at the squires who came to congratulate, Yang Lingao sat down and was not angry and arrogant, and asked: "Fellow villagers, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for more than 270 years, why is there a great chaos in the world in recent years, the emperor hanged the old locust tree in the coal mountain, the people are miserable and displaced, and local thieves occupy the prefectures and counties, let's talk about it, what is the reason for all this?" ”

Although Emperor Chongzhen has hanged himself under the old locust tree, the ancients were quite superstitious, and some believed in the Mandate of Heaven.

Now when I ask them, they only dare to answer that natural disasters are abnormal, that the harvest in the fields is limited, that officials are corrupt, that officials are cunning and robbing, and that the powerful bully the weak.

Seeing that the adults sat on the top and smiled without saying a word, one or two people found out the clues and asked for advice.

Yang Lin stood up, thinking that everyone only saw the appearance and did not discuss the fundamentals, the officials were corrupt and the officials were clever in taking advantage of the powerful and bullying the weak, but all this was due to the apportionment of the government and the forced labor.

Some people were puzzled and asked why, but Yang Lin slowly explained: "Everyone, in the past, there was a fixed amount of taxes for the imperial court, if the local officials could not forcibly apportion, and could not forcibly levy labor in other places, how could the people be displaced and flee to other places?"

If there is no forced apportionment and forced labor, how can officials be corrupt and officials take advantage of tricks and robbers? ”

Since ancient times, many scholars have advocated that if the government no longer forcibly appropriates and forcibly levies labor in other places, even if there is any famine, the common people do not have to fear the pain of government expropriation as in previous years.

Some still shook their heads again and again, everyone is not unaware of the disadvantages brought about by the government's apportionment and the clever seizure of the officials, but the food and silver are not born in the sky, and in addition, they have to raise soldiers to level the troubles, if not, how can they raise funds?

If the initial understanding of the crossing is still quite superficial, after this year and a half, especially the actual experience of serving as the chief of Luojiabao and acting state and county, he has already understood the drawbacks, and now he is asked to talk eloquently.

Everyone didn't understand at first, but now they suddenly realized when they heard Yang Lin say this.

Originally, the government had two sets of fish scale books, and after the layers of concealment, the actual land area and the number of people in the local area were far lower than the rated land of the household department.

It turns out that the income of each bazaar is so rich, it is simply a cornucopia, no wonder those officials and gentry are rich one by one.

Once we understand the reasons for this, it is easy to understand the policy strategy, especially since there are too many benevolent policies that are conducive to reassuring the people.

Liu Xianfa, the magistrate of Guiren County, who had just arrived, announced loudly, and everyone seemed quite enthusiastic.

1. Put an end to all apportionment, and from now on, all land will be taxed according to the principle of three grades and nine rules, with 1 bucket of rice per mu on good fertile land and 6 liters of wheat per mu on good dry land. This is the benevolent government that many scholars dream of, and it is also a benevolent government that the common people can not reach, the court nominally pays very low taxes, but if you add all kinds of apportionments, the cost is very high, everyone has already been miserable, because they can't pay the assessed taxes are often forced to displace, fleeing the famine.

2. Clean up wasteland and resettle displaced people, and all displaced people do not need to pay land and ding taxes in the first two years. This is the only way to settle displaced people in troubled times.

3. Clean up the household registration, and all adult male officials will issue identity cards free of charge. Although it was not in the past, the adults repeatedly claimed to prevent the local rioters from mixing in during the period in order to maintain social stability.

4. All adult males are given 1 money and 2 cents, and the government will no longer forcibly recruit people to serve in other places.

6. Establish a township office, select a scholar with a good local reputation, and the head of Lijia as the township head, and directly collect commercial taxes.

7. Take the township as a unit to train the first soldiers to maintain local order and ensure local tranquility.

8. Eliminate banditry and protect the safety of the people.

9. Crack down on ruffians, thieves and thieves, and sentence them to three or five years of hard labor once they are discovered.

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After the volunteers regained Tongjiang County and the Zengkou Inspection Division, everyone was either worried about the government's apportionment, or worried about the forced conscription of labor to transport military supplies.

Before President Wen came to power in the 21st century, there were three mountains on the common people, namely, the government's apportionment, the government's forced labor, and some tenants' rent.

Although the new policies of establishing township offices, expropriating commercial taxes, clearing land, and cleaning up household registration were quite controversial, they were not a matter of apportionment by the government and forced labor by the government.