At the beginning of the second year of Longwu (1646), the Ming Pavilion Governor calmed down the division of Zunyi, discussed the plan of resuming the suppression, and then decided to restore the southern Hunan with the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yixing, leading the general army Gan Liangchen, Li Chaogui, Ye Xianggao, and Lei Kefu.

Governor Ma Gandu led the generals Zeng Ying, Wang Xiang, Wang Qi, Chen Shixian, Feng Chaoxuan, and Yang Zhenwen into Neijiang.

Adjutant General Yang Zhandu led Yu Chaozong, Li Chaogui, Xiang Chenggong and other Ming armies to attack Jiading with Cao Xun and Liu Daozhen, the rebel army in the direction of Liya.

The main force of the Ming army attacked from three sides, so it was particularly important for Shunqing Mansion in northern Sichuan (historically, it was the governor Gan Liangchen, Yu Chaozong, An Bangcai, etc. to attack Shunqing City), if Shunqing was dispatched in the direction, it was surrounded on all sides.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces in Zunyi, sent a number of officials, together with Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang, who arrived in advance, to constantly lobby, hoping that Yang Lin would march into Tongchuan and encircle the Great Western Army.

Although Zhu Shuying confessed to the envoy through Zhu Shuying, these people had the posture of vowing not to give up until they reached their goal, and asked to enter the army when they had a little time.

In history, Zhang Xianzhong died in Xichong, north of Shunqing Mansion, in order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, Yang Lin was cautious, always meditating on the map, pondering how to avoid the recurrence of the tragedy of the Sichuan Massacre at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and how to avoid the barbaric Qing Dynasty entering Sichuan.

On this day, Yang Lin sat high in the lobby and discussed with everyone about the collection of spring grain.

In the peaceful years, each load of rice was only 7,8 yuan of silver, and now it is now at the level of 1 tael and 2 yuan, which has already exceeded the level of famine years (in history, the price of rice will generally rise to more than 1 tael of silver when the green and yellow are not harvested).

Since Zhang Juzheng's whip law, the focus is that the people no longer pay grain but pay silver taels.

Since then, although it has been repeated many times, the phenomenon of alternating payment of grain and silver has been formed among the people.

In the previous life, there was an old man who said that he had food in his hands, and he was not panicked, and now he is in the depths of the troubled times, so he has collected all the grain since he became an official.

Although admiration is admired, but the people do not see it that way, some squires suggest resuming the collection of money taels, and some complain about the difficulty of grain transportation.

The private payment of land needs to be transported to the county, just like the previous life to pay for the requisition, many remote mountainous areas need to travel for several days, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and now the price of grain has risen again, and the people's complaints can be imagined.

Just as in the past, when the government regarded grain collection as a top priority and often held telephone conferences during the grain harvest season, today the county lords are all here, and everyone gathers together to discuss how to collect grain.

Some of them even called for more troubled people in troubled times, and adults canceled apportionment, and now the soldiers are in chaos or lightly punished, these people don't know how to repay their kindness, in order to clean up the place, they should really arrest a group and kill a group.

Some frankly admit that the plight of the people, especially those far away from the county seat, takes several days to travel back and forth, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also delays farming.

Due to the large-scale plundering of animal power by rogues and local tyrants, there is a great shortage of livestock among the people today, often several times that of before, and the cultivated land is limited.

Some suggested restoring the practice of the Taizu period, and during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, he appointed a large household as the head of the first household to lead the first to transport grain.

However, this practice has many drawbacks: ostensibly assigning the pressure of grain transportation to the rich households, but the big fish eat the small fish and the small fish eat the shrimp, and those rich households often very cleverly transfer the pressure of grain transportation to poor farmers.

For thousands of years, conscription was as horrible as criminal exile, and if some people heard about the conscripts, some would prefer to flee the famine, and the society could fall into turmoil again.

Yang Lin frowned, stood up and pondered for a long time, and finally paid attention, glanced at everyone and said: "Each of our counties and counties has a few hundred miles, and many are hundreds of miles.

We have waited for many people to come from the people, just take the year before last as a land protector (chief) to serve the teacher Chen Gong to transport grain, only more than 30 miles is difficult, now the people are transporting grain hundreds of miles away, it is inevitable that there will be complaints. ”

When everyone heard this, they stopped arguing, and some of the old people knew that adults might have ideas, and unlike other pedantic scholars, adults were resourceful and could solve any problem.

It was quite disappointing, Yang Lin didn't directly say what he had in mind at all, and asked Fan Wenguang, the prefect of Shunqing next to him, sideways, and asked the adults around him, how much grain is in the treasury?

Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the strategy of building high walls and accumulating grain to slow down the kingship when he was competing for the world, and after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it was even more so as an agricultural dynasty.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, felt that there was a lot of grain in various places to change the grain, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were rampant in the world, often laying down a state and county for several days, and the grain was almost eaten, so the next state and county were chosen.

Although the prefectures and counties of Shunqing Prefecture were once occupied by the Dashun Army and the Great Western Army, the food consumption was also quite large, but after more than a year of recovery.

Roughly calculated, there are 200,000 quintals of grain in the warehouses of various places, but there are less than 70,000 quintals in Shunqing Fucheng.

After making great efforts, Shunqing Mansion has basically recovered eight or nine percent, Dazhou has recovered six or seven percent, and Bazhou has less than fifty percent, even so, the annual field endowment is more than 200,000 quintals.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin had an idea:

Just as in the past there were grain stations in every township, now every market has a township office, and it is completely possible to set up temporary warehouses on the spot to collect grain on behalf of them.

The people need to hand over the grain to the township office within a month, and then the township office will rent a boat to transport it to the state and county treasury, and the expenses during this period will be borne by the yamen.

In view of the government's collection of grain for personal gain, some of them even filled their own pockets, and during the Hongwu period, because of the phenomenon of officials taking advantage of the people and paying more grain, they opened up private grain merchants to collect grain on their behalf.

In addition to handing over the grain to the government, the people can also choose to hand it over to the designated grain merchants, and the county will designate 7-8 grain merchants.

The big grain merchants paid the corresponding silver taels in accordance with the agreement signed with the government.

Some people are worried that the government will not accept food and force people to sell food to traders, but everyone thinks that there are enough measures to prevent it:

Just like the business personnel in the previous life relied on commissions, the township chiefs and errand servants in the township office mainly relied on commissions in addition to receiving regular salaries.

On weekdays, there is a certain commission for the collection of commercial and customs levies.

There is also a commission for the collection of land and ding.

If the people pay the grain to the merchants, and then hand over the bills to the government, the township chief, the commissioner, and the chief of the lijia in the township office are only 50 and 1, and if they pay in kind, it is 20 and 1.

In this way, the people deliberately choose the best grain, which can be handed over to the township office or the neighboring township office, and can also be handed over to the grain merchant to reduce the intermediate exploitation.

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and they couldn't imagine that the township office had so many benefits.

After more than two years of practical development, the rural grassroots organizations have basically developed and matured, that is, on the basis of the past Lijia system, they have combined with ready-made bazaars to establish township offices.

Generally, the township office with less than 10,000 people has 1 township head and 1 tolerance.

After that, for every 5,000 additional people, or the geographical location, the degree of commercial development is different, and the tolerance is increased by 1.

For the number of more than 20,000 people, it is generally renamed the town office, although the Ming Dynasty did not develop much in the mountains, a lot of flat land has already been fully developed, just like in Nanchong County, Guang'an County and other economically developed counties, there is such a town.

After more than two years of operation, the responsibilities of the township office have basically begun to take shape, that is, it is mainly responsible for: the collection of commercial taxes (just to catch up with the collection of commercial taxes), the construction of roads and rivers, the prevention and control of thieves, and the verification of the population.

Assist in the administrative work of the county government in two shifts and eight rooms:

Assist the fast squad in the hunt down of thieves

Assist the strong class to maintain local order and manage the population.

Assist households in clearing land.

Assist the treasury to collect land endowments, ding endowments, and commercial endowments

Assist in the local construction of industrial and commercial households, and manage industrial and commercial households in the jurisdiction.

Assist in the renovation of roads and waterways.

Assist in the formation of soldiers in the barracks and take care of military families.

Assist in the management of the placement of criminals in the punishment room.

Recommend excellent lieutenant commanders and excellent lieutenant soldiers to the officials' room.

In addition to recruiting grain and grass, as a modern person, I feel how to stabilize prices, and now in the troubled times, the society is disturbed, and the slightest wind and grass will cause price fluctuations.

In the peaceful era, the price of rice was only 7,8 yuan a load, but now because of the serious abandonment in various places, coupled with the fact that the people's army is in full swing to annihilate the Liukou, the price of rice in the market has been 1 tael and 3 yuan of silver.

If the fighting continues, the price of rice will rise and fall, and the craftsmen in the city may fall into abject poverty.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin decided to intervene in the price of rice:

Now there are many displaced people, according to the past practice, the yamen set up porridge shacks, and the displaced people wander into the city and wait for porridge to eat every day.

At present, the county government will make unified resettlement, and a part of the grain collected by the township office will be allocated to each person, and the grain will be loaned in installments according to the practice of lending 5 liters per 10 days for each household.

As a result of the instalment loans, it is impossible for the displaced people to continue to flow immediately after receiving food in order to obtain food.

In addition, the agricultural cycle is very short, as long as the grain is borrowed, it will take less than a quarter to produce grain, so there is no need to continue to borrow for the next year.

Only 3 buckets of food per person are needed to save a human life.