"Proprietor, please look at the map."

Li Xiangfu has become very busy recently, his vitality and confidence seem to have returned to him, he didn't think that so many big things would happen in his eyes, seeing that Li Zhuang is changing day by day, he is full of vitality.

Zhang Han gave him a monthly salary of fifteen taels, which was ten times his previous income.

A map appeared in front of Zhang Han's eyes, and he looked at it with interest.

The place where they are located is in the northwest corner of Datong Province, where there are mountains on both sides, only along the Sanggan River and the Yanghe River is a large plain area, Xinping Fort is due east of the edge of the mountain, and in the east of Lizhuang is Yongjia Fort, which is a dilapidated small fort, guarding the Daliang Mountain Range and Chong important places, to the southwest is Tiancheng and Zhenyu Acropolis, and then to the south is Baideng, Xujiazhuang Fort, and then to the south is a large area of mountains, and then Hunyuan Prefecture, Lingqiu, Ulzhou.

These places belong to Datong Prefecture, administratively belong to the Shanxi Buzheng Division, and militarily belong to the defense area of Datong Town.

"From Yongjia Fort to Xujiazhuang Fort, there are two acropolis, and then south to Shitiling, Chaoling Pass, a radius of about 200 li, the cultivated land is 330,000 mu according to the yellow book of the government, mainly in the name of the two guards, of which ninety percent of the military land has been occupied by the officers above the command, and the military households only have a small amount of land, most of which are for the generals as tenant farmers. In addition, there are 110,000 acres of people, which are cultivated by the people living in the two guards, adding up to 440,000 mu, we have surveyed, there are 517 households with more than 100 acres of land, they account for 60 percent of the land, most of them are military attaches of the guard or meritorious talents and people, there are more than 2,700 households from 10 to 30 acres of land, they account for 30 percent, and there are 35 acres of land, there are more than 4,000 households, accounting for only 10 percent, and there are 700 households who have no land and only carry work for others. ”

Zhang Han praised: "You did a good job in this matter, Lao Li, it's really good." ”

Li Xiangfu said: "Li Dongxue and Mr. Wang are both better than me, and the dozens of boys sent by the proprietor are very capable. ”

Li Xiangfu continued: "Most of the land we buy now is the land of the ancestor who has a meritorious name, and now it is the land of the landlord who is white, and also buys the land of ordinary people, the price of the proprietor is high, and there are many people who are willing to sell. In addition, the military attache of the guard has sold a lot, and the proprietor has recently hired a lot of people, and the tenant price has fallen sharply, and they know that they can't afford to provoke the proprietor, so it is better to sell the map to be clean, so that the total sum of all kinds of land is about 27,000 mu......"

Zhang Han said: "It's still not much, it's still far from my idea of buying more than 100,000 acres." ”

Li Xiangfu took out a larger map, which marked the land that had been bought, and he unfolded it to show Zhang Han: "The proprietor, in fact, buying land is a matter of luck, not a matter of urgency. Back then, the old lady was also lucky, and bought the big village of Li Zhuang at once, in fact, many families have accumulated only a few thousand acres of land for decades. ”

After all, the amount of arable land here in Shanxi is small, Zhang Han thought.

If there is a place like Shandong, where there is a lot of land and not many relatives and vassals, I am afraid that as long as there is money, it will not be very difficult to buy 100,000 mu in a short period of time, especially in some military fields, most of the acres of land are occupied by military officers, military households have fled, and a lot of land has been abandoned.

Hebei, that is, the land of Beizhili, seven or eight out of ten have been divided by Xungui, and it is ten times more difficult to buy land there than in Shanxi.

There is a lot of land along the edge of the Great Wall, especially in the area of Xuanfu East Road, but it is unlikely that Zhang Han will go to Tuntian over there.

The land on this side of Datong is also an inverted pyramid type, the poorest ones really have the least land, and then the least part of the people holds the most land.

It's not surprising that the land of the guard has been bought, the military attaches have a good feeling of strength, Zhang Han's back, Jing is deep, the power is above them, and these people who are pressing them to sell land have nothing to say, Tianchengwei's palm print command and Zhenyuwei's palm print have long been taken by Zhang Han, and they will never take Zhang Han as an ordinary hundred households, and most ordinary military attaches will cooperate obediently after Zhang Han's people come to the door.

"Meritorious and famous talents and masters don't ...... in front of us at all" Li Xiangfu said: "Only a few agree to sell the land, mainly because the year is not good, the land is not valuable, and they are moved by the high price we give. ”

Zhang Han smiled bitterly: "The price I gave, according to the current time, is enough for them to collect fifty years of rent, and they still hold it in the palm of their hands, why bother." ”

"The proprietor doesn't know ......" Li Yujing, who has been silent, said: "If you grasp the bones in your hands, people's hearts will be at ease, thinking about passing on the industry to future generations, no matter how good the silver is, you have to bury it in the ground at home, and your heart is not steady, it is better to feel stable with real estate." ”

Zhang Han said: "Does everyone think like this? ”

Both the tent and the steward laughed, and the two gray-haired fellows nodded together.

Li Yujing said: "In the past few years, we and the three shopkeepers of Yusheng have not bought much land, and the three cabinets originally had no land, but this year they have bought more than 100 acres of land, and the shopkeepers of other branches have bought a lot of land in the past six months." The proprietor, you are equivalent to recruiting half a battalion of soldiers here, and the future officers will not be able to catch up with the shopkeeper sooner or later, they are originally one, and they will definitely be red when they see others buying land, and now the proprietor will settle some land early, and in the future, he will be rewarded to his powerful subordinates, so that everyone will benefit together, and everything will be easy to do. ”

Zhang Han nodded when he listened to it before, but the more he felt wrong when he listened to it...... He paid out to raise archers, in fact, it is to train his own private soldiers, and he will come in handy in the future, his vision is getting wider and wider, and the ideas in his heart have long been different from last year, and the current situation has also prompted him to go up more and more, and he is not sure how many big things he must do in the future, but it does not mean that the current pattern is to make a bunch of large and small landlords.

But people's hearts are like this, if he buys a lot of land, there are indeed many people who covet it, if he has more than 100,000 or 200,000 mu of land in his hands, but he still refuses to give it to his subordinates, I am afraid that people's hearts will be unconvinced, and there will be chaos.

Zhang Han was very confused for a while, feeling that there were many things he hadn't figured out, and sure enough, the role of the superior was not easy to play, the original intention of one thing was to go east, and as he walked, he changed, and the road went astray.

In this day and age, a misguided path is not only troublesome, but may lead to bankruptcy.

He pressed the corners of his forehead, precipitated for a moment, and then said to the two people in front of him: "I looked at the map just now, the land we bought now is fine, most of them are together, not very far apart, don't buy them again, don't buy them far away, and slowly start to connect the ones you bought together." It is not easy for people with merit and fame to buy land, let alone use force, and it is troublesome to offend many people, so let it go first, don't look aggressive. ”

Li Xiangfu was worried just now that the proprietor blamed himself for not doing his job well, he bought too little land, everything in front of him was in full swing, and others were doing things for the proprietor, and they were doing very well, but the things at hand were tepid, and the effect was not very good. You must know that the owner has money, the silver is stacked there, there is a land deed and there is silver, and the governor is behind the back, the chief soldier, the deputy chief soldier, the guard commander, the soldier is prepared, so many big people are behind the back, it is really rich and powerful, and the owner is young, afraid of being impatient, and has a big temperament, but Zhang Han is very calm and calm now, and he is not in a hurry to get angry, Li Xiangfu feels very admired in his heart, thinking that the proprietor has such a situation in front of him at such an age, and it is really not in vain.

Li Yujing was also happy in his heart, he was worried that the silver would be used too quickly, so he also stood up and really greeted Zhang Han.

After Li Xiangfu said goodbye and went out, Li Yujing was about to leave, Zhang Han stopped him, and said with a smile: "The account office will look for Wang Yong in a while, and tell Wang Yong the names of the shopkeepers who have bought land in the past six months." ”

Li Yujing took a sign and regretted that he was a little talkative, and this time I was afraid that he would offend people. He didn't know what Zhang Han was going to do, so he quickly agreed and walked out.

……

Zhang Han was busy until midnight, and he had too many things on hand recently, and there was no way to go to Lingqiu if he wanted to. The number of archers is now six hundred, and he plans to recruit three hundred willing miners in the mines, and continue to recruit people in the mines.

Half peasants, half miners, Zhang Han planned to use these people to build a strong army that was not under the Jurchens, or even far surpassed them, and became the strongest army in East Asia in this era.

The Chinese do not have the reputation of a fighting nation, but Zhang Han feels that the Chinese are also an out-and-out fighting nation. It's just that this nation has accumulated too many impurities, after all, it is one of the oldest civilized races, and for thousands of years, the spirit of martial arts will inevitably be missing, and there are too many cultural, educational, political, economic, and all kinds of nonsense, which have seriously affected the military.

If these are straightened out a little, the Chinese will also be able to fight to the end and have greater resilience.

After midnight, Jiang Kui came in to take a look, Zhang Han saw him at a glance, and scolded with a smile: "What does it look like." ”

Jiang Kui said: "Wang Yong is here, asked me to come in to see if the proprietor is asleep, I said that the proprietor hasn't taken a bath yet, most of the time he hasn't slept, but I don't know if he's busy......"

Zhang Han said: "You are getting more and more of your wife's tongue now, wordy...... Call him in. ”

Jiang Kui smiled and strode out to call Wang Yong in.

Wang Yong came in and made a neat military salute, this military salute was also invented by Zhang Han, different from the Liaodong Army's kneeling salute, it is not a bow and a fork of hands, of course, don't kneel, it is a horizontal fist in the chest, Zhang Han feels that this action is very beautiful, a little powerful and neat, in line with the style and habits of soldiers, no matter where you have seen it, anyway, it will be used.

The field and special service personnel also wore formal archer uniforms, Zhang Han was very short of anything else, silver and materials were the most, and fabrics were available.

The gray fabric used, Zhang Han does not plan to use cyan and red, he intends that his troops are different from the ordinary Ming army, so that it is easy to establish his own team centripetal force and sense of honor, and it is best to have the feeling of "Lao Tzu is not an ordinary border army".