Chapter 40: The Royal Tenants

These days, Yang Yingqian is also in a hurry, and more and more homeless people come to apply, but the preparation in the early stage is seriously insufficient. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Grain is good to say, the emperor made a decree, located in the left of Tongzhou along the canal distribution of the household warehouse, finally to get out some grain, the nearby state and county officials also tightened their belts, to help support some, the homeless people came to the grange of the reclamation, how much porridge to drink.

The current problem is that there is a serious shortage of places to live, some Huangzhuang was managed by eunuchs before, there are some houses where tenants lived before, and there are some Ma Peng cowsheds, which can be renovated and renovated.

But as the number of people continues to increase, more people can only dig nests and build straw huts on the barren mountains to live. And even the ground nest and grass hut are seriously insufficient.

In order to save arable land, Yang Yingqian, Li Bingcheng and others also had a unified plan for building underground and straw sheds, and organized the tun households that had been placed nearby to dig ground and build straw huts row by row on the barren mountains, and they were in full swing.

For Yang Yingqian, the biggest problem is not the lack of food and clothing, but the lack of manpower under his subordinates, even if some of the original Huangzhuang management personnel are used, such as eunuchs and tenant leaders, it is still not enough.

In addition to continuing to ask for the recruitment of redundant soldiers and redundant personnel who had been laid off from the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, they also selected the old and prestigious ones from among the displaced people and awarded them the posts of first chief, lieutenant chief, and chief of the village.

Ten households set up a first, ten a mile, ten miles set a village. Yang Bajin, who is in his fifties, was singled out to be the new tunhu of the lieutenant in this way.

The hometown in Liaoyang was burned down by the Jianzhou Tartars as early as the Apocalypse.

Thinking of the scene when the Tartars entered the village, Yang Bajin is still scared now.

Those Jurchen Tartars with pig's tails cut down when they saw people, and the old people and children did not let go, and after killing people and robbing things, they set fire to the village and withdrew.

Fortunately, Yang Bajin took his two adult sons to the mountains to hunt, and when he saw the Tartar entering the village, he didn't dare to squeak, and hid until the Tartar left, and when he returned to the village, his parents, wives and daughters were killed, and the people in the village were all dead.

The Yang family cried to death, seeing that life could not be lived, and finally simply took his son to join the army as a servant.

The army continued to lose battles, kept dying, and there were more and more fleeing veterans, seeing that the chances of returning to his hometown were getting slimmer and slimmer, Yang Bajin simply gave up the idea of returning to his hometown, took his two sons, fled all the way south, and finally escaped into Shanghai Customs, and since then his life has been saved.

In the end, I arrived in Tongzhou, thanks to relying on the canal to eat, working for this family for a short time today, and working for that family for a long time tomorrow, in short, day after day, year after year, I actually survived tenaciously.

However, I haven't saved a little money in the past few years, and seeing that my sons are all older, I should say that my daughter-in-law can't say it, who can look down on my son who doesn't even have a penny of land at home.

What I didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty changed an emperor, it really changed the day, the emperor didn't even want his own imperial village, and wanted to give them these hard-working people, I heard that he was like this, a family of three is all strong men, and he can grant thirty acres of land, which is a great thing! The father and son decided to sign up without much combined.

After all, working the side of the canal, although you can eat with a mouthful of food, is not a long-term solution. What I didn't expect was that now not only did he divide the field, but also let Yang Xianggong fall in love with him at a glance and become the mayor, who is not big here, but he also manages hundreds of households, and there are people who understand things in private, they all call him a hundred households, and a hundred households is not a small official.

So these days, Yang Bajin with his two sons, full of energy, not only dug a nest for his own family, built a grass shed, but also led the young and strong in the middle, digging a nest for people to build a grass hut from door to door, some new tun households saw their sincerity, and also showed his two sons as a matchmaker to say that the daughter-in-law, this time the days are over and there is hope.

In a situation like Yang Bajin, of course, it is not a family or two, some of them have suffered from soldiers in their hometowns, some have suffered disasters, and some of them have too much rent collected by the landlord's family, and there is nothing left after paying.

In short, these honest people, who have experienced all kinds of misfortunes and tragedies, heard the news of the imperial court's recruitment of people to settle the land from other people's mouths, and came here with the only hope left for life, and became a new tunhu near Gyeonggi.

The conditions here are not good, but at least each family has divided the land according to the Dingkou, and the grain is given according to the head, although the house is not like a house, but at least there is hope, and in the spring, the seeds are sent, and it is the food that is planted in the summer, and it is completely their own food.

Although some of the new tun households died of illness not long after they settled down, Yang Xianggong also invited the imperial doctor to see the emperor in the tun district, set up a medical hall here, and often went to the tunzi for medical treatment, which was never heard of before.

The new residents thought so, and their hearts gradually settled down.

Although some imperial historians continued to suggest suspending the reclamation, Zhu Daming simply ignored it because he had his own news channels.

For such a major event in the imperial court as recruiting people to reclaim the people, how could Jinyiwei and Dongchang be absent. Even the Juntun Division mastered by Yang Yingqian would not be completely at ease with the hungry people who gathered from all directions.

At each recruiting point, there are Jinyiwei or Dongchang spies, and those young men who come alone to apply for recruitment will be given special care.

Each cantonment point also has informants arranged by Jinyiwei, Dongchang or Juntun Division, but if there is a little trouble, it will soon be discovered and reported, and it will not threaten the stability of each Zhuangzi at all, let alone the stability of the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi or Jingshi.

Zhu Daming is completely relieved about this. Although Zhu Daming inherited Zhu Youzhen's body, he had a soul from later generations.

In the world 400 years later, even if the concepts of democracy, human rights, and so on have filled people's minds, and even the argument that rebellion is innocent and justified is rotten, no one will be idle and want to rebel.

What's more, if the concept of the monarch and the teacher is deeply ingrained in the minds of the common people today, as long as the common people still have a bite to eat and have not been forced to a dead end, no one will think of rebelling.

As for the upcoming first year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi was in turmoil, and countless hungry people rebelled, it was also because they really couldn't survive, and if they didn't rob the big households, they would have nothing to eat, and they would starve to death if they didn't have anything to eat.

Even so, after eating the bark of grass roots and trees, those hungry people had to follow some ruffians everywhere to loot when they were cannibalistic and could not see the slightest hope.

And now, the emperor took out his own imperial village, for the hungry people to cultivate, in the era when the rent generally exceeded fifty percent, and some even reached sixty percent, seventy percent, to provide seeds and farm tools, the first year of free farming, the second year only to harvest two percent of the rent, and do not need silver, just want grain, this is simply a great thing.

The most important thing is that in the eyes of these honest homeless people, they are not ordinary tenants when they come here to apply as tenants, especially the first few batches of homeless people, who have divided the land in the imperial village, that is, they are serving as tenants to the emperor's family, and they have not become members of the emperor's family? It's hard to come across this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which head will ponder the rebellion when it gets into the water?