In the last letter, Liu Fu, the eunuch guarding the town, made it very clear that Li Meng could not be in a hurry to urge in the next letterhead, after all, he was his own elders, relying on officialdom, and he had to pay attention to proportion, but in Shandong, Li Meng always felt that it was too close to Liaodong, and there were many places in Beizhili and Pingchuan, and what he could do now was to keep making himself stronger and stronger.

These newly found soldiers and horses are all put in Dengzhou, Zhao Neng is meticulous in his work, and it is most suitable to train recruits, these recruits are still carried out as an armed salt Ding at the beginning, and the salt road in Dengzhou Mansion is well sorted out, this recruitment began in late February, and more than 3,000 people were recruited intermittently, and in mid-March, they could only stop helplessly.

The more than 3,000 people recruited, the bandits were born in Xiangma, the cavalry came to pick once, Huang Ping came to pick once, and the defeated soldiers were mostly incorporated into the auxiliary logistics department after the second round of screening, and the children of the landlords and gentry were all incorporated into the armed Yanding, speaking of which, it is these rich sons who have the possibility of becoming regular soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Although Li Meng said that he led the Ma Bu army to fight for life and death in the territory of Dengzhou Mansion, in Jiaozhou, the Tuntian government led by the new Jiaozhou Tongzhi Zhou Yang has already been vigorously launched.

Locals can't be local officials, this week when Yang sat with the same knowledge, the clerk came out of a small change, but this violation of the rules itself is already a sensation in Jiaozhou, that Zhou Yang and the general Li Meng have a close relationship, and is also criticized and despised by many scholars, thinking that there is no scholar's style at all.

The ancients Tuntian were all because of natural and man-made disasters, and there were a large number of ownerless wasteland, and Shandong Tuntian, although natural disasters and man-made disasters are also frequent, but there are not many wastelands, most of them were bought by large landlords, and the so-called annexation is also.

In the past, there were several gentry and landlords in every county and town, but because of the disasters and rebellions in recent years, the number of gentry and landlords in the northern part of Dengzhou and Laizhou was greatly reduced.

Li Meng's tuntian was to obtain land from these people, and there were two ways to obtain land, one was called purchase, and the other was called joint venture.

Those big landlords have obtained a large amount of land, but the manpower in their hands is simply not enough to cultivate so much land, and if they recruit those displaced people and disaster victims to come and cultivate, they have to put a lot of materials and money in advance, and they are not willing to do this kind of loss-making business, so a large number of abandonment and abandonment are waiting for the land price to soar to change hands and make money.

Since there are not too many benefits in hand, Li Meng came to buy here, and these landlords did not have too many objections, and it was not that there were no non-sellers, but Zhou Tongzhi made it clear that day, let's talk about the other party with a good voice, and the other party will definitely agree.

Imagine, a person who comes to buy your land with a smile and a very polite attitude, but this buyer is followed by a group of fierce men with knives, guns and sticks, do you sell it or not.

Sure enough, Zhou Juren bought a large number of fields at a "very fair" price, and the fields in Dengzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, and Qingzhou Mansion were all collected, and these fields could almost be connected into a piece.

Under the operation of Master Ning and Hou Shan, the Zheng family's Bafu Commercial Bank transited, and a large number of grain, grain varieties and tools were transported to Jiaozhou by sea.

Tuntian, recruitment, and training are all extremely expensive things, and Li Meng is really nervous about his money, and he has already begun to use his old foundation in the silver treasury.

After last year's drought, many people could not survive this winter, and many of them survived, but they faced the situation of running out of food and having no successor, and they were waiting for death.

On the one hand, the Wenxiang Sect and the Maitreya Sect took the opportunity to desperately agitate in the local area, on the other hand, there were many large farms in these three prefectures to recruit tenant farmers, and the government also strongly supported this matter.

It was also in early March, after special personnel preached in various places, a large number of landless displaced people began to move to Deng, Lai, and Qingfu, and the local government was like a great enemy, for fear that the displaced people would gather and someone would take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.

However, these three prefectures and counties are all guarded by the soldiers and horses of the Jiaozhou battalion, the soldiers are strong and strong, and the surveillance is close, but they are not worried about anyone making trouble.

By mid-March, there were more than 50,000 people, most of whom had already been placed in the simple shacks built in the grange, and were working on spring ploughing. These homeless people are purely consuming food at the moment, but Li Meng doesn't care about consumption at all, and buys it through various channels, which is why Li Meng has the way of the sea, otherwise, it is really difficult to find a source of food.

Most of the joint ventures were carried out in the Yanzhou Prefecture area, and Kong Sande, a wealthy merchant from the Confucian Mansion, came forward to purchase a large number of fields in Yanzhou Mansion and Dongchang Mansion, and recruited displaced people from all over the country to cultivate, and the fields were 70% of Kong Sande and Li Meng's 30%, but the population was completely at the disposal of Li Menglai.

For the homeless and hungry people who have endured for a year, the tuntian gives them desperate hope of survival, as long as they are willing to go to the grange to plough the fields, they will get subsistence rations, there will be farm tools and livestock to cultivate the land, and there is no need to worry about food before the harvest.

It seems that this is really a very charitable act, comparing any good people, temples and the like, but such "good deeds" also have cruel conditions, those who do not plough cattle, the harvest is 50%, those who provide cattle, the harvest is 60%, and the rest of the grain is to ensure the most basic survival needs.

Moreover, all those who farm such as the Tun Tianzhuang must sign a contract under the notarization of a public official sent by the government, and they must sign a death contract, and they will be the slaves of the owner of the grange for life, and this will be the case for generations, and their descendants will also be slaves of the master of the grange.

Many people who used to be yeoman farmers or even small landowners suddenly lost their status as free men and became undignified slaves. The conditions are very strict, but in the face of life and death, these don't matter, at least you can survive by farming in this grange, and you can avoid the oppression and harassment of bandits and officials.

More than 50,000 people, the number is not much, and more people are still waiting, wondering if this year's annual situation will be better than last year, so that the years will be relieved.

For the fact that his Tuntian government had attracted more than 50,000 people, Jiaozhou Tongzhi Zhou Yang was quite dissatisfied in his heart, and expressed his apologies in front of Li Meng several times. Li Meng told him that it was okay, saying that our Tuntian is not only for a year, but will definitely continue to be run, and there are more than 50,000 people in this month, and I believe that there will be more and more people in the future.

However, Li Meng is actually quite satisfied with these more than 50,000 people in his heart, after the year of the catastrophe, the people who can survive this winter are all strong men and women, as for those who are old and weak, they are ruthlessly eliminated by the cold winter and hunger, these more than 50,000 people have more than 20,000 households, and in normal times, the population of 20,000 households is nearly 100,000.

Those who died, those human tragedies, when they came to the center of the Jiaozhou battalion, were just cold numbers.

The silver is nervous, and there is no shortage of places to spend money, and the money in Beijing, Jinan and Nanjing has been spent, although the five prefectures have the ability to have different signs of their own military generals are defeated, but they have not obtained official permission to enter these prefectures and counties, and what they get is nothing more than acquiescence.

It's good to get a name on it, but Shandong Province has the territory of Jinan Mansion in the general town, but the generals who guard a certain place control the land of the five prefectures, which is really a bit weird, and it gives people the feeling of putting the cart before the horse.

But now, there are too many strange things, and there are not many of them in Shandong, Li Meng has made the established facts below, and then the above has been clearly written, and everything is fine.

In Li Meng's inner house, but now there are some strange situations, Gu Hengbo and Liu Ru are two daughters no longer stay in the house to entertain themselves, but take the initiative to help Mu Yunyao sort out the mansion newspaper and Tang newspaper, as well as all kinds of documents and information brought back by Hou Shan and Huang Ping, Hou Shan is traveling around as a caravan, and Huang Ping is recruiting people in the rivers and lakes through the channels of private salt in the past. The two of them are in the open and the other in the dark, and gradually unfold an intelligence network in Shandong.

These smugglers and people in the rivers and lakes naturally don't want to mention any cultural level, but by virtue of oral description, it must be unrecognizable, and now such a system is gradually forming, and the general routine things are copied into letterhead by the role of the account clerk and brought back to Jiaozhou, if there is a major situation, these people will go to a store in Jiaozhou to buy something, and will be invited into the inner room by the shopkeeper.

In the inner room, a curtain is hung down, and there is a bell on the curtain, and the reporter sits with his back to the door, and when the bell rings, he begins to state what he wants to report, and when the report is finished, the bell rings, and he goes out.

The people sitting behind the curtain are Mu Yunyao, Gu Hengbo, and Liu Ru are three daughters, and the recorded content was passed to Li Meng overnight, and signed and archived after reading.

The latest news is that the camp was defeated and retreated step by step in Shaanxi, and was targeted by the officials and troops led by Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou.......

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