From strict checks, to the closure of borders. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Huang Zongxi had previously warned that the potential possibility had been officially placed in front of him, which made Chen Wen completely understand why the number of people from the prefectures and counties in the Qing army-occupied areas who came to the Ming army-occupied areas in Zhejiang to serve and report after this great victory was much lower than in the past.

Nowadays, the main income of the Ming army occupied by the Ming army in Zhejiang is the summer and autumn grain tax. In recent years, Sun Yu has been trying his best to crack down on corruption, so that the rule of officials in the Ming army occupied by the Ming army in Zhejiang has far exceeded that of the Qing army, and it cannot be compared with the late Ming Dynasty. These are all in the eyes of the gentry and businessmen of the four prefectures of Jinqu.

The improvement of the rule of local officials, coupled with the strong appeal of the well-dressed civilization, has made the originally dilapidated Ming army occupied areas continue to recover. However, the implementation of the order on the division of military merit and land has made the newly added land in each county basically tax-free military land, and the fiscal revenue has not been improved, so it can only rely on continuous expansion to improve its own strength, and there is no other way.

The blockade will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the population inflow from the areas occupied by the Ming army, and the circulation of goods will inevitably be greatly affected, which is intolerable for Chen Wen, who has only four prefectures.

The way to break the situation is nothing more than to try to break the blockade, but even if the army is sent to raid frequently, Hong Chengchou can continue the blockade at any cost, not only does the gain outweigh the loss, but it may cause too many unnecessary losses.

As for bribery, with the temperament of the butcher Hong, he could use the heads of those officials who took bribes to increase his prestige and make room for his Nanchang shogunate officials, which was something that Chen Wen did not want to see. Because of how much threat the former Hong's Changsha Shogunate caused to the Great Western Army and the Southwest Anti-Qing Righteous Army - recruiting and accepting rebellions, dividing and disintegrating the will of the people to resist the Qing Dynasty, restoring the local people's livelihood to support the army, destroying the small-scale anti-Qing forces, and resisting the counteroffensive of the Ming Army in the southwest, these are always remembered by him, and the loss of personnel and materials is far stronger than allowing the Nanchang Shogunate to give full play to its strength!

The next day was the day of Guining, Chen Wen took Zhou Yueying back to Zhou's house step by step, and returned to Hou's mansion at dusk in the afternoon. The first month of the wedding is not empty, from top to bottom no one thinks anything is abnormal, that is, in the evening, after Chen Wen returned to the Hou Mansion, Zhang Jun was recruited into the inner courtyard, and no one was surprised - Zhang Jun was Chen Wen's first personal army captain, according to the usual view of this era, he could be regarded as the head of the Chen family, and it was normal for Zhang Jun to come to meet the new lady here.

However, the next day, Zhang Jun temporarily ended his martial arts academy class and disappeared into the busy crowd in the vibrant Jinhua Mansion.

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Guining came back, and Chen Wen's marriage leave also ended. It is not a state of war, but there is not a lot of work at hand, compared with those predecessors who can reverse the future by pretending to be forced and soaking a girl every day, Chen Wen found that he was really not a human to do it. The only thing to be thankful for is that after being on duty and returning to the inner courtyard, there is finally a close person who is warm and considerate, which is much stronger than when he was a single person before.

It is not as hard as Chen Wen, the commander of the military affairs of Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Jiangxi provinces, and Shi Daniu, the captain of the fourth Mandarin Duck Formation killer team of the first bureau of the Nantang Battalion, who has just been appointed for a long time, but has the comfort of a small person.

After the war, the rotation of leave, the special leave of land division and the marriage leave of marrying his wife, together, Shi Daniu will be able to stay at home for more than a month this summer.

In the past month or so, in addition to dividing the land and handling the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law, Shi Daniu has not been idle. Even if he has just become a parent, it is the old lady who is eagerly looking forward to taking advantage of the easy vacation to accompany the new daughter-in-law more, so that he can hold his grandson as soon as possible, and he is not idle. When he got up early in the morning, Shi Daniu followed his father to work in the fields outside the village.

This time, the Nantang battalion first shared with the other three battalions the credit of the total annihilation of the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian and the recovery of Jiangshan County, and then the four provincial capitals were suppressed, and they ran for more than 100 miles in one night, defeated the Eight Banners of the Han Army in a battle, and captured a large number of officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, including Shi Tingzhu.

He alone divided 100 acres of land, although some of them were not paddy fields, but mulberry fields, and all the other fields were in Quzhou, but the abject poverty when he came out of his hometown no longer existed. Now their Shi family is also a small landlord with a face in the village, otherwise how could the old Han family, who has a son in the civil service training class, be willing to marry his precious daughter to him.

If you cultivate intensively, it is good for a man to take a five-acre land, and several times the land is divided, not to mention the tenants in the village, even those yeoman farmers who do not have much land at home also occupy the land of him and another comrade's family, plus the land of those gentry and wealthy households is also recruiting, so that even the tenants cannot be found this time.

There is no need to pay field taxes for military merit, and military households do not have taxes and conscriptions, but the land is really distressed, so they take advantage of Shi Daniu, a strong laborer, to plant those mulberry trees when he is at home, and the rest of the family can be dealt with more or less by a few female dependents.

As for why so many mulberry fields were distributed this time, it is said that the officers and non-commissioned officers who had distributed paddy fields were the same, and in the future, silkworm cocoons and silk were also purchased by the Wei Institute, and they were not allowed to sell them to traders without permission.

"Phew, that fake tartar also deserves the surname Shi?"

I got up so early in the morning and went out to work without eating, but fortunately, within an hour the old lady, my wife and my youngest sister brought food and water. The old lady deliberately asked, the father's indifference, the younger sister was obviously tired of hearing it, but the wife who had just passed the door was full of curiosity, obviously she hadn't heard of this strange news.

"The first-class Jingqi Nihafan, the Han army is inlaid with red flags and solid mountains and real stone pillars, the marquis said, if it is translated according to the title in ancient times, it should be a viscount. We don't have a viscount, but it seems to be a little lower than the earl. ”

I haven't been to the martial arts school, and Shi Daniu doesn't know very well what level of official this first-class Jingqi Niha Fan Han Army with red flag Gushan Ezhen is, but the prison officer said that he caught this fake Tartar with the same surname as him, and the credit is not small, not to mention the Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun last time, even Chen Jin can't compare with it.

"My son is Yingwu, a lord of a Tartar......"

It's the credit of the Nantang camp, yes, but I didn't take it personally.

The old lady has been accumulating prestige for a long time, and she slandered her, not to mention that it was Shi Da Niu, even his father didn't dare to say it. But looking at the adoring look on his newlywed wife's face, even Shi Daniu's chest couldn't help but rise with a heroic aura.

After swallowing the food in his hand and pouring a large bowl of water, Shi Da Niu got up and went to carry the bucket containing the dung water.

His home is not far from the boot camp, and the manure of people and animals in those large camps will be more or less distributed to the military households near them to fertilize the fields. However, when the construction of the common thatched hut began in the town, the white manure was gone, and the officers on the other side of the camp said that it was a pile of dung and nitrate, so the benefit was cancelled.

Pile up the manure together to produce saltpeter?

Not only did these military households not understand, but even Shi Daniu didn't understand what was going on, so a group of military households went to the recruit training camp to make trouble at that time. After all, the welfare of Bai Lai is gone, and every household has officers and non-commissioned officers of different ranks, so these "corrupt officials" have to redistribute the feces to them.

The result can be imagined, there can be no benefits that have not been recognized, but nitrate must be had. However, in the future, someone came to collect the nitrate in the corner of the wall and the thatched toilet, and the three copper plates and two copper coins were also money.

In the countryside, the manure is the treasure of the farmer's fertile field, and the manure produced by the family is soaked in water and fermented and then poured back into the soil of the family, and the fertilizer water does not flow into the field of outsiders, which is what is said.

"Da Niu, let your father do this job, it's easy to go home and rest for a few days, don't be tired."

Similar words, Shi Da Niu doesn't know how many times he has heard it in the past two days, although he is the eldest son, but in the past, he was never the kind of baby bump that he was afraid of melting in his mouth and afraid of falling in his hand. As for why his wife always didn't let him work in the past two days, he can more or less understand it - he is tired during the day, and he sleeps at night, when will his grandson be able to hug him!

"Mother, I told my daughter-in-law that when I have a second son, I will pass it on to Erniu and don't let him cut off the incense."

She didn't want to do this, after all, who wants her own children to be raised by others. But if you think about it carefully, Shi Erniu is not married, the nominal adoptive, the child is still supported by his own family, and he can share more plots of land, which is always a good thing. At this moment, seeing Shi Daniu's old lady, she looked at her in surprise, and Shi Daniu's wife hurriedly said: "Mother, this matter, I listen to the master, the second uncle has paid so much for our old Shi family, I can't let him cut off the incense." ”

Hearing this, Shi Daniu's old lady's tears immediately surged into her eyes, and she looked at her daughter-in-law with great love, and even held her daughter-in-law's hands in her hands, not knowing what to say for a while.

It's not that Shi Daniu has any thoughts, this idea was originally proposed by his wife, but he doesn't know how to tell his new daughter-in-law. According to the rules of the army, if a child is a fallen soldier, the army will give him a boy to raise and inherit his surname, land, and property, as a righteous son to extend incense. This is a benefit in the army, although everyone wants to have biological children, but when they go into battle, who knows what will happen, this policy has been implemented for many years, just in case.

It has been a year since Shi Erniu was killed, and the officials in charge have also asked, considering that Shi Erniu also has a brother, and the successor can also go from his own house, the Shi family also pressed his handprint in the yamen, and he can go through the formalities when the child is born. It's just that Shi Daniu has just gotten married now, and the eldest son hasn't yet, so Shi Daniu's wife is not embarrassed to mention it to her daughter-in-law, who knows that his son has said it, and her daughter-in-law has no objections, which really moved her.

It's all the meat that fell from her own body, although the big cow and the second cow are far less favored than the younger son, but her own son has no heirs, which she doesn't want to see after all. Da Niu was willing to give his younger brother a child, and his daughter-in-law did not disagree, and the family settled the matter amicably, and there was a big deal in their hearts. Besides, the children who passed by the step-step are to inherit Shi Erniu's military merit fields and pension fields, which are the land of the old Shi family, and they can't let those officers inherit the seeds of other people's families that those officers took out of the nursery.

sighed for a while, and was thinking about going back for a while to do something to make up for his son and daughter-in-law, so that he could hug his grandson as soon as possible. At this moment, the comrade who was in the same village trotted all the way over.

"Brother Da Niu, the Hou Mansion has ordered, the solution to divide the land in two places has come down, I just came back from the town, Jin Baihu asked our brothers in the town to go to Baihu tomorrow to listen."

"Brother Cheng, do you know what it says?"

patted the plaster on his body and hands, and Shi Da Niu hurriedly ran up the ridge. He knew that the deputy captain of the firearms team surnamed Cheng and the hundred households surnamed Jin in the town were old acquaintances of his hometown, and many things that came out of the guards were far earlier than others.

There are still many villagers in the surrounding fields, but this is a matter of their military households, the deputy captain surnamed Cheng lowered his voice and said to Shi Daniu: "It is strictly forbidden to sell, even if it is a field skin, it is not okay, if it is found, all the land will be confiscated immediately, and a heavy penalty will be imposed. ”

Selling, Shi Daniu didn't think that his family used to make a living by farming in his hometown, but now that he has so much land, he naturally has to keep the field and pass it on to future generations, so that a fool will take it out and sell it.

"You can't sell it, but what about the rest?"

"It's not allowed to be exchanged, it's not okay to go to the public in private, and if you dare to change, both sides will confiscate it together. Jin Baihu said that he could hand it over to the local health center for rent, and deduct some work costs for each harvest, and register it with the Qianhu office. ”

Even if the land is in one place, there is a distinction between fertile and barren, and the exchange is prone to unnecessary trouble, especially when officers and non-commissioned officers are exchanged, it is even more likely to produce oppression and contradictions, which is not conducive to the atmosphere in the army. As a matter of fact, when the land is divided, the officers in charge will have some preference for officers and non-commissioned officers with more or less seniority and higher rank, but if they are allowed to be transferred afterwards, then the non-commissioned officers will inevitably be oppressed by the officers, resulting in a decline in combat effectiveness.

"Why do you have to pay?"

The Shi family, who was still listening with their ears, heard that there was a fee to collect on behalf of them, and Shi Daniu's old lady stood up immediately.

"Auntie, I also asked Jin Baihu so, Jin Baihu said that he wanted other guards to help, and he always had to give people some money to hire masters and ox carts, and the wear and tear on the road should also be borne by them, only let the family contribute strength and silver, and not give some compensation for those who can't go on for a long time."

It costs money to hire people, and there is no reason for tenants to do it in vain, and Shi Daniu's wife still understands this. "The truth is this truth, but they are all robes in the army, I heard that the fire consumption of the private households is returned to the public account, and none of our military households have men who work for the Hou Ye, how can they not be as good as the private households?"

As soon as the words came out, Shi Daniu's wife also felt that it seemed a little inappropriate. In the past two hundred years of the Emperor's reign, the proportion of taxes paid by military households to the guards was higher than that of private households, and there were all kinds of labor and military tasks.

On the side of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the military leased fields allocated to those who were preparing for the army were only the same as the fields of the civilian households, and the land of their families was basically military merit fields and pension fields, there was no pressure on the fields, and the military households did not have conscription and miscellaneous levies, and the officers of the guard station had no right to squeeze them, and even those who were tired and tired of labor were all let the prisoners do it. These are all good days brought by Chen Wen, and after listening to the words just now, people can't point to their backbones and scold them for having no conscience.

"Mother, our family doesn't have to pay taxes, and it's not bad with those gentlemen."

"Da Niu is right, the old man doesn't choose what to say, which makes the little brother of the Cheng family laugh."

"My aunt is too humble, and I don't understand it when I come up, but Jin Baihu told me that I understood. If you want to say that Brother Da Niu followed Master Hou on Dalan Mountain, it was different! ”

The vice captain surnamed Cheng gave a thumbs up, and Shi Daniu's face turned red, and he even said some humble words that he didn't dare to do. It's just that the specific situation is not very good, and there are no ordinary people, and the things that the Shi family can accept, but not everyone is willing, and it soon exceeded expectations. (To be continued.) )