Chapter 16: Persuasion
The news that the Jianzhou Security Corps occupied Long Village was not a secret, and the magistrate of Jian'an County soon knew about it, and the prefect of Jianning Prefecture also knew about it.
Jianning Mansion is in Jian'an County, and the county yamen governs Jianzhou together.
Jian'an County is an area with a relatively complex administrative system, which is the ancient capital of Fujian, and was the original administrative center of Fujian when the Han people expanded southward.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was divided into four yamen, namely Jian'an, Ouning, Jianning Mansion and Fujian Xingdu Division, and in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the Fujian Xingdu Division was revoked, the Ming system was still used.
Although the prefect and the prefect knew about it, they didn't care about it, and they didn't deal with it after hearing the report, anyway, it was just a militia group, and this kind of militia is now available in all provinces.
All villages in Xixiang also know about the Jianzhou Security Corps, and the reputation of the Jianzhou Security Corps can be said to be a deterrent to the bandits in the entire Longcun Township, even Lujia Village has been eliminated by them, and the other bandits have recently settled down a lot.
However, they are safe, it does not mean that Xia Jun will not trouble them, after more than a month of training, the scouts of the reconnaissance platoon can finally draw the map so-so under the indoctrination of cramming.
So Xia Jun sent two squads out to scout the bandits in Xixiang, and the remaining one squad began to survey and map the traffic map of Long Village, when the autumn harvest had arrived.
Xia Jun has no time to suppress bandits for the time being, the autumn harvest has arrived, and the time for violent tax resistance has come, and all villages in Xixiang are busy harvesting rice.
Xia Jun took the time to go to Tangkeng Village and discussed with Lin Debao for a while, mainly to ask Lin Debao to help preside over the autumn harvest in Xialujia Village.
Lujia Village has been controlled by Xia Jun, and the entire village's land and property have been taken over by the security group, and Lu Haoshen's bandits have been shackled and reformed through labor in Lujia Village.
Xia Jun arranged ten production teams in Lujia Village to be responsible for guarding.
For those villagers in Lujia Village, Xia Jun did not do anything desperately, except for the men who were handcuffed and reformed, they were able to reunite with their families at ordinary times, and at the same time, the houses and rations in the village were not taken away.
I don't plan to pump their grain for this year's autumn harvest, the agricultural productivity in this era is still not high enough, and Xia Jun is not short of that grain.
"Brother Lin, now our security regiment is short of people, and what we lack is talents, and now there are more acres of land in the regiment, so I want to find you to be the minister of agriculture of our regiment and help take care of the acres of land in the regiment." Xia Jun came to Tangkeng Village and sat down with Lin Debao to discuss.
"Ouch, I said brother! You are a person who does great things, I am just a rich man in the countryside, where can I be a minister! Lin Debao listened and waved his hand repeatedly.
Xia Jun has already thought it through, although Lin Debao has no great ability, but his ability to manage land and grain is very good, I heard that after his father's death, the number of acres of the Lin family doubled in his hands, and more importantly, Lin Debao has a good surname and has a good reputation.
"Brother Lin won't mention the others first, you come with me first, and I'll take you to see something." Xia Jun got up and said to him, Lin Debao didn't know what to see, so he followed in response.
Xia Jun took Lin Debao all the way to Shiniu Mountain, and in the five acres of paddy fields under Shiniu Mountain, dense rice had grown at this moment, and the rice ears were full of grains.
"Brother Lin, how do you see the rice in my field?" Xia Jun asked Lin Debao, who looked at the rice field and couldn't help but be stunned.
"Oh my God! How does this rice grow? This, if this is collected, it will be at least a thousand catties. Lin Debao was dumbfounded, rushed over and squatted down and smoked an ear of rice, holding it in his hand and looking at it non-stop.
"This is the unique rice seed of our security regiment, an acre of land can be more than 1,000 catties, that is, the seeds can be sown without taking care of more than 1,000 catties, if someone takes care of it, plus a better paddy field, an acre of land can collect up to 1,800 catties." Xia Jun said, "This piece of rice was really planted late, otherwise it wouldn't be what it is now." ”
"What kind of rice seed is this, and how much grain can be grown?" Lin Debao asked in shock.
"My uncle opened a research institute abroad, and this is the rice seed that the institute cultivates, and no one else has it. He asked me to return to China, but in fact, I wanted to do a big thing. Xia Jun said as he ran on the train: "Brother Lin, do you think that among the 40,000 people in contemporary China, what those poor people crave most is to have a full stomach?" ”
"Hmm......" Lin Debao nodded in agreement.
"Now that the rule of the Manchu people is rotten, and the people of the country are living in poverty, their greatest desire is to have enough to eat, and our security corps has these seeds and has the ability to feed them." Xia Jun said and continued to ask Lin Debao: "Then Brother Lin, you see, the Manchu Qing Dynasty canceled the imperial examination, do the current scholars still support the Manchus?" ”
"Of course not." Lin Debao said.
That's right, now the poor people do not support the Qing court, and the Confucian scholars do not support the Qing court, and these people are the main force that maintains the Qing court at present. Moreover, the army of the Qing court has been exhausted when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, how long do you say the Qing court can exist? ”
"Looking at our Jianzhou Security Corps, we have better weapons than foreigners, and we have high-yield seeds that can feed all the poor people, and although our momentum is not as great as that of the revolutionary party, we are more confident than the revolutionary party. Now the only thing we lack is talent, once we have enough talent, we have unlimited development possibilities, everything is man-made. ”
Lin Debao was shocked when he heard it, he couldn't imagine that Xia Jun wanted to overthrow the Manchus, but he didn't have much loyalty to the Manchus, and that thing was not worth a copper plate in his eyes, but it was a little ...... Fear!
"Brother Lin, you can think about it, come to our security corps, although the salary is not very high, if it is successful, it will be the career of Yin Fu's descendants." Xia Jun continued to induce.
"I'll really have to think about it."
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, it's just that I'm hungry, let's go back to the village first, I have to eat at Brother Lin's house."
"Huh! Go, go. ”
The two returned to Tangkeng Village with a smile, Lin Debao kept thinking about what Xia Jun said just now, judging from the foundation shown by Xia Jun, he was indeed full of confidence.
Even if you have sophisticated weapons and have frighteningly high yields of rice seeds, with such an innate advantage, it is really a matter of man-made whether you succeed or not.
The icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, at this time the security group is short of people, since Xia Jun personally came to invite, if he joins at this time, he will definitely achieve a lot of success, but if he waits for the situation to be clear and then go, I am afraid that people will no longer look down on him as a rich man.
Besides, there is no way to avoid it now, if Xia Jun really fails to rebel, the village will definitely be affected, you must know that there are sixteen Lin family members in the village who are soldiers in the security group.
After figuring it out, Lin Debao agreed on the same day, but Lin Debao and Xia Jun said that they would wait another month to serve in the regiment, and now that the autumn has received it, tenants from all over the country will come to the village to pay rent, and he has to take care of these things first.