The next day, Prince Tad left early in the morning. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There were fifty-one men when they came, and when they returned, there were only forty-four.

Six died, four of them on the spot without any pain, and two struggled and wailed all night before God had mercy and welcomed them to heaven.

Yes, not terrible, but wailing to death, even the bravest warriors, are not willing to accept. This reduced the morale of Prince Tad's soldiers to the extreme, and also made Prince Tad no longer have the shame to face Count Don Jr., and at the same time reduced his control over his army - these veteran soldiers, they bully the weak and afraid of the hard, they dare not complain about the rock-like pikemen, let alone complain about the commander of the pikemen, Count Don Jr., so they can only put all their anger on Prince Tad.

Prince Tad was naturally aware of this, and it could be seen from the way the soldiers looked at him: they used to look at him with longing, full of awe, longing for his identity, and revering his status, but now there was only hatred left, but Prince Tad had nothing to do.

The more they win the battle, the higher the morale of the soldiers, and the more they respect their commanders, just like the little Tang Earl, in the past, the soldiers obeyed the orders of the little Tang Count just because of his identity and strict training, now the soldiers are full of worship, even if one day, the little Tang Count loses his identity, these soldiers will still follow him until the end of the world.

But, for now, Count Don's focus is not here.

Because he has a lot of things to do now!

When Prince Tad came, Count Tang did not inspect the towns and countryside for at least half a month, and he did not know what the sanitary situation was. There is also the teaching work of his students, which has not been taught for half a month, and these students are also beginners, and they may forget about it if they haven't practiced for half a month. There is also the cultivation of clover, once these transplanted clovers have any unsuitable conditions, no one can solve them except Count Xiao Tang......

That's so much that I can't sleep, and I have to work 25 hours a day!

But even though the heavy responsibility on his shoulders is already so hard, there is still one thing that Count Xiao Tang has to do, and that is to liberate the productive forces.

The county of Desmond had nearly fifty thousand people, half of whom were freemen and did not need to serve the lord, and the other half were serfs, who had to work for the lord three days a week free of charge.

This was a very heavy obligation, but Count Tang felt that it was difficult for the lord to gain anything from it.

The lord owned one-third of Desmond's arable land as a self-camp, which became the lord's private estate, which was cultivated by the serfs on a voluntary basis. However, this one-third of the cultivated land, when the lord took possession of it, had enough cattle and tools, and had to rely on additional strict overseers to barely keep up with the average of the territory.

In other words, if it weren't for the fact that the serfs' work was free, it would have been a loss of money to operate the land.

The root cause was the lack of motivation of the serfs.

There is no positivity.

This is the most important point.

Because these serfs do not cultivate their own land, they cannot share in the food that grows from these lands, they will always go hungry in famine and prosperity, and above all, they will never have any hope of escaping this sad fate.

Therefore, these serfs are not willing to work, anyway, life is not their own, death is not their own, even if they give birth to children, the children are not their own, these belong to their masters, that is, the little Count Tang.

But there was nothing that could be done about it.

The three elements of productivity are labor, labor tools, and labor objects, which correspond to people, tools, and products.

People are the most active, but we'll talk about tools and products first. Tools, in an age when iron is a scarce commodity, to replace a wooden plough with an iron plough will not only not be understood, but will also be ridiculed as a fool and a loser - this has been proven in the first days of digging ditches. As for learning from other traversers to make steel, Earl Tang has not yet found iron ore near Desmond, so he can only put it down for the time being.

Products, in addition to barley, wheat and oats, Count Tang really can't find a grain crop that can be grown! At this time, the artifacts such as corn and potatoes were still far away from the hands of the Aztecs, and the rice of the East was not suitable for cultivation in the cold and humid land of Ireland. As for fertilizer, Count Tang has done his best to make everyone accept the existence of human dung.

So, the rest is people, but it's this person who is really the most difficult thing to do.

Generally speaking, according to the textbooks, only land reform and the emancipation of serfs are needed.

But this is simply suicide!

Land reform, hum, land reform, it's easy to say, but this is offending all vested interests in the world, and it is creating an anti-ownership in the world! At the beginning, **** won the world, and the soldiers were flourishing, that's it, when the land reform was forced, I didn't know how many people were killed, and the direct killing was the blood flowing into a river, that's it, the original land reform can't be said to be completely complete!

And the Kuomintang Party, it is even more unbearable, do you think it doesn't want land reform? But it just can't be implemented! Just like what Lao Jiang said in the great cause of the founding of the country, anti-corruption and anti-corruption, anti-corruption, anti-party, if not, to destroy the country. The four major families of Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen control the state affairs, they are the largest landlords and the biggest vested interests in China, how can it be possible for them to rebel themselves?!

With neither determination nor courage, it is no wonder that Lao Jiang lost the world. Later, when 100 million enemies were annihilated in Taiwan, while everyone else was still unstable, Lao Chiang immediately carried out land reform, and put tens of thousands of people in prison, so that this land reform could be regarded as going on.

And Count Xiao Tang, he doesn't have the ability and confidence, he can be comparable to the two above, Taizu will not say, a peerless figure who comes out once in two thousand years, even if it is Lao Jiang, he is also the president for more than ten years, and he was almost in charge of the whole of China, compared with these two, it is really to kill him.

But since even these two can't do it, and one of them doesn't hesitate to make mistakes in his later years, and his reputation is ruined, even so, it can't compete with China's 3,000-year-old gate valve system. In comparison, although Count Xiao Tang is only facing an aristocratic system that has been inherited for five hundred years, Count Xiao Tang is not the above two great talents!

Therefore, the red line of land reform, as long as Count Xiao Tang does not feel that he has lived too long and wants to commit suicide, otherwise he will never touch it.

As for the emancipation of serfs, this is a bit of a head, but alas, Count Tang doesn't have so much land to share with the serfs!

Emancipation of serfs - serfs without land - serfs starvation - serfs sold themselves - serfs are still serfs.

is such a cycle, as long as the serfs have no land, they will definitely become like this in the end, and on the way to this change, the serfs who died of starvation, the serfs who died of abuse by selling themselves, I don't know how many there are, rather than this, it is better to let them continue to be serfs for Count Xiao Tang!

So Count Don patted his head, and inspiration appeared.

A method invented by a certain pit subordinate monarch in a certain chaotic period: the tuntian system.

That's right, the monarch under this pit is Cao Cao.

Why do you say that Cao Caokeng is subordinate?

Because Cao Cao's hobby is a bit weird, Cao Cao is a good wife......

So Dian Wei was trapped......

But the Tuntian system, the quality of this method is absolutely not related to Cao Cao's character and morality, and it is definitely not linked to Cao Cao's good mature woman, the reason why Wei was able to overwhelm Shu Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, this Tuntian system, is the biggest hero, there is no one.

To fight a war is to fight logistics.

Zhuge Liang returned from Qishan in vain, and the biggest reason for removing the image of Liu Chan's incompetence and jealousy in the romance is that Sima Yi is too strong, and Zhuge Liang can't fight without food!

So Count Xiao Tang patted his head again, and decided that it was you, Tuntian Beast, come on!

But this tuntian is also divided into military tun and min tun, but this does not need to be considered, because whether it is a military tun or a min tun, the effect is not too far off.

However, the other one, that is, the collection of taxes, is worth exploring.

It is impossible not to collect this tax, but if it is less, Count Xiao Tang himself will have no income, and he will suffer too much and collect more, so what is the difference between it and when he did not liberate the serfs before?

Therefore, the final decision is to learn from Cao Cao, after all, the ancients have said that they should learn more from them.

The method of the Cao Wei rulers to collect taxes from the people of Tuntian was the "art of dividing the fields" advocated by Zaoyi, that is, the government provided the land and the harvested grain was divided proportionally. Those who use official cattle are six officials and four private; Those who do not use official cattle will be divided between official and private. This method of exploitation has achieved the effect of accumulating grain for the army, and although the people have suffered losses, they are already very satisfied with having a stable production environment.

And for the serfs of the little Count Tang, there are six officials and four private! Divide the official and private! My God! Even the freedmen out there don't pay so little in their taxes!

In the beginning, though, the method was just a pilot in a small, remote, almost forgotten estate.