Chapter 53: Dividing the Fields
"The official spares his life, the official spares his life, don't eat the villain, the villain hasn't taken a bath for dozens of days, and there is a smell on his body, you must not like to eat it!"
Wang Xiaoer was brought to Cheng Yu, and before Cheng Yu could speak, he kowtowed vigorously and begged for mercy, for fear that Cheng Yu would say that he would strip him naked and pluck his hair and throw him into the pot to cook. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Cheng Yu was stunned and asked, "Who said they were going to eat you?" ”
Wang Xiaoer raised his head and looked at him suspiciously, he didn't knock carefully when he came in, he only knew that he bowed his head and bowed, and didn't pay attention to Cheng Yu's appearance, at this time he heard the other party say that he wouldn't eat him, he was relieved, turned around and looked at Cheng Yu carefully, and saw that he was full of poetry and books, and he was dressed as a gentle and elegant literati, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with the barbaric and cannibalistic backward yellow turban thief, since he said that he didn't eat himself, he would definitely not eat it.
It's just that as soon as Wang Xiaoer put his mind at ease, he beat a drum in his heart again, he didn't know what the other party was looking for him to do, it definitely couldn't be a long-lost relative, looking for him to come back to inherit the inheritance.
"I came to you today because I want to ask you something, don't be nervous!"
Cheng Yu stretched out his hand and opened a case book, this is the information of the displaced people who have been centrally resettled, they are not locals, most of them fled here from the war-torn places in the north, and some came from the direction of Luoyang and Chang'an in the west.
"What's your name?"
"Wang Xiaoer."
"Wang Xiaoer, are you from the Jizhou Julu clan?"
"If you go back to the adult, the villain is indeed a giant deer person."
Cheng Yu nodded, Julu is the place where the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and it is also the place most affected by military disasters and man-made disasters.
"Your family went south from Jizhou, why did you come to Runan?"
Wang Xiaoer replied honestly: "Back to the adult, the villain's family wanted to escape to Jingzhou, I heard that Jingzhou's Changsha County, Lingling County and Wuling County have a large amount of farmland, and it is also a paddy field with fertile soil waiting for someone to cultivate, the villain's family of eight, if they can successfully arrive in Jingzhou, they will be able to get at least fifty acres of paddy fields, and the emperor of Jingzhou also said that the new farmers are exempt from taxes for the first three years, so we originally wanted to go south, who knows・・・・・・"
Cheng Yu had long heard of Liu Biao's recruitment of people in Jingzhou, but it was the first time he had heard that Liu Biao had provided such favorable conditions, no wonder even refugees from Jizhou were attracted by him.
"Right now, the Jiangdong Army is fighting against Liu Biao's Jingzhou Army, and you can't go to the south, but if you stay in Runan, you can also get land to cultivate, and it's thirty acres more than the fifty mu you just said, what do you think?"
As soon as Wang Xiaoer heard it, he knew that what Cheng Yu said was that the Yellow Turban Army said before that the official land was leased to them for farming, and only fifty percent of the grain was harvested every year, and the rest was the farmers' own, this kind of condition was indeed very attractive to them, but these lands were not their own after all, so they still wanted to go to the south in their hearts, and farm for the Yellow Turban Army, which was tantamount to betraying the imperial court.
Perhaps seeing the hesitation in Wang Xiaoer's eyes, Cheng Yu said again: "As long as you cultivate these lands for three years, the land will be yours, but you still need to pay a certain percentage of grain to the government, and this proportion will decrease with the increase of your cultivation years, and finally when you have planted for twenty years, the proportion of these fields will be two and a half percent, what do you think?" ”
This condition is much more attractive than the previous conditions, which is like, the same is to live in a house, every month to come up with 3,000 yuan, one person is handed over to the landlord, their own rent, the other person is handed over to the bank, their own housing, although the phone bill is the same, the residence is also the same, but the former heart is more at ease, because the house is his, and for the farmers at this time, the land is their life, so the majority of farmers in the heart of the land complex is very heavy, as long as the land is state-owned, changed to private, Although the rent has not changed, it can increase their motivation many times.
On the same day, Cheng Yu made a report to Liu Zhi on the problem of the tuntian system, Liu Zhi smiled bitterly after listening, this is what he ignored, there is a similar collective farm in later generations, called rural cooperatives, even if it is mandatory to concentrate all the people for production, but because these things are public, so their enthusiasm is not high, he thought that he took out fifty percent of the grain, so that these farmers can get, they should have a high enthusiasm, but I didn't expect them to still want land, okay, In that case, we can revise the original plan.
The next day, Cheng Yu took the new plan to the refugee group and read it out again, this time there are two main changes in the conditions compared with the previous time, one makes the land rent more expensive, from the previous 50% to 60%, after listening to this change, those farmers who originally wanted to try it can't help but retreat.
But the second change that Cheng Yu read out made them excited, that is, as long as they get the land and cultivate it for three consecutive years, they can get the land, but they still have to pay rent after getting the land.
As soon as the refugees heard that the land could become their own private property, they immediately became a sensation, and they didn't even want to listen to what Cheng Yu said below, and Wang Xiaoer also took the lead at this time to say that he was willing to sign the agreement, and quickly ran up, and soon signed and pledged, and got eighty acres of high-quality land.
At this time, the refugees saw that someone took the lead, and one by one they had no worries, and they all rushed up, scrambling to sign an agreement and pick a good place, the scene was even out of control for a while, Cheng Yu had to ask Liu Zhi for instructions, and mobilized more than 1,000 troops to maintain order, which barely controlled the surging crowd at the scene, but there were still many people who were squeezed and injured, but fortunately, no one was trampled to death, otherwise it would be a tragedy.
The number of refugees is indeed quite a lot, there are more than 20,000 people, they have taken away a total of nearly 300,000 acres of land, and with the large-scale territory of refugees, many locals in Runan also came to sign an agreement, and soon divided up more than 800,000 acres of land in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, and even many people have no land, Liu Zhi had to organize people to reclaim, and announced that whoever reclaimed the field is who's own, this time Runan is full of a hot reclamation trend, and the area of cultivated land continues to rise!
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