The total population of Huangzhou Wei is about 12,000. 【Reading.com】

Of these 12,000 people, about one-fifth are over the age of 40 (Fuxing will be divided according to the average life expectancy of Chinese in the last years of the Ming Dynasty). About one in five are middle-aged people between the ages of 30 and 40. About one in five are young people between the ages of 20 and 30. About one in five is a teenager between the ages of 15 and 20. About one in five people are children under the age of fifteen.

When modern people see such an age distribution of the population, they generally think that this age distribution seems to be very healthy. According to the above, at least 60 percent of the 12,000 Huangzhou Weijun households are youngsters, and about 7,200 are young people under the age of 30. This age distribution seems to be very healthy from a human resources perspective.

The fact is that because of the backward level of productivity in the agricultural society, the average life expectancy of people in China as a whole is very low, even in normal years. The average life expectancy of people is low, which shows that the age of Chinese living in the environment of the Ming Dynasty is not very large.

Think about it, the agricultural production in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was in serious decline, the backward medical methods, and there was no modern health and epidemic prevention and social relief. Not to mention the Chinese, the average life expectancy of people in any country and region in this era and the average age of living people will not be very large.

In addition, in the year of the catastrophe, often those who lack the ability to work and have a large number of children and grandchildren below are the most likely to choose the path of death to reduce the burden on their families.

In Japanese legends, what is the reason why Japanese people will "hide" at every turn? The principle is the same. It's just that in Japan, where resources are scarce, productivity is backward, and society is in turmoil for a long time, this kind of situation of elderly people running into the mountains to seek death by themselves is even more extreme. In reality, this kind of elderly people who seek death by themselves in order to reduce the burden on their families is very common in all agricultural countries.

For example, in India in 2015, weren't there many elderly Indians asking the president for permission to commit suicide?

The average age of the people is low, which is a very cruel reality for the common people living in the late Ming Dynasty. But for the Renaissance, this demographic structure has a good side to replenish the human resources of the Renaissance Society.

Because the Revival Society does not trust any scholars who have received the so-called "orthodox" "Confucian" ideological education, all the cadres and soldiers of the Revival Society were trained by the Renaissance Society itself. Therefore, young people who are relatively young, whose minds have not yet been tormented to stone by the pressure of survival, and who are relatively receptive to new knowledge and culture, are of great significance to the Revival Society.

After a week of registration and consolidation. All young people under the age of thirty were organized individually by the Renaissance.

2,400 young people between the ages of 20 and 30 were reorganized into the Youth League of the Huangzhou Production and Construction Corps by the Renaissance Association. About 5,000 children under the age of 20, whether they have just learned to speak or have married and had children, were reorganized into the Huangzhou Youth Camp by the Renaissance Association. The remaining Huangzhou Weijun households over the age of 30 to 40 and over the age of 40 were reorganized into the Huangzhou Production and Construction Corps.

According to the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the guards in the Huguang area were soldiers, "each soldier is divided into one field, and each is 36 acres." ”

Huangzhou Wei, as a formal local guard post with 5,600 regular soldiers in the Huguang area, should normally have 5,600 people x 36 mu = 201,600 mu of military land according to the guard system of the Ming Dynasty.

However, everyone also knows that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the main reason for the collapse of the guard system in the Ming Dynasty was that a large number of military fields that originally belonged to the guards in law and should have been planted by the military households of the guards for generations were seized by officers at all levels within the guards and turned into their own fields. On the one hand, because of a large amount of encroachment and plundering by local tyrants and gentry, officials and powerful people, it has become their land.

Under the mutual influence of the two aspects, even if the more than 200,000 mu of land that Huangzhou Wei should have had was restored because the Fuxing Army had already confiscated the homes of officers at all levels of the guard, it could not hit half of the figure on paper, and the total number was less than 100,000 mu. The local landlords and gentry in the Huangzhou area still occupied a large amount of land in Huangzhouwei.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because of the sparse population and abundant arable land resources, coupled with the strength of the guards, the local heroes did not dare to occupy the military land at all. In between, the local health office is on the stronger side. However, from the time of Emperor Hongxi, the balance of power between the local guards and the local powerful began to change.

From that era, the local landlords and gentry not only looked down on the local guards, but also used various means, either colluding with the local officials to change the land deeds and steal the land by tricks, or directly sending people to forcibly occupy the military land for their own use. Anyway, by this time, there are less than 100,000 mu left in Huangzhouwei's military field.

The Ba'ath Army doesn't matter what kind of gentry you are. Fuxing was not a feudal government like the Ming Dynasty, and did not need the support of the local gentry to help them manage the countryside. Therefore, for those landlords and powerful people who occupied the military land, the revival army first issued an ultimatum to them.

What is called a noble and a lowly. Those who are called gentry in the local area generally have a few children who have become civil officials with meritorious reputation. Therefore, in their eyes, even if the army of the legendary Huguang General Wang Shuhui is indeed mighty and majestic, but the soldiers who only hold bird guns (they did not see the twelve 75mm Fuxing Type II cannons of the two artillery companies), no matter how neat the queue is, they feel that it is nothing remarkable.

After receiving an ultimatum from the Renaissance Army asking them to return their military fields, they didn't take it seriously at all.

The Baath Army did things according to the plan given by the headquarters. Before the ultimatum was issued, the Fuxing Army had already submitted the negotiation documents stamped with the seal of the Huguang General Army to the Huangzhou Prefecture. Of course, the Huangzhou government refused to participate in this contradiction between the local guards and the local gentry, as if according to the script drawn up by the headquarters of the Renaissance Society.

The Baath Army is vigorous and resolute. As soon as the deadline for the ultimatum arrived, the two battalions of soldiers of the Fuxing Army drove to the compound of the landlords and gentry who had encroached on the fields of the Huangzhou Guards.

The Baath Army is particular about firepower. The Baath Army troops, which reached the various landlords' compounds, immediately launched a large-scale fire coverage of artillery, rockets and grenades on the compounds of the landlords' homes.

According to later statistics, after the "negotiations" between the Fuxing Army and the local gentry who had occupied the fields of the Huangzhou Weijun, the vast majority of the families of nearly 10 Huangzhou Haoqiang and hundreds of people became "missing persons".

The land recovered by Huangzhou Wei is as high as 200,000 mu. It is more than 100,000 mu more than the theoretical number of Weijun fields in Huangzhou. Space-Time Gate 1619

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Chapter 259 of the main text: The importance of agricultural industrialization 7