"Hahahaha, please get up quickly, this official is a pro-people official, how dare you accept such a big gift?" Cheng Dongpi said with a smile and made a gesture of support to everyone.

The people looked at each other, no one dared to stand up first, and after hesitating for a moment, everyone felt that it was a very abrupt thing to stand up, so the scene was deadlocked, everyone was still kneeling, and no one knew how to break this stalemate.

Cheng Dong shook his head slightly, and no longer persuaded everyone, but pretended not to notice the scene where everyone was kneeling on the ground, and said to himself: "If you want everyone to have a good life, you must make sure that the cultivator has his land." The county has an order that from now on, the land of the whole county will be cleared, and then distributed equally, and each household will have a share of Yongye land according to the number of men in Ding......"

"What?"

"Evenly distributed!"

"In this way, isn't my family going to have dozens of acres of land?"

“……”

The people who were kneeling on the ground were blown up at once. Those landless peasants simply couldn't believe their ears, how could there be such a good thing as equal distribution of land in this world? As for the rich among them, they can't wait to jump out and draw their swords to rebel on the spot, why should the land passed down from my ancestors be distributed to others?

Listening to the buzzing discussion in his ears, Cheng Dong also secretly sighed in his heart. The idea of equal distribution of land was taught to him by Su Hao, and said that it would be implemented throughout Luzon, and Su Hao called this system "land reform".

The confiscation of landlords' land and its distribution to the peasants was an important step in the liberation of the peasants. When peasants own land, they have basic livelihood security. For those peasant households with large populations, it is entirely possible for some people to cultivate the land, and the other part of the population to be freed from the land and participate in industrial production.

Su Hao planned to open a mine in Luzon, which would require a large number of miners. And the miners could only come from the peasants who had been liberated from the land. It can be said that without the implementation of land reform and the breaking of traditional economic relations in the countryside, Su Hao's great mining industry in Luzon Island could not be realized.

Su Hao wanted to implement this idea when he was in China, but he also knew that under the current system of the Ming Dynasty, the land reform would be suddenly carried out, not to mention that the landlords would not agree, and the ministers of the court would never allow it. What can't be done in China, it's easy to get to Luzon. He had 10,000 Ming troops as his backing, and these small landlords in Luzon were no match for him at all.

"The leaders in each village heard it clearly, and Master Cheng said that it is not permissible for the cultivators to have their land, and the rich households occupy so much land that the poor cannot live. After each village returns, the land should be counted quickly, and Li Zheng will preside over it. It was distributed to the poor of the whole village. Those who refuse to cooperate will be killed. ”

Chen Guiqi's doglegs began to repeat Cheng Dong's orders aloud to the crowd in Chinese and Luzon, and in the time they had just completed their allegiance to Cheng Dong. He became a servant of the new county government. In the future, these tasks of going to the villages to inspect the situation of the division of land will be carried out by them.

Cheng Dong said something, and the people couldn't listen to it in a daze, and they only circled in their minds about the big event announced by Cheng Dong: the land will be divided equally!

The news of the equal division of the land. It swept across the county like a wind, and it also affected neighboring counties. The landlords and rich peasants naturally had itchy teeth, and they were all in one place. Discussing how to resist. There are even those who are agitated, who came directly to the county yamen with a hanging rope, and threatened that if the county order did not change its original intention, he would hang himself on the lintel of the county ya, in protest.

"Come on, help them."

When Cheng Dong heard the news, he shook out of the public hall unhurriedly and gave orders to the sentry at the door.

"Order." The sentry agreed and stepped forward, "This old man, you want to hang yourself?" Come on, come on, a certain family will tie a rope for you......"

"Uh...... This is not a laborious military master...... "The rich man who threatened to hang quickly fled into the wilderness, and people are not afraid of you hanging, but why are you afraid of hanging it?

On the contrary, the poor people of Luzon were very enthusiastic about the division of land, and because they could not wait for the errand who came to divide the land, the poor people in some villages simply formed their own gangs, elected gang leaders, and then ran to the county seat to demand the division of land independently.

"Brother Gai, how do you think this matter should be handled?" Cheng Dong really had little experience in the peasant movement, so he could only ask Su Hao, who came to inspect the work, for advice.

Su Hao waved his hand: "This is a good thing, it should be supported." ”

"If these people make trouble, will there be any hidden dangers in the future?" Cheng Dong reminded.

Su Hao said: "When there is a hidden danger, you can just send troops to suppress it, what's so scary?" ”

Cheng Dong suddenly realized, and immediately called the messengers, asked them to issue letters of confession to the leaders of the spontaneously formed gangs, appointed them as the leaders of the peasant associations in various townships and villages, and distributed some rusty official messengers found from somewhere to them. When these leaders got the confession documents and official knives, they suddenly felt full of courage, and one by one they returned to the village to fight the landlords and divide the fields.

In just a few days, several counties around the landing site of the Ming army were like experiencing an earthquake and underwent earth-shaking changes.

The original Spanish garrison was defeated by the Ming army, and the Ming army's small detachments and security forces composed of Luzon people controlled the security of the territory. Su Hao and Li Zhen took over the local power with civilian officials brought in from the Ming Dynasty, and then began to fully implement the land reform plan.

The peasants were always enthusiastic about land reform, and the land of the landlords and rich peasants was completely divided, and all kinds of floating wealth were confiscated. Seeing that the situation was not good, some well-behaved rich families took the initiative to dedicate their property to the Ming army, and obtained the false title of "enlightened gentry", at least keeping a ration field. Those dead-eyed landlords led their families to try to resist, but in the face of the wolf-like Ming army, they just hit the stone with an egg, and in the end they could not escape the fate of being exterminated.

"Instead, if your set of practices is transmitted back to China, I am afraid that you will be impeached by the officials again." Li Zhen sat in a sedan chair, walked through the countryside with Su Hao and others, and from time to time saw the landlord squire who was hanging on a tree to show the public, and couldn't help but stroke his beard and said to Su Hao.

Su Hao said with a smile: "If this move is implemented in China, let alone talk about officials, even those powerful ministers will not be able to get along with Hao." But this is Luzon, and if I can find mines for them and make money, I bet no one will care about the safety of these rich people. ”

"The things of the world. The hustle and bustle is all fame and fortune. What kind of moral article is just to cover people's eyes. Li Zhen said thoughtfully.

The two were chatting, and suddenly saw several Ming army sergeants leading hundreds of young Luzon people. On the faces of those Luzon two years, there was a mixture of unease and excitement, as if they were going to do something big.

"Where are you going?" Su Hao stopped one of the leading sergeants and asked.

"General Soldier Su!" The sergeant hurriedly saluted Su Hao, then pointed at the young Luzon behind him and said, "These people are all miners recruited by the humble ruler, and the humble is taking them to the mine." ”

The sergeant said that Yu Guanshi was Yu Fuyang, the mine manager who came to Luzon with the Ming army this time. He is also Su Hao's old acquaintance when he was in Jiangxi. A few days ago, Su Hao took Yu Fuyang and a group of stewards and craftsmen around the surrounding mountains and pointed them out some ore positions, and these people immediately recruited troops and started mining. Everyone had no doubts about Su Hao's ability to prospect for minerals, they were just worried that they were too slow to grab more mineral deposits.

"Come here, all of you." Su Hao shouted to the miners.

The miners saw that the sergeant who led the team looked respectful to Su Hao. Knowing that he was a big official, they all timidly stepped forward and waited for Su Hao to speak.

Su Hao pointed to a young man standing in front of him with his hand and asked, "I'll ask you." Do you know what you're going to do? ”

Xiao Young shook his head, his face full of confusion.

Su Hao turned around to look at the sergeant, and the sergeant hurriedly waved his hand: "Chief soldier Su, you misunderstood." He shook his head probably because he couldn't understand the words of General Su Bing, most of these people were born and raised in Luzon and couldn't understand the words of our Daming. ”

"Uh......" Su Hao was speechless. These people in front of them look not much different from the people of southern China, but after all, they are all foreigners.

"Is there anyone who can understand Da Ming's words?" Su Hao asked loudly to everyone.

Several people in the crowd hesitated for a moment, and slowly raised their hands, indicating that they could understand Chinese. Su Hao pointed to one of them and said, "Come here, this official will ask you something." ”

"Yes, sir." The man stepped forward and stood in front of Su Hao.

"Do you know what you're going to do?" Su Hao asked.

"Yes, sir."

"Tell me, what are you doing?"

"Mining."

"Mining is dangerous, and if you don't get it right, you can die, do you know?"

The man nodded, "My lord, we all know that. ”

"Aren't you afraid?" Su Hao asked curiously.

The man thought for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "My lord, the villain's family is too poor, more than 20 years old, and he can't marry a daughter-in-law." The villain thought that if he couldn't marry a daughter-in-law, it would be meaningless to live. These military masters said that if they go to the mine to do things, they can get five cents of silver a day, and if they do it for a year, the villain will be able to save more than a dozen taels of silver, and then they will be able to ask someone to say a daughter-in-law. ”

"Hahahaha, really a young man with ideals." Su Hao laughed, but he was so emotional in his heart. With the technical level of those years, mine safety could not be the same as that of later generations, and the probability of various accidents was extremely high. But compared to poverty, people clearly don't care about these risks.

"You told Steward Yu that you should pay attention to all kinds of safe production, and you can't ignore protection just because human life is worthless. In addition, the money promised to the miners shall not be deducted. We have to pay attention to long-term peace and stability in Luzon, and we can't dry up and fish, understand? Su Hao said solemnly to the leading sergeant.

"I understand that I must convey General Su's instructions to Steward Yu word for word." The sergeant replied quickly.

"These people are all children of peasant families, who originally worked in the countryside at sunrise and sunset, although they were poorer, but they were also peaceful and peaceful. When we came, their fates changed. Once these strong young people get to the mine, they don't know how many of them will be disabled and how many will die. Li Zhen didn't know when he got off the sedan chair, stood on the dirt slope, watched the mighty team of miners gradually move away, and sighed to Su Hao.

Su Hao said: "There is a philosopher in the West who said that when capital comes to the world, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things, which is a helpless thing. However, compared to the black slaves who were trafficked to the Americas by Westerners, their fate was already very good. Mr. Li, don't pretend to be so compassionate, when it comes to Luzon to open a mine, you always strongly approve of it. ”

Li Zhen said with a smile: "Hehe, the old man also has a feeling, when it comes to this mining matter, if we don't open it, Hongyi will also open it, maybe they are not as good as us...... By the way, change it, Deng Kui and Zhang Yunlong have been expelling the garrison of the Hongyi people, why haven't they seen the sailors of Hongyi come to retaliate? ”

Su Hao said: "According to Hao's opinion, I'm afraid that the Hongyi people were also stunned by us, and they couldn't find out our reality for a while, right?" I guess that if they have not come for a long time, they should have gone to other places to bring rescue troops, and with the strength of this Luzon Island, they will not dare to rush into war with us. (To be continued......)