Chapter 221: Digging for Treasure
Although Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin didn't know how Liu Jun managed to let Zhu Dadian let go, Zhu Dadian really didn't interfere in the rectification and clean-up after that. For all the reports on the affairs of this plan, Zhu Dadian replied with permission, and let Huang Daozhou preside over it with full authority.
In this way, the rectification and clean-up plan was carried out smoothly.
After Huang Daozhou took over the full power, he immediately took a battalion of men and horses given to him by Liu Junba and stationed them in Yunyang Wei, quickly took over the upper and lower guards, and then controlled all the officers of the guards, and sent the nine-headed bird soldiers to completely clear the tuntian of the Yunyang guard.
Zodiac Week came prepared, and it progressed rapidly.
"Yunyang Wei was only established during the Chenghua period, and the Yunyang area has always been a forbidden area for the imperial court before, so at the beginning, Yunyang Wei allocated a lot of military tun fields, Yunyang one Wei five plus two others, a total of more than 8,000 military households. Among them, two points are divided into two points to defend the city and eight points to the tuntian, and the tuntian is one point for each army to be tuntian, and one is divided into 50 acres of land, and there are 8,000 military surpluses, and these military surpluses are also special exceptions, with 36 acres per ding. A total of more than 600,000 acres of tuntian, and since then more than 100 years, there have been military surpluses to reclaim new land, adding up to more than 100,000 acres. ”
"More than 7,000 hectares!" Yunyang Wei and the surrounding two guards have more than 700,000 acres of tuntian, which is quite a lot in the entire Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Yunyangwei is located in the Hanshui Basin, which is in the middle of the north and south, rice and dry wheat can be, and the fields belong to the more fertile land. Because from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the mountainous areas around Yunyang have always belonged to the forbidden land of the imperial court, and for hundreds of years they have belonged to the land of no man's land.
Until the time of Chenghua, the displaced people who lost their land from all sides poured in from all directions, cultivated fields and cultivated land there, and later the imperial court continued to send troops to drive out and kill, and also caused several major uprisings of the displaced people, and finally forced the imperial court to open the ban and set up a special Yunyang Mansion. Then the Huguang Xingdu Division was established, and the Yunyang Health Office was established.
Because of the particularity of the Yunyang Guard, they also drew a lot of tuntian, far higher than the military tun in the surrounding Jingxiang, Nanyang and other places. Even because of the large amount of land, the Yunyang Guard also specially gave Yu Ding a field to plant, and after more than 100 years, Yu Ding reclaimed more than 100,000 acres of tun planting, so that the final number of tun fields reached more than 700,000 mu.
"But now these fields are basically in the hands of the officers, and some fields are even occupied by several clans and some local tycoons."
"Is the acre system the same for all military tun fields?"
"It's all measured according to two hundred and forty steps and one acre."
There are large and small acres, and some have more than 100 steps per acre. Some have 360 steps per acre, and some even have 540 steps per acre, and the various units are chaotic, so that the number of fields has always been quite chaotic. When Wanli Qingzhang was in the beginning, he also encountered this kind of problem.
"How many military households and how many soldiers does Yunyang Wei have now? How much is Zhengyu together? Liu Jun asked.
Military households are hereditary and fixed, but military personnel are changing, some fleeing, and some living. Originally, there were more than 8,000 households in the first guard, and there were more than 16,000 remaining. And now. There are still more than 8,000 military households, but excluding those who have fled, there are also those who are soldiers in the battalion, and the total number of military households in the Yunyang Guard Station is almost more than 20,000. That's a huge number. Although there were many people who fled, there were also some military households who had a regular army in the guard post and brought five or six, or even a dozen or so.
This is all because the military household Yu Ding only needs to be in the guard. The family can be exempted from a lot of errand silver. Military households use this method to escape some burdens. Although these remnants are in the guardhouse, they are just tenants of the officers. But they took refuge with the people of the land under the big families. In order to obtain preferential exemption from servitude.
"Grant land according to ding, fifty acres per ding."
"Now these lands are still in the hands of officers, heroes, and clans!"
"Chop off a batch of heads, and you can naturally continue." Zodiac Zhou has Liu Jun's support, and he has already sharpened his knives.
Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin drew up an arrest warrant, and then handed it to Zhu Dadian. Zhu Dadian glanced at it twice, and then asked, "What does Liu Jiye mean by this?" ”
"This matter has been discussed with Mr. Liu, and he also supports it." Zodiac Zhou replied.
Zhu Dadian listened, directly picked up the pen and approved it in the back, and then stamped his own big seal, "Since this is the case, then Ben Fu agreed." ”
With the governor's consent, Huang Daozhou found Liu Jun again and asked him to send troops.
Liu Jun had been waiting for this day for a long time, and without saying a word, he sent out the cavalry battalion and galloped out. On the same day, the officers of the Yunyang Guard Station were basically arrested.
Immediately afterwards, Yunyang was plastered with notices everywhere.
At first, everyone thought that it was another list of taxes and distributions, but when a literate person under the list excitedly told everyone that this time it was to clean up the tuntian and divide the land for everyone, countless people were shocked and then cheered.
The trial of the officers of the guard post was held on the same day, and all the evidence of corruption had already been collected, and the evidence was ironclad one by one. In front of the countless people who came to watch, they couldn't argue if they wanted to.
The case was quickly concluded by the governor Zhu Dadian, the governor Huang Daozhou, the chief soldier Liu Jun, the deputy envoy of the supervising army Yang Tinglin, and the Huguang Xingdu Division, and the case was quickly closed, and a total of 36 people were convicted of the most heinous crimes and directly beheaded in public, and more than 100 people were convicted of confiscation of family property and exiled to the army. The remaining junior military attachés of the lower ranks were punished with the seizure of money and food, the seizure of money and food, the wearing of military staffs, and the wearing of flails for public display.
In the end, Huang Daozhou announced that all the tuntian fields in the Yunyang Guard Station would be re-granted, and all the grain taxes and silver owed by the military households would be exempted, and the fields would be granted according to Ding, regardless of the remaining Ding of the regular army, and all 50 mu of land would be granted. In the future, they specialize in tuntian as tunding, and hand over 50% of grain per mu every year, and in case of disaster, they will be exempted or exempted according to the actual situation.
Many people are puzzled by the figure of 50% of the grain handed over, after all, there is no accurate number.
Huang Daozhou explained, "Only one season of grain harvest per mu is levied a year, and this half is based on the average output of the field in the past ten years. For example, these tuntian fields in Yunyangwei can be harvested in the morning and evening, but the imperial court only counts the harvest of late rice in one season, and calculates according to the average yield of Yunyang rice and late rice per mu of two stones, and charges half of the one stone for the tun rent. ”
"That's only one stone per acre? Doesn't early rice collect rent, and what about planting beans and fandai, and don't you collect it? Many people asked aloud below.
"That's true, only half of the harvest of a season is rented, one mu of rice per mu, fifty mu per ding, and only fifty stone of rice is levied that year, and grain is directly levied. And it is collected by the government and transported by the government, and there is no fire consumption. ”
"In the event of floods and droughts, they will also be reduced or reduced according to the actual situation."
The people below listened in disbelief and were very excited. For example, in Huaiyang and other places, many people plant one season of wheat and another season of rice, but the landlords only levy half of the rent on rice as usual.
When the Pioneer Guard was first established, it was to levy five buckets of grain per mu, but they also had many other burdens in addition to the tuntian, such as the upper class army, defending the city, serving in labor, and so on. I can farm with peace of mind now. The rent is not high. After all, Yunyang is not in the north, and the output is low. The fields in Yunyang are still very good, and they are suitable for hydroponic and dry farming, and they can be harvested twice a year.
In particular, according to Ding's explanation, as long as a man who is 20 years old to a man who is 50 years old can be counted as one ding, and he can get 50 acres of land. In this way, a family can get 100 acres of land. Even more, although in this case, the whole family may have to go into battle to farm, but the more they plant. The more you can stay.
"The government will provide you with seeds, farm tools, ploughing cattle, etc., and will also provide you with an interest-free loan of five taels of silver per tunding."
Subsequently, the government began to implement the granting of land.
Liu Jun organized those tunding into a group of ten tunding, and fifty tunding into a team. One hundred tuns are numbered as one tun. Each group allows Tunding to choose a team leader, each team elects a captain, and each team elects a tun leader. These team leaders, captains, and tun chiefs are responsible for conveying the government's public announcements and orders. and maintaining order in the cantonment team, mediating disputes, and taking the lead in maintaining water conservancy facilities.
During the slack season, each cantonment team should also organize some drills, and the leaders of each cantonment team are the officers at all levels of the drills. Liu Jun didn't want these people to go to war, but just hoped that they would be trained in their spare time and gain some ability to protect themselves.
Because there was an inventory of the Dingkou of the guard, the division of the field was very smooth. Yunyang Wei has about 20,000 remnants of the regular army, and when they gave the land, they adjusted the age of the land to 20 to 50 years old, so some of the younger ones and some of the older ones did not give the land. However, on average, almost a military household is granted 100 acres of land, and a household is granted an average of 2 dings.
A family planting 100 acres of land sounds like a lot, but this family is actually a military household, but it has never been separated, and the population is at least seven or eight people, and maybe even a dozen or so.
The fields were divided into pieces, boundary posts were re-erected, and tun groups were set up. There are heavily armed nine-headed birds in charge of this matter, no one dares to obstruct it, and many of the original landlords, those military attaches in the army have also been beheaded or confiscated, no one dares to obstruct it, some of the local Haoqiang who have encroached on the land and some of the Zong's clans who occupy the land, under the warning of the zodiac Zhou Xin's family visit and implied threat, no one dares to make trouble.
What they are most afraid of is the nine-headed bird, and now the more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the ten battalions in Yunyang have all been under the command of Liu Jun, the Marquis of Zhennan. They all understood that Liu Jun fully supported Huang Daozhou's patrol, and some people took gifts to find Governor Zhu Dadian and wanted to leave his relationship, but Zhu Dadian accepted all the things in the ceremony, but did not do anything.
In the end, those people understood that the big and small officials up and down Yunyang were all in a group.
800 tunzhuang have been established, more than 16,000 tunding, 100,000 tun people divide the cultivation of 800,000 mu of tuntian, starting next year, under normal circumstances, 800,000 stone of tun rent rice can be obtained every year.
But now it's September, and the late rice has just been harvested, Liu Jun and the others just copied out a large amount of grain that had just been harvested from the homes of those officers of the guard, and these grains had not yet been sold, plus the original grain in their homes, Liu Jun was like digging a vole's nest after the autumn.
Not only did they confiscate hundreds of thousands of the wealth of these military attachés of the Yunyang Guard, but they also got hundreds of thousands of stones of grain.
"It's off to a good start!"
When the zodiac Zhou was faced with the summary numbers that came up, he was also full of excitement.
"Yunyang Wei is a special situation, it would be good if other Wei Yiwei could have 200,000 acres of land, and this time in order to kill chickens and scare monkeys, we copied their family property. Next, the rest of you, we have to follow the previous plan, so as to avoid pursuing their previous crimes, so that the military cantonment fields can be quickly cleared out and distributed to the military households and replaced with tunding farming. ”
"Cheap guys."
"That's a helpless thing, it's the same as on Yunyangwei's side, I'm afraid that the next twenty or thirty guards around Yunyang will be in chaos overnight." Liu Jun was very satisfied with the current results, and did not ignore the overall situation for this reason. It is the right thing to clear the fields and distribute them to the military households.
Liu Jun didn't want to force those guards officers to rebel, in case those people jumped off the wall in a hurry, it would still be very troublesome, in contrast, he actually preferred to boil frogs in warm water.
After clearing out the fields and distributing them to those military households, and after returning to stabilize the situation, Liu Jun can come back to clean up these people at any time. At that time, which of the tunding who had the fields to cultivate would still follow the officers of the guard? If the officers of the guard station who are only left with the bare pole still dare to stab Liu Jun, it is not that he can pinch it as much as he wants?
Even if it was an unexpected harvest of hundreds of thousands of stone grain, Liu Jun did not swallow it alone, he left 100,000 stone for himself, and then gave 100,000 stone to the pro-soldiers over there in Qihuang, and then 100,000 stone to the new soldiers in Kuizhou, and then the remaining 100,000 stone grain, Liu Jun gave 20,000 stone to Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five northwestern provinces, 30,000 stone to Li Changgeng, the governor of the five southeastern provinces, and then 50,000 stone to the governor of the eight provinces.
Liu Jun sent letters to the governors, and then asked them to send people to Yunyang to transport grain.
He also did not forget to report to the emperor the progress and fruitful results of Yunyang's clean-up and rectification of the guards and military camps, and reported to the emperor as soon as possible, and sent them to the Beijing division with the music, as well as 100,000 taels of silver, which were part of the confiscated property of the generals of the Yunyang Guard. At the same time, there are also many exact crimes such as the embezzlement and embezzlement of the military attachés of the Yunyang Guard, who were jointly played by the governor, the patrol, the general army, and the prison army, as well as the results of their disposal.
Fengyang.
During this time, Mei Zhihuan, the supervisor who had been preparing to encircle and suppress the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution, received a fast letter from Liu Jun, and after reading it, Mei Zhihuan couldn't stop laughing.
A group of staff and generals asked.
"Why is the Overseer laughing so much?"
"Liu Jiye, the general soldier of Yunyang, just sent a letter to the old man, saying that he had already made great preparations in Yunyang, and was about to lead the army east. In addition, Liu Jun also gave the old man a big gift, 50,000 taels of silver and 50,000 stone of grain. ”
Everyone was amazed in unison, and inhaled again and again, "This Liu Jun, you can't dig up the treasure!" (To be continued......)
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