Chapter 287: The People's Aspirations
Wei Zhengtong guò his own means, step by step to collect more than a thousand low-level military attachés and military hearts.
An action to buy the hearts of the people was also carried out step by step under the supervision of the Shanxi Governor's Office...
In the past month, all the pensions and incentives that should have been paid have been paid.
Not unexpectedly, in the face of the two choices of silver and cattle and sheep, more than ninety percent of the soldiers and the families of the fallen soldiers chose cattle and sheep that could bring them benefits continuously.
However, even so, the Governor's Mansion still has more than 13,000 ploughing cattle and a total of more than 500,000 fat sheep...
With so many livestock, if they were in the hands of someone else, they would definitely choose to exchange them all for gold and silver and store them.
Because, if these animals are raised in their own hands for an extra day, they will have to spend thousands of taels of silver on all kinds of food and pasture...
However, Wei Zheng did not ....
The shrewd Wei Zheng knew very well the importance of these livestock to the people of the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces...
Take the ploughing cattle as an example, with more than 10,000 ploughing cattle, the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi will definitely open more tuntian....And this means that the next autumn harvest, the governor's palace can harvest more grain......
As for those fat sheep, although they do not play a big role in ploughing cattle, they can drive the development of animal husbandry in the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in a certain way...
It is conceivable that if he disperses these fat sheep into the hands of all the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, maybe by next year, these 500,000 fat sheep will become 1 million.
At that time, even if 500,000 of them are killed as meat to eat, there will still be 500,000 leftover in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces....
Once Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces had an annual supply of 500,000 fat sheep. The body of millions of people in the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi. It will be on a certain course. Slowly get promoted.
What's more, these fat sheep can continue to develop in the hands of the tunmin...
Of course, these are the most intuitive interests for Wei Zheng and the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces...
For Wei Zheng, while obtaining a steady stream of benefits through these cattle and sheep, he can also win the hearts of all the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces....
With the support of millions of people, plus more than 100,000 elites in their hands....the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. It will completely become the base of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and he will also become the undisputed emperor of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces....
When the time comes, even if he really turns his face with the court, these people and soldiers will stand behind him, support him unreservedly, and fight against the court....
Therefore, Wei Zheng did not directly exchange these cattle and sheep for silver, nor did he choose to slaughter them....but by way of redemption. Disperse these cattle and sheep into the hands of all the tun people in Shanxi....
A Zhuangzi about thirty miles away from Datong City, a few months ago. Or is it deserted... However, with the arrival of thousands of villagers, this deserted Zhuangzi was once again revitalized...
Early in the morning, hundreds of tun people who had had breakfast in a hurry carried farm tools again and were about to go to the outside of the village to reclaim the tuntian, when a series of deafening bells quickly rang in the village...
At this time, the tunmin who had just prepared to leave the village quickly returned to their homes...
Put away the farm tools, and hurried to the threshing floor at the door of the Tun Chief's house with his family members who had a hint of ruddy on their faces because they could eat enough...
Because, the ringing of a big bell in the threshing floor means that something big must happen in Zhuangzi.
After the empty threshing floor was already covered with black oppressive crowds, the middle-aged tun chief who had been out of the tiger and leopard army because of his injuries jumped directly onto the high platform and shouted loudly.
"Folks, I summoned everyone here today to tell you something...."
After finishing speaking, the middle-aged tun chief pointed directly to a compound next to the threshing floor, and continued to shout: "Everyone has seen the cattle and sheep in that compound....Lord Governor has pity on everyone, in order to let everyone have food to eat and become rich, these cattle and sheep have been transferred from other places, and they are ready to be distributed to everyone, so that everyone can have one more way to make money..."
"Distribute cattle and sheep to everyone" Hearing the news, because of the Tuntian incident, the thousands of Tun people who had already been grateful to the Governor's Mansion became boiling.
It's like an ant in a hot pot, shouting and asking the tun chief how to divide it......
Because, whether it is ploughing cattle or fat sheep, for these tun people who can't even eat enough, they are surprises that they have never thought of before. Now, this surprise suddenly befell their heads, and they had to be excited and excited.
At this time, the commander of the tun, who was born in the military, directly sank into the dantian and let out a loud shout....
"Give me all the quiet....how to distribute, I will tell everyone, don't speak....if anyone doesn't hear and misses the opportunity, then don't regret it...."
As soon as the chief finished speaking, the lively threshing floor became silent.
Thousands of pairs of eyes converged on the tun chief at the same time, waiting for the tun chief to follow.
The tun chief cleared the mulberry and continued to shout: "When you joined the tunmin, you knew the rules set by the governor's palace for everyone....starting from next year, each person will be divided into ten acres of land....In the first two years of the division of land, each family must hand over fifty percent of the harvest to repay the silver needed for the ten acres of land...."
"In two years, the ten acres of land will be entirely your own, and the Governor's Mansion will issue title deeds to everyone. Not only that, but after two years, everyone only needs to pay 20% of the harvest as tax every year. Apart from these two harvests, there is no other exorbitant tax...."
"On the surface, fifty percent of the gains are a lot... Not really..."
"The Governor has dug so many deep wells for us with his own silver, and when we plough next spring, we will no longer have to worry about water....When the time comes, even if only one load of grain is harvested per acre, the ten acres of land will add up, and there will be a full ten loads....In addition to the five loads of grain paid in taxes, there will be at least five loads left in your hands."
"Five quintals of grain for one person, calculated according to a family of four, that is twenty quintals of grain... When the time comes, even if you leave fifteen loads of grain as rations, you will still have five loads of grain leftover, which can be exchanged for silver to buy clothes for your family..."
The account that the tun chief said would be calculated as long as it was an individual.
Not only that, but the yield of one load of grain per acre of land can only occur when the year is at its worst. And now, with these deep wells, even if the year is bad, one and a half loads of grain can be harvested per acre of land....In this way, a family of four can harvest about 30 loads of grain a year......
And that's just the income of the first two years ....
Two years later, after these fertile fields are completely their own, only 20% of the taxes to be paid will be left. At that time, the harvest of a family of four in a hard year will become as much as 50 loads...
Fifty quintals of grain is also something that has never been imagined for these tun people who have been living on the line of life and death.
So, before the tun chief could continue, thousands of tun people who could hear it clearly had already knelt on the ground with excitement on their faces and shouted loudly...
"The Governor is a good official, and the Bodhisattva is alive....the small people are dead, and they must also remember the good of the Governor..."
Facing the grateful Tun people in front of him, a smile quickly flashed on the Tun Chief's face.
The reason why he said so much is that he wants this purpose....
There was a loud shout again, and when everyone had quieted down, the tun chief shouted again: "Everyone is right, we all have to remember the good of the Governor, without the Governor, we may have starved to death on the road..."
After speaking, the tun chief's eyes had shifted to the cattle and sheep that had been raised in captivity, and shouted loudly....
"Folks, Lord Doge for us to get better... I paid for it myself, bought us cattle and sheep, so that we can live a good life as soon as possible....Now, I will announce the distribution of cattle and sheep..."
"These cattle and sheep are the same as the tuntian that you have not yet obtained....first for your use, and when you have a harvest, you will buy them from the Governor's Mansion with grain and silver..."
"In order to help everyone, the price of the Doge's Palace is: one hundred taels of silver for a cow and ten taels of silver for a sheep..."
Seeing the people in front of him who were instantly lost in thought, the tun chief continued to shout: "You must know that now in the market, the price of a ploughing ox has reached one hundred and twenty, and the price of a fat sheep has also reached as much as twelve taels....In order to help everyone, the governor has lost a lot of silver...."
"One hundred taels of silver, which looks like a lot....in fact, it is not....you must know that a ploughing ox can be worth several strong laborers. After you have more cattle, in addition to cultivating the tun fields that have been allocated by the governor's palace, you can also cultivate new fields yourself. ”
"According to the current calculation of five taels of silver for a load of grain (after a load of grain is turned into rice, there are only as many as seven buckets left), only twenty loads of grain are needed to buy a ploughing ox...."
"Twenty quintals of grain is a year's harvest of more than ten acres of land....as long as everyone can reclaim a few more acres of land, in two or three years, you can exchange it for a ploughing cow..."
"As for the fat sheep, that's not to mention....two loads of grain can be exchanged for one....not only that, when the ewes you buy back give birth to lambs, then you will make a lot of money...."
"So, this is definitely a way for everyone to make money without losing money, it is an opportunity given by the Governor to the villagers, everyone must not let go....miss this opportunity, everyone can only rely on the land allocated to everyone by the Governor's Palace, little by little to shave silver..."
After the tun chief finished speaking, some of the young men who were in the spirit had already reacted. Exclaimed with excitement on his face.
"Grow Tun, I have a lot of family, and I have children, which can be used to herd sheep... I want a cow and three sheep......."
"Grow Tun, my family is all young and strong, and I don't want cows... When the time comes, just rent cattle from someone else for a few days... However, our family wants fat sheep, and we want six fat sheep..." (To be continued......)