Chapter Eighty-Four: Spring for the Military Households

Li Qiusheng went to his own field every day to watch the sweet potato seedlings grow little by little, at this time he was so happy that he could even wake up from sleeping, he was smiling every day, and he was in a good mood, of course, many people in the village were in the same mood as Lao Li.

Li Qiusheng's own land is not much, the six people are only thirty acres of land, or slope land, but after all, this is their own land, Li Qiusheng is in his early forties, but he can have fifty in appearance, this is the thought left to him by the difficult life in the early years, this is the first time he has his own thirty acres of land in more than 40 years, after the winter wheat harvest, the new Lord Zhao Lie sent down the seeds, and also sent someone to teach how to plant sweet potatoes and corn, and the adults also spoke, no taxes will be collected in the first year, and ten taxes will be one in the second year, and they will never be added. This is a great good thing, and the people in the village say that this is because God sees that we are too miserable, and sent Lord Zhao to help us. I hope that Lord Zhao can stay in the Thousand Households and not leave.

Borrowing the ploughing oxen, Li Qiusheng's family is men, women and children go into battle together, leveling the land, deep ploughing, ploughing, raking the ground, preparing the long, fertilizing, planting, watering, weeding, although the work is tired, it is also painful and happy. In this season, the military households of the entire Senhe House are unprecedentedly busy, but they are also unprecedentedly cheerful. Li Qiusheng even took a good estimate of whether the Fujianzi that the professor planted sweet potato and corn was as high as the ditch, lest he make a mistake, and he had never planted the land so carefully.

Although there is still some time to go until the harvest in the first autumn of this year, the monthly money and grain are distributed on time, which reassures the hearts of thousands of military households, and everyone is working together to farm and plow, hoping for a good harvest. Now, the military households are muttering in their hearts that most of the land they divide is abandoned slopes, although the adults said that a large number of irrigation wells have been drilled to ensure irrigation water, but they have been ordered to plant sweet potatoes and corn, I don't know, how the harvest was last autumn, although this year's watering and moisture protection, well, and the use of new fertilizer, but the big guy still has no bottom in his heart, fortunately, the adults said, if the harvest is poor, the money and grain are responsible, and the harvested grain is all bought. Although the military households had doubts, they still settled down.

Li Qiusheng was hoeing grass while thinking about the changes this year, thinking that he hoped to have a good harvest, his eldest son Li Hui was seventeen years old, he used to be poor, and he failed him, if the harvest is good, he can also say a daughter-in-law for two years, alas, there is also the second Li Mou, the third Li Ji, who let so many sons born in his own family just give birth to a daughter, Li Qiusheng straightened his waist in worry, well, I didn't dare to think about it before, but now I want to tell my son about my daughter-in-law, you Li Qiusheng is still worried about a fart. Thinking of this, Li Qiusheng was in a much better mood.

"Lao Li. I'm home, you. "Neighbor Hu Yun came to the south, a black and thin little one, with a torn blue cloth coat open in his arms, sweating, but he must be in a good mood today, no, he walked over with a smile, "I'm going back to eat, you can't go back." ”

"Brother Hu, you go back first, I'll go back when I'm done shoveling the grass here." Li Qiusheng replied that he wanted to shovel the grass in this field before leaving, but now he is very concerned.

Li Mingyu is now very idle, since the spring sowing, and the winter wheat harvest replanting, is so idle, yesterday daughter Li Lin went back to Chishan Town to visit him, after lunch today, Li Lin accompanied him to start another day of inspection.

Li Mingyu was wearing an ordinary blue cotton gown, his hair was very simple to pull in a bun, Li Lin was wearing a moon-white cotton shirt, a silver hairpin was inserted in the bun, a small jasper, followed by two domestic servants and a maid, and the group walked on the streets of Chishan, Li Mingyu is now the de facto controller of Chishan, everything is decided by him, and other idlers never violate his will, this is not what makes him the most satisfied, what makes him most satisfied is the happy expression on the faces of the Chishan military households, the cheerful pace, Chishan is a paradise full of hope, which is rare in Daming.

Li Mingyu also served as the county magistrate of Xiao County, Anhui Province, just because the merger of acres of land and acres of land and the local gentry surnamed Wu was evil, and the official eunuch of his family took the door of the Anhui political envoy, so he let himself end up with a dismissal and return to his hometown, and his ambitions at that time were also gone, but he did not expect that he had the opportunity to sway again in the small town of Shandong, for the lifeless of the thousand households last year, and the military households of the thousand households this year were full of joy, as one of the planners, the specific executor Li Mingyu was overjoyed.

"Dad, it seems that the military families are much better. You see. Li Lin said.

"Well, Lin'er, the military households of the Thousand Households in Chishan Town can be said to be the best Thousand Households in the Ming Dynasty, dividing the fields, breeding, and never adding endowments." Li Mingyu smiled and walked with his hands, "Of course, this is all paved with more than 10,000 taels of silver, it is their blessing to meet Lord Xiao Zhao, now, as long as the autumn harvest is good, Chishan is worry-free, and this place can be ruled by doing nothing in the future." ”

Li Lin blinked and looked around with big eyes, the change was also in her heart, she didn't expect the young black and rough martial artist to be so concerned about the poverty of the people, starting from the aspects of food and clothing, changing the entire Red Mountain, thinking of the more than 100,000 nearly 200,000 refugees who took refuge in Shidao, Zhao Lie deserves the title of the Buddha of ten thousand families. Li Lin, who was deeply educated by the family of the Ming scholars, like his father, had his own ideas about the gentry class for governing the country, and his father's teachings said that the world was ruled by the emperor and the scholars, and the gentry class was the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, and they had the important task of assisting Long Live the Ming Dynasty, governing the Ming Dynasty, and pacifying the people.

However, when his father resigned from his post just because of a small conflict between the people's fields and the gentry, after understanding the darkness of the scholar class, the so-called concept of the past in his heart was greatly shaken, and the common people were slaves for their cultivation in the eyes of the gentry, and this idea began to appear in Li Lin's heart.

So, what is Zhao Lie for, there are no acres of his land in Chishan and Shidao, if the private property is his fleet and army, the money and grain he got are used on the people, and he even suffers and works with vulgar and dirty refugees, and now Li Lin is not the young Li Lin, she is thinking about what Zhao Lie is for.

"Father, the life of a thousand households will get better and better, and if it goes on like this for a year or two years, one day the day will come when there will be no worries about food and clothing." Li Lin helped his father. "Father, look at Zhao Lie, what is Lord Zhao asking for?"

"He implemented the council system in Shidao, and he was responsible for everything, and the deliberations were all local merchants, and there were no talents, people, jinshi and gentry." Li Lin said to himself, this is what he wants to know the most, all parts of the Ming Dynasty are governed by officials and local large landlords and gentry classes, but here, the minor officials are appointed by the council, and the gentry have disappeared.

"My father has figured out the thoughts of Lord Xiao Zhao, in the future, in the territory of Lord Xiao Zhao, there must be no big landlords, you can do business, operate workshops and get rich, you can't make a fortune because of the land." Li Mingyu touched his short hair, "Don't forget, the statute of deliberations is a heavy tax for the big proprietors of more than 1,000 acres. When you reach more than 10,000 acres, you will have no income, but you may go bankrupt. ”

"Although this is good, but most of the acres of land today are in the hands of the Ming gentry, and the reason why they are gentry is that there are people in the clan who raise people or enter the ranks and ranks, and they can be exempted from most of the fields. Not much benefit. Li Lin pursed his lips and disagreed, no one can change the thousands of years of practice of tax reduction and exemption for the gentry, and neither can the emperor. Of course, this will not happen in Chishan, the local people are all military households, and there are no gentry. ”

"I heard that Lord Xiao Zhao said such a sentence, the gentry are one errand and one food." Li Mingyu stopped and whispered. "Don't spread the word."

"Oh." Li Lin covered his red lips in horror and looked at his father with wide eyes. This is the words of a duel with a million gentry in the Ming Dynasty, and when it is spread, Zhao Lie can be shattered in an instant. "Father, this is impossible." Li Lin is not an illiterate village woman, she knows the power of the Ming gentry in these days by Li Mingyu's side.

"He also said that it will be visible in a few years." Li Mingyu frowned for the first time today, of course he knew that the bloody wind and rain in this sentence was impossible under normal circumstances, but if there was a huge force that destroyed the gentry class, such as the end of the Han Dynasty, such as the end of the Tang Dynasty, such as the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this is the era of tens of millions of heads falling to the ground, the era of the revolution of the country, is it possible that the Ming Dynasty has also reached such a time. He is still skeptical, although he was persuaded by Zhao Lie that there has been a foreign trouble, but there is not much civil unrest in the country.

Li Lin is also extremely smart, and immediately understood the meaning of these words, Zhao Lie's mind can be seen at a glance, is he a hero? Is it a hero? In short, the picture is big.

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