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"Am I going to lie to you?" Geng Jingzhong asked, writing his eyes.

"No, no, no! It's just that the subordinates are too excited! Bai Xianzhong hurriedly waved his hand and said. Just kidding, how could I question the prince, I'm tired of being crooked!

"You guys keep training, I should go back after watching for a long time! It's good that you just keep training at this intensity and in batches. "The place where Geng Jingzhong fought belonged to the cavalry battalion camp, and his grandmother said that it was on a small hillside, and the terrain was higher, and she was satisfied with the training of more than a thousand cavalry below, and he was satisfied with the inspection this time. The cavalry corps, he will definitely be formed, whether it is to deal with the upcoming war, or to conquer other continents in the future, cavalry is an indispensable and important type of troops.

In fact, when Geng Jingzhong made up his mind to form a cavalry corps, he was already thinking about recruiting troops. Originally, when he used weapons to exchange population with Yang Qilong, he wanted to recruit a group of young men from this group of people and train them as cavalry. As can be seen from a great migration movement, this group of immigrants has a large population, with a population of 3560,000. Based on the calculation of six people in each household, the total is more than 50,000 households, close to 60,000 households.

It is not difficult to ask each household to produce a strong man, which is more than 50,000 people, and then select the strongest 10,000 people from these 50,000 people. Moreover, Lee Guangdi has already leveled the land on Luzon Island as a pasture according to his request, and then one after another Dutch war horses will also arrive one after another to train cavalry on Luzon. I think it's a good choice. What is now Luzon. Plus the more than 300,000 people who have emigrated in the past. The total population has not yet exceeded one million, and excluding the mountains, there are large open spaces waiting to be developed, and any wilderness can be used as a training ground for large numbers of cavalry.

But it was not an easy task to build a ranch and train cavalry, and the ranch that Lee Kwang-di was preparing to build was a hundred kilometers north of Manila on the island of Luzon. Ten kilometers northeast of Xinkaifeng Town, a long strip of land 30 kilometers long, about 10 kilometers wide, and an area of about 4,500 hectares, that is, 450,000 acres of land, has been selected as a new pasture for grazing 30,000 or 40,000 horses, which is not a problem. This large area of pasture has open space for the cavalry to train.

It has been three and a half months since the victims arrived on Luzon from the north, and more than 300,000 people have already settled in, albeit in shabby houses. But it can keep out the wind and rain. And here, never worry about starvation again. There are clothes to wear, food to eat, things to do, and most importantly, to have a field to cultivate! Recently, the new immigrants have just planted rice, not all rice, many of them are wheat, and some of them are planted with sweet potatoes and other crops promoted by the Mawei Army.

This is not servitude, the people know that it is working for themselves. The construction of roads and ditches is for their own convenience, and the roads are repaired to connect all parties. The ditch was repaired to benefit their own fields. In addition, the new government will pay them wages, and the wages are even higher than when they were in the mainland! As long as there is one person in a household to contribute, then the family does not have to worry about starvation, if there are two people to work, then they can eat all the work every day, if there are three people, congratulations, the extra can buy some meat from time to time, and you can save a lot!

Geng Jingzhong was not worried about the cavalry soldiers at all, and 10,000 people could easily pick them out. And Geng Jingzhong is not worried that these new immigrants will be disobedient, when they arrive in Luzon, it will no longer be the same as the mainland, here it is completely up to Geng Jingzhong to decide, let them do whatever they want! Of course, Geng Jingzhong has always cherished the people, and these new immigrants are also taken care of everywhere, and the immigrants also know how to be grateful, and there will be no problem if Geng Jingzhong recruits troops among them.

Geng Jingzhong thought that if he instructed Li Guangdi to recruit soldiers among the immigrants, on the grounds of protecting themselves, to prevent the local natives from sneaking attack, or to prevent the Spaniards from counterattacking, etc., the immigrants could join the team willingly. After receiving Geng Jingzhong's order, Li Guangdi began to recruit new recruits while preparing the ranch. There is no hurry to recruit soldiers, after all, the ranch has not yet been completed, the recovery training of veterans has not ended, and the new immigrants have not been in this place for a short time, at least after they have passed this New Year, that is, after their first New Year in their new home, their hearts are completely settled, and then they start recruiting, which will work best.

If you want to say that the busiest thing in the Mawei Group right now, it is Lee Kuang-di! Now he is the supreme military and political governor of Luzon, and all matters big and small are decided by him. This is Geng Jingzhong's trust in him, and if he is an ordinary person, he really doesn't have the courage to delegate power so much. Of course, the Mawei army was only loyal to Geng Jingzhong, and even if the others wanted to do something, they didn't have a chance. Li Guangdi is now busy every day and needs to fight at night, and the daily army is busy until late at night.

The ranch is actually the simplest one, just arrange people to level and develop a large area of land, not to mention that the place was originally a plain, but the indigenous population is very small, not a fertile land, a wilderness. It's just equivalent to the area of three ordinary towns, planting grass is not growing rice, it's relatively much simpler, it only takes a few months to gather 10,000 people to complete it completely, and then you can hire regular workers to maintain the pasture, and you can also recruit these immigrants to do the herding thing!

What Li Guangdi is busy with now is about the local affairs of immigration, and it can also be said to be the affairs of the whole of Luzon. The specific matters are related to the use of land and the payment of taxes. In the eyes of all the people, farming and paying taxes is a matter of course, and there is nothing to say, but as long as there are no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no one will object.

The newcomers themselves were given 10 acres of land each, and if there were six people in a family, then 60 acres of land. That's hectic enough. But there are people who dislike their own fields. After the land is finished, if you don't go to work at other times, you can go farther away to reclaim the wasteland, but until now, not a single family has gone to a farther place to reclaim the wasteland. But not having it now does not mean that it will not be in the future, Geng Jingzhong is encouraging people to reclaim new land, and for this reason, new land laws have come out. Lee Kwang-di has recently been implementing a new land law and a new tax system.

"Hey, his second uncle, I heard that the palace has promulgated a new land law, saying that the ownerless land in the north, as long as someone proposes to reclaim it, how much can be reclaimed is considered their own? Is this true? A dark-looking man about forty years old asked his brother. He himself is illiterate, but his younger brother is a showman, and he is also the village chief of their new Shangshui Village in Zhoukou Town, and his name is relatively ordinary. Zhou Wen, the word Wenda. His eldest brother. The name of the black man is also simple, Zhou Wu, one article and one martial arts are compatible. Their fathers died early, their mothers were sick, and they were raised by their elder brothers since they were children. Among these new immigrants, there are still very few scholars with Xiucai status, but fortunately, he is not a nerd who is dead to study, and was appointed by Li Guangdi as the village chief of Zhoukou Village.

"Well, it's true! As long as someone proposes reclamation, as long as they go to the village chief to report, get a quasi-title deed, with this title deed, and then apply to the above to grow grain and apply for a loan from the palace, every year the inspection department will send someone to verify the reclamation situation and grain production, in addition to the rations, all grain must be handed over to the state treasury to repay the loan, after three years, then this quasi-land deed to the yamen in exchange for a new land deed, after repaying all the loans, the land will belong to you forever, and you only need to pay the taxes stipulated by the palace every year. You also know that this land is not allowed to be bought and sold, and whoever it belongs to at the beginning is whose family it is, unless any one is out of the box! Zhou Wen said to his eldest brother with a smile,

"It's an eye-opener!" Zhou Wu shouted excitedly, he has four sons and two daughters, the family has sufficient labor, and dozens of acres of land are busy earlier than others. In this way, I can have dozens of acres of land!

"Big brother, this is the content of the new land law, I haven't read it out yet, how do you know?" Zhou Wen said with some puzzlement. He also just got this thing last night, and he was about to summon a village cadre to read it out this morning, and his eldest brother knew it first!

"It's not the big horn in the village, he's the village bookkeeper now, no, it's the accountant, he preached it everywhere last night!" Zhou Wu said with a big mouth.

Zhou Wen reacted, "No wonder, this guy, it's really" The big mouth is also a new immigrant who came with them and a fellow countryman, who was originally the shopkeeper of a shop, but the store went out of business, but I didn't expect to become a petty official because of his outstanding computing ability when he came here! However, the nature of the country is easy to change, but this big-mouthed brush disease can't be changed!

Geng Jingzhong originally wanted to start implementing the "New Land Law" in Fujian, but now the time is obviously not ripe. This is a feudal society, and the land is in the hands of a small number of people, and Geng Jingzhong does not know the specific number, and it will be a necessary action to clear the land of the whole country in the future. However, according to Geng Jingzhong's knowledge, according to the national calculation, the average per capita land area is about 10 acres, and Fujian's per capita land is less, about 7 acres per capita, such a ratio is much more generous than that of later generations, even if the output is 10 to 1 compared with later generations, so much land production can feed all the people.

Of course, this is an ideal state, five years ago, two or three thousand people died of starvation every year, and although the land annexation at this time was not as strict as in the late Ming Dynasty, the situation was not optimistic. Otherwise, Geng Jingzhong would not have thought of carrying out a peaceful land reform plan! Now, the newly promulgated "New Land Law" can be said to be a means to solve the problem of peasant land, first, to reclaim more land for farmers to cultivate, second, to prohibit land annexation, to establish and improve the land ownership system, and third, to expand externally and obtain more land to relieve domestic pressure.

Of course, this new law could not be implemented immediately in Fujian, so it was brought to Luzon, which is just right. The first two of these three are feasible in Luzon at this stage, and the last thing Luzon lacks is land! However, the "New Land Law" stipulates that all unowned land on Luzon Island, including mountains and rivers, belongs to the royal palace and belongs to Geng Jingzhong. In the future, no one shall occupy or reclaim land without the permission of the royal palace. The offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 20 years.

For the first time, the New Land Law divides land. The use of land is regulated, and the land is divided into agricultural land, construction land and unused land. Strictly restrict the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, control the total amount of construction land, and implement special protection for cultivated land. Agricultural land refers to the land directly used for agricultural production, including cultivated land, forest land, grassland, farmland water use land, aquaculture water surface, etc.; Construction land refers to the land for the construction of buildings and structures, including land for urban and rural residential and public facilities, industrial and mining land, land for transportation and water conservancy facilities, land for tourism, land for military facilities, etc.; Unused land refers to land other than agricultural land and construction land.

Under the auspices of Li Guangdi, the Ministry of Land and Resources was established, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the royal government. He is in charge of the use and management of all land in Luzon, and the new title deeds are fully adopted, and the land is not allowed to be bought or sold. This is also Geng Jingzhong's method of learning from the new China of later generations, which is now being popularized in Luzon and can be used on the mainland in the future, but corresponding changes must be made at that time. In the future, the Mawei Army will develop more overseas land, and when the time comes, this method can also be implemented.

With the implementation of the "New Land Law", Geng Jingzhong implemented the apportionment of the land to the mu and the integration of the gentry and the payment of grain, incorporated the ding tax into the local tax, and abolished the gentry's improper difference. Not paying food, a privilege that has been a privilege for thousands of years, is a huge reform. A whip law was invented when Zhang Ju was in power in the former Ming Dynasty, and he did not dare to do so at that time. Because this will offend all those powerful and powerful classes, these people are still too powerful, whether in the court or the people, they have considerable influence and energy, and an iron-fisted prime minister like him would not dare to do this. But here, Li Guangdi and they don't have this scruples, there are no official gentry here, and there is, and they are also newly sealed by the Mawei Group.

Spread into the mu, also known as the spread of the Ding into the ground, the unity of the land, the grass was created in the Ming Dynasty, is the Qing Dynasty government along the Ding silver along the merger into the field of a tax system. In later history, it was generally practiced in the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Its main content is the abolition of the poll tax, which is objectively a relaxation of the personal control of the lowest peasants, and is an important reform of the servitude system in the late period of China's feudal society, which abolished the poll tax (ding tax) that has been practiced in China for more than 2,000 years and incorporated it into the land tax.

The apportionment of the land into the mu ended the chaotic phenomenon of land, households, and ding, completed the process of merging the poll tax into the property tax, and completely abolished the poll tax since the Western Han Dynasty; Since the object of taxation was land, the government relaxed the control of household registration and increased a large number of labor force that could move freely, which played a role in promoting the revitalization of the commodity economy. The landless peasants were freed from the burden of servitude and were no longer forcibly bound to the land, which further relaxed the peasants' personal dependence on the feudal state, and played a positive role in the social economy at that time, especially in the budding development of capitalism. Although there has been progress in the historical apportionment of acres to the acre, it has caused the wealthy households who occupy a large amount of land to be assigned a heavier burden of servitude than before; Instead of easing the burden on the people, the burden has increased, and the situation of fleeing to avoid paying taxes has intensified. The policy of "apportionment to the acre" cannot maintain a fixed amount of taxation, thus inhibiting the people from evading taxes.

Later generations of Zhejiang "Jiaxing Mansion Chronicles" commented on the spread of Ding into the mu and said: "The field is more than Ding, the field is less, the field is less, the mu is calculated, there is no way to deceive, its benefit is one, the people have no compensation for the suffering, its benefit two, the year of compilation and review, as usual, there is no need to add audit, its benefit three; After each field is finished, there is no way to get up and down its hands, and its benefits are four". By the end of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the national inventory of silver taels increased from 8 million taels in the last years of Kangxi to more than 60 million taels. The population of the whole country has soared from 20 million in the 18th year of Shunzhi to more than 300 million in the 55th year of Qianlong. Therefore, in the history of later generations, China's feudal society appeared for the last time -- "the prosperous era of Kangqian and Qian."

Later, Qianlong's "Jining Prefecture Chronicles" also said when commenting on the meaning of "paving the ding into the ground": "The nine rules of Jizhi have been reformed for a hundred years, that is, the system of nine rules of the third class. …… However, the time service is in the fu, and the time or service is outside the fu. "Huidian" cloud: There are nine rules of three classes in the province, there is a whip, there are those who follow the A faction, and there are those who follow the Ding faction, and within a province, the rules and regulations are different. …… At this point, it has been unified, and the policy of "apportioning the land into the mu" has benefited the poor and is not conducive to the landlords, which can be said to be an important reform in the history of taxation in our country. It has eased social contradictions, strengthened feudal rule, and promoted economic development and a slight improvement in the people's living standards, which is of certain positive significance. The policy of "apportioning the land to the mu" has not properly dealt with the problem of evenly apportioning taxes, thus affecting the interests of all strata of the wealthy and wealthy households and the common people.

Judging from the general trend of social development, the policy of apportioning land to mu has obvious limitations. It did not eliminate but strengthened the feudal land ownership system, and did not and could not eliminate the class contradictions in society. Fundamentally speaking, it still defends the interests of the ruling class - the interests of long-term rule, firm rule, and it makes feudal rule even more solid. As a matter of fact, although the apportionment of the land to the mu has been implemented in various provinces in name one after another, it is impossible to carry it out in a sustained and earnest manner.

Now, what Lee Kwang-di is preparing to implement in Luzon has undergone some changes, after all, the situation here is completely different from that of the mainland! Geng Jingzhong also participated in some of the methods of later generations, Geng Jingzhong himself did not want to continue to follow the old road of feudalism. This is his goal. As for socialism, it was also said in the book of the later generations that it still had to be accumulated through self-preservation! (To be continued......)