After the establishment of the military salary system, the Mengshan Army once again introduced a policy that made the whole army happy, that is, more than half of the land under Zheng Jing's name was distributed to all the officers and soldiers, and even the subordinates of Lu San Mazi, who had just joined the Mengshan Army, were also allocated land.

Zheng Jing has identified and checked the land with a total of more than 8,400 acres of land under the title deed, which is an astonishing number. Long Qian took out half of it and distributed it to the soldiers of the Mengshan Army. According to the old method, a base figure of five mu per person should be determined, and then the remaining land would be redistributed according to their positions, military years, and military exploits.

It's just a principle. The specific rules are still handed over to Zhou Yi to lead, and it seems that Long Qian has decided to make his deputy the deputy commander of logistics.

"Commander, why do you leave half of it?" Without waiting for Long Qian to answer, Zhou Yi suddenly realized, "Ah, are you going to give that half to the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang?" ”

Long Qian nodded with a smile.

"Hey, if this trick continues, I dare to guarantee that if the official army calls, the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang will follow us with an iron heart."

"I hope so, I am ready to give food and silver taels to help the poor."

"Food and silver are precious, but we don't have much of them. If you do the math, you'll be able to last for a year. ”

"Hehe, if we can't make a name for ourselves in a year, I'm sorry for everyone. Don't worry, I know what to expect. There are pros and cons to the distribution of land to officers and men this time, and you must carefully draw up a charter and thoroughly understand the pros and cons in all aspects. ”

"Well, don't worry."

"This, it's still what you told me that day, the land is in everyone's hands, but it's actually handed over to the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang to cultivate, and we just collect the rent, so that part of the military rations will be solved. If we don't learn from Zheng Jing, that vampire, the land rent will be set at 10%. For 4,000 acres of land, if you plant sorghum or corn, you can harvest almost 140,000 catties of grain according to 350 catties per mu. ”

"There is no cheaper land rent in Shandong. Ha Luha, Commander, your trick is absolutely amazing. ”

"The key is that we can't be the owner, if everyone is obsessed with thirty acres of land and a cow, and the wife and children are hot on the kang, our team will disperse. You don't have to wait for Yuan Shikai to send troops to attack, and you will destroy yourself! So, when the land is divided, the dry land is left to us, and the water land is left to the villagers, understand? ”

"Understood," Zhou Yi happily agreed.

handed over the work of distributing land to the soldiers of the Mengshan Army to Zhou Yi, and Long Qian went to grab the other half himself - to distribute more than 4,000 acres of Zheng Jing's good land to the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang. How to divide the land, Long Qian is ingenious. He organized a seven-member "committee" to get rid of Cheng Erhu and Wu Nian of the Mengshan Army, and the other five people were all villagers from Zhengjiazhuang, of course, the villagers who had established good interaction with the Mengshan Army in the past half a month, including Cheng Daniu and Xiucai Luo Tongxiu, who had recovered from their injuries. Long Qian designated Cheng Erhu as the head of this "committee."

The reason why Cheng Erhu was chosen to do this is because he has two favorable conditions that others do not have, one is that he is familiar with Zhengjiazhuang, and the other is that he has no relatives in Zhengjiazhuang, not even close relatives.

Long Qian spent half an hour teaching Erhu face-to-face, "Erhu, you participated in the meeting of the first two days from beginning to end, and you must already know my idea of building a base with Zhengjiazhuang as the core. The distribution of land to the poor brothers in Zhengjiazhuang this time is also a concrete measure to implement this idea. You know better than I do what land means to farmers. So, this thing seems simple, but it is difficult. If we do it well, the people will stand on our side, and if we don't do it well, it will backfire, understand the meaning of these four words, right? ”

Erhu has been studying hard, he has never been absent from Mengshanjun's cultural classes, and now he knows more than 500 words, according to Ning Shijun, Cheng Erhu is one of the best learning results. He basically understood the meaning of those four words, "Commander, you put it, rest assured, I will definitely do a good thing." ”

"yes, that's what it means." Long Qian smiled, "What are you going to do?" ”

This second tiger didn't think it through.

"I'll give you a big rule, first, don't bring your personal vendetta into your official business. You were born here and grew up here, so naturally you have favors and hatreds, and whether you are enemies or grievances, it is your private matter. The distribution of land to poor households is the official duty of Mengshan Army, and it must not be confused between public and private. ”

"No, it won't."

"Second, those who are willing to accept our Mengshan army will receive more points, and those who hate them will have less or no points; Thirdly, the poverty of the poor is due to different reasons, and those who are diligent in cultivating the workers are given more points, and those who are lazy and lazy, and even lose their homes because of smoking a lot of cigarettes; The last one is a large population, especially a large number of men. I see? ”

"I see." Cheng Erhu went with confidence.

"Also, most of Zheng Jing's land was handed over to tenants for cultivation, and now that the harvest of the autumn crops is imminent, you should take this into account when dividing the land. The general principle is that whoever cultivates the land is best given to whomever it is, and the less adjustment the better! Even if it is adjusted, there must be a compensation plan. In addition, tell the tenants that they don't have to pay this year's rent. ”

Cheng Erhu's actions were very fast, and it only took four days to come up with a field division plan that had been discussed and determined by the "Field Separation Committee" and put it on Long Qian's desk. Now that he has a decent bookcase, Zheng Jing's mahogany desk has moved into Long Qian's bedroom. After Long Qian looked at it carefully, he instructed Li Sancai to call Zhou Yi and Ye Yanbing, Feng Guozhu, Song Jinguo, Ning Shijun, and Shi Dashou, who was recovering from his injuries, and then called Cheng Erhu, Wu Nian, Cheng Daniu, Luo Tongxiu and others. Listening to Wu Nian's report on the principles of formulating the plan in detail, everyone agreed, but Long Qian did not express his position.

This land division plan, involving 344 villagers in Zhengjiazhuang, each household gets an average of 12 acres of fertile land, if the yield per mu of these land is planted with sorghum, you can get 300 to 400 catties, if you plant wheat, it is not less than 200 catties, for these households, the harvest of more than ten acres, that is a year's rations, so, Cheng Daniu's excited eyes lit up, incoherent, in the face of Long Qian's inquiry, Cheng Daniu stammered and said, "Really divide the land for us?" ”

"Ha Luha, Brother Da Niu, do you think we people seem to be teasing you?" Long Qian smiled, "I have some opinions on this plan. For what? I feel that there are fewer farmers who have been allocated land. There are 1,009 households in Zhengjiazhuang, and almost one-third of them have been allocated to the land. This can't work, Lao Cheng, Erhu, our Mengshan Army is a real army for the people, and it is not appropriate for you to exclude two-thirds of the villagers. ”

"Commander, I just do what you ask," Cheng Erhu argued.

"I know. These 300 or so households are people who support the Mengshan Army, but what you have to do is to win the support of the majority of the people for our Mengshan Army, so it is not enough. Those who don't want to associate with us now don't mean they want to fight against us, right? The list is too small to at least double. Got it? ”

"And what if they don't want it?" Wu Nian blinked, "In the past two days, I have met people who are unwilling to divide the land. ”

"It's normal. They are worried that Zheng Jing will come back to retaliate. Brother Da Niu, aren't you afraid of Zheng Jing's revenge? ”

"Afraid of the ball!" Cheng Daniu is a person who is determined to go with the Mengshan Army, "I have long wanted to join the Mengshan Army, I am afraid that you will think I am old, but I am in good health, a stone lock of 100 catties, I play with dripping and turning, and I have strength." Not only do I want to join, but my two sons also want to join__"

"Welcome." Long Qian smiled, "But your youngest son is fifteen years old, too young, let's talk about it in two years." Don't hide it from Brother Da Niu, after this matter is done, the Mengshan Army will recruit troops. Only when our army expands, are we not afraid that Zheng Jing will come back with the official army, isn't it? Speaking of the distance, Erhu and Da Niu, you go back and add up the total, and add those poor brothers who lack land at home to 200 households! Least! There are many people, and the strength is great. ”

"Yes, just do what the commander says." Cheng Daniu stood up, "I'll go and tell the big guys, I have lived to be forty years old, and I have never heard of such a benevolent army, I am with you, you can't do without me." ”

"Don't worry, even if I don't want it, the two tiger brothers won't agree. Do it according to this principle. Next time we won't have a meeting to study it, and you can do it after I've seen it. Before dividing the land, the original title deeds were burned in front of everyone! I also have to get a land deed issued by the Mengshan Army! Let everyone put their hearts in their stomachs, as long as our Mengshan army is here, those lands are yours, and you don't have to pay rent, and how much food you eat is your own! In addition, the IOUs that were searched out of Zheng Mansion were burned together! It doesn't matter who borrowed Zheng Jing, they all burned it! ”

"Hey, hey," Cheng Daniu was speechless with excitement.

"Luo Xiucai, you didn't say anything, this time, how much did you get?" Ning Shijun asked Luo Tongxiu.

"I didn't want __," Luo Tongxiu muttered.

"Mr. Luo, I am clear about your concerns. Don't, don't force it. But you're going to regret it! Tell you clearly, Zheng Jing, he can't come back! ”

Three days later, Mengshanjun convened a villagers' meeting, burned the title deed of the land under Zheng Jing's name in public, announced the list and amount of land to be distributed, and issued a "title deed" signed by Long Qian. A total of 551 households were allocated land. At the same time, Mengshanjun also took out more than 20,000 catties of grain and 3,000 taels of silver, and distributed them to the most difficult 100 villagers in public.

At the meeting, Long Qian asked Cheng Erhu to speak on his behalf, clearly telling the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang that Meng Shanjun would stay here and not leave! Zheng Jing dared to come back, just in time, Meng Shanjun was still waiting for his dog's head.

This is a groundbreaking event in the history of Zhengjiazhuang. On this day, the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang experienced the realm of ice and fire, and those villagers who shared the land, grain, and silver were more happy than the New Year, especially the people who shared the land, watching the soldiers of the Mengshan Army nail the demarcation stake with their names written on it into the ground, many people were so excited that they whimpered!

The meaning of land to farmers is clear only to the farmer. In particular, the hired peasants, who work all year round but do not have enough to eat, are the people living at the bottom of the group in this era when poverty is like falling stones from a cliff. Looking at the black and oppressive crops in the land assigned to his name, and thinking back to the promise that he would not have to pay rent and all of it would be his own, he couldn't help but have fantasies about the better side of life. If that's the case, at least next spring will be the beginning of spring, and the whole family won't have to go hungry again! Many of them had already received food and silver, so they squatted down and counted how many feet of homespun cloth they pulled for their wives and children and made a shirt or two when they rushed to the market. The benefits are there, real. The eyes of the peasants, who seemed to be black and insensitive, suddenly became full of life, especially when the soldiers of the Mengshan Army walked by, and their eyes became even more enthusiastic when they looked at these bandits.

Many people stayed on the ground until the sun went down and refused to go home, and a few male owners slept on the ground with wooden stakes, for fear that they had a dream in vain!

The news reached Bai Wei and Chen Jiaya, and the land under Xiao Guanyu's name was not small, which couldn't help but make him feel panicked. And Chen Chao sighed, this group of people is really rebellious, where is this still a ringing horse, they are already anti-thieves. For the first time since the break, he wanted to take the initiative to meet Long Qian, but during this time, Long Qian has not come to Chenjiaya. Chen Chao found Lu Shan with a straight face and put forward his request, Lu Shan smiled and said, "Master Chen, you are our commander's friend, where you want to go, we dare not stop you." The commander is in Zhengjiazhuang, just raise your legs and arrive, you can go and find him. ”