As the commander of the Jingbei Army, Li Xingzhi's eyes naturally cannot be fixed on a manufacturing bureau, how to maximize the human and material resources of Leiden for the use of the military marshal's office, and at the same time ensure that the people in the jurisdiction can get the corresponding protection.

Since the Han and Tang dynasties, there has been such a sentence in the Chinese dynasties, the imperial power is not under the county, and the county is all clans, which means that the local people are actually controlled by the clans and gentry.

While controlling the locality, the gentry groups and clans used the benefits they obtained from exploiting the local people to supply their core children, and entered the imperial court through the imperial examination, and then used their power to obtain greater benefits.

According to the Ming system, Zhongju people can be exempted from tax for 400 mu, Zhongjinshi can be exempted from 2,000 mu, and those who have officials in their families can be exempted from 4000 mu, and those who are officials to 20,000 mu or above are exempted from 10,000 mu.

The gentry did not pay for food, and this measure of the imperial court to encourage the common people to study became the reason for their frenzied annexation of land, and countless people donated their land and property to their names, becoming so-called tenants.

The crazy land annexation caused a sharp decrease in the land registered in the Ming Dynasty, and also caused a sharp decrease in the tax revenue of the imperial court, from 30 million taels in the Yongle period to 4 million taels today.

Not only the gentry, but also the vassal kings everywhere were frantically annexing land, and the local military leaders also turned military households into tenants, turning hundreds of thousands of border soldiers into peasants in the literal sense of the word.

Not to mention anything else, it is Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Jiajing Dynasty, Xu Ge Lao, in Songjiang's hometown, there are 240,000 acres of fertile land, that is famous all over the world, known as Zhang Juzheng, the first hero of Wanli Zhongxing, Zhang Jiangling also has 80,000 acres of fertile land in his hometown, and Li Xingzhi coerced to Jinan King Dewang's Zhuangtian has 130,000 acres.

Over time, these people who have mastered the pen and the right to speak have become another kind of people, and if the court asks them to collect taxes, they will immediately be criticized by them.

Let's imagine the books read by the people who actually dig in the soil? Do the real people dare to violently resist taxes in front of the murderous factory guards? Those displaced people who followed the rebel army in a precarious situation, which one of them was not a common man who could not survive.

It is recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the Wanli Emperor went on a hunger strike because of local tax resistance, and even the emperor was a non-eater for several days. "It's not a pity to be honored, He Gang Jiton is here!"

As the saying goes, if you don't break it, you can't stand it, and in the face of the intertwined gentry group, vassal kings, and military leaders, the best way is to push them down by force.

However, Leiden, which was controlled by the Jingbei Army, was not so troublesome, and after experiencing Kong Youde's rebellion, Leiden, the original gentry class was almost wiped out by Kong Youde, and a large amount of land became ownerless wasteland.

At present, the people of Laiden, plus the 150,000 brought by Li Xingzhi from Jinan, are only 280,000.

To be honest, this point of population is not enough to fill a Laizhou capital, so naturally there is no land allocation.

The only thing Li Xingzhi had to do was to promulgate the corresponding laws to prohibit private buying and selling among the people.

As for what law to make, it is very simple, that is, to use Leiden's land as the military land of the Jingbei Army, and the people only have the right to plant, but not the right to buy and sell, of course, this lease period can be extended indefinitely.

That is to say, under the current circumstances, Li Dashuai is the largest landlord in Leiden, and these nearly 300,000 people are Li Dashuai's tenants.

In terms of land rent, Li Xingzhi denied the concept of 15 taxes and 1 tax proposed by Qian Tianxi, but reduced it to a lower 20 taxes and 1.

The so-called food in the hands of the people, do not panic, the people have food in their hands, will sincerely support the rule of the Jingbei Army over Leiden.

Li Xingzhi has a consideration for such a policy, and the military management of land can naturally prevent those rich families who fled to Leiden from thinking of annexing land, and secondly, he can confuse the imperial court and use his greed for wealth to make Chongzhen and the princes of the imperial court lose their guard against themselves.

Of course, Li Xingzhi only put forward an idea, and the specific legal provisions must be formulated by the civilian officials of the Military Marshal's Office.

Qian Tianxi, Lu Liangzhi and others have quite a few complaints about Li Xingzhi's reduction of the land tax to the standard of 20 taxes and 1 tax, and according to the population of Leiden, excluding the old people and children who cannot go to the land and a large number of fishermen, there will be 150,000 peasants who have gone to the land when the land is full.

Based on the calculation of three acres of land planted by each farmer, the entire Leiden can only reclaim 450,000 acres of land.

That is to say, the annual grain production is only about 2 million stones, and the grain that the Jingbei Army can receive is only worth 100,000 stones, and at present, the Jingbei Army has more than 15,000 soldiers alone, and it is only six or seven stones in the hands of each soldier.

"You can rest assured, the military food is not enough, we can go to the people to purchase at the market price, you remember, only the people get the benefits, our Jingbei Army can get the heart of the army and the people of Leiden, what the commander wants is a stable rear, to set a benchmark for the people of Shandong, so that they will take the initiative to defect to our Jingbei Army, with the population is still worried about no food?"

Li Xingzhigao sat in the lobby of the Leiden Prefect's Mansion, talking eloquently, looking like he was in the chest.

"But the marshal, let's Leiden is in ruins, and we have to spend money everywhere, and now these fields have not produced anything, and you have to raise sailors and set up an ordnance manufacturing bureau, I'm afraid that the lower officials will sit and eat nothing!"

Lu Liangzhi, Qian Anning and others still vetoed Li Xingzhi's decree.

It is true that they are telling the truth, in Li Xingzhi's conception, not only the sailor and the manufacturing bureau, but also a large number of schools will be built, and a perfect industrial system will be built to turn Leiden into a stable rear.

"You don't have to worry about the problem of money and food, this marshal has his own considerations, Mr. Lu and the prefect of Qian first sent this decree, including the local management system, to make a perfect statement to the marshal, well, the local government will take five households as a team, two troops as a group, five groups as a village, and five villages as a township."

"The army chief and the team leader are elected by the people themselves, the village head and the township head are the wounded soldiers of our Jingbei Army, and the local security team must also be set up, so that local stability can be maintained as much as possible and the interference of local clan forces can be eliminated."

Li Xingzhi said that this is the part, naturally no one has any objections, and this is also a move for the benefit of the people, Lu Liangzhi and Qian Tianxi arched their hands, and hurriedly retreated.

After seeing that all the officials had gone down, and there were only four or five military marshal's officials left in the hall, Yang Biao said hesitantly: "Brother Li, Lu Liangzhi is right, our population of 300,000, how can we consume tens of thousands of money and grain every day, and now the year is not good, let alone collecting taxes from the people, I estimate that we may not be able to receive much food this year." ”

"Biaozi, we have a big deal, do you dare to do it for you, this deal is done, not only do we not have to worry about food for two years, we can even support you 100,000 taels of silver first, and the matter of your thirty mothers-in-law can also be solved, and she is a yellow flower girl who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

Li Xingzhi's voice was not loud, but it was full of temptation.

"Big boss, can this business brother go?" Li Rui, who returned to Laizhou from the Jiaolai River, after listening to it, his eyes lit up, and he didn't care about etiquette, and he shouted out the black words when he was a bandit.

"This is not the place to talk, you can talk to the study with us." Li Xingzhi was not annoyed, Shi Shiran stood up and said a word to Wang Zhong, Yang Biao, Li Rui, Li Youcai and Song Guangkun in the lobby.