Chapter 527 Inventory of Acres

The method of using wounded soldiers to maintain the local area was Li Xingzhi's method of setting up local security regiments in the later Republic of China period.

This arrangement not only enables those soldiers who fought bloody battles for the Jingbei Army to be properly resettled after demobilization, so that they can have no worries about food and clothing, but also can effectively maintain local law and order and deal with possible emergencies in the locality, such as the soldiers and gods inciting the people to make trouble, eliminating bandits in the territory, and the Jingbei Army Field Corps can also play the responsibility of supervising the transfer of grain, that is to say, these local armies will be the armed police of later generations.

Shuntianfu was directly under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Division, and under Li Xingzhi's nose, there was the deterrence of Jinyiwei and the officers and soldiers stationed in Beijing, and the administrative orders of Song Guangkun and Feng Quan, the dog-legged man, were quickly and effectively implemented.

Only half a month after the Son of Heaven changed the Yuan, that is, less than the Shangyuan Festival, the officials of the imperial court and the local officials of the seven counties and five continents of Shuntianfu were still in the period of rest, and all the local township chiefs and supporting administrative personnel were already in place, such an administrative speed, so that the courtiers and the officials and gentry from all over the country had no time to react.

Originally, the new policy was implemented in such a barbaric way directly in Shuntianfu, and Li Xingzhi was also worried that there would be gentry and clan forces who were unwilling to lose their ruling power to collude with officials to make trouble, so not only did they dispatch Jinyiwei and Jingbei troops in all counties of Shuntianfu, ready to suppress possible riots and vicious incidents at any time, but until all the prefectures and counties of Shuntianfu were reformed, the predicted rebellion did not occur.

The reports from the counties were all that the local gentry welcomed the imperial court's exercise of local administrative power, and even many gentry took the initiative to contact the Jinyiwei and the new township chiefs who were carrying out local reforms, and were willing to donate money and grain to the imperial court in exchange for their sons to get one or two local jobs.

In view of Li Xingzhi's policy of carrots and sticks, Song Guangkun named the gentry who obeyed the imperial decrees and voluntarily paid money and grain to the imperial court, and agreed to consider their children's proposals to take up local positions as appropriate.

Thanks to the cooperation of the local gentry, the implementation of the new policy in Suncheonfu was surprisingly smooth.

Shi Xu Yixian, the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion in Beijing, thought so, he said: "These people are the masters who bully the weak and fear the hard, when the Dongyu came, they left the people to hide in the city and refused to come out to resist, and ignored the local people, coupled with the thunderous means since the prime minister entered Beijing, hundreds of officials above the sixth grade have been cut down alone, not to mention the imperial relatives like Zhu Chunchen and Zhou Kui, as long as there is no problem with the brain, they will never dare to jump out at this time to oppose the ruling power of the Jingbei Army."

Besides, we don't confiscate their land, nor rob them of their silver, but just let them hand over the local rulership and give their children a certain way out.

The people have benefited from us, although it is hindered by the face of the township and the clan, but we are still welcome, plus the new township chief and well-armed soldiers administer justice to them.

They will never listen to the nonsense of those people and go against the court, without the support of the people, they can only be honest. If they are not honest, what can they do? Could it be that you dare to really jump out and resist the royal power?

After dividing the new administrative region, Song Guangkun struck while the iron was hot, and directly issued an inventory of the yellow books of fields and acres in various prefectures and counties, as well as those displaced people who were hidden by the local gentry and clans because they fled, that is, black households.

Once, there was a second time, and the gentry who had retreated once naturally compromised, and the money and grain were all handed over, and the land and property they occupied could naturally be handed over.

However, Shuntianfu is at the foot of the Son of Heaven in the end, even if the Dongyu has repeatedly entered the Kou in recent years, but it is still a Taiping boundary, and the influx of displaced people is not much, after investigation, there are more than 280,000 black households in seven counties and five continents under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu, mainly concentrated in Changping and Qian'an counties that were attacked by the Dongyu, where there is a lot of ownerless land, about 830,000 mu.

Song Guangkun simply arranged for the Guanning Junjia Xiao, who had moved back to Gyeonggi from Ningyuan, to these two counties, redivide the land, and appoint local administrative officials.

This arrangement allowed the people resettled in the townships to get enough land, and also used these lands to entrap the Guanning army who surrendered.

After all, one student of the Jiangwutang is simply not enough to be assigned to all the villages, so Song Guangkun directly asked Li Xingzhi to suggest that the wounded soldiers who have retired should be directly managed, so that more than 700 villages composed of foreign population and small families in the Jingbei military system have been set up in Changping County, because of the support of the imperial court, the locals do not dare to bully these outsiders.

It is necessary to set up new administrative regions, set up local functional departments, set up local armies, organize the people of new villages to carry out spring plowing and production, refine the specific ministries of each township office, strengthen the ties between each township, village and county, and take stock of the money, grain and materials paid by the gentry in various places... All kinds of affairs, a thousand things, can not be put in place in a short time.

But fortunately, everything is difficult at the beginning, with the model of Shuntianfu, the rest of the Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Daimyo Mansion and other prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Northern Zhili can adopt such a template, so that Song Guangkun, the governor of the Northern Zhili, will not take many detours.

It's just that the farther away from the capital division, the greater the resistance to the implementation of such an edict.

On the second day of the second month of the first year of the Yongli calendar, that is, as the saying goes, the dragon raises its head, and large-scale resistance to the imperial court's policy of dividing land and counting the population broke out in Wei County, Nanle, and Xingtai in the Daimyo Mansion and Shunde Prefecture.

The reason is that after these two prefectures entered the Kou in the ninth year of Chongzhen and the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the local people suffered countless deaths and injuries, so that a large number of fields and properties were reduced to ownerless fields, and the local gentry took the opportunity to collude with the local government to control these ownerless lands, and the Daimyo Mansion and Shunde Mansion were close to Henan, which was rampant with Liukou, and after the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Guanzhong and Henan were in drought, so nearly one million displaced people poured into the Daimyo and Shunde Mansion.

The local gentry turned these displaced people into their own tenants at a very small price, and let these people farm for themselves, and the ownerless land naturally did not have to pay taxes, so that these landlords and gentry who were rampant in the countryside obtained a large amount of money and grain out of thin air, and now the imperial court wants to re-measure the land and check the population, which touches their fundamental interests, which leads to the violent anti-French incidents in Wei County, Nanle and other places.