Early in the morning of May 18.

Xujia Village, Wanping County.

The fields of the whole village of Xujia Village are the Yongye fields of the king of Gaoyang County.

The whole village here helped Zhu Gaoxu farm the land, and the local area was Wangzhuang.

Zhu Gaoxu has a total of 36,000 acres of land, which are basically near the southwest of Beiping, mainly concentrated in Wanping County and Liangxiang County.

In Xujia Village alone, there are about more than 2,000 acres.

Usually there are palace officials or eunuchs to manage, and the county palace has always been Hou Hai doing these things before.

There are 18 households in Xujia Village, and the average household is about 10 acres, mainly depending on how much each household has.

Ding in the Ming Dynasty referred to an adult male (20 years old).

Kou refers to an adult girl (15 years old).

The more ding, the more fields the family will plant.

When the Ming Dynasty counted the population of the whole country, most of the time it was counted in ding, not in households.

Zhu Gaoxu liked to train soldiers, and he used to live in Beiping City less, so he built a temporary military camp on the edge of the Jade River on the west side of Wangzhuang in Xujia Village, south of Yuquan Mountain.

When the weather is good, in the spring and autumn, he will bring the three hundred-person team of the Royal Palace Honor and Guard Division to train the troops.

After midnight this morning, a large number of local people gathered here, because two days before the palace came to the palace and ordered the tenants in the vicinity, each household to give a ding, to the barracks for a meeting.

Although everyone was puzzled, the master had an order, so they could only come one after another.

The convening consisted of a total of 363 tenants from Xujia Village, Yuhe Village, Shijingshan Village, and three villages.

These are all tenants who helped Wangzhuang farm, and some of them were immigrated from all over the world during the Taizu era.

Tenants like this, Daming is everywhere, when they meet a good vassal king, the tenants have a better life, and when they encounter a bad one, they are no different from slaves, and no one cares if they are killed, and there is nowhere to escape.

The crowd came from all the villages in a sparse manner, and it was probably not until the end of the hour that all of them came.

Hou Hai and Chen Wen, Song Meng, Zhou Hu and others are all there, the three hundred households Wang Bin, Wei Da, and Sheng Jian are also there, and there are some newcomers at the scene, all of whom are Chen Wen's people from the village.

Hou Hai and Zhong Xian, as well as two little eunuchs and two officials, have been on the side to take a roll call.

The way they roll them out is a bit troublesome, there is a roster on the side, and if someone arrives, they will report it, I am a certain person in a certain place.

The Ming Dynasty was the Lijia system, at the beginning every 110 households were one li, and the rural areas were headed by the 10 households with the most grains, and the remaining 100 households were the first.

The widows, widows, and lonely households who cannot afford to bear the errand work in each mile are under the control of 110 households, which are called abnormal households. The 10 lieutenant chiefs take turns to serve in a cycle of 10 years, and the order is pre-arranged according to the amount of grain, and every year 1 lieutenant chief leads 10 leaders to serve on a mission, and is responsible for "managing the affairs of one mile."

Later, in the 24th year of Hongwu, it was improved again, and the integrity of the area began to be considered, and the concept of 'capital' was born.

One capital is 600 households, divided into five miles.

The number of tenants in the palace is similar to that in the countryside, but it is mainly based on the number of households in each village.

Zhu Gaoxu stood on the shore of Hou Hai and listened, how did he feel so long.

Isn't there 110 households in one mile? According to his understanding, there should be only one lieutenant chief, and the rest are all A chiefs.

After the roll call was completed, he said to Hou Hai: "In the future, the tenants of this king will be reorganized." ”

"Each village elects a village head, and the original ten li chiefs will take turns to serve according to the number of grains, and they will be re-elected if they do a good job."

"The village chief is in charge of the affairs of the whole village, and is mainly responsible to you and Zhongxian."

"The lieutenant chiefs are all under the control of the village chief."

Hou Hai thought thoughtfully, and then nodded immediately.

"Also, convene a meeting in the future, and the lieutenant chief will be responsible for leading the people from each mile, don't be so noisy and rush up together, the lieutenant chief will report to the village chief how many people should arrive, and if anyone hasn't come, the village chief will remember it and report directly to you."

Hundreds of people just signed up for a while, and the scene was really chaotic.

"Yes." Hou Hai and Zhong Xian hurriedly said.

Chen Wen's eyes lit up slightly on the side, the scene of the chaos just now was really not good-looking, and as soon as Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, he found a way to deal with it.

Then Zhu Gaoxu ordered everyone to stand according to the village, and then according to each li.

The crowd was confused for a while, and then they found their own villages and villages, and many of the lieutenants were shouting at their own people.

After all the people stood in place, Zhu Gaoxu ordered them all to sit down.

Everyone was still happy to hear that they were sitting down, and they all sat on the ground.

At this time, Veda came to the front, because his throat was quite large, and he spoke loudly.

He came to the front, stood on a high place, and shouted at the top of his throat: "The Gaoyang County Royal Mansion wants to recruit young and strong families, and after training, use them to conduct business, escort goods, grain, and exterminate bandits." ”

"Only two hundred dings."

"Those who are willing to sign up and be selected will be provided with food and drink by the palace, and each Ding will be divided into five acres of Yongye field, and every year will be completed, and the rest of the land rent at home will be less than 10%, and the maximum --- will be less than 40%."

"After five years of work, all the fields in the family will be owned by each household, and 10% will be paid in the following year."

The crowd listened for the first time and didn't understand, and then Veda called out again.

Then someone stepped forward to explain to them, and slowly the scene became noisy, no, it was a fryer.

The tenants couldn't believe it.

Once selected, five acres of Yongye land will be given first.

What is Yongye Field, that is, it can be passed on to future generations and truly belong to one's own field.

The people of the Ming Dynasty at this time, who don't want to have their own fields.

Moreover, the fields of the king of Gaoyang are all good fields.

This is simply a big meatloaf falling from the sky, the ultimate dream of all the tenants of the Ming Dynasty.

And then there will be less rent, which is also causing a sensation.

At this time, the Ming tenants generally paid 50% of the rent.

Suppose that there are two stones of production per acre of land, one stone must be handed over to the master.

But if you think you're just paying one stone? That's a big mistake, the housekeepers, eunuchs, and officials of each Wangzhuang will all find ways to design other deductions and scrapes.

In some places, those who need to pay taxes will also be pressed on the tenants, so how much the tenants can really take depends on the conscience of the master and the people around the master.

And the king of Gaoyang County is Yongye Field, and he does not have to pay taxes, which is much better than other fields.

The key is that the king of Gaoyang County said that after five years of work, all the fields in the family will be owned by each household, and one percent will be handed over to the king of Gaoyang County in the following year, and there is no need to hand it over to the imperial court.

Among the tenants on the scene, the few families had a few acres, and the many families had twenty or thirty acres.

If you come out of the house, after five years, the harvest is huge.

Suppose that the family has 20 acres of land, and the grain is originally collected 40 stone a year, but 50 percent, that is, 20 stone.

But after ten years, as long as four stones are paid annually, and the land is owned by the tenants, it can be passed on to future generations.

These words of the King of Gaoyang County were extremely shocking, and even broke the land law of the Ming Dynasty.

The tenants talked about it on the spot, some were shocked, some didn't believe it, but some officials on the side said, think about it, how does the king of Gaoyang County treat you?

Although Zhu Gaoxu did mischief in Beijing, he never harmed his own people in Beiping.

People were talking, Hou Hai looked back at Zhu Gaochu from time to time, his expression was a little helpless, as if he wanted to persuade Zhu Gaochu not to do this.

But Zhu Gaoxu seems to be determined to divide the field.

Because Zhu Gaoxu knows that this field will not be his own in the future, why is it not divided now to win people's hearts?