Not long after Tang Xiangjin and He Liu left, Liao Qing brought another person up.

Shao Xue, the head of internal affairs of the Dewang Mansion.

"Thousands of households, how should the tenant rent in the house be collected this year?"

Shao Xue said humbly: "It's already the middle of the month, and the New Year will be in another month and a half."

There was still fear in his lowered eyes, Su Hao was a person like him, he had seen it for the first time in his life, and he had directly slaughtered King De's family, and he didn't even leave a way back for himself.

"How was the tenant rent of the Dewang Mansion levied before?"

Su Hao's fingers lightly tapped the handrail, after receiving the property of the Dewang Mansion and the Tong family, the land in his hands is 1.4 million mu, and nearly half of the good land in the entire Jinan Mansion is in his hands, and the last reward plus the recruitment of new recruits only used more than 100,000 mu, and now there are more than 1.2 million mu of land left.

Shao Xue bowed and said, "Qianhu, the previous tenant rent was to collect one stone and three buckets in the upper field, nine buckets in the second field, and seven buckets in the inferior field."

"So many?"

Su Hao frowned, ancient times are not as good as modern times, there are hybrid varieties, there are chemical fertilizers, in this era, the yield per mu of grain is not high, even if it is a high-grade good land, it is generally a little more than two stones, very few have more than two stones and five buckets, and the inferior fields are even only one stone, three or four buckets.

According to the tenant rent of the Dewang Mansion, this collects fifty percent of the yield per mu, and in a year, rents ten acres of land, leaving at most about ten stones of grain, and normal adults have to plant at least four or four acres of land even if they eat less, that is to say, an adult must plant at least four or five acres of land to support himself.

And the common people not only pay tenant rent, but also have to serve conscription, often a man in the prime of life to serve a few months of conscription, so to speak, after a year, even their own food is not enough, most of the tenants have to rely on borrowing from the German palace to survive.

"Thousands of households, this is not much, now the only land that can be rented in Fuzhong is more than 400,000 mu of land around Fucheng, and no one dares to collect land in other counties."

Hearing this, Shao Xue hurriedly said.

"Don't worry about this, the official will send someone to collect it."

Su Hao said calmly, so much land in the Dewang Mansion naturally cannot be around the city, most of it is in various counties, and even some are in other prefectures, now he is a thief, those magistrates will naturally not let him receive tenant rent easily, but there are no soldiers and horses stationed in those counties, only need to send some people and horses over, and those magistrates probably do not dare to go out of the city to stop it.

After a pause, Su Hao continued, "You have people tell those tenants that if someone in the family is willing to join the cathars, the tenant rent can be halved, and if two people join, this year's tenant rent will be free."

"The little ones are going."

Shao Xue nodded hurriedly.

Watching Shao Xue leave, Su Hao's eyes narrowed slightly, although the reduction of tenant rent was just a matter of his words, even if he did not collect tenant rent, it was not impossible, but he did not do it, since ancient times, it was easy to show kindness to the people, but those ordinary people may not be grateful, because what everyone has, those ordinary people will only think that it should be.

Maybe at the beginning, the common people will be grateful, but after a long time, they will slowly forget and think that everything is what they deserve.

Before the people's wisdom was opened, the people's gratitude was the most worthless, which was his most profound understanding in the past half a month! ….

From ancient times to the present, all promising kings have said that the people are important and the monarch is light, but for thousands of years, the hardcore supporters of imperial power are the gentry class, even if it is Yingzheng, Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhu Yuanzhang, who can be called the emperor of the ages, they also rely on the gentry class to rule the world, or it is more appropriate to say that the community of interests stands on the same level of interest as the imperial power.

Now what he has to do is to pull more people into his community of interests, as long as he enters this circle, the other party may not be loyal to him, but he will definitely be loyal to his own interests.

As for the common people, after he occupied Jinan Mansion, he had abolished the "three salaries" and other strange salaries, and he had given enough kindness, but because of this, there were few yeoman farmers and small landlords who joined the Guardian Army, and those who joined the Guardian Army were basically tenants who came for two acres of land and free of land tax.

As for opening up the wisdom of the people, so that the people can afford to read books and recognize words, for him now, this is too far.

On the one hand, the imperial court's policy of ignoring the people has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for thousands of years, and on the other hand, the cost of reading is too high, and children under the age of seven basically can't learn many words, and over the age of seven is already considered a labor force.

It is difficult for ordinary people to bear one less labor force, not only one less labor force, but also to bear the cost of labor education, even if it is not a full-time study, semi-full-time study is also an extremely heavy burden.

More importantly, in this era, the transportation is inconvenient, there are few opportunities to even write letters, there is no other way out for reading and literacy except for the imperial examination, and there are even fewer people who can be the bookkeeper for others.

Zhu Yuanzhang attaches more importance to education than any emperor in the past, and social studies are directly opened to the village, but now, except for the big family's own ethnology, most of the social studies have been abandoned, and the people have no idea of reading and writing.

Because the only use of reading and literacy is to take the imperial examination, but if you take the imperial examination, not to mention semi-full-time, it is difficult to pass the full-time study, in fact, the people's thirst for knowledge is not small, but the desire in front of real life, the people can only take care of the real life in front of them.

If you want to popularize education, you can only have the future of literacy, only when reading and literacy is useful and has a future, the people will take the initiative to learn, rather than simply relying on coercion, simple coercion will not open up the wisdom of the people, after all, few people will invest time and energy in useless things.

On the other side, Tang Xiangjin, who had returned to Texas, immediately and Liang Ping began to organize soldiers and horses to assemble in Linqingzhou.

………

Dongchang Mansion, Mansion.

"Two commanders, the spies sent to Linqingzhou by the official just now came to report that those rebels are already assembling and are preparing to attack Fucheng, and the two commanders can defeat the rebels and recapture Linqingzhou."

Jiang Renxi looked anxious, but he smiled in his heart, he sent someone to Jinan Mansion to ask for help a few days ago, but he did not wait for the dispatch and reinforcements, but waited for the news that Su Hao rebelled and Jinan Mansion was captured.

Before, Shao Kun and Pan Ding both refused to send troops because they had no order, but now that the other party took the initiative to attack, Shao Kun and Pan Ding definitely had no excuse to continue to refuse to send troops. ….

He had already asked the spies to check before, and the rebels occupying Linqingzhou took advantage of the surprise attack of the military attachés of Dezhou Wei, Dezhou Left Guard, and Linqing Wei at the wharf ferry.

Those rebels themselves did not have much combat power at all, and there were many soldiers who had incorporated the guards of the three guards of Linqing, and most of the others were newly recruited.

"Governor Jiang, the rebels are coming to attack, we should hold the palace city, wait for the arrival of the imperial army, and then attack back and forth, and destroy them in one fell swoop is the best way."

Hearing Jiang Renxi's words, Pan Ding frowned and said, "Dongchangwei has not been on the battlefield for more than a hundred years, and if he attacks rashly, once he fails, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Pingchangwei's main responsibility is to ensure the safety of Dongchangfu City and be responsible for escorting Caoliang, Xu Hongru made such a big fuss at the beginning, and the imperial court did not mobilize Dongchangwei, and now let him take Dongchangwei to quell the rebellion, isn't that a joke?

Once defeated, the life of the net worth will not be guaranteed, it is better to hold the Dongchang Mansion, so that even if it is useless, there is no fault.

"Yes, Governor Jiang, at this time, the imperial court should also be organizing troops to suppress it, why should we fight for this time and a half."

Shao Kun also hurriedly persuaded, Jiang Renxi's thoughts were also clear, it was nothing more than that Su Hao hurriedly raised troops, and his soldiers and horses did not have much combat power at all, and he wanted to take this opportunity to make a contribution, after all, Su Hao slaughtered the Dewang family, and he must be furious today, if he can make the first contribution, Jiang Renxi's future will definitely be smooth.

However, Jiang Renxi and these civilian officials did not understand military affairs, and only knew that they took it for granted, thinking that they were the regular army of the imperial court, and the other party was a group of improvised Wu

The crowd only needs Dongchangwei and Pingshanwei to send troops, and they can easily defeat each other.

Jiang Renxi didn't want to think about it, if the guard really had such a strong combat effectiveness, how could Xu Hongru's chaos be so big at the beginning.

Hearing that Shao Kun and Pan Ding were still shirking, Jiang Renxi was also angry, and said coldly directly: "Two commanders, now that Su Hao is stealing grain, if the other party controls the canal, the million stone grains in Dezhou and Linqing Prefecture will be difficult to protect, and if you lose the grain, don't blame the official for participating in you."

"Governor Jiang, this ......"

Hearing the threat in Jiang Renxi's words, Shao Kun and the others also panicked, now that the court is noble and cheap, once Jiang Renxi really joins them and puts the charge of losing the grain on their heads, they will most likely be unlucky.

After the thoughts in his mind turned sharply for a moment, Pan Ding hurriedly said: "Governor Jiang, although those rebels are just a rabble, there are many first-class martial artists in the opponent's army, and it is difficult for us to deal with so many masters, if we are killed by the opponent's battle, I am afraid that we will be defeated."

"This question is not difficult, now there are many masters in the Jinyi Guard Yamen of Dongchang Mansion, this official will ask Zheng Qianhu to bring people to help, and there are also many masters in the city, this official will visit and ask them to contribute together."

Jiang Renxi said calmly.

"Since the prefect has made a plan, the official has no other opinions."

Hearing this, Pan Ding could only sigh and say, Jiang Renxi has said everything about this, what else can they do, if they don't obey the order, Jiang Renxi will hand over an impeachment letter, and they will have to bear the charge of losing grain.

"In that case, I hope that the two thousand households can gather their soldiers and horses, and give this group of rebels a head-on blow at that time!"

Seeing that the two of them gave in, Jiang Renxi immediately nodded with satisfaction.

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