Chapter 305: A Surprise That Came Naturally
? Chapter 305 A natural surprise
From the north of Pyongyang City, there are abundant fields of abundance, which is a rare sight in recent years.
There is nothing more joyful for the peasants who are digging in the soil, from men in short shirts to women who tie their robes around their bodies, and even local farmers who wear strange Korean costumes.
The Grange of the Fengzi Camp is no longer limited to the line from Xincheng to Pyongyang, but relies on Pyongyang, publicizes, and unscrupulously 'shoots' in all directions. Each grange is more like a reclamation regiment, where they go, they will enclose the land, so that the land that has been abandoned because of the war 'chaos'
It's got a new lease of life.
Soon, Pyongyang's civil government 'gate' found that their manpower and farm tools began to be overstretched, and farm tools and other things were easy to solve, as long as there was silver, a large number of craftsmen could make them, but the shortcomings of manpower could not be solved for a while.
At this time, the benefits of Yu Feng's system of absorbing Korean soldiers into the Fengzi camp were revealed. Because there were a large number of Korean soldiers serving in the Fengzi battalion system, and even in the granges everywhere, there were some outstanding Korean soldiers who joined in, and this proportion made the resistance of the majority of the Korean people reduce a lot. These Korean people, regardless of these soldiers, are in the army of those Han masters, whether they are auxiliaries or regular soldiers, what they see is only the officials of their own country, with their own soldiers, to recover and cultivate these fields, that is to say, these things are natural and righteous.
As for the production of the fields, where the taxes paid go, they don't care at all, did they know before that most of the production of their fields and the whereabouts of the taxes paid? What they care about is that as soon as they join the grange, they will immediately have food to eat, and they will receive 20 to 30 percent of the grain when the harvest time comes, and they will not have to 'pay' any more fees.
Moreover, more importantly, after joining the Grange, no one dared to bully them, the knives and guns of the young men in the Grange team who were 'fine' equipped to protect the village were not vegetarians, and the landlords who everyone needed to look up to in the past were not much tougher than them at that time in front of the swords and guns.
Those local heroes and strongmen are naturally unwilling to push the grange of this Fengzi battalion under their noses step by step, occupy their land, and seize their peasants.
With this in mind, they began to gather manpower, and began to have friction with the nearby granges, and they completely forgot that when these granges came to their territory, they first contacted them and invited them to join the grange, but compared with their own monopoly of the land population and income, how could they tolerate that their income was reduced by more than half at once? What's the difference between this and snatching food from a tiger's mouth?
They gathered manpower, and even instigated some Korean people who did not know the truth, slandered, slandered, and abused the Grange from the beginning, and in the end, they were powerless, but when the real fight began, they sadly discovered that the peasants on the other side who were carrying swords and guns, where the peasants were, were simply more 'elite' than the army they had seen.
Under the absolute superiority, the stubborn forces in these places have been dismantled without any suspense, and the treatment of those who are the leaders of the guys, they don't need to go into detail, and even those who know some inside information, seeing this result, can't help but secretly shake their heads, knowing that it is the end of both people and money, and the death of the clan, and the original promise to cooperate with these granges, isn't it a hundred times better than now.
The heroes who understood the direction of the wind immediately knew that their arms were still too thin, and they still couldn't twist the other party's big 'legs'.
For these people who took the initiative to bring people to vote, the various granges were very polite, and they couldn't help but not touch their property, but in the grange, they were given some titles, large and small, and their faces were quite sufficient.
There are 'shrewd' people, carefully calculated an account, although the production of these fields, they can only get three percent, but these three percent, basically the same as dry stocks, the real three percent, not mixed with a little water. He doesn't need to worry about anything, just wait to collect the money, in the past, those expenses were deducted, plus the taxes that should be paid, and the things that should be 'handed over', it seems that it is almost a lot.
Waiting for today's harvest signs to be 'revealed', these 'smart' people, and then secretly estimated, and found that even if they only took 30%, it far exceeded their income in previous years, and the mud 'legs' who were farming, looking at their eyes, were no longer hateful, but actually softened a lot, sometimes walking in the countryside, there were actually people who took the initiative to greet them kindly.
No one is a fool, this joined the Grange, his interests have grown, his fame has grown, and he has been protected by a strong force, such a good thing, if he is turned away from the 'door', then only those whose brains are caught in the 'door' can do it.
Soon, the various granges became hot 'gates', and landlords, heroes, peasants, and even some stragglers who were scattered among the people tried to come here to find a safe place to 'mix' food. The civil ya's 'gate' soon discovered that this manpower problem seemed to have been solved unconsciously with the bumper harvest of grain, and now in the entire Huanghai Province, basically three-quarters of the people are working for the Fengzi camp in the grange, and the identities of the people in the grange that were originally pushed out are also very different.
Have you ever seen a small grange, a hundred and ten people, who have been released for a few months, and have occupied half of the county? No, but, in Pyongyang, this is no longer a strange thing. Pyongyang is like a huge base that constantly produces these semi-armed grange troops, and then demarcates areas, throws them out, and lets them develop. Pyongyang, on the other hand, has been providing a steady stream of resources and armed support in the rear, and in a few months, Hwanghae-do has simply blossomed everywhere.
Now, it's time for the granges everywhere to feed back, not to mention the grain, the most conservative estimate, this year's harvest, can ensure the demand of the area where the Fengzi camp is located for about three years, even if the rations of the people go out, two years after tomorrow, even if the Fengzi camp has no harvest, there is no need to worry about food shortage.
With the expansion of the territory of the grange, it is inevitable that from the first batch of primitive granges, and many small granges have been separated, and the original may be an ordinary person, as the territory grows bigger and bigger, it may also get a certain steward, a certain title of head of the village, and then, the separated small grange is separated here, unconsciously, a complete system is gradually formed.
From the smallest grange, to the larger one, to the first batch of granges to be dispatched, and then to the civil 'gate' in Pyongyang. Layers of grading, but there is a clear distinction between the top and bottom, and the whole is clear. According to this system, as long as officials are formally appointed in the various grass-roots institutions, this complete set of ruling institutions can be established at once.
It is expected that these granges will feed Yu Feng with food, but it is a huge surprise for Yu Feng that these granges can develop to this place on their own.
It's not that he hasn't considered this possibility, in his mind, this kind of thing should be very difficult, it takes a lot of time, who knows, it's just a year, no, it should be said that it's a season, he actually relied on this grange policy, and really mastered such a large area, so to speak, in the area controlled by these granges, he, the voice of the aftermath, is the highest intention.
The Grange is a semi-military armament, except for some officials officially appointed by the civil ya'men', the rest of the people are hastily appointed by these officials, although this subordinate is clear, but the specific subordinates, do not know the specific situation, the civil ya's 'gate' is really not very clear. As the reserve of the entire Fengzi battalion, the guard team also adopts the military system, although this military system is not the same as that of the Fengzi battalion, but it is obviously different from the civil ya'men system.
As a result of this rapid expansion, both the military and civil affairs offices have fallen into a 'chaos' and 'chaos', and sometimes Yu Feng even thinks that the invincible army in the later generations will not be in the same 'chaos' and 'chaos' as himself when he takes over such a large place before the sudden victory.
Where there is darkness, there will be light! If there is 'chaos' and 'chaos', order is naturally needed, and Yu Feng is the maker of this order.
In July, the Civil Ya 'Gate' promulgated a new set of standards for the rank of officials, and the entire framework roughly followed the Ming system, with officials divided into nine grades and eighteen ranks, all of which were appointed by the Civil Ya 'Gate', and the official clothes and official seals were awarded. The phenomenon of 'privately' self-assignment by those originally sent out has been completely eliminated, so that the smallest grass-roots grange to the most civil 'gate' have a formal title, so that no matter where there is a change, the civil 'gate' can know and respond as quickly as possible.
In the same month, the military affairs ya's 'gate' also issued a notice that the members who originally belonged to the grange protection team were officially separated from the grange, and according to the number of their members and the degree of training, they were given new numbers, and they were unified and reorganized into the 'Fengzi Second Battalion', and quickly converted into local garrisons according to their geographical location. At the same time, some non-commissioned officers and grass-roots officers were selected from the Fengzi Battalion, promoted and used, and directly enriched the ranks of the Fengzi Second Battalion. So far, the whole army of the Fengzi Battalion has 12,000 people, and the total strength of the Fengzi Second Battalion is nearly 40,000.
Yu Feng now has about 50,000 military forces in his hands.