Chapter 297: Abolition of domestic slavery
Successfully obtained the jurisdiction around Tucheng, Su Qi'an and Wu Yong returned to Tucheng and announced the order.
Su Qi'an officially became the owner of this land, although the area is only half the size of Tucheng, but since then it has its own development place based in Jiaozhou.
At Wu Yong's suggestion, the land near Tucheng was named Qi'an City, and it was very common in Jiaozhou to name it, like the territory where they went to find the little priest just now, and the middle position was the little priest city.
The rest of the surrounding places are named by numbers, like the little priest in his hand, in addition to the small priest's city in the middle, there are nine pieces of land in his hand.
So losing one, for him, is basically harmless, what he cares about is not the lost land, but the face of being beaten by Su Qi'an.
This time he didn't have it so easy, not long after seeing Su Qi'an leave, the little priest greeted the people around him, and the natives around him got the order and turned to leave.
Su Qi'an, who returned to Tucheng, did not have half a minute of leisure and began to get busy.
Although Qi'an City is not large, it has a land population of four or five thousand people, and these people are basically Su Qi'an's domestic slaves in name.
It is no exaggeration to say that everything in Qi'an City is Su Qi'an's personal property.
Su Qi'an will not be like a little priest, eating, drinking, and having fun, just enjoying himself.
At the first time, all the population in Qi'an City will be registered, how large the area of Qi'an City is, which land can be cultivated, and which land cannot be cultivated.
This is what Su Qi'an is eager to understand, this matter is a huge amount of work, and Su Qi'an alone cannot complete it at all.
Fortunately, Wu Yong urgently withdrew his manpower and assisted from the side, and the Dongshan army led by Su Qi'an, after he settled down, began to dress up as a common man, divided into multiple batches, and entered Qi'an City one after another.
More than 1,000 people entered the city, and Wu Yong, who was the local county magistrate, could not have sensed it.
But he is very knowledgeable, and he doesn't have any intention of debunking, no matter how many people under Su Qi'an enter the city one after another, these have nothing to do with Wu Yong.
Because he had already stood on the united front with Su Qi'an, their eyes were on driving the little priest out of the city, and what means to use in the process.
Wu Yong will not interfere too much, and sometimes even fully cooperates.
Only when the population comes up can they develop and expand their strength.
For example, the total population of the land under the jurisdiction of the small priests reached at least 70,000 or 80,000 people, which is a small county seat in other states.
And Tucheng County, which Wu Yong governs, has no more than 10,000 people at best, and this population is very shabby to say.
This is why the little priest is not afraid of Wu at all, just comparing the population, a mouthful of spittle, he has to drown him.
Therefore, it is said to be a county, but eighty percent of the land in it is in the hands of the little priests, if it were not for the fact that there is a nominal one on the head, Da Liang is under the jurisdiction.
If Da Liang is in chaos one day, the little priest will unceremoniously annex Tucheng, which is a piece of meat on his lips.
If it weren't for Su Qi'an's sudden arrival, this piece of meat would have been eaten by him sooner or later.
In the past few days, Qi'an City can be described as quite lively, many people are running around, and from time to time someone orders to assemble and divide the area.
Although the city of Qi'an is very poor, it is said to be a city, but it is actually a small village, and there is not even a decent city gate.
From time to time, teams of Dongshan troops patrol back and forth, although it is very shabby, but the atmosphere in the city is very good.
No malicious abuse, no theft.
Because of those people, in the past few days, Yigan was captured and imprisoned by Su Qi'an's Dongshan Army.
This surprised the natives and Liang people in the city, and in their eyes, they all felt that Su Qi'an had become the master of Qi'an City.
Then you have to do whatever you want, loot people's money, and even see some beautiful women who can look good, and arrest them directly.
This kind of operation has become the norm for other priests, big and small.
With their own land, they are basically Su Qi'an's house slaves, so they are cooler, no
He is a domestic slave, but if he lives on this land, he has to contribute more than seventy percent of the tax revenue.
It is equivalent to exchanging taxes for civilian status, but this high tax, to put it bluntly, is just a rhetoric.
Who can be a good harvest year every year, if there is a famine year, you can't pay taxes, you can only take the deed of sale as a mortgage, and eventually become a house slave.
Therefore, it is precisely because of this that the priests who own the land will be so indulgent, and the priests and priests are their heavens, controlling life and death.
In their opinion, Qi Ancheng has changed its master, and this Qi Da Shao will also follow the path of the little priest, after all, who doesn't want to sit on a piece of land and become the owner of this land.
This kind of temptation of power is greater than the rights of the earls and marquis canonized by Da Liang, and no one can resist it.
But Su Qi'an's next actions made them dumbfounded, and the Dongshan Army in the city did start to arrest people everywhere.
But these people are all extremely vicious, relying on the doglegs of the little priests, to commit murder.
More than a dozen of them were arrested in one go, and then a public trial was held, in which some victims were invited to report their persecution.
In the end, they were not polite, and they were all executed.
This move not only shocked the people who wanted to make trouble in Qi'an City, but also made the people living in Qi'an City feel in a trance.
It's not that they haven't experienced the change of master, but no one will be like Su Qi'an, the first thing to do is to put all the people who are guilty of the most heinous crimes to death. ap.
If you keep them, you can also become thugs, and there are a lot of things that are inconvenient to come forward, and some dirty things can be handed over to these dogs.
But their new owners, not politely, killed them all.
If Su Qi'an's move made everyone sigh, then the next thing he announced after the public trial conference made everyone's brains buzz.
Su Qi'an announced that in the city of Qi'an, unless the status of indigenous domestic slaves, all were restored to freedom, and the seventy percent of the taxes collected by the Liang people in the city every year were directly cut by half.
This order made everyone present directly stunned, their brains empty, and they stayed in place.
The venue, which was still noisy just now, was silent in an instant, and countless people's eyes widened, their mouths were open, and they wanted to say something, but the words reached their throats, and they couldn't say anything.
Su Qi'an, who was standing on the high platform, glanced at everyone, and then in front of everyone, the next moment, he burned the collected deed of sale of the natives.
Su Qi'an's clear voice sounded immediately, "Since I have become the master of Qi'an City, I hope that everyone in the city can abandon their past prejudices, and the so-called domestic slave status will be abolished, and you can live in Qi'an City with dignity, this is what I want to see."
Su Qi'an's voice echoed in everyone's minds, like a mouthful of Hong Zhong Dalu, striking everyone's hearts.
The next moment, everyone who came back to their senses had deep excitement on their faces, and they knelt down directly at Su Qi'an.
Especially those natives, their eyes were red, they kowtowed to Su Qi'an frantically, and they said some words they couldn't understand, and they were very emotional.
But there are still natives who know cool language, shouting loudly in broken cool language.
"I... I'm going to follow you to the death! With our lives, we will protect the safety of our adults."
The excitement of everyone present, Wu Yong on the side was infected, he looked at Su Qi'an, and there was deep admiration in his heart.
Not to mention anything else, to be able to have such a great righteousness, directly abolish the status of domestic slaves, and give these natives free bodies, which is absolutely unprecedented in the Jiaozhou territory, which has been ruled by priests and priests for hundreds of years.
can have such courage, and only Su Qi'an is the only one.
His orders were not only for the natives, but also for the Liang people living in Qi'an City.
Cut the tax in half, and ensure that if it gets better and better in the future, the tax will continue to fall.
This kind of courage is not something that ordinary people can do, and Wu Yong only now understands why there are a large number of followers by Su Qi'an's side.
These people have traveled thousands of miles, following Su Qi'an all the way, and they have courage and charm like this
The people of force, even him, want to follow.
Su Qi'an's order was not a whim, but a plan had been made for a long time.
If you want to revitalize and redevelop a piece of land, you have to carry out drastic reforms.
Pleasures like the little priests, don't look at sitting on a vast land, but it's no different from killing chickens and eggs.
When he came to Tucheng in Jiaozhou, Su Qi'an had already planned to copy and use the business model of Dongshan Village.
Abolishing the domestic slavery system is only the first step, and the next priority is to solve the problem of floods so that these people can eat.
Only by solving the problem of food and clothing can we further develop in the future.
After the public trial meeting, the order issued by Su Qi'an spread as quickly as possible.
Except for the people of Tucheng, who were greatly shaken, the territory under the jurisdiction of the small priests was quite calm and there was no repercussions.
These, in Su Qi'an's expectations, the abolition of the domestic slavery system and the reduction and exemption of taxes will indeed make people feel shocked.
But the biggest problem at the moment is still the flood, if Su Qi'an does not solve it, there will be no harvest by then, and the previous order is just an empty slogan.
Everyone, including the little priests, is waiting to see how this Nanzhou Dashao plans to solve it.
After the order was issued, less than an hour later, Su Qi'an appeared in the city, the most severely flooded place.
For the first time, I took craftsmen who are proficient in water conservancy and farmers who are good at farming to conduct field surveys.
Within a few days, Su Qi'an issued a second major order.
He wants to carry out a large water conservancy project in the city of Qi'an, reclaim ditches,
In the past few days, Su Qi'an summoned the skilled craftsmen he brought, as well as Wu Yong and others, held meetings one after another, and finally formulated a huge project to improve the cultivated land and reclaim the ditches according to the actual situation.
This project is very large, at least 1,000 people, and the construction period will be more than half a year.
There was originally a plan that could be effective in the short term, but it was rejected by Su Qi'an.
His purpose is very clear, rather than treating the symptoms but not the root cause, it is better to simply break them all up and rebuild.
Even if it takes a long time, he has to do it, and he has to make sure that it is done once and for all.
Su Qi'an took the lead in doing this big project, and this scene moved many people.
In fact, there was no need for Su Qi'an to issue an order, and when he learned that Su Qi'an had made a move, everyone in the entire Qi'an City came to gather and gather as soon as possible, and obeyed Su Qi'an's command.