Early the next morning, Yang Peng came to the door of the Liu family, and Yang Peng decided to personally deal with the affairs of the Liu family this time and give a warning to those gentry. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come. More than 100 soldiers of the Tiger Division tied up more than 30 family members who beat Yang Peng's tenant farmers, pressed them to the ground, held up the wooden planks high, and each of them beat 40 boards, beating the buttocks of those family members with blood and flesh blurred, and screaming again and again.

These family members are used to being majestic in Qingyun County, and they can't imagine that they will also be beaten one day today. Then there are four adult males of the Liu family. Four adult males of the Liu family who are not in the family also played forty boards. Although these men did not preside over decision-making, they also acted as a prestige on the heads of the poor people on weekdays, and they should also be beaten. Forty boards were beaten, and the four men of the Liu family were crying wolves.

There are many famous things about hitting the board, and there are various differences such as heavy lifting and light beating, heavy lifting and heavy beating. The effect of hitting the board depends entirely on the technique of the soldier who hits the board. However, at this time, Zheng Hui personally supervised the playing of the board, and he was chased by the Liu family once at that time, and he was very annoyed with the Liu family and asked the soldiers to beat him again. The soldiers were also very dissatisfied with the Liu family who opposed the city lord of Tianjing New Town, and they were very ruthless, and the forty big boards were sturdy.

When these Liu family members were screaming on the ground, where did they still have the majesty of their usual commands? Forty boards down, the men of the Liu family are already half dead. The Liu family has been raided at this time, and where they will go to recuperate after being carried down, and how long it will take to recover from their injuries depends on the luck of these men. Seeing that the male of the Liu family was beaten, the poor peasants who became tenant farmers of the Liu family by the river had blood-red eyes and applauded loudly. The scene was very boiling, as if it was revenge.

The next step is to return the land and shops of the oppressed people to the people. The Liu family robbed 1,000 acres of dry land by the river, and illegally annexed more than a dozen shops in Langshui Town, and now these illegal gains must be returned to the owner. Yang Peng's secret ambassador, Han Jinxin, had already investigated the original owners of the shops, and these original owners were all summoned to the side of the execution ground. Yang Peng made the decision, wrote the deed of the sale and purchase of the shop, and asked Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, to press his handprint and return the shop to the original owner. The small merchants who took back the shops were very happy, and they wanted to kneel and kowtow to Yang Peng one by one. A few businessmen were even more in tears, kneeling on the ground and shouting that Yang Peng was the master of the blue sky!

The farmland is also operated, but the original owner of the farmland was originally in the hands of the farmers, and was bought by Yang Peng as evidence some time ago, and those original title deeds are enough to prove the land property ownership of the farmers. The Liu family has relied on their power to occupy the farmland over the years, and they don't even care about the land deeds in the hands of the farmers, but at this time it has become evidence of their evil. Yang Peng stood in the middle of the crowd and said loudly: "The products of the 47 farmers by the river will be returned to their original owners!" These forty-seven peasant families no longer need to pay rent to the Liu family! Hearing Yang Peng's words, more than 200 peasants rejoiced, and some even cried. In recent years, a few members of a peasant family lived on those dozen acres of land, and there was a world of difference between paying fifty percent of the land rent and not paying the land rent. How can they not rejoice that not paying land rent means that they will be able to eat enough and wear warm clothes, and that they will not die of illness and starvation?

The peasants who had regained their land spontaneously knelt down towards Yang Peng, kneeling down in a large area, shouting the blue sky. The last thing to deal with is Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, and his eldest son, at this time the two are heavily tied by ropes, and there is a wooden sign with a chopping word on their backs. The two of them knelt on the ground, looking very desperate. Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, no longer had the grandeur of the past at this time, and desperately kowtowed to Yang Peng and begged for mercy:

"City Lord Rende, let me live, I will miss your great kindness for the rest of my life!" "The city lord doesn't care about the villain, spare my life!" Yang Peng said loudly to the small farmers and traders whose property was seized by the Liu family: "Are you willing to let these two people go?" When the small farmers and traders who had been oppressed for many years heard this, they shouted: "No! "Kill them!" "Kill!"

In the past eight years, the Liu family has taken away the land and property of poor peasants to make them tenant farmers, and they have taken away 50% of their output in one year, so that they have not enough to eat and clothing, and let them change from subsistence and clothing farmers to tenant farmers who have not enough to eat. Many of these poor peasant families froze to death because of poverty, and they had a deep hatred for the Liu family.

At this time, the guilty master has been caught, how can he let him go because of his soft words? Those traders were also robbed of the Liu family's food business, and in the past ten years, they have only sent people to find another way to make a living, and their lives are miserable, where are they willing to let go of the head of the Liu family at this time. Even the unrelated people who were watching shouted loudly to kill. The Liu family monopolized all kinds of businesses in Langshui Town, and the prices of goods were quite high. However, all the shops opened by other people in the town were destroyed by the Liu family, and there was only this one town within a radius of ten miles, and the nearby villagers could only endure the exploitation of the Liu family on weekdays, and they were very dissatisfied with the Liu family.

At this time, seeing that Yang Peng wanted to uphold justice for the people, where were these people willing to let go of the head of the Liu family? Looking at the indignant people, Li Zhi nodded and said: "The evidence of the crime is conclusive, the emotions are boiling, and not killing is not enough to make the people angry!" Execute! "The two riflemen walked up to the two men in charge of the Liu family and set their guns on their heads." Don't kill me, my son Liu Bingchuan is the imperial history! "I saw only two gunshots, and two insatiable gentry were shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood. The onlookers were startled by the gunfire and retreated in a panic. But they quickly reacted and stood still and shouted cheers.

"The city lord is mighty!" "Lord Qingtian eliminates harm for the people!" "Blue sky! Blue sky! "Blue sky!"

On April 28, Zhao Heng, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, sat in the left gate of the imperial city and convened the county orders that had outstanding performance in the three-year plan. The five county commanders walked in front of the Son of Heaven one by one in order, and Zhao Heng was worried about the lack of enough food and salary to recruit troops and horses to deal with the situation of the flames, so he asked the five county commanders how to get enough soldiers and horses and food to fight the Pingliu thieves and Khitan. The two magistrates who came in front of them were ashamed, and what they said was empty talk about morality, which made Zhao Heng a little unhappy. But the third Zhixian who walked in had an extraordinary performance, and his words made Zhao Heng's eyes light up.

"The hardship of the people is due to the incorruptibility of the officials, so that the orders are honest, that is, it is necessary to send a little more to help the army." Zhao Heng happily asked: "How to make officials honest?" The magistrate once said: "The selection of the Ming examination, the heavy punishment, and the election of the imperial history can reverse the atmosphere and make the officials gradually cheaper!" Zhao Heng nodded his beard, and said loudly without waiting for the other two magistrates to answer the question: "Well said, I chose you as the first in the assessment and transferred to the Hanlin Academy as an editor." ”

Although it is hard to be the editor of the Hanlin Academy, it is much brighter than being a county commander, and he will be a Beijing official in the future. When the county commander heard this, he kowtowed to the ground and said loudly: "The emperor's grace is vast, and the ministers are grateful!" Zhao Heng nodded with satisfaction. After assessing the five counties, Zhao Heng walked to the Qianqing Palace with the guard of honor, but saw Wang Jin trotting all the way over. "Emperor, then Yang Peng is causing trouble again!"

This time in the struggle with the Liu family, Yang Peng won a complete victory. Now seeing the fate of the Liu family, the other landlords are afraid of Li Zhi and dare not come forward to oppose Yang Peng. Each family gave up land for Yang Peng to build an irrigation canal, and the irrigation canal went very smoothly. It is believed that in another month and a half, by mid-June, all the irrigation canals for 100,000 mu of dry land will be built. When the winter wheat is sown in July and August, the dry fields can be irrigated with water wheels.

The scorching sun of May is like fire, baking the earth. Except for the noisy chirps, I can't hear any other sounds in the four fields. The weather was too hot, Yang Peng took off his official robe and put on short clothes, took two soldiers to a light car, and rode a horse to inspect Xintian in Qingyun County. There, he saw that the first peasants were still building irrigation canals—Yang Peng gave six cents of silver a day to the men and women who helped to repair the canals, which was calculated to earn one or two or eight cents a month. When the peasants are idle, they have nothing to do, and they can earn money by working on the construction site of the irrigation canal of the general, which is very cost-effective.

Most of the second group of farmers are also building irrigation canals, but some are also starting to work on the newly cultivated fields, hoeing and plowing the fields. Yang Peng walked all the way down the riverside path and saw that the farmers were all in full swing, and there was a thriving scene everywhere. Yang Peng was in a good mood, as if he had seen a bumper wheat harvest next year.

With the addition of these 100,000 mu of wheat fields, Yang Peng's annual land rent income is at least 35,000 stone of grain, worth 70,000 taels of silver, which is very considerable. Moreover, there are now 20,000 peasants in the territory, and these peasants can organize themselves to carry out engineering construction in their spare time, which is a very cheap human resource. Walking closer to Xin's shop, Yang Peng saw a group of farmers gathered around a young man squatting on the ground. The young man was paddling his hands on the field, talking.

Yang Peng was curious for a moment and walked over to listen. "There are grass roots under this kind of reed meadow, and if you don't get rid of the grass roots, there will be a lot of weeds, and it will rob the wheat of fertilizer. Before reclamation, the weeds are usually cut or set on fire, and then the shuttle plow is used for deep ploughing! Then use zigzags to rake the ground, and finally the horse picks up the grassroots! This can't be cleaned, but also with irrigation! After plowing and raking the grass roots, before the underground rhizomes germinate, they should be irrigated once to drown the remaining grass roots. ”

The young man seemed to be very experienced in land reclamation, guiding the other farmers in the crowd. The peasants were also very convinced, and one by one they stood by and listened carefully. When the young man had finished speaking, he got up and walked to another field. The peasants around him seemed to follow the teacher's students, and one by one they followed him to another place. Yang Peng also followed.

"In this kind of land with long-standing grass, we need to pay more attention to getting rid of the grass roots. The point of harrow tillage is to leave the soil in a loose state so that the grass roots can rot underneath the soil. When raking, the grass root soil should be turned into the lower layer of the soil to let the grass roots rot faster. Before sowing, use a round harrow to plow shallowly, if you mix some alfalfa when sowing wheat, the harvest will be better! Yang Peng was curious when he saw that this young man was right, and that other farmers trusted him so much. He asked a peasant on the outskirts of the crowd, "Who is this man, and why is everyone gathered around to listen to him?" ”

The farmer glanced at Yang Peng and said, "This is the little brother of Liujia Village, he is literate and has read agricultural books, and he farms much better than us, we are listening to him teach us!" Yang Peng looked at the young man and asked, "Does the wheat he grows have a high yield?" ”

The farmer nodded and said, "One acre of dry land planted by Brother Wang can produce one stone and five buckets of wheat, and mung beans will be planted in summer, and the harvest in one year is very impressive." In the past, he planted 15 acres of dry land and paid half of the grain as land rent every year, so that he could feed a family of three. Now that Brother Wang and his daughter-in-law have obtained forty acres of dry land, the lord of this dry field city only collects thirty percent of the land rent, I am afraid that Brother Wang will become rich! ”

Yang Peng nodded, and glanced at the young man on the ground again. The young man, Wang Finch, not only knew a lot, but also patiently instructed others, and seemed to be a good teacher. Yang Peng walked up and said, "Wang Finch, where did you learn these farming skills?" The king bird was instructing other farmers, but he saw Yang Peng come up and ask himself. He didn't know who Yang Peng was, but he looked at Yang Peng puzzled.

"This official is Yang Peng of Tianjing New Town!" Hearing this, the farmer next to him reacted. Many people had seen Yang Peng in an official robe before, and when they saw Yang Peng at this time, they recognized it and quickly knelt on the ground. Someone took the lead, and the others also knelt down, and suddenly hula knelt down. Yang Peng said to these peasants: "No courtesy! Then he asked Wang Que, "Wang Que, where did you learn how to farm?" Seeing Yang Peng asking him repeatedly, Wang Que said a little nervously: "Xiaomin is literate, these knowledge are learned from "Wang Zhennongshu", "Qi Min Yaoshu" and "The Book of Victory", and then combined with the reality of their own farming, summed up. ”

Yang Peng nodded and said, "According to your knowledge, what is the most important thing in the first year after the reclamation?" Wang Que replied: "The wasteland is barren, and the land is insufficient in the first year after the land is cleared, and the key lies in the fertile fields." It is not only necessary to apply good fertilizer, but also to use the soil power on the ditch above to have a good harvest. If the seeds are planted well, the first year's winter wheat can be harvested with one stone and four buckets. ”

Hearing Wang Que's words of killing four buckets with one stone, Yang Peng was stunned, and secretly said that this is four buckets more than an ordinary harvest. If the king bird is used as a manager to guide others to farm, and the 190,000 mu of dry land is more than four buckets per mu, it is more than 70,000 stone of grain. Just counting the land rent collected by Yang Peng, he can also collect more than 20,000 stone of land rent, which is equivalent to making Yang Peng earn more than 40,000 taels of silver. Of course, the kingbird can't guide so many people. He is a person who lacks skills, and it would be good to be able to guide a hundred households. However, Yang Peng can match him with people to maximize the scope of Wang Finch's guidance.

Yang Peng asked, "Wang Que, how much grain can you harvest from the dry land you rented in the past?" "My lord, if it is an ordinary year, my field can harvest one stone and five buckets of grain!" You can also grow a season of mung beans! Yang Peng turned his head to look at the surrounding croppers and asked, "Is what this king bird said true?" The surrounding farmers replied one after another: "City Lord, Wang Que is right, we used to watch the fields he planted in Baodi. Originally, his family rented more than a dozen acres of thin fields, and after planting them for five years, the fields were extremely fertile. ”

"What Wang Que said is true, I am from the same village as him, and he can harvest a few more buckets of land than us!" Yang Peng nodded and said loudly: "Wang Que, I don't think you want to farm, you come to my shogunate to be the instructor of the Agricultural Affairs Department, and you will pay six taels a month." This instructor runs around the fields every day, and I don't care about your food. I'll let you lead ten of your men and teach others how to grow a good field! Would you like to? ”

Although it costs Yang Peng four hundred taels of silver a year to hire ten subordinates, this amount of silver is not much compared to the income from increasing agricultural production. As long as the yield per mu of farmers in Tianjing New Town and Dagou in Qingyun County and Yanshan increases by one bucket, Yang Peng will be able to increase the land rent income by tens of thousands of taels of silver. Yang Peng is ready to let Wang Que try it for a year first, and it will indeed work to expand the team next year. Moreover, in the first year, when the king bird instructed the farmers, the farmers would not believe it too much, and they needed to talk a little more. When the first year's harvest came out, his guidance proved to be really useful, and the second year did he really guide the farmers on a large scale.

So Yang Peng only matched ten people to Wang Que in the first year. Wang Que was stunned, looking at Yang Peng in a daze, and didn't react at once. Six taels of money can get seventy-two taels of silver a year. The kingfinch will farm again, and the income is limited, where can I earn seventy-two taels of silver a year? Yang Peng gave him such a good thing to do at once, and he also managed ten people, which made him feel like he had jumped into the dragon gate. After a long time, he said loudly: "My lord, I am willing, I am willing!" ”

Yang Peng said: "Okay, I'll hire ten literate and clever people for you when I go back, as clerks of the Shogunate's Agricultural Affairs Department, and listen to your command." This year's bumper harvest of winter wheat in Tianjing New Town and Qingyun County depends on you! If the farmer under your guidance has a good harvest, I will give you a bonus! "Yang Peng is ready to deploy some useful traditional equipment into the troops.

The first is thistle, which is a military spiked spiked spreading barrier, usually cast from pig iron. The finished product has four iron spikes sticking out, several inches long. No matter how the thistle lands on the ground, there is always a thorn pointing upwards, and the tip of the thorn is like the herb "tribulus terrestris", hence the name. Each thorn of the thistle terrestris that Yang Peng prepared was two centimeters long, and it was spread on the ground like a needle. After laying some thistles on the ground, the enemy can't get close at all. If the enemy wants to get closer, he must slowly clean the thistle terrestris on the ground, and only after cleaning can he charge into battle, which gives Yang Peng's riflemen more time to shoot.

After making up his mind, Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to start making. Nowadays, Yang Peng uses a boring bed to make a barrel, and a craftsman can produce a rifle in seven days, and 500 rifle craftsmen can produce more than 2,000 rifles a month, which can fully meet the rifle needs of Yang Peng's soldiers. Now Yang Peng has 4,000 rifles in stock in addition to letting each soldier have a gun. Reproducing rifles from stockpiles was already a waste, and Yang Peng stopped the blacksmiths in April, and now these blacksmiths are just right to produce thistles.

Tribulus terrestris are so small that blacksmiths can cast a hundred a day. There is also a hole in the middle of each thistle, which is strung together every five for easy laying and stowing. Yang Peng planned to let a soldier carry twenty strings and spread them in front of the battle during the battle, so that the twenty meters in front of the battle would become a hell for the enemy.

It is conceivable that the Khitan army or the thieves were stopped by the thistles in front of Yang Peng's musket array, unable to advance or retreat, and constantly fell in the rifle fire. In addition to thistle, Yang Peng also built a pole car. The pole cart is a large chariot with a tall pole that is 15 meters long. The pole has a wooden chair for the lookout, so that the lookout can climb up and sit and constantly observe the situation on the battlefield. Li Zhi equipped the lookout with a telescope so that the lookout could observe the surrounding situation.

After the car was built, Yang Peng tried it near Tianjing New City and found that the lookout could see all the conditions within a radius of more than ten miles on the lookout pole, which could greatly make up for the reconnaissance ability of the scouts when they were suppressed, which was very practical.

Yang Peng decided to equip his tiger master with some doctors. Field doctors are very important to an army, doctors can treat wounded soldiers, and directly determine the life and death of the wounded. If a unit has good medical personnel, soldiers will not be so afraid of injury, which will directly improve the morale and combat effectiveness of soldiers on the battlefield.

The doctors needed by the troops were mainly surgeons. At present, Yang Peng has not found a good surgeon in Cangzhou, and Hu Benshi is almost blank in terms of medical staff. For Yang Peng, who did everything possible to improve the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Division, this shortcoming needed to be made up urgently.

Yang Peng did not study medicine and could not train surgeons on his own. However, Yang Peng knows a lot of medical knowledge, and believes that he can use this knowledge to upgrade the medical skills of this era and improve the ability of doctors in the Ming Dynasty. Yang Peng inquired in many ways and learned that there were many excellent surgeons in Bianjing. Especially in the wicker alley in the south of the capital, there is a famous surgeon named Shen Yuji, who is good at using the method of acupuncture and knife, which can correct the bones and eliminate pus, and there are countless living people. Yang Peng secretly said that this was the surgeon he needed, so he came to visit with a silver ticket.

Yang Peng entered Bianjing City with a guard of honor and a flag and found the wicker alley. When I got there, I inquired for a while and found Shen Yuji's medical center. The medical hall is not big, that is, an ordinary courtyard, and there is a signboard with the word "outside" hanging in the wind. Yang Peng sent a famous post, and after a while, a young man dressed as Lang Zhong came out to greet him. Seeing Yang Peng wearing a second-grade official robe and playing a flag, the young man was not nervous, he only gave a salute, and said to Yang Peng lightly: "Please come inside, official." ”

When Yang Peng saw the young man's calmness, he knew that this Shen Yuji was indeed a famous doctor, and he was afraid that he had treated many officials, so his student disciples saw it and saw that there were many student disciples in the courtyard. There were twenty or thirty young people around a side room, and Yang Peng looked into the side room with his eyes and saw several young people holding knives to dissect and study a corpse. A middle-aged man in his forties was also standing next to the corpse, instructing the young man on how to use a knife.

Yang Peng walked into the lobby of the Shen family and waited for a few minutes. The middle-aged man who had dissected the body abandoned the corpse and walked in, washed his hands with soap in the hot tub, and came up to salute Li Zhizuo. "Surgical Langzhong Shen Yuji has seen the general!" These doctors can save people's lives, and they naturally have a kind of arrogance, and they are unwilling to bow down when they see Yang Peng. Yang Peng sat down with him and said a few polite words, and Yang Peng explained his intentions.

"Has Mr. Shen ever thought about leaving the capital and practicing medicine elsewhere to save people?" Shen Yuji was stunned and asked, "Why did you leave the capital?" Yang Peng said: "If a good doctor like Mr. Shen is needed elsewhere, why should Dr. Shen guard the capital?" Shen Yuji stroked his beard and said: "What does the general mean is to let Shen go to Tianjing New City with the general?" ”

Yang Peng nodded and said, "That's right!" "Forgive Shen for refusal! The dense population of the capital is the blessed land for my generation to display their medical skills. Yang Peng said: "I am willing to give my husband an offering of one hundred taels a year, which is enough for my husband to study prescriptions." Shen Yuji shook his head and said, "It's not a matter of money, if there are too few sick numbers, my disciples' medical skills and I will not be able to be used, and our medical skills will not be beneficial, and we will definitely fall into the last rank." Give me more money, and I won't go!" ”

Yang Peng was stunned, and secretly said that this doctor really regarded money as dung. After thinking about it, Yang Peng said: "If Mr. is willing to go to Tianjing New City with me, how about I ask for an official for Mr. in a few years to be a captain and a captain?" Shen Yuji smiled, shook his head and said, "Thank you for the kindness of the general, forgive Shen's refusal." After talking for a while, Shen Yuji refused to leave the capital. Yang Peng had no choice but to get up and say goodbye. But Yang Peng was disappointed when he walked to the door of the medical hall, only to see a group of citizens rushing towards this side with sticks and hammers. The citizens ran and shouted:

"Shen Yuji, who spoiled people's morals, hand over the body!" "Dissecting the human body hurts the heavens and harms reason!" Seeing these mobs, the neighbors on both sides of the neighborhood hurriedly closed their stores, for fear of getting into trouble. The little guy at the door of Shen Yuji's medical hall also hurriedly retreated into the courtyard and closed the courtyard door with a snap. The mob surrounded the courtyard of the Shen family, shouting loudly. After a while, when the Shen family refused to open the door, the mob began to kick the courtyard door open.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.