Liu Meng walked to the horses, took out a few caramel from the blanket next to him, and then beckoned to the children: "Come here." ”

The children cowered and didn't dare to go over, and the adults next to them said a little chatteringly: "If the master has any instructions, tell me to do it later."

Seeing their appearance, Liu Meng said with some annoyance: "I'm not a tiger who will eat you, what are you afraid of?" ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward, stuffed a few pieces of caramel into the hands of several children, and said with a grin: "It's also the luck of you stinky boys, His Royal Highness King Wu rewarded me with caramel candy, and you can also taste the sweetness!" ”

A few children swallowed their saliva, looked at the adults and did not stop them, and then carefully put them in their mouths and licked them, and the rich sweetness instantly spread to the entire taste buds. The child's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly ran to his mother's side: "Mother, taste it, it's so sweet!" ”

The woman rubbed his head and said with a smile, "Mother doesn't like to eat, so you can eat it yourself." ”

Liu Meng smiled slightly, and then the tone of the scholar army lieutenant general said seriously: "In the future, I will be the head of the family, and I will do things for a good life, and naturally there will be no loss of benefits, Hugh's stealing and tricking!" ”

"Yes!" The crowd responded.

Liu Meng nodded slightly, he was a veteran of a hundred battles, and he had made a lot of military exploits in the border land over the years, so he was named a peasant soldier, and now he has his own manor, land and tribes, and he is very pleased in his heart.

It's just that after seeing those adult men, I felt a little lost in my heart. He had also seen some other peasant soldiers, most of those peasant soldiers were fifty generals and hundred generals in the army, and they were all followed by two parts, not leaving an inch.

That part is also a brave person, but when I see these parts of my own today, I am very disappointed.

In his thoughts, the trilogy should be the kind of brave man who is idle to farm, goes into battle in wartime, and can wear perseverance.

Nowadays, it seems that the gap is not ordinarily large.

Mu Ne is stupid, not good at words, and a little submissive, can such a part really follow him into battle to kill the enemy? It seems that they can only do some work to transport food and grass, repair armor, wash and feed the horses. But it's not bad, as long as you can be a good auxiliary, and you don't expect them to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Liu Meng shook his head, and then instructed the craftsmen to build the house. After each peasant soldier was sealed, the imperial court would send craftsmen to help them build a mansion, of course, the mansion built by the imperial court was not large, and most of them were small courtyards of more than a dozen houses. If you want to build bigger and better, it's not impossible, you need to pay for it yourself.

As for wanting to build a dock fort, it is a death, and the imperial court does not allow this kind of overlord to appear in the local area at all. Dare to show up and kill directly. Otherwise, a large number of dock forts would have been built on the many mounds in Guanzhong in the north, northwest of Luoyang, and Longyou.

Liu Meng has also saved a sum of money in the army over the years, and this time he was named a peasant soldier, and he also got some rewards, and the weapons and armor were also rewarded by the imperial court, but only this time, if the weapon and armor are lost or damaged, they can only buy them themselves in the future.

Liu Meng took out the money and asked these craftsmen to build a much larger manor for him, enough to live for more than a dozen families. Next, he married the daughter of a merchant in the city, who was a merchant who worked for the nobles of the county, and was also a powerful man in the local area.

Then he got the support of his father-in-law, who helped him reclaim all 150 acres of land, and even built a section of canal to irrigate the farmland. As for whether the local heroes have opinions, Liu Meng doesn't care at all.

If you really want to talk about it, how can they compare with the peasants and soldiers, although they have a big family, but can they be exempt from taxes? No. Can you be an official? This is okay, but you need to pass the school palace assessment. If you can't get into the palace, you're just a rich man.

The peasant soldiers are different, they are exempt from conscription, they only need to serve in the military, and the agricultural tax is only half, as long as they make meritorious deeds, they can become officials. It's much easier than them going to the school palace.

Maybe after a few battles, you will be knighted by then. By the way, this time I must give birth to a few more boys, choose the most outstanding one in the future, teach him all the skills of killing people, and when I grow up, I can go out with him, and maybe I will establish meritorious deeds.

By the way, the most important thing for my old Liu family now is to spread the branches, maybe it will be a big family in a hundred years.

A lot of times, things don't go the way you think.

This is the case with Peng Jing, the powerful man here in Minxian County. Originally, he thought that after the imperial court organized those familiar households into households, he was ready to occupy some more wasteland. In this kind of place, it is enough to divide a household directly from the family and occupy the wasteland. In a few years, it will be able to expand by 1,000 acres.

As the head of the Peng family, he is only in his thirties, and it is the time when he dares to fight, so much wasteland, he doesn't occupy it, how strong is the family.

Several of the county officials belong to his family, or have a deep relationship with his family, so he has enough room to operate.

But before he could do it, the imperial court directly sent people down, and all the wasteland was under the control of the government, and then used to distribute it to the people who migrated. Before he could react, a large number of refugees from the north came here, and then quickly occupied the wasteland.

But that's fine, it's hard to get grain in the reclamation of wasteland, so let those mud legs cultivate for a few years, plant grain for a few years, and when the land is fertile, then unite with those officials, and when the tax is collected, keep it to make them look good. Grain and labor were all arranged, and they were forced to die half, and then he came out to be a good man.

It only takes a small amount of money to make this well-cultivated field laugh at everyone.

If this does not work, then send someone to lend him grain or plough cattle, and when the rice is filled, do not give them water, and then the grain will be no harvest, and they will not be able to pay back the money, and they will not have to obediently take the people to the fields and become their own slaves.

Although these local tycoons did not become officials, they colluded with those officials to oppress ordinary people and forcibly seize water sources, and there were really too many ways to annex fields.

The imperial court has always restricted land annexation, what's wrong with land annexation, it's not that we don't pay taxes, it's convenient for you to collect taxes, you don't have to run around, and you don't have to notify those mud legs back and forth.

It's good for you to be your official master in the county, drink a little wine, step into the green, watch a song and dance performance, let us look at the village sages under this county, and when the time comes, collect taxes and conscription, we will do a good job for you, how much time-saving strength?

For more than 100 years, many people have this kind of thought in their hearts, but they only dare to say these thoughts in their hearts. Just like the way he looked at Liu Meng, those stubborn armorers have three hundred, three hundred armor soldiers in this county alone, and he doesn't add up to so many.

(End of chapter)