Qin Liangyu, Shi Tianbao and other toasts, when they saw the Red River Plain, they almost wanted to cry. The land here is so fertile that a handful of mud is a handful of oil, and even a chopstick can live.

How can such a heaven-given treasure be human?

The ancients said that there are three no-lets in the world, and what they said was "wives, children, and fields are not allowed to let people!" ”

Not to mention the field, even if it is the edge of the field, even if it can collect an extra bucket of land, it will not give an inch of land, this is the deepest memory implanted in the minds of the Ming people. These lands were given to them by the regent of the Ming Dynasty and belonged to them.

The battle does not need to be mobilized, it started immediately, in the face of the southern monkey natives, they actually have a proud capital, the battle of Zheng Ruan has been more than 30 years, many of them have been in contact with the war since they were born. Seeing that the Ming people brought a lot of property here, including cloth, refined salt, and delicious canned food, in the eyes of the southern monkey, Lin'an Zhu is a big piece of fat meat, and they naturally want to grab it.

It's just a pity that the combat effectiveness of these Tusi soldiers is very strong, especially Shi Tianbao, who usually likes to compete with cattle, a fierce man, when he was in Nanjing, Cheng Shijie gave him a sharp spear, he raised the spear, like a tiger into a wolf pack, and beat the southern monkey natives to retreat.

This raid, in the end, was repelled by the Tusi army after half an hour, but they were now very excited, and they finally had a piece of fertile land that belonged to them.

Until now, Qin Liangyu was still a little incredulous: "Are all these lands ours?" ”

"It's yours!"

The director of the Lin'an Working Committee held a letter of appointment and said: "The regent of the prison country, from now on, a temporary management committee will be established, with Qin Liangyu as the director of the Lin'an Executive Committee, Shi Tianbao Zuozhi, Wang Rui, that is, myself, as the director of the Lin'an Working Committee, and concurrently the secretary general of the Lin'an Executive Committee, Chen Keyong, Wu Yingren, Gao Shilin, Ya Longyang, Luo Doulin, Xiang Dahu, Tan Yanxiang, Liu Zhaosheng, Feng Junming, He Xiaobai, Ran Kun, Jiang Zhuangyan, and Bai Zhongshun as the committee!" ”

Qin Liangyu asked suspiciously: "What is the official position of this executive committee director?" ”

Wang Rui smiled faintly and said: "General Qin, this director is equivalent to the prefect of the previous dynasty, and the deputy director is the deputy prefect......"

Then, Wang Rui told Qin Liangyu the original work responsibilities of the members of the executive committee, and after half an hour, these toasts were still not familiar with this set, but Wang Rui explained in the most straightforward language: "In the future, our Lin'an Executive Committee, headed by General Qin, can collectively discuss and deal with big and small things within the framework of the Ming law!" ”

Shi Tianbao understood, he pointed to the deserted land in the distance and said, "Whose land is here?" ”

"Nominally, it belongs to the Ming Dynasty, but it is still occupied by the southern monkeys, if you feel that more than 200,000 acres of land are not enough, you can beat those monkeys to death and take the land over!"

"This, not a crime?"

Wang Rui explained: "The law of the Ming Dynasty, it is the Ming people who are in Baoding, they are just southern monkeys, you kill a monkey and commit a fart law?" ”

Qin Liangyu slowly understood that this was Cheng Shijie using them as a gunman. Use the young and strong children of their tribe to fight with the southern monkeys here.

But the problem is that this is a conspiracy, knowing that Cheng Shijie is using them, but the problem is that they still have to be used by Cheng Shijie, you must know that although Tusi is the local emperor of the soil, in fact, they are actually the defeated generals of the Central Plains Dynasty, but wherever Tusi is set up, either the environment is bad, or the land is barren, anyway, the rich land can't be reduced to them, after all, the loser can only pick up some scraps and cold juice to eat.

Why do the toasts everywhere often rebel? It is because of poverty, poverty is their original sin, and it is also their biggest dilemma, the land under the rule of Tusi, there are no resources, there is no good land, and there is no good land, just like chicken ribs, Tusi will be set up.

Under the leadership of Wang Rui, they came to Lin'an City, and also allocated houses to the warriors under their command, after a few days of distribution work, the tribes also quarreled, and under Wang Rui's persuasion, they finally reached an agreement to expand to the surrounding areas.

There are no horses, this matter is very simple, directly transfer people from the tribe, anyway, Cheng Shijie is responsible for transporting people here, not only transporting people and horses, but also transporting equipment, medicine and food.

The first batch of Tusi troops arrived in Lin'an City with only more than 15,000 horses, and three months later, that is, at the end of April of the second year of Dingxin, more than 60,000 Tusi troops arrived here, and if you count your families, there are more than 200,000 people.

Today, the town of Lin'an has become a huge construction site, where tens of thousands of prisoners of war are working early and late under the whip of the overseer, setting fire to thorn bushes, cutting down trees, clearing wood and stones, leveling the land, building canals and roads, and building factories.

As a result of their efforts, fertile farmland and sugarcane fields have taken shape, irrigation and drainage systems have become decent, and some fields have even been planted with crops.

A large number of Tusi immigrants from Sichuan, Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Liangguang also work hard here, in Qin Liangyu's opinion, these southern monkeys really deserve to die, guarding such a good land, they are so poor that they can't even afford to wear clothes, they are simply holding a golden rice bowl and asking for food.

At first, Cheng Shijie gave them only more than 200,000 acres of land, and they immediately took the knife and launched an attack on the southern monkeys, gradually encroaching on the surrounding southern monkey natives, arresting the indigenous captives, and forcing them to work with leather whips.

With Cheng Shijie's support at all costs, these barbarian legions beat the southern monkeys to pieces, either surrendering or being beaten to death and becoming prisoners.

Although the southern monkeys are fierce, but in front of these toasts, they are really not arrogant, the toasts will not talk to their slaves about human rights, they are absolutely mad in terms of prisoners of war, planting three crops of rice a year, four seasons of vegetables, but also cutting trees and mining, unwilling to work all slaughtered and sacrificed to the gods.

Thanks to the hard work of these prisoners of war, Lin'an developed rapidly.

The whole Red River Plain is fragrant with rice, sugarcane forests, villages and towns formed by wooden houses and bamboo buildings everywhere, densely populated, dozens of ethnic groups work hard here, and if conditions permit, they also engage in some poultry aquaculture, a scene of idyllic songs.

It's just that the main force of hard work is not young and strong, but a group of old and weak women and children of all ethnic groups, and even when they plough the ground, they will plow out the bones of the human body, but these old and weak women and children who work seem to have become accustomed to this kind of scene, and they gritted their teeth for this kind of behavior of throwing bones: "How many times have you said the turtle son, you have to smash it to fertilize the land, so you are not responsible!" ”

Lin'an's policy was almost identical to that of Luzon, and it was the same strategy of vacating cages for birds, freeing up fertile land controlled by the southern monkeys in exchange for barren land held by Tusi.

In this way, the Tusi continued to fight with their people, and in the battle, through the officials appointed by the imperial court, they uniformly distributed the battle captures, and the occupied fields, forests, and mines.

These barbarians are worthy of being barbarians, and they owe the slightest guilt in killing the southern monkeys, these are the traditions of their ethnic minorities, in order to compete for living space.

In recent years, disasters and man-made disasters have continued, and the officials appointed by the imperial court are either thinking about conscription or busy collecting money, and as for the livelihood projects and infrastructure, they are basically ruined. On these large and small construction sites, there are not only the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also the barbarians under the rule of Tusi.

Due to the use of work for relief, both the Han people and the barbarian people were paid a bucket of grain every day, and if they did not want food, they could convert it into other things, or silver, in short, these people were busy building roads, dredging ditches or building factories, and the work efficiency was quite fast.

Jiangnan, which had been tortured by the war and was dying, was rejuvenated in just over half a year. At the same time, under the temptation of war dividends and the temptation of workmanship, the population of toasts in various places decreased sharply, and one after another toasts returned hereditary power to the imperial court.

Starting from Sichuan Shizhu Tusi, followed by Huguang's Longshan Tusi and Nanjiang Tusi, a total of 54 counties, and four Tuprefects, although these land changes are developing in a good direction, Zhou Ning still feels a little slow.

Cheng Shijie and Zhou Ning, walking on the streets of Nanjing.

Zhou Ning asked very incomprehensibly: "Your Majesty, obviously we can use military means to quickly solve this problem, why has it been delayed for four months and has not yet been resolved, so when does Western Qin need to solve it?" ”

"Haven't you ever wondered why we captured the city of Nanjing under such difficult circumstances?"

"It's all those bastards!"

"Because we have driven those bastards to a dead end, they have no way to retreat, they can only fight hard, what we want now is the lives of the toasts, and they have no way to retreat, do you think they will fight with us?"

Wu Sheng said with a disdainful face: "Fight, fight, who is afraid of whom!" ”

"Wu Sheng, this idea of yours is very threatening, but it really can't be done!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, but you can't be in a hurry!" ”

"However, we now have enough strength to launch a westward expedition, as long as we sweep away Western Qin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu, and unify the world, we can concentrate our forces and implement a new dynasty and a new policy throughout the country!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Xiqin and Jiangnan are actually not the same! ”

"How is it different?"

"Jiangnan is the gentry themselves resisting the imperial court, while the Western Qin is the gentry and the rogues resisting the imperial court!"

Cheng Shijie analyzed: "Under the strong pressure brought by the imperial court, those gentry and Li Zicheng, a rogue, temporarily cooperated, if the imperial court sent troops now, they would definitely be more united, and the battle of Nanjing may not be repeated, if we suspend the attack, the honeymoon period between the rogues and the gentry will come to an end!" ”

Wu Sheng suddenly realized, no wonder Zhang Yu, who presided over the Western Expedition, had not been in a hurry, but his vision was too small.

Cheng Shijie has been thinking about why the gentry and landlords have such a high enthusiasm for the annexation of land, to put it bluntly, they are actually driven by interests, although the public grain tax of the Ming Dynasty is thirty taxes and one, of course, this is only theoretical, but in fact the tax is more than half, and there are additional conscriptions.

Under the same half of the tax, the fields of the gentry were exempt from forced labor, and many of the common people preferred to sell their land and become tenants, because it was better to be tenants for the landlord after a hard year of yeoman farming. So the problem is, even if there are various disasters such as drought and flood in farming, the problem is that the land rent will not change, and it can even be increased, in this case, investing in land is equivalent to at least 50% of the annual income.

Last year, Pfizer's interest rate was 42.7 percent, Merck's was 28.1 percent, and Apple's was 21.99 percent.

In this case, investing in land is the most profitable industry, so in this case, the gentry, landlords, and nobles of all dynasties will not use any means to annex land.

Cheng Shijie figured out why the income from running a factory was not bad, but the problem was that there were not many real big landowners who turned to him and responded to his industrial empire strategy.

Even if Cheng Shijie adopts coercive means to seize the land of the landlords and gentry and forcibly distribute it, just like the founding period of all dynasties, this practice is only a symptom, not a root cause. As long as the population growth exceeds the limit of the land, the people will have to live in troubled times.

Cheng Shijie took two preparations, one hand with a stick and sweet dates, and the other hand to deter by force.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Although Ben Shuai is not ready to launch the Western Expedition for the time being, the problem of Western Qin must be solved, and we will follow the old rules, salute first and then soldier!" ”

Cheng Shijie is now a little anxious, Spanish diplomatic work, South American territory reception work, and standing on the platform for the Spanish Empire, so that the Thirty Years' War in Europa will be more intense.

Zhou Ning sighed and said: "The General Staff has sent Li Xin to Xi'an, this matter is actually not urgent, but Wang, there is one more thing, have you forgotten?" ”

"What's the matter?"

Zhou Ning's gaze fell on Wu Sheng.

Wu Sheng said with some resentment: "Are you looking for the wrong person?" ”

Wu Sheng thought to himself, you can't catch a sheep from him, he's almost bald.

Zhou Ning sighed and said, "Your Majesty, it's time for you to ascend the throne!" ”

Speaking of which, Cheng Shijie still shook his head lightly and said: "Let's discuss this matter again, discuss it again!" ”

Cheng Shijie doesn't want to be the emperor, in fact, it's not that he doesn't have the desire to be powered, but he doesn't want to be locked up in the cage of the Forbidden City, what Cheng Shijie wants to do most now is to wait for the reunification of the whole country and the peace and stability of the world, he can accompany Cheng Jialong and Cheng Jiayue to enjoy life, and now during this time, he has been very busy and neglected his children.

Once he decides to ascend the throne, he automatically enters that cage. (End of chapter)