I want to be emperor

Chapter 102 Changed into Tenant
The establishment of the Fourth Infantry Battalion is part of the plan of the Sixth Battalion and Two Outposts, and it is also the focus of the second batch of military expansion within the plan.

When leaving Lushan County in the east, Luo Zhixue finalized the army expansion plan for the six battalions and two outposts, and first launched the army expansion plan for the three infantry battalions.

Now the reorganization of the three infantry battalions has been completed. Although at present, except for the first infantry battalion, which can be fully staffed, neither the second infantry battalion nor the third infantry battalion can achieve the full number of musketeers. A batch of archers filled the void.

But this did not prevent Luo Zhixue from launching the reorganization plan of the Fourth Infantry Battalion after arriving in Liqingdian.

Because most of the soldiers needed by the Fourth Infantry Battalion have been prepared, even if there are not many muskets, they can still train with a high air, and wait for the muskets to arrive while training.

The soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Battalion were drawn from the First Infantry Battalion.

This kind of transfer of people is also simple and straightforward. The deputies of officers at all levels are directly transferred from the First Infantry Battalion, and then some backbone soldiers are matched.

With the deputy officer of the First Infantry Battalion as the framework and the backbone veterans as the branches, it is enough to fill in a large number of recruits later.

This is also the reason why Luo Zhixue assigned deputy officers far more than needed to each battalion, just to facilitate the expansion of the army.

On the first day of arriving at Liqingdian, Luo Zhixue issued a plan for the follow-up operations, and at the same time officially announced the establishment of the Fourth Infantry Battalion.

From the second day onwards, troops followed orders to sweep across the surrounding villages and areas. First, control the area around Li Qingdian.

It doesn't take much time to control the local area, basically in a day. The main reason is that there are no fortress manors with big landlords in the surrounding area, and they are all ordinary villages, and these ordinary villages basically do not have the ability to resist the rural protection army.

At the same time, the villagers in these areas were also afraid and resisted the rural protection army.

Even some small and medium-sized local landlords saw the arrival of the rural protection army, and directly took out the money and food prepared in advance to pay the farm tax, so that those rural protection soldiers who were exempted would come to their door.

And after paying the farmland tax, some courageous landlords are still thinking about getting the title of village head. Even if they don't want to be the village chief, it would be good for a collateral clan to be the title.

The villagers and landlords in these places have such an attitude towards the Rural Protection Army because they have a certain understanding of the Rural Protection Army.

Know that these bald thieves are different from ordinary thieves.

Because Longtou Township to the northwest of Liqingdian has long been controlled by the Township Protection Army, many villagers in the Liqingdian area have heard of a bald bandit army in the northwest.

And I also know that these bald bandits seem to be vicious, but unlike other rogues, these bald bandits don't like to play the game of burning, killing, looting and enslaving.

When I came here, I liked to set up a village chief, and then recruit soldiers and food, and even organize villagers to carry out reclamation, dig and build canals. At first glance, it is no different from the government, and even better than the government.

Faced with such bald bandit soldiers coming to their village, the local villagers looked at them with horrified eyes at most, but it is impossible for them to give up everything and run away.

Even those small and medium-sized landlords had no intention of resisting. Anyway, these bald bandits just wanted some food and grass, but they would not directly destroy their families like ordinary thieves.

Although uncomfortable, they are not unacceptable.

Especially this time when Luo Zhixue went south, he adopted relatively mild measures against the landlord class in the villages under his control.

The first is to abandon the previous practice of directly taking the descendants of the landlord's direct descendants as hostages, and incidentally solving the talent gap.

It was done this way before because there was too much talent gap, and the control area was already small, so the hostages were taken in order to prevent those landlords from causing trouble.

Now, there are some talents in the General's Mansion of the Township Protection Army. Even if the gap is still not small, it can barely support the operation of the General's Mansion and its subordinate townships.

In addition, the Township Protection Army continued to recruit those half-baked scholars and thieves, and gradually obtained some talents, so there was no need to forcibly take hostages and force these landlord children to work for them.

After all, people would be upset if they kept arresting their direct descendants.

In addition to not taking the descendants of the landlord's direct line as hostages, Luo Zhixue also completely abolished the practice of beating the landlord to divide the land.

He had tried this before, and to be honest, the effect was not very good, and it also attracted some internal backlash.

When controlling some villages on the outskirts of Funiu Mountain, Luo Zhixue distributed the land of those recalcitrant landlords free of charge to the tenants who rented the land.

But, the Rural Protection Army did not reap the gratitude of these people, let alone arouse their enthusiasm for joining the army. Many people even pretended not to know about it. The fields continued to be planted, but they never mentioned that these lands belonged to them. of.

Don't look at them as villagers with little experience, but they also know that these bald bandit soldiers are just a group of rebels. According to ordinary people's eyes, they won't be around for long...

In the future, the officers and soldiers will come to kill them sooner or later, and the family members of these landlords will definitely come back with them, and the land will still not belong to them.

In addition to the mistrust and worries of the villagers, the internal officers and soldiers of the Rural Protection Army also have certain opinions on this.

how to say.

People follow you, Luo Zhixue, to beat them to death, and you, Luo Zhixue, just give them a bite to eat, but those ordinary villagers didn't do anything, but got free points of land.

This differential treatment made many soldiers uncomfortable.

The last one is that many landlords, regardless of whether they are big landlords or those small landlords, even those self-cultivating farmers are very panicked by the so-called free land distribution policy of the rural protection army...

They were afraid that Luo Zhixue would distribute all his land to those tenants for free!

As a result, some landlords in the outskirts of Funiu Mountain were very tenacious in resisting the raids of the Rural Protection Army. They even called on the nearby small and medium-sized landlords and self-cultivators to organize coalition forces to resist the Rural Protection Army.

At the same time, some landlords who did not resist and paid food and money honestly were also frightened, fearing that the township protection army would come to divide the land tomorrow.

There are so many things that forced Luo Zhixue to re-examine his free land distribution strategy. In the end, Luo Zhixue made a decisive change...

Completely abolish the free land allocation policy.

After the rural protection army confiscated the land of the recalcitrant landlords, they all took it as official land and rented it to the original tenants at a low price.

That is, the original tenant-rent relationship will not be changed, but the tenant-rent will be reduced.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue also informed the army that the meritorious soldiers will be distributed free of charge in the future.

It is not the distribution of land to military households, but to the distribution of ordinary civilian land.

The Rural Protection Army doesn't do what military households do.

The changed policy, if you want to say how much it will promote the rural protection army, you can't talk about it, but at least it doesn't make the small and medium-sized landlords and self-cultivating farmers under the rule panic.

On this basis, Luo Zhixue also carried out a unified innovation on the grain requisition system.

The grain collection of the Rural Protection Army is actually tax collection, and the tax collection is very simple. At present, there are only three types of land tax, checkpoint tax, and merchant tax.

Customs duty is taxed according to a certain percentage of goods passing through the customs.

Business tax is a fixed tax levied on businesses with fixed business and production areas according to their scale.

The above two kinds of taxes that are regarded as commercial taxes are actually not much, because the largest commercial firms in the Funiu Mountain area are themselves, and it does not make any sense to pay taxes for themselves.

The largest source of tax revenue for the Rural Protection Army is the land mu tax.

The field mu tax is a fixed tax levied directly on the land, and collects grain and other objects.

It is precisely because of the existence of the mu tax that the grain collection offices will go to the major landlords to collect taxes after they arrive in the newly occupied areas.

Because these landlords are the ones who own a lot of land, the Rural Protection Army collects taxes based on the land and not on the people, and whoever owns the land will collect taxes.

Therefore, under the rule of the Township Protection Army, if you are a tenant and do not do some small business, the Township Protection Army will not bother to talk to you, and it is impossible to find you to collect taxes.

On the whole, the southward movement of the Rural Protection Army did not pose much threat to the local villagers. For the landlords, as long as they paid the land tax honestly, nothing would happen.

Therefore, many people have an attitude of watching and watching the drama of the bald anti-thief army of the Township Protection Army.

Even if they didn't like it, some landlords who rejected the Rural Protection Army would not foolishly jump out and insist on armed resistance to taxes and bring about the disaster of destroying their families.

This is also the reason why the rural protection army went south to Nanzhao County, and their actions were relatively smooth. Except for a small battle in Li Qingdian, there was basically no follow-up battle, not even many small-scale battles.

After taking only two days to basically control the area around Liqingdian, the [-]rd Infantry Battalion is also officially moving eastward, and they will control the villages one after another all the way eastward.

However, it will not be too close to Nanzhao County, so as not to over-irritate the officers and soldiers of the Ming army.

At the same time, the First Infantry Battalion, the First Cavalry Post, and the First Artillery Post crossed the Baihe River, and continued to sweep the villages along the south bank of the Baihe River.

As for Luo Zhixue himself, he took the guard sentry, the supply sentry and the newly established Fourth Infantry Battalion to sit in Li Qingdian.

At the same time, people from the Industrial Department began to arrange for the construction of the workshop of the arsenal on the bank of the Baihe River in Li Qingdian, in preparation for the subsequent southward relocation of the arsenal.

When the Township Protection Army captured Liqingdian and swept across the surrounding countryside, officials of the Ming Dynasty in Nanzhao County, more than 20 kilometers to the east, learned the news within a few days.

When they learned that a group of thieves with 3000 to [-] people came south from Funiu Mountain and were tormenting the countryside, the Ming court officials in Nanzhao County consciously acted like turtles.

Anyway, it's not just once or twice that the thieves abused the countryside. Last autumn, there was still a flow of thieves from south to north, passing through Nanzhao County and heading north to Funiu Mountain. At that time, they also pretended that I couldn't see them...

This time there are thieves coming south from Funiu Mountain, as long as they don't come to attack Nanzhao County, they will also ignore it.

It's not that they want to be shy turtles, but that there are not many defensive troops in Nanzhao County, and they think there are too few to defend the county.

If a large number of troops are still sent to the countryside to suppress the bandits, what if the bandits take advantage of the situation and capture Nanzhao County?
This Nanzhao County is a strategic artery connecting Nanyang and Luoyang, and it is Yunyang Pass in the middle of the three passes of Yalu Road, and Luyang Pass is to the north of it.

If the city of Nanzhao County, that is, Yunyang Pass, is captured by the bandits, Luyang Pass will not be far from being finished!

None of the officials in Nanzhao County can take on this responsibility!
　It’s a new month, and if you have a monthly ticket, you can vote for one. In fact, it’s okay if you don’t vote. I’m just asking for a ticket to meet the occasion. After all, everyone else is canvassing.

　　In the end this is what it really has to say:

　　Thank you for your subscription support all the way, friends who raise books, please also open an automatic subscription, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)