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Regarding the power of the land, Li Ping, who was a latecomer and had received education in the Agrarian Revolution in junior high school, of course had a deeper understanding than Zhang Kuang and Micang.

But at the same time, he will not be overly optimistic about the short-term effect of dividing the land.

Due to the oppression of the ruling class and the war relationship at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was very common for farmers to flee on a large scale and arable land to be abandoned on a large scale.Wherever the peasant army went, the imperial clan and officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out in large numbers or fled to other places, and unowned fields abound.

In this case, the question of whether ordinary people have arable land is actually not prominent.

Even in the area ruled by Li Zicheng, where the slogan of "equalizing the land without taxation" was put forward, the activities of equalizing the land never occupied an important position.

Tax exemption was the main means for the peasant army to win the hearts of the people at that time.

The widely circulated propaganda slogan is also "When King Chuang comes, he will not pay food."

It's not that the peasant army doesn't want to pay attention to land equalization, but that there is really nothing to pay attention to.

If the common people want land, give it to them, and there is plenty of unclaimed land.

For example, the old man He had allocated the land in Xiangyang, which was controlled by Li Zicheng, so he and Mi Cang were not that surprised when the old man allocated the land in Chengdu this time.

The key is to solve the problem that farmers cannot grow land.

Zhang Kuang's lack of reaction to Li Ping's land management is also directly related to this.

After all, after the war, the first priority is to resume production.

Not to mention Li Ping, let the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty do it, and many of them may not know anyone at present.

As for the future, that is for the future.

Zhang Kuang actually did the thing of distributing the land of the powerful gentry who fled temporarily to the farmers for planting, and then only charged low taxes, which became one of the reasons for his discord with the local powerful gentry.

On this issue, neither Old Man He nor Mi Cang can see so much due to their position and knowledge.All they could see was that Li Ping even dared to occupy and give them the land of the feudal lords, and then he only needed to pay the military rations in the future and would no longer have to pay any exorbitant taxes to anyone else.

They were naturally shocked and grateful to Dade.

But Zhang Kuang didn't think there was anything wrong!

What really irritated Zhang Kuang was that the scale of Li Ping's actions was too large, far beyond the normal or necessary scope, making it difficult for people not to doubt Li Ping's intentions.

In addition, Li Ping directly established administrative institutions on these lands.

This nature has changed even more.

However, Li Ping knew exactly what he was doing.

In addition to making it clear in the name of the village that Quan had an explanation for the security camp that had been wandering with him and stabilized its base, Li Ping also had to make sure that he would not spit it out again after eating it.

But there is a lot of work to do, especially Song Baolai has a heavy responsibility.

For this reason, before he arrived in Chengdu, he had already started giving lectures to Song Bao, to make sure that the soon-to-be father would not be lazy.

Many people like to inherit the "ancient system", and feel that the modern system is a bit nondescript when applied to ancient times.

But in fact, this is a lack of understanding of Chinese history.

The ancient system is not only the system of Song and Ming Dynasties.

Before the Song and Ming Dynasties, China's power system was actually very close to modern times, and the power systems of the Han, Tang, and Song and Ming Dynasties were also very different.

It's just that most people don't know that the difference between the Han, Tang and Song and Ming Dynasties is not at the top, but at the bottom of society.

Anyone with a little knowledge of history knows that in the power system of the Song and Ming dynasties, the grassroots was at the county level, and the subordinate officials (basically hereditary) and the big gentry ruled downward.

That is to say, for the finance and taxation of a county, only one deputy county magistrate (master book) is a civil servant, and the others are local social figures.This unimaginable thing in modern times was a fact in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the specific distribution of rights at the grassroots level was different in different periods of the Northern Song Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty and even Ming Dynasty, but the general pattern was the same.

The Qin and Han societies were completely different.

This is cold knowledge for many people who know little about history.

But this cold knowledge directly affects the prosperity of the country.

Let me first talk about what the grassroots regime in the Han and Tang Dynasties looked like?
Taking the Eastern Han Dynasty as an example, as in modern times, the most basic group was the village.It's just that the villages in the Han Dynasty were much smaller than those in modern times, and the population was much smaller.

There is also a unit between the Han Dynasty village and the upper-level township, called the pavilion.For example, Guan Yu's title is Hanshou Tinghou.In terms of scale, the pavilion is actually similar to a modern village.

The relatively complete regime at the grassroots level in the Han Dynasty was the township.This is the same as modern.The village is too small to establish political power, so the lowest level with incomplete government functions is the pavilion, and the pavilion chief is set up.

Liu Bang's earliest job was to be the head of the pavilion in Surabaya.

The pavilion chief is responsible for security and military affairs.Law and order is easy to say, mainly to catch robbers and maintain law and order.That is, the work of a modern police station.In the military, it is mainly reflected in the organization of the people, but also in charge of the post office and guest houses.In normal times, the pavilion chief is responsible for conducting simple military training for the common people.

In the Han Dynasty, this was not only to prevent theft, but also to inherit the Zhou rituals.This is what Zhou Li's "Field Hunting" does.

When the state collects corvee, the pavilion chief is in charge of management.Liu Bang killed the White Snake to rebel (actually fled for his life) because he did not do a good job in this area.The pavilion chief also has subordinates, such as arresting robbers who are equivalent to criminal police.These are also public food.

At the township level, the government of the Han Dynasty was relatively complete.

There are ranks, the county office, ranks of hundreds of stones, and the people in charge of a village; the three elders, who are held by people with status and virtue in the local area, who are in charge of education; wandering, patrolling the villages, and prohibiting the arrest of thieves; there are also township assistants , democratic taxation.

Not much else to say, there are many special circumstances.For example, those who are small in the countryside are bought by stingy husbands.

It can be seen from this that the township officials in the Han Dynasty were like a huge net, with a very strict organization at the grassroots level, which was even comparable to modern countries in terms of organization.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the state’s ability to control society was very strong, and it was also able to mobilize all the potential of the country. Coupled with China’s vast territory and massive population, this created the powerful and invincible Han Dynasty.

This truth is known to anyone who has a little military knowledge in modern times.

Because of the large-scale wars that affect the rise and fall of a country, the most important thing is the country's mobilization and organizational capabilities.

It can be said that without the terrifying national mobilization and organizational capabilities of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not have been able to achieve astonishing feats.

But after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the prosperity of the imperial examination, the officials were divided into two different classes, the official and the official, and the central government gradually gave up the power of the local grassroots.For example, it is difficult for you to imagine that a county official in charge of taxation in the Northern Song Dynasty was actually a civil servant who was not even paid by the county in the Northern Song Dynasty, but this is the fact.

Therefore, compared with the Han and Tang Dynasties, the regime network in the Northern Song Dynasty was actually disconnected at the grassroots level.That is to say, in emergency situations, including the capital being destroyed by others, there were actually no effective social organizations at the grassroots level in the Northern Song Dynasty that could exercise government power, nor did they have any effective mobilization capabilities.

The same is true of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to say more about how wonderful it is.

The success of the Mongols and the Jurchens in the face of the two unified Great Central Plains dynasties is not so much because of their strong military power, but rather that the two Central Plains dynasties have problems in their systems, and they cannot effectively mobilize the power of the dynasties.

But let's take a look at history again.

When the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, the situation in China was actually far more dangerous than when the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty.

The later Jin Dynasty lacked heritage, and the Liao Kingdom was far more powerful than the emerging Jin Kingdom.However, after the fall of the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Dynasty could only withdraw from the Central Plains, while the Jin Kingdom could occupy the entire north. The difference between the two is that the Liao Kingdom was stubbornly resisted by the northern folk forces.This has a lot to do with the grassroots regime in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

There is also the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties when the Central Plains Dynasty was the weakest.

How weak is it?
Probably never in Chinese history has there been a weaker period than that period.

At that time, Xianbei was rising after the Huns, and its force value was also very powerful.

Although the Central Plains dynasty was divided and weak, because the Xianbei people in the Northern Wei Dynasty faced China in the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was impossible to establish a colonial government by force according to the practices of the Mongols and Jurchens of later generations. In the end, this became the attempt of the Northern Wei regime. The main reason for the reform to integrate into China.

As for the period of the Three Kingdoms, let’s not talk about it. The population of the Central Plains was almost gone, and that didn’t take the nomads seriously.

Going back to the Ming Dynasty, we all know that Japanese pirates have ravaged the coast of China for many years, and often a few people can enter the land of no one, and even dozens of Japanese pirates even hit Nanjing, which is unimaginable.

The reasons are of course various.

However, the lack of grassroots organizational capabilities in the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly an important aspect that cannot be ignored, even a very important aspect.

Such a thing, not to mention the new China where there were militias in every village, was completely unimaginable in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing people came to rule China, they basically directly adopted the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty for various reasons.

Everyone knows the result.

They achieved the castration of their own force and mobilization ability. When faced with Western invasion, the mobilization ability of the Qing Dynasty also became a joke.

This has nothing to do with corruption, but a problem with the system.

Therefore, when Li Ping entered Chengdu, when he decided to start building his own business, the first thing he had to do was to face the issue of what kind of administrative system to adopt.

In wartime, the modern system was the best choice for Li Ping, no matter in terms of control over the subordinates, ability to mobilize for war, or focus on doing things.

Continue to adopt the Song and Ming systems, unless he has a convulsion in his head.

Of course, this workload will also be quite large.

Because of this system, except for Li Ping and a few modern people, no one else understands it and has never experienced it. Everything has to be handed over.

Old man He didn’t talk about the township with Zhang Kuang and Mi Cang at all. The fundamental reason is that the township above his village has not only just been formed, but is still being formed. Old man He doesn’t know anything, and he doesn’t understand it at all. of.

In order to ensure a solid foundation, Li Ping did not seek perfection.

He decided to use the point to point to the area, first concentrate on building a region, make a place clear, make a model, and then slowly expand and develop outward.

To put it bluntly, if you don’t even have a model, and you haven’t figured it out yet, how do you rely on output and copy and paste?
For this reason, Li Ping concentrated most of his forces, including troops, in Chengdu. Chongqing Mansion was handed over to Huang Chengdong, Shunqing Mansion and Baoning Mansion were handed over to Zeng Ying, and the other prefectures around Chengdu only used Two regiments go to control.

But even so, there is still a problem that is difficult to solve.

That's the question of talent.

To build such a local organization from scratch undoubtedly requires a large number of people, and they must also be reassuring and capable.

Where do these people come from?

It can't be created out of thin air, and it's impossible to use local scholars in Sichuan who have nothing to do with Li Ping.

The security camp is of course a source, but due to the problems of the original system, there are limited people who can be assured and available, and it is impossible for Li Ping to let it be the only one.

At this time, the army is undoubtedly the most suitable group for Li Ping, no matter from the perspective of demand or the perspective of reference.

The large-scale relocation back then was not just for resettlement.

Of course, for Li Ping, ensuring the strength of the army should be the number one priority in the current environment, but there must be trade-offs in everything.

Therefore, many officers, including soldiers, were still transferred to the security battalion by him, and then became the main force of various newly established local administrative departments.

In fact, Yone Cang was also talked to and asked for opinions.

And it was still wanted by Song Baolai.

It's just that Mi Cang still firmly wants to stay in the army. Since he doesn't insist on this issue, Mi Cang still stays in the army.

At this time, the most embarrassing thing was Zhang Kuang.

In fact, he has no control over the affairs of the army, and he does not let him control the resettlement of the people. Similarly, Li Ping has no intention of restoring the local government of the Ming Dynasty. .

Apart from complaining, Zhang Kuang could only go to the fields where the ancient civil servants paid the most attention and instinctively paid attention to.

When it was about to get dark, Zhang Kuang ended his wandering outside the city for several consecutive days.

Looking at the brightly lit city gate in front of him and the still noisy city behind him, Zhang Kuang's mood was very complicated.

But after sighing, he still hesitated and walked in.