A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 915 Liu Qiu Shou Zhu Lang

(New Year’s greetings to everyone, and good luck in the Year of the Dragon!)

Heron Island.

Brother Jia, the chief monk of Wanhou Tun, and Brother Song, the security chief, went to the town to participate in the registration of the township army.

As the third-class reward warriors in the Lugang Town Guard Battle, Brother Seng, Brother Song and Xiao Mao were naturally selected into the Ludao Township Regiment Soldiers in Tong'an County. Brother Song was also selected as the team leader, and Brother Seng was Team deputy, Xiao Mao was awarded the title of team leader.

Their team is composed of strong men from Wanhoutun. They are all from this village. Although they come from the mainland of the Central Plains, they are basically from Jiangnan West Road.

The United Army is still a rural militia. After clicking, they are required to train every autumn and winter. During the training, they will take care of the rice and pickles, and will also receive training subsidies.

If you are called up for a mission, you will receive subsidies, rewards for meritorious services, and pensions for those who are disabled.

Other than that, there are not many benefits to uniting soldiers. That is, after clicking this time, you will be given a set of clothes, shoes and hats, and then a sword and a bow.

As a united soldier, you can freely wear bows and swords in the future.

"Song Wei, Liu Lingbao, Mao Abao, right?"

The equipment had just been distributed, and there was going to be a dinner party later. While they were chatting, the three of them were called to a green-robed official.

When they heard that there were conditions, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The three of them didn't know what was going on and nodded.

But now, when I went to Liuzhou, I was actually given 200 acres of land.

"Don't be nervous, it's like this, now there is a good opportunity in front of you,"

The Qingpao official directly told them the purpose of the conversation and asked them if they were willing to immigrate to Liuqiu Island and settle there directly.

Brother Seng and the others didn't understand, and they were quite curious.

Brother Song nodded quickly, "It's good, I have a good head."

"When we get there, each person will be given 200 acres of good land, plus two acres of vegetable land for the house, as well as settlement expenses. The government will also provide the lease of seeds, cattle and farm tools, and even low-interest young crop loans..."

"Wu Gong just went to Liuqiu. The big island in the East China Sea, which is hundreds of miles away from here, used to be called Yizhou, but is now Liuzhou newly established by the imperial court. It is very big, the land is fertile and the climate is very good. This small Heron Island is much bigger.

Liuqiude is as big as more than 200 Heron Islands, and there is now fertile land everywhere. "

Even in Kuanxiang in the Central Plains, the large-scale land grants at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China were limited to a hundred acres at most.

"Of course, there are conditions."

"Two hundred acres of field and two acres of house and garden are all permanent property. They will not be harvested after death, but will be inherited by descendants."

"Is such a good thing really possible?" Brother Liu Seng couldn't help but ask.

The green-robed official smiled slightly and said, "Would you like to be more aggressive?"

They farmed the land for the Wu family, and they were already very impressed by the Wu family's benevolence and generosity. The land they farmed was originally 73%, but this year the rent was reduced by 10% to 46%. This year, the landowners have become four landlords and six tenants. Where can such landlords be found?

"You came from Jiangxi, so you left home and came here to start from scratch. Now, are you satisfied in the back village of Ludao Bay?"

"Yes."

"You all accepted the Wu family's recruitment order and came from Jiangnanxi. Song Wei and Liu Lingbao are now the Wu family's assistants. Mao Abao is the long-term assistant of the Wu family's farm, right?"

"Are those 200 acres of land real? Koufen Tian or Yongye Tian?" Song Wei asked.

All three of them stared.

This is simply a blessing from heaven.

Xiao Mao quickly asked, "What are the conditions?"

"The first condition is that the immigrants must settle down and take root. The second condition is that Liuzhou must build a guard camp with 1,200 people.

These 1,200 people took five turns. "

The Qingpao official carefully explained to them that the 1,200 guards were divided into five groups and were on duty in turn. They would be on duty for more than seventy days at a time, once a year.

"Is this a choice for a government soldier?" Xiao Mao asked excitedly. It is too difficult to choose a government soldier these days. Not only do you need to be from a good family, but you also need to choose someone who is rich, has many brothers, and is young and strong. Most people want to choose a government soldier. , that’s not qualified at all.

At least it must be a small landowner's home.

"Liuzhou guards the capture camp, not the government soldiers," the Qingpao officer shook his head, but it is similar to the government soldiers. They need to take turns on duty in Liuzhou, but they don't have to go to Chang'an, or go to the frontier to garrison, or even need to Be armed.

They were granted 200 acres of land, but the land tax still had to be paid as usual.

However, during training and duty rotation, there are subsidies and wages. If you perform meritorious service in battle, you will also receive rewards, and there will also be compensation for casualties.

This is actually something similar that Wu Huaiyu used his current privileges to build in Lingnan because the Tongjun Mansion was difficult to manage. The Liuzhou Shouchuo Camp was actually a Central Tongjun Mansion.

But because it is not the unified military office established by the imperial court, many things are easier to operate. For example, in terms of selecting soldiers, the conditions do not need to be based on the imperial court. Liuzhou can freely decide.

Regardless of money, population, only child, or even age, etc., it should be determined according to needs and actual conditions.

Of course, this was what Wu Huaiyu told Wang Da. If Liuzhou's local finances were insufficient for the military expenses of the 1,000-person guard camp in Liuzhou, he would make up for it from his own embassy.

Anyway, one-third of the taxes in Lingnan are transferred to his embassy, ​​and he has a large amount of money in hand, which also needs to be distributed to the states and counties in Lingnan. How to distribute it is up to him.

This time, the six states in southern Fujian, as before in Lingnan, the court agreed to give a Changle army of 5,000 people and a Fufu garrison camp of 3,000 people. The same was true for the unity of states and counties.

It also gave the establishment of two unified army offices.

However, these armies have not been stationed in Liuzhou for the time being, after all, there is not even one household.

But there are also real needs here.

We can't always let the Wu family take on the responsibility of defending the island from barbarians and maintaining law and order. It's not justifiable. After all, the imperial court has already established prefectures and counties.

After hearing what happened, the three people in Wanhoutun became even more excited.

Isn't this just the government soldiers? They are even better treated than the government soldiers. They are assigned more fields. There are no strict selection conditions, and they don't need to bring their own weapons, clothing and food.

Otherwise, how would they be able to purchase weapons and horses under such conditions?

Now, just the two hundred and two acres of land made their hearts beat fast.

own land,

Two hundred acres, and then two acres of homestead land,

You no longer have to pay rent for your own land. Even if the Wu family collects rent for 40% or 60%, you still have to pay 40% of the rent. Under normal circumstances, the landlord needs at least 50% of the rent.

Who is willing to hand over half of the harvest that he has gained by smashing eight petals with a drop of sweat on the ground?

Even if you have to pay land tax on your own land, the court's land tax is not high now. The land tax per acre plus the ding, charity grain, fire consumption, etc. is actually only a few liters. But if you can harvest one or two shi from one acre of land, If you pay the rent for fifty-five cents, that's several bushels or even one stone.

This is ten times or twenty times the tax.

Heartbeat,

Landless tenants and long-term workers have a desire for land that ordinary people cannot imagine.

This is more tempting than women.

To say that this matter is completely risk-free is not to say that you have to be a soldier. You have to serve for more than 70 days every year, which lasts for more than two months. It will definitely delay production and separate from your family.

It is even possible that there will be island barbarians in Liuzhou, and there may be conflicts or even wars. There will be battlefields and wars, and people may die and be maimed.

But for people like Brother Seng, they don’t have much capital.

The capital is yourself,

Besides, the last time the three of them fought a battle, the benefits they got were beyond imagination, three hundred dollars and two slaves, so now they don't have too much fear in their minds about death and injury in battles after becoming guards.

All I think about is the benefits.

In Ludao, they are long-term workers and pals. No matter how hard they work, they can only become tenants at most. If they want to have their own land, without special circumstances, it may not be possible in this life. Even under normal circumstances, the next step is In this generation, it is difficult to break through class.

It is difficult for a slave to become a free citizen.

It is equally difficult for tenants to become homesteaders.

The three of them looked at each other, their eyes shining.

They clenched their fists, nodded immediately and almost without hesitation, and said loudly that they were willing.

Anyway, Ludao Island and Liuqiu Island are only a few hundred miles apart. They are both islands, but that island is more than 200 times larger than this one. There are more fields there, especially their own fields.

"Don't you need to discuss it with your family?"

Song Wei gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "On such a big matter, men naturally make the decision, and for such a simple matter, there is no need to go home and discuss it."

They are afraid that if they miss it, they will have no chance.

Shou Zhuolang, isn’t that a government soldier? What’s there to be afraid of in war? There are so many sons of nobles and powerful landlords in the Central Plains who are still vying to be a government soldier. If you become a government soldier, you will have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds. If you have the opportunity Become an official.

Officer,

That is an insurmountable gap. For the people at the bottom, this boundary is getting wider and wider.

Being a soldier and risking your life is a shortcut, even the only chance to change your own destiny.

The three of them impatiently pressed their fingerprints. They didn't want this matter to happen again, so they wanted to settle it first.

Let’s talk it over here.

The clothes, bows and knives of the Ludao Township Unite that they had just received were returned, along with their Ludao Unite identity.

They will go to Liuzhou soon. They are no longer from Ludao Township, Tong'an County, Quanzhou, so naturally they cannot become Ludao United Soldiers.

On the way home,

The three of them walked very fast and wanted to run away.

I never thought that such a good thing could happen to me.

Rushing to the village, the three of them went back to their homes.

When Brother Seng returned home, Chun Sanniang was sewing winter clothes. Although the winter here is not too cold, she still needed to prepare jackets. She and her mother-in-law were teaching the sister-in-law to sew clothes. The sister-in-law and Xiaomao had already made an appointment to get married that day. Xiao Mao also set up two tables and invited their family and Song Baochang's family to have a sumptuous meal together.

Xiao Mao sold a Din slave. Because there were so many slaves in Shanyue recently, the price had not increased. It was only sold for 12,000 yuan. Xiao Mao gave 6,000 yuan to Brother Seng's family as a bedding gift.

With six thousand dollars left, he originally planned to hire help to build two houses and buy some household items when he had more free time. He was now a long-term employee of the Wu family, and his food and accommodation were all in the Wu family.

He agreed to get married in a year, but the house and other things had to be prepared, and he also planned to stop working as a long-term worker this year and start farming with a martial artist.

Chun Sanniang and her mother-in-law are now starting to teach their sister-in-law, Xuhong, how to cook, in preparation for becoming another woman's wife in the future.

Seeing her husband coming back suddenly, she asked, "Why are you back just now? Didn't you say there was a dinner party?"

"Suddenly a great event happened, and I chose to be a soldier."

"what?"

Brother Seng first scooped a gourd of water and drank it, and then excitedly told his family about the great event he had encountered today. If he clicked Shangliuzhou Shouzuolang, he would be able to divide 200 acres of farmland and 2 acres of homestead into one year. It takes about two months to be on duty, and the rest of the time is at home, and there is no need to go to Chang'an or the border areas, so I only have to be on duty for about seventy days a year.

Especially since you don’t have to buy weapons, equipment and horses yourself, you even get money and food subsidies when you are on duty...

"Go to Liuzhou Island to settle down, divide the fields and grant land to serve as a government soldier?" Chun Sansanniang was shocked by the news and was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses. She looked at her husband, whose face was still glowing with excitement and kept shouting,

Although she had a lot of worries in her heart, and even felt a little uneasy,

But in the end, she just got up and held her husband's hand, and then smiled at him, "I am a woman, and I don't understand the big things outside. But Alang is going to Liuzhou to be a guard, so I will take my mother and children with me." Let's go."

"Marry a beggar, marry a beggar, marry an old man, follow the old man. Wherever Alang goes, we will go too."

(End of this chapter)