Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 119 Liaodong officialdom ([-])

One month later

Liaodong County
"Now that the bandits are gone, it's time to discuss the redistribution of fertile land and tenant farmers in Liaodong." Chief Registrar Wang Changtu brought up the topic.

"Pingguo County and Dashi County were attacked by bandits, and the people in the counties were coerced. Today, there are only [-] people in Dashi County, and only [-] people in Pingguo County. The total number of people in the two counties is no more than [-]."

"Not only that, 30 mu of unowned land suddenly appeared in Dashi County, 40 mu of unowned land in Pingguo County, and [-] mu of land owned by the Guo family. How should these be divided?"

Not counting Luoyueyuan and overseas, Dashi County has a total of less than 40 mu of land, and the Wang family has only annexed [-] mu of it.

The people rebelled and were suppressed. In theory, the land of these people belonged to the imperial court, and they had to report it to Sang Hongyang, the chief farmer. Sang Hongyang and his subordinate officials would formulate the corresponding land distribution plan. Changzhi led county and county officials to implement the land division plan of Da Si Nong Sang Hongyang.

but……

Naturally, there is room for manipulation.

For example, there are 30 more unowned farmlands in Dashi County, but if only 20 mu of them are reported to the court, then the remaining [-] mu is just...

Although the Dasinong Association sent Da Nong Cheng and Da Nong Ling to the county to investigate whether the prefect's report was true.

But now that the world is corrupt, His Majesty may not care about the situation in Liaodong.

Moreover, Chang'an's Da Nongcheng came to Liaodong, and it would not take a month or two to arrive.

When he arrived in Liaodong, everything was arranged properly, and he would naturally have a way to deal with it.

As for the [-] refugees who surrendered, it is naturally impossible to kill them all, and it is even more impossible to send them back to be self-cultivated farmers.

Moreover, the Liaodong County Council reported that tens of thousands of rogues would rather die than surrender. In desperation, the prefect had no choice but to kill all the rogues for the stability of the court's borders.

In this way, Liaodong County can be reduced by tens of thousands of people in the counting book, and the tens of thousands of people who have been reduced will naturally become tenant farmers of the three major families and officials and rich peasants.

The tens of thousands of people who have been reduced from the book data have in fact become hidden households.

These [-] refugees will be divided up by the three powerful families in Liaodong, other rich peasant families, and county and county officials.

The reason why the Wang family doesn’t eat all of it is because they don’t have so much food to feed the extra [-] mouths, and secondly, if they eat alone, they will be attacked by groups, and good things can only be shared by everyone.

However, after all, the Wang family is the main force in exterminating the bandits, so if you share more points, no one will complain. This is the reward that the Wang family deserves.

For the 30 mu of fertile land in Tashi County, Wang Changzhi did not dare to eat it all at once.

Although the current emperor is too intoxicated to practice immortality and is too lazy to care about it, what if the next generation of emperor is a diligent emperor who loves the people.

The Wang family ate hundreds of thousands of acres of land at one time, wouldn't it be exposed?

Is the so-called warm water boiled frogs.

If the appetite is too big, if the powerful gentry is too greedy, annexing hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land at one time, it will attract the attention of the emperor and be beaten by the emperor.

But if you only eat a little bit at a time, it will be difficult to attract the attention of the court and the emperor every time. If you accumulate it over time, decades or even hundreds of years, it will be hundreds of acres of fertile land.

For the 30 mu of land in Dashi County, Wang Changzhi's idea is to report 25 mu to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can continue to immigrate from the Central Plains to farm the land. After planting, the Wang family will continue to eat it slowly when they have the opportunity.

Then of the remaining [-] mu, the Wang family annexed [-] mu, and the other rich peasants and officials in Dashi County shared [-] mu.

The soldiers attached to the Wang family also took the opportunity to get some fields and tenant farmers, and became small tyrants and small landlords loyal to the Wang family.

Under the emperor, there were tyrants, under the tyrants there were rich peasants and small landlords, and under the rich peasants there were tenant farmers.

A structure similar to the enfeoffment system of the Western Zhou Dynasty had actually been formed, but this form was illegal, and the imperial court refused to admit it.

The powerful gentry have in fact become illegal monarchs without the title of monarch, and the manor is an illegal kingdom without the title of kingdom.

Under the high-handed rule of Emperor Liu Che for decades, the efficiency of land annexation by tyrants was very low, and many tyrants were not only unable to annex land, but were even bankrupted by the court.

Now, the emperor is obsessed with cultivating immortals, and the world is corrupted. The tyrants who have been holding back for decades can finally start to annex those fertile fields.

Some rich farmers in Liaodong who secretly hid grain took the opportunity to rise up, and they wantonly annexed fertile land.

For example, the Lu family in Xiangping County.

After the Lu family, the largest family in Xiangping County, went bankrupt, some of the family members hanged themselves, some committed suicide, and some had no choice but to become self-cultivated farmers. Since then, there have been no big tycoons in Xiangping County, and the rest are small landlords. Tyrants and rich peasants.

The Lu family was originally a relative of the Lu family, a small and powerful family in Xiangping County.

A few years ago, the Lu family sold their house and everything else, and then bought a lot of grain for storage. Now they just use the grain to exchange fields from the victims.

At that time, many people ridiculed the Lu family's stupidity of selling their property, but now they are all envious.

After all, who would have imagined that in just a few years, the world would rot into such a state that almost everyone was short of food, and cheap fertile land was everywhere.

Who could have predicted that the emperor would suddenly put down the cultivation of immortals?
Perhaps the Lu family had expected that the emperor would be obsessed with the technique of longevity and cause corruption in the world, so they had such foresight.

Relying on various methods and official connections, the Lu family devoured [-] mu of land, plus the original [-] mu of land, now they have [-] mu of land.

Moreover, the two descendants of the Lu family in Xiangping County are also the Chief of the Salt History and the Chief of the Tie Shi in Liaodong, who have been helping the four major families to sell private salt and private iron all the year round.

In troubled times, a stage of rewashing forces.

Some families were washed down, such as the Guo family in Pingguo County, and some families were washed up, such as the Lu family in Xiangping County.

This time the Liaodong County Mansion Meeting, the Lu family was finally qualified to participate, and became the fourth big family after Liaodong King Zhang Li.

The former Wang Zhang Li Guo became Wang Zhang Li Lu.

"Patriarchs, I am willing to exchange the share of the government's salt and iron official camp in exchange for the fertile land in Xiangping County in your hands." The head of the Lu family smiled, swallowing [-] mu of land from the victims was not enough for him at all, he actually wanted to use the imperial court's The money was exchanged from the three major families for the land to their own family.

What an empty glove white wolf!

The three major families bought some land from the Lu family when the Lu family went bankrupt in Xiangping County before, but the manors of the three major families are not in Xiangping County, so they have little interest in merging the good land in Xiangping County.

Due to the existence of policies such as the counting order, after the Lu family sold the field, the money from the sale of the field was quickly taken away by the court.

"What kind of replacement?"

The Wang family, which is farthest from Xiangping County, is most interested in exchanging Xiangping’s fields for the share of the government’s share of salt and iron. Xiangping is too far away from the Wang family. Sell ​​it to other Xiaohaoqiang families in Xiangping County as a personal favor, because transporting it back to the Wang family requires high transportation costs.

Now, simply use these fields that are too far away to exchange for the share of the Yantie official camp.

"Um……"

The families discussed with each other and finally discussed the result.

The three families of Wang, Zhang and Li all transferred their fertile land in Xiangping County to the Lu family in Xiangping County.

The Lu family distributed more of the profits from the salt and iron official business that originally belonged to the Chang'an court to the three major families of Wang, Zhang and Li.

At the same time, the Lu family had to pay some cash.

Considering that the Lu family currently has no cash and can pay in installments, no matter what the Lu family does, whether it is corruption or increasing the rent of the tenants, the debt must be paid off within five years.

And the Lu family also increased another [-] mu of land, from [-] mu to [-] mu, which is already the same size as the original Lu family.

(End of this chapter)