The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 152 Circulation of Soldiers in the Mansion Military System

As Liu Tai's plan to develop Qingzhou began to be implemented, the biggest benefit brought by this incident to the local people was that there were suddenly more government recruitment notices.

It seemed that ditches were being dug or roads were being built all over Qingzhou. Various projects not only provided enough food, but also provided sufficient salt coupons. For a while, everyone was full of hope for life.

Of course, in order to prevent these people from having no rest time to consume, Liu Tai imposed a stipulation that all projects must be done five days and two days off.

I must make time for these people to consume, otherwise they will all work for me. Who will consume the salt stamps accumulated in their hands.

Even if they take [-] steps back, if they use all the salt coupons they have accumulated in their hands when they plan to go back to farming, they will probably cause heavy damage to Liu Tai's fragile monetary system.

Liu Tai wouldn't worry if he exchanged it for salt. What Liu Tai was worried about was that there were too many salt stamps on the market, causing the price of salt stamps to plummet, which would have an impact on the currency of salt stamps.

Therefore, Liu Tai's rule of taking five days off and two days off was not because Liu Tai didn't want to exploit them.

But the salt ticket system in Liu Tai's hands was too fragile, and he was afraid that it would not be able to handle such an amazing consumption power.

Under such circumstances, Liu Tai must give the people enough time and space for consumption. Therefore, wherever the population exceeds 3000 people, various supporting facilities must be built quickly and slowly to ensure that the people's Consumption diversion, rather than ruthless squeeze.

“There is no need to speculate on real estate, but the land deeds in the core area must be prepared first. I want to build low-rent housing specifically for officials.

After all, it has not been a small problem for any official to live in the political center since ancient times. Reserve some land first and prepare it for officials with official status in the future! "

Liu Tai has no intention of speculating in real estate. After all, there is a lot of waste waiting for things to be done now. For anyone, as long as they work hard, they can gain something.

What is more important is to use the efforts of one generation to build the foundation of the generations behind them. It would be sick to speculate in real estate at this time.

To be honest, compared to these things that can be lured with benefits as long as the common people are asked to do it, it is the simplest.

The real problem is how to promote technology among the people. This is the most troublesome.

Again, food is too important to the common people. Unless they see with their own eyes how the food they cultivate can produce more harvests, they will never change their farming pattern easily just because of what others say.

Although Wang Pei is already editing "Essential Art of Qi Min", it is undeniable that it is not enough for this technology to be spread only among Wang Pei or students from aristocratic families. He needs to find a way to put this technology into practice.

Liu Tai said that he really needs agricultural officers, but now, he can only cultivate them slowly by himself first.

In addition to the popularization of technology, there is also the need to find ways to promote the intensification of agriculture, so as to dilute the cost of each agricultural technology as much as possible. Not to mention, at least the curved shaft plow does not need to be carried too far to cultivate the land!

Therefore, after Liu Tai thought about it, he began to focus on his own army.

The first step is to remove soldiers over 32 years old to local areas.

Of course, these retired veterans have basically become village chiefs or pavilion chiefs of villages that are still on the planning drawings.

These villages are close to water sources and surrounded by large areas of barren land, which requires considerable effort to cultivate.

But this village has great potential. The purpose of stationing these veterans here is to establish a good outpost first.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Tai asked Zhang Song to send over the women he had been buying from the Yaxing Store. Without any nonsense, he began to make arrangements for the single soldiers one by one.

For these single soldiers, they also know the rules, that is, only if you have a family and have an independent household registration, you can own military land.

Therefore, the vast majority of single soldiers, regardless of whether the women are good-looking or not, will marry first.

If these women are not good-looking, they will not be able to get divorced if they want to, but they can still take concubines after they become successful. So now, as long as military marriages are held, as long as the women are not too ugly, they will Someone picked.

As for these sergeants who are getting married and starting a business, Liu Tai gives them a choice: do they want 150 acres of maturely developed land, or [-] acres of military land that you need to cultivate yourself.

The biggest role of military land is not only to allow these sergeants to own land, but it is land that does not charge taxes.

If the soldiers want to buy land when they become rich in the future, they can do so.

It's just that the acres of land purchased need to be taxed, but all the people are treated equally, including the aristocratic families.

In addition, when the number of acres exceeds [-] acres, the tax on acres will be further increased, so the greatest significance of military land lies in tax exemption.

Some people want mature farmland that is easier to take care of, while others choose to take the 150-acre military farmland quota.

For those who choose the latter, Liu Tai will arrange their household registrations in the new villages where retired military officers are located.

Basically, these villages were originally composed of soldiers. This group of people carried out Liu Tai's orders and had very strong execution capabilities.

With this basic population, under Liu Tai's deliberate arrangement, collective rural areas migrated here one after another, mainly to help these villages cultivate fields and form a certain scale of population.

When the number of people in this village gradually reached about 300, and relatively basic facilities were established, Liu Tai began to migrate people on a large scale, with about 5000 to [-] people migrating to each village.

The original people in this village occupied a large amount of land and power, and they were all soldiers. They were very decisive in their actions. It was not difficult to manage 5000 to [-] people.

To be honest, if all these people were responsible for clearing wasteland, no one in these villages would be willing.

But Liu Tai was responsible for basic investment. These newly organized villages began to reclaim land and build roads, so that the people who migrated here could have a bite to eat.

Helping them build houses and accumulate salt stamps so that these people can survive and live with hope is what Liu Tai did.

Liu Tai also knew that his policy had a great tendency to favor the soldiers who supported him.

These ordinary people are essentially hidden corvees prepared by Liu Tai for the soldiers. They have no means of production themselves.

Because without policy support, it would be very difficult for ordinary people to simply purchase land.

The first point of this difficulty is the early savings, because as long as the soldiers get married, they can get fifty acres of military land.

There may even be mature fields among them, which are already the envy of ordinary people.

Because even if ordinary people just want to cultivate one acre of land, they must first work hard for three years. Accumulating bit by bit, three large rice jars can feed three years of rice. They can only reclaim the land after obtaining the consent of the local government. .Unless you are somewhere deep in the mountains and old forests that no one knows about, any mountains and rivers in ancient times either belonged to aristocratic families or to the government.

Without the owner's consent, you will be charged with theft even if you go up the mountain to cut firewood.

Of course, if you report successfully, both the aristocratic family and the government will be happy for you to reclaim land in the barren land.

It's not because I'm greedy for your few acres of thin land, but as long as you cultivate it, I can collect taxes from you!

In ancient times, when taxes were collected, the government imposed pressure on aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families who were enthroned would certainly not pay taxes on their own land.

But now that you are registered, you still need to pay a certain amount of tax. Now it is your turn, those of you who farm the poorest land, to start paying the heaviest tax in the country.

After the land was reported, a relatively barren piece of land was selected to clean up the weeds. Then the large rocks were cleaned, and then the stones were cleaned one by one. Finally, the land was dug to see if there were gravels under the land. There were some. The words need to be cleaned up.

I worked hard from day to night every day for about three months, and the land was more or less successfully reclaimed. There were no weeds or gravel, and farming could begin.

After that, you need to cultivate fertilizers on the land and plant crops. The first year's harvest will definitely be poor, so don't think too much.

At least before fertilizer was invented, I was afraid that only planting on black soil would avoid losing money in the first year.

In the second year, there will be a little more plant ash, and the fertility of the land will increase a little. You will continue to cultivate, and the grain produced will be about the normal eight levels. You will be ecstatic and feel that a better tomorrow is coming.

In the third year, you finally successfully reclaimed this land from the barren land and turned it into a mature field. Although the food produced was a little poorer, it at least reached normal standards.

You can't help but look back on your hard work over the past three years. You have finally transformed from a gangster with no house or property to a good family man with land, achieving a class jump.

Even if he only cultivates one acre of land, at least at this moment he is fundamentally different from the so-called gangsters!
After you have land, local landowners or aristocratic families will begin to send people to contact you proactively to congratulate you on your life success.

The first thing to say is that your three-year tax holiday is coming, and you will have to pay taxes on the grain you cultivate starting next year.

Although you feel heartbroken, you have finally integrated into the local area, and the local decent class is willing for you to associate with them.

Not to mention, there are even matchmakers who have started to introduce women to you, for no other reason than because you have cultivated an acre of land on your own.

Originally, to the locals, you were just a homeless man without land and property. Who knew where you would starve to death tomorrow, so they naturally had no interest in talking to you.

But now that you have a field, even if it is only one acre, you have roots here, and I am naturally willing to communicate with you.

This kind of thing would be the same even if time changed.

When you are in a foreign country, you feel that you are alone, as if everyone is ignoring you, but if you try your best to get a sheltered house in the local area, the local people will start to be willing to communicate with you.

Because you have a house and roots in this urban area, the locals are willing to talk to you about their feelings, because even if they talked about their feelings with you before, you might move out the next day. That’s exactly the case, who You will also put your emotions into it.

Now on the contrary, because you have achieved a class jump by relying on your own strength, even if you are at the lowest level, people around you will recognize your ability and even start to actively win over you, a guy who has just entered your own class.

All in all, this is what ordinary people need to do if they want to transform from gangsters to good families.

If you calculate it backwards and forwards, it will take at least six years. If the time is longer, it will even take ten years.

But for the soldiers, they don't need such a long time. All they need is to become Liu Tai's soldiers and then fight with Liu Tai. It will take some time for the soldiers to be sent to the fields. The priority is to send them to the local areas. of acres.

But if you are selected into the mobile unit directly under Liu Tai, you will be granted land as long as you get married, and you will directly get [-] acres of military land without paying taxes.

If they want their own reclamation quota of 150 acres, Liu Tai can also give it to them.

This is why Liu Tai will be supported by the soldiers. Liu Tai can make them easily achieve class leap.

Originally, he might only have accumulated one acre of land after working for ten years, but now his profit-making efficiency increased by almost [-] times in just one war.

Under such circumstances, how could soldiers not love joining the army?

Similarly, Liu Tai punished his soldiers very severely.

Although Liu Tai does not advocate corporal punishment, if he violates military orders, deserts, or fights cowardly, he will even be dismissed from the military. The military land granted will be taken back, and he will also be deprived of the qualifications of a government soldier.

This is to avoid the situation like that of Wei Wuzu who took the land and then passively treated the war.

For Liu Tai, he will definitely give the people a certain degree of preferential treatment, but since he is preparing to conquer the world, he must clearly understand what his basic base is.

Although Liu Tai also wants to say that his base is all the Han people in the world.

But in fact, even any group in modern society still has a basic base, let alone this era.

Therefore, when Liu Tai formulates policies, he must not harm the interests of the soldiers first.

Like now, when he wants to promote the large-scale development of the Qingzhou area, and when he doesn't have enough managers and security personnel, the army is Liu Tai's best choice.

The benefits of being a soldier are most intuitively displayed in front of these people who have nothing.

When they were all jealous of their immediate interests, Liu Tai began to transfer some of his soldiers from the government soldiers to join his regular army.

At the same time, Liu Tai issued an announcement in his own territory and began to recruit soldiers from the entire Qingzhou territory.

At this moment, people of all ages began to sign up enthusiastically.

There was no other reason, they wanted the soil... well, they wanted to restore the Han Dynasty, and they asked the Duke of Donglai County to give him a chance.

This is the charm of Fubing system.

　It seems like I only owe one more update, which is great.

　　
　
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