Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 131 Let people have land to farm
In fact, it was easy to regain Yingjiang. After all, Dao Ganmeng was dead. After the [-] strong men left, only about [-] people came back.

Yingjiang didn't dare to resist at all, and he recovered without any bloodshed.

But now, Zhu Zhen is having a headache about what will happen after the recovery.

In the past few days, every household in the city has begun to hang white cloth. It can be said that every household is wearing sackcloth and showing mourning.

(I don’t know what the custom is for the deceased in the homes of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, so just think of it as wearing hemp and wearing mourning.)
Of course, that's not what Zhu Chu cares about. He will kill everyone, but he won't pretend to remove a few drops of crocodile tears.

What Zhu Chu wants to do now is actually to use Yingjiang as a test site to try how to fully implement the reform of the land and return to localization.

The most important thing in changing the land and returning it to the local people is the land.

Again, the privileges and status of the chieftains were so great that all the fields under their jurisdiction became their private land, and even the people within the ethnic group were their serfs.

For example, the fields in Yingjiang are all cut by knives. Zhu Ming found that the common people hardly had any food stored in their homes. On the other hand, there was a huge granary in the houses of raked by knives.

Zhu Ming didn't waste any words and asked Etao to call people to call all the people in the city together.

Those people originally wore sackcloth and wore mourning, but even though there were no graves, they still had to cry, right?

As a result, they all gathered together at this time, and they were worried that Zhu Zhen was tired of it and planned to kill him.

But when Zhu Chu showed up, the people discovered that Zhu Chu actually had someone open the granary that originally belonged to Dao Ganmeng, and even announced in public: "Listen, people in the city. In the next few days, we will go door to door to sign up. According to the The number of people in each family comes to receive food rations. Dao Ganmeng has occupied so much fertile land by himself and asked you to pay taxes to him. All the food will rot in the warehouse. Many of you are still hungry, right?"

"Come on, come on, let's take a portion home to cook and eat today. If anyone has any difficulties, please come and tell Mr. Itao."

The people were dumbfounded. No one cheered, but looked at Zhu Xi in silence. No one dared to act rashly.

Zhu Ming said angrily: "That Dao Ganmeng doesn't treat you as human beings, but as slaves. When I come, I will open a warehouse to stock up on food, and I plan to make you all well-fed. Why are you still suspicious?" "

The old man who opened the door to beg for surrender stood up and asked tremblingly: "My lord, do you really want to give us food?"

"Nonsense, or am I kidding you?" Zhu Zhen rolled his eyes.

The old man suddenly burst into tears and shouted: "Your Majesty is kind and righteous. He is holding the food with his knife. He would rather sell it to others than let us have enough to eat. We have to work in the fields for him, and we have to fight to the death to help him." Fight. Long live my lord."

Only then did the people finally react and shouted long live.

Zhu Ming yelled angrily: "Do you want me to die? Why do you call me Long Live? I am a prince, so I can only call you Qian Live, do you understand?"

The people quickly changed their tune and shouted a thousand years ago.

Zhu Ming said again: "Okay, come here to get the food first, and then go to the grave when you are full."

People were silent again, not knowing what to say for a moment.

You can call him benevolent and righteous. Zhu Ming opened a warehouse to store grain. These grains were originally his spoils of war. Even if he took them all away as a reward for his own army, there would be no problem.

But it's okay to say that he doesn't speak human words. His troops killed the [-] strong men in Yingjiang, which means that Zhu Chu has an account with the people in the city.

He still had to say it out loud.

Even Mu Qiu was puzzled and asked: "Your Highness, do you have to remind them that you killed their son or husband?" Zhu Zhen shrugged and said carelessly: "That's why they have to be Dao Gan Meng's accomplice, they We are both soldiers and enemies, and there is nothing wrong with fighting on the battlefield. Shouldn't we kill them and wait for them to kill us?"

"But the people in this city are innocent. Let me say it again, your husbands or sons fought bravely as soldiers and died on the battlefield, and this is their destiny. But I do not intend to liquidate and hold you accountable, because the culprit is Daogan Fierce. Now that this battle is over, are you still going to die for your love?"

"Living people must continue to live. I will give you the opportunity to continue living. I will even let you live a good life in the future and have a land that truly belongs to you. And I also plan to let Yingjiang live in three years, no, in five Tax exemption for the year.”

Zhu Ming's words gradually began to make some people's eyes come alive. Although they were not yet sparkling, they were no longer as lifeless as they were at the beginning.

Maybe they were finally starting to see something different.

They did lose their family members, but after Zhu Chu eliminated Dao Ganmeng and sent Otao to arrive, it was not a bad thing.

If they take this as an opportunity, they will no longer have to live under ruthless exploitation, and they will have hope for their future lives.

After all, people have to continue to live.

So the people began to spontaneously come forward to receive some food. According to Zhu Zhen's instructions, today was only temporary, and it would be distributed according to the population of each household later.

According to Zhu Chu's wishes, he planned to distribute several months' worth of rations to all families at once, including seeds for next spring, and arrangements were made by the county government office in Etao.

At the same time, Zhu Ming also gave instructions to Otao: "We should take this opportunity to conduct a census and record the specific population of Yingjiang. I said that the land in Yingjiang is only temporarily under your control, and it is only under escrow. From now on, these lands will be It must be distributed.”

"As long as people have land to grow and food to fill their bellies, those chieftains will no longer be able to dominate, Yunnan will be truly pacified, and people's hearts will completely surrender to the Ming Dynasty."

"Otherwise, Yunnan is said to belong to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it is still those chieftains who dominate. Whose world is this?"

Etaoxin said, is it really okay for you to tell me this so bluntly?After all, Etao was also a chieftain officer before.

There is no doubt that Yingjiang has become a test site for Zhu Zhen to implement the reform of the land and return to localization, and the results will be achieved as soon as the spring of next year.

But before that, Zhu Zhen still had a lot to do, such as the territories and ethnic groups of more than 100 chieftains who followed Silunfa, among whom 20 surrendered troops were released.

Zhu Chu is still busy.

In the next few days, Etao was familiar with various affairs in Yingjiang, while recording the population of Yingjiang. He also wanted to master data such as how much land there was in Yingjiang.

These are all the tasks of his new official.

According to the final statistics, the total population of Yingjiang is now 12, and together with the 650 soldiers of Etao, the total is 15.

And these more than 12 people are basically the elderly, weak, women and children.

There were also hundreds of men, including the three hundred surrendered soldiers, but the other men were either physically disabled or simply unfit to be soldiers, so they survived.

Zhu Zhen nodded secretly. The population of his subjects has increased by 10,000+ people. This is really gratifying.

However, when Zhu Xi took the time to open the system interface, he was shocked.

The reason is that the size of Zhu Chu's territory and the population of the territory have increased tremendously.

(End of this chapter)