Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 26 Trial Implementation of the New Deal
  The siege of Wuxiang was over, and the soldiers and civilians in the city received food relief. The people all sang and danced to welcome Lu Mou into the city.

Along the way, Lu Mou waved to the soldiers and civilians again and again, doing a good job of being close to the people.

Walking into the county government office in Wuxiang, the county magistrate Xu Jie had already arranged the food distribution for the people and rushed back to accompany him.

Lu Mou said to Qi Fei and Xu Jie: "Li Guo's army is about to arrive. In order not to harm other areas, I decided to attract Li Guo's bandits to Wuxiang and meet the enemy there. In this way, Wuxiang will become a battlefield again. .”

Qi Fei said confidently: "With the prince's 40,000 troops standing guard, the prince will definitely be able to defeat the rogue bandits."

Lu Mou smiled, shook his head and said, "This time, I am here or not."

As soon as this was said, everyone was confused.

So Lu Mou told everything he knew about Li Guo's situation, as well as his response arrangements.

He immediately won everyone's approval.

"As long as we can annihilate Li Guo again this time, there will be almost no main force of rogue bandits in the south of the capital, and the capital side will be safe. We can free up our energy to either reorganize the interior or deal with the rogue bandits to the west."

Everyone's eyes immediately became bright. Full of confidence in Ming Dynasty's resurrection.

"Transport all the grain and grass outside the city into Wuxiang, and immediately hire people to make three days' worth of dry food for the First Army. Then I will leave the independent division Yang Songshan to guard Wuxiang alone; I will appoint Qi Fei to join the army. I will lead With the first army, go directly out of the city and ambush the enemy outside."

Everyone respected the order in unison.

While waiting for the dry food to be made, I counted the gold and silver trophies seized. There are as many as five hundred thousand taels of silver in cash, as well as many jewelry and antiques.

Lu Mou joked to Li Yan: "Your fighting ability is not good. We snatched it all the way from Henan and only got so little. You let me down so much."

This is a serious despicable mentality of taking advantage of others and not being too little.

Li Yan glared: "During the march, I strictly required my subordinates to only take money and food from large households. I was absolutely not allowed to rob the common people. And I was not allowed to coerce people into joining my army along the way. I only accepted those who were willing to follow me and create Your rebels from Ming Dynasty’s old Zhu family joined in. Otherwise, my army would be more than just 20,000 people?”

Lu Mou quickly apologized: "It was just a joke, sir, don't worry."

Then he turned around and faced Xu Jie: "Mr. Xu, this time Mr. Li Yan killed many landlords, gentry and powerful people within a hundred miles of your Wuxiang. I now ask you to count those who have lost their lives during this period of time." It depends on how much land the owner has. But I stipulate that this time, the government will no longer sell the unowned land as usual."

In ancient times, such ownerless land was to be taken back to the state and then sold again.

But who can afford to buy land? Those wealthy landowners and gentry were unable to fall into the hands of poor people at all, thus causing more serious land annexation again.

This time Lu Mou wanted to change this policy and test his own policy.

Xu Jie was a little confused about the prince's arrangement: "Should we not sell it out and let the land fall into disuse?"

Lu Mou shook his head: "Of course not. This time, these ownerless lands are not sold to the people, but contracted to the truly landless people.

I call this state-owned contracting. People only have the right to farm, not to buy or sell. This prevents people from obtaining land, selling it for temporary family needs, or for temporary enjoyment, causing them to become refugees again. ” ˆ ˆ Li Yan nodded: “Your method is good, it is to use coercion to preserve the last bit of food and drink for the people. "

Xu Jie asked: "Then how much tax and how much corvee will be added to the land we contracted?" The meaning is that if the tax land rent and the corvee are too heavy as before, the people will still have to abandon the land and run away.

"This time, the land rent collected by our government has returned to the regulations of Lord Hongwu, which was only two coins per mu of land. From now on, we will use this as an example and will never increase the tax. As for the corvee, I stipulate that a fixed fee of two coins per mu of land will be collected. The money will be used as labor payment. From now on, all government work must be done by hiring ordinary people."

A total of four cents of silver per acre of land was handed over, which was really not much. Even if there is another natural disaster, people can still survive. The key thing is that without the corvee that destroys people's lives, when people's hearts are stabilized, social production will resume.

Everyone present, including Li Yan, cheered for the people.

Li Yan said: "The prince's method is consistent with my philosophy. It's a pity that I have killed too few gentry and powerful people in the past ten days."

Lu Mou answered the words and said without hesitation: "Sir, if you kill few people, it is because you still have kindness in your heart. But it doesn't matter, Li Guo will be here soon. I hope that after this war, this Wuxiang will be devastated. This will truly realize the ideal society of land to the tiller.”

When Xu Jie heard this, his face couldn't help but change. This young prince is cruel and hates the rich. Of course, he can also be understood as a hero who kills the rich and helps the poor.

But will his ruthless approach to serving the people be beneficial to the future after Ming Dynasty comes back to life?

No matter what, I must resolutely implement the prince's order and distribute the ownerless land to the people first.

The dry food was ready. Lu Jian ordered the veteran general Liang Maochen to lead a team of troops to escort the seized silver back to Beijing. The silver dollar mint was still waiting for raw materials.

He planned to mint all the silver into silver coins, and then distribute them to the soldiers as rewards and pensions according to his own regulations.

I'm short of money, so I can squeeze out some.

Then he took Lu Yixing's first army, all more than 20,000 men, and went directly out of the city to the north to join the 3,000 Jin Yiwei who had been hurriedly transferred from the capital.

Then the Jin Yiwei and the Forbidden Army were dispersed and mixed, and they were strictly required to not rob the people after the army went out. Once discovered, Jin Yiwei has the right to kill them on the spot.

As soon as the regulations came out, the whole army was shocked.

Taking the regiment as a unit, they were divided into four directions, preparing to kill Li Guo's men and horses who were collecting grain.

However, before leaving, Lu Yixing mysteriously ran up to Lu Mou and asked in a low voice with a smile: "I promise that the soldiers will not disturb the people, but if there is a shortage of logistics supplies and we need to borrow food from the landlords and gentry, we will accidentally What should we do if we are rejected by them and accidentally injured by us?”

Lu Mou whispered in his ear: "What I said is that you are not allowed to disturb the people. But do the gentry and powerful landlords count the common people? That's why this happened. You just treat my rule as fart."

Lu Yixing jumped for joy at that time: "Then I will do it according to the prince's method."

Lu Mou was very innocent and spread his hands: "What can I do for you? I haven't given you anything. Please don't frame me."

(End of this chapter)