Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 489 Population Census and Catching Floating Waves

Three of Fu's families were dealt with severely.Not only the entire Zhuangzi—including land, grain, livestock, and population—was confiscated, but also the same area of ​​land of the Fu family was confiscated.The richest man in the village had been reduced to less than [-] mu of land, which was only enough for a middle peasant family.

It didn't take long for Fu Yousan to go crazy-his property was ruined, and with it, the authority of the parents also collapsed.All the resentment accumulated by the three sons over the years erupted.Now that there is no possibility of inheriting property anymore, Fu Yousan's paternalism is ignored.Fu Erzhuang and Sanzhuang simply left Meiyang Village with their wives and children, and went to Bairen City to recruit workers as workers.Fu Yizhuang left him alone in the backyard, and ignored him except for some food and drink.

The one who benefited the most from this Qingzhang was Fu Buer. The downfall of Fu Yousan's family made him the richest man in the village. Not only that, Wang Ruixiang, according to Wu De's instructions, wanted to properly support new vested interest groups in the village , as the cornerstone of the new regime.Small rural landowners like Fu Buer who are willing to accept new things and have a strong enterprising spirit are suitable targets.Therefore, he expressed great respect for Fu Buer.Not only accepted his banquet, but also announced at the banquet that the county government would send him a plaque of "Follow the public and abide by the law", which made Fu Buer's face blush with excitement-not to mention that this honor does not exist in the village, even in the whole county. Few people have enjoyed it.

In addition to the honor, the more affordable thing is that Wang Ruixiang issued him a charter certificate exempting him from paying the service fee of the Tiandihui for one year.

Immediately, Fu Buer's status in the village was greatly improved, and the villagers regarded him as the agent of the Australians in the village, so he soon became a man who said nothing.Of course, he has also become one of the most loyal lackeys of the time travel group.

Next, it will be much easier to clear up the nearby villages: the story of Meiyang Village spread quickly: now everyone knows that Australians have "iron birds" that fly in the sky, with "iron birds" that can see everything. clairvoyance".Many people who concealed their fields when declaring were restless.

Wang Ruixiang took the opportunity to send people everywhere to publicize the "surrender" policy. All households who concealed their land during the self-declaration stage can "confess and be lenient" as long as they come to the work team in time to "surrender". If they are found out, they will not only be confiscated Hidden reported fields will also be confiscated twice.

As soon as the news spread, there was an endless stream of farmers who came to the work team station to "surrender themselves".Wang Ruixiang was very satisfied with the effect, now he didn't have to go out and yell at those poor people to threaten them—it was exhausting, and he had another thing to do—the census.

What is the population of Lingao County?This is a question that no one in the county can explain clearly. According to the yellow book of the county that was retrieved from the household houses, there are 230 households registered in the county, of which 790 are civilian households, and the rest are military households and handymen. Households, Mazhan households, and other various households, etc., they bear different taxes and labor.The total population is 280, of which men account for more than two-thirds, and women only account for more than 4000.

This number made it hard for the members of the executive committee to believe that the local population is not densely populated, but based on what everyone sees on weekdays, it is definitely not so rare.Obviously, there are a large number of "hidden households" among them.

Wu De specially called Zhou Qi for consultation.Zhou Qi told them that their guess is not wrong, there are indeed many "hidden households", the purpose is nothing more than to avoid taxes and labor.As for the number of household registration population, the county government is simply a muddled account, and the number published in the yellow book is still calculated in the seventh year of Zhengde.

"Ever since the Wanli period introduced a whip method, and the food and tax officials were closed, and Li Jia was no longer required to handle it," Zhou Qi explained, "this yellow book has long been useless. It was said that it was revised every ten years, and later it was said It is repaired once a year, but this thing can’t be used to collect taxes, and it’s not used to collect corvee, so every year, the households copy the previous figures and estimate again. Look—” He casually flipped through the next few books Show it to Wu De, there is actually a ten-year yellow book from Tianqi.Obviously it has been "prefabricated" in advance.This kind of behavior style and philosophy made Wu De laugh. It seems that many disadvantages are really the same.

"So that's the case." Wu De nodded, "It's better to restore the yellow book now."

"Yes, yes," Zhou Qi agreed, wondering, what's the use of restoring the yellow book?This thing has long been a mere form.

The significance of the census cannot be grasped with the knowledge of Saturday.The household registration system, another important system of the Traveling Group, also needs to be established on the basis of the census.The household registration system in the Ming Dynasty used to be very strict, but by now it has collapsed to the point of disrepair.The time-traveling group intends to re-transplant a system that was once effective in another time and space here,

The implementation of the new household registration system will inevitably involve the establishment of a grassroots administrative system.This matter is protracted and will consume a lot of manpower and material resources. In order to grasp the population situation of the whole county as soon as possible and carry out the next population development plan, the executive committee decided not to promote the household registration system in the whole county for the time being, but to conduct a census first. .For this reason, they developed a population card system.Register on an individual basis.Only the name, date of birth, gender, education level, nationality, occupation and place of residence are registered on the card.There is a separate 12-digit number on each card, which also provides the basis for the future implementation of the ID card system.Originally, it was planned to put photos on the cards, but it was not possible to print photos for so many people, so it was changed to fingerprint collection.Based on the collected cards, villages are used as units to collect and register them into a population register for reference.

The census of Meiyang Village and several nearby villages will soon be over. With the prestige of "Iron Bird" and "Clairvoyance", this census went smoothly, and no one dared to evade registration.Everyone is saying that if you don't register, you will be arrested and sent to "reform through labor" if you are spotted by clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance actually saw other things—Wang Ruixiang found other things on the images during the aerial reconnaissance of Yintian in Meiyang Village: temporary shacks and small fields were scattered in the depths of the hills, and he even In a photo, I saw a ragged, unkempt man looking up with his mouth wide open in surprise.

"Are there any refugees? It's really not easy, living in such a secluded place." Wang Ruixiang said to himself, and drew a distribution map of the shacks on the map, and handed it over to Huang Ande to lead the team to "catch the floating waves".

The so-called "catch the floating waves" is another thing in the census.Fulang refers to two types of people in this county, one is the migrants who live scattered in the mountains and cultivate a small piece of wasteland.Most of these refugees came from the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong, and some came from Vietnam. In order to escape the government's taxes, they lived scattered in hilly and mountainous areas that were inaccessible, and cultivated a small piece of land to grow a small amount of crops for a living.With scant clothes and no food to eat, they could only barely make ends meet.When there is a chance, they will also go to nearby villages to steal or gang up to rob.

The other is the so-called "loafer" characters that are common in every village.There are such people in larger villages, and most of them do not do business properly and make a living by petty theft. There are also some people who collude with bandits to do "big business" such as robbery and kidnapping.

Transit Group believes that allowing them to continue like this is firstly a waste of labor, and secondly a factor of social instability.Therefore, a unified operation was carried out at the same time as the census to accommodate and arrest two types of people.The former were purified and assigned to the commune in accordance with the procedures for immigrants, while the latter were assigned to labor camps for forced labor.

"There are quite a few 'black people'." Wang Ruixiang looked at the dotted marks on the map and thought, how many such settlements are there?Some settlements have been discovered during the reconnaissance operations of long-range exploration teams and special investigation teams, but most of them have not been discovered.And the number of registered population cards in Meiyang Village is almost 80 more than the number of households in the county government—there are hundreds of villages in the whole county, how many such black households will there be?It seems that the population potential of Laigao is far from being tapped.

"Make sure you catch all of them." Wang Ruixiang stared at Huang Ande's face. "You only have ten people. When you arrest them, don't disturb the others, otherwise it will be troublesome if you run away and catch them again. Understand?"

"Yes!" Huang Ande replied loudly.He already had a rough draft on how to arrest people-surprise tactics.When I was a soldier in the Ming army in the past, I heard soldiers who had been to Liaodong say: the first is to be afraid of field battles, and the second is to be afraid of not accepting them at night.Heideng stayed on duty on the enemy's platform in a daze, and the tartars sneaked up and attacked them quietly. They were either decapitated or captured alive.

In the non-commissioned officer training class, he has mastered new weapons and tactics that neither the Ming army nor the Tartars have. Huang Ande is now preparing to try his skills to see how the Australian's surprise tactics are.

After accepting the order, Huang Ande summoned his soldiers.He is now just the squad leader of an infantry squad, and the deputy squad leader is his old partner Qian Duo.Qian Duo's ability is mediocre, and he is a passable level in all aspects. Relying on the benefits of the continuous expansion of the army, he even became the deputy squad leader of the corporal.

Before the action, hold a pre-war meeting, assign tasks, discuss details, and boost morale. These are the rules in the Australian army. Huang Ande originally thought it was redundant-the soldiers just lined up and rushed up with knives and guns.

He found that the Australian army particularly advocated the "subjective initiative" of soldiers and junior officers. While emphasizing obedience to orders and discipline, they also required their own views on how to fight better and the ability to deal with various emergencies. situation.

Over time, he began to appreciate the benefits-in any situation, soldiers would know what to do, instead of being dumbfounded or fleeing.

(End of this chapter)