Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"Young Master, what specifications should we build the framework?" Ma Yan asked.

Yang Mingzhao said: "Just follow a county government, but there are not a hurry. There are too few scholars under our command. We should focus on cultivating some scholars first, and at least we should be able to write and calculate."

"If possible, it's better to open the school!"

Ma Yan nodded and said, "I understand!"

"What about me?" Chen Buyu couldn't help asking when he saw that everyone had arranged their errands.

Yang Mingzhao looked at him and smiled and said, "You follow Uncle Wu, Uncle Wu, you can accept him as your apprentice!"

Wu Zheng stood outside the door yawning. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at Chen Buyu, "No!"

"Uncle Wu!"

"He's too old!"

"His cultivation is pretty good!"

Wu Zheng looked at Yang Mingzhao with a strange look, "This is also called good? Look at them, which one is not better than him!"

They were naturally referring to Zhao Kai and Zhang Mo. Zhao Kai and Zhang Mo were both in their early twenties and their cultivation was at the second and third levels of the acquired. Although their cultivation level was not as good as Chen Buyu, Zhao Kai and others were younger and better than Chen Buyu is seven or eight years younger.

Chen Buyu looked at Wu Zheng and then looked at Yang Mingzhao.

He could naturally see that Wu Zheng was a master. In fact, Deng Xing and Han Lin were already masters in his heart, but Yang Mingzhao's attitude towards Wu Zheng was obviously different from Deng Xing and others.

So he felt that Wu Zheng should be a very powerful warrior, perhaps a warrior from the ninth level of the acquired sky.

Well, his knowledge is still a little shallow.

Deng Xing and Han Lin are the ninth level of acquired nature, while Li Dagui and Yang Ze have just broken through to the half-step innate nature.

To be honest, it is really useless to ask him to serve a group of young and strong people with almost no cultivation.

"Uncle Wu, help!" Yang Mingzhao looked at Wu Zheng with begging eyes.

Wu Zheng was a little helpless, "Oh, come on, I can only be regarded as a registered disciple. My disciple is not that bad!"

Chen Buyu was overjoyed when he heard this and went up to kowtow directly, "Pupil, pay homage to Master!"

"Get up, get up!" Wu Zheng said with some disgust.

He either hates Chen Buyu, he or he dislikes Chen Buyu's age.

Chen Buyu is 30 years old and is only a disciple now, which is a bit late.

"Give him more wine and the tea leaves, and give him some too!"

"No problem!" Yang Mingzhao said happily.

After the apprenticeship ended, Yang Mingzhao continued, "Next, let's discuss the development plan!"

"Young Master, are we going to attack Dachang County?" Chen Buyu immediately became excited.

Chen Can’t bear, Chen Jianghua and others also became excited.

For them, it is definitely a great thing to be able to conquer a county town. As for whether they can conquer a county town now, there is no doubt.

There are at most more than a hundred yamen runners in the county towns in Bashu, and even if the patrol inspectors are counted, they are only a few hundred.

If you can lurk in the county town in advance, you may even take down a county town without bloodshed.

Yang Mingzhao said, "Don't worry, let's talk about our purpose first!"

"Purpose? Isn't the purpose of capturing the county town and killing those corrupt officials?" Chen couldn't bear to say.

Chen Buyer is two years younger than Chen Buyu. He is also a warrior, but he is just an ordinary warrior.

In these Three Arrow Valleys, except for the people brought by Yang Mingzhao, Chen Buyu and Chen Buyuan are warriors.

Yang Mingzhao shook his head, "Capture the county town and killing corrupt officials are just a process. Our goal is to let the people live a good life!"

"Yes! We want the people to live a good life!" Chen Buyu agreed slightly.

"Since we want to let the people live a good life, what should we do when we come to capture the county town? We can't just share the money and food from the county government to the people, right?"

"This may allow the people to live a good life for a few days, but it does not fundamentally solve the problem!"

Yang Mingzhao's eyes swept across everyone.

Chen Buyu, Chen Buren and others looked at each other, and they had never thought about these questions.

Zhang Mo pondered for a moment and said, "Young Master, we should share the land for the people!"

"Then what?"

"Reduce taxes, cancel intensive taxes, build water conservancy, and encourage farmers to promote agriculture!" Zhang Mo said.

Yang Mingzhao nodded with satisfaction, "No, I'll share the land for farmers, build water conservancy, and encourage farmers to develop agriculture!"

Zhang Mo had this idea because he was a refugee from Fuhai. When he was eight years old, he followed his parents to Xingyue Island. After settling on Xingyue Island, the government office began to allocate land to them and organized manpower to build canals and irrigate them. farmland!

When he was eight years old, he had already remembered what kind of life his family lived in Fuhai Province. He remembered it very clearly. And after arriving at Xingyue Island, what kind of life did they live?

Although they are not very rich on Xingyue Island, as long as they cultivate the fields, they will not go hungry.

Yang Mingzhao also had this idea. Why do the people not have enough food? It is not because of natural disasters, but because of man-made disasters.

If the people have no land to cultivate, they can only become tenants. If they become tenants, the people will suffer from exploitation by the landlords.

The tenant rent is becoming heavier, and once disaster occurs, the tenants will not be able to live their lives.

The reason why the former tenants of the Yang family were loyal to the Yang family was because the Yang family's tenant rent was low, and sometimes the Yang family would reduce some tenant rent.

Therefore, the tenants truly support the Yang family, and Yang Zhengshan can move thousands of tenants to Xingyue Island with just one word.

But other families are different. 40% of the rent is considered low. Some even stipulate a specific rent, that is, how many buckets of grain to pay to the landlord in a year.

Regardless of the grain in the field, the amount of rent is fixed.

This seems to be better than profit sharing, but in fact, a fixed amount of rent is more likely to bankrupt tenants.

Once the field yields less, the tenants may have to pay the landlords for grain.

This is just the conflict between landlords and tenants. There are also taxes, corvée, various levies and taxes, and various gentry landlords oppressing ordinary people.

Officials and gentry have many ways to harm the people, and there are countless insidious ideas.

Officials colluded with gentry to transfer their own fields to other ordinary farmers.

Ordinary farmers only have ten acres of land, but they have to pay taxes for thirty acres of land. The other twenty acres of land are not theirs at all, but they have to pay taxes.

What's even more abominable is that the common people don't even know who is harming them, or who they are paying taxes for.

There is also corvée, using ordinary people as private slaves, not paying them money or food, and forcing them to work for themselves.

This situation is most serious in the garrisons, where many officials use military households as free labor.

"We want to distribute land to the people. When we conquer a county, we must distribute all the land to the people, and distribute the land of the gentry and landlords to the ordinary people!"

"We will issue land deeds to the people, recompile the yellow book and the fish scale book, and burn all the original fish scale books. In this way, even if we can't occupy the county all the time, we can let ordinary people own land!"

Yang Mingzhao said excitedly.

At this time, his idea was very simple, which was to distribute the land to ordinary people, establish land deeds for ordinary people, and recompile the fish scale book. In this way, even if they were driven away by the court, those fields would become the legal property of the people.

It will be difficult for the gentry, landlords and government officials to take back those fields in the future.

"This is a good idea!" Chen Buyu was stunned.

Li Dagui suddenly said: "Sir, the fields of ordinary gentry can be divided, but what about the fields of martial arts families and martial arts sects?"

Yang Mingzhao said: "Of course they should be divided!"

"Then you should be prepared to be enemies with all the martial artists in the world!" Li Dagui reminded.

"Haha~~ Naive~" Wu Zheng laughed outside the door.

No mistakes, one sentence, one content, one content, one book, one bar!

Yang Mingzhao blushed, well, his idea seemed a little too naive.

The fields of ordinary gentry can be divided, because they are not afraid of those ordinary gentry.

They are just a group of rural local rich people, so they are naturally not afraid.

But those martial arts families and martial arts sects are different, these forces have powerful military forces.

If you divide their land, will they not fight with you?

Yang Mingzhao was too lazy to pay attention to Wu Zheng, and looked at Li Dagui and asked, "What do you think?"

Li Dagui smiled and said, "We can divide the land of warriors, but we must also give warriors preferential treatment. Warriors can get more land, and at the same time we can also give warriors some benefits, such as doing business!"

Yang Mingzhao frowned, "The court prohibits the sect forces from doing business!"

Li Dagui said, "So those sect forces have been trying to annex the people's land!"

From the restriction order of Emperor Chengping to the martial order of Emperor Yanping, there have always been restrictions on the sect forces doing business to prevent officials, warriors and businessmen from colluding with each other to monopolize various industries in the local area.

This policy is actually correct, because officials and warriors can easily collude with each other. One side has power and the other side has force. With enough money, it is enough to dominate the local area.

However, in actual implementation, there are many loopholes that can be exploited. The martial arts family is not a sect, they can do business, and the sect is closely connected with some martial arts families. The sect does not come forward to do business, but can use the martial arts family to do business.

In addition, some sect forces think that since they cannot do business, they can buy land and real estate. Land, shops, real estate in the city, etc. have become the first choice for sect forces to invest.

The Yang family used to do the same thing. The Yang family bought a lot of land and real estate in Chongshan Town and Liaodong.

The same is true for the Yang family. In the past, Yangjia Village had only a few thousand acres of land, but how much land does the Yang family have now? The family property alone exceeds 10,000 acres. If all the land owned by all the families in the Yang family is added up, it is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of acres.

In just over 30 years, the Yang family has annexed so many fields.

Not to mention those wealthy families and sect forces that have been passed down for hundreds of years.

The ordinary people of Darong live a very hard life, but it is more difficult for ordinary people to resist in this world.

The existence of warriors increases the difficulty of rebellion.

Even though Chen Buyu and his men had conquered a county before, it was absolutely impossible for them to occupy a county.

The rebels in Bashu are actually supported by martial arts forces.

They rebelled not for ordinary people, but to occupy more resources.

Yang Mingzhao fell into deep thought. He had actually considered these issues along the way, but he did not take those martial arts forces seriously, because he felt that the Yang family could suppress most of the martial arts forces.

But now he feels that he thought too simply before.

"Do you mean to let the warriors do business?" Yang Mingzhao looked at Li Dagui.

Li Dagui nodded, "That's right, the common people just want to have enough food, and they can have enough food if we give them land, but what warriors need is various cultivation resources, and we must let them have their own channels and methods to obtain them!"

"Business can meet the demand for silver and money, so that they have more money to buy various cultivation resources!"

Yang Mingzhao thought, "You are right, the interests of warriors must be taken care of, so that we can win over warriors!"

Li Dagui smiled and said, "That's right, the Taizu of Darong used the benefits of business to win over a large number of martial arts forces!"

"Taizu of Darong? Did Taizu of Darong also divide the land?" Yang Mingzhao asked.

Li Dagui shook his head, "No, at the end of the Great Sheng, the world was in chaos for decades, bandits were everywhere, and the people suffered countless people. At that time, there was no need to divide the land!"

When Taizu of Darong founded the country, the world had been in chaos for decades, and there were remnants of soldiers and bandits everywhere, and the people were killed.

At that time, as long as the people could settle down, they could reclaim wasteland everywhere, and there was no need to divide the land at all

In comparison, Darong has not yet reached the point of chaos.

There are still many people, and the land still has owners, so it is naturally impossible to reclaim wasteland everywhere.

After thinking through these, Yang Mingzhao felt that it was really difficult to rebel now.

They have many enemies to face.

The court is just one of them. The gentry and wealthy families, the clans and sects may all become their enemies.

Yang Ze smiled and said, "Sir, in fact, there is no need to consider so much now. With our current capabilities, at most we can occupy one or two counties!"

"As long as we avoid those powerful clan forces in the two counties, we can completely suppress everything."

"Now we can completely divide the land according to your wishes. As for those powerful clan forces in the future, we can think of ways at that time!"

"If there is the support of the head of the family, as long as we don't push too hard, there should not be too many problems."

Yang Mingzhao nodded, "That's right, it's too early for us to consider these now. Maybe it won't be long before we will be wiped out by the court army!"

Li Dagui and Yang Ze laughed when they heard this.

It is indeed possible that they were wiped out by the imperial army.

But they did not think that there would be any danger for the young master to do this.

In the whole of Darong, who would not give Yang Zhengshan some face? Rebellion is enough. As long as the strength is strong enough, it is not a big problem.

Of course, in their view, this is just Yang Mingzhao making trouble, and they are just accompanying Yang Mingzhao to make trouble.

It's just a joke. As long as it doesn't make too much noise, it shouldn't be a big problem.

As for what to do if the noise is too big?

What else can I do? Ask for help when I need to, and run away when I need to.

At that time, hide back to Xingyue Island. Is there anyone who dares to fight to Xingyue Island!