Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

In other words, this is what he wanted.

Looking at the soldier with a smile, Zhang Yan grinned naturally:

"Want an indefinite period? That might be a little difficult. This land is all wasteland reclaimed by our Lujiang government organization, and it belongs to the public. It is not reclaimed by those aristocratic families and can be traded."

"But if you want a little longer, that's all right."

……

"Wang Er...Your name is Wang Er, right?"

"Listen carefully."

"From now on, whether it is you or the soldiers behind you, as long as you have served in the army for more than two years and have made meritorious service in Lujiang, I will allocate 20 acres of land to you in Lujiang for your use. [-] years."

"And if you want to extend this time, it's easy..."

"As long as you can serve for ten years, and you have never disobeyed orders during your service, such as fleeing, fleeing, maliciously avoiding battles, etc., after you retire, you can take this land deed to the Lujiang government to find the Civil Affairs Department. At that time, they will uniformly revise the 20-year period to a hundred years."

"In a hundred years, six generations of people, it's okay, right?"

……

Smiling and talking to Wang Er, Zhang Yan's voice was loud.

He was not only talking to Wang Er, but also to the other soldiers below.

This rule was the tool he used to restrict these soldiers so that they would not have the idea of ​​escaping or avoiding the battle just because they had a way out.

As long as you want to get this piece of land into your hands, you have to work hard for at least ten years... Ten years later, in addition to officers, low-level soldiers have basically passed the golden age of joining the army and can retire up.

In short, this is a means for Zhang Yan to mobilize their enthusiasm.

And upon hearing this, Wang Er finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you for your grace, a hundred years is enough... a hundred years is enough!"

Clasping his fists in the direction of Zhang Yan, Wang Er's face was already full of gratitude.

……

Isn't it ten years of fighting!

Twenty acres of fertile land that can be exchanged for ten years of fighting is already very cost-effective!

Although the price of the land seems not expensive, it is not something that low-level people like them can buy if they say they can buy it, but it is priceless in the true sense.

Coupled with the [-]-year period... This is almost the same as permanent ownership.

This land was worth ten years of fighting for it.

……

Yes, in fact, whether it is for him or Zhang Yan, a hundred years is already a very long time span.

For him, a hundred years is already six generations of inheritance. By that time, what kind of life his descendants will live is beyond his imagination.

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, he can't live for that long, and he can't control it for that long.

Of course, there is another reason for Wang Er's calm expression, that is, this hundred years is not only for him, but also for Zhang Yan, even for Lujiang, and for the big man.

It has been so long that almost no one can guarantee that after a hundred years, the rules in Lujiang will still be the same as they are now.

The land is still not what it is today.

……

Maybe this is the tragedy of land annexation... Although in various film and television works, the common people's concept of land is permanent and unchanging. It seems that as long as they own a piece of land, they will have the eternal life Same.

It's just that the facts are relatively cruel.

The naked fact is that, except for those big aristocratic families and wealthy families that have been passed down for hundreds of years, there is hardly any real peasant family that can own a piece of land for more than a hundred years!

The so-called "grandfather's grandfather" handed down the land, in fact, it is only six to seventy years old at most.

The land that has been passed down for more than a hundred years in the hands of a self-cultivator... or an ordinary farmer, is not only rare in the whole big man, but at least it can be counted as a handful.

It is impossible for any aristocratic family, or any feudal landlord to complete the annexation of a piece of land within a hundred years.

Natural disasters...man-made disasters...

famine... war...

There are too many ways to help them complete the merger. As mentioned above, in the middle and late stages of the dynasty, it is often the poor at the bottom who desperately open up new land, while the old land is continuously merged into the hands of the landlords.

Until the day when there is no more land to cultivate...

Then "the princes and generals would rather have kindness";

Then "the blue sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand";

Then "wait until autumn comes, September [-]th, I will kill all the flowers after they bloom";

Then "in order to have the ambition to sacrifice, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new sky".

……

If the land cannot continue to be merged, then change the dynasty and overthrow it again, or simply break out a revolution to fundamentally solve the problem of land mergers.

And this is also the source of Wang Er's peace of mind——

Even the so-called "permanent" land can only be maintained for a few decades.

In comparison, these hundred years may be more cost-effective than those unlimited lands.

……

"Okay, you keep this land deed, and when you are resting on duty later, you can take the land deed there to have a look."

"If you have a family, you can ask them to farm for you. If you don't have a family, you can go to our government and ask them to rent out this land."

"The land tax of [-]% is not high. We have a large population in Lujiang, and there are still many people who don't have their own land. It should be easy to rent out."

"In short, this field is hard-won, so don't waste it easily."

……

He asked Wang Er aloud again, and Zhang Yan then waved his hand to make him retreat.

Then, as Kuai Qi rolled their names one by one, they called the soldiers of the First Bingma Division in front of everyone, and these land deeds were also distributed as their "rewards" for winning the first place in the military exercise.

Visible to the naked eye, a contract called "land" linked many soldiers present together.

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Soon, a total of [-] land deeds were issued to the soldiers.

But Zhang Yan looked a little embarrassed when he saw the excited expressions of the crowd.

The last time there was a ruler in China who distributed land to soldiers was more than 400 years ago, during the Qin Dynasty.

At that time, the Qin Dynasty implemented the twentieth-class nobility system, and the general merit was linked to the land, so that those low-level commoners who were not of noble origin could also obtain land by joining the army and establishing military merit.

This method greatly stimulated the fighting will of Qin soldiers at that time.

In addition to the Qin Dynasty, in the 5000-year history of China, only the Ming Dynasty, which was more than 1000 years later, distributed land to soldiers so that they could have land for the elderly.

……

How about explaining that the dynasty is China's orthodox...

Zhang Yan pursed his lips.

Although in the Ming Dynasty, the prerequisite for the guards to obtain land was that all soldiers had no military pay and all supplies were self-sufficient, but this is indeed one of the few situations where the government seeks a way out for the soldiers.

Now that these soldiers have land as their concern, then when they want to fight in the future, there should be no such large-scale defection.

You must know that unlike other forces, Lujiang, where Zhang Yan is located, had a population of just over 10 before, and the next [-] people were all brought into Lujiang through famines from various places and purchases by aristocratic families.

And these outsiders who have no land are also the main force of joining the army to a certain extent.

If there is no such thing as today, one day in the future, if Zhang Yan launches a unification war, he will inevitably encounter such an embarrassing situation where Jingzhou people fight Jingzhou and Yizhou people fight Yizhou.

At that time, if the opponent is allowed to play a hard job of "Allah does not hit Allah", then the morale on his side may be greatly affected.

But now that there is land, are these outsiders still outsiders?

That's hard to say...

Judging from the preciousness of the means of production in this era, a piece of reclaimed land cannot be bought with money at all.

No matter where these people came from before, but now they have settled in Lujiang, most of their positions will become "Lujiang people" because of this.

……

In addition, it is worth noting that this time Zhang Yan almost achieved complete equality when allocating the fields, that is, regardless of the status and position of the other party, the fields all allocated were uniformly around [-] mu, and there were no officers More points are assigned, and soldiers are assigned less.

This is also because Zhang Yan still remembers that the reason why the Red Army of Workers and Peasants of later generations was able to persevere and play a vital role in the war of resistance was, on the one hand, because the education level of the generals of the Red Army at that time was considered unrivaled in that era. Dust, on the other hand, it is because the Red Army, and later the People's Liberation Army completely implemented the equality of officers and soldiers to the extreme.

What is equality between officers and soldiers?

To put it simply, in the ranks of the army, a person's basic rights will never be affected because of their different status, and their status will not be used to distinguish between high and low.

This is pretty much the biggest difference between a modern army and a feudal army.

Regardless of whether you are a general leading an army, a lieutenant, or a soldier in a battle charge, all affairs in the army must be done according to "rules" rather than "human feelings".

Perhaps some grassroots officers may be dissatisfied with this, but for ordinary soldiers, such respect can greatly stimulate their enthusiasm.

When there are more supporters for this equal system, those who were originally out of the group will either be kicked out of the team, or they will have to change themselves.

At that time, this "equality between officers and soldiers" will be a pure benefit for Zhang Yan's Lujiang army.

Today's move is just a practice of his promotion of this equal system.

……

To be honest, does this give Zhang Yan many opportunities to practice?

Actually not many.

Because of the lack of productivity and the production relationship limited by the times, even if Zhang Yan had prepared for a long time in advance and prepared for the war for a long time, there were only so many things he could provide these soldiers as incentives.

For example, the accumulated 40 mu of fertile land has been accumulated by him since the beginning of last year. After two full years of accumulation, Lujiang repeatedly organized people to reclaim wasteland for a long time before he managed to save such a small fortune.

However, judging from the appearance of everyone present, it seemed that there was no objection to Zhang Yan's decision.