The Ming Dynasty has been in turmoil for many years, so everyone is a little tired.
Li Hongji took his troops to Luzhou, and Zhang Bingzhong took his troops to Changsha.
They all seemed unwilling to be neighbors with Yun Zhao.
Suddenly, there were a lot of unclaimed lands around Xiangyang.
The officials responsible for suppressing the bandits hurriedly reported the good news to the emperor. After reporting the good news, they did not dare to enter these places and only said that they were pursuing the bandits.
Those who dared to rebel followed Li Hongji or Zhang Bingzhong, and most of those who stayed were old, weak, women and children.
Without the bandits and the court, these old and weak women and children have a glimmer of hope for the future.
A group of people in Tsing Yi rode horses and drove carts to Nanzhang County.
They did not disturb the people who were fleeing in panic, but began to repair the dilapidated county government offices.
They don’t have many manpower, so the work of repairing the county government office proceeds very slowly.
As a result, some people in Tsing Yi went to the frightened common people, hoping that they could help repair the county government. The wages were not high, and they had to pay for them with food instead.
Some people who did not have overnight food at home gritted their teeth and left.
When they went home in the evening, they really brought back Mizi and Xiaomi.
So the next day, more people came.
The job of repairing the county government office is not too heavy, and you also have to take care of the food. This is a very lucrative job.
After many years, people can finally get some food in exchange for their own labor, which is a good thing.
Looking at the children devouring the food and the wife daring to drink porridge, the head of the family always felt a little emotional.
However, the county government will soon be repaired, and I don’t know if such work will still be available.
After the county government was repaired, many people in Tsing Yi directly moved into the county government. They still did not bother the people, but posted notices, hoping to recruit more people to start repairing the dilapidated county seat.
This time, people from all over the county participated, regardless of gender or age.
Just when some people questioned whether these Qingyi people could pay so much wages, hundreds of large trucks entered Nanzhang County, and the people personally loaded all the full grain into them. County government granary.
These men in Tsing Yi, with the recruited people, pulled down the crumbling and uninhabited shabby houses, picked out all the usable masonry, adobe wood, and piled them neatly.
After asking the recruited people to bury a large amount of garbage into the potholes, pour water, and then use rammers to compact it firmly, there are many such plots, which are flat and neat, and look very good. Sense of order.
In the days of late autumn, people in Nanzhang County are extremely busy. Although they are busy, their faces are somewhat rosier and there are fewer dishes.
In two months, Nanzhang CountyThe county town has been given a new look. Even the originally bumpy dirt roads have been paved with bricks and stones removed from the abandoned city walls.
The weather in Nanzhang County this year is very cold and it snows.
Because of the renovation of the county seat, every household has some grain reserves.
However, their work is still not over.
I don’t know where a large group of people came from. They looked like they were rich.
The clothes are washed and starched, the eyebrows are clean, and even the hands that are stretched out are clean.
After these people arrived in Nanzhang County, the first thing they did was to buy land, buy the vacant land that had been repaired by the people.
Some people are known to the local people. Many years ago, these people left Nanzhang County to escape. Unexpectedly, they have become so rich now that they have returned.
Vacant land is expensive. After asking people I know who have returned to their hometowns, the price of buying land is staggering.
After these people bought the land, they didn’t even build a house. Instead, a group of people jointly opened a kiln at the root of the mountain. When the first batch of green bricks came out of the kiln, these locals finally knew why they I would rather live in a tent or rent someone else's house than start building a house immediately.
It turns out that what they want to build is a blue brick house with large tiles.
At this time, the local people have recognized that the people living in the county government are the officials, and the young man who leads them is the county magistrate.
At the same time, when a stone monument with the word "Lantian" on it stood on the border of Nanzhang County, the locals finally understood one thing - from the day the monument was erected, Nanzhang County has It falls under the jurisdiction of Guanzhong.
During the day, people were coming and going in Nanzhang County. Horse-drawn carriages were running around pulling bricks and stones everywhere. The houses in the open space were slowly standing up, changing every day.
At night, the county town finally became quiet, except for the county government office, which was still brightly lit.
Nanzhang County Dali Chief Chen Pingqing said in a hoarse voice to the man in Qingyi in the room: "The census register, the land statistics register, the mountain forest statistics register, and the Tangyan statistics register will be completed within three days." It must be completed.
A man in Tsing Yi hesitated and said: "It's easy to say if the owner has escaped, but there are these materials in his name, and we treat them as ownerless materials, they will find us in the future. How to deal with begging? "
Chen Pingdao: "The notice was posted in March. After three months, it will be treated as ownerless land. We have no time and no manpower to check these things. Spring has started early here, and we cannot delay spring sowing. Only then It is the focus of our work.
Xiangyang has been ravaged by Zhang Bingzhong, Li Hongji, and the government. After all the people's hearts have been lost, the society has collapsed, a large number of people have died, and there is no economic activity.
First of all, we need to start agricultural production. Spring sowing next year will be the top priority. With seedlings in the fields, people will have roots in their hearts. When the food matures this season, the people of Nanzhang County will is to settle down. "
Qingyi's subordinate said: "The resources allocated to us are limited after all, and we are long. If you consume these resources so quickly, I am worried that you will not be able to survive the summer harvest.
Chen Ping gritted his teeth and said: "No matter what, no matter what we do, it will not be as bad as the current situation." Only when we let people see the results quickly can we talk about the future.
Continue to develop at the current speed, do not stop for a moment, and immediately recruit a hundred township warriors from the common people. We must also quickly restore the judicial system of Nanzhang County, let's do it. ”
The same thing is happening in the five counties to which Xiangyang belongs.
If a big city like Xiangyang does not have the support of surrounding states and counties, it will be impossible to develop. It's different from idiots' dreams.
So, today's Xiangyang City has become Lei Heng's military base.
But the development started from the surrounding counties.
Mao Bijiang stood shivering in the snow, jumped on the spot for a while to warm up, then put the reins on himself, and led a group of ragged people to drag the mountain-heavy cart forward.
Different from when he was a donkey before, this time he was willing to do it, and because he had been used as a donkey for a long time, he was very familiar with the technique now that he was towing cars again.
There was nothing he could do about it. The carriage was pulling seeds, which were extremely valuable and he didn't dare to make any mistakes.
He got his wish and got a position as head of the school in Yushan Academy, so in Qiu. In the evening, they had already arrived in Nanzhang County.
There were not enough animals, so they had to use people.
In the evening, Mao Pijiang came to him, covered in mud and water. Dongwan Village where it is located.
This is a very large village. Before the bandits came, there were more than 4,000 people here. Now, there are only less than 800 people left.
< p>When he first came to Dongwan Village, Mao Bijiang's heart was cold. He didn't even know what method he should use to revive this village with a glorious past.Fortunately, Chen Ping, the chief of Nanzhang County, is an extremely capable guy. After the instructions are given, he only needs to follow them wholeheartedly and learn slowly in the process.
He lives in a dilapidated ancestral hall in Dongwan Village. This is the ancestral hall of the Liao family. Judging from the scale, there have been many talented people here. Some broken wooden plaques of Jinshi and rank are piled in the corner. , only the mottled paint on the plaque still silently tells of the glory of the past.
Mao Bijiang is considered an old scholar in Lantian County, so he can roughly know the family surnamed Liao from the words on the plaque. The past of the famous disciple
The bonfire flickered on and off, and the tired companions had fallen asleep with their quilts, but Mao Bijiang was not sleepy no matter what.
"The old king Xie. The swallow in front of the hall flies into the homes of ordinary people. The ancients are sincere and I cannot deceive them. ”
I learned from some villagers that as early as when the Eight Kings came to Xiangyang, the Liao family's house had been ransacked by the Eight Great Kings. They not only killed the clan leader, but also killed all the men at home. As for the women and children, they were escorted to the army and used as camp prostitutes.
After finally waiting for Master Wang to return, the escaped man of the Liao family hurriedly returned to the village, but was caught by Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and tortured about food and wages. Poor Liao family had suffered a great disaster. Where did they get the food and grass? Supply the king's army.
Zuo Liangyu's subordinates could not get food and salary, so they tortured the Liao men for pleasure. Within three days, all of them died.
When Li Hongji captured Xiangyang, the Liao orphan, who harbored a hatred for his family, no longer believed in the government or Zhang Bingzhong, but joined Li Hongji's rebel army.
When Yun Zhao issued an order and ordered Li Hongji to leave Xiangyang, the orphan of the Liao family also left with him, and his life and death are unknown to this day.
Since the orphan of the Liao family has joined Li Hongji's rebel army, he is naturally a rebel. Therefore, his family property needs to be confiscated, including their ancestral temple and all the land.
This is actually the result that Yun Zhao wants.
Mao Bijiang knew that since he carefully studied Lantian's "Land Law", he understood that under Yun Zhao's rule, large landowners with more than a thousand acres of land were not allowed to appear. In other words, Yun Zhao did not allow it. There were large landowners under his rule.
He is trying to destroy the clan's laws from the ground up.
Now, Li Hongji has gone to Luzhou, and Zhang Bingzhong has taken Changsha... In the next step, these two people can only go eastward and southward.
When thinking of this, Mao Bijiang was startled.
He finally understood why Yun Zhao did not kill Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong in one go, and also served Emperor Chongzhen respectfully.
Among them - there is a big conspiracy!