Chapter 199 Back to the White Pupe Field

According to Zhang Yang's plan, Li Bosheng began the transformation task in the reed swing with the boatman who had just been assigned to him.

Several boats carry bamboo cut from nearby. The first task is to arrange dark piles in some waterways.

Desheng Lake is originally a shallow lake, especially in these places where reeds grow. The bottom of the lake is only a few feet deep from the surface of the water. It smashes the pointed bamboo down with a hammer, firmly inserts it into the bottom of the water, and penetrates half a foot into the water. In this way, if you don't look carefully, you can't find that the bottom of the water has hidden organs.

The key point is not to arrange bamboo piles or wooden piles, but iron piles. Now in the base, although the output of Tianque is not high, it is a lack of skilled blacksmiths, and the steel is very rich. Li Bosheng specially asked Lu Xing to make a furnace of iron piles. This iron pile is inserted into the water, which is enough to make those touch The bottom of the ship broke and lost its navigation ability.

In the dead end deliberately left behind, he arranged the organs and sharp bamboo poles that the eldest brother said, which would be the weapon that frightened the Tutars.

And Shide and Uncle Liu in the base have conveyed the news to the workers. They packed their luggage and waited for Zhang Yang to arrange the salt farm before moving to the salt farm.

Zhang Yang came and went in a hurry and returned to the murder port with a hundred fires.

Tang He had been waiting to meet Zhang Yang on the shore of the murder port for a long time. He did not participate in the slaughter of the Tatar this time, and his heart was really itchy.

Seeing the familiar ship coming back, he immediately greeted him, looked at the eldest brother who came down from the boat, and said with a smile, "Brother, this is another victory! My old soup is here, and I can smell the smell of the tartar being killed.

"Dingchen, how is the training of the army?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Brother, don't worry, you can fight at any time!" Tang He said, "What's the task left to us? Our second battalion hasn't had a war for a long time.

"I really have to give you a task. You arrange several teams to patrol in Desheng Lake every day, and then find that there are tars coming to make trouble. Let me know as soon as possible. At the same time, stop the tars and don't let them get close to the base again."

"Yes, brother, I promise to complete the task!" Tang He said, "It's just..."

"But what?" Zhang Yang said with a straight face, "If you can't do it, I'll transfer the first battalion."

"No, no, big brother, that's not what I mean. I mean, most of my troops are spearmen. This is patrolling on the water, and the spears can't play a role. Can you equip my troops that day?" Tang He said flatteringly.

I knew you were going to say that! Zhang Yang thought to himself that what he originally meant was to equip each battalion with 300 days. However, now each battalion has only dozens of shots, and only a dozen shots less, which is not enough to use at all. Patrol on the lake, the spear is just a decoration. Bows and arrows need talent. The range of the crossbows is too close, and Tianque is the most practical.

"Shixin, take twenty shots of Tianque!" Zhang Yang and the scholar behind him shouted.

"Yes, big brother!" When he came back from the base this time, Zhang Yang brought dozens of Tianque buns built in the past few days onto the boat. The weapons were ready to be used. He didn't want to be like those rich people who cherished my brooms.

"These twenty shots are equipped to your team. You should know who to send them, right?"

"Of course, I remember the achievements of these wars. Those bastards, I want Tianque every day, that is, brother, can you do more? I have made achievements here. There are hundreds of people!"

"Then give the prize to those who have the most achievements in battle, so that they can rest assured that Tianque will be given to them step by step, but." Zhang Yang's tone changed: "Anyone who gets the sky must be strictly trained to give full play to the power of the sky!"

"Don't worry, brother, I'm good at this." Tang He was very happy. Although he only had 20 shots, he also knew that the production capacity of the base was not high, and the eldest brother was interested enough for himself.

"Come here and get ready to go back to the salt farm!" Zhang Yang and the messenger behind him said.

The soldiers were ordered to lead the horses they had been tled here a few days ago. In the past few days, they have been relying on other soldiers to feed the horses. I wonder if their horses have lost weight? Soldiers love their horses just like they love their families. In their hearts, the most important thing is the sky, and the second is the war horse.

Zhang Yang is eager to return to the salt farm. Now, in his heart, there are three major events that need to be discussed with your men.

First, in these places in the east of Xinghua that have been occupied, most of them are engaged in the division of fields. Most of them are still landowners who participate in their own army. Giving them the land will greatly play a role in stabilizing the army.

Second, it is to restore the production capacity of several major salt farms as soon as possible. The purpose of the salt farm at the beginning was the huge economic benefits of the salt farm. Now, it has once again thwarted the Tutar's attack on itself. I'm afraid that Gaoyou Prefecture is having a headache at this moment. In the short term, there should be no more large-scale military action. I have to seize it. This opportunity quickly integrates the resources on the territory that has been obtained into its own money printing machine.

The third is the next direction of attack. Once the uprising flag is raised, you can only move forward all the way. If you shrink, you will end up in failure. Where is the next goal? Xinghua? High postage?

The horse is running, and there is a piece of dust on the official road. With the proficiency in horse control technology, I only dared to let the horse slow down at the beginning, but now I can send and receive freely and run the horse.

The first thing to go is not Dingxi Farm, but Baiju Salt Farm.

When I arrived at the white coy field, it was already dusk, and it was almost dusk.

From afar, in the Baiju Salt Farm, the soldiers are still holding spears and training the combination of formation and weapons.

Shiyi, no matter what he does, is very serious. Hundreds of households under him are also very strict. Under their training, the team has almost broken away from the image of the mob. From the perspective of momentum, it is almost a regular armed force.

"Da Da..." The horse's hoof rang softly, and Shi Yi raised his head. It was his eldest brother!

"This is the end of today's training. The first to third teams of the 200 people are responsible for tonight's alert task." Shiyi announced that it was over, disbanded the team, and ran to the gate of the salt farm to meet the eldest brother.

Even if the team has been disbanded, Zhang Yang observed that they still queued up in an orderly manner to start receiving food. There was no noise. He was very satisfied with the training of Shiyi. The team, the most powerful combat effectiveness, that is, the disciplined and disciplined team, can attack and be invincible.

"Shi Yi, how is the team training?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Big brother, the team's training enthusiasm is very high, and we also pay them. All the soldiers cherish this opportunity very much, but we only have spears, which is too simple. If we meet the Tatar cavalry, just bows and arrows, it can cause great lethality. Are we equipped with some shields or something?" Shi Yi did not directly mention the requirement to be equipped with Tianque, but retreated to the second place.

Shield? Zhang Yang shook his head: "Casting shields is too heavy. It's a waste of blacksmiths to build shields. Now blacksmiths are already building Tianque. We can't even people to build shields."

The shield is not within Zhang Yang's consideration at all. As long as the idea is to improve production capacity and equip Tianque, relying on a better range than bows and arrows, it will not give the tar cavalry a chance to get close at all. With advanced Tianque, why is it necessary to equip this kind of defensive weapon in the era of cold weapons on a large scale? Attack is the best defense!

"Shiyi, don't worry, after our Tianque, after large-scale equipment, we will mainly use Tianque to destroy the enemy from a long distance. The current spear is just a temporary emergency." Zhang Yang said.

"When will it be equipped?" Shi Yi asked, this is what he is most concerned about. With Tianque, his combat effectiveness has not only doubled, but also more than ten times. His 500 people absolutely dare not fight with 200 tar cavalry. However, if there is Tianque, even 2,000 Tatar cavalry will be eliminated.

"Shixin, bring me ten poles of heaven." Zhang Yang said.

Shixin is like a person who specializes in making people angry. He gives soup and 20 shots in the salt farm, and here, he also gives Shiyi ten shots.

"Second brother, here, you have to pick it up. Everyone is rushing for this thing." Shi Xin said.

"Thank you, big brother!" Shi Yi said that there was no hope, but now there are ten strokes. Although it's just a drop in the bucket, it's better than nothing?

Zhang Yang continued: "Shiyi, I'm here this time mainly to see how your training is going. We have controlled the Baiju Field and Dingxi Field, but there is also a Liuzhuang Field in the north."

"Brother, don't worry, Liu Zhuangchang has already become an empty shell. Send me a hundred-person team to receive it without any effort."

"Hmm." Zhang Yang nodded, "Intense the training of soldiers. Next time the base will be shipped to Tianque, and then it will be distributed to you. Our five battalions will be distributed proportionally. In the future, it will be distributed according to the combat merits."

"Don't worry, big brother, our first battalion will always be the first!" Shi Yi is very confident.

"What about good people?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Mr. Li is hiding in the government to make a book. He has recorded the list of the five major battalions, as well as various inventories of these salt farms and our grain reserves." Shi Yi said.

uneducated people always admire scholars. Although Li Shanchang joined later, everyone is very polite to him.

Zhang Yang smiled. Li Shanchang is always patient and meticulous in what he ordered. He can't find anything wrong with it. He is definitely a good staff member. It's really lucky that he can get him.

However, with the expansion of his territory and power, he is the only civilian. Obviously, it is not enough. I have to attract more readers. Of course, those nerds who read dead books will be avoided.

"Good!" Zhang Yang walked into the office of the salt farm. Since he took down the salt farm, it has become his office space.

"Big brother is here! If you can't meet me from afar, I hope you can atone for your sins!" Li Shanchang quickly got off the chair.

"You're welcome. I heard from Shiyi that you've been busy making books recently?" Zhang Yang walked to the table and looked at Li Shanchang's beautiful handwriting.

"Yes, brother, this is the list of personnel of the team, a total of 2,613 people. All the people who came to us and entered the major battalions have been registered and filed." Li Shanchang said.

Zhang Yang nodded with satisfaction. The meticulousness of these military constructions was improved by him, and he was well-organized.

"Brother, these two books are our food reserves. According to my calculation, according to our current consumption, we can eat for a month. If we don't think of other means, I'm afraid we will be out of food." Li Shanchang is a little worried.

"Don't worry about this. The salt farm will start again soon. At that time, we will have enough money to buy grain. This year's harvest is good, the grain price is not very high, and grain will not be our problem." Zhang Yang said.

More than 2,600 people, that's more than 2,600 mouths. Search all the big households in Xinghua to maintain a month's food reserve, but these are enough.

"What I said last time to recruit some people to work in the salt farm, is this matter in the eye?" Zhang Yang then asked.

"Brother, although our pay is very high, most people still like to farm. I'm afraid that once we become a salt household, we can't turn over. Therefore, so far, we have only recruited more than 100 people.

More than a hundred? Zhang Yang is already very satisfied. There is no way. China's traditional economic type is farming. It is considered to have no future for them to leave the land and do other work. There are more than a hundred people, which is almost the same, because Zhang Yang is already preparing to introduce a new way of salt production: drying salt.

The history of those big iron plates and those many stoves burning salt together is over. There is the sun and the sea breeze, using the power of nature to save manpower and improve efficiency. When Shide and Uncle Liu brought someone over, it officially began.

Zhang Yang looked for Li Shanchang, and there is another most important thing: to divide the fields.

"Good, I'm coming to you this time, mainly to discuss with you about how to divide the fields." Zhang Yang said.

"Brother, do you really plan to give these fields to the farmers in the east of Xinghua?" Li Shanchang asked carefully.

Zhang Yang knew that Li Shanchang asked this question, and he was very puzzled. In this era, land is the most basic means of production, and all wars are carried out around land. Unlike later generations, the main thing is to rob oil and resources. Now, I have controlled a large area of land in the east of Xinghua County, with the salt farm as the boundary, radiating to the west, to Desheng Lake in the west, to Furongzhai in the north, and to Taizhou in the south. In each village, there are people who have joined their own teams. Those large households who originally occupied these land have been searched by themselves. Clean, either escaped or torn to pieces by the villagers.

These lands have become ownerless land, or have become their own land, relying on the moisture of rivers. Unless it is a famine year, the grain yield of these land is still very good. Now there are two ways: take all these lands for themselves. Yes, and then rent it to the farmers to farm, which is very profitable. The other is to directly divide the land to the farmers, and only collect a certain amount of tax.

And Zhang Yang means that the land is distributed to the farmers, and they are exempted from taxes for three years. Under this commitment, the whole farmers in the east of Xinghua are boiling. They spare no effort to join the army and support Zhang Yang because of this policy.

However, as a staff member, Li Shanchang felt that it was very inappropriate to divide the land to farmers and exempt them from three years of tax? So how do these troops maintain?

It is no wonder that Li Shanchang thinks so. In this era, everyone's eyes are fixed on the land. They didn't think that in addition to agriculture, industry and commerce have more potential. With a salt farm, it is a treasure pot, which is enough to sell salt, which is enough to support their own army. Moreover, giving them the land is equivalent to giving it to the families of the soldiers. They will definitely fight bravely to defend the fruits of their revolution, which is a great encouragement.

"Good, only when the land is in the hands of the farmers themselves, will they devote themselves to production with the greatest enthusiasm, and they will see hope and support us more strongly." Zhang Yang said. Moreover, when the whole farmers in the south of the Yangtze River hear our policy, they will raise their hands to welcome us.

"Yes, big brother." Seeing that his eldest brother was so resolute, Li Shanchang was no longer embarrassed to make other opinions.

"Although the land has been given to them, after the harvest, they can eat all the grain by themselves. If they want to sell it, they must sell it to us. They found that they sold it to merchants without permission. They did not recover the land and expelled it from our territory." Zhang Yang added one.

Li Shanchang was happy. His eldest brother was really a shrewd person. Although he did not collect the rent, if they wanted to sell grain, they could only do it by themselves. In this way, the price could be lowered a little. The land rent, invisibly, has come back.

He couldn't help but give his eldest brother a thumbs up: this idea is really high!

"Shan Chang, it's almost winter now. At this time, we will give the land to the farmers as soon as possible without delaying their farming in the coming year, so I want you to catch this matter. Divide the land into the hands of the farmers. Zhang Yang said.

"Brother, what kind of division method do we divide the land to the farmers?" Li Shanchang asked.

"The preliminary idea is that according to the number of people, there are several people in each household, and each person is divided into five mu of land. If someone in the family joins our team, each household will give more than five mu of land as encouragement." Zhang Yang said that this is a consideration of the situation in most villages. After several years of disasters, there are few people, and each person has five mu of land, which is the limit of their ability to work.

"Brother, what if there is too much land in the village to divide, or too little to divide?" Li Shanchang asked.

"The land cannot be idle. It can be planned as a whole. The more can be distributed to the less. Anyway, most of the land is the landlord's, and it is not sure which village it is. If there are too many, you can consider adding one or two mu to each person." Zhang Yang said. You can contact the more prestigious old people in each village. In a word, the work of this division of fields should be fast, and second should be fair. It can take the form of catching a lot. If this work is done well, we will get the support of the majority of farmers, and we will have a foundation.

"Yes, big brother." Li Shanchang knew that it was time to test himself. After doing this matter, the eldest brother's prestige would be like the sky, and even surpassed Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Shouhui.

"Let Shiyi send a team of ten to protect you at all times. Although the Tutars have been feared by us, we can't take it lightly." Zhang Yang said.

"Brother, will the land of the Shen family also be divided?" Li Shanchang continued to ask.

The Shen family? Zhang Yang suddenly remembered that this was a headache.

(to be continued)