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Chapter 325 Yang Tinglin’s Thoughts

After the news came out that the Crown Prince was inspecting the land in the Gyeonggi area and allocating fields to the people in the future.

The people and refugees in the Gyeonggi area were all happy and excited, and they went out of their homes to tell each other.

Almost at the same time, notices recruiting soldiers for the National Defense Army were also posted on the streets and alleys of the capital and other areas of the capital. Many of the notices were surrounded by many people who were inquiring about the news.

In front of a notice in the capital, a scholar was reading the notice to the people:

"This year's natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty caused the people to suffer a lot. In order to solve the problem of food for the refugees and the people in the Gyeonggi area, the Crown Prince ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to lead officials from various ministries of the court to inventory the land.

After the land inventory is completed, land will be distributed to the people and refugees in the capital area to ensure that no more hardworking and kind-hearted people of the Ming Dynasty will starve to death because they cannot eat.

Preliminary estimates indicate that each citizen can be allocated at least five acres of land. If there are young men in the family who are willing to enlist in the army, they can sign up at the recruitment points in various regions. Each young man who enlists in the army can be allocated twenty acres of fertile land and is exempt from tax for ten years.

After joining the army, the field soldiers who farm in their spare time can receive one tael of training pay per month. If the field soldiers go into battle to kill the enemy during the war, they can receive 4 taels of military pay per month. Once injured, the farmland allocated to them will be tax-free for life, and they will receive three taels of silver per month.

Money for living expenses!

If someone dies serving the country loyally in battle, each person will receive a pension of one hundred taels of silver. The children in the family will be raised by the court, and the elderly will be cared for by the court until the end of their lives. I hope young people will actively sign up..."

As the readers read the announcement over and over again, the people and refugees at the scene instantly became excited. Many people shed tears of joy and shouted in unison that the Crown Prince would live a thousand years...

Many refugees began to decide to let their sons serve as soldiers:

"That's great. I wandered all the way to the capital hoping to beg for food, but I didn't expect to be given land. I have two sons in my family, and I decided to let one of them serve as a soldier with the crown prince..."

Being a soldier not only provides you with land but also military pay. Once you are injured, your land is tax-free. In addition, you also receive living expenses, a pension of 100 taels for those who died in battle, their children are raised, and the court provides care for them until they die.

To be honest, the content in the notice is too tempting. Not counting the rewards, a family of five can be divided into 25 acres. Once someone in the family enlists in the army, they can be divided into another 20 acres.

For ordinary people, today's announcement is definitely a great joy. Those with young men at home are thinking of joining the army to share the land and receive military pay.

What happens on the streets of the capital is also happening in almost other areas of the capital.

In Tongzhou, Daxing, Liangxiang, Huairou, Shunyi, Miyun and other places, many people are discussing the matter of dividing the land and enlisting in the army.

You must know that in addition to the local people in the Gyeonggi area, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees and people of the Ming Dynasty who were kidnapped from other places by the slaves. The current population has increased dramatically.

When faced with famine, so many people gathered in the Gyeonggi region, which brought great difficulties to the Gyeonggi region's disaster relief, but at the same time, it also brought huge opportunities for the National Defense Army to recruit troops.

After the land is allocated in the future, the huge population will also quickly bring vitality to the Gyeonggi region.

This year's wheat planting season has passed. Even if the land is allocated, we can only wait until next spring for plowing. The most important thing now is to let the refugees and people who have lost their land and food have food to eat.

It is not an easy task to feed so many people in the Gyeonggi region. If Chongzhen was asked to think of a way, he would be absolutely helpless, and in the end he could only watch some of the refugees starve to death.

But things are different now. Zhu Cixiang has the ability and strength to let the people and refugees have food to eat, at least he will not let them starve to death again.

In the Tongzhou granary, there were nearly 500,000 shi of grain stored, some of which were stolen from homes or snatched from the hands of Jiannu slaves. Most of them were stored in Tongzhou.

After discussion, Zhu Cihong decided to provide two free meals of rice porridge a day to the refugees and people who had no food before starting spring plowing.

When spring plowing begins, a meal of rice and rice porridge must be provided, otherwise the people will not have the strength to work.

The day before yesterday, Hu Bao had returned from Sichuan and told me the news about Qin Liangyu's reconstruction of the white pole army. Zhu Cixiang was very happy when he heard this.

Once the training of the white pole soldiers is completed, Zhu Cixiang will order them to immediately join the battle to suppress the bandits.

Zhu Cixiang wanted to see how Li Zicheng could deal with the joint attack of the three fierce men, Baiganbing, Qinbing and Hong Chengchou.

With Hu Bao and a dozen personal guards, Zhu Cixiang inspected the streets of the capital and Tongzhou. He was very satisfied with the performance of the officials who inspected the land, and then he inspected several recruitment points.

He found that there were long queues at the recruitment offices of various branches of the National Defense Army. The young people among the refugees and the young people from the common people were very enthusiastic about joining the army, which made Zhu Cixiang very happy.

Suddenly a group of soldiers from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division arrived and quickly left after seeing that no one was making trouble.

Zhu Cihong met several soldiers from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division patrolling the city today, and found that they were all well-behaved and had little disturbance to the common people and refugees.

Now that Yang Tinglin has taken office in Shuntian Prefecture, it seems that Yang Tinglin's management of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division has had some effects.

Just when I thought of Yang Tinglin, another group of soldiers from the Five Cities Army and Horse Division passed by. Yang Tinglin, wearing a red official uniform, rode in front of the group.

When he accidentally found the crown prince standing in casual clothes not far from the marching point, Yang Tinglin immediately jumped off his horse and came to Zhu Cihong's side and said with a smile:

"Hello, Master!"

Zhu Cixi smiled and nodded without saying anything.

Yang Tinglin knew that the crown prince did not want to reveal his identity, so he took two steps closer and whispered:

"Your Highness, you see that the streets of the capital are dirty and messy. Refugees urinate and defecate everywhere. Horse dung and garbage can be seen on the road at any time. This cannot continue, as it will easily breed plague.

I would like to discuss it with you. It would be best to place the refugee soup kitchen outside the city. This will make it easier to distribute the land in the future. What do you think, Your Highness?"

Zhu Cixiang had already thought about Yang Tinglin's proposal.

As a time traveler, he knew that there would be a serious plague in the capital in the future. The slaves had entered the customs some time ago, so it was impossible for him to drive the refugees out of the city and leave the slaves alive.

Now that the slaves who entered the customs have been exterminated and the Gyeonggi area has returned to peace, it is time to solve the health problem in the capital.

However, Zhu Cihong was very pleased that Yang Tinglin could think of this problem. It seemed that appointing Yang Tinglin as Shuntian Fuyi was right.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cixi whispered:

"Yes, I have already thought about this matter, but it was delayed by the invasion of slaves. However, the National Guard Army is currently recruiting troops in the capital. After the recruitment is over, the refugees will be transferred in batches to the counties in the capital.

You are now the governor of Sunchon Prefecture and the Gyeonggi Province. You can just make proper arrangements when the time comes. If you need manpower, money and food, come to me and make sure that the people and refugees have food to eat.

After the refugees were relocated, a law enforcement team was formed to supervise and manage sanitation. In addition, public toilets were built on every street in the capital.

Passers-by are strictly prohibited from spitting and urinating. Whoever's mules or horses poop on the road are responsible for cleaning up. Otherwise, they will not be severely punished. These matters can be left to the health law enforcement team to manage." If you like the Ming Dynasty, please collect it from the time when the prince was in charge of the country.
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