The next day, Huang Degong led the Tiger Army to the expedition, while Sun Yingyuan led the Longteng Army to quietly leave the capital.

Almost at the same time, Lu Xiangsheng, accompanied by Zhou Yuji and Zhang Shize, led his army to Xuanda University.

Cao Bianjiao, who had just joined the National Defense Army, was accompanying Zhang Shize this time as the deputy general of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Some people who got up early saw the National Protector Army leaving the city and thought it was the normal training of the new National Protector Army.

Shortly after the National Guard Army left Beijing, except for Changping, Tongzhou, Daxing, Huangxi and Weisuo lands, other counties in the Gyeonggi region began to allocate land to the people.

After this land inventory, the total land area in the Gyeonggi region is approximately more than 5.8 million acres.

Approximately three million acres of illegal land annexation have been recovered, and the illegally annexed land has reached 60%.

Now that more than three million acres of land have been taken back by the court, Zhu Cihong does not intend to distribute them all.

He planned to first allocate eight acres of land to each common person, which would be tax-free for one year. After one year, he would hand over one dou of grain per acres.

All other taxes are exempted for life. If there are road construction and construction projects, the people must actively participate, and the government will provide free meals.

Not to mention dividing the land, even if we only provide food without dividing the land, the people in the Gyeonggi area will rush to do it.

Some time ago, people kept starving to death, but now they are eating free rice porridge to survive.

In years of great disaster, for ordinary people and refugees, having a full meal and not starving to death is a luxury.

Now a family of four can be allocated 32 acres of land. Although the yield per mu of land in the Ming Dynasty was low, 32 acres of land could have enough to eat as long as the harvest did not stop.

After the construction of the water conservancy project is completed, apart from paying a small amount of taxes, a family of four will definitely have a lot of surplus food left over. Having enough food and clothing is not a problem.

You must know that in ancient times, it was not easy for people to have enough to eat. It was impossible even in the Han and Tang dynasties.

In order to thank the Crown Prince for his kindness, the people in the Gyeonggi area will definitely respond with just one word from the Crown Prince.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, this time the land is divided, there will be some free land left, and Zhu Cixiang plans to build a farm on this land.

In the future, retired soldiers and some refugees who are unwilling to go home will be arranged to work on farms.

The farm provides free meals and a small amount of salary. Injured soldiers can also do some light manual or management work on the farm, allowing them to retire on the farm.

The farm can also function as an almshouse. The refugees work for the farm, and the farm provides free food rations. It can also hand over more food to the court.

The military fields in Tongzhou, Changping, Daxing, and the defense posts will all be given to the officers and soldiers of the National Guard Army.

However, we have to wait until the recruit training is over and the team that went out to rob and ransack homes comes back to distribute them.

Not many people believed in the idea of ​​allocating land to the people in the Gyeonggi area at first.

The people could not believe such a good thing. The gentry and landlords who had their land forcibly taken back thought it was an excuse for the crown prince to annex more land.

So when the land distribution actually started and land certificates were issued on-site, the people in the Gyeonggi area really became excited.

"The land has been divided. The Crown Prince has really divided the land for us mud-legged people. Thank you to the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince is the savior of the common people..."

People were running around telling each other, and the refugees who had traveled thousands of miles to beg in the Gyeonggi area fell to their knees and cried happily...

When officials from the Ministry of Industry announced the recruitment of manpower to build water conservancy projects for the people free of charge, the people enthusiastically signed up to go.

The crown prince can give them land and build water conservancy projects for free, so what reason do they have for not working hard...

Almost at the same time, local governments were ordered to open warehouses and stockpile grain to try their best to keep the people in the Ming disaster-stricken areas fed for a few days during the New Year.

In order to support the actions of local governments, Zhu Cihong's Tongzhou Granary also provided part of the grain supply.

The Zheng family transported grain to Tanggu by sea, and the day before yesterday they had started shipping it in batches to various disaster areas.

The atmosphere of the New Year this year is obviously much better than in previous years, and the victims seem to see the hope of the Ming Dynasty and ZTE in advance.

Life for the victims is gradually getting better, but the gentry and landlords feel very distressed.

They couldn't understand that the land that had been occupied for many years or even several lifetimes was taken back by the court and distributed to the people for free.

Compared with the gentry and landlords in the Gyeonggi area, there will soon be a group of people who will have even less life. What awaits them will be the confiscation of their homes and the extermination of their clans.

Xuanfu

Yang Guozhong, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, and Hu Dawei, the deputy general, received an urgent letter from Jin Yiwei early this morning.

When they heard that it was a letter written by the Crown Prince, the two of them hurriedly opened it respectfully and read it. The more they read, the more frightened they became.

As the first and second-ranking figures in Xuanda University, although the two of them had nothing to do with Shanxi merchants, they still heard about the flirtations between some of their generals and Shanxi merchants.

When the water is clear, there will be no fish. They think that the generals under their command only accept some small favors and tips from Shanxi merchants and do some convenient things for Shanxi merchants.

Unexpectedly, the eight major Shanxi merchants actually had liaisons with Shanxi merchants and sold military supplies that were strictly prohibited in the Ming Dynasty to Shanxi merchants. Some generals even sold their military information to Shanxi merchants.

They were annoyed that their subordinates were doing these things, but the Crown Prince's intelligence capabilities frightened them even more.

Xuanda and the capital were not close, so they didn't know why the crown prince knew so much about this matter.

What surprised them most was that the crown prince clearly named several generals who had colluded with Shanxi merchants.

It's obvious that the crown prince's intelligence system has been established. You have to remember that he is just a seven-year-old child, and the little evil star really deserves his reputation.

The two did not dare to slack off, and immediately asked their cronies to secretly investigate the soldiers of the Xuanfu and Shanxi merchants.

This kind of thing is very common in Jiubian. Most soldiers know something and it is not difficult to investigate.

Soon they got a partial list of those who had colluded with Shanxi merchants. When they saw the number of people on it, Yang Guozhong and Hu Dawei immediately frowned.

Although they knew that someone under their command had an affair with Shanxi merchants, they did not expect that the scale would be so large.

There are two participating generals on the list, and there are at least hundreds of people in hundreds of households.

So many people have secret contacts with Shanxi merchants. Once it is confirmed that Shanxi merchants are traitors to the country, the consequences will be terrible. Can Jiannu easily break through the Xuanfu city gate through internal intelligence?

Jiannu was not good at siege warfare. Almost every time he invaded, he had to combine internal and external forces to destroy the city.

Yang Guozhu was just about to discuss with Hu Dawei how to deal with his subordinates, when a messenger came to report:

"General Yang, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, is calling at the gate!"

Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were stunned:

"Lu Xiangsheng? Didn't he just leave? Why did he come back again? Is it because the border troops colluded with Shanxi merchants?"

After reacting, the two people immediately went to the top of the city to check. They climbed to the top of the Xuanfu city and looked down.

Sure enough, we found a team of several thousand people below, almost all cavalry, and the formation was quite neat.

Next to Lu Xiangsheng were three majestic generals, all of whom seemed to be battle-hardened generals.

The two observed carefully for a moment and found that the three generals were all young, with the eldest being only around twenty.

They had received a letter from the Crown Prince, which stated that Lu Xiangsheng was temporarily appointed as the Governor of Xuanda.

"Open the city gate quickly!

The two people hurriedly ordered people to open the city gate, and personally went out to welcome the Minister of War and Governor Xuanda into the city. Like the Ming Dynasty, the heyday started from the prince's supervision. Please collect: (https://www.myxls.net) The Ming Dynasty, the prosperous period started from the prince's supervision.
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