Chapter 24: Give the Field(2/2)
Twenty hectares? It seems to be a lot?
"Twenty hectares! It's two [Mens]! Nineteen Bonnier! Two hundred thousand square meters!" Winters pointed at the farmland below with a horse whip: "Three hundred acres!!!"
Muns is a land tax unit, and its standard is enough to support a peasant family. It is not a small family of three or five, but a large family of more than twenty people living together for generations.
In the new land, half of [Wilgert] - five hectares of land, is enough to be called a middle-agricultural.
Two Muns? Everyone subconsciously swallowed.
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The land given to soldiers must be much more than that given to refugees!
If the refugees work for seven years, they can redeem land as self-cultivated farmers; the soldiers work hard but have nothing.
Then who else is willing to join the army?
A few months ago, Winters' policy in Wolf Town was simple and crude [sending wasteland to refugees to reclaim].
At that time, he had only three arrows, about a hundred refugees, and a town of land. His personal prestige was enough to overwhelm any dissatisfied voice.
Now he has 100 arrows, 20,000 refugees, and a county of land. The extensive policy in Wolf Town was far from enough to deal with the current situation.
People who can go to battle and those who can't go to battle must have a gap.
Only in this way can the soldiers be balanced.
According to Bad's plan, each soldier was given ten hectares, about one Muns. When their service expired, they could receive these lands.
And Winters made a decision directly - give twenty hectares!
"The battle has not been won yet! There is no need to be stingy and stingy now." Winters asked his friends: "What is the difference between Dusak and the farmers?"
"No difference!" He asked and answered himself: "It's nothing more! It's enough to prepare their own war horse weapons! It's enough to pay blood taxes willingly!"
"And in this world, the one who can fight the most is self-cultivated farmers! They are not knights! They are not citizens!" Winters cannot refute the [twenty hectares] decree: "Just twenty hectares!"
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"Let's go!" Winters waved his hand: "Go down and take a look!"
The team drove down the hillside and walked towards the manor below the hillside.
Many people ran out of the fields and houses and rushed towards the soldiers.
"Then...that's not my wife?" A soldier shouted in surprise: "It's my wife!"
"And my family's!"
"Where is my family?"
The government order is to give each soldier twenty hectares, but it is impossible to be in place immediately.
What's more, the soldiers are all serving, so they are abandoned.
But Winters wants them to see the real, real twenty hectares.
So he screened out the soldiers' families from the refugees and took them to Forge.
All the lands in Forge Township's estates are now in Winters' hands. The source is either rental, redemption, or coercion.
The next step was very simple. He sent the land to the soldiers' families, and then sent the farm tools, horses and seeds.
He doesn’t have to worry about the rest of the matter - he still needs to teach farmers how to farm?
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The lonely soldiers watched the other soldiers desperately wave their arms to their families.
They dared not call out because military discipline restricted them.
"Don't be restrained!" Winters ordered loudly: "Call it out!"
The team was silent at first.
"Jenna!" Suddenly a soldier called out to his wife.
For a time, many names flew to all directions at the same time.
The soldiers' families also shouted their names, some women covered their faces and cried, while some soldiers were secretly wiping their tears.
"Dad!" Tamas shouted to the sky: "Mom!"
The soldiers yelled at the centurion's throne, but few people knew that Tamas's father and mother were no longer alive.
The Ironfeng County Infantry Regiment reorganized the team on the dirt road in the farmland, and the soldiers' families watched them.
Winters read the Twenty Hectares Act to everyone.
This decree is very simple. Referring to Dusak's land grant system, each dynasty is granted 20 hectares of land, and each dynasty is served for seven years; make meritorious service, shorten service time; be promoted, grant more land; die in battle, the land is directly inherited by the family; be afraid of war, defect, and violate military discipline, except for the person being punished, the land is deducted or even completely deprived of land due to the severity of the circumstances.
Then, Charles and Heinrich brought people to each soldier and sent three silver shields and a deed paper.
"Three silver shields are your first military pay. The complete "Twenty Hectares of Law" is printed on the paper."
Winters slowly rode his horse through the front of the queue and reviewed his troops again: "From today on, you are my soldiers. As long as I am still alive, as long as I have not failed, these lands are yours, and no one can take them away!"
The soldiers of the Iron Peak County Infantry Regiment looked at Commander Montagne, and each of them had a different expression.
Winters doesn't expect to turn farmers into warriors in the blink of an eye, they still need to be tempered.
Only after tempering can they turn from iron billets into weapons.
Winters also did not expect to win the loyalty of the soldiers immediately by relying on "twenty hectares".
Only when soldiers sweat in their fields, only when soldiers walk through the fields with plows, only when soldiers cut down the heavy wheat ears themselves.
Only then can he truly win their loyalty.
Winters is also very clear that if he fails, all of this will disappear.
The enemy must be established, the enemy must be turned into something that is like a "human" but is by no means a "human", cruel and realistic Machiavelliism.
"Land, I'll give you." Winters took a deep breath and asked Rinsheng: "But what if there is a devil who refuses to agree?!"
"What if there is a devil who wants to take the land out of you again?!"
"What if there is a devil who wants to turn you into serfs, workers, and tenants again?!"
"Did you promise to hand over the land again?"
"Don't agree!!!" Tamas yelled.
"You are the only one who doesn't agree, right?" Winters sneered at the others: "Where are you? You are all cordons, deserve to be bullied? Punishment? Be slave workers for generations?"
"Don't agree!" the crowd murmured.
"If your courage is as low as your voice, go back as soon as possible and continue your previous life!"
"Don't agree!!" the soldiers shouted.
"Do you agree or not? I can't hear it."
"Don't agree!!!" the freshman self-cultivated farmers shouted at the top of their lungs.
Chapter completed!