Although he was worried that this move might arouse dissatisfaction from the court, he looked at the prefect Song in front of him, wasn’t he also the governor of Shanxi before? He was not worried about this, so what else would he worry about?

So after returning home, they all started discussing the matter with their families. After the negotiations were made, someone came to Pingdu to visit Song Tongyin and found a single and half-time position.

Song Tongyin was instructed by Kong Youde and planned to conduct a selection in Pingdu on July 10th, that is, half a month later. As for the operation rules, it was similar to the provincial examination, with a centralized examination, and an official selection, and then directly arranged an official position after passing.

Regarding this selection, it was soon sent to various prefectures, counties and market towns, not only Laizhou Prefecture, but also Dengzhou Prefecture, so that more people can learn about this news.

Soon, the news spread throughout Denglai. Although many people expressed disbelief, those who came back from Pingdu promised that this was true, and they believed that it was true and that they believed the prefect himself and would not lie to them. So they believed it at this time.

Although I know, not everyone thinks this matter is feasible. After all, they are still worried about whether the court will come over. Although the Tiance Army is so powerful,

But Kong Youde was not worried at all. The population of 700,000 to 800,000, plus the population of Dengzhou Prefecture is close to 2 million. Even if calculated as a ratio of one thousand, there must be more than 1,000 scholars.

Even if some of them escaped, only 20% of them came, and there were still 300 or 400 people. It would be enough to make up for the temporary talent gap.

However, Kong Youde still reserved some places for the students of the Political Affairs Hall, which are their own direct descendants after all.

How did the bald brother emerge from Liao Zhongkai, Wang Zhaoming, Hu Hanmin, Lin Sen, Xie Te, Sun Ke and other bigwigs, and finally reach the peak of power. Kong Youde understands that it is mainly the Army Officer School. As the principal, Bald brother trained a large number of direct descendants, and then they entered the army to gain power. His strength should naturally not be underestimated.

Kong Youde was also considering reorganizing the political affairs hall and then establishing a similar organization in order to build a stronger foundation.

Song Tongyin was quite easy to handle this matter. After more than 20 years of experience in the officialdom, although he had never presided over the imperial examination, he was also a person who had experienced it. With his experience in politics, it was not complicated to do this matter well.

Moreover, Kong Youde gave him full authority to the official selection this time, so he did not have any constraints in all aspects and was able to handle it easily.

In the past, when I was in Shanxi, I had to consider the complicated relationships when making any decision. In the Ming Dynasty, the Jin Party in Shanxi was not as strong as the Donglin Party, but at least it was much stronger than the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party.

Basically, any wealthy businessman has a courthouse behind him. Sometimes, when Song Tongyin was preparing to issue a government order, it would affect their interests and someone would come to the door to place it, and then it seemed that he would inadvertently set up a backstage relationship. It seemed that he was not able to afford it, and the new policy would be left in vain.

Even with the constraints of multiple parties, he eventually gradually calmed down the chaos in Shanxi. If it weren't for the bandits in Shaanxi, he wouldn't have been dismissed.

Although he only cared for one mansion now, Song Tongyin felt unprecedented joy. Kong Youde fully trusted him and delegated power. It can be said that he was the local emperor of Laizhou Prefecture. As long as he did not violate Kong Youde's general idea, he basically managed whatever he wanted, and should not be too happy.

Moreover, the young men who came out to help him out were very clever and obedient. Although they were not experienced, they were very obedient and serious in doing things, so the matter went smoothly.

It is expected that by July 10, this official selection examination, or a simplified version of the imperial examination, will be carried out smoothly.

He did not leave the land reform work. He first set an example, took the initiative to take out his Kuroda and participated in the assignment work. With him taking the lead in doing so, the big players who were originally a little resistant to the mentality basically followed suit. Otherwise, the Tiance Army would not bypass them easily.

Since you can't resist, then bear it silently.

And after all, the selection of officials next month is also very important for them. If they are selected at that time, but they will be eliminated due to land reform, it will not be cost-effective.

Basically, we should continue the previous practice and first check out all the hidden fields. Qin Zhiyuan has done almost the same step, and the next step is to distribute these fields.

According to the old rules, if someone in his family serves in the Tiance Army, no one in his family will obtain five acres of land. However, this situation is not many, and most of them are ordinary people.

However, not all the people do not have their own land. Kong Youde's approach is very simple. According to the population of a family, for example, if the family has five people, if the land in their family is less than fifteen acres, then the amount will be filled to fifteen acres, which is three acres per capita.

However, if there are fifteen acres, it will not be distributed again. If the family still has so much land these days, it is definitely not a poor person.

There is no need to worry about them hiding their own fields. During the first round of inventory, not only the land of those large households was checked, but the land of ordinary people also had to be registered. Every household had an account for how much land they had. Don’t worry about them cheating.

Ordinary people are very enthusiastic about land reform. They have already had many hard days. Now it is finally time to turn around. They are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the work team so that they can earn their own land.

By the end of June, the land reform work in Laizhou Prefecture had basically been announced to be completed.

According to the summary information, a total of 6.85 million mu of land was found this time, which surprised Kong Youde. You must know that in Dengzhou Prefecture, it was only 4 million mu that were found, but Laizhou Prefecture was able to produce nearly 7 million mu.

The main reasons are two aspects. First, the area of ​​arable land in Laizhou Prefecture is more. Although the area of ​​Laizhou Prefecture is not as large as that of Dengzhou Prefecture, there are too many mountains in Dengzhou Prefecture, especially the Yashan Mountains. Many places are not suitable for cultivation, while the plains of Laizhou Prefecture need to be increased, so the area of ​​arable land is naturally larger.

The second is the big families in Laizhou Prefecture, who escaped a lot, unlike Dengzhou Prefecture. After Bai Yunlong and his team set out from Dengzhou in March, they headed straight to Qixia, Laiyang penetrated into Jimo, blocking their way out of escape.

When Li Jiucheng conquered Pingdu and Gaomi, a group of large families in Laizhou Prefecture were killed and another group of people escaped. In addition, some of them hid in Laizhou City, so there were a lot less. Although some of them retreated because of the White Lotus Sect in Qingzhou, the total number was less than 60% of those in Dengzhou Prefecture.

As for the people who were not in Laizhou, they naturally had no way to check the land deeds. These fields were naturally confiscated and distributed. This part of the land alone added up to nearly three million acres.

It is naturally a good thing to have a lot of land, but at the same time it also brings a problem, that is, these lands cannot be allocated at all.

Up to now, according to the standard of three acres of land per person, and some people have a small amount of land, which has only been divided into less than three million acres in total, and there are almost four million acres of land left. Even if they want to divide it, there is no one.

Moreover, this problem exists in Dengzhou Prefecture, but there is not so much idle land. After all, Dengzhou Prefecture has a larger population, less land found, and the excess land is only more than one million acres.

Therefore, when Song Tongyin came to Kong Youde with this question, he was also in trouble because he had never expected this situation to happen.

There were also Dengzhou Prefecture before, but it didn't take long. At that time, I was focused on the war.

At the end of March, the 20,000 troops of Wu Anbang were eliminated, and in early April, the entire Dengzhou Prefecture was initially controlled, and then the land reform began. Before the land reform was completed, the war began again.

First, we wiped out the horse thieves in Laizhou Prefecture. The number of horse thieves was huge and scattered in a relatively hidden way. It took more than half a month to wipe out them.

Then he went to Zhaoyuan to face Fan Jingwen, defeated Fan Jingwen and then went outside Laizhou City to shell Laizhou City and forced Fan Jingwen to negotiate. After the matter was basically stabilized, the Japanese pirates and pirates in the southeast must be resolved.

He returned to Dengzhou happily and took a boat to Weihaiwei. After several days of fierce fighting, he finally cleared the Japanese pirates and pirates. In the following days, he rebuilt the post-war reconstruction, as well as the parade of the Japanese pirates' heads and prisoners. After the completion of the work, he went to Weihaiwei to check the construction of the Weihaiwei military port, the restoration of warships, and the expansion of cement kilns.

Then he learned about Song Tongyin's existence and rushed to Jimo to recruit him. As for the excess land in Dengzhou Prefecture, he did not remember it.

Kong Youde planned to see if Song Tongyin had any good solutions first. "Senior Song, do you have any good solutions for this situation?"

Song Tongyin stroked his beard and said, "There are such a large number of lands that must not be idle, so someone must cultivate them, otherwise it will be too wasteful!"

"I thought of two solutions. One is to attract people to settle down from other prefectures in Shandong, or other places in the Ming Dynasty, and then distribute these lands. But the problem is that most refugees are now concentrated in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan. It is probably not an easy thing to recruit millions of people! It can be done, but it is probably impossible to complete it without a year or two!

As for the second method, it is to raise the standard line of three acres per person, but if you raise the standard now, it may take a lot of energy to do it!"

Kong Youde also sighed, "Yes, I didn't think carefully at the beginning, and I couldn't finish it at all, but now the standards have been set. If it is changed now, it will probably not be completed so quickly!"

Suddenly, Kong Youde thought of a good idea and said excitedly, "Senior Song, why don't we build a big farm?"

"Big farm?" Song Tongyin said in confusion.

"Yes, just like the salt field shipyard, we recruit people to farm for us, and then pay wages, and we can concentrate them, such as building tens of thousands of acres or larger farms, recruiting some people to farm for full-time farming, and the harvested grain is directly stored! Isn't that better?"

After this idea was proposed, Song Tongyin's eyes lit up. This method seemed very feasible, and there was also a ready-made template, that is, the imperial village.

There are many imperial burgers in the capital now, at least three to five million mu. These are one of the sources of inputs from the emperor's inner treasury. However, the management model is a bit backward, so basically it is still rented to tenants and then collected rent.

It is almost the same as the land rented by ordinary large households to tenants, except that the owner of the land is the emperor and there is no need to pay taxes, but the rent is generally very high, starting from 50%.

However, Kong Youde did not think the management method of the imperial village was good. His idea was similar to the management method of state-owned farms in later generations.

In other words, these farms are all the assets of the Tiance Army, but they can recruit some hired workers to come to farm. These hired workers are just here to work, and the grain produced has nothing to do with them. They are only responsible for farming the land and getting wages.

Song Tongyin nodded and said, "Yeah, this method is very good. Let's concentrate on farming and directly put the grain into the warehouse. With so much land, I'm afraid I'll harvest a lot of food!"

So, the two of them immediately discussed the relevant implementation rules, and finally formulated an outline, and then planned to ask some people for inquiries, carry out the final improvement, and then they could be put into implementation.

Three days later, after inquiring about some farmers and finding out some of the problems and existing loopholes, the entire plan was further improved.

The construction plan for the large farm has also begun to be implemented.

The basic method is to recruit people to work and pay wages, but the work in this farm is just farming.

According to the preliminary plan, four pilot farms were first established near Pingdu Prefecture, each farm was 50,000 mu, and 1,000 hired farmers were recruited to work. On average, it was only 50 mu per person.

Although it looks a lot, the efficiency of concentrated labor is far more simple than self-cultivation and land. At least there will be no disputes in the area or water sources. You can concentrate on your work and reduce meaningless labor. It is not a lot.

In addition to one thousand employed farmers, each arranged ten supervisors to inspect and supervise their work situation, and two managers were responsible for daily management. At the same time, they were drawn from the Tiance Army to serve as the head and deputy director of the farm, responsible for the overall work of the entire farm.

The farms are responsible for all three meals a day. They don’t need to run a separate meal. The wages are not much, only 300 cents a month, which is almost half a tael of silver. However, Kong Youde also added a year-end bonus to serve as an incentive effect.

At the end of the year, the reward level of the year-end bonus will be determined based on the farm's output. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!