"Things in the world are often imagined by the superiors, and it is easy to announce it in words, but it is difficult to implement it from top to bottom."

Although Wei Wangzhao was staring at Handan, the fifth reunion understood that with his own strength and ability, it would be great to be able to take down Wu An.

He heard that more than 20 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Ai of Han, the problem of the people becoming slaves was too serious because of the annexation of the land in the world, and it had reached the point of not being able to do so, so he implemented a "Land Limitation Order", announcing that the land of marquis and officials and people could not exceed 30 hectares, and the ownership of slaves decreased according to the level: 200 princes, marquis, 100 princesses, marquises, 30 officials and civilians, and those who exceeded the number of land or slaves, the country confiscated them.

When Emperor Ai of Han first ascended the throne, he was ambitious to do something great, and felt that the power of being an emperor was unlimited, not just as simple as sleeping on Dong Xian. As a result, the land restriction edict had been issued, but was opposed by ministers and nobles and was put on hold.

Emperor Ai of Han died before even the imperial palace was released.

After Wang Mang came to power, although he opposed it when Emperor Ai of Han supported him, he also tried to solve the problem of land and slaves, and actually formed the public ownership of land.

The new dynasty announced that the land in the world was all kingdoms, owned by the state, and could not be merged, and it also called the slaughter of slaves. It even planned to reduce the excess and make up for the shortcomings: the ancient well-field system was restored, with less than eight males in a family, and the land exceeded 900 acres, the extra part must be distributed to the clan neighbors. Those who did not have land originally received land according to the above system.

This system was promulgated in the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China and was abolished by the voices of opposition in the third year. Wang Mang's land reform was a little better than Emperor Ai of Han. After all, he left the palace, but it could not be implemented in counties at all, and he could only end in nothing.

Wang Tian’s private subordinate order was Wang Mang’s last stubbornness, but it was also in name only. Guanzhong could still suppress annexation, and the other states had long ignored the laws and did their own things.

To this day, the world is in chaos and the central government has lost its responsibilities. As Wang Mang expected, it is a dream to simply solve the land problem with an administrative order. Since this is the case, the fifth reunion can only adopt a more unreasonable and simpler and crude method.

“Solve those who master the land!”

But the difficulty of this matter was far beyond imagination. Just in the name of "giving fields with merit and relocating old subordinates", he only focused on solving the Li family that had been beaten away. The fifth reunion tried his best to use all the civil servants in the county and put all the troops into battle, and then he barely took it.

Most of the loyalists of Li's family fled to Zhao, but there were also a large number of disciples. The guests were captured. The fifth relationship was identified and identified. The outer release was sent home, and they were handcuffed and taken to Wu'an Iron Mine to be criminals. The iron officials and disciples rebelled and responded to the fifth relationship and turned over. But someone had to do the hard work.

Although the Fifth Reunion announced a pardon, expressing his rebellion against the deceived and rebellious, the rich family and the Li family's small clan surrendered at the last moment and only arrested the main culprit. However, in order to show himself, Huang Chang and his subordinates still tried their best to expand the attack and arrest spies. In just over ten days, hundreds of people were behind us, and more and more people went to work in the iron ore.

Looking at them, Feng Qin was quite reluctant and wanted to persuade him several times, thinking that this was a cause for an enemy, but the fifth reunion only asked him to do his own thing.

As a planner, Feng Qin was entrusted with an important task by the fifth ethics. Although he had complaints about this matter, he was still serious in his work and comforted himself so much: "If Huang Chang and others were asked to do it, I would be afraid that more innocent people would be good at destroying their families and destroying their land. I must do this well."

Throughout August, Feng Qin, with dozens of subordinate officials, under the courageous armed protection of Zhu Tufeng, he scattered deep into various manors and villages in Wu'an County. While expelling the remnants of the Li family, he also measured and divided the Li family's land that county officials had never really clarified for hundreds of years.

From the tax book paid by Wu'an County, Li only paid 10,000 acres of rent and tax. It is estimated that his family must have hidden a house, which may be as high as 40,000 acres.

After the final measurement and liquidation, it was found that the land controlled by the Li family and Li Neng brothers alone had been underestimated, with a total of more than 57,000 acres.

These lands are not enough to be planted by his family’s Tiannu. There are more than a thousand tenant farmers who depend on the Li family!

When Wu Lun was a servant of the Lieweihu in his early years, he traveled all counties to investigate the relationship between local people and land, and to know the gains and losses of political affairs. Therefore, he knew that the proportion of tenant farmers in Guanzhong accounted for about 40%-50% of the household registration.

Because Wang Tianling was in name only in Jizhou and was not banned, the conflict between people and land in Weicheng County was much more severe than that in Guanzhong, and the land was more concentrated in the hands of the powerful, and there were very few self-cultivated farmers.

But with the accurate data, the fifth republic has not been able to investigate and dare not investigate in the county this year, otherwise the powerful would have to jump. Now, only by relying on the power of the military can we conduct a thorough investigation of Wu'an County.

If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked.

"Wu'an County has more than 7,000 households, of which tenants alone account for 4,000 households!"

...

Qin He, the young troupe who was brave enough to be brave, walked in Longmutou in Wu'an County. He didn't care about how many tenants there were in the county, but only cared about his own land, and finally got the division.

"You'll arrive after another mile."

The subordinate who guided them would speak simple Guanzhong words and talked with the soldiers without saying a word. Everyone also carried armored soldiers to keep their formation forward. The Li family was deeply rooted. Although the head of the family ran away, there might be a remnant party in every forest. Even the local small farmer and tenant husband looked at them with a lot of hostility.

There was an order in the army that if it were not necessary, the soldiers were not allowed to go to the village alone. On the one hand, they were afraid that they would disturb the local people, and on the other hand, they were worried that they would lose their lives by being attacked. For many days, several pigs who were out were cut in the alley and fell on the eve of the victory fruit.

"That's that!"

The door followed the vast land in front of him.

This area is backed by a hill, and on the right is a lilu called "Little River". Near the river is a small river with simple irrigation ditches and fields are continuous. Because the millet and wheat are just being cut, the straw is piled up in the fields, the old farmers are preparing to transport them home. When they see soldiers coming, they all escaped vigilantly, and there are also a few bold tenant farmers squatting on the fields and pointing fingers.

The disciples followed the map of the lotus that they had spent more than ten days to draw clearly, and pointed out the land of the people one by one.

The fields they assigned were located in one piece according to the system, with ordinary soldiers thirty acres and 40 acres of meritorious deeds. Because they were the sergeant, Qin He had 50 acres. No matter how poorly they planted, it was enough to support a family of three.

If you want to get more than a hundred acres, then you can get the level of military officers and military officers, which is beyond their reach.

Zhu Tufengyong divided up more than 1,000 acres of land, and there were still 10,000 acres left. They were kept as public fields. The soldiers usually had to farm on the public fields, and their own land was handed over to tenants who had previously relied on the Li family.

"We can't drive them all away and make them refugees, right?"

Everyone nodded, thinking that this is the reason. Their main business is still in the army and they don’t have much time to cook the fields.

What they didn't know was that the Fifth Reunion planned to reduce rent for tenants, and even regarded these tenants who accounted for the majority of the population as new sources of soldiers: those who longed for land were not just refugees?

The subordinates followed the soldiers to the side of the Lilu, and asked the township officials to take out the prepared wooden contract and distribute it to everyone one by one according to their names.

Tian Qi is in triplicate: Wei Cheng County Mansion, Wan Xiu, the military camp lieutenant, and one soldier himself.

Everyone held the Tianqi like a treasure and looked over and over again. Most of them were illiterate, and they had to ask the sect or subordinates to read it one by one, although the content was similar.

It describes their respective lands and quantity, and also announces that these lands are not allowed to be traded. If soldiers die in battle and do not inherit their parents and children, they will be taken into public land.

Everyone knew: "So the most urgent thing is to get married to a local woman."

As he listened, Qin He's thick lips showed an unconcealed smile.

After they got the contract, they did not rush to leave, but walked together into the fields and helped each other find their own land, stomped on them, or took steps to complete their own area step by step, and walked again after walking, like an old cow on a plowing land.

Qin He sat down cross-legged, staring blankly at the sun and Baiyun above his head in a daze.

Qin He suddenly remembered his father who had been a tenant farmer for others all his life, worked hard on other lands, and was so tired that he could never straighten his waist again.

I remembered that he once said that his family had land several generations ago.

While sitting, he even lay on the thick land, taking deep breaths and smelling the smell of the city people, and he felt the smell of earthy smell. His hands were deeply tucked into the ground, tears flowed out of his eyes and slid into the soil.

At this moment, life in the Zhuangdeng camp was worse than death. The little finger that was frozen during the frontier, the calluses and blisters that were ground into Wei, and the fear that came to the sword during the battle, all this effort seemed to be worth it!

"Father, my family has land again from now on!"

Everyone was delaying in the fields for too long. The subordinates walked in the end impatiently urged them to come up and together with the township officials, they introduced more than 50 local farmers to them, and asked the new landlords to meet with the tenant farmers. Their interactions were limited to this. The officials of the military camp lieutenant and the new government agency established by the Fifth Reunion in Wu'an County were responsible for rent collection and other matters.

Qin He also saw the tenant farmer who farmed for him, an old farmer with a brown face wrapped around his head.

Qin He was not as arrogant as some robes, and after becoming a little landlord, he still remembered that his family had lived a hard life, so he respectfully saluted the old farmer.

"My name is Qin He."

In Guanzhong dialect, the old farmer with brown faces in Wei land certainly didn't hear it clearly. He only looked at Qin He and his brothers in robes with disdain. In the end, he could not resist the officials present and just bowed casually and said: "Wu Anmin."

...

Wu'an has a compound surname and is said to be a descendant of Li Mu. There is also a saying that they are descendants of Bai Qi, the king of Qin Wu'an.

Wu Anmin tended to be the former. During the time he was a tenant farmer in the Li family, he was quite proud of this origin and used it as a topic of flaunting.

"For many generations, my family's surname was Li, and I was a relative of Mr. Li!"

Although he has now become a tenant farmer, farming the land of the rich and the people, renting and taxing, and his life is not good. He often wears clothes of cattle and horses, and eats food of dogs and pigs.

But Wu Anmin felt that this was taken for granted and even was quite grateful to his boss: "If it were not for the love between Brother Li, we would not even have these dozens of acres of land, so we could only be refugees and starve to death in the ravines!"

So he worked hard to farm, and the chicken crowed and got up to work, not getting more food for himself, but just to be worthy of his boss. In the words of later generations, this is a blessing!

While working and resting with the gangsters, Wu Anmin would even point out the vast fields around him and proudly tell them: "From here to there, tens of thousands of acres of land belong to Mr. Li!"

Although the Li Neng brothers had never looked at him at first sight, and did not even know that there was one of the thousands of tenant farmers, it did not prevent Wu'anmin from talking about his bloodline and the kindness of his boss. During festivals, he would bow to the direction of Li's fortress and be grateful.

Until the Li family collapsed and was driven away by the fifth reunion.

Wu'anmin's world was almost collapsed. If it weren't for his son's stopping him, he had never received favor from the Li family, so he almost had to follow Li to Zhao with a pitchfork. After much persuasion, he stayed.

"That's right, I want to guard this field for Mr. Li and wait for him to come back!"

Wu Anmin sneered at the new landlord.

"One person only occupies thirty or forty acres, and he is embarrassed to call Haomin or collect rent?"

Look at their rough faces that are no different from themselves, their uneducated and silly smiles that are the same as the old farmer, their stupidity sitting or lying in the fields, and some people are even willing to work in the fields with sickles and farm tools. Wu Anmin felt disgusted.

The rich and wealthy landlord should be arrogant and make himself envious and out of reach. How can he be like a tenant farmer?

Even when the subordinate Xunxing and the village officials testified, he announced that when he established a new lease for Zhu Tufengyong and the tenant farmer, Li's family had to collect 15 rent in the past, from now on, all tenants would only have to pay 14 rent, and could retain 60% of the food.

This made many tenant farmers happy, which probably means that they can drown one less baby every year, which is also considered to be the fifth kind of favor to tenant farmers. However, Wu'an people cursed privately: "What kind of officers and soldiers are just a group of foreign bandits! They invaded Mr. Li's home and robbed him and occupied Mr. Li's land. They thought this land belonged to them? Bah!"

"I would like to pay more than 10% of the rent to Mr. Li! Don't want to buy me with this little favor!"

Wu Anmin squatted on the fields like this, looking at Qin He and Zhu Tufeng brave men who were leaving the field in a group, as if they were the ones who were taking the land away.

The tenants discussed a lot in private how to deal with these new "landlords". A clever idea said: "I have inquired that many of them are not married. If they have daughters of appropriate age at home, they will get the right one. When they become a family, how can they share the wealthy tenants? Their land is also my home!"

This idea was wonderful, and everyone laughed. However, Wu Anmin and several tenant farmers who were in love with Mr. Li's "gratitude" snorted disdainfully.

Wu Anmin said even more proudly: "Anyway, my daughter has already made the childhood friend of the son-in-law of the son-in-law of the Ligongwu Fort. He is working in the kitchen and leaving with Mr. Li. My daughter is going to marry into Lijiawu, and she will never be cheaper than those bandits!"

Wu Anmin also lit everyone and said, "Don't be too anxious."

"Mr. Li's family has been here for dozens of generations. Since my great-grandfather's great-grandfather, they have been working as a tenant farmer for Mr. Li. What is this called? This is natural, and it should be like this after dozens of generations."

Wu Anmin said confidently: "Wait, you won't be able to fight back in a long time! Then all these bandits will kill Feitian!"

At that time, Wu'anmin is willing to pay 10% more... no, 20% of the rent! Then, he can proudly tell the villagers about the blood relationship between the Wu'an and the Li family, and finally pointed to the endless good fields and sighed:

"Look, this is all Mr. Li's land! And I am farming for Mr. Li!"

...

When Wu'an was barely completed, Ximen Yanshou, the Ximen family house in Yecheng, also learned about what happened.
To be continued...