Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 329 Wang Xingfu takes office in Wendeng County
After a series of purges, Sun Xin was finally relieved to continue to expand his territory in Dengzhou. The population of Dengzhou is about 100 million. He has now controlled most of the farms in Wendeng and Mouping. With the protection party as the backbone, Sun Xin Stretch your hand further to the west.

The method of expanding every place has also become simpler and more rude.

It turned out that Sun Xin was too weak, and he didn't have a backbone political group, so he had to be timid when expanding. For example, in the earliest days around Dengzhou, he needed to unite the big landlords near Shili Pai and use his own force as a coercion. Go and invite the big landlord to set up a factory with him as a joint venture.

But now with the development of the Dengzhou Supervisory Committee's vision, not counting the city of Dengzhou, basically all the Zhuangzi in the vast rural areas of Dengzhou have more or less become part of the Supervisory Committee's interest chain.

Either it was to grow hemp for Sun Xin, or a large number of farmers went to Sun Xin's factory to work as workers, and some also planted various supporting medicinal materials for Sun Xin. In today's Dengzhou, just planting food is not enough to attract big farmers. Most of the farmers, the industrialization here is booming.

In this case, the Supervisory Committee owned by Sun Xinhe, as the largest capital party, will no longer adopt the soft policy as before for the villages that have not been attached to the areas under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou.

The method currently implemented by Pei Xuan is to focus on the Protection Party, and first send members of the Protection Party as the backbone to various farms that have not yet established supervisory committees to promote their own policies and win over the founding members, because the Dengzhou Supervisory Committee It has a great reputation, so often as long as a greeting, more than a dozen dealers in each village can be recruited as the first batch of participants in the supervisory committee.

Use these dozen or so people as the backbone to establish the supervisory committee first, and then use the supervisory committee to fight for the interests of the members who joined. There is no farmer in the village these days who is not bullied by the owner. , will naturally take refuge.

When there are a certain number of supervisors in a village, if the owner of the village is smart, he will negotiate with Sun Xin and the others, and Sun Xin will also reserve a symbolic position for him in the village supervisory council. Therefore, Sun Xin directly mobilized the villager to take the properties of these big landlords and build an industrial line or factory in the local area that is closely related to Sun Xin's Sunjiazhuang.

In areas of rapid industrialization, the share of the agricultural products on the land occupied by those landlords in the total village GDP is rapidly decreasing. Even if they are unwilling to rely on Sun Xin, they will find out in a short time I no longer have the volume to speak in the village.

It is only seven or eight years since the big change. Sun Xin knew that he could control Shandong as a base when the Jingkang change happened, so he had to go out of Dengzhou to the surrounding counties and cities.

Sun Xin plans to control the situation in Dengzhou as much as possible within a year without actually raising troops, but he must make sure that all the farms in Dengzhou City obey his orders, and the population under his rule must reach at least 50. With the entire Dengzhou as a base, then there will be enough strength to seize Shandong.Otherwise, even with his current strength, he would be at the level of a thief if he spread to the whole Shandong.

Just after Sun Xin returned to Sunjiazhuang from the shipyard, he heard from the farmer that Wang Yu, the capital of Wendeng County, had brought a gift to pay a special visit.

Regarding the information on Wendeng County, Sun Xin had asked Pei Xuan and Wu Song to investigate clearly, and knew that this Wang Yudu head was the nephew of Wang Xingfu, the magistrate of Wendeng County. Sun Xin immediately paid attention to this person who could bring gifts. .

"Call someone in," he said to the farmer, and then sent someone to call Wu Song.

Now Wu Song is no longer just Sun Xin's security captain, but helps Sun Xin control each of Sun Xin's own internal guards, who are responsible for investigating intelligence for Sun Xin.

Wu Song is cautious and suitable for this position.

And Sun Xin's current security protection is specially taken care of by a few bankers selected by Wu Song.

Soon Wu Song arrived at Sun Xin's yard. Sun Xin told him a little about Wang Yu's arrival. Wu Song nodded and said to Sun Xin, "Wang Yu and Wang Xingfu have been nesting in Wendeng County recently, and it's very quiet."

Wang Yu and Wang Xingfu are both from Hebei. Wang Xingfu won the examination a few months ago and was promoted to Shandong as an official.

In this era, the imperial examination system was just emerging, and it was enough to be a county magistrate.

The two are in Wendeng, and they have no foundation, and Wendeng County is located on the seashore. Although Dengzhou was a major trading port in the Northern Song Dynasty, the sea trade routes are basically concentrated in Dengzhou City, and caravans will never go east to Dengzhou City. Go further east to Wendeng.From Dengzhou to the east, it is not far from the sea.

And Wendeng’s largest account output before Sun Xin’s appearance was Yanba. Where there was Yanba, there were various officials who supervised salt. The importance of tax extension to the Song Dynasty is self-evident, so these salt officials are basically individuals. , It is not something a small county magistrate in Wendeng County can manage.

So when Wang Xingfu, who was over fifty, was assigned to such a place, he thought that his official career would stop in such a bleak place.

But after arriving in Wendeng County, Wang Xingfu discovered that things were completely different from what he had imagined.

First of all, when the accounts were checked, Wendeng County had no unpaid taxes in the books of the previous year, and all the corvees in the county government were full and full.

Moreover, the county government of the entire county is very clear and clear. Although the scenery in the city is a bit dilapidated when you walk in from Wendeng County, the Guanxiang outside Wendeng County and those villages are full of business and travel exchanges, and the prosperity is almost like some small-scale state capitals.

Wang Xingfu used to be the county magistrate, and in the small Henan county where he used to be the county magistrate, it was considered good to have all the servants come every time. However, the first time he went to Wendeng County, he found the third class of yamen servants. He Mabudutou and the officials of the sixth room all came neatly, and everyone had no expression on their faces.

At that time, Wang Xingfu was pleasantly surprised and surprised. How could there be such poor officials in Wendeng, a place where no one can make a lot of money?At that time, Wang Xingfu only felt that the previous Wendeng County official who was handed over to him was capable enough, and he had to work hard to catch up.

But soon he found that something seemed wrong.

He gradually realized that all the officials and officials in Wendeng County gathered in the county town all day long, and they didn't seem to go out very much.And these people are not in a hurry, and they always smile at everyone on weekdays.

This made Wang Xingfu feel very strange. These yamen servants and petty officials did not get much money and food from the court, and most of their income had to be obtained by blackmailing the common people. Of course, it was against his governance that they did not go out to make troubles all day long. There are benefits, but where does the income of these people come from?

How did Wendeng County get such a good tax record without chasing donations and paying wages?

When Wang Xingfu arrived in the county to take up his post, it happened that Wendeng County was going to recruit corvettes to serve in the Dengzhou government this year. Wang Xingfu also called a meeting with all the government servants and small officials in the county to strengthen everyone's confidence.

This is the most troublesome thing to force food and catch people. Firstly, you must be ruthless: you must fight to the death with those poor people. Second, you must be clear-headed: it is not enough to just beat the poor, the key is to think about how to unite the big households to divide the poor. , Even when encountering a poor land that is difficult to chew, one has to think about dealing with the incense society organizations among the poor.

Wang Xingfu heard that there is a supervisory committee in Wendeng County, which is very powerful, and it is probably a group of poor people who unite to fight against Ding and grain. Wang Xingfu feels that a village with such an organization must be very difficult to crack, so we must It is necessary to boost everyone's confidence before everyone goes to fight this tough battle.

But when Wang Xingfu started the meeting full of hesitation, he found that the situation was even more strange. Those people also held meetings, but almost no one was willing to speak at the meeting. These people just didn't care about Wang Xingfu's impassioned and very straightforward speeches. look at.

Wang Xingfu gesticulated and said for a long time, except for his nephew Wang Yu, no one responded to him at all. Wang Xingfu went straight to the cold, thinking that these people might be giving him power, and this year's corvee may have problems with this attitude.

But when he asked everyone if there was any problem with the corvee collection this year, no one spoke.

Wang Xingfu couldn't figure it out at all, he could only take one step at a time.

Then a strange thing happened. These yamen servants and officials were like the old land in the public office. There is no sense of effort to complete the task.

Wang Xingfu only felt that this group of people was really ridiculous, how could they handle the task of enlisting corvee under such circumstances.

Just as he was thinking this way, weird things happened one after another. Every day, a certain batch of corvees arrived at the Wendeng County Government to report, and gradually accumulated.

Wang Xingfu had never completed the tasks assigned by the Shangguan so easily, but the more he did this, the more he felt frightened. He arrested a few soldiers who served in the army, and after asking them, he heard them say that he was from here. The names on the roster don't match, but they all know each other, because they were mainly serving but couldn't leave, so they were asked to replace them.

It is not uncommon to give money to someone to replace the corvee. As long as the number of people is enough, the officials will probably turn a blind eye, but after asking again, strange things will appear. XX Village Supervisory Committee XX Village Supervisory Committee.

Moreover, these people who were sent to serve corvee frankly said that they were also members of the Supervisory Council, but they were not useful in the Supervisory Council because they were not good at work or lazy, so they were simply sent here to work for the court.

To be honest, working for the imperial court is not bitter except for being scolded often. During the service, they were not given food and money, coupled with the chaotic management of the imperial court, such servitude in the poor people's homes who did not work for a day and did not eat for a day often led to the destruction of people's families.

And these people told Wang Xingfu that their managers will send people to ensure these things, and even after they go to Dengzhou Prefecture to serve, they will collect food and clothes from various supervisory committees to send them to them, so going to serve is like going to It's the same as going to work, except that the income is a little lower, which is very suitable for lazy people like them.

Wang Xingfu looked puzzled, the Supervisory Committee still cares about this matter?
(End of this chapter)