Lord Harland.

Chapter 235 Patrol the Territory
Seeing Li Cha's gloomy face, the villagers present also knew the seriousness of the matter. Some wanted to make a noise and beat up the poor-looking new freedmen.

Li Cha's eyes widened, and he directly ordered the guards to beat the noisy villagers with sticks, and the scene became quiet.

A few hours later, bureaucrats from Vickburg also arrived on the scene.

The little bureaucrat in charge of dividing the fields is a young man with a particularly tender face.

"What's your name, how old are you this year, and you graduated from He'an Elementary School?"

The grassroots bureaucrats in the territory have some students who have graduated from Henan Primary School. These students are usually very young, the oldest are seventeen or eighteen, and the young are only fifteen or sixteen.

Seeing that the bureaucrats in Fentian are so young, Li Cha casually asked.

"My lord, my name is McCaroo, I am 16 years old, and I graduated from River Bank Primary School last year."

"The freedmen here will divide the land this year, and you will be responsible for handling it?"

McCaroo nodded and said, "Yes, my lord."

"According to the regulations, how is the farmland in this village divided?"

"According to the plan, each freeman in this village will grant five mu of land, one mu of paddy field, and four mu of dry land."

Because the scale of farmland that can be reclaimed near each village is different, the quality of farmland available to free citizens is also slightly different. Some villages have better conditions and are naturally richer.Some villages have poor conditions and are slightly poorer.

Generally speaking, the city hall and the Ministry of Agriculture will plan in advance to control the population of the village and try to achieve a balance.

Most of the free people have the standard of one mu of paddy fields and four mu of dry fields.According to this standard, the territorial tax is three silver coins per person, or 270 catties of wheat.

But in this village, the new free people do not have paddy fields to cultivate, and the dry land has experienced a serious reduction in production this year. The harvest per mu of land is less than 270 catties. One person pays [-] catties of grain tax, and the remaining grain is less than [-] catties.

Two hundred catties of grain is not enough to eat, and the grain for next year has to be reserved, so the free people in this village are suffering from hunger and cold.

If Li Cha visits next fall, people in this village may starve to death.

"Joseph, tell everyone, how many paddy fields and dry land have you been allocated?" Richard pointed to Joseph and said.

"My lord, all the new freedmen assigned to this village this year don't have any rice fields?"

"Macaloo, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, is the paddy field in this village enough? Why did this problem happen? Since they encountered injustice, did these free people go to Vicburg to file a complaint? Why didn't anyone deal with it?"

Hearing that Richard wanted to seriously pursue responsibility, Tony Byrne, the Civil Affairs Officer of Vickburg, changed his face, and hated the village chief to death in his heart.

But at this time, I could only bite the bullet and answer: "I was the one who made a mistake here. When the villagers came to Vicburg to file a complaint, I handed it over to Village Chief Walls to deal with it."

"Tony, you are an old man in the territory. You have made some minor achievements before. I think I have treated you well. I promoted you to the position of mayor of Vickburg. As a slave born, you should be satisfied with your achievements today. Now, why cover Walls?
You know, how much trust do I have in you when I entrust Vickburg to your management?

How do you repay your lord and manage the people like this?

You have failed my trust in you, so what use do I need you? "

Tony Byrne was a slave purchased by the Harland family for many years. Before William became a hereditary baron, Tony Byrne was the servant of the Harland family.When Li Cha was young, Tony had been his personal attendant for a while.

After William won the fief, Tony Byrne was the director of a cement factory.In the few years as the factory manager, I have done my best.

These people in the Harland Territory are developing very fast, and there is a great lack of qualified grassroots bureaucrats.

Because of his good performance and good opportunity, Tony was promoted by Richard to the position of Mayor of Vickburg.

Unexpectedly, in less than two years since he came up, something went wrong with Tony, and something serious happened under his rule.

Tony Bourne was very familiar with Li Cha, and when he heard this, he immediately understood that Li Cha had murderous intentions.He knew Li Cha well, and he knew that he couldn't quibble at this time, the more he quibbled, the more he would hate him.

"Because Walls' sister is my secret lover."

After listening to Tony's explanation, Li Cha sneered and said, "So it's because there's something wrong with the lower body. If that's the case, what's the use of your lower body?
Someone pulled the dog out and immediately executed it. The body was thrown in the mountains to feed the wolves, and his family members were all sent to the mine, where they will never be pardoned. "

There are a large number of orcs in the mine, sending humans into the mine, so we can see how terrible the situation will be.

Orcs sometimes choose to eat people because they can't complete the mining tasks and the food is not enough.

According to the statistics of Bernard who manages the orcs, the humans sent to the mine can only live for an average of two months.

"Tony has been dealt with for covering up crimes. You are an official of the field division, McKaroo. There is a problem with the field work in Kaluo Village. Your supervision is not in place, and you have committed crimes of dereliction of duty. You will be fined for two years of salary and ten years of duty. Cannot be upgraded during the year.

Walls, are you a wounded veteran? "

Seeing that the high-ranking mayor of Vickburg was executed on the spot by Richard, his family members were also sent to the mine, and all of them were killed.Fear suddenly penetrated into Walls' bones, causing him to tremble violently, unable to speak, as if he had lost his mind and went crazy.

Seeing that Walls was so frightened that he lost his mind, Li Cha turned his head and said to the intelligence officer beside him, "Check Walls' file to see if he is a retired veteran? If so, spare his family One life, if not sent by family to be with Tony's family."

Among the several bureaucrats, McCaroo has the least responsibility. It is difficult for a brat like him to deal with internal affairs in the village. He does not know the free people in the village when he goes to divide the fields. It is easy to be fooled by the following.

Besides, McCaroo's heart is not too bad, he is only jointly responsible for this matter.

It is Walls and Tony who colluded and oppressed the people.

Among the two, Li Cha hated Tony the most, because Tony was the person Li Cha focused on, and he was also an important civil servant in the territory. Li Cha valued him more, and often told him to treat the people under his rule better and not to bully the people. , let alone force people to death.

But the situation in the village, after next year's spring plowing, I am afraid that a large number of people will starve to death.

After this incident, Li Cha had the worst sense of Tony and hated him the most.

Li Cha glanced around, staring closely at the other officials in Fort Vic.He sneered and said: "The free people in Kaluo Village have suffered injustice. I don't believe you don't know about it, but no one has reported to me for half a year. You are all responsible for this matter. Officials in Vickburg cannot be promoted within ten years. Same as Mai Carew's treatment is the same, everyone's salary will be fined for two years.

If I were to discover the problem again and be punished for several crimes, not only would my head be lost, but my family would also have to be sent to the mine to be with Tony’s family.I hope you cherish the good life today and don't be greedy.You treat the people under your rule better, and if you make mistakes in the future, I will be more tolerant to you. "

Intelligence officials quickly found the file, and Walls was indeed a grassroots officer who was injured and retired.

Hearing this news, Li Cha suddenly felt a little discouraged.

Because what Li Cha cares most about is the army, and he spends almost all day with the soldiers. Relatively speaking, the army is cleaner than the local area.

I didn't expect Walls to become like this just after retiring from the army for two or three years.

Not only did he give his younger sister to Tony as his lover, but he also took over several women in the village, robbed the fertile land of the free people, and even killed people, becoming a rampant toubob.

Unlike Tony, Walls had been a soldier and fought wars after all.

The army is the core strength of Harland's territory, and it is also the basis for Richard to control the territory. Any cadres involved with the army will be sentenced to a lighter sentence.

Although Tony has a higher position and is a domestic slave of the Harland family, it is easy to deal with.Walls has many old comrades-in-arms, in order to avoid their death and sorrow, it is necessary to treat Walls' family better.

"Wals was executed immediately, because he had done meritorious deeds and was injured. His family made an exception, moved to Vickburg, arranged for his wife to work in a quilt factory, and gave her a job so that she could earn some money to support the family."

Li Cha knew in his heart that corrupt officials could never be killed, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop officials from corrupting even if he peeled off the skin.Li Cha's family was sent to the mine, but they also couldn't control the officials' corruption and neglect of human life.

But harsh punishments can still play a role, at least it can prevent bureaucrats from stirring up civil uprisings.

Whoever dares to provoke a civil uprising, Li Cha will deal with the bureaucrats in this area on a large scale, using butcher knives to kill people.

After several incidents happened in a row, some smart officials in Harland's territory had already grasped the balance.

Compared with other regions of the Grant Kingdom, northern Xinjiang has a large area and sparse population, with more arable land per capita, no shortage of water sources, higher food production, and a barely passable life.

Through continuous inspections, Li Cha found that most of the freedmen lived a good life, and it was relatively rare for them to be poor.

Because of the disaster this year, Li Cha also plans to give some food subsidies to the free people.

After returning to the mansion, Li Cha called all his relatives together and told them what happened today.

"You are all relatives of me and Sophia, you can be regarded as the ruling class of Harland's territory, and the development of the territory is closely related to you. For people like us, we must take a long-term view and don't be greedy for money. As long as When we hold the political power, future generations can live a prosperous life and become the master of others.

Every freeman in the territory is an asset to us.They live affluent lives, and only then can there be a market for the products we manufacture, and only then can the industry and productivity of the territory develop.We should support any policy that makes them rich, and we should oppose any policy that makes them poor.

This is also the principle in selecting the officials below. We vigorously promote those who can develop productive forces and make the people rich. Those who hinder the development of productive forces and make the people impoverished should be eliminated immediately.

You are all my relatives, you are connected with our husband and wife by blood, and you should support me. If you find a problem, you should report it immediately. If you need money to talk to me and Sophia, you must not collude with the bureaucrats below. Territory development.

That's all for today, once you are investigated by me for corruption or dereliction of duty, I will never show mercy.You will even use your heads to intimidate the officials in the deterrent territory and educate them not to commit crimes.

Please remember this point, don’t think that if you are Sophia’s brother, nephew, my brother and sister, Richard, or a member of the Harland family, you can do things without any scruples and do whatever you want.According to the rules I set, if you people commit a crime, you will be punished more severely than outsiders.

Be careful yourself, do what you have to do, and improve your self-cultivation. My moral requirements for you are higher than ordinary people.No matter who breaks the law, I will show no mercy. "

Li Cha's murderous words made many people confused, and soon they heard that Li Cha killed Tony and sent Tony's family to the mine, and they immediately felt a sense of terror.

Many people ask themselves, bullying men and women, corruption and dereliction of duty, some people have done a little bit.

After hearing Li Cha's words, he immediately began to wipe the poop off his butt to prevent someone from stabbing Li Cha's ear and causing him to die.The cruelty towards Li Cha, even relatives, they all have a feeling of fear.

Li Cha just wants to make them fear, if they don't have the psychology of fear, they will do things recklessly, and the upper beam will be wrong and the lower beam will be crooked.

Even his own family can't manage well, so naturally there is no reason to manage the officials of the territory.

If the upper layer is a little rotten, the lower layer will be rotten a lot.

If the government is rotten, even the best policies will be poorly implemented.

Through constant patrolling, discovering and solving problems, Li Cha discovered that one of the most serious problems in the territory today is the shortage of farming cattle.

The use of oxen to plow land is the most immediate means of increasing the area sown with grain.

The average freeman in the Harland Territory owns [-] acres of farmland. Without cattle, [-] acres of farmland cannot be cultivated by manpower.

But the price of farm cattle is not cheap. A mature bull costs more than six gold coins, and the price of a cow is slightly more expensive.Without three to five years of accumulation, the free people could not afford to buy farm cattle.

In the past, Richard helped the free people to farm by renting cattle. His rent was very little, only a symbolic amount.

With more and more free people, there is a shortage of official farming cattle. This year, some free people can't even rent cattle, so they can only use manpower to plow the fields, resulting in a decrease in production.

If Li Cha hadn't used a large number of Warcraft horses to plow the field during the spring plowing, this year's spring plowing task would not have been completed.

Li Cha sold [-] tons of grain and obtained [-] gold coins. Counting the liquid funds saved in the government treasury, he already has about [-] gold coins in his hand.

The reason why there is so much money in the treasury is entirely because of the unexpected fortune of [-] gold coins obtained from the secret base of the Venus family, plus a part of the balance from last year, unknowingly, the treasury actually saved A huge sum of one hundred thousand gold coins.

(End of this chapter)