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Chapter 1403 City God
Winchester opened the door of welcome to the Ming army, and Ying Ming also followed his promise, offering me a peach in return.

The army obtained the identity certificates of the nobles from the acquired luggage, and then dispatched soldiers to search family property, real estate, and church property under the leadership of the people.

And on February 12, the 25th year of Wanli, under the witness of Huangming Banner, registered the first ever household registration for the people of Winchester.

There was a little problem when checking the church property, but Wei Si, who came from Puli County, had a quick head and was extremely handy in doing these things.

"General, 720 hectares of land were confiscated according to the land documents of nobles, wealthy merchants, and monasteries, of which 350 hectares were allocated to the 28 households under Winchester on the evening of February [-]. , and issued a title deed."

Wei Jinzhong entered Ying Ming's mansion in Winchester to inform the general of the news.

This is like the yamen of the Ming army in Pulixun. It used to be the mansion of a nobleman. The past owner was a new nobleman who had property first and then a title. He built a three-story stone mansion surrounded by a large area. manor fields.

Now it is Ying Ming's fancy, and it has become the garrison of the Eastern Army here. Stables and camps have been built outside, and the lower two floors are used for the office of more than a dozen soldiers who turned into local officials.

When Wei Jinzhong went up to the third floor, Ying Ming had just finished today's work, and was leaning on a chair with a gold-plated plate armguard, using iron clips to clamp down the small lead cakes on it one by one.

The left part of his iron arm was hammered and deformed during the battle in Puli. Since there was no suitable craftsman, he found such a left arm of plate armor from the spoils and wore it on his arm. Just look at the pattern. Just know the workmanship is fine.

Being shot with a pistol at close range is only a small piece of lead on the arm armor, and the quality is very reliable.

Hearing Wei Jinzhong's words, Ying Ming put down the plate armguard in his hand and said, "Well done, but you also deal with those people who objected to the confiscation of church property by the Ming army?"

Wei Jinzhong arched his hands and laughed, and responded with all his mouth: "It's been dealt with, it's easy to deal with."

In Yingming's puzzled eyes, Wei Jinzhong explained: "I bypassed those prestigious people, gathered the people together in the neighborhoods in the city and in the villages outside the city, and told them that the confiscated land was allocated to them. .”

"They opened the city. This is our court's reward. There must be rewards. No one can change it."

"But after the allocation, the land is their own. If they want to, take the title deed and bring the monks to the yamen, and I will go through the formalities for them and donate the land to the monks."

"Even if the monastery is gone, the monks are still there, so it doesn't matter."

Speaking of which, Wei Jinzhong put on a sly smile of a successful small idea on his face: "No one objects anymore."

This is Wei Jinzhong’s experience in fighting in Pulixi. In terms of knowledge, if Wei Jinzhong, a semi-literate Ming Dynasty, is compared to a primary school graduate, then the people of England are no more than prenatal education in terms of experience and education.

Just kidding, they're far behind.

Ignorant people are easily incited and divided. When people are gathered together by the power of incitement, they are indestructible; but once they are divided, the crowd will become a powerless mob.

Their inherent thinking made it impossible for them to accept the confiscation of church property by the Ming army. Although it would not cause resistance, it could easily become a breeding ground for resistance.

If part of the land is distributed to the people as promised, then the power to donate the land to the church is given to them themselves.

At least according to Wei Jinzhong's experience in the west, people often have extraordinary dedication when they control things that don't belong to them, but once these things are specific to the things they hold in their hands?

Ying Ming raised his eyebrows: "It seems to work well, are those monks still in your small yamen?"

"Here, the yamen has been in charge of food for three days. They were quite happy at first, but they couldn't sit still after staying for two days. They wanted to go to the street to find people for land, but I didn't let them go."

Ying Ming lowered his eyes and shook his head slowly: "They are not religious."

Responding to his question, Wei Jinzhong shook his head quickly and earnestly: "They are extremely devout. These lands were given by the gods, so they don't give them to the monks, because the monks used to have so much land, which is obviously impious."

Ying Ming was taken aback for a moment, then smacked his lips dryly, thinking that if Wei Jinzhong explained it like this, there seemed to be no problem.

"They're nothing special. In a few days, I think they'll come to their senses." Wei Jinzhong said with a smile, "I left them a mouse hole for them to drill into."

"What rat hole?"

Wei Jinzhong held the tongue-shaped scorpion on the thumb of his left hand in his right hand, and said with a chuckle, "The yamen allocated fields to all the common people, but not to the monks. Are the monks considered common people? They will probably find them in a few days." The yamen wants their own land."

"When the time comes, let them choose whether to be the emperor's subjects or God's followers."

Wei Jinzhong squinted his eyes, raised his thumb first and then his index finger, and said, "If he wants to be a subject of the emperor, he will be given fifty acres of land; I wish to go to the temple."

The counties in Puzhou, following the consistent position of the Eastern Banner Army, set up a Town God Temple in every town that captured and surrendered, and the highest military officer canonized the fallen soldiers who performed outstandingly during their lifetime as city gods, and guarded the city pool with heroic spirits.

Today, there are 140 Town God’s Temples in the whole of Ireland, and 43 Town God’s Temples in one corner of Puzhou, England. Each Town God’s Temple is set up with Town God, Divisions, and Generals according to the scope of its jurisdiction and the number of soldiers killed in battle.

Usually small villages with [-] households, and a few small villages with less than [-] households have only one underworld general to guard; towns with thousands of households canonize one judge and two generals; manage.

Puli and Dublin are the most numerous, both have city gods, judges and twelve divisions, as well as shackles and four generals, black and white.

Town God's Temples all over the country choose loyal elders from Ailan Kingdom as temple custodians, and select servants from among the captives to take care of the incense in the Town God's Temple.

In fact, every Town God's Temple is also the cemetery of the Ming army. The Eastern Banner soldiers who died in battle will be buried in the Town God's Temple on the spot. Some of the Muye Army also had such a plan before the war. They build graves.

A monument is erected for the Eastern Banner Army, and a tree is built for the Muye Camp.

Although Yingming's army is still hundreds of miles away from London, arrangements have been made for the Town God's Temple in Lun County. There will be 24 divisions and six black and white impermanent generals.

Ying Ming felt that it was not bad for the monks to serve the old temple.

But before Ying Ming could show a smile, Wei Jinzhong whispered winkingly: "General, I have found some beautiful women from the family members of criminal officials in the city. Tonight..."

"Ugh."

Ying Ming sighed for a long time, and looked worriedly between Wei Jinzhong's legs. He is good at everything, but he is too lustful: "Aren't you afraid that your life will be ruined?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)