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Chapter 1502 Inspiration
The man in Manchester is pushed from the house, and everyone has a bad feeling.

When several people who tried to resist were shot down, people gathered in the church square in the city in fear of being unarmed and pushed by soldiers.

On the way, some of them were led by soldiers to put out the fire; some were led by soldiers to rescue others.

The crowd was managed in an orderly manner and dispersed to ensure that at the same time, there were only 300 people in the square in front of the church gate.

Soldiers with muskets, waist knives, and spears around the square burst into banners, and the dark faces of those who have experienced fighting make people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Everyone was worried in the bottom of their hearts, whether these soldiers would kill them suddenly.

More than 50 trillion cells are combined, some become the brain, some become the heart, and some hands and feet, skin and bone tissue. When they are a whole and perform their duties, they can form a greater person.

But the more than 50 trillion cells are not a whole, but just a lump of unconscious meat, which can't do anything.

The long wait had turned the crowd into a riot, with worries and fears about what was to come - something so unnatural in Manchester.

What time and place is this?
Dante's "Divine Comedy" hopes to promote the rule of morality as a basic principle, and Martin Luther's "95 Programs" refute the mistakes of the Holy See based on academic debate... People hope that the focus of attention will return to the person itself, but this is only a return to There is no business for the people in the ruler.

In this era of plague epidemics, colder weather, poor food harvests, and frequent wars, plundering is like a celebration banquet after an army wins, and it is the norm.

Not to mention the low-level and poorer Europa overseas islanders, even in Daming and Spain, these two rich and powerful countries, the soldiers who often owe their salaries still regard plunder as normal.

Human beings have always been cruel, and cruelty lies in the treatment of everything in the world, as well as in the treatment of human beings themselves.

Human beings are kind only because kindness benefits people.

A more rigorous organization and stricter military laws will help the troops to have higher combat effectiveness and win at a lower cost.

But in order to achieve such a result, soldiers need to be treated better.

If you give up plunder, you can only have more advanced forms of plunder.

Who wouldn't wish to be morally nobler?But morality is nothing compared to survival unless the need for survival has been met.

Even if a pirate has endless money, he will despise other pirates, and maybe even put on new clothes and set up a memorial archway for himself as the biggest pirate.

And now this army has no sense of plunder after breaking the city, it only acts to hunt down people, even if they see property in the house, they are not tempted, and now they are all arrested here - this does not make the people feel at ease , but made them more nervous.

Are they... wanting to massacre the city?

With this kind of fear, the crowd that was agitating in silence did not calm down until the sentries headed by Meng Xin lined up. Everyone stared at these newcomers in full armor with panicked eyes, watching them put down their knives and guns. , moved... a table?
That table doesn't look like it's meant to kill people.

There were two people sitting at a table, and when Meng Xin waved, the soldiers pushed and pushed the young and strong people to move forward.

"It looks like you have served as a soldier for the nobles before, don't serve them as a soldier, go home and live a good life."

"Come on, tell me what your name is, how many people are in your family, and where the house is."

One by one, the conscripted peasants and soldiers who had been fighting half a day ago did not dare to show their grandeur. Under the translation of the sentry, they obediently registered the relevant information according to the requirements of the Ming army, and had their first household registrations of their own.

Some people have already married, mentioned their children, and carefully registered their children's situation. The Ming army who registered said that they would prepare schools for their children.

Finally, after the registration was over, I handed them a few pieces of paper with the official seal and asked them to keep them. It was suggested that they make a wooden box after returning home and keep their household registration with them at all times. When the Ming army interrogated and showed their household registration, they could prove that they were citizens of Manchester.

Those papers are square and square, with several indentations on them, and ink marks printed on the reverse side, with the words of Makino Yan and the logo of the Dongyang Military Mansion written on it.

The cigarette case of Muye Tobacco is the only paper that Liu Ruguo and even Yingming can provide to this land on a large scale.

In order to raise these papers, the cigarettes provided by Yingming to Liu Ruguo recently were all loose cigarettes when they were distributed to soldiers.

Groups of people who were still in shock were sent to the church square. After completing the registration, they returned home one by one as if they were survivors of a catastrophe.

On the second day, the people who had not completed the registration were called out to register again as before, but it became much more orderly than the first day.

People who didn't have their turn don't have to be called to other places, they just need to wait at home. When the time comes, men from the whole street will line up to the church square, and people's hearts are much more at ease.

They heard that those who registered were fine, they just couldn't leave their homes for a while.

By the third day, some people were already saying that among the people who completed the registration on the first day, some people were allocated land by the government, and some people were organized out of the city to receive a batch of farm tools made in the mountains. It seems that those farm tools will be distributed to them in the future.

At the same time, the government's tax standards also spread among the crowd along with the news of the land distribution. Each household will be allocated different amounts of land according to the number of people, and several households will be shared with each other. pasture.

In the past, those who had land were allocated more land by the government than before; those who did not have land were allotted more land.

The English soldiers in the Ming army said that this was because the lands of the church and the nobles were confiscated. Without the nobles and the church, they would have owned so much land.

The government's tax rate on land is very low, but they are required to keep farming. If someone's land is abandoned, the government will take it back and distribute it to others.

Everything is moving in a good direction, except for the soldiers of the Ming army, the affairs that need to be dealt with are very complicated... The registration of the household registration of the people seems to be endless.

On the first day, they only registered more than 400 households.

On the second day, more than 600 households were registered because the army changed the registration rules according to local conditions to improve efficiency.

Ordinarily, according to the scale of Manchester, the job should be finished by the third day.

Unexpectedly, more than 600 households were still registered on the third day.

On the fourth day, not only those who started hiding in the city ran to the church square to request registration, but even those who fled outside the city with the defeated army also ran back to request registration.

Uesugi Jingsheng didn't even know how the news got out. His troops deployed in the north were able to catch hundreds of people trying to run to the south every day.

Such registration continued until the seventh day, and there was no more land in Manchester that could be distributed to the people, and the city even attracted surrounding towns.

Soon, exciting news came from the west. Because of what happened in Manchester, the people of Liverpool, led by a businessman, armed themselves, arrested the nobles in the city, and asked for help from Manchester, hoping that the Ming army could mobilize artillery to take them out. The nobles guarding the castle were wiped out.

At this moment, Liu Ruguo thought that he had succeeded, and that his success had inspired more people.

(End of this chapter)