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Chapter 139 Population Field Mu
At the corner of Chaya Mountain, Gao Jun set up several camps, surrounded Liu Hongqi's stronghold, and several troops took turns to attack.

In order to ensure the safety of each unit in the round of battle, when each unit is attacking, there are two troops watching the battle. First, to learn and observe, and second, to ensure that the attacking troops will be able to immediately support them in case they are ambushed or the situation is unfavorable. .

In this way, the local bandits who were surrounded on Chaya Mountain will be miserable.

The local bandits on the mountain knew that they were not Gao Jun's opponent, so they didn't want to fight anymore, but they didn't expect that Gao Jun would not accept the surrender and forced them to continue fighting, which made the local bandits want to die.

At the foot of Chaya Mountain, thousands of local bandits were chased and beaten by more than a thousand officers and soldiers. The local bandits ran and scolded, "Gao Yihuan is your ancestor, and I beat you up. Give me the fucking beating~"

Liu Hongqi was so ashamed and angry that he had given in and expressed his unwillingness to continue fighting against Gao Yihuan. If Gao Yihuan refused to accept it, it would not be impossible to insist on his life. Anyway, Gao Yihuan is strong enough to break through the stronghold and kill him. If so, Liu Hongqi will admit it , but this Gao Yihuan's behavior is really deceptive.

He could obviously break through the stronghold, but every time he was about to break through, another team came over and beat him up again according to the original routine.

Liu Hongqi couldn't beat him again and again, and he refused to surrender. Even the way to escape was blocked by Gao Yihuan.

This made Liu Hongqi so ashamed and angry that he wanted to die several times, and tried to find Gao Yihuan, but he was defeated by Gao Jun.

In a fit of anger, Liu Hongqi hid in the cottage and locked himself up, but soon, the food in the cottage was in short supply, so he had to come out to grab food again.

Gao Yihuan asked people to prepare a little food every time, and let the people in the cottage come to grab it, forcing them to fight.

Fast forward to April, Liu Hongqi was angry at the beginning, but now he has completely lost his temper. He even developed a tacit understanding with Gao Jun, figured out some of Gao Jun's routines, and sometimes beat up the newcomer Gao Jun Out of the heart bad breath.

However, with previous experience, the local bandits know that on the surface there is only one high army fighting against them, but in fact there are two other troops watching the battle nearby. If they really beat the new high army too hard, they will immediately usher in These two troops attacked, so the heroes all grasped their proportions, and after a little fighting, they immediately went back to the cottage.

The round of battles in Chaya Mountain undoubtedly made the combat power of the high-ranking troops rise rapidly. In fact, not only Gao Yihuan's people, but even the trapped local bandits became more and more powerful.

Gao's army consists of nine troops. When the first few troops first passed, they basically suppressed the local bandits and fought against them. Later, the new ones struggled a bit, and even couldn't beat the local bandits when they first started.

This made Gao Yihuan vigilant, and ordered that every time one passed, it must be guarded by two elite soldiers.

The round of battle in Chaya Mountain is still in full swing. Although it costs a lot of money, it can make every soldier go up and down the battlefield and fight for real, so that new soldiers can quickly become old soldiers, but Gao Yihuan thinks it is worthwhile. .

At this time, the battle was still going on, but Gao Yihuan had already left Suiping and returned to Ruzhou.

Along the Ru River, there is a large area of ​​arable land. Although a large part of this land has been allocated, hundreds of thousands of acres are still in the hands of Gao Yihuan.

The repeated wars have caused the population loss in Henan to be very fast. The situation in Runing is not as dilapidated as in the east of Henan, but the population density is also sparse.

In November last year, after Second Brother Gao occupied Runing, he began to conduct population statistics and re-measure the acres of land. However, due to the strong power in Runing, the inventory only made progress near the prefectural city of Runing, but not in other counties. Unable to proceed.

Fortunately, in February, Gao Yihuan defeated Liu Hongqi, a big bandit in Runing, and tortured him in Chaya Mountain, which made local tyrants and gentry in all counties feel timid. unobstructed.

At the beginning of March, when Shangcai County was being investigated, another incident happened. Taking advantage of Gao Yihuan's capture of Runing and Chongwang Mansion, the gentry Huang Shiren took the opportunity to occupy more than 6000 mu of Chongwang's vassal land in Shangcai County, and colluded with officials to forge Tian Qi, trying to keep it for himself, was denounced.

In addition, it was found that when the grain was distributed years ago, Huang Shiren threatened the people with threatening words and asked the people to deliver grain. In the end, he did not produce any grains of rice, but instead earned [-] shi of grain. , to rectify it completely frightened Runing's arrogance.

At the end of March, as Gao Yihuan's troops became more and more powerful, each county stationed a division of soldiers, and the despots were deterred, so the population statistics and field inventory that could not be carried out were completed in early April.

According to the final statistics, Gao Yihuan ruled Runing Prefecture, together with Luyi, Chenzhou, Xiangcheng, and Shenqiu, the total population was 93, and the land area was 710 million mu, of which 380 million mu belonged to Chongfan and Fuzhou. Fan and Zhou Fan's Fan Tian, ​​and the rest belonged to private land.

In 1578 AD, that is, in the sixth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng ordered the clearing of various types of land across the country, and those who violated the clearing should be "ordered to be punished". The final clearing result was more than 7 million mu. With the reclamation of acres of land, this number continues to increase.

The land under Gao Yihuan's rule is seven acres per capita, but when Gao Yihuan divides the land, he only gives five acres per square meter. Even with the addition of military land, he still has nearly two million acres of land in his hands.

Of course, most of these lands are in a state of desertion, some because no one cultivates them, and some are unable to irrigate due to the weather.

At this time, on the bank of the Ru River, there are large fields on both sides, and the inside is lush green. There is a newly built village on every thousand acres of land. Hundreds of men build warehouses, or are busy in the fields, outlining a picture. A beautiful field painting.

"General, according to your instructions, most of the more than 4 captives were placed along the Ru River, and hundreds of manors were built." Yu Yinglong rode on a horse, pointing to the fields by the river, and said.

Gao Yihuan looked at it and nodded in satisfaction.Most of these local bandits are ordinary people. There are roughly two reasons why they became local bandits. One is that they are affected by natural disasters and heavy taxes. You can live, and you can grow the land, but without a stable environment, you will be robbed after planting, so you simply don’t plant, and you have no choice but to follow the thief.

After capturing these local bandits, Lu Yifang's opinion was to divide the land for resettlement, but Gao Yihuan did not accept it.

If they are resettled, they are good citizens. Gao Yihuan can only collect [-]% of the land allocated to them in the first three years. People are used as tenants, but he can collect up to [-]% of the tax, and even become serfs directly, even though they can eat enough.

Brother Gao's current territory is not well-developed in commerce, and the main source of taxation is the land tax. He can collect as much as he can. Besides, these local bandits also need to be punished to a certain extent, otherwise they will not be able to deter and stabilize the place.

In troubled times, heavy codes are required, laws must be strict, and mistakes must be severely punished.

"The manor is well built." Gao Yihuan stood on the horse, turned his head to look at the winding Ru River, saw a large group of people building a dam in the distance, and couldn't help asking: "How is the water conservancy in Runing Mansion?"

"Reporting to the general, I refer to my experience in Luyi to build new water conservancy along the Ru River." Yu Yinglong pointed to the local bandits who were building a dam in the distance, "However, because the season is missed, the Ru River has a large amount of water now, and it needs The diversion dike will be built first, so the project is huge, and I am afraid it will not be completed until next year."

"The current climate is very abnormal, and water conservancy is very important. I hope that the speed of dam building will be faster." Gao Yihuan said, looking at the busy crowd.

At this time, there was a gallop coming from the direction of Runing, "General Qi, there is news from Guanzhong!"

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