Last year, because the defense had just been moved, many people were not very optimistic about the future. They always felt that Jinhae Town might be in danger.

Therefore, many people did not really take Yang Zhen's proposal of dividing farmland for payment seriously. At least at that time, they did not intend to claim the uninhabited wasteland.

But now, the situation is different. Yang Zhen led the troops of Jinhaizhen to repulse two full-scale attacks by the main Qing forces on the North Road and the East Road, and has now established a firm foothold.

Especially the final victory in the defense battle of Zhenjiang Fort gave the generals and soldiers of various regiments and battalions in Jinhai Town a reassurance.

Because the victory in the Zhenjiang Fort defense battle not only repelled the siege of the main force of the Qing rebels, it also repelled the personal expedition of the Qing puppet emperor Huang Taiji!

Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty, personally led an invasion of 100,000 troops, but they were all repulsed by more than 10,000 troops from Jinhai Town who were guarding Zhenjiang Fort. In the end, they retreated in embarrassment with the loss of troops. What does this mean?

This shows that Jinhai Town is in place and stable, and is no longer in a precarious situation.

Correspondingly, there are more and more immigration settlements under the jurisdiction of various roads in Jinhai Town, and the population is gradually increasing, and it is no longer the desolate and desolate appearance it once was.

In the current chaotic situation, having a place like Jinhai Town where you can avoid chaos and live in peace is also a good choice for the soldiers of the major regiments.

As a result, veterans who had not cared much in the past about sharing farmland for pay and conferring land for military merit, including those old subordinates who followed Yang Zhen from Songshan City to defend Jinhai Town, also had the idea of ​​enclosing land.

Since such a problem exists and has been reflected, Yang Zhen certainly cannot ignore it.

Although Yang Zhen had already told his subordinates and generals that if you have a good meal, don't worry about it being too late. The good show is yet to come. In the future, after regaining the land of Liaoshen and all the places occupied by the Qing invaders, he will definitely give everyone an explanation.

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However, no matter how many and good Yang Zhen's verbal promises are, they are still far away in the horizon. For many people, they are a bit too far away. In any case, they cannot withstand the tangible benefits before them.

This benefit is land.

For the soldiers of various ministries, this matter is easy to handle, and it is enough to implement the method of dividing the land and paying them.

He was given the title deed to thirty acres of wasteland, and the soldiers were recruited from the camp to be recruited for the garrison. From then on, he would not be paid any money. In Yang Zhen's opinion, this was good, as it saved money.

However, for the military attachés above the rank of Commander-in-Chief or Commander-in-Chief, including the generals at the garrison level and above, simply giving them thirty acres of land may not be enough.

So in the spring plowing communication order issued in late April, Yang Zhen added such provisions, allowing generals in Jinhai Town to enclose land in newly recovered and occupied areas for payment, and clarified the standards.

Among them, the limit for the chief official to enclose land in lieu of payment was sixty acres of Yongye field.

The quota for a thousand general officers is 90 acres, the garrison quota is 120 acres, the captain's quota is 150 acres, the guerrilla quota is 180 acres, the participating general's quota is 210 acres, and the lieutenant general's quota is 210 acres.

Two hundred and forty acres, and the total soldier limit is three hundred acres.

The so-called quota refers to giving you the authority to occupy land in lieu of payment. You can accept it or not.

If you accept it, you will be issued a voucher stamped with the seal of General Zhengdong. From now on, you will be paid in land instead of money. Moreover, according to your job level, you can only occupy land within the limit.

If you want to get more land, you can only get it through meritorious service and promotion or by granting land through military merit.

The so-called "Eternal Property Field" means that it is passed down from generation to generation and will be a permanent property of the world. It is not allowed to be bought, sold or given to others privately.

In fact, the land allocated to your family can only be passed on to your own descendants for generations to manage, and you are neither allowed to resell it to others privately, nor give it to others privately.

The reason why Yang Zhen specifically proposed such a ban was not to restrict the freedom of land transactions, but actually to prevent land annexation.

For example, some people at the rank of general military officer under Yang Zhen may not be satisfied with only occupying 300 acres of land. He may use his authority to occupy more or better land.

If you allow the land allocated to immigrant households to be freely bought and sold or donated privately to others, then land annexation will definitely happen.

Rich and powerful people, or those with power, will gradually own thousands of acres or even larger amounts of land.

In this way, the rich, powerful and powerful people will become big landowners, while ordinary immigrant households will become tenants and farm laborers of the powerful landlords, or they will become refugees again.

This is definitely not a situation Yang Zhen wants to see.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening, and to prevent his generals and officers from encroaching on the land of the immigrant settlers, he could only take precautions and simply put a ban on it.

Of course, Yang Zhen's attitude towards the land reclamation quota for ordinary immigrant households within each jurisdiction was relatively open.

In other words, Yang Zhen allowed them to cultivate wasteland beyond the quota, but they would have to pay heavy taxes on the land that exceeded the quota, that is, they would have to pay 30% of the harvest of all excess acres.

Yang Zhen himself did not ask for much of the 30% extra harvest. Instead, he kept 10% from his village, then left 10% to the affiliated General Military Mansion, and finally handed over 10% to the general town government.

This is done so that the village where the village is located and the cooperative defense general military office to which the village belongs can perform their duties and do their best on this issue.

So far, Yang Zhen's approach to the food problem of various households in Jinhai Town has not been to requisition food for free, but to pay for it.

But then, in order to cooperate with the upcoming army expansion plan, Yang Zhen had made up his mind to formulate regulations to forcibly collect grain from the villagers who had no one in their family to join the army.

Of course, the immigration operation and land reclamation and cultivation are still in full swing. Yang Zhen decided to wait and mention this matter later, so the spring plowing order issued in late April did not mention it at all.

On the contrary, during the spring plowing order in late April, what pleased the old immigrants most was that they could sell and lend sweet potato seedlings to the new immigrants and make a profit from it.

In other words, the sweet potato seedlings, farm tools and other items obtained by the new immigrants who crossed the sea in the 14th year of Chongzhen were no longer completely free.

If you have money, you can buy agricultural tools and seedlings from the affiliated Xieshou General Military Mansion and the neighboring old villages.

If you don't have money, you need to borrow seeds from the town hall and the neighboring old villages, and then wait for the land to be cultivated to harvest, and then use the harvested grain to pay for it.

Including the refugees who were recruited for reclamation in the 14th year of Chongzhen, after arriving at the designated settlement areas, the general military headquarters of the various alliances no longer provided them with free food support.

Except for the 30 acres of land reclamation quota allocated to each household for free, everything else, including the food needed for survival, the farm tools needed for reclamation, and the seedlings needed for planting, are all paid.

All farm tools, seedlings, and other survival needs borrowed or borrowed on credit must be paid for with the grain harvested after autumn.

Of course, the new farmers can also do long-term work for the old farmers, first completing spring plowing for the old farmers, and then receiving some money, grain or seedlings from the old farmers.

Regarding this kind of matter, Yang Zhen's spring plowing order only clarified some basic principles and allowed the various military and military units to do so. As for more specific things, it can only be handled by the villagers themselves.

Yang Zhen's approach was tantamount to shirking the responsibility of the town government. At first, he was worried about whether it would affect the enthusiasm of the immigrant farmers to open up wasteland and cultivate land.

However, the statistics reported by the Assistant Camp Affairs Office of the main town government from various sources completely eliminated his worries.

Yang Zhen ordered this to be done, but it did not affect the progress of spring plowing and sowing, and it was only June, and the number of acres of land that had been completed for spring plowing and planting had already reached more than 600,000 acres.

Whether or not there is moisture in it, or how much moisture there is, to be honest, Yang Zhen cannot guarantee.

Fortunately, the autumn grain collection plan he was drafting was not based on the actual number of acres cultivated, but on the quota of each household's land reclamation.

In other words, any villager whose family has not been drafted into the army must pay public grain in proportion to the local average yield per mu.

The ratio that Yang Zhen is currently negotiating with the Associate Operations Office is that the tax is one for ten acres within 30 acres, and the tax for land above thirty acres that exceeds the reclamation limit is three for ten.

At present, he has only announced a plan to collect ten taxes and three taxes on land exceeding the quota of 30 acres or more. The main purpose is to prevent the villagers from biting off more than they can chew, and to prevent them from only occupying land without cultivating wasteland or cultivating it intensively. In the end,

As a result, the yield per mu fell short of expectations.

As for the tax of one for ten acres within thirty acres, the tax for ten acres and one for ten acres will always be based on the limit of thirty acres. That is to say, as long as it is within the limit of thirty acres, it does not matter how many acres of land you actually reclaimed and cultivated, whether it is ten acres or two.

No matter if it is ten acres, it will be taxed as thirty acres.

The purpose of this is to force the immigrant households in disguise to complete the amount of land reclamation according to the given quota, and not to let the allocated land sit idle and wasted.

Of course, for things like arranging immigrants to open up wasteland for cultivation, Yang Zhen couldn't really calm down and go to the fields of various settlements to learn more about the spring plowing situation in detail.

Because although spring plowing is very important, no matter how important it is, it is not as important as the army expansion plan that Yang Zhen is about to implement.

On the ninth day of June in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, just as the spring plowing and reclamation work on various roads in Jinhai Town was coming to an end, especially after the local roads had come to an end, Yang Zhen officially issued an order to expand and reorganize the army.

Yang Zhen's order to expand and reorganize the army requires that all regiments and battalions in Jinhai Town be fully staffed.

That is to say, a regiment and battalion are required to organize five battalions in the order of one, two, three, four, or five, or in the directions of front, rear, left, center, and right.
Chapter completed!