Three Kingdoms: Jiangdong is no longer a rat
Chapter 82 Fathers and Elders
Chapter 82 Fathers and Elders
The bullet room was not spacious. The couch and the table alone took up half of the space. The rest of the space was occupied by Yan Yi, Cao Qiu, Yin Li, the head of the village, the village guard and others. It was already a bit crowded, so Yan Yi asked Wu Fu to lead the way and wanted to walk around the house.
The arrival of the group had already alarmed the local residents. Twenty or thirty people gathered outside the ammunition chamber and looked out. When they saw Yan Yi walking out of the ammunition chamber, they knelt down in haste and saluted.
Wu Fu said, "The weather is good today. Most of the villagers are out working. They won't be back until the evening."
Yan Yi nodded slightly. Seeing that most of the people who stayed in the village were elderly, he comforted them gently and ordered everyone to disperse.
He walked along the straight dirt road from south to north. He saw that most of the houses on the left were earthen houses, and few had courtyards. On the right, most of the houses were brick and wood structures with courtyards, and some had attics two or three stories high. The architectural pattern of the wealthy people in the neighborhood was clear at a glance.
However, nearly all the wealthy families in Guangxin had already fled, leaving the remaining twenty-one households to be impoverished common people. For newly arrived refugees like Wu Fu, the only difference was that the houses on the left had lower rents and sales prices, while the houses on the right were more expensive.
Yan Yi visited several households and learned that the houses in the village were rented and sold strictly according to the price limit he set. He couldn't help but smile.
As we approached a house with smoke rising from the chimneys, we saw a burly man in his twenties carrying a hoe and a dung bucket, standing in front of the gate and urging, "A Bao, are you done yet? If you're late, the manure will be divided up by others!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming, Third Brother. Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. My wife is late in preparing breakfast today." The young man called Abao hurried out of the house, followed by a woman in a cloth skirt, who was stuffing bean cakes and pickles into the cloth bag around his waist.
The two of them walked out of the courtyard together and happened to meet Yan Yi walking towards them, and they hurriedly saluted.
Wu Fu introduced them, "These two are from the same hometown in Qu'e. I grouped them together and allocated them adjacent plots of land. Therefore, they go out to work together every day."
Yan Yi nodded and asked, "Have the ten and five divisions of the village been organized?"
Like soldiers in the army, the common people in each village were organized into groups of ten and five, and their household registration was carried out in groups of ten and five. Usually, five households were grouped into a group, and ten households into a group. The purpose of this was to facilitate the government to manage the farmland in each village, collect taxes, levy labor service, and maintain local security.
The division of ten and five is an important matter for the village head. Wu Fu quickly replied, "My Lord, the division of ten and five in this village has been completed, totaling seven ten and five. The nearby fields have also been distributed according to the division."
Yan Yi nodded and instructed, "Although there aren't many bandits right now, we must still regularly organize groups of ten and five to conduct drills to prepare for possible future military disasters. The Revenue Department will commend villages that perform well in these drills, and the Military Department will also send personnel to provide guidance in the future."
A hint of joy flashed across Mr. Wu's face, and he quickly responded.
He had heard the news before. The Household Department would select a group of villages with good training every month and reward them with money and grain. Now that he had heard it confirmed by Yan Yi, he immediately became very motivated and vowed to win this generous reward for Guangxinli.
Seeing his high morale, Yan Yi felt quite satisfied. For the time being, the ten-five system was indeed an effective organizational method, and he attached great importance to it. Not only did it facilitate tax collection and prevent banditry, but it also served as a strategic component of the village's ten-five system. When the army was short of troops and the situation was critical, the elite troops within each village's ten-five would provide a timely reinforcement.
In addition, the organized groups of ten and five people can also effectively monitor and detect enemy forces within the territory.
The Northeast King in his previous life recalled in his later years that when he led his troops to fight in Shaanxi and Gansu, the whereabouts and numbers of his troops were often leaked to the local garrison by those inconspicuous villagers, causing his troops to suffer repeated defeats and heavy losses.
As long as the people are willing to support you, you will get rewards beyond your imagination.
Yan Yi was just copying homework by standing on the shoulders of giants.
He has now realized the benefits of being supported by the people. Not only is the implementation of government orders very smooth, but the recruitment of new troops is also going very smoothly.
When he reached the center of the village, his eyes were attracted by a stone tablet about five feet high.
It is called a stele, but in fact it is just a large stone with sharp edges on all four sides. The front side was simply smoothed and then embedded in the soil, which shows that it was made in a hurry.
Several lines of text were chiseled onto the stele. The characters were simple but clear. They read: "On the fourteenth day of the fifth month of the first year of Xingping, the elders of Guangxin Village, including Wu Fu, Wu Yan, Shi Ju, and Mao Ping, offered sacrifices to the sixty-two people who were to govern Shijuan Village. On the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the first year of Xingping, they built a temple and collected a total of 133,500 yuan to buy 267 mulberry seedlings. Among the temples, there were some who were to be given to the elders of the village, and they lent them mulberry fields as a token of their agreement."
This was the first time Yan Yi had seen such a stone tablet. The inscription was simple and easy to understand. It stated that on May 13th, Wu Fu and sixty-two other people from Guangxin Village raised 133,500 yuan to purchase mulberry seedlings and plant mulberry fields. Any member of the Xizhong community who, based on their investment, qualified as a village elder, could borrow the Xizhong mulberry fields to cultivate them. The harvested mulberry leaves, mulberries, and mulberry bark would be distributed to the Xizhong community in proportion to their investment. If the cultivation was successful, the village elder would receive a larger share. If not, the village elder would transfer the management rights to other qualified members the following year. If part of the mulberry fields were untended, they could be rented out. If someone withdrew midway, their share could be sold to other members.
After Mr. Wu's explanation, he finally understood that all this had to start with the agricultural promotion order he issued.
Since the government offered certain tax exemptions to farmers who planted mulberry and hemp, and the weaving bureau also purchased large quantities of silk, most people in Guangxin believed that planting mulberry and hemp would bring good returns, so they decided to plant more mulberry and hemp.
However, some villagers were poor and could only afford to buy a few mulberry seedlings, and some could not even afford a single one, making it difficult to establish a large-scale and effective management system. After discussion, the villagers decided to pool money to buy mulberry seedlings and plant them, and set up a stone tablet as a witness and a constraint.
After hearing this, Yan Yi couldn't help but feel a little emotional. He never thought that the people in the village were so poor that some people couldn't even afford to buy mulberry seedlings at 500 coins each.
He looked at Wu Fu and asked in a serious voice, "How many farmers can't afford to buy mulberry seedlings?"
(End of this chapter)
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