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"Lord Ma, I wonder if that group of bandits is doing anything now?"

After a long while, Zheng Wanchun finally broke the silence and asked about the situation of his group of bandits.

".They haven't made much movement. They have been staying at Niao Mouse Mountain."

Ma Wenchang shook his head, looking better.

Finally, those bandits didn't cause him any trouble at this time.

"In that case, why not..."

Hearing that the bandits were very stable, Zheng Wanchun couldn't help but move his eyes slightly and tried to speak.

After hearing Xuan Ge and knowing its elegant meaning, Ma Wenchang not only moved slightly, but also had a sad look on his face, and sighed:

"Alas~, this can only be the case for the time being! I just lament how difficult people's livelihood is.

It's just that the time is not right, so we can only temporarily suffer the people.

I believe that the people will understand us and understand the difficulties faced by the court."

In this way, this bandit suppression operation was temporarily put on hold.

After all, overall, this group of bandits is still very stable. At least they don't often go down the mountain to plunder, and they have no intention of attacking the county.

If they are like Baishui Wanger and his group of rebels, then they just don't want to send troops, so they have to send troops.

In this way, another ten days passed quickly, and it was September.

In these days, the dynasty has successively condensed the projection of heaven and earth. In addition to Li Yu's special operations force, there are more than two hundred people who have integrated the heaven and earth.

On average, Wang Dahu and others have twenty or thirty extraordinary soldiers.

On September 5th, the dynasty summoned Wang Dahu and others to the meeting hall to discuss matters.

"According to the news, Emperor Tianqi passed away and was succeeded by King Xin Zhu Youjian, who is now Emperor Chongzhen."

In the first sentence, Dynasty dropped a king bomb.

"Wow!"

Everyone was stunned at first, and then there was an uproar.

"Chief, is this true?"

"Um!"

Chao Chao nodded and took a fancy to Li Hei, the head of the Military Intelligence Department.

"The matter is true!"

Li Hei said with great certainty, but did not explain further.

"This is information obtained by intelligence personnel from the Military Intelligence Department at the Weiyuan County Government Office. It cannot be false."

Instead, Chao Chao explained to everyone.

"Then it seems to be true."

"Hey, I heard that Emperor Tianqi didn't seem to be the emperor for a few years, right?"

"Well, it is now the seventh year of Tianqi, which means that Emperor Tianqi has been emperor for about seven years."

"Hey, this is really short-lived."

Suddenly, everyone started talking.

For everyone, the death of the Ming Emperor was a matter of joy.

There was no way, who made it difficult for them to live under the Ming Dynasty.

Especially now, they are on the road to rebellion.

"Chief, what should we do next?"

When everyone gradually stopped discussing, Wang San asked Wang Chao by the way.

"Well, this is also the main reason why I asked you to come.

I think at this time, the Ming court probably has no intention of paying attention to our group of bandits."

"The leader means to attack the county seat of Weiyuan County?"

Wang Sanshun asked hesitantly.

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In an instant, Wang Dahu and others opened their eyes wide and looked at the Dynasty with excitement.

Could it be that the time has come for them to start an uprising?

Seeing everyone's appearance, Wang Chao couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. Isn't this a little too anxious?

"Have you forgotten what I said before?"

"this"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. The leader has said so much. Who knows what the leader is saying now?

Wang Sanshun frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes flashed.

"The leader is saying that he should slowly become king and accumulate more food."

"Well, that's right.

Our current policy is to slow down our claim to the throne, accumulate food, and try not to attract the attention of the court, so as not to attract a large army to encircle and suppress us.

If we attack the county town now, no matter what the court officials think, they will send troops to encircle and suppress us.

Didn’t you see Wang Er from Baishui County being constantly surrounded by officers and soldiers? "

"Oh~!"

After hearing Chao Chao's explanation, everyone nodded in understanding, but at the same time they were inevitably a little disappointed.

"What the leader means"

"I think after the failure of the first two encirclement and suppression campaigns, Weiyuan County should be unable to send any troops.

In this way, the large tracts of land outside the county seat are not at our disposal."

"What does the leader mean by saying that we occupy the countryside outside the county seat?"

“Well, that’s pretty much what it means.

However, it depends on the specific situation. If things cannot be done, we can completely withdraw it."

After listening to Wang Chao's explanation, Wang Dahu waited for his eyes to light up again.

Although this is not an attack on the county seat, but occupying the vast countryside outside the county seat is also an outward development, isn't it?

“Our attack this time is mainly focused on those wealthy locals.

This time, we must take back all the people's wealth, people's anointing, and ill-gotten gains they have plundered into public property.

In addition, make good arrangements for the villagers, distribute money, food and land, pay attention to military discipline, and do not disturb the people."

Regarding those extraordinary soldiers, the Dynasty is relatively relieved, because they have integrated the status of heaven and earth and know the deified identity of the Dynasty.

Therefore, they have a blind and fanatical trust in the dynasty, and at least in the short term, this blind and fanatical trust will not subside.

Any orders from the dynasty will be implemented 100%.

It is basically impossible for them to violate the military discipline set by the dynasty.

But it's hard to say for others.

Even if they are from peasant backgrounds, there is no guarantee that they will treat the people well.

"Don't worry, chief.

When the time comes, we will let the core soldiers carry out disciplinary supervision, and no one will violate military discipline.

Otherwise, it will be dealt with by military law. "

The so-called core soldiers are actually extraordinary soldiers.

For Wang Dahu and others, soldiers who combine the qualities of heaven and earth are their core members and the real main force of the army. They often call them core soldiers.

"Yeah! I'm relieved now."

Chao Chao nodded, he was still very relieved about those extraordinary soldiers.

"only."

Suddenly, Wang Dahu hesitated and spoke.

“We are all our own people now, so it’s okay to speak out if you have anything to say.”

Seeing Wang Dahu's hesitation, Wang Chao couldn't help but smile.

"Well, I heard someone say that although we allocate fields to the villagers.

However, they don’t dare to plant it.”

"Oh, is it because of the weather?"

Wang Chao looked up at the sky.

This kind of weather is really not suitable for planting.

It seems that his prayer for rain should evolve as soon as possible.

However, it is already August, and it seems that it is too late to plant food and harvest it.

It seems that this year, we can only rely on food storage and outsourcing.

It would be great if there were sweet potatoes or potatoes.

If you plant sweet potatoes now, you should still be able to harvest them for another season.

And potatoes can be harvested in only three months.

Weiyuan County was known as the "Hometown of Potatoes" in later generations.

Involuntarily, Wang Chao secretly thought that it seemed that people should pay attention to this matter.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes should have been introduced to the Ming Dynasty by now, but they were not widely spread.

It seems that it is grown in Guangdong.

It seems that he will send someone to visit there in the future.

While Wang Chao was deep in thought, Wang Dahu's words suddenly brought him back to his senses.

"Chief, that's not the case."

"Oh~? What's the reason?"

Wang Chao asked in surprise.

"Chief, we have distributed the fields.

However, in the eyes of the people, we are just a group of bandits. They dare to collect our food and money, but they dare not take our land.

To them, it was the land of the village chiefs, the wealthy locals who were not members of the government.

They are afraid that if there are people in their family who go to the county government to file a complaint, not only will the land and property be taken back by the government, but they will also be involved in a lawsuit and may even lose their lives."

Hearing this, Wang Chao couldn't help but feel a little silent.

It's because he took it for granted.

They just thought about attacking local tyrants and dividing their fields, but they didn't take into account the current actual situation.

After thinking for a period of time, Wang Chao slowly spoke.

"In this case, those fields and lands will be taken over from now on.

Then let those people rent our fields, as long as they pay the rent when the time comes.

If something happens then, it will have nothing to do with ordinary people.

As for the amount of rent, let it be 30% of the harvest per acre. "

Compared with Ming Dynasty's taxes, this rent is actually relatively high.

The land tax in the early Ming Dynasty was about 1% to 10%, which was relatively low.

However, if you add in various other taxes, a family can barely survive after working hard for a year.

Once something unexpected happens, family destruction and death are imminent.

The rent collected by the Dynasty reached 30% of each acre of land, which seemed to be a lot.

But that's all he accepted.

Taking a medium field as an example, you can probably harvest more than one stone of grain.

One stone is roughly equal to one hundred and twenty kilograms.

In other words, an average field can harvest about 130 to 40 kilograms.

Thirty percent is about forty catties, and the tenants will have a surplus of eighty to ninety, or about one hundred catties of grain.

If a whole family comes together to plant about thirty acres, it should be easy, right?

This is equivalent to having a surplus of more than 3,000 kilograms of grain, which is enough for a family to live for a year, and more than enough.

If it is two seasons, the harvest will be greater.

Of course, this cannot be calculated in actual situations.

However, compared to the various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by the court and the 50% of the food provided by the landlords, he is really a conscience among consciences.

What's more, the landlord's 50% is just the basics. He always has a way to get you to hand over more.

The most important thing is that the dynasty collected land tax, not the head tax of the Ming Dynasty.

If you are doing other work and do not have land, you do not need to pay land tax.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty's taxation, taxes were paid on a per capita basis. Regardless of whether there was land or not, taxes had to be paid.

After Wang Sanshun, Wang Dahu and others listened to Chao Chao's words, they thought about it carefully and felt that it was indeed feasible.

Since most of the peasants do not dare to ask for the land and property distributed by them, they will take it all for themselves and let the peasants rent the crops.

Even if something happens at that time, those people from the landlord government will only look for Chaoyang and the others, and have nothing to do with the ordinary peasants.

Next, everyone quickly mobilized, with the core soldiers as the main force, led other regular troops, and rushed to various villages under the jurisdiction of Weiyuan County.

Facing the Dynasty Army, which had been trained for one or two months, had experienced several major battles, and was led by extraordinary soldiers.

The servants and guards of the landlords' houses naturally had no resistance at all, and they were almost defeated overnight.

As time went on, most of the villages in Weiyuan County were occupied by Wang Chao and his men.

Even if there were some survivors, those landlords and their men all fled to the county town.

However, if they just fled with their families, Wang Chao and his men would not bother to pay attention to them and would not deliberately chase them.

However, if they carried a large amount of family property.

Then sorry, they would definitely not be able to run faster than the Dynasty Army, which had supernatural powers.

All of them were caught up and killed by the Dynasty's soldiers, and gold, silver, food, and other materials were completely confiscated and returned to the public.

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