Yang Peng came to the door of the Liu family early the next morning. Yang Peng decided to handle the Liu family's affairs personally this time and give those gentry a warning. It’s not that I won’t report it, the time has not yet come. The first step was to beat the servants with wooden boards. More than a hundred soldiers from the Huben Division tied up the more than thirty servants who were beating Yang Peng's tenant farmers. The buttocks were bloody and bloody, and he screamed repeatedly.
These servants were used to being powerful in Qingyun County, but they never expected that they would be beaten today. Then there are four adult men from the Liu family. Four adult men of the Liu family who are not family members also play forty games. Although these men do not preside over decision-making, they are still tyrannical over poor people, and they should be beaten as well. After forty bats were played, the four men of the Liu family cried like ghosts and howled like wolves.
There are many ways to hit the board, including heavy lifting and light hitting, heavy lifting and heavy hitting, etc. The effect of hitting the board completely depends on the technique of the soldier hitting the board. However, Zheng Hui personally supervised the beating of the boards at this time. He was chased by the Liu family's servants once at that time. He was very angry with the Liu family and asked the soldiers to beat him again. The soldiers were also very dissatisfied with the Liu family who were against the lord of Tianjing New City, and they were very ruthless. The forty big boards were solid.
When these Liu family members were being slapped on the ground and screaming, how could they still have the authority and authority they usually commanded? After the forty big board fell, the men of the Liu family were already half dead. The Liu family's home has been ransacked at this time. Where to go to recover from their injuries after being carried away, and how long it will take to recover from their injuries depends on the luck of these men. Seeing the men of the Liu family being beaten with boards, the poor farmers by the river who had become tenant farmers of the Liu family had blood-red eyes and cheered loudly. The scene was very heated, as if it was revenge.
The next step is to return the land and shops of the oppressed people to the people. The Liu family snatched a thousand acres of dry farmland by the river and illegally annexed more than a dozen shops in Longshui Town. Now these illegal gains must be returned to the rightful owners. Yang Peng's secret guard ambassador Han Jinxin has investigated the original owners of the shop. At this time, these original owners were summoned to the execution site. Yang Peng took the initiative and wrote the sale and purchase deed of the shop, and asked Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, to press his fingerprints and return the shop to its original owner. The small businessmen who took back their shops were very happy, and they all knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Peng. Several businessmen even had tears in their eyes. They knelt on the ground and shouted that Yang Peng was the great master of Qingtian!
The same operation applies to farmland, but the land deeds of the original owners of the farmland are already in the hands of the farmers. They were bought by Yang Peng as evidence some time ago. Those original land deeds are enough to prove the farmers' land property rights. The Liu family has used their power to occupy farmland over the years, and they don't even care about the land deeds in the hands of farmers. This now becomes evidence of their evil deeds. Yang Peng stood in the middle of the crowd and said loudly: "The fields of the forty-seven farmers by the river belong to their original owners! These forty-seven farmers no longer need to pay rent to the Liu family!" After hearing Yang Peng's words, more than two hundred farmers There was so much joy and excitement that some even cried. These days, a farmer's family relies on a dozen acres of land to make a living. There is a huge difference between paying 50% of the land rent and not paying the land rent. Not paying land rent means that they can have enough to eat and wear warm clothes, and that they will not die of illness or starvation. How can they not be happy?
The farmers who regained their land spontaneously knelt down towards Yang Peng, sparsely kneeling in a large area, shouting to the blue sky. The last ones to be dealt with were Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, and his eldest son. At this time, the two were heavily tied with ropes, with wooden signs with the word "Zhan" inserted in their backs. The two of them were kneeling on the ground, looking very desperate. Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, had lost his former dignity and kowtowed to Yang Peng desperately:
"City Lord Rende, let me live. I will always be grateful for your kindness and kindness!" "City Lord, you don't care about the faults of villains, spare my life!" Yang Peng shouted loudly to the small farmers and traders whose property was taken away by the Liu family. He said: "Are you willing to let these two people go?" When the small farmers and traders who had been oppressed for many years heard this, they shouted: "No!" "Kill them!" "Kill!"
In the past eight years, the Liu family has taken away the land from poor farmers and made them sharecroppers. They have taken away 50% of their output every year, leaving them with no food and clothing, and turning them from subsistence farmers to starved sharecroppers. Many of these poor peasant families died of cold and illness due to poverty, and they had a deep-seated hatred for the Liu family.
Now that the criminal has been captured, how can he be let go just because of his soft words? Those vendors were also deprived of their food business by the Liu family. For ten years, they had to rely on other people to make a living, and their lives were miserable. No one was willing to let the head of the Liu family go. Even the uninvolved people who were watching shouted loudly to kill him. The Liu family monopolizes various businesses in Longshui Town, and their products are sold at high prices. However, all the shops opened by other people in the town were destroyed by the Liu family, and this was the only town within ten miles. The nearby villagers could only endure the Liu family's exploitation on weekdays, and were very dissatisfied with the Liu family.
Seeing that Yang Peng wanted to uphold justice for the people at this time, how could these people be willing to let the head of the Liu family go? Looking at the indignant people, Li Zhi nodded and said: "The evidence of the crime is conclusive and the public is furious. If we don't kill, the people will not be angry! Execution!" Two riflemen walked up to the two heads of the Liu family and faced the two men. The gun was placed in his head. "Don't kill me, my son Liu Bingchuan is the censor!" Only two gunshots were heard, and two greedy evil gentry were shot in the head and fell into a pool of blood. The onlookers were startled by the gunfire and retreated in panic. But they quickly reacted, stood still and cheered loudly.
"The city lord is mighty!" "Master Qingtian eliminates harm for the people!" "Qingtian! Qingtian!" "Qingtian!"
On April 28, Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty sat in the left gate of the imperial city and convened an assessment to select county magistrates who had outstanding performance in the three-year plan. The five county magistrates came to the emperor one by one in order. Zhao Heng had been worried about not having enough food and salary to recruit soldiers and horses to deal with the raging war in the past few years, so he asked the five county magistrates how they could get enough soldiers, horses and food to fight against the rebels and thieves. Khitan. The two county magistrates who came in earlier spoke arrogantly and talked about empty morals, which made Zhao Heng quite unhappy. But the third magistrate who walked in, Zeng Jiuyi, performed exceptionally. His words made Zhao Heng's eyes light up.
"The difficulties of the people are all due to the incorruptibility of the officials. To make the guards and orders incorruptible, it is not necessary to send more troops to support the army." Zhao Heng happily asked: "How to make the officials incorruptible?" The county magistrate once said: "The selection in the Ming Dynasty examination, heavy punishments, and selection of censors can reverse the trend and make officials more honest!" Zhao Heng nodded while stroking his beard, and said loudly without waiting for the other two magistrates to answer the questions: "Well said, I choose you as the official. Ranked first in the assessment, he was transferred to the Hanlin Academy as an editor."
Although being an editor of the Hanlin Academy is hard work, the future is much brighter than being a county magistrate, and later he will be a capital official. Upon hearing this, the county magistrate kowtowed to the ground and said loudly: "The emperor's kindness is so great, I am deeply grateful!" Zhao Heng nodded with satisfaction. After assessing the five magistrates, Zhao Heng walked to Qianqing Palace with the guard of honor, but saw Wang Jin trotting over. "Your Majesty, Yang Peng has caused trouble again!"
This time in the fight against the Liu family, Yang Peng won a complete victory. Now that they saw the fate of the Liu family, other landowners were afraid of Li Zhi and did not dare to go against Yang Peng. Each family gave up their land to Yang Peng to build irrigation canals, and the irrigation canals were developed very smoothly. I believe that in another month and a half, by mid-June, all irrigation canals for 100,000 acres of dry land will be built. When winter wheat is sown in July and August, the dry fields can be irrigated with water trucks.
The scorching sun in May is like fire, baking the earth. Apart from the noisy chirping of cicadas, there was no other sound in the surrounding area. The weather was too hot, so Yang Peng took off his official robe and put on short clothes. He led two soldiers in a light carriage and rode on horseback to inspect the new fields in Qingyun County. There he saw that the first batch of farmers were still building irrigation canals - Yang Peng gave the men and women who helped build the canals six cents of silver a day, which worked out to earn one or two or eight cents of silver a month. During the off-season, farmers have nothing to do. They can make money by working on the General's irrigation canal construction site, which is very cost-effective.
Most of the second wave of farmers were also building irrigation canals, but at the same time some farmers were also working on the newly cultivated fields, hoeing and plowing the fields. Yang Peng inspected along the path along the river and saw that the farmers were working enthusiastically and there were prosperous scenes everywhere. Yang Peng was in a good mood, as if he had already seen a bumper wheat harvest next year.
Including these 100,000 acres of wheat fields, Yang Peng's annual land rent income is at least 35,000 shi of grain, worth 70,000 taels of silver, which is very impressive. Moreover, there are now 20,000 farmers in the territory. These farmers can be organized to carry out project construction during their spare time, which is a very cheap human resource. Walking close to Xin's store, Yang Peng saw a group of farmers gathering around a young man squatting on the ground. The young man was scratching the fields with his hands and talking.
Yang Peng was curious for a moment and walked over to listen. "There are grass roots underneath this kind of reed grass field. If you don't remove the grass roots, there will be many weeds, which will rob the wheat of fertilizer. Before cultivating, we usually cut off the weeds or set them on fire, and then use shuttle plows to plow deeply! Then use zigzag harrows to rake the ground , and finally the horses collect the grass roots! This can’t be completely removed, and irrigation is required! After plowing the grass roots, it is necessary to irrigate once before the underground rhizomes germinate to drown the remaining grass roots.”
The young man seemed to be very experienced in opening up wasteland and was guiding other farmers in the crowd. The farmers were also very impressed by him and stood nearby and listened carefully. After the young man finished speaking, he stood up and walked to another field. The farmers around him were like students following their teacher, following him to another place one by one. Yang Peng also walked over.
"In this kind of land with many years of old grass, you need to pay more attention to removing the grass roots. The key point of harrowing is to keep the soil in a loose state so that the grass roots can rot underneath the soil. When harrowing, the grass root soil should be turned into the lower layer of the soil. , which will make the grass roots rot faster. Use a disc rake to plow shallowly before sowing. If you mix some alfalfa when sowing wheat, the harvest will be better!" Yang Peng saw that this young man spoke clearly, and other farmers trusted him so much. , curious in my heart. He asked a farmer standing around the crowd: "Who is this man? Why are everyone gathered around to listen to him?"
The farmer glanced at Yang Peng and said, "This is the good brother from Liujia Village. He is literate and has read agricultural books, and his farming skills are much better than ours. We are listening to his teachings! Yang Peng He looked at the young man and asked, "Does the wheat he grows have a high yield? "
The farmer nodded and said: "The dry land planted by Brother Wang can produce one stone and five bushels of wheat per acre. In summer, he also grows mung beans. The harvest is very impressive in a year. In the past, he planted fifteen acres of dry land and paid half of the grain as land rent every year, which was able to support his family." Three people. Now that Brother Wang and his wife have obtained forty acres of dry land, the city lord of this dry land only collects 30% of the land rent. I am afraid that Brother Wang will become rich!"
Yang Peng nodded and looked at the young man on the ground again. That young man, Wang Que, not only knew a lot, but also patiently guided others. He seemed to be a good teacher. Yang Peng walked up and said, "Wang Que, where did you learn these farming skills?" Wang Que was instructing other farmers when he saw Yang Peng walking up and asking him. He didn't know who Yang Peng was, so he just looked at Yang Peng in confusion.
"My officer is Yang Peng of Tianjing New City!" Upon hearing this, the farmer next to him reacted. Many people had seen Yang Peng in official robes before. When they saw Yang Peng again, they recognized him and quickly knelt on the ground. Someone took the lead, and others followed suit and knelt down. There was a lot of cheering and kneeling. Yang Peng said to these farmers: "No courtesy!" Then he asked Wang Que again: "Wang Que, where did you learn your farming skills?" Seeing Yang Peng repeatedly asking him, Wang Que said nervously: "The people are literate. This knowledge was learned from "Wang Zhen's Book of Agriculture", "Essentials of Qi Min" and "Book of Pan Sheng", and then combined with the actual practice of farming."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "According to your knowledge, what is the most important thing in the first year after land reclamation?" Wang Que replied: "The wasteland is barren and the soil fertility is insufficient in the first year after land reclamation. The key is fertile land. Not only must Apply good fertilizers and use all the soil in Longshang Valley to get a good harvest. If you plant it well, you can harvest winter wheat for one stone and four bushels in the first year."
Hearing Wang Que's words of killing four bushels of stone, Yang Peng was stunned, secretly thinking that this was four bushels more than an ordinary harvest. If Wang Que is used as a manager to guide others in farming, and the 190,000 acres of dry land is four bushels more per mu, that is more than 70,000 shi of grain. Just counting the land rent collected by Yang Peng, he could collect more than 20,000 dan of land rent, which is equivalent to allowing Yang Peng to earn more than 40,000 taels of silver. Of course, Wang Que cannot guide so many people. He has no skills on his own, so it would be great if he could guide a hundred households. However, Yang Peng can match him with people to maximize Wang Que's guidance range.
Yang Peng asked: "Wang Que, how much grain can you harvest from the dry land you rented before?" "Sir, in an ordinary year, my field can harvest one stone and five buckets of grain! I can also grow mung beans for a season!" Yang Peng turned to look around him. The farmer asked: "Is what Wang Que said true?" The surrounding farmers replied: "City Lord, Wang Que is right. We used to watch his fields in Baodi. Originally His family rented more than ten acres of thin farmland, and after planting it for five years, the farmland became extremely fertile."
"What Wang Que said is true. I live in the same village as him, and the land he cultivates is just a few bushels more than ours!" Yang Peng nodded and said loudly: "Wang Que, I think you don't want to farm anymore. You come to my shogunate to be the instructor of the Agricultural Affairs Department, and you will be paid six taels a month. This instructor runs around in the fields every day, and I don't care about your livelihood. I will let you lead ten men to teach others how to plant well. Tian! Are you willing?"
Although it costs Yang Peng four hundred taels of silver a year to hire ten subordinates, this amount of money is not much compared to the income from increased agricultural production. As long as the yield per mu of farmers in Tianjing New City, Dagou and Yanshan in Qingyun County increases by one dou, Yang Peng can increase his land rent income by tens of thousands of taels. Yang Peng plans to let Wang Que try it out for a year first, and if it works, he will expand the team next year. Moreover, when Wang Que guided the farmers in the first year, the farmers did not believe him too much, so they needed to spend more time talking. After the first year's harvest came out, his guidance proved to be really useful, and it was only in the second year that he could truly guide farmers on a large scale.
Therefore, Yang Peng only assigned ten people to Wang Que in the first year. Wang Que was stunned, looking at Yang Peng in a daze, and didn't react for a while. Sixty-two taels of silver can be earned in a year. Wang Que can farm again and his income is limited. How can he earn seventy-two taels of silver a year? Yang Peng gave him such a good job at once, and also took care of ten people, which made him feel like he had jumped into the dragon's gate. After a long time, he said loudly: "Sir, if you are willing, I am willing!"
Yang Peng said: "Okay, I will hire ten literate and smart people for you later. They will serve as clerks in the shogunate's agricultural affairs department and follow your orders. This year's harvest of winter wheat in Tianjing New City and Qingyun County will depend on you! If you manage If the farmers you guide have a good harvest, I will give you a bonus!" Yang Peng is preparing to equip the army with some useful traditional equipment.
The first is caltrop, which is a military iron spiked spreading obstacle, usually made of pig iron. The finished product has four protruding iron spikes, several inches long. No matter how it lands on the ground, there is always one thorn pointing upward, and the tip of the thorn is like the herb "Tribulus", hence the name. The thorns of the caltrops that Yang Peng is about to make are two centimeters long, and they look like a patch of needles when spread on the ground. After laying some caltrops on the ground, the enemy can't get close at all. If the enemy wants to get closer, they must slowly clear away the iron caltrops on the ground. After cleaning, they can rush into the formation. This gives Yang Peng's riflemen more time to shoot.
After making up his mind, Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to start making it. Nowadays, Yang Peng uses a boring machine to make gun barrels. One craftsman can produce a rifle in seven days, and 500 rifle craftsmen can produce more than 2,000 rifles in a month, which can fully meet the rifle needs of Yang Peng's soldiers. Now, in addition to giving each soldier a gun, Yang Peng also has 4,000 rifles in stock. It is already a waste to reproduce the rifles in stock. Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to stop production in April. Now these blacksmiths can just produce caltrops.
Caltrops are so small that blacksmiths can cast a hundred in a day. There is also a hole in the middle of each caltrop, and every five are strung together to facilitate laying and putting away. Yang Peng planned to have a soldier carry twenty strings and spread them out in front of the formation during battle, turning the twenty meters in front of the formation into a hell for the enemy.
It is conceivable that the Khitan army or bandits were blocked by the caltrops in front of Yang Peng's musket array, unable to advance or retreat, and kept falling under the rifle fire. In addition to the caltrops, Yang Peng also built a pole viewing cart. The observation pole vehicle is a large chariot with a tall observation pole, which is a full fifteen meters long. There is a wooden chair for the lookout on the top of the pole, so that the lookout can climb up and sit, constantly observing the situation on the battlefield. Li Zhi equipped the lookout with a telescope so that the lookout could observe the surrounding situation.
After the car was built, Yang Peng tried it near Tianjing New City and found that the lookout hand on the lookout pole could see all the conditions within a radius of more than ten miles, which could greatly make up for the reconnaissance ability when the scout was suppressed. It was very practical.
Yang Peng decided to equip his Huben division with some doctors. Field doctors are very important to an army. Doctors can treat traumatized soldiers and directly determine the life or death of the wounded. If an army has good medical staff, soldiers will be less afraid of being injured, which will directly improve the morale and combat effectiveness of soldiers on the battlefield.
The doctors the army needs are mainly surgeons. At present, Yang Peng has not found a good surgeon in Cangzhou, and Huben Division has almost no medical staff. For Yang Peng, who is doing everything possible to improve the combat effectiveness of the Huben Division, this shortcoming needs to be made up for.
Yang Peng had never studied medicine and could not train surgeons on his own. But Yang Peng knew a lot of medical knowledge, and believed that he could use this knowledge to upgrade the medical skills of this era and improve the capabilities of doctors in the Ming Dynasty. Yang Peng made inquiries and learned that there were many excellent surgeons in Bianjing. In particular, there is a famous surgeon named Shen Yuji in Liutiao Alley in the south of the capital. He is good at using the needle-knife method to set bones and eliminate pus, and has saved countless lives. Yang Peng secretly thought that this was the surgeon he needed, so he came to visit him with his banknote.
Yang Peng entered Bianjing City with a guard of honor and a flag, and found the Willow Alley. After asking around for a while, I found Shen Yuji's medical clinic. The medical center is not big, just an ordinary courtyard, with a signboard with the word "外" hanging in the wind. Yang Peng presented the name card, and after a while a young man dressed as a doctor came out to greet him. Seeing Yang Peng wearing a second-grade official robe and carrying a flag, the young man was not nervous. He only gave a salute and said calmly to Yang Peng: "Please come in, sir."
Seeing the young man's calmness, Yang Peng knew that Shen Yuji was indeed a famous doctor. He might have treated many officials, so his students and disciples took a look inside and found that there were many students and disciples in the courtyard. There were twenty or thirty young people gathered in a wing. Yang Peng glanced into the wing and saw several young people using knives to dissect a corpse for study. A middle-aged man in his forties was also standing next to the corpse, instructing the young man on how to use a knife.
Yang Peng walked into the lobby of Shen's house and waited for a few minutes. The middle-aged man who performed the autopsy abandoned the body and walked in. He washed his hands with soap in the hot water basin and came up to bow to Li Zhi and salute. "Surgeon Shen Yuji has met the general!" These doctors can save people's lives, so they naturally have a kind of arrogance in them. They are not willing to kneel down when they see Yang Peng. Yang Peng sat down with him as guest and host, and after saying a few polite words, Yang Peng explained his intention.
"Mr. Shen, have you ever thought about leaving the capital to practice medicine and save people elsewhere?" Shen Yuji was stunned and asked, "Why did you leave the capital?" Yang Peng said, "If good doctors like Mr. Shen are needed more elsewhere, Why does Dr. Shen have to guard the capital?" Shen Yuji stroked his beard and said, "The general means that Shen should follow the general to Tianjing New City?"
Yang Peng nodded and said: "That's right!" "Shu Shen refuses! The densely populated capital is a blessed place for us to practice our medical skills." Yang Peng said: "I am willing to give you one hundred taels per year as an offering, which is enough for your research. It’s just for prescriptions." Shen Yuji shook his head and said, "This is not a matter of money. If there are too few patients, the medical skills of my disciples and I will not be able to be used, and the medical skills will not be improved, and we will definitely fall into the bottom class. No matter how much money you give me, I don’t want to go!”
Yang Peng was stunned and secretly thought that this doctor really regarded money as dirt. After thinking about it, Yang Peng said: "If sir, you are willing to follow me to Tianjing New City, how about I find an official for you in a few years and become a school captain?" Shen Yuji smiled, shook his head and said, " Thank you General for your kindness, and forgive Shen for refusing." After talking for a while, Shen Yuji refused to leave the capital. Yang Peng had no choice but to stand up and say goodbye. But when Yang Peng walked to the door of the medical center in disappointment, he saw a group of citizens rushing towards him with sticks and hammers. The citizens ran and shouted:
"Shen Yuji, who is ruining human relations, hand over the body!" "It is unethical to dissect the human body!" Seeing these mobs, the neighbors on both sides quickly closed their shop doors for fear of getting angry. The boy at the door of Shen Yuji Medical Center also quickly retreated into the courtyard and closed the courtyard door with a bang. The mob surrounded Shen's yard and shouted loudly. After surrounding the Shen family for a while and refusing to open the door, the mob began to kick at the courtyard door, trying to open it.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
