As soon as Zhuo Qun and the others got out of the elevator, they saw Ma He standing at the door of the office.
"Why don't you go in?"
Zhuo Qun asked.
"Sending documents, no one is inside, so you can't enter."
Ma He smiled and handed a document to Zhuo Qun.
"These are the maps we drew and photos of construction sites everywhere. I brought them together."
Ma He followed Zhuo Qun into the office.
"Both of us thought hard and never thought that the country would have a time and space gate."
Ma He felt excited when he thought that he could actually fly a plane in the Northern Song Dynasty. Thinking about the tens of thousands of pilots across the country, he chose the two of them. They were one in a million.
"How's it going? Have you confirmed the map?"
Zhuo Qun sat on a chair and looked through the map that Ma He brought, and then took out a modern map for comparison.
"By the way, how are you doing while you're flying in the sky looking at the construction in those places?"
"I have confirmed the map. Except for some coastlines, river channels and some mountains, everything else is the same."
Ma He immediately replied after hearing Zhuo Qun's words.
"As for those construction sites, I took photos of them all, that's all."
Ma He pointed to several photo albums on the table and said: "I take pictures every three days, and I have taken a hundred pictures in total."
"Where is Jiangnan? How is the land? Xiaoxiao, bring the information from Jiangnan."
Zhuo Qun ordered Tang Xiaoxiao to get Jiangnan’s information.
"Let's see, 100,000 square kilometers of land? 150 million acres. It's really fast."
Zhuo Qun looked through the information and photo albums and exclaimed from time to time.
yes. In just over a month, 100,000 square kilometers of land have been leveled, and ditches and roads have been built.
"Cui Yongjun did a really good job."
Cui Yongjun was the leader of the second batch of 100,000 people recruited by Li Sheng. He was from the Corps. He was in his early forties and had been working on the Corps farm for ten years. He was a good hand in the construction of large-scale mechanized farms.
Wang Qinruo also brought the Xiang troops from the south to join them. They said they were hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops, but those Xiang troops were all bringing their families with them. These hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops were more than enough if they included their families. There are more than one million.
This time there were enough people. With 100,000 Ren and more than 1 million people, a large amount of land reclamation began in the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas. At the beginning, no one thought that so much land could be reclaimed. This is 100,000 square kilometers. Ah, 150 million acres of land accounted for 30 to 40% of the existing land in the Song Dynasty. Even in modern times, it is only one-tenth.
Even Zhuo Qun and Cui Yongjun had never thought that they could have so much land. How could they have so much land? They must thank the wealthy families in the south and the temples all over the south.
The land that Cui Yongjun's people opened up with more than one million people was actually not that much, that is, tens of thousands of square kilometers, and it was not a large area. It was all in the east and west, and the middle was occupied by big households and temples in the south. The land is separated.
The big households in the south did not send anyone to take a closer look. They just knew that the Xiang army from the imperial court had come to clear up wasteland. These big households in the south claimed that the reclaimed land near their own land was their own and wanted to occupy it.
This is not the first time they have done this kind of thing. The land that was opened up by the common people before was occupied by them in this way, and their methods were very simple.
They just wait for the common people to open up wasteland. After the land is cleared, they come out with the county government's fish scale book, point to the land and say that this is our XX family's land, which has been occupied by you unruly people, and now we are going to take it out.
As for reporting to the officials, those officials are indifferent, or in other words, officials in charge cannot appear in the south. This is a place of exile.
After such a trip, your land will no longer be your land, and even your people will become their slaves, and you will have to sign the deed of sale given by them, otherwise you will die.
This time, the big households did the same thing. They sent a few stewards to take away the land. As for the people, they also wanted to take them away, but unfortunately no one paid attention to them. As for arresting people by force, they didn't dare. There are too many people, yes, there are too many people, not because they are Xiang soldiers.
Those stewards also said that this land belongs to the XX family, so come and find it if you have the guts.
As a result, Cui Yongjun really led his people to come door to door. One by one, they ransacked the large households that occupied the land. They arrested all the people and took them away to serve as slaves. They also burned the slaves they had obtained and sold them. They signed a contract and took in all the land they had occupied as well as their own land as workers, forming a vast area with hundreds of thousands of people and tens of millions of acres of arable land. It was almost as good as the arable land they had cultivated themselves. too much.
At this time, Wang Qinruo and Cui Yongjun tasted the sweetness and began to investigate the land in various counties over the years. The main purpose was to check whether those large households had encroached on the people's cultivated land. If so, they would handle it accordingly, seize the land and arrest the people. Serving as slaves, slaves burned their deeds of sale and became workers.
It has to be said that the big families in Jiangnan are not generally ugly. They will not let go of land the size of a fingernail. They will also capture orphans and widows. The small army sent by the imperial court to open up wasteland has already taken away people and land. They devoured everything, not even a hair was left.
There were too many people at this time. Wang Qinruo's little head couldn't bear such a big pot, so he sent a letter directly to the political affairs hall. Within three days, he got a reply, letting Wang Qinruo handle it by himself. As long as no one came to complain, Jiangnan's Everything was left to Wang Qinruo.
After Wang Qinruo got the letter, he went to find Cui Yongjun. Don't arrest those big households who have not occupied the newly cultivated farmland. If you arrest them again, the impact will be bad. Moreover, the local power in Jiangnan is huge and intricate. , and there are some connections between them. If there are too many people moving now, it will not be good for future actions. Moreover, if the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, people from other places will also resist.
Cui Yongjun had received instructions from Zhuo Qun before. As long as he did not attack his own people, all matters that offended others would be left to Wang Qinruo. With this order, Cui Yongjun agreed to Wang Qinruo's words.
But they both still wanted those people's land.
Wang Qinruo personally went out to invite those wealthy people to come over for a drink. He was a good person in any way, and he was one of the talkers of the political forces in the south. No one here dared not give him face.
After everyone arrived, Wang Qinruo waved his hand, had the door closed, and drove all the attendants out.
He threw the fish scale books and case files on the table and looked at the people he had invited.
"Can someone please explain what happened to these places and the missing Xiang troops?"
Although Wang Qinruo was soft in front of Wang Dan and the others, he was extremely tough in front of these people.
After all, it is also a phase. Although it is only a pivot phase, it is still a phase.
