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Chapter 282: Census and catching floating waves
Fu Yousan's family was severely punished. Not only was the entire Zhuangzi—including land, grain, livestock, and population—confiscated, but the Fu family's land of the same area was also confiscated. The richest man in the village was reduced to less than fifty acres of land, which was only enough for a middle peasant family.
It didn't take long for Fu Yousan to go crazy - his property was ruined, and with it, the parental authority also collapsed. All the resentment that the three sons had accumulated over the years exploded. Now that there is no longer the possibility of inheriting property, Fu Yousan's paternalism is no longer ignored. Fu Erzhuang and Sanzhuang simply left Meiyang Village with their wives and children and went to Bairen City to recruit workers. Fu Yizhuang left him alone in the backyard and ignored him except to provide him with some food and drink.
The person who gained the most from this purge was Fu Fuji. The decline of Fu Yousan's family made him the richest man in the village. Not only that, Wang Ruixiang, according to Wu De's instructions, should properly cultivate new vested interest groups in the village. , as the cornerstone of the new regime. A small rural landowner like Fu Buer who is willing to accept new things and has a strong enterprising spirit is a suitable target. Therefore, he expressed great respect for Fu Fuji. Not only did he accept his banquet, but he also announced at the banquet that the county government would send him a plaque saying "Be obedient to the public and abide by the law", which made Fu Buer's face red with excitement - this kind of honor was not available in this village, not even in the whole county. Not many people enjoyed it.
In addition to the honor, the more affordable thing is that Wang Ruixiang issued him a charter certificate, which exempted him from paying the Tiandihui service fee for one year.
Fu Buer's status in the village immediately improved greatly. The villagers regarded him as the agent of the Australians in the village, so he soon became a man of one word. Of course, he has become one of the most loyal lackeys of the Time Travel Group.
Next, the work of clearing the nearby villages will be much easier: the incident in Meiyang Village spread quickly: now everyone knows that Australians have "iron birds" that fly in the sky and can see everything. clairvoyance". Many people who concealed their fields during declarations are restless.
Wang Ruixiang wasted no time in sending people everywhere to publicize the "surrender" policy. Any banker who concealed his land during the self-declaration stage would be "lenient if he confessed" to the work team in time and "surrendered". If he was found out, he would not only have to confiscate it. The fields that have been concealed will be confiscated twice as much.
As soon as the news spread, there was an endless stream of bankers who came to the work team station to "surrender". Wang Ruixiang is very satisfied with the effect. Now he no longer has to go out and yell and threaten those poor people - it is very energy-consuming. He has another thing to do - census.
The exact population of Lingao County is a question that no one in the county can tell clearly. According to the county's yellow book, which was retrieved from the household houses, there are 6,231 registered residents in the county, including 4,000 private households. Seven hundred and ninety-five, the others are military households, handyman households, horse station households, and other households of various colors, etc., and the taxes and labor they bear are different. The total population is 33,282, of which men account for more than two-thirds, and there are only more than 4,000 women.
This number makes it difficult for people on the executive committee to believe that it is a fact that the local population is not densely populated, but judging from what everyone sees on weekdays, it is definitely not so sparse. Obviously there are a lot of "hidden people" among them.
Wu De specially called Zhou Qi for consultation. Zhou Qi told them that their guess was not wrong. There were indeed many "hidden households" whose purpose was simply to avoid taxes and labor. As for the household registration number, the county government is simply confused. The number published in the yellow book was compiled in the seventh year of Zhengde.
"Ever since the Wanli period when a whipping method was implemented and the grain and tax officials closed the matter and Li Jia was no longer required to handle it," Zhou Qi explained, "this yellow book has been useless for a long time. It was said to be revised every ten years, and later it was said It is repaired once a year, but this thing cannot be used to collect taxes or collect corvees, so every year the number of households is copied from the previous ones and revalued. You see-" He flipped through the following books casually. Show it to Wu De, and there is actually a yellow book from the tenth year of Tianqi. Obviously it has been "prefabricated" in advance. This style of work and philosophy made Wu De burst into laughter. It seems that many of the shortcomings are really the same.
"So that's how it is." Wu De nodded, "Now it's better to restore the yellow book."
"Yes, yes," Zhou Qi agreed, wondering in his heart, what is the use of restoring the yellow book? This thing has long been a mere formality.
The significance of the census cannot be grasped even with my knowledge on Saturday. Another important system of the Chuanchuan Group, the household registration system, must also be based on the census. The household registration system of the Ming Dynasty was once very strict, but by now it had collapsed into disarray. The Time Travel Group plans to re-transplant the system that was once effective in another time and space here,
To implement the new household registration system, it will inevitably involve the establishment of a grassroots administrative system. This matter takes a long time and consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. In order to grasp the population situation of the county as soon as possible and implement the next population development plan, the executive committee decided not to promote the household registration system in the county for the time being, but to conduct a census first. . To this end, they developed a population card system. Register on an individual basis. Only the name, date of birth, gender, education level, ethnicity, occupation and place of residence are registered on the card. Each card has a separate 12-digit number, which also provides the basis for the future implementation of the ID card system. The original plan was to put photos on the cards, but it was not possible to print photos for so many people at the moment, so fingerprint collection was adopted instead. Based on the collected cards, and based on the village as a unit, a population register is compiled for reference.
The census in Meiyang Village and several nearby villages will soon be over. With the power of the "iron bird" and "clairvoyance", this census went very smoothly, and no one dared to evade registration. Everyone is saying that if you don't register, you will be arrested and "re-education through labor" if someone sees you.
The clairvoyant actually saw other things - Wang Ruixiang also discovered other things on the images during the aerial reconnaissance of the hidden fields in Meiyang Village: there were temporary shacks and small fields scattered in the depths of the hills. He even In a photo, I saw a ragged, unkempt man looking up in surprise with his mouth wide open.
"Are there any refugees? It's not easy, living in such a secluded place." Wang Ruixiang said to himself, and drew the distribution of shacks on the map, and later handed Huang Ande to lead a team to "catch the floating waves".
The so-called "catching the waves" is another thing in the census. Fulang refers to two types of people in this county. One is the migrants who live scattered in the mountains and reclaim a small piece of wasteland to make a living. Most of these refugees come from the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong, and some also come from Vietnam. In order to escape government taxes and servitude, they live scattered in inaccessible hilly areas and mountainous areas, reclaiming a small piece of land and growing a small amount of crops to make a living. Living with barely enough clothes and food to eat, they could only get by. When given the opportunity, they would also go to nearby villages to steal or gang up to rob.
The other type is the so-called "second-rate" characters that are common in every village. This kind of people can be found in larger villages. Most of them do not do their job properly and make a living by petty theft. Some of them collude with bandits to engage in "big business" such as robbery and kidnapping.
The Crossing Group believes that allowing them to continue like this is firstly a waste of labor and secondly a source of social instability. Therefore, a unified operation was carried out at the same time as the census to contain and arrest two types of people. The former were purified according to the immigration procedures and then assigned to communes, while the latter were assigned to forced labor in the labor reform brigades.
"There are quite a lot of black people." Wang Ruixiang looked at the dotted marks on the map and thought, I don't know how many such settlements there are. Some settlements have been discovered during the reconnaissance operations of the long-range exploration team and the special reconnaissance team, but they have not been discovered. There is definitely a majority. The number of registered population cards in Meiyang Village is almost 80 more than the number of households in the county government office. There are hundreds of villages in the county. I wonder how many more such illegal households there will be. population potential has yet to be tapped.
"We must make sure that we catch everyone without missing a beat." Wang Ruixiang stared at Huang Ande's face, "You only have ten people. When you arrest, you can't alert others, otherwise it will be troublesome if you run away and catch them again. Understood."
"Yes" Huang Ande replied loudly. He already has a draft on how to arrest people - surprise tactics. When I was a soldier in the Ming Dynasty army, I heard soldiers who had been to Liaodong say: The first is the fear of field battles, and the second is the fear that they will not be collected that night. I stayed on guard duty on the enemy's platform in the dark, but the Tatars quietly attacked me and attacked me. They were either beheaded or captured alive.
In the non-commissioned officer training class, he mastered new weapons and tactics that neither the Ming army nor the Tatars had. Huang Ande is now preparing to try his skills to see how the Australian's surprise tactics are.
After accepting the order, Huang Ande gathered his soldiers. He is now just the squad leader of an infantry squad, and his deputy squad leader is his old partner Qian Duo. Qian Duo's abilities are mediocre and he is just passing grade in all aspects. With the benefit of the army's continuous expansion, he became the deputy squad leader of the corporal based on his seniority.
Holding a pre-battle meeting before action, assigning tasks, discussing details, and boosting morale are the rules of the Australian army. Huang Ande originally thought it was redundant - the soldiers could just line up and charge upwards with swords and guns.
He found that the Australian army particularly promotes the "subjective initiative" of soldiers and junior officers. While emphasizing obeying orders and observing discipline, it also requires having one's own views on how to fight better and the ability to deal with various emergencies. situation.
Over time, he began to realize the benefits - in any situation, the soldiers would know what they should do, instead of staying stunned or leaving in a hurry. ,.
