Zhang Xi is fortunate that the Liu Bei Group has just started.
At this time, Liu Bei's noble group was not yet strong, and the main nobles were still willing to stand on Zhang Xi's side and help support the cause.
Fortunately, the local aristocratic families were not deeply involved in this land annexation, so they did not have to fight against the local aristocratic families.
This is a county in Jiangxia, and it is only two counties. If it were done in Jiangdong or Cao Wei in the north, Zhang Xi would probably be dismissed the next day. Good luck to save his life, bad luck , my life will have to be handed down.
In short, Zhang Xi continued to survey the land while resettling the refugees in batches, registering the refugees, dividing the land area, drawing a fish scale atlas, forming a village, and selecting village elders to help manage the place.
The issue of imperial power going to the countryside was not solved until New China. Zhang Xi did not expect to be able to do it this year. It would be better to follow the rules of this year and let the village elders manage the place.
At the same time, Zhang Xi also needs to pay attention to regulating the conflicting relationship between outsiders and locals. In these years, two villages that have lived with each other for nearly a hundred years will also cause large-scale fights over water sources, let alone one who is a local. Village, one is a village for outsiders.
These are very troublesome things. Zhang Xi has no time to stay in the county government during this period. He often goes to the countryside to help with the chicken stealing incident and the dog fighting incident there. I am busy with problems, but I am busy with trivial matters.
Sometimes Zhang Xi really couldn't stand it anymore, so he quickly wrote to Guan Yu and asked him to send some grassroots officials over quickly, otherwise he would be exhausted.
Zhang Xi now even uses Xiao Deng Ai as a child laborer, asking Xiao Deng Ai to help with paperwork and other tasks. This shows how short of a manpower Zhang Xi has.
Sometimes Zhang Xi really laments, how on earth did Zhuge Liang achieve "nothing is too small or too small, and he is expert in everything"? !
You must be tired and vomiting blood. Uh, forget it, just pretend I didn’t say it.
While surveying the land and drawing a fish scale atlas, we resettled the refugees, established villages, and organized households into all the people. The Spring Festival passed unknowingly.
During the few days of the Spring Festival, Zhang Xi finally took a little rest. After all, people also have to celebrate the festival.
On this day, Zhang Xi took the initiative, took out some money from the treasury, sent people to Jiangdong Chaisang to buy a lot of fish, and then organized the refugees who had not yet been allocated land to have a good meal together.
Firstly, it gathers people's hearts and allows them to wait for resettlement with peace of mind. Secondly, it also respects tradition and allows everyone to have a good New Year.
As for the refugees who have been allocated land, the government pays for it, and the village elders organize dinners to enhance their relationship with each other.
After all, we will be neighbors living in the same village in the future, and it is necessary to get close to each other. It would be even better if we could take advantage of the trend and promote population development.
These days, there are many widowers and widows. It is also very common in this era to have a reorganized family.
After the Spring Festival, things became even busier and more urgent. In February, we had to organize spring plowing, but now we haven’t even finished allocating the land.
Zhang Xi repeatedly confirmed the number of remaining refugees who had not been allocated land, and then compared the remaining land and found that it seemed that it was really impossible to completely resettle all the refugees.
This is another very difficult matter. If it is not done well, it will cause civil unrest.
Others have been resettled, but why are they gone when they come to me? The government must be doing things unfairly, kill him! ! !
Well, the consequences of this are really serious.
But Zhang Xi is really confused now.
There is already quite a lot of cultivated land in Xiaji and Qichun. It should not be a problem to accommodate these refugees. Why did the land suddenly become insufficient?
Could it be that there are nobles or local aristocratic families who have hidden their land and just refuse to clear it out? !
Zhang Xi had no choice but to take the newly drawn fish scale atlas and go to the countryside again for field inspection to determine whether there were any fields that had not been mapped.
However. No.
Some aristocratic families did annex some land, but the amount was not large, and the total amount was less than 10% of the land in the two counties. They also drew fish scale books and sent them to the government in accordance with regulations. This data was reported to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei No objections will be raised.
As for the nobles, except for Liu Yan who still retained more than ten hectares of occupied land, the other nobles had all cleared their land and there was no encroachment.
So the problem lies with the refugees? !
Zhang Xi went back to check and found that there was indeed an error in the number of refugees.
At the beginning, Zhang Xi asked people to count the number of refugees, and the number they got was more than 8,000 households and more than 30,000 people.
After all, the refugees have not been resettled for a year, and more than 10,000 people have fled. There is nothing we can do about it.
But now Zhangxi has resettled more than 5,000 households and nearly 20,000 people. How come the data reported now shows that there are still more than 5,000 households and more than 20,000 people? !
Zhang Xi was immediately confused. What went wrong? !
Zhang Xi had to investigate thoroughly, and found out that it was his fault again.
Who asked Zhang Xi to preside over the refugee resettlement work in the two counties?
These days, the princes from all over the world basically settled the refugees by renting land.
There is precedent for this too.
After the "Du Tian Incident", Emperor Guangwu mastered a large amount of state-owned land, and leased these state-owned lands to the refugees for cultivation. The government provided certain farming tools and then collected the rent in proportion.
For a time, Emperor Guan Wu's treasury was full because of this policy, which laid the foundation for the rule of Ming Zhang.
So now the princes basically follow the same example, and even Cao Cao went a step further and carried out farming, which was also divided into military villages and civilian villages.
Nowadays, whether in the north or east of the Yangtze River, farming is basically carried out. After all, the income from farming is put into the lord's treasury, and the land still belongs to the lord. As for the refugees, they can guarantee that they will not starve to death and can work. , don’t worry, just gather a crowd to rebel.
This is already considered a method used by the more promising princes. Liu Zhang in the west did not do this, so he couldn't even deal with Zhang Lu.
But now, there is a big fool in Jiangxia. He actually allocates fields to the people. Can such a good thing happen in these days? !
At first, everyone didn't believe it, but as time went by, many people were actually allocated fields. Now the surrounding refugees were excited.
If you can have a piece of land of your own, who would be willing to pay land rent to others for farming?
Cao Cao in the north had a farmland policy of six citizens and four citizens. But if you have your own land, you are a self-cultivated farmer, not a tenant farmer who works the land for others.
According to the Han system, the agricultural tax for self-cultivators is 30 taxes. Of course, now that the world is in chaos, the tax collected is slightly more, but it is still a hundred times better than the 60% return to the public.
Of course, it is also based on the Han system. After having their own land and becoming self-cultivated farmers, the people have to bear the very heavy capitation tax, as well as small taxes such as fish tax, city tax, asset tax, etc., and even They have to perform corvee every year. But the farmer’s wish these days is to have a piece of land of his own.
Once Zhang Xi gained a piece of land in Jiangxia, the refugees from several surrounding counties immediately took notice and all crowded towards Jiangxia.
Zhang Xi immediately regretted it.
It is also about relocating the people. If Zhang Xi had cleared the land from the beginning and used it for farming, wouldn't there be so many problems?
At that time, I thought that property owners would have perseverance. This would allow the refugees to settle down in Jiangxia with peace of mind, enrich the population, and increase taxes. Therefore, I chose the decision to divide the ownerless wasteland for reclamation. Now it seems that this is actually a good thing. Troublesome thing.
But fortunately, there were not many people who came, and there were thousands more people. Zhang Xi gritted his teeth and included some land near the mountains and rivers in the Fish Scale Atlas. If it was a little more compact, it should be able to accommodate these people.
But what happened later was completely out of control.
One day in January, Zhang Xi was worrying about the problem of dividing residential areas in the government office. Suddenly Wen Dai came to report that there was a large group of people from the east heading to Qichun County, numbering more than 20,000.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xi immediately ordered the city gates of Xiazhi City to be closed, and the soldiers went to the city to be on guard. Wen Dai served as the city guard of Xiazhi City, and Zhao Lei served as deputy, preparing to defend the city.
Zhang Xi himself took Guan Ping and five hundred soldiers and crossed the river by boat to Qichun County to organize defense.
To the east of Jiangxia is Lujiang County.
Lujiang County is now divided into two parts, one part is Jiangdong's territory, and the other part is Cao Wei's territory that came from Lujiang County. No matter whose power, Zhang Xi has to guard against it.
Therefore, Zhang Xi stayed in Qichun County for several days, organizing defense, and at the same time asked Wen Ying behind him for reinforcements.
Within a few days, Zhang Xi actually saw this "big army" from Lujiang. They were carrying carts and carrying loads, and they were dragging their families. They didn't look like an army at all, but more like a group of refugees fleeing for their lives.
But if we say they are refugees, this number is indeed too many. You can't see them all at a glance, and a rough estimate is that they are at least 20,000.
Zhang Xi still didn't dare to be careless until a man who called himself Lei Xu came to Qichun City to shout. Then Zhang Xi came forward and talked to others.
This man named Lei Xu claimed to be the leader of these refugees. Because he could not cross the Lujiang River and heard about Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence and righteousness, he came to seek refuge.
Then the guy asked next if Jiangxia would allocate land to the displaced people. Zhang Xi's heart was filled with regret. There are so many of you, where can I find so much land for you?
But now people came specifically from the east to join Liu Bei. Although most of them were refugees, there were also some private armed forces. Zhang Xi naturally did not dare to be careless or expert.
While asking Wen Dai to lead the troops to strengthen the alert, he asked his father Wenpin to quickly send troops to support.
On the other hand, he quickly reported to Guan Yu and asked Guan Yu to report to Liu Bei and ask Liu Bei to make a decision.
After completing these responses, Zhang Xi, under the protection of Guan Ping, went to Lei Xu's military camp in person, telling Lei Xu that he had reported to Liu Bei, and asked Lei Xu to wait patiently for Liu Bei's reply.
Before that, Lei Xu is still asked to temporarily stay outside the city. As for military expenses, Zhang Xi will send people to support him.
This Lei Xu probably really came to join Liu Bei. He was extremely respectful to Zhang Xi's words, and he didn't ask for too much. He really did what Zhang Xi asked him to do.
This made Zhang Xi feel a little relieved, and then continued to squat in Qichun City, waiting for Liu Bei's order.
And this wait took about half a month.
Liu Bei took a boat down the Yangtze River and came to Qichun in person.
(End of chapter)
