Chapter 220: Train farm

The refugees are an extremely unstable factor for the government. These poor people who are displaced due to famine and famine will be destroyed by riots and sabotage. Moreover, they are the White Lotus Sect, the Scent of the Incense Sect and the Rebellion Army.

After refugees appeared, the land could not be cultivated, the government collected less taxes, and the source of troops also shrank. Every major disaster would change the power comparison between the government and the rebel army.

At present, for Li Meng, although he is rich and has soldiers, he has no fixed source of recruitment. He only recruits soldiers from Shandong every time. He relies on his full food and salary and the sense of honor of soldiers to attract young people to join. However, after several years of disasters, such sources of soldiers have become less and less.

Relying on the current ten thousand soldiers and thousands of salt pricks, it is a bit difficult to control Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and the salt road, not to mention the entire Shandong.

If he did not expand his power as soon as possible and after conquering Liu Zeqing, the expanded space would be quickly occupied by others. Li Meng has been planning this matter these days. At the wedding ceremony, gentry from all over Shandong came in person or sent people to go there. Li Meng still considered to draw children from each household to form an army and guard the Yanzhou Prefecture. In his heart, the better the soldiers from the Jiaozhou Camp's training system, the easier it is to become a strong soldier. Whether they understand war technology or physical fitness, they are much better than poor families. However, there are always hidden dangers in controlling the army with children of gentry. For example, the children of the rich who were selected in Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture can only be auxiliary soldiers and armed salt children.

There is another good way to go before us, which is to recruit young and strong children from the garrison. Although these people are also farmers, they have grown up in the military camp physique, and some have received certain military skills training. Moreover, because of Li Meng's own military background, his loyalty is also the highest.

However, there is a problem with Li Meng. He almost all the young people who were willing to participate in Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei were recruited by him. In the Dasongwei, Jinghaiwei, Fangshanwei, and Chengshanwei in Dengzhou, most of them remained at the scale of a thousand households at most because of Kong Youde's chaos.

Andongwei, near Nanzhili, is a loyal lackey of the salt merchants in Lianghuai. Although the garrison is located in Shandong, it has been reduced to Nanzhili more than ten years ago. These garrisons are either worthless or have many models when moving, while the rest are all war soldiers recruited by military generals from various places.

Now these war soldiers are equivalent to the private soldiers of each army general. Those personal soldiers are devoted to the military generals and cannot recruit them. The remaining ones are like bandits and bandits, with no combat power and extremely corrupt style, and are of no use. This is also the case when Li Meng raided Caozhou and dispersed Liu Zeqing's direct troops. According to the rules of this era, they should be annexed.

If the army does not expand, the wealth will be a rich man. Only by controlling more and more territory will the number of soldiers and generals will be more and more.

After thinking about it, it is the opinion put forward by Juren Zhou today, to farm farms and fix the refugees and hungry people on the land through the fields. For thousands of years, the farmers in China have been the source of the greatest destructive power and are also the most patient and docile class. Generally speaking, if you have a chance to survive, you will not take risks.

With fields, there is food. Farmers fixed on the land are the best source of troops. The knowledgeable people in the Ming Dynasty were calling for such a thing. Elites such as Lu Xiangsheng were even more responsible for doing it themselves. What is ridiculous is that even if it is a major disaster, as long as the farmland is obtained properly, the harvest will be good.

It can be seen that in the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters were certainly one aspect, and it can be seen from the effective farming. The rebel army gathered hundreds of thousands of people, scattered across the heart of the Ming Dynasty, and more of them were man-made disasters.

The method is a good method, but for Li Meng, it was a bit difficult for where the fields came from. Shandong had severe droughts and disasters for two consecutive years. Many ordinary people and even small landlords went bankrupt and could only eat when they were wandering. But in addition, many large landlords took this opportunity to buy a large number of fertile land at a low price, but instead became increasingly expanding.

If it weren't for the monster Li Meng, Li would have long since emerged and threatened the government and acted rampantly.

There are not many fields suitable for cultivation in Shandong, and these lands are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy families. Li Meng thought that there were still some deserted fields in Dengzhou Prefecture, but that place was directly under the jurisdiction of Shandong General Qiu Lei. Shandong General Qiu Lei was nominally the general of Shandong soldiers and horses in the general town, and was his superior. Although the two sides were cold at present, there was not much conflict and we could not start a rashly provocation.

After Zhou Juren said the word "military farming", Li Meng was indeed moved, but after thinking about the field, he was a little embarrassed and didn't know where to build the field.

"Where to find the fields?"

Hearing Li Meng's question, Zhou Juren laughed loudly. Both sides were quite casual. Zhou Yang didn't care about any etiquette anymore. He leaned forward and said, "

"Sir, this matter is very simple. Just buy it without land. Jiaozhou is rich in the world. Just buy it with a dignified voice."

Li Meng was stunned and then laughed. There was something in his mind that he didn't understand. This matter was not complicated at all. If you spend money to buy it and do business in a dignified manner, how could you not buy the land? This is really a pleasure. Seeing that the tea in Zhou Juren's cup was about to be completely drunk, Li Meng smiled and picked up the teapot and poured another cup of tea for the other party. Zhou Yang knew that the suggestion just now was to scratch the itchy place, and he was quite proud and stood up to thank him.

The two sides chatted for a few more times. Zhou Yang was about to say goodbye. Li Meng pondered for a moment, knocked his fingers on the table, and said lightly:

"Wu Tongzhi took over as the position of governor, he always needs someone to be his position. Mr. Zhou has outstanding talent and honesty and kindness, which is suitable for him. In a few days, the official documents appointed by the Ministry of Personnel and the Governor's Office will be downloaded. I will congratulate you first."

Zhou Juren was like being struck by lightning. Most of the people from local juren from Shandong who were born in Shandong had no official position and were lucky enough to be a teacher. Those who were lucky and willing to spend money might be able to go to the Experience Department to do some experience. Of course, if Su Songchang's juren was a juren from the Donglin Party, a county magistrate would not be able to escape. Zhou Juren was very clear about his mind. He knew that he was the one who was unlucky and too lazy to spend money, so he simply became a prosperous and prosperous man in Jiaozhou. After Li Meng appeared, his judgment on himself was to be the leader of a staff member, and it would be enough to be a civil servant in the shogunate in the future.

Who would have thought that now that he would leave such a big pie, the position of Tongzhi of Jiaozhou is really from the sixth rank and the official who is in the midst of this position. It is impossible for a new imperial examination officer to take this position. But in Li Meng's hands, such things are really easy. Jiaozhou is the territory of the Li family, so what if he arranges a Tongzhi, he has a strong relationship and is not afraid of using money, so he is naturally able to get it.

This Zhou Juren also knew that it was different to be a Tongzhi in Jiaozhou. If it was a normal county, then the Tongzhi was pressed by the magistrate above and the magistrate below, which was really irritated by the splinter. However, the Zhou family was a large family in Jiaozhou and was supported by Li Meng behind it. This official must be extremely majestic.

Seeing Zhou Juren stunned, she had not turned around yet, Li Meng's face was full of smiles. As expected, the word "wealth" is the most touching. Zhou Juren is usually a famous scholar, but today she was knocked out by the position of the Tongzhi of Jiaozhou.

After Zhou Juren reacted, he turned around calmly. Regardless of the usual kind of etiquette, he just knelt on the ground, knocked down a few times, and said solemnly:

"Zhou's official position was given by the adults, so he must be loyal to the adults, but if he is sent, he will never refuse to die."

Li Meng had to come forward to help him. Zhou Juren's head was indeed active. He thanked him without mentioning the court at all, but only said he was loyal to Li Meng. Although Li Meng did not say that he was extremely satisfied. He brought Zhou Juren to this position just to win over this person. If he was ungrateful, it would be meaningless.

He stepped forward to help him up, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile:

"Come to me again tomorrow. I will call Chen Liuyi and his men here to talk about the planning of the farming. Let's start with our Jiaozhou. How about you hosting it?"

Zhou Yang was in a state of excitement because he suddenly became an official, but his mind was still clear. As soon as Li Meng said, he knew that the other party understood the so-called tricks of buying land. He followed this kind of generous and clear-headed master, which really made people feel that the future was promising and full of energy. He answered respectfully:

"My lord told me that the emperor will do his best."

There is really nothing to say at the moment. After kneeling down and thanking him again, Zhou Yang stepped down and walked to the corridor. Although Shandong was still cold in the first month of the year, Zhou Yang felt that the scenery was the most beautiful at this time, and he felt energetic when walking in the cold wind.

After walking a dozen steps in the corridor, I saw a child jumping over and running over. Seeing Zhou Yang in the corridor, the child quickly stood on the side of the corridor and shouted respectfully:

"Teacher, are you going home now?"

Since Zhou Yang entered Li Meng's shogunate, the teacher who originally taught Su Anqi to read and recognize words has become two. Mr. Ning and Zhou Yang jointly served as the teacher. Zhou Juren loved this smart and precocious student very much, and smiled and said with concern:

"It's cold this day, so be careful to run and sweat, and get colder, slow down."
Chapter completed!