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Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Seven Qi Min Books Accounts

As the old salt worker said, the rain stopped that day.

In the next few days, Ji Ping was not idle. First, the news came from Pujin Du, that Guan Yu had defeated the enemy. Then, two days later, the news came from Fengling Du, Hebei County that Xu Huang and Dian Wei had defeated the enemy.

Since then, Guan Yu stationed Puban County and Pujin Ferry, Xu Huang stationed at Hebei County and Fengling Ferry. Dian Wei, who rushed to support, led the Tiger Camp to retreat.

On the same day, Ji Ping destroyed the managers and soldiers stationed in Yanchi of the Dong family of Lintao and the Hu family of Wuwei. He seized 40,000 stones of grain, 200,000 stones of salt stored here by the two families. These were all plundered from them and were about to ship them to Dong Zhuo in Guanzhong, but Ji Ping intercepted them.

In addition to the Dong family and the Hu family, there are two local families in Hedong, the Wei family and the Fan family.

That day, Ji Ping ordered Dian Wei to kill Wei Gu and Fan Xian and take over their family soldiers. In order to prevent the two families from rebounding, Dian Wei even attacked two forts after returning and confiscated their family's assets.

The Wei family and the Fan family are among the most powerful families in Hedong County, especially the Wei family, who have been operating grain and salt for generations. They are the richest family in Hedong County and have a lot of grain reserves.

With these four companies alone, Ji Ping obtained nearly 800,000 stones of grain. In addition, the storage of each county can provide 100,000 people with half a year of food, alleviating the food shortage crisis after immigration.

This made Ji Ping breathe a sigh of relief.

In addition to 800,000 stones of grain, 6,000 kilograms of fine iron and 8 million yuan were also confiscated, nearly 20,000 people were hidden, 100,000 mu of fertile land, and 400 oxen oxen were confiscated.

Among them, Ji Ping specially ordered his soldiers to demolish the fortresses of the two families, which was the beginning of his elimination of the fortresses of Hedong County.

However, except for Wei Gu and Fan Xian's loyalty, Ji Ping did not kill the thousands of tribes of the Wei family and Fan family. Instead, he left them with enough food for a year and 200,000 yuan.

If the Wei and Fan clans had no abnormal movements, he would have ruled the people. He would have left a way out for these people.

Such actions made the aristocratic families and local tyrants who were originally nervously breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Ji Ping also cleverly used some means to divide the remaining tribes of Wei and Fan. He distributed the remaining grain and 200,000 yuan of food and 200,000 yuan of the year, regardless of the original legitimate and illegitimate, rich and poor, and far, to each household, breaking the distribution method they had become accustomed to, the distribution method of the number of legitimate and poor, and the distribution of wealth and poor, making it difficult for them to form a group.

Regarding the 800,000 stone of grain and 8 million yuan of money he received, Ji Ping asked Lu Zhi to arrange soldiers to send military rations and military salaries to Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Xun Fu and others to send military salaries and relief to the people. The money was deposited in the treasury, and used for land reclamation, canal opening and salt farm construction.

Six thousand kilograms of iron were taken over by the eunuchs from Shangfangjian. Originally, there was an iron official institution and a set of smelting equipment in Anyi. After Ji Ping occupied Anyi, he naturally took over it.

However, he did not intend to use these six thousand kilograms of iron to cast weapons, but to cast agricultural tools. Ji Ping made up his mind to build up the military farm and salt pond first. Otherwise, the development would be powerless.

He ordered Bi Lan to be Shang Fang Ling, and several disciples taught by Bi Lan led the original blacksmith to be fully responsible for the creation of farm tools, and at the same time purchased plowing oxen from various places to prepare for the military farming.

The food problem was temporarily solved, and the military had completely controlled half of the Hedong County south of the Fen River. Ji Ping was not in a hurry to attack the Pingyang counties north of the Fen River. Instead, he began to implement his governance methods from the south of Hedong County.

He and Lu Zhi, Yuan Jihe and Liu Bei, who were summoned from Hanoi, studied and pondered all night, and within half a month, various decrees were introduced one by one.

The first government order is military, which is the basis for Ji Ping to implement all government orders. Without military strength, he may not even be able to protect Hedong County.

He ordered his subordinates Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Xun Wu and Duan Wei to strictly strengthen the training of soldiers and formulated training codes for the training codes, which were very detailed.

Soldiers run and cross-country every day at dawn and dusk, mainly to exercise their physical strength and rushing ability.

The formation training and cavalry and shooting are carried out in the morning and in the afternoon. The main purpose is to practice the formation under the flag-and-drum orders, and the cooperation of the troops in the formation, including siege and field battles. The specific projects are reasonably allocated and arranged by their respective generals, but the flag-and-drum orders are unified by the entire army to maintain the battle formation command after the generals are killed or rotated.

At the time of Si, at noon and after night are mainly about dining, learning military rules, reciting military rules and resting.

In the afternoon, I went to my county and township to help the people and the elderly, weak and lonely people do some work such as carrying water and sweeping the floor to bring closer military and civilian relations.

Considering the heavy training, Ji Ping arranged three days of rest and family leave for the soldiers every month, and carried out rotational rest, which was cancelled during wartime.

At the same time, in order to encourage young and strong men to join the army and encourage soldiers to fight bravely, General Ji Ping increased his salary by 30% and reduced the taxes for military households. For families with less than seven, one enlisted in the army was halved, and two enlisted in the army were exempted from all taxes, and the wealthy and powerful families were not included in this case.

While the treatment of soldiers and military families was improved, Ji Ping improved his qualifications to join the army. Any new recruit who failed the training after three months of joining the army and who had no skills would be sent to his hometown to continue farming, or serve as a police officer and escort of the county and county governments.

At the same time, Ji Ping strictly declared the "Seven Bans and Seven Kills" military order, and those who violated the order were killed without forgiveness. As with those who escaped at the battle, he canceled his tax preferential policies for his family.

What he wants to train is elite soldiers, elite soldiers who can control them, elite soldiers who can gallop across the board, rather than redundant soldiers and chaotic soldiers. It seems to be huge, wastes food and grass but does not have much combat effectiveness, and instead causes harm to the people.

The second decree is to register households and all the people, which stipulate that the people under the county and county governments, whether scholars, farmers, industry, commerce, or officials, or poor people, must be included in the national household registration. The living are written and the dead are cut off. The household registration records the name, age, hometown, identity, appearance, land, property, etc.

There are three types of household registration: main household, central household and customer.

The main households are those with land and homes, mainly including powerful and wealthy households and people with land.

The households in the village are the people who are in the village.

The customers are tenants who have no land and rely on powerful people, the fields of tenants, the land of people, and the land of people. They receive land of people, and the land of people and farm.

The main household and the resident household pay taxes in accordance with their respective tax relevant regulations. The customer pays the rent to the dependent tyrants themselves, and then the dependent tyrants pay taxes to the state on their behalf.

It has always been the most difficult thing to do. Especially now that the powerful have emerged, the situation of concealing household registration is extremely serious. In response to this, Ji Ping took two steps and took some incentives and punishments.

Previously, he ordered the reduction of the tax on the tuition, calculation of taxes and other head taxes, and the tax on the land tax was considered a means.

Many of the tenants who cannot pay heavy head tax and who are willing to rely on powerful families will automatically leave the powerful. After all, once the head tax is reduced, the exploitation of the powerful is probably heavier than the land tax collected by Ji Ping.

In addition, in order to encourage the people to apply for household registration to the state independently, Ji Ping specially improved the rights of household registration. In addition to the most basic rights, he gave household registration the rights to study and be an official.

This right seemed simple in later generations, but it was definitely a very important right during the Han Dynasty, because only "officials and civilians" had the right to be an official in the Han Dynasty.

There are several standards for officials and people. First, the profession and identity they engage in are not the targets of suppression or crackdown by the state. For example, the seven bans, doctors, workers, witches, and divination households, including merchants and their descendants, do not have the right to be an official. Second, they have the amount of property above the middle house, which was 100,000 in the early Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Jing, it was adjusted to 40,000, and there were many changes later.

In short, officials and people are a relatively wealthy class, not only with land. Many officials and people have slaves and servants. They are the main targets of the state's land, titles, and elections, and the main bearers of taxes and labor.

Ordinary poor people do not have the right to study or be an official. Now Ji Ping gives them these rights, which not only can motivate the people to organize households, but also is also a beginning for him to break the monopoly of the aristocratic family and prepare for the next step of the imperial examination.

These are all incentives. As long as the people organize households, whether they are the main household, household or customers, their rights and status are equal.

However, people without household registration are different. Not only do they have no rights to study and be officials, but they also have "case households compared with the people" in each county, county and township every August. That is, when checking the household registration, once a person who has been found or reported to have a dismissed household registration, they must be severely punished. Those who deliberately and forcibly conceal their household registration must be severely punished.

Any wealthy households and aristocratic families who hide more than ten households must go to the house to search, pay fines depending on the situation, and hide their household registration too large, or even encircle their families to exterminate the clan.

When Ji Ping proposed this punishment system, Lu Zhi, Yuan Ji, Cui Jun and Liu Bei all opposed it. They believed that once this decree was issued, it would be possible to offend the aristocratic families in the world immediately, but Ji Ping insisted on implementing it.

The household registration system is the foundation of the country. Whether the household registration system can be fully implemented often determines the rise and fall of a dynasty. He does not oppose the use of tenant farmers and servants of aristocratic families, but there is a prerequisite that these tenant farmers and servants must register households and pay taxes in the country.

If there is a family under his rule that insists on his own, and tries to hide his household registration like before, hide in the fortress, and build his own family, and does not submit to the state's control, then don't blame him for being ruthless!

Facts have proved that the introduction of a government decree will inevitably be resisted by vested interest groups.

As soon as the government orders for the establishment of households and citizens were issued, the first thing was to do was to write letters or respond passively. Many officials disobeyed and delayed for various reasons. Some local tyrants secretly colluded with bandits and robbers to rebel in the local area to show resistance.

Ji Ping showed his fangs without hesitation at this time.

He ordered Dianwei's Tiger Camp and Shi'a Shadow Department to investigate secretly, and directly brought some officials who violated their orders or were slandered and sent to Anyi, and sent them to prison. He also beheaded some officials who exploited the local area and bullied the people on weekdays, including some county magistrates and county magistrates. The heads of the county were spread to the counties, which really shocked those officials who were still slandering.

Ji Ping arranged for Lu Zhi, Yuan Ji and some capable people in the Cui Jun clan to make up for the missing positions of officials, and promoted some lower-level officials who dared to take responsibility, and carried out a major change.

In particular, he found that Lu Zhi had a county official Jia Kui under him. Although he was poor and was only eighteen years old, he was only a little older than him, but he was quite capable, so he directly appointed Jia Kui as the county magistrate of Jiangyi, and ordered him to take charge of the country, which also attracted many lower-level officials to look at him.

In this way, the officials' level was opened.

As for those powerful men who secretly colluded and supported the bandits and robbers to cause trouble, they used the combat power of Dian Wei and the Tiger Camp to wipe out the bandits and attacked the fortress they thought they were powerful, it was just a matter of a moment. For these guys, they directly confiscated their homes and killed the culprit.

Ji Ping's bloody and cruel methods really shocked the powerful and noble families in Hedong County. After Lu Zhi and Yuan Ji came forward to negotiate, the largest local aristocratic family, the Hedong Liu family, and another Hedong Wei family, who respected Wei Hao as their ancestor, first released the tenant farmers who were willing to leave in their family, and all the remaining tenant farmers were registered as households.

As for the famous Hedong Pei family in later generations, it was just a small family that had not developed at this time, and soon the few tenant farmers were assigned to households.

Ji Ping was not stingy about these families who had surrendered. He appointed Wei Ji as the magistrate of Yishi County and Liu as the magistrate of Hebei County. Pei Mao, the head of Pei, served in Chang'an, and Ji Ping appointed his son Pei Qian as the magistrate of Fuze County.

The compromise between the Liu family, Wei family and Pei family in Hedong broke the psychological defense line of other local tyrants. In less than half a month, the powerful people from all counties and townships in the southern Hedong County compromised and assigned tenant farmers to households.

In this way, Qi Min, a editor, took the lead in completing the strategy of Ji Ping's use of both civil and military affairs. (To be continued, please search for Piao Tianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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