This kind of human trafficking with money seems unbelievable to outsiders. But for Xu Xingxia, it is not new at all. In the initial stage of Zhenshuo Fort, there must be a big price to pay. As long as the foundation is laid, things will be easier to do in the future. In fact, many armies in later generations were strong in this way. He still remembers a sentence very clearly: "It is glorious to be a revolutionary human trafficker!" ”

An adult man is only three taels of silver, and 10,000 adult men are only 3,000 taels of silver, but the value created by 10,000 adult men must be far more than 3,000 taels. How many things can 10,000 adult men do? If all of them are cultivated, at least 100,000 acres of fields can be cultivated, and the annual grain production will be at least 100,000 koku. If half of them were in the army, there would be 5,000 of them. The musket team of 5,000 people, equipped with mini guns, in Ningxia Town, definitely walked sideways.

Besides, there are their families. These people can also create value. At that time, there was no such thing as planning a business, as long as they could have children, ordinary families would try their best to have children. Most military families have seven or eight families, and it is not uncommon for families with more than 10 families. Like the Xu family, there are only five people, which is too few.

The large-scale farm in Xu Xingxia's plan is not just a farm, it is actually equivalent to the people's commune of later generations, in addition to agriculture, there is also industry, commerce, and even the army. In short, workers, peasants, businessmen, and soldiers are all available. Everyone earns their share of labor by their work. Different labor has different labor calculations. The more credits you earn, the more material rewards you can get, and the more chances you have to be promoted.

The way of the people's commune did not work in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Xingxia did not think about it carefully. He is not a theorist, and he is not very knowledgeable. However, he believes, there is no other way. It is impossible to divide the fields among military households. Once divided, he will not be able to concentrate all the gains to the maximum. Now he must take every resource he can use into his own hands.

In addition, after the fields are dispersed, every household must be equipped with farm tools, ploughing cattle and other messy things, which is a very complicated and trivial matter, which will involve the energy of many people, and also involves the ownership of these items. On the contrary, if the method of Chengren Min Commune is carried out, farm tools, ploughing cattle, etc., can be handed over to the collective management, which is simple and fast.

Who is the collective? To put it bluntly, it is him Xu Xingxia himself. Everything in the Commune was, in essence, his personal property. The white-clothed army was his armed family, and the ordinary military households were his tenants. Well, it is not correct to say that the tenants are not working, the people's communes do not operate in the manner of tenants, it should be said that they are purely part-time. They only received a fixed amount of money and food from the People's Commune, and nothing else belonged to them.

Is this way of operation welcomed by the military households? Xu Xingxia is estimated to be popular. Because, those military households who fled and arrived must have no surplus food on them. Military households that have surplus food to continue living on are probably not going to come over easily. For those fugitive families who have nothing to do, if the fields are distributed to them, they will have to wait until the grain harvest to have a chance to fill their stomachs. This can take months. The way of the people's commune, as long as you come, you will have food to eat, there will be work to do, seamless connection.

For Xu Xingxia, it was also a trouble to distribute the land to military households. It's hard to decide how much or how to divide it. It can take months just to measure the fields. Does he have such manpower and material resources? No! Under his command, except for a very few people such as Wang Qinian, there are few people who know how to settle accounts. So many fields, so many military households, how to calculate? How is the lottery drawn? How to combine? How fair?

People do not suffer from widowhood, but only from inequality, which is what the old man said was dead. It doesn't matter if the military families live poorly, the key is not to make them feel unfair. It is difficult to achieve fairness by dividing the fields and land. There are always good and bad fields, and how to match them is a problem. With the inferior root surname of the Chinese, no matter how it is matched, someone will definitely scold the mother. Such examples, whether in the past life or the future life, Xu Xingxia has seen too many of them.

How to determine how many acres of land each person should get, depending on the population of a military family and the number of men? Do the old people divide it? Women are not divided? Do children divide or not? It's all a nuisance. No matter how you decide, there are bound to be people who are not satisfied. Rather than work hard and end up with a thankless result, it is better to simply not divide it. You come to work in my field, and I will give you food, which is convenient and simple.

If the People's Commune is a factory, these foreign military households are the workers. If you have the ability, do it, whether you are a man, an old man, a woman, or a child! Iron battalions and flowing soldiers. Even if some military households feel that this is not in line with their own requirements, they will at most choose to leave. Behind them, there will be more military families to come. The only thing Xu Xingxia needs to indulge in is the amount of money and food given to them.

"Senho-sama...... Can the arrears be distributed? A soldier asked expectantly. The other military households also looked at Xu Xingxia helplessly with their eyes. The Tartars had ransacked Zhenshuo Fort, and when they returned to Zhenshuo Fort, they could not find any food to fill their stomachs. This winter, I'm afraid it's not easy to pass!

"I can only apply to the above, and ask the above to issue it as soon as possible. However, the number is too large, and it is estimated that there will be no distribution. It's not that you don't know what is going on. They don't care if we live or die. If we want to live a good life, we have to count on ourselves, not others. Xu Xingxia shook his head and said in a somewhat cold tone.

The military households present could not help but be a little disappointed. If the arrears of money and food can be distributed, they should be able to spend this winter. The amount of money and food owed to each of them is not small. If all of them are issued, it will not be a problem to support them for a year or two. However, since even Xu Xingxia said so, it seems that it is indeed very suspenseful.

Chen Denglong said: "Don't worry, Lord Qianhu has already said that our white-clothed army has sufficient money and food. As long as everyone does things for our white army, we can get rich rewards. Survive this winter without any problems at all. ”

The military household who took the lead said, "I don't know what Lord Qianhu wants us to do? ”

Xu Xingxia said indifferently: "Of course it's to repair the house!" Build the house first, and then talk about everything else! If you don't have a house, I'm afraid you won't be able to survive this winter! ”

At this time, Gao Zhengcheng had already arrived with several backbone military households. They had just completed the specific area inside Zhenshuo Fort, where the thousand houses should be built, and the location of the craftsmen's workshop, stables, training grounds, barracks, armory, gunpowder magazine, and other buildings had also been determined. Compared with Weizhen Fort, the biggest advantage of Zhenshuo Fort is that the internal space is large, and there is a lot of room to move when arranging the buildings.

The first 500 thatched huts were arranged by Gao Zhengcheng and others in the southwest corner of Zhenshuo Fort. This is a relatively leeward area, and even if a north wind blows, the damage to the thatched houses will not be great. Later, behind the thatched houses, there will be a large number of brick houses, which can effectively block the blowing of the north wind. As we all know, thatched huts are leaky on all sides, and if they were built in a wind-facing location, it would definitely be a tragedy this winter.

"Everybody, come here! Let's talk as we go! ”

Xu Xingxia immediately called everyone over and discussed the construction of the house on the spot.

There is no problem in building houses and the military households present, they have the strength. As long as they have enough to eat, they can keep working. The first thing to do when building a house is to prepare the wood, prepare the stones, and dig the foundation, which can be done not only by men, but also by women. Even some children can do it.

"Labor in exchange for food." Xu Xingxia said concisely.

The way the people's commune worked, from this moment on. Xu Xingxia's suggestion is that an adult male should do a day's work and give three points. Adult women, who do a day's work, are given two and a half points of work. Children or the elderly, do a day's work, give a half work. Each point of work can be exchanged for one pound of grain. If a military family has so many people of eight, basically, they can earn more than ten catties of grain a day.

For this kind of remuneration, the military families are still relatively satisfied, especially the military families with few men in the family, or even no men. This time, Mo Yuegen attacked Zhenshuo Fort and emptied almost all the men in Zhenshuo Fort, and most of the rest were women and children. In the past, no matter what we did, we basically counted only men, not women and children. Now, with Xu Xingxia's grace, they can also support themselves through labor.

It is estimated that there are as many as 3,000 women and children temporarily living in Fort Willing. These people, of course, can't eat and work in vain. No matter how big Xu Xingxia's ability is, he can't afford to raise so many idlers. He had to make them create value. In later generations, women can also hold up for half a day, and Xu Xingxia doesn't think that women will be weaker than men at all. Therefore, he did not hesitate to take women into account when considering problems.

The military women of the Ming Dynasty had a relatively big feature, that is, they did not bind their feet. Even if they do rough and heavy work, they are not inferior to men too much. Some military women can even pick up 180 pounds of stones. Such a woman, who is only counted as two and a half points of work, is actually at a loss. However, the overall social atmosphere at that time was like this, and Xu Xingxia could only do this.

(To be continued)