"Just imagine, if there is a first-class government in Lingyidu, is that so? As for digging a ditch, does it take so long to deliberate? As for now, no one cares? ”

"If there is no government, there will be no organization, no one will mobilize, there will be nothing to do, and no one can be mobilized. Below the county level, the power of the government was stolen by the wealthy gentry and the clan gentry. ”

Dong Ce waved his hand and said categorically: "Let's rock fort, this can't be done!" ”

"Under the rule of Panshi Fort, we must firmly control everyone, and the government must go down to the township level, even the village."

"Now, the size and population of our Rock Fort can be roughly counted as a county. And the following guarantees can be regarded as the level of the village. Now the chief of the body, you don't take money, do you? ”

Dong Ce asked.

This was asked to Li Gui.

"If you go back to your lordship, you won't take it." Li Guidao.

"Give them money." Dong Ce said categorically: "You go down to discuss it and see how much is appropriate for this Yulu, but there is one thing, Yulu gave them, but he can't give them any privileges." They are officials, yes, but they can't be given any privileges other than being able to manage people and do things. In particular, you can't afford not to pay food, not to pay silver! ”

In the end, 'you can't pay without food and silver' is the point, Dong Ce knows very well that if these security chiefs are given the same privileges as those famous scholars in the Ming Dynasty, how much disadvantage will be derived.

It will be like the current Ming Dynasty, because some people can not pay taxes, so that many people are attached to their homes, and those people will pay rent to the family they are attached to, but they will no longer have to pay the imperial grain and national tax. The rents paid were much lower than those paid to the imperial court, and their burdens were much lighter.

This is a good thing for them, but a big bad thing for the imperial court. A large number of hukou and fields disappeared in the imperial court's fish scale yellow book, at the beginning of the founding of the country, there were about 9 million hectares of cultivated land in the country, and in the Wanli period, there were only more than 4 million hectares left, even after Zhang Juzheng's reform, it was only more than 7 million hectares.

But how can this be the case? Hundreds of years after the rise of the dynasty, under the peaceful and prosperous era, the wasteland was constantly reclaimed, and many lakes were filled into cultivated land, and the total amount of cultivated land will only increase, and it is impossible to decrease it.

The cultivated land that disappeared was naturally hidden by the local wealthy gentry.

The government and the opposition all know about this, but no one dares to do it, and no one can do it.

Emperor Chongzhen can't do it.

Because in that way, it is the entire clique of civil officials and gentry who will be offended, and the consequences of offending them will be extremely terrifying. Whoever dares to move will be destroyed!

So in a sense, only by changing the dynasty can we cure this matter once and for all.

Dong Ce continued: "Not only is this the case now, but in the future, the scale of our Rock Fort will become larger and larger, and it will be even more so. ”

"These security chiefs should be changed every three years, and they should be audited regularly to see if they are doing a good job. Don't think of them as the kind of chief Lizheng as before, but as officials of the imperial court. Dong Ce looked at Li Gui: "This is your errand, you have to do it well." ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand." Li Guidao: "After I went back, my subordinates thought about it and came up with a charter." ”

"Hmm." Dong Ce nodded: "It should be so." ”

He also emphasized: "Only by doing what we do can we strengthen our mobilization capacity!" At the sound of the order, the security chiefs immediately moved, and the people were quickly organized, and it was very convenient to do anything. ”

"Yes, there is." Dong Ce said to Li Gui: "We must regularly check the hidden Dingkou and the hidden acres. ”

"Yes." Li Guiying said.

"You don't hide your own fields, do you?" Dong Ce looked around and half-jokingly.

Everyone hurriedly said: "No, absolutely not." ”

Each of them divided a lot of land, the more than 200 acres, and the less 1450 acres, which Dong Ce allocated to them, and also to let them increase their income and live a more comfortable life. However, the officials under Dong Ce are not very prosperous in their families, and people like Zhang Han are even more alone, and they can't plant the fields even more.

But Dong Ce has a way.

He allowed these families to accept some tenants under his subordinates, of course, it was all voluntary, and he came to me to farm if he was willing to come, and he was not reluctant to come. However, there are still people who are willing to come, because their identities are different after all, and they feel that it will be safer and more stable to take refuge under their door.

These displaced people have been displaced and have gone through hardships, and they feel a little insecure in their hearts, and some people feel very relieved to be able to take refuge in the government's house.

"It's good not to hide." Dong Ce smiled: "Your income is not low, and the official often has rewards, and the fields have been divided, and there will be more fields for you in the future, relying on these fields alone, it is enough to feed the family." ”

Everyone understood what he meant, and hurriedly agreed.

"Alright, that's all here today, let's all disperse." Dong Ce stood up, waved his hand and said, "After everyone goes back, they are all thinking about it, what the word mobilization ability means, and what it contains, it's easy to think about it." ”

"Yes!" Everyone said in unison.

Dong Ce waved his hand, bypassed the screen, and walked out of the hall.

The people in the hall also dispersed.

"Mobilization capacity!"

Everyone learned another word today: mobilization.

At this time, there is no need for Dong Ce to explain, everyone understands what this word means. Although they can't describe it in very general terms, it doesn't affect their understanding.

Thinking of Dong Ce's words, he was thoughtful.

Dong Ce returned to the inner house, it was already noon, the meals were ready, and everyone was staring at him.

Dong Ce accompanied his mother and Red Sleeves to have a lunch, and in the afternoon he slept beautifully, and when he woke up, it was already sunset, and the sky was full of red clouds.

In the pavilion in the courtyard, the stone table and stone bench were wiped clean, and a light of tea was placed on the table. At this time, the sky and the earth were dark, except for the western sky where Hongxia was located, the sky in other places was blue and black, under this blue-black sky, looking up, there were branches of big trees growing horizontally, bare, plain and a little more desolate and withered.

There was silence all around, except for the occasional crow's cry that shattered it.

Dong Ce sighed softly, how long has it been since he had seen the sky like this?

It's just that at this time, there was a gentle knock on the door of the inner house, and the voice of Bai Zhongqi sounded outside: "My lord, you told me before, this is a reminder for you to go to the signing room to deal with affairs." ”

Dong Ce smiled dumbly.

This mundane affairs are like a big web, and they are like spiders in the web, crawling in it, but they can't climb out, but this web is woven by itself.

It seems that it is still enjoyable.

He smiled slightly, and said in a deep voice: "This official knows." ”

On the tenth day of November in the eighth year of Chongzhen, early in the morning, Dong Ce came to the Panshi Fort recruit camp.

The new battalion of Rock Fort is not in Rock Fort, but is built in the north of the city, on the eastern edge of Qingfeng Mountain.

Originally, this recruit camp was to be built in the city, but what everyone didn't expect was that so many homeless people who wanted to enter the rock fort came so quickly. There are many displaced people, and there are naturally many who can be selected to serve as soldiers, and it didn't take long to pick out more than 1,000 qualified reserve soldiers.

Originally, according to Dong Ce's original concept, this recruit battalion was to train recruits in batches, and there were hundreds of people at a time, so it didn't need to be too big, and the city was completely built.

But now, if you want to train so many recruits at once, you need a territory that is several times larger, and there is no such a large territory in the city.

I had to build it outside the city.

Fortunately, Dong Ce did not have any special clear instructions on the location of the recruit camp before leaving, and the location had not been decided, so building it outside the city was not considered a violation of the order.

After eating early in the morning, Dong Ce called Wang Yu, surrounded by a group of family members, and went out of the north city gate.