However, all this is only a superficial account seen by the Jiangdong Left Army in Chongzhou County, Hailing Prefecture and the county magistrate.

In fact, throughout May, through Li Shutang, Li Shuyi and others bypassed the special envoy Han Zai and Chongzhou County to directly negotiate with various powerful families, and additional replacements were made at the mouth of Xishan River, Zilang Mountain, Jiuhua Temple and Hecheng.

140,000 acres were allocated for farming.

Most of these 140,000 acres of land are middle and lower fields, but they are all cultivated land cultivated by tenant farmers. With this summer grain harvest, the Jiangdong Left Army has a large amount of income directly from these 140,000 acres of land.

When tenants in Chongzhou rent land, in addition to paying grain taxes and various apportionments, they also have to pay an additional 50% of the harvest to the landowner as land rent. The actual tax burden they bear is as high as more than 60%. In disaster years, taxes may be reduced or reduced.

A small amount, but the land rent has not been reduced at all. As a result, the tenant farmers who occupy most of the small towns in Chongzhou, a prosperous land in Chongzhou, live in extremely difficult conditions and have fierce social conflicts.

After the replacement of 140,000 yuan of land was completed, Lin Fu directly reduced the land rent from 50% to 30%. Except for the Ding tax and grain tax, all other apportionments were exempted, and the actual burden of the sharecroppers was reduced to less than 40% of the harvest.

Even so, Jiangdong Zuojun still collected more than 40,000 dan from the 140,000 fields after the summer grain harvest.

In addition to reducing rents and taxes, Lin Fu also promoted permanent tenant rights on these 140,000 fields. By promoting permanent tenant rights, although tenant farmers do not have ownership of the land, they have the right to renew the lease forever. As long as they pay the rent normally, they do not have to worry about losing the land to other farmers.

The Lord took it away, thus leaving him with the last resort to support his family.

Only by increasing the tenure rights and reducing rents and taxes can the tenant farmers' enthusiasm for production be increased, and only then can they be organized to build water conservancy projects, accumulate fertilizer and improve the land, and ultimately increase the overall harvest of the land.

For the tenant farmers on these lands, the rent reduction and tax reduction movement directly initiated by the Jiangdong Left Army and the promotion of permanent tenant rights have brought direct and huge benefits to them. Although the summer grain harvest has not increased much, due to the rent reduction and tax reduction, the average household

The summer grain income of tenant farmers has increased by almost 50%.

Tenant farmers and tenants are simple and unsophisticated. Whoever can bring them the most direct benefits will be supported from the bottom of their hearts. This is the same as Liu An'er's ability to gather hundreds of thousands of refugees in half a year. The key is Liu An'er.

Unable to raise food and grass from normal channels to settle these hundreds of thousands of refugees, despite the large number of people, they eventually became just rogue bandits.

Through simple actions such as reducing rents and taxes and promoting permanent tenant rights, although the summer grain harvest of 140,000 acres of land was reduced by more than 10,000 dan in rent and taxes, more than 6,000 households of tenant farmers and nearly 30,000 households of dependent farmers quickly became Jiangdong.

The Zuo Army's foothold in Jiuhua Temple, Xishan Hekou, Zilang Mountain and Hecheng actually enabled the Jiangdong Zuo Army to complete its deep penetration into Chongzhou County in May ahead of schedule.

In addition to stationing a sentry soldier in Jiuhua Temple and transforming Jiuhua Temple into a small military fortress that was conducive to long-term protection of the garrison, Lin Fu also first selected the best among the tenants who were dependent on Jiuhua Temple's farmland to form the Jiuhua Township Camp.

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The Jiuhua Township Camp has only two posts and more than 400 people. What Lin Fu really wants to do is to organize more than 3,000 strong young people from the Jiuhua Temple tenants to conduct rotational training in civilian bravery after the summer busy season. After the autumn grain harvest is put into the warehouse,

, organized the tenants of Jiuhua Temple to dig a river channel that ran through the Xishan River and Yunyan River.

To say that those who suffered the most severe losses after the banditry case was concluded were of course the monks and nuns in the 19 monasteries. Almost 900 monks and nuns were either expelled from Chongzhou County or returned to their homes; in addition, the names of the monks and nuns who were hiding in the monasteries were also traced.

A large number of depositors.

This banditry case made Lin Fu believe that a county-wide census of Dingkou and farmland could squeeze out a lot of oil and water. It would not be a big deal to double Chongzhou's taxes on the basis of doubling.

Things that surprise people.
Chapter completed!