He took back the land of the thief, put it in Wuweibo's name, and handed it over to the farmers to cultivate, and only one-tenth of the land rent was collected. It seemed that Li Guodong was obviously suffering a great loss. After all, these lands had long exceeded the amount of tax exemption from his count. Li Guodong had to pay taxes to the court, which means that the rent he collected was not even enough to pay the court's taxes, and he had to pay the silver himself!

But Li Guodong didn't think he was at a loss. The court's tax revenue? The court owed him more than 300,500 taels of silver. Emperor Chongzhen issued three twelves of a huge sum of one million taels. It would not be too much to use these twelves to reduce taxes for two years?

As for two years, it takes less than two years to invade the capital. If you protect Chongzhen and hunt in the south of the Yangtze River, you will still pay a lot of tax at that time? So no matter how you say it, Li Guodong would not be able to pay the money to help the farmers pay taxes.

Li Guodong can cleverly exempt taxes, even if only 10% of the income is net income. Moreover, the farmers' grain can only be sold to himself, so he made another profit invisibly. The farmland was not his own, but the thief killed the gentry and the royal family and snatched it from the gentry and the royal family. Now it has been stolen by Li Guodong. This uninvestable business that cannot be used in and out of is of course profitable.

In addition to farmland, because Jingzhou City was captured too quickly, the bandit army was wiped out again, and the large amount of gold, silver and treasures stolen by the bandits also fell into Li Guodong's hands, which was another big fortune.

Ordinary people don’t know this at all. They only know whoever gives them a bite of food will support whom they support. If anyone can’t survive, then will the general, prime minister, prince and prince Ning have a genitals.

Li Guodong not only gave them extremely low land rent, but also helped them build water conservancy projects, taught them to build new manors, and sold them new agricultural tools at a cheap price, provided oxen, developed three-dimensional agriculture, established agriculture, aquaculture and breeding industries, forming small ecosystems. The income of these farms composed of small ecosystems has increased by at least twice as much as the old-fashioned farming methods.

As for the system that Li Guodong proposed to them, the system of building military forts, strengthening city defense, conducting military training on weekdays, and turning peasants into militias, it was not opposed by the peasants. After all, the world was in chaos and the land of Jingxiang was really not peaceful, and the thieves might make a comeback at any time. Li Guodong taught the people how to protect themselves, and no one had reason not to adopt it.

The captured foreign refugees were sent away by Li Guodong. It was not safe for these foreigners to stay in Jingzhou. After all, after a while, many of them had already become bandit-like. If these people were not militarized, trained and brainwashed, and directly distributed the land to them in Jingzhou, it would be very likely to cause harm to the local people. So Li Guodong sent all these prisoners to Huai'an, Shandong and other places, mixed with local military households, and the old military households watched them.

Li Guodong left a group of people to handle the post-war affairs in Jingzhou. He took 20,000 elite infantry back to Wuchang on a boat.

It is more difficult to resume production of farmland near Wuchang than in Jingjiang. After all, the population loss is too large and there are serious shortage of young and strong men. People need to be transferred from their own military households and engineers to replenish them near Wuchang.

At Guazhou Wharf, Bai Zhengming boarded a ship with other military households.

"Sir, do you really want to send us to Wuchang?" Bai Zhengming asked Xiaoqi officer Tao Kairan carefully.

"Of course!" Tao Kairan said seriously, "When will our uncle keep his word? A gentleman is as good as he can, and uncle never breaks his word."

"Wuchang, the land of Huguang is so beautiful!" Bai Zhengming smiled happily.

"Not only can we send you the farmland near Wuchang, but we bachelors can also marry our wives!" Tao Kairan said with a smile, "Tao is thirty-six years old this year, so it's time to get married."

Bai Zhengming was also very moved when he heard that he could marry a wife. He was already thirty-two years old, and his family was still full and not hungry. His parents died early and there were no brothers and sisters at home. If there were sisters, they could take them out to exchange marriages with other families. Some poor families have many brothers and no sisters, so they might as well use a few brothers to share a wife.

There was even a situation in those days: recruiting husbands. The man in the family was seriously ill or disabled, and there was no man to support his family, take care of the elderly and raise children, so he had to recruit a man to go home, share a wife with his seriously ill husband, and the man would support his family, and the woman would help the man continue his offspring.

There are also daughters-in-laws who rent out. For example, a family can't pay the rent, can't pay the tax, and don't want to borrow the profits of cannibalism, so they rent their wife to a single man who can exchange them for money, and come back after giving birth to the child.

What is Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, what is the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, there is nothing among the poor. It is already a secret fun to have a wife to continue their descendants. How can there be so many things to pay attention to? What is the Three Obediences and Four Virtues and binding their feet are all the affairs of the gentry family. This phenomenon of several brothers sharing a wife, even recruiting husbands and renting out a wife, continued from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Red Dynasties before disappearing. Even during the Qing Dynasty and the Bald Head Period, this phenomenon existed.

Bai Zhengming was not very good at being a husband, so he couldn't bear it, so he rented a wife? He was poorer than those who couldn't pay the rent, so he could not help others with rent and pay taxes? So the thirty-year-old Bai Zhengming was single. Until one day, he was swept up by the thief army and became a refugee. He originally wanted to follow the thief army to steal a wife back. But not long after, Bai Zhengming was captured in the First Battle of Kaifeng and sent to Shandong as a military household. Now he followed the military farmer south.

As for their small flag officer Tao Kairan is still single at thirty-six, it is because he joined the army in Tongzhou fourteen years ago and followed Li Guodong until now. When he was following Li Guodong, he went to the outer world. There were more men and few women there, so where did he get his wife? After returning to the Ming Dynasty, he fought for several years until he was injured and retired. He was assigned to Wang Quan's Huai Army and became a small flag officer in a military farm household. However, in the army, Tao Kairan, who had more men and few women, looked ugly and disabled, naturally had difficulty getting married.

Although Tao Kairan has not married a wife yet, he is grateful to Li Guodong. He said to everyone: "If I had no uncle, I would have died at the hands of Jiannu thirteen years ago, or had been captured by Jiannu and became a slave outside the pass, and died of exhaustion outside the pass. The uncle was as kind as a mountain to me, and now he is very kind to me. He has made me a small flag, and the family still has some money."

When someone asked him, "Sir Tao, your family is not rich, why don't you buy a woman and come back?"

Whenever others ask him this, he smiled embarrassedly: "I don't feel anything when I buy it."

The ship that the military households transferred to Wuchang was on was flowing up the Yangtze River. It was getting dark. Tao Kairan sat on the edge of the ship's side. He took off his shoes and his feet hanged from the edge of the boat. The cold river water slapped his barefoot from time to time. He liked this feeling very much.

Tao Kairan took out a jade pendant with poor texture and rough workmanship from his arms. Looking at the jade pendant, he shed tears. Fourteen years ago, Tao Kairan actually had a virtuous daughter-in-law. Although his wife was not very beautiful, her facial features were straight and her eyebrows were beautiful. They also had a daughter. But fourteen years ago, the Later Jin army invaded, and his wife and daughter were captured. Tao Kairan hid in a dry well for three days. One day, he couldn't stand it. He climbed onto the ground and encountered a group of Later Jin soldiers. If Li Guodong had not been able to accept the night in time, he would have been captured.

"I don't know how you are doing outside the customs." Tao Kairan said in his heart.

When the fleet arrived in Wuchang, the Ming army had already greeted them at the dock. Bai Zhengming got off the ship and led the team to the registration office in Wuchang City to report.

"Bai Zhengming!" a military officer from the registration office shouted.

"arrive!"
Chapter completed!