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In the early morning, the sun had not yet come out, the sky was just tingling and bright, and a layer of white mist loomed over the Jianghan Plain.

It was late autumn and early winter. Although the Jianghan Plain was not like the first north wind in the north and the cold wind was biting, it also felt a little cold, and a layer of white frost condensed in the endless fields.

The autumn harvest has long ended, and the fields are deserted. In addition to groups of foraging birds, there are also several old farmers who have gotten up early, packing up the wheat fields that have just been sown.

It was a quiet morning, but soon, a fierce sound of horse hooves broke the tranquility of the morning.

On the official road west of Wuchang County, a team of more than five soldiers was marching quickly, a young general, with silver helmet and iron armor, burly figure, clear face, not much words, and staring at the distant fields with deep eyes. It was Liu Jing.

Next to him was an official, Deng Long, the magistrate of Wuchang County, who specially accompanied Liu Jing to Huang's Villa.

Su Fei was not with him today. He had just taken over the position of county magistrate and had a lot of things to deal with. Wei Yan and others were also busy training soldiers and had no time to accompany him.

Huang's Villa is not far away. It is fifty miles west of Wuchang County, and it is backed by a vast lake. In fact, the so-called villa is just a false reputation, but there is an artificial rockery less than a foot tall in the backyard.

"Prince" Deng Long pointed to the distance and smiled: "Follow this official road and you can reach Huang's Villa at about noon."

Deng Long was very talkative and told Liu Jing about the relationship between the human relationships and the origin of the family in Wuchang. Although Liu Jing did not speak most of the time, Deng Long could see that Liu Jing was listening very seriously, so he continued to speak happily.

However, one thing that made Deng Long embarrassed was that he knew that as a subordinate, it was a bit unreasonable to call Liu Jing Gong, but it was not appropriate to call Sima. After all, Sima was Sima from other clan of Chaisang, and now it is Wuchang County.

In fact, it is most appropriate to say that guarding is the most appropriate, but Deng Long always felt that saying that guarding is a bit incompatible with the rules of the officialdom without being appointed by the provincial governor.

Of course, he also knew that sometimes he could not follow the rules. For example, Su Fei was appointed as the county magistrate and did not follow the rules, but what if Liu Jing was transferred and a new ruler came to a new guardian.

So Deng Long still bit the bullet and called Liu Jing the official. Fortunately, Liu Jing didn't care, which made him feel a little relieved.

As soon as he introduced the customs and culture, the team walked for another hour. At this time, they had already walked out of a forest and entered a wider farming area.

This is the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain. It is several miles from Wuchang to Xiakou, with a radius of fertile land and abundant water sources. It has always been a heavy grain production area in Jiangxia County.

It can be said that this area of ​​several miles is the richest center of the entire Jiangxia County. If you master this area, you will also grasp the entire Jiangxia County.

It is precisely for this reason that the Huang family has been eroding this wealthy land for decades, occupying nearly 40% of the fertile land, storing thousands of slaves, and controlling tens of thousands of tenant farmers, making the Huang family firmly occupy the dominant position of Jiangxia County.

However, all this has been destroyed with the battle of the Jiangdong Army's eastward expansion. In addition to the whereabouts of Huang She, the entire Huang family has been destroyed, and their thousands of hectares of fertile land has become a homeless land.

The team walked past the official road in the fields. Liu Jing saw that there were many farmers doing farm work in the fields. He looked back at the soldiers. Everyone seemed a little tired, so he smiled at Deng Long and said, "Mr. Deng, please rest for a while."

"It just so happens that I'm a little tired, drink some water, take a break before continuing to rush."

Liu Jing turned around and said to everyone: "Everyone can rest for a moment."

With a command, the soldiers looked for the grass and the fields to sit down, took out the kettle to drink water and chat.

Liu Jing did not rest, but slowly walked into the field. Not far away, several old farmers who were hoeing the fields were looking at the army with fear, but saw them coming to him for the officers. Several old farmers turned to leave in fear, but Liu Jing stopped them, "Several elders, please stay."

Several old farmers did not dare to leave again, and they all turned around to salute, "What's wrong with this general?"

Liu Jing tried to use a gentle tone and said with a smile on his face: "I want to chat with a few elders, and take up a little time, is it convenient?"

Of course, the old farmers didn't dare to say that it was not good, but Liu Jing and his face also calmed down a little. Everyone sat on the ground and formed a circle.

"How many elders, how did the grain harvest this year?" Liu Jing asked casually as if chatting about home.

The old farmers looked at each other, and one of them shook his head and said, "This year is the Little New Year, and rice production is generally 20% lower than last year. However, the wheat harvest in summer is good, making up for the insufficient reduction in autumn harvest."

"Have this invasion of the Jiangdong Army affected everyone?"

"Fortunately, there is basically no war in the wild. I heard that Mr. Huang was defeated in the battle, and it has no effect. To be honest, we didn't even see the shadow of the Jiangdong Army."

Liu Jing nodded. This is the truth. The Jiangdong Army mainly traveled to the water and did not kill from Lu to Xiakou.

At this time, Deng Long also came over. He was wearing official robe and often went to the countryside to inspect. He was very popular in Wuchang County. Several old farmers recognized him and hurriedly got up and knelt down: "Xiaomin kowtowed to the county magistrate."

Deng Long was a little embarrassed. Liu Jing was right next to him. The old farmers did not salute him, but kowtowed to him. He looked at Liu Jing, but Liu Jing seemed nothing happened.

Deng Long knew clearly in his heart that Liu Jing didn't want someone to know his identity. Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Please get up, please, everyone can chat with you."

Since the county magistrate spoke, everyone dared not disobeyed, and they sat down, and Deng Long also sat down. He didn't know Liu Jing's intention. He was originally very talkative, but he was silent at this time.

Liu Jing smiled again and said, "Do you have farmed for the Huang family?"

"Of course," said an old farmer: "We are all his tenants, and we rented the Huang family to make a living."

Another old farmer pointed his hand and said, "To be honest, the land in this area, to the lake area to the north, is all the land of the Huang family. However, when I heard that something happened to the Huang family, everyone was uneasy."

Liu Jing laughed, "What happened to the Huang family, you don't have to pay the rent and tax you have for autumn harvest. Isn't that a good thing?"

"This is of course a good thing, but if the government takes away the land in the future, how can we make a living?"

Several old farmers said this, looking at the county magistrate Deng Long. This is their cleverness. It is best to ask about this while the county magistrate is here.

Deng Long smiled bitterly. Although the land deeds are all in the county government office, what to do in the end is decided by Liu Jing, and he has no right to explain.

In fact, when Liu Jing came out to inspect today, he didn't want to visit some Huang's villa. It was just a manor. The valuable gold, silver and soft materials had long been stolen by the Jiangdong army, and the food was transported away by Su Fei, leaving only some bulky furniture and utensils.

Maybe the scenery is good, but now it is the busiest time, but he doesn't have time to do a one-day tour of the manor. I will take Tao Zhan to take a closer look when I have time.

Liu Jing went out to inspect today, actually for the land. In his opinion, the biggest wealth of the Huang family is land, which is as large as tens of thousands of acres. How to handle these tens of thousands of acres of land is related to his control over Jiang Xia.

The key to solving land is the problem of people. This ten thousand hectares of land involves the vital interests of tenants. If you are not careful, it will cause chaos in the people. How can he not handle it carefully?

Liu Jing smiled again and said, "Don't worry, everyone always needs people to farm the land. You can't let the magistrate Deng go to the fields to cultivate it yourself. Do you think the magistrate Deng can withstand the 10,000 hectares of land?"

Liu Jing said it was very humorous, and everyone laughed, and at the same time they were relieved. They were right. People always needed to farm. In the past, they were farming for the Huang family, but in the worst case they were farming for the government.

However, the two worldly old farmers came back to the scene. The officer was so openly joking about the county magistrate, but the county magistrate smiled bitterly and did not dare to be angry. Doesn’t this mean that the status of this officer is far higher than that of the county magistrate?

Several people had questions about who he was.

"If so"

Liu Jing smiled and said, "I just said that if, if you hand over half of the land and the other half of the land is officially owned by you, you don't have to pay the land rent anymore. You just pay land tax to the government normally. Do you think this way of handling it is acceptable?"

The old farmers didn't say anything. It was really hard to accept when they heard it. They actually wanted to hand over half of the land. However, they were moved again afterwards. The other half of the land belonged to them. This was awesome, and they distributed the Huang family's land to them.

Everyone will settle the accounts. Half of the harvest will be paid to the Huang family every year. In the future, the land will be owned by itself, so there will be no need to pay the land rent. Although the land is half less, there will be less labor.

Moreover, it can increase the output, but there is no loss in fact. More importantly, from now on, the land belongs to oneself, which is a great fortune. No one can refuse such conditions.

After only a moment of silence, several old farmers were excited, "Of course this is good, but is there such a good thing?"

"Don't we pay for the land?"

"Can the Huang family cows be given to us together?"

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Everyone asked in a verbal question. This time they didn't ask about the county magistrate Deng Long, but they were all surrounding Liu Jing. Everyone could see that this young officer was probably a person who could make the decision.

In fact, Liu Jing has repeatedly considered this plan. He needed a stable self-cultivating farmer. Restoreing the Huang family's tenant farmers and slaves into self-cultivating farmers is undoubtedly the best way.

But he also needs land to reward military merits and to provide for the families of the fallen soldiers. Therefore, the best way is to have half of the interests, and half of the interests are left to the farmers on the original land, and he must take the other half of the interests in his hands. In this way, the interests can be balanced and everyone will be happy.

Deng Long next to him finally understood Liu Jing's thoughts. He secretly admired him. He thought that Liu Jing wanted to take the wealth and land of the Huang family for himself, and most people would do this.

However, Liu Jing was not expecting that what he considered was to restore self-cultivation farmers. In this way, not only would the people of Jiangxia be grateful to him, but more importantly, would greatly increase the government's tax revenue.

If the entire Jingzhou can be handled according to Liu Jing's thoughts, Jingzhou will soon become stronger.

Deng Long thought to himself: "This is a person with long-term vision, maybe he can really achieve great things."
Chapter completed!