"Please look at the map by the owner."

Li Xiangfu has become very busy recently, and his vitality and confidence seem to have returned to him. He never thought that so many big things would happen in his eyes. Seeing Li Zhuang changing day by day, he became full of vitality.

Zhang Han gave him the salary of fifteen taels per month, ten times his previous income.

A map appeared in front of Zhang Han, and he looked at it with interest.

Their place is in the northwest corner of Datong Prefecture. There are mountains on both sides of it. Only along the Sanggan River and Yanghe River are large plains. Xinping Fort is in the east of the mountain edge, and in the east of Lizhuang, Yongjia Fort, which is a dilapidated small fort that guards the Daliang Mountains and is in the important places. To the southwest is Tiancheng and Zhenlu Acropolis, further south is Baideng and Xujiazhuang Fort, and then to the south are large mountains, then Hunyuanzhou, Lingqiu and Weizhou.

These places belong to Datong Prefecture, administratively belong to the Shanxi Provincial Administration and militaryly belong to the defense zone of Datong Town.

"From Yongjia Fort to Xujiazhuang Fort, there are two acropolis, and then south to Shitiling and Luanling Pass, which is about 200 miles in radius. According to the Huang Book of the government, there are 330,000 mu of arable land, mainly military farmland under the name of the two garrisons. Ninety percent of the military fields have been occupied by officers above the commander. The military households only have a small amount of land, most of which are used as tenant farmers for generals to farm. There are 110,000 mu of people, which are cultivated by the people living in the two garrisons, and the total is 440,000 mu. We have checked that there are 517 households with more than 100 mu of land. They occupy 60% of the land, most of which are military officers or scholars with fame and reputation. There are more than 2,700 households with ten to thirty acres of land, and they account for 30% of them, and there are more than 4,000 households with three or five acres of land, only 10% of which are for others to carry the life of themselves."

Zhang Han praised: "Old Li, you did a good job in this matter, really good."

Li Xiangfu said: "Li Dongxue and Mr. Wang are both better than me, and the dozens of boys from the Protagonist Sect are all very capable."

Li Xiangfu continued: "We buy most of the lands of landlords who have made fame and fortune from our ancestors. Now they are white-bodied landlords, and they also buy lands of ordinary people. The price of the owner is high, and many people are willing to sell them. Some lands have been long, and only the "field sperm" is from. I don't know which family of land is from. In this way, only the "field sperm" can be saved. In addition, the military officers of the ward have sold more people. The owner has hired a lot recently, and the tenant price has dropped sharply. They also know that they can't afford to offend the owner. It's better to sell the map to be clean. In this way, the land you bought is about 27,000 acres..."

Zhang Han said: "It's still not much. It's still far from my idea of ​​buying more than 100,000 acres."

Li Xiangfu took out a larger map with the land he had bought. He expanded it to show Zhang Han: "Owner, buying land is actually based on luck, not a matter of rush. The old man was also lucky back then, so he bought Lizhuang, a big village. In fact, many people have accumulated only a few thousand acres of land for decades."

After all, the amount of cultivated land here in Shanxi is small, Zhang Han thought.

If there are places like Shandong where there are many land but not many relatives, it is probably not difficult to buy a hundred thousand acres in the short term as long as you have money. Especially for some military fields, most of the land is encroached on by officers, military households fled, and a lot of land is abandoned. If you are exhibited in those places, it will be much easier to settle down.

Hebei, which is the land of Northern Zhili, was divided up by nobles. It is ten times more difficult to buy land there than in Shanxi.

There is a lot of land along the edge of the Great Wall, especially the Xuanfu East Road, but Zhang Han is unlikely to run there to farm.

The land in Datong is also an inverted pyramid type. The poorest ones are indeed the least, and then the smallest ones are in control of the most land.

It is not surprising that the military officers bought a lot of land. The military officers felt very good about power. Zhang Han was back and deep in the field. The people who were selling land were overwhelmed by them. The Tiancheng Wei's palm seal command and the Zhenlu Wei's palm seal had been taken by Zhang Han long ago, and they would never regard Zhang Han as an ordinary household. Ordinary military officers would probably cooperate obediently after Zhang Han's people came to the door.

"The famous scholar and the juren do not follow us at all..." Li Xiangfu said: "Only a few companies agree to sell land, mainly because they are not good at the age of year and the land is not valuable. They are attracted by the high prices we give. Most of the people in charge are playboys and are called prodigal sons."

Zhang Han smiled bitterly and said, "The price I gave is enough for them to rent for fifty years, and they still hold it in their hands. Why bother?"

"The owner doesn't know something..." Li Yujing, who has been silent, said: "If you hold the field bones in your hands, people will feel at ease. If you want to pass on the industry to your descendants, no matter how good the money is, you have to work hard to bury it under the ground at home. If you are not at ease, you will feel safer than having real estate."

Zhang Han said: "Does everyone think so?"

The accounting room and Guanzhuang both laughed, and the two gray-headed guys nodded together.

Li Yujing said again: "In recent years, we and the three shopkeepers of Yusheng have not bought much land. The three counters originally had no land. This year, we bought more than 100 acres of land. In the past six months, there are quite a few shopkeepers in other branches. You are recruiting half of the battalions of battalions. In the future, the officers will not be able to catch up with the shopkeepers. They were originally one, and they would definitely be jealous when they saw others buying land. Now the boss is stationed in advance and rewarded to his capable subordinates in the future. In this way, everyone will have the benefits together and everything will be easier."

Zhang Han nodded before, but later he felt something was wrong... He took out money to raise archers, but in fact he was just to train his own private soldiers, and he would use it in the future. His vision became wider and broader, and his mental claims were already different from last year. The current situation also prompted him to move upwards. He could not be sure of how many major things he would do in the future, but it does not mean that the current situation is to create a bunch of landlords of all sizes.

But people's hearts are like this. If they buy more land, they do covet many people. If he has more than 100,000 acres of land in his hands but has never been willing to distribute it to his subordinates, people may be dissatisfied and will cause trouble.

Zhang Han was very confused for a moment and felt that there were many things he hadn't figured out. As expected, the role of the superior was not easy to play. The original intention of one thing was to go east. As he walked, there would be changes and the road would go astray.

In this era, if you go the wrong path, it will not only be a problem, but may go bankrupt.

He pressed his forehead and settled for a while, then said to the two people in front of him: "I looked at the map just now. The land we bought is fine now, most of which are together, not very far apart. Don't buy it again next time, let alone buy it far away. Slowly start to connect the purchased ones together. People with fame are not easy to buy, and they cannot use it. It is also troublesome to offend too many people. Keep it aside first and don't look aggressive."

Li Xiangfu was just worried that the boss was not good at doing things well. He bought too little land and everything in front of him was in full swing. Others were doing things for the boss and did very well, but his work was not very good. You should know that the boss had money, and the money was stacked there. If there was a land certificate, there was silver. Behind him were the governor, general, deputy general, guard commander, and military preparatory. There were so many big figures behind him, he was really rich and powerful. Moreover, the boss was young, afraid of being impatient and angry. Unexpectedly, what Zhang Han said was very calm now and he was not in a hurry to get angry. Li Xiangfu felt very impressed and thought that the boss had such a situation in front of him at such an age, and it was really not in vain.

Li Yujing was also happy. He was worried that the money would be used too quickly, so he stood up and really welcomed Zhang Han.

After Li Xiangfu said goodbye, Li Yujing was about to leave, so Zhang Han called him and said with a smile: "The accountant will find Wang Yong later, and tell Wang Yong the name of the shopkeeper who bought the land in the past six months."

Li Yujing regretted that he was a little too much, and this time he might offend someone. He didn't know what Zhang Han planned to do, so he was very upset and agreed to go out.

...

Zhang Han was busy until midnight. Recently, he had too many things to do, and there was no way to go there. The number of archers is now 600. He also plans to recruit 300 miners who are willing to join the army in the mine, and continue to recruit people in the mine.

Half of the farmers and half of the miners, Zhang Han planned to use these people to build a strong soldier that was not inferior to the Jurchens, and even farther than them, becoming the strongest army in East Asia in this era.

The Chinese have no good reputation as a fighting nation, but Zhang Han thinks that the Chinese are also an unbiased fighting nation. It’s just that this nation has accumulated too many impurities. After all, it is one of the oldest civilized races. Over the past few thousand years, the spirit of martial arts will inevitably be missing. In addition, there are too many cultural, educational, political, economic, and all kinds of quarrels, which seriously affect the military.

If these are sorted out slightly, the Chinese will be able to fight to the end and have stronger resilience.

After midnight, Jiang Kui came in and took a look. Zhang Han saw him at first sight and cursed, "What a nerd, what's the point."

Jiang Kui said: "Wang Yong is here, and asked me to come in and see if the boss has slept. I said that the boss has not taken a shower yet, so most of it hasn't slept, but I don't know if he is busy..."

Zhang Han said: "You are more verbose than your wife's tongue now... Let's call him in."

Jiang Kui smiled and strode out and called Wang Yong in.

Wang Yong came in and gave a neat military salute. This military salute was also from Zhang Hanming. Unlike the Liaodong Army's thundering and kneeling ceremony, it was not a bow or a crossing hand. Of course, don't kneel down. Just punching the horizontal fist in the chest. Zhang Han felt that this movement was very beautiful, a bit majestic and neat and capable, which was in line with the style and habits of soldiers. No matter where you have seen it, you will use it anyway.

The field and the special service personnel also wore formal archer uniforms. Zhang Han was short of other things here, with the most money and supplies, and some fabrics were available.

Zhang Han did not intend to use cyan and red as he used gray fabric. He planned that his troops were different from ordinary Ming army, so that it would be easier to establish his own team's centripetal force and sense of honor. It would be the best to have the feeling of "I am not an ordinary border army". After a long time, he naturally only loyal to him.

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Chapter completed!