Chapter 245

(the 1500 towns in the previous chapter were mistaken. It should be 750, which has been changed.)

No one expected that in just half a month, millions of people and more than 10 million mu of land were distributed.

The high efficiency is really amazing and unbelievable.

Qin Huan also didn't expect that those ladies were so efficient. The key was that there was no water and error in both population and farmland, which was very terrible.

In ancient times, it was almost impossible for such a huge project to involve so many people and land.

The prime minister's Yamen and the officials of the six ministries no longer dare to idle away their work and set up their own yamen one after another.

The county magistrates in all parts of the country also cheer up, stay at the county government office every day, make statistics of local officials and captors, and report them to the official department.

This made the big families everywhere panic. They had many means to deal with the literati and county magistrate sent by Qin Huan, nothing more than money and beauty.

But for those widows who have no desire and no desire, there is really no way.

I'm sure I won't come when I send an invitation and ask people to drink. I'll take the initiative to deliver money to win over. Most people probably won't want it. Maybe they have to take them down.

However, the gentry everywhere did not act rashly. Now jumping out is tantamount to hitting stone with an egg and finding an excuse for the Chinese army to raid their homes.

Anyway, the land can't be moved there. After the imperial army defeated the Chinese army, the land will still be theirs, and they will take it ready-made at that time. Wouldn't it be happy to take it as a concubine and continue to manage it for them?

So in the following days, big families from all over the country stayed in the city, clamped their tails, sat and watched the people outside the city, dug ditches, repaired canals, made up houses and built warehouses under the organization of those ladies.

Looking at the data of towns reported by ladies from all over the world, finally, 20 counties were established on the original basis, resulting in a total of 35 counties in the two places, and many larger towns have become counties.

Almost every county has been torn down into two or even three.

Each county governs 20 to 30 towns, with about 20000 to 30000 households. Plus the people in the city, the population is more than 100000, and the radius is no more than 80 miles. It ensures that the farthest village can also go back and forth to the county in one day.

In the newly established County, the county magistrate is still held by those literati. After all, those ladies do lack some deterrence in case solving and investigation.

Those county magistrates will be specially responsible for criminal cases in the future. Don't want to interfere in the affairs of the villages and towns below.

Small contradictions and disputes in each town shall be solved by the village itself first, and if they cannot be solved, the mayor's wife of each town shall preside over justice.

Half of the 1500 wives were more than half. Except for leaving a lady with outstanding ability as the county magistrate in each county, Qin Huan took them back to Nanyang again and raised them like a baby.

After all, it is absolutely impossible for a county with 20 or 30 wives to take the lead.

Qin Huan also set up a secretariat to coordinate the wives of all counties and manage money, grain and materials at the same time.

If Qin Huan didn't want to push all the scholars in the world to the opposite, he really wanted to dismiss all the civil servants. Which wives would directly serve as county magistrate and minister in charge of each ministry.

Even so, all the ministers are still anxious to cry. A county Lieutenant has completely controlled the military of each county. Now there are more female County mayors who are specially responsible for farming and rent collection, and are directly responsible to the Secretariat, not to mention the county magistrates. In the future, they will not be able to intervene in agricultural affairs, and even the prime minister's Yamen and various ministries will be excluded.

Qian bin, the prime minister, also wanted to cry without tears. From Qin Huan's delay in allocating money and food to the Ministry of household, we can see that most of his prime minister's Yamen and ministries have become furnishings.

Qin Huan didn't care what they thought. Seeing that the gentry didn't jump out and didn't bother to touch them for the time being, he decided to boil the frogs in warm water and just asked them to hand over the cattle and farm tools.

Otherwise, there is no excuse to wash it directly like that. It would seem too radical and would be regarded as a mad dog.

After all, he is no longer an outlaw.

Therefore, the newly recruited recruits were assigned to continue training in each county, and the Chinese troops in each county were transferred back to Nanyang.

Hundreds of retired veterans, three in each county, one as a county lieutenant and two as deputies, supervise each other.

The 500 garrison troops in each county, plus more than 100000 people, are also in the hands of those ladies and town mayors. If there is no external force, the gentry and landlords will not be able to turn over any big waves.

In the following days, both Nanyang and Ruzhou became huge construction sites. The towns were busy training soldiers, with 200000 labor forces and countless craftsmen. The factories of the logistics department outside Nanyang stood up one by one.

"Your Majesty, the gap between farm tools and livestock in each county is still very large. Basically, only one Wu can get together a set of iron farm tools, three Wu, a cow or a mule and horse."

"After a while, I'll let the Ordnance Department give priority to building agricultural tools. Before planting winter wheat, every household can have a hoe, a sickle, a plow. As for the livestock of cultivated land, there's no way. All the cattle and surplus mules and horses are divided. Can't I also divide the war horses and mules and horses pulling carts to them?"

Qin Huan spread his hands and rubbed his head with a headache.

Compared with the management of tens of millions of mu of land and millions of people, he felt that fighting was too easy. He had the idea of continuing to be an itinerant bandit.

These days, if it were not for the wives of the Secretariat, he would really be tortured to death.

"That can only let the people make do with it. If there is not enough time, use manpower to pull it."

Li Shi and several secretarial wives had to nod helplessly.

Then Li Shi said again, "king, one more thing..."

"Oh! Anything else? The land is divided. Next, dig ditches, build canals, take care of the fields, and plant winter wheat in September. "

"But your majesty, the people everywhere, whether they come from Kaifeng with us or the local people, are destitute. Although the towns have given them salt and food for a month, many people still ask the mayor of each town to borrow money and buy other living goods. Sisters everywhere dare not make decisions without authorization, and my concubine dare not make decisions. Please tell me, Do you want to borrow it? "

Li carefully explained.

When Liu became the Minister of the logistics department, Qin Huan asked her to be the head of the Secretariat. One was in charge of military money, grain and logistics, and the other was in charge of money, grain and materials for political affairs.

Although there are countless ladies who are more capable than her among the remaining hundreds, who can tell King Qin to rest assured that he has slept with a woman.

"Well, you reminded me that in the past, people used to eat rice from a big pot, but now they are divided into households. It's really impossible for people to have no money. Moreover, the harvest of winter wheat has to wait until May next year. There is still a whole year. If you give them food and salt every month, although I have money and food, I can't give them directly, otherwise I will form a habit."

Qin Huan patted his forehead. He was busy with the logistics department and land distribution. He even ignored the truth of Sheng mien fighting rice revenge.

"Your Majesty is wise. You really can't send food directly to the people."

Li Shi and several ladies only nodded. Obviously, they all understood the truth of Sheng mien fighting Mi Qiu.

"Then let the mayor of each town borrow some silver for each household so that they can buy food, salt and other things by themselves in the future."

"King, do you want to charge some interest?"

A young lady who may have been a landlady before asked subconsciously when she was used to lending usury to tenants.

"Not for the time being!"

Qin Huan waved his hand and glared at her angrily. Is king Qin a usurer?

It is not for the poor people who want his relief.

The lady blushed and withdrew awkwardly.

Another lady was a little worried and said, "king, if the people take money to buy things, those businesses will take the opportunity to raise the price, even other things. But if the price of grain and salt is too high, the people can't afford it. I'm afraid there will be trouble. It's better for the heads of towns and townships to lend them food and salt every month."

"This... Can only be so, but the accounts must be clear."

Qin Huan hesitated for a moment. Considering the urination of businessmen in this era, he had to nod helplessly.

Although he knew that these ladies would not covet his money, food and materials, Qin Huan still didn't want them to take care of too much.

But depending on the current situation, if they don't take care of them, he can't manage these 30 counties at all.

Until now, Qin Yu found that without these wives, he could only fantasize about many of his policies. If he wanted to rely on the literati of this era to help him implement them, it would be like catching a sow up with a tree.