Chapter 172 Come back quickly, the land has been divided in the city
“Quick, go quickly, the land has been divided in the city.”
“Brother, is it really divided?”
“ "It's great." A farmer in short clothes smiled and shook the land deed in his hand, "Not only will the refugees and public farmers be promoted to armed farmers."
"I will." Go now!”
"Don't worry, let's go find the traveling priest together first, and call all the people in the household register and landowners."
Originally, other nearby farmers heard about the Blue Blood Incident and the Duke's beheading. They were too scared to go there, especially when the villagers who fled returned and said that the Fort Joan of Arc was so bloody that they did not dare to go.
But I heard that the land can actually be divided, so that’s another story.
On the avenue outside the Castle of Joan of Arc, a long motorcade carried the first group of people in waves, totaling five thousand people, towards the Wild Spider Forest.
On the side of the road, the corpses of Zanderbek, Dane, and Boerwerf were hung in a row and allowed to be slaughtered by the passing refugees and citizens. There were also demons, demons, demons and the like hanging on their bodies. brand.
Parallel to the convoy, refugees from nearby villages were lining up in a long queue, walking in the opposite direction to the gallows outside the city.
The white light of the cloudy sky slanted on the Mediterranean heads of the monks, as if they were matte.
Nearly a hundred monks, accountants and notaries were sweating profusely, copying and transcribing the new land deeds quickly, while a dozen holy gunmen were standing behind them with eager eyes.
These land deeds were temporarily engraved and printed last night. After the oligarchs in the printing industry were invited by the Cheka to eat kohlrabi in Xibingjiao, the printers immediately became easy to talk to.
Those printing workers carved out the standard land deed relief plates overnight. To be precise, they changed the original standard land deeds and printed a large number of standard land deeds overnight.
Nowadays, the task of monks and accountants is to confirm the identity and share of the person receiving the land based on household registration and tax collection, and then just sign and fingerprint it.
This is the order issued by Horn yesterday. Before leaving, in two days, apart from buying supplies, he had nothing to do but divide the land.
Horn did not allocate the land, otherwise it would be bad if some people who were not involved in production pretended to own the land and then became second-rate dealers or squeezed other farmers.
The measure he adopted was the policy of land to the tiller, which was thanks to the church.
Although the refugees are not from Fort Joan of Arc, the church treats them equally. As long as you plow the fields, you must pay taxes, regardless of whether you are a human or a dog.
Most of the Duke's real estate outside the city existed in the form of manors, and the income from employment was mainly currency, supplemented by food.
Since monetary taxes are easier to calculate, who plowed which fields and how much tax they need to pay are clearly stated in the household registration book.
Horn did not allocate more fields to them, but transferred the ownership of the fields to the actual cultivators, turning the farm laborers into the actual owners of the land.
From working for the lord to working for myself.
In the estates of churches and dukes, they are divided into private fields and public fields.
Private land means that the duke leases real estate to farmers, and levies monetary or physical land rent on the farmers in proportion to the farmers' cultivated area. After taxation, the remaining harvest is his own.
Public land means that farmers in the territory are obliged to work on public land. All the output of the fields belongs to the lord and is a kind of labor rent.
Horn's land division actually only divided private land, while the public land, which accounted for more than one-third of the total land, had not yet been divided.
The first group to be sorted out in the private field is the members of the Salvation Army. Even if you come first, the members of the Salvation Army must do it first before it is the turn of others.
In addition to giving priority to the family members of the Salvation Army, the families of the war dead will also receive an additional 20 acres of public land and 5 gold pounds.
For example, the people who died in the old camp and the land that Horn once claimed were all allocated in place. The names recorded in the household registers and land deeds were not armed peasants or public peasants, but fellow priests.
You must know that priests have partial tax-free privileges. They enjoy the same status as priests and can be exempted from land tax on land less than 40 acres.
"I wish I had been cruel and died last night." A farmer said regretfully to his companions, "If I could become a co-priest, I can't even imagine how great my life would be."< br>
“Aren’t you afraid that the Imperial Order will come to kill us?”
“What are you afraid of? Didn’t you listen to that Bishop Richelieu? The Duchess of Hermes wrote a letter to protect us, as long as the world is saved The army is gone, they won’t do anything to us.”
"Then you still want to go with the Salvation Army?"
"Tsk, guess how much a Salvation Army soldier's salary is?" "I don't know, a weekly salary of 2 dinars?"
"A weekly salary of 2 dinars? A daily salary of 4 dinars! The Salvation Army officially decrees that even a monthly salary of 1 gold pound is more than a craftsman earns. Can you earn a gold pound for a year of farming? "
"Is there anything else?" An armed farmer who was eavesdropping was originally squatting on the ground, but now he stood up.
You know, the average price in the empire's mercenary market is that the daily salary of an infantryman is about half a dinar to two dinars.
Horn’s official salary to the Salvation Army is 2-4 times the normal mercenary price!
After killing the duke and defeating the church, due to the blockage of the waterway, all the taxes of the duke and the church could not be transported away. Horn now has nearly 50,000 gold pounds in hand.
This is under the premise of spending a lot of money to purchase various supplies.
Based on the future new legion of 6,000 people, it would be 18,000 gold pounds in three months, which Horn could afford.
"Then can I go?" the armed farmer asked hurriedly.
The farmer said melancholy: "Only the Salvation Army can go. After killing the Duke the night before yesterday, they spent a whole day registering members. If you are not on the list, you have no chance."
"If I had known, I would have killed the Duke."
"You have such courage."
"Why not?" The farmer gritted his teeth and looked at the hung Duke. , "Have we done anything wrong to deserve him to treat us like this?"
"Which noble in the world is not like this? Then Sheng Sun is right, the nobles are indeed devils."
"Say less."
"If not I slept last night, and I..."
"You slept a lot. Didn't you get cold feet and run away with the excuse of needing to pee?"
"You did it? It’s like not running.”
No longer talking to these homeless public servants, the armed peasant shouted towards Armand, who was preaching about Saint Sun on the gallows: "Bishop Richelieu, how can we contract the public land?"
While saving the world, There is a vacuum of power between the army and the command company. These armed peasants still want to take advantage of the Salvation Army's ignorance and fish in troubled waters to get more benefits.
"Public land will not be contracted in the future. We will send direct personnel to manage it in the future. Don't think about any tricks. We will be back soon." Armand said straightforwardly, regardless of the ugly faces of the armed farmers.
"Believers, you can only divide your private land if you meet each other. When we all leave tomorrow, there will be no more divisions." Armand stood in front of the gallows, shouting in a hoarse voice road.
Someone in the crowd shouted: "Bishop Richelieu, but isn't this the property of the church and the Duke? Just give it to us, doesn't it matter?"
"Wrong! This is not the Duke's real estate. The Duke is the devil and his real estate is ill-gotten gains. We killed the devil and all the ill-gotten gains belong to us. Isn't this normal?"
Arman said righteously: "The church is even simpler, and Boerwerf is also a devil.
Our grandson is the son of Messiah, so the church's real estate is the servant who takes care of it for the master. What's wrong with us, the saints, taking charge directly?
As for sharing it with you, it's only natural, because according to the holy treasury system, everyone has to farm together
Everything can't be done. So perfect, we don’t guarantee that all of you will have a field to cultivate, but I at least guarantee that most of you will have a full meal.
Don't you want a good lord? Well, now the land belongs to the Holy Lord Myrcella, and your direct lord is Myrcella. Isn’t this good? "
"Huh? "There were thoughtful expressions on the faces of those farmers, but if you think about Armand's words carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong.
What the saint said makes sense, everyone He is Myrcella's direct farmhand, and the knights have no reason to take it away.
An imperceptible smile appeared on Armand's face. Under this vague recognition, part of the knowledge was actually unknown. Unconsciously, things began to change.
“The public land will be used as a collective farm and will be run by members of the Salvation Army. We, the Salvation Army, will use the public land income as a source of funds for hospitals, schools and charity homes.
All members of the Salvation Army can enjoy low-cost treatment and purchase low-cost medicines in the hospital. Family members of soldiers can study in schools free of charge. The charity home will be open to the elderly and orphans..."
See Looking at the expressions of the villagers, Armand continued to draw the pie according to the instructions given to him by Horn.
“We will abolish the distinction between armed peasants and public peasants, and abolish the shield tax for armed peasants. and military service, the abolition of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Labor Law, believe us, the better days are yet to come! ”
(End of this chapter)