As the investigation became more and more deepened, Chen Wen also heard the grassroots voices from the soldiers through several new and old military officers and soldiers' families. However, how to solve the problem is not that simple, and there are many aspects that need to be considered.

"My husband, if you only talk about the issue of renting, you can strengthen supervision and supervision. However, it is not that simple to involve the expansion of mechanical production, the reserve of military rations, and the impact of the price difference between cash crops and grain on military households."

Zhou Yueying's view, Sun Yu's view, and Chen Wen's view. This problem needs to be solved urgently. Chen Wen proposed at the meeting that he often got a single solution, but this itself is a chain reaction caused by the resurgence of maritime trade. While the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Mingjun Group enjoys its benefits through the expansion of trade, taxation and industrial scale, it naturally faces the impact of transformation on old policies and systems.

"We have to solve the problem from the root."

"What my husband said is very good, so why not re-examine the cause of this problem first, how about it?"

There are many more complex reasons and the current overall situation in the chain reaction. Just as Zhou Yueying said, the idea of ​​re-reading it is correct. Chen Wen has not been like this before, but with Zhou Yueying's reminder, Chen Wen thought of another way that is easier to see it clearly.

When he picked up the pen, Chen Wen began to refine the entire problem one by one on the manuscript paper:

"The Qing army massacres in Jiangxi - the decline in population - the shortage of labor - the shortage of tenants - the forced rent of tenants was forced to decline and some military fields were abandoned. In addition, the corruption in some garrisons increased the injustice, which further worsened the overall phenomenon."

"Solutions, increase efforts to promote machinery and more advanced agricultural tools, attract more people from nearby provinces, encourage childbirth, and strengthen supervision..."

This is a solution to the problem of tenant rent. Many have actually started to do it for a long time, but this phenomenon is not only in Jiangxi, but also in Zhejiang. Due to the resurgence of maritime trade, many gentry landlords began to vigorously plant cash crops. Many tenant farmers who originally rented the land of tenant military households were driven by interests and turned to the gentry landlords to act as planting workers, which undoubtedly increased the shortage of manpower.

Think about it, when the military merit teaching field system first started, a large number of tenant farmers were no longer exploited by gentry landlords, and to give military meritorious landlords who had more reasonable rents to serve as tenant farmers. Now, because the profits of growing economic crops are greater, gentry landlords have raised their wages to solve the problem of manpower tightness and attracted tenant farmers to act as planting workers, which is completely driven by interests.

This is a normal phenomenon, but many solutions are that the distant water cannot quench the near thirst. Seeing this, Chen Wen began to list the next problems on the manuscript paper.

"The rise of maritime trade - the prospects of cash crops are promising - the expansion of the acreage of cash crops."

"Old policies mandate the scale and proportion of grain and mulberry silkworm production - military households are limited in planting economic crops - economic crops are higher than grain - households are growing a large number of cash crops, while military households can only plant grain, and mulberry silkworm planting is limited in the scale of price fluctuations - contradictions are intensifying."

After carefully looking at the overall problem, filtering it one by one. As the handwriting on the manuscript became more and more dense, Chen Wen quickly realized the core of this problem.

"Productivity, production relations, means of production, understand, understand."

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Chen Wen realized the core of the problem. With the deepening of the investigation of the garrisons in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, Chen Wen's view was correct in this regard.

This is not a small problem, but the contradiction between economic transformation and inherent policies and systems is only dissatisfaction. If it is allowed to develop, it is likely to cause immeasurable losses and damage to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army Group, which is still in the war with the Qing Dynasty.

The relocation of the Prince of Yue’s Mansion in Nanjing was forced to be suspended. The problem lies with the garrison, and Chen Wen needed to take charge. Chen Wen’s next response also required him to continue to act as the Dinghai Sword in Jinhua.

In winter, summer tax has been collected, and there is still three months left before the bottom line of autumn tax collection. Chen Wen determined the problem and decided to carry out pilot reforms in some prefectures and counties in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces to solve the problems they are facing now.

In Tangya Town, Jinhua County, Jinhua Prefecture, Baihu is still crowded with people. Pan Baihu read out the latest government orders, and his melancholy in his heart could not be vented.

"...In view of the above problems, the military households and military fields, military merit fields, and pension fields and military rent fields under the Hundred Houses of Tangya Town have been reorganized as follows."

"Military merit fields and pension fields are the permanent fields of military households. They are the income from military merits and are the use of pensions for casualties and disability. In order to reward military merits and pensions, the 10th year of Yongli, and the end of the autumn tax collection in the tenth year of Yongli, will no longer be forced to plant rice, wheat and other grains and various vegetables. What to plant? Let's just follow your own wishes."

After this statement was made, most of the military households present cheered and cheered. Most of the hundreds of households were soldiers who had followed Chen Wen for many years, and the amount of military merits was quite large. Even if there were not too many here, there were also large areas of land in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that the profits of growing cash crops are even greater, which is much stronger than food. In addition, due to the large injection of precious metals, price growth is an inevitable result, and it has further stimulated the sentiment of military households. Now that we have received the government order, we can plant cash crops starting next year, and the benefits will increase, which means better days are coming.

"Military fields, military rented fields are distributed by the garrison and the land that is distributed by active soldiers and reserved soldiers to support the family, not military merits, pensions and other permanent fields. They will be reclaimed after they are discharged from the army or cancelled the qualification for reserved soldiers. Based on the basic principles of the military merit system that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings Division encourages the winning of military merits, as well as the fact that military fields and military rented fields are not permanent fields and the need for military food reserves, they will still plant food according to the practice. Those who violate the order will be severely punished."

The military merits are the majority in the garrison today, and many veterans have dozens or hundreds of acres of military merits. As for the soldiers who were invested in Chen Wen's command as early as the fourth year of Yongli and the fifth year of Yongli, it is not new to have hundreds of acres of land at home, even if many of them are not in the places where they live.

The number of military merits and land is different, and the military field and military rent are different. Active soldiers, including the various war barracks and local garrisons, have reached 160,000 yuan, and the navy is much worse, but there are no less than 30,000 naval officers and sailors, with a total force of nearly 200,000, and the recruit training camp is still constantly training more new recruits. As for preparing for replenishment, there are no less than 50,000 people. By this calculation, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army can mobilize the troops to reach 250,000.

Military fields are the land used by active soldiers to support their families before they retire. Each person has ten acres of troops, and the officers and soldiers are the same. Military rented fields are each prepared for five acres of troops, and they also have to pay rent and taxes. Therefore, the preparation for military replenishment is very active in the assessment, and they all hope to become the formal Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army. Even if they have no military merit fields, they can enjoy ten acres of military fields and military salaries.

At this stage, apart from military merit and pension fields, Chen Wen still controls military fields of up to 2 million mu and military rented fields of more than 250,000 mu. It is inevitable that the price increase of grain will occur in the next one or two years, but with this foundation and the deepening of marketization, Chen Wen is not afraid of any food shortage.

However, compared with those military households with military merit and pension fields at home, the other military households present seemed a little dejected. It is understandable that people are living a better life, but the military merit teaching system of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang exists to reward military merits. Naturally, we must treat it differently to further encourage active soldiers to seize military merits, and encourage preparations for military replenishment and training to make it easier to pass the assessment to become a formal Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army.

Of course, if only some of his actions were released, Chen Wen did not need to stay here. Pan Baihu read the first decree and then picked up the second decree. However, this one mainly targeted the owners of military merit fields and pension fields. Yu Bei's replenishment and new recruits who had no military merit fields were not very close.

"According to the records of the sanctuary offices in Tangya Town, the number of local military merit fields and pension fields is no more than 100 acres. Planting economic crops is easily competition and suppressed by operators with larger planting areas in terms of prices. At the same time, due to the newly changed crops and the unknown planting methods, it is easy to cause the risk of yield reduction and even failure in planting. Yuewangfu encourages Tangya Town, the sanctuary offices to set up a planting cooperative and send planting guidance to the cooperative. In order to prevent internal corruption of the planting cooperative and endanger the interests of members and military households, military households can vote for observers under the supervision of the sanctuary offices and supervise the internal operation of the cooperative..."

Planting cooperatives are mainly established for the reality that there are many local self-cultivated farmers and small and medium-sized landlords. However, aside from the region, many military households also have a large amount of land in other prefectures, counties and even provinces, which are even more than their residences, so cooperative planting is inappropriate. Therefore, Chen Wen came up with another method for military merit fields such as Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, which have a large number of military merit fields entrusted to garrisons to manage on their behalf in the jurisdiction, so Chen Wen came up with another method.

"... Establish a plantation, according to the division of field bones and field skins, and the experienced operators in the public military households are responsible for the operation. Military households can collect land rent, and can also be hired at the same time to make profits in both directions. The plantation is supervised by the sanctuary, and military households can also organize and supervise it themselves at the same time..."

Plantations are no more than planting cooperatives. They themselves have the shadow of the permanent tenant system in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they are not entirely true. For example, restricting experienced operators in military households, such as public recommendation, ward supervision and military households themselves, are all not available in the permanent tenant system.

If there is business experience, there are many people among the households, especially those gentry. However, Chen Wen cannot hand over the land to the gentry for management. In this way, many of the things he has done before will be wasted. Moreover, there are conflicts between the military households and the households, and the land under the garrison office of the households can easily cause unnecessary management chaos.

At this moment, the old couple of Shi family listened to the preaching in Baihu Station, Tangya Town, Jinhua. Shi Daniu, who was on vacation, had already arrived in Jinxian County, Nanchang Prefecture, and listened to the explanation of Qianhu Station of local garrisons. A large part of his military merits was in this county. There was a pilot reform of establishing a plantation here. The specific situation still required him to sign and write to start the implementation.

The pilot project began in two more representative prefectures, Jinhua Prefecture and Nanchang Prefecture. If the pilot project in the first year achieves results, it can be implemented in the entire occupied areas of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province.

"There is a farm tool processing factory established by Song in Nanchang Prefecture. The scale of agricultural tools there is still a certain scale, and there is a hydraulic workshop in Jinhua Prefecture. The shortage of labor can only be used to reduce the situation of machinery and agricultural tools. It is unrealistic to expect to attract tenants from other provinces and encourage childbirth."

Chen Wen had read an article before, which mentioned the degradation of the use of livestock in Jiangnan in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. With the increase of population, the per capita land area continued to decrease. In order to survive in Jiangnan, farmers could only do their best to cultivate and improve the yield per mu, which instead led to the per capita productivity regressing.

Thanks to the Qing Dynasty, the current Jiangsu and Zhejiang land has sharply reduced population and labor shortage. Whether it is either reduced production area or promoted machinery and agricultural tools, Chen Wen chose the latter without hesitation. In his opinion, the latter can not only solve the problem of abandoning military merits and soil, but also promote the innovation of machinery and agricultural tools, which is the real way out in the future.

"Fu Ren, don't worry, I'm here, there is Governor Wang in Nanchang, and a large number of officials in the Yue Palace are conducting open and secret investigations, so there will be no problems in these two places."

The pilot project of the two prefectures began. Chen Wen originally planned to be in Jinhua. Unexpectedly, as soon as this began, there were imitators in the neighboring prefectures and counties. Not only were their enthusiasm for investment not less than these two prefectures, but the prefectures and counties that were about to establish planting cooperatives and plantations were progressing faster and more relaxed. The organizational model was quickly established, and at the fastest speed, they solicited the opinions of experienced old farmers and planned according to the instructions copied from Jinhua and Nanchang.

Changes in production relations have begun in full swing. Nanchang's agricultural tools processing plants and Jinhua's hydraulic workshops work overtime, and it seems that everything is moving in a good direction.

Chen Wen is quite confident about this. As long as they can plant it, the workshop will be purchased. After processing, he also has a fleet and an outlet, so he always has no worries about sales. However, compared with Zhejiang and Jiangxi, which have been recovered for many years, it has been a long time since Jiangnan recovered, but the implementation of the new policy is very bad, and it is even more difficult than the problem of Zhejiang and Jiangxi during the transition period.

"Then I'll take the lead."

The Yue Palace moved to Nanjing, and some departments had already started working in Nanjing. Chen Wen said goodbye to officials from Zhejiang, took his wife and daughter to the warship at the Wujiang Wharf, went downstream, and arrived in Hangzhou soon.

The matter of Hangzhou's restoration of the provincial capital has not yet been confirmed. Jinhua has been recovered for a long time, and local people are very strong in the officialdom. The dispute between these two governments is far from over, especially since Jinhua is now in a pilot period of transformation, and no one can express his opinion on it at this time.

On the banks of West Lake, it is not very suitable to visit West Lake this season, but it is still much better than the time when Chen Wen regained Hangzhou. Not to mention, the horse manure by the lake and the disgusting smell in the lake have disappeared, and the willows by the lake cannot restore the old view so quickly, just like the Qing Dynasty's destruction of China.

"Hangzhou's recovery is good, and the fairy couple has taken care of it."

Li Yu made a living by selling taxes in Hangzhou, but now he has become a parent official in Hangzhou, which is a blessing. However, he is very dedicated to the restoration of the people's livelihood in Hangzhou. After Li Yu took office, he tried his best to heal the Qing Dynasty. Especially the scars caused by the Eight Banners in Hangzhou caused to Hangzhou. This giant city has now begun to regain its vitality, which shows his efforts.

"It's all the credit of my colleagues, and the officials are just right at the right time."

"The fairy couple is humble."

As the prefect, Li Yu had no time to accompany him throughout the whole process. Moreover, Chen Wen also planned to take his wife and daughter to have a trip, so there was no need for the whole process of accompanying him by this parent official who was about to be promoted to the governor.

"My wife, it's Leifeng Pagoda. When I came last time, I was still in ruins. It has been restored as before. I just don't know if the White Snake is still inside."

"It's not that my husband has spoken. Which gentry and wealthy family in Hangzhou dare not come and participate in the grand event."

"I didn't force them. Besides, their names are also recorded on the monument in front of the tower, and future generations will record their efforts."

Traveling to West Lake with your wife and daughter is a pleasant time that Chen Wen has not enjoyed for many years. However, this time he came to Hangzhou was just passing by. According to the plan, he would set off tomorrow to continue to Nanjing. Even if he was afraid that he would not be able to travel the entire journey of West Lake.

"My wife, when the world is peaceful, we will build a house on the bank of West Lake. When we have nothing to do, we will live there for a few days. We will only consider it to compensate for the debts we have been owed over the years."

"What is this stupid thing about your husband? A real man is determined by all directions. I don't have any compensation. As long as your husband is healthy and easy to be willing."

The surrounding guards and maids had already turned their heads, and even Chen Wen's daughter was a little bitch and made an extremely exaggerated move. Chen Wen did not make too polite, and even after years of marriage, he had to pay attention to etiquette, but this did not prevent him from meeting his wife and daughter's requirements for travel.

"Where is going to see it, there is still half a day left today."
Chapter completed!