Chapter 9: Land to the Tiller (I)



Wouldn't it be possible for me to turn things around overnight?

Anyway, I just don't want to go to a place that is neither up nor down, where you can't eat enough but you can't starve to death. Such a place is really easy to be drowned in the data. After all, when people look at the data, they will first look at the best three, then the worst three, and the one in the middle, just leave it in the middle.

So when Liu Da told him that the land reform in Beilan encountered difficulties, Zhang Mingzhi was very angry. Please, although you are alone, Commander Cheng has sent you a captain and 300 elite soldiers of the First Army. Can't you deal with a few local rich people?

So the two of them took their guards and left the city in disguise. Zhang Mingzhi decided to see with his own eyes this landlord's manor, which Zhang Da described as "very solid."

"Yes, sir, this is the farm of the Songpa family. Before you came, I sent a notice about land reform to their family, but they ignored it.

Then I went there in person again. They were polite, but from beginning to end, I only met Songpa's second son, Songpa Gu. The head of the family, Songpa Xiong, never showed up.

Songpako said he had no say in anything... Anyway, he was politely escorted out."

“No one has been seen?”

Zhang Mingzhi looked at the manor in front of him and said, "Well, it's a bit of an exaggeration to say it's a manor. It's clearly a fortress."

The city wall built with stone slabs is at least three meters high. The glued parts cannot be seen from a distance, but they should be made of cement, otherwise it would be a waste of these big stones that were collected with great effort.

There is a battlement every ten feet on the city wall. It is not wartime now, so there is no one guarding the battlements. However, the patrolling servants made four trips back and forth in the time of an incense stick. It can be said that the defense is very tight. After all, most of the lookout work is done by the watchtowers in the four corners.

Zhang Mingzhi was a little skeptical about the lack of a moat outside the city walls, but Liu Da explained that the walls were full of pits. "Back when my family still had land, the Songpa family reinforced the walls and dug pits, and even borrowed our tenants to do so."

"So what's it like in there?"

"Inside, it's very simple. There's a urn, an inner city wall, a granary, a well, a blacksmith shop, and a clinic..."

"How many people are in there?"

"The Songpa family probably has about 500 to 600 male members, and a thousand or so servants... Tenants and the like don't live there..."

"Depend on!"

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