chsdbacks #301 - The results of the land distribution movement
#301 - The results of the land distribution movement
The old Pope, who had reigned for 52 years, finally died in office.
The uproar caused by his testamentary decree was unknown to Hohen, who was thousands of miles away.
However, this would not affect Hohen much, since Prince Condé and Barney Foss were now in charge of the entire Qianhe Valley.
As long as these two are around, the overall situation in Qianhe Valley will not change much.
However, the changes in Langsand County were greater than anyone had imagined.
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April 15th, Jeanne d'Arc Castle.
The first ray of morning sun gently洒on the ancient stone streets.
The warm and cool wind blows through the exquisite arches and steeples.
The morning light, blown by the wind, shines on the saints in the wall shrines, as if they are smiling at pedestrians.
Walking out of the Duke's villa in the backyard of the city hall, Hohen can smell the fresh baked bread in the air before he even gets close.
Not far away, the sacred and distant bells of the church rang, and within a few seconds of the bells falling, the vendors began to shout loudly.
A few white pigeons flew overhead, wondering who they were sending letters to.
Hohen hummed a little tune, entered the hall from the back door, and went up to the second floor to the Duke's private room.
Before he could get ready, Bussac next to him handed him a schedule, Hohen quickly scanned it: "Hmm... oh, has the land distribution been announced as completed?"
After a month and five days, the land distribution team and the survey team finally completed their tasks.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Bussac responded in a low voice, "We have put the specific situation in this booklet."
Hohen realized at this time that a book had suddenly appeared on his desk at some point.
"Is this the specific household registration book?"
"No, this is just a brief statistical book calculated based on the household registration book, there are too many originals." Bussac said, "I reorganized and summarized with the local low-level priests to compile this "Statistical Book""
With curiosity, Hohen opened the preface on the first page, which was basically a flattering tribute to the Holy Sun.
The content is not a household registration list, but the specific data of land distribution in various places and the problems encountered.
Opening the land household registration statistics book in his hand, Hohen first turned to the summary page and calculated the data against the map.
The total area of Kush Territory is about 7,800 square kilometers, and the terrain is mainly forest plains and lakes.
The arable land area is about 1,200 square kilometers, which is equivalent to 1.8 million mu.
According to the average yield of 90 pounds of rice fruit per mu, it can produce 81,000 tons of grain per year, with an average of about 820 pounds of grain per capita.
So far, there are more than 198,000 people in Kush Territory, divided into 363 hundred-household districts, totaling nearly 40,000 families.
Among them, there are 197 hundred-household districts in the Piety Special Zone, and 166 hundred-household districts in the Holy War Special Zone.
The number of people in each hundred-household district ranges from 400 to 600, which basically combines a village or several adjacent villages into a hundred-household district.
To be honest, Hohen can't manage nearly 200,000 people in one go.
But going from managing 200,000 people to managing 363 hundred-household heads, or even just managing 40 itinerant monks, becomes much simpler.
Hohen is too familiar with the hundred-household district, its basic structure was designed by him.
Each hundred-household district has the same configuration: a hundred-household head, a guardian army captain, and three representatives of the people.
The hundred-household head is responsible for receiving, transmitting and executing the Pope's orders, organizing production, and managing finances. Generally, local prestigious people are appointed.
The guardian army captain is assigned to the army, responsible for public security and managing the guardian army, and is served by retired Black Hat Army veterans.
The representatives of the people are temporarily elected by various villages, responsible for the preliminary judicial affairs and mediation of conflicts in the hundred-household district, and also help the hundred-household head and the guardian army captain to complete their tasks.
The major and minor affairs in a hundred-household district are basically decided and executed by these five people.
In a sense, this is a grassroots administrative unit that has achieved autonomy.
Except for the guardian army who hold guns, who need to be directly appointed by the Savior Army, the rest are recommended by the local people themselves.
This form of autonomy minimizes the chaos during the transfer of power and provides farmers with a certain ability to resist risks.
These hundred-household districts can continuously provide Hohen with food and manpower.
At the same time, Hohen can free up more manpower and focus his main energy on the military.
As for these hundred-household districts, they are autonomous, but not completely autonomous.
Not to mention the guardian army captain in each hundred-household district, which is basically Hohen's eye.
In the Piety Special Zone, there is also an itinerant priest of the Holy Father Association for every ten hundred-household districts.
However, unlike the church's itinerant priests, the monks of the Holy Father Association are truly itinerant.
They patrol once a month, for a month each time.
This job is generally done by the monks of the Holy Father Association in rotation, according to single and double months.
The main functions of the itinerant monks are supervision, justice and evangelism.
Supervisory patrols are to prevent these hundred-household districts from engaging in any tricks.
Such as pretending to obey orders, over-executing, dereliction of duty, corruption, etc.
The itinerant priests will conduct investigations during the process of evangelism, and even request the assistance of the Cheka.
Once it is confirmed to be true, then the military police will come to the door to send warmth.
The small court composed of three representatives of the people is used to mediate small civil disputes.
Criminal disputes shall be judged by the itinerant monks of the Holy Father Association.
If the hundred-household head or the guardian army is not satisfied with the civil judicial judgment made by the three representatives of the people, they can request the itinerant priest to retry it.
If even the itinerant priest is not sure, he can hand it over to Hohen.
However, Hohen generally throws it to professionals like Martial to handle.
The last function, evangelism, is essentially the mouthpiece of the Savior Army, responsible for propaganda and public opinion.
They need to gradually reverse the concepts and impressions of the villagers and eliminate their prejudice against magic and witches.
They also need to prevent the hundred-household head and the guardian army captain from becoming new lords.
Visiting and evangelizing from house to house seems to be an inefficient approach, but this kind of work is trivial.
Huano is indispensable for the Brago Monastery to become the largest force in Kashia County from its original obscurity.
The Huano sect was born by relying on his own iron feet to travel all over Kashia County.
Helping farmers chop firewood and do farm work, telling children stories from the "Gospel", and using his monk status to fight for fair treatment for the villagers.
Day after day, for more than ten years, he has cultivated his current prestige.
One technique that Hohen learned from Huano's evangelism is to mediate conflicts while evangelizing.
When the farmers of Kashia County have conflicts, they don't go to the manor court or the church in the first place, but look for Huano to make a judgment.
Because Huano is more just, knows them better, and because of his prestige, the judgment is more easily accepted.
Relying on these trivial and annoying basic evangelism work that no priests are willing to do, Huano forcibly抠out the judicial power from the church in the Kashia Diocese.
For the farmers of Kashia County, the Huano sect is the orthodox spiritual leader.
Hohen's Holy Father Association will repeat this process in Langsand County.
After reading through the entire household registration book, Hohen closed it with satisfaction: "How are the Holy Hoe and Holy Sickle monasteries doing currently?"