The weather in July is getting hotter and hotter, and the entire East Palace has taken out the ice cubes stored in winter from the cellar, in the study, Si Mo is playing a feather fan for Mi Huang on the side, Si Shu is writing a record next to him, and Mi Huang is asking Su Cong about various farming things in the eastern suburbs, and listening to him answer her various long-standing questions with his opinions, and also make records from time to time.

Su Cong kept holding his hand, and only half of his butt fell on the bench, sitting upright.

I thought about every question raised by the most noble woman in the Chu State in front of me before I cautiously replied, " In my opinion, the move of the right disciples in the eastern suburbs is really a pioneering move, looking at the countries, the agricultural production team is unprecedented in the world, in the past, the entrenched aristocratic families gave the land to slaves and commoners, they were all cultivated by themselves, each family because of different experience, and the uneven income, so at the end of the year the grain handed over is also uneven, and the public land is even more uneven because no one takes care of it to the court, of course, there are also false reports by the major landlords. ”

Speaking of this, Su Cong cautiously glanced at the woman in front of him, and saw that the woman who was also writing at the desk also frowned slightly, but did not interrupt him, just listened attentively, so he tried to say, "Lady, can you give a pen from a piece of silk cloth?" ”

"Okay, the secretary will get some more silk cloth and pen and ink. ”

"Yes, lady!" replied the secretary.

Mi Huang on Su Cong's problem of landlord false report, the bottom of the heart mirror, the water to the clear then there is no fish, from ancient times, people's hearts tend to profit, avoid unavoidable.

The monarchs of Chu have thought of ways to increase taxes, but the gains are still very small, this is a whole set of bureaucratic protection, there is no way to solve it, and as far as she knows in the past three years, there are still many lords who have begun to cultivate private land, these are not on the registration of the government, and the land obtained is more abundant, and the government has no way to verify.

After Su Cong took the pen and silk cloth, he began to write on the cloth.

The two continued to write and say across a long case, "But the right disciple has realized the division of labor, and each person actually plays a different role in this whole piece of land, for example, Su Cong is not responsible for production, but is responsible for management, and the management personnel are divided into a lot, and the right disciple has recruited a lot of poor scholars like Cong and experienced farmers to assist and manage the farming work in various fields and fields, such as land reclamation, land preparation, breeding, rice transplanting, harvesting, and insect control......

There are also those who are responsible for the maintenance and construction of various foundations in the field, just like the role of the Minister's Office, which is responsible for the construction of canals for field irrigation.

Here Su Cong wants to say that the role of digging ditches for irrigation is very large.

Su learned from some old farmers that most of the crops in the field used to be self-growing, and after sowing, many farmers did not know how to take care of them, and only when the weather was too hot, they would pick up water for irrigation, but when the land was large, they could not manage it, so the seedlings did not like to grow.

Now we have formed a farming team, with a large number of people and a lot of strength, and together we have dug canals, and it is much easier to irrigate the fields by diverting water from the streams from the surrounding mountains.

The right disciple also ordered the old man to make a water-carrying thing called a waterwheel, which is even more magical, it can carry water from a low place to a high place. If we extend it to the following counties in the future, with these two methods of transforming the land, we will no longer have to worry about the problem of field irrigation. ”

"Land reconstruction?"

"Yes, Lord Youtu said that land transformation is a very important one, a lot of land is too wet or too dry, or contains a lot of acid and alkali, it is necessary to improve the soil quality through some methods, otherwise this land can not grow good crops, in addition to these, there is also drainage irrigation or fertilization after the soil quality will be more suitable for growth. Su Cong replied.

"And what is this waterwheel?"

Mi Huang looked at Su Cong curiously and asked, "Is it a carriage that walks in the water?"

"Hehe......"

Su Cong, who had always been cautious, finally couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

When he returned home, he told his father about the waterwheel, and his father said, "Is this waterwheel an ox cart that walks in the water?"

Unconsciously, Su never couldn't help but let go a lot, looked at the woman opposite who was puzzled, shook her head and smiled, "Hehe, it's not, too girl." However, the waterwheel is very similar to a huge wheel, so the right-hand disciple said that it was called a waterwheel. It can pass the downstream water through a bucket of water through a rolling wheel, rotate it and transport it upstream for irrigation, and by the way, the public also said that the upstream still needs a force to move the water wheel. ”

Su Cong said as he drew the principle of the operation of the waterwheel.

First of all, he drew a big waterwheel in the shape of a wheel, half submerged in the river, half exposed to the river, there must be a stream flowing down above the waterwheel, so the selection of each waterwheel is very important, if there is no water upstream, they have to find ways to drain the waterwheel, he drew an arrow on behalf of the stream down the river to impact the waterwheel to move the waterwheel to run, and drew a rotating arrow, which represents the bucket in the waterwheel driven by the river to fill water downstream, rotate to the upstream through the rotating shaft, and then the bucket reaches the upstream to pour water, and then along the ditch to divert water to a field。

Mi Huang looked intently at the new things he had drawn, "It's unbelievable that a bucket can be hung on ......a wheel to carry water?"

The more he spoke, the more amazing she felt, although she had heard in her previous life that many powerful siege engines had been built on the battlefield in the year of the public defeat, she had never heard of a waterwheel, "I really want to see this waterwheel as soon as possible." ”

"Hehe, in fact, in addition to the waterwheel, I think the greenhouse is also very interesting, especially the bricks and stones of the greenhouse, I think this brick is extremely hard, dozens of times harder than the ordinary city wall bricks made of mud tamping, if it is used for the construction of the city wall, my Dachu city wall no longer has to worry about the flood crossing, and those siege of the giant trees do not have to worry, as long as the city wall is thick enough, it is simply solid. ”

Su Cong's eyes almost lit up when he said this.

He felt that this kind of fired brick was more useful than irrigation, especially for the defense of the city, which would reduce the pressure of defending the city.

"How do you make this brick?"

Mi Huang was curious when she heard this, she didn't know that there were so many magical things in a small eastern suburb.

"Green bricks, this Su never knows, it seems that even the Gongyi Lord doesn't know, this is Cheng Youtu ordered someone from elsewhere to transport it, and it is said to be fired. Su Cong paused when he said this, he had actually been curious about how the green bricks were made, he had asked someone to knock a green brick open it privately with a hammer, but he really couldn't see what the ingredients were inside, and it didn't look like natural stone or simple soil.

"That's right, Cheng Jia did it. ”

Mi Huang nodded, without showing too much surprise expression, and seeing that he didn't know anything, he continued to ask, "Then I don't know much about the farming and production team you just mentioned, and there are also these divisions of labor, why are they so finely divided? Didn't one farmer do these things in the past? Why did Cheng Youtu divide the things that one person did to so many people." ”

"I know this from the beginning. Su also had this question from the beginning, but after the division of labor, I found that our production efficiency has indeed been greatly improved!"

"What is productivity?"

"I'm going to think about it. ”

Su took out the bamboo slips he used for his daily work from the small baggage he had brought, which he had specially recorded some of Cheng Jia's words.

Flipping through the thick bamboo slips, Su Cong pointed to the line of words on it and said, "Master Youtu said that production efficiency refers to the ratio between the actual output in the later period and the maximum output in previous years at the same fixed input of the corresponding land, manpower, material resources, and even the number of seeds.

This ratio reflects the effect of achieving the maximum output and the predetermined target. If the output of previous years is counted as 100, and this year it produces 200, it means that the efficiency is doubled. Therefore, this ratio is very important, which can be used to measure the annual performance value of China's agricultural input costs, as well as the output and profit in the later period under the overall goal of the year, so as to facilitate the later promotion to the following counties, with the same scale of land, seeds, and production team input, compare the production efficiency of each county, as well as the supervision of supervisors, and implement monitoring.

And our current eastern suburbs is a standard reference version made in the country, and all the following counties and counties will take the output data of the eastern suburbs as a reference, and compare them quantitatively......"

It was the first time for Mi Huang to hear such a theory, but fortunately, she had learned some superficial arithmetic from Cheng Jia before, so she could still understand it, if it was the King of Chu, she would have been blindfolded, or she would simply throw her hand to the people below.

Hearing these never-before-seen statements, she really wanted to know what Cheng Jia thought of in her head.

Obviously, she, Ruo Ziyan and he both studied under Master Pan, but they had never been exposed to such a doctrine of magic.

Moreover, in the past, each county was taxed according to the wealth of each county and the number of fields owned, but now, according to Su Cong, Chengjia wants to open up a larger public land on the basis of the original well field system.

"Is this going to reform the well field system and expand the public field?" asked Mi Huang.

"The villain is also not sure. ”

Su never dared to speculate freely about Cheng Jia's next political intentions.

"Jingtian System" from the Shang Dynasty to determine the status of the state ownership of land, protect the right to use the feudal lords, has been used for hundreds of years, although it is constantly changing, but it represents the interests of many nobles and lords, if Cheng Jia really wants to reform drastically, it will inevitably become the target of public criticism, but he followed Cheng Jia for several months, but he felt that the right disciple was not such a stupid person, and even asked all of them to keep it secret.

Tainu is the first person to let Cheng Youtu take the initiative to explain.

"For those who have a well field, 900 acres are wells, and the public land is uniform. However, although the past well field system has been continuously improved, it is believed that there are still many problems, especially the lack of unified management and supervision comparison, and there is no way to assess it.

Although since Zhou Gong revised the "Well Field System" Later, it was stipulated that there should be a person who helped the law to supervise, but in fact, the public land supported by the eight private families at the same time was actually not taken care of by a special person in most cases, and the public land was abolished because of the eight landlords' private interests, resulting in the income of the public land was far inferior to that of private land, and in addition to the continuous natural disasters, some counties and counties also had to reduce or reduce taxes, but after we reclaimed the wasteland, all the newly opened land was classified as public land, and then the private land was not divided into landlords, but directly rented to the peasants, referring to the standards of the eastern suburbs, and all the basic irrigation facilities were built for the peasants, and the production teams composed of the relocated peasants could settle here, and pay a certain percentage of grain every year to be nationalizedIt can be seen that the tax on the "tithe" of the well field system will be more profitable.

This piece of Chengrightist has begun to implement the "Public Land Responsibility Contracting System" in the eastern suburbs on a trial basis In the eastern suburbs, we not only produce grain, vegetables and fruits, but also provide pigs, cattle and sheep breeding, as well as cloth production, all of which will be repurchased by the Dharma helpers in the eastern suburbs at a price of 20% of the market price, and a part of the grain will be resold to some merchants at a price of 50% of the market price, not only to compensate for the income paid to the peasantsThe state can afford this revenue without any expenditure, confiscate all the rest, and stabilize the market price, and in the year of famine, avoid profiteers from sitting on the ground.

It's a lot of work.

If this system is introduced, it will simply be a high return on zero investment.

Su never dared to say that the "Public Land Responsibility Contracting System" would be better than the "Well Field System", but it was excellent for the country and the people.

Even the 20 percent repurchase rate is also higher than the "tithe" tax rate, which is more than what the peasants handed over to the landlords in the past, and it has greatly increased their enthusiasm.

Everyone is a poor scholar, and they are more energetic for the sake of the family. ”

Sue's eyes burned.

He praised Cheng Jia from the bottom of his heart.

And he has never seen anyone who can achieve such a perfect reform of the "Ida System" and collapse all aspects.

He felt that at least at this stage, they were all full of energy, so he also hoped in his heart that the lady in front of him, the future prince, could set her eyes on the eastern suburbs, which was no man's land in the past, and could be of great use to Cheng Youtu, which was not only good for Cheng Jia, but also good for those of them who studied with Cheng Jia, so he continued to say excitedly.

"So many of our students choose to stay in the eastern suburbs after a period of management, and some even move their relatives here.

Cheng Youtu also opened a separate residential area for us, the eastern suburbs are really a good place, if the princess can draw a new city over there, enclose the city, you can immediately form a new small city, next to Yingdu, you can also migrate more people in the past, now the displaced people over there have all settled down, and there are many admirers who come to wander around the eastern suburbs and want to join in. Originally, this time, I also wanted to ask these people who became the right disciples, can we accept them all, but the right disciples said before that they can't be accepted easily, and I am afraid that someone will get in, so I have not dared to accept it. But soon the rice flowers will bloom, and it will mature in more than a month, and all our efforts in the first half of the year will be realized. ”

Su couldn't help but think of the scene when the rice blossoms bloomed in July and August, and the warehouse was full of fruits in August and September.

Every time I think about all this, I feel that he has done a very remarkable thing this year, and it will definitely go down in history in future generations.

Mi Huang listened to Su Cong's explanation of this brand-new system, looked at his excited eyes, and also longed for it.

But now she thinks more far-reaching, it is foreseeable that if this system is implemented, the royal family will no longer be subject to the gate valves of the major families because of lack of food, and even with these wasteland fields, the royal family will become the biggest beneficiary, to be honest, in the hands of a wise monarch, this is definitely a thing that has more advantages than disadvantages, but in the hands of the faint monarch, it may be a peerless murder weapon, and the royal power will be infinitely magnified, and even crush all the family valves, without any constraints.

At present, the monarch is still limited by the land, and how much land is produced, how much power the monarch has, otherwise the princes of various countries will not compete to become the hegemon of one side.

And according to the output of the eastern suburbs as the standard, Zhou Mu and his ilk have no chance to be greedy for ink, even if the regulators are greedy, they dare not be greedy, and can only act on a small scale.

Because the standard is there, and with a standard there is a rod.

Those who cross the line, die.

Later, Su Cong talked about a lot of very interesting things, such as "Some time ago, when there were a lot of insects in early summer, we all used nets to catch insects and eliminate insects according to the field management manual written by Cheng Youtu, and then roasted and ate all the locusts that plagued the rice fields in previous years." ”

"Can locusts really be eaten?"

For the first time, the woman who had never been calm showed a disgusted expression.

But Su Cong thought it was very interesting, thinking of the first time he ate insects, frowning and holding the locusts on the plate, closing his eyes and stuffing them into his mouth like eating poison, he couldn't help but laugh, "Of course, Tainu, in fact, some old farmers also said that when natural disasters are very hungry, people can even eat bark insects, not to mention the locusts that are fat and full of meat and oil, which are not poisonous, and now we also use locusts to extract oil from locusts to make vegetables, and the green vegetables made are fragrant." ”

"Locusts' oil?"

Thinking about the fat bugs, the whole person is not good.

"Don't believe it, when the time comes, Su will know when she takes the lady to eat. ”

At the thought of letting the most noble princess of the Chu State eat insects, Su Cong was a little mischievous.

With the in-depth communication between the two, Mi Huang's questions seemed endless, Su Cong also racked his brains to answer, and finally couldn't answer, so he strongly invited Mi Huang to go to the eastern suburbs for a while and experience it for himself.