Chapter 256: The Year of the Harvest

Jinyang, Liaodong, will serve as two military and political centers. As for Luoyang and Chang'an, even if they were occupied in the future, they would only serve as commercial centers and transit centers. Because these two places are connected by waterways, connecting the north and the south.

As for the grain production areas, the black soil in eastern Liaodong and the water resources in the south, this is the best place to produce food. Because the land in Guanzhong has been cultivated for thousands of years, soil erosion is serious, and it takes time to recover, Zou Yu does not want to leave a barren land with little green land for future generations.

Of course, it's still a long way to talk about this, it's just an idea in his heart. Because of his own shortcomings, Zou Yu is not proficient in government affairs, so he can only use those good policies and measures in the memory of later generations. Whenever he thought of it, he would record it, even if he couldn't do it for a while.

The most important thing in the government is the spring plowing and autumn harvest of the year! From Bingzhou to Liaodong, barley and wheat belong to summer grains; Corn, sorghum, beans, belong to the autumn grain.

The so-called five grains rice, millet, millet, wheat and soybean refer to rice, millet, sorghum, wheat and beans respectively.

Whole grains, except for these kinds, the rest of the hemp seeds, barley, buckwheat, sesame seeds, etc. belong to miscellaneous grains. The so-called multigrain is not easy to fill.

Now, because of intensive cultivation and intercropping, this first year has a bumper harvest.

In the past, the emperors ploughed in the spring and the autumn harvest just for show, leading the ministers to work in the fields. The current Yining Tianzi is really working, and his originally white and tender skin has tanned a lot. Although he didn't need to cultivate it himself, Zou Yu told him that he had to understand each grain, how it was grown, how it was grown, and what the climate needed. in order to know whether it is cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant and other habits.

"Yu'er is tanned!" Concubine Wei secretly twisted Zou Yu and said distressedly.

has been with Zou Yu for a long time, and Concubine Wei will occasionally lose some of her little daughter's temper in front of him, because she knows that Zou Yu will not be angry.

"Although Yu'er is hard, he is happy! It was a choice he made on his own. Looking at Concubine Wei's resentful eyes, Zou Yu said helplessly.

"He's still so young, can I, as a mother, not be heartbroken!" Concubine Wei said slightly coquettishly. In front of the public, although the two of them have ghosts in their hearts, they feel very excited.

"Don't look at what Yu'er has done hard, it has really become a success, and his reputation in the future will be no less than that of a saint!" Looking at the people on both sides, they were all paying attention to the grain in the field, Zou Yu stretched out his claws of sin, grabbed a handful of Concubine Wei's buttocks, and said.

"Ahh Concubine Wei was suddenly attacked and almost screamed, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her little hand.

Regardless of being shy, Concubine Wei raised her hot pink face and asked, "Really?" ”

Looking down from the top, the thin palace clothes couldn't hide the majesty, and the touch of snow white made Zou Yu swallow his saliva involuntarily and said, "Of course." ”

Seeing Zou Yu's pig brother statue, Concubine Wei couldn't help but glance at him again, but she still felt a little happy that she could attract him, and she didn't dare to look at him, she was afraid that she couldn't help but throw herself into her arms, and turned her head to watch her son instruct people to dig yams.

This is a yam that is specially taken care of, and it has been fertilized many times halfway, so Zou Yu is still looking forward to it.

A whole acre of yam was constantly sent to the edge of the land by the people, and the people who took care of them were all disabled soldiers, although several of them were missing arms, but they were full of energy.

"Come on, pass the scales!" Yang Yu shouted with excitement on his face.

"Whoa!" The people shouted in a loud voice of joy, and then rushed up, lifted the yam in the basket, and went to weigh it.

A basket of yams on the right and one on the right was placed on the scales in turn.

"Sixty-five pounds!"

"Seventy-one pounds!"

"Eighty-three pounds!"

………………

On the side, someone shouted the count, and someone counted.

"See Your Majesty! One acre of yam land, a total of 1,384 catties! A lame veteran, with tears in his eyes, shouted excitedly.

"What!"

"It's really more than a thousand pounds!"

"Oh my God!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations Prime Minister! ”

The yam was placed there, and I had to believe it, and for a while, the crowd was agitated, and everyone was excited.

"Collect all that is good to make seeds, and make vegetables from the damaged ones for everyone to share!" Zou Yu ordered with a wave of his hand.

"Autumn Harvest!" An old farmer shouted in a long voice.

"Autumn Harvest!" The people, who had already been prepared, took their tools and stepped into the field happily, and rushed over to the grain in the field.

The autumn harvest lasts for a long time, and after the rice is harvested and dried, there are beans, soybeans, mung beans, beans, and sorghum. For more than a month, the fields were full of busy people.

Although there is a bumper harvest, there is no grain tax in the government this year because it is exempt from taxes. However, Zou Yu had expected that the materials for building houses, coal, iron farming tools, pears, seeds, salt, and porcelain, were recovered from the people, and some grain was exchanged.

There are also the land of the garrison in various counties and counties, at least to achieve a balance between the expenditures, and can hold on until the summer grain harvest does not use the grain stored in the Yongfeng warehouse.

From the summer grain harvest to the autumn harvest, it was only three or four months, and the people under the entire rule turned from anticipation to fanatical excitement.

Part of the grain is deducted from all kinds of utensils, furniture, and household goods, which are completely acceptable to the people, because the price is extremely low. The rest of the grain, divided according to the labor force, is almost 500 catties of grain per person, and there are more young and strong, more than 700 catties.

This harvest is already comparable to a normal year, the income of a large family, even if the family drags children and mothers, the labor of one person is enough to feed a family of four, because this can be regarded as staple food. With the vegetables in the field and poultry, that's a lot of income.

Although salt is still not cheap, it can be exchanged for two days of hard work, and it can be exchanged for a lot with two workers, and it can make a jar of pickles for the family.

It is said that a lot of fish can be caught in the pond in the village at the end of the year, and when I think of this, the people feel that life is extraordinarily beautiful.

In troubled times, ordinary soldiers are bandits, so the common people are afraid when they see soldiers, even if a small group of soldiers pass by, they will be worried that they will suddenly become bandits and rob the village.

Zou Yu's policy of garrisoning to help the families of disabled soldiers made the soldiers often appear in the village to help the people do things, all of which were seen by others, so the people were not afraid of their own soldiers, but felt cordial, and often gave them a few eggs and a few bundles of vegetables.

In return, the people are kind to the soldiers, and the soldiers will also help other people in the village to do something within their ability, which forms a virtuous circle.

After the harvest, each village donated a batch of grain and vegetables to the garrisons of each county.

The people have a scale in their hearts, especially under the rule of Zou Yu, almost every county has soldiers who have retired from the begging army, and they cherish the hard-won stable life even more. They understand that if they want to defend their homeland, they must have a strong army.

For a long time, they have relied on the grain of Yongfeng Cang to feed the people all over the world, such a hard time, they can have a full meal every day, they know whose credit it is, not to mention the storyteller, the propaganda of the county town, it can be said that the people are grateful and supportive of Zou Yu.

Because of tax exemption, they were worried that the government would not have enough grain and grass, and even people in many places took the initiative to ask if they wanted to pay some.

Even when they received a resounding "no" answer, they insisted on leaving a lot of them.

"There's no tax, but there's no problem with us donating, right?" This is what the people say.

The grain in the hands of the people is enough to last until the summer harvest, not to mention that it is about to enter the autumn and winter when the construction is large.

The autumn and winter construction is divided into two kinds of work, the first is to build for the convenience of the local people, such as building canals, reservoirs, roads and bridges. This is the local people who work and produce food according to the population, and build collectively.

The second is to work for the government, such as mining, repairing the city, and building the government yamen, which is not only provided by the government, but also subsidized, and the subsidy is of course carried out in the form of a mixture of food and materials.

If you want to say happy, there is another group of people who are very happy, that is, Xue Yantuo people. Originally, when they moved to Yanmen County, they were very nervous and confused about the future, especially the cattle and horses in their hands were taken away.

With a series of systems, building houses and dividing land, teaching them to plant, and establishing captive pastures, after that, they finally settled down.

The summer grain harvest is ten times more than the rough cultivation of the grassland, which makes them very happy. According to their living habits, a little grain a day, combined with goat's milk, is enough to eat for a long time.

There is no place to grow rice, and the herdsmen all grow soybeans, black beans, and sorghum, because soybeans and black beans are the concentrate for raising war horses; There is also sorghum, in the past, herders did not grow sorghum because they did not know how to eat sorghum, after all, if you really want to make food, sorghum rice must not taste as good as wheat, and it is not as practical as beans.

They are now being asked to grow sorghum because it is drought tolerant, even on wasteland and hillsides. Moreover, the sorghum planted is purchased by the government.

The harvested sorghum is used to make wine, and the leftover distiller's grains, combined with grass, are used to make a very nutritious feed for livestock. These feeds are just used for the government war horses, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

In the past, cattle and horses were raised with beans, and they were soaked overnight, or they were sprinkled in the forage; Now it's different, in the way of sprouts, simply make sprouts, and then feed them to cattle and horses.

As soon as this method appeared, it surprised the herdsmen, you must know that the most headache for the herdsmen is that the winter war horses will lose weight, because there is not enough grass, and now the sprouts are enough to make up for this shortcoming.

The harvest of beans is a good harvest, and the herdsmen are happy that there will be no shortage of concentrate for cattle and horses in the future; And vegetable planting, for them, is a happy life.

On the grassland, if you want to eat green vegetables, there is nothing else except picking some wild vegetables and weeds. Because of the lack of green vegetables for many years, the herdsmen have a problemβ€”β€”β€”β€” constipation!

The pain of constipation, that's really who knows. This is also the reason why the tea of the Central Plains is popular in the grassland, because tea can relieve and treat constipation.

Now that there are vegetables to eat, there is no need to worry, it can be said that this problem has been completely solved, not to mention that the vegetables taste good, and those that can't be eaten can be sold to the government and exchanged for some pickles and pickles.

Living in a brick house, the door is closed, and you don't have to worry about hungry wolves rushing into the tent in the middle of the night, which is much more reassuring. The current herdsmen, fearing that they will be driven away, no one wants to leave.

Of course, Zou Yu will not do anything to raise tigers, for Xue Yantuo people, it is required to speak Chinese, and their children must learn to write Chinese characters.

Not only spiritually, but also in the place where they live, where they are suitable for building farms, and the people of the Central Plains, so mixed living is to use the most powerful integration ability of the Central Plains people to assimilate them.

In addition to the young and strong people who were selected to enter the army, the newly arrived Taoist priests, after training, were divided into fifty people, and they had already gone to the Xue Yantuo settlement, and while guiding them spiritually, they were also teachers of the Chinese language.

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