The property of these goods and goods given by Princess Taiping solved Li Tong's urgent need to a considerable extent.

The scene is bigger, and consumption is increasing day by day. With so many people in the family eating horses, the consumption is already not small. Although his grandmother also chased a lot of money, it was all dead money on the scene, and it was not so convenient to use.

People like Tian Dasheng are not the power on the table, they are running for themselves, and Li Tong is certainly not good at starving soldiers. At present, these gray scenes are not big, and they are also limited by financial resources, so Li Tong cannot expand the scale to the fullest.

Putting aside the disputes in Vanity Fair, the current situation is actually a good opportunity for private forces. The problem of household displacement, which has existed since the time of Gaozong and is now becoming more and more serious, as well as the displaced people caused by natural and man-made disasters in Zhubian, this kind of population outside the household registration is widely distributed among Heluo.

These people are not just ordinary farmers, but also include a large number of fugitive soldiers from Zhichong Prefecture. These people are people with real experience in military service, but the heavy military service and the destruction of Juntian make it difficult to maintain their livelihoods, and they have to go into exile.

In fact, the imperial court has already noticed this problem, but the focus of the current situation at the upper level is still mainly focused on whether to represent the Tang Dynasty or not, so there is no decree on the acceptance of these rogues. This is an excellent opportunity for Li Tong, a restless person.

The intrigue in the current situation is just to ensure his basic personal safety and avoid being ****. And the mastery of these out-of-law populations, although not so powerful as to directly support his seizure of power by force, can also achieve great results at certain times and if used skillfully.

To put it mildly, even if he suffered in the Divine Capital City, if there was a considerable force to be used outside the city, it would be able to protect him all the way to escape.

However, Li Tong also understands that there is not much time left for him, once his grandmother completes the Tang Dynasty, the situation is slightly stable, and he will immediately put the internal affairs of the expansion of the household in the first place in the government.

During the reign of Gaozong Yonghui, the number of households in the country was 3.8 million, and in the Shenlong period of the late Wu Zhou Dynasty, the number of households reached more than 6.1 million. In this process, between the two capitals, which are the core of the empire, is naturally the top priority for expanding households.

Once Wu Zetian attaches importance to this issue, it will be much more difficult for Li Tong to engage in this kind of small action under his grandmother's nose. Therefore, he is ready to make good use of this period, even if he is a little conservative in the political situation, to control a group of private households.

But if you want to gather people, you must first have financial power. After all, those deceased families themselves left their hometowns and fled from their household registration because of their livelihood difficulties, and only by arranging a way for them to live can people settle down.

In order to do this, it is much more important to have a number of pastoral industries in hand than ordinary money. After all, there is always a time when money is spent, and only land can produce a steady stream of hope and give people lasting hope.

However, as the core area of the empire, the Heluo area has long been carved up by the local tyrants and the ruling and opposition elites, and the large-scale reclamation of the displaced households is not something that can be done by one family, and once it is reported and exposed, it is a more serious crime than simply enclosing land and occupying land.

So when Princess Taiping sent those pastoral contract certificates, within a few days, Li Tong couldn't hold back, and in the name of inviting people to go on an outing, he led a group of mansions to leave Shendu City and inspect these properties.

The group left the city from Changxiamen, and drove some distance along the wide gi road, with tall and dense trees and grass on both sides of the road blocking the view. However, after going down the official road and turning into the rural road, the vision suddenly broadened.

"Third brother, third brother, take a look, that grass is all bright yellow, who is so neatly trimmed, the carpet is the same!"

Knowing that the third brother was going on an outing, the little girl Li Youniang cried and shouted to go along, and at this time she was excited on the carriage, while slapping the car board, while pointing to a large rice field that was about to be harvested in the distance of the road and shouting.

Li Tong rode his horse slowly, too lazy to take care of the little girl who had never seen anything in the world, he was also in a very comfortable mood, breathing in the fragrant and fresh air of the grass and trees in the countryside, looking around with both eyes, only feeling that his heart and mind were stretched out by this vast world, and he became extremely open-minded.

Tang Lingshu, who was also accompanying him, was also very cheerful, dressed in a riding robe, pulling a horse around the carriage, and constantly pointing to the pastoral scenery to introduce plants and trees and various crops to Li Youniang.

In fact, it's no wonder that the little girl has no knowledge, even Li Tong herself hasn't seen such a vast field landscape for many years. The Shendu Luoyang Luli is orderly, prosperous and lively, but once you walk into the wilderness, the kind of restlessness will fade quickly, and now it is gradually approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the harvest beauty can be seen everywhere.

However, Li Tong also found one point, that is, although agriculture is prosperous in the suburbs of Shendu, small-scale plots are rare, often a large field is hundreds of acres, and all the crops are uniform. Mulberry planted fruit trees, and some of them stretched over several hills and ditches.

This is obviously not the scale of the industry that ordinary small people can have, and the farmers who work in the fields are often dozens or hundreds, one by one, short brown or bareback, sweating like rain. Occasionally, someone stopped to look at their group of passers-by, and they were immediately scolded and scolded.

According to the explanation of Tian Ichiro, the son of Tian Dasheng, who is in the same industry, the surrounding area around the city is mostly the fields of the Kyoji Gongfu and the fields and gardens of Ouchi, and the official slaves are made, and the output is exclusively for the daily consumption of the Ouchi and the Imperial Court.

After traveling some distance, they arrived at the first destination of the trip, and Princess Taiping gave Li Tong one of the three pastoral fields. This pastoral is located in Longmen Township, Luonan, covering an area of nearly 20 hectares, of which there are more than 10 hectares of flat fields, including a large scale of Tupi mulberry field.

However, this field is now in a state of desolation, the field is full of weeds, and only a few small patches of crops such as beans near the river. There were some simple shacks made of turf scattered among the grass, and when Li Tong and his party approached here, some ragged people rushed out of it, looking at them in horror and wariness.

"These are all customers who are wandering in the near wilderness, and they have no livelihood to live in, so they can only invade the village for a short time. If you're lucky, you can pick up some miscellaneous grains, but if you are caught by the officials, you will all have to be confiscated into the official slaves......"

Li Tong only bowed his head slightly after hearing this, and waved his horsewhip to signal to bypass here, not to disturb for the time being.

The manor house is located under the slope, surrounded by a fence wall, there is a river flowing through it, and there are many mulberry willows around it, and there are dozens of large and small houses of all kinds inside, in rows of houses, the scale is not small. In the northwest corner of the grange, a tall mill has been erected at the water's edge, which is specially used to process grain by using water power.

It can be seen that the manor also had a good harvest during normal operation, but due to the misfortune of the owner, it was inevitably abandoned due to the lack of management from last year to the present.

Although Li Tong is not good at farming, he can also see that the potential of this manor is really not small, and he can't say that it is enough to feed two or three hundred families.

In particular, the grain processing mill is an agricultural tool that money can't buy. Although there are abundant water resources between Heluo, in order to prevent the powerful and wealthy from privately setting up embankments to intercept the flow of water and avoid causing damage such as floods, the imperial court strictly prohibits private water mills and the like.

And these tools, in addition to the imperial court's own control, are sometimes regarded as rewards.

For example, in Li Tong's own current industry, the first wave of harvest has not yet entered the government, and only two places in the grange located in the southeast of the Shendu are located in the two places, because they can rent out and process grain to collect returns, and they have been able to bring a steady stream of income, which is one of the few items in the palace at present.

Li Tong didn't go into the village to receive it, he had a rough idea in his heart after a tour, and then left here and turned to the next manor.

The three estates given to Li Tong by Princess Taiping are located in Longmen Township, Luonan, Gande and Yichuan Township, Luodong.

Among them, the largest one in Yichuan, more than 30 hectares, is now managed by the imperial court and is cultivated by official slaves, and Li Tong needs to send someone to collect it. The area located in Gande Township is less than 10 hectares, and it is directly rented to local households for farming, as long as the rent is taken regularly.

After this visit, Li Tong also felt that his aunt was struggling to maintain the family business at the moment, although there were a large number of properties under her name, but there were not enough people to take care of them, and the returns and harvests that these industries could bring seemed to be limited.

In fact, Li Tong is not facing this problem at the moment, he seems to be full of guests at the moment, but in fact, there are not many people available, and most of the daily use is still official slaves. As for the assistants of the palace, it is really useless to let them take care of the affairs of one or two farms.

But this is not a big problem, he has even recruited several prime ministers, and it only takes patience to recruit some general affairs talents. Even if you can't recruit credible ones, you can train them yourself.

Li Tong is still thinking about how to take care of these industries, and he doesn't want to find another small trouble. After inspecting the manor for a whole day and returning to the palace, as soon as he sat down, Xue Huaiyi's nephew Feng Changsi came to ask for a meeting, his face was not very good-looking, and he opened his mouth and said: "Uncle wants to recall the humble post back to the White Horse Temple, saying that there will be a follow-up expedition, and he will lead me to seek a side credit." ”

Hearing Feng Changsi say this, Li Tong's heart sank again, and he understood that Xue Huaiyi was expressing his dissatisfaction to him. After a little silence, he looked at Feng Changsi and asked, "Master Xue is far away, and Changsi can follow Rong Xing, and he has a great future." I won't obstruct it here, when will I leave, and there will be heavy gifts, thank you for helping so far. ”

After hearing this, Feng Changsi knelt down and bowed: "I am willing to obey the king, and I am unwilling, unwilling to return to the White Horse Temple." Shallow self-knowledge, Tian Mulberry miscellaneous can't be properly cooked, and I really don't dare to have delusions to seek merit! ”

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