After returning to Hedong, Tong Yuan made a preliminary plan, and let Xu Rong temporarily lead the dreadnought army to rest, and the rest of the army were rewarded for their merits.

Only the morale of the Third Cavalry Brigade is not high, and the loss of mounted cavalry is probably not easy to replenish immediately in the short term. Hu Lang'er and Xu Jian found Tong Yuan and asked if they were drawn from the Dreadnought Army, or developed from Juntun or the Xiongnu.

Tong Yuan thought for a while and said that he could add it, but this cavalry was still selected from the Han people, and it had to be trained repeatedly according to the previous or even higher requirements. Avoid neglecting to train the best cavalry because there are sub-optimal cavalry available to replenish it.

Xu Jian was very moved when he heard this, he grew up with this armored cavalry, and of course hoped that he would continue to carry it forward.

Historically, there was no shortage of excellent cavalry, but many of them were simply filled with Hu cavalry, and over time, they became Hu cavalry. In other words, these excellent cavalrymen slowly changed from cultivating Han people by themselves, to bringing Hu people, and then to Hu cavalry.

Fortunately, the lord attaches great importance to this cavalry, and pays attention to quality and training, rather than mixing it with other cavalry.

After arranging these things, Tong Yuan hurriedly contacted Pei Zheng, Pei Ji, and Zhang Ji on the other side of the Yellow River. Because in May, the winter wheat planted in the tuntian should have been harvested. I don't know how the yield is?

When he sent someone to contact him, he recalled the situation in each county.

To the west of the Yellow River, there are three places: Xiayang, Heyang and Yaxian. The former maintains a strong small-scale peasant economy, and the early summer harvest is negligible.

Due to the serious damage caused by the latter two counties before, nearly 50,000 people were arranged for the military and civilian tuns to implement the tuntian. In addition, we purchased enough wheat seeds from Chang'an, Tianshui and other places, and all of them were cultivated in September last year.

"Report, Zhang Ji's county order is here."

"Come in, please." Tong Yuan couldn't wait to see Zhang Ji to see what the effect of the two of them working together was to plant wheat in the tuntian.

Zhang Ji, who has a slight appearance, looks honest and friendly with a bright smile on his face. He didn't care about the politeness when he came in, and directly held Tong Yuan's arm and said, "Harvest!" A good harvest. ”

Tong Yuan was relieved and said with a smile, "Great, great!" De Jong is really powerful, I don't know how much the output of the two counties is? ”

Zhang Ji replied, "After nearly a month of harvesting and statistics, the two counties have harvested a total of 630,000 stones. On average, the output has broken the record of Dahan Guanzhong. ”

Tong Yuan inquired carefully and converted it again. The yield per mu is slightly more than 400 Han catties. According to the standards of later generations, it reached the level of 200 catties of wheat per mu.

The yield of wheat per mu is 200 catties, and if Tong Yuan first arrived, he would definitely not be happy. But this year, he learned that Dahan can produce 180 catties per mu, which is already a bumper harvest, and he will naturally be happy from the bottom of his heart at this time.

However, he did the math briefly. 630,000 stones, according to his Tuntian army one and a half stone per month, strong labor more than one stone per month, and the distribution of 100 to 200 Han catties for the old and young. This wheat is just enough for the farmers in these two counties to eat for more than a year.

Zhang Ji and Tong Yuan had a good heart, and directly added, "After the harvest, everyone is very happy. However, in order to live a better life, the counties and townships, as well as the tuns and teams below, immediately organized to plant millet. I believe that there will be a lot of harvest in October. ”

Tong Yuan asked, "Is this how you can double cropping a year?" ”

Zhang Ji said, "This batch of wheat was planted in September last year, but after planting millet this year, it is estimated that it is too late to plant wheat in time, so it can be made three crops in two years." ”

It turned out that this Tong Yuan was a southerner in later generations, and he was more familiar with two crops a year, but he didn't know that it was difficult to do it in the north. In this era, there are followers such as Tuntian and Zhang Ji, and it is already a great achievement to be able to do a good job of two years and three crops.

The two had some discussions, and if the millet planting goes smoothly by the end of October this year. It is estimated that it can produce 1780 catties per mu, that is, about 500,000 stones of millet.

These two counties will not only allow the tunhu to continue their current good life, but also absorb another 10,000 people and expand the tuntian.

Of course, before these outputs were shelled, the military tun and the civilian tun had stone mills in each team, and the military tun logistics department that supported the dreadnought army also had enough tools to use.

But in this case, should we engage in hydraulic or wind-powered stone grinding? The land of Xiayang happens to have many rivers and strong winds. It's a pity that he can't do it, and Zhang is not good at it. The two had no choice but to make a note of the matter and see if there was any chance later.

Tong Yuan suddenly remembered one thing, that is, with such an adequate food supply, could some people be lazy, or some tuns and teams did not do their best subjectively except for objective reasons.

In the past month, Zhang has not only paid close attention to the bumper harvest and statistics, but also completed inspections of more than half of the townships and tuns.

Zhang Ji said: "This matter is also quite there. I inspected more than 30 tuns, and I thought that the yield of those with more young and strong people would be higher, and those with more old and weak would be lower. But I didn't expect that half of the ten tuns with the most yield per mu were more old and weak. On the contrary, there are more young and strong, and there are so many Santun, which are at the bottom of the two counties. ”

Tong Yuan asked, "Has De Jong explored, is there a difference between the old and weak tun with high yield, and the tun with the same old and weak, but low yield?" Similarly, what is the difference between the young and strong ones and the high and low yields? ”

Zhang Ji really didn't make such a comparison at first, he thought about it carefully, and took out a few of the deputies to discuss it.

Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and excitedly said, "There are indeed some signs to follow." Nearly 10 of the old and weak tuns cherish the safety and life provided by the generals, and they are full of expectations for the future, hoping that the children who are still young can grow up strongly. ”

Therefore, they worked very hard, and because there were few people and more land, they had to cultivate more than 40 acres per person on average. They help each other and exchange jobs. ”

"Some of them didn't distribute the land to each household, at least one team of 20 households worked together, and some teams worked together. In this way, we will first plant all the land that can be planted together, so as not to have too little labor and too rough to cook too much land. ”

Tong Yuan asked, "So to a certain extent, they gather the land together, and the tools and cattle are also used together, so that they cooperate with each other, but will there be cases that are not their own, so they don't work hard?" ”

Zhang Ji said, "Of course, there are some tuns, so the output is not high. However, the output can reach the first half, which is basically done better. I feel that in any situation, there will be those who do well and those who do poorly. ”

Tong Yuan continued the topic and asked, "After finishing speaking, the old and weak have done a good job, but what about the young and strong?" ”