Shaanxi, Jingzhao Mansion, the prefect's yamen, the spring cold is steep, the night is quiet, and the back hall of the yamen is still brightly lit.

Wang Lun was still lying on the table, carefully flipping through the pile of documents in front of him. Shaanxi is so big, there are all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt, and he can't come here without gain.

Tuntian camps, take precautions, open up the land west of the river, and open up the Western Regions.

This is Wang Song's earnest admonition to him before he left, and he still remembers it vividly.

Shaanxi is the western barrier of the Central Plains, and Hexi is the western gate of Shaanxi.

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Shaanxi has a vast land, Guanzhong Plain alone, there are more than 30 million acres, irrigation is developed since ancient times, rich in grain, it is the richest place in Shaanxi, it is called "the golden city of thousands of miles, the country of abundance", the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China, and it was also the most prosperous period in Guan.

In the first year of Jingkang, before the Jin people went south, although the city wall of Chang'an was greatly smaller than that of the Tang Dynasty, the population was still more than 100,000, and the customs of the residents were still moving, and the style of the old capital was still not lost. Despite the invasion of the Khitan and Jurchen ethnic groups, the population of Shaanxi still reached more than 3 million.

The Jin people went south to invade the Song Dynasty, and after years of war, the population of Shaanxi dropped significantly, and there were only about one million left in Guanzhong, which was less than half of the Tang Tianbao period. In particular, in northern Shaanxi, because it was a place where Song Xia and Song Jin often exchanged troops, the population decline was particularly serious, except for a small number of people in the place close to Guanzhong, there was basically only an army, and there were few people.

In just a few years, Shaanxi has lost nearly one million people under the flames of war.

Some remote places used to be well-watered, densely populated, and fertile. Up to now, because of the war, there are broken walls, overgrown weeds, thorns, sparse human tracks, and wild beasts.

The defeat of the imperial army in Shaanxi not only lost the hearts of the people, but even Shaanxi's taxes in the next few years were squandered, leaving a complete mess under the rule of Xuanfu Si.

"The key is reclamation!"

"The land was distributed to the people, planted freely, everyone had enough to eat, and the disadvantages of annexation were changed, and grain and grass for the westward expedition were prepared."

Thinking of what Wang Song said before leaving, Wang Lun couldn't help frowning.

"The art of the country lies in strengthening the army and having enough food, and the Qin people are eager to agriculture and the world; Xiaowu to Tuntian set the Western Regions, this ancestor of the good style also. ”

Wang Lun frowned. Cao Mengde's trip, the pearl HP, he just needs to pick up people's teeth and follow the footsteps of the sages.

"It can only be the death of a confidant!"

Wang Lun smiled bitterly. Since meeting and following Wang Song, his life has been turned upside down. Maybe in the future, he Wang Zhengdao can be with Wang Song and leave a name in history.

"I'm still thinking too much, let's solve all the trivial matters in front of me first."

Compared with when he was in Tuntian and Yingtian in Hedong, the current conditions are much better than before.

Needless to say, the equipment is complete, all imported from Hebei, and even the cattle and horses used for farming are also very surplus. Wang Song allocated him more than 1,000 horses from the army, and transferred more than 500 ploughing cattle to him from Hebei.

The most important thing is that when he was in Tuntian, Hedong, he cultivated a large number of civil affairs officials for reclamation, many of whom came to Shaanxi with him.

Coupled with the wars over the years, more than 50,000 prisoners of war were sent to reclaim the famine, which can be regarded as a powerful remark.

The first thing he did after taking office was to set up the Shaanxi Agricultural Reclamation Division, with An Dafu, the former director of the First Hedong Agricultural Reclamation Division, as the general director. The first thing to do was to re-measure the acres of land, and the land was managed by the government.

Wang Lun understood Wang Song's thoughts, and took advantage of the fact that Shaanxi was beaten to a pulp, and completely cut off the cancer of land annexation.

"Shaanxi Agricultural Reclamation Division" is located in the suburbs of Xianyang City, the core area of the Guanzhong Plain, by An Dafu personally in charge, but also can be regarded as a strong general, complementing each other.

The "General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation" is adjacent to Weishui in the south and the official road in the north, covering an area of several acres, with a towering cement wall, and under the pavilion next to the heavy iron fence gate, the guards with guns stand solemnly and solemnly.

On the left and right sides of the gate, "Shaanxi Agricultural Reclamation Division First Division", "Shaanxi Agricultural Reclamation Division General Administration", more than a dozen red characters are clearly visible.

Everything is the same as when he was camping in Tuntian, Hedong, it is completely carved out of a mold. The soldiers held weapons in one hand and farm tools in the other, and they were called "agricultural warriors".

With more than 30,000 soldiers, more than 50,000 captive soldiers and reformed soldiers, plus thousands of wounded soldiers who retreated due to wounds, nearly 100,000 troops advanced into Shaanxi.

Although morale is high, the difficulties are real. It is the cold of spring, the northwest wind blows, the cold is biting, Chang'an City is dilapidated, there is no place to live in the city, the tent is not enough, so you can only use branches to build a shack on the side of the broken wall.

This is not the most fatal, the army of 100,000 people, people eat and chew, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, all have to be imported from the two rivers. Wang Lun himself also knew in his heart that in order to ensure the success of cultivating wasteland and tuntian, he must solve the problem of eating.

"It's hard for the people to take food as the sky!"

Wang Lun was frowning, the door was gently pushed open, and his wife, who was holding her stomach, walked in with a bowl of hot rice porridge.

"Official, take a break, you haven't eaten for half a day?"

Smelling the aroma of rice porridge, Wang Lun's stomach couldn't help but growl.

"When you say that, I'm so hungry!"

Wang Lun took the porridge bowl and drank it slowly.

"Official, you said that you, the dignified Jingzhao Mansion Minister, half of Shaanxi is under your control, but you are busier than farming, how do you look like an official!"

Wang Lun smiled lightly and shook his head.

"Wang Xianggong handed over such a heavy burden to me, I can't do nothing."

Wang Lun looked at his wife and said apologetically: "Thanks to the lady, you have to take care of yourself."

Although the two are husband and wife, the age difference is more than ten years, this is the first child of the two, of course, they should be cautious.

"This kid is making a lot of noise, I guess it's a boy."

Wang's wife smiled lightly: "You don't have to worry too much, there is Wang Xianggong in charge of everything." With the friendship between the two of you, if you have difficulties, he will not sit idly by. ”

Wang Lun nodded, he and Wang Song are "ministers and kings know each other", which can become a historical story.

The sergeant knocked on the door and came forward to report.

"You mean, Xianggong Wang asked people to send 100,000 stone of grain?"

Wang Lun's heart was hot. Wang Song treated him so sincerely, he could only swear to die to repay his confidant.

"Official, I'm right, you don't have to worry anymore."

His wife smiled and said: "When the prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, you will be a member of the first rank of the dynasty, and when the time comes, our whole family will follow you, which is called a wife and a son."

The king's wife left happily, and Wang Lun was excited and worried, pacing in the house.

Construct water conservancy, camp farmland, curb mergers, persuade farmers and merchants, collect taxes, crack down on tyrants, rescue the people, and maintain local law and order......

Naturally, there is also recruitment, and preparations are made. , making Shaanxi a springboard for westward expansion

Whether it is the collection of taxes, or the suppression of annexation, or the distribution of land to the people, it must touch the interests of the local powerful and powerful, and then only the iron bowl will suppress it, or even bloody suppression.

"History of the Song Dynasty • Food and Goods" said: "There is nothing to do in all directions,...... Hukou is accumulated, and the fields are opening up. ”

The household registration management of the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system, but it also had its own characteristics. The government integrated the management of household registration with the collection of taxes, and divided the household level according to the family's assets and household income, which was used as the basis for calculating tax service, so that the household registration became a "tax register". The registered household registration is "but from the Ding household registration", "the female population is not pre-registered", and "the female population does not need to be surveyed".

Since the household registration is a tax register, although the imperial court decree stipulates that the book is made every three years, but out of the need to collect taxes, in fact, the population is counted every year and the "tax register" is fabricated. According to the "History of the Song Dynasty, Bing Liu", since the Yuanfeng period, the Song Dynasty set up a household department to manage the affairs of households, land, and money valley in the world, tribute, and conscription.

In the Song Dynasty, farmland was divided into two types: official land and private land, and according to the amount of farmland occupied and its political status, the household registration was divided into three types: official households, main households, and customers. Aristocrats and bureaucrats, also known as official households or situation households, were the landlord class who enjoyed the privileges of tax exemption and exemption from military service. They accounted for a small proportion of the total population, but occupied the largest area, during the time of Song Renzong, half of the acres of land in the world were occupied by the situation, and by the time of Song Yingzong, the rent was not added to the ten residences.

The Song Dynasty did not suppress annexation, and the consequence was the state's agricultural taxes, with the big landowners occupying seventy percent of the acres of land, but never having to pay taxes.

The Song Law stipulates that the main household is a peasant household with an industry and needs to pay taxes to the state, and those in the countryside are called rural households, and in the cities they are also called fangguo households. Households are divided into nine classes according to rich and poor: the upper third class are landlords, and most of the households below the fourth class are yeoman farmers and poor peasants. There are few landlords, many peasants, and there are less than 1,000 households in Dayi, about 1,000 households above the third class, and 9,000 households below the fourth class. Land annexation caused the inferior families to go bankrupt in poverty, or to be forced to migrate to other places to become customers, or to avoid forced labor under the guise of tenants.

The result of this in the long run is that the rich have no land, and the poor have no power.

Seeing Wang Lun's brows, the sergeant next to him came up and said softly:

"Princes, reclaiming barren fields and measuring land, what they have to deal with is actually the local tyrants, who often collude with the government and work as traitors. If the prince wants to carry out the tuntian smoothly, he must be prepared. ”

If the land endowment of the Song Dynasty could not be taxed according to the land, and the annexation and tax concealment before Jingkang were reproduced, it was the powerful and powerful who benefited, and the poor people suffered.

"Then let them try it and see if it's their hard necks or their own officials' sharp knives!"

It is difficult to promote a reform in the face of local conservative forces, let alone such a major matter as land distribution.

The sergeant is a native of Guanzhong, Shaanxi, and is very familiar with the local people. Hearing Wang Lun's cold words, he couldn't help but shudder.

The loyal and righteous army is in full swing, if those heroes with thousands of acres of fertile land do not have long eyes and want to fight against the measurement of acres, I am afraid it will be another bloody storm.

"Prince, Shaanxi's literary style is prosperous, and there are many readers, especially the "Guanxue" faction, the doctrine spreads widely, and there are hundreds of disciples. As long as they are stabilized, the prince will be invincible, and it will be much more convenient to get things done. ”

Wang Lun was in awe, nodded and said, "Mr. Hengqu's doctrine naturally has to be propagated well."

Mr. Hengqu is Zhang Zai, a great Confucian in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Zai liked to discuss the art of war when he was young, and later sought it from the Confucian "Six Classics", and served as a writer and a scholar of Chongwen Academy. Later, he resigned and lectured in Guanzhong, so his school was called "Guanxue".

Guan Xue opposes sitting and talking about the Tao and empty theories, and advocates practicing and applying what he has learned.

Since Zhang Zai lectured on Guanzhong and founded the "Guanxue" school, a large number of famous scholars have emerged in "Guanxue", such as Hou Ke, Lv Dajun three brothers, Li Fu, You Shixiong, Chongshidao, etc., "Guanxue" can be said to be full of talents, and it is widely spread in Shaanxi and the whole country.

Because of his fame, Zhang Zai was also named by scholars after his birthplace Hengqu Town, known as Mr. Hengqu, honored as Zhang Zi, named the sage, and enshrined the thirty-eighth place in the west of the Confucian Temple.

And its famous sayings of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a life for the people, continuing to learn for the saints, and opening peace for all generations" have been called "four sentences of the horizontal canal" by the philosopher Feng Youlan of later generations, which is concise and grandiose, and has been praised for a long time.

It's no wonder that Wang Lun has a lot of respect for Zhang Zai.