Guo Songgang took a sip of tea, and at this time, Steward Liang reported at the gate of the courtyard, "Son Qiyu, General Li Ji is here, waiting for you in the guest hall." ”

"I'll go!"

Guo Song got up and walked quickly towards the atrium guest hall.

Li Ji's current official position is the Governor of Fengzhou, in charge of the 3,000 troops in Fengzhou, these 3,000 troops have three captains, thirty brigade commanders, all of whom were soldiers who followed Guo Song to Anxi, and the other thirty soldiers are also brigade commanders in the three surrendered cities, and ten soldiers are also brigade commanders, but they are in charge of the militia soldiers.

It was this more than 70 henchmen who served as the commander of the most important 100-man team in the army, so that Guo Song, even if he was a civilian official, could firmly control the 6,000 troops from the bottom.

Even if Li Ji disobeyed Guo Song's orders one day, it would be useless, Guo Song could easily put him in the air.

Guo Song walked into the room and said with a smile: "Didn't you ask you to go hunting together, and you were dissatisfied, and came to denounce me?" ”

Li Ji smiled slightly: "I would rather not go when I come back from a bunch of pheasants and hares." ”

"Then what are you doing here to not let me rest for a while?"

Li Ji said angrily: "I waited for you for three days, and it was so easy to wait for you to come back, do you think I will let you go?" ”

Guo Song glanced at him and said, "Say it!" What are you looking for me? ”

"Regarding the army's tuntian, spring is about to begin, and the place of our tuntian has not yet been officially clarified, do you think I can not be in a hurry?"

"Wait!"

Guo Song hurriedly stopped him, "You don't want to plant wheat this year, do you!" Isn't it a raw field that has just been reclaimed, and it can only be cultivated after a year of fertilizer? ”

Li Ji was really a little helpless and said: "I really don't know what to say about you, you are still the history of Fengzhou, you don't even know the minimum situation in Fengzhou, the land in Fengzhou is so fertile, do you still need to compost?" Of course, it can be cultivated as soon as it is reclaimed, which is common knowledge that even the children of Toyosu know. ”

Guo Song showed embarrassment on his face, and said embarrassedly: "I really don't know, I'm ashamed!" Ashamed! Well, I'm going to make amends, what do you think I should do? ”

Li Ji laughed, "Since you say so, then we will go out of the city together early tomorrow morning and go to carve out the land of the army's tuntian." ”

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Jiuyuan County is located on the north bank of the Yellow River in the south, less than ten miles away from the Yellow River, Jiuyuan County has made full use of the water resources of the Yellow River since the Han Dynasty, built dozens of large and small canals, fertile land, convenient irrigation, so that Fengzhou and Lingzhou are the same, is also a famous grain production area.

At present, the official fields and private fields of Jiuyuan County are mainly located on the east and west sides of the city, distributed along both sides of the official road, and the number is as many as thousands of hectares, while the northwest is mainly forested, a large pine forest stretches for hundreds of miles, and the fertile land waiting to be reclaimed for dozens of miles in the north.

Therefore, considering that the army should either ask for land in the north or develop to the south of the county, Li Ji finally chose the south.

As soon as the day dawned, Guo Song was arrested by Li Ji, and came to the south of the county to accompany him to determine the scope of the army's tuntian, Li Ji was also a little anxious, and he would spring plough in late February at the latest, and now they didn't even settle down on the land.

It is a common practice for the army to settle fields, including Shuofang, Hexi, Longyou, and other places, and the troops must settle fields on the spot to solve the problem of military rations.

Guo Song had already filed with the Shuofang Jiedu Mansion before, and the first phase of the Juntun land was 3,000 hectares, and the Jiedu Mansion quickly approved it, but the scope of the land needed to be decided by themselves.

Guo Song urged the horse to run up a low high hill, pointed to the large grass under the hill with a horse whip and said: "I considered assigning this land to the military as a military land from the beginning, you can estimate the area." ”

Li Ji took a look at the curtain and said: "This piece used to be more than ten miles long, and there were four or five thousand hectares of land, but it seems that there is a lack of irrigation facilities. ”

Guo Song smiled slightly, urged the horse to run down, Li Ji hurriedly greeted his entourage, and everyone followed.

Running out of about two miles, in front of a ravine, overgrown with weeds, about two zhang wide, Guo Song pointed to the ravine to Li Ji said: "This is the former artificial canal, over time, the river is silted, the river water dries up and becomes a dry ditch, as long as the two ends of the silt part of the dozens of zhang long are dug up, let the river flow over, here will immediately become a very good irrigation canal, and then you have to dig a branch ditch ditch, build a waterwheel, I think you can get busy." ”

"But how do you define the scope of 3,000 hectares?" Li Ji hesitated and asked.

Guo Song shook his head, Li Ji's biggest characteristic is that he follows the rules, is too cautious, and does not dare to break through certain rules and regulations easily.

"You care about him 3,000 hectares, 4,000 hectares, how much can you reclaim, I will slowly increase it next year, and I will apply for the second phase if there is more reclamation, and it will take at least half a month to measure out thousands of hectares of land, do you have so much time to wait?"

Li Ji also realized that he was a little constrained, and he smiled and said, "Then I will organize the soldiers to clear the dredging today, and the envoy will appoint an experienced envoy to Tuntian?" ”

Guo Song had a big head for a while, and he wanted to recruit people, so he thought for a while and said, "That's it!" You first find a few experienced old farmers to ask for advice and listen to their opinions, as for the Tuntian envoy, you can take on the role first! Recently, the state government will temporarily recruit a group of clerks, and I will recruit a few for you, and you will let you do the specific things. ”

"It's no problem for me to work part-time, but I always need to find some experienced people to do things, and Tuntian is also a science!"

"You're right, doing anything is a science, Tuntian is no exception, but experience is not innate, talent still has to be cultivated by ourselves, I can ask Lingzhou Tuntian officials to impart experience, and then recruit some down-to-earth scribes, you can train them in a few years, and the outstanding ones can also be promoted."

Guo Song felt that Fengzhou and the three surrendered cities were basically a blank sheet of paper, and they needed a lot of talents, whether to introduce foreign talents, or to cultivate them themselves, in fact, this is not important, the key is where the talents are?

In the past 20 years, the Tang Dynasty folk have emphasized martial arts and light literature, resulting in talented scholars basically concentrated in major families, but the talents of major families have sharpened their heads and drilled into the imperial court, who wants to come to Fengzhou, a frontier place with harsh conditions?

Fortunately, there are still a few people in Lingzhou and Fengzhou, and it is realistic to only choose from them.

Guo Song and Li Ji clarified the place of the military camp, so they turned their horses around and returned to Jiuyuan County, Li Ji asked: "I heard that the envoy plans to move the military family to Fengzhou?" ”

Guo Song nodded, "In fact, I had already applied to the imperial court before the snow last year, and the imperial court has not yet approved it, the biggest problem in Fengzhou is that the number of people is too small, and it is obviously unrealistic to immediately immigrate a large number of people from the mainland, and it is the best and effective measure to move the families of the army here, which is also a frontier practice." ”

"But what if they don't want to come?" Li Ji asked again.

"Then come up with favorable conditions to attract them, give them land, lower taxes, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, and believe that they will come."

"This ..... Will the imperial court agree? ”

Guo Song said with a smile: "I don't know if the imperial court will agree to it, but the Son of Heaven will definitely agree!" ”

Li Ji had an understanding in his heart, and after reading this problem, Guo Song had communicated with the Son of Heaven and was recognized by the Son of Heaven.

Li Ji actually only guessed half right, Guo Song and Li Yu, the Son of Heaven, did communicate on this issue, but it was not approved by the Son of Heaven, but the plan itself was proposed by Li Yu, the Son of Heaven.

Use land and preferential taxes to attract military families to take root in the frontier.

The two of them rushed to the northwest with their retinue, and at noon, a city appeared in front of them, which was also a county town made of bluestone, and the surrounding rivers were vertical and horizontal, but it was barren, and there was not a single family in sight.

The walls were covered with vines, and the city was covered with snow, and as they approached, a flock of ravens flew up and circled in the sky, emitting 'quack! Ga! 'Piercing screams.

This is an abandoned county seat, called Yongfeng County, 20 years ago, there are more than 1,000 families in the city, seven or eight thousand people, with the Tang Dynasty withdrawing troops from the three surrendered cities, the people of Fengzhou moved inward, this county was also abandoned.

The gate was completely dilapidated, half of it fell to the ground and rotted, and the other half hung on the city wall, so baddened and crumbling.

Everyone urged the horses into the city, and the houses in the city were relatively intact, and some of them collapsed, overgrown with weeds, because they were covered with snow, and they could not see the dilapidation, but when the ice and snow melted, it was a dilapidated scene.

At this time, the soldiers came back to report, "Qi Yu envoy, Qi Qi General Li, there is no one in the city." ”

"The envoy doesn't want to place the families of the soldiers here, right?" Li Ji suddenly understood Guo Song's intentions.

"Why not?"

Guo Song said with a smile: "The city wall here is very tall and strong, and the county seat is not smaller than Jiuyuan County, as long as the city is cleaned up and the houses are repaired, this is a very good county seat, surrounded by irrigation canals and canals, the land ridges are still there, as long as the weeds are removed, you can cultivate, it is much easier than us starting from scratch and re-establishing a county seat!" ”

Li Ji is right to think about it, this is the only place to go to the West Surrender City, and the restoration of this county seat is of great significance to contact the West Surrender City, this plan is really good.

He pondered for a moment and said: "I'm afraid that the original owner will see that the county seat has been restored, and he will come to fight for the real estate and land, which is a hidden danger." ”

Guo Song said lightly: "As long as the government does not support it, it is useless to make trouble, the household registration of this county has been destroyed, and we will not call it Yongfeng County again after we rebuild, everything will start again." ”