"It should have been Min Yuanqi who did it!"

In the secret room, Li Kecheng slammed the table, and the things on the table made a ping-pong sound, almost all of them fell to the ground and shattered.

Zhang Shilu rolled his eyes and whispered: "Yang Shida and his gang are more than 100 people, he Min Yuanqi has this ability?" ”

"Hasn't he been training all the time?" Li Kecheng said hatefully: "I listened to it as a joke at the beginning, but now I know that my family has become a joke, this Min Yuanqi dares to hurt people in Shuiguan alone, and now what is so difficult about killing Yang Shida and his gang with dozens of people?" That gang of scoundrels can't be compared with serious soldiers in the end. ”

"What's up to you?"

"There's nothing we can do." Li Kecheng had a look of fear on his face, he thought about it, and said: "You go to Fucheng for me, see the commander, and ask him to release this news to Yang Shili, this matter must also be investigated at the other end of Yancheng, let's send the news over in advance, sell a favor first, it is best for Yang Shili to come over and get rid of Min Yuanqi, this kid is also my heart." ”

"Xia Guan will leave tomorrow morning, don't take a boat, and ride a horse."

"Hurry up," Li Kecheng said worriedly: "Some people are like an awl, they can pierce the bag through if they are not careful!" ”

……

Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi didn't know Li Kecheng's evaluation, if they knew, they could only say that the incompetent and greedy Qianhu official finally said the right thing.

The two hundred households finally met after a few days, Li Guoding was very happy to see that Wang Sanyi was safe and sound, and at this time the faint suspicion in Li Guoding's heart was also implemented, of course it was Min Yuanqi who killed and saved people, and the final result also made Li Guoding sigh with emotion.

After a few days, the two went to the 300th household again, Wang Sanyi asked people to bring ten stones of newly bought grain, and the 300th household needed food for military training, Wang Sanyi was tied up because Min Yuanqi offended Yang Shida, but if Wang Sanyi pretended to be nothing, he couldn't pass this level in his heart.

After all, he was rescued by Min Yuanqi, even if Yang Shida didn't kill him, he would be detained for many days, and he would find out what kind of incurable disease was on his body.

It has been handed over in March, the weather is gradually warming, the phenomenon of frozen soil thawing in February has disappeared, the road is dried by the sun, and it is not difficult for a trolley to push on the narrow village road.

Wild grass is popping up in the ditch on both sides, and it looks green.

The wheat in the field began to grow taller and greener.

Willows, elms, and poplars are all green, and although the green shoots that grow are less than the size of a fingernail, they are still refreshing to see.

Two hundred households with robes and horns in front of the trolley convoy walking, behind them are ten push trolley flag army, this kind of chicken cart can push up to two to three stone grain, and even have a strong flag army can push four stones or even five stones, but the general flag army cart is still a stone to go far away or a stone easier, now at this time has not yet reached the busy season, Wang Sanyi's flag army and do not practice, of course, it is better to use more manpower, so that everyone is more relaxed.

The wooden cart squeaked and creaked, two hundred households were separated by less than ten miles, in the middle were large acres of fields, small pieces of seaside wasteland, sparse woodland and shrubs from, an unknown small river and a large area of reeds meandering through, and then to the south was the Guan River, the river was lowered, and there was a tributary of the Huai River to the west, to be fair, this place was a good place, there were no mountains within a radius of thousands of miles, even hills, compared with Fujian, Shanxi, and northern Shaanxi, this is a blessed land suitable for farming, and the plains are in front of you, It is completely possible to open up all the land in the plains into farmland. People do the same, there is no reason not to do this, large areas of farmland are mixed with villages, river embankments, roads, everywhere is connected by Qianmo, there are many rivers, suitable for irrigation, it stands to reason that this should be the land of fishing and rice, a rich place, but people's harvest is insufficient, life is not good, the main reason is that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was diverted into the sea, a large area of the place was washed away by floods, and water was sent every few years, which made people unintentional and intensive, you don't know which year is a good year, In what year, God will send a flood and wash away people's efforts at once, and there will be nothing left.

In addition to the direct damage to the flood, the flood makes the land sandy, salinized, and the harvest is also sharply reduced, no matter how good the master of planting land is not able to get a good harvest on the unqualified soil, these two Huai places are not inferior to the good places in the south of the Yangtze River before the Southern Song Dynasty, located in the north and south of Tianjin, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal shuttles through it, and the land of fishing and rice plus transportation is given, and it is difficult for the place not to be rich. After the Southern Song Dynasty, although there are still waterways and large plains, the harvest is far worse than that of Jiangnan, only Yangzhou, Huai'an, which have the support of salt industry and Caoyun, Fuzhou cities still maintain relative prosperity, even so, Yangzhou and Huai'an are far less rich than Jiangnan.

Yuntiguan here is also a waterway vertical and horizontal, a number of big rivers converge here to the sea, the flood here is not common, but there is a large wetland by the sea, the river and the sea water are washed down, the amount of water is sufficient, the drainage is not smooth, the groundwater level is high, the long-term infiltration makes the salt in the water accumulate in the soil, so a large area of saline-alkali land is formed.

On the road where everyone walks, you can see a large area of salt purlins and piled up salt dunes, people will use tools to eradicate the salt and alkali in the acres of land before ploughing, and push out the farmland, and pile them on one side of the field, and over time, they form large and small salt dunes. In some places, there will be these dry and hard salt dunes to make nitrate, but here on the seaside they are not used, and the ready-made seawater frying salt, and the large salt dunes are ignored and gradually piled up.

In this piece of land, the most suitable for cultivation are salt-tolerant crops such as black beans and sorghum, and the yield of wheat, sorghum and black beans is not high, with an average yield of one stone per mu, or even less than one stone.

When the formation of salinity is serious, the earth is snow-white and dry, people walk on the field, there is a clattering sound under their feet, and the snow is white as far as the eye can see, and the earth seems to have fallen snow and frost, but in fact it is just a large area of salinity.

As Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi walked towards the 300th household, they began to pay attention to the growth of crops on both sides of the farmland, which was not very good due to last year's drought and the lack of fertility in the land, and it could even be said that the yield was about to be reduced again.

Wang Sanyi took out his white copper tobacco pot, Li Guoding took out the tobacco leaves in the purse around his waist, and the two of them stuffed the tobacco tightly together, and then blew up the fire fold, after igniting the fire, the tobacco burned, and the green smoke rose, and the two of them had some bitter colors on their faces, and seemed to be a little relieved and light.

"It's not to be expected that the harvest will fail." Wang Sanyi spat out a cigarette and said with a wry smile: "I have already thought about it, if I can't do it, I will personally go to the health department to fight a lawsuit with the superiors, and see if I can call the superiors to open favors and harvest one to two percent less." ”

"Then I'll go with you." Li Guoding said: "The superiors must not make the sergeants unable to live, there is a precedent for this!" ”

Speaking of which, most of the land under the feet of the two no longer belongs to the guard, that is, it does not belong to the state. Originally, according to the deployment of Emperor Taizu Gao, the soldiers were given acres of land to the guards, and the soldiers cultivated their fields, busy farming, farming and drilling, and went out to fight in case of trouble, and had nothing to do, the state not only did not spend money to raise soldiers, because these poor people were given acres of land to cultivate, and these people had to hand over grain and various weapons and ordnance to the state while practicing and preparing for war, such as a certain guard to hand over a hundred iron armor, a thousand bows and arrows, or bowstrings, or glue, lacquer, or pure food, or military robes and uniforms, anyway, the tasks assigned back then, It hasn't changed for more than 200 years.

However, the situation has shifted, and the fundamental reason for the destruction of the Wei system is that there is no real restraint on the military attache of the Wei Institute, and after Yongle, the military attache of the Wei Institute will embezzle a large number of military households, and this kind of behavior that no one knows at all to manage and restrict, and at this time, there are 969 hectares of nearly 100,000 mu of land in Dahewei, and it stands to reason that 14,000 stone of grain should be handed over every year, but the amount handed over every year is insufficient, and it is good to have a one-third of the quota to be handed over. In fact, one is that the weather is not good, the harvest is not good, and the other is that seventy to eighty percent of the 100,000 acres of land are owned by the military attache of the guard, and most of the command is divided up to the level of the servant, and the small half is owned by thousands and hundreds of households.

If the harvest is not good, the official taxes and grain handed over will definitely be reduced, and in addition, the high-ranking military attachés at the top must be gracious, and the land tax will be reduced or exempted from the command to the level of thousands of households, so that the banner army can live......

"This year's lawsuit is also very difficult." Wang Sanyi frowned and said: "I heard that when the guest soldiers arrived in Huai'an Mansion City, they not only robbed the official offices of our two guards, but also requisitioned the mansions of the commanders, fellow knowledgers, servants, and pacificers. When the generals of the guest soldiers first arrived in Huai'an, they were supposed to levy some houses of large gentry to live temporarily, but since Caozhou Liu planned to settle down in various places in Huai'an first, it was not good to offend the big gentry and grain households too much, so he pointed to the local officials and the big gentry and grain households to collect grain and wages for him. I heard people say that almost the health department and public housing, health school, and warehouse in the city were all requisitioned clean, and even the private houses of the commanders were requisitioned by the generals. It's a mess like this, and it's hard to get up there, I'm afraid I won't agree to reduce it too much......"

Li Guoding smiled bitterly: "The guest soldiers don't look at our guards at all." ”

"Blame ourselves for not being angry...... However, it is also because of the danger of the Beijing Division, Caozhou Liu also served as the chief soldier of Cao, it is impossible for him not to know that Cao Yun is important, if it is not for the danger of the Beijing Division, Cao Yun is as usual, give him a hundred guts He does not dare to run to Huai'an to stir up peace and disturb Cao Yun, this is a big crime that can make him lose his head! ”

"Lose your head?" Li Guoding smiled coldly and said, "How can the emperor cut off the heads of military generals at will? Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, these generals don't say that during the Hongwu Yongle period, even if it was Jiajing, during the Wanli period, they would have been arrested and beheaded long ago. Now not only are they fine, but they all have heavy troops, such as Liu Zeqing, who did not follow the edict and fled south, and Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaozhen, deliberately delayed and refused to lead troops to Qinwang, the emperor endured it. If you want me to say, the discipline is that the emperor himself is broken, and he can't blame others. ”

"Just talk to me about it, don't talk nonsense with others."

"Yes."

"It's about Yuan Qi, you can talk about it more."

The two hundred officials laughed, and their smoking expressions were much more cheerful.