Zhang Hao returned to the house, and someone came to report that there was a guest at home, and he was waiting in the living room at the moment.

Zhang Hao hurriedly came to the living room, saw the person, and found that he didn't know him.

Before Zhang Hao could greet him, the man had already gotten up and saluted Zhang Hao.

"In Xia Mifang, Zizifang, meet Zhang County Order." The person who came was Mi Zhu's younger brother Mi Fang.

Zhang Hao immediately had a conjecture in his heart, this is not to make amends, that is to ask for crimes.

"It turned out to be Zifang, I heard Zizhong talk about you, you are like your brother, just call me Mingde. The county order or something, that's what outsiders shouted. ”

After Zhang Hao sat down, he asked, "What is the matter with Zifang here?" "Pretend to be confused first.

Mi Fang also sat down again and said, "The previous family was unfortunate and there was a family thief, which not only ruined the reputation of the Mi family, but also hated Brother Mingde. This time, my brother ordered me to come and make amends to Brother Mingde. ”

Zhang Hao thought to himself: Sure enough, he came here for the previous thing, but this Mi Zhu really didn't like him ordinarily, and he asked his younger brother to run for this little thing.

"It's a trivial matter, don't worry about it."

Mi Fang continued: "Now that cheap slave has been sent to the government by my brother. Not surprisingly, he became a ghost in this life, and there was no future for him. ”

"Brother Zizhong can handle it impartially and not seek personal cover-up, and he can be described as a gentleman."

The two chatted casually for a while, until Zhang Hao invited Mi Fang to eat cheese, and he was full of praise.

Mi Fang asked, "Brother Mingde, may I ask what this is?" ”

"It's called cheese, and the people of the grassland call it dried milk, which is a herdsman's food, made from milk."

Mi Fang was a little surprised, "I thought that the people of the grassland had nothing else to eat except barbecue." ”

Zhang Hao said with a smile: "I plan to make this kind of food in the coming year, and I want to use the Mi family's fleet to take some to the Central Plains in the south to sell." The income is fifty-fifty, how? ”

"No problem at all. I believe that the people of the Central Plains will like this food. ”

Mi Fang came over this time just to explain what happened last time, and after getting a reply that Zhang Hao didn't pay attention to, she didn't stay long and hurried back.

……

Ordinary days fly by, winter goes to spring, and melting snow and ice means that the time for spring ploughing has come.

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the sowing of the spring is related to the livelihood of the people in the following year, and it is definitely the top priority.

In agriculture-oriented China, even the emperor had to go down in person at this time and go to the fields to do the appearance of persuading farming, in order to show the country's emphasis on agriculture.

Zhang Hao is no exception, he also works in the field.

It's just that unlike the food that the people grow for people to eat, Zhang Hao grows alfalfa grass for livestock.

This thing is not in a hurry, so Zhang Hao did not hire people to help him farm the land as before when he was busy farming, but just ordered Zhang Da to take the slaves he bought back to plant.

Before this top-quality grass can be harvested, Zhang Hao plans to lease all the cattle and horses raised in the pasture to the people for ploughing.

In this way, a wave of funds can be collected first, and secondly, in this busy season of spring ploughing and farming, let the people raise it for him, killing two birds with one stone.

As for whether the people will not be able to raise these livestock, Zhang Hao feels that there is no need to worry about it at all.

For the people who take food as their sky, ploughing cattle and horses is related to the speed of growing grain, as well as the future grain production, which is more precious than gold, and it is definitely more important to raise than to raise children.

After all, Zhang Hao is a county order, and no matter how small the official is, he can't always be in the field. After the formality was completed, Zhang Hao returned to the county office to prepare for the next step of the lease work.

……

There is a notice posted at the entrance of the Fangxian County Ya.

To be honest, it is a waste to always use cloth as a carrier for notices. So this time, Zhang Hao switched to paper as a carrier.

Although after Cai Lun improved the papermaking technology, paper became a new writing carrier with simple production, cheap and easy to write, but to truly replace cloth, bamboo slips have to be another one or two hundred years. At present, these two are still the main ones.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and the world has always been based on farming. Now that spring ploughing has arrived, the people are all working hard. ”

"However, it is purely manpower, and I am afraid that the strength will not be caught, so the county decided that the pasture in Fang County will be 500 yuan for cattle and 600 yuan for horses to farm with the people."

A government official read the contents of the notice aloud, and the audience was full of discussions.

In the hall of the county government, Zhang Hao and the heads of the four townships under the rule of Fang County were discussing the specific distribution of each township.

"I have the most households in Xiahe Township among the four townships, so I should allocate more cattle and horses."

"Bah, there are many people in your river township, if it weren't for the fact that I went to the river township and caused a bad military disaster, there were more people than us? Half of the people in the township have lost so much, and the loss is so great, we should give us a few more heads. The newly appointed head of Shanghe Township said.

"When the ranch was built, the people in Zhonghe Township contributed the most, and we should have distributed more livestock."

"Don't fight, I have the least acres of land in the mountains and townships, and I have more livestock, so I can finish farming as soon as possible, and I can send it to you as soon as possible."

"You're so shameless!"

Zhang Hao sat on the main seat and watched the four of them arguing there, just drinking tea and not stopping them.

The rent of five hundred for a cow and six hundred for a horse can't be lower to be honest, and it's not a monthly payment, just a one-time payment.

Each township can scrape together the money for renting out ten cows, even if it is not enough, as a township chief, he can also contribute a little more. It's just that this is more, so my own home is naturally the first to use it.

Everyone wants to rent a few more animals to plough the land quickly, after all, this time waits for no one.

"Ahem," Zhang Hao coughed lightly, and the four township chiefs, who were still tense, immediately stopped talking.

Zhang Hao said slowly: "There are still too few cattle and horses in the pasture now, and when there are more in the future, even if they can be divided according to household registration, it will be okay."

"But for now, let's divide it evenly, and each township will be allocated exactly ten cows and eight horses."

"Counting the livestock that already exists in the township, spring plowing should not be a problem."

Zhang Hao looked at the four of them, and said in an unquestionable tone: "It's decided." ”

"No." The four of them replied in unison.

"And this year is the first spring ploughing for this official in office, so I decided to set up a reward."

"Whichever township is the first to complete spring plowing this year, the rent will be refunded. Everyone must do a good job of supervising and completing it carefully when they go back. Zhang Hao added.

For nothing? The eyes of the four township chiefs lit up.

Free stuff is quite attractive to people, even if it's not free, just a discount and a little less, that's earned.

"No."

……

Wang He is a villager in Sanyangli, Xiahe Township, but he is not a native of the country, and his ancestors moved from the mainland.

Most of the people here are in this situation, because they became homeless people back then, so they were moved by the imperial court to enrich the border counties.

Not long after dawn, when the people were ready to go to the field to work, there was a sound of "dangdang dang dang" from the position of the grain field.

The people didn't know what was happening, but they all followed the sound of the gong to the grain field.

Wang He is also one of them, and he usually doesn't ring the gong if there is no major event, and he also wants to know what happened.

At this time, the grain field was already full of people in the entire Sanyang, and Wang He saw that Li Zheng was standing on a platform in the center and talking loudly.

"Delay the big guys a little bit, I have important news to announce."

"I'm sure you've heard it before, didn't Zhang County Order of our county build a ranch before, and he also bought a lot of cattle and sheep back."

"After these days of training, those livestock can already be used to cultivate the land, so taking advantage of this critical time, Zhang Xianling plans to take out the livestock inside and rent it to everyone to cultivate the land."

As soon as they heard the news, the people in the audience immediately began to discuss.

"Is there such a thing?"

"I heard this news from the hemp in the second room next door before, I thought it was fake, who would give such a precious thing to others to use, I didn't expect it to be true."

"That is, Zhang County's order, if you change someone else, who will lend good things to others."

"Lizheng, what kind of rent method did you just say?"

Li Zheng pressed his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "The county order said that a cow is a thousand yuan, and a horse is 1,200 yuan, and we have the most people in Xiahe Township, so we have distributed fifteen cows and twelve horses." ”

"We got three cows and two horses in Sanyang, because everyone used it together, so the money was also shared together."

"According to the household registration, we can pay 100 yuan per household, and if I am the mayor, I will pay a little more."

As soon as Li Zheng finished speaking, many people directly stepped forward and shouted, "My family wants to sign up, register my family first." ”

Obviously, whoever registers it first will give the livestock to whoever has been allocated it first

Wang He also squeezed into the crowd to sign up. He thought to himself: A hundred dollars, it seems that the family still gritted their teeth. Ploughing with oxen is much faster than the desperate work of your own family, just before the end of spring ploughing.

And the time saved can go to work in Zhang County's order again, and the money can be earned back.

When he went to work in the ranch before, Wang He had heard that Zhang County ordered to build roads and bridges in the spare time after spring ploughing, and do a lot of things, and there was no shortage of work at all.

After making up his mind, Wang He went home with the people who had the same idea, and got the money.

……

At the head of Xiahe Township's house, the head of the township is eating at home with his family at the moment.

"Dad, is it really okay for us to do this? This is more than double the price set by Zhang County, and the quantity is falsely reported. If Zhang Xianling knew about it, it would be over. ”

The chief's son looked at the food in front of him and couldn't eat it, because he was a little uneasy about what his father had done.

"Stinky boy knows a fart, our family is doing so well, why did you kid not worry about food and clothing since he was a child?"

"It's not because my father has saved this family business little by little by means over the years."

"Besides, even if Zhang Hao knows, what can he do. The previous county commanders didn't turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, and it was a big deal to take out one and give it to him afterwards. ”

"The last time he first came, he accepted the gift, which means that he also has to rely on us, and we are all the way."

"It's not just my father, the others must have done the same, everyone has done it before, and this time is no exception. When the time comes, the law will not blame the public, and the maximum penalty will be three glasses of wine, and it will be okay if you don't take it as an example. ”

"Eat, eat, eat." The head of Xiahe Township said with a fearless face.