Liu Tao got off the bumpy horse, stretched his aching body fiercely, and sighed to the left and right while beating his old waist: "The old man is really old." ”

This ran from Nanyang Mansion to Xiangyang Mansion, but it was only two or three hundred miles, and it took five days to walk, but his body was still sore on horseback. Isn't it old?

The third son, Liu Zihui (Hui), also got off the horse and stumbled on the ground. Watching his father beat his psoas muscles and say that he was old, but he couldn't close his legs together, the most pure scholar, he was far worse than his father who often governed the army on the bow horse. Compared with the two brothers who have been transferred to military generals, it is even worse than the unreasonable.

Fortunately, this Xiangyang Mansion has arrived, and his father doesn't have to gallop anymore, and he can breathe a long sigh of relief.

From Bianliang to Nanyang, and then from Nanyang to Xiangyang, running hundreds of miles all the way, Liu Tao, who is three out of sixty, is really a little unbearable. But physical exhaustion could not dispel his mental excitement.

As the head of the newly established government office of the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, Liu Tao has a hundred enthusiasm for the matter of persuading farmers to be in charge.

If it weren't for the benefit of the country and the people, he really wouldn't necessarily serve King Yan.

He is in his sixties, and the loess is buried in the neck, do you still want to be a high-ranking official?

It is the sincerity of King Yan, his two sons Liu Ziyu and Liu Ziyi were all transferred to Yanyun by Zhao Gou, and they were not asked to fight with the Southern Army, so sincerity is not small. Then there was the energy in his heart to do practical things, which made him go out of the mountain for the second time and serve as the director of the Reclamation Bureau.

The Bureau of Reclamation advises farmers to plead for famine, which is a major event that will benefit the present generation and the future. Liu Tao really can't shirk, and he doesn't want to shirk.

After receiving the order, he immediately hurried to Nanyang and went straight down to Jingxiang from the newly established Nanyang Mansion.

As for why Liu Tao came to Jingxiang in the first step, this is very simple, because in the Song Dynasty, the two Han Dynasty were listed as dozens of counties, and the soil was all plastered, and the ancient endowment lost more than half of Jingxiang, which was already a thorny forest, a ploughing without size, and the dwellings of foxes and jackals were scarce, and the soil was paralyzed.

Of course, Liu Tao first set his sights on this anointed land.

Although Jingxiang is withered, the innate conditions here are placed, the land is fertile, the water source is abundant, as long as you are willing to recruit the people with your heart, give agricultural materials, and reclaim the emperor, it will not take a few years to achieve it.

Just like the freshly baked Xiangyang Mansion now, its predecessor Xiangzhou, the local natural conditions are extremely superior. In the early years of this dynasty, the land was once deserted, and in the second year of Zhenzong Xianping (999), Zhizhou Gengwang proposed to restore the originally abandoned more than 300 hectares of tuntian. Zhenzong allowed it and ordered Geng Wang to take full responsibility for this matter. During the period of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008-1016), Xiangzhou was already a rich land with beautiful scenery and fertile springs.

But in the entire land of Jingxiang, what can really be done is Jingzhou and Xiangzhou, the great Wuhan of later generations, and now Ezhou, which is still a barren inferior state and county.

The reason is that the land of Ezhou is perennially infested by the Yangtze River flood, and there are many swamps nearby, the environment is not good, and the nature is withered. Even if the swamps around Ezhou gradually dried up in the middle of the Song Dynasty and the 170 years, without the years of operation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians led by Yue Fei in history, which laid the foundation for the rapid rise of agricultural materials here, Ezhou is still a barren land.

During the Zhao and Song dynasties of Huizong, Hebei, Jiangnan, Sichuan and Shu and other anointed places, there were obviously many people and few places, but the people of the world turned a blind eye to Jinghu, which seemed to have foresight and left room for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Liu Tao is ready to spend the rest of his life here, which is not his wishful thinking. After decades of being an official, Liu Tao has long understood a fact - you can't just rely on blood or passion to do things.

He is confident that he will make a career in the land of Jinghu for the rest of his life, and the biggest reason is the support of King Yan.

King Yan once told him that when the world was settled, he would survey the people of the world and move the landless tenants to the land of Jinghu, to the land of Hetao, and to the northeast.

This sentence can even be said to be a supplement to the 'farming and warfare system' in a sense.

Earlier, King Yan set up a military field, and the world was boiling for a while, and then King Yan announced in the newspaper: The Great Song Dynasty has been established for nearly 200 years, because there is no restriction on land annexation, there are many people in the world who have no inch of land, these are the hidden dangers of the Great Song Dynasty, how can they be ignored? He wanted to attack the party in the west and invade the Jinlu in the east, not only to fight abroad, to promote the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty, but also to use the soldiers of the imperial army to seize more land for the people of the world.

At that time, Liu Tao saw the extension of the Qin and Han dynasties, and also saw the future of the Great Song Dynasty.

Compared with the worries that arose when he first knew about the 'military merit field', Liu Tao at that moment was completely relieved and completely relieved.

Although the land of the Central Plains is vast, there are a number after all. King Yan implements the strategy of ploughing and warfare, and in the short term, the army will inevitably be sharp, and it is only a matter of time before he conquers the world. When the time comes, the official fields in the hands of the imperial court will be scattered out piece by piece, which can be sown for 20, 30, or 50 years, but it is impossible to squander it for a lifetime. Sooner or later, the imperial court will allocate the last acre of official land in its hands, and how will it end up then? Before, he had only one idea, and that could only learn from Liu Han!

In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, there was still a trend of ploughing and warfare, although the "Huang Lao politics" was implemented in the early days, and the development of private industry and commerce was once connived, but it was only a temporary adjustment or some kind of supplement, and the ploughing and warfare model was still in the mainstream and heyday. The Western Han Empire was able to concentrate on tens of millions of manpower, financial resources, and armies to embark on the unfinished business of the Qin Empire. Especially during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he took the initiative to attack the Xiongnu and manage the Western Regions and the Southwest Yi, which was comparable to Qin Shi Huang, and relied on the word ploughing and warfare.

But after Emperor Wu, these two words slowly withdrew from the stage of history.

The reason is not that Liu Han's external threat has been greatly weakened, but that the old military system has been seriously damaged in the last years of Emperor Wu.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's war against the surrounding Siyi lasted for more than 40 years, and the soldiers were in trouble, and in the later years of Emperor Wu, the world was in trouble, and the people were struggling to make a living. Countless small peasant families went bankrupt and went into exile, the soldiers of the Han army were gone, and many wealthy families mostly bought the privilege of reinstatement, no longer paid military service or even taxes, and the old system was difficult to maintain, so the prisoner soldiers, barbarian soldiers, slave soldiers, and conscription soldiers came into being, and the word ploughing and warfare gradually fell silent.

Now that this policy is reviving again, is it good or bad?

At that time, not to mention Liu Tao, who was standing opposite Zhao Gou, even some people under Zhao Gou couldn't see through it, they probably only thought of this policy as a transitional policy, when the internal stability of the Great Song Empire was stabilized, and all external threats were eliminated, the change naturally changed.

Until Zhao Gou's words were published.

And now he promised Liu Tao to move the landless people to Jinghu, which made Liu Tao completely relieved.