Within a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, most of the land of Yanshan entered a busy harvest season. Even though the government has been advocating and guiding the construction of water conservancy projects in various localities since the spring, the construction of water conservancy on farmland is a long-term matter after all, and the investment is large, the labor is consumed, and the waste time is long, and the water cannot quench the thirst of the near-term. In addition, many prefectures and counties in Yanbei experienced sword soldiers last winter, and a large number of people were displaced from their hometowns, which inevitably delayed this year's spring ploughing; In Beizheng, Qi, Ying, Pingcheng, Pinggu, and other counties that were most severely affected by the Tuqi people, until the end of the repatriation and resettlement of refugees in early April and summer, large tracts of land were still in the state of abandonment, and much of the land was still barren to this day, and it was possible that their owners would never return...... In short, judging from the autumn harvest alone, the 20th year of the Eastern Common Era was not a good year by any means.

However, for the vast majority of people, this is not a good year at all, and there is hope everywhere.

The first good news is that this year, the imperial court not only exempted most areas of Yanshan from taxes on money and grain, but also brought a lot of grain and cloth from the Central Plains to distribute relief to the affected areas. This is not the kind of relief distributed by the county and township in the past, one by one, in which a considerable part of the money and grain are "missing" one by one, but the "three elders" who are publicly recommended by the local elders and household heads and the village households will come forward and first divide the four grades of "extremely difficult," "difficult," "difficult," and "ordinary" according to the actual situation of each household, and then uniformly distribute and adjust the money and grain according to the degree of difficulty. At first people couldn't believe it when they heard about it. Ah, since Pangu opened the world, who has ever heard of such a thing, barefoot mud legs and silk and satin uppers sitting together, is this possible? In fact, many people also think that this is just a new way of saying the old way of the government, and the sour wine made from wild dates is still in the shiny porcelain bottle. But then I heard that it was too true to be true; Not only is it true, it is said that in a county in the west, after the inspection department found out that the account books were fraudulent, not only were the county order books removed, but several wealthy officials who cooperated to pull money and grain from their homes also lost their heads. Since the news came out, not many people dared to take the opportunity to make trouble, after all, no matter how good the copper coin and wheat corn were, it was not as good as the head on the neck; Besides, losing your head for that little bit of money and food, and having a bad reputation behind you, is not a good deal. That is to say, there is a bloody "example" in the west, and the relief in other places is generally quite passable; although it is inevitable that there will be things to take care of when dividing the level of difficulty, and there is also the phenomenon of exchanging one's own old grain for new grain for the government when distributing money and grain, on the whole, whether it is the government, the local gentry, or the villagers, everyone is quite satisfied with the situation this year.

The second good news is, of course, the construction of water conservancy projects in the north and south of Yanshan. Although a large number of ditches and weirs have not had time to come in handy this year because of the start time and construction schedule, everyone knows that as long as they are completed, the harvest in the next few years or more will be guaranteed. In the future, not only barley and wheat will be grown, but even more productive rice will be grown! That's a rare and rare good thing, one acre can lay hundreds of catties of grain! I have heard people who have been to the south say that the first counties in Yanshui to engage in farmland and water conservancy have already started small-scale trial planting in official fields this year, and if it can be successful, maybe the officials will start to promote and advocate it next year.

The third piece of good news is a legend that has been passed down by word of mouth. Now there is a saying everywhere, saying that Yixian County in the east is remarkable this year, and the harvest in a dry year is also higher than that in a normal year when the wind and rain are good, and the grain piled down can break the wheat hoard, and there is so much rice and flour that you can eat it with an open belly for a year. All the dealers who had heard about this expressed their feelings: Obediently, is this worth it? Could it be that the people of Yixian County are all three-headed and six-armed, how can they dig out such a good thing from the soil? There are also people who have seen the scenery of Yi County, that Yi County people are outstanding people, and there is a Martian Gong under the stars in the sky, not to mention hoeing and raking these Zhuang households are different from other places, even the sickle for weeding is not a straight blade, and the harness of the ploughing ox is even more different....... Now, several states and counties around Yi County have been repurchasing farm tools according to the people of Yi County. In addition, the imperial court also attaches great importance to this matter, and specially sent a few officials wearing gold and silver, with mountains of copper coins, to invite the Martian Gong to come out of the mountain, so that he can work for the welfare of the people in the whole world...... The farmers are drooling and looking forward to the day when they will sit in the sea and swallow bread. The Buddha and Bodhisattva bless the Martian Gong, not to mention that the food that has been beaten down cannot be eaten, as long as each acre of land can be harvested so much more than one or two buckets every year, then you have to poke a temple for the Martian Gong to set up a tablet, so that he can be worshiped by people's incense from generation to generation! These simple people not only think so, but also do this, after the autumn harvest of the 21st year of the Eastern Era, many places have appeared in many places one after another, with the new farming tools and new farming methods widely spread, this simple temple not only spread to the Central Plains, but also spread to the farther south, many years later, the Martian Gonggong has become a folk belief in this land like the land of Chenghuang, and has evolved countless beautiful stories and legends......

Of course, at the moment, whether it is Huo Shiqi, the Martian father-in-law who is about to be deified, or Shang Cheng, the initiator of this god-making movement, it is impossible for them to predict what will happen in the future. Huo Shiqi is still working in Ge Pingku, and Shang Chengli, after being busy for more than half a year, he finally has a free time.

In the agricultural era, spring sowing and autumn harvest were the most important things in addition to changing dynasties, and the Great Zhao Dynasty was no exception. It is even more important than war! No, it is a "war" of national mobilization in itself! In order to win this "war", people spontaneously mobilized, men, women and children went into battle together, so that the food that had been exchanged for sweat for a year could be delivered to their homes as soon as possible. In order not to let God take away the harvest of the year, the farmers even ate and slept in the wheat field, just to save that pitiful time. At this time, no matter how stingy the master is, he will also boil meat soup and steam steamed buns for the hired long-term and short-term workers, just to let them eat and drink enough, and collect more grain from the field for the owner......

The countryside is rushing for autumn, and the cities will inevitably experience a brief depression. It's simply unavoidable. At this time of year, not only will a large number of floating population in the city flock to the countryside to find a way to live, but also the officials of the most active class of urban consumption will also go to the countryside to supervise and guide the autumn harvest. It is precisely because most of the officials in the yamen at all levels have gone to the countryside that Shang Cheng is relatively idle, at least until the autumn harvest situation in various places is summarized to him, he no longer has to face complicated personnel relations and official documents that can never be handled.

On the first day off in September, he still rushed to the west of the Admiral's Mansion before dawn to start his work, and in the morning he finished handling a few official duties left behind some time ago, read a few military newspapers, and discussed with Zhou Xiang and several other officials of the Health Department how to continue to engage in farmland and water conservancy in the winter, and it was noon. For lunch, he ate with Di Xu, who was also bored and came to chat with him. After eating, the two of them got together to play Go, and as a result, the stinky chess basket inspector made his skills superior, caught a big dragon and killed him in a hurry, and the chess pretended to be the commander of the chess several times to no avail, and angrily threw the case and got up, and walked away in the arrogant laughter of the inspector......

Back at the mansion, Shang Cheng changed his clothes first, and originally wanted to get up from a nap to read, but no matter what, he couldn't sleep steadily, and he couldn't read the book. Wanting to go out on the streets, Suza immediately called seven or eight guards. With so many people hugging and following, what kind of heart do you have? He asked Su Zha to arrange two fewer people with a straight face, but Su Zha shook his head and said that this was Captain Bao's order, and whoever dared to mess around would let him go to West Malaysia to be a side soldier. No matter what he said, Suza just didn't promise to either bring a few more soldiers to the streets, or he would hide in the mansion; There are no conditions to speak of.

He was so angry that he pointed to his nose and asked, "I'm a general, or a captain in Baokan?" ”

"Of course it's your official position."

"Then I have the final say, or is it Baokan's final say?"

"Captain Bao has the final say in this matter." Suza stood up and replied, "He's the captain of the Admiral's Palace......"

Without waiting for him to speak, Shang Cheng slammed the courtyard door and left.

Suza hurriedly chased after him and asked, "Where are you going, my lord?" ”

"I'm going to jump into the pond in the backyard to take a bath, okay?" Shang Cheng asked with a roll of his eyelids.

Suza smiled and stopped: "Then you have to be careful. Do you want someone to send a towel and pancreas? ”

"Get out!"