The road leading to Kunyu Mountain has become the dividing line between fertile land and wasteland, the side of the road to the east near the sea is basically all wasteland, and the side of the road west near the Mishui River is countless fertile fields.

Of course, the orientation is not so correct.

The county seat of Muping County is in the northwest direction of Kunyu Mountain, facing Yangma Island across the sea.

The group came to the bank of the Mishui River.

Sure enough, the book was finally shallow, and I never knew that I had to do it.

This river is 200 meters wide, and the mighty river is flowing endlessly.

Zhang Junping is in a very good mood, with this river, the transformation of those wastelands is basically stable.

Even if the fertile land cannot be transformed, Zhang Junping is confident that he will turn waste into treasure and become a cornucopia of Muping County.

When the group returned to the county office, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

Spent seven or eight hours outside the city.

can exhaust Liu Daojie, Sun Xu and other officials.

Sun Xu is better, after all, he is a martial arts practitioner, and Liu Daojie is a scholar, so he can withstand such bumps.

You must know that in the past six or seven hours, I did not stop in one place, but followed Zhang Junping, running around and checking the terrain.

Zhang Junping looked very carefully, basically going around the wasteland several times.

Even if everyone was on horseback, it would be just as uncomfortable.

Back at the county office, Liu Daojie couldn't stand up as soon as he got on the chair.

In fact, it's not just them, even Zhang Junping, a super master in the late stage of Huajin, also feels a little backache.

It's just that it's not as exaggerated as Liu Daojie, he can't even get off the horse, and he has to rely on the support of the officials to get off the horse, so that he can't get up from the chair.

Zhang Junping can still continue to handle official business.

"Enlightenment Langjun ......"

"Since you are allowed to serve as the head of the Xiang army and the head of the township soldiers, then follow the rules, and in the future, you are not allowed to call Lang Jun outside, and you will all be called the county magistrate or the county man!"

The magistrate is Zhang Junping's official position, and the county man is Zhang Junping's title.

"Yes!"

Zhang Bao and Zhang Bo replied loudly.

"What's going on in the barracks?"

"Back in Zhixian County, the farmers who pretended to be military soldiers have been sent out of the camp.

According to statistics, there were 239 soldiers in the Xiang army, including 145 soldiers over the age of 40 and 94 soldiers under the age of 40! ”

"Go back and recount, with the age of thirty as the boundary, how many are over thirty years old, under thirty years old, how many are over eighteen years old, how many are under eighteen years old!"

"Yes!"

"What's going on with the villagers?"

"Back in Zhixian County, there are 367 township soldiers, of whom ...... over 40 years old."

"Okay, the township soldiers will compare the box army and go back and recount!"

"Yes!"

After simply sending the two away, Zhang Junping found a pen and paper and began to sort out the ideas for treating saline-alkali land.

In this era, the easiest way to open up the wasteland is to burn it.

Light the weeds on the wasteland, burn them clean, turn the ground, level it, and then you can plant crops.

However, it is clear that the method of burning the land will not work.

This wasteland is too large for the fire to be uncontrollable.

In case of a fire and the burning of Kunyu Mountain, then he Zhang Junping would not be able to cut off a hundred heads.

However, if such a large area is not burned, it will be too expensive to clean up by manpower, and it will take too long.

The new official took office with three fires, and these three fires should not only burn vigorously, but also burn neatly.

In other words, you can see the results in a short period of time.

Zhang Junping pondered as he drew a topographical map of the wasteland on paper.

Zhang Junping wrote and drew on paper, and he didn't figure out a clue until he left his post.

It should be said that the planning of the wasteland was not completed.

At dinner in the evening, Zhang Junping was still thinking about the management plan of the wasteland.

If it is a later generation, it is simple, and it can be directly developed on this wasteland.

However, this is the Song Dynasty, there is not so much population, and the entire Muping County is only more than 4,200 households and more than 10,000 people, which is already considered Wangxian County.

Of course, this data is a bit imaginary, and there must be a lot of black accounts.

But, so what, even if there are twice as many black households, there are only about 30,000 people.

It is not an exaggeration to say that black households are twice the registered population.

Because in ancient times, taxes were collected according to household registration, so there were serious black households in various places.

As long as you don't take the imperial examination and don't leave your local area, it doesn't matter if you don't have a black household.

There were two main taxes for the common people in the Song Dynasty, one was the land tax and the other was the poll tax.

The land tax is the landlord's business, and the landlord is responsible for paying the tax.

It involves everyone is the poll tax, and the collection of the poll tax is also collected by the township head and the lieutenant chief, and then handed over to the county, and then handed over to the state treasury by the county.

For example, if there are 200 people in a village recorded in the yellow book of household registration, then the lieutenant chief must pay the poll tax according to 200 people.

However, the reality is that the real population of this village is 300 people, or even 400 people, 500 people.

So will the extra two or three hundred people not have to pay the poll tax?

No way!

How much should be done, not a single point less!

It's just that this money was not used to hand over to the state treasury, but was divided among the governors, township heads, and county officials.

Also, like the Northwest Territory, because it is located on the border, it often has to fight, and conscription is required to fight a war.

What is called the three dings to recruit a soldier, that is, one of the three men must be a soldier.

This one is mandatory.

Don't say that the Song Dynasty was a conscription system, at a critical time, the land can't be defended, who will tell you which one?

Compulsory military service is also recruitment, and you can just send a soldier ring.

It is precisely because of this that all localities will spare no effort to conceal the population.

Although the magistrate and the magistrate are all officials sent by the imperial court, the specific officials are still those local officials, right?

Local officials and local wealthy families have joined forces to fool those counties, and it is not simple to know the state?

What's more, there are still many magistrates, and the prefectures are directly in the same stream.

The topic turns back again, even if there are 30,000 or 40,000 people in Muping County, there are not many!

It is not as large as the population of a township in later generations, and real estate development can only be a joke.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Liu Daojie and several officials asked for leave and did not come.

Yesterday, I was tired and sick after a day of traveling.

Zhang Junping didn't criticize anything, he happily approved the leave, and he took people to the foot of Kunyu Mountain again to conduct on-the-spot investigation.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, Zhang Junping visually surveyed the terrain.

"Zhou Dutou, whose land is over there?" Zhang Junping pointed to the foot of Kunyu Mountain, a piece of land on the west side of the road and asked.

"Back to Zhi County, those fields over there were originally the land of the Zhou family, and later the Zhou family donated it to the Wuzhi Temple!

Now it's the land of the Unstained Temple! Zhou Dutou looked at it and replied.