Things are as Sun Xiangfu guessed, as soon as Li Shimin arrived in Shannan Road, Wang Xu and those people had a move, these days, more and more people came to the No. 1 field to listen to the class, in this kind of spring farming season, Sun Xiangfu does not believe that everyone is so idle, not only that, the people who began to set off to the north at the construction site, as if they had made an appointment, all came to the No. 1 field to say goodbye to Sun Xiangfu, and then set off to turn around.

Soon, this situation was reported to Li Shimin by the secret guards, which made Li Shimin, who originally did not plan to go to Jiuyuan County, have the idea of going.

It's not that he cares how much Sun Xiangfu's popular appeal is too strong, and it affects Li Tang's rule, because he knows that this is a small means made by the family to separate himself and Sun Xiangfu, and it is all some false imagination, but he is a little curious, Sun Xiangfu will take this opportunity to pass on something to these people to disintegrate the family.

After a few days in the surrounding area, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, as well as Concubine Wei, Concubine Yan, and Concubine Yang, came to Jiuyuan County by boat under the simple protection of several guards.

This time, Li Shimin didn't even bring Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong and Dugu Mou and other more conspicuous generals of the guards, but like when he was in Shanyang, he gave himself and a few concubines a round of makeup, and then mixed in with the people, he wanted to take a look at Jiuyuan County without Sun Xiangfu knowing.

Not to mention, due to the increasing progress of makeup technology, after several of them were dressed up, even some ministers who often saw them were unrecognizable for a while, let alone those ordinary civilians.

Under the assignment of the eldest grandson Wuji, Changsun Chun became the guide of their trip, since the eldest grandson Wuji took office, every time he went to Sun Xiangfu's side, he would take him with him, so he knew the specific situation here.

"Your Majesty, turn around this estuary, you will arrive at the Jiuyuan River, from the Jiuyuan River, you can quickly lead to the various towns under the rule of Jiuyuan County, do you want to go to the No. 5 Yuantian where the county seat is located first, or go directly to the No. 1 Yuantian to see the experimental field?"

"Let's go to the county seat first! Remember, when you get there, just call me sir. Li Shimin looked at the grassy embankment slopes and reminded Changsun Chundao.

Hearing this, Eldest Sun Chun smiled and nodded, "Okay, master." Let's go. ”

He wanted to see with his own eyes how the government of a place can maintain its sense of existence after being dominated by others in business, medical care, education, pension, work and other aspects of work. The management model here can really be copied to other places as it is.

After a short time, Li Shimin and the concubines got off the boat together, and after crossing the embankment, they entered the main road in the No. 5 embankment, but did not use a horse-drawn carriage, but on the wide river, they got on a local canopy boat that specially transported foreign guests.

There are a lot of small passenger boats of this kind in the main canal and river, there are only simple grid wood for riding on the boat, the top is a black canopy, the two sides are transparent, you can watch the scenery on both sides, the hull is not big, but more than ten people ride side by side and do not seem crowded, after supporting it with a penny, the speed is very fast, this is the benefit of the boat small river width.

It is precisely because the river channel of the main aqueduct is wide enough, and there are a lot of boats coming and going on the river, Sun Dali has long formulated a set of water traffic rules, the fast boat is divided into left and right areas by the central three-zhang area, and the paddle boats carrying goods need to use penny, and the solid hard soil on the shore is more forced, and the speed is also slower, and it is divided into the channel of the three-zhang wide area on the shore, and it is divided into left and right directions.

In addition, the county government has a clear rule that when a boatman on a waterway sees someone falling into the water or a capsizing accident, he must do his best to rescue and protect the lives of others as much as possible.

Li Shimin only took a short ride on the boat and realized the benefits of this water traffic rule.

The river channel of the main irrigation ditch is very wide, the cement road next to the river is not narrow, it can be used for several carriages to pass side by side, the neat road protection forest and the river protection forest have already grown to a height of several zhang, which can avoid the road surface being exposed to the sun in summer, and can also provide shade for passers-by on the road or river at any time, and the whole traffic environment looks much better than Guanzhong.

On both sides of the river, rows of brick and tile houses in the villages, like a knife cut like neat rice fields, quickly pulled back in the sight of Li Shimin and others, on the river, the fragrance of rice flowers came to the face, no wonder the rice fields here will be so high-yielding, in terms of the density of rice seedlings in the field, in any place where rice is planted, it is not visible.

"Master, there are still more than a month at most, these paddy fields are about to be harvested, it is said that this year, most farmers can reach nine stone dry rice per mu, and the experimental field is expected to yield ten stone of dry rice per mu." Seeing that Li Shimin was concerned about the rice fields along the coast, Changsun Chun explained.

"Nine stones of dry rice, that is seven or eight stones of rice, it seems that the people here only plant thirty acres of fields, and the output of eighty acres of Yongye fields in other places is more, and the report of the secret guard is true!"

Hearing Li Shimin's exclamation, Concubine Wei, who was born in a Guanzhong family and had never worked in the field, answered, "Then why doesn't the lord let the people here, like the people in other places, also plant eighty acres of land!" Anyway, haven't you seen a lot of places in the past few days, and they all say that it is a good land that can be developed into high-yield fields, and we have no shortage of land in Datang! ”

Hearing this, the eldest grandson Chun hurriedly said, "If you want to have a high yield in this field, you need to spend more effort to take care of it, in fact, each household planting 30 acres of land is already the limit, these 30 acres of land, the people will only plant 25 acres of rice fields at most, because planting double cropping rice, you need to grab the sky, although after planting, the people will be a little more leisurely, but the time to grab seeds, fertilize and prepare the field, is very busy, if you miss the time, you may not be able to complete the double season planting, and let them plant 80 acres of rice fields, then, Even if there are enough cattle and farming tools, they can only sow and take care of them indiscriminately, and the final yield is actually about the same as planting 30 acres. ”

"Then the imperial court only gave them thirty acres of land, fifty acres less than elsewhere, will they be happy?"

The eldest grandson Chun smiled and replied, "Happy! And it is very willing, the more land is not given, the better, within the acceptable range of the people, the amount of land that can allow them to live a worry-free life is the most appropriate.

At present, only others envy the local people, and if they only plant 30 acres of land, they can have a good harvest, and no local people envy others who plant 80 acres of land, and it is not as good as their own harvest. ”

As soon as Changsun Chun's words were finished, Li Shimin's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he thought of a very serious problem.

After the founding of the Li Tang Dynasty, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, the number of Yongye fields and mouth fields is particularly large, exceeding that of previous dynasties, many government soldier families, and because of military merits, they will give additional land, resulting in many people needing to plant more than 100 acres of land at home, and so much land, do the people really plant it?

Li Shimin, who has actually cultivated the fields several times, feels that there must be many families with insufficient Dingkou who cannot be planted, however, before that, the imperial court would collect taxes every season according to the number of fields divided, which is likely to lead to a situation where the families with insufficient Dingkou only planted a small part of the land, but they had to pay the tax on all the fields.

And this phenomenon may be very common, accounting for at least more than sixty or seventy percent of all peasant families, for example, when Sun Xiangfu first came through, his family did not cultivate all the Yongye fields divided by the imperial court, and it is impossible for a family to plant more than 80 acres of land without more than three young and strong laborers in the case of backward farming tools.

Among the aborigines of Xingfu Village, there are only a few families such as Sun Dali, who were originally four young and strong laborers, who reclaimed all the fields, and in less than a year or two, they also exhausted the main laborers.

Then, when this happens, most of them may use the output of a small amount of land they have planted to supplement the tax revenue of the imperial court.

That is to say, when he was a scholar and order, he formulated a set of policies to divide the fields, which was actually harmful to the people, and did not combine the actual labor force of the people to reasonably divide the fields.

"It's no wonder that where the New Deal has not been promoted, the population growth is so slow, and the people are living in such poverty, it turns out that they have been harmed."

Li Shimin muttered in a guilty voice, but these words were heard by the eldest grandson queen who was sitting next to him, patted his hand, and whispered in his ear, "You are a heart for the people, it's not your fault, you just didn't cause any big disaster, and you know that mistakes can be changed, and it's great to be good, isn't your current reform of various livelihood policies gradually making the people better?" There is no previous cause, but there is no present effect. ”

Listening to the words of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin felt better, although he did not calculate the people's power at the beginning, and divided too many fields for the people, causing them to bear heavier taxes, but at that time, when the national war and chaos had just ended, the people of the whole country were eager to get a piece of their own land, and the significance of these fields was not only reflected in the taxes, but also distributed more fields to the people.

"Yes! Tomorrow, I will send a letter to Chang'an, asking Cheng Qian to preside over the nationwide agricultural tax reform, and only collect taxes on the fields that are actually cultivated. ”

"In this way, Cheng Qian is only afraid that he will be busy again." Empress Eldest Sun smiled when she heard this.

She is very satisfied with the current state of Li Shimin dumping government affairs to Li Chengqian, the husband and wife are harmonious, the son is capable, and he is a qualified successor, so it can be said that her life is no longer satisfactory.

The key is that Li Shimin also thinks so, and said with a smile, "Cheng Qian's internal affairs ability is not bad, at least he has Sun Zhengming's seven-point true biography, and with him in Chang'an, I can go around to see the beautiful country that I have built for half my life." ”

The two couples looked at each other affectionately and smiled at the bow of the boat, then turned their eyes to the surrounding scenery, and in a short time, the passenger ship had entered the urban area of Jiuyuan County.

"In front of the door, under the bridge, a flock of ducks swam by, come and count them, two, four, six, seven, eight, goo, goo, goo, really, there are so many ducks, I can't count how many ducks, I can't count how many ducks, how many ducks ······"

The largest building complex in Jiuyuan County is the school, where there are No. 5 large fields, more than 7,000 children, a total of more than 10,000 Mengtong children who are about seven years old, and more than 10,000 young students in various towns, it is the first place where Sun Dali made efforts to repair, at this time it was in the afternoon, the children who had slept in the afternoon, were called up by the teacher, and were pulling the spirit of Geti, preparing for the afternoon schoolwork, the boat just hit the school building next to the pass, everyone heard the song of the children in the school, the boatman who supported the boat suddenly heard the sound and laughed, his two children, but they were all sent to this school to study!

When going ashore on the small pier in front of the school building, the boatman's eldest brother kindly reminded them that the school does not accept outside visitors during the school period, but there is a break of about a quarter of an hour between every two classes, and they may be able to say hello to the uncle who guards the door and go in to ask the teacher inside about something.