"Two strong men are only forty acres of land?" Wang Xu said with some disappointment when he heard this.

The two young serfs of his Wang family have to plant at least 200 acres of land for the Wang family every year, and they basically won't stop all year round.

"What's the matter, Wang Gongzi thinks it's less?"

"Less, too little. How can it be only forty acres! ”

"Hehe, Childe has calculated, what is the value of these forty acres of land?"

Wang Xu didn't know that Sun Xiangfu was going to grow spices, and he only thought it was ordinary farmland, so when Sun Xiangfu said this, he looked at Sun Xiangfu in some surprise.

"Prince Wang, please eat."

Sun Xiangfu made a gesture of please with a smile, and the plate he pointed to was cumin roast mutton, this dish was of course eaten often by Wang Xu, who was a northerner, and the roast mutton he ate usually put a lot of spices.

At first, he didn't understand what Sun Xiangfu meant by calling him to eat vegetables, but the dishes in Sun Mansion were really delicious, just take this roast mutton that he usually eats, it was much more delicious.

"The spices used in this roast mutton, does Wang Gongzi know how much money is a catty?"

"Spices?"

"That's right, the crops that this official wants to grow on the grassland are spices."

Why does Sun Xiangfu grow spices? There is a deep reason for this, spices have a very large auxiliary effect on meat, not only seasoning, but also slow down the rate of decay of meat, for the nomads on the grassland who eat meat as the staple food, there is a huge temptation, but this thing is not full.

If the rulers of the steppe were accustomed to eating beef and mutton with added spices, they would get poorer and poorer the more they ate, because it was so expensive!

Moreover, even if the spices planted on the grassland were robbed by them, it was the Wang family who would be lost!

Besides, they snatched the spices and couldn't eat enough, which only made them even more inseparable from the spices.

This is a deal that Sun Xiangfu will not lose, at least he borrowed the hand of the Wang family and extended his territory outward, of course, if the Wang family can settle a few nomadic neighbors outside the Guan, then the entire Shuozhou will become an inner line surrounded by Wang's fields, and it will be more stable.

"The spices are good, the spices are good!"

Not only Wang Xu, but also a few Wang children who came with him learned that Sun Xiangfu could grow spices, and they also agreed, although they didn't touch the spring water with their fingers, they still knew that spices were still relatively expensive in Datang.

"Hehe, an acre of spice field can produce at least one stone of spices, which is worth more than 100 guan, I don't know how many acres of Wang Gongzi's field can produce more than 100 guan!"

If Sun Xiangfu can really grow spices, then the value of one acre of land is equivalent to the output of more than 200 acres of grain fields of the Wang family, and if two strong men can take care of forty acres of spice fields, it is simply too cost-effective.

"Okay, forty acres is forty acres, after the spring of my Wang family, I can provide you with at least 40,000 young people, at that time, you can look at the head of the land!" Wang Xu smiled a few times.

Hearing the number of '40,000', Sun Xiangfu gasped sharply in his heart, the land of Shuozhou, the entire population is less than 50,000, Wang Xu will get him 40,000 young people with one mouth, this is estimated to ensure the number of people that his Wang family can send after the cultivation of the land in Guannei, this strength, there is no one, the entire county of Bingzhou, at least one-third of the population is under the control of their Wang family.

40,000 people, that can be cultivated 800,000 acres of land, 800,000 acres of land according to the area of Datang's acres, that is really a radius of 100 miles.

"You can't wait until the beginning of spring, and by that time, it will be too late for anything, because the land for planting spices has certain requirements for the whole field, so the people of the son's family must be sent here now, first build a fortress, and settle the tenants' dwellings, in the opinion of this official, it is most appropriate to build a fort within a radius of five miles, and every two thousand people will live in one fort, and exactly twenty forts will be built······

Speaking of this, Sun Xiangfu began to talk endlessly, he didn't care about the difficulty of how the Wang family moved 40,000 people to the snow outside the gate in winter, because the Wang family's family has a big business, sufficient material reserves, and Sun Xiangfu is happy to see them consume.

Therefore, he only told Wang Xu that his plans for those places and the future output were geometric, and if he wanted to obtain such huge benefits, his Wang family had to invest.

If Wang Xu had a master of arithmetic here, he would definitely tell him that in the winter, it would cost 40,000 people to build a fortress and build a house in the snow outside the pass, and the cost of money and grain might reach hundreds of thousands of guan, but at this moment, Wang Xu had already been immersed in the sweet dream of 800,000 mu of spice fields and could not wake up, that is a spice with an annual output of more than 800,000 stones, even if the price will be cheaper if it is planted more, but at least it can be sold for several million guan!

What is the investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars compared to the income of millions of yuan?

In Wang Xu's opinion, this business is done, and once it is done, Wang Lin and Wang Hao will no longer be qualified to compete with themselves for the position of head of the family.

"After that boy finished eating this meal, he immediately went back to arrange for the mobilization of manpower." Wang Xu said, picked up the wine glass in front of his case, and drank it all, but the wine in Sun's mansion made him blush.

Sun Xiangfu smiled when he heard this, "It's not urgent, it's not urgent, it's not bad for this day or two, the mobilization of tens of thousands of people is not a trivial matter, the official thinks that it is necessary to report to the imperial court, in addition, since these people are cultivating land around Shuozhou, it is best to move the household registration to Shuozhou, if there is no household registration, the official can make up for them here, what Wang Gongzi wants is land, it is wealth, then the official wants some political achievements, this, Wang Gongzi will not disagree!" ”

"How come, you and I cooperate, it is mutually beneficial, not only that, but this son also has more than 100,000 acres of land around Mayi City, and many of the tenants hired do not have household registration, so they will be given to Sun Changshi to make political achievements."

Wang Xu is also a generous person, knowing that if this cooperation wants to be maintained for a long time and steadily, it must be mutually beneficial with Sun Xiangfu, and if he occupies it alone, Sun Xiangfu will not be willing to cooperate with him. The left and right are just a matter of paying some poll tax to the government, and it doesn't cost a lot of money.

With Wang Xu's promise, a few people brought by his subordinates also know what to do, at present, Sun Xiangfu and their master are in a cooperative relationship, they naturally have to work hard, not to mention, since they took office in various county offices, in just a few days, the operation of the yamen began to slowly get on the right track, which is why Li Shimin hated the family and had to use them to govern the country.

The entire Shuozhou land became a big construction site after Sun Xiangfu met Wang Xu, and Sun Xiangfu, the man who came with Li Ji's army, did not let go, and first renovated the barracks in the city for the unity camp.

Since this was originally the garrison of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Liang Division, after the ordering, the place was very empty, Sun Xiangfu not only built a large enough indoor and outdoor training ground for the unity camp, but also converted many places into warehouses and some farmhouses that could be raised.

Now he has the right to manage the army, of course, how to train sergeants, lead soldiers to fight he will not care, but he has to manage the daily life of soldiers, after all, although there are only 3,000 people, this is the largest consumption of Shuozhou's finances.

Shuozhou is now poor and white, and there is no money and food to support them. Therefore, Sun Xiangfu thought of a system that would only be implemented during the Ming Dynasty, the military cantonment system, in the future, the sergeants of the unity battalion will serve all year round, during the service, in addition to the morning and evening exercises, they will also be responsible for cultivating the 50,000 acres of land allocated to them by Sun Xiangfu, and the average distribution will be more than ten acres per person, which is several times less than the cultivation amount of ordinary farmers during this period, this is because Sun Xiangfu believes that 50,000 acres of land, intensive cultivation is enough to meet their ration consumption, after all, he assigned to the unity camp is a ripe field, If you use the planting method you teach, you can produce at least 200,000 koku of wheat a year on 50,000 acres of land.

One stone of wheat is almost enough for a soldier to eat for a month, and the annual ration consumption of 3,000 people will not exceed 50,000 stone, and the extra 100,000 stone can be exchanged for beans to feed horses, can be used as military pay and welfare, and can also raise some chickens, ducks, pigs, etc., to increase meat, as long as there is no problem of corruption among generals, the output of the army's fields is enough to supply them for consumption.

For this so-called military tun, Guo Po is in favor of raising his hands and feet, the army has its own industry, food and drink are guaranteed, who is not happy to be a soldier, you know, the government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty often need to bring their own food, generally by the household registration of several households to support a government soldier, Sun Xiangfu will be the normalization of the government soldiers' service, then it will greatly increase the training intensity of the government soldiers, so that the government soldiers can plant fields in addition to training, and consume at their own expense, which reduces the home of the government soldiers. and the taxes of the families who support the soldiers of this government are very good.

couldn't wait for the ice and snow to melt, Guo Po begged Sun Xiangfu to divide the military field for him, so the entire Shuozhou land division business was launched in this winter.

Sun Xiangfu first announced that the rebellious Liang Shidu did not recognize the ruling court of Shuozhou, all land deeds, real estate, etc., must be re-inspected by the Tang Dynasty government, and the documents were issued, and these documents were issued, first of all, you will get the government to re-register the household registration, all the land and real estate, will be registered in your new household registration book, those who cannot show the original land title deed documents, sorry, this field is not yours, the government will take it back and redistribute.

After the completion of the household registration, each household in accordance with the provisions of the Tang Dynasty, the Yongye field is 80 acres, whether you are a herdsman or a farmer, there are 80 acres, farmers are given priority to the ripe land where the household registration is located, and the herdsmen are given priority to the barren grassland where the household registration is located, if you want to graze in the pasture outside the 80 acres, you can also, the imperial court to the herdsmen in each county designated grazing area, but to graze there, you need to pay a certain tax every year, which is not counted in the tax exemption period.

Basically, the entire Layue Sun Xiangfu was busy inspecting and issuing household registrations, and distributing fields to households. Fortunately, the population of Shuozhou is not much, just more than 10,000 households, and it is basically all done in a month, and after the statistics, Sun Xiangfu got a more comprehensive and detailed data.