"The new horse protection law of the imperial court, in short, is called 'spreading horses into acres'. Specifically, in the prefectures and counties where the 'Horse Protection Law' is implemented, if a horse is raised for every 300 acres of land, the imperial court will give 150 yuan of 'forage money' every year, but if you don't raise horses, you have to pay 150 yuan of 'horse tax'. Even if it is a scattered field, the 'horse tax' and the 'horse raising money' have to be apportioned. For example, if a family has 10 acres of land and does not raise horses, it will have to pay an extra 5,000 yuan in horse tax every year, and if you raise horses, you will receive 5,000 yuan of forage money from the imperial court every year. ”

Zhao Huan frowned slightly, obviously recalling with his heart: "After the registration of the fields in the states and counties, the total amount of fields in the states and counties is 50,000 mu, and the household department estimates that as long as half of the landowners 'protect the horses', the income and expenditure of the imperial court will be offset. More than ten years later, the people can accumulate 700,000 horses. After she finished speaking, her face was still puzzled, and the court said that the cost of a horse can raise five foot soldiers, which is the fee allocated by the household department to the horse farm, and it is also 300 yuan for a horse. After getting along with Zhao Xingde for many days, Zhao Huan instinctively felt that it was impossible for the gentry of the state and county to promote things that would make them suffer.

"What's going on?"

The breeze blew, and Zhao Huan flicked the tips of his hair. She accompanied Zhao Xingde from the school to the back garden. Zhao Xingde frowned and thought, and the servants avoided the two of them far along the way. The news brought by Zhao Huan to the DPRK and China far exceeded what Liu Wengu had heard. It can be seen that the rumors outside are true, and the eldest princess of Wu is deeply doted on by her brother. Zhao Huan is also very intelligent and naturally asks many questions.

"Maybe it's for the merger." Zhao Xingde muttered, "Although this dynasty has been criticized as 'not suppressing annexation', in fact, because of the imperial examination, most of the civil officials and doctors advocate 'suppressing annexation'. More importantly, the system of dividing the family property between the father's death and the son's inheritance was prevalent in our dynasty, and the land property accumulated in one generation was soon dispersed. Especially on Southeast Fujian Road, the average person has less than three acres of land, and the folk infanticide has been repeatedly prohibited. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Huan covered her mouth and exclaimed, she never thought that there was such a tragic thing in the world.

"I have been repeatedly frustrated in the implementation of the law to protect horses, and in the final analysis, it is still a narrow place with many people. With the increasing number of household registrations in prefectures and counties, and the fact that there are only so many fields in the field, in the long run, not only will we not be able to raise horses, but we may not even be able to raise large livestock such as cattle, donkeys, and mules. I have heard that in many places, it is already prevalent to use people to pull iron plows. There are many people and the land is narrow, and the horse is like a boat against the current. Zhao Xingde said slowly, Zhao Huan frowned and listened, although she didn't understand farming, but she thought that people were the spirits of all things, but they could only replace cattle and horses in the fields, which was really a very worthless thing.

"However, horse farming is faster than ox farming, and as long as the land is large enough, horse farming is more cost-effective." Zhao Xingde changed his words and said: "The customs of Kansai are used to horse farming. A household in Guanzhong was granted 60 acres of land at the beginning, and if it was a border prefecture and county, more land would be granted, and the eldest son would inherit the land, and each farmer's land would be far more than in our dynasty. Moreover, Kansai itself attaches equal importance to agriculture and animal husbandry, and there is no shortage of wheat and straw rotation. All shades were under the control of sergeants. It would be more profitable for the sergeants to save the manpower of the shade to do something else. Therefore, in order to increase their income, the sergeants also adhered to the imperial court's order to persuade farmers to let the shade share horses to plough the fields. Today, millions of horses are raised in Guanzhong alone. In terms of quantity alone, there are more horses under the rule of the Andong Military Division than on the Sima field of the Anbei Army. It's just that most of these horses are suitable for forced labor, and they are not flexible enough when mounted. ”

"The only problem is that horses are not as deep as oxen plowing, and if you plough with horses, you will be faster, but the yield per mu will decrease. If the horse ploughing is extensive, there will not be enough food for people to eat, and the world will be starved all over the land, and the world will be in chaos. However, judging from the current market, the grain reclaimed in the South China Sea is enough to fill this area. Riding horses is not as difficult to raise as war horses, and the method of 'spreading horses into acres' is still in 'encouraging mergers'. It is not difficult to imitate the horse-drawn plough of the Xia Kingdom, there are wide field homes, driving horses to plow the fields faster and more economically, and the forage money can almost offset the cost of feeding. However, people with 120 acres of land are not cost-effective in raising horses, so they can only pay the 'horse tax', and if they are unable to pay the 'horse tax', they can only sell the land. If the imperial court turned a blind eye to annexation, and even had a tendency to 'suppress annexation', now that the prefectures and counties are vigorously promoting the 'horse protection law', it will not be long before the fields will be more and more concentrated in large households." ”

"In the name of spreading horses into acres, encourage mergers." Zhao Xingde's smile was a little chilly: "This is the Baoma Law." ”

"But how can the landless people earn a living?" A melancholy look appeared on Zhao Huan's face. Even she knows that the most important thing to stabilize the world is to leave a way for the people to live. The so-called "water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat", the people of the Great Song Dynasty are diligent and patient, but if there is no way to live, it is the end of the official coercion and the people's rebellion, and the jade is burned.

"The consequences of the merger were unbearable." Zhao Xingde said, "But now it's different, the workshop and the reclamation are short of people." ”

The southeast was already crowded and narrow, and many people who fled from the north to the south had nowhere to stay, so the household department sent them to sea ships and transported them to the reclamation land in the South China Sea for resettlement. Although the journey is long, as long as the wind and water are smooth, the cost of the sea route is lower than moving from overland to Quang Nam. Because of the war in the north, millions of immigrants have enriched the South China Sea in the past few years. The first group of Qingliushi who presided over the reclamation of the South China Sea almost all became the leading figures in the local area. Not only did the reclamation of the South China Sea begin to produce large quantities, but it also required more and more immigrants to maintain and expand its scale.

"The concubine remembers," Zhao Huan said with a blushing face: "The 'Ten Strategies for Expanding the Sea' that the husband proposed to his father back then. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Xingde shook his head, he almost forgot that he wrote an article, compared with Chen Dong and others who did it in a down-to-earth manner, the effort spent on the two could not be calculated. "Though it is profitable," he thought to himself, "but men are inert, and the rich have taken up the land, which was originally divided among the tenants." Well, why did you suddenly plan to change course? While thinking about it, I suddenly heard an "ouch" sound.

Zhao Xingde turned around and saw Zhao Huan half-squatting on the ground. Seeing Zhao Huan's painful face, she held the ground with one hand and her calf with the other, staggering to stand up. I was so attentive to Zhao Xingde just now that I stepped on the moss, slipped and fell, and sprained my foot.

Zhao Xingde hurriedly helped her stand up. Zhao Huan's face was flushed, although his ankle was very painful, but leaning on his shoulder, a trace of sweetness came out from the bottom of his heart. Zhao Xingde only thought that she was thin-faced, embarrassed to be ugly, and pretended not to see her, while supporting her body, he carefully wiped the mud off her hands.

"Can I walk on my own?"

"Well, you can." Zhao Huan said softly.

She let go of his shoulders and took a slight step. From the day she learned that Li Ruoxue and Zhao Xingde eloped together, Zhao Huan was full of longing that there was such a person who could take her to the ends of the earth, and she didn't want to be a burden to that person. Her right ankle was sprained, and when she moved slightly, she took a breath of cold air, and she bit her lip to hold back her tears. was moving forward step by step, and suddenly, she felt a tightness on her waist, and before she could exclaim, she was picked up from behind. Zhao Huan turned his face, Zhao Xingde subconsciously leaned back, frowned, and said, "Don't move, I'll take you back to the room." He gathered his thoughts, wrapped one arm around her soft waist and the other around her knee, and quickened his pace towards the bedroom.

Zhao Huan leaned on his chest, smelling a strong masculine breath, her heart was like a deer, she would not hold his neck, she could only curl up in Zhao Xingde's arms like a cat, flowers, trees, mountains and rocks hurried by, and the servants who met along the way looked at the eldest princess and his wife, and Peony stood on the side of the road, his face was full of disbelief, holding a food box in one hand and covering his mouth with the other.

Zhao Xingde carried Zhao Huan back to the bedroom from the back garden. He hadn't set foot here since his wedding. Zhao Huan's face hung down, and his cheeks were so red that they seemed to be dripping. Zhao Xingde carefully put her on the couch, stood up and said, "I'll ask Peony to invite Lang Zhong over." ”

"Don't call Lang Zhong." Zhao Huan stood up with his support on the pillar of the bed, frowned in pain, and sat down again.

"Why?" Zhao Xingde's face showed a look of doubt, looking at the situation where she gritted her teeth and endured the pain, it was obvious that the injury was not light, if she was not diagnosed and treated in time, not only would she suffer, but she was also afraid of leaving future troubles.

Zhao Huan rubbed his ankles and said bitterly: "From childhood to adulthood, if something happens to me, my father will severely punish the slaves and maids around me." It's the same with Brother Huang. If this matter is summoned to Langzhong, the palace maids will have to suffer, and it is none of their business in the first place, how pitiful. She looked at Zhao Xingde and begged: "Don't call Lang Zhong, there will be nothing wrong in a few days, really, really." "She has a gentle disposition, and she doesn't want others to suffer for her. Therefore, in the deep palace, although Zhao Huan is deeply favored by his father and brother, he has no enemies. Even when Zhao Ke was the emperor, she and her mother were relegated to live in another courtyard, but it was just cold and miserable, and no one fell into the ground.

"Don't look at the doctor?" Zhao Xingde frowned and said, "But the injury can't be delayed." ”

Zhao Huan folded his hands and looked at him pleadingly, although he didn't say much, he couldn't bear to refuse.

"Okay." Zhao Xingde nodded. She showed a relieved expression and smiled lightly: "Thank you." Zhao Xingde walked to the edge of the couch and sat down, putting one of her calves on his lap, and when Zhao Huanzheng was shy and strange, he whispered, "Look at your injuries." I couldn't help but say that I took off my bow shoes and white socks, my feet were like white frost, and my ankles were red and swollen. Zhao Xingde touched it lightly with his hand, Zhao Huan frowned in pain, and he frowned: "It's really sprained, if you don't treat it, I'm afraid it will be very troublesome." "Sprains are also common in the military, and if not treated in time, the injuries can be delayed for a long time or even get worse.

Zhao Xingde turned around and took out some plasters from the leather bag in the corner of the wall. This leather bag is used to hold some wound medicine and gadgets necessary for marching. Although he moved out of the bedroom, the things in the room have always remained the same, and it is easy to find. He first massaged the ankle to invigorate the blood, and while applying some plaster to the red and swollen area, he advised: "Be careful these days, if you twist it again, I am afraid that it will become an old injury." ”

Zhao Huanfen's face flushed, and he let out a low "um". The jade foot was held by his generous and warm hand, and the cool ointment was gently applied to the ankle, she leaned over to look at Zhao Xingde's focused expression, and there was a trace of sweet taste in her heart, even if the injury was affected during massage and application, it didn't feel so painful.

"Alright." Zhao Xingde sighed with relief, raised his head and smiled, "Be careful when you walk in the future." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Huan curled back his jade feet gently, his face was red, as if he was about to drip water, and said in a low voice: "Thank you." ”