"The master is getting old, and he has a reward, it's rare that you have this heart, but these are earned by your life, and the master can't use it! Maybe I'll give it to your junior sister to keep it when I go back, and I will save it for you and keep it for you to marry a daughter-in-law in the future! At that time, the master will seal a big red envelope for you again! ”

"Little stone, you don't have to join in the fun, you are different from them, you have both parents at home, there are many brothers and sisters, and there are many places to use money! Where, the master has a red envelope here, leave some for you, take it back and honor your father and mother! As he spoke, Lao Jing took out two ingots of silver from his package, and stuffed the filial things of the small stone into the hand of the small stone.

"Master, you can't deserve it! It's tormenting the disciples! "The little stone pushed hard, he was the youngest, martial arts, and his strength was small, and his exploits were the last class, and he got five taels of silver on his merits, and he didn't get the field.

"Take it, and treat it as the annual money given to you by the master!" Lao Jing didn't talk nonsense with him, and forced it into his hands. "Your father is not in good health, and he owes a lot of debts over the years, when I don't know! Take it to pay off the debt, and then go back to buy more rice and meat for the old man to pay respect! ”

"If you plan to work in the army in the future, you must hone your kung fu well, and if I know that you are lazy and slippery, wait according to the model!"

A few disciples and guys said with smiling faces: "Then how can I be, I used to be lazy in order to do things with less effort, but now I am going into battle to kill the enemy, and I can't be sloppy!" Even if it's the shopkeeper's board, it has to have that life, right? ”

"We know that the shopkeeper cares, and we will never play tricks again. The shopkeeper should put it away, and when the general allows me to wait for a break, I will go to the house to disturb it. ”

Lao Jing solemnly put it away, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and left them to talk slowly in the tent.

Today's rewarded soldiers all have family members, most of them will be rewarded to their relatives, the family is smiling, but the barracks are not allowed to stay overnight, the celebration is over, according to Yu Zhilong's requirements, all military families and guests should leave the camp, these family members are reluctant to go.

To the surprise of Xie Lin and others, on the second day after the celebration meeting, Yu Zhilong summoned Xie Lin, Fang Xue, and Tian Lie to discuss how to open up wasteland, fish and hunt, and graze.

Linqu is a small county, in Yidu Road according to the grade of the lower county, the existing registered fields outside the city are only tens of thousands of acres, after this city, in addition to the local slave households, military households, artisan households, etc., the remaining acres of land are much less, and finally allocated to the Jing'an army has more than 5,000 acres, but after Yu Zhilong and Xie Lin combined, it was decided to develop wasteland in places with abundant water sources such as the canal outside the city, and raise chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in tidal flats, puddles and other places, dredging and digging ponds, planting lotus roots, and sprinkling fish fry, Planting fruit trees and pastures in poorer geologically deferred areas, such as hillsides and sandy soils, could accommodate at least nearly 10,000 people. At present, the food stock in the city is limited, and because of the sudden influx of such a large number of people from other places, it is impossible to meet the long-term security.

In the end, this plan was approved by Liu Zhengfeng, and the problems encountered by the Jing'an Army were also matters that other ministries urgently needed to solve. Everyone understands the truth of sitting on the mountain and eating empty, since it is difficult to achieve results in reducing expenditure in one county, there is only open source.

According to Yu Zhilong's idea, the reclamation of wasteland and wasteland is really inefficient with the power of one person and one family, and it is necessary to form a community model, and the animal power such as cattle and horses required should be used intensively, and unified planning and preparation are the best. If the strength of the small community is insufficient, the county may wish to organize several small communities into a large community as appropriate, so that after the concentration of labor and animal power, the reclamation can be completed as soon as possible.

A few days ago, the method of cracking down on local tyrants and dividing the land into each household has indeed won the support of the people, but it is not feasible to quickly resume production and farming. After all, the efficiency of manpower and tools at this time is quite low, and due to the troubled times for many years, the local hydraulic ditches have been in disrepair for a long time, and the river embankment has collapsed.

Now that it is approaching late autumn, this winter wheat must be planted quickly, otherwise it will delay the harvest for half a year!

In addition, to raise livestock, it is necessary to choose breeding cattle, breeding sheep, breeding pigs, etc., and a large number of cubs are required. It is estimated that these cubs are unlikely to be obtained from the surrounding prefectures and counties, and the Yuan court will never sit idly by and ignore Linqu. Eighty percent of them are still slowly accumulating on their own. In the short term, there will be no great development in the storage of pigs, cattle and sheep, but fishing and hunting, raising chickens, ducks and geese and other poultry can still be promoted.

For this reason, Yu Zhilong thought about it for a long time, and had some ideas, so he couldn't hold back today and had a long talk with Xie Lin and Tian Lie, and put forward his own opinions on the resumption of next year's agricultural affairs.

To sum up, it is to take ten families as a small society, set up a president, the president should be a person with prestige and can convince the public, generally recommended by the company, or appointed by the county government or elected by the people, concentrate the labor and farming tools, cattle and horses, and work in a unified manner, according to the performance and harvest of each family, and finally distribute food to the president in a unified manner. During or after the end of the year, the president can be elected at any time.

Even so, in order to prevent the president from embezzling the interests of others by favoritism or in private collusion with certain members of the company, it is specially stipulated that at the end of the year's work, although the president participates in the distribution of the company's harvest, he can only receive the amount of the harvest of the last house.

However, in order to encourage the president to do his duty, the county government has set up a grain and silver assessment benchmark for the president, and if the outstanding person is evaluated at the end of the year, the number of rewards will be set according to the president's performance, and the county government will give him additional money and grain, and the amount will be determined by Xie Lin, Fang Xue, Tian Lie, etc.

That is to say, as long as it is not a disaster year, the president can get a family of food and clothing in the company, if the more production can be increased in a year, the more grain and rice he will get, and the county government will pay an additional dollar of grain according to his ability and effectiveness, which is similar to the performance award in later generations.

The association mode is mainly due to the large number of displaced people outside Linqu City, Yu Zhilong moved them to various villages in batches, or looked for places with high terrain and a large number of water sources nearby, settled on the spot, and built more than 20 new villages, large and small. The concentration of personnel is conducive to management and just promotes the association model.

In the first year, the county government only takes one-tenth of the harvest of each society, in the second year, two-tenths, and only after the fifth year does it begin to collect 2/2 to 30 percent. In general, there will be no increase in field endowment in the future.

To promote agriculture, it is necessary to develop water conservancy. Cleaning ditches, rebuilding embankments, dredging rivers, digging deep ponds, water berths, etc. are extremely labor-intensive, not overnight, nor hundreds or thousands of people can be easily completed, fortunately, there are many rivers around Linqu, and there is no shortage of water sources. Outside the city is the Mi River, originating from the west foot of Yishan Mountain, meandering west along the slope, to the northeast flow near the nine mountains of Linqu, and passing through Yidu, divided into 3 shares into the Bohai Sea in Guangling Township, Shouguang.

The Mi River is the main irrigation river in the county. The main tributaries are Wujing Shi River, Shi River, Nanyang River, Dan River and so on.

With so many tributaries, there is basically no need to worry about the irrigation of acres of fields outside the city. It is only because of the long-term land annexation that a large number of farmers have fled, and many fertile fields have gradually become wasteland, and river dams and ditches have also fallen into disrepair and silted up and collapsed. Large local households are simply unwilling to invest manpower and material resources in repairs, resulting in the increasingly deserted fields outside the city.

Xie Lin suggested that at least thousands of people should be recruited to concentrate on labor in the near future, and that the construction should be carried out in a favorable period when the farm work has ended in late autumn and the water volume of each tributary has decreased significantly. Time waits for no one, this matter is sooner rather than later, once it is frozen, it will be half the effort. This matter will certainly not be able to be completed by the Jing'an Army alone, and it must be mobilized by the Shuntian Army to mobilize all the laborers.

Moreover, this year's project can only be partially completed, if you want to persist for a long time, considering that there will be a large number of displaced people to join in the future, Xie Lin estimates that at least 50,000 acres of land need to be reclaimed to meet the needs of food and clothing. During the period, the agricultural tools, grain seeds, cattle and horses and other livestock needed are unknown. In addition, roads and vehicles need to be repaired. Before the onset of winter, it is also necessary to consider the construction of winter houses outside the city that are attached to the people, and the necessary winter clothes should also be properly distributed. Needless to say, winter food is not to mention.

As for weeding wasteland, fertilizing is also a time-consuming and laborious task. Originally, Yu Zhilong considered encouraging households to store more livestock and poultry, one is to supplement the food ration gap for the family, and the other is to sell the rest to subsidize daily use. According to the experience of later generations, it is best to combine captivity and wild free-range breeding, which can not only save feed costs, but also greatly reduce the possibility of disease.

Schelling also added that considering the prevention and control of livestock and poultry diseases, the county may not have so many veterinarians. In the unlikely event of an epidemic, the efforts of farmers are likely to be wasted. Eighty percent of this matter has to be called in some veterinarians from other places. Moreover, although the rations of each household have been distributed, the total amount is not enough, and it may not even last until next summer's harvest, so it seems unrealistic to encourage small-scale farming by small households at this time.

The breeding of pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, chickens, ducks and geese is not overnight, and the small people do not think about the long term, once the livestock of large households is distributed to various peasant households, they are suddenly obtained without compensation, and it is very likely that they will be slaughtered on a large scale to satisfy their stomachs, and it is best for the county government to clearly stipulate that the households that have been allocated livestock and poultry shall not be over-slaughtered, so as to leave seedlings for next year's breeding.

In addition, Fang Xue mentioned that the weather is getting cooler, and the preparation of winter clothes must be put on the journey. The winter clothes of the people are not mentioned for the time being, and the winter clothes of the sergeants must be purchased and prepared as soon as possible. However, there is not much cotton produced in Linqu, and the reserves of the large shops in the city are also limited, so it is extremely difficult to complete the winter clothes of the Shuntian Army.

At this time, cotton has been promoted in the north, but it has not completely replaced silk and linen, silk wool, and the people can not afford to keep warm because of poverty, so they can only replace it with cotton and linen. However, due to the lack of agriculture, its production is low. And cotton woven into cloth, the middle also needs to go through the seeding, impurities, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, winding, warping, sizing, weaving and other multiple processes, it takes a lot of manpower and time, if it is in Songjiang Mansion and other places, cotton textile is extremely prosperous, the sources are not worried, but at this time Linqu is still a lot of difficulties.

Xie Lin had no way to create things empty-handed, so in addition to raising everything that could be used, he had to consider buying them from other places, but the Yuan court would not sit idly by, and would inevitably set up cards along the road to block them.

After listening to so many of the above matters, Yu Zhilong couldn't help but have a big head, and after thinking about it repeatedly, it seemed that he had to consider a military solution. In the short term, it is necessary to repair as soon as possible, reorganize the army, go out to seek opportunities to fight, and expand the area under the control of the Suncheon Army.

In the long run, it is necessary to quickly restore the cultivation of local grain, cotton, mulberry and linen, and to reclaim land on a large scale, but it will be at least a year before the results can be achieved. This is back to the topic of lack of animal power and wintering things.

No matter how difficult it is, this year's reclamation must be carried out as soon as possible. The original policy of the Jing'an Army to show its strength outside the city was because the land of reclamation was far away from the county seat, and Liu Zhengfeng and other generals did not pay much attention to it, and Yu Zhilong did everything he could, without too many scruples.

Xie Lin said: "At present, the county has verified that there are no less than 20,000 mu of upper fields, middle fields, and lower fields, and a total of no less than 100,000 mu of mountains, forests, and rivers. King Shuntian gave me 5,000 acres of land and 20,000 acres of mountains, forests, and rivers for the Jing'an army. Before, the general specially took out 2,000 acres to give to the generals, and the remaining 3,000 acres could be used as military land. In addition, the general also has the plan to reclaim at least 10,000 acres of wasteland, and now most of the area has been surveyed and demarcated, and at present, all kinds of farm tools and seeds have been prepared, and the general can recruit people to start ploughing and planting. ”

In the great war, all the generals of the Jing'an Army were given more or less acres of land. In the early stage, because of the variety of things, Yu Zhilong only gave money and silver rewards to officers at all levels, and all the acres of land originally obtained in Hujiazhuang and other places were partially given to tenants, artisan households, slave households and others. After seizing the city this time, they were given thousands of acres of land, and only then did they consider giving land to officers at all levels to strengthen their will. Therefore, in addition to the military merit reward field, more than 800 acres of special grades were specially allocated to reward the generals.

This part of the reward field may not be too much for each person, but the generals still have war merits in this battle, and the total amount is still considerable.