Chapter 487: Harvest

The scorching summer is ended by the autumn wind, and the year is the time to rejoice in the harvest and fruits.

Millions of hectares of fertile fields near Zhezhi City are covered with a patch of green and yellow, and the wheat is about to ripen.

On the ridge, an elder accompanied a general to stroll through the endless wheat waves.

The elder is Yu Wenrong, and the twists and turns of time have ruthlessly carved several wrinkles on his forehead, and his eyes are full of joy and vicissitudes. For most of the past six months, he has lived a full life, with outstanding achievements, tired and happy.

Twice from the temple was beaten by his friends to the wilderness, he was already disheartened, thinking about living far away from the rivers and lakes to get a peace to spend the rest of his life, but the magnates were unwilling to stop, and wanted to exile him to the wilderness to force him to death. In Ningyuan City, he had already died once, and then he was resurrected, and Ningyuan gave him another spring in his political career.

Ning Yuan is like a blank piece of paper, after the violence, the land is ownerless, there is no obstruction and interference of vested interest groups, the policy he advocates is easy to implement without obstacles, after more than half a year of efforts, all the farmland in Shiguo is measured and registered, and the number of household accounts is also clear and documented, of course, such a speed is somewhat stained with Li Huaitang's light, when Li Huaitang captured Zhezhi City, he immediately sent someone to save the city's household registration information and land and acres of information.

According to the obtained land and population data, Yuwenrong and Wumeng began to imitate the Tang Dynasty system to grant land, however, there was no Yongye field in Ningyuan, and all the land belonged to the Ningyuan regime, and the land granted by each household had to be returned and redistributed after the death of the head of the household, and the military merit field was given for a certain period of time.

The survival of the new system lies in the ratio of population to land, and when the population grows massively and there is no new source of land, the contradiction between population and land intensifies, and the system will come to an end.

Li Huaitang saw this limitation but did not say that at least the implementation of the new system would reduce the progress of land annexation and monopoly to a large extent, and Li Huaitang needed time, when a vigorous industrial and commercial system was formed, perhaps, the land problem could be effectively solved.

I have to admit that in terms of economy, Yu Wenrong is very skilled. Judging only by the growth of the farmland, Li Huaitang knew that his income at the end of the year would increase significantly.

Listening to Yu Wenrong's introduction, Li Huaitang knew that this year's farmland in Shiguo has increased by 20% compared with the previous planting area, and the yield per mu has also increased by 40%. After the harvest, the whole territory of Ningyuan will be free of hunger.

"How so?" Li Huaitang was puzzled. The land will not increase its fertility because of its surname Yi or Li, and it will not offer additional rewards to congratulate Li Huaitang on his success.

"The Hu people are rough and not good at management, and the use of farmland is seriously wasteful, and because the land mostly belongs to the aristocracy, and most of the cultivators are slaves, which is basically equivalent to the serfdom before the Central Plains, so the enthusiasm for production is not high, and the level of taking care of the farmland is low.

"This year seems to be rushed, and the next year's production will be even higher!" Yuwen Rongle added.

Li Huaitang picked up an ear of wheat and sniffed it, and said: "Mr.'s merit is no less than opening up the territory, but it's a pity that it is inconvenient to give Mr. the corresponding glory, so let's take last year's output as the base, and take one out of ten from next year's increased output as Mr.'s reward!" ”

Yu Wenrong couldn't help but say, you know, next year's output is only a lot more than this year, and at that time, he will become rich overnight. After the surprise, he realized Li Huaitang's cunning, no matter how he looked at the reward, it was like the grass hanging in front of the old cow, he Yu Wenrong was like the old cow, for the grass in a year, he had to work hard, but he was willing to do it without complaining.

The reward is rich Yu Wenrong has nothing to say, although he prefers fame, but he also knows that he is a traitor of the Tang Dynasty, famous, and I am afraid that it will be accompanied by disasters. He is an outcast of the Tang Dynasty, and his achievements in the exiled land are equivalent to slapping the faces of those powerful people, and it is a vivid proof of the emperor's lack of pearls in his eyes and his incompetence.

After Yu Wenrong thanked him, he immediately expressed his worries about the autumn harvest, and he was most afraid of encountering bandits who came to pick peaches during the harvest.

"The Turks?" Li Huaitang laughed. One of the purposes for which he led his army was to deter the Tukish. In the north of Zhezhi City, Feiying led more than 1,000 sweaty and bloody knights, wandering around with white jade claws, and the high-profile arrogance was a plan to scare the grass and scare the snakes, and deter the horse bandits. The white jade claws in the sky will remind the Turgian Shi people that the main force of the Ningyuan Iron Cavalry is here, and warn them not to cross the Karatau Mountain Range and head south.

relieved Yu Wenrong's worries, Li Huaitang gave him encouragement again: "Work hard, in two years, you have to count on Mr. Kangguo's grain production land." ”

"Kang Kook? The general is here to conquer Kangguo? Yu Wenrong suddenly had a feeling.

"No, I'm there to collect debts." Li Huaitang said with a smile.

"Debt collection?" Yu Wenrong was puzzled, and the laborers mobilized the crowd to go to Kangguo just to collect debts?

Li Huaitang coughed twice and said with a dry smile: "Because Kang Guo didn't pay off his debts, I had no choice but to take someone to help him harvest grain." ”

After a year, Kangguo's grain harvest is about to be bumper again, last year Li Huaitang was addicted to hard work, and plans to go again this year, Samarkand City is strong and easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the large farmland outside the city is unprotected, let him take it. He didn't believe it, how many times could Kang Guo withstand such a toss.

"Is the general a soldier who wants to surrender without a fight?" Yu Wenrong thought about it and understood Li Huaitang's plan.

Li Huaitang laughed.

"In this way, is it against the peace of heaven?" Yu Wenrong carefully raised a different opinion. He was in charge of grain production, naturally knowing the consequences of the lack of grain, and the two consecutive years of harvest failure were the first to suffer from the common people, who starved to death all over the wilderness.

Li Huaitang shook his head and responded resolutely: "I am only responsible for the people under my jurisdiction, and I don't care about the monstrous floods and lives in the enemy's territory." ”

"Eh," Li Huaitang domineeringly blocked Yu Wenrong's defense that spit out to his mouth, "Don't tell me the truth of convincing people with virtue, that is a means for family members, and should not be practiced on the enemy, I only know that the only way to treat the enemy is to repay grievances directly, kindness will only be regarded as weakness, and they will only feel your mercy after seeing the thunder." ”

"This is human nature, it is the law, and the kindness of a woman who violates the law will only bring shameful humiliation. I will not be willing to be generous to the military and the people of Ningyuan for the sake of a vain name. The face is beaten, the harder the fist, the more painful it hurts, and the dignity naturally rolls in, like the thickness of a mountain, unchanged for a hundred years, pressing in their hearts. Only in this way will there be peaceful days in the world. Therefore, in order for the descendants of the enemy to enjoy the rare peace, I must teach them a lesson, and let them remember the lesson of blood......"

Li Huaitang chattered about his values.

However, Yu Wenrong began to be confused, and foreign ideas collided fiercely with the inherent ones......