Chapter 31: Excited People, Five Days to Finish! 5/5
"The old man heard me right, right? Kill one enemy soldier and you can be knighted? ”
"Liu Laohan also heard it? That's right, I heard that, too. ”
"Ah, really, these officers and soldiers have been shouting, the king's personal order, it's true, and we civilians also have a chance to be knighted!"
"There is also the land that is cultivated, and the land that is cultivated is owned by the wasteland, so as long as I open up a few acres of land, these acres of land are mine?"
"It's true, it's true!"
"Although the tax is a bit much, it is much better, at least the land is our private property, we can make our own decisions, and we don't have to look at the eyes of the nobles anymore!"
"Your Majesty, my Great Wei has finally ushered in a Holy Monarch!"
"Woo, Dad, did you see that? We will have our own land, and you can also look at it under the old Yellow Spring! ”
"This is the opportunity for the king to give us, give us the opportunity to be knighted and land, I want my youngest son who has just worn a crown to join the army, and I will go to open up the wasteland!"
"Don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, seize the opportunity, who will be respected and who will be inferior in the future, who knows!"
The 10,000 people who were exiled from the city, hearing the announcement of Qianniuwei, were all extremely excited, and even some people knelt down in the direction of the palace to worship!
Land, knighthood!
I don't know how many people dream of these two goals, and I don't know how many people want to get a piece of land that belongs to their own family when they die!
A plainly dressed young man couldn't help but smile from the bottom of his heart when he saw the people being elated.
"How good it would be if the people were like this every day!" The simple young man thought with longing.
This simple young man was none other than Meng Ge, he dressed up in disguise, and came here to see the reaction of the people when they heard the two announcements, and it really didn't disappoint him.
After a period of time, when the enthusiasm and excitement of the people rose to a certain high point, Meng Ge ordered several Qianniuwei to set up a recruiting ground to recruit thirteen-year-olds from the year of wearing a crown to the age of forty.
After doing this, Meng Ge began to attack the nobles' mansions, with many Qianniuwei, rushed into one mansion after another, and forced the nobles to hand over the fields and rice seeds, and the nobles did not dare to resist in the face of many Qianniuwei, and obediently handed over the rice seeds and the abandoned fields to Meng Ge.
Starting from the nobles who were exiled from the royal capital of the city, they did not even let go of their own homes, until the nobles of Baita County, Huangbai County, and Guanghua County, in a flash of five days, five-sixths of the Tian Gong of the entire Wei State fell into Meng Ge, and after getting the Tian Gong, Meng Ge did not keep it, but burned it all, so that the government re-used thin wooden boards to make new Tian Gong.
In this era, there is no appearance of paper, Tian Gong is made of thin wooden boards and the skin of cattle and sheep, because the Wei State is very poor, the leather of cattle and sheep is not enough at all, so it can only be unified with wooden boards, and so that the Wei State has money, or the paper is manufactured, and it is coming to replace!
Meng Ge's actions were all seen by Wei Li and many nobles, Wei Li expressed his satisfaction, and the nobles were eager to eat his meat, stew his bones, drink his blood, dismantle eight pieces, and divide the corpses of five horses!
After this incident, Meng Ge became the common enemy of the nobles of the Wei State, like an enemy of the family, and even his father Meng Yuan was very puzzled why his son did something detrimental to the interests of the family, because Meng Ge confronted the nobles, making him a virtuous minister in the eyes of many people, and Wei Li, as the issuer of the order, harvested the hearts of the people of the entire Wei State!
Time passed slowly, the days passed another five days, the time came to the sixth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Zhengyun, these five days, the people were in full swing, everyone who could go to the ground, regardless of age, all went to the ground to open up the wasteland, night and day, even slept beside the barren field, although it was very cold, but the people's hearts were boiling.
With the joint efforts of nearly 35,000 people across the country, 25,000 acres of barren land were all opened, Wei Ya finally underestimated the people's enthusiasm for the land, originally thought that it could be opened before the beginning of spring, and everything would be fine, but he did not expect that in just five days, 25,000 acres of barren land were all opened.
PS: (Because of writing this paragraph, I specifically called and asked my grandfather, my grandfather is from the countryside, and he has planted fields all his life, I told him about the situation, and he said that 35,000 people are working day and night, and 25,000 acres of barren land can be opened in five days!) )
The time of the beginning of spring is at the end of the first month, around the 25th, and there are still 19 days to go, that is, the people have completed the task 19 days ahead of schedule.
After the barren land was opened, Meng Ge began to hand over the fields, wedges, and rice seeds to the people according to the records of the government at all levels.
Originally, the people were still very apprehensive in their hearts, worried about being deceived by the nobles, so they specially tricked them into opening up the wasteland, but the moment they got the Tian Gong, there was no longer any apprehension, only strong excitement!
Although the barren land has been opened, it does not mean that it can be cultivated, first, because the land has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and the land has become very hard, and it needs to be watered and turned over with water to restore the field to suitable for farming, and then in March and April, it can be planted.
For the next planting, Meng Ge also made a division, 25,000 mu, 5,000 mu planted with "hemp", 10,000 mu with "rice" (glutinous rice), 5,000 mu with "wheat", and 5,000 mu with "soybean".
Millet, millet, wheat, mushroom, hemp, rice, six kinds of staple foods, collectively referred to as grains and grains, Meng Ge only planted four kinds, millet and millet did not grow, because millet and millet have little edible value, often used for winemaking, and the current national conditions of the Wei State, there is no need to plant millet and millet at all.
25,000 acres of land plus 5,000 acres of land of the nobles, a total of 30,000 acres, 30,000 acres can produce 200,000 stone grains per year, of course, because the first year has just been cultivated, the yield may not be very high, will be discounted.
After the land was divided, Meng Ge returned to the palace to resume his life!
At the same time, in the palace and the library pavilion, Wei Li sat on the king's chair with a faint smile on his face, and in front of him stood He Qiu, who was the envoy to the Lu State, and went to the people of various countries to buy grain, grass and horses.
"You guys did a good job, I'm very satisfied!" Wei Ya said with a faint smile and a gentle tone.
The harvest brought by a trip to Lu was really beyond his expectations, not only let King Lu know about the evil deeds of Yu, the prince of the southern kingdom, but also took 5,000 stone of grain and 100 war horses back, and He Qiu also did a good job, selling the treasures of the treasury in exchange for 100,000 stone of grain and 300 war horses.
Maybe the ministers of Wei are not as wasteful as they imagined, and their abilities are not bad, but they don't have a wise monarch.
100,000 stone of grain, if not counting military salaries, Wei State's 2,000 troops, three meals a day, enough to eat for nearly four years, but the price paid is also very large, because this is the wealth accumulated by Wei for hundreds of years.