Gao Yingxiang's actions were all seen by Lu Shi, but he could only smile bitterly and be helpless.

I already have a tacit understanding with Gao Yingxiang, and we all do our best and take what we need.

But there are pros and cons to everything, and while you need Gao Yingxiang to fight for free land for yourself, you have to endure Gao Yingxiang playing some tricks in front of you and developing and growing, which is also a helpless thing.

But this time Gao Yingxiang blatantly gave himself such a move, which can be regarded as a trick for himself, in the face of the scheme, if you don't want to be rude, then you can only smile bitterly and be patient.

It is not okay to be rude, because Lu Shi does not want to lose his faith in front of the rebels all over the world, and at the same time, keeping Gao Yingxiang can also contain the official army, and everything that is unfavorable to the official army must be used.

"Now, how much "ownerless" open space have we gotten about? Lu Shi fanned the spicy wind with a puff fan, and at the same time fanned the irritability in his heart, and asked Chen Ce, the political officer opposite.

Chen Ce came to Yichuan non-stop, although it was hard, but the interest was high, as soon as he entered Yichuan, he hurriedly took the government personnel to survey the land that has been ownerless, recruited the people to divide the land, and stabilized the place, due to the lack of manpower, they mobilized the militia who entered later, and they were even more day and night, for such work, Chen Ce has been full of experience, and he is not tired of it.

Now to catch up with Lu Shi and the others is to report this matter.

Seeing Lu Shidong asking, he stepped forward, took out the land and population account book sorted out by the secretary and looked at it, and then said excitedly: "This time, we have obtained a total of 310,000 mu of "ownerless" land, and according to the policy, we have settled a total of more than 25,000 people, and paid the land rent directly to us. Speaking of this, he shook his head regretfully and said: "But this year I can't count on it, the season has passed, and I can only chase some millet and buckwheat." ”

Lu Shi nodded, it is now the middle of May, it is already midsummer, even if the windmill is built fast, it is impossible to spread the two river valleys so quickly, not to mention, there are few large rivers in Yichuan, and it is not suitable for large-scale irrigation, so you can only rely on the weather to wait for rain, and then sow some low-yield but drought-tolerant crops, I hope it will be in time.

"Now, what is the mood of the people?" This is what Lu Shi is most concerned about.

Zhao Xing took a step forward and said, "Rejoice, thank you." The words are concise and to the point, but they vividly express the hearts of the people of Yichuan at this time.

"Have you ever seized the time to organize the people to produce?" Lu Shi asked Chen Ce again.

"I have distributed all my manpower, under the protection of a part of the militia, to go through the villages and villages, and mobilize the masses to sow the land that has been divided." Chen Ce reported with a smile: "There is a great drought in the world, the urging is strict, the landlord's field rent is still scary, anyway, whether to plant or not to plant is starvation, many people have abandoned the landlord's land and fled to the famine, and the displaced people are everywhere, as soon as we arrived, we immediately organized them to divide the land and settle down, which also saved a lot of time." ”

"It's a good idea." Lu Shi affirmed this method, "This way we can seize the time to replant crops." ”

Chen Ce nodded and said: "In fact, the people are the most important agricultural affairs, and those fields are in the hands of the landlords, so they don't care, but this time these lands are their own, of course, they can't be abandoned, in fact, they can't wait to start thinking about replanting, especially, the original land is not all abandoned, and there are still green seedlings, as long as people are mobilized to find water and irrigate, they can produce a little bit." ”

"Production first." Lu Shi nodded, this is the foundation for the construction and future development of the base area, and it must not be sloppy.

"There is also the transportation of potatoes, which basically ensures that the people can eat this summer." Chen Ce said that the potato couldn't help but be happy, the original potato disaster, the base government also had to hold a special meeting for this matter, although the conference was serious, but the final result made everyone overjoyed, not only everyone solved the problem of the potato disaster, but also followed by the smooth issuance of IOUs, which made Chen Ce's government affairs easy to do too much, and at the same time foreign trade was reversed at once, not only in the silver and copper coins no longer flowed, but also began a large amount of inflow, now, in the money bank, has been full of silver hard currency, Let Chen Ce and the third uncle talk and do things more confidently.

Sometimes Chen Ce wonders, is his current silver savings already exceeding the dignified household?

Because of the real money, it has also driven the base to purchase from abroad, which is a different kind of prosperity.

"That's right, King Chuang, Grand Commander." Thinking of this, Chen Ce mentioned again: "I also asked the money lenders to follow up this time, and the effect was quite good. ”

Lu Shi smiled and waited for his next step.

Now the money village has entered the formal procedure, and in the development of the base area, played a decisive role, not only completely suppressed the landlord usury to the people, rest the people's power, but also for the base government to bring huge income, although the interest is low but can not stand more, especially after the potato meeting, those workshop owners took the initiative to take out loans, in disguised support for his production and development, with their development and led to the commercial and industrial taxes, in short, a living and virtuous circle.

"As soon as these lending brothers entered the base area, they began to sell their loans, but they also saw the ability of the people here to repay the loans, so they simply adopted a new method to directly shop with loans, hahaha, the result is that these boys did not send out a penny of cash, but they got a large number of small agricultural machinery and windmills, seeds, and so on orders back, which made them suddenly become the fat meat of those workshop owners in the base area like a fly, and they all hoped to get work in their hands."

Looking at Chen Ce's smug smile, Lu Shi couldn't help but be vigilant, and hurriedly stopped Chen Ce's words and said, "Wait, will there be a disguised monopoly that raises prices and hurts farmers?" ”

This is actually the crux of the problem that often occurs between countries in modern society, I give you a loan, but you can't get cash, you can only buy my products, in the end you still owe me money, I also raised the price to earn your profits, this in China at the beginning of the reform and opening up, this loss is big, although now standing in this high position is their own base, but that is not good, after all, now Yichuan is also their own block, can not appear under the same roof, while eating meat, while the phenomenon of deficit.

When Lu Shi said this, Chen Ce became vigilant, this is indeed a problem, he is not as Lu Shi thought, he mainly thinks of greedy ink.

Take the orders obtained in exchange for government loans, and then take these orders to the workshop owners, as long as the upper and lower levels join forces, it will be inevitable to get kickbacks and greedy ink. This has to be guarded against.

Now in the base area, everyone only has ideals and dedication in their hearts, and no one wants to enjoy it for the time being, but as long as life is a little settled, the demand for material desires will follow, and after coveting a mouthful of hot water from the people, they will stay to eat. In fact, all corruption starts at the beginning of a bowl of boiling water, once this thing becomes a habit, it is like a maggot on the tarsal bone that is difficult to give up, and the fall of a dynasty is to put it bluntly, it is all in the beginning of ** corruption.

Such a problem must not arise when the base is newly built.

Zhao Xing took a step forward and frowned: "Such a thing will inevitably happen, and there are only two ways to plug this crux of the problem." ”

Lu Shi admired Zhao Xing's wit very much, and as soon as he said it, he immediately had two solutions, so he asked with interest: "What way?" ”

Zhao Xing said bluntly: "Actually, it's very simple, that is, please ask King Chuang and the administrative officer to order, the loan guarantee is as usual, and the people ask for money or materials, so that there is a comparison, second, I sent the prison sergeant in the money village to strictly investigate those who buy and sell to raise prices, and if they find it, they will not hesitate to kill a hundred people." ”

Zhao Xing's method made Chen Ce and Lu Shi both nod secretly, one step forward, put an end to the monopoly, and after comparison, there is naturally a verification, whether you are up and down, I will see at a glance, it saves a lot of time and effort, and the second step is a bit ruthless, but in troubled times, Lu Shi will certainly not be merciful to the point of no principle.

Chen Ce couldn't help nodding after hearing this suggestion, but he was also secretly worried, this Zhao Xing's hand is getting longer and longer, civil discipline, military discipline, and government discipline are now all supervised by the supervisor sergeant, if the economic lifeline of Qianzhuang is invisibly controlled by him again, then who can control him in the future?

Looking at Zhao Xing now, he is determined to follow King Lu Shi, except for Lu Shi, no one can stop it, others see him not only from avoiding, even if he has to deal with him, he can be brief and brief, in case Lu Shi has an accident one day, or Fan Chao, then who can limit him? The brocade guard reappeared.

No, I have to find a time to find the king to sum it up, divide power, must divide power, a lesson from the past.

Lu Shi didn't expect Chen Ce to do so much, and solve the problem easily, this is what he wanted most, so he said to Zhao Xing: "Then you can arrange manpower and try this method immediately, be fast, you must not appear in the place we just received, and there will be something that makes the people misunderstand and disgust." ”

Zhao Xing bowed, then turned around directly, and whispered to the few prison sergeants who were following him, and the few prison sergeants who were on call at any time immediately turned over and galloped away.

Efficiency, in this young group, is fresh and energetic, and it is a magic weapon against strong opponents.

Looking at the back of the distant prison sergeant, the bored Grand Commander of the Heavenly Star suddenly stood up and said: "Off topic, off topic, we should be talking about Gao Yingxiang's nose and face, how should we deal with it, how can we go to the money bank to borrow money?" ”

Several people were told by Tianxing, they looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing, this is really off topic, and they are still running far away.

Lu Shi hurriedly confessed to Guo Tianxing, and then asked Chen Ce solemnly: "Then we should occupy it in Yichuan, no, how much area do we actually control?" This is what Lu Shi is most concerned about.

Chen Ce didn't digress at this time, and hurriedly reported: "Together with the people who have settled down, as well as the landlords who have been subdued, we have occupied the west, south, and north of Yichuan, and we are left with the east of Yichuan." ”

Lu Shi slapped his hands and said loudly: "Okay, this has completely achieved our goal, and now, Gao Yingxiang's good days are over." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, waiting for Lu Shi's arrangement.

"Zhao Xing, you send a sergeant to deliver a message to Geng Kui, who is ten miles away behind you, and transfer those 5,000 spearmen to the front line to join us."

"Yes."

"We are now advancing ten miles forward, pressing Gao Yingxiang to speed up the march to the Yellow River, and let him quickly cross the river."

All the generals bowed together and said, "Yes." ”