In the twilight, the sound is silenced.

Dia Bird took the reins of the horse, glanced at the passing water behind him, and then looked back, the laughter of the white mountains and black water was still echoing in his ears, as if he was electing himself to be the hustle and bustle of Warig, as if Abba had led him through the streets of the past, as if he was still reading aloud with his classmates in the school, as if when the twilight came, he sat on the threshold of his old house and imagined his future life, as if he was still wrestling with a group of friends in the snow. It was like a gentleman's laughter and scolding when he taught himself, but all of this was forever left yesterday, and he knew that his youth was gone forever.

A kind of deep penetration into the bone marrow followed, and he unconsciously groaned: "The son is said on the river, and the deceased is like a husband." Honestly expect me. ”

This time when he came back, he didn't plan to go back to Yuyang first, but wanted to go to Yunzhou and Youzhou first to take a look, the war is coming, although he doesn't want to send troops on a large scale, but the war has always been a vicious dog, untie the chains, and can no longer take it back, this kind of war to destroy the country, he doesn't know how big it will be and how long it will be fought. Before he set out on the expedition, he was eager to take this opportunity to learn about the living conditions of ordinary people and ask them about their attitude to the war.

Next, he planned to go to see if the Guangwu warehouse he built in Huangzhong had any black holes left by ant gnawing and rat bites, and then go to the North Plains to see if it was prosperous on the surface and whether the tax amount was fraudulent; Although the government cabinet, the business cabinet, the internal government department, and the state government department have all reported to the government treasury and granaries in various places, they can't disbelieve it, and they can't believe it all, at least they must personally inspect one or two, so that they know it in their hearts.

Three years ago, the Dongxia coins were minted, and the national money bank was established two years ago.

In the end, he wanted to give a lecture in Huangpu, talk about respecting the king, say that the establishment of the Eastern Xia country is inseparable from the support of the imperial court, and say that he has the obligation to attack the Chen State with the imperial court, so as to build momentum for the war. Next, he wanted to hide his identity and go to Beizhou, Mr. Yanfeng of Ashitian, who was more than seventy years old on his fingers, and met him last year, and quietly sneaked into Beizhou to see him, holding his hand and not letting him go. This time, he can still be used as one of the think tanks to give himself some opinions for reference, and when he comes back, he should talk to his own Fengyue Master.

He thinks in the dark, and the horse's hooves stagger on their own. Seeing that it was not early, the companions persuaded him, "Don't hesitate any longer, the king." If you don't hurry, you won't be able to enter the town. ”

He had no intention of living in the town, so he said, "It doesn't matter where you go, since it's on our land, you can stay overnight everywhere." ”

In this way, they believed in the reins, and it was dark for another hour before they approached a settlement.

In order to maintain the balance of various ethnic groups and respect the nomadic customs as much as possible, Dongxia still retained a part of the people in the army, so that they could be organized as units, or nomadic herding, or semi-settled, or worked for the mines, or had not yet recovered their freedom, and for the Goolan people, all of them had to be arranged by the military government to arrange corresponding camps, which were called military towns, also known as flag brigades, with one commander and one military record, and three to five arrow commanders.

But most places have set up counties, the county has a township record, three offices for repair, a record officer, a supervisor, three to ten township elders, and one Ma Cheng, who is in charge of the hometown, the supervisor is responsible for farming and nomadism, the township elders participate in politics, Ma Cheng trains young and strong, arrests thieves, and the township elders are filled by people of reputation and integrity, and Ma Cheng is played by a lord of rank or above who has retired from the army.

The governor was the highest, and his salary was eighty stones; The clerk enjoys the treatment of a low-level counselor, and the salary is 50 stones, and Ma Cheng is at the same level as the commander in the army, and the salary is 60 stones; The villagers were elected and elected, and they served as the arrow commanders, and they did not receive the salary, and they had nothing to discuss, and they had nothing to go.

In other words, the smallest administrative unit of the Eastern Xia was an arrow.

Under this unit, there is often a clan, more than a dozen relatives, and old acquaintances, but each township has all kinds of arrows, so as to form a pattern of small settlements and large mixed people.

They have the right to use a certain piece of grassland or cultivated land for a certain number of years, lease the pasture and cultivated land to some people who have spare energy to graze and cultivate, or lease it to the county, and they also operate a part of it independently, and the military government arranges for the service of the Goolan people on their behalf.

The place they came to was a village directory.

Dia Bird did not allow everyone to reveal their identities, and went straight to a house, knocking on the door to stay overnight.

The family opened the door, and when they heard that they were going to stay overnight, they looked back at the small courtyard surrounded by their fence and the number of houses they could count on one hand, and suddenly made a difficulty, and the father in his fifties heard them say that he was going to Gao Xian on business, and without saying a word, while letting the family greet him, he put on his clothes and went to look for the arrow.

Dia Bird went to their house and sat down, gave them some money, and asked them to get some tea and food, and they talked with their young man in his early twenties.

After asking, they are a family of seven. Mother in her early fifties is already a little confused, early in the backyard to sleep, in addition to the parents, the family has three boys, a girl and a grandson, divided into 70 acres of land, there is a man in Liucheng as a soldier, is a long soldier, because he is already a knight above the eighth level, and served as a leader, the court gave Yu Lu and a place to live, so he took his daughter-in-law and son to Liucheng, the eldest daughter of the family has been married, but the land is left at home, the offspring is the second, the county has to work, the old * to work. Asked about the harvest and life, the latter said that last year's harvest was good, bought the seeds selected by the government, an average of 270 catties of coarse and fine grain per acre of land, a total of 19,000 catties of grain, 180 catties per mu of land when the grain was delivered, 6 catties of fine grain per acre, 420 catties, the family sold a full 15,000 catties, 15 cents, except for the family to buy seeds, repair farm tools, dress and eat tea to improve life, the net income is about 10 catties.

The copper coins of Eastern Xia have a higher price, equivalent to twelve or three taels of silver.

Hou Sheng said that now the family is worried that the 70 acres of land are too tired to plant, plus last year's savings, the eldest father wants to buy another cow, and also wants to marry him a daughter-in-law.

Dia Niao asked about the market price of the cattle, only to know that the cattle were worth more than 50 taels, and the cattle cost about 80 taels to plough the cattle on a good shelf, and many people got rich by renting cattle.

He thought that he had established a country with animal husbandry and farming, but he did not expect that the price of cattle was more than fifty taels of silver, and as far as he knew, the price of ordinary horses in Dongxia did not exceed forty taels, and he controlled the smuggling of horses and concentrated trade with the imperial court, and the price of the sale was three times, but only about one hundred and twenty taels, which was about one hundred and twenty taels, which had a great impact on the Jingkang horse market and pulled the price of horses in their own country to less than one hundred taels.

But this situation can also be understood, horses are not as good as cattle, the number of arable land has surged, resulting in high cattle prices, cattle are not sheep, a litter of several, it is difficult to reproduce in a short time.

Is it possible that you want to sell horses and buy cattle at a high price?

He pondered for a moment and said, "What about the cattle from the north of the grassland, over there in Gaoxian?" Doesn't the government know how to go to the grassland to harvest cattle? ”

Hou Sheng said: "A cultural staff member mentioned to the government that the county also organized manpower and asked the military government to send people to the north together, but those cattle were raw cattle, and they didn't listen to the call and hurt people." Who buys it. Only meat can be eaten. He said, "No cows." Seventy acres of land can exhaust my grandfather to death. Now, my mother is confused, my sister is married, and there is no cow to waste ten acres of land next year. Alas. If you want me to say, let's marry a daughter-in-law first. The daughter-in-law can still work when she comes. ”

Dia Bird nodded.

He's remembered.

This problem is not a small problem, a big problem, once the war breaks out, there are no cattle, how can men be liberated to fight?

Just thinking about it, the thirty-year-old arrow chief has been found.

He spoke to the big dad outside with a loud voice: "I talked about buying cattle again, but I can't buy it." If we can buy it, let's buy it with all the money. Money is a trivial matter, the township held a meeting, saying that the county has set up a government-run money bank, and the loan only needs a fraction of a dead interest, and the money is not enough, we can all find the government to borrow, the key is that we can't buy cattle. I think you should still save the money to the money bank for the second son to marry, more than twenty years old, you can't get married. Then he asked, "What about the guest?" A few people, show me, and I'll take them to each house...... Also, I'll tell you again, your family is also ready, it's about to spring ploughing, don't forget to grab water together when the time comes, Lord Ma Cheng is facing us, we are his old subordinates, he said let the upstream release the water according to the side, and when the upstream refuses, we will do it for him. We fought with the king back then, and when the time came, we couldn't beat them with some fur hats, and if we didn't have water, we could lose the dead. ”

Dia Bird was another agitator: "Is the water the same as the cow, although Huangxi is not high and rainy, but there should be no shortage of water." ”