Currency reform

Gao Yingxiang left, the reason why Gao Yingxiang left was not that Zhao Zi suddenly inserted a lever, then Zhao Zi simply took the governor's money, food and equipment, and couldn't fight.

Gao Yingxiang was forced away by Lu Shi, and the reason was that he engaged in the trick of opening a warehouse and releasing grain, which made Lu Shi unhappy, especially Gao Yingxiang's love for Yichuan, which made Lu Shi lose patience, the last season of spring sowing is about to pass, and the season waits for no one.

Now Lu Shi has regarded Yichuan as something in his pocket, and the big gentry are just that, but the people will never let others get involved, and Gao Yingxiang is too clever to make such a moth, how can he not make Lu Shi annoyed?

So, after Gao Yingxiang opened a fortress again, without waiting for Gao Yingxiang's old tricks to be repeated, Lu Shi's 1,500 cavalry suddenly pressed up and entered a place ten miles away from the headquarters of Gao Yingxiang's brigade.

Ten miles is nothing in peacetime, but when the two armies are fighting, it is equivalent to facing the nose, and a spitting star splashes on the other party's face, and it may be shot at any time.

When Gao Yingxiang got the report of the patrol, he could only sigh, Gao Yingxiang could see that Lu Shimao's child's thoughts, this is someone who is going to unload the mill and kill the donkey, but whether you want to or not, don't be bored with yourself, or according to the tacit agreement between the two families, cross the river and rush to Shanxi for development.

But this time Gao Yingxiang walked very slowly, for no other reason, naturally there were a lot of materials, Yichuan a loot against large households, the income was unimaginable, large cars and small cars, shoulder-to-shoulder, slowing down their speed.

But Lu Shi was anxious but couldn't wait, seeing that it was June, there was still wasteland that had not been restored, and there were displaced people who needed to be resettled, how could you be so slowly consumed? Therefore, Lu Shi sent an administrative officer protected by the militia to Gao Yingxiang and began to carry out rent reduction and interest reduction, resumption of idle land, and resettlement of displaced people.

In fact, this thing is also easy to do, in the eyes of those old wealthy, reducing rent and interest, and paying some protection fees, can ensure that their family is safe and not harassed, that is unwanted, especially when large stocks of high-level thieves are flowing around, this protection fee is not a problem.

In fact, it's still the same sentence, pay some of the protection fees that you still bear, so that those brave and strong people can hurry up to the land to resume farming, and at the same time, those homeless people have become the treasure in everyone's hands, and they are very happy to scramble, for these homeless people, several clans that originally had feuds, and they once fought hard, and in the end, it was still under the mediation of the thief political officer, and there was a lot less bloodshed and disputes.

There is no other reason, the landlords are now worried that the original tenants have fled the famine, and there is no one in their hands, this time it is good, as long as they talk to those homeless people, the land rent is divided into fifty and fifty accounts, and there is no other expense for servitude, and those homeless people are not overjoyed and cry and rejoice.

At that moment, every household immediately settled down in various places, picked up the loan of the army, purchased farm tools and materials, and immediately went to the field to cultivate. No matter how dry the world is, there is a harvest, as long as we hurry up now to plant drought-tolerant millet, there will be yellow and clear millet in autumn, as long as an acre of land produces hundreds of ten catties, to the autumn, to the hand is fifty catties of income, these fifty catties as long as some bark wild vegetables, in the winter to eat a few days less, then let a person live until next year, as long as next year does not miss the agricultural time, plant the potatoes that everyone now has in hand, that is not to die? I heard that this potato has a yield of several thousand catties per mu, my mother, it must not kill people (if they talk to the people in the base area now about eating potatoes at the last meal, they would definitely rather starve to death than support death)

On the main road on the side of a newly reclaimed and recultivated land, a political official and a loan officer of a money bank hurried into the courtyard of a newly resettled homeless person on the side of the road.

The yard is next to the edge of the 30 acres of land that the displaced people have just shared, and against the road, the thatch on the newly built thatched hut is still green, and the so-called yard is just a few branches that are simply circled around, so that the people who are in a hurry know that this is someone's yard. Everything is so rushed and simple.

According to the rules, the army could not enter the courtyard without an owner, so they had to stand in the courtyard, wipe the sweat on their heads from the hurry, and greet the shack, "Is there anyone at home?" Is anyone there? ”

But there was no sound in the courtyard quietly, and he shouted a few times again, seeing that no one answered, the two discussed, and felt that this household should be fine, and said that he was about to leave, ready to rush to the next one. But he didn't want to get a child out of the back of the shack, holding a roasted black potato in his hand, and asked timidly: "Uncle, are you looking for my father?" ”

The administrative officer hurriedly stepped forward, squatted down and said, "It's me, I've been to your house, I want to find your father to verify some more things, what about your father?" ”

"My father is in the field, I brought potatoes for my father, and I took my uncle with me."

So saying, he ran into the hut with his little legs, and after a loud clay noise, the boy came out with a box of potatoes far more than he should have been able to lift, and staggered to the back of the hut.

When the administrative officer and the loan officer saw it, they hurriedly stepped forward, one pulled through the frame, the other picked up the child, and looked at the light body and the child with a leaf, the administrative officer couldn't help but feel sad, these are all newly settled homeless people, what have starved the child into? But that's it, but he also has to do the housework, do his labor close to the limit, this thief, this bastard pole.

Bypassing the thatched hut, there was a sudden widening of hundreds of acres of land stretched out, and in this land, it was already full of men, women, and children, none of whom had straight waists, and all of them were busy farming without saying a word, all planning to grab a little time.

In the figure of the ragged people all over the ground, there are many men and women who are relatively neatly dressed, and they walk among them, constantly handing water diligently. They are all the family members of the landlord, and they have come to oversee the tenants.

Now, however, instead of whips and sticks, they were holding large bowls of jugs, and they kept pouring bowls of water for the sweaty people, and then looked at the original homeless people, and now their tenants were grateful for Dade's drink.

It's still a thief, no, it's a good way to break the king, the original tenants have become homeless, even if the family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, they are all abandoned, and the land that no one cultivates has no output, and now it's okay, the homeless people are coming, although they have reduced the rent, but seeing those abandoned lands replanted again, and there is income again, why are you not happy? At the same time, the government officials did not allow them to beat and scold the tenants again, and asked them to treat them in a different way, that is, to send bowls of water, and as a result, these new tenants worked harder to resume farming, which was much faster than before under the sticks.

The administrative officer and the loan officer came to the man with the child in their arms and a frame, and the man who was working with his head down rushed up in a panic, snatched the child from the administrative officer's arms, and slapped him up: "Do you want to die?" How dare you let the government official hug him? "Maybe he was used to being beaten, and the child just ran to his mother's side and helped with some planting, but he didn't cry.

The man continued to bow and accompany him, and the troublesome administrative officer and loan officer were at a loss, and it took a long time to finish talking about business.

"Big brother." The Governor said.

"Don't dare to call it big brother, just call Xiaomin."

The administrative officer and the loan officer only smiled bitterly, but they didn't explain, or they would have to wait for another half a day, and they would be nervous now.

"Big brother, do you need our help now? If there is, please hurry up and say, I will solve it for you, if not, then I may not come for a long time in the future. ”

"No, no, this is already quite good, this is not the blessing of King Chuang and his old man, otherwise we would have starved to death on the way to escape the famine." After speaking, he also waved in one direction again and again, and his attitude was extremely pious, as if King Chuang was watching him from heaven.

The government official can't help it, if he doesn't let him finish it, then he will have to quarrel again, Xiaomin knows how to be grateful the most, so let this kindness be remembered in his heart.

The administrative officer took a step back, and the loan officer hurriedly stepped forward, took out the account book, glanced at it, and said: "Big brother, according to the account book, your family can still borrow 500 yuan, and still enjoy poverty alleviation and low interest, that is, according to the annual interest stipulated by the base area, see if you still need it?" "Then look at the few potatoes in the box, which will never feed the toiling family." At present, the potatoes in the base area are still bought according to the subsidy of one yuan and ten catties, and then there will be no subsidy in a month. ”

When the man heard this, he shook his hand again and again, "Enough, enough, all the loans were used for farm tools and seed potatoes, and now the potatoes at home will not be a problem until the autumn harvest." ”

It's not that he doesn't need potatoes, it's just that when he thinks of taking out a loan to raise money, in the hearts of simple people, it is the same thing as Hades, and if he is helpless, who would dare to mess with such a thing? Even if King Chuang is kind, no matter how low the interest rate is, it will not work, and it will not be a serious person's life. Now, there are potatoes in the base areas, and those things that the people in the base areas spit out when they think about them are absolutely delicious and precious to those displaced people, and it is no problem to rely on this bumper harvest of potatoes to feed the 300,000 displaced people.

In particular, the Huluyu steel yard has begun to produce a large number of steel, a year to say less than five million catties, which is already nearly half of the output of the entire Ming Dynasty, with steel, then there is the basis of everything.

The development and popularization of iron farming tools has reduced the price of agricultural tools, improved the production efficiency of agriculture, saved a lot of labor, and at the same time, increased the number of reclamation of Huluyu wasteland.

In order to obtain these agricultural tools, the business of the money farm has also increased greatly. In one matter, Lü Shi resolutely rejected the suggestion put forward by Chen Ce and other literati for the first time, that is, to implement the method of buying the hearts and minds of the major dynasties who gave seeds and farm tools to all the ordinary people who entered the base area, and insisted on only issuing loans, but only appropriately reducing the interest on the loans. The reason why he did this, Lu Shi had his own ideas.