Chapter 13: The Captain of the Hunting Brigade

The time entered April of the twentieth year of Yanxi of Shu Han. The new Fuling County Taishou Guan Yi Guan Zifeng issued a series of orders.

First Command: Evil Water Removal Order.

The ancients did not know why drinking Wujiang water directly for a long time would cause abdominal pain, as a crosser, Guan Yi was a door: because the mountains in the Wujiang River basin are mainly limestone slightly soluble in water, there is too much calcium carbonate in the water of Wujiang River. Long-term direct drinking, of course, the human body will produce a variety of stones. The pain of gallstones and kidney stones is not much worse than the pain of a woman giving birth, or even more so.

In modern society, waterworks use a variety of methods to allow these minerals to precipitate. Of course, Guan Yi can't do it in this era. However, after simply boiling the water, most of the calcium carbonate in the water will adhere to the inner wall of the container, which also achieves the purpose of reducing the mineral content. Therefore, the main content of Guan Yi's order to eliminate evil water is: everyone should drink boiled water, not raw water. Drinking boiled water not only makes it less likely to get abdominal pain caused by various stones, but also reduces the spread of various infectious diseases.

This bureaucratic system of Shu Han was established by Zhuge Liang. Overall, it is relatively clean and efficient. Although this bureaucratic system has slowly degenerated over the years with Chen Yuan's inaction and Huang Hao's chaotic government, at least for now, the common people of Shu Han are still willing to believe and obey the government. Only a few days after the newcomer Taishou took office, he proposed a solution to the bad water, and although the people did not particularly believe it, they still carried it out honestly.

Second Command: Collect Fern Root Order

The ultimate killer to solve the food problem in Fuling County is, of course, the super potato that crossed over with Guan Yi. But there are cycles in the growth of crops. Even if Guan Yi built a small greenhouse regardless of the cost, let the potatoes keep growing. But now after all, the time is too short, after he arrived in Fuling County, under the four potato seedlings that cost a lot of money, a total of 35 potatoes were harvested. So he divided the thirty-five potatoes into one hundred and forty pieces and planted them again.

But that's all it could be in the first half of the year. The environmental requirements for potatoes to develop underground are: the temperature of the underground soil should not exceed 25 degrees. So in the first half of this year, there will be a maximum of one harvest. More than 1,000 potatoes in the sky. Still unable to grow on a large scale. The food problem in Fuling County needs to be solved urgently. What to do?

Thanks to "A Bite of China", Guan Yi knew that the juice of fern roots was also rich in starch. is edible. And what about this place in Fuling County? Due to the thin soil layer and poor water storage, there are very few tall trees. But there really aren't too many things like fern roots.

In the order to collect fern roots, Guan Yi describes in detail how to distinguish bracken, how to search for its roots, how to obtain starch from its roots, and how to convert starch into edible bracken.

Bracken, as a wild vegetable. In Fuling County, where the food self-sufficiency rate is seriously insufficient, it has always been one of the staple vegetables used by local residents to feed their stomachs. But people in this era still don't know that compared to the root of the bracken, the bracken is not worth mentioning at all. It can be said that as soon as the order to collect fern roots came out, the prestige of the new Taishou was erected at once. The previous order was also better enforced.

The third order: to rectify the county military order.

The output of Fuling County is very small, and the roads are impassable, although it borders Eastern Wu, it is impossible to pass through the large army. Therefore, although the aborigines and Han people rebelled one after another, the Shu Han government was not willing to station a large number of troops here - the gains outweighed the losses. It was really the rebels here who made too much trouble, so they mobilized the Yongan Regiment in Padang County nearby to suppress it. Therefore, there were only 150 permanent soldiers in Fuling County.

This time, several eldest sons came out to do things, and the heads of the families on the CD side attached great importance to it and strongly supported it. So a few sons and brothers brought a lot of generals' things over. Guan Yi gathered the generals of each family and handed them over to Liao Yong for training and formation. In the end, after the old and weak, and the soldiers were eliminated. Got five hundred capable soldiers.

The tax revenue of the Shu Han Dynasty inherited from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and one-fifteenth of the grain produced was levied as a field tax every year. In recent years, military spending has become larger and larger, so an additional 10 yuan per mu in cash has been charged. In addition, there are household taxes, calculation taxes, oral taxes, etc. To tell the truth, the looting of ordinary people is still quite cruel. Basically, two-thirds of the annual income of ordinary people will be scraped away every year.

But even so, in Fuling County, a small remote county with only a little more than 130,000 acres of registered land and a registered population of more than 20,000. The amount of money and food that can be scavenged is also very limited. Moreover, most of the money and grain looted from this loot had to be directly transferred to Padang County by water to support the 10,000 standing soldiers of the Yongan Legion. Those who really stay in Fuling County will only have 12,000 stone of grain and about 50,000 yuan a year.

Moreover, this is still a theoretical value!

In fact, due to the raiding of the local aborigines, the harm of various wild beasts, and various natural and man-made disasters, this theoretical value has never been realized.

With this amount of money and food, it is already very difficult to maintain more than 300 civil servants (including county soldiers) in Fuling County, and now Guan Taishou has directly expanded the county soldiers to 500 people, if he doesn't want to find a way to make a living, he will go bankrupt in less than three months!

Therefore, Guan Yi had the cheekiness to explain to a few of his friends: Taishoufu is only responsible for the salaries of one hundred and fifty county soldiers. The extra three hundred and fifty salaries, each family must bear a little - Ben Taishou takes the lead, you follow, and all of everyone's money will be confiscated. As for the other generals, maids, and retinues brought by your sons, I'm sorry, please be responsible for yourself - in a word, everyone who comes to this poor place to be an official will either go to live that kind of hard and simple life, or put money into it yourself!

It can be said that what he brought was a group of sons who were not bad for money, still very young, hot-blooded, and easy to fool. If a group of middle-aged uncles rely on this one, their subordinates will rebel collectively!

Of course, Guan Yi also knows very well that the days of this subtraction cannot be too long-lasting. If a place wants to develop, the subtraction of throttling is only a means, and its purpose is to concentrate limited forces and do addition-open source!

So there was a fourth order: the order to hunt beasts.

The newly formed 500 county soldiers were divided into three teams. Each team ranges from 160 to 180 people. Guan Yi, Zhang Zun, and Zhao Yi led the team respectively. For a period of 10 days, a team is sent into the mountains to hunt in each period. The remaining two teams trimmed and trained by Liao Yong.

This is an organized, long-term hunting by the government.

As an agricultural student, Guan Yi actually pays attention to ecological protection. But in such an environment where the power of beasts is greater than that of humans, the meaning of ecological protection has become to eliminate beasts and protect humans. It is different from the spring not to hunt in the spring, so as not to hit the old and starve to death. Guan Yi was going to hunt in the spring: the beasts at this time had been hungry for a winter, and it was the weakest time. And their cubs have just been born, and if they beat the old ones, the small ones will naturally starve to death. It can be said that it is precisely with the least effort to get the maximum gain. Moreover, Guan Yi's major before crossing was seed cultivation. But as a student at the College of Agriculture, he also knows some basic knowledge about animal husbandry - wild boar cubs are very interesting!

Of course, Guan Yi's subordinates were not too interested in Guan Yi's order, especially Chen Shou, Li Mi, Ma Guo and others all thought that it was enough for Zhang Zun and Zhao Yi to lead the team to hunt, and it was too much for Meng Lang to go into battle in person, but Guan Yi not only listened, but also happily added a new title to himself: Captain of the Fuling County Hunting Brigade.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the first few orders of the Taishou Mansion have been issued, and how are they being implemented? I will trouble you to urge the people a lot. These general affairs are not patient to get it. Besides, Yi doesn't just go hunting. Whether my Fuling County can make a fortune in the future depends on these fierce beasts in the mountains. ”

Then, Guan Taishou did not listen to the persuasion and led the team into the mountain. Of course, before entering the mountain, he finally got Chen Shou's reminder and wrote letters to the imperial court, Zhuge Zhan, Jiang Wei, Qian Zhou, Liao Hua and others one by one, explaining the situation after his arrival and the purpose of issuing new orders. The official document promoting Ma Guo to work in the Taishou Mansion was also sent out.

In addition, he wrote a lot of letters home to send home. In this large pile of family letters, there is a recipient named Liu Ling.