The autumn breeze is gentle.

The emperor changed into a white Confucian shirt today, and took Monk Xu to the Shaolin Temple together, accompanied by only dozens of guards, and Yulin rode far away to follow ten miles away.

"Your Majesty, why are you in the mood to go to Songshan today?" Monk Xu asked suspiciously.

"When you come out, call me Goro."

"Yes, Goro."

"Actually, I just want to come out and take a look, in the past few years, I have been busy, busy feet on the ground, I think I have done a lot of things that should be done, but Ma Zhou told me that many of the things I do are not what I should do now, and said that in fact, some things have made everyone unhappy, so I wanted to come out and take a look and see the real situation below."

The reform of Buddhism and Taoism is also a matter that the emperor is more anxious to do, and he now wants to see how the Shaolin Temple has changed, whether it has changed, and how the local people view it.

From Luoyang to Songshan, the official road is very wide and flat, Luo Cheng rode a horse all the way, very carefully observed this road, sometimes, look at the development and governance of a place, just look at the road can be seen.

The road was widened a few years ago, but after a few years, the road surface is still very smooth, and the ditches on the side of the road are also seen to be regularly repaired.

"Goro, it's dusty on the road, why don't you change the carriage?"

"No, a little dust is nothing." Luo Cheng didn't care, even if the road was good in these years, dust was always inevitable, especially after a long time of sunny, the road surface was dusty, and when a little wind blew, people were covered in soil, so there was a wind and dust.

And during the rainy season, the road surface can be muddy.

If the road is not repaired in time, there will be potholes, and some roads can even reach the calf when the road is turned over. But on this road, along the way, what I saw was that there were no potholes, and it was obvious that there were newly filled gravel and sand in many places, which were obviously the pits that were filled later.

The fields by the roadside were not barren.

Even after the autumn harvest, you can see the wheat stubble left in those fields.

In some fields, winter wheat has already been planted, and a layer of green can be seen.

There are also radish growers and rape growers.

"Is this land planted diligently, and the soil strength can keep up?" Luo Cheng asked.

"Goro, after all, this is around Luoyang, near Gyeonggi. Therefore, the water conservancy facilities in the fields here are better, and the agricultural products here do not worry about selling and transporting, so everyone will try to use the land as much as possible, and as for the land resources, the people will also compost and make fertilizer. ”

"It's just that the Taifu Temple in Luoyang City has hundreds of thousands of yuan a year just for selling horse manure, and this money goes into the small treasury of the Taifu Temple, and all the temple supervisors are the richest." One of the housekeepers who followed Luo Cheng's side was Li Xian, the commander of the Imperial City Division.

Taifu Temple is in charge of the world's horses, and Luoyang, as the capital, has a large number of horses and many horse farms, so these horse manure has become a big additional income for them.

In recent years, the imperial court has also attached great importance to agricultural technology, such as the Quyuan plow, the manure method, etc., have gradually become popular, and the fields around Luoyang have few fields that are rotated and fallow, generally two seasons a year, or intercropping, to increase the yield as much as possible.

However, there is no chemical fertilizer in these years, so we can only rely on more primitive methods, such as manure is the most effective method, and there are also grass and wood ashes, pond mud, etc., which are also very fertile.

Because of this, the horse manure of Taifu Temple is sold to dung merchants or people around Luoyang, and it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

And there are even many special dung merchants in Luoyang City, they are divided into sections, sub-district contracting, take the initiative to build and contract public toilets in the streets, and pay people to collect night incense and pour toilets every morning, and dig pits for Luoyang for free.

And to do this, you have to pay taxes to the imperial court, but there are still many people who want to rush to do it, so they can only contract, and they have to compete every two or three years.

Of course, no one will do it early if there is no profit, and no one will do it if there is no profit.

The industry known as night incense is not low in profits.

The people have a high demand for fertilizer, which can increase grain production without fallow rotation, so fertilizer means food means money.

The manure collected by the manure will be transported to the fertilizer processing factory outside the city, fermented, dried, and then mixed into plant ash, yellow mud, etc., and finally made into bags of dry bulk fertilizer, this fertilizer is easy to transport and fertilize, will not burn roots and the like, can be used directly, and the effect is extremely strong.

The people will also settle accounts, although it costs money to buy fertilizer, but the yield of the land that has been fertilized is far higher than the input, so everyone is happy to buy fertilizer, and they usually find ways to compost and compost, and buy it again if it is not enough.

Because of the large demand for manure, Luoyang is even hard to find.

Now at the gate of Luoyang City, there are even special people who distribute dung pockets to those cattle and horses who enter the city for free to collect animal dung.

Even the garbage in the vegetable market, such as fish and livestock offal, is collected, then taken back to cook, and then added a lot of seasoning, and finally processed into fertilizer.

In addition, rapeseed oil cake residues, soybean oil cake residues, these residue cakes left after juicing, have also become good materials for fertilizer.

Luo Cheng observed carefully and found that even on this rural official road, there will be a public toilet every other section, which is completely free, and even toilet chips will be provided.

This is all built by the people on their own initiative to take dung, but even this public toilet does not have to be repaired if you want to, because this official road has a special person to manage, to repair the public toilet, first of all, you have to be far away to repair one, and secondly, you have to repair it according to a unified standard, and you can't just build a shed.

"Gorou, you may not know, now those night incense walkers, in order to be able to get the support of the people, so that they can compete for the right to contract again in the next year, they will go to the latrine once every ten years, and it is absolutely clean, and even bring some melons, fruits and vegetables to the residents every time."

Luo Cheng smiled, "This is a good thing, the people have convenience, so they don't have to clean it up by themselves, and it's not convenient, and those who are in the night incense line get the night incense they want, a win-win situation." ”

Luo Cheng deliberately found a public toilet halfway through, and found that it was really clean.

"It seems that the people have also begun to work hard in the direction of intensive cultivation, which is a good thing." Luo Cheng sighed greatly, in a place like Luoyang, even if the imperial court repeatedly introduced various policies such as restricting mergers and acquisitions, there were still few people after all.

"Nowadays, the people in Luoyang and nearby have thirty or forty acres of land for an ordinary family, and there is more land for the families of the soldiers."

Thirty or forty acres of land, if according to the traditional way of farming, can only barely support the family, because of the traditional way, just extensive planting, extensive cultivation, watching the sky to eat.

But now, the people began to plough deeply, firstly, with cattle and horses, and secondly, with the method of fertilizing the fields, and the water conservancy facilities in the fields here in Luoyang are better, so the yield has been greatly increased.

Originally, one acre of land was about one stone, but now one acre of land can produce about two stones, and even another season can be planted with others, such as millet or soybeans or radishes, etc., and the actual harvest has increased a lot.

On the whole, now the investment is larger, and the energy is more spent, but one acre of land has almost the same income as two or even three acres in the past.

However, when Luo Cheng heard that ordinary people, one household is thirty or forty acres of land, it was still more complicated.

There is a dynastic cycle in history, saying that a dynasty is two or three hundred years, there will be a periodicity, the collapse of the old dynasty, and the birth of a new dynasty.

The biggest problem is that after two or three hundred years, the population of the dynasty increased greatly, but the land was seriously annexed, and the land eventually became the biggest fundamental contradiction, and the court was unable to solve it, so when it encountered a natural disaster or a major war, it would completely collapse and perish, and then until the birth of a new dynasty, a new round of land distribution adjustment began, and then it could continue for two or three hundred years.

"A household of thirty or forty acres of land is still a little less, but if the intensive cultivation method here in Luoyang can be promoted, it can greatly reduce the contradictions of some land."

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