After the New Year, it came to the beginning of April, when the weather became warmer, the earth recovered, the rivers thawed, and the residual snow weathered; People everywhere are starting to prepare for the new year's farming.

Liu Yi, who came through the so-called "people take food as the sky", was well aware of the importance of food for social stability, so as early as the beginning of March, when the river was civilized, he did not hesitate to dispose of many large households in the county, turned all private land into public ownership, and based on the experience of his previous life, promulgated a new land law similar to the "household contract responsibility system".

Liu Yi turned all the private land of large households into public ownership, and then implemented the sub-lease policy of "dividing production to households" according to the number of heads of each household, leasing the land to the people, so that every household has land to plant, and only 50 percent of the grain needs to be handed over every year, although the proportion is very high, but in that era of "vast land and sparse population", 50 percent of the grain was enough for each family to reach the level of food and clothing. Not only that, Liu Yi also organized the military and civilians to open up the wasteland together, so that each family got a lot of land.

In business, Liu Yi also encourages the people to do business, for some good business projects, Liu Yi will also carry out a certain degree of financial support, and Liu Yi also promised to exempt from three months of business tax from March to May every year, under such a generous policy, many foreign traders have come to Zhuo County, purchase real estate, open shops, not only for Zhuo County to bring a lot of high-quality population but also to drive the economy of the entire Zhuo County, Liu Yi every month from the traders to collect business tax is enough to feed an army of tens of thousands of people.

The shops in Zhuoxian County are not only privately opened, Liu Yi also set up a daily necessities manufacturing factory on the basis of the Arsenal Division, which is responsible for building pots and pans and hoes and shovels and rakes needed for the people's lives, these things do not require too high building technology, those apprentices of the Arsenal Division usually build these things to exercise their building skills, Liu Yi usually sells those ordinary weapons and surplus living iron tools at market prices to several nearby counties that lack the ability to build, so that The cost of the Arsenal Division's research on high-quality weapons does not need Liu Yi to pay out of his own pocket, and at the same time, the county magistrates of the other counties need to buy iron tools from Liu Yi, so they have more respect for Liu Yi.

Liu Yi also opened restaurants in Zhuoxian County and several neighboring counties with good friendships, and the restaurants were opened in the name of private individuals, but the real behind-the-scenes bosses were Cui Si, and the shopkeepers and men of each restaurant were Cui Si's subordinates, and the reason why Liu Yi let Cui Si take charge of these restaurants was to facilitate Cui Si to inquire about the news in various places, after all, in this era, the tavern was a place where the three sects and nine streams often gathered, so it was also the easiest place to obtain information. Don't look at him on weekdays, but that's just the money given to others, the money earned by his own restaurant, Cui Si is very stingy, he is reluctant to buy a new dress on weekdays, he lives like a rich man who doesn't pull out a dime, when Liu Yi asks him for money every month, this kid has to cry hard, but Liu Yi will not fall for him, every time he will come to the restaurant for 80% of the profits, even so, Cui Si is still the richest person among Zhang Fei's people.

In terms of military affairs, because Liu Yi recruited soldiers to Zhang Fei's team a few years ago, Zhang Fei already has an army of 1,000 people, and this army has nearly 200 veterans at the beginning of Liu Yi, and now they have been promoted to cavalry, and the rest of the newly recruited are still infantry for the time being, after nearly two months of hard training, although these soldiers are not the opponents of the scorpion troops, but the combat ability should not be underestimated. Several groups of bandits on the nearby mountains were encircled and suppressed, and after several bloody battles, this team gradually had the bloody nature that a soldier should have.

In order to prevent the assassination from happening again, Zhang Fei personally selected several soldiers who were excellent in all aspects to Liu Yi as a bodyguard, and continued to protect Liu Yi for Wang San.

The scorpion army, the trump card force in Liu Yi's hand, has also expanded by fifty people under the leadership of Yao Lie, and the extra thirty or so people are selected from Zhang Fei's team, and some of them are recruited by Yao Lie when he was fighting against the Hu people, those people are Han people who have been taken captive by the Hu people to be slaves, and after Yao Lie rescued these people, some of the best skills were collected by Yao Lie.

After a few months of fighting, Yao Lie and others' scorpion troops have also broken out of their prestige in Xianbei, often a small group of Hu people run around as soon as they see Yao Lie and others' scorpion banners, and a large group of Hu people will chase after seeing the scorpion troops, and they all want to kill Yao Lie and others to go back to ask for merit, so Yao Lie and others often face the embarrassing situation of either having no rod to fight or being chased everywhere.

Yao Lie has not been back since he came out after the New Year, usually through Cui Si to report the situation to Liu Yi and others, I don't know if it is a prank or Yao Lie is really a bit psychopathic, since he went back a year ago, Yao Lie has a habit, every time he reports his achievements to Liu Yi, he will send Liu Yi back a bag of Hu people's fingers, which makes Liu Yi cry and laugh.

On this day, Liu Yi was discussing with Ma Xiancheng in Fuzhong about this year's spring planting.

"Ma Lao, we opened a lot of wasteland some time ago, and we see that there is less than a month to farm, and now there are still many people who have no seeds to plant! What do you think you can do? Liu Yi said with some distress.

At present, Liu Yi's side can only be regarded as a strategist, the only one who can be regarded as a strategist, although Ma Xiancheng is not a resourceful person, but after all, he is so old and well-informed, so Liu Yi will discuss anything with him.

Ma Xiancheng drank the tea handed by the maid while thinking about countermeasures.

"Now most of the grain in our hands is the old grain supported by the counties, and the seeds left by the people last year were all collected by Sun Fei before leaving.

Liu Yi heard Ma Xiancheng say that he still had to find Liu Yu to help him, so he hurriedly waved his hand and shouted, "No, no!" Last year, we defrauded the counties of so much food in the name of Lord Thorn Shi, although the Thorn Shi did not blame, but it also caused a lot of criticism, let's go to trouble people again, I'm afraid it's not good, besides, we jumped to find Lord Thorn Shi without the permission of the county guard last year, which has made the county guard unhappy, if it weren't for Lu Duyou saying good things in front of the county guard, I'm afraid I wouldn't be a county magistrate now! ”

"Then let's go to Lord Assassin for help this time, if the county guard doesn't help us, it's not too late for us to ask Lord Thorn Shi for help!"

"That's fine! But this should be done as soon as possible! If you delay farming, it will be too late for anything! ”

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he found the housekeeper Wang and asked him to take out a large amount of gold and silver from the treasury and prepare to send it to the county seat together.

Seeing this, Ma Xiancheng was puzzled: "My lord, what are you doing?" We are asking for help, how did it become a gift? ”

"Let's just think of it as a ruined fortune to avoid disaster!" Liu Yi smiled helplessly.

After everything was ready, Liu Yi arranged for Cui Si to go to Zhuo County with a hundred left-behind soldiers, the reason why Cui Si was allowed to go was because Zhang Fei and Wang San were leading troops to suppress bandits at this time, and it happened that Cui Si was idle at home and he was still in a relationship with Lu Duyou as a righteous father and son, so it was appropriate to let him go at will.

When the Zhuojun Taishou Liu saw the boxes of money brought by Cui Si, his face bloomed with joy, and the dissatisfaction with Liu Yi in his heart was swept away, and he happily agreed to Liu Yi's request.

Cui Si only stayed for two days at the Ludu Post Office in the county town and hurried back.

Liu Yi heard Cui Si say that Liu Junshou only verbally promised and did not let him bring back the seeds, knowing that he was being scolded, but there was no way, Liu Yi didn't expect Liu Junshou to help, so after Cui Si left, Liu Yi began to order people to collect seeds at high prices in nearby counties, although the price was very attractive, but after all, it was about the rations of the next year, so even under the temptation of heavy money, few people still sold seeds.

Liu Yi was helpless, and finally could only write another letter of help to Liu Yu, the assassin.

A few days later, Liu Yu received a letter from Liu Yi asking for help, at this time Liu Yu was discussing political affairs with his subordinates, and after seeing Liu Yi's letter, he couldn't help but smile and said, "This Zhuo County magistrate is really interesting, every time he makes some requests that I can't refuse" After speaking, he also passed the letter to the public and read it.

Among them, the one who said bad things about Liu Yi in front of Liu Yu last year, after reading the letter, he couldn't help but provoke: "This person is seeing that the adults love the people, so this time I want to ask the adults for help in the name of the people, even if the adults agree to this person's request this time, it is not known whether these seeds can reach the hands of the people at that time!" Please think twice! ”

"Hey~ You don't always think of people so badly!" After Liu Yu finished speaking, he arranged for his subordinate in charge of agricultural affairs to prepare seeds.

In late April, the seeds supported by Liu Yu were finally delivered to Zhuo County, and Liu Yi and the others looked at the grain seeds that were enough to be cultivated this year, and their hearts were very happy, and their hearts were full of gratitude to Liu Yu.

Liu Yi remembered the tragic ending of Liu Yu in the book of his previous life, and secretly made up his mind that if he had the strength in the future, he must protect Liu Yu in order to repay the kindness of these few times in the snow.

After Liu Yi distributed the seeds to the people in the county for free, Zhang Fei and Wang San, who happened to go out to lead troops to suppress bandits, came back, this time it was another victory, although there were wounded soldiers every time, but few soldiers died, which reflected the benefits of high-intensity training in peacetime.

This year's spring is warmer early, so Liu Yi is ready to cultivate more than a dozen hectares of military land out of the wasteland early, Liu Yi let everyone rest for two days, and then took everyone to cultivate the military field out of the wasteland, at this time most of the people have not been busy with farming, so many people have spontaneously come to help, some bring their own ploughing cattle to come, and those who do not plough cattle will bring the whole family to help, and the entire military field is filled with the warm atmosphere of "military and civilian family".

At the beginning of May, the people also began to farm, and Liu Yi also took the soldiers to help in various households, and for a time Liu Yi's reputation spread again in Zhuo County and surrounding counties.