Li Siqing took a long wooden pole with a sharp lower end, stuck it in the soil on the bank of the river, and let go of the small flag at the top of the wooden pole. The two eunuchs pushed the carts along the banks of the river in both directions.

At this time, Li Siqing pointed with his hand, and a group of eunuchs came over with Qingzhuang, and one of the eunuchs said: "Facing this flagpole, go inside, and clear a way." Another eunuch held Sinan in his hand and walked forward cautiously, while the young men behind him followed with a long wooden pole on their backs, and when the eunuch pointed his hand, he stuck the wooden pole in the ground.

In addition to the eunuch who pushed the cart, there were two eunuchs walking on both sides of the cart with long wooden poles. The eunuch of the cart counted the numbers, and the eunuch next to him was careful not to deviate too much from the direction of the cart.

When the eunuch of the cart counted four hundred and eight, he stopped, and the eunuch next to him stuck the long wooden pole on the ground and let go of the small flag, and then a group of eunuchs led people to the flagpole and began the process of clearing the road.

Bi Zisu couldn't see it, so he was not ashamed to ask, and said to Li Siqing: "Team Li, is this car for the sake of calculating the length of the car?" “

Li Siqing replied: "Lord Qincha Mingjian, one circle of this wheel is five feet, one step together, four hundred and eight circles is four hundred and eight steps, eight steps are used to build roads, the saint said, such a long distance is just to ensure that every family has a road to go everywhere." The one foot he said here was a construction ruler, which was about thirty-two centimeters.

Bi Zisu asked again: "Then why don't the people who go inside count their steps?" “

Li Siqing replied: "Those who go inside must first straighten the road, which is the most important thing, and then make a horizontal road every six hundred and eight steps, and the horizontal road is also eight steps wide." Now we have to repair this road first, and it will take a long time to open a cross road, and then we will still use cars to measure the distance. “

Bi Zisu nodded, since Li Siqing has done a good job in this matter, then he doesn't have to worry about it. So he turned to Qian'an County and said, "How many young people can the Ming Mansion recruit at most?" “

The county order is very painful in his heart, one hundred wen a day, that is, three taels of silver a month, which is several times that of a soldier (the salary of the guards is more, one or two and a half dollars of silver a month, and the general border army salary is less, and it is very good to have seven or eight cents), and it is also for a meal, but unfortunately his county is only a middle county, so he replied: "Lord Qincha, this county can provide more than 2,000 people at most." “

Bi Zisu thought for a while and said: "That's okay, soon the Liao people will come, the people in your county will first repair the roads, and then build some houses, and when the first batch of Liao people come, more people will build houses." “

The county magistrate nodded yes, and then Bi Zisu said again: "As for the issue of wages, we issue them once every five days, because we have to issue silver coins, otherwise it will be too troublesome to issue a hundred copper coins a day, you tell them." “

During the prefectural order, Ai Aidi said: "Lord Qincha, can the lower officials send them money?" “

Bi Zisu glared at him and said, "You want to resist the conscription, don't you?" “

The county order didn't dare to say it again, but Bi Zisu already understood what he meant, and the county order had a good idea to let the young men of Qian'an serve as conscripts on the construction site, and the money given by Bi Zisu was received by the county. Bi Zisu despised this kind of behavior very much, but he also knew that since the county order asked himself separately, he just wanted to receive the money from the county instead of putting it in his pocket, and besides, there would be a lot of dealing with the county order in the future, so he asked: "How many people still have to serve as conscription?" ”

The county commander Yixi said: "These people are all going to serve as conscripts, and they all have a month to spare." ”

Bi Zisu groaned and said: "Then let's do it, you charge sixty wen a day in the Ming Mansion, but the official still has to give them forty wen, and when they have served their conscription in a month, what do you think?" ”

The county order is very happy, although it can only get 60 yuan, 500 people can get 60 yuan a day in the county, but it can't stand for a long time, it is 1,800 yuan a month, not to mention that the number of people will increase, and some of them have not served the Qing forced labor, so the income is still good.

So he saluted Bi Zisu and said: "The lower officials thank the Lord Qin for their understanding, it is really the small and medium-sized officials in the county who also have to support their families, and there is really no way to get money in this county." ”

Bi Zisu said with a smile: "The Ming Mansion doesn't need to explain, the official understands, and the emperor once said that in the future, the little officials will also transfer money from the imperial court, and now it is really difficult for the little officials to do things with peace of mind, let alone prevent them from harming the township." ”

At this time, the income of the petty officials was extremely low, and the so-called officials were originally servants, and there was no income at all. In this way, of course, they can only get up and down in their daily business, and get some oil and water to live. Xu Guangqi, Bi Ziyan and others all told the emperor about these situations, and the emperor said that he would wait until the finances were abundant in the future, and let the officials also take the salary of the imperial court, which is obviously unrealistic now.

Bi Ziyan watched as the road was cleared step by step, the road took up eight steps, and then formed a rectangle six hundred steps long and four hundred steps wide. Each rectangle is 1,000 acres, which can be divided among twenty households.

Ditches have been dug next to the roads, and trees have been planted next to the canals. Of course, the riverbank has not been repaired, and the so-called houses are just simple shacks, no way, no people, no materials, and it is already very good that people in Qian'an County can make out the road.

After the road was tidied up, the Liao people had already arrived in Qian'an, and the Liao people came in batches, and all of these Liao people were joined by someone from their families to join the Guards, and each family was given 50 acres of land and was exempt from taxes for three years. As soon as these people came to Qian'an, Bi Zisu had already allocated livestock and farm tools, one cow per family, two sets of farm tools, and then distributed grain per capita on a monthly basis.

No matter how many people you have in your family, that's fifty acres of land, so some big families have to divide up in order to get more land. According to the regulations, land cannot be bought or sold, it cannot be rented to others, and it can only be cultivated by oneself, and if no one plants it, it will be taken back and distributed to others.

This was Zhu Youxiao's first attempt at land reform, which was to break with the traditional big family. Liaomin has already broken down, so it should be easier to achieve here.

After the Liao people came, they began to carry out reclamation, because the official family made it very clear that taxes were exempt for three years, but the livestock, farm tools, seeds, and rations must be repaid within three years, but there was no interest.

The Liao people came one after another, and those who had no one at home to join the Guards were still given all kinds of materials, but they were only exempt from taxes for one year, which made many Liao people come to inquire to see if they could let their children join the army.

The reply was that they would be recruited in the winter, but they were militiamen, trained locally, and those who performed well after a period of training were directly selected into the Guards.

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