Cai Yong asked nervously: "What, it failed in the end, what about the harvest?" ”

"Who told you you failed. That year, because everyone's enthusiasm was not high, there was not much fertilizer produced, and only 30% of the farmland could be used, and the result was that the fertilizer used was very different from the fertilizer that was not used, and the growth was very different. ”

Meng Laohan smacked his lips and continued: "Not only is the growth much worse, but when the final harvest is made, there is a lot of more grain using fertilizer, and according to the Ye family's final statistics, there is more than two percent more grain. ”

"More than 20% of the grain, we here, we have a lot of land at home, and we can generally raise two more children. So many people regretted it at the beginning, knowing that even if they didn't sleep at night, they would have to make more fertilizer. ”

Meng Laohan shook his head after speaking, he was not highly motivated back then, he was very resistant, he had planted the land for most of his life, and he thought that fertilizer had little effect.

The old man's words made Cai Yong very speechless and very excited, speechless because it turned out that this old man was also very good at telling stories, and he had been hanging his appetite, and he was excited that if it was promoted, then the entire Han would be able to increase his income by more than 20% of the grain, which was how much grain should there be and how many people could be fed.

Cai Yong thought of ploughing cattle again, and hurriedly asked, "Then the Ye family really gave the farmers ploughing cattle?" ”

After Cai Yong arrived in Liaodong, the spring ploughing had ended, so he didn't go to the field to see the peasants' farming, so he asked his questions. Because he knows very well what it means to be a ploughing ox and how much wealth a ploughing ox is.

"Yes, yes, many people have been divided, and I am also fortunate to have a little old man." Speaking of his own farming cattle, Meng Laohan couldn't help laughing, laughing very happily.

Cai Yong asked in surprise: "Many people get it?" How many people have been allocated to this? ”

"Old man, I'm just a farmer, how do I know. However, there is one point, that is, to go to the guard camp to be a soldier, in the past two years, the Ye family has achieved that each family has a ploughing ox. Meng Laohan swore to Cai Yong.

"What? Each family has one, Ye Chen's soldiers are eight thousand, is it really divided into eight thousand ploughing cattle. Cai Yong said with wide eyes.

Although he is a scholar, he does not understand anything, the value of ploughing cattle is known to most people in the whole Han Dynasty, and a ploughing ox is a happy family.

In fact, what Cai Yong didn't know was that Ye Chen's strength was more than eight thousand, in order to deal with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Ye Chen once expanded his strength to 15,000 people, all of whom were sent to the ploughing cattle, and later part of the guard battalion was unarmored and became Tuntian soldiers, which was no longer a normal combat sequence, but the Ye family did not take back the ploughing cattle.

"I don't know how many soldiers the Ye family has, but you can go and ask in these ten miles and eight villages, which family went to the Ye family to serve as a soldier and didn't get a ploughing ox? Not only that, but the village can also get some ploughing cattle every year, although not much, but every year, if this is distributed, there is hope for life. ”

When Meng Laohan mentioned ploughing cattle, his eyes narrowed with a smile.

Cai Yong made a rough calculation, this Ye family is afraid that more than 10,000 head of farming cattle will be divided, that is, to feed more than 10,000 families, what a big investment.

This made Cai Yong begin to admire Ye Chen, it seems that what he told him in Luoyang was the truth, he was really benefiting the people with practical actions, and he was really different from the family he knew.

Cai Yong saw that Meng Laohan was not in a hurry to work, so he asked a lot of questions, and when he asked, he knew that there was too much he didn't know.

Now he felt compelled to ask.

"Meng Laohan, why was your family able to get the ploughing cattle in the first place?" Cai Yong tried his best to ask in words that the peasants could understand, not in the text.

"At the beginning, when the Ye family did not recruit homeless people on a large scale, each Zhuangzi of the Ye family would share dozens of cows, and I was fortunate to get one for the old man, and there were more than a dozen acres of land, hehe, since then my family has been able to eat enough, and my eldest child has also married a daughter-in-law." Speaking of this, Meng Laohan squinted his eyes again, his face full of happiness.

"Recruiting displaced people on a large scale? I've heard about this, but I've walked through more than a dozen Zhuangzi and found that the proportion of homeless people is not very high. ”

"You don't know this, my youngest son is helping the Ye family in Yu County, and my youngest son said that Yu County has resettled hundreds of thousands of displaced people. My youngest son is most afraid of me, and he doesn't dare to lie to Lao Tzu. Meng Laohan had a pride on his face, and he didn't know if it was because his youngest son was afraid of him, or because his youngest son was now doing things for the Ye family.

Listening to Meng Laohan's words, Cai Yong's heart was shocked, when he was in Luoyang, he listened to Ye Chen, he settled hundreds of thousands of victims in Liaodong, and at first Cai Yong thought that Ye Chen was exaggerating for the sake of fame.

If what Meng Laohan said was true, then Cai Yong's opinion of Ye Chen would be completely subverted, he was skeptical before, if this was really the case, then Ye Chen was not doing a small good, but using the power of the family to do a great good.

"Yuxian, Yuxian." Now Cai Yong's mind is full of Xianxian, and he wants to go to Xianxian to see how the victims are doing.

Cai Yong felt that the large-scale resettlement of the victims was more representative, and if they lived a stable life, if they lived like the villagers he saw here, then it was a successful model that could be recommended to the imperial court.

After chatting with Meng Laohan for a while, Cai Yong decided to spend two or three days walking around the surrounding Zhuangzi, and then go to Yuxian County.

Next, every time he went to a Zhuangzi, Cai Yong had to find a few farmers to inquire carefully, and the results were all the same, the Ye family did pay a lot for these farmers, and their living conditions were different from those of villagers in other places.

Cai Yong also visited some farms that were not part of the Ye family, and found that their living conditions were still very bad, which could only be said to be slightly better than other places, because they had not experienced the poison of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was quickly extinguished by the Ye family in Liaodong, and the impact was not great, and Wuhuan did not dare to invade Liaodong this time, and Liaodong was much better than other places.

"Daddy, those Zhuangzi we walked through, if you want to count investment, the Ye family has already invested a lot of money in it." On the way back, Cai Yan said to Cai Yong.

"Yan'er, this time my father is looking for a way to stop the Han people from starving, but I calculated carefully, even if these farmers use fertilizer and increase their grain by thirty percent, it will not be so different. There seems to be a lot of things in this that we don't understand. ”

At first, Cai Yong thought that the way for the farmers under the Ye family not to starve was fertilizer, if this was really the case, then as long as the entire Han Dynasty implemented it, then all problems could be solved.

But after careful calculation, Cai Yong found that things were not so simple.

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