Chapter 53: Getting Better
Guo Jia left after playing the right game.
Xu Chu heard that some people had secretly made small reports, and Guo Fengxiao's private life was quite rich.
Linger in the wine shop, outside the wandering corpse.
With such an overdraft of your body, aren't you afraid of dying young?
However, Xu Chu doesn't want to care about Guo Jia's private life for the time being, he is now young, and he may not listen to what he says, but he seems to be his mother-in-law.
Let's go to the military camp in the west of the city.
Xu Chu was accompanied by a team of guards and embarked on the road in a light car, enjoying the scenery from time to time along the way.
The tall and short, yellow, and green crops, the old and young people, and Xu Chu, who had lived in the Taishou Mansion for nearly a week, found that Yanling County had changed.
From lifeless, to vibrant.
He saw Huang Shao wielding a hoe in the farmland, this old boy was deeply sinful, adhering to the tenet of 'capital crimes can be avoided, living crimes cannot be escaped', Xu Chu gave him a task at that time - to lead a thousand people to reclaim the wasteland outside Yanling County.
Huang Shao saw Xu Chu's car and ran around. I have to say that the former Yellow Turban Qu is handsome, and he really looks good when he does farm work.
Xu Chu ordered the line to stop, got out of the car and chatted with Huang Shao.
After Huang Shao knelt down, he wiped the sweat on his head, and told Xu Chu that the brothers were very careful in reclaiming wasteland, when they would be able to go to the battlefield again, and asked Xu Chu where the others had been sent.
"They all went to the north of the county and were driven by Xun Xiuruo. How? Qu Shuai still wants to go to the battlefield? Xu Chu looked down at Huang Shao, who was bowed, and put on a full posture of Taishou, Xu Zhongkang, who was modest and cautious in front of the children of the family, saw the opportunity to show his official authority.
"Of course I want to go to war!" Huang Shao looked distressed and said: "Fu Jun doesn't know, Shao has learned a lot about working in the fields recently, and he regrets it very much, if he has the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy again, Fu Jun will be a certain reborn parent......
Xu Chu was noncommittal, and said with a smile: "As long as Qu Shuai restrains his subordinates and works diligently, this mansion is not a person who is rigid about small things." Go ahead! ”
Huang Shao got Xu Chu's words, happily returned to the ridges, and continued to swing his hoe hard. He does it himself and shares weal and woe with the people under him, which Xu Chu appreciates.
When he came to the military camp in the west of the city, Xu Chu first summoned Dian Wei. Dian Wei seemed to be in a good mood, and his heroic laughter could be heard from afar.
"Dian Wei see the lord!"
After the military salute, Xu Chu asked about the situation of the Tiger Guard Camp. Dian Wei said happily: "The morale of the soldiers is high, and the training is very hard. According to the subordinates, as long as the equipment is complete, the tiger guards can be one by one. ”
Xu Chu nodded with a smile, and suddenly saw a group of people pushing a cart over, "What are these county people doing in the camp?" Is it the families of the soldiers? ”
"It's not." Dian Wei explained: "I came to deliver food and clothing to the soldiers. ”
This is rare, and even a little bizarre. The people themselves still have a problem with food and clothing, how can they spontaneously reward the soldiers with clothing and food?
Facing Xu Chu's question, Dian Wei said: "My subordinates sometimes take the sergeant to run long distances in the county with heavy loads, and when they encounter some unsuccessful country rangers who disturb the people, they are tied up. The people are very affectionate, so they come to visit occasionally. ”
I see.
It is no wonder that the ancient Chinese people were the most simple, as long as they had something to eat, they would never rebel, if they were treated well, they would repay them doubly......
Before Xu Chu left, he had someone inform Xun Yue of the main secretary room and the thief Cao Peng Zhongjin to also come to the Tiger Guard Camp. After chatting with Dian Wei for a while, Xun Yue and Zhong Jin also arrived.
"What happened to those law-breaking country rangers, thieves and Cao?" Xu Chu asked Zhong Jin.
Zhong Jin replied: "If the responsibility is light, let it go after a few reprimands, and if it is a little heavier, it will be taken into custody first and slowly edified." "Zhong Jin is in his bones the Confucian style of 'great virtue and small punishment', that is, attaching importance to ideological education and not excessively using punishment to deter crime.
It's not a peaceful world now.
Xu Chu has the idea of competing with the heroes of the world, the so-called 'troubled times should be used to re-enact', and the governance of Yingchuan cannot be too gentle. Then he said to Zhong Jin: "The county is in ruins, and the matter of educating the people will be handed over to the three elders to do. Whoever disturbs the people shall be sent to the north of the county. ”
Zhong Jin opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but Xun Yue kicked him without a trace, so he didn't say anything more.
Xu Chu's purpose in letting the two of them come to the Tiger Guard Camp was to let them pass the word to the family, so he led the conversation to the Tiger Guard's equipment and asked Dian Wei to take out a set for them to see.
After the two of them saw it, they were full of praise for Modao. Especially Zhong Jin, it was exactly the same as Xun Yan's expression when he first saw Huwei.
"It's a pity that the iron ore reserves in the county are scarce, and there are 500 people in the Tiger Guard Battalion. Xu Chu sighed, looking at the two of them out of the corner of his eye.
Zhong Jin's expression became a little uncomfortable, and Xun Yue was calm as usual.
"Ahem, hasn't the prince already asked Jin Cao Peng to start rectifying the matter of smelting and mining iron ore, presumably he will be able to solve this problem in a few days." Zhong Jindao.
Xu Chu smiled and looked at Zhong Jin meaningfully, "Unfortunately, there is not enough manpower in the county, even if the mine is recovered, it will not be able to be used for a while." If someone is willing to send someone, it will be easy to do. ”
Xun Yue said loudly: "Fujun Mingjian, Yingchuan has always had many iron mountains, but since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Shaofu is unable to control iron affairs, and most of the mines around the country are abandoned and not used, and with the power of the county government alone, there is no possibility of regrouping in a short time." ”
Xun Yue had already passed the breath with Xun Chen, and his words were much more nutritious than Zhong Jin. Xu Chu stopped at the point and no longer put the beak iron ore in mind. With Xun Yue's cleverness, he should be able to hear the deep meaning of his words. He is too guarded, he doesn't have time to take care of everything too carefully, what to do after that, just hand it over to Zhang Feng, he just looks at how many armors and a few Mo knives can be in the Tiger Guard Battalion in a month.
Xu Chu went to Wang Yan to take a look again, and in general, Wang Yan's military Sima did a good job, but it was still a problem of lack of equipment.
If he returned to Taishou Mansion, Xu Shu waited for a long time, and was about to find Xu Chu to report on farming.
Xu Shu's strategy is not as knowledgeable as Guo Jia's, but his talent is fully revealed under Xu Chu's command. The liquidation of the population of a county has been carried out so far, which is a little less than expected, and there are also 160,000 households with 10,000 acres of land.
Compared with the pre-Qin period, the grain production of the Han Dynasty was greatly improved because of the wider use of agricultural tools for cultivating cattle and the popularization of the field method.
According to Xu Shu's algorithm, one acre of fertile land can produce four stones of grain a year, and some of the worse ones can produce two to three stones. If calculated in this way, Yingchuan's total grain output last year should be about 20 million stones. However, Xu Shu looked through the books counted by the county government last year, and the figure was only eight million stones. The tax system of the Han Dynasty was thirty taxes and one tax, so the annual grain payment in the county was only 260,000 stones.
Last year, Huang Shao He Yi made a rebellion, and the army used a lot of food, and he also got a lot of money, so Xu Chu didn't dare to come out when he asked Xu Shu how much food was still stored in the county, and Xu Shu's answer really made Xu Chu cry and couldn't cry.
"Twenty thousand stones."
Heavenly Damn Yin Cultivation ...... Heaven-Killing Warriors......
Xu Chu secretly scolded a few words, and reluctantly let out a bad breath. The reason for the large discrepancy between the actual grain and the estimates is obviously due to the annexation of land and the enrichment of the officials.
"Yuan Zhi, you go and call Zaoyou." Xu Chu said.
Tuntian's elite soldiers are imperative.