In August, the weather cools down, and the autumn grain is about to be harvested. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoQinzhou is mainly wheat planting, and autumn grain crops are relatively secondary, mainly soybeans, millet and some miscellaneous grains. However, the sorghum and alfalfa planted in the camp were harvested at this time, and Wang Gongchen spent most of his time in various camps outside Qinzhou City.

Alfalfa needs to be harvested, baled in the sun and semi-dry, and stored as forage for the winter. With this pasture, livestock do not have to move to winter pastures, which is an important material for the conversion of nomadic people to semi-sedentary.

After harvesting, the forage grass must be modulated and stored reasonably after baling to retain most of the nutrients. If, according to the old method, the harvest is just dried and stacked, most of the nutrients will be lost, which is not enough to replace the grass. Xu Ping used to do animal husbandry machinery in his previous life, and the principle of modulation and baling is known, and the operation is not complicated, and the most important thing is scientific understanding. This forage baling technology is one of the key technologies for the great development of horse supervision in the Central Plains in recent years.

The most important food crop for farming is sorghum, which is an excellent raw material for brewing, although it is difficult to swallow as a ration and is not digestible and nutritionally insufficient. Chinese baijiu is a solid fermentation, which requires the raw material to be rich in amylopectin, and the content in sorghum is high. In addition, tannic acid, which is a harmful substance as a ration, develops a unique flavor after fermentation, which cannot be replaced by other sake brewing ingredients. Because of this, sorghum has become an almost indispensable raw material for high-end Chinese liquor.

With the harvest of sorghum, the winemaking workshops in Qinzhou also began to get busy, and the entire city of Qinzhou was shrouded in a kind of wine aroma. Fan Qiang loves wine, with the start of the winery, a large number of surrounding Fan people enter Qinzhou every day, and exchanging horses for wine has become a scene.

Good wine needs to be matured and aged, but for ordinary people, where is the accounting better.

The four roads of the Sichuan Gorge were in a severe drought from summer to autumn, and eventually became a disaster. In August, the imperial court sent Han Qi, a resident and intellectual, as the pacification envoy of Yili Road, Wang Congyi as the deputy, Jiang Tang, a member of the ministry, as the pacification envoy of the Zikui Road, and Xia Yuanzheng, the general secretary, as the deputy, and rushed to the fourth road of Sichuan Gorge for disaster relief. At the same time, the people of the four roads were ordered to steal food because of hunger, as long as they did not kill or injure people, they were all punished lightly, and they were stabbed into the military prison city of 500 miles away. Particularly bad and recidivist, stabbed outside the river boundary.

Xu Ping played, all serious offenders, please match Qin Fenglu. At the same time, if the fugitive people escape from the sword gate, the government will no longer stop them, and let them flee to Qinfeng Road, and the local government will receive and take them in. At the same time, he transferred Wen Pang's nationality and asked him to instruct the state capitals on Lizhou Road to pick up the fleeing people along the way, and not to freeze and starve to death on the road. Because the Sichuan Gorge No. 4 Road supplied Qinfeng Road military rations, Xu Ping asked Pang Ji to suspend the transportation of this year's autumn grain for disaster relief, and wait until the disaster passed.

Qin Fenglu had already estimated the possibility of a disaster on the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road after this autumn, and had already transferred and stored grain from Shaanxi Road, which could be supported within a year. In fact, the summer grain from the Sichuan Gorge has been collected on Lizhou Road, and it has not yet been shipped, and the grain is not needed for disaster relief. The reason why Xu Ping let Pang Ji stop the operation was more of a gesture to avoid unnecessary disputes. It is also unrealistic to transport grain back to the affected areas from Lizhou Road, so it is better to give money to purchase it in situ and find another way.

August is the tail of summer, and although autumn is in a hurry, it cannot drive away the heat all at once. In this season, there is still a lot of rain in Qinzhou, and I don't know when there will be flash floods in the mountains and rivers, which is not conducive to walking, and the surroundings are still quiet.

On this day, Xu Ping was discussing the affairs of the army with Sang Yi and Gao Daquan, and Liu Jian suddenly came in a hurry, his face was full of excitement, and said to Xu Ping: "Jinglu, the three clans of Xinbo in the Gangu area sent people to ask for the quality to be attached!" ”

Xu Ping was stunned: "Gangu Fanbu? How did they remember to include it at this time? ”

Liu Jian said: "In recent months, Qinzhou has been prosperous, especially the goods of the three divisions of the shop have won the love of the Tibetan people, they have turned their noses up at the imperial court banknotes, and now they want to ask for a penny but can't, the change is really unexpected. The marshal ordered all the officials who were attached to the imperial court and had official titles to be given a fortune, although the money was not much, many Tibetan leaders still couldn't ask for it. ”

"The distribution of money to the officials was originally a show of grace, and at the same time, let them buy goods, and don't make it difficult for the business of the three shops. How-" Xu Ping didn't know what to say. The original intention was to open up sales for the goods of the three shops. When the officials have money in their hands, they always get the Sansi shop to spend it, and if they buy it for the first time and then they buy it for the second time, they will try their best to make money, and the seeds of the commodity economy will be planted. However, Xu Ping still underestimated the dominant position of industry over primitive agriculture and the extent to which industry exploited primitive agriculture and animal husbandry under the condition of free commerce.

At first, the surrounding Tibetan tribes bought the goods of the three shops happily, went to Qinzhou City to sell furs, cattle and sheep, horses, and then bought all kinds of textiles, clocks, enamel basins and other daily necessities they liked to go home. It even quickly formed a trend that any herdsman who did not wash his face with an enamel basin at home would be ridiculed, and he had to have an elaborate shelf, and he must use soap to wash his hands on weekdays. Commerce in Qinzhou City was booming for a while, so much so that Xu Ping instructed Shi Yannian to properly remove the low tax rate when necessary, and not to kill chickens and eggs. But in just a few months, the prices of horses, cattle, sheep, and furs in Qinzhou plummeted, and the purchasing power of the herders in the Tibetan region fell rapidly, and the speed of the decline made Xu Ping feel alarmed.

In order to curb this trend, Xu Ping asked Sansi Shop not to lower the purchase price of agricultural and animal husbandry products. However, the three shops want to make money, and there is a limit to the subsidies to the surrounding areas in accordance with the Shuaifu, and if they are not allowed to reduce the price, they will limit it, and they will not accept a certain amount every month. The consequence was that those who had access to the shop bought it from the Tibetan people at a lower price, and then ate up all the quotas of the three shops, and the exploitation of farmers and herdsmen became even heavier.

The emergence of such a situation is essentially the exploitation of agriculture and animal husbandry by industry, and the means of the government can only be an expedient measure, which does not solve the fundamental problem. The road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, and if the fundamental contradiction is not resolved, no matter what measures are come up with, it can only play a temporary role, and it will soon be eaten by powerful people.

Xu Ping was caught off guard by the rapid development of the situation, although he came up with several methods, such as the Shuaifu buying a large number of cattle and sheep and slaughtering them, and then making them into jerky or salted meat and shipping them to the Central Plains. Or they can be raised until winter, slaughtered and then transported to the mainland in large quantities with ice cubes. But these things will take time, and the surrounding Tibetan departments have been miserable in the past few months. In particular, people with access and financial resources make profits from it, buy the goods of Sansi Shop at normal prices, and then sell them to the people at a high price. and then buy the cattle, sheep and horses of the people at a low price and sell them to the Shuaifu, and the prices around the entire Qinzhou are now very distorted.

As a last resort, Xu Ping wanted to take the form of paying in advance to the Ministry of Fan to suppress the price. However, the credit of the people is very problematic, and they also need the cooperation of the three divisions to reserve materials, and they have not yet made up their minds.

At this time, the monthly money issued to the officials was also remembered, and there were many small tribes who were purely greedy for those few dollars, and the clan accepted the pledge. Some leaders even gave up all their land for the money.

(A schematic map of the situation and geography around Qinzhou has been drawn, and readers can add the group: 5-3-5-8-9-4-6-7-0)