Zhu Ao said: "How many prisoners are there in total? How many of them are men, how many are women, and how many are adults? How many are the old and weak? ”

Dainu originally thought that he was going to do something bad, but he didn't expect him to ask such an academic question, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he said hesitantly: "This ...... Back to the prince, how can this slave know, the slave is illiterate and will not settle accounts, and will only serve the prince. ”

Oh, yes. Zhu Ao suddenly remembered that Dai Nu had no culture, and it was really difficult for her to ask her this. In the future, you have to find a reliable person to take care of your accounts. Huai En can't do it, Lao Zhu strictly forbids eunuchs to interfere in politics, although he also uses eunuchs, but others are not allowed to use them. Huaien is also illiterate, and under Lao Zhu's authority, even if he is literate, he does not dare to meddle in government affairs.

This person must be carefully searched, both shrewd and capable and loyal to himself, and his mouth must be strict, after all, money and food accounts are too sensitive. Although Zhu Ao's Su Wangfu has a long history department responsible for the specific affairs of the palace, including the management of accounts, public accounts such as Lao Zhu's appropriation, and the salaries of palace officials Zhu Ao can be handed over to them to manage, but if Zhu Ao wants to develop his own strength in Hexi, he must set up his own small treasury, and the accounts here cannot be handed over to them, and he can only let his henchmen be responsible.

It's just that this person Zhu Ao hasn't been found yet. After taking a bath, Zhu Ao said to Dai Nu: "You are also tired, go down and rest first." ”

Dai Nu was a little disappointed, both of them had already contacted the prince in this way and had not possessed her, which could only show that the prince was not interested in her, so he drooped his head and walked out of the door.

How could Zhu Ao, who had lived for two lifetimes, not know her careful thoughts, and suddenly pinched her little buttocks, and said, "Xiao Nizi, prepare well for the past two days, and clean you up when this king is done." ”

Dai Nu was taken aback by his sudden move, and then he was surprised and delighted, and said, "King, lord, you ........." and ran away shyly.

Zhu Ao smiled, fell asleep in his pajamas, and was too tired to travel continuously for the past few days. When I woke up the next day, two maids knelt beside the bed, one carrying a basin and the other carrying a towel.

Zhu Ao had long been accustomed to the privileged life of the evil feudal society, and was very infatuated with this life, and was not embarrassed to complete the washing work under the service of the two maids.

Dai Nu came over early and said, "Lord, let's eat." Zhu Ao sat down at the table and said, "Sit down and eat together." ”

Dai Nu's head shook like a rattle, and said, "How can the slave sit with the prince?" ”

Zhu Ao pretended to be angry and said, "If you let you sit, you can sit, what's the point of me eating alone?" ”

Dainu was startled, and like a child who made a mistake, he hurriedly said, "Yes, yes." Slaves obey. Then he sat down, but he was so nervous that he didn't know where to put his hands.

Zhu Ao took a bite of food for her and asked, "Dainu, do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Dai Nu shook his head and said, "What does the prince command?" ”

Zhu Ao said: "I can't talk about the order, I just want you to accompany the king to a few places, since you can't ride a horse, then the king will find you a sedan chair." ”

Dai Nu's big eyes stared straight at Zhu Ao, and he said very curiously: "Where is the prince going, didn't he just finish the transfer yesterday?" ”

Zhu Ao said: "Yesterday I turned to the fortifications in the city, and today I want to see the king's field." ”

"Fields?" Dai Nu was very puzzled and said: "Lord Wang, you are a nobleman, why do you want to do the work of a farmer, just tell us to do such a thing." ”

Zhu Ao said: "You don't understand. We are located on the edge, and it is inconvenient to transport grain from the mainland. This tuntian is the most important thing for us to gain a firm foothold here, and this king must take it as a top priority. ”

Dai Nu said: "The slave doesn't understand anything, only knows how to serve the prince." Whatever the prince says, what is important. ”

Zhu Ao was very satisfied with her attitude, it was good to be a prince, where would there be a girl in the future who would be so attentive to herself, and said: "After eating, you go and clean up, and we will leave immediately." In later generations, he was also very lazy when he worked, the main reason was that no matter what he did, it was a pitiful low salary, but this time it was different, God let him start over and gave him a large piece of land, which was done for himself, who is positive if you are not active?

After eating, Zhu Ao, accompanied by Dai Nu, went out of Zhangye City to see Tuntian, and Zhang Long, the commander of the palace's A-number guards, personally brought a team of guards to protect him.

Later generations of Zhu Ao came from a peasant family and was accustomed to farm work since he was a child, but the production methods of farmers in later generations were not much different from those in ancient times, and they were all small-scale peasant economies based on one family and one household. In later generations, Zhu Ao fantasized about having a big farm of his own since he was a child, directing others to work for him all day long, and now this dream is about to come true, which makes him can't help but feel excited.

To the west of Zhangye City is the main stream of the Heihe River, and at present, most of the military households' tuntian fields are concentrated in this area, because irrigation is more convenient. Zhu Ao took Dainu along the river for a long distance, and from time to time he saw military families and their families working in the fields.

Most of them didn't know Zhu Ao yet, and it was the busy farming season at this time, so they didn't bother to say hello to Zhu Ao. Zhu Ao didn't mind this, and said to Dai Nu: "Do you think this king's land is fertile? ”

Dainu nodded and said, "Yes." After a few years of operation here, it should be able to achieve a yield of one stone per mu. ”

"One stone?" Zhu Ao smiled: "Hmph, I'm afraid that the king will lose money if he only produces one stone." ”

Dai Nu stared at Zhu Ao with big black eyes, and said, "How much does the prince want?" ”

Zhu Ao smiled and said nothing, he knew that the wheat yield per mu in later generations would often be thousands of catties, that is, more than five stones, of course, he also understood that according to the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to reach this mu yield, but in any case, he brought advanced production methods and technologies in later generations, and it was really sorry to produce only one stone.

If you want to run a grange, the most important thing is water conservancy, but fortunately, the irrigation in the Hexi Corridor is developed, and as long as it is used slightly, there will be absolutely no drought.

The ancient water conservancy construction is nothing more than two aspects, the first is the canal, the water and grass in the Hexi Corridor are abundant, since the Western Han Dynasty, the successive dynasties have attached great importance to the construction here, excavated a lot of canals, established a very developed canal irrigation system, although they are all abandoned now, but as long as they are dredged on the old site, it should not be difficult. The second is the waterwheel, on the road, Zhu Ao also saw all kinds of waterwheels built by the military households, but those keel cars, chain bucket waterwheels are too small, and they can only take care of the world on the riverside, and no matter how far away, they are beyond the reach of the whip.

In later generations, Zhu Ao once joined an association on the evolution of agricultural production tools when he was in college, which was quite unpopular in later generations, and was easily ridiculed by his classmates. But Zhu Ao was very interested in this, and stayed in that association for four years, and often contacted his classmates after graduation. In that association, Zhu Ao learned that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a person named Duan Xu invented a large waterwheel in Lanzhou, with a diameter of more than 20 meters, and a waterwheel could irrigate nearly 1,000 acres of fertile land. Zhu Ao and the classmates of the association will be very interested in this ancient weapon, with the funding of a rich second-generation classmates, they actually copied such a waterwheel, although the significance of the waterwheel in later generations is limited to the back of Zhu Ao and others in a group photo, but Zhu Ao has a good memory, and he roughly remembers the production process of the waterwheel.

In the future, we must find a craftsman to make such a big waterwheel, no, this thing will be done soon.