Chapter Seventy-Seven: Returning to the Roots and Expanding the Territory
Pan Xiaogu did not advance with the group, and after the fleet entered the Panyin River, he broke away from the team, took a few retinue guards, and returned to the territory first, because the autumn harvest began.
It has been four months since Pan Xiaogu crossed over to the new earth, and Xize Township, as the first territory, has also ushered in its first harvest.
At present, the area of cultivated land verified by Xize Township is about 130,000 mu, of which 110,000 mu is planted in wheat per month, with an average yield of about 120 kilograms per mu and a total output of 14,000 tons, with an average of 30,000 people in Xize Township, and more than 460 kilograms of grain per capita.
More than half of this grain will be collected by officials and distributed centrally. In addition, this time, the Cheng and Yang families also transported about 5,000 stone (Tang) of grain, nearly 3,000 tons, so that Pan Xiaogu had more than 10,000 tons of grain, which provided a guarantee for the issuance of paper money.
In order to promote paper money, Pan Xiaogu played a set of combination punches in a row.
In order to maintain the supply and marketing cooperative system, Pan Xiaogu recruited dozens of officials to manage, and the grain supply and marketing cooperatives will gradually expand into a comprehensive market, including all the internal trade in the territory.
Subsequently, Pan Xiaogu ordered soldiers, officials, officers and people who worked in the construction of the system to replace their military salaries and salaries with Lu tickets, stipulating that one yuan Lu ticket could be exchanged for one kilogram of ordinary grain, and the standard salary of the territory was set at 30 yuan per month, according to the increase or decrease of their respective treatment levels, Pan Xiaogu currently needs to pay about 300,000 yuan per month, which is equivalent to the expenditure of 300 tons of grain.
These Lu tickets will be issued to more than 8,000 people, these people with Lu tickets, can only go to the grain supply and marketing cooperatives to exchange for necessities, these necessities are purchased from other people, the purchase of the same Lu tickets, so that Lu tickets naturally circulate in the territory, when Cheng Yun and others go ashore in Tietong, the territory residents also began to use Lu tickets to trade.
However, the residents disliked the ugly name of the bill, and preferred to call this kind of paper money jade money, and gradually jade money became synonymous with this kind of paper money.
After the implementation of jade money in Xize Township, the next step is to promote it to Xianyue Township, this time it is much simpler, because Xianyue Township was established late, and the planting period has been missed, in addition to bringing its own grain storage, it can only rely on the supply of Xize Township, as long as the grain supply and marketing cooperative system is established in Xianyue Township, you can smoothly promote the jade money.
Cheng Yun and the others passed through Tietong overnight, and early the next morning, several people, accompanied (monitored) by the accompanying inheritors, crossed the Panjiayu Valley and came to Shanyang Town, the largest town in Xize Township, and the people they brought, except for a few servants, the rest were all left in Tietong, and when the materials were loaded and unloaded, they would escort the first batch of Lingtie back.
Yesterday, Cheng Yun and others were very shocked when they saw the two villages of Whistle Yin Tietong, but today they saw the larger Shanyang Town, Cheng Yun and the others were a little accustomed to it.
Several people met Pan Xiaogu in the shipyard outside Shanyang City, and as soon as they saw Cheng Yun, Song Jiang and others, they surrounded him to 'rejuvenate the teacher and ask for guilt'
"It's no wonder that a few brothers, it's just that this matter is related to the lives of tens of thousands of people in my entire clan, and the stakes are very important, so I have to hide it."
Pan Xiaogu's words left several people speechless, if Panjiabao had not concealed the existence of several other towns, they did not dare to guarantee that the forces behind them would not take advantage of Panjiabao's unstable foothold and annex these people in one fell swoop.
Now that several parties have officially become partners, Panjiabao has also gained a firm foothold, with the power of self-preservation, and no longer has to hide their own strength, so that their allies can learn more about their own strength, and it will also help to dispel some people's unrealistic ideas and continue to cooperate with peace of mind.
"I want to ask, how many Han people are in Persia like you?" After the greetings, Cheng Yundai asked the others the question they were most concerned about, how many people are still coming over from your Persian area?
The sudden appearance of Panjiabao was too mysterious and sudden, and now these local forces in Anxi have developed a strong interest in the Han Chinese community living in Persia.
"We and other people who emigrated to Persia have multiplied in Persia for hundreds of years, and I can't say how many people there are..."
Pan Xiaogu couldn't prevaricate casually, and then he suddenly thought of his expedition to Persia, he definitely couldn't hide these 'diplomats', instead of sneaking around and showing weakness, it was better to tell the other party generously, maybe he could also try to make a miscalculation of the forces behind these people.
So Pan Xiaogu's tone changed
“… But I think there are always more than three million people. ”
"What, three million people!?" Cheng Yun and the others were shocked when they heard the figures Pan Xiaogu said, the number of Han people in the entire Anxi is only about three million now, and the number of Han people in Persia is actually about the same as that of the whole Anxi!
Well, I guess it's shocked.
Pan Xiaogu looked at the shocked expressions of several people proudly, the figure of three million was made up by him, referring to the Han population of Anxi, in order to shock these people.
"No, my family has a lot of dealings with Persian merchants, and I have never heard of rumors that there are so many Han people in Persia?" The first to wake up from the shock was Cheng Yun, whose family mainly operated Western trade routes and often dealt with the Persians.
"My family also had a deal with the Persians, and I haven't heard of it." The others also woke up and looked at Pan Xiaogu suspiciously.
"A few people who don't know that in order not to be oppressed by the local Hu people in Persia, we will either find a hidden valley to escape and live in seclusion like my Pan family, or we will set sail to the sea and live in seclusion on the islands of the West Sea, because the local Hu people in Persia know very little about us." The West Sea was the name given to the Caspian Sea in the Tang Dynasty
"It turns out that there are such secrets, what is the appearance of the islands in the West Sea, and there are immortals on them?" Cheng Yun and others were very interested in these overseas secrets, and kept asking questions, but the questions they asked were a little crooked.
"Uh... Immortals? I haven't heard of this..."
Pan Xiaogu talked nonsense for a long time to satisfy the curiosity of these people, and straightened the crooked topic back.
"We Han people pay attention to returning to their roots, and after learning that my Pan family has successfully moved back to their homeland, there will definitely be more overseas Han people who want to come back, so my Pan family decided to take advantage of the opportunity that Persia has no time to take care of it now, and wave the army westward to open a channel in Persia to welcome more Han people back to China!"
Pan Xiaogu's eyes narrowed and said domineeringly
"If you have the opportunity, maybe you can expand your territory in Persia and establish a territory of our Han people! Come along with me! ”
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