In March, the sun rose sharply for more than ten days, and the jacket on his body had been taken off and replaced with single clothes.

Sun Yuan rode a war horse and walked slowly on the official road. All in front of me were people who were releasing water to the fields. After a while, it will be the day of the seedlings and seedlings, and the busiest day will come.

The time of year is spring, and the agricultural time waits for no one. During the Xiaoice period, which had become cold in the late Ming Dynasty, the grain yield of the land was much lower than before. Everyone's annual ration depends on this season's grain, so both civilian and military households are busy farming and dare not be careless.

Speaking of the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Yuan felt particularly strongly in the past two winters. In later generations, the coldest day of the year in the Jiangnan area was only half a month, but the temperature was only about freezing. But in this time and space, counting nine days, it is full of snow, just like the north.

Because the weather was too cold, floods and droughts continued throughout North China, and grain production was reduced, which was also the main reason for the peasants' rebellion. As far as Sun Yuan knows, this Xiaoice River period will continue for more than ten years, and at that time, I don't know what the situation will be in this world?

The Ming and Qing dynasties were a time of great expansion of the Chinese population, and according to the incomplete information available to Sun Yuan, China's population exceeded 100 million since the Jiajing year. The contradiction between population and land is particularly prominent, in a word, the grain production in the field can no longer keep up with the growth of population, so everyone begins to have enough to eat. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, when sweet potatoes, corn and other crops were introduced to China, the food problem was alleviated. At that time, the Chinese also paid the price of malnutrition.

The past ten years have been the most turbulent and turbulent times, and it has been extremely difficult for ordinary people to get through it.

He inexplicably remembered the lines of a later TV series: Winter is coming!

Thinking of this sentence, he suddenly grinned and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It has been a month since Sun Yuan returned to Ningxiang, looking at the busy spring ploughing scene in front of him, the snow-white and blood-red of Qingliuguan, the muddy ground of Chuzhou and the burning dangerous city of Sizhou, looking back, it is like a dream, it is so unreal.

Seeing that Sun Yuan seemed to be very happy, Guo Daodao next to him couldn't help but joke: "The general has done this big thing this time, and his subordinates admire it in their hearts and congratulate the general."

。 In this way, the more than 10,000 military households who have newly joined the Thousand Households in Ningxiang Township will have their rations for the coming year. Otherwise, more than 10,000 people have no food or drink, and they are afraid that something will happen. ”

Before Sun Yuan could speak, Guan Tao next to him snorted depressedly: "Next year, next year, we will have to sprinkle a lot of silver this year." This time I went to Chuzhou, and there were a lot of seizures, but in order to resettle so many displaced people, half of the gains were accompanied. Moreover, more than 10,000 people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they have nothing to do, isn't this a loss-making business? ”

Indeed, spring ploughing has only just begun. The next few months will have to wait for the harvest to be seen, but the displaced people need to be subsidized by the money from Ningxiang during this period of green and yellow days.

Boss Guan is a businessman, he likes to care about gains and losses in everything, and when he sees that he throws out the silver in vain every day, he is naturally in a bad mood, and Sun Yuan can understand it.

He smiled and said, "Boss, you also underestimate the industriousness of the farmers, these people all look thin and weak, and they are all semi-laborers. But they really saw the hope of being able to eat enough to live, but the strength in their bodies was amazing. For example, an old man from a wealthy family, as soon as he turns fifty, he has no strength in his body. But if you are an ordinary farmer, let alone fifty, even if you are seventy years old, you can carry a burden of one or two hundred catties and walk like flying. It is also common for people in their eighties to work in the fields. ”

Guo Daodao nodded again and again: "The general is right, the boss has been staying in a big place like Zhongdu for a long time, but he doesn't know that our country people have to eat every day, and if you want to eat, you have to work, regardless of men, women, old and young." Don't underestimate these old and weak women and children, if you don't believe it, try it, just pick a woman who is working in the field, and you can be lifted up with one hand. ”

Hearing Guo Daodao's words, Guan Tao snorted.

Sun Yuan smiled: "The boss is good at financial management, but the strength on his body is not much. ”

Guan Tao snorted: "General Sun has made such a great contribution this time, and with the support of Inspector Lu, the future is very tight, maybe the court's grace has arrived at this moment." According to the villain, the general will not be able to serve for a few days, and he may not be promoted to be a commander. In the future, if you are promoted, will it be possible for these homeless military generals to take them to office? What to do with so much thought and money on them, thankless, but cheaper to take over the new thousand households, it's not cost-effective. ”

Guo Daodao said with a smile: "Boss, you don't know, Dahewei is very vacant." According to the villain, the general is very likely to take over the position of commander, and when the time comes, the general flags and small flags in our institute will also be promoted to Huai'an to be officials. This Ningxiang is the foundation of the general, and it is under the management of Dahe Wei, and the position of this thousand-household officer is estimated to be promoted in the general banner of the Ningxiang Army, isn't it also the private property of our general, how can it be difficult to make a living

。 ”

Guan Tao's eyes looked at him: "This is reasonable, but I didn't expect this." ”

Sun Yuan shook his head secretly in his heart, Lu Xiangsheng asked him to go to Xuanfu to be a general, and he didn't mention it in front of others. Because this matter will have to wait for more than a year, and if it is announced now, it will disturb the morale of the army.

However, Guo Daodao's words reminded him. This Ningxiang is its own basic plate. Today, the population of more than 20,000 people in Ningxiang is basically his private property. In the future, even if he leads his troops to the north, or even the entire Tianxiong Army that inherits Lu Xiangsheng, this Ningxiang will not be able to cheapen others. It's best to move around, and place a few subordinates in Dahewei to do the same knowledge, do things or something, and the thousands of officers in Ningxiang will have to be occupied by others.

In the future, the north will be a big battlefield, and the south of the Yangtze River cannot be lost. Not only can you not lose it, but you also have to make a good living.

As he was talking, Sun Yuan saw a military household busy on the edge of the embankment. There were three of them, an old man, and a pair of young men who looked like husband and wife.

The old man was in his early fifties, and the couple was in their early thirties. The man's left leg was broken, and only a truncated bamboo pole was tied underneath it for support.

The family was lighting broad beans, the man was struggling to turn the soil on the river beach with a hoe, and the woman was following behind and lighting beans. As for the elderly, they carry a bamboo basket containing plant ashes, and when the beans are pointed, they use bamboo tongs to cover the beans as fertilizer.

Because the man broke a leg, he walked with great difficulty, and after a while, he was covered with sweat. The woman lovingly wiped her husband's sweat with her sleeve and said something.

The man glared at his wife impatiently and shouted at him.

The husband and wife spoke in a low voice, anxious and fast, not very understandable, listening to the accent, as if they were from the northwest of Henan. If you guess correctly, it should be a prisoner of the First Battle of Qingliuguan, and was taken to Ningxiang by Sun Yuan after the war.

As the two of them talked, they quarreled, and for a moment they were blushing and their necks were thick.

Strange to say, the old man did not step forward to dissuade him, but watched with a smile on his face, full of happiness.

Sun Yuan wondered in his heart, these two of them quarreled like this, how could the father still laugh. But when I think about it, when these three people were coerced into the thief army before, it was a luxury, even if the family quarreled a little

。 Actually, happiness is such a thing as a very simple thing. The family is reunited, working together, noisy, two people fighting, fighting and fighting......

Bringing more than 10,000 captives back to Ningxiang and giving them a bite to eat, although it increased his financial burden, Sun Yuan did not regret it. That's right, sometimes he is really calculating, and sometimes he doesn't even have a bottom, but there are still things that must be done.

When I looked up again, I saw that the low hilly area in the distance was full of homeless people busy building terraces. Of course, the newly opened wasteland has little fertility and can only grow some dryland crops, and the yield is low. It takes at least three years to develop fertility. These days, the manure of people and animals in the thatched houses of the barracks has become a military management material. In order to make overall planning, the Thousand Households Office even printed a lot of dung stamps and distributed them to hundreds of households, with each ticket limited to 100 catties.

In areas where there is no land to cultivate, many more are building new homes. The Jiangnan area is too humid, and you can see water in less than a meter with a hoe, so the kind of ground nest in the north cannot be built. Therefore, after more than 10,000 exiles were captured and joined the Ningxiang Army, Sun Yuan dispersed them and distributed them to various hundred households, and asked them to arrange for the exiles to temporarily live in the homes of other military households. This matter will give the officers under him a headache for the time being.

At the same time, more than a dozen brick kilns were launched at the same time and began firing clay bricks. Fortunately, spring has already begun, the weather will get hotter and hotter, and the displaced people will not freeze to death. It is hoped that in winter, the houses of these 10,000 people and 3,000 or 4,000 families will be built.

Of course, these investments were all paid by Sun Yuan himself.

According to the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, these populations are Sun Yuan's private property, and half of the harvest after cultivation in the future will be sent into his pocket, and the other half will only fall into the hands of the military household after paying the imperial court taxes.

Population is both a burden and a fixed asset, depending on how you operate.

Of course, reclamation on the edge of the fields and in the hilly and mountainous areas is only a small supplement, and it cannot solve the problem of feeding so many people.

We need to think of another way out.

To live, we have to eat, and if we want to eat, we have to farm. In the south of the Yangtze River, before sweet potatoes and corn were introduced, they had to rely on good paddy fields.

After the captives and displaced people were settled, Sun Yuan suddenly had an inspiration after being distressed for more than ten days. If this thing is done, the problem of feeding these 10,000 people can not only be completely solved, but also earn a sum of money for him every year.

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