Dong Ce asked Uncle Zhou, "How many livestock do we have now?" ”

Although Zhou Bo is quite soft-hearted and not a ruthless person, he is careful and attentive in his work, and after taking over the work from Wang Tong, he is quickly familiar with it. He thought for a moment and said, "The ploughing cattle have been able to send them all, and now there is none in the hands of the public in the hand." There were three mules, five donkeys, sixteen pigs, and fifty-seven sheep. There are about one hundred and twenty or thirty chickens and ducks, and there are six big geese that take care of the house. ”

"There are still a lot of family backgrounds. But it was still not enough, at least 30 pigs and at least 100 sheep. Chickens and ducks should also be doubled! ”

Dong Ce pondered for a moment and said, "For these shortages, you go to Li Gui and ask him to contact Zhao Dahui and buy some piglets, lambs, and chickens and ducks from him." ”

Uncle Zhou hurriedly responded: "The subordinates remember." ”

Dong Ce smiled slightly, turned his head sideways and said to Wang Yu: "Wang Yu, you are responsible for this matter." Within three days, I will see a large enough chicken coop, duck pen, pigsty, and sheepfold. It was built separately from this area, and the outside was fenced off to prevent theft. In this case, you go to the newly attached homeless people and select five households, and let them take charge of the care and maintenance of the livestock farm, and tell them that they don't need to farm anymore, and give them monthly rations. Let them be well kept and kept in good care, and you have to check the number every three days and keep a record. ”

Dong Ce's face was pale, but the words in his mouth were crippled? One? Root? Read? The novel xstxt is extremely cool: "In these days, you can beat out all the dog's brains for a bite to eat." The life of an animal is worth more than a human life! Tell this almost breeder, kill a pig, kill a person to die! Kill a chicken, cut off an arm! But if it is done well and raised well, the official will not hesitate to reward him. ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Uncle Zhou sent out all the grains.

The land has been reclaimed and can now be cultivated, but as for the newly attached households east of Panshi Fort and west of the Gan River, it will take a few more days.

In the cultivation process of this era, soil fertility and whether the wind and rain are favorable are the most important factors in determining the harvest, but the role of seeds cannot be ignored, and it can even be said that it is extremely important.

Chinese people have cultivated the land for thousands of years, and they have long had a set of methods. These seeds are soaked in manure before they are planted.

The so-called manure is to crush the bones of livestock, grind them into powder, and then mix them with animal manure, generally sheep dung and cow dung, add water, stir them together, and it becomes a good manure. Soak the seeds in the manure for a while, then take them out to dry, then put them in to soak and dry again, and so on four or five times. The surface of the seed is already attached with a layer of nutrients. Once buried in the soil, these superficial nutrients alone are enough to sprout and grow. It can greatly improve the survival rate and future growth of seeds.

The people happily buried the seeds, and many people kowtowed to the seeds in the ground according to local customs, and burned some plant ashes to spread around, hoping for a good harvest in the coming year.

Also on the afternoon of this day, Panshi Fort ushered in Liu Ruozai's messenger.

Above the lobby, Dong Ce put down the letter in his hand, and there were only two words on the letter: Do it!

He knew it was time!

Dong Ce took a deep breath, only to feel that there seemed to be hot blood boiling in his body, and he couldn't help but tremble slightly, and a layer of tiny goosebumps appeared on the skin on the surface of his body.

How long has it been since this feeling has passed? Last time, was it a night attack on Jiannu's camp, or did eight people rush to the horse thief's formation without hesitation?

It's a fascinating feeling!

Dong Ce is not obsessed with the adventure, but is obsessed with the huge benefits behind the adventure!

For the first time, 100 households were sealed. The second time, he killed his henchmen and sealed thousands of households.

This is the third time, this time it is different from the past, and it is also a bit more difficult, it is to take the head of the general among the thousands of troops!

"What will I gain this time?" Dong Ce muttered softly.

He suddenly slapped the case and shouted: "Shi Jin, Zhou Zhong, Wang Hun, Yelu Lihe, Zhai Qingtong, put on armor!" Go big with this official! ”

"Yes!"

Everyone in the hall was shocked.

They are even more excited than Dong Ce, especially Shi Jin, they are the officers left by Dong Ce, so they did not interfere in civil affairs, these days watching Wang Tong and Wang Yu are busy with their work, they have long been idle.

Dong Ce expected that it would be these days, so he had already made preparations. Wang Hun and Yelu Huli and these two cadres were all recruited here, and Wang Tong took the training alone at Anxiangdun, anyway, the training regulations Dong Ce gave Wang Tong, and it was done according to the procedure. The agriculture was entrusted to Zhou Bo, the fishing, shipbuilding, and weaving nets were handed over to Wang Yu, and the construction of the city was handled by Li Gui and Su Dacheng and Gao Sun, two craftsmen.

Dong Ce has explained the work for the next ten days or even months.

It is also quick to go to Dong Ce.

However, after a cup of tea, a group of more than a dozen horsemen and horses left the rock fort and headed in the direction of Zhenhe Fort.

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The autumn wind was blowing, and there was already a hint of chill.

Looking at the four fields, it was a withered yellow, and the autumn mood was already quite strong.

Jiannu has been retreating north for a while, and the traces of the once wreaking havoc here have gradually disappeared, and this land of northern Jin has become a little more angry.

There are also many caravans and pedestrians on the road, especially on the official road leading to Zhenhe Fort, which can be called an endless stream.

It is autumn and winter is about to begin, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers north of Datong Town are going to spend the winter, and this is the time when organizations at all levels begin to purchase winter clothes, grain, straw bundles, bedding, fat, cotton, and other materials.

In the entire North Hebei Province, more than a dozen castles, hundreds of fortresses, and more than 10,000 soldiers needed materials were first concentrated in Zhenhe Fort, where the North Hebei Military Preparation Road was located, and then distributed below. The situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was so chaotic, and the Houjin, the Ming Dynasty, and the anti-thieves were fighting endlessly. In other dynasties, the military attache must have turned over, but the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty can still press on the military generals and drive them like pigs and dogs, relying on the power of logistics supply.

The Ming Dynasty used the method of opening the Chinese to transport grain to the border pass, which was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Hongwu, who were extremely idealistic and laid a deep bane for the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years after the opening of the country.

Just like many of the systems he invented—the military household system, the artisan household system, and so on—they all look beautiful, sound good, and there are no problems in theory, but after a while, you will find that they are simply full of loopholes and a mess!

Naive! Immature! The horizon is too low!

As for the extremely low commercial tax system he set and the system that the gentry do not have to pay grain, it is needless to say that the Ming Dynasty has caused the disaster to be like this, and Zhu Yuanzhang is to blame!

The founding emperor has nothing to say about governing the army and governing people, only governing the country may have something to do with his background, his vision is narrow and low, and many ideas are too idealistic.

Perhaps, he is not wrong, but he miscalculated people's greed.

The opening method is the most typical example.

To put it bluntly, it is a system that encourages merchants to transport grain to the nine sides and then exchange it for salt from the government, thus having the power to sell salt. The system of opening the middle of the Song Dynasty followed the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty carried it forward, the two proud works of the Hongwu Emperor - the opening of the law and the military household system, the combination of the two, not only made the Ming Dynasty lose the Song Dynasty a year there are millions of rich salt taxes, but also directly turned the Ming millions of elite border troops into millions of beggars who need to beg and need their wives and daughters to survive.

Its effect is really earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods, the mountains and rivers change color, and the people panic......

Hongwu formulated the salt regulations in the fourth year, according to the mileage, one to five stones of grain can be exchanged for a small lead, that is, two hundred catties of salt. As the situation changes, the price of rice is reversed. The opening of the law is roughly divided into three steps, guarding the branch, and the market is easy. In the report, the salt merchants transported the grain to the granary in the designated border area in accordance with the requirements of the government's investment promotion list, and exchanged it for salt from the government; Shouzhi means that after the salt merchant exchanges the salt lead, he leads the salt to the designated salt field to wait for the salt; Shiyi is a salt merchant who transports the obtained salt to a designated area for sale.

But the role of the government is too great, there are too many places for officials to do their own thing, and the profits in between are too great. As a result, something was inevitable.

At the beginning, the system was quite strict, Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle were such shrewd and harsh masters who could not tolerate sand in their eyes, and the officials did not dare to do anything. However, because of the huge cost of transporting grain over long distances, the salt merchants simply hired labor to cultivate the fields and produce grain in various parts of the nine borders, and put them in the warehouse on the spot in exchange for salt, so as to make more profits. Because this form of tuntian is operated by merchants, it is different from the military tun and the people's tun, so it is called Shangtun.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shangtun was east to Liaodong, north to Xuanda, west to Gansu, south to the address, everywhere, extremely prosperous. Later, according to the imperial decree, in addition to exchanging grain and rice for salt, cloth and silk, silver money, horses, etc. could also be exchanged, but grain exchange was the main form. It was only later that the royal family, eunuchs, relatives, and officials saw that it was profitable to hold salt, so they begged for salt and resold it to salt merchants to make a profit.

This phenomenon, known as "occupying the nest", intensified, which undermined the Kaizhong system and seriously affected the financial revenue of the imperial court.

Later, during the Hongzhi period, the old system was changed to the merchant to replace the rice with silver, pay it to the transportation division, solve it to Taicang, and then distribute it to all sides, and each salt was lost to three or four dollars. As a result of this restructuring, Taicang has more than one million yuan of silver, and the state's fiscal revenue has increased sharply. As a result, most of the salt merchants in the border areas moved their families inward, and the Shangtun was rapidly destroyed, and the grain reserves of the border army were also greatly reduced.