In the golden autumn of October, the city of Xiangping was full of prosperity, and there was a scene of ordinary people living and working in peace and contentment, and there was no trace of the war.

The peasants outside the city who were harvesting grain had a hearty smile on their faces, and they kept waving their scythes in their hands to catch the heavy harvest.

According to the taxes that were too strict in the past, even in a good year, they would not have much of a harvest.

This year is different, this year is a good year, although there have been two large rebellions, but Taishou Gongsun continued to speak, this year's grain harvest does not pay taxes, and even according to the market price 30% higher to buy them.

Before, they didn't believe Gongsun Xu's words, but before the autumn harvest, after the appointment of Taishou, Gongsun Xu posted a notice in the most prominent position at the city gate, and they immediately believed in the fact that pie fell from the sky.

These farmers are full of harvest energy, and they have a new hope for next year, and they have some momentum.

Gongsun Xu sat in the city guard mansion, looking at the information passed to him by Qi Ming's subordinates, and a smile appeared on his face.

During this period, it can be said that the good news continued, not only the children of the family and some managers sent by Gongsun Zhan were in place, but the major forces in the city also successively sent outstanding children of the family to help Gongsun continue to manage the city.

With one mind, Xiangping City quickly returned to the situation before the war, and even showed a positive momentum.

After the city was on the right track, the reward given by Emperor Liu Xie also arrived in Xiangping City, announcing that Gongsun Xu had officially become the lord of Xiangping.

The reward given by Emperor Liu Xie, Gongsun Xu directly gave those generals under him, and according to the agreement mentioned before, he gave these generals the rewards they deserved.

Almost all the generals who followed Gongsun Xu got the best rewards, like Zhao Yun was directly promoted to the general of the town guard, and the rest of the generals who were promoted to lieutenants, and those who were promoted to generals, in a word, everything moved forward in the direction designed by Gongsun Xu.

The intelligence officers sent out by Qi Ming gave Gongsun a lot of good news, and it was a small surprise in terms of talents, and a few small families who were not welcomed in the local area decided to move to Xiangping.

In terms of grain seeds, it is a big surprise, according to Gongsun Xu's arrangement, all intelligence personnel in the local area must report to him the local grain situation, some rare seeds, especially the seeds produced by Hu Shang in the outer regions, must be paid close attention, because of this matter, Gongsun Xu even sent some intelligence personnel directly to the barren land of Xiliang has been outside the region.

Judging from the news from Qi Ming's subordinates, the unknown seeds collected now have reached twenty or thirty kinds, and the specific things need to be transported back to Xiangping before they can be seen.

Gongsun Xu was most concerned about the issue of seeds, although he did not plant land in later generations, but he was quite clear that food was the most fundamental problem in this era.

Gongsun Xu is not very satisfied with the food in this era, not to mention the monotony of what he eats, and he lacks a lot of taste.

It's good to be able to cook meat with good salt, and add a little bit of green onion and ginger to it.

It's better in the Central Plains, but there's hardly anything delicious in Xiangping.

Gongsun Xu wanted to get some of the condiments used in eating in later generations, so that he could eat sweetly when he ate.

Not only food, but also the clothing to wear is the most important thing.

Xiangping is a very cold place, and in winter, even many people will not be able to survive the winter because of the cold.

Although the people of this era are not afraid of the cold and have a certain ability to resist the cold, Gongsun Xu still wants to improve their lives, besides, in the future, if Gongsun Xu wants to collect the displaced people from the Central Plains to Xiangping, he must be ready to let these people spend the winter.

In Gongsun Xu's impression, cotton products did not appear in the Han Dynasty, and cotton products only began to appear in the Tang and Song dynasties.

But what! Gongsun Xu remembers such an incident, that is, there were already cotton cultivation areas during the Han Dynasty, but the cotton cultivation area was in Xinjiang, or further north.

Seeds of cotton have appeared in those places, but the local people do not recognize this cotton, and it is not clear what the cotton is for.

The Northeast is a bitter cold land, and cotton cultivation is impossible, but it's nothing! If he can find cotton, then he can let his subordinates plant it in other parts of the Central Plains, and he can buy it when the time comes.

Once cotton can be planted in large quantities, there will be a certain guarantee of life in the Northeast in the future, at least the people of the Central Plains will not be frozen to death by the cold of the Northeast when they arrive in the Northeast.

In Qi Ming's letter, his intelligence officers should have heard of the kind of cotton crop described by Gongsun Xu, but they have not seen the real thing yet, and there is no way to be completely sure.

What satisfies Gongsun Xu the most is that after those Wuhuan people who defected after his reform, they no longer have the kind of hatred for him at this time, and they began to start a new life according to his ideas.

When these Wuhuan people rebelled against Qiu Liju, they all dragged their families with them, and they all had a lot of livestock.

They were very grateful to Gongsun Xu, who not only did not confiscate the livestock in their hands, but also carved out a huge pasture in the north of Xiangping City for them to graze in the pasture.

Gongsun Xu also emphasized that the cattle and sheep they graze will be purchased at the highest price in the market to ensure their daily life.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, cattle were used as a treasure for cultivating land, and ordinary people could not eat them at all, except for cattle, mutton could be said to be the favorite food of the aristocracy or their people.

Although there are many delicacies and wild animals in the mountains, and the daily game may be said to be constant, mutton is the most aristocratic and the most high-grade food.

These Wuhuan people are natural herding hands, mobilize their enthusiasm and let them graze in Xiangping, which not only solves the contradiction between these Wuhuan and Han people, but also allows them to live a better life in Xiangping City.

What Gongsun Xu needs to do most now is to stabilize Xiangping City and make Xiangping City prosperous, and only when the city is prosperous can large-scale development be carried out.

Gongsun Xu has a lot of ideas for future planning, but these ideas will not be implemented until next year.

In several counties around Xiangping, Gongsun Xu conducted some research, and he hoped to form a common defense posture between those counties and Xiangping, so that the thieves on the Wairong side who wanted to enter the territory of Dahan to fight the grass valley could not succeed.