On the seventh day of September, the sky was blue and cloudless.

The clean sky is as spotless as the mood of the Qiantou people in Shahe Township at the moment. With a pious heart, the corn will be received. Drying, storage, and waiting for Wen Chou to send people to extract some of the corn, which is quite orderly.

The next step is to plant the autumn wheat. This is commonly known as winter wheat. Wen Chou had already distributed the wheat seeds to the farmers one by one. Of course, depending on the size of the labour, the number of wheat seeds distributed varies.

But as long as you can cultivate as much as you can, Wen Chou will pretend to borrow the corresponding wheat seeds. The reason why it is said to be a fake loan is that when the harvest is harvested next year, the borrowed part will be handed over. Originally, this matter was usually done by the county officials when they inspected the township, in order to show their virtue and benevolence.

But at the moment, thieves are frequent, and it is an eventful time, they will not risk their lives and go to the countryside to show their benevolence, so the people below Qianshou, if they are not cultivated enough, they can only rely on the local wealthy clans, and then they can't bear it, and the big clans oppress and expose this is a vicious circle. And when Wen Chou replaced the 'fake seed' that the county officials should do, Wen Chou naturally received the praise of the people of Qianshou.

And now, it is also the first day of the villagers to cultivate wheat. Most of them had already cleaned up the corn stalks in the fields and piled them together, waiting for the sergeants sent by Wen Chou to come and pull them away. According to the original market price, a bunch of stalks is about three to six cents, and a bunch is about two to four cents, and the stubble is the straw of the crop. And these are all voluntary contributions from the villagers, along with the grain and rice that should be paid.

In addition to the straw fields, some families are also sprinkling some manure into them to increase the soil fertility. But most people say that people don't have that much manure for them to use, but it doesn't matter, after all, these fields have only just been cultivated, and there is no need to worry about the lack of land in a few decades. Even if the fertile fields are not counted, the medium fertile fields still do not run.

The next step is to plough the land and level the land. And in this link, it is also the time when the labor force is most restricted. Originally, if it was to plough the cattle and put on a long plow, it would be nothing. But Shahe Township is now short of cattle! So you can't reclaim too much wasteland. It is often four or five families together, working day and night with manpower to fill the lack of energy accumulation.

Regarding this phenomenon, Wen Chou also saw it in his eyes and was depressed in his heart. Because, ploughing cattle are in urgent need there. He once sent people to other towns and counties to buy cattle, but the effect was not great, and he went to several places around him, and only bought 100 heads, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the Xin'an homeless people in Wanwu.

To say that horses are used instead of cattle to plough the land, it is even more nonsense, and there are only more than 300 horses in the entire Shahe Township. Moreover, these horses are also the foundation of Wen Chou's military development, and Wen Chou is reluctant. In addition, compared with cattle, horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty had relatively little strength, and the effect of cultivating land was not outstanding. At the same time, cold-blooded horses in Europe were more suitable for cultivation than horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty. So China is a cattle farming civilization, while Europe is a horse farming civilization. Of course, this is only one of the reasons.

For this reason, Wen Chou can only order. During the period of ploughing the land, it is necessary to have enough food to eat, so as not to make the villagers who are busy with ploughing the land unable to continue.

The best time to cultivate is mid-September, and the villagers need to open up as much land as they can before the day of planting. After all, except for ploughing and sowing, there is no other link that requires a lot of manpower to accumulate.

Basically, all the villagers were busy in the fields, forming a boom of doing a lot of work. From the old birthday star to the drooping children, all of them are part of this craze. Everything else had to be put on hold for a while. The people live on food.

Compared with the cultivation boom in full swing, the ditch dug by more than 10,000 people in Shahe Township for four months is about to be completed. As long as the cultivation is completed, the villagers will be mobilized, and I am afraid that the last section will be excavated in less than three days. At that time, this season's wheat harvest will be considered to be basically guaranteed.

For corn that has already been harvested at home. The harvest was also very impressive.

Perhaps because of the abundant land resources, the corn produced in the township can reach the level of four stones per mu on average, but it is beyond the average level of three stones per mu in this dynasty. And some of the fertile fields have reached the level of ten stones per mu! It can really be called 'the field of acres', and these fields are all located on the side of the canal, which is convenient for irrigation! This is also the reason why Wen Chou is eager to get the villagers to dig ditches.

And what is the geometry of all the cultivated fields in Hongo? According to the public level of '100 acres per husband', there should be as many as 500,000 acres of land in the township. According to the estimation of Wang Chong, there are 600,000 acres of cultivated land in the township. Far beyond the ordinary. Of course, this 'mu' is a small mu, which is only equivalent to a quarter of one mu in later generations. The yield of four stones per mu is also calculated according to the 'small mu', and a total of 2.4 million stone of corn is harvested. If it is replaced by the measurement system of later generations, it is 375 catties per mu of the city, which is not a high yield.

Two million and 4,400,000 stones, at first glance, sounds like a lot. However, according to the calculation that one person eats 30 stones of grain a year, there are more than 20,000 villagers in Shahe, and more than 600,000 stones of grain will be consumed a year!

In addition, the various taxes payable are removed, such as the land rent '30 taxes 1' or 134,000 stones, 200 yuan per household per year, 300 yuan per adult man, 23 yuan per year for children aged 1 to 14, 120 yuan per person per year, and 63 yuan per person per year for adult men and women. Contributions, etc., and other messy levies on forced labor, which are as much as a cow's hair, are taken together, and I am afraid that each household will have to pay a tax of one or two thousand yuan, and if it is exchanged for corn, it will be as much as one or twenty stones. One township is another sixty or seventy thousand stones!

When the 800,000 stones were divided, as much as one-third of the harvest was removed. This is also the reason why the villagers of Shahe have reclaimed wasteland, which is abundant and has increased production a lot. If it is based on the usual situation of three stones per mu, it will be subtracted from 800,000 stones! The remaining 800,000 stones, four stones per person, is the harvest of these villagers in one season!

Of course, this time Wen Chou said that he would extract fifty percent of the harvest, and the tax payable has been included. In other words, each family has a harvest of 240 stone this season, so there is no need to worry about eating. And Wen Chou extracted more than 1.2 million stones of grain and grass, even if he paid 50,000 or 60,000 stone in taxes, it could also make his Taolin Military Department develop by leaps and bounds!

And Wen Chou himself no longer has to shrink back because of the shortage of food and grass. This is what he has achieved in the six months since he took office. For this, Wen Chou felt very satisfied.

Of course, all this grain and grass cannot be used for military development, after all, there are still 3,000 captives to feed! It's just that these people are not worth mentioning compared to such a large amount of food.

It can be said that Shahe Township has gone through the most difficult time, successfully got rid of all kinds of drawbacks caused by the influx of more than 10,000 displaced people, and entered the formality. And Wen Chou's 'great cause' can be regarded as a small step. Of course, there is still a long way to go.

For example, the issue of popularizing literacy education for villagers, the problem of teaching children to enter the scholars, the problem of leading the people to enrich the people through business, the problem of repairing and recovering people's houses, the problem of rescuing the families of 3,000 captives, the problem of renovating and innovating agricultural tools, and the problem of subduing the poor scholars. These are all questions that have been put on the agenda, and there are countless others.

Wen Chou sat on the top of the lobby, looking at the scroll presented to him by Xiangzuo Wang Chong, his mind was flying, his face was cloudy, sometimes happy, sometimes gloomy like water. Summarize the results of recent actions, as well as the pros and cons; Thinking about the future development trend and the plan.

I don't know how long Wen Chou has been sitting in front of the desk like that, but now he feels a little tired, stretches his waist for a long time, and exhales: "Well, millions of fine grains!" It's worth the effort and effort! ”

Immediately, as if he had thought of something, his eyes flashed, and he said to himself: "I don't know, what are Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other heroes of this era doing?" But like me, are you trying your best to expand your strength? Maybe not exactly! After all, now, the emperor Liu Hong, who sold officials and knights in Xiyuan, is still in his palace! ”

"Well, Sun Jian should still be in Changsha to lead troops to exterminate the thieves there, right? I remember that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, his son was sealed back to Jiangdong, and then he guarded one side, and when he was fighting Dong, he was already a prince! Wen Chou frowned slightly.

After all, Wen Chou did not memorize the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han" before crossing over. It's just that for a period of time after the crossing, I tried my best to recall the stories of the Three Kingdoms that I knew before, and recorded them one by one. In the general trend of development at the end of the Han Dynasty, as well as the battles and stories that are familiar to later generations, they can still be accurately said!

But if you let Wen Chouyan talk about that character, what exactly did he do that year, it will be a little difficult for him. For example, Sun Jian, who was mentioned just now, was not named Changsha Taishou after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but went to Liangzhou with Zhang Wen, the general of the chariot cavalry, to suppress the rebellion of Bian Zhang and Han Sui. This made Wen Chou right, Sun Jian is now suppressing the rebellion in Changsha.

Wen Chou shook his head and said, "As for Cao Cao? Maybe you're also doing Taishou in which county, right? He should have been the eighth lieutenant of the West Park with Yuan Shao, Chun Yuqiong and others in the coming year, right? As for Liu Bei, he may be under Gongsun Zhan, right? There was a tone of uncertainty.

After a while, Wen Chou rubbed his frowning brows and smiled bitterly: "What do you care about them?" As long as my own strength is enough, I will be able to have a foothold in the future! ”