"The Eastern Han District is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and everyone wants to compete for the first place."

Chu Tian was slightly shocked, there were a large number of lord players in the Eastern Han District, and the competition was extremely fierce.

There were thirteen states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and even the Jiaozhou Prefecture and the Western Regions Protectorate in the remote areas had a large number of lords.

As early as the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had already shouted that the prince and the prince would have a kind of Xiangning. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the universally believed truth is that whoever has the biggest fist has the final say, who is qualified to compete in the Central Plains.

Moreover, the Eastern Han District is the largest district, and the probability of the appearance of the great lord is very high.

"Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Guanzhong are excellent horse-producing areas, and the lords in these places have great advantages in the early stage."

Chutian found that half of the top ten lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from horse-producing prefectures and counties.

These lords should already have quite a few cavalry. The power of cavalry in the era of cold weapons is self-evident.

The appearance of the world's first town in the Eastern Han District was both a good thing and a bad thing for Chutian. The good side lies in the overall strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the bad side is that in the future, "a small soldier at the border pass in the late Ming Dynasty" may become a strong enemy.

A lord of the Youzhou region, occupying the land of eastern Liaodong, once in charge of the land of the sixteen states of Yanyun, there are not many princes and lords who can stop it after entering the customs.

However, Chu Tian was not anxious.

There are many lords in the early stage, and the gap between the first echelon and the lords behind is not obvious.

Summer Village will soon be upgraded to a town.

"Lord, after the population of the village has increased, the amount of farmland has been seriously insufficient, please ask the lord to order the cultivation of farmland, and complete the reclamation before the sowing in October, so that there will be enough food next year."

As a pawn farmer, Li Kui interrupted Chu Tian's attention to the other lords.

Dreams are there to have, and the immediate thing is the problem of eating.

The food problem was once again in front of Chutian - the existing amount of farmland in Xia Village was insufficient.

"How much gold and silver do you need to clear the farmland?"

"There are many wastelands on the plains outside the village, so there is no need for gold and silver land acquisition. As for labor, it was enough to use the displaced people, and the cultivated fields were given to them for future cultivation, so there was no need to distribute gold or silver. The only thing that costs money is to buy a batch of axes, hoes, and other iron tools for removing weeds and trees. ”

"It is also necessary to organize villagers to divert water from the Yi River to newly cultivated farmland and drill wells. The amount of newly cultivated farmland should be greater than the required amount so that it can be used in the future when the population increases. The implementation of the rotational tillage system also requires more farmland to avoid affecting annual yields. Every year, half of the farmland is used for production and half for fallow. ”

"This is a map drawn by the minister after exploring the nearby fields recently, and it basically lists the wasteland that can be reclaimed as farmland."

As a pawn official, Li Kui appeared to be extremely conscientious, and he had already prepared a map without Chu Tian's special orders.

Chu Tian took the map, the area of cultivable farmland outside Xia Village was huge, and there was basically no pressure on the land. It is estimated that at the city level, the land use problem will be tense.

"You organize the villagers who don't have farmland to reclaim the new fields. The tiller has his field. In addition, the sale and purchase of land is strictly prohibited for the time being, and farmers are left on the land. ”

Chu Tian weighed it and banned land sales in the early stage to ensure that there would be no problem with the grain harvest next year.

"Yes."

Li Kui replied and left, recruiting villagers in Xia Village who wanted to cultivate the fields but did not have farmland, and cultivated them according to the location of the map.

Soon, Xia Village implemented an agricultural policy - "the tiller has his land".

Ownership of the cultivated farmland is vested in the lord's house, and if a family has been working on a piece of land for more than five years, it is assumed that the family always has the right to use the land.

On the premise that the family does not change the use of the farmland, the lord's office will not transfer the right to use the land to other farmers.

About 200 villagers followed Li Kui to clear the land before planting in October. These villagers carried hoes, axes, shovels and other iron tools, and their fighting spirit was high.

The new farmland reclaimed is their own family's land in the future, and they are naturally interested.

Although the ownership of these farmlands was nominally vested in the lord's house, the lord's house had ownership only for the purpose of collecting land taxes, prohibiting the sale and purchase of land, and expropriating land for compensation in the future.

Other than that, the lands are not much different from their own.

All in all, as long as the farmer pays the rent on time, he can work on the land forever.

The population of Xia Village gradually climbed to 2,000 people, and the prosperity of Xia Village also increased due to the reclamation of new farmland.

As the labor input of lumberyards, quarries, and mining sites increases, the scale of these resource buildings also increases.

Finally, the fourth-class fish market was completed. Summer Village's prosperity is increased by 50 all at once.

Now the prosperity of Xia Village is 504, and the population is 2021. Because of the completion of the fourth-level fish market, the prosperity of Xia Village ranked among the top ten villages in Xuzhou.

The conditions of popular support, public security, and special buildings are also basically satisfied.

There is only one condition left, 100 gold.

As a lord, if you don't have enough money, you have only two options - either go and loot the money of other forces, or borrow it.

Chu Tian chose to borrow money. The object of borrowing money is not someone else, but the small village of the alliance.

The first-level town can have four vassal villages, and Chutian is ready to annex Xiaozhu Village.

If Xia Liang, the village chief of Xiaozhu Village, is unwilling to accept the merger, Chu Tian can only use force to conquer her. Of course, the conquest by force here refers to sending troops to besiege Kozuki Village.

With the strength of a group of villagers in Xiaozhu Village, they could not resist the battle of Xia Village to destroy the village.

Chu Tian had already said hello to Xia Liang in advance, and the best way was to annex Xiaozhu Village unscathed.

There are many buildings in Xiaozhu Village that do not even have Xia Village, such as mulberry gardens, trading houses, pawnshops, dart bureaus, and textile workshops...... These are all buildings that Chu Tian is blushing in.

"You go and invite the village chief of Xiaozhu Village to come over and discuss the merger of the two villages."

Chutian arranged for a small group of cavalry to go to Xiaozhu Village to escort the village chief of Xiaozhu Village.

It is better to make it clear in person such a major event as the merger of the two villages.

Can Xiaozhucun come up with such a huge sum of money as 100 gold?

Chu Tian was still a little skeptical.

One hundred gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver, and few lords can easily lend one hundred gold in the early stage.

"Can you upgrade to the town if you still lack a hundred gold in your summer village? I can bring it to you if you want it. However, you have to pay it off within a year, and the interest is one-tenth of the principal. ”

Cool in the summer informed Chutian in advance.

"No problem."

This guy can really come up with a hundred gold.

Chu Tian found that the cool summer with economic acumen was simply an ATM.

Keep in mind that all players who are trapped in Lords will not be able to exchange Earth Coins for gold and silver. In other words, this 100 gold is the money that Xia Liang managed to collect with the help of Xiaozhu Village.

The interest of one-tenth is ten taels of gold, which is completely acceptable to Chutian.

Upgrading to a town early will allow you to conquer other villages, bringing in far more tax each month than interest.