"Can you be so capricious if you have food? Can lawlessness be made possible with food? Liu Pan lost his temper in Linxiang City.

Originally, it was thought that as long as they retreated a little and stretched out the battle line, and at the same time dragged this lone army in Jingzhou, it would be a matter of time before the general's mansion collapsed or withdrew with the grain route that the general's palace had to pass through from the land of Wuling......

After all, when he was leaving, Liu Pan had snatched all the green seedlings in Guiyang, and the manpower of each county was also overdrawn by five times - in a short period of time, unless the other party carried out a more destructive overdraft, he would not want to replenish manpower and supplies in Guiyang!

Liu Pan even dreamed that when the other party withdrew his troops, he saw through the other party's reduction and increase of troops, and pursued the victory all the way.

However...... Just when Liu Pan was staring at when the other party would withdraw, the General's Mansion proved it with facts - I am so "fat"!

actually continued to increase troops in Jingnan, and while raising this lone army and supplying the Wuxi people, he didn't have the slightest intention of being unable to resist, as if it would rain grain in Yangzhou......

If the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the General's Mansion knew Liu Pan's thoughts, they would definitely slap him in the face.

Yangzhou's grain does not fall from the sky, but the output that we work hard to increase little by little!

If Bai Tu knew Liu Pan's thoughts, he would definitely regret to tell him that our output is still very low and needs to be improved.

This year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to vigorously promote the essence of Shennong, the removal of insects, the guidance of two-season cultivation, and reasonable intensive farming, which is expected to increase by three percent on the current basis - that is, no less than the yield per mu in the Qing Dynasty.

In a few years, after the full promotion and adaptation to the reasonable two-season farming, it will be increased by three percent, that is, before the Jian'an year, and the output will not be a problem.

After all, in the Qing Dynasty, it was only because the per capita land occupied was decreasing that more intensive cultivation laws were summed up, and the essence of Shennong was not used, so there was room for improvement.

Later, with the improvement of Shennong's essence, the yield per mu entered a stage of steady improvement, and then I want to increase it significantly...... One can only hope for the results of crop improvement from the Ministry of Industry, or the high-yielding foreign crops from the Golden State.

Half a ton of corn per mu, two or three tons of sweet potatoes and potatoes per mu, even if these are not suitable for daily staple food, the three generations of hybrid rice in later generations have a yield of one ton per mu, which is almost four times that of chemical fertilizer planting!

But that's for later.

Even now, there is no shortage of grain in the General's Mansion, so Bai Tu and Chen Gong can be willful and open a grain road in the land of Wuling......

As long as there are no major natural disasters within five years, Yangzhou's agricultural population will naturally be greatly reduced, and at that time, relying only on Guantun - that is, the general's mansion in the Poyang Plain, Zhenze Plain and Huainan Plain, these large farms suitable for group cultivation will be enough to fill the official use, and the price of grain will also be reduced to six or seven percent, or even half of the employment price of the workshop.

The plan of the General's Mansion was also in the 12th year of Jian'an, to achieve currency recovery and realize that commodity transactions would no longer rely on food.

The commodity economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty was already very weak, and it shrank a lot compared to the Western Han Dynasty, especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Even the General's Mansion did not care about the currency in order to prevent the outflow of food.

Although this has hindered the development of the commodity economy, it has ...... The lesser of two evils.

Therefore, when other princes envied the general's palace for having a way to implement the "grain standard" and draw grain from the world, the direction of the general's office was to strive for an early end to the "grain standard".

As long as the output continues to increase, especially after Guantun is becoming more and more convenient and the cost is getting lower and lower, when Guantun alone can meet the consumption of official grain, and can even rely on the cost advantage to sell additional grain to fill other materials, there will naturally be no need for the "grain standard".

Even now, Liu Pan was amazed that the General's Mansion really dared to pull the supply line across the land of Wuling.

And Wei Yan was mocking on the side, with a posture that I am not happy, I will be angry with you, beat my military stick, and I will splash your blood.

After being discovered by Liu Pan, he scolded: "Wei Yan! It was you who delayed the fighter before, and Ben Taishou hasn't said anything about you...... You...... What are you guilty of? ”

"Liu Taishou, when will you delay the fighter?" Wei Yan retorted unconvinced.

"Dare to quibble? I ask you...... The General's Mansion transports grain from the rear and passes through the land of Wuling, how much more difficult is it than you? As a result, how much grain did you transport, and how much grain did the General's Mansion transport? Liu Pan forcibly blamed him.

Wei Yan: ......

With your lack of food, do you want me to transport it?

"Nothing to say, right? Come on, give him fifty sticks! Liu Pan waved his hand casually.

Huang Zhong sighed in his heart at this time, but he still stood up and said: "Taishou, Wen Chang is indeed at fault, but now that the military situation is urgent, it is better to allow him to make meritorious contributions." ”

"I didn't ......" Wei Yan was about to refute, but Huang Zhong turned his head and glared back.

Huang Zhong is good at archery, and when his eyes are pressing, his fine light is also particularly intimidating.

"Hmph...... Then the fifty military sticks this time, write them down first, and if there are any mistakes in the future, they will be dealt with together! Liu Pan said.

Liu Pan also knew that he was unreasonable, so it was just a matter of anger.

However, Wei Yan also has the same dry temper, he is soft and not hard, and it can be said that he just happened to be in conflict with Liu Pan.

Huang Zhong later brought Wei Yan with him to the Rongling garrison, which was the forward defensive line in the south of Changsha and next to the Zhangliao garrison.

However, in the past two months, Zhang Liao has not been in a hurry to attack, but to assist the people of Guiyang to resume production, with the climate of Jingnan, it is still in time for summer planting, at least this year's harvest of grain.

I don't expect to be able to subsidize the military, but if you harvest a crop, the people don't need to be relieved at least.

Although the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs could not follow up immediately, they could not give too much guidance, and the essence of Shennong and the insect powder could not be used, but from the perspective of grain transportation and consumption, Guiyang produced one stone of grain, which was worth three and a half stones in Jiangdong......

Bai Tu is ready to increase the number of troops in Jingnan by 20,000 one after another, and at that time, plus the hired Wuxi people, it will consume about 700,000 stone grain and grass a year, and counting the transportation consumption, it will be expanded to 2.5 million stones, that is, 2 million mu, 40,000 hectares per mu of the Han system.

It may sound like a lot, but in the plan of the General's Mansion, the two major plains of Poyang, Zhenze and Jiangdong can be reclaimed 1.5 million hectares of Guantun, although the water conservancy has not been completely rolled out, the wasteland has not been completely reclaimed, and the replacement of some main fields has not been completed, and the Guantun in Huainan is still in the preparatory stage......

But...... There are still 500,000 hectares of Guantun, and after removing the costs of forced labor, as well as the cost of ploughing cattle, wear and tear of farm tools, and transportation and storage of grain, Jingnan's grain consumption accounts for one-eighth of the Guantun storage.

As for the grain tax has been lowered to five taxes and one, and there are still some areas in the recovery period that are exempt from taxes, and the grain tax revenue is only about the same as that of the official tun under the rule of the one million households, and the grain tax collection and consumption are much larger than those of the official tun, and the final storage is only six or seven percent.

Counting the grain and grass that was "absorbed" by salt and other materials to Yangzhou, the grain collected by Guantun just accounted for half of the grain and grass stored in the General's Mansion, that is to say, Jingnan used troops and used 7% of the total grain.

5. Partial tax exemption, 7% ......

If Liu Pan knew this number, it was estimated that he would have to knock Wei Yan's 500 military sticks directly first, and ask him why Jingnan's grain could not be transported more and more (Wei Yan: ??? ）。

However, the maximum cannot exceed one percent, Baitu is now a third-line soldier, as well as the cost of recruit training, recruitment of Shanyue, etc., once the people of Jingnan also need relief, three and a half times the consumption is not a joke!