Seeing that Zhao Guan's order newspaper asked Jiangning's officials to 'insist', Song Gongming put down the telegram. The meaning of persistence is to wait for the matter to end automatically, that is, it is not to rely on the efforts of the government to solve the problem, but to count on the people in Jiangning City to give up the action of queuing up to buy food. Song Gongming cared most about who the official family was supporting, and judging from the decision, the Zhao official family chose the most passive solution route and did not have clear support.

This matter has reached such a point, Song Gongming naturally has to carry out the next thing. By this time, schools in Jiangning City were closed and factories were closed. The ears of wheat have turned from turquoise to golden, which means that the harvest can finally be opened. The end of March in the Great Song Dynasty is the fifth month of the Western calendar, and the rainy season begins in another month. Harvesting is a race against time and against God. Only the basic left-behind personnel were left in each unit, and the rest went to the collective farm of the public family to participate in the harvest during the busy agricultural season. No amount of manpower is enough.

After a week of busy farming, Song Gongming sat on a donkey and went to his destination, and found that the rice field itself was also a little different. In some places, the ears are completely golden yellow, while in other places only the top half of the ears are golden, and the bottom half is still green. In other places, the burrs around the ears are yellow, and the ears themselves are still green.

"What's going on?" Song Gongming asked the entourage who came with him.

"I don't know." Song Gongming's secretary replied.

Song Gongming didn't ask again, and continued to urge the donkey to move forward. On both sides of the road are two ditches, and on the outside of the ditches are neat little trees, which grow very fast, and at this time they are able to cast a little shade on the road. At regular intervals, there are access roads to roadside farms. Before the passage to the 1005 farm, where Song Gongming was arranged, Song Gongming saw another team of donkey riders coming from the right. Because he wanted to turn left, Song Gongming waited for the group to pass first.

The group on the opposite side was Duan Tiande and his entourage, and when they saw Song Gongming from a distance, the people around Duan Tiande immediately reminded, "Outside the staff, the people in front are the officials who came to us to borrow grain from the tenants." ”

Hearing this, Duan Tiande immediately felt his anger rush from the soles of his feet to the tips of his hair. In Jiangning officialdom, Wen Zhang is already extremely hated. Now Duan Tiande's list can be compared with Wen Zhang, and Song Gongming has been added. When the harvest is scarce, it is the time when the landlords make money, and they can borrow grain from the people with 50 or even 60 percent interest, or buy green seedlings from the people with a similar proportion. Either way, there are huge benefits.

In addition to profits, the landlords can also confidently say that the tenant farmers do not know how to arrange, so they do not have enough grain when the harvest is scarce. The landlords borrowed grain and bought green seedlings, all of which were bodhisattvas.

As a result, I don't know who didn't clamp the crotch of his pants, and released an official like Song Gongming. This guy took the grain and borrowed it from the villages, and the interest was only 1% a month. Compared with the interest rate of 5%, this interest is no different from no interest. Song Gongming did not need any collateral to borrow grain, and only used the guarantees of the retired soldiers in the village and two peasant families to lend his family four months' rations. The landlords of the village were completely left aside.

When Duan Tiande returned to the countryside, he wanted to unite the landlords to sell grain to the government later to see if it could cause a shortage of grain in the state-run grain stores. didn't expect the government to take the initiative to attack, but the interests of Duan Tiande's family were slashed by the government first, and it was still a very fierce knife. When Duan Tiande wanted to find Song Gongming to theorize, Song Gongming had already left.

At this time, he learned that Song Gongming was in front, and when he saw Song Gongming pretending to be humble, he asked Duan Tiande and them to go first. Duan Tiande immediately urged the donkey forward. Before he could reach Song Gongming, seven or eight horsemen on horseback came out of the passage leading to the main road from the farm, and their sabers were fixed in front of the stirrups on their left, looking murderous.

After a few words of conversation with Song Gongming, the knights jumped off their horses and politely waited for Song Gongming to come over. Look at the horses that are much taller than donkeys, look at the sabers that have been sheathed. Duan Tiande's courage quickly dissipated not much, and when he walked between Song Gongming and the knight, he could only glare at Song Gongming with hatred, and then walked away.

After walking for a while, Duan Tiande looked back. I saw that Song Gongming and the others entered the farm gate under the escort of the knights, and even if they rushed back, they couldn't say anything. scolded in his heart: Dog officer, wait and see! Duan Tiande rushed back to Jiangning City, preparing to contact the elders of the clan to discuss the immediate problem.

Before I got home, someone had already gone back to report it. As soon as you enter, the elders are already in the courtyard to greet you. Duan Tiande looked at those anxious faces, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go in and talk." ”

As soon as everyone sat down, the elder immediately said, "The government is now releasing grain, and our income has been greatly reduced. ”

There is no need to emphasize this to Duan Tiande, Duan Tiande has already calculated on the road. The money earned every year when there is no harvest can probably account for nearly 10% of the annual income.

"Patriarch, without this money, the money and food to be distributed this year will not be enough." The elder looked anxious.

Duan Tiande was also anxious in his heart, but his expression was still calm. "Don't worry too much, there is no shortage at home this year, and there will be more food. The government also takes great care to collect grain every year, and with Fengming, the grain is easy to sell. ”

"What if there is still not enough money and food?" The elders were not as confident as Duan Tiande.

"If it's not enough, then everyone has to reduce it." Duan Tiande replied decisively. Without waiting for the elders to express their opinions, he asked again, "Hasn't Feng Ming come yet?" ”

"Back to the head of the family, Feng Ming's family said that he was on a business trip." The relatives here hurriedly replied.

"Business trip! Hum! Duan Tiande was immediately furious. This so-called business trip must be to work for the government, and serving for the government will conflict with the interests of the Duan family. It's just that now, Duan Tiande just can't scold Duan Fengming. The Duan family still asked Duan Fengming for help in selling grain at the end of last year, which really annoyed Duan Fengming and did not do the Duan family the slightest benefit.

Thinking of this, Duan Tiande opened his mouth and said, "Everyone, our Duan family is from a cultivation background. The private school at home teaches students, and strives to be able to enter and exit the family in the classroom. But the current situation is different, and the system has replaced Jinshike. Each of you must send your children to Jiangning to study in the system. ”

The elders nodded one after another, and this year there will be an exam every three years, and dozens of people will be recruited each time. The number of recruits in the system is much larger, and although the title of cadre does not sound magnificent, it is genuinely able to be an official. Duan Fengming is undoubtedly the beneficiary of the system. If he hadn't become an official, who in the clan would be looking at this family who couldn't even join the clan.

"When Duan Fengming comes back, let him come to see me." Duan Tiande gave the order.

At this time, Duan Fengming didn't know what his family thought of him, and at this time, the cadre who graduated from an agricultural school was harvesting wheat with a sickle. My back hurts, my arms hurt, and I feel sore or uncomfortable all over my body. The large farms that were connected together had less than 200,000 mu of land, and Duan Fengming and the others were only assigned the task of harvesting one acre of land. Duan Fengming felt that he should have no problem, but when he really did it, he realized that he hadn't done farm work for too long, and an acre of land had become a difficult workload.

Pounding his waist and looking at the fields that were only half harvested, Duan Fengming sincerely hoped that the rumors he heard were true. It is said that the Ministry of Agriculture is working on a machine that can harvest automatically. At that time, Duan Fengming felt that this was simply a dog meddling with a mouse, and now he felt that it was best for this kind of machinery to be driven into the field immediately. It was really hard to bend over and cut the rice one by one under the scorching sun.

When the soreness subsided, Duan Fengming bent down again and began to harvest. This feeling made him feel like he was back in his childhood. At that time, Duan Fengming followed his parents to farm the fields, and it would be like this every year when he was harvested. When he says that he has back pain, his parents will reprimand, 'What is the child's waist?'

Although he is a child of the Duan family, Duan Fengming's family has little land, and he is a concubine. You can't add your family's land to your family's fields like those who have a lot of land. If the land is added to the clan field, you can get a stable amount of money and food every year, and your children can also go to the family's private school to study. Duan Fengming's father, in addition to his surname Duan, can only work hard to support his family like other farmers.

However, as a member of the Duan family, Duan's father is very keen on education. When Duan Fengming was sent to school in Jiangning by his father, he cried. His father said with a straight face: "If you don't study hard and let me know, I will definitely break your legs." ”

Duan Fengming didn't think that it was his father's intimidation that played a role, he was even more impressed by his mother's tears and said, "Da Lang, go to school hard, our family depends on you." Since then, Duan Fengming has only done farm work when he returns home during the holidays, so that his body can't get used to harvesting.

But no matter how unaccustomed he was, Duan Fengming still insisted on doing it. In his experience as a teenager, as long as he continues to do it, his body will gradually get used to it. In addition, farm work needs to be done to solve it. Leave it there and never solve it.

The sickle cuts through the wheat stalks, making a clattering sound. The harvested wheat is gathered and sent to a nearby steam thresher, where the kernels are removed with the roar of the machine. The farm staff weighed out 100 catties, put them into a hemp bag, sealed them, and stacked them on the cart. When the car was full, it was sent to the assembly area.

Every night, rough statistics were summarized and sent to the prefect Wenzhang. Wen Zhifu is very satisfied with these figures, although the current statistics are very rough, the average yield per mu can obviously exceed 200 catties. Wheat is a fine grain, and the price is relatively high. More than 50,000 acres of wheat fields produce enough wheat for everyone in Jiangning Province to eat for at least a month.

After the wheat is harvested, the next step is to plant soybeans. Wenzhang is willing to believe the agricultural bureau's statement that soybeans using rhizobia technology can ensure the fertility of the land. It will play a better role in the cultivation of wheat next year.