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Although Li Shushi, the Taishou, is becoming more and more like a nominal Cunzài, and the military and political system without him is still functioning normally, but after all, the title of this Taishou is still hanging on his head, so with his return, it is natural to listen to the reports of his subordinates. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

"Zhongde, on the way back, I saw a lot of farmers who have worked hard to harvest, and the abandoned fields are a lot less than last year, it seems that the development of this year should be quite good, I don't know how the harvest is, whether it can meet our needs."

Cheng Yu, who is a county leader, can be said to be the leader of Li Shushi, so it is natural for him to start the reporting work, but before Cheng Yu cleared his throat and read the manuscript he had prepared for a long time, he was suddenly robbed by Li Shushi, but Cheng Yu was drowned by the phlegm in his throat.

"My lord, this year's situation is indeed much better than last year's. Don't you know, I carefully checked the files in the Xihe Taishou Mansion, and this Xihe was a large county with a population of more than 100,000 households. However, in the period of Emperor Shun, there was a foreign invasion outside, and there were eunuchs fighting for power inside, and as a result, there were less than 6,000 households left in this Tangtangxihe County, most of which were in the Pingzhou generation. By the time the lord took office, the population had withered, and if we hadn't brought tens of thousands of soldiers and nearly the same number of Yellow Turban captives and displaced people, I am afraid that this Tangxi River would have been left unguarded. Therefore, it seems that if it were not for the original lord's implementation of the policy of tuntian, I am afraid that our army will need to rely on other counties for next year's food and salary, but it is blocked by a mountain in the middle, and it is difficult to transport, and most of the grain will be lost in the middle. How can it be like now, if there are no major disasters every year, self-sufficiency is basically guaranteed. ”

Although Cheng Yu's last statement was a bit flattering, Li Shushi was shocked by his previous words. It is said that when he came to Xihe with the army, Lu Bu had already led most of the soldiers and horses and captive displaced people to this place, so what Li Shushi saw was not as desolate as he imagined, and he never thought that the situation in Xihe would be so bad.

"But it's all history." Cheng Yu put down the manuscript he had originally prepared, anyway, he was already familiar with the things in it, and he just held it to make his report more accurate, but when Li Shushi interrupted it like this, he simply put aside the manuscript completely. Although Cheng Yu used to be a teacher before, it was common for him to read from the book, but since he followed Li Shushi, he seems to have been infected with a little free nature, so he has become a little impatient with the behavior of reading speeches.

"Thanks to the successive victories of our army over the Xiongnu and Xianbei people, and the suppression of the Huns and Karasuma people, coupled with the fact that the generals effectively attacked those restless small tribes, many people and families came to us because of the turmoil in the Central Plains. Because of the participation of these people, both agriculture, commerce and handicrafts in Xihe have developed a lot. Not only has we been provided with the population we desperately need, but we have also been given access to advanced farming techniques and more effective tools. I believe that as long as this momentum continues, the grain produced by our Mintun will definitely exceed that of the Juntun, and then our soldiers will be liberated. ”

Although Xihe County is blocked by the Luliang Mountains, and the annual evaporation is greater than the precipitation, thanks to the Yellow River and its many tributaries, the soil conditions and irrigation conditions here are not bad, and if they are used well, a lot of farmland will be opened up for cultivation. At the same time, as long as the ratio of terraced fields and mountains and forests is grasped, it can ensure that there will be no major soil erosion, and at the same time, it can provide more food for Xihe County. Whether it is for people's livelihood or war, it has endless benefits.

"I would like to interject here that I have decided to appoint the Feng Shui Shi Luo Ho, whom I discovered on this journey to the west, as our agricultural director of the West River, to be in charge of agriculture and related affairs. During this period of investigation, I think she has quite a unique insight in this area, and she is also very good at cultivating and improving grains, which is a very rare talent. ”

If you don't really go deep into the era of the Han Dynasty, you will never realize the deep impact of the food problem on this country.

Many people have been saying that the biggest problem in the past dynasties was land annexation, which is indeed very reasonable, but the root cause is that the low productivity of the Han Dynasty made it difficult for the peasants to even have enough to eat for a year if they did not have enough land.

The Book of Han? There was once such a passage in the Food and Goods Journal: "Today, a husband coerces five people, governs the field for 100 years, and collects one and a half stones a year, which is 150 stones." In addition to the tax of eleven fifteen stones, the remaining one hundred and thirty-five stones. Food, one and a half stones per month, five people are 90 stones of millet at the end of the year, and there are 45 stones left. Stone thirty, for money three hundred and fifty. In addition to the shrine of the New Spring and Autumn Festival, the money is three hundred, and the remaining one thousand and fifty. Clothing, the rate of people is three hundred, five people use five thousand five hundred at the end of the year, less than four hundred and fifty. Unfortunately, the cost of death and death due to illness, and the upper endowment, have not been related to this. This farmer is always sleepy, and he has the heart to discourage farming. ”

This is about a family of five with two strong laborers owning 100 mu (Han Damu, one mu is about 0.71 city mu) of land, and the yield per mu is one and a half stones (the stone here is a unit of volume, and the tax records of the Han Dynasty seem to be calculated according to the mention). One stone is about 2,000 milliliters, which can hold 27 catties of millet, the most common grain in the Han Dynasty), and under the tax rate of 10 taxes (10%), the grain that can be exchanged except for rations is only 45 stones. After deducting the sacrifices, the money from the sale of grain could not even make a new set of clothes for everyone, let alone pay some other harsh taxes or give birth to some sick and dead individuals.

Although the cultivation level of the Han Dynasty has improved a lot with the development of various instruments and methods, and the yield has also developed a lot, a lot of fertile land has reached a yield of nearly three stones per mu, and the official tax of the Han Dynasty is 30 taxes and 1, which should be able to make them have more money on their hands.

But the problem arises, the land that can produce three stones is obviously difficult to be occupied by ordinary people, if it is a tenant who has lost the land and rents the land of the landlord Haoqiang's family, he needs to pay half of the output, this practice of cutting in half makes the tenants obviously unable to survive if they only farm land for the landlord Haoqiang, and as a result, they are naturally absorbed by the landlord Haoqiang into the city Qujia soldiers to obtain rations.

Of course, it is precisely for this reason that Cao Cao's Mintun policy was criticized by many people because even the landlords and old wealthies who collected taxes sighed to themselves, not using the official cattle tax and the landlord's old wealth, but using the official cattle The government wants to take away sixty percent of the harvest. It is estimated that this kind of prison should be provided by the government, and even prisons with very strict guards have a variety of escape methods, not to mention the supervision of the Tuntian soldiers who are not as strict as the prison prisons.

The current Xihe can really be called a vast land and sparsely populated, but because of the survival of the Huns and the pressure of the Xianbei people, it is necessary to ensure a considerable number of troops, especially when the soldiers are much weaker than those of other races, and they need to be in sufficient numbers to make up for it, which makes the supply of food and grass for the soldiers of Xihe County a rather troublesome problem.

The fundamental reason why it has not been exposed until now is that Li Shushi is bold and extremely lucky to embezzle.

As mentioned before, Lishi was used as a place for the soldiers and horses under the command of the Xiongnu Zhonglang to hoard grain and grass, and the city hoarded enough grain and grass for 10,000 people for two or three years. However, with the great losses of the sect members in Jizhou, coupled with the successive wars, the sect members turned a blind eye to Li Shushi's misappropriation of the grain and grass that originally belonged to his troops, after all, they were all contributing to the country.

After surviving the attack of the Xianbei people, with Liu Hong's will, Li Shushi's troops could go to Taiyuan County, which was relatively rich in grain and grass storage, to find food.

In this way, when it was time for the autumn harvest, with the first autumn harvest after Li Shushi took office, the grain problem came to an end. But with the erosion of the situation, Li Shushi already had a plan to expand the troops, but he remembered Liu Hong's casual mention at the beginning, if he could become a general of the expedition to the north or the west in the future, it would not be in vain.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Shushi put Luo He, a "humanoid radar" that is quite easy to use on the battlefield, into the position of a civilian official, because Luo He's insights on astronomy, calendar, soil, hydrology, and animals and plants are obviously far better than ordinary people.

Moreover, this eldest lady has an unusual talent for finding excellent plant seeds and cultivating them, and even Li Shushi is wondering if she should add a title called "Shennong Resurgence" to her head.

So when Luo He and Su Xiaololi failed to compete for the "Xuanwu pager", they found that Su Xiaololi was really difficult to attack, so they had to point the finger at Li Shushi, the original owner, and Li Shushi also took the opportunity to make this request.

Surprisingly, Luo He did not seem to feel that Li Shushi offended her, but accepted the appointment very happily, in her words: "It is a very happy thing to be able to listen to the joys and sorrows of the plants." ”

Could it be that this Miss Roho's real profession is actually a druid of a long-eared race, and she can actually communicate with plants.

Because of the existence of Wu Luan, a violent woman, the ruling group in Xihe is not too surprised that there is another woman among them, although it is a relatively important agricultural department, but Li Shushi's reputation for knowing people seems to have gradually gained some fame in Xihe, so Cheng Yu is also happy that someone can share the increasing government affairs on his side due to population growth.

The next is a report on population, revenue and expenditure, and municipal construction, but to Li Shushi's surprise, Cheng Yu did not choose to report to Li Shushi in person, but chose a rather young scholar, and Li Shushi believed that he had never seen this face before, obviously this should be Cheng Yu's recruited subordinates after Li Shushi left.

To be able to be valued by Cheng Yu, not to mention being able to be entrusted with an important task within half a year, this young man immediately aroused Li Shushi's interest.

P.S. was the first shift with a still gurgling belly, and it was so uncomfortable......

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