Chapter 428: Farming Silently
Lei Hu returned smoothly from Songjia Mountain City!
"Your Highness, Song Que, the lord of the Lingnan Song Dynasty, promised a truce!"
In the front camp of the Sui army, after seeing Yang Guang, the king of Jin, he said directly: "But the Lord of the Song Dynasty has made a request, I hope Your Majesty can agree!" ”
"As it should be, Wu Hou has worked hard!"
At this time, Yang Guang can definitely be called the king of leisure, and he has the royal bearing of a polite corporal.
It's just a pity that Lei Hu doesn't eat this set.
"Your Highness, I don't want to participate in the next thing, so I'll leave here!"
After eating the celebration wine, Lei Hu privately found Yang Guang and said directly: "If the King of Jin has something to summon, send someone over to say hello!" ”
"It's good!"
Yang Guang originally wanted to leave Lei Hu to participate in the negotiation with the Lingnan Song Valve, but after thinking about it, he gave up, this negotiation was not very glorious for the Great Sui, and it was better not to ask outsiders to participate, so as not to displease Yang Jian, who was in Guanzhong, afterwards.
Lei Hu naturally doesn't want to get involved in such a thing, no matter how the two sides talk, they will be dissatisfied in the end, and when the time comes, he, the person who said peace, will be complained by both parties at the same time, and it is not good to be human inside and out.
It's better to withdraw early, and in the end, no matter how the two families talk, it has nothing to do with him.
After returning to the territory safely, he did not make other moves, the number of people under his rule is still too small, and now if Qiantang is connected with Taihu Lake, as well as Jiaxing and other places by canal, the effect on the development of the territory is not obvious.
You can't just hundreds of thousands of people go into business, so who will farm the land?
At present, there are four spacious and solid official roads connecting the main towns in the territory, which is enough in Lei Hu's opinion, at least in a short period of time, the four official roads quickly prosper and lively, and the villages and towns along the way have also benefited.
The military management he practiced was not too broad, like Ming Taizu Lao Zhu, who sat on either side of the table to eat, and even how to move the chopsticks, Lei Hu just wanted to rule the people to get used to this kind of militarized management, and when doing certain things, he could gather the strength of the people.
Of course, he will not do the same as the government to recruit and transfer soldiers for free, and the people have to bring their own dry food, but the government and the army will uniformly distribute the work food. 、
However, if the work organized by the government or the army is organized, people can come, and the government and the army will come forward to solve the problem of food, and they must also be well fed.
If anyone reaches out in it, Lei Hu doesn't mind letting it, and the family behind it pays a terrible price.
Military management has extremely high requirements for discipline and efficiency, so don't look at the fact that Wuhou Leihu has only been in office for a year, but the traffic situation in the territory has been greatly improved, even compared to the well-developed northern land.
The people and the government of this era are afraid that they have never seen the traffic conditions of the village access roads, and the towns and towns are connected by official roads, and Wu Houling has done this in just one year.
As long as it is a spare time, the representatives of the army stationed in the village will work with the local government to organize the people to repair roads and bridges, and this kind of labor will not stop unless it rains, snows, and the weather is too cold.
This is compulsory labor organized by the representatives of the army stationed in the village and the government, and unless they are really sick, they will not be able to escape the threshold of collective labor.
Generally, there are always second-rate characters in the village, and after the military management representatives settle in the village, these second-rate guys will become the main force of labor, and there is no way to be lazy and evade.
In this era, the standard of leading the way is not high, and the physical fitness of the people is generally good, under the premise of being able to eat enough, the enthusiasm for labor is very high, and there are points to attract them to go forward, and the entire Wuhou Ling has completely changed after just one year.
Whether it is Qiantang County, Taihu Lake area, or the land of Gusu, it can be regarded as the most elite place in the south of the Yangtze River in later generations, and once the transportation in these areas is completely connected, the economic potential that can burst out is quite amazing.
At this time, several important towns were connected by gravel solid official roads with a width of five meters, and the official roads between the county towns were also four meters wide, which were also paved with gravel.
Even the official road connecting the county and township has a width of three meters, and although there is no gravel paving, it can be used normally for ten or eight years without problems.
As for the rural roads, they are all about two meters of solid dirt roads, and there is no problem at all for the communication between the people, of course, it is best to check and fill in the gaps every once in a while.
In this way, the problem of restricting the path of economic development and commercial exchanges in the territory of Wuhou was completely solved.
While the territory was building roads and bridges on a large scale, Lei Hu's soldiers had cleared out all the public land in the entire territory, and divided the land according to the standard of ten acres for each young and strong and five acres for the old and young.
This is a foundation field, a field that cannot be passed on to future generations, and cannot be bought and sold, and the property rights of the land are still in the hands of the government, but only distributed to the people to cultivate, and there is basically no limit on the number of years, until the people who were assigned the fields confirm that they are dead.
The entire Wu Hou Ling has 500,000 people, of which less than one-third are young and strong, and the government needs to distribute less than 30,000 foundation fields, which is too easy for Wu Hou Ling.
Don't look at the fact that there are not many fields assigned by Lei Hu, it is a standard high-grade paddy field, and not only men and women are young and strong with paddy fields, but also young and old.
The government allocates land according to the population and household registration, regardless of the gender, age or child.
That is to say, a young man has only 10 acres of paddy fields under his name, while a young woman also has 10 acres of paddy fields under his name, and the old and young people also have 5 acres of paddy fields under their names, which are not allowed to be occupied in the name of their families under the dual supervision of the government and the army.
In this way, it is also guaranteed that regardless of men, women and children, or whether they are sick or disabled, they can live on the land under their name.
As for whether these fields are cultivated by themselves, the government will strictly manage and supervise them, and at each harvest, in addition to taking the agreed share, the government will also take a portion of grain and store it in a specific official warehouse for emergency use.
The government did not deliberately exploit it, and every time the yellow season came, the people who owned the fields, regardless of men, women, and children, could go to a specific official warehouse to pick up the grain stored in the previous year by virtue of their household registration.
Such a policy is extremely attractive to hidden households, and it has not been half a year since this policy was true, and the number of hidden households who took the initiative to declare their household registration to the government and the military was nearly 10,000.
For the people who farm the land, Lei Hu's worry policy is not only these.
If the ten acres of high-quality paddy fields sent by the government are not well managed, there will not be much harvest when the harvest is harvested, and he does not want the people under his rule to go hungry because of the problem of manipulating the fields.
At this time, the role of the Holy Gate is highlighted.
After the movement of deposing the Hundred Schools of Thought and respecting Confucianism during the Han Dynasty, Confucianism was dominant in the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, but the Hundred Schools were bleak, and even many doctrines have completely dissipated in the long river of history.
Fortunately, the Holy Gate was formed by the frustrated people of the original hundred schools, and the very perfect inheritance of the hundred schools of thought was preserved, among which there was naturally a peasant inheritance.
In addition, it is like the "Qi Min Yaoshu" that has just been born, and the "Four Peoples Moon Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With the strength of the Holy Gate, there is a inheritance.
Through the relationship of the Yin Kwai faction, Lei Hu not only obtained relevant agricultural books, but also got a number of 'professionals' specializing in agriculture.
The Holy Gate is not only two factions and six paths, but more of them have no talent for martial arts, or have missed the best period for martial arts, and can only be used as a disciple of the bottom of the Holy Gate.
These disciples at the bottom do not have much combat effectiveness, but they can always become talented as long as they study carefully by studying the complete and orderly hundred schools of thought in the hands of the Holy Gate.
It is a pity that due to environmental factors and the lack of attention from the top of the Holy Gate, such professionals can only be trapped at the bottom of the Holy Gate.
Of course, with the protection of the Holy Gate, their lives cannot be said to be bad, but they have learned a lot of skills, and they can't play on a bigger and broader platform.
But the family gate valve is the opposite, they attach great importance to the knowledge they have in their hands, especially the knowledge that can be transformed into family strength, and they also attach great importance to professionals in all aspects.
There is a very interesting fact, that is, at this time, the family gate lords, but the ability to farm is more powerful than that of ordinary people and even the imperial court, which shows how powerful they are about knowledge monopoly.
With the huge human resources of the Holy Gate available, Lei Hu naturally would not ask for the family gate, otherwise what would be waiting for him would be countless harsh requirements and conditions, and it would be difficult to say whether Wu Houling would not be his at that time.
It's ridiculous, the agricultural knowledge that almost no one cares about in later generations is the core resource in the hands of the family gate valve at this time, and it is also the core interest to ensure the dominant position of the family gate valve.
These things, after Lei Hu became Wu Hou, he slowly became familiar with and understood, and naturally he would not take the initiative to bow his head to the gate valve family, he wanted to promote more scientific farming knowledge, he only needed to ask the Holy Gate for help, and he didn't have to pay so much.
Of course, in order not to stimulate the sensitive nerves of the gate valve family, the agricultural classics and professionals who were asked from the Holy Gate were not easily released, but joined the army led by Wu Hou, and spread more advanced farming knowledge to the people under his rule in the name of the army.
At the beginning, the effect was naturally not obvious, just like the country in later generations just began to promote chemical fertilizers, and the people who had never used it naturally did not trust, and some even simply poured the fertilizers produced by the country into the ditch.
Lei Hu understands that if he wants to make the cultivation of the people under his rule more scientifically planned, it will take a long time to promote, and there will be clear examples.
Fortunately, he was not impatient at all, anyway, the territory was full of high-quality paddy fields, except for the foundation fields assigned to the people, the rest of the fields controlled by the government were cultivated, most of them were cultivated by the garrisons and the 'Production and Construction Corps', and these paddy fields happened to be taken out for experiments.
While Lei Hu was silently farming in the territory, news came from the Lingnan direction that the Sui army and the Lingnan Song lord's private army had stopped fighting, and some agreements had also been reached.