Not long after Chen Fei checked in, he received an invitation card that was closed, and Chen Fei was invited to go to the banquet in the evening.

Chen Fei squinted his eyes, and the county Cheng Sun Qiao said very clearly, the military does not want to see Chen Fei, and it is the relationship between the military, so that this time Chen Fei took office, no squire from Hutou County came to greet him.

Originally, Chen Fei didn't care much about this, but now he has a three-year contract hanging over his head, if the military always stumbles on himself, don't say that he has made achievements that satisfy King Tang, I am afraid that whether his decree can be implemented is also a huge question mark.

It's just that the military is not to blame. Chen Fei sighed, what Chen Fei did was no longer something that could be said in a single sentence, if he was a figure in the army, he would not sit back and watch a figure like Chen Fei ascend to the throne of the Tang Dynasty, which would definitely bring the Tang Dynasty to the point of no return!

Therefore, the army has always wanted to push Chen Qing, the son of King Tang, to power, and even King Tang ruthlessly abolished his son!

"Hongmen feast." Chen Fei sighed in his heart, the fat man has already gone to Guanzhong to report, the fat man has followed the Tang King since he was a child, and his military achievements are great, but he doesn't know if Kuang Qingcang will give him small shoes to wear because of the fat man and Chen Fei. Today, the military has given itself a dismount, what will it be like at night? After thinking about it, he summoned Sun Qiao.

The old man was choked by Chen Fei at noon today, if it was an ordinary county order, he would have just gotten on, but this time the county order was too big, even if the old man had all the anger in his heart, he could only swallow it, and he also saluted respectfully at the moment: "Your Highness, what do you command?" ”

"Don't call Your Highness in the future, Lao Tzu will be the county order who loves the people like a son in the future, loves the people like a son, the county order, understand?" Chen Fei said loudly, as soon as he said this, he saw the muscles at the root of the old man's ears pulling, obviously gritting his teeth......

"Uh, remember, Ming...... Prefecture. ”

Chen Fei was slightly stunned, he made up for the title of the Tang Dynasty, "adult" was the title of father before the middle of the Qing Dynasty in China, and the people called the officials as adults have the meaning of parents and officials, but if the officials are commensurate with each other, it will be a little flattering. The Yue country is more developed, the tradition has fallen a lot, and the word adult is used indiscriminately, and the Tang State attaches more importance to these, and the people usually call it indiscriminately, but the old pedant of the county naturally attaches great importance to it, and it is very formal to call Chen Fei "Ming Mansion".

"What is our main task today? What interests does the military have in conflict with us? ”

Sun Qiao was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Chen Fei to ask a serious question, and immediately replied: "Naturally, it is military salary and military food." Sun Qiao's brows wrinkled together when he said these two: "Hutou County is too small, so naturally it can't afford all the military salaries and military rations, but every year the military salaries have to bear 4,400 silver dollars and 800,000 catties of military food, but Your Highness ...... But you also know in the Ming Mansion that two months ago, the beast tide crossed the pass, and the wheat was all destroyed, and now the farmers don't even have any food for the winter, so there's really no way. ”

The grain levy at Hutouguan is levied according to the head, 100 catties per adult, 50 catties for children aged 8-13, and no levy for children under 8 years old.

Chen Fei has been a village official, regardless of wheat, rice, and corn on the earth, the yield per mu is close to 1,000 catties, but you must know that these are already improved countless times of grain varieties, and they are more equipped with precision farming methods, scientific fertilization, etc., and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the yield per mu of 100 catties is already a rare harvest year, and the yield per mu in general years is only about 50 catties.

"How much land is per capita in Hutou County? What is the average yield per mu? Chen Fei frowned.

"The per capita land has not been calculated, only if the customs are counted, each family has three or four acres, but because everyone is afraid that they will not be able to pay the grain, a lot of land has been reclaimed outside, but the land outside is too far away, and secondly, there are often Kunlun beasts to come to harm, and they don't take care of it much, and sometimes they can't even harvest the grain." Sun Qiao was already familiar with these, and replied casually, but his face was strange, and he didn't expect to ask these key places at once: "The yield per mu outside the county is about 20 catties, and now only people try their luck to plant some outside the border, and if you really want to calculate it, I'm afraid it's only a few catties." ”

Chen Fei sighed in his heart, asked Sun Qiao to retreat, and he also thought deeply.

If a farmer really spends all his energy on a piece of land, the yield per mu may reach 200 catties, but you must know that the Kunlun beasts here are continuous, and it happens to spoil these lands, and everything can be ruined. It is that all the peasants have chosen a very extensive mode of farming: casting a wide net.

People's energy is limited, how easy is it to take care of so much land? Not to mention that these places are dozens of miles apart.

Chen Fei was slightly distracted, when he was in Wotou Village, No. 9 of the Potato Youth Department, the extremely barren land in Wotou Village could yield 4,000 catties per mu, and the yield per mu in the place where the county dam was located would be doubled, what does this mean? Planting an acre of land there is equivalent to a hundred times as much as here!

At this moment, Chen Fei suddenly missed Yuan @Longping, if he was here, how much could he increase the yield per mu here? Belch...... It's not right, with Datang's conditions, can he still create miracles?

Looking at the inventory in Hutou County, there are 1,800 silver dollars, which is more than half of the difference, and the grain reserve is less than 50,000 catties, which is many times worse than the task of 800,000 catties.

Chen Fei looked at it, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, he had seen it himself when he came today, there was almost no business in Hutou County, where did this silver dollar come from?

The iron ore mine is now abandoned.

There is an iron mine four miles away from Hutou County, there are no mineral resources in Wotou Village, but there is an aluminum mine in the neighboring township, Chen Fei is very hot when he is on the earth, he understands some with the knowledge of mineral deposits, and at this moment he looks at the records here, there is no doubt that this iron ore is a rich mine, how can it be abandoned?

Called Sun Qiao again to ask.

"Back to Ming Mansion, the transportation is too inconvenient, we have no smelting conditions, only to sell raw ore, originally we also sold a lot of iron ore, the income is not bad, but the mine car is too heavy, the road condition is seriously damaged, and once there was a situation where the road was occupied, and the military horses could not pass, so General Kuang ordered the mine to be closed in anger."

Then there is no way, any civilization and life take self-preservation as the first life criterion, this road is the life channel of Datang, naturally it cannot be damaged in the slightest because of the minecart, that road Chen Fei has also seen, if there is a little problem, it is too difficult to repair it again! But...... What about waterways? The small river that passed from Hutou County flowed into a big river seven or eight miles away, and the depth of the river was not bad. At that moment, Chen Fei asked, "Isn't there a waterway?" ”

"I don't know what the Ming Mansion is, you are talking about the Hutou River, the river is good, but after passing the Hutou Gorge, the water flow is much more turbulent, not to mention that there is a Tiger Leaping Gorge behind the Hutou Gorge, there is a big waterfall there, and it is impossible to cross." Sun Qiao said: "And although the water is stable after the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the water is too shallow, only one person deep in many places, and the draft of the mine ship is too deep, and there is no way." ”

Rapids, waterfalls, deep water...... Chen Fei sighed, turbulence can be sent by a slender man, and the depth of the water can be sent by boat in multiple batches, but the waterfall can only rely on the sluice, and it is almost impossible with today's technology.

It's hard!

Chen Fei thought that the sun was already hanging obliquely on the mountain, and a person knocked lightly on the door: "My lord, it's time to go to the banquet." ”