Li Siye pondered for a moment before nodding his forehead and saying to Bai Zhubo: "Oh, you go on." ”

The white lord bowed very low at the waist, and then straightened up slightly, and said with his crossed hands, "Oh." ”

"Li Zhen, Pei Dudu, the commercial tax revenue is the bulk of my Shule Town's wealth, last year's commercial tax revenue was 150,000 guan, in addition to the income handed over to the capital protection government, there is still 105,000 guan left. The salaries of the Shule army and the salaries of the Shule officials alone cost 72,000 guan, and the remaining money in the treasury was only 33,000 guan. This year's winter will soon be prepared for the preparation of man's hands to cut grass, store grain, and repair the city wall, and it will also cost a large part, and of course there are 20,000 yuan in the treasury to prepare for emergencies in the spring of the next year. ”

Li Siye understood that this financial income was just a radish and a pit, and there was no room for him to play at all, so he couldn't help but ask with some disappointment: "General Ben is going to build a veterinary station in several prefecture towns under Shule Town, to load horseshoes for horses, and also to increase the number of tuntian fields to introduce improved breeds, can't you get this little money?" ”

Bai Zhubo took a step forward, bowed his hand and said, "In fact, the surplus money accumulated in the treasury does not need 20,000 guan, and 10,000 guan is enough. ”

Li Siye patted his knees and made a decision: "10,000 is 10,000, and if there is 10,000, you will do 10,000." ”

Although last night's enthusiasm for ambition has subsided, although many of the things he envisioned are unrealistic, he wants to equip the Shule soldiers with a horse, but he can't expand the horses due to lack of forage, he wants to improve the lives of the soldiers, and promote logistics to make compressed biscuits and cured meat, but Shule's agricultural products are too simple, he wants to introduce wheat to expand the tuntian, and he wants to improve the Ma Zhengjian veterinary station, which all need money, I don't know if this can be done, if not, it is necessary for him to use the gold reserves of the green ridge.

Life is not satisfactory things are often eight or nine, and doing things is the same, he doesn't think about this can't be done, but if he wants to do one or two things that can be done, he will be much happier.

"Bai Zhubo, from today onwards, you will follow me and transfer the account at any time."

"Whoa."

Pei Guoliang also squinted and smiled: "Envoy Li Zhen has something that I need to do, but please command." ”

"Heh, I don't dare to say the order, but there is really one thing to ask the governor of Pei Du, please prepare a proclamation in the name of the Shule Governor's Mansion, and recruit veterinarians and blacksmiths to control horses in the entire Moxi, which are equivalent to the supernumerary officials of the Shule army, and they will be discussed in person."

"Negotiable?" Pei Guoliang asked in disbelief.

"That's right, it's negotiable."

"Okay," Pei Dudu patted his knees and hesitated, as if he was doing something terrible: "This matter will be handed over to me." ”

When the matter here ended, Li Siye immediately said goodbye to Pei Guoliang's mansion, and many things were complicated and needed to be settled one by one.

Leaving Pei Guoliang's mansion, Li Siye decided to take advantage of the barley harvest season in August to go to the Tang Army's Tuntian on the west bank of the Chihe River to check on the situation and learn about the situation on the spot. Before leaving the city, he arranged for Yan Xiaosi to send someone to deliver a letter to the Green Ridge Guard, and ordered the Green Ridge Guard to capture Yu Gou to come to Shule Town.

Highland barley is highly adaptable to the land environment, and can be cultivated in pastoral areas close to pastures and arid sandy lands close to the Gobi. Therefore, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has a colder climate, has become their main production area. The Shule army had a total of seven tun areas on the west bank of the river, with a total of 350 hectares of tuntian, almost all of which were barley fields.

The jade-like river meanders through the green on both banks, and Li Siye leads the people to patrol along the riverside, and everywhere you can see the soldiers and civilians participating in the harvest of Tuntian.

The way in which the Shule army cultivated the land was that the army opened up the wasteland, attracted the people to plant the reclaimed land, and extracted the rent of Sancheng land during the autumn harvest. However, most of the residents of Shule were not accustomed to farming, so so far, half of the fields had to be cultivated by the Tang army themselves.

Conscription is usually reluctant to engage in production, so this kind of forced labor makes the enthusiasm to participate in the Tuntian army not high, and naturally there will be no high output. Due to the lack of active production, Tang Jun was more willing to plant barley, a crop that did not require much land and was easy to serve, but rarely planted wheat.

The ripening period of wheat and barley is in July and August, but this time is also the frequent period of Tang army's campaigns, people and crops will be affected by the climate, the cold is dormant, and the summer and autumn battles are fought. Therefore, population is also a factor restricting the development of Shule's agriculture.

Li Siye stopped at the edge of the field, and looked at a group of people not far away who loaded barley onto an ox cart, judging from the same soapy white clothes, it should be the Tang army in the autumn harvest.

He turned over and dismounted, and Yan Xiaosi immediately stepped forward and asked, "General, do you want me to call their leader to come and ask." ”

"Okay." Li Siye replied blandly.

Yan Xiaosi immediately turned his horse and ran over, holding the whip in front of the soldiers, Li Siye looked a little uncomfortable when he looked at him. But people are such animals, who don't have some problems, and those who don't have problems are true saints, as long as they don't accumulate evil, they can use it, and if the water is clear, there are no fish.

Xiao Si quickly brought a team leader to Li Siye with a frightened shout, and as soon as the team saw Li Siye and saw the goldfish bag hanging from his waist, he looked nervous, it turned out to be a general.

He hurriedly bowed and crossed his hands: "Subordinates see generals." ”

In order not to make him too nervous, Li Siye asked in a warm tone as much as possible, "Are you from my part of the Shule Army?" ”

"General Qiyu, I am the team leader who donated drugs to Tunpu, and I am harvesting barley."

Donate drugs, this is an ancient country in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, and it is in this position today, and they will continue to use the ancient name of Tunpu.

Li Siye asked with a smile: "This year's harvest of highland barley is not bad. ”

The soldier's answer was also quite sincere: "Barley, the harvest is not bad, and it is not much better." ”

Li Siye asked again: "Is there any wheat field in the military tun, and how many hectares have been planted?" ”

"It's like only one hectare of land. The subordinate is just a team leader, and he doesn't know much. ”

Li Siye pointed to the other side of the river and asked him: "The land on the west bank also looks quite fertile, why hasn't it been cultivated on the west bank?" ”

"I seem to know a little bit about this, when Fumeng Zhongcheng served as the envoy of Shule Town, he was ready to reclaim the land on the west bank as a wheat field, but later he fought with the Turgish, so he put it on hold."

"Oh, I see." Li Siye turned his head and looked at the other side of the river valley, the undulating hills were covered with green grass, and the gentle land by the river was about more than 100 hectares.

He turned his head from his horse, and when he saw that the team was still waiting, he waved his hand and said, "Go down and do your business." ”

"Whoa."

……

On their way back to Shule City, Li Siye secretly guessed that the yield per mu of wheat should be slightly higher than that of highland barley, but its adaptability to the environment was not as strong as that of highland barley. It is very scientific to use barley as the base grain to cultivate in semi-pastoral areas in order to ensure a bumper harvest in drought and flood, and to expand the cultivation of wheat to change the dietary structure.

He had already made a decision, and when he returned, he ordered that the various state cities of Shule Town be transferred and organized into a reclamation team of 2,000 people, and he would personally supervise the town.

When I entered the city gate, I remembered another thing, the wedding date with Twelve Niang was approaching, and I didn't seem to be able to go in person. At that time, who should be sent as the right person to supervise, people who have no weight in the army can't, and only Zhao Chongyu can control the field at the moment.

It's him, let him stay in Tuntian District for more than a month, and then go over to replace him after I get married. This matter should be brought up as soon as possible so that he can be mentally prepared.

They rode past the bazaar of Shule Town, which was fixed and officially demarcated in these two streets, and was surrounded by many caravanserais, making the city one of the most prosperous transit points on the Silk Road.

He closed his eyes and listened, and when he came to the middle of the street, the road was blocked, but there were vendors setting up stalls with sheep felt by the side of the road, and a few people gathered around the stalls to pick and choose.

Yan Xiaosi raised his horsewhip in front of him and said angrily: "Be bold and put your stalls in this narrow alley to block traffic!" Lift it for me! ”

Several customers dispersed in a hurry, and the vendors turned pale with shock.

Li Siye stopped him loudly: "Little Four, don't be unreasonable!" ”

Yan Xiaosi's raised whip had to be withdrawn, and he led the horse to the side.

The peddler's sheep felt was lined with a dozen or so freshly carved bowls, a carving knife in his right hand, and a half-finished poplar stake in his left hand.

Li Siye suddenly became interested, turned over and dismounted and squatted in front of this stall, the hawker thought that the other party was going to find him, and hurriedly kowtowed and confessed: "The general forgives the crime, it is really that the stalls on the wide street are occupied by others, and the contemptible people have to move to this remote alley, but I didn't expect to block the road." ”

Li Siye laughed and said, "I don't care if you occupy the road or not, just come and see your goods." He grabbed a small bowl from the felt and asked, "How much does this cost?" ”

"Sixteen Wen one."

"It's a lot more expensive than a porcelain bowl."

The peddler's expression relaxed, and he pleaded: "This wooden bowl is sold to families with children, and it is strong and not easy to break, and it takes a lot of manual work to make such a bowl, and it doesn't make much money to calculate." ”