After the spring ploughing began, the whole of Liangzhou was mobilized.

In order to show the importance of spring ploughing, Yang Zheng personally went to the field.

In the past, it was all for show, but this year it was for real, and I personally cultivated twenty acres with Liu Heng and others, but I felt more tired than going into battle to kill the enemy.

This is only 20 acres, and the people and the tuntian slaves work even harder, and they have to cultivate more than 100 acres.

However, there is no shortage of cattle, horses and camels in Liangzhou, and the Quyuan plough has been put into use, and the whole family can bear it.

People in this era are generally diligent and terrible, as long as they can live and eat a mouthful of food, they will never feel hard.

The lazy have long starved to death.

Driven by Yang Zheng, officials from all over the country and children of Qingying all came out to farm.

10,000 words of persuasion to teach agriculture and mulberry are not as good as going to the field once.

This is what the people value.

"Junhou, the composting method offered by Suo Sicheng has been tried last year, and one acre of land can increase the yield of grain by two to three percent." Even in farming, all kinds of official duties are not slack, and they are handled in the fields.

Yang Zheng didn't mind, and the other officials had already seen it.

Properly grounded one after another, so as not to make the government a castle in the air.

"Suo Jing is really talented." Yang Zheng praised from the bottom of his heart.

The discovery of the composting method was a complete accident.

Last year, Suojing concentrated the livestock manure in the pastoral area, inadvertently piled together, and after two or three months when it was transported away, it was found that it had been fermented and sprinkled into the farmland.

In later generations, it can produce thousands of catties per mu, which is also inseparable from various chemical fertilizers.

In this era, the yield of high-quality fields is three stones per mu, about two hundred and sixty catties, and the yield is increased by two to three percent, almost one more stone per acre!

This is a very big step forward.

And this natural fertilizer, without any pollution.

The art of fixing the country lies in strengthening the army and eating enough, the Qin people are eager to agriculture and the world, and filial piety is to determine the Western Regions with Tuntian.

Solving people's food problems is actually solving the world.

"My subordinates suggest raising food prices this year!" Pang Qing, who had always stood behind him with a small book to copy and write, suddenly admonished.

"Oh? Tell me why? Yang Zheng was a little surprised.

Traditionally, the government should stabilize food prices.

Now that the war is imminent, some rich and powerful people have already begun to stock up on grain.

Isn't raising food prices now helping them?

Pang Qing took out a small book and flipped a few pages, it can be seen that he has been preparing for a long time, "This year, the Tuntian Division is estimated to produce 7 million stones, which is enough to deal with our army's war this year, raise the price of grain, and the merchants are profitable, and the grain from Shuzhong, the Western Regions, and the Central Plains will enter Liangzhou in large quantities. ”

There is no business that cannot be done, only a price that cannot be negotiated.

The demand for luxury goods in Guanzhong increased, so they continued to sell grain abroad.

They have land, land, and people, and the government can't control it.

"Go on." Yang Zheng nodded, now there is a large amount of gold and silver money in the treasury, and it is better to take it out and exchange it for food.

At present, Liangzhou's economy is relatively healthy, and there is no shortage of money at all to guard the Hexi Corridor.

"Second, in recent years, a large number of purchases of brocade silk and tea in Shuzhong, Shu is strong and strong, and the people have changed more grain to mulberry and tea, and there is not much grain.

Liangzhou buys grain at a high price, and the heroes of Shu have no reason not to sell it.

They have had a good life over the years.

Liangzhou reduced some of their commercial taxes, which led to the gradual dependence of Shu on Liangzhou economically, without Liangzhou, all kinds of goods in Shu could not be sent.

This is a fatal blow to a small country.

At present, on the three sides of the Qinling Mountains, a big war is about to start.

Food is an important strategic support, while gold and silver are not.

It's almost an economic war.

is quietly hollowing out the Shu Kingdom.

"Several merchants in Hanzhong are actually the masters of the Shu army behind them." Pang Qing flipped through a few pages of the book, revealing a long list of names.

Yang Zheng couldn't help but shake his head when he saw these familiar names.

In the late Ming Dynasty in history, the country was ruined and the family was about to die, and the Jin merchants also frantically transported various materials for the Later Jin, resulting in the guns of the Later Jin Army being stronger than those of the Ming Dynasty, the armor being stronger than the Ming Army, and the swords being sharper than the Ming Army......

As long as the interests are sufficient, there will never be a shortage of people who chase them.

Yang Zheng sighed, although this method is a little not very bright, but flies don't bite seamless eggs, if Shu is politically clear, there will be no such flaw.

In fact, the best use of the power of businessmen in the world is Liangzhou.

Sitting in the Hexi Corridor, I am dealing with all kinds of businessmen every day.

And in this era, which businessman does not have the support of forces behind him?

Merchants are not terrible, what is terrible is that there is no capital that restricts the growth of barbarism.

Yang Zheng, as a descendant, knows best about it.

The logic behind the operation of the state is the economy, and the power of businessmen, or capital, is pervasive.

It is not unreasonable for the Chinese dynasties to restrict merchants.

"The money is all taken out for use, and from today onwards, you and Su Hong and Gongsun Fu will monopolize this matter." Yang Zheng nodded in agreement.

If you can solve it with money and sacrifice the lives of soldiers, why not?

Soon, the news that Liangzhou had raised the price of grain by 30% spread far and wide.

The government raised by 30 percent, the people added fuel to the fire, the rich and powerful households vigorously hoarded grain, and the people also expected something, pinched their grain bags, and the price of grain was fried to 60 percent, rising almost every day, and it was doubled in only half a month.

The eyes and ears of a merchant have always been well-informed.

Shuzhong and the Central Plains soon got the news, and grain poured into Liangzhou like a tide.

But Liangzhou seemed to be forever unsatisfied, and the price continued to rise, and soon doubled.

There is basically no grain to sell in the market, and every household is hoarding food.

Du Yu couldn't sit still, "Food prices are so high, I am afraid of provoking a popular uprising." ”

Yang Zheng shook his head, "There are three categories in Liangzhou: slaves, waiting to be returned, and governing the people, and ordinary people can afford to buy grain?" There is a grain department in Liangzhou, which can suppress the price of grain at any time, and Yuan Kai does not need to panic! ”

The knife is the last valve in Yang Zheng's hand, and he can close it whenever he wants.

And grain is allowed to enter but not to leave, and merchants can bring it in, but they can't transport it out.

The only problem is that the treasury does not have enough money.

A lot of military rations transported to Hanzhong by Shu were sold into Longxi by ghosts.

Due to the restrictions of transportation in this era, it is impossible for the grain in Shu to enter Liangzhou on a large scale, but it is not bad to enter on a small scale.

The rice cang road and Chen Cangcheng in the Qinling Mountains were originally built by the Qin Dynasty to transport grain in Shuzhong.

Since the Qin State can transport the grain from Shuzhong, it will naturally be easier now more than five hundred years later.

As long as the price is in place, there will naturally be people who do this business.

In just two months, the money accumulated in Liangzhou bottomed out.

However, in this era, grain had a monetary value, and in addition to money, Liangzhou also had a large amount of salt that could come in handy.