There was good news in the court that the Chaer tribe was intercepted in Wuzhou by the Yang family general, and the Chaar people suffered heavy losses and were unable to break through the pass and went south.

A few days later, it was another good news, Yan Guogong won a great victory, and the Chaer people were surrounded and annihilated by the border army commanded by Yan Guogong at Jimingyi, with a loss of more than 10,000 people.

According to the orders of the saint, the Duke and his wife in the capital were rewarded, and Yang Guodong was promoted from General Wu Yi to General Duwei.

This reward made a beautiful scene, and the rewarded items dragged half the street, and for two consecutive days, the officials who went to the Dingguo Mansion to congratulate them lined up at the street entrance.

While the court breathed a sigh of relief, it did not delay, and transported tens of thousands of stone of grain from the granaries of Yangzhou and the capital to Youzhou, and the more than 100,000 troops did not dare to cut off the logistics support at this time.

Fortunately, the rice production around Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Gusu has increased, and seeing that the late-season rice is about to be harvested again, it doesn't matter if all the rice in the warehouse is transported away.

Yuan Rui is like thunder to the Yang family, since he was a child, his family was poor, and when he didn't have TV to watch, what he listened to the most was the Yang family general on the radio, it can be said that the story review was more popular than pop songs at that time, Yang family general, god-level existence!

He was not exempt from vulgarity, and accompanied the county lord into the gate of the Yang family in one morning.

Dingguo Gong is very face-saving, of course, it is the face of Wei Guogong and the county lord of Chiayi, not only came forward to receive them in person, chatted a few words, but also specially instructed the young son of the Yang family and the young lady, that is, Yang Guodong's son and daughter-in-law, to come forward to receive them together.

The Yang family general has reached the fourteenth generation, according to the generation, the previous generation of Dingguo Gong Yang Zhixin, the current generation of Dingguo Gong Yang Zhengping, the general Yang Guodong, and the young son Yang Qingfeng.

Yang Qingfeng, as his name suggests, is like a freshly unsheathed sword, radiant.

The county lord said that Yang Qingfeng's martial arts were enough to be among the top three in the entire young generation of Great Xia, and he was proficient in the art of war, and he was an unlimited handsome talent in the future.

But Yuan Rui chatted with the county lord and found that Yang Gongzi did not have the frivolity and conceit of a young man at all, he was very low-key and very down-to-earth.

Talking about learning with Yuan Rui, it didn't take a few words to make Yuan Rui, a fake little jinshi, sweat, not that Yuan Rui had eaten more rice for so many years, and he had almost made a fool of himself after so many years of mixing with the Internet.

Several people talked happily, the young lady even made an appointment with the county lord for the next meeting, and the two said goodbye and went home, along the way, Yuan Rui was so despised by the county lord that he couldn't jump out of the car and walk home, and a jinshi who had read for more than ten years was not even as good as a guard.

That night, Yuan Rui was really angry, and seized the opportunity to take revenge on the county lord, so that the next day, the county lord couldn't get up from the bed very late, which made Yuan Rui a little proud.

Yuan Rui also found his own gap, there is no way, it is impossible to be completely idle in the future, what he can do now is to seize the time to make up for the class, otherwise it is really easy to make mistakes in the officialdom in the future.

There happened to be a ready-made teacher by his side, so he simply took the cheap old man Meng Daxue directly to the mansion and began to take the initiative to study for the first time.

September has arrived, the weather in the capital has completely cooled, and it is said that the temperature in Youzhou has dropped very much, and the Ministry of Industry has specially improved the cotton clothes of officers and soldiers this year.

The main thing is the material, which is very warm, but the weight has not increased much, and some dyes have been specially added according to Yuan Rui's suggestion, which can play a little waterproof role, and the water is relatively slow.

In the past few years, almost every year, Yuan Rui will think about improving the initial design, constantly using the existing materials to improve the cotton clothes, and every time there can be a little progress.

Yuan Rui actually thinks about cotton the most, for the north, down is actually not a very good thing, and animal fur is slightly better.

But it's too bulky, and it's okay to wear it to keep warm in normal times, but when it comes to frontal combat, such a large set of fur can't even stretch out your hands, let alone fight the enemy.

After finishing the cotton clothes, the Ministry of Industry had just started to make them, and Yuan Rui didn't even have time to be lazy, so he started to be busy again.

The late season rice began to be harvested one after another, which is also the thing that Yuan Rui is most concerned about in the second half of the year, this year is the first year, which is very critical.

Yuan Rui simply took Qi Feng and Ah Niu's master and apprentice, as well as a few family members, and began to inspect the surrounding areas of the capital.

Yes, Xiao Ah Niu also has a good thing, this kid was somehow favored by Qi Feng, although he was a little older, he was almost sixteen.

But it's not too late, if you seize the time to practice, work harder, be diligent, and have a show.

"Old man, do you think there is any difference between this late season rice and early rice?"

Yuan Rui was inspecting the rice that was about to ripen in the paddy field while asking some old people who were also at the edge of the field.

"Childe, this late-season rice, there are indeed a lot of ears, but they are a little more deflated."

"It's deflated, could it be that the fertilizer hasn't kept up," Yuan Rui didn't understand.

"That's not all, we use a little more fertilizer for late-season rice than for early-season rice."

"Is the late season rice shorter than the early rice?"

"Childe, to put it mildly, the late season rice takes longer than the early rice, and it matures later."

Yuan Rui was confused all of a sudden, he really didn't notice that he really didn't know much about these late-season rice.

He didn't expect so many deflated valleys, and he didn't know what the problem was.

He didn't go far, he had already talked to a few old people, most of them were deflated ears.

"Old man, can the late-season rice harvest fill the family's stomach now?" Yuan Rui asked an old man again.

"Don't hide from the son, it's really much better than the original, originally fifty percent of the early rice was given to the master's family, three were taxed, and the remaining twenty percent as long as it wasn't a famine year, mixed with wild vegetables, it could only barely survive. Now, the government has said that the late season rice is only 20% of the tax, and 50% is given to the master's family, and we can leave 30%, which is indeed much better than the original. ”

After Yuan Rui heard what he said, it was not easy to understand.

According to a family of five, 20 acres of paddy fields, the original harvest is at most 60 or 70 stones, and what can be left in the hands is only about 10 stones, one stone is 120 catties, and it is about 1,000 catties when converted to future generations, and a family of five is indeed a little reluctant.

Now it's different, 20 acres of paddy fields, with an increase in yield, early rice can leave more than 20 stones, and late rice can leave more than 30 stones, so that a family of five can leave more than 1,000 catties per person, which is not the same situation as before.

"Childe, can the official tax really be paid according to this method of collection in the future?"

"Old man, don't worry, it will be better in the future than now, definitely!"

"Don't hide it from your son, that's fine, we can eat enough, and we can have a little surplus."

After listening to him, Yuan Rui sighed in his heart, the people of the Central Plains are still too kind!

In fact, according to his idea, in the future, double cropping rice will be fully promoted, and fifty percent of the main family will remain unchanged.

If the tax can be reduced to 20 percent, the people will have at least 30 percent left in their hands, not only can they eat enough, but also have surplus food to exchange for other daily necessities.

In a few years, the people of the entire Jianghuai region will live a good life.

Yuan Rui returned to the mansion before he had time to rest, the county lord hurriedly ran over, the border pass sent to the court to report the battle, Yunzhou was raided by the Chaer, heavy losses, and is currently under the command of the acting king, desperately defending the city.

And the Chaar people flicked a shot again, and Pigalo Khan's elite soldiers once again skipped from the edge of Yunzhou, and directly killed Weizhou in the east of Yunzhou, and the 60,000 troops of Tokhtobula attacked Weizhou from the east and west gates of Weizhou, and fled north after being ransacked.

Yuan Rui looked at the battle report and pondered for a long time, he had no concept of military affairs, and he didn't know about the marching formation.

But he always felt that something seemed to be wrong, why did the Zar people pinch so accurately every time, and they caught the fighters so well several times in a row, not only effectively avoiding heavily defended places, but also quickly attacking and occupying the city and looting property, which made no sense!

"County Lord, I remember that the Zar people have only been rising in Modong for ten years, how did they develop so fast!"

A few years ago, the Great Khan of the Thorn died of illness, and several sons fell into infighting due to the struggle for power, which made the dream of the development of the Thorn for decades come to naught, and returned to the original state of division."

"At that time, the Zar were still a medium tribe, and they were not ranked in terms of population or strength. However, they first fought Xinghe, Wanquan, and then Yongning, although they were all small cities, but they robbed a lot of materials, allowing them to quickly annex dozens of large and small tribes around them, thus becoming the largest tribe in Modong. ”

"Two years ago, as you know, they took advantage of the opportunity of Shada Khan's southward movement to attack Yingzhou and loot a large number of military equipment, so that the tribe could grow more rapidly in the past two years."

"County Lord, they have developed so fast and can understand that they have a capable person and have found the right time, but so many times they have gone south, why they have grasped the timing so well every time, I don't think I can understand it."

"We don't say much about the two big cities of Youzhou and Bingzhou, but cities like Yunzhou and Wuzhou, they can attack at the best time every time, and they can also avoid heavy troops and attack the city successfully, isn't it strange!"

"County Lord, I suspect that there is no response from them in these border gates." Yuan Rui joked.

But when he finished speaking, his face immediately changed, and the county lord was also shocked after hearing this, looking at Yuan Rui, he couldn't say a word for a long time.