In the golden autumn of August, the osmanthus flowers are fragrant.

Within 1,362 hectares, more than 6,000 tunding of the first and second battalions of the Jizhou Tuntian Army brandished sickles and began to harvest corn.

The millet in the field is sparse, and the yield is not destined to be too high.

When some people were harvesting, they even touched the remaining stones, which damaged the blades.

When someone harvests, they see that a small part of the roots have rotted, so they make a mark and dig them up after the autumn harvest is over.

The weeds were inevitably cut down together, and the tunding sighed in their hearts, one more grass grows, one less millet will be harvested, and there are still more grass seeds that have accumulated in the ground for many years.

Fortunately, the situation is improving little by little.

Compared with last year, this year's mu harvest should be about two hundred.

According to the rules set by Roca, everyone can eat a few more bites of food and have a fuller stomach.

The 100 people with the highest output can also be rewarded with two silk silks, and they will be transferred to the private household in advance - this time they will be exempted from four years of "imprisonment", who will not work hard?

Across the river is a large area of lush forest.

The trees are like the top of a leper's head, and they are bald.

The construction of the palace not only required burning bricks and tiles, opening mountains and stones, but also requiring a large amount of wood.

Most of the timber used now is called from other sources, but a large amount of bamboo is also cut down in Guangchengyuan and dried in the shade for later use, which has been done since the first year.

As a result, the forest and the sea of bamboo disappeared one by one.

Of course, the scale of tens of thousands of people does not have much impact on the mountains and forests at all.

Guangchengze is more than half the size of a county, and if you count the surrounding mountains and grasslands, it is far more than a county.

The three-year development has only made a small part of the whole.

The vacant land cleared after the trees were cut down was converted into farmland.

Because digging up the roots of the trees takes away a lot of soil, the quality of these fields is not very good, and even if a lot of silt and ash fertilizer is brought in, the yield is still pitiful.

This judgment was seen by Shao Xun as soon as he walked to the field.

But instead of talking nonsense, he wielded a scythe and harvested with the servants from Yingcheon-gun.

The Silver Spear Army also temporarily ended its training, and more than 3,000 people from six buildings took turns to harvest corn.

"Luyang's side has almost started harvesting, right?" Shao Xun bent over, cut the millet quickly, and said.

Yu Liang reluctantly followed the side, working clumsily, and replied: "It's a little earlier than here, and in a few days, it'll be finished." ”

Honestly, he really didn't want to do such a stupid job.

Helplessly, Shao Xun's face was flat, and he was a little afraid, so he reluctantly followed.

He resigned from the shogunate's post as the Tokaku sake priest, and now follows Shao Xun without any position, living like a servant.

Shao Xun was walking in the mud, and he had to follow.

Shao Xun went to the field to harvest, and he wanted to follow.

Shao Xun took a boat to fish, and he wanted to follow.

Shao Xun went to the ranch to look at the horses, and he also had to follow.

Etcetera.

"This year's batch of newly opened land, there are more than 1,409 hectares, if it is handed over to you next year, can you do a good job?" Shao Xun's harvesting action was very fast, and the swing of the scythe was not large, but the efficiency was extremely high, and he fell several steps behind Yu Liang in a short time.

When Yu Liang heard this, his heart was lifted, and he immediately said: "Don't worry, the prince." My family also has a Zhuangke tribe in Yanling, and I will be able to do it well. ”

"It's not that simple." Shao Xun smiled and said, "The Qingzhou Tuntian Army has 8,000 people, and they are not easy to manage. ”

When Yu Liang heard this, he also smiled and said: "I asked the clan to send twenty wardens and stewards, and send another three or four hundred soldiers from the Qu family to come, so it's okay." ”

"Okay." Shao Xun didn't talk nonsense, and the matter was settled.

On the side of Xiantian, the Yamen Army will have to take off their guard duties sooner or later, after all, it will affect the training too much.

From next year, it will be completely handed over to Nanyang Leshi for management.

They can pull out thousands of soldiers and send three or five hundred people over, which is not a matter at all, and can reduce their pressure.

The 1,400-odd hectares of land in front of us were leveled after the autumn harvest last year, and this year they were cultivated by the fifth and sixth battalions of the Qingzhou Tuntian Army (there are still nearly 8,000 people), and next year they will be completely freed from the hands of the 500 Yamen Army to participate in a war that may break out.

After the autumn harvest this year, a portion of the fields will continue to be leveled, and the labor force for cultivation has not yet been found. It is likely to be handed over to Luoyang Sanyuan next year, and it has grown to more than 2,500 households, which is regarded as its own private property.

If nothing else, it will be handed over to the third brother Shao Fan and the eldest nephew Shao Shen to jointly manage.

The third brother followed Concubine Pei's pawns for a few years, and his progress was not slow, but with the assistance of Pei Jin and others, he could barely manage the manor.

Shao Shen was surrounded by a group of "evil boys", riding horses and shooting all day long, dancing knives and guns, and taking the villagers to practice in his spare time, and he was more familiar with them.

The two of them cooperated, and they could probably barely make this new manor work.

Guang Chengze, a newly opened logistics base, is basically like this in the short term: the Shaw Brothers, the Le Brothers, and the Yu Families are in charge, and they continue to provide him with grain and grass.

Yushanwu is ready to be handed over to his uncle Liu's family, his family used to be a petty officer in the world, a little stronger than the Shao family - in troubled times, nepotism is sometimes a last resort, there is really no way.

The three major dock forts in Yiyang are managed by student cadres.

There are now nearly 1,000 households in Luliuyuan, which is managed by Shao's father and a group of relatives.

Luyang has Cui Gong, Liang County has Yangman, Xiangcheng belongs to Lu Zhi, and Zhou Mo recently arrived at the county order to kill Yang Zhai to take office.

Carefully calculated, now the actual control of ten counties at hand, plus Guangchengze and a few scattered manors and dock forts.

In the farming system, this part of farming is basically "outsourced" to relatives - the wife is also a relative.

Shao Xun suddenly felt that his power was so similar to the Hu people of the Northern Dynasty!

He is now a "Hu man" who specializes in training troops and fighting wars......

Is this the inevitability of historical development?

No, he still has room to struggle.

He still has a trick.

What is needed now is to build up strength quickly, otherwise, when someone else has accumulated a lot of money and food, and has developed a reliable army in a long war, what is the use of your regime, no matter how pure it is? It's too small.

Surviving first is the most important thing.

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After the harvest is completed, the first thing is to award the reward.

One hundred labor activists were organized into private households and settled in Nanshan and Ruyang in the south of Guangchengze.

When these 100 people heard their names, they were grateful and wept with joy.

It is not a good errand to open up wasteland and farm land in Guangchengze, and it is not uncommon for people to die of illness, exhaustion or even be beaten to death.

Even if they don't give them land, they can live a good life by giving people a part.

After they left, the others almost breathed fire with envy.

However, the surprise immediately fell on them.

Shao Xun ordered the recruitment of 700 soldiers and distributed them to the four generals Wang Xian, Hao Chang, Lou Bao, and Lou Quan.

In this way, the four Hebei generals each led 1,000 troops to Tuntian in Luyang County to support themselves, and Shao Xun subsidized them with a little extra food so that they had spare strength to practice.

To put it bluntly, these 4,000 people have now become de facto auxiliaries.

Every time the Silver Lancers went out on an expedition, they would almost always pull them up, and then stuff some craftsmen over, and set up camp, transport grain and grass, gather wood, cook, repair equipment, and take care of livestock.

There are also rewards for auxiliary soldiers to go to war, plus daily subsidies and their own tuntian, life is not too bad. Among the Hebei soldiers who were stationed in Luyang County, some people even married wives and took root in the local area.

After removing this group, only about 6,000 people remained, and they were reduced to a battalion, which continued to cultivate the fields, and the next month it would begin: the planting of winter wheat.

"Yuan Gui, the Yingchuan servants are about to return to their hometowns, you are a wealthy family in this county, and you can handle the distribution of surplus grain." Shao Xun patted Yu Liang's shoulder and said, "There is no need to calculate the account too carefully. They have worked hard all year long, so they can take more food home so that the life of the family can be more relaxed, so let's go. ”

"Prince, there has always been a conscription and servitude to open up the wasteland, and I have never been so generous. This ......" Yu Liang was a little puzzled.

"Yuan Gui!" Shao Xun patted him on the shoulder with more force, making Yu Liang grin.

In the first years of the Tai Dynasty, a water conservancy facility was built in Jixian County, which can irrigate more than 10,000 hectares.

The more than 10,000 hectares of fertile land added to Jixian County are all the income of the Youzhou government to levy and send servants. When they returned home, they did not say that they could bring home surplus grain, which was the grain left after the autumn harvest after deducting the rations consumed by the servants in the process of clearing the wasteland.

Shao Xun's actions can be regarded as good governance, and at the same time, it has also increased the enthusiasm for land reclamation.

"Let a man have a loving heart." Shao Xun said: "This kind of opportunity for mercy is given to you for free, don't let me down." ”

"No." Yu Liang responded, and soon found someone to handle it.

Shao Xun sighed.

These families really don't treat the people as human beings.

I feel that I am already black-hearted capitalists, but I didn't expect them to be even more ruthless.

The apprentices of Nanyang and Yingchuan counties took turns to open up the wasteland, and next year it will be the turn of Shunyang county apprentices.

Be nice to them, you can reduce the frequency of trouble, and you can also spread your reputation.

Xiangcheng, Nanyang, Shunyang, Yingchuan, and Runan counties near Guangchengze, he has ideas, and sooner or later he will occupy them one by one.

The human heart is ethereal, invisible and intangible, but it shows its power at a critical moment.

In the evening, he climbed a high slope and looked at the servants who were still toiling, at the harvested fields, at the paved roads, at the finished houses, at the cattle, sheep and horses strolling around, at the fishing boats dotted on the lake......

A sense of satisfaction arises.

This is the confidence of his fight with others.