As the saying goes, "spring rain is as expensive as oil".

Spring is a critical time for crop growth, which requires a lot of water, and if precipitation is scarce, it will inevitably affect yields.

Shao Xun first came to the more than 1,300 hectares of fields to inspect.

The overwintering wheat was planted last fall, and this will be the time for jointing and booting.

Fortunately, there is water in Guangchengze.

When the rain is less, the 6,000 tunding of the Tuntian army in Jizhou will be hard to suffer, and let them irrigate by hand.

In fact, where there is a well-developed canal network system, artificial irrigation is not too troublesome. At least half of Guangchengze's fields can be irrigated by canals, and the remaining half will be improved this year.

"After the wheat harvest, 400 people were transferred to Luyang and handed over to Wang Yan and others." Shao Xun looked at the tunding who were carrying water for irrigation in the field and said.

"No." The big farmer Chu Yu, the waiter Chen Yougen, and the scholar Cheng Maobang responded at the same time.

Of course, the big farmers were in charge of the field, but when it came to the conversion of prisoners into auxiliaries, it required the involvement of Lang Zhongling's department.

To put it simply, this is the intersection of the two agencies.

In addition, this order needs to be issued by the yamen under the control of the canonical order (eighth rank), and when the canonical order is not there, it will be written down by the canonical book (ninth rank) and go back to handle it.

The documents issued by the lord of the country to the country are called "orders", and the canonical orders are responsible for drafting and promulgating.

Documents from all parts of the country are also received by the canonical order and submitted to the minister of state and the lord of the country.

Sometimes, the canonical order can even propose amendments to the documents submitted, and if they are not qualified, they will be returned and restarted.

In addition, the canonical order was also in charge of personnel recruitment, a power held by Shao Xun in Luyang State.

There are five adjutants in the canonical order: one canonshu (the ninth grade), four people (the ninth grade), and a number of officials.

Mao Bang is Mao Er, who has a degree and is eighteen years old this year.

After the New Year, Shao Xun made him a scribe.

The main job of the scribe is to assist in the drafting and issuance of orders, which is generally a more important matter.

The four magistrates deal with more complicated daily affairs, such as how many farm tools are needed here, how many ploughing cattle are needed there, and where to hoe and open up grass this year.

The book order is Yang Ming, and this will go to Luoyang on business.

From the canonical scholars to the four scholars, all of them are student soldiers of the first phase of the East China Sea and the second phase of Luoyang with Taixue degrees.

In fact, it was the group of people who followed Mao Er before, most of them went to Yangcheng, Yangzhai, Liang, and Luyang counties to work as officials, and a few outstanding ones were awarded official positions, and they have opened up the gap with their old classmates.

"Compassion for the field is related to the pension of soldiers who died in battle, died of illness, and were disabled, and should not be sloppy. How much millet was harvested last year? Shao Xun asked.

"More than 278,000 Hu, all of which have been deposited in Yong'an Cang." Less than four months after Chu Yu took over the position of a big farmer, he had already sorted these things out, and only heard him say: "Yong'an warehouse can store millions of grains, and it was completed in July last year." ”

The main work of Guangchengyuan last year was the construction of Yongjia Cangcheng City and its ancillary buildings.

Yongjia Cangcheng is very large, after two years of construction, it can garrison thousands of soldiers, and store 3 million grains - it is basically empty at present.

Yong'an Cangcheng is relatively small, and it is not in the imperial court planning, so it is used to store private grain.

After deducting the pension expenses of about 30,000 yuan a year, most of the output of the field can be used to pay the military salary of the silver spear sergeant - the silk is not enough, and many times the grain is used to fold the color.

It will increase to 1,500 hectares, and then fix it there, and it will not increase in the short term.

After looking at the field, Shao Xun and his party crossed two wooden bridges, walked three or four miles to the southwest, and came to another field.

Yu Liang was already waiting on the side of the road, and when he saw Shao Xun, he immediately saluted: "Shao Gong." ”

Behind him were four servants, who also saluted.

Shao Xun was so thundered by his name.

I'm only twenty-two years old, and I'm called "Shao Gong"?

But strictly speaking, he is now indeed qualified to be called a public servant.

Some people don't have a title, but because they are highly respected, or the official is relatively big, others will call him "a certain duke", Shao Xun is the duke of Luyang County, and there is no problem with calling the duke, but it is a little strange.

"You are in charge of Lutian now, and it is a matter of well-being of the officials of the government, so you can't make mistakes." Shao Xun grabbed his hand and said as he walked.

The treatment of the brother-in-law is different, and Yu Liang is very useful in his heart.

In order to work for Shao Xun, he recruited two Haoqiang children from Yingchuan who were attached to the Yu family, and received two Xiaoqiang officials from Hebei who were from poor families and Haoqiang.

There were four subordinate officials, all of whom were paid by him alone, and the cost was very large.

In February, he was just given the post of Xueguan Ling (Eighth Rank), mainly responsible for the education of public relatives in Luyang County. But this will obviously not need him to do this, and managing Lutian well is his main job.

Shao Xun climbed up a high slope, looked at the Tunding who were watering the fields, and asked, "These are the fifth and sixth battalions of the Qingzhou Tuntian Army, right?" ”

"Exactly." Yu Liang climbed up and replied: "There are still more than 7,700 people left, and they are the remnants of Wang Mi, most of whom are from Qing, Xu, and Yanzhou. ”

"How's it going over the course of the year?" Shao Xun asked.

The land in front of me totaled more than 1,400 hectares, which was opened up in the autumn and winter of the previous year, and a crop of millet was planted last year, so let's not talk about the harvest, anyway, Shao Xun didn't leave a grain of rice, and it was all taken away by the servants who reclaimed the wasteland - and even pasted it upside down.

After the autumn harvest, Qingzhou Tunding took over and planted a crop of winter wheat.

"It's a bit of a hard work." Yu Liang said.

As soon as the words ended, there was a cry in the field.

Shao Xun looked for prestige, but saw that the Yu family was holding a scabbard and smashing it down on a tunding's head and face.

There are a total of ten people in the trilogy, and the leader is strong and strong, with a bow at his waist and iron armor on his body.

Behind him were two leather-clad men, with guns in their hands and knives hanging from their waists.

The other seven were armourless, but they were armed with knives and guns, and two of them even carried bows on their backs.

This configuration, yes!

Tunding, who managed the "concentration camp", was no problem at all, much better than the group of villagers brought by his eldest nephew.

"After the summer harvest, the 400 people who worked hardest were transferred out and sent to Luyang to be handed over to Wang Yan and others." Shao Xun instructed, and after speaking, he mentioned again: "Each person will be given five grains as a reward, and the Silver Spear Army will lend vehicles and transport them to the garrison for them." The 400 people on the other side of the field did the same. ”

"No." Chu Yi and others responded in unison.

Lutian will also be expanded to 1,500 hectares this year, and then maintain this scale.

Of course, it is called "Lutian", but more than ninety percent of the fields still produce grain for the government. After all, only a dozen officials have been given out now, and a total of 49 hectares of land have been allocated.

"Is that leek, wead?" Shao Xunyao asked, pointing to a field next to a forest.

"Back to Shao Gong—" Yu Liang replied.

"Call me Lang Jun."

"Hui Lang-kun." Yu Liang said: "That's Cui Xiang's Lutian, a total of six hectares. Five hectares of wheat were planted after the harvest last autumn, and this year another one hectare of vacant land was set up, and Cui Xiang's family rushed to order the planting of vegetables. ”

Theoretically, officials can choose what crops to grow in their fields. In fact, the government is to go out of the fields and people, and the harvest will go to you as part of your income.

At the time of Liu Song, Tao Qian was Peng Zeling, and there were three acres of Lutian.

At that time, many officials were too lazy to care about what they planted in their fields, so they arranged for the planting of "秫" (shu, glutinous rice).

But Tao Qian's family disagreed, "My wife insisted on planting rice (jing, japonica rice), so that two acres and fifty acres were planted with rice, and fifty acres were planted with rice." ”

In the Western Jin Dynasty, Lutian was sometimes called a "vegetable field", and it was not necessarily a grain plant.

As you please, it's yours to collect more and less, and don't call if you suffer.

"Cui Xiang is well-managed." Shao Xun said with a smile.

Everyone laughed twice, and at the same time secretly wondered, should they also consider how to run Lutian?

As long as their collective is not wiped out, as long as Guang Chengze is not seriously damaged, as long as they do not defect to others, these Lutian are theirs.

Generally speaking, even if you boil your qualifications, you can slowly be promoted, and Lutian will only increase, not decrease.

Growing corn is indeed not enough to make money, and growing vegetables and melons may be more profitable.

"Why don't I have a field?" After Shao Xun saw that there were people watering the fields, his nervousness was greatly relieved, so he made a joke.

"Ming Gong—" Chu Yu stepped forward and said.

"Stop, you also call me Langjun." Shao Xun said helplessly.

"Okay." Chu Yu smiled embarrassedly, and then said: "Langjun has ten hectares of land, and Empress Hui sent people to plant pasture, which will have returned to green, and the growth is very good, and there are forty people to take care of it." ”

Shao Xun was a little surprised, but he didn't know about it, so he asked, "Where did the grass come from?" ”

Unexpectedly, Chu Yu was even more surprised, and said: "Zhang Qian has been a foreign country for 18 years, and he has to return alfalfa." There are fields in present-day Xizhou (Kansai), and they grow on their own every year. Seedlings are born in February, and seedlings are mowed for vegetables, and they can be mowed three times a year. ”

Shao Xun nodded.

It turned out that Zhang Qian brought it back when he went to the Western Regions, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty really took a lot of effort to raise horses, and even took into account the pasture. It's a pity that for more than 300 years, it has not been promoted throughout the north, at least Guangchengze has not seen many high-quality, high-calorie pastures.

Of course, pasture grass can also be cultivated artificially.

In fact, the yield and quality of cultivated crops are much higher than those of wild ones, and they can be harvested three times a year. Ten acres of alfalfa were planted for the sheep sacrifice, apparently to raise livestock.

This woman!

Shao Xun mentioned the battlement once, and Yang Xianrong wrote it down, and then worked hard to operate it, looking decent.

Shao Xun said that he likes to eat meat and drink milk, and Yang Xianrong wrote it down again, and actually planted ten hectares of pasture grass to raise livestock.

Shao Xun was a little moved.

He took another look at the farmland overgrown with alfalfa, and then said to Chu Biao: "There are seven big rivers in Guangchengze to replenish water, and I sent people to keep an eye on these rivers and find someone to record the amount of rain. This year, I'm afraid it's not that simple. ”

"Lang Jun is saying that there may be a big drought?" Chu Yu asked in surprise.

"It's hard to say." Shao Xun was not sure, so he could only sigh: "I came around and took a turn, and I was a little relieved." However, if there is a major drought, most of the hundreds of large and small lakes in Guangchengze will not be able to survive, and the irrigated farmland will have to go a long way. Some water trucks are afraid that they will not be used. Let's keep an eye on it first, I don't know how much I will cut production this year, alas! ”

After saying that, he led the people to the north, which was a dense area of fields and lakes.