Sending Qiu Yu away, Lu Ying began to worry about the food and drink of 6,000 people.

Ding'an County can pick up these 6,000 people, but it will be more difficult and needs to be summed up.

Lu Ying suddenly sighed: "Having food is the last word, and I am afraid that this truth will not change in a few hundred years." ”

Jiang Ping asked, "Young Master Sun, do you want to arrange to go down to buy grain and come back to reserve?" ”

Lu Ying bowed: "You go to Dongbin to collect grain, how much can you collect." ”

The Lu family has raised so many soldiers, so naturally there is a reserve of food, but that is the old bottom of the Lu family, which is more precious than gold, silver and jewelry.

Lu Ying's current state, in Qiu Yu's words, is "the young master who is rich and doesn't know how many generations he has gone out to start his own business", naturally he will not touch the old bottom of the Lu family, and can only pull it from his own property.

After returning to Ding'an County, Lu Ying quickly summoned the horses in Ding'an County, Qian Aquan, Chen Jun, Yang Tiansheng, Wang Zhouzhou, the four major horses were the leaders, and the rest of the officials followed, plus a few arresters under Wang Zhouzhou, a total of about 20 people.

The administrative team of about 20 people managed a county of 20,000 people, which shows how much thought Lu Ying put into cleaning them up.

Lu Ying's style is strict, and he doesn't mind that the horses drink water toilets during meetings, and it's no problem to eat something to fill their stomachs before meetings, so the atmosphere is still pleasant.

Chen Jun is still posting the specialties he bought in Qiongshan: "Fresh coconut cake, I have to eat it in these two days, otherwise it will be bad, alas, our Qiongya Island is too warm, and we can't hold what we eat." ”

Lu Ying raised his hand, Lan Shan gave him the abacus, and Lu Ying threw the abacus to Yang Tiansheng: "Calculate the rations of 6,000 people, we have to feed these people, take a charter." ”

As a boss, if something happens, even if you already have an idea in your heart, you have to see what Ma Zai is capable of.

Yang Tiansheng is the master bookkeeper, not only in charge of household registration, but also knows the consumption of food by the population in the county.

If 6,000 people want to reclaim the famine and work, it is the most basic thing to consume one pound of grain a day, and they are now starting to reclaim the famine, and when the fields they have planted begin to produce a harvest and can feed themselves, they will have to rely on Ding'an County for at least half a year.

That's what it is...... Yang Tiansheng swallowed his saliva: "It takes at least 9,000 loads of grain to feed these 6,000 people." ”

A load of grain is 120 catties, and 9,000 quintals is 1.08 million catties.

But there is absolutely not so much grain in Ding'an County, because they themselves have had a food shortage before, but this is because the proportion of crops planted in Ding'an County is not right, and everyone patronizes cash crops and does not grow grain.

This is when it comes to the cash crops in Ding'an County - mulberry fields that produce silk and sugarcane fields that produce sugar.

There are 3,000 acres of mulberry fields in Ding'an County, each acre of land out of the silk is sent to the workshop, woven into silk with a loom, sold to Yangfan is fifteen taels of silver, one or two pieces of silver is a thousand Wen, now the price of grain in various parts of the Yu Dynasty is high, five hundred Wen can buy a load (120 catties) of grain, that is, a horse of silk can earn 3,600 catties of grain!

As for sugar, it is even rarer, and the best sugarcane sugar content is also limited nowadays, an acre of sugarcane can only produce 500 catties of sugar, but a pound of sugar can be exchanged for a load of rice!

This is the power of cash crops, of course, if everyone goes to plant cash crops and does not grow grain, then no matter how much money you have, you will not be able to buy grain, this is the meaning of sticking to the bottom line of cultivated land.

In the past, the landlords of Ding'an County, for their own interests, regardless of the life and death of the tenant farmers, abandoned a lot of grain fields and planted mulberry and sugar cane, but the huge wealth in exchange for these things did not let the hard-working tenant farmers get their hands, but the landlords swallowed it themselves, and the tenant farmers did not store grain in their own pockets, so they took the money to the grain store, and found that the price of grain was raised to a high level, and they could not buy grain, so they had to make trouble.

Lu Ying saw what kind of people were making trouble, so she told Qiu Yu: "This county must not pay attention to farming, only look at mulberry fields and sugarcane fields, and then, we must let Ding'an County start reclamation, and calculate the number of grain fields that must be there according to the population every year, otherwise if there is a natural disaster in the future, I am afraid that there will be trouble." ”

When Qiu Yu heard this, she went out for a walk, and asked Qian Aquan and others again, and found that what Lu Ying said was the truth, and she was so impressed that she threw herself to the ground.

Look at the IQ of the villain's family, or how can they be Mingjun reserves.

Yang Tiansheng calculated the food needed, and Chen Jun took over

"There are 20,000 people in the county, and before we accept refugees, we must first ensure that the local people have food to eat, most of the peasant households have grain storage at home, and the grain depot in the county has 1.2 million catties of grain. ”

In Ding'an County, there are thousands of people who have grown cash crops, and there are also people who work in weaving mills, ponds, and salt fields, as well as small vendors and craftsmen, who need to buy grain for food.

Now Ding'an County can develop steadily and securely because Lu Ying copied 700,000 catties of grain from the landlord Haoqiang, and paid 500,000 catties for private money, a total of 1.2 million catties, and put it in the granary to stabilize everyone's hearts.

The town's life grain is the family foundation that Ding'an County must not easily move, and whoever dares to touch these grains, Lu Ying will kill them.

Everyone looked at Lu Ying tacitly, and Lu Ying raised her eyebrows: "Yes, the grain in the warehouse can't be moved, you have to think of another way to take over these six thousand people." ”

The boss has another problem, a year ago, the horses have begun to be embarrassed, but now they are all using their brains.

Jin Yin, who used to manage the road repair team and now works night shifts in the county to eradicate illiteracy, proposed: "Why don't we buy grain outside, we used to sell salt, sugar, silk, and brocade in Qiongshan Port, and exchanged a lot of money, and we will spend it when we get the money." ”

The money belonged to Lu Ying, but when Jin Yin spoke, he quietly looked at Lu Ying's expression, and his heart was settled.

This method can be used.

His cousin Jin Hua slapped the table: "Then you have to talk about how to use the money, don't forget, Young Master Sun wants to expand the guards, which requires recruitment, we also have to build roads, we have to open night shifts to eliminate illiteracy, we have to raise chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and fish, and buy livestock and cubs, this is all money." ”

Jinhua is good at arithmetic, neat in accounting, and has a spicy and refreshing temperament, and now she has been hired by Lu Ying as an accounting room, and her status and importance are no lower than other horses!

Jin Yin has a good temper: "I will distribute it, you see that we are not discussing." ”

The agricultural tax under the rule of Lu Ying was only collected according to the two seasons and eleven taxes per acre, but the commercial tax set up a new tax item, and collected more, and this time the Qiongshan Port returned from selling goods, and the county government collected 9,800 taels of tax, which is equivalent to the total tax revenue of the county government in the past three years.

Look, with the right boss, it's easy to make money.

The necessary expenses for the operation of the county government, such as the sum of more than 20 horses, is five hundred taels, and the rest is Lu Ying's money.

Qian Aquan pulled the abacus over and dialed it: "The county government needs to repair it, Qiongya Island is always blowing typhoons, and it needs to be built stronger to be safe." ”

Since following Lu Ying, the horses have all made a good calculation.

Lu Ying: "Xiu County Ya can give two hundred taels." ”

Chen Jun, who was in charge of the money, took out the raft paper specially for tying Chen, wrote the budget amount and name on the spot, and handed it over.

Lu Ying waved his pen.

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Then he took out a small white jade seal, dipped it in red ink and covered it, it was a small pigeon with a cloud pattern.

Qian Aquan said: "There are another 9,000 quintals of grain to be purchased, and according to the price of grain in the market, it will cost 4,500 taels." ”

Lu Ying also approved this article, and half of the money went on the spot.

Wang Zhouzhou said: "When 6,000 refugees come, they will be given a place to settle down, and they will sleep in the sky, and according to the rainy season on Qiongya Island at this time, I am afraid that many people will be drenched to death." ”

Speaking of which, everyone's hearts sank, and they knew that another big expense was coming.

A house of 6,000 people should be divided into at least 1,200 rooms, right? Even if the boat-shaped house of the Jianli people can be cheaper, such a large amount is terrifying enough.

Lu Ying: "I have a plan for this matter, Qiu Yu found someone to draw a set of drawings for me." ”

He took out the drawings, which showed rows of two-story buildings, the small buildings were built wide, there were seven or eight households on the first floor, each household was only given less than ten square meters, and there were four beds and a few cabinets in it, as well as a common toilet and kitchen, and the bathhouse was built outside the building.

"This is a temporary resettlement house to house refugees, and men and women will live in two separate areas." Lu Ying waved the drawing.

"When they settle down here for three years, they will have to go out and build their own houses and live on the edge of the farmland, and these resettlement houses will not need to be demolished, because when the time comes, the county will expand the weaving mills, sugar mills and other places, and the workers can bring their families to live here, or they can be rented to the poor who have no tiles to cover themselves as low-rent housing."

Gold and silver are engaged in engineering, he asked, "Yes."

Qiongya Island, such a house is afraid that it is not strong enough. ”

The two- and three-story buildings on Qiongya Island are now rare, because the strength of the building materials is not enough, and after the house is built high, it is afraid that it will not be able to withstand a typhoon in one season.

Lu Ying: "Qiu Yu is in a hurry to go back to Hubei to open a gypsum mine this time is also for this, he said that the gypsum mine can make a new building material called cement, and the house built is very strong, plus burning bricks, hmm...... If you only calculate the cost, the materials plus labor, count it as three thousand taels, and the furnace outside the county that burns bricks has to be expanded. ”

The tax of 9,800 taels collected from the sale of goods is only 1,600 taels, which has to remove the 600 taels for buying livestock seedlings.

After Lu Ying finished approving the note, her body and mind were comfortable: "I still have a thousand taels to keep, make a reserve fund, it's okay, I can take over so many refugees without using my private house, Ding'an County is out of business." ”

Hearing him say this, everyone wanted to smile bitterly and feel proud at the same time.

Wang Zhouzhou behaved: "It's all because Young Master Sun taught us well, so we can only get out." ”

Whenever a few county officials change to a place other than Qiongya Island to make this achievement, the governors of the whole province must remember their big names and include them in the category of "capable officials", and the promotion will follow.

Now everyone has become Lu Ying's horseboy, but they also know in their hearts that behind this achievement, it was Lu Ying who used the force of the Lu family to suppress all disobedience, killed a group of landlords, and pressed them to teach them to do it, so they were really convinced by Lu Ying.

If in previous years, the county government paid the taxes to the top, but it was not enough to meet its own operating expenses, it would really be full of holes, how could there be such a good thing that there would be money left!

Lu Ying said: "You have three things to do this year, first, staring

Good summer and autumn grain, second, collect taxes, third, take over 6,000 refugees, do a good job, I will give you a big red envelope at the end of the year. ”

This year, the biggest spending project in Ding'an County is to accept refugees, and this money has been used to reach the income before March, that is to say, if you make money after March, it will be all net income!

Speaking of this stubble, the big guy mentioned his motivation again, after this period of tempering, the scene is full of people who are proficient in practice, and they are calculating in their hearts.

Qiongya Island harvests two seasons of grain a year, May and June harvest the grain planted last winter, called summer grain, and October harvest the grain planted in spring, called autumn grain.

This year, Ding'an County has done a good job in spring ploughing, mobilized 5,000 laborers, and plowed a total of 30,000 acres of land, which can be said to be far beyond expectations, and it is also the result of the people of the county under the call of Lu Ying, a descendant of the rain god.

As for last year's winter sowing...... Because Lu Ying had not confiscated Ding'an County at that time, under the condition that the county officials in the county were rotten and the landlords were frantically oppressing the people, the cultivated land sown was only 15,000 mu, and in the end it was about 2.5 million catties.

Hey, anyway, I will definitely be able to be self-sufficient in food this year, and I can still have a little reserve left, which is a good thing!

Sugarcane fields can only be cut once a year, this year's harvest is finished, and the next time we have to wait for winter, not to mention this, salt and silk have been made, and can always make money, this is a long stream of water and rich income.

With such a dozen abacus, everyone's hearts are clear.

Outside the county office, it was even more jubilant and festive.

Young Master Sun's caravan returned, and they exchanged a large amount of goods for silver and delivered them to them, and in addition to the taxes due, the rest of the money was given a lot!

At the gate of the weaving workshop, Jun Jun personally dragged a cart, and several girls followed the car and pushed it, all with joyful faces.

Jun Jun shouted loudly: "Ji Yezi, Ji Yezi, come on, I'll bring the money back!" I sold a lot of silver this time! ”

The girl rushed out, her skin was dark, her eyes were round and big, like a cat, and she asked in a very accented official dialect: "How much?" How much silver can my sisters and I take to buy grain, salt, and iron and go back to the mountains? ”

Ji Yezi came out this time, and he was accompanied by several women from the Li family, all of whom wanted to earn salt, sugar, cloth, and iron farm tools for the family.

Jun Jun opened the box directly, and a piece of silver light pierced people's eyes in the sun.

"That's a lot!"

Ji Yezi saw so much money for the first time in her life, she covered her mouth with her hands and screamed with joy: "Ahhhh ”

With the girl's screams, the girls and girls in the embroidery workshop all ran out, and some of them were good-looking and not very old, all of them were Lu Ying from the secrets

Lira came to force the good ones, and some of the older women couldn't help but be happy and chatted.

"Now I can make a new dress for Xiaobao."

"I want to buy eggs for my nannan, but I pity my nan, I haven't touched a bit of meat since I was born."

On the other side, Fu Laohan and a few young people were also dragging silver on the well-paved dirt road, and when he saw the sea level, he let out a long whistle, and several men around him also whistled.

The long shout made the saltmen in the salt pans stand up straight, and people came out of the boat-shaped houses by the sea, and someone saw the old man Fu and pointed at him and shouted happily, and everyone gathered here.

Fu Laohan shouted with a smile: "Brothers--if you have money-you can buy chickens and ducks--buy cloth and shoes-"

In the sugarcane orchard, a young man named Chen Gao was crying as he walked home, and he shouted: "Mother, we have money, Young Master Sun really sent us all the wages, I bought cloth in Qiongshan, come and see." ”

The second sister of the sheep groped out, she squinted her dim eyes, rubbed the coarse cloth, and couldn't help but say: "My son is out, okay, good, my mother will make me a new dress, and I can say that I am a daughter-in-law." ”

This night, many households in Ding'an County actually lit up their lamps, and the county government is a small place, and it doesn't pay attention to the curfew, as long as they go back to their own houses after the day.

The girls of the Li family who came to Ding'an County to weave Li brocade lit a bonfire in the courtyard and pulled the handsome young men in the embroidery workshop to sing mountain songs.

The smoke rose from the cooking, Lu Ying sat in the highest place in the county, that is, above the lobby of the county office, Lan Shan spread the blanket on the tile, and Lu Ying sat on it, drinking milk tea.

Jiang Ping looked at Ding'an County and lost his mind: "When I used to wander the rivers and lakes in the Central Plains, such a scene can only be seen during the festival in a prosperous city. ”

And Lu Ying only took over this place for half a year, and brought them such a beautiful night.

Lan Shan sat quietly on Lu Ying's right, holding his knees with his hands, and Lu Ying asked him, "Aren't you going to the embroidery workshop to sing with the clansmen?" ”

Lan Shan shook his head: "I want to stay by Young Master Sun's side, you are the descendant of the rain god, guarding you, Qiongya Island can always be peaceful, and the prosperity of Ding'an County will spread farther and farther." ”

He was the most devout believer, faithfully guarding the side of the Divine Seed, but in reality he kept the peace of his heart.

Jiang Ping didn't believe in God very much, he only felt that Lanshan was stupid in the past, but now he felt that what he said made sense.

He sat on Lu Ying's left and smiled heartily: "Then I will also guard the descendants of the rain god, the moonlight is so good tonight." ”

The three of them looked up at the moon together, the silver disc sprinkled a soft light, Lu Ying raised her hand to pick it up, and sighed softly.

"If only Qiu Yu was here, I could let him tell me a cross talk or something under the moon, and sing, his singing is very interesting."

Jiang Ping was curious: "Young Master Qiu can sing?" Is it a song from Huguang? ”

Lu Ying shook her head: "He sings fake cigarettes, fake wine, fake friends, fake love, fake tenderness, and fake gentleness." ”

The child sang a few times in a milky voice, and then he realized that something was wrong.

Jiang Ping: ......

Arashiyama: ......

Seeing that their faces were dark, Lu Ying shut up and looked into the distance with her hands on her cheeks: "I don't know how he is now, the water of the Huxiang flood is deep, I don't know if he can do it." ”

Jiang Ping: "Isn't that just an ordinary spring flood?" ”

Arashiyama nodded.

Lu Ying: "Well, I went to Huxiang with my mother before, and my mother also deliberately looked at the embankment and said that it was well repaired, and she also asked me if there would be floods in Huxiang this year, because the border was not calm at that time, Huxiang is a major grain-producing province, and whether there is a flood over there is a key to whether there is enough grain and grass on the front line." ”

Jiang Ping: "Then, will there be a flood in Huxiang this year?" ”

Lu Ying: "I don't think so, at most it will rain heavily, but with the quality of the embankment, it should be fine, I stayed by the embankment with my mother for several days, and this is the feeling." ”

Although the Lu family's weather perception is only accurate in seven days, and the climate perception of a whole year is not accurate, but Lu Ying belongs to the kind of talent, he said that there may be more typhoons in any year, and there is a high probability that they will be hit in the end.

The child looked at the moon: "Someone probably did something to the embankment." ”

Jiang Ping's pupils shrank, and he said coldly: "Who is it?" ”

Lu Ying: "Whoever benefits is eighty percent of whoever, they have known my mother for so long, so basic."

Won't you know how to investigate the case? ”

Jiang Ping was shocked, when he was young, he roamed the rivers and lakes, and the reason why he was forced to the sea and almost died was because he couldn't get used to some dirty things, so he killed some big clansmen, but he almost lost his life.

Moreover, he is from Huxiang, and when he knew that Lu Ying and Qiu Yu, two children, decided to accept 6,000 refugees from Huxiang, Jiang Ping was both admired and grateful.

He ignored the tiles, knelt down to Lu Ying, and asked sincerely: "My subordinates are stupid, I can't guess the reason, I beg Young Master Sun to tell me." ”

Lan Shan didn't speak, but when a gust of night wind blew, he put on Lu Ying's clothes.

Lu Ying held the corner of her clothes: "There are only a few families on the left, eighty percent of them are the Cao family, I guess." ”

Xiangguo Gong Cao Chi, seventy-five years old this year, is a military general who founded the country with the Kailong Emperor, and is quite influential in the Huxiang area, his second daughter is the princess of Qin Shu'an, the king of Liang, and the younger daughter entered the palace as a concubine Yu, the eldest son guards the border pass with Jiang Bai'an, and the second son is the political envoy of Huxiang Bu Si Zuobu.

"My mother said that the harm of Huxiang is not only the Yun, Song, Zheng, and Qiu families behind the Salt Gang, they are just strong martial artists, and some families are big landlords and officials, and the harm to the people is no less than that of the Salt Gang."

Lu Ying narrowed her eyes: "For example, the Cao family, I heard that His Majesty who founded the country allocated a piece of land in Huxiang to reward the Duke of Xiangguo, but over the years, the land has inexplicably doubled, but when the five kings were in turmoil in Beijing, the Cao family wanted to support King Liang to ascend the throne, and after succeeding to the throne today, they were not very polite to the Cao family, and the Cao family was restrained." ”

He said leisurely: "It's just that the Cao family has been dormant for so many years, and I'm afraid that the heart is not dead, and Cao Lao Er has become a civil official, and now they not only represent themselves, but also represent other scholars in the Huxiang area who want to annex the land. ”

Jiang Ping muttered: "If it is in a peaceful year, it is naturally difficult to spend money to buy good land, but if the embankment is broken and the farmland is flooded, the original owner of the land will either die or suffer a disaster, and then it will be much easier to collect the land." ”

Lu Ying: "That's right, and the emperor may not be able to pursue them afterwards, because the Huxiang gentry have grain in their hands, and once the front line is tight, the government will have to use its own credit to borrow grain from the grain merchants, at this time, do you say the emperor will handle them?" ”

Lan Shan couldn't listen to it anymore, he had a straight personality, and punched his body: "Those people, damn it!" ”

Jiang Ping lost his voice: "What about the war on the front line, they are so chaotic in the back?" They are spies sent by the Meng people! ”

Lu Ying said coldly: "How can there be spies who will bring disaster to the country and the people so much, don't insult the spies." ”

Jiang Ping didn't know how to reply to this for a while, so he heard that Lu Ying was worried about his little friend again.

"As long as Qiu Yu honestly transports the refugees back, and then provides disaster relief, cures an epidemic, and has Yang Shengzi Dao Chang here, I don't have to worry about his safety, but Qiu Yu's brain is not bad, if he is allowed to investigate the truth and provoke the Cao family, then the gentry and the martial arts clan join forces, I will die my friend again."

Speaking of which, Lu Ying was very helpless, Wang Da Fat died, as long as he did something to Master Wang, he would take revenge, but if Qiu Yu died in this bureau, he would not kill all the gentry, martial arts sects, and salt gangs in Huxiang?

That's too much trouble.