After seeing the situation in the city, Zhao Ran, accompanied by Lord Lu Fang, left Hongyuan City. First of all, I looked at the cultivated land around Hongyuan City, and sure enough, many good places adjacent to rivers and flat areas were abandoned, but on the dry fields in the corners and corners, or on the undulating slopes of the ravines, there were still some farmers who were burning straw, thinking that they would accumulate fertilizer in the coming year.

In addition to the more than 4,000 people in Hongyuan City, there are also twenty or thirty villages within ten miles of the city, and more than half of them are empty, and the houses are dilapidated, and there is no one to be seen, and they are completely abandoned.

Half of the village is inhabited by party members who have not had time to escape, or are not willing to flee.

Around these villages, there are also large tracts of cultivated land, but they are overgrown with weeds, and from time to time there are a few poor grass sheep hidden on them.

Nearly 20,000 acres of good land are abandoned and no one cultivates them, and Zhao Ran feels very uncomfortable.

There is not much arable land in the Red Plains itself, and most of the fields suitable for cultivating grain on the entire land boundary are concentrated here. Although these fields are not suitable for planting high-yield rice and wheat, even low-yielding millet and barley can be doubled as long as they are fully planted, and then properly adjust the qi of heaven and earth and make a feng shui layout. At that time, with only 28,000 mu of cultivated land, the staple food consumption of 80,000 people in Hongyuan can basically be solved, supplemented by cattle and sheep, and the problem of food and clothing in the whole county can be completely solved.

But now, a large area of land has been vacant in vain, and the Han people who want to cultivate have no land to plant, and the party members who are not engaged in production are holding a large area of vacant land to receive relief, and there are many more people from the three tribes, hiding in the mountains and unwilling to go down the mountain, and the development of the entire Hongyuan has fallen into a dead loop.

In addition to arable land, the wider natural grassland covers the entire northwest of the Red Plains, but no one cares about it.

In the southeast and due east direction of the red plain, the terrain gradually rises and gradually enters the mountainous area, among which the four major mountain systems of Dajun Mountain, Zhebo Mountain, Yanggong Mountain and Haizi Mountain are the mainstay.

Dajun Mountain, which has the worst natural conditions, is occupied by Louguan, and the Zongsheng Temple is built, and the remaining three mountains are occupied by three parts.

Lord Lu Fangzhu did not recommend Zhao Ran to enter the mountain, because the communication and coordination with the three ministries had not yet formed a system, including the weakest Xiaohe Ministry, which was also slightly inclined to the White Horse Academy.

Zhao Ran didn't plan to enter the mountain, so he listened to Lord Lu Fang's suggestion, just glanced at the bottom of the mountain from a distance, and then asked if the vast grassland under the mountain was occupied by the three tribes.

Lu Fang said: "The seventeen villages of the Baima Department are all in the Zhebo Mountain, with the Zhebo Village as the main village, and the eleven villages of the Chama Department and the six villages of the Xiaohe Department are the same, each of which lives in Yanggong Mountain and Haizi Mountain. Originally, they were still grazing in the pastures under the mountain, but since the party proposed that they return the cattle and sheep they had stolen, the three villages have shrunk into the mountains, and there are not many people coming down. Especially after the Ming army besieged Zhebo Village in the first month of last year, the three departments basically cultivated and grazing in the mountains and rarely went down the mountain. As for these pastures, no one has ever cared about them. ”

Zhao Ran asked again: "Lao Lu, you say so, in Zhebo Mountain, Yanggong Mountain and Haizi Mountain, the conditions are very favorable?"

Lord Lu Fang nodded: "I have entered these three mountains, there are many gentle slopes and valleys in them, and the sum of the three is only more than 60,000 people, and some say more than 70,000 people, according to me, even if there are more than 100,000 people, it is enough to live in them." ”

Zhao Ran couldn't help but sigh: "It's all a good place, why didn't the White Horse Courtyard register these grasslands?"

Lu Fang said: "Originally, I thought so, but since the party made trouble for the cultivated land, Abbot Zeng has been a lot more careful, and wants to discuss the division and ownership of the grassland with the head of the three departments, and wait for the negotiation to be properly filed, but since the first month of last year, the matter has stopped, and the three departments have not met with us at all, and I have brought people over a few times, but they are not allowed to enter the mountain." In addition, it is now difficult to absorb displaced people and farmers from the hinterland, and the red plain is so vast and sparsely populated that these pastures are not needed for the time being. ”

Zhao Ran shook his head: "People traveled thousands of miles to come here, thinking that they could divide the fields, but they still worked for people, and they worked for party members, who would want to come over?"

The abbot was right. ”

At the end of November, it took nearly 20 days for Zhao Ran, who had roughly walked through Hongyuan, back to the White Horse Courtyard, and after coming back, he couldn't take a break and re-found the White Horse Courtyard's records on cultivated land and grassland, as well as the account books of the account office this year.

A second look at these instruments makes the situation even clearer.

In the archives of the White Horse Courtyard, there are a total of 28,000 acres of cultivated land, all of which are "ownerial" land, that is, the land registered as the party members, and 40,000 acres of grassland are recorded at the same time, of which 20,000 acres are registered as owned by the party members, and the remaining 20,000 acres are confirmed to be ownerless.

There are four incomes of the White Horse Academy this year, the first is the salary and silver allocated by the Tianhe Palace, that is, the often said capitation fee, which is allocated by the person, of which more than ninety percent is distributed to the Taoist priests, and the remaining two percent is used as the silver money for doing things, that is, the official fee, and the bulk of the official fee is still consumed on the meal. Three thousand two hundred taels in total.

Among the salaries, the abbot and the prison were the first class, each with 120 taels, the three were secondary, with 96 taels each, the eight deacons were reduced to 66 taels each, the five lords and eighteen heads were again, each was 36 taels, the last was the chanting and Taoist children, with 24 taels each, and there were also 50 fireworkers and laymen approved by the Tianhe Palace, each with 12 taels.

The second came from the Yamen, the governor of western Sichuan, six hundred and twenty taels, which was used to build the city wall. Zhao Ran now knows that half of them have been used to "help" party members.

The third sum was the field endowment and miscellaneous consumption, and he collected 1,000 stone millet and 600 stone barley, which was about 500 taels if it was converted into silver. These grains, with the special approval of the Yamen of the Governor of Western Sichuan, were all retained in the county and used to accumulate and build regular positions. At present, there are a total of 2,400 stone of grain in the regular closing position.

But this policy will continue for three years, and next year, the bulk of the Tian Fu will be handed over to the Yamen, the governor of western Sichuan.

The last one is the incense money offered by the merchants and the people when the Jiao Festival was held this year, which added up to more than 90 taels in bits and pieces.

This is all the income of this year, that is, the twenty-second year of Jiajing, without the Taoist property, this money wants to maintain a White Horse Courtyard that integrates the Taoist and the government, which is really quite cramped.

Zhao Ran had read the documents and records of the White Horse Academy in the past three years, and knew that the former abbot Zeng Zhili was also trying to find a way, but most of his energy was consumed to mediate the relationship between the Han people, the remaining party members, and the people of the three ministries, and he felt a little bit of a sense of taking care of one or the other.

However, in Abbot Zeng's general statement before leaving, he was still very pleased with the results of his three-year work. Abbot Zeng's main achievements lie in two points, one is to stabilize the overall situation of Hongyuan, and peace and security did not provoke a major popular uprising, and the other is to increase the credibility value from scratch to 20,000 gui.

Zhao Ran read Abbot Zeng's "debriefing report" several times and couldn't help laughing.

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