That night, the inner hall of Linshuo Palace was brightly lit.

Yang Tong and Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin...... and so on for the civil and military to plan carefully.

"Your Highness, the world will be very chaotic in the future," the left servant shot Yang Gongren and said: "The princes divide the first population, and some people have the source of soldiers, and only some people can produce grain to support the army...... Now that Hedong Province and Henan Province are in full swing, it is reasonable to increase the intensity of the cause, especially in Hedong Province, which is plagued by Liu Wuzhou and the Turks, and it is relatively easy to absorb the population! ”

Yang Tong said with a smile: "After General Xue Wanshu arrived in Shanggu, he was prepared to accept the victims of the Hedong disaster, although there will not be too many people, but it is a number. At the same time, it was suggested that General Xue Wanshu should go south immediately tomorrow, and after arriving in Wu'an, he would send a large number of meticulous workers to join the party, and make every effort to exaggerate the speed and ferocity of Liu Wuzhou and the Turks' troops, and say that Jizhou was a pure warrior in troubled times! In principle, it is still necessary to break up one clan after another, and ten households will be placed in one village. ”

"Whoa!" Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanshu responded loudly.

Yang Gongren said: "Since ancient times, the first in the world has been in the population, followed by money and food!" Nowadays, the population of Jizhou is not a problem, but the need for money and food is extremely huge, if there is no war, there is no fear, but once the war expands, or natural disasters come, the threat is great! Your Highness should continue to implement the 'work for relief', build water conservancy, strengthen river embankments, and widen roads in Jizhou! At the same time, the surplus official land was rented to families with sufficient labor force to cultivate, so as to obtain military supplies and tax grain, and strive to achieve self-sufficiency! ”

"The minister has eight laws for the development of people's livelihood, please look at it Your Highness!" Yang Gongren took out a book and handed it to Yang Tong.

Yang Tong hurriedly took it, opened it carefully, and after a long time, his face was full of appreciation: "The left servant shoots, and he is also a great talent!" ”

He didn't say anything false, Fang Xuanling, Yang Shidao, and Wei Zheng are indeed auxiliary people, but Fang Xuanling is good at plotting the world and is good at the overall situation; Yang Shidao is good at civil affairs, and Wei Zheng is proficient in law, and is in charge of the criminal department and the imperial department

The three of them are a little deficient in governing the country and enriching the people, and enriching the people and strengthening the army happens to be the foundation of the conquest of the world, without this, they will not be able to go to the end.

Strategists who strategize the world, conquer the Quartet, and supervise hundreds of officials are valuable, but the civil servants who can enrich the country and strengthen the people and rectify internal affairs are the pillars of a country.

Yang Tong suddenly saw Jiang Xingben, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who wanted to speak and stopped, and encouraged with a smile: "Lord Jiang, if you have something to say, it doesn't hurt." ”

Yang Gongren knew that Jiang Xingben, who was born as a craftsman, was a little inferior, and he also encouraged on the side: "Everyone's original intention is for the great cause of His Highness, as long as you feel that it is for the benefit of the country and the people, you can speak freely, even if you say it wrong." ”

"Your Highness Xie, Servant Xie shoots ......" Jiang Xingben saw that everyone was looking at him with encouraging eyes, took a deep breath and said: "The minister has read many ancient books and materials, and found that the appearance of the plow and each improvement has increased the production capacity, and in the same fertile land, the grain produced with and without fertilizer is also different!" It can be seen that the potential of the fields has not been fully exploited, so the minister thought that he could encourage skilled craftsmen to write articles on agricultural tools, fertilizers, and grain seeds. ”

"Your Highness, the minister agrees with Lord Jiang's opinion, if you can improve farm tools, fertilizers, and grain seeds, not to mention doubling the production capacity, even if you increase it by one or half percent, it will be a great achievement!" Wei Zheng took the lead in supporting.

Yang Tong patted his head and said, "Lord Jiang made me think of an irrigation tool that can replace the overturned car!" ”

Saying that, he picked up the pen and drew a waterwheel, and said to Jiang Xingben who came over: "This thing is called a waterwheel, its purpose is the same as that of a rollover, it is low water and high use, but the difference is that the rollover needs to be stepped on manually, and the waterwheel is round like a wheel, it can automatically pump up the water for irrigation with the help of the strong impulse of the water flow, but if there is a shortage of water, you can use this thing to irrigate the farmland, so that the scope of cultivation will be larger, and at the same time save valuable manpower." ”

"And the plough ......," Yang Tong then drew the Quyuan plough in detail!

Jiang Xingben, who was deeply shocked by the waterwheel, looked at the Quyuan plough again, and calmed down to look at the drawings carefully, pondering what the use of each scattered component was.

Finally, he said excitedly: "Qu Yuan...... The center of gravity of the plough can be stabilized at the top of the curved wheel, and the center of gravity will not be shifted no matter how the ploughing ox moves...... And the plough wheel from straight to curved, only an ox can pull the plough stick to plough the land, Your Royal Highness's design, is simply ingenious! ”

Jiang Xingben is a Chinese expert, and he can see the great significance of Quyuan plough at a glance!

The simplest point is to turn two ploughing oxen into one.

This means that the speed of ploughing is doubled for the same amount of time and the same number of cattle!

And the curved plough makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, under the premise of only one bull head, it is also convenient to turn around and turn, the operation is flexible, even the angle angle can be plowed, and it is about twice as deep as the straight plow.

In this way, the grain output will increase by at least 10%!

The most serious thing is, what if Jizhou uses all this kind of curved plow?

Oh, my God......

Jiang Xingben's hand holding the drawing kept trembling, and he felt that the drawing in his hand was as heavy as Mount Tai.

Everyone couldn't help but be taken aback when they saw Jiang Xingben trembling with excitement.

"Poof!"

Jiang Xingben knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I implore Your Highness to hand over this Quyuan plough to Weichen to make, three days, no, two days, as long as it takes two days, you will definitely make a Quyuan plow." ”

Yang Tong was speechless and said: "I was originally asked to do it, who will do it if you don't do it?" ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Jiang Xingben was overjoyed.

He knows the meaning of this thing, once it is as convenient as he guessed, it will immediately replace the straight plough and pass it on to the world, and the first person to make this thing, wouldn't he be able to leave a name in history with His Royal Highness King Qin who designed it?

"Your Highness, Wechen wants to ...... now"

As long as he thought that a certain history book recorded that he was the maker of the first Quyuan plow, Jiang Xingben was so happy that he was about to go crazy.

Yang Tong smiled: "Go!" By the way, I made a watermill and tested it together. ”

"Whoa!" Jiang Xingben left in a hurry.

Everyone looked at Jiang Xingben, who was like a gust of wind, and looked at each other.

"Your Highness, the waterwheel and the Quyuan plough really have such a miraculous effect?"

"The water truck can pump water day and night without manpower; The curved plough saves one cow, one person can operate lightly, and dig about twice the depth of the land! Do you say that God works or not? Yang Tong smiled and asked Yang Gongren, who asked the question.

Yang Gongren's eyes straightened and said: "With these two things, it saves a lot of manpower and animal power, and can it also increase the yield per mu by one or two percent?" ”

Yang Tong said firmly: "After the people save half of their manpower and animal power, they can rent twice the official land, produce twice the grain, and double the grain tax for the government... As for whether the yield can be increased by one or two percent, I don't know, but it is certain that there will be an increase..."

Everyone was amazed and delighted!

Intoxicated by the blueprint described by Yang Tong.

"A small improvement can double the income of the court and the people, if a skilled craftsman creates an epoch-making agricultural tool, the benefit will be for thousands of generations, so we must not underestimate and despise the value of craftsmen in the future!"

At this time, it was Kong Yingda, who was also obedient at this time, and didn't say anything like strange tricks and tricks.

"The servant shot the population and food, shouldn't it be the money next?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.

"Indeed!" Yang Gongren nodded and said: "In the past half a year, Jizhou has hardly made the slightest progress!" However, the money and food that is used to resettle the victims and work for relief every day is used like water...... If it goes on like this, there will be big problems. ”

Yang Guang stored mountains and seas of money, grain and armament in Liyang Cang, Zhuojun Cang, Beiping, Huaiyuan Town in Liaoxi, Tongding Town in Liaodong, Linshuo Gongcang City, and Linyu Gongcang City. Before Yang Tong went north, he moved Luokoucang and Huiluocang in Henan Province completely. Therefore, Jizhou can easily resettle millions of victims and raise hundreds of thousands of troops without any income, and what is even more terrifying is that these materials are not lacking at all.

After preliminary statistics, everyone roughly believes that if all these reserves of money and grain are taken out, they can feed the more than 56 million people in the country for several years. But Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, and Jiang Xingben agreed that the material could not be moved.

They agreed that no matter how hard and poor they were, they had to survive by themselves, and they didn't always think about getting something for nothing, just as they didn't have those supplies.

This is obviously like a mountain and a sea of money and food, but it can't be used, and Yang Tong is also quite depressed. But he also knew that everyone was right. At the beginning of the business, if the inner circle of power did not have the determination to live a hard life, let alone achieve great things, I am afraid that death is not far away!

At this time, when he heard Yang Gongren's old words again, Yang Tong smiled and said: "We have obtained countless gold, silver, and rare treasures from the rebels, all of which add up to an astronomical amount!" This is what we have gained in the past six months, and I think we can use it! What do you think? ”

Yang Gongren said briskly: "This is what we get, no problem at all." ”

Yang Tong said: "Take out the gold, silver, and jewelry, and exchange the money from Zhuojun Cang, Liyang Cang, Beiping, Linshuo Gongcang City, and Linyu Gongcang City with the ratio of 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 100 hanging money." The money was rotting in the stacks of ropes in the storeroom, and some of the copper coins even grew patina! If you don't use it anymore, you won't need it! ”

"The most important thing is that copper coins are becoming less and less valuable, and I am afraid that it will not be long before they become a pile of waste, so when it comes to copper coins, we must not stick to the old rules, and even if we owe them, we must spend them in the shortest possible time. When we have harvested, it is not too late to replenish them one by one, and we can even repay them in kind with the grain, cloth, iron ingots and other goods we have bought...... In this world of chaos, only the real things are priceless. ”

The circulation currency of the Sui Dynasty was the emperor's five baht money, a hundred dollars, when Emperor Wen was alive, he was serious and cautious about the issuance of currency, strictly controlled the standard of five baht money, and the imperial court was creditworthy. Due to the small amount of five baht in Kaihuang, the currency value is very high, and the average person can spend a month with a few hanging money.

However, after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he issued inferior new money indiscriminately, and in terms of value, the new money was far inferior to the "Kaihuang five baht", but Yang Guang demanded the same value as the "Kaihuang five baht", and because the governance was not serious, the private casting atmosphere in various places became more and more intense, the quality of the money became worse and worse, the people's confidence in the imperial court was shaken, and prices rose wildly.

Sui's five-baht credit system is on the verge of collapse and will sooner or later be replaced by new money to be spent while they still have a little surplus value!

No one objected to Yang Tong's decision.

Although everyone is not proficient in finance, they also know that money is becoming less and less valuable, and it is very necessary to exchange it for physical goods first.