Although governing the army is the top priority, it is an easy thing to do, after all, the Tang Dynasty has completed the military system, and everything has a pulse to be found. However, development is the most cumbersome and chaotic part.

Now Lingzhou has a total of about 30,000 surrendered Turks plus more than 20,000 Turkic prisoners of war, and the young and strong Turks who have surrendered have been transferred into the army by Chen Ying, so as to avoid the hidden danger of them creating chaos in the local area. As for the prisoners of war, under the management of Chen Ying and Hu Zhihu, they were also very stable. However, with 54,000 people settling in Lingzhou, plus the existing population of Lingzhou, the population of Lingzhou exceeded 100,000, approaching the 150,000 mark. How to solve the problem of eating with nearly 150,000 mouths is an urgent problem.

More than 80% of the population of more than 50,000 are women, but in this era, Chen Ying only needs to use women as men and men as animals. But these people have nothing to do but wear tattered clothes. Let them go directly to the reclamation of wasteland, and there is no feasibility of implementation at all.

The only way is to learn from Cao Cao to carry out Tuntian, Chen Ying naturally knew about the demise of Cao Wei, saying that it was the usurpation of the Sima family, but rather the collapse of the Tuntian system. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars continued year after year, and the social productive forces were greatly damaged, the land was barren, the population was sharply reduced, and there was a shortage of food, forming serious social problems. After Cao Cao occupied Qingzhou, there were millions of displaced people in Qingzhou at that time. At this time, Cao Cao established the tuntian system, that is, with 60 people as a tun, the government provides farming tools and seeds, the people contribute manpower, and the income from farming, and the government has six farmers and four.

In the later period of the Cao Wei Dynasty, the amount of exploitation in Tuntian increased day by day, and the distribution ratio reached the level of eight officials and two people, which caused the people of Tuntian to flee and resist. The land of Tuntian was constantly encroached upon by the wealthy clans, so the Tuntian system was gradually destroyed. But now, Chen Ying has to adopt the tuntian system.

Because these are the ways to go. Of course, Chen Ying did not directly copy Cao Cao's tuntian system, but on the basis of the armor protection system, he established a collective farm with the fort as a unit. The government provides seeds, farming tools, and livestock for collective creation. Chen Ying's improvement is that this collective farm is not permanent, but has a certain time limit.

The seeds, farming tools, and animals shall be repaid at a discount of 20% per annum, in accordance with the basis of the signed principle of the people's voluntariness, divided into three or five years. If a peasant receives ten yuan of financial support and pays it off in five years, it needs to repay twenty yuan. If the interest rate is high, even Chen Ying is speechless, because in this era, even the most conscientious landlords borrow from abroad with the lowest interest rate of 30%. It will also roll over the interest, which is already the most conscientious interest.

Even though Chen Ying still had more than 20,000 Turkic prisoners of war in his hands who could provide human resources for the mining of coal and iron ore, and the manufacture of blast furnaces and steelmaking, the construction of farms and tuntian, the accumulation of fertile fields, the purchase of animal power, the construction of farming tools, the construction of water conservancy facilities, the construction of roads, and the construction of villages and towns in gathering places all required long-term continuous investment.

In the next period of time, in addition to increasing investment in Lingzhou and reclaiming wasteland for farming with the formation of collective farms, the most important type of investment is to build various types of workshops.

In the early stage, it was an inevitable investment to resettle the displaced people, build village forts, town forts, and enclosed buildings. After all, Lingzhou was directly under the cover of the Turkic troops, and if the Turks took a risk and broke through the defense line of the Dingyuan army, it would cause devastating losses. For this reason, Chen Ying had to delay the construction of the blast furnace and prioritize the coal mined by the Turkic prisoners of war to burn bricks.

Lingzhou Assassin Shi Yang discussed with Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong many times in a row, and after careful calculations, he finally came to the conclusion that if he wanted to complete the construction of 180 village forts in 18 towns and forts, the investment in bricks and tiles alone would be as much as 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, but Chen Ying had no money in his hands.

In the battle of Lingzhou, Chen Ying did capture a lot, but in addition to paying forty percent of the results to the imperial court and cashing in the rewards of meritorious soldiers, Chen Ying could spend no more than 30,000 yuan in his hands, of course, this does not include the expenses of nearly 20,000 soldiers.

The weather is gradually getting warmer, and the people are also in full swing. However, the treasury that was about to bottom out made Chen Ying at a loss. Although Yang Ze proposed to ask the imperial court for support, Chen Ying knew that the landlord's family in Chang'an did not have much surplus grain now, and only allocated 100,000 stone of grain to transport it to Lingzhou, which was already the greatest effort of the imperial court.

Xu Jingzong saw that Chen Ying was at a loss, so he proposed a bad idea to Chen Ying: "Pick a few big families at random, frame them for collaborating with the enemy, and then confiscate (the meaning of copying the family) their family property!" ”

Chen Ying refused almost without thinking about it.

Are you kidding.

Not putting all the eggs in one basket is the habit of the great family, and it is a big proposition to pass on the family forever.

Take the Xingyang Zheng family as an example, Zheng Guanyin married Li Jiancheng as his wife, but Zheng Jibo, the main sect of the Xingyang Zheng family, supported Wang Shichong in one room, and Zheng Shanguo in the other room supported Li Mi. In the case of the unclear situation in the world, no matter whether Li Mi, Li Yuan or Wang Shichong wins the world, the Zheng family can carry it forward.

Each for his own lord is a good fig leaf. Even if one brother kills another, isn't there another brother who is alive and well? The family can survive for a few more years. It's an ancient wisdom, and while it doesn't seem so heroic, it's better to survive than anything else.

If Chen Ying really dares to pierce this fig leaf, this is the sky is going to break the hole. Chen Ying will become the public enemy of the world's gate valves, I am afraid that Chen Ying has just copied someone else's home, and Li Yuan will then copy Chen Ying's home.

However, Xu Jingzong finally pointed out a way for Chen Ying.

If you want to talk about the fastest way to make a fortune, in fact, it is not to speculate in stocks, nor to speculate in real estate, but to rob openly. Chen Ying himself fell into a misunderstanding, although he had no money, but he had an army of 20,000, how could he gain a lot by letting out the 20,000 army.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying suddenly had an idea: "Mr. Xu is really talented, in a word!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Jingzong was a little inexplicable.

Chen Ying did not explain, but immediately recruited Yu Guni, Ashina Simo and Chen Jinyong. When the three of them hurriedly returned from the training ground, Chen Ying said straight to the point: "Where is the border line currently patrolled by the army scouts?" ”

Ashina Simo looked at Chen Ying in surprise and said: "According to the general's original order, go west to the foot of Helan Mountain, east to the Great Wall, and north to Huaiyuan!" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "Huaiyuan is our territory of the Tang Dynasty, now that the weather is warmer, the Turks can no longer rely on it, send someone through Ashina Lifushi, let him withdraw from Huaiyuan, otherwise he will bear the consequences!" ”

Hearing that Chen Ying was about to beat the Turks, Yu Guni shouted excitedly: "My master, your loyal servant will do it immediately!" ”

Chen Ying waved his hand and said: "Huaiyuan, don't be in a hurry for the time being, the Yellow River is the mother river of our Chinese nation, the land of Hehuang, since ancient times, it has been my Chinese territory, in recent years, the Han cavalry has not arrived at Hehuang, and now our Tang Dynasty also wants to declare sovereignty to the land of Hehuang!" ”

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