This time Chen Niang really calculated Hong Tao, he didn't know about it at all, Sidi didn't dare to say, he wouldn't ask if the land changed hands or not, he would send it out, who would stare at this little gadget all day long.

That's right, in Hong Tao's eyes, a hundred acres of wasteland is a gadget, and Liangzhou lacks everything, except for land that can be cultivated and grazing. The wasteland allocated before was only a small circle close to Liangzhou City, and if it was expanded outward, the distance would increase by several times for every ten miles more.

The scope of reclamation was not expanded before, first, I was not sure of the attitude of the imperial court, so I tried the water a little first. The second is that they are unable to ensure safety, in case the Tangut people send troops to harass them, they can't take care of it.

Now that the imperial court has acquiesced in the reclamation order, the border between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty has been redivided, and there are still more than 200 miles away from Liangzhou, and it is no problem to expand the scope of the reclamation several times.

The most important thing is that the pioneer order has achieved the desired effect, and after more than a year of hard work, most of the pioneers have seen hope, at least next autumn after paying taxes and eating and drinking.

The ancients were really demanding, and satisfying eating and drinking was a great harvest. With the first batch of pioneers as an example, the people of Huangzhou who did not dare to take this step are waiting for the opportunity, and there are also mainland businessmen like Wang Hao who are also sharpening their knives, planning to rush to be the first when there is wasteland allocation.

As long as there is demand, the plan to attract people with land is considered largely successful. You just need to protect the rules and defend against foreign enemies, and you don't have to think too much about the weather.

Whether it is a farmer or a herdsman, they have a very simple concept, God's affairs are not under the control of the government, and they don't expect the government to help, as long as they don't add to the chaos, they are the master of the Qing officials, and the rest depends on their lives!

The planned wasteland extends to the west bank of the Hongshui River in the east, the south of the Han Great Wall in the middle reaches of the Shiyang River in the north, and the east of the Jinshan Coal Mine in the west. There is no one in the south, because they are all sloping forests, and according to the laws of Huangzhou, the forests belong to the government and are not allowed to be cut down at will. All the firewood needed is harvested by the government and sold at a very low price, and whoever dares to cut it secretly will wait to go to the mines to do hard labor.

Wait for two years and even firewood can't be burned, there are coal mines in Liangzhou and Suzhou, and the output will replace firewood as soon as the output comes up, and you have to get used to it if you don't get used to it, which is called the rule!

The farthest area of the new frontier is almost thirty miles away from Liangzhou City, and there are still a few areas in the middle that are not allocated, which are reserved for the soldiers of the new army.

Promises alone are not enough to make people fully trust, so when Hong Tao announced the pioneer order this time, he wrote the retired fields in black and white, so that everyone can see that the government is not talking nonsense.

However, this announcement cannot be published immediately, and the specific announcement time will wait until the recruitment period has passed. Don't let everyone hear that there is another pioneer field, and they are even more unwilling to be soldiers, and they go to graze all the land, wouldn't that be lifting a stone and shooting themselves in the foot.

Otherwise, politicians don't have a good thing, officials like Hong Tao who have no personal needs and are completely concerned about the people have to be careful, and other officials basically can't clearly explain the purpose of eight out of ten policies.

It will not be available immediately after the announcement, and the official claim will have to be delayed until February. This is to take care of the merchant families in the mainland and a part of the displaced people, giving them a time to receive information and prepare.

Then the question is, at present, there are less than 60,000 soldiers and civilians in the entire Huangzhou plus Ganliang Road, what are you planting in so much land? You must know that since this autumn, Wang Hao's family's grain fleet has only one-third of the transportation volume left, and it is all rice.

If it weren't for the diversification of food, Hong Tao would no longer need to import food from other places. In less than three years, Huangzhou and Ganliang Road have solved the problem of food self-sufficiency.

On the one hand, this shows that the policy is reasonable, and on the other hand, it also witnesses that the Han people are multi-capable of farming. But with a little sunshine, they can turn all the land into fertile land, and the high yield and low yield will always be productive anyway, and there is no waste at all.

In addition, Huangzhou and Ganliang Road do not charge grain tax, which means that in addition to land tax, the crops produced by each family do not need to be handed over to the government for a catty or tael, and all are at their own disposal.

If you want to sell it, you will have to pay business tax at most once. All the granaries of the government were also purchased in cash and from farmers, but in small quantities.

Because the government here did not collect this tax, it was naturally not obliged to open a warehouse and release grain in the famine years. How to resist disasters depends on the ability of each family.

When this policy was first released, it caused a lot of criticism, and many people, including officials, did not understand the purpose of doing so, and felt that it was too irresponsible for the government not to herd.

Hong Tao didn't talk nonsense, he personally calculated an account, and then printed out thousands of copies and pasted them all over the city. What is this accounting? It is the cost-effectiveness ratio of taxes and relief.

People who don't know much about math and can count from one to a hundred on their fingers can see that after paying this additional tax, there is not much protection that can really be obtained.

In the event of a small disaster, each family can save itself with the money and goods that pay taxes every year, and if there is a major disaster, the government still can't save all the people, only a small part, and most of them are still lost.

Someone said that the purpose of relief is to calm the people's minds and prevent civil unrest. That's right, for a big country, it is indeed necessary, because of the large population, a little bit of money per person is a lot of money, and it can really make a difference.

But you can't be dogmatic in everything, and you must know how to be flexible according to the actual situation. For the good of the big country, it may not be good to put it in sparsely populated areas like Huangzhou and Ganliang Road.

This is a very deep mathematical problem, including actuarial science, probability and a lot of other technical means, how many people use this method to use, less than how many people can not take this method, Hong Tao does not know.

But he can figure it out with his calculations, with the current population number, he is doing this in the pit government, not much, there are two natural disasters in a year, and the scale is not large, and the entire Huangzhou and Ganliang Road government will go bankrupt.

Hong Tao never agrees to others easily, unless it is to trick people. He certainly can't fool his own people, so he made it clear. There is no other reason, it is because the government is afraid of losing money and cannot do what it promises, so it will not do it!

Now that we can achieve food self-sufficiency, why do we encourage the people to open up wasteland? It is also unrealistic to graze and shear sheep all of them, and the Liangzhou woolen mill does not have such a large output and sales, so there is no need for more wool sources at all. And these wastelands are not all grasslands suitable for grazing, most of them are still mature fields cultivated by the original Western Xia residents, which are more suitable for growing crops.

In fact, Hong Tao just wants everyone to cultivate crops, but not food, but a cash crop, cotton!

In ancient times, agriculture was mostly for the sake of food, but there were also cash crops, such as tea, and mulberry trees. By analogy, the benefits of growing cash crops tend to be higher than those of growing food. Of course, the premise is to eat well first, otherwise there will be no economic benefits.

What is the future development of Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, Hongtao originally planned to build it into a model of commercial dominance, supplemented by handicraft manufacturing, and agricultural guarantee.

It is enough to make full use of the driving effect of the ancient Silk Road, develop commerce wholeheartedly, and get some special products to attract foreign merchants, so that food can be self-sufficient.

But the bag of cotton seeds that Wang Hao brought with him when he returned from Guazhou forced Hong Tao to readjust his previous plan. This is a good thing, if silk dominated the ancient imperial economy, then cotton is the only product that can replace silk.

It has a huge advantage that silk does not have, the cost is lower, the output is larger, and it can be popularized by the whole people. Silk can only be used as a high-end product, even if the whole Song Dynasty is planted with mulberry trees, it cannot make it a daily commodity for ordinary people.

Suffice it to say, the potential of silk is almost there, but the future of wool and cotton is only just beginning to emerge. In the words of later generations, it is called the sunrise industry.

It's all the sun, and the waves must be the first rays of light when the morning sun rises. Planting cotton, but also have to cultivate a large area, after Liangzhou is a woolen mill and cotton mill, both sides of the Shiyang River have to be a waterwheel driven by the spinning machine, from Liangzhou City to Suzhou City, everywhere to see cotton peaches and sheep.