The west of Yongzhou City is on the shore of the river. It is a patch of rice paddies. The rice in the field has grown tall, and the patches of thick green are like green carpets.

Han Gang led people and rode horses to inspect the fields. The summer is hot, and it is the hottest time of the day, but the greenery makes him unable to hide the smile on the corner of his mouth: "It's growing well......"

Behind Han Gang was a newly transferred general judge from Guizhou, who was already fifty years old and had been an official in Liangguang Prefecture for twenty years, but he had never left this piece of land south of Wuling to serve elsewhere. In front of Han Gang, who was only half his age, he maintained enough respect: "It will be harvested next month, and it will be another bumper harvest." ”

Han Gang nodded, his mood was as brisk as the footsteps of the mount under his crotch: "If you can have the same yield per mu as last season, then you can almost receive 150,000 stones." ”

Just a month ago, outside the city of Yongzhou, the Champa rice that was hurriedly planted after the end of the war had been harvested, dried, and put into storage.

In the first season of this year, there were as many as 60,000 stones, with an average yield of six or seven stones per mu. In the process of growth, there is not much care, and even fertilizer has not been applied a few times, but in the case of harvesting in the sky, there can be a yield of close to two stones per mu. The fertility of the land in Yongzhou really made Han Gang, who grew up in Kansai, jealous. If Kansai had the water, soil and sunshine of Yongzhou, it would be no problem to feed two or three times as many people.

It's just that the people who finally returned to Yongzhou have a total of 38,000 new counts. The 60,000 stone of grain harvested in the first season was only enough for three months after grinding and husking.

Fortunately, this piece of land in the west of the city has been reclaimed because the ruins in the city have been cleaned up, and a lot of manpower has been freed up, and the area has expanded a lot. In addition, Han Gang asked the blacksmiths accompanying the army to instruct the Yongzhou blacksmiths to build ploughs - the shape of the plough in Lingnan is very different from that in the north, and many even do not use ploughs. When ploughing the field and planting, the soil is just cut open, and it is never turned deeply. Its farming skills are far inferior to those of the Central Plains, which are much more efficient in cultivating fields thanks to advanced ploughing and an astonishing number of buffaloes in Guangxi.

If the harvest can really be around 150,000 stone according to Han Gang's prediction, it will be enough to support the people of the whole city for seven or eight months. Plus the next third season can be farmed even more. It is still planted with Champa rice, but it is a late Zhancheng - Champa rice is divided into early and late Zhancheng, early rice and late rice are clearly divided, but the fast growth and early harvest are unified, and if you sow it, you can harvest it in two months at most - and even if it is late rice, the harvest will never be less.

In this way, there will be no problem in supporting the people of the whole city to harvest early rice next year, and there will be some surplus grain to supply an army of 10,000 or 20,000 people for several months.

However, Han Gang still offended many people by doing this. After walking around the field for a while, Han Gang asked again, "These days, is there anyone who is still making trouble to return the field to them?" ”

Tong Juan smiled: "Long Tu has already beaten them before, and he has given so many benefits, so he has long stopped making trouble." ”

In order to let the people of Yongzhou survive this year's famine, Han Gang concentrated manpower and planted and harvested the fields near Yongzhou, regardless of who the owner was. The relief brought in from Pennsylvania in the early days, along with the newly harvested grain, was distributed to a portion of the food that was barely enough to feed the stomach, and the rest was used as wages to recruit laborers to open canals, build roads, and repair the city walls. In addition, there are also jobs for the elderly, weak women and children, such as laundry, weeding, etc., to ensure that those who are willing to work can fill their stomachs.

In addition, two thousand cochin captives had their toes cut off, and they could not escape at all, and they were also called to tend the fields as atonement. A team of ten people, one person makes a mistake, the whole team is in a company, under the supervision of each other, they are honestly supervised in the field to do things. However, Han Gang has always been particular about rewards and punishments, as long as the team does a good job, there will be fish caught from the river as a reward.

Han Gang's relief system, of course, the poor people in Yongzhou City are willing, and the vast majority of them can eat enough. But the wealthy families who escaped the catastrophe are gone, and the good fields that rely on the city are theirs, and the grain they grow should naturally belong to them.

Just a few days after the harvest of the first season, three or five hundred people came together in front of Han Gang. But Han Gang doesn't care so much, if he wants to say that Tian is yours, he has to take out the voucher, and he has to compare it with the books in the official mansion, so that he can confirm it

All the registers have been burned, and if you want to get back the old files, you have to go to the cabinet library of the Guangxi Transit Division to find them - the newly compiled field books are still early to be completed - in addition, even if the three divisions of the capital are only in the tax register, how can you still find the land title deed?

But what is Han Gang's identity? The new Guangxi transshipment envoy! Even if he took out the title deed, he only had to say that he would take the deposit book from Guizhou for comparison, and it would be no problem to drag it out for a year and a half.

However, Han Gang is not completely unlucky, even if it is a unified harvest, it is only a year, and it is not a private land to be collected by the government. He is also very strict in protecting private land. Those who dared to move the Tanaka boundary monument without permission at this time, Han Gang used a large board and cane dozens of people, and used a twenty-pound regimental head flail outside the temporary state government gate, standing in a row.

In addition, he also opened a ditch in the field, diverted water to irrigate, and transformed the original dry field into a watered field - located on the riverside, there was not even a ditch in the field, this incident made Han Gang feel the most incredible place, the cultivation is all moistened by the rain from the sky, and a few miles away is the Pearl River, which has more water than the Yellow River - seeing his field being transformed into a high-quality field, and the thieves who want to steal the field have been severely punished, coupled with the criticism of the poor people who support Han Gang, the rich families are not making much trouble, and they dare not make trouble. It's only been a year, and it's just a few more houses burned down by the Jiaozhi people. Of course, if Han Gang didn't return the land after a year, they would all go to the capital to complain.

In the south-central and southeastern parts of Guangxi, Bin, Yong, Qin, and Lian, there are several basins and alluvial plains with a large area of land, fertile land, and a pleasant climate. Even at this level of farming, Penn and Yongzhou were never short of grain, and there was a lot of surplus.

What Han Gang wants to do is to promote the agricultural technology of the Central Plains in Lingnan as much as possible, as long as the fields in Guangxi and Guangdong can be developed as much as possible, and the production will be more abundant, the Great Song Dynasty's control over the land outside the mountains will be able to go to a higher level, and use this as a springboard, and the entire South China Sea region will be within the scope of radiation.

In the "Shangshu Yu Gong", the fields of Kyushu in the world are divided into several grades, among which Yangzhou is the worst, the so-called 'soil is only muddy, and the field is only down', Yangzhou at that time was basically the vast land south of the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River, that is, the place where six million stones are now transported to the capital every year. A thousand years later, in Guangdong and Guangxi, as long as it is farmland in the plain area, the grain output is not low.

Thinking about how to develop Lingnan, Han Gang and his entourage turned to the north of Yongzhou, where there were several lime kilns for use in the city, just beside the river that flowed down from the mountains and joined Yushui, and the smoke was billowing from a long distance.

The fuel in the lime kiln is wood cut down from the mountains, split and dried to use as firewood. In addition, there is straw, which is also used together. It's a pity that the fire is not strong, and it takes a lot of time to fire.

The lack of firewood is a big problem that plagues Han Gang, he often thinks that it would be good if there was a coal mine near Yongzhou, and he also sent someone to find it, but there is no return until now - his memory of Yongzhou in later generations is very vague, and he doesn't know where to find coal mines in Ludao, unlike his understanding of Xuzhou, which knows that there is coal in the area of Ludao. Just received the news from the capital, a coal mine was discovered outside Xuzhou, and since then there has been coal and iron, which is the foundation of the coal and steel complex.

After inspecting the lime kiln, Han Gang returned to Yongzhou City, and he still had classes to attend in the afternoon.

In the past few months, the officials in Yongzhou have almost been allocated, and a lot of officials have been recruited, and Han Gang, the general secretary in the state, has been unloaded. It is also a major matter in terms of military, criminal name, money and food, and medical and health care, and at other times, he directly becomes the shopkeeper.

As an official, Han Gang does not have a heavy responsibility on his shoulders now, and the transfer envoy's own position is temporarily handed over to the deputy envoy to deal with. But as a Confucian, he still has a lot to do. Confucianism emphasizes education, and when it is idle, teaching and educating people is its own duty. Han Gang had earlier issued a decree that children between the ages of seven and 10 in Yongzhou, both male and female, would be provided with a meal at noon as long as they came to school. Many parents are greedy for this cheap and let their children come to school. In addition, the state school was also restored, and it was the first batch of buildings to be rebuilt in Yongzhou City, a month earlier than the state government. On the one hand, the scholars in the state school listened to Han Gang's teachings, and on the other hand, they also acted as professors of Mengxue and taught classes to children.

As soon as he arrived at the city gate, Han Lian led a team of cavalry to meet him.

was originally a member of the Han Gang family, but now he has accumulated merit as an official - a lame leg is nothing in front of credit - and he has also become the owner of Guwan Village. However, Guwanzhai has been burned down, and before Han Gang frees up his hands and allocates manpower and material resources to rebuild Guwanzhai, Han Lian can only be idle and do an inspection in Yongzhou City.

"What's going on in the city?" After Han Lian came over, Han Gang asked.

"The cave masters of Sicheng Prefecture, Si'en Prefecture and Sudden Evil Mountain have just entered the city together, and now the two cave masters have not yet arrived." Han Lian reported in front of Han Gangma, "The subordinate wants the officials to report to Long Tu, do you want to wait a little longer." ”

"What are you waiting for?" Han Gang's face was gloomy, "Sicheng Prefecture is separated by several mountains, and they have come from nearly thousands of miles, Zuozhou and Zhongzhou are so close but they haven't arrived yet, do you have to wait until next year's New Year for them to come to the state to catch the market?!" ”

A month ago, Han Gang sent an order to Benzhou to summon the cave masters of the 36 mountains of the left and right rivers to come to Yongzhou to discuss the matter-Yongzhou has dozens of detention prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, and a stream in charge of those caves is often a detention prefecture on the Song people's side - has waited until now, and even the cave masters of Sicheng Prefecture, which is far away in the mountains in the upper reaches of the Zuojiang River, have arrived, and what has not yet arrived is the problem of attitude.

"Into town!" Han Gang clamped the horse's belly and killed the state government violently.