The local officials of the Great Song Dynasty were no longer more diligent when they were driven by the three divisions with whips, and the imperial history of supervising the hundred officials did not have this majesty, and even the holy decrees and decrees did not have the efficiency of the three divisions in many cases. The monster of the three divisions not only controls the wealth of the world, but also relies on the assessment of money and food to pinch the promotion of magistrates, as long as it is a little bit of pursuit of magistrates, they all regard the requirements of the three divisions as the top priority of their work.

Xu Ping's request to recruit people from Fujian Road to come to Yongzhou to plant sugarcane went for several months, and Zhongshu forwarded his request to the Fujian Road Transfer Envoy and the following prefectures, and in a few months, he only gathered fifty or sixty people sporadically. Xu Ping saw that these people were old, old and weak, and even most of them were urban poor people who did not know how to farm at all, and the enthusiasm in his heart was almost completely extinguished.

When the white sugar shipped from Yongzhou was sold, the statistics were put on the desk of the third envoy with the detailed account book of Xu Ping's white sugar, and things suddenly changed. In the name of the three divisions, 3,000 people must arrive in Yongzhou by the end of March. Unlike other yamen, each state has a specific number and a corresponding reward, and even the petition has a strict format, so that not a single word can be mistaken. What kind of reward is there for each state to complete which number, from the first order of relocation to two years and one year, and the punishment for failure to complete, ranging from five years to one year for extending the grinding and survey, is clear and clear. If you do the reward, you can't punish it, and the three divisions are always so cold in doing things, without any flowers, which makes the magistrate love and hate.

On 26 March, 2,865 people had already reported to Xu Ping, who, after counting the heads, signed and drew on the lines of the states on the Fujian Road that had come over, and the states reported the numbers to the three divisions with Xu Ping's signature, and received their rewards and punishments.

When we set out from Fujian, the number was more than 3,000 people, and this long journey was bound to cause population loss, and there were only so many people left in Yongzhou. The number set by the three divisions will not be discounted, and the states that have lost the number of people will still have to make up for the number of people next month.

Xu Ping likes this efficiency, but as a magistrate, he also knows exactly what is behind this efficiency. Fujian prefectures, for the sake of these 3,000 people, I don't know how many families are crying, how many magistrates are scolding their mothers, and the historian's pen may be recorded as his black spot. But what can be done, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and he can't do anything without people, so he can only subconsciously not think about it.

After signing the last Shao Wujun's line, Xu Ping handed it to Deng Xingshi, who accompanied him: "Deng Dujian has worked hard all the way, I have a little gift here, you can take it back to the governors." ”

Deng Xingshi smiled bitterly: "Thank you for the verdict." I just hope to find someone else to do this errand next time. ”

Xu Ping looked at Deng Xingshi and knew that this Quanzhou governor must have scolded himself in his heart, and he tossed all the roads in Fujian in order to make political achievements for himself, shouldn't he be scolded?

After being silent for a while, Xu Pingcai asked again: "Metropolitan Prison, how many people fled on the road, how many people died of illness, do you have a list there?" ”

"Why does the judge ask this? When I go back, the states will naturally make up for the lack of numbers! ”

Deng Xingshi's face was full of vigilance, and even a little angry. He didn't know how to explain it when he went back, so he only asked him to escort someone to send it, and he didn't make it clear what the number of people missing on the way was. Listening to Xu Ping's meaning, is it possible that he will be held accountable here? The Yongzhou general sentence is not in charge of his head as the Quanzhou capital prisoner.

Xu Ping didn't seem to be able to hear the meaning of Deng Xing's truth, and sighed: "Don't talk about him who is on the run, after all, he is sick and has embarked on the road to Yongzhou, I can't ignore it." If there is a directory of the capital eunuchs, Yongzhou will subsidize each of them with ten full money, it is best to collect the corpses, don't die in a foreign land, and give the rest to their families. ”

Deng Xingshi's face softened when he heard this, although money can't buy back people's lives, he always has an explanation when he goes back. He arched his hand to Xu Ping and said: "The judgment is good-intentioned, and I understand it in my heart." However, how to do things still needs to be discussed, Fujian is cramped and densely populated, and sometimes human life is not valuable. If you give your family ten yuan directly, if you can't keep it, there will be extremely vicious people who deliberately kill on the road to steal the money. ”

"Wouldn't it? It's just 10 bucks! Xu Ping was taken aback, he didn't think of going up here.

Deng Xingshi just smiled bitterly, and he couldn't tell Xu Ping.

Fujian is not as good as other parts of the Song Dynasty, it has not been war-torn for many years, its population is extremely prosperous, and most of it is mountainous, and the land cannot carry such a large population. People can't eat enough to do anything, and a local evil deed is repeatedly prohibited, and often some people have some hidden disease, so they take poison in their mouths to the door of a large family, and plant themselves there. This kind of thing is not clear, and the people who meet it have to think that they are unlucky and spend money to eliminate the disaster. Even if there is a feud between the two families, they will directly let the healthy people die there at the door of the enemy, and the officials from other places who do not know the details have been tricked.

Xu Ping went out with a direct reward like this, and I am afraid that many of the people who will be sent next time are hiding hidden diseases, anyway, sooner or later they will die, and they will directly end their lives on the way and earn a sum of money for their families.

Don't meddle in things you don't understand, Xu Ping didn't ask anymore, and said to Deng Xingshi: "Since the capital eunuch said so, I will exchange the money for gold and silver for you to take back, and the corpse will still be collected for him, and how to divide the remaining money when he arrives at the place is decided by the local governors." ”

Xu Ping said at the beginning that he had enough money, first, he brought flying habits in his previous life, and he always felt that the province was a bit deceitful, and the other also left room for the handling officials to do their hands, which was regarded as a kind of compensation. Since he had this idea in mind from the beginning, he simply handed over the assigned power to the local officials. As for the exchange for gold and silver, it is because it is inconvenient to carry copper coins, although at this time copper coins are not taxed, and the freight alone is not cheap.

After everything was explained, Deng Xingshi got up and said goodbye. His errand was not comfortable at all, he ended it early and was relieved early, and he didn't have the heart to stay here in Xu Ping.

Sending Deng Xingshi away, Xu Ping stood on the mountain bag and looked not far away, Duan Fang and Tan Hu were arranging temporary accommodation for the newcomers with their officials and soldiers, and long-term housing had to wait for them to build it themselves.

The third division sent people to Xu Ping, and the rules had to change accordingly. Originally, the performance appraisal of officials in the Song Dynasty was either based on the fixed ancestral amount or compared with last year, and each increase of one percent was counted as a grade. The quota of sugar given to Xu Ping by the third division will be directly doubled to two million catties next year, and then each extra percent will be counted as a grade.

Although there are people, the land must be newly cultivated, the scale of sugar extraction will be expanded, and Xu Ping still has a lot of miscellaneous things. If it is self-defeating to make such a big move, as a result, the sugar quota will not be completed next year, and Xu Ping will be in trouble.

Looking at the large plains with a small hill protruding from time to time around him, Xu Ping sighed again. Not only did he have to grow sugar cane and extract sugar, but he also had to direct the land to grow grain, at least to feed the people here.

The yield of various crops Xu Ping has already let his subordinates count, the corn yield that he had high hopes for is disappointing, the yield per mu is only 112 catties, rice is less than 250 catties, soybeans and other beans are 80 catties, millet is 60 catties, he has always thought that the sweet potato is a high-yield crop is only 700 catties per mu, which is far from his impression in his previous life. The so-called high yield is all piled up with water and fertilizer, and it is a joke to say that high-yield crops are not worth mentioning in this era, and the difference between crop varieties and soil fertility is not worth mentioning at all.

Only sugarcane is worthy of being an open crop, and the requirements for soil fertility are not high, and the yield per mu can reach 3,000 catties, which is an astonishing number when converted into money. The disadvantage of sugarcane is that it requires a lot of manpower, which is not valuable in this era, and can be piled up as hard as possible. A large increase in the production of white sugar will inevitably lead to a drop in prices, but with the temperament of the three divisions, this process will drag on for many years, and they are more familiar with this trick than anyone else.

The current three envoys are Kou Xuan, the word Cigong, a native of Ruzhou, and a Jinshi background. However, in the officialdom, Kou Ying is most famous for being beautiful, Xu Ping has never seen it, but everyone says so, you can imagine that this person is the kind of handsome guy who is rare to see.

A good-looking man may not be as good as a woman, Kou Ying is very talented, in Sichuan and Shu for the officials outside the barbarians, and the people have political achievements, but he treats his subordinates very strictly, and he can not satisfy him with heavy punishment. Such a character, coupled with his attachment to Ding Wei in his early years, now many people are turning over his old accounts, and the secretary Cheng Pengqi also made a special article "Lost Dog" to satirize him, you can imagine his current mood. The reason why he can continue to sit in the real power position of the third envoy is that the current emperor values his ability and does not pursue his past affairs. Kou Yang himself also understood that he was eager to make political achievements to show others, so he was so interested in helping Xu Ping recruit people to Yongzhou. For such a person, he will not sell the price of white sugar ten times more.

Xu Ping can ignore the matter of white sugar, he only needs to make it, how to sell it is naturally worrying about the three divisions, and the most urgent thing for him now is to ensure sufficient food supply. There are not many choices of grain, and the most practical thing is to open paddy fields and grow rice.

There is a lot of rainfall in Yongzhou, but the geology does not retain water, and the leakage is serious, so to expand the rice planting area, it is necessary to build water conservancy, and a dam is a large paddy field.

What does it take to build water conservancy?

Xu Ping couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly, he didn't expect to come to this place and discover the importance of cement. Xu Ping originally thought that cement was used to build roads, but in this era, there were no pneumatic tires and no trucks, so cement roads were not necessary, and he never wanted to bother with that. When things came to an end, I found that I was wrong, the first important thing is to use cement to build water conservancy, and paving roads is dispensable. With water conservancy facilities, there are paddy fields, rice can be grown, and there is sufficient food.

Fortunately, there are many limestones in Yongzhou, and there is no shortage of loess, and the conditions for firing cement are better than those in Beijing.

The mountains in the distance are undulating, the perennial mist is steaming, and the hot and humid weather has arrived, but the bamboo plantain has grown more luxuriantly, forming patches of dazzling green.

Xu Ping was in a trance, in those leisurely days in the Central Plains, he never thought of making money with the industrial knowledge of his previous life, but he didn't expect to come to this Lingnan border, but the situation forced him to build a small industrial base here.

Reality is always not in the same lane as the ideal, so I like to laugh at myself mischievously outside the lane I have imagined, and happily watch myself chasing after it.

PS: The crop yield is based on the statistics of the "Fusui County Chronicle" before the liberation, which should not be much different from the actual situation. Corn is very dependent on water, and the yield is so high in the south, and even worse in the north, and in fact it can only be used as a crop for small plots that are difficult to cultivate, and cannot replace the native rice and wheat. The same is true historically, as it was only after the development of industry that it could be spread on a large scale, and most of the other crops from the Americas were supplemented by the pre-industrial era. The two-crop rice was not successfully bred until the Qing Dynasty and widely promoted, and even if the two crops were rotated at this time, they could only be rotated with other crops. In fact, until the Republic of China, the number of replanting in southern Jiangsu, where China's agriculture is the most developed, was less than one, and now China is close to 1.6, and the United States is less than 0.6, which means that the land in the era of the book cannot even guarantee one season a year, and as for multi-season planting, it must be beyond the times, and there are insurmountable difficulties. The agricultural part of the book is based on this condition, and it must not be compared with the current Chinese agriculture, which is now in the case of a multiple cropping index of 1.5 percent, and the yield per mu is also maintained in the first echelon of the world, which is about the same as the middle level of Europe and comparable to Italy. Not to mention that it was a thousand years ago, even now there are only a few areas in the world that can reach the level of China, in fact, the yield per mu in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is at the top of the world with places such as Egypt where natural conditions are against the sky. The purpose of saying this is to make the reader understand that China's agriculture is now open, and this must not be regarded as a general situation, because there was no massive amount of chemical fertilizer to feed the land in ancient times.