At the beginning of March, spring ploughing began in full swing.

The three large islands of Shamen and the Great and Small Black Mountains, which are arable land under the entire Shamen Town, have begun spring ploughing in the imperial court. In addition to the fields in Shamen Town, which have been used to reward officers and soldiers for their meritorious deeds, the big and small Black Mountain Forts have resettled the people and camped the fields in the way of hoarding forts.

There are 12 hoarding forts on Daheishan Island, which houses 6,000 households and more than 30,000 people, and 4 hoarding forts are set up on Xiaoheishan Island, which houses 2,000 households and more than 10,000 people. However, due to the limited land on the island, each fort has only 1,250 acres of land, and the average household is only two and a half acres of land.

All the hoarding forts on Montenegro Island have been preliminarily built, and there is one hoarding fort for every 500 households, which is equivalent to a large village. Li Jing arranged for a number of retired disabled officers to serve as hoarding generals in each hoarding fort, and the fort implemented a joint defense of armor, with ten households and one armor, one hundred households and one bao, and five hundred households and one hoarding fort. The hoarding general is equivalent to the village head, who is responsible for the hoarding of the fort camp and other matters.

In the fields, there was a lot of busyness everywhere, and Li Jing, Zhang Chengye and other officers boarded Montenegro Island to inspect.

The Great Black Mountain Island has another nickname, called Snake Island. In the summer, the island is filled with thousands of pit vipers, a true island of snakes. In addition to the countless snakes, there is another precious resource on the island of Great Black Mountain, and that is flint. In addition to these two things, the drinking water on the island is salty and unpleasant, and the sound of the high tide at night keeps people awake at night; Once the weather is bad and the navigation is closed, the island becomes an island in the true sense of the word.

However, because the area of Daheishan Island is very large, equivalent to ten times that of Shamen Town, with nearly 20,000 acres of hoarded land, so this island is quite lively, the original garrison and their families, as well as fishermen and merchants on the island, there are nearly 10,000 people. This time, Li Jing set up 12 hoarding forts. Nearly 20,000 people moved in. For Coco Li. Fort Montenegro is important to the town of Salmen. It needs to be managed with care.

Li Jing recruited Lin Wei, the new town general of Daheishan Fort, "The Black Bear Battalion moved to Daheishan Island, everything is going well, right?" ”

"Everything is going well, the island has not been damaged before, after the Black Bear Battalion settled in, only the fortifications were built on the two piers of Black Mountain Island, and the fort city did not need to be repaired." Lin Wei replied.

"Spring ploughing has begun, how is Fort Black Hill doing in this regard?" Although there are only 20,000 acres of hoarded land on the island. Even if there is a good harvest, it will produce less than 50,000 stone of grain in a year at most. However, Li Jing still attaches great importance to this, and now that there are few people in the land, it is a time to try out effective management, and when the territory is larger in the future, there is no need to panic.

Wu Qian stepped forward and said: "The matter of spring ploughing is now temporarily in charge of it." At present, according to the instructions of the general, the fields on the island have been allocated to the twelve hoarding forts. Each household in the hoarding fort was given two and a half acres of land, and because the people had little arable land, we took the plilling years and farm tools pulled out from the town into public ownership and rented them to the people in need in turn. Now every forty households have 100 acres of land. Allocate a ploughing ox for spring ploughing. ”

"How's the well going on?" Li Jing asked. There has always been a big problem on the island of Montenegro, which is that the water on the island is salty and unpleasant. You have to dig a deep well. The deep wells must be made of bricks and stones, which is extremely expensive and expensive, and each well costs 50 yuan.

Li Jing knew that this year was another year of great drought, and although Shamen Town did not rely on this bit of land to produce food, it was also the hard work of the people who moved to the island. Li Jing had already asked Zhang Hong to draw a sum of money in advance for drilling wells on the island, not only to solve the problem of drinking water for the island's residents, but also to prepare for drought prevention on the cultivated land that was hoarding forts.

Wu Qian sighed a little in his heart and said: "Zhang Bingcao has already pulled out 3,000 special funds for drilling wells, and this money has been designated as a special fund. At present, craftsmen have been recruited to dig wells, and the workers who dig wells are worked by the people of the island, and we used to pay for them. We planned to dig sixty deep wells of masonry, and each fort would dig one well on one hundred acres of land to be used for watering, a total of twenty wells. In addition, there are four drinking water wells in each bunker, plus the fort and the military camp, a total of sixty wells. Now it is in full swing and it is estimated that all wells will be ready for use within a month. ”

Wu Qian has been in Daheishan Fort for almost ten years, and the water on the island is undrinkable, and the lack of water is an old problem. In the past, he issued a document to apply for funds to drill wells to solve the problems of drinking water and hoarding of fields for military and civilian personnel on the island, but every time he reported it, he was in vain. In the end, he squeezed out part of the money and grain from the Black Mountain Fort, and only then did he dig a few deep wells in the fort to solve the problem of drinking water for the garrison and their families in the fort. As soon as Li Jing took over Montenegro Fort, he immediately pulled out 3,000 yuan to dig a well, which made him, an old man from Montenegro Fort, feel a lot of emotion.

Li Jing smiled, "Okay, this thing is well done." Not only do you have to dig deep wells, but you also have to build a batch of waterwheels to draw water, and if you really want to get dry, how can you do it by manpower to draw water, but you also have to have waterwheels. The craftsmen who made the waterwheels and the special funds for the town will be pulled out immediately, and the specific things will be taken care of by Fort Montenegro. ”

His eyes were blazing and swept over everyone, "Although we have limited land hoarding now, don't take this matter to heart because of this. Hoarding land has to be taken as an important matter, and my plan is that all the money and grain produced by hoarding forts this year will be exempted from land tax. Your fort is also responsible for renting cattle to the people, renting grain, farm tools, waterwheels, and so on. It is best to give one cow for every ten households of twenty-five acres of land. ”

Hearing Li Jing's request, everyone nodded frequently and wrote it down, especially Wu Qian, who has now taken the initiative to rely on the civil affairs in the Black Mountain Fort, and took the initiative to avoid the affairs of the army. Although Li Jing trusted him, he still took the initiative to avoid suspicion and did not want to arouse suspicion again. Li Jing's decisions surprised him, in the past, Black Mountain Fort and Da Xie Yan didn't pay too much attention to the matter of hoarding land, and those hoarding were just a subsidy for the families of the garrison. The output is so small that no one pays attention at all. Guarding Dengzhou Port, they are mainly engaged in business, which is really not good, and they can also go to sea and pretend to be pirates to do two votes.

However, there are 10 households per head, and now there are 6,000 hoarding households on Daheishan Island, so it is calculated that 600 cattle have to be cultivated, which is not a small number. He was shocked that Li Jing had to lease so many cultivated cattle to the people for free.

Wu Qian, a dignified general, is now starting to do staff work with an account book and a pen. He flipped through the account book he carried, looked at the handwriting on his iron and silver hooks, and frowned a little: "The preliminary plan of the post has been crossed, even if the well is drilled now." and rented cattle seeds and farm tools to help. However, the fertile land on the island is insufficient. Even if you make two crops a year, the maximum yield per mu is only about one and a half stones. 20,000 acres of land is only 30,000 stones, and even if we don't collect any taxes, there are more than 30,000 people on the island, and all the output is not enough for their rations. ”

A standard soldier's ration was two liters of rice per day, and three stone of grain in a year. And even if the elderly and children are halved, it will cost one and a half stones. In this way, it is calculated according to the minimum average of two stone per person per year. No matter how well they grow this little land, they will still be short of at least half of their rations in a year.

Regarding this, Li Jing has long been prepared, so many people can't really live on these fields alone. He put together 500 households and a hoarding fort for the common people, which was not only convenient for management, but also had other considerations.

"You can rest assured, the rations are not enough, and the town will supply the subsidy difference. But this is not given for free, it has to be bought with money, or exchanged for other products from them. Li Jing said: "Last time I sent you a message. How about getting you to prepare the workshop? ”

"Everything is in preparation, and the main thing is to prepare the fishing team and the construction team. Then there's the women's knitting team. We were going to organize the young men of the hoarding fort to go to the sea to fish during the slack time, and the surplus labor went to work on the construction site in Shamen Town. In addition, the women organized themselves to weave and spin cloth for the town's workshops, as well as to do manual work such as embroidery. ”

Li Jing nodded, noncommittal.

After a while, he said: "Your idea is still good, try to get more work, but it's not enough, the brain is not open enough." Let me tell you, our current plan for financial resources in Shamen Town is to focus on doing something that others don't have, and to play the way of producing rare things. For example, our island does not produce food, so what should we do, so many people have to eat? And our current liquor workshop is consuming a lot of grain, so we have a special requirement for our current liquor sales, that is, half of the price of liquor must be traded in grain, and we will collect money and silk for the remaining half. To tell you the truth, we are now only recovering half of the grain sold for sale, in fact, it is already several times the return of the grain we produce and consume. You see, this liquor business is not only helping us make money, but also helping us earn a lot of food. ”

Wu Qian was thoughtful.

"The same is true for others, and at present, our armory workshop has also begun to produce and sell to the outside world. Many generals in the army reacted, saying that we don't have much surplus of our own weapons, so why should we sell them? In fact, it is very simple, weapons manufacturing also requires raw materials, every time we manufacture a weapon, we have to purchase the corresponding amount of raw materials, and after the output is stored in the warehouse, then we are just spending but not entering. In the long run, the armory workshop is a big hole. ”

"Let's change our thinking now and split the armory in two. Some of the craftsmen who have kept the best of the best are dedicated to making the finest ordnance for ourselves. And most of the rest accept orders from outside to build ordnance for others such as Qingnipu. However, our ordnance is not sold for money, but we collect raw materials, such as the wood needed to make bows, ox tendon and horns, and the iron ore and iron materials needed to make knives. We collect the materials and then process them into finished ordnance and sell them. Again and again, this finished ordnance is much more valuable than ordinary raw materials. The difference can be used to build our own ordnance without having to pay for it. As a result, our own ordnance is constantly increasing, but the ordnance workshop is no longer a big hole that only spends no income, and can even borrow and train a large number of ordnance craftsmen. ”

"Do you understand what I'm talking about?" Li Jing asked with a smile.

Wu Qian seems to understand whether he understands or not, what Li Jinggang said has a very big impact on him. It turns out that business can do this, but what about Montenegrin Fort?

People have constant birth and then perseverance.

History tells Li Jing that most of the people who really rose up to make an uprising were the proletarians. Most of them are peasants, and they have some small yields, but after years of natural disasters and other man-made disasters, they are desperate and do everything in order to survive.

At the beginning, Ziqing Town had a vote from the outsiders who crossed the sea from Liaoxi, and they actually held it in Ziqing Town for sixty or seventy years, and some people only knew that there was a Li family in Ziqing Town, but they did not know that there was a Chang'an Tianzi Li family in Lu Road, and the biggest reason was that Li Zheng's family in Ziqing Town had been divided for several generations, although they were self-respecting, but because they controlled the largest port and sea passage in the north, they did private trade, and a lot of money and grain were purchased, so they didn't need to loot the little money in the hands of the people. The life of the people is better than that of other places, the society is peaceful, the prices are extremely low, and the life is stable.

If Shamen Town really wants to rise in the late Tang Dynasty, it is not enough to train troops. The people are water, and water can carry boats and capsize boats. The warlords of the late Tang Dynasty, large and small, all knew the importance of the Dao soldiers, but many warlords would only loot the people in order to raise the army, and as a result, the people's resentment was boiling.

The treatment of the army in Shamen Town is quite generous, even worse than that of the government army in the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, the standard treatment of the garrison army at this time was two salaries per month, and two liters of rice per day. This seems to be a lot of money, but now even the most ordinary people do work for people, and they have sixty yuan a day. And when the garrison guards the frontier, there is so much danger and hardship, once you enter the frontier, you can't go home for a few years, but you only have so much money and food. For today's price of 200 yuan for doumi, this amount of money is too little.

The salaries in Shamen Town are very high, and the food and salary are higher than those of other garrisons, and even higher is that the soldiers in Shamen Town are often rewarded, and all kinds of bereavement allowances are very high. Because of this, the Shamen Town Army can train hard with peace of mind and go to the battlefield without scruples. Li Jing didn't have to worry about the loyalty of the soldiers all the time, afraid that they would mutiny at every turn.

Once the army is arranged, the people must also be arranged. The military and civilians are like a bowl of water, and it will not work if it is tilted on either side.

There are now more than 100,000 people in Shamen Town, and it is not easy to arrange these people. If you don't arrange it, you can't do it. If the backyard is unstable, how can it rise? A stable rear is not only a source of economy, but also a source of replenishment for a strong army. At present, Li Jing's soldiers and horses are enough, there is no need to replenish, and the money and food are enough. However, it is still necessary to settle these people, only when these people are well resettled and have a good life, can Shamen Town develop more worry-free.

Many officers didn't understand this, and felt that since Shamen Town didn't plan to collect food from these people, it would be good, so why bother to bother with these people. Anyway, if they don't ask for their food, they will already be very grateful. After all, it's done everywhere else. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )