Chapter 40: The Harvest

As the summer harvest approaches, the sun is already blazing, and even in the morning, there is terrible steaming, and the wheat and other crops planted last year are almost ripe, and the spring rice in the paddy fields that were opened up not long ago is very lush.

However, when a gust of wind passes through, it can be refreshing, and in such a climate, Li Huan, the county guard of Xinjun, was inspecting the fields at this time, and turned his eyes to the wheat fields.

A large sea of wheat, shining in the golden sun, is comfortable at a glance, Li Huan squinted at this time, and asked left and right: "When will this wheat be harvested?" ”

"It's going to be two days today and tomorrow." The deputy next to him replied: "Now, you can harvest, just wait for the order of the adult!" ”

"Very well, how is Fentian doing now?" Li Huan said.

"Lord Qiyu, in the past ten days, the fields have been divided, each household has recognized their own fields, and the people are thanking Your Majesty." Tocao pointed to the farmers who were busy in the fields at this time and said.

Li Huan looked left and right at this time and laughed: "Then let's start harvesting!" ”

"Yes!" Suddenly, the officials rode in all directions to convey the order, and in a short time, thousands of people, armed with scythes and flat poles, divided into several torrents and poured into the ripe wheat fields.

The young and strong harvest, the women bale the bales, the young and the old gather the ears of wheat, everything is in order.

At the time of harvesting, everyone's face showed brilliance, this was the light of hope, Li Huan turned around at this time and ordered: "First weigh one acre of wheat and measure ten." ”

"Yes!" Hu Cao said at this time, and he immediately sent someone to harvest one acre of land first, and go to weigh it.

Half an hour later, one acre of wheat land has come out: "My lord, the average yield per mu is three and a half stones, only a lot more." ”

"Based on this, the yield per mu is three and a half stones, and it will be reported to Your Majesty!" Li Huan nodded, this is already very good, you must know that most of the new fields are opened up, and most of the current mature fields are only two stones, and now the output has nearly doubled, so he ordered.

"Yes!" Since the official document has already been written, the document is written in one line, adding some numbers, and it is finished.

Li Huan unfolded it, couldn't help but smile, and said, "Immediately pass it to Your Majesty!" ”

"Yes!" Then there were two horsemen, who turned over and rode away.

"My lord, it's hot now, do you want to avoid it?" The officer in charge asked, "We can do it here." ”

Li Huan shook his head at this time and said, "I don't have to do it today." ”

With the harvest, the people's joy became stronger and stronger, although they were tired and not afraid, Li Huan also felt equally excited.

At this time, it was the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, looking at the situation in the world at this time, the Chinese war for a hundred years, the Han people gradually declined, and the power of the foreign races in the border was becoming larger and larger, and even continued to expand the military strength, and then in the next few decades, the foreign races annexed each other, and the Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other tribes were born to compete for the world.

Before the Han people knew it, the Hu people were fiercely unified, and the birth of a hegemon, in the future, all sides of the rebellion will attack the Central Plains.

In such a situation, Yang Yi can only swim against the current, racing against time, and now it is another test and progress.

The fertile fields opened up outside the city to the palace in the city are only twenty or thirty miles, and at this time, the officials are quick to whip their horses, and it only takes an hour to arrive.

At this time, in the palace, Yang Yi was thinking about the problem with his eyes closed at this time, and when he saw it, he hurriedly approached and asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, should you rest for a while at noon?" ”

"I don't need to, I have to think about something more, you all go down!"

Yang Yi sat for a while, only to feel that all kinds of things were coming, although he had ascended the throne, it was difficult to personally preside over the Northern Expedition, and if he couldn't quickly occupy some of the results of the Northern Expedition, he was afraid that he would still fall into a tug-of-war.

The Sima clan is powerful, and now even if the Cao Wei royal family has some strength, the Sima clan will eventually win, and it will only be these two years, if you don't take advantage of this opportunity to occupy some advantages, then the future will be much more difficult.

For example, today, it is naturally the strongest Wei State that occupies the Central Plains, and has already occupied three out of five points in the world.

Although he is the lord of a country, he also has 21 counties in name (12 counties in Yizhou, 7 counties in Nanzhong (effectively controlled by Zhuge Liang after his southern expedition), and 3 counties in Yongzhou and Liangzhou (Hanzhong, Wudu, Yinping)), but what he really controls is only one and a half counties, with thousands of soldiers.

You must know that although he is an emperor, he only has two counties in his hands, one of which is also the front line, so it is already very difficult to support these thousands of soldiers, and from time to time he has to spend money to buy money and food, and if he wants to recruit troops again, there is not much redundancy.

But in the current situation, if you want to pull out the teeth from the mouth of the Wei State and move the front line of the three counties forward, in this way, this space will be a little bigger, and the number of soldiers and civilians can be increased a lot, which is a big benefit.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door in the distance: "Your Majesty, Li Junshou is here to report!" ”

Hearing this, Yang Yihuo suddenly got up, and before anyone could tell him, he directly stepped forward and took down the official document, and unfolded it to take a look, "Xinjun has opened 130,000 acres of fertile land today...... Cutting wheat, it is estimated that 500,000 stones", seeing this, Yang Yi was immediately overjoyed.

If you have food, you can consider others, and now in business, there is not much profit at this time, basically it is maintained, and in terms of taxes, not to mention, it is also thanks to Jiang Wei, Huo Yi and others, who can pay some taxes, but Nanzhong or Bazhou are facing enemies, and there are not many people who can pay it.

Now Ji Han is facing the enemy, Jiang Wei and Huo Yi can stand alone, and Yang Yi wants to make achievements in the past two years, only the Northern Expedition.

Ordered someone to take out a piece of paper and a jade seal, roughly count, and then looked at it a little, and saw that there was no drawback, so people said: "Xuan Zhao, quickly spread this order to Xinjun." ”

"Yes!" At this time, someone in the attendants immediately responded.

Everywhere in the new county, it is close to dusk, but the people are still busy in the harvest, now, in this half a day, thousands of acres have been roughly harvested, and it is expected that at least 10,000 acres can be harvested today, and the harvested wheat is being bundled and transported to the workshops that have been prepared everywhere for a long time.

At this time, there are already dozens of water mills lined up, and there are some far away from the water, built stone mills, using donkeys, the people cheered, poured the wheat in, or the water wheel, or the donkey pulled, through the rolling roller on the grinding pan back and forth to achieve the purpose of rolling and husking.

This is made of two flat cylindrical stones of a certain thickness, the upper fan has a grinding eye, when grinding the dough, the grain flows into the grinding chamber through the grinding eye, evenly distributed around, is ground into powder, flows from the crack to the grinding disc, and the flour is obtained by sifting the bran and so on.

And bran can also be used as feed, such as feeding pigs and chickens.

"I have ordered that the flour and bran of the various workshops should be counted, and how much wheat flour can be produced per stone of wheat?"

"The convention is seventy percent!" Tocao said here.

"Then leave half of it in the county, and the other half into the treasury."

"My lord, there's not much left!" At this time, Hu Cao frowned and said, I still have to support the people, I have to divide the labor, and this grain will have to wait until the rice harvest, which is not enough.

"The people's families will also have surplus grain, as long as it is maintained in the future, and by the end of next month, the rice field will be ripe.

"Historical Records of the River Canal" contains the words of the Pan system in the east of the river: "Through the canal to lead Fen, irrigate Pi's and Fenyin, and lead the river to irrigate Fenyin and Pubanxia, the degree can get 5,000 hectares, and the 5,000 hectares need to be abandoned because the river needs to be abandoned, and the people are herded in it." Now irrigated fields, the degree can get more than 2 million stones. ”

That is to say, the average yield per mu of irrigated rice fields is four stones, and here, the yield is already high, and there are various measures to increase the harvest, and it is expected that five stones is not much, and this does not take into account the high-yield fertile land.

Sure enough, Hu Cao discussed it for a while, and then came back and said, "Lord Qiqi, we should have more than seven stones." ”

"That's right, there are 100,000 mu of rice fields in total, and we can get 700,000 stones, so we are still worried about food?" Li Huan was overjoyed and said with a smile.

"Yes, sir!"

"However, the harvest of this wheat field is quite worry-free, and when the rice field is obtained, it may not be disturbed." Li Huan squinted at this time and looked into the distance: "I should show your majesty and take precautions." ”

Yang Yi naturally understands at this time, she is more confident than Li Huan, and she knows the stakes better.

This disturbance, not only inside, but also outside, at least two seasons a year, this is a million stone grain, what kind of concept is this?

Even before, when Liu Chan was the emperor in Jinguancheng, he ruled the twenty-one counties of Shudi, but in fact, the treasury revenue may not have so much grain!

This is because, in other counties, there are landlords, powerful and nobles, as well as officials who exploit them, so the burden of the people exceeds fifty percent, and in the end, less than one-twentieth of the treasury is in hand!

Moreover, there is no means to increase the yield now, but this increase in production has almost doubled the harvest of the fields.

In the new county, except for some landlords with big lives, the rest were destroyed after a wave of Wei army, and most of them were ownerless fertile land.

There are no landlords who are arrogant and strong, and there are no officials who dare to go up and down, so this harvest is directly obtained, and now it can be seen that Yang Yi's current economic strength is also visible.

In the two months before and after, at least 500,000 stone of grain went to the state treasury, and even soldiers who worked extremely hard could raise tens of thousands of people by eclipse of two catties per day, sixty catties a month, and eight stone a year, not to mention the growing number of displaced people.

Thinking of this, Yang Yi deeply understood why he had to Tuntian, no one could take away the income from Tuntian, it was all his own income, this is the capital of those careerists to rebel, it is really enough food and soldiers!

As long as there is a foundation, a worry-free foundation inside and outside, as long as you use this tuntian, you can continue to absorb the displaced people, and you will have capital!

Therefore, even if Liu Chan has mastered twenty-one counties, he looks at the strength far above one county, but in terms of strength, he is the most comparable!

No matter how you have the destiny of heaven, luck does not come out of thin air, only by mastering the assets of this emperor can you be like a dragon in water.

It will be revised in a moment

The young and strong harvest, the women bale the bales, the young and the old gather the ears of wheat, everything is in order.

At the time of harvesting, everyone's face showed brilliance, this was the light of hope, Li Huan turned around at this time and ordered: "First weigh one acre of wheat and measure ten." ”

"Yes!" Hu Cao said at this time, and he immediately sent someone to harvest one acre of land first, and go to weigh it.

Half an hour later, one acre of wheat land has come out: "My lord, the average yield per mu is three and a half stones, only a lot more." ”

"Based on this, the yield per mu is three and a half stones, and it will be reported to Your Majesty!" Li Huan nodded, this is already very good, you must know that most of the new fields are opened up, and most of the current mature fields are only two stones, and now the output has nearly doubled, so he ordered.

"Yes!" Since the official document has already been written, the document is written in one line, adding some numbers, and it is finished.

Li Huan unfolded it, couldn't help but smile, and said, "Immediately pass it to Your Majesty!" ”

"Yes!" Then there were two horsemen, who turned over and rode away.

"My lord, it's hot now, do you want to avoid it?" The officer in charge asked, "We can do it here." ”

Li Huan shook his head at this time and said, "I don't have to do it today." ”

With the harvest, the people's joy became stronger and stronger, although they were tired and not afraid, Li Huan also felt equally excited.

At this time, it was the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, looking at the situation in the world at this time, the Chinese war for a hundred years, the Han people gradually declined, and the power of the foreign races in the border was becoming larger and larger, and even continued to expand the military strength, and then in the next few decades, the foreign races annexed each other, and the Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei and other tribes were born to compete for the world.

Before the Han people knew it, the Hu people were fiercely unified, and the birth of a hegemon, in the future, all sides of the rebellion will attack the Central Plains.

In such a situation, Yang Yi can only swim against the current, racing against time, and now it is another test and progress.

The fertile fields opened up outside the city to the palace in the city are only twenty or thirty miles, and at this time, the officials are quick to whip their horses, and it only takes an hour to arrive.

At this time, in the palace, Yang Yi was thinking about the problem with his eyes closed at this time, and when he saw it, he hurriedly approached and asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, should you rest for a while at noon?" ”

"I don't need to, I have to think about something more, you all go down!"

Yang Yi sat for a while, only to feel that all kinds of things were coming, although he had ascended the throne, it was difficult to personally preside over the Northern Expedition, and if he couldn't quickly occupy some of the results of the Northern Expedition, he was afraid that he would still fall into a tug-of-war.

The Sima clan is powerful, and now even if the Cao Wei royal family has some strength, the Sima clan will eventually win, and it will only be these two years, if you don't take advantage of this opportunity to occupy some advantages, then the future will be much more difficult.

For example, today, it is naturally the strongest Wei State that occupies the Central Plains, and has already occupied three out of five points in the world.

Although he is the lord of a country, he also has 21 counties in name (12 counties in Yizhou, 7 counties in Nanzhong (effectively controlled by Zhuge Liang after his southern expedition), and 3 counties in Yongzhou and Liangzhou (Hanzhong, Wudu, Yinping)), but what he really controls is only one and a half counties, with thousands of soldiers.