Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 344 Clean Up (Part [-])

Shao Shude returned to Lingzhou before the new year.

He first went to Huile, Lingwu and Baojing counties.The [-] households of the newly recruited Qianghu sergeants are mainly distributed in these counties. He wanted to see what the current situation was like.

Lingzhou was already the wealth center of Shuofang Town.

This year's autumn tax has been collected since August, and the statistics have been completed.In the 35 counties of Shizhou in Shuofang Town, a total of about 454 million dendrobium grains and beans, about 51 pieces of silk, and more than 10 coins were harvested twice in the summer and autumn of the second year of Wende. This is household tax and land tax.

In addition, the tax was increased to more than 1.4 min, the salt profit remained at about 20 min, and the price for selling horses increased to about 35 bolts of silk.

Lingzhou contributed more than [-]% of it. These eight counties are the hens that lay golden eggs in the hands of Marshal Shao.

Nine years of peace, nine years of crazy immigration, nine years of hard work and nine years of war dividends have finally brought this gratifying result.

There is also a price.Starting next year, the pensions for dead and disabled soldiers will increase to more than 213600 Hu.It is their valiant struggle that has enabled the ten states of Shuofang, the ten states of Longyou, the three states of Hexi, and the three states of Binning to maintain long-term peace, the rapid economic development, and the people's ability to live and work in peace and contentment.

This is a necessary price.

There are [-] new families of Qiang and Hu soldiers, half of them are Tubo, a quarter are Uyghurs, and a quarter are Long families (including a small number of Tatar, Sogdian, Dangxiang, and Qiang people).Counting the sergeant himself, it exceeded [-].

The arrival of these people also increased the registered household population of Shizhou in Shuofang Town to more than 832900 people, about 16.8 households, including about 60 aboriginal people, which is close to the total population of the Hetao area in the Western Xia Dynasty.

In these ten states, except Fengzhou and Shengzhou, which still have some room for development, they have basically reached their staged limit.The rest is to practice internal skills hard, sort out various industries such as agriculture, industry, and commerce, develop meticulously, and refine construction.

There is no doubt that after many years of fighting, whether it is Shuofang Town or the other three towns, they have missed too many classes in local people's livelihood construction, and now it is time to make up for it.

What Shao Shude is most concerned about now is the education of the people.

There are 14 more Qianghu people, and most of them are still crowded in Lingzhou. This Hufeng is so strong that it is suffocating.

"Is this the family of the Qingtangdu sergeant?" Shao Shude asked, pointing to a village in a certain township in Huile County.

Logging continued day and night around Daxue Mountain in Huizhou, and a large number of wooden rafts flowed down the river and concentrated at the wharves in various counties of Lingzhou.The construction of a new village requires too much wood for the house alone.

Now the counties in Lingzhou have also developed some brick kiln industries to meet the consumption needs of some people for building houses.

After all, there is a surplus of food, which can feed more people who are not engaged in agricultural production, which has led to the development of industries such as brick kilns, wine making, textiles, wood, and leather.

Without solving the agricultural problem, industry and commerce are like water without a source, and it is difficult to make progress.

After all, the employees in these two major industries do not farm the land. If the price of food is too high, it will be difficult to make a living on income from part-time jobs, and related industries will naturally shrink.

As a traveler, the first thing to solve is always the problem of eating, not inventing the steam engine.

If you don't have enough to eat, who will build a steam engine for you?Where can employees be recruited in all links of the relevant industrial chains such as mining, transportation, smelting, processing, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance?
The number of workers out of agricultural production required by the industrial system is extremely large, and it is hard to imagine that it will be established on the basis of a society with relatively limited food production.

"Returning to Marshal, there are 913 households in Qingtang City, and 4656 households with 44 people in this county were allocated to various townships. This village is not newly established. There were originally 12 Han households and 21 Dangxiang households, and now they have moved here. There are 10 families of Tubo soldiers, 9 families of Uyghurs, and 96 families of Long’s families, totaling [-] families with [-] members.” The county magistrate obviously did the work in advance, so he was able to answer immediately.

"This is a big village." Shao Shude praised: "A hundred families, half of them are Qiang Hu. How to educate them? Is there a strategy?"

"The prefecture once convened the officials and assistants of Cao to discuss, and everyone agreed that they must be calmed down first, and they must not be nomadic anymore." The county magistrate replied.

"How to make them no longer nomadic?" Shao Shude asked.

During this western expedition, more than [-] large livestock were obtained, of which cattle accounted for more than [-]%.The problem of insufficient beef cattle, which was once worried about the vigorous promotion of the three-crop crop rotation system, has been greatly alleviated.

The year before last, I was frowning because I needed 100 million cattle.In the end, the chieftains of the grasslands were recruited to establish a cattle farm, but only about 20 cattle were obtained.This year, the number of cattle loaned by Niuzhuang has reached 34 head, and private individuals in Lingzhou have also purchased at least [-] head, and the gap is still large.

But if you count the seizures of the Western Expedition, 100 million cattle will not be a problem.

But don't get too excited!There are now 16.8 households in Shuofang Town. If the non-agricultural household registration is removed, if the three-crop crop rotation agricultural production model is fully implemented, the demand for large livestock such as cattle will reach about 300 million heads. The gap is actually getting bigger and bigger. This is amazing. What a happy trouble!
Shao Shude made rough calculations, and the number of official cows raised in Zhumujian is about 200. Every year in the future, the Fan tribes in the four towns of Shuofang, Longyou, Hexi, and Binning will pay more than [-] million cattle. Livestock, including more than [-] large livestock.

It will take at least four years, possibly five years, to get to 300 million.

Fortunately, the promotion of the three-crop crop rotation system will take time, so take your time.Concentrate first to get Lingzhou settled and let Lingzhou "government". Next, it can be promoted in other counties and counties of Shuofang Town to lay a solid foundation step by step.

As for the other three towns, Shao Shude encouraged them to do it in principle, but he would not give much assistance, so they could only figure out their own way.

"Marshal, the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry in the three gardens can make these Tibetans feel at ease." The county magistrate replied: "This county has just recruited a doctor of agriculture from Chang'an. This person looked through the middle-level records of the state, and I went to visit the village households of Longxing Temple, and thought that it is purely grazing, and the six acres of grassland to feed livestock can only be planted with high-yield pastures such as alfalfa and turnip. One acre is enough. Newcomers live together with Han people, and they only need to learn how to grow millet and wheat , beans, pasture, and settle down.”

"Fan people are good at taking care of livestock, but they don't know how to farm. How can we ensure that they learn it?" Shao Shude asked again.

"Maybe we can pay this matter to the village elders, Lizheng." The county magistrate said confidently: "The county sends people to ride horses and walk around the villages. Silk; if there is much waste, they will be arrested and punished."

"Arresting people is not good." Shao Shude said with a smile, "Let's fine him with food and livestock."

"The commander-in-chief is right."

This method, in fact, is somewhat feasible.

Furthermore, among the Tubo people, there are many people who can farm. They are not nomads, but both farming and animal husbandry.

The Long family and Uighurs are not all nomadic.Before the Anshi Rebellion, the development of the Helong land by the Guo Dynasty had already changed the way of life of some Fan people.After Helong fell to Tibet, due to the rule of the Tibetans, the proportion of the Tibetans who cultivated land further increased, which is still different from the customs on the prairie around the Yinshan Mountains—the grasslands to the north of the Yinshan Mountains are almost purely nomadic. There are farmers.

"After successfully settling down, how to continue teaching?" Shao Shude continued to ask.

He didn't think that as long as the foreigners settled down, everything would be fine, it was not that simple.

In fact, the communication between different nationalities will produce acculturation phenomenon.There are so few Sogdians and the population of Tang Dynasty is so large, they still absorbed a lot of things from Sogdians, from clothing, food, music to religion.

Although the Sogdians became no different from the Han people, the Han people in the Tang Dynasty also became different from the Han people in the Han Dynasty.

People in the Tang Dynasty like to eat Hubing and sit on Hu beds. They have many musical instruments from the Western Regions, and their costumes are also different...

The people in the Northwest under Shao Dashuai’s rule, even the Han people, now like to eat dairy products, and the “Huhua” is more serious. Although this is nothing to him, the Han people in the Kanto region do not eat milk very much. It is also rare to see dairy products.

Shao Shude passed a village in the morning and found that the Uyghurs who had migrated had brought a lot of Uyghur bean (chickpea) seeds.It is conceivable that this crop native to West Asia will slowly become popular in Shuofang Town.

Chickpeas are produced in West Asia. They are naturally very drought-tolerant, and they should also be resistant to barrenness. They can be grown in any soil and have strong adaptability.For the Northwest Territories, it should still have very positive significance.

I just don't know how the nutrition is, whether the yield is high or not.The yield of soybeans grown in the current three-crop rotation system is too low, only about [-] catties per mu. Although it is miscellaneous grains for the common people, it is too low.If the yield of chickpeas can be slightly higher, it would be good to replant this.

And if chickpeas are spread on a large scale, the eating habits of people in Northwest China will definitely change.You see, there is one more difference from the Kanto Han people. Diet is also a part of culture.

Cultivation, that’s what it’s about.

"After the Tibetans settled down..." The county magistrate was a little stuck for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Shao Shude waved his hand.He understands the embarrassment of the other party. The next step is to study and get an education?But how is this possible!

Universal education is the most costly thing!In the industrialized society of later generations, education expenditure has always been the largest item of fiscal expenditure.During the modern industrial revolution, industrialized countries clearly needed a large number of educated workers, but the finances just couldn't support it!The popularization of education is extremely painful, and it is simply a bottomless pit.

Shao Shude didn't know how other traversers could run schools so easily, popularize education, and avoid this financial black hole.With such a strong execution force in New China, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it took ten years to carry out national literacy, but it only reduced the illiteracy rate by seven or eight percentage points.Shuofang Town is now almost completely illiterate, and assimilation through education is impossible.

"Let's do this." After thinking for a while, Shao Shude said: "Let the Tibetans learn the official language first, this is the most basic. There are [-] households in Lingzhou, and I didn't want to continue to send Han people here. Now it seems that , still need to let more people come over.”

"This year, a certain society will send at least [-] households of Guanzhong people and [-] households of Shuzhong people to the eight counties of Lingzhou. In the future, try to avoid moving in new Tibetans, at least not within ten years."

"Families of rebel soldiers in the four prefectures of Fufang were originally going to be distributed to Helong, so it's cheaper for them. There are [-] households here."

"Three thousand soldiers sent by the Xingyuan Mansion to the Heyuan Army moved their families to Lingzhou."

"A total of 4 households of Tang people, almost [-] people, let's offset Hu Feng a little bit. If this Lingzhou is not cleaned up, it will almost be the same as Youzhou before the Anshi Rebellion."

This is the case in Lingzhou, and the rest of the Kyushu in Shuofang Town, if conditions permit, will naturally do the same.

The rectification of folk customs has reached the point of no delay.

(End of this chapter)