stubborn thief

Chapter 285 Peace and Peace
Liu Chengzong didn't plan to go to Luhuo too early, and Nangqian still had one very important thing to do—land reclamation.

He made a promise to Zhang Yuanheng that the next Sichuan farmer would give [-] mu of land, in order to attract people to come and increase the number of Han people in Kangning Prefecture.

This is naturally because there are only 20 people in Kangning Mansion, what is the concept of 20 people?It's just the population of Yanzhou and Luochuan before the drought came. Compared with the vast land of Kangning Prefecture, this population is insignificant.

But then again, the entire Kangning Prefecture currently has less than 28 mu of land that can be used to grow highland barley and vegetables. The statistics have not yet been completed, but the approximate number has been fixed. Will not add much more.

Among the more than 28 mu of land, there are still more than 3 mu of land in the hands of the nobles.

Liu Chengzong believed that in an environment where the average yield per mu was [-] to [-] catties, seeds were included in this yield per mu, coupled with the exploitation of nobles, the actual annual ration per capita might be less than [-] catties, which was not enough to support a people live.

But he also understood very well that the court of Yuhebao couldn't distribute much food to him for a year, and he survived by relying on primitive instinct.

The 20 people are well-raised. Like him, people like them who are used to starving can do great things.

It just depends on who.

In the war with Baili, the two armies joined forces to smash religion and slavery. After ruling this land, Liu Chengzong realized that the nobles were not fools.

Everyone knows that the productivity of the slave system is low, and everyone knows that the feudal aristocratic system also affects the development of productivity.

But these two magic weapons have suppressed the contradictions between people and land here for a long time.

When this fig leaf was removed, the figures of 30 mu of land and 20 people became extremely scary.

The biggest problem facing Liu Chengzong was that even if all the 30 mu of land were allocated to the slave camp in Basang, it would not be enough to meet his expectations.

But apart from the slave camps, there are 19 people under his rule.

It's not a big problem to drive them all to become herdsmen, but without the food provided by the farming population, he can't even think about developing handicrafts.

Another memory of Liu Shizi’s almost paranoid pursuit of industry, but for him personally, the road to industrial development is very clear. First of all, he must be self-sufficient in agriculture, and at least half of the agricultural products are surplus, which means two people Can support one more person doing other things.

The extra person can participate in commerce or handicraft locally, and then he can pursue industry.

But in his era and environment, half of the per capita agricultural products remained, which was too extravagant.

In this simple thinking framework, the problem before Liu Chengzong is very simple. For the needs of long-term stability, he wants to immigrate from Sichuan and Shaanxi to Xikang Second Prefecture.

A large number of immigrants with a scale of more than [-] people can speed up the progress of the same book, the same track, and the unification of weights and measures.

Immigrants need land, and the per capita arable land here is less than two mu.

Land reclamation is imperative.

During this period of time, Liu Chengzong traveled around Nangqian with Chengyun and guards, inspected along the borders of many small headmen's territories in the past, and the conclusions he got were not bad.

Nangchen is poor, but poverty is not the result of geographical circumstances.

The low productivity of the feudal aristocratic system and the slave system made it far from reaching the limit of the population that the land could carry.

Fields, fields, mountains, rocks, forests, animal husbandry, salt, and mines have all been developed, but not to a high degree.

This situation made Liu Chengzong very happy, just as more and more refugees gathered near Nangqian, so many made his heart tingle, so he decided to use work instead of food, regardless of food.

Today, near Nangchen, there are still more than 2000 people without land in Basang camp, and the number of refugees gathered has exceeded the number of Basang camp.

Ever since they found out about the tsampa being distributed outside Zhaqu Manor, crowds and groups of common people gave up their homes and gathered near Nangqian to form a new market town.

Because many people have no home themselves, some are monks who lost their temples, and more people escaped during the war, hid in the mountains, and only ran out when the war was over. Go to the foot of the mountain in Nangsuoqianmo Palace to find food.

Although the rations of a lion army can support eight people, Liu Chengzong's heart feels numb when there are too many people. After the long winter, and next spring, he has to find food for these people quickly.

Therefore, the people from Basang and the boys from the refugee group were gathered together to form a large Xifan camp with more than 5000 people.

In the end, there were more than 400 elderly and disabled people who had no family and no ability to cultivate the fields. Basang didn't want them, thinking they were useless.

Liu Chengzong did not give up on them, and inherited the fine tradition of respecting the old and caring for the young. He set up a nursing home by the Zhaqu River, and sent several teachers, both male and female, to teach the elderly, children and those who have tongues and eyes to learn Chinese. Words, teach those with hands to learn how to make felt.

There were two old men whose physical conditions could not learn anything, so they sent a lion soldier with a kind-hearted local woman to raise them, and the rations were provided by the government office.

After finally tossing and tossing, Liu Chengzong handed over the work of reclaiming the fields to Chengyun: "You are here to cast Marshal Tongbao, turn the defective weapons in the spoils into farm tools, and lead people to plan irrigation canals and field locations. The soldiers of the battalion are inspected and credited according to the progress of reclamation."

Chengyun had worked on reclaiming wasteland in northern Shaanxi, and he was very clear about this matter, so he responded quickly: "No problem, brother, you should come to this charter to record merits?"

"In this way, um... many people in the Xifan camp have family members. They are organized according to the thousand generals, the generals, the hundred generals, and the teams. Then you can plan the reclamation area as detailed as the captain, and the captain will plan a large area. Individuals, such as a team of 50 people, reclaim [-] mu, and ask the team leader to divide the [-] mu into fifty ten mu.”

Liu Chengzong said, and said: "I will transfer you a general lion soldier. At the beginning, the farm tools can't keep up, and the progress is definitely not good. When it is done, it will be done on a household basis, and their families will also go up to work. Every five acres of land reclaimed If you don’t own land, you will be credited with granting three acres of land and two hundred cash rewards.”

Chengyun laughed while listening, and said that the second brother was really stingy, he reclaimed five acres of land, and he asked for two acres of official land, and only gave him two hundred cash as a reward.

When there was a drought in northern Shaanxi, an acre of land cost three to four hundred cash to sell.

"After finishing the work, you can reclaim another ten acres, and then continue to open. If you clear [-] acres, you will be rewarded with a sheep; Let them form a piece of land, give two sheep, one cow, and four thousand coins, let them settle down, and leave the camp of Zefan."

Liu Chengzong calculated in his heart while talking, and he said: "It is estimated that the reclamation is enough and it is time to plant next year. If you withdraw from the Xifan camp, you will not care about food. You will sell grain and seeds in Nangqian. By the way Promote our Dou and Sheng and let them buy it."

"You can discuss the land tax with Mr. Yang to see how much is appropriate. I suggest that it should be higher, from ten to three to two, and then the poll tax will be exempted, especially how much it is for boys and girls. Money, you have to make it clear with the battalion soldiers, it’s all free; I don’t collect money but not food, I don’t want to train masters in the yamen to kick dendrobium.”

Speaking of this, Liu Chengzong said emphatically to Chengyun: "So when you divide the land, think about the things on the road. In the future autumn harvest, the government will set up several points to buy grain from the people at the official price."

After all, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "However, I haven't thought it through carefully. Except for the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes collected by the nobles in the past, other things need to be further considered. I will not make a decision until the end of the land reclamation in the spring of next year. Not too late."

Chengyun changed his usual relaxed expression of indifference, nodded his head and said: "Those nobles who drive people to bankruptcy must be exempted. I heard that there is also a method of paying money based on the child's eyelids. Should it be buying a donkey?"

Liu Chengzong just sighed and shook his head slightly. The two brothers were silent for a long time, and they didn't let them look up the stairs until the baby's cry came from the steps on the third floor of the manor.

I saw Fan Sanlang coming up with a child in his arms.

Liu Chengzong got up involuntarily, looked over there and asked, "Sanlang, where did you get a baby?"

Fan Sanlang was in a hurry holding the child, fearing that Liu Chengzong would be displeased by the cry of the child, so he hurried forward and spoke very fast: "Marshal, this is the child left behind in the Xifan Camp."

"A lost child?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "I don't remember any children in the nursing home."

"It's not in the nursing home, it's in the refugee camp. After the new Xifan camp, all the descendants have left. If it wasn't for the baby crying in a pile of rags, the guards wouldn't know about it."

Fan Sanlang said: "I have inquired, this doll will be left in the camp for several days, no one will be there, and it will live up to this day by relying on Duidui who has made tsampa clear soup and little water."

As she said that, she looked at Liu Chengzong in embarrassment: "The guard said to send the baby to the nursing home, but I think there..."

Fan Sanlang couldn't tell the whole story, she knew that in this time of war and chaos, Liu Chengzong was able to set up a nursing home in Nangqian to support useless people, which was already a great kindness.

But in the final analysis, there are hopeless people there, and even if the people inside are well cared for, they will probably die in two years. To put it bluntly, in today's Nangqian, it is a place waiting to die.

Anyway, Fan Sanlang didn't believe it. Liu Chengzong really expected that the old widowers in their 50s and [-]s could learn to speak, let alone the people without legs and tongues who could live long enough to learn how to make felt.

In her opinion, the greatest significance is to let those people have someone to take care of and accompany them before they die, so that they will not be frozen to death on the street immediately.

The significance of humanistic care is far greater than the actual effect.

Such a child, no matter where it is placed, I am afraid that it will not live to be an adult.

"Don't talk about it, I'll raise it." Liu Chengzong walked a few steps towards him, and found that the little baby was not as dirty as he imagined, so he reached out and hugged him and said to Fan Sanlang, "Have you washed it? Boys and girls?"

Fan Sanlang was very generous about this matter: "Boy, I'm afraid the commander-in-chief won't like it, so I washed it in advance, it looks like it's two years old."

"Yo, two years old, picked up another son."

Liu Chengzong hugged and laughed, and touched Chengyun and said: "When are you going to have one? We have been married for several years, and I have two sons."

Like eating a fly, Chengyun tilted his head and snorted angrily: "In the past few years, our family has done a lot of business, and I am so busy that I am running around in northern Shaanxi to save money for the people and follow the army. Prepare the luggage, where there is time to give birth to a baby, let alone where to give birth to a baby, there is a brother to pick up the baby quickly!"

Liu Chengzong was amused and laughed, and said to Chengyun seriously: "Don't rush to give birth, you will regenerate after getting off the plateau, it is dangerous to have a baby on the plateau."

Fan Sanlang shook his head and said: "The commander-in-chief also said that your baby in Xining hasn't had a name yet. He said it was your son. Since he picked it up, he has been raised by General Cao's wife. If you don't care, who is it?" Don’t even dare to name it.”

Liu Chengzong was surprised and said: "It's been several years, and I haven't named his grandson since I was a child?"

"Come on, call him King Qin." Fan Sanlang said angrily: "Master always calls him King Qin, the son picked up by Zhuangzi, and others call him King Qin."

"Han Xiaowang can call my son brother and brother."

Liu Chengzong laughed from ear to ear at this address: "Grandpa has already found the land for his grandson, good guy, he will take down Xi'an Mansion in the future, I want to be called the King of Qin, but I can't do it... Let me choose one, just right, for these two The baby is named."

As soon as the name was mentioned, both Chengyun and Fan Sanlang became interested.

Fan Sanlang clenched his fists: "Liu Feng, Liu Chan!"

Chengyun shouted at the side: "Emperor Liu, Emperor Liu!"

Liu Shizi laughed directly, and the two named ghosts: "Do you say it like a person's name? It's not easy to raise a baby these days, and it will be overwhelmed by the name."

"The big baby in Xining was taken out of his mother's arms by me. If his mother was still there, she would have begged me to raise the baby. My mother also wants me to be safe, so let him be called Ping An..."

The expression on his face became deep, and he looked at the two of them and said, "I hope we are all safe."

After all, Liu Chengzong looked at the baby in his arms, and his face gradually became firm: "I also participated in the war of Nangqian Baili. The people were displaced due to the war, and this kind of thing will continue for many years in the future, until the world is unified. Deweiwei, Xikang was able to be peaceful, his name is Tranquility, how about it?"

There is a little star in Chengyun's eyes: "Sure enough, I still want my brother to name it. It's very good. The baby will not be laughed at when he grows up. If he is called Liu Huang Liu Di, hahaha!"

Fan Sanlang was very surprised by these two names, she never expected that Liu Chengzong, who had driven his troops for several months to annex thousands of miles, would name the baby Ping An Jing.

But this kind of name enshrines good wishes, and makes them feel sad for those who are in the midst of disasters and wars... If she is still called Du Qiao'er, it would be great.

Looking at her expression, Liu Chengzong guessed that the two names brought up Sanlang's sadness, so he asked, "Does Sanlang miss his family?"

Seeing the questioning gaze, Fan Sanlang nodded slightly, and then said with a smile: "Hi Ning Jing, I thought the commander-in-chief would name him Liu Wenzhong."

"Liu Wenzhong?"

Liu Chengzong was stunned for a moment, and then he thought of Li Wenzhong, the founding governor of the country, and couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, Cheng touched him with his elbow and said, "Brother, when do you plan to get married?"

"marry?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head blankly, walked two steps towards Sanlang, frightened Fan Sanlang, who had just approached, blushed to the base of his neck, but saw him stretch the baby in his arms forward: "Here, let's keep it. "

Fan Sanlang was dumbfounded, and took the doll: "Huh?"

"Ah, if you don't raise it, do I raise it? Are you still rebelling?"

Only then did Liu Chengzong turn his head to look at Chengyun: "Calm down, let's talk about it when we get off the plateau... Get married early and have more worries."

Liu Chengyun applauded and laughed: "According to what my brother said, the next step is to take down the Chengdu Mansion, get married and then return, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)