please make me king

Chapter 401 Food
After Zhang Shun finished arranging the affairs of Jinguwei and Jingqiwei, he called Zhang Shenyan over alone.Both Zhang Shenyan and Li Xin once put forward the saying of "sufficient soldiers and sufficient food", and Zhang Shun, who came from later generations, often heard the saying that "the Great Qin Empire was founded by farming and war".

So without waiting for Xu Ziyuan and others to calculate the cultivated land under Zhang Shun's command, Zhang Shun hurriedly called Zhang Shenyan over to inquire about the relevant procedures so as to make early plans.

After Zhang Shenyan arrived and listened to Zhang Shun's thoughts, he smiled and said, "Master, you have asked the right person. In the first year of Tianqi, I just happened to be ordered to supervise the farming affairs of Jifu, so I have a lot of experience."

"At that time, there were thousands of acres of fertile fields between Tianjin, Jinghai, and Xingji, but no one cultivated them. Only Tongzhi Lu Guanxiang cultivated more than [-] acres of land, and I followed suit. Among them, there were official species, tenant species, and civilian species. Please let me explain the five methods of planting, military, and garrisoning in detail."

"This method of official farming is that the government collects and distributes labor by itself, sows and reaps by itself, and all investment and income belong to the government. The advantage is that the investment is small and the effect is quick, and the disadvantage is that the people who are conscripted to labor are heavy burdens. If the officials have a little Evil deeds will cause family ruin and death, and even the people will become unknown."

"The law of tenant farming is that the government leases the land to farmers, and collects land rent when the grain is harvested. According to past experience, it should be about [-]%."

"The method of folk farming is the most convenient. You only need to recruit farmers to reclaim the land, and then distribute it to the farmers and let them cultivate. When the government collects the two grains of summer and autumn, the households will pay for the grain together."

"The method of the army is to mobilize officers and soldiers to reclaim wasteland and cultivate after training. When the autumn harvest comes, it is only necessary to collect these grains for military use and keep them as military rations."

"The method of farming is to recruit refugees to reclaim wasteland. The refugees have no clothes and clothes, so they need the government to provide food, houses, farming tools and other things first. After the autumn harvest, the government collects [-]% to [-]% of the land rent, and the rest is reserved for the recruited refugees. use."

"There are five strategies in total, which can be used according to local conditions."

Zhang Shun touched his chin after hearing this, but he didn't comment, instead he asked: "Dare to ask, how is the farming season in Lu's land?"

Zhang Shenyan nodded and said, "I've already inquired about it. This place has three crops every two years. The sorghum millet is planted in the first year, and the wheat is planted in the autumn. They are called 'autumn wheat', and they will be harvested in May of the next year. Plant beans, or plant wheat. Soybeans and black beans can be planted [-] days after the summer solstice, and wheat can be planted [-] days after the summer solstice, just don’t violate the farming season.”

Zhang Shun was enlightened when he heard this, and thought: Although this person is a bureaucrat, he was also a treasure.It's not in vain that I yelled so loudly "My lord"!As the saying goes, "Give me back what I took, and spit out what I ate." This guy took advantage of my verbal advantage, and just used it to get back one or two!
Thinking of this, Zhang Shun said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang is a great talent, he really knows a lot. The people who followed me to this place, besides the three thousand soldiers and horses, there are more than ten thousand common people, most of them are young and strong. Now this Lu family has many mountains and wild wasteland, I want to farm here, I don’t know why Zhang Gong taught me?”

Unexpectedly Zhang Shenyan heard the words but shook his head and said: "Near my Baodu Village, the mountains are high and the land is narrow, the weather is cold, there is no weather, and there is no favorable location, so it is really difficult to reclaim wasteland. Only the top of the village is flat and can be cultivated. Five thousand acres, only one crop a year."

"This land was first cultivated, it is a raw land, and it can only be planted with millet. After a year of hard work, getting up early and working late at night, you can only reap five thousand stones!"

Originally Zhang Shun heard Zhang Shenyan's explanation, as if he had been poured cold water on his head.Emotionally, the vicinity of Baodu Village is dangerous, but it is a "dead land".

Only when he heard Zhang Shenyan say "it's nothing more than five thousand stones", Zhang Shun suddenly turned from sadness to joy.What do you think?Zhang Shenyan used to be in charge of farming in Jifu. The area between Tianjin, Jinghai and Xingji was originally a plain, with a vast area to be reclaimed, tens of thousands of hectares. Of course, he didn't like Baodu Village, a small piece of wasteland.

What's more, he is used to being a bureaucrat, and subconsciously only regards taxation and land rent as the harvest of the land.An acre of barren hilltop wasteland, even if it is reclaimed and cultivated for several years to become a mature land, can only be collected for one bucket, so Zhang Shenyan naturally looks down on it.

But Zhang Shun was different, he had already paid for the food of these [-] people.In the past, Li Baihu was sent to buy grain, not to mention the consumption and loss along the way, the price of the grain alone cost one or two taels of silver.Now the top of Baodu village can harvest five thousand stones, which is equivalent to ten thousand taels of silver for him every year, how can he not like it?
In the past at Shunwangping, he only needed to provide food for three thousand troops.The rest of the young and strong relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, collected and hunted, and fished in Shengwangping, barely hanging their lives.

Now this Baodu village is not as large as Shunwangping and Shengwangping, and there is no food output, so Zhang is in trouble for a while.

What's more, now that these people lack the protection of the camp, as in the past, if the officers and soldiers come to attack, wouldn't they end up at the mercy of others?
Thinking of this, Zhang Bian bowed to Zhang Shenyan and said, "If so, you have to bother Mr. Zhang to find out the nearby land that can be cultivated for me, so as to feed the more than ten thousand people and three thousand soldiers!"

Zhang Shenyan turned sideways and could only reluctantly respond, "Well, I'll give it a try. It's just that I heard that the fields near Kangjiazhuang are not bad, so please allow me to take a look and find out the exact number of fields."

Zhang Shun agreed one by one, and then let Zhang Shenyan go.It's just that after he figured it out for a long time, he realized that the five thousand shi of grain was only enough to feed one or two thousand people for a year, and the grain was still insufficient.

If he hadn't captured Lu's County and seized some food from Lu's granary and Lu's big family, the rebel army might have run out of food during this period.

Although these young adults are useless for the time being, if they are abandoned together, it is estimated that many of these people will not survive this winter.

As a descendant of Zhang Shun, it is really difficult for Zhang Shun to watch so many living people starve to death like this, so he had to think of a way.

Zhang Shun lamented all the way and returned to his residence.Now Li Sanniang is "confinement", except for Zhang Shun going to visit in his spare time, it is inconvenient to disturb her on weekdays, so he lives in the place of the red lady.

Seeing Jian'er, he quickly responded, invited him to a seat, and brought him some tea to keep him warm.

It happened that Hong Niangzi was also at home today, seeing his frowning face, she smiled and said: "In the past, the head of the house was full of vigor and vigor, what's the matter today, why are you so worried?"

Only then did Zhang Shun remember that at the beginning, he only used troops to fight, and all the common people pushed it to her, maybe she would have a solution.

So, by the way, Zhang told Hong Niang about the lack of food, and never thought that Hong Niang pursed her lips, nodded Zhang Shun's head, and said, "The head of the house is usually smart, how could he be so confused today?"

"We are not their real parents, how can we manage so much? What's more, we are real parents, and we can't control our children for the rest of their lives! They have hands and feet, and they only need to find a job for them to live. .”

When Zhang Shun heard it, he only thought what the red lady could do, and hurriedly asked for advice: "Young lady, please teach me!"

The red lady patted him happily, and then said: "We are bandits and not officials. How can the head of the family not understand? It is because he can't survive that he has to rebel. Now that he has fled to this mountain, why is the head of the family so honest?"

　It's uncomfortable, a lot of data needs to be checked, and I dare not make up random numbers, but nothing can be found.According to the author's information, grain can be grown in Baodu Village. During the Republic of China, there were more than [-] bandits occupying this area. The author had to compile a data of [-] mu according to the productivity at that time. Please don't laugh.Too much time wasted today, there is only one update, please don’t wait
　　
　
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