please make me king

Chapter 406
After Zhang Shun occupied Luanchuan Town, he immediately led his troops to surround the Luanchuan Wang family.The members of the Wang clan were also quite talented, so they hurriedly brought gold, silver, food, and some pretty women to visit Zhang Shun.

Considering that there are Li Xiang and Liu Rushi, two "supervisors" sent by Hong Niangzi, Zhang Shun had no choice but to accept the gold, silver, food and grass from Wang, and casually declined the young women who sent them. .

Fearing that Zhang Shun would be dissatisfied because of Wang Xunjian's resistance, the Wang family sent another hostess, weighing one hundred and eighty catties.Zhang Shun couldn't laugh or cry, so he had no choice but to refuse again, and asked for a proton, which made Wang feel at ease.

Therefore, while Zhang Shun occupied the former inspection department as a temporary office, he dispatched troops to pacify and conquer Taojiawan, Jiaohe, Shimiao, Lengshui, Chitu, and Miaozi respectively.In addition to Sanchuanji and Kangjiazhuang, a total of one town, two cities and six miles away.

Even according to the yellow books of the imperial court, there are nearly a thousand families in these places.Moreover, Najiaohe, Taojiawan and Luanchuan towns are all located in river valleys, which are just suitable for the development of agricultural cultivation.

Zhang Shun, who was full of hope for the future, suddenly burst into great enthusiasm. Before Xu Ziyuan and others finished counting the population and acres near Baodu Village, he couldn't help recruiting Zhang Shenyan, and at the same time took people to count the population, The land was measured.

For Zhang Shun, after more than a year of swindling and abducting, the military and political talents in his hands are temporarily enough, but there is a serious shortage of staff and civil servants for actual operations.

In the eyes of modern people, these tasks are not worth mentioning, but for Ming Dynasty people, if they want to complete the work of counting population and measuring land, they must have at least five skills: literacy, writing, arithmetic, geometry and farming.

Especially when measuring the land, there are quite a few acres of fields with irregular shapes. How to calculate the area?Some land in the mountainous area is barren and few seeds are sown. How should it be calculated?This is all a science.

Logically speaking, Zhang Shun didn't dare to claim to have mastered these methods, but Zhang Shen said that he had actually worked in farming, so he was clear about it.Zhang Shuncai knew that the method of taxing barren land in the mountains is to collect the amount of sowing.

In desperation, Zhang Shun had to take the "Eight Kings" and his adoptive sons Zhang Kewang, Zhang Rujing, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Qineng who stayed here after falling out with him, as well as his wives and concubines Li Xiang and Liu Rushi, to take charge of the statistical measurement work.

That Liu Rushi pouted Lao Gao when he heard the words, but he didn't dare to make a mistake.She had no choice but to rush to work overnight to make two veiled hats, which she and her master Li Xiang put on separately.Firstly, to cover the two people's vicious looks, and secondly, to prevent the wind and sun from hurting the skin.

Fortunately, Zhang Shun felt sorry for the two of them, so he just sent them to find a shady place and write down the results calculated by other people. The work was relatively easy.

As for the four adoptive sons of the "Eight Great Kings", as "abandoned sons", they have nothing to say, so they have to work hard.

However, Zhang Kewang, the oldest, was the smartest, and he paid the most attention to the statistics and measurement work, and even secretly learned some geometry knowledge from Zhang Shun.

Zhang Shun also took it easy, and said directly to them: "If you want to learn, I can teach you!"

The four of them originally learned the art of war with Zhang Shun, but they encountered the "Eight Great Kings" and other rebels who fell out with Zhang Shun before they had learned the art of war for two days.The "Eight Great Kings" had many adoptive sons, and they forgot about it for a while, so they left them here.

They are also clever people, seeing that they have skills to learn, how could they be unwilling?What's more, as long as Zhang Shun is willing to teach them, it means that at least Zhang Shun will not take it out on them.

Although these four people are clever, they don't have any foundation after all, and Professor Zhang Shun is afraid of struggling.He simply called Li Xiang and Liu Rushi to teach together. They learned arithmetic and geometry while counting and measuring.

Li Xiang and Liu Rushi had the highest level of education, and their arithmetic was already above the pass line, but they were only unable to understand geometry, and they fully mastered the relevant skills after learning it soon.Those four boys were a bit behind, and it took a little longer to fully grasp it.

By the way, Zhang felt a lot easier now. He ordered the four boys to lead a team to make statistics, while he, Li Xiang, and Liu Rushi were in charge of summarizing and checking for gaps. The speed was greatly improved.

In order to save time, Zhang Shun appointed Zhang Shenyan as the field manager while Zhang Shun was doing the statistics of the population and fields, and began to select young men to carry out the work of reclamation.

This task of reclamation sounds easy, but it is difficult to do.But in all land reclamation, firstly, manpower is needed, secondly, time is needed, thirdly, there must be surplus food, and fourthly, there must be uncultivated land to carry out.

For ordinary farmers, only the first and second items are a big difficulty.For a farmer, planting in spring, harvesting in autumn, cultivating in summer and storing in winter, it is rare to have leisure all year round.Even if it's easy to be idle for a while, if there is no surplus food in the family, I dare not cultivate wasteland, otherwise people will starve to death if they don't catch it.

It is very easy to have all three things. If you are located in a plain area like the east of Henan, where the land is exhausted, it is difficult to find much wasteland, and you can only be powerless.

Fortunately for the rebel army, most of the more than [-] civilians who followed were young adults.It's not that there are no old and young, but in the process of continuous exile and avoiding the pursuit of officers and soldiers, most of them died on the road.

These people were brought up by Zhang Shun, just because they were idle and panicked, and now they have wasteland, which just meets the requirements for reclamation.

It was winter, and the vegetation withered.Zhang Shenyan divided the people into several groups.Each group cleared four passages about one foot wide and narrow, enclosing a piece of wasteland.Then began to set fire to the wasteland to clear the grass and trees above the wasteland.

If ordinary farmers are absolutely reluctant to do this, they cannot clean up such a large area at one time. Even after burning, they can only wait for the vegetation to grow again; secondly, these vegetation are good firewood, how can they be burned?
However, there are many rebels, and they don't care about losses, so they can do this.It's just that after burning, the land cannot be directly cultivated.

There are a large number of thick trees on these wastelands that cannot be burned by wildfires, and there are many roots underground that cannot be touched.At this time, we can only rely on manpower, in groups of three or five, cutting wood and rooting out the roots, each performing its duties.

These felled trees and roots cannot be discarded. Zhang Shenyan ordered the rebels to gather together, and sent special personnel to watch them dry and prepare them for use as firewood in the future.

It just so happened that Dudu Zhang heard about this, and quickly asked Zhang Shun for an order, and came to ask for it.

Zhang Shenyan said that he would not give it, he just said: "Although these firewood is worthless, it was dug out by everyone's hard work, how can I give it to you?"

Zhang Dudu had no choice but to explain: "The method of iron smelting is charcoal first, and carbon charcoal second. Now Lu's charcoal is of poor quality, and the quality of the iron smelted is actually difficult to use. I just asked my lord to use it for burning charcoal."

　I only have one chapter today, sorry
　　
　
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