Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1394
Prince Xunhun hunting on behalf of the sky.

Traveling westward, patrolling places along the way, rewarding good and punishing evil, rewarding honesty and punishing corruption, helping orphans and widows, comforting soldiers, and patrolling the frontier.

The speed of travel is not considered fast. It took a year to reach Yili on Beiting Road in the Western Regions from Luoyang.

The prince rested in Yili City, the castle of King Luo Siye, the royal boy of Yili.

Straight to the point, open the window to see the snow.

The large tracts of farmland reclaimed around the castle are criss-crossed, the flat fields are full of wheat, and the mountains in the distance are full of wild flowers.

I have been in the prosperous place of the Central Plains all the year round, and suddenly came to the frontier fortress. After leaving the Guanzhong, what I saw along the way was the roughness and wind and sand of the northwest frontier fortress. It's flying sand and rocks, and sometimes you can't see an oasis for several days, only the wind blows the sand.

Unexpectedly, after passing through desert oases such as Yiwu and Gaochang, crossing the Tianshan Mountains, and reaching the north of the Tianshan Mountains, there is such a beautiful place as the Yili River Valley.

It is simply Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall.

The wild flowers all over the mountains, the lush and green wheat seedlings, the caravan passing by on horseback, and the grazing sheep seem to be the same as the Central Plains, yet different.

"There used to be cattle and sheep all over the mountains and valleys."

Siye accompanied the crown prince standing on the castle and looked into the distance. The Yili River flows through the vast Yili River Valley like a jasper belt, irrigating the grassland in the valley between the two mountains, making the land here extremely fertile.

The land here, the climate here, and the rain here make this place not like beyond the Great Wall at all. Although it is still in the north of Gaochang, it is far more comfortable than the big stove on the Gobi in Gaochang.

Gaochang is famous for its grapes and fine wines, but Yili is rich in both agriculture and animal husbandry.

For more than ten years, the imperial court has set up Yili County and the five counties below in the 72-mile-long Yili River Basin, and enfeoffed [-] princes. In recent years, it has enfeoffed [-] knights and awarded them Yongye Territory.

From the Tianshan Mountains in the east to the Yibohai Sea in the west, this huge river valley plain made the imperial court establish a stronghold here.

Luo Siye and others enfeoffed the princes, and together with the county officials of the imperial court, they led the immigrants to cultivate fields and reclaim wasteland, and reclaimed one piece after another of river valleys and plains, making them fragrant with rice flowers and billowing with waves of wheat.

The forest belt on the hillside is planted with many melon and fruit trees, even mulberry and cotton.

Large areas of newly reclaimed grain fields not only allow more and more inland Han immigrants to be accepted here, but also can supply grain to other places in Anxi and Beiting.

It is no longer necessary to transport food from the distant Central Plains, and the beacon piers, post stations, patrol camps, and military forts along the Silk Road also have food security.

Luo Siye discovered a huge gold mine in the fief a few years ago.

After Kan found out, Luo Siye dedicated it to the court.

The Son of Heaven sent the Bureau of Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate and mine, using slaves to mine and smelt, with an annual output of more than 4 taels of gold, which is amazing.

Such a large gold mine was directly given to the emperor, and Luo Siye's generosity amazed countless people.However, for this famous clan king, it was impossible for him to monopolize such a large gold mine. After the gold mine was sent out, the emperor also gave him a lot of rewards.

Even the big gold mine can give him a lot of income every year. In addition, the imperial court has sent countless miners to come over for mining, beneficiation and smelting, etc., which also drives the economic development of the heir industry.

At lunch, Siye entertained him with local delicacies.

There are mutton dumplings with a lot of mutton, baked buns wrapped with horse meat and roasted over fire, and beef potstickers filled with beef and fried. In addition, grapes and melons are also available here, and they are very fresh and sweet.

A huge plate filled with chicken nuggets, a lot of noodles, and taro brought by immigrants from the Central Plains.

Big-rooted wicker, stringed with large pieces of mutton skewers, a piece of mutton and a piece of suet, and then sprinkled with fennel, cumin, dogwood powder, and pepper, that is enjoyable.

"Do you usually eat this?"

"Yeah." Siye smiled and pointed at his belly, "I eat it often, so I get fat."

Yili’s immigrants come from the Central Plains, and there are people from all over the world, so the food grown here is also extensive, such as rice, wheat, and millet soybeans, etc. Millet and beans are planted on slopes, and wheat and rice are planted on river valleys and plains. Immigrants from the south like to eat rice. , Northern immigrants like to eat millet.

The beans are used to make tofu or extract oil and feed cows and horses.

There are many pastures in Yili County, and the immigrants generally raise cattle, horses and sheep. Everyone's life is really good now.

When the immigrants came, everyone was allocated a lot of fields. The number of acres of fields was unmatched in the Central Plains.

The immigrants are counted according to their mouths, and the ten-acre Yongye farmland can be hereditary, and there is also a [-]-acre mouthful of land, which will be taken back after death.This means that each person has at least [-] mu of land, no matter men, women, old or young, it is an individual's share, regardless of whether you are just born or seventy or eighty.

As a matter of fact, in many places, there are few immigrants, so outside the [-] acres per mouth, as long as you have the ability to reclaim, you can continue to reclaim and cultivate. In addition, the newly reclaimed land is tax-free for the first five years, and half is levied for the next five years. Taxes, this land is considered a sub-field, and it can be cultivated until your death.

As long as you cultivate the wasteland and don't abandon it, the land can be planted forever.

Under these conditions, every family of the new immigrants is a landlord, and the cattle and horses here are abundant and cheap. The immigrants use cattle and horses to cultivate the land, which greatly increases the efficiency of farming and improves the ability of farming.

"The land here is very fertile. We encourage the people to adopt the method of rotation farming, dividing the land into three pieces, plowing for two years and resting for one year. Every year, one piece of land is resting in rotation."

Of course, Yili's people are living a good life now. The biggest reason is that the Western Regions have been very stable in the past few years. There have been no wars, and several wars have not affected Yili's people.

On the other hand, they immigrated and divided a lot of land. Although everything was started from scratch, the policy of tax exemption for the first five years, coupled with the fact that the imperial court gave the immigrants a lot of housing allowances, interest-free loans, and interest-free rent and sale of cattle and horses The policy of benefiting the people, such as seeds, allows immigrants to quickly take root here and settle down quickly.

"Even if taxes are paid in full in the future, the lives of the people will not be worse than those in the Central Plains."

At least the people in Yili have solved their food and clothing. As for the places here that are not as good as the Central Plains, for example, the goods and materials are not as rich as the Central Plains. The dream of generations.

"There are still too few people." Siye said to Jiawen.

The [-]-mile-long Yili River Basin is a triangular valley formed by two huge mountain ranges, so that there is no cold current from the north and south, and no heat from Gaochang in the east. It is humid and fertile.

(End of this chapter)