Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 134

I heard that there was a notice announcing the technology of raising fish in rice fields, and outside the gates of Beijing, Daxing, Wanping, Tongzhou and other cities, there were servants and scholars who copied it.

Shi Zhongkui's already great reputation suddenly became more intense.

Moreover, he is the first six-yuan leader in the world, and he also works as an imperial envoy. Most people don't doubt the authenticity at all.

However, the risk of Shi Zhongkui's emphasis on writing made many small and medium-sized landlords who don't have many rice fields dare not try it lightly.

He just thought that anyway, Shi Zhongkui had an imperial order, so he would definitely go all out.

And the biggest problem is the water source. More landlords and officials with wheat fields at home hope Shi Zhongkui can expand the water source around Gyeonggi.

Make more farmland profitable.

And wait for a year, when Shi Zhongkui succeeds in promoting again, then there is nothing to worry about.

Then Shi Zhongkui went directly to the Ministry of Industry.
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It was probably Cui Hezhong's words that blocked Diao Dexing's door, and the word had already spread throughout the yamen in the capital.

When I came to the Ministry of Industry this time, the attitude of the small officials at the door was obviously much more enthusiastic than the group of people in the Ministry of Households.

And also met Zuo servant Zou Hengyi for the first time.

Later, Gao Yongmin, the doctor of the Tuntian Division who had some friendship, was also directly called by Zou Hengyi to accompany him in the official hall.

When Shi Zhongkui got the official document from the Ministry of Industry asking the Tuntian Division to cooperate with him, and left with Gao Yongmin, Gao Yongmin smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Boqian actually came to the Tuntian Division.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that as soon as you entered the officialdom, you went from the sixth rank to the leader of the sixth rank in one fell swoop.

It's really gratifying, but also makes people jealous and sigh. "

Shi Zhongkui clasped his hands and said, "The lower officials are able to have today, thanks to your support and love."

Gao Yongmin quickly waved his hands, "I don't have that great ability, even your teacher Yu Rusong and Mr. Pang, the ancestor, dare not say that you, the leader of the six yuan, were taught by them."

Shi Zhongkui understood the meaning of Gao Yongmin's words, luck and timing are more important in winning six yuan in a row.

Even if it is the number one pick, luck is as important as strength.

With Gao Yongmin's support, Shi Zhongkui could easily obtain information on all the rice fields under the name of Tuntian Division.

After reading it, he ordered someone to call Xue Jinping, who had been working in the Tuntian Division for several months, to the capital for questioning.

Only then did we have a general understanding.

In the past dynasties, the farmland was firstly used to solve military needs, secondly to open up wasteland, and thirdly to use military settlements to suppress civil unrest nearby.

Soldiers who could eat enough in ancient times had basically the same combat effectiveness and morale.

After the opening of the canal, there also appeared garrison fields specially set up to undertake water transportation and other errands.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the garrison of the capital was nominally one to provide military rations for the [-] soldiers in the capital, and the other to open up wasteland during the slack.

A hundred years later, the effect of land reclamation is indeed good, but the fertile land owned by the Tuntian Division, let alone satisfying the rations of 3 regular soldiers, is getting harder and harder to feed [-] Tuntian soldiers by themselves.

It's not that the Tuntian Division doesn't have farmland in its hands, it's actually that when the developed wasteland becomes good land, the Ministry of Households will first leave part of it on the grounds that all the farmland and taxes in the world are under their control.

Then the nobles and officials will also use their hands to swallow part of it.

Finally, there is Huangzhuang, and even Huangzhuang is the biggest black hand who swallowed up these farmlands.

There are at least 1 mu of paddy fields around Kunming Lake, which have already been taken away by Huangzhuang.

Moreover, at the beginning of the founding of the country, each soldier was divided into 50 acres of land, and now it can only maintain about 7 acres per person.

5% of the harvested grain was handed over, plus the 21 mu of farmland left in the hands of the Tuntian Division, basically all of them were Zhongtian and Xiatian, and the average yield per mu was only about 1.2 shi.

In other words, after paying the grain tax, only 4.2 shi of grain were left for the soldiers in the field.

It is no problem to feed an adult soldier with 504 catties of grain, even higher than the income of ordinary farm laborers.

But after marrying a wife and having children, it is impossible to support a family.

The only advantage is that the field soldiers do not need to serve corvee.

However, this is only an average figure, which means that there will inevitably be a large proportion of field soldiers who cannot even receive 4.2 shi of food.

The life of these people is called a difficult one, so it is said that they are soldiers in the fields, but they have already been reduced to private slaves of officials, earning a little rations.

Fortunately, the Great Zhou garrison system was somewhat different from the Ming Dynasty guard system.

Each household of Tuntian soldiers only needs to send out one male to take over from their parents to serve as Tuntian soldiers, and the other males do not have to be confined to the Tuntian Division all the time.

After listening to Xue Jinping's narration, Shi Zhongkui couldn't help frowning.

Fortunately, I don't need to go on a field trip, and I don't need to manage the wheat fields.

Daxing Land Lord has already sorted out the information on the 6 mu of farmland there.

Although the remaining 15 mu are all in Wanping County, Day and Night Youshen still told him a lot of real data.

The two places add up to almost 1.6 mu of rice fields.

There is another [-] mu around Kunming Lake. He doesn't need to worry about this part of the rice fields, as the eunuchs in the palace will take care of them.

And he didn't even intend to let him go to the field to see it.

And this part of the paddy field has become the best paddy field because of the abundant water source.

To put it bluntly, planting rice is still water and fertilizer.

After the great floods in ancient times, the grain output of some lands tended to increase in the next year, because a large amount of soil washed ashore from the river.

River mud has always been a very good natural nourishment.

Of course, part of the farmland will also become more barren due to soil erosion.

Since Shi Zhongkui was also in charge of dredging the river, Shi Zhongkui inevitably put his idea on the river mud, and at the same time asked Liu Yuer to look for underground water sources.

Although Liu Yu'er's cultivation is only at the third level of Qi training, she is still a monster in the water.

You can't move mountains to fill the sea, but you can find water sources, even underground rivers.

After wandering around all the reachable water systems in Daxing, Liu Yu'er discovered several underground rivers that would produce springs.

However, if you want the groundwater to surge up by itself, you still need to spend a lot of manpower to transform it.

However, in Wanping City, which is now Fangshan, many self-fountains were found.

Shi Zhongkui thought about it carefully, there will not be too many wetland parks around the capital of Tianchao in the future.

It is not so easy to draw water out of the large and large reed marshes and forests.

If private individuals can't do it, the government seems to have to pay a large sum of money first, and it will take several years to see the effect.

Those county magistrates who are like flowing water are not willing to pave the way for the latecomers and seek benefits.

Liu Yu'er even found quite a few mountain springs in the north of the capital, as long as they are remodeled, they can produce a lot of water.

Now the [-] taels of food extorted from Diao Dexing will be of great use.

As long as he is willing, it is no problem to recruit thousands of refugees with a catty of rations per day, and this 3000 but of grain is enough to support the consumption of two to [-] people for a year.

But after thinking about it carefully, Shi Zhongkui decided to go to Tuntian Division to recruit people.

There are so many officials in Gyeonggi, all ignoring the tens of thousands of refugees scattered around. If I attract all these people and gather them together.

Not only is it slapping the civil servants in the face, the emperor will definitely send troops immediately to disperse the refugees.

This will harm a lot of people.

After all, coming from all directions in Gyeonggi, you may have to travel for a day or two.

If there is no food to eat when they arrive at the place, and they are faced with being chased away by officers and soldiers, many refugees will definitely not be able to hold on anymore.

Shi Zhongkui is not a saint either, not so great that he would harm himself for the sake of others.

Riding a horse, he took twenty young men selected from the government of Shanguo, wandered around the capital, and made a field trip to make a show.

But in my heart, I have already had a general understanding of the Gyeonggi water system through the explanations of Liu Yuer, Daxing Land and Day and Night Tour God.

Xiuyiwei wanted to protect him out of the city, but Shi Zhongkui didn't dare to let them follow him out of the capital.

After he came back, he decided to put the imperial envoy in the naturally formed small town where the farmland of Tuntian Division in Wanping City was located.

He doesn't have to worry about Daxing, Yu Honggao and Tu Tu will be watching.

I stayed in Wanping City not only because it was nearby and easy to watch, Xue Jinping also served in the Wanping Tuntian Department, and the largest civil servant in the town was only from Liupin County Magistrate.

As for the military officers in Tuntian, although Shi Zhongkui would not ignore them, it was very easy to trouble them.

It can be said that I put the imperial envoy in the small town, that is the existence of the emperor.

It took two days to meet all the officials, big and small, of the Wanping Tuntian Division.

Although Shi Zhongkui had expected his arrival, it might harm the interests of some people.

I planned to turn a blind eye and close one eye, just to farm the fields, and not to care about other things.

With good grades, I can do business easily, and when I return to the Imperial Academy to be a Qing noble Hanlin, officials and military officers of the Tuntian Division can also follow, and I get a lot of benefits.

But I didn't expect that someone would use all these officials to come to the imperial envoy's office, and they would actually collude with each other.

If he hadn't patted Chinchilla to stare at him earlier, he might not have known that he had been tricked.

At the beginning, Gao Yongmin, the doctor of the Tuntian Division of the Ministry of Industry, suffered at the hands of the military officer and Xungui who were in charge of the Tuntian.

Shi Zhongkui hated in his heart, since someone wanted to strike first, he couldn't blame himself.

That night, Xue Jinping sat restlessly in the back office of the imperial envoy's office, looking at Shi Zhongkui who was standing at the desk and writing the memorial slowly.

I wanted to speak several times, but finally forced it down.

Then he looked at Xue Bian, who was dressed in a scribe's robe, but was not accepted by Shi Zhongkui into the imperial envoy's office. He was really a scribe.

In modern terms, subordinate officials are basically policemen and office clerks, but once they became subordinate officials in ancient times, not only could they not marry officials, but the three generations of subordinate officials could not take the imperial examination.

Some farming and studying heirloom families also expressly stipulate that if you become a subordinate, you cannot enter the ancestral grave.

But the people who really do things in the yamen are all subordinate officials.

They do things, and their status is so low, it is no wonder that the subordinate staff are only focused on making money and deceiving their superiors.

Then came the staff, commonly known as Shi Ye.

After some Jinshi become county magistrates, if there is no help from the master, he will not even know how to copy.

Not to mention fighting against the small officials who have been entrenched in one county and one township for generations.

So Xue Jinping looked at Xue Biao at this moment with deep jealousy and envy in his eyes.

He was not allowed to be a scribe, but he made it clear that he was trained as a scribe, which was to be reused.

In addition, as long as Shi Zhongkui didn't make mistakes, he didn't dare to make promises when he entered the cabinet, but a second-rank official of the Six Departments was still fine.

If I had a chance back then, I wouldn't have wasted more than ten years.

Fortunately, it is not bad now. I took a risky bet for half a year last year and finally got a huge return.

While he was thinking wildly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

I vaguely saw more than a dozen embroidered clothes guards walking over with excited faces.

A few meters away, he fell to his knees in the lobby with a plop.

"My lord, I found it."

Xue Jinping and Xue Biao were overjoyed after hearing this, but Shi Zhongkui just said 'hmm' and continued writing the memorial.

After a stick of incense, I checked and thought about it three times, and then said to Xue Biao, "This memorial can be sent to the Ministry of Rites tomorrow morning, and handed over to Yang Wenqin and Master Yang."

Xue Biao hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Yes, my lord."

But if you want to find trouble with an official, you only need to start with the three points of Qing, Qin and Shen, and there will be no disadvantages.

Moreover, there are many officials who can achieve the first two points, but there are not too few people who are unlucky in the word prudent.

Ever since Shi Zhongkui learned that Xue Jinping's Shangguan liked to drink, he knew that it was too easy to trouble this guy.

The wine used by the public to be enjoyed by officials who took up or dismissed in the past, and even taken away and exchanged for money as travel expenses is called public wine.

This thing is originally a consumable, there is no fixed number at all, but if you drink it by yourself or with you, it won't work.

The embroidered clothes guards didn't even need to search the home of Xue Jinping's boss. They only needed to search the warehouse and find those bottles filled with water or empty bottles, and they would be able to get a copy of this from the Sipin Dusi.

This kind of crime is not serious, but it is enough to make this capital go out.

There is no need to worry about the large area of ​​attack. The other military officers and the officials of the various yamen only need to buy some wine and come back and they will be fine.

While scolding Shi Zhongkui, he definitely hated the one who scolded that Du Si in his heart.

All fools know that this person must have offended Shi Zhongkui, otherwise why would he find such a trivial matter to punish him if he didn't find other reasons?
After being accepted by the Yanguan, the capital secretary will have to go to the capital to find connections and then find a real job, just like Xue Jinping was squeezed out by the Shangguan at the beginning.

Once this person leaves the capital, there is basically no chance of seeing him again in the future, let alone returning for revenge.

Even in order to be able to go to the post smoothly, the other party, whoever is smarter, has to come to see Shi Zhongkui with a heavy gift and ask for his understanding.

Of course, it's not that Shi Zhongkui can't be ruthless, but when he first came, he beat the Si Dusi of Tuntian in Wanping City to the end.

But if he leaves Tuntian Division in the future, he will inevitably be squeezed out more seriously by other colleagues.

And he was also on guard.

He said to Xue Biao again, "Take my greeting card and go to see Second Master Lian and Uncle Shi from Shan Guogong's mansion tomorrow.

Please help them invite Hou Xiaokang, the grandson of Duke Xiu, the first-class hereditary son, Qiu Liang, the grandson of Jingtianhou, and Feng Ziying, the son of General Shenwu, to have a drink at Huixian Tower.

Then tell Xue Pan to find ten altars of good wine and spirits for backup. "

Xue Biao hurriedly answered, "Yes, my lord."

Xue Jinping and Xiu Yiwei understood at a glance that Shi Zhongkui was taking that Du Si to the sidelines.They also found Hou Xiaokang who was in charge of the Tuntian Division, the director of the Wucheng Military and Horse Division, and the general of the Fengtai Camp near Wanping City, just in case.

(End of this chapter)