Destiny Only Han

Chapter 154 The Will of the Nation
"Chance?"

Xiao He frowned, a little puzzled.

A sunny smile appeared on Liu Ying's face:
"In normal times, how much would it cost to complete the demolition of 10,000 or even [-]+ people? But now, we only need to take care of the food!"

"Besides, I have to take care of the food!"

Xiao He stared at him for a while: "What if they don't want to leave? After all, it's hard for a poor family to leave..."

Liu Ying shrugged: "Either go hungry in my hometown, and this state will last for ten or 20 years; or go to Xintiandi to fight for food and clothing. Although both are equally bitter, I think I am willing to choose to suffer all the time." Not many people go down."

"Moreover, we can exempt new immigrants from taxation, and we promise that within five years, we will not collect land rent tax, and we will not force it, and rely entirely on voluntary."

Well, what he didn't say was that he was going to ask people to add more water to the porridge, and he would use work as relief, not only would he not be able to eat enough, but he would also have to work!
In this way, many people should 'volunteer'...

Seeing Liu Ying's grinning expression, the corner of Xiao He's mouth twitched slightly, feeling a little complicated.

As an official who has worked at the grassroots level for many years, he clearly understands what Liu Ying's "voluntary" means.

If the other party was an ordinary person or a petty official, Xiao He would have someone cross him out and beat him up right now.

But the other party is his student and the heir of Han.

In this way, the nature is completely different.

Ordinary people or officials, the most important thing is compassion, the old and the old and the old, the young and the young and the young.

But as a monarch, just like a general, kindness does not command soldiers!

They represent the will of the country, so when looking at issues, they start from the interests of the country. If it is beneficial to the country, even if they are wronged or make the people suffer, they must continue to implement it firmly.

Conversely, even if it is beneficial to oneself or to the common people, it cannot be done.

Thinking of this, Xiao He looked at Liu Ying and said: "Since you want to do something, then this matter will be left to you to do. The Prime Minister's Mansion and other local officials can be transferred as you like."

"But one thing, you can't leave Nanzheng, or you can't leave Nanzheng before the immigrant arrives in Shu County. It's too chaotic outside. If something happens to you, your mother won't spare me!"

Liu Ying hesitated for a moment and nodded, not to mention that Xiao He did not agree with him leaving Nanzheng, even if his mother would not agree.

He looked at the cloth strip on the table, and suddenly remembered his purpose for coming here today.

So he lay down in front of Xiao He again: "Teacher, you've heard of Amway, bah, is it papermaking?"

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Chenggu County, Dahan Coal and Iron Trading Company.

After many days, great changes have taken place here again.

The internal road has been completely hardened with cement, so that even if it is raining heavily, the ground will not affect the walking of people or vehicles.

And in many places, tracks are buried under the ground to facilitate the transportation of raw materials and finished products.

As for the rooms where the craftsmen lived, they were still made of wood. After all, it was customary in this period that bricks were used for repairing graves. It is not easy to change people's inherent impressions in a short period of time.

In the smelting area, because the number of miners has increased a lot, vertical blast furnaces have sprung up one after another.

Today, the daily steel production here has increased from the original one ton, or four thousand catties, to nearly twenty thousand catties!
This is also the reason why Liu Ying diverted many craftsmen to other areas.

It's just that he feels that the current scale is close to the limit.

After all, people can't do without food, especially in industry.

There is one more male craftsman in the workshop, and one less strong laborer in the farmland. Even with higher-quality farm tools such as plows, leils, and sickles, the efficiency of agricultural production has improved in the era of relying mainly on manpower. is capped.

If you want to raise the industrial level again, there are nothing more than two things.

One, agricultural mechanization.

But obviously, this cannot be done.

Second, encourage childbearing.

This is what works in the short term.

After all, more people are more powerful. Since the work efficiency of a single person is limited, then add a few more people.

Anyway, during this period, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there were farmlands waiting to be developed everywhere.

However, cultivating farmland also requires a lot of strong labor.

And it will take at least [-] or [-] years for newborns in the birth-encouraging plan to be transformed into labor force.

Well, children from poor families start their own households early. Boys start to work in the farmland just like adults when they are around twelve or thirteen years old.

It's nothing more than an adult doing one acre and they doing half an acre.

The so-called boys don't eat for ten years is probably like this.

But the crux of the problem is that before they grow up, they need to consume a lot of food.

Therefore, during this period, people's habit of planting in spring and harvesting in autumn must be changed.

However, Liu Ying does not plan to promote the planting of winter wheat immediately after the autumn harvest.

This is because winter wheat is sown in autumn and harvested in summer, and after the summer harvest, later generations generally choose to plant a season of late rice or corn.

But in this era, late rice had not yet been domesticated, and there were only four or five thousand seeds of corn in Liu Ying's hands.

Most importantly, people's eating habits cannot be changed in a day or two.

Forcing people who are used to eating rice to grow wheat instead, and then mainly pasta, I am afraid that the old master will say "tyranny is fiercer than a tiger" again...

Therefore, governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, so take your time.

Therefore, after the autumn harvest, Liu Ying persuaded Xiao He to issue a decree in Hanzhong County, calling on the people to plant rapeseed, which is the kind that can press rapeseed oil.

Well, in this day and age, rapeseed is also called Brassica.

The climate at this time is higher than that of later generations. Roughly speaking, it is the Central Plains generation in the Yellow River Basin, and the climate is similar to that of Jiangnan in later generations.

There is abundant rainfall in the north, such as the Mu Us Desert, which was still a grassland at this time.

Therefore, the Huns, a powerful nomadic country, were also raised.

In Hanzhong autumn sowing rapeseed, basically in March and April of the next year, it can be harvested.

The planting of corn or rice is about this time.

In this way, from one crop a year to two crops a year.

Although rapeseed is not a staple food, the calories that oil can provide are far higher than carbohydrates.

Simply put, the more oil you eat, the less food you eat.

Moreover, the oil cakes left after oil pressing can be used to feed pigs after a simple fermentation.

Feeding pigs with cakes is easy to get fat, and the fields are full of seedlings.

At this time, on the road leading to Chenggu County, under the protection of hundreds of armored cavalry, Xiao He's carriage slowly approached.

At the gate of the coal and iron trading company, thirty or forty children from craftsmen's families lined up on both sides of the road.

"Welcome, welcome, warmly welcome..."

The voice is childish and uniform.

Xiao He got off the carriage, looking slightly lost in thought.

Today, he came to see the paper mill that Liu Ying mentioned. He didn't expect to see such a thing when he got to the gate.

The children in front of them looked like they had been preparing for a long time in advance.

Although the clothes on them were a bit old, they were cleaned very cleanly, and they themselves were also cleaned very cleanly. There were no lice crawling around in their neatly combed hair like people in other places.

At the gate, Pan Gong stabbed Liu Ying with his elbow: "Isn't that a bit too exaggerated?"

Liu Ying shook her head and said that she didn't know, but he read in the news of later generations that when the leaders went to inspect many places, most of the locals would organize a group of children to greet them.

After he stepped forward to salute, he led the expressionless Xiao He towards the paper mill.

"What the teacher saw that day is called bamboo paper, which is made of bamboo..."

As Liu Ying walked, she pointed to the pool in the distance and said, "This is the place where the bamboo is soaked. The freshly cut bamboo is peeled off, split, soaked in lime water for a hundred days, and it becomes a raw material for papermaking. ..."

Xiao He nodded slightly, he was actually not interested in these things, what he wanted to see more was how the paper was made.

Paper has been around for a long time, but the shape of the character 'paper' is the side of the character '纟', so the raw material of the paper at this time is the leftover silk left on the bamboo mat when silkworms are raised and reeled. .

Therefore, paper is not only scarce in quantity, but also very expensive.

After all, silk can be used as money in many cases.

Using such things as paper for writing is as luxurious as lighting cigarettes with banknotes in later generations.

The carriers of writing are generally bamboo slips and silk cloth.

The two have one attribute in common, that is expensive!

Silk cloth can be used as money in many cases, but it can be used after simple cleaning.

The price of bamboo slips is mainly due to the labor. It is necessary to select the appropriate green bamboo, cut it, dry it (finish), and punch holes to weave it into rows before it can be used.

So Xiao He's idea is very simple. Liu Ying said that the cost of bamboo paper is relatively low, so using bamboo paper instead of bamboo slips should save a lot of money.

If you can’t open source, try to save money as much as possible.

Seeing Xiao He's interest faded, Liu Ying didn't bother to explain much, so she skipped the process of grinding pulp, cooking and mixing pulp, and went directly to the place where the paper is peeled off and baked.

"Teacher, please look, this is where the finished paper is produced."

Looking into the distance, Xiao He saw nearly a hundred people busy pouring the pounded thick slurry into the pool, stirring to dissolve it, and finally putting it into the pool with a bamboo curtain, shaking it gently to let the pulp evenly settle.

Finally, they put it on the paper holder board and gently lifted it, so the wet bamboo papers stayed in place, waiting to be squeezed dry.

Xiao He touched the stacks of finished paper, looked at Liu Ying and asked, "How much is it?"

Liu Ying rubbed her chin and calculated in her heart:
"It is divided into upper, middle and lower grades. The top grade is 150 yuan per piece. The middle grade is the kind you are touching now, teacher. There are [-] sheets per bundle, and each bundle is [-] yuan. As for the lowest grade yellow paper, there are [-] sheets per bundle. Fifteen dollars."

　In the 28th year of Shaoxing (1158), there were 12 volumes of "Xu Shi Shuo" by Kong Pingzhong, Minister of Yuanzhou, and the amount of paper used and its price were mentioned in the previous record: one "Xu Shi Shuo" was printed today, including six volumes , with the following money for work, food, etc.: ... 160 five sheets of large paper, [-] papers for the total...

　　
　
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