The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 126 The rich man who abandoned the land has food in his hand!

"When the weather gets warmer and the frozen layer is unsealed, the whole town of Wuying will start land reclamation and Sichuan land consolidation projects. This year, Wuying will open up [-] to [-] acres of mountain wasteland and add [-] to [-] acres of irrigated land. This autumn, the villages in Wuying will start building roads and leveling the mountains, striving to level out more than [-] mu of terraced fields.

The work of opening mountains and wastelands and rivers and channels is mainly done by refugees who have drifted to our fifth camp, assisted by local aborigines, and various village officials are responsible for management and scheduling.After the village officials are in place, they will immediately start the preliminary survey and planning work, and report the fields that can be opened in each village and the planning of the Sichuan land channels that need to be rectified to the official for approval.

For these projects, the garrison government will find a way to raise the funds needed.It is carried out in the form of hiring labor with the union's cash money. Of course, the wages of the hired labor will be lower to save costs as much as possible.

The wasteland that has been developed can be purchased by refugees, and can be redeemed in installments.For new irrigated land, the land tax will be increased by [-]% on the basis of the original paddy field, and it will be restored to the same standard as the original paddy field after five years.The increased land tax is to recover the cost of the Garrison's renovation of the Sichuan land.After the renovation, there may be some more irrigated fields. These fields are owned by the Garrison House and used for cultivating fine seeds and so on. "

The fifth battalion was short of fields. At the beginning of spring, Song Yingkui wanted to open up some fields and repair some channels as soon as possible, so as to increase food production as much as possible.According to the previous rough observation results, it should be possible to repair some cement channels and add more than 500 mu of paddy fields.If the development goes smoothly, some water conservancy projects will be launched later to increase the proportion of paddy fields as much as possible.

The reclamation of wasteland and new paddy fields this year can increase the grain output of Wuying by about two to three thousand shi, so that after the autumn harvest, the gap in the grain that Wuying needs to purchase from outside is not too big.

However, if these measures are to be effective, it will be time for the autumn harvest.For Wuying, the biggest test is how to solve the food shortage in the next few months.The shortage of food in the official warehouse has almost bottomed out, and it can last for a month or two at most.From now until the autumn harvest, at least six months of food needs to be provided. The army plus refugees have more than 4000 mouths to eat.According to the minimum standard, if one catty of grain per person per day is calculated, the consumption of nearly [-] catties of grain per month is equivalent to at least one thousand shi of grain for six months.

Go there to find thousands of stones of grain?To be honest, Song Yingkui didn't have any ideas in his mind right now.

"Yuezhang, you are familiar with the situation in our area. Based on your understanding, what forces in our area will have a lot of food for takeaway?" After the New Year's meeting, Song Yingkui found cheap father-in-law Li Junhao and asked him about it. News of food available there.The Li family is a wealthy family, so they should know more about these situations than ordinary people.

"My son-in-law is short of food in the army?"

Nonsense, there is no shortage of food, I ask where can you buy food?After a little contempt for the old father-in-law in his heart, Song Yingkui said: "There are thousands of people in Wuying who don't have food in stock. They can't buy much from the hands of ordinary people in the market. I made a rough calculation and persisted until What's the matter with the autumn harvest, we have to buy more than a thousand shi of grain from outside."

"Grain worth more than a thousand shi? Last year, during the turmoil, the Xifan people looted a lot of the abandoned land in our west, and the countryside was destroyed. It is not easy to buy grain at such a time. There are only two ways to solve the problem of buying so much grain now. One is to send people to Qinzhou and other places where the officers and soldiers are stationed to buy grain and transport it to the Fifth Battalion.

To buy grain from Qinzhou, apart from the long distance and unstable roads, the most fearful thing is the obstruction of Dazheng officers and troops, because we are now in the enemy's territory of Dazheng, and transporting grain to us here is suspected of being an enemy!Dazhuang of the wealthy family, they have food in their hands, I am afraid that they will not sell food outside during the war. "

"Yue Zhang thinks there will be food in the hands of the wealthy family?" Song Yingkui is not sure if there is too much surplus food in the hands of the local wealthy family. Like Wuying, the food is almost bottomed out, and the situation of others will be much better than himself ?
"Others are not as kind-hearted as the virtuous son-in-law. Last year, a large number of refugees were stationed in the country. As far as I know, it is the Wuying family in charge of you, Xianxu. Most of the other refugees flowed to Qinzhou and other hinterlands. The rich mansion has been standing in the local area for a long time, can there be no food in stock? Just like my Li family, I still have about a hundred stones of grain in my hand. Used by my son-in-law.

Another situation is that, as far as I know, most of the taxes and grains collected by the government last year were not delivered to the Dazheng government just like the situation in Wuying.Most of these grains flowed into the hands of the wealthy township officials. Although some of them would be robbed by the Xifan people, there would always be grain left over from villages that were not destroyed. "

After listening to Li Junhao's analysis, Song Yingkui realized that indeed, in the so-called abandoned land of the Five Battalions, some of the government food was indeed retained in their hands.If this part of the grain is found, not to mention thousands of shi of grain, there may be nearly ten thousand shi of grain.

"Yuezhang, how do you think we can convince the wealthy family to sell us grain? To tell you the truth, my son-in-law doesn't have much money in his hands now, so even if he wants to buy it at a high price, he has more energy than he wants."

"In troubled times, food is the foundation and life-saving thing. It is difficult to impress people with high prices. If you say that what can impress them the most, the son-in-law actually has it in his hands, but he may not be able to give it to them."

"Oh? Yue Zhang is talking about firearms, right? They really can't be given to anyone. This is the root of my fifth battalion. If it falls into the hands of outsiders, my fifth battalion will not be able to guarantee safety. This is a troubled time. No force should be trusted, and we cannot put our lives in the hands of others."

"What the virtuous son-in-law thinks is a safe and long-term plan. To be honest, if the firearms are not unique to the virtuous son-in-law, the marriage between the virtuous son-in-law and his daughter will not be so smooth."

Grandma's!To tell the truth, it will choke to death!Our two families are indeed friends of interests, but now that the matter is over, can't we beautify it?
The most valuable things in your hands are not for sale. Apart from firearms, which are not for sale, what can you use to impress people with food to sell them to you?This is indeed a worrying thing.

Forget it, we can’t think of a way, so let’s think about it slowly, it’s really not possible, we still have guns in our hands.Isn't there a saying that neighbors prepare food, I prepare guns, and if there is no food, go to the neighbors?As a last resort, this is also a way to solve the problem.

Of course, it is best not to take this road. Once violence is used to solve the problem of food shortage, the living environment of the Fifth Battalion Army in the surrounding area will become even worse!
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