When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 362: Interview ([-] words long chapter)

But it is a pity that although it is fun to fight all the way, Xinqu also has to find ways to enrich the connotation of the story, such as how to organize canal digging, how to fight people's political struggles, and how to farm, how to distinguish astronomical phenomena, etc., all are in the biographies. .

Myths are not just myths, they also carry the inheritance of some skills.

This is a summary of human life experience.

Tong didn't know what to say, and he didn't know why he felt inexplicably uncomfortable staying in the current Youxin family.

But his father feels that life is very good now, and he even feels like he is in heaven.

Just as Tong was experiencing the current day, time seemed to fly by, and there were still five days left before the big festival.

Shu Dagu rushed back as a sacrifice.

As soon as the tall man appeared, many women passing by whispered about his appearance.

"Isn't this the one from Fei Jiang's family? I thought something happened!"

"Hey, it's true, you came back suddenly, what happened?"

"Didn't you read the announcement? Shu Dagu is the official sacrifice."

"Oh, it turns out it's a Congji, so it's okay."

People didn't pay much attention to Shu Dagu, after all, he was really marginalized by Xin Qu for a long time.

When he suddenly came back, some people with a keen sense of smell could sense that Shu Dagu might be reused in the future, so as soon as he got off the horse, someone immediately came to flatter him: "Shu Dagu, you are back."

"Yeah." Chu Datu jumped off the horse, took a look at the Yamen, which was a bit taller than last year, and started to go to the "Wadang" Yamen.

Xin's pottery making technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past three years. After all, Xin Qu specially allocated funds and gave them to slaves, and also taught the pottery kiln manufacturing methods that he had seen before.

Over the years, Xin's pottery has begun to expand in scale, and even the adobe bricks have begun to be turned into fired bricks. The original adobe walls of the Yamen were re-consolidated and reinforced after this autumn, using the brick-covered-earth technique. An upgrade was made.

The Yamen has almost become a small fortress. Because Xinqu mainly lives in the backyard, there are watchtowers and arrow towers all around. When Qingyan and Lujia take turns, they usually have people guarding the surroundings.

In fact, if you look closely, it already smells like a palace.

It's just much smaller.

When entering, the screen wall, moon gate, and corridor are all available.

The large stocks were searched before they were put in.

After all, Xin Qu's status has been raised now. He signed a new title for himself as Qing Dafu, which is actually only one step away from Shao Qing.

Shu Dagu stopped at a bulletin board and took a look at Xin Qu's new title announced above, as well as the Xin family's latest title system.

From bottom to top: common people, countrymen, corporal, sergeant, upper sergeant, Bu Geng, scholar-official, public official, official official, high-level official, young minister, high minister.

Among them, those below the official rank are civilian nobility, those below the official rank are the sergeant rank, and those below the rank of Shaoqing and Shangqing are the rank nobility.

The latest adjustment is that civilians are allowed to exchange for promotion through farming and war.

In the beginning, knights could only achieve military success or govern the local area.

Qingjue can only be redeemed through greater military merit and transfer to a local official, as well as through annual merit and improvement of local governance tasks.

At the same time, Xin Qu took out the "test of merit".

If it weren't for the fact that there weren't many people who were proficient in governance, Xin Qu would have dared to take out the quantitative scores.

As for how to deal with the examination, Qing Jue will start, Xin Qu will start to entrust large enough border areas, and then ask Qing Jue to go to the local management.

After completing the local business regulations, adjustments and promotions can begin, including but not limited to the final food town system.

"Food town system." Chu Dagu was a little confused looking at the rules of the food town.

"Do you think it's incredible?" Chu Dagu turned his head when he heard the voice.

Aqi, the elder of Sinong, said hey: "When the fiefdom you created by yourself reaches a certain population, it will be merged into the county for supervision. Isn't this an obvious robbery? Sometimes, I really don't know what Qu thinks."

Shu Dagu looked away, stood up and said: "If it is a bad land and the fiefdom is changed into a food fief, it is not bad. At least the nobles can throw away their burdens and move to the prosperous Wangji.

Just like the royal family of the Shang Dynasty in Dayi, they are not willing to go to the local area to become a public family.After all, Wang Ji, as one of the most wealthy people in the world, could not be compared to those outside the customs.

Moreover, a fief is not necessarily a good place. What if you are unhappy and get a piece of land covered with woods for you? What would you do? "

"That's right..." When he thought of this, Aqi's cheek twitched.

The biggest difference between a feudal town and a food town is that the feudal town has to be run by itself. Take the Zhou Dynasty, for example, which was more than 500 years ago.

In the era before the Warring States Period, the development of the basic market had just begun.

The Shang and Zhou dynasties were filled with forests, swamps, wild beasts, and elephants.

It would be better if you divided the grasslands into separate areas. If the forest you go to is a virgin forest, the miasma alone will be enough for you to endure.

You even have to work in the fields, because if you don't work, you won't have enough to eat. You even have to fight the savages. Once you are killed or driven away by the savages, you will lose your country.

If you lose your country, you won't be able to pay tribute, and you will be punished. The lightest thing is losing your title, the most serious thing is losing your head.

Xinqu also had related requirements for fief tribute.

His setting of fiefdoms was: "equal land between nobles and nobles".

What does that mean?

It means that this fiefdom belongs to Qingjue, so I don’t want you to pay any tribute. I will give you as much land as you can cultivate, and I will give you tax exemption for the first five years.

After five years, taxes will be paid according to the scale of [-]% of the fiefdom for three years.

Three years later it rose to [-]%.

Six years later it rose to [-]%.

It will be paid in full after ten years.

In other words, within 15 years, most of the development of the land given to you must be completed, and then the land equalization tax must be paid according to the scale.

The average amount of millet per mu is eight to ten pounds.

Now, the average yield per mu is forty to fifty kilograms, and even the nobles with fiefdoms have to hand over one-fifth of the harvest.

Therefore, after calculating the situation in Shu, it is better to get food than to get a fief.

At least Shiyi directly asks the county to withdraw money. How much the county can collect depends entirely on the county's tax collection.

Obtaining food is equivalent to ensuring the harvest despite droughts and floods.

It is completely different from the feudal land that I went down to toss.

Therefore, the food is not necessarily advanced, but this thing is a bait.

Xin Qu wanted to use food towns to weaken the people's desire for feudal towns. After delegating these people to the local areas for several generations, he turned them into local clans by transforming the towns into counties. Then he moved some of the clan leaders to the capital and transformed them into local clans. into a system of interconnected governance systems.

Continuously strengthen the relationship between the two parties to prevent the emergence of a tail-end similar to the feudal system.

Of course, the transformation of this food town depends on the kings of later generations, so the maternal clan in the eldest son's inheritance system will inevitably play a major role in this system. "By the way, you heard about breeding over there? How is the situation?"

"Absolutely." A Qi sighed slightly, "Although various experimental fields have been set up in various places according to Qu's wishes, there are too many good and bad things. Just screening a pedigree will take several years.

Moreover, I have a lot of subjects here, such as millet, broomcorn millet, bean sprouts, corn, wheat, sorghum, etc.

Too much.I wrote three thousand kilograms of bamboo slips just to remember the names and characteristics of the varieties. "

When Shu Dagu heard this, he was furious: "If it were me, I wouldn't be able to hold on."

"You have to persevere even if you can't stop. Breeding has many benefits, including increased grain yield. This year's Lai and Mai experimental fields alone have an average yield of [-] kilograms per acre. I'm so excited.

One hundred pounds!If there are a few more rounds of domestication and the output is stabilized, think about how many more people we can feed? "

Aqi was very excited when he mentioned this breeding. Although the yield of one hundred kilograms was achieved with the support of many parties, including fertilizers, paddy fields, various waterwheels, rollovers, and iron farm tools provided by Youxin. from.

But a hundred pounds!The yield is twice that of ordinary fields, which is enough to boost everyone’s confidence.

"Is there really no false report?" Shu Dagu looked in disbelief.

What is this concept?
"I personally watched it!" A Qi looked serious, "Besides, I also have a new farming method here, which can be used for two seasons a year, with an average yield of 120 kilograms per mu.

It is very labor intensive and requires frequent fertilization.

Anyway, it’s all experiments, and the more methods we can summarize, the better. "

"Hmm... ha, it's good that you can have fun with farming." Shu Dagu was a little embarrassed. He really had never heard of this farming method, and he really lost too much contact with the outside world.

Although Juyongguan is the transportation hub between Yanqing and Changping, because the distance between the two places is not far, horses and carriages are mostly used for communication. Therefore, it is only a day's journey from Changping to Yanqing. Generally, Juyongguan will not stay for too long. Instead, Juyongguan becomes The most closed place.

"You two, the clan leader invites you."

Xue Ji walked over cautiously and called to the two of them.

By her side, there is Luan Zhi, who has been taking care of this baby recently. After all, Xin Qu has too many things to do. Qing Ji has recently been spending time in the textile factory studying Xin's looms and assisting Gulu Xiaogui in creating Xin Qu's account. The new task - jacquard machine.

She had no one to care about her, so she searched for Xin Qu and begged for shelter.

It happened that Xin Qu was going to the east to suppress the rebellion, and Luan Pheasant couldn't ignore it, so he turned her into Luan Pheasant's caretaker, which also freed up Wu Xiaoye's time to be busy.

Now that Xinqu is back, Xueji has taken a part-time job as the head maid, because there are no other maids around Xinqu, she is the only one, and there are all big men on the left and right, so there can't be less people to do the work. This is very important to Xinqu. A woman with small thoughts was naturally taken advantage of by Xin Qu.

She and her aunt Qing Ji were the only rich women who had no relatives or friends. Apart from Xin Qu, they actually couldn't believe anyone else, and only Bing Jia and his aunt could speak more than a few words.

Therefore, Xinqu can use her.

It was Xinqu who heard calling them.

Aqi and Sichuan stocks entered at the same time.

The house is actually very bright.

Chu Dagu raised his head, took a second look at the green light-emitting skylight and said, "What is this?"

"New glazed tiles." Xin Qu also raised his head and glanced at it. "It's quite laborious to make. I've been busy this year, so I just burned these 50 yuan. I just use it for lighting, which reduces the need to light candles in the house during the day."

After saying that, Xin Qu waved his hand and placed chairs on the left and right.

The two of them were not polite and sat down at the table in front of Xin Qu.

"This year's ministerial ceremony is for you two." Xin Qu handed each of them a scroll of bamboo slips.

Chu Dagu and Aqi untied the knots on the bamboo slips, shook them out, looked at the process and related eulogies above, and nodded slightly.

"In addition to serving as a priest, the positions will be adjusted next year." Xinqu continued, "Aqi, you are still the elder of Sinong, but you have to work at Yuyang Market.

To the north of Yuyang Market, I have ordered people to build Pinggu City.

You are mainly responsible for following up on agricultural research there. Mine supervisors will be added to the north of Pinggu next year. I will give priority to the iron farm tools produced and provide them to you for testing in Pinggu.If you have any ideas or what farm tools you want to modify, you can directly communicate with the Miyun Mine Supervisor.

That area will soon become our most important iron ore production area. After the iron ore is stably produced in the future, bone and stone agricultural tools will be completely eliminated.

Then the cultivated land for one man can be increased.

Therefore, you have to follow up on the utilization of the pastures in Pinggu Town and the cultivation of cattle. "

"Okay!" A Qi said happily, "Don't worry, if you have iron farm tools, the output will definitely not be a problem!"

Xin Qu nodded, and then looked at Chu Dagu: "Xin Bing and Lao Wu are wrapped up in quilts, and they are preparing to divide our Changping lineage.

Therefore, I want you to go to the south after the New Year and arrange for people to pay tribute to the merchants in Dayi.

After these things are resolved, I think no matter what the situation is in the south, we will inevitably deal with the Hebei Shang Gong clan. If the Hebei Shang Gong clan recognizes the situation, then I will mobilize food for you, and we will join hands with Tufang to fight against Qiongfang.

We need manpower, lots of manpower.

Especially for the Miyun Mine Supervision to be fully operational, I have estimated that at least 3000 people will be needed.

There aren't many tribes around us that we can attack directly.

We can only go east or west, but in the east there are mountains besides the sea, and only in the west there is Qiong Fang, who has a grudge against our ancestors.

This year’s big festival, Xian Yu Xiaozhu will come from Lulong. At that time, I will go through him to negotiate with Hijikata and the war with Qiong.

So if everything goes well, it's best to settle things back from the south before autumn, and you'll be in charge then. "

"Okay." Shu Dagu had no other words.

"Well, the Juyongguan Village will be rotating soon. Many Mo tribes have migrated to Yanqing. The tribesmen from Juyongguan Village will all go to the west to start training together and getting used to each other.

They are all your old brothers. If you take them with you, they will trust you and I will feel relieved.

It is not easy to fight against Qiong Fang, but it must be fought.I also need to push Qiongfang southward, forcing them to go south to compete with Danshanrong and Qilongrong for territory, and force these two families to go east to create danger for Dayi merchants, so that Dayi merchants will not have the time to trouble me. .

In short, your task is to calm Zi Lian first and then show your strength.

No matter what the Shang clan thinks, we have the Xin clan who is indeed strong enough and they can’t afford to fight, so that’s fine. "

Xin Qu's tone was calm, and he repeatedly told Shu Dagu what to do.

Shu Dagu doesn't think there is a problem, because the current Youxin family is indeed strong enough. Unless all the merchants from Dayi come out, they may not be able to compete with the Youxin family.

"Okay, the explanation is over. You have just come back. Go back and meet your families. Prepare your eulogies carefully and don't make mistakes."

"Ah."

The two got up and left.

Xinqu paused and continued to correct the documents.

The order of the Xin family has gradually stabilized, and many issues can no longer be solved verbally.

Documents and seals are the most effective.

The hardships of being a clan leader and having the unrivaled power are naturally also a form of hard work.

(End of this chapter)