At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 559: The rapidly expanding agricultural community and the nobles who want to defend their country and rest

October 33, 3nd year of the Han calendar, Xinfengli.

Yuan Ang stood in the drying yard and said to the villagers of Xinfengli: "Everyone knows about the agricultural cooperative established by the farmers last year."

"I know!" The villagers in Xinfengli showed envious expressions. Last year's economic crisis made life difficult for everyone. The young and strong people in the village couldn't find jobs in the city and had to go home. Although they had a half-year break, they had no income during that time. If they had a choice, these villagers would rather work harder and earn a few thousand more dollars.

Without these few thousand coins, it would be difficult for my children to go to school. I couldn't even buy new textbooks and school uniforms. After the autumn harvest, there were fewer grain merchants and the price of grain dropped by more than 3000%, which resulted in another loss of coins. It can be said that every household in Xinfengli had a hard time last year.

And it just so happened that at this time, they learned that there were villages with agricultural cooperatives. Because they formed agricultural cooperatives and, under the guidance of farmers, used tractors and fertilizers to increase grain production capacity, these villages with agricultural cooperatives were the only ones in the entire Guanzhong that did not lose income. There were even many villages that made money by growing off-season vegetables. This news made people extremely enviable.

But they can only envy, as the construction cost of one acre of glass greenhouse is tens of thousands of yuan. Ordinary farmers like them can neither afford it nor build it, so they can only watch others make money.

Yuan Ang said, "The court has arranged this good thing for everyone. Starting today, Xinfengli will also establish an agricultural cooperative. Based on the principle of voluntariness, the whole village will form an agricultural cooperative. Farmers will arrange a technician to teach you how to form an agricultural cooperative. At the same time, the court will also build an agricultural product purchasing department. You can agree on the price of purchasing grain, silk, and cotton before planting. In this way, you can have a guaranteed harvest regardless of drought or flood, and you can calculate how much money you can earn. We can even help you get a loan from an agricultural bank to build a glass greenhouse, and you can also sell off-season vegetables in the future."

"Come on! I want to join the agricultural cooperative!" The villagers in Xinfengli signed up enthusiastically. For most villagers, a stable purchase price is even more important than getting rich. The guaranteed price of grain alone is enough to make them excited, not to mention the many benefits of joining the agricultural cooperative.

In another village, Feng Tang said to the villagers who gathered around him: "As long as you are willing to join the agricultural cooperative, the court can sell you fertilizer at a low price, and can also provide loans to help you buy tractors at a low price. The rice, flour, grain and oil in the village can all be purchased by the agricultural cooperative. The agricultural cooperative can even help you build flour processing plants, oil mills and other workshops, so that everyone's income can catch up with the city dwellers."

Gao Di said: "It is difficult to make money by fighting alone in this world. Only by uniting together and buying tractors and fertilizers can we increase the production capacity of grain. If we want to make money, we have to find a way to build a workshop. It is impossible to build a workshop by fighting alone. Only by uniting together can we build a profitable workshop."

"I'm willing!"

“We have been looking forward to the arrival of scholars from farming families for a long time, and this year it is finally our village’s turn.”

Last year's agricultural cooperatives set an example. This year, farmers in Guanzhong are willing to join the agricultural cooperatives with just a little encouragement.

After Wu Yue became the Right Minister of Agriculture, the morale of Yuan Ang's followers, and even the children of farmers and agricultural colleges, was high. In their view, this showed that the court attached great importance to agriculture. If Wu Yue could become one of the Nine Ministers, they also had this opportunity. Even if they could not become one of the Nine Ministers, they would be full of confidence to become a two thousand stone governor. There were too few saints throughout history, and more people still hoped that the careers they were engaged in would have a good future.

Under the promotion of these farmers' children and agricultural students, agricultural cooperatives expanded rapidly throughout Guanzhong. Agricultural cooperatives were established one after another. There were even many rural areas in remote areas where farmers did not have enough talents to establish agricultural cooperatives locally. They listened to the methods of others and established agricultural cooperatives themselves. In short, establishing agricultural cooperatives has become a trend in the entire Guanzhong countryside.

Chang'an City, Prince's Palace.

Yuan Ang and his team reported government affairs to Xu Aimin, saying, "Farmers in Guanzhong are eagerly awaiting the establishment of agricultural cooperatives. This month, 500 agricultural cooperatives have been established around Chang'an, and some people are even eager to form their own cooperatives."

Xu Aimin smiled and said, "Okay, okay! You've done a good job, but you still have to listen to the opinions of the people. You have the freedom to form associations, and you also have the freedom to leave associations. You must not hinder the will of the people."

"Yes!" Yuan Ang and others saluted.

Xu Aimin said: "I have seen your contributions during this period. Yuan Ang has appointed you as the chief clerk of Gaoling County to promote the agricultural cooperative in Gaoling County."

"promise!"

Xu Aimin continued, "Feng Tang, you are the chief clerk of Lantian County, promoting the agricultural cooperative in Lantian County."

"promise!"

Afterwards, Gongshu Qi, Gao Di and others were appointed as the chief clerks of other counties in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they were asked to promote the expansion of agricultural communities locally.

Chang'an City, Anningli.

Zhang Pijiang, wearing a safety helmet, said to Li Ji who was following behind him: "You supervise the renovation project of Anningli. His Highness said that as long as the renovation project is completed, you will be the new district head of Anningli."

After the steel conference in February, the Western Region Railway Network, Liaodong Railway Network, and Jiangnan Railway Network started construction one after another. The three major projects recruited a large number of craftsmen and farmers and purchased a large number of rails. Although the steel inventory of the Han Dynasty had not yet been consumed, these huge good news brought great confidence to the business community. They began to spend money to recruit craftsmen and started normal production. The economy of the Han Dynasty began to recover.

Xu Aimin started a new renovation project for Chang'an City. He planned to transform all the old neighborhoods in Chang'an into new residential areas. The entire Chang'an City will become a city consisting of more than a dozen districts. The city's appearance will be completely new. The old houses will be demolished, leaving behind only modern buildings.

Of course, the most important thing is that such a renovation project can earn a lot of money for the Nei Shi. For Xu Aimin, having cash in hand makes everything much easier.

Li Ji smiled when he heard Zhang Pijiang's words, "Please rest assured, Your Highness. From today on, I will take care of my food and lodging in An Ning."

At this time, a manager at the construction site came to Zhang Pijiang and said, "Sir, a group of barbarians came to the construction site. They said they were your students and wanted to see you before leaving Chang'an City."

"Barbarians!" Zhang Pijiang knew who they were.

Since Junchen began to lead the Xiongnu Kingdom, relying on the Xiongnu Kingdom's strong military strength, Junchen won two out of three battles against the Parthian Kingdom. Even the defeat was only a minor defeat, while the two victories allowed him to seize a thousand miles of land including 10 cities of Parthia. Now the Xiongnu were the most powerful enemy of the Parthian nobles, and their danger was even greater than that of their original overlord, the Seleucid Empire.

Historically, the Parthian Empire should have been in a period of great expansion, but now they encountered a powerful enemy, the Huns, and their expansion momentum was suddenly hindered. Fortunately, the Parthian nobles had not yet become corrupt. They knew from the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants that the Huns had the powerful Han Empire behind them. It was perhaps this Han Empire that drove the Huns out of their land and into the powerful country of the Western Regions.

The Parthian nobles wanted to unite with the Han Empire to deal with the Huns, but after they arrived in the Han Dynasty, they realized that the Huns, which seemed extremely powerful in their eyes, were just one of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty, and that the powerful Huns' Chanyu had to submit to the Han Emperor.

The proposal to join forces to deal with the Huns was rejected by the Han Emperor. At that time, Xu Fan still wanted the Huns to attack Rome, so it was naturally impossible for him to agree to the Parthian proposal.

But the Parthian nobles did not give up. After they discovered the strength of the Han Empire, they sent a large number of noble children to study in the Han Empire. On the one hand, they learned the advanced culture and technology of the Han Empire, and on the other hand, they wanted to find enemies of the Xiongnu in the Han Empire. The enemies of the Xiongnu had not been found yet, but they had learned a lot of advanced technology. Steel was still a luxury in the Parthian Empire. A piece of armor that could be passed down from generation to generation was more expensive than gold in the Parthian Empire, but it was as cheap as cabbage in the Han Empire.

These noble children of the Parthian Empire played the role of purchasing from the Han Dynasty, buying Han steel and transporting it back to their own countries. A large amount of cheap steel poured into the Parthian Empire. Previously, only senior officers could have iron armor, but now ordinary soldiers could also have a breastplate with good defensive power. The soldiers of the Parthian Empire were suddenly transformed from leather armored light infantry to iron armored heavy infantry. In addition, the artillery purchased by the Parthian Empire at a price more than ten times the price finally caught up with the Xiongnu in terms of weapons and equipment, and they had the strength to fight against the Xiongnu.

Zhang Pijiang walked outside the construction site and saw a dozen white people. If Xu Fan was here, he would be able to recognize them. They were very similar to the Persians in later generations.

"Jin Zhe, Jin Yu, what do you want to see the Master for?" Zhang Pijiang asked with a smile.

Jin Zhe said in awkward Chinese: "Master, the Xiongnu's Chanyu is about to attack our country again. We have to go back to defend our country. Before we go back, we want to say goodbye to you."

Jin Yu also said sadly: "Dahan is like a kingdom of God. If we had a choice, we would also like to stay in Dahan forever, but my motherland needs us."

Although Parthia is known as one of the four great classical empires, it was essentially a slave state. Historically, it was one level lower than the Han Dynasty, let alone the current Han Dynasty.

Those who could come to Chang'an to study were all great nobles of the Parthian Empire, but they felt extremely inferior after arriving in Chang'an. Silk and mirrors, which they regarded as the most precious treasures, could be found everywhere in this city. The food they ate was not even as good as that of ordinary people in Chang'an. They once thought that all the people in this city were nobles, or at least citizens.

But later they realized that the people of Chang'an were the most ordinary people in the Han Dynasty. Although they were richer than ordinary people, they were not much richer. Silk and mirrors were things that almost everyone in this country had.

But they thought that because silk and mirrors were produced in this country, they were cheap and ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could own them.

But after they got to know the Han Dynasty in depth, they learned that the Han Dynasty promoted compulsory education, and all the people in this city were literate. The Han Dynasty also had rich medical care, and ordinary people only needed to spend very little money to enjoy the medical services that only the nobles could enjoy in Parthia.

Chang'an is a city of carriages. Ordinary people in this country all own carriages, and some even own more than one. Chang'an is also a city of light. As soon as darkness falls, countless kerosene lamps will be lit to drive away the darkness, so that the citizens in the city can revel all night long. Although the citizens of this city live in small buildings, the luxury of the interior is not inferior to that of the nobles. There are hundreds of operas and dances performed in Chang'an every day, and ordinary people can also enjoy the treatment of the nobles.

The more they learned about Chang'an, the more inferior they felt. No matter in terms of clothing, food, housing or transportation, they were treated like nobles in the Parthian Empire. The millions of citizens in this city were millions of nobles. Such a powerful country was far inferior to even the countries in their myths.

In order to quickly integrate into the Han Dynasty, people like Jin Zhe took Han names (they spent half an hour looking for the names of Parthian nobles, and in the end they found the names of several Parthian kings, so they simply let them take a Han name for themselves). They usually told outsiders that they were Dingling people.

The Dingling people are also a branch of the white people. There are quite a few of them in Han Xin's Mobei Kingdom. There are more than 12 Dingling tribal leaders who came to the Han Dynasty to pay homage. In order to get the vast land of Xiongnulia, Xu Fan not only asked them to join the Han Dynasty, but also each of the Dingling tribes living north of the North Sea received a material subsidy of 1000 million yuan from the Han Dynasty, which was transported personally by the Han Dynasty. The only requirement for them was to stay on this land.

Therefore, many white people in Chang'an City also claimed to be the subjects of the Han Dynasty. At first, these were Dingling people, but soon many white people from the Western Regions found that such propaganda was beneficial to them. They could buy things at a three-cent discount and sell things at a two-cent price. So one by one they also claimed to be the subjects of the Han Dynasty.

The Han people were blind to these white people and could not tell the difference between their races. In the eyes of ordinary Han people, they were all the same race. This led to a situation in Chang'an where more than 100,000 white people claimed to be Han people.

After hearing this, Zhang Pijiang patted these people on the shoulders. It was he who led Jinzhe to the Han Dynasty, and it was Zhang Pijiang who taught them to speak Chinese in the beginning.

"Teacher will practice for you!"

The private room of Jinyumantang Restaurant.

Zhang Pijiang thought for a moment and said to them: "If you want to defeat the Xiongnu, it is not enough to improve your weapons and equipment. You must also reform your country's system. At the very least, you must allow soldiers to own land. Within the scope of known civilizations, the most powerful soldiers are still self-cultivating farmers who own land."

This is not that Zhang Pijiang replaced the world with the experience of the Han Dynasty, but the answer he got from understanding other civilizations. The Han Dynasty now has some understanding of several major civilized powers such as Shenzhou and Daqinzhou. It has established contact with the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and through the Ptolemaic Dynasty, it has also contacted Carthage, and even proposed trade exchanges with Carthage.

If the Mediterranean had not yet been opened up, even the Romans would have established diplomatic relations with the Han Dynasty. Zhang Pijiang even knew about the war between Carthage and the Romans.

As far as the current progress of world civilization is concerned, there are almost no countries that can be called civilized except the World Island, and the Han people have a certain understanding of these countries.

From what Zhang Pijiang knew, in the vast land of Qinzhou, the Romans had the greatest combat potential. They could quickly summon an army of hundreds of thousands when their army was defeated. Their war potential was even comparable to that of the Han Dynasty.

"Self-cultivating farmers?" Jin Zhe and his friends were a little hesitant. This term did not exist in Anxi. Of course, they had studied in Dahan for four years and knew that this referred to the farmers in Dahan. But according to their understanding, the farmers in Dahan could be regarded as slave landlords in Anxi, except that they used tractors and oxen instead of slaves.

Zhang Pijiang said, "Master, let's use the example of Rome that you are familiar with. Several decades ago, the Romans and the Carthaginians fought three battles. Although the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal annihilated more than 100,000 Romans in the two battles, the Romans' citizen system allowed them to quickly mobilize a large number of troops, while Hannibal only had mercenaries and was eventually killed by the Romans. Hannibal, a great man of his generation, had to live in exile and was forced to death by the Romans in his later years. But if General Hannibal was a Roman, I'm afraid Carthage would have been annexed by Rome by now."

"If the Han Dynasty appeared in Daqinzhou, the whole area would be unified. You should know that the Han Dynasty also experienced hundreds of years of chaos during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. But one of the countries, Daqin, established a system of conferring titles based on military merit. It took it 100 years to annex six countries that were as powerful as it and established the Han Dynasty. Later, the emperor of the Han Dynasty overthrew Daqin and established the current Han Dynasty. It was the system of the Han Dynasty that they learned from the Xiongnu."

Jin Yu hesitated and said, "But the resting lands all belong to the major families."

Neither the title awarded for military merit nor the equal-field system had any place to survive in Parthia.

The rest of the young people were also hesitant, because they were resting on the noble families, and if they followed the Han practice, they would have to give all their land to the soldiers. Revolution was never an easy thing. And revolutionizing one's own life made it ten times more difficult.

Zhang Pijiang understood their identities, and then said calmly: "It depends on your choice. Do you want to unite more people to save your country, or take these lands and watch your country be annexed by the Huns and your family members be killed by the Huns."

"Master suggests that you buy a copy of "The Chronicles of the Great Han Dynasty" and "The Records of the Sacred Words" before you leave. The Chronicles of the Great Han Dynasty describes how Taizu founded the present Han Dynasty, while the Records of the Sacred Words describes how Your Majesty dealt with and disintegrated the enemy and destroyed the Qin Empire, which had a million soldiers."

Jin Zhe nodded and said, "Master, I will buy these two books later."

In the eyes of Jin Zhe and others, the emperor of the Han Dynasty was a sage king who was half-human and half-god. He led 800 prisoners to defeat an empire with a million soldiers. They also knew a little about him from daily operas. But they didn't know how the sage king built an empire with strong talents. If they could find the sage king's method of dealing with the enemy in these two books, then they could defeat the Huns.

(End of this chapter)