Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 77
After several days of busy inventory work, Sun Xiangfu finally knew the emperor's family background, and thought of a way to temporarily make the books look better.

The 2 Dingkou of the Agriculture Department will all return to their respective farms before the spring plowing. The price paid is all the cash of the Agriculture Department. The shortfall on the granary can be said to be selling grain to buy land. The more than 2 mu of new land they developed must be handed over. In this regard, in the long run, Li Shimin has made a profit, because the [-] mu of new land will produce tens of thousands of shi of grain for him every year in the future. It will make up the shortfall.

As for the Forestry Department, the emperor has no plans to build a palace in the past two years, so there is no need to make up for the big wood in the warehouse for the time being. To save the country, ask the Ministry of Industry to borrow the Quyuan plow that has been built, and the Animal Husbandry Department to borrow cattle, and give them to the farmers of the Agriculture Department, and ask them to plow the 20 mu of imperial land first.

Of course, this is only the first step, and the second step is that these people from the Department of Agriculture come to help the Department of Forestry. People in this era don't know grafting and cultivation techniques, but Sun Xiangfu is an expert in this field, and the sun is always shining this winter According to the photo, the temperature resembles early spring, and the temperature in the greenhouse in Xingfu Village is just right for planting saplings in advance. Sun Xiangfu planted tens of thousands of peach saplings with willow branches as roots and peach branches as the main body.

This is a very simple plant science. Grafting a willow tree is easy to survive. Insert a small willow branch into the ground, and as long as you water it, tiny rhizomes will soon appear, while the main body of the peach branch nailed into the willow branch will make the willow After the saplings grow up, they will become peach trees. Sun Xiangfu no longer expects people of this era to understand this kind of science. He only needs the farmer from Huangzhuang to do things well according to his requirements. He himself becomes a quality inspector. , Seeing the saplings go to the ground, this matter is considered settled. The whole process only took some manpower, and the forestry department's [-] slopes in the next year will be filled with fruit trees, which can be regarded as making up for tens of thousands of sapling holes.

Afterwards, on the grounds of the expansion of the Animal Husbandry Department, Li Shimin asked for [-] Turkic captives. After all, more than half of the hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses captured will be under the jurisdiction of the Animal Husbandry Department. This is inevitable. There will be no objection from the imperial court, so the Department of Animal Husbandry has enough manpower for grazing. The only shortage is a large amount of horse feed, which needs to be supplemented by subsequent profits.

However, Sun Xiangfu also took this opportunity to help promote Ma Zhou's strategy, which was to continue looking for Li Shimin's important people and Turkic prisoners, so that these Turkic captives would not be able to return to the grassland.

In order to develop the food supervision department, the Chang'an workshop in Guanzhong employs more than 2000 Turkic workers. Then, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou and other large cities with a population of no less than 50 households need more than [-] people. What about the factory?After the paper was uploaded to Changsun Wuyou, Li Shimin quickly took the paper to the court for the courtiers to discuss. What he didn't expect was that Wei Zheng would be the first to agree.

After this guy visited the Food Supervisor, he went home and asked the servants to make tofu according to the process. On average, one catty of soybeans made less than three catties of tofu, and the taste was not as good as that made by the Food Supervisor. Well, after calculating the artificial fire consumption, he discovered that the emperor did not make any money in the matter of tofu, and might even pay for it. Moreover, if tofu for two cents a catty is always sold in the market, it will be of great help to stabilize food prices. Also a great help.

If in the past, there were rumors of a drought in Chang'an, the food price in Chang'an would have risen at least two or three times, but this year, because the price of tofu has not moved at two cents a catty, the food price has only slowly increased by [-] to [-]%. The price rise stopped, and the grain merchants found that the common people were not stupid, so they directly ate cheaper tofu to wrap their stomachs, and did not dare to continue to rise. Anyway, a catty of tofu for one person only costs two cents , and a catty of tofu is enough to guarantee the nutrition a person needs for half a day. The bigger problem is that stewed tofu with sauerkraut or pickled vegetables is delicious!It is more cost-effective than eating rough grain.

Therefore, without the obstruction of civil servants, Li Shimin swiped a pen, and five thousand Turkic captives arrived under the name of the Food Supervisor. Of course, the personnel will not be in place until the construction of the reservoir is completed.

The matter is not over yet, more than [-] large reservoirs have been built, and they must be developed into fishing grounds!Who is not greedy for the fishing ground in Xingfu Village?Sun Xiangfu adopted another curve strategy. After Li Shimin learned of the plan, he acted according to the plan, first let Fang Xuanling play, and increased salaries for all civil and military officials.

How to increase this salary?Distribute fish to officials. Every year, every season, or even every month, different sizes and different quantities of fish are distributed to officials of different ranks. In this era, silk cloth, grain, and charcoal can all be used as salaries. Why can’t fish? ?This is meat!

As for the increase in salary, who would object?

Therefore, the court passed it basically without discussion, and then the question arises, why are there so many fish?

The fishery in Xingfu Village is the private property of Sun Zhengming. Although there are hundreds of thousands of fish, they can't afford to be distributed by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty!Therefore, everyone's attention is on the twenty or so large reservoirs that will be built soon.

So, at this time, Sun Xiangfu's brochure came. As long as you give me the population to operate the reservoir fishery, I can let these reservoir fishery produce fish within a year. Starting from this autumn, every official in Chang'an, even every official, will A certain amount of fish can be allocated, and it is also suggested that the imperial court should abolish the prohibition on the killing of carp, and just change the name of the carp, and call it red-tailed fish.

Both the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty felt that there was no problem, so with a swipe of the pen, Li Shimin agreed to the request of the head of the Fisheries Department, and allocated [-] Turkic captives to the Fisheries Department. However, within one year, the Fisheries Department had to bear the burden. It will become a common practice in the future to raise the salaries of officials.

This is all right, before the negotiation between Honglu Temple and the Turkic envoys is over, more than 1 Turkic captives have been divided out, so it is not bad to divide a few more, so at this time, Sun Wuji, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs up.

Still add salaries to court officials, but this time it is not materials, but population. According to rank, there are officials above seventh rank, and each person is divided into two Turkic laborers as domestic slaves. The princes and prime ministers of the country can be divided into sixty or seventy, princes, vassals, and more. After such a division, more than 2 Turkic captives are gone. Moreover, no one objects, because slaves are money!Even if you don't want to keep it, you can sell it in the market, it will be worth a few pennies!

After the princes of the imperial court reached an agreement, Li Shimin felt that the Turkic captives would definitely retaliate against such treatment, so he still had to give a decree to simply recruit the strong and strong prisoners among the captives to join the army and give them a chance to become a master in the Tang Dynasty. Opportunity, so that those Turkic people who have been scattered and assigned can also see a glimmer of hope. Of course, the scale should not be too large for the time being, just 5000 people!
In this regard, the military representatives Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Duan Zhixuan, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Junji and others all said that there is no problem, and they are vying to lead the army that is about to be composed of Hu people. Therefore, Du Ruhui, Minister of the Ministry of War, also said that there is no problem. It was quickly passed. So far, Ma Zhou’s three strategies have basically been implemented. More than 7 Turkic prisoners were directly divided into [-] to [-]. It doesn’t matter if the rest are not returned to the Turks, because, It is impossible for the Turks to accept the fact that so many captives stayed in Datang.

In the end, Li Shimin directly issued an order to drive Ashina Simo out of the capital, and asked him to go back and tell Jieli that the rest of the brothers would not be returned. , So, for the rest of these people, Sun Xiangfu asked another 1 people to go to the Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Forestry, because he told Li Shimin and his wife about his plan.

"Your Majesty, I intend to liberate the farmers in Huangzhuang from farming."

"How do you say it?" Li Shimin heard the word "liberation" for the first time, and looked at Sun Xiangfu in surprise. Farmers, what can they do if they don't plow the fields?
"Weichen calculated the breeding scale of more than 20 large fish farms in the Fisheries Department, and came to a conclusion that the mantissa may exceed [-] trillion. However, with so many fish, the feed, fish and grass consumed every day rely solely on wild and a small number of farms. Therefore, Weichen wants to apply the model of Xingfu Village to build supporting facilities for fish farms, pig farms, and chicken farms.

Pigs and chickens have the highest conversion rate among all livestock and poultry. Uh, this conversion rate is the ratio of how much meat they eat and how many eggs they eat. Moreover, their feces can become fish food, as long as the The close combination of these industries can form an industrial cycle like a happy village. Raising chickens and pigs requires manpower, and Turkic people are not good at this, so we have to manage it by our own people.

The Turkic captives are responsible for doing some simple, time-consuming and heavy physical work for the people in our farm, such as logging and plowing.The model of employee management in Happy Village can also be applied. One or two skilled workers can guide hundreds of employees to do things they have never done before.Then, as long as we don't shorten their food and clothing, and give some rewards to those who perform well among them, and give them citizenship in the Tang Dynasty, I believe these Turkic people will be well managed. "

In Guanzhong, after all, there are many Han people. In Chang’an city alone, there are more than 100 million Han people. After tens of thousands of Turkic people have been dispersed, it is impossible to form a riot, especially these Turkic people are more stupid and simple than the Han people. If you know how to use tricks to make connections, there may be some problems with law and order at first, but as long as you let them eat well and wear warm clothes, after a few years, they will forget their birth and take pride in being Tang people.

"Well, what you said is reasonable, you can do it." Li Shimin nodded and said.

"In addition, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry, and Department of Forestry will also set up shops in the east and west cities in the future to sell their products. Among them, the products of the Department of Animal Husbandry and the Department of Forestry, Wei Chen wants to build a brand, what a name! I want to ask Your Majesty and Your Majesty to make a decision."

"Brand? Do you have any suggestions?" Li Shimin asked curiously when he heard a new word.

"Just like the dragon flag of our Datang, when you look at it, you will know that it is the army and city of our Datang. The brand is also the same. The Animal Husbandry Department and the Forestry Department are both royal industries, so the quality and quality must be guaranteed. And you have to give it a tall name."

"large and luxurious?"

"Uh, it means high-end atmosphere and high-grade."

"I know one thing. I'm afraid you kid will take this opportunity to raise the prices of these commodities."

"Uh, Your Majesty is really astute. I can't hide this thought of this humble minister from His Majesty. However, wouldn't it be better for the royal family to have more money?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin shook his head and said, "As the lord of a country, what's the advantage of fighting for the interests of the people?"

Sun Xiangfu may not know much about other things. When the TV is turned on in later generations, the leaders of the country must see the most. What are those people doing?Donate materials here, provide disaster relief there, or beat corrupt officials. Anyway, they are all doing good deeds. Xin, if your majesty is rich, you can do a lot of things? Buying people's hearts is okay! Uh, the word I used is wrong. What I mean is that if your majesty has money, you can do good things, help the poor, relieve disasters, the worst, It can also reward the ministers and make the people of the world return to the royal family, so wouldn't your majesty's country be more stable?"

"You mean, if you earn money, I will spend it? This is good, this is good!"

"Uh, it seems that His Majesty has no objection. The brand name Wei Chen wants to create for the Animal Husbandry Department is Supreme Leather Goods, and the brand for the Forestry Department is Royal Family Furniture. Do you think it is suitable, Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty, the imperial court, you are really tall!" Li Shimin said in a daze when he heard the words.

(End of this chapter)