The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 147 What's going on? (one more)
So Su Tang asked Yingyue to go to Yanyang City to send a message to Lin Qing, telling him to start leading the people of Yanyang City to open up wasteland.

Anyway, a lot of fields in Yanyang City are abandoned, and whoever opens up the wasteland will be his family's property in the future, supporting the people to grow crops.

If some farmers are too poor to buy seeds, they can go to the government office to pay on credit, allowing them to sign and pledge to take back the sweet potato seeds and potato seeds first.

Wait until the time of harvest and then return them. This is not a free gift for them, but also solves the problem that farmers cannot afford seeds.

Su Tang didn't want to raise them up to be lazy people who waited all day for the pie to fall from the sky.

After the tax is collected this spring, there will be no money to sell. If someone from other places wants to buy potatoes and sweet potatoes, they only need to exchange grains such as wheat, rice, soybeans, etc., one stone for one stone, and then store these grains properly.

The harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes is more than ten times higher than that of their wheat and rice.

Potatoes yield [-] shi per mu, sweet potatoes yield [-] shi per mu, and the local crops here can produce [-] shi per mu, which is considered to be the best. This is why the common people are not full and have no food to eat. How can it be eaten with a low yield?

One stone for one stone is to spread the high-yield potatoes and sweet potatoes, so that more people can have enough food, otherwise Su Tang can just store the potatoes and sweet potatoes.

As for the village, Su Tang asked people to open up wasteland in the area outside the West Mountain. Now there are 3000 to [-] people in the village. According to the minimum, if one person counts two acres of land, that is also an area of ​​several thousand acres of land, so it cannot be in the valley. It's open.

The area of ​​the valley is not small, but in the future they will need a place to build houses, workshops, etc., especially if they requisition the land they have opened up in the future, it is better to let them open up wasteland outside the valley from the beginning.

Outside the West Mountain, all the way to Yanyang City is flat land, and those grasses, trees, etc. are cut down and taken care of, and they are all fields.

The jurisdiction of Yanyang City is still very large. It is estimated that there are about 150 square kilometers. A few 2 people are more than enough.

It's a pity that this kind of border land, coupled with the bandits' rebellion, has led to a sparse population. Many lands are deserted and uncultivated. People with a little ability choose to live in more prosperous places in the inland.

It's still the same sentence, the wasteland opened by someone's family will be his family's property in the future. The people in the village were very excited when they heard this.

They are all ordinary people, and they have special feelings and love for the fields. After every acre of land is added, every year there will be an additional acre of harvest.

In their eyes, whoever has more land will grow more food and be richer.

Although there are many wastelands in Yanyang City, they can't be cultivated at will. The land property needs to be stamped and issued by the government to issue the land deed document, and then it is really your family's land property.

If you just find a place to open up a wasteland, you can plant food, but if something happens to this kind of land without a title, the government will take it away, because it is not your property, and you can use it in various ways. , but it doesn't belong to you.

The people are always unsteady in planting things that don't belong to you, but it's different now.

Both the village owner and the prefect have spoken, as long as you open up more wasteland and diversify the land, these lands will belong to you, the kind that the government stamps and issues land deeds.

If you don't have to spend money to buy it, it is tantamount to gaining land for nothing. If you have land, it can be left to your children and grandchildren.

Not to mention the problem of seeds. In the past, seeds were expensive, and even if you had land, you could not afford to buy seeds. Now you can go to the government to pay on credit, get the seeds first, and then pay back the debt after planting them. No interest is added. Isn’t this a good thing? can miss.

But it’s not enough to open up wasteland without planting crops. How many people can a family have? Even if a large family can have more than a dozen people, they can grow twenty or thirty acres of land at most, and it’s enough to share it with everyone. There are not many acres on the body.

People think about it, it’s not good, there are not many such opportunities, and it would be a pity to add a few acres of land if they don’t take good care of them, so they gritted their teeth and bought cattle, which can save a lot of energy and grow more A few acres.

People in the village have serious jobs, and those who earn money will take out the money they have saved to buy cattle. Those who were the first batch of potatoes in Yanyang City last year, also made a fortune from selling potatoes, will take it out Buy cattle.

If you can't buy it in Yanyang City, you can go to other cities to buy it. Farm cattle line up to pull them back. People in other cities look at it with straight eyes.

"What's going on, what's going on here? Didn't you say that Yanyang City is the poorest city in this area? Why are there almost queues of people buying farm cattle these days?" A man in rough clothes approached Standing at the gate of Changhe County, he watched a group of people walking towards Yanyang City with four or five cattle.

Changhe County is to the south of Yanyang City, and it is a county seat under the jurisdiction of Dongping County. Linqi City also belongs to Dongping County. It is considered the richest county among the more than ten counties under the jurisdiction of Dongping County.

The prefect of Dongping County lived in Linqi City, the one who went to Yanyang City to find Lin Qing to buy potatoes.

He and Lin Qing are acquainted with each other, and they took the exam together. The prefect of Dongping County did a good job in the exam, and was selected by the high officials in Kyoto to be the son-in-law of a noble family. With his ability, he became the prefect of Dongping County, and also promoted Lin Qing to become the county magistrate of Yanyang City.

Before Su Tang was enfeoffed, Yanyang City was still a county seat under Dongping County. Later, because Su Tang wanted to be enfeoffed here, Yanyang City was taken out of Dongping County and became its own county. Lin Qing was also promoted from county magistrate to Prefect.

Otherwise, why did the people in the capital say that Su Tang was enfeoffed on the surface, but exiled in reality? There are so many counties in Leng'an, and there are not more than ten or twenty counties under the jurisdiction of any county.

Only Yanyang County, which was specially established for Su Tang, has only one city and a few dilapidated villages.

The exemption of tribute is basically tantamount to throwing Su Tang and Yanyang City, a ruined city, at the border and don't care about it.

Not only the people in the capital know that Yanyang City is poor, but even the cities around Yanyang City know that Yanyang City is poor. They are looted by bandits several times a year. Can they not be poor?

So now when I see the people in Yanyang City buying so many cattle these days, I mutter in my heart. You must know that those farmers who can save a lifetime of money to buy a few acres of land and a cattle are considered to be respectable in the village. It's gone.

As the poorest city nearby, how could the people there suddenly have the money to buy so many cattle?A farm ox costs more than a dozen or twenty taels of silver, which is not a small sum.

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