Technology dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 99 [Uneasy Factors] Please collect, recommend

"Tell me about the situation in Duanxi County and Gaoyao County. How many sweet potatoes have been planted? Have you encountered any obstacles?" Lu Bu asked while eating.

The sweet potato planting is the focus of his concern. As long as he doesn't offend him, he doesn't care too much about it.

"General, in Duanxi County and Gaoyao County, the arable land is mainly paddy fields, which are not suitable for planting sweet potatoes. Therefore, after planting the arable land that can grow sweet potatoes, the general will let the people continue to reclaim wasteland and grow sweet potatoes. At present, the two counties have Plant 12 mu of sweet potatoes. There are still a few days before the deadline given by the general, and we will go all out in the end."

Ding Hong said slowly, this speed is already the fastest in the two counties.Reclaiming wasteland is not something that can be reclaimed casually. The place chosen should be relatively flat and not too far from the water source, otherwise it will be difficult for the sweet potato seedlings to survive.

12 mu sounds like a lot.But in Lu Bu's view, it's not bad.As Ding Hong said, both Duanxi County and Gaoyao County are adjacent to [Yushui], most of them are paddy fields, and there is not much arable land that can grow sweet potato seedlings.

If you want to plant more sweet potato seedlings, you can only rely on land reclamation, but land reclamation is time-consuming and laborious. To scale up, you need a lot of people.

For this reason, Ding Hong and Qin Feng mobilized almost all the working people in the two counties.

"Very good, thank you for your hard work." Lu Bu still wanted to recognize this achievement, and he couldn't dampen Ding Hong's enthusiasm.

"This is not the work of the last general. Apart from the many people who have worked hard, Qin Feng has also contributed a lot. If he hadn't won over the gentry from the two counties, it would not have achieved such results."

Ding Hong is self-aware, open-minded and not greedy for merit.

"The gentry? It seems that the gentry are also the pillars in Jiaozhou. They have a lot of tenant farmers and cultivated land, right?" Lu Bu was not interested in the so-called gentry.

Ding Hong nodded, this is an undeniable fact.One-third of the arable land in Jiaozhou is in the hands of the gentry, and most of it is fertile land.They cultivated a lot of land, so they needed a lot of tenant farmers to be responsible for farming for them.

It can be seen that Ding Hong has hatred and fear for the nobles.

Lu Bu didn't take them seriously, and said, "Don't worry about the gentry, you can do it. As long as they are willing to contribute to this general, they will naturally get the corresponding rewards. But if you want to hinder this general, then there is nothing wrong with it." Necessary exists!"

Ding Hong was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, yes, why did the general put the nobles in his eyes.He already knew some of Lu Bu's principles of doing things: follow prosperity and go against death.

However, he was still a little worried about the gentry, especially the gentry in Cangwu County, so he said: "General, now that Jiaozhou is completely captured, maybe some gentry still have expectations for the imperial court or the governor of Jiaozhou, and cooperate with them internally and externally. We should be careful with them."

"It's reasonable, the general will arrange people to watch their movements. Anyone who dares to go against the law, kill them!" Lu Bu's eyes were full of coldness, and Ding Hong reminded him well, not to let rat feces spoil a pot of soup.

After that, Lu Bu and Ding Hong talked about other matters in the two counties.

Duanxi County and Gaoyao County are governed by Ding Hong, and Lu Bu is more at ease.Early the next morning, Lu Bu left [Gaoyao City] with more than 200 cavalry including Fu Yong.

As for Jiang Lie and other fifty or so people, Lu Bu handed it over to Ding Hong to supervise him, and told him to let these people make weapons.Jiang Lie, a master swordsmith who claims to be a go-getter and successor of Mo Xie, naturally, Lu Bu would not waste his time, and quickly let him show his brilliance and work hard for Lu Bu.

In the morning of the same day, more than 200 people including Lu Bu and Fu Yong left Cangwu County and entered Nanhai County.

Lu Bu planned to quietly go to [Sihui County] and [Zhongsu County] in the west of Nanhai County to see how Gao Shun and Xi Zhicai are managing these two counties, and how the sweet potato planting is going.

On the way to Sihui County, they passed [Huishui Pass], and Lu Bu asked the guard to inform Gao Shun and Xi Zhicai half a day later.

After they entered [Huishuiguan], they patrolled along a river called [Suijiang] in Sihui County.

Not long after, they came to a township in Sihui County.The people in the village are busy. They have planted all the sweet potatoes in their arable land, and now they are reclaiming wasteland in full swing.

Lu Bu and others informed the guards in the village, and similarly told the guards not to reveal their whereabouts for half a day.After setting up the cavalry, he took Fu Yong with more than [-] people. They all took off their armor and carried only knives, and went to patrol around the village.

"You said, can these reclaimed cultivated land really be given to us?"

"Didn't General Gao and Mr. Xi say that not only the arable land we reclaimed by ourselves belongs to us, but also how much we can harvest from planting sweet potatoes is completely given to us."

"If this is the case, that would be great. It's really an eye-opener from the heavens, allowing us to have our own farmland. We can also have something to look forward to in the days to come. Thank God, General Gao and Mr. Xi!"

The vast majority of sharecroppers look forward to owning their own fields and living a life without starvation.

However, a discordant voice came from the side.

"Don't dream, don't forget that we are tenant farmers. If we own our own arable land, are we still tenant farmers?" A scruffy man in his late fifties sat on the ground and said lazily.

After living for most of his life, he has seen many things clearly.These are not bad ideas that the government and the gentry came up with, they are nothing more than trying to make them desperately reclaim more arable land for the government and the gentry.

He is not so stupid, it will not do them any good, but it will be exhausted.Now he is lazy if he can.

These tenant farmers were designed by Gao Shun and Xi Zhicai to force the gentry to give them out, otherwise there would be so many people reclaiming wasteland.

Under Xi Zhicai's suggestion, Gao Shun did not attack these gentry.In Xi Zhicai's view, no matter which state the gentry is in, they are an important group that the governor needs to rely on.

Not to mention far away, in [Sihui County] and [Zhongsu County], most of the literati and generals are from the gentry.Talents basically come from the gentry, and these talents are needed to govern the local area, so the gentry should not be suppressed excessively.

"You are not dreaming!"

Hearing the conversation of these people, Lu Bu approached and said to the dozens of tenant farmers who opened up wasteland in front of him.

Everyone turned their heads and saw that Lu Bu and the others were all carrying swords but no armor, so they thought they were bandits.

"Are you bandits?"

Dozens of tenant farmers were trembling with fright, and instinctively picked up the farm tools in their hands.Not desperately, but self-defense.

Seeing this situation, the more than 30 soldiers behind Lu Bu were about to draw their swords.But he was stopped by Lu Bu. With a smile on his face, Lu Bu said to dozens of tenant farmers: "I am not a thief, but a man who you promised to cultivate as much land as you want, and he is also the new owner of Nanhai County. .”

Dozens of tenant farmers were shocked. They heard that Nanhai County had changed hands. Could this young man be the new owner?Most of them couldn't believe it.

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