Prime Minister

Chapter 690 Management
Is Tuntian easy?

It is not easy.

The rapid development of industry lies in the concentration of industries and the concentration of population, so the rapid development of science and technology.

But agriculture is different. The common people are united by one village and one village is far away from each other, so it is difficult to produce agglomeration effect.

But as far as farming is concerned, it requires very complicated knowledge and experience, so there are a lot of agricultural books written in various countries, but it is difficult to popularize.

Zhang Yue decisively wrote to Guo Kui, asking him to move some old farmers familiar with farming from Weizhou and Longzhou on Qinfeng Road to Weiyuan Fort.Zhang Yue promised to exempt them from taxation for five years, or give them ten acres of barren land, or give them the treatment of farming cattle.

Then Zhang Yue asked Peng Jingyi to stay in Qinzhou City and set up a "farmer recruitment office", promising that no matter whether you are a poor and settled household, or a prisoner who was confiscated into the army or assassinated, as long as you are willing to come to Weiyuan Fort, you will be given [-] yuan per population to settle down.

But when Huang Haoyi heard that Zhang Yue sent Peng Jingyi to Qinzhou instead of himself, he couldn't help complaining.

Zhang Yue knew that Huang Haoyi was afraid of suffering in Weiyuan Fort and wanted to go to the more comfortable Qinzhou.

Zhang Yue knew what he was thinking, but Huang Haoyi was a scholar and didn't know how to deal with ordinary people. As for Peng Jingyi, he was different. He traveled all over the world for many years, had contact with all kinds of people, and he was even able to read and write.Let him go to Qinzhou to manage, Zhang Yue is also very relieved.

After all, Qinzhou is the center of Qinfeng Road, so it is very necessary to have a capable and reassuring person here.

Since Huang Haoyi likes leisure and hates work, Zhang Yue needs to put him in Weiyuan to suffer.Under Peng Jingyi's solicitation, many people came to join him, many of them with their families.

Shaanxi is in a warring place, and the service is heavy. The people heard that there is a thousand yuan per person for settlement, so they signed up one after another.Later, Peng Jingyi dropped to [-] yuan per person, and many people still came to join him.

So since Peng Jingyi was stationed in Qinzhou, dozens or even hundreds of people arrived in Weiyuan every few days.

When the common people arrived at Weiyuan with money in their pockets under the escort of the Xiang army, they were all apprehensive.

Yang Datou is one of them, and he doesn't know what he will face in the future.Yang Datou is his nickname. As the name suggests, he was small and big, and his mother was killed when he was born. His father disliked him, and he was often beaten since he was a child.

Even the brothers and sisters never called him when they were eating.

When Yang Datou has leftovers, he will support him, and if he doesn't have leftovers, he will be hungry.

When Yang Datou entered Qinzhou City, he heard about Weiyuan's solicitation of farm laborers, and he still had [-] yuan for settling-in allowances.

He was moved.

After taking the Anjia money, he bought himself a pair of shoes with fifty dollars. He had never worn such good shoes in his life.Satisfied, Yang Datou gave the rest of the settling expenses to his family and set off for Weiyuan without telling where he was going.

When Yang Datou traveled hundreds of miles and arrived at Weiyuan Fort, he couldn't help feeling uneasy in his heart, whether his new employer would treat them well.

He has also worked for others before, and his employers are all powerful people, watching the hired workers for fear that they will steal things, break the farm tools, and even more afraid that they will be lazy.

At the same time, they are not fed too much. Only during the Chinese New Year can they have a tooth-beating sacrifice, and they can see some meat.

When he arrived at Weiyuan Fort, the officer at the side read a document with him, and he was not allowed to flee for two years, and after the two-year period expired, he would either be given three guans of money or ten acres of land.

Qin Zhou had explained these words before, and Yang Datou pressed his fingerprints without hesitation.

Then someone led him to a room full of tables next to him, but he saw a big pot outside the room cooking porridge.Cooking the porridge were two strong women who kept stirring the porridge with large spoons.

The aroma of rice porridge wafted away, making Yang Datou's stomach growl, he had no choice but to tighten his belt.

"sit down."

Yang Datou obeyed the order blankly and sat down, and then the women brought a bowl full of mutton porridge.

Yang Datou scooped it up with a spoon, but seeing that it was a large piece of mutton, he rubbed his eyes involuntarily.

The woman looked at Yang Datou's stiff look, and couldn't help laughing: "The sheriff ordered that newcomers should have a good meal first."

Yang Datou nodded, the mutton in this bowl was more than the mutton he had eaten in his whole life.

He swallowed most of it whole, and he was about to stop and eat the rest of the porridge slowly, but at this time the woman came in with a bucket and refilled Yang Datou's bowl.

Seeing this, Yang Datou immediately regretted it, he would have just finished eating if he knew it.

Yang Datou saw the same thing with the people around him.

After eating porridge, soldiers led them away immediately.

Yang Datou thought to himself that he was able to work earlier, so he could repay his boss' kindness so well, and he had never seen such a generous boss.

But the soldiers did not arrange for him to work, but led him to a room and gave him a robe and a shirt in return.

Yang Datou looked at the robe and clothes for a long time, speechless, this is the most decent clothes he has ever worn in his life.

Then Yang Datou and others were taken to stand in an open space, and an officer gave them a lecture, roughly saying that they should work hard, no stealing, no doing anything, and most importantly, no harassment of women.

When he said this sentence, Yang Datou looked at the sturdy soldiers on the left and right, and immediately nodded repeatedly to show that he understood.

In the end, Yang Datou was taken to the city to meet a person, who said that this person was the sheriff.

Yang Datou opened his mouth wide when he heard it, but before he could react, he followed the crowd and knelt down.

The other party just smiled and said a few words.

As for Zhang Yue, he was also very pleased to see more people joining in. In a short period of time, more than a thousand people had gathered near Weiyuan Fort.

In addition to the Han people, Zhang Yue also allowed the nearby Fan tribes to camp.

There were three or five small tribes near Weiyuan, all of whom belonged to Muzheng. Once the Song army arrived, they knew that they could not resist, so they took advantage of the situation.

The Tibetan tribe in the Qing and Tang Dynasties was half Han and half Tibetan, and many of them were Han people. They also cultivated acres on weekdays, but the level of their farming was not high, similar to the level of slash-and-burn farming.

Zhang Yue carried out the policy of organizing households and regulating the people for these Tibetan tribes, and at the same time taught them how to grant land.

Zhang Yue's recruitment here broke the previous practice. For example, Zhang Yue did not use one hundred mu as one hectare, but twenty or thirty mu as a section.

Because the land of the Fan people is criss-crossed, it is really difficult to prepare the land according to a hundred acres.

Therefore, Zhang Yue made [-] or [-] mu a section, and at the same time took one-tenth of the income as tax.

At the same time, an archer will be dispatched every three to five stages.

On weekdays, these Fan tribe archers live scattered among the tents, and at the same time they can also pay for food. When it comes to war, they can be drawn into the army, and they don't need to spend a penny to raise soldiers.

After the surrender of the nearby Fan tribe, Wang Hou saw that the situation in Weiyuan was stable, so he immediately went to Qingpingbao to repair the city with [-] soldiers and civilians.

The Mengluojiao and Moer Shuiba tribes that were defeated by Wang Shao at the beginning expressed their willingness to offer soil and surrender. Zhang Yue agreed, and ordered the two tribes to send their hostages, and then asked them to assist Wang Hou in building the city.

At the same time, Zhang Yue also adopted the method of registering households for the two ministries of Mengluojiao and Mo'er Shuiba, allowing them to work in the fields, and then deducting taxes at eleven.

As for Zhang Yue's camping in Weiyuan, his dissatisfaction with the family Qimin of the Fan tribe, and his occupation of Yantian, finally aroused Mu Zheng's dissatisfaction.

On the one hand, he went to the various ministries in Xizhou and Hezhou to gather troops and horses, and at the same time sent people to Lanzhou to ask the Xixia people to send troops for assistance. On the other hand, he sent envoys to Weiyuan to ask Zhang Yue why he made progress.

(End of this chapter)