Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 454 Jianye Taicang
After the Battle of Ziyun Mountain, the North and the South fell into a period of peace.

On Cao Wei's side, Cao Pi was seriously ill, and his flags and drums died down.

Because Cao Pi vomited blood several times, as if he was dying of illness, the news spread, which made Cao Wei panic.

When the southern Han Dynasty heard the news, they were naturally rejoiced. Zhuge Liang personally sat in Wancheng and began to train soldiers to prepare for the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

The imperial court continued to adopt the policy of recuperating with the people, actively encouraging agricultural production, developing commerce, handicraft manufacturing, and the pharmaceutical industry, especially the pharmaceutical industry, mainly the development of gynecology.

The mortality rate of children in ancient times was very exaggerated. Cao Cao was already extremely hard at giving birth, and he was a top dignitary, and he used the best doctors and medicines. Even so, half of the 25 children died young, which shows that the mortality rate is low. how high.

Therefore, in order to gain more population, the imperial court attaches great importance to medicine, and the establishment of an official medical office must ensure that every township has an infirmary, and every county must have a large number of medical personnel, even if it can reduce the premature death rate also good.

In addition to these basic measures, the Han court is also actively exploring south.Shen Chen has already pointed out that the miasma in the south mainly comes from mosquitoes, leeches, and bacteria from decayed animal and plant corpses in the primeval forest.

People are afraid of the unknown.

When the truth of the miasma is revealed and there is a way to prevent it, the development of the south has become an inevitable trend.

However, these policies have only just begun, and they will have to wait until the future if they want to achieve something.

So there is no obvious benefit yet.

The only good thing is that in the second half of the seventh year of Zhangwu, the population and household registration statistics of Dahan exceeded 500 million.

In recent years, more than 20 newborns have been born in the Han Dynasty every year. The most important thing is that people in the north continue to flee to the south, especially in Henan and other places. A large number of villagers left Cao Wei and fled to Nanyang, Huainan and other places.

The reason is that Cao Wei's exploitation was relatively high. In the early history, when Cao Cao was farming, he could barely reach five to five, but in the middle and late stages, the exploitation rate reached seventy-three or eighty-two.

After a year of hard work in growing grain and harvesting, the Cao Wei government took away [-]% or even [-]% of the harvest. During the period of Cao Fang and Cao Huan, the ratio even reached [-]%. Who can stand it?
Therefore, after the farmers in Henan have been increasingly exploited in recent years, a large number of people have fled to the south.

At the beginning, Cao Wei’s garrison army could still be controlled, but after the war started, Cao Wei’s troops were tense, and a large number of soldiers were transferred to the front line, resulting in a serious shortage of people in the rear to guard the garrison people. Many garrison people took the opportunity to escape from the Dabie Mountains to Nanyang or Jiang Xia.

There were even many peasants in the fields who launched an uprising, which seriously threatened Cao Wei's farming system in Henan. As a result, there is now a large area of ​​wasteland in Henan that no one cultivates.

As the population in the south increases, new construction work will naturally be carried out.So the Northern Expedition slowly came to a standstill, and by October, all the newly harvested autumn grains in Yangzhou and other places were in place.

According to the past practice, after the local governments have collected the grain and grass, except for some places that are retained for development, most of them have to be transported to Jianye.

Therefore, Taicang in Jianye East City is the busiest time in October.

In ancient times, warehouses were often built near water sources. The warehouses were not afraid of humidity, and there were moisture-proof measures, but the fear was fire.Jianye's Taicang was built in Longzangpu in Dongcheng, which is the same as Luoyang Taicang built in Luoshui outside Dongcheng.

October [-]th, today's Dongshi market, people come and go very lively.At the end of the afternoon, Jiao Cheng walked out of the house.

Because there are no high-ranking officials with more than two thousand stones in the court, the Shanyin Jiao family cannot be regarded as a family, but can only be regarded as a wealthy family.But the tribe is still all over the world, such as the hero Jiao Zhongqing in "The Peacock Flies Southeast".

There is also the former general of Yuan Xi, and now the general of Cao Wei Zhenglu, Tinghou Jiaochu.

After Jiao Chu surrendered to Cao Cao, he was named Liehou, and his name was also included in the "Wei Gongqing Shangzunhao Zuo" which he presented to Cao Pi to persuade him to become emperor.

Because they had no connections in the southern imperial court, the Jiao family also refused to hand over their land property and servants, and were suppressed by the imperial court. Until now, Jiao Cheng also got a position as a Taicang official.

Following the millet market outside the east gate all the way to Taicang, Jiao Cheng went in the direction of the warehouse after the Taicang Lingcheng official's office at the wharf nodded.

At this time, the wharf on the Qinhuai River on the right is already full of boats.

In addition to fire prevention, the most important thing for the granary built by the river is transportation. The grain can be quickly stored in the warehouse by transporting grain by boat, without the need to transport grain from land again, which greatly reduces the labor cost.

When Jiao Cheng came over, his colleagues were already instructing the wharf to unload the cargo, and the incoming and outgoing cargo of each warehouse had to be registered, once at the dock and once at the warehouse.

Therefore, Taicang officials will direct the goods in and out at the docks and warehouse gates.

Seeing him coming, a familiar colleague smiled and said, "Ji Ren, why are you here so late today? Why did you go last night?"

"What can you do?" Jiao Cheng yawned and said, "Aren't you sleeping at home?"

"I think it's been a half-night quarrel with your wife."

Colleagues laughed.

Even though Jiao Cheng was in the afternoon class, he usually came in middle school or middle school, but today he arrived much later than usual.

Who doesn't know that Jiao Cheng got married again recently?

It's normal to be noisy for a long time.

What surprised his colleagues was that Jiao Cheng answered absently, then looked at the ships and said, "How many more ships came today?"

"More than 100 ships."

Another colleague is sitting under the kiosk on the shore and using a brush to register the goods in the warehouse to which he belongs.

Jiao Touch turned his head and saw boats parked densely on the river.

In addition to storing and adjusting grain prices, the grain in Taicang is the most important thing for the frontline military grain.

The new prefect of Danyang is from Yizhou. A few days ago, the state government officials held a meeting and requested that next year's grain be sent to the front line by the end of October at the latest.

Guan Yu's main force currently has 8 people stationed in the Lujiang and Jiujiang areas. Calculated on the average that each soldier consumes two to three shi in one month, the annual consumption of grain and grass is calculated in millions of shi.

So the first task now is to ensure the delivery of military rations.

The grain collected from various places is sent to Taicang at different times, and the military rations must be new grains of the year. Therefore, Taicang is now replacing old grains with new grains, and large quantities of the original old grains will be put on the market.

This can not only reduce the price of grain on the market, but also use these old grains to make wine, feed livestock, or transport them to places where there is a shortage of grain to supplement the local grain stock.

At present, the southern Han Dynasty still achieved a considerable degree of material circulation through the water transport network of the Yangtze River.The imperial court built a large number of warehouses on both sides of the Yangtze River. Once a disaster occurs in a certain place, the materials can be quickly transferred by water to relieve the victims and quell the disaster.

Under such a relatively perfect system, the price of food in the south has been decreasing in recent years, and the living standards of the people have been improving day by day.Compared with the north, which is still in famine, the south is quite rich.

The main reason lies in the increase in productivity, and grain production has increased significantly through double-cropping rice.The large number of people farming has resulted in an oversupply of food.

Shen Chen actually knows little about governing the country, not as good as Zhuge Liang.

However, high school politics and history taught him a truth, that is, if there is too much food and too many people producing food, it will also harm the development of the country.

Therefore, he suggested that Zhuge Liang develop handicraft manufacturing and commerce in the south, so that a certain population could be separated from production and speed up economic circulation.

As a result, the south not only developed rapidly in agriculture, but also in economic and cultural development.

At least under the system of the imperial examination system, all counties began to set up county schools and township schools, especially in the Jiangdong area, where the style of writing gradually prevailed.

Jiao Cheng himself had passed the exam twice, and he passed the second time. Unfortunately, he failed the political examination. The elders in his family were too stubborn, and they kept beating him to death for refusing to hand over the land, which ruined his future.

Otherwise, Jiao Cheng should not be an official now, but transferred to Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places to become an official.

He walked on the pier with a dignified expression, and inspected the warehouse with several other colleagues. The warehouse was on the north side of the pier, and the warehouses were lined up like a dense market.

Each warehouse is protected by fences. Each warehouse is 45 steps long and [-] steps wide, and can store thousands of shi of grain. There are hundreds of such warehouses in Taicang, and they can store millions of shi at most.

Jiao Cheng and the others are only responsible for the warehouse they are in, such as counting grain, registering and making books, etc. As long as they complete the warehouse tasks they are responsible for, they will basically be much more relaxed.

The warehouses in charge of several people are adjacent to each other, helping to count the goods together.Jiao Cheng entered his own warehouse, where there were carts and workers pulling grain in and out as they walked through.

There were two colleagues guarding the door, and when they saw him coming, one of them threw a pen and paper to him and said, "This morning, we put in [-] shi from the warehouse and [-] shi out of the warehouse. , make no mistake."

"Ah."

Jiao Cheng responded with a little emotion.

The granary is the most important thing, so the two-person three-shift system is adopted. The dock is responsible for delivering goods to each warehouse, and then the warehouse must also be counted and registered.

From the morning of Pingdan to the end of the first shift, two people go to work, the warehouse opens, and the goods start to be shipped.

Then there is the afternoon shift, from the end of the day to the end of the evening, that is, from 1 pm to 9 pm.

After that, it is the work of the night patrol soldiers, and the warehouse will continue to patrol until the end of Pingdan the next morning, that is, 5 o'clock in the morning.

And not only patrolling in the middle of the night, soldiers also patrol during the day, but not inside the granary, but outside. It can be said that food security is guaranteed 24 hours a day.

The colleague went to work early in the morning and was a little tired after working all morning and wanted to take a nap, but he didn't care about Jiao Cheng's attitude, and left after handing over the work in hand.

The other colleagues have their own warehouses. Jiao Cheng should sit on the afternoon shift with another colleague, but that colleague told him yesterday that he will be late for something this morning, so ask him to help with the order. He will be late .

It happened that a batch of new goods had been delivered, and under normal circumstances the next batch of goods would be delayed, Jiao Cheng turned his head and looked at the warehouse, and he was actually the only one in the Dingshier warehouse where he was in a short period of time.

This is a matter that is extremely inconsistent with the regulations. Once it is discovered by the higher authorities, it will definitely be held accountable.

Seeing this, several workers in the distance walked to Ding Shier's warehouse, and one of them had a chat with Jiao Touch.

Holding the pen and paper in his hand, Jiao Cheng hesitated for a while, then put the pen and paper down, and went into the warehouse. He saw that the warehouse was full of grain and grass. The entrance on the right was new grain, and the position on the left was old grain. grain.

Now almost all the old grain has been evacuated, and there is not much left. According to the usual practice, he should check it. Jiao Cheng walked into the warehouse, his forehead began to drip sweat, and his face was not very good-looking.

After a while, he came out of the room, his face was already sallow and almost pale, but finally he managed to calm himself down and started to prepare for today's work at the door.

"Ji Ren, what's wrong with you?"

About two quarters of an hour later, the colleague who was on duty with him hurried over. Seeing that his condition was not very good, he wondered, "What happened?"

"It's nothing."

Jiao Chengqiang smiled.

"Oh, I asked at the pier just now, the next batch will come in a quarter of an hour, let's go and check first."

Colleagues responded.

Jiao Cheng said: "I have already checked."

"That's fine."

When the colleague heard that he had checked it, he didn't care, and pulled the chair by the door to sit down and wait for the next batch of grain and grass.

In recent years, tables and chairs have also become popular in the South.

Although this thing comes from the Hu stool in the Western Regions, I heard that the Hussar general liked it very much and often said that sitting on a chair is good for the body, so many handmade manufacturers began to create various tables and chairs.

The upper-class dignitaries still maintain the etiquette of sitting on the ground, but the lower-level people feel that the tables and chairs are useful, so they gradually expand.

Soon new grain and grass were brought in again. While carrying them, a worker casually said something about the smell of fish, which made Jiao Cheng's face change drastically.

Another worker said that there is a pier next to it, and it is normal to have a fishy smell, and this is the past.

The sky gradually darkened.

In the evening, today's work is almost done.

Colleagues and Jiao Cheng stayed on guard until the end of the evening, and then they locked their warehouses to leave work.

There are more than 200 Taicang officials like them in the surrounding warehouses.

Taicang is very big, and besides the river, there are three main passages.

His colleague lived in a different place from him, so Jiao Cheng went towards the west gate and parted at the entrance of a warehouse.

The warehouse door was still open, and dozens of Taicang officials lined up to go out from the west gate, while groups of soldiers entered the warehouse from the other side.

Jiao Cheng tried his best to keep calm. He saw the granary soldiers stepping neatly along the passage between the warehouses.

The gate of the warehouse behind him was slowly closed, and open flames were not allowed inside, so only the high tower lighting was built outside Taicang.

With the light of the fire, Jiao Cheng could see the serious faces of those young soldiers.

At that moment, Jiao Cheng had entanglements in his heart.

However, when he saw a companion on the other side looking at him solemnly, Jiao Cheng gritted his teeth and lowered his head to move forward.

There is more than one Nei Ying who put fish paste oil in Taicang like him.

If he can't bear to blow himself up, the whole family will suffer!

(End of this chapter)