Lonely non-good minister

And money is the most indispensable thing for these emperors and nobles.

With the conditions for negotiation, many things are convenient to negotiate. In order to make them pay more willingly, Song Yuan specially took An Zhoushi to the yamen.

An Zhoushi was thin and disabled. This appearance made everyone suspicious, but the flowerpots held by more than a dozen guards behind him made people curious. Each flowerpot was covered with a black cloth bag. Find out what's inside.

Song Yuan didn't explain much, and invited An Zhou to go in, and a dozen flower pots were neatly placed on the table, all the cloth bags were untied, and luxuriant seedlings appeared in front of everyone. .

A group of wealthy sons and gentlemen don't know these things, and even the agricultural officials who follow them rarely recognize them all.

"These are all kinds of crop seeds and seedlings I have collected. They grow in the wild, and they also came from the Western Regions hundreds of years ago. These things are all products with good yield and unique flavor. They are not the best now, but they only need to be planted. For a few seasons, select the best among the best, and then graft them together with other crops of the same genus, that would be even better." An Zhou didn't panic when talking about his favorite things, he pointed at the seedlings with his bare arms, carefully After explaining the planting methods and precautions to everyone, the officials of Sinonong immediately took out pens and paper and recorded them carefully.

Song Yuan withdrew from the house. An Zhoushi's ability was enough to make these people pay willingly, and there was nothing she needed to worry about. Now she just had to deal with the herds of cattle and sheep.

According to the law of the Great Wei Dynasty, these cattle and sheep must be sent to Jingzhao. It is not a trivial matter to send all the more than 2 cattle and sheep, so they negotiated to send [-] cattle and sheep to Beijing in addition to the plow cattle needed for land reclamation. Zhao, after Jingzhao finished processing the [-] cattle and sheep, he will send another [-]. Jingzhao wrote back and agreed to this method.

It's just that how to arrange the other [-] cattle and sheep made Song Yuan face a difficult situation.

Winter will soon come after the autumn harvest, and the cattle and sheep will starve to death when they go up the mountain without fodder, and it will also delay opening up wasteland. Continuing to raise them in the previous pasture will delay her construction of water conservancy projects during the rainy season. But how to raise so many cattle and sheep in winter is also a problem.

Can't the yamen pay for it?

She went back to her study and looked at the official documents of the county magistrate and other officials, which were full of nonsense, but none of them came up with a feasible solution, and she couldn't help becoming more irritable.

Twenty or so people couldn't come up with a brain.

"My lord." The guard brought several rolls of blueprints: "Here's the water conservancy map."

Song Yuan first put the garbage official documents aside, opened the water conservancy map and looked at it, she wanted to build water conservancy, so she asked the officials in charge of water conservancy to draw up the blueprint first, but when the blueprint was opened, it smelled stale, and it didn't look like new at all. drawn.

"Call someone over." Song Yuan felt that he had been fooled.

The guards quickly called the official in charge of the water conservancy. He was a middle-aged man with a round, fair face and a beard. Seeing Song Yuan carefully looking at the water conservancy map, he was calm and calm. She probably couldn't understand it at all.

"When was this drawing prepared?" Song Yuan put down the drawing: "You tell the truth."

The middle-aged man cupped his hands and bowed: "Returning to my lord, this blueprint has been around for four or five years. It was carefully designed by a master back then, and it was also sent to the imperial court for the purpose."

"So you want to tell me that this thing can still be used now?" Song Yuan walked down and stopped in front of him: "I don't know how long it's been since you went outside the city to see that there are two places where houses have been built on the blueprint. Villages in some places have been moved away and abandoned due to floods, two roads have been diverted, and a river has been moved. It doesn’t matter if you borrow the previous blueprints, you should at least go outside, right?”

A trace of panic flashed across the face of the middle-aged man, he lowered his head and dared not speak.

"I'll give you one more chance to take it back and modify it." Her tone was very calm. Although she didn't get angry, the middle-aged man didn't dare to refute. She stepped forward and took the blueprint and left immediately.

These people were perfunctory in handling the facts. Although it was not the first time I had seen it, Song Yuan was still angry. She sat down and continued to read the official documents on handling cattle and sheep, and finally found a bright spot in a rough paper document.

'Although cattle and sheep are the wealth of the wealthy gentry in Leping, they can also be the wealth of the people in Leping. If they can be used carefully, the people's households will be happy if they have livestock. More than [-] cattle and sheep are now ready to breed. Leaving the female animals behind, Leping will have several thousand more cattle and sheep in February and March of the next year. This will not hurt Leping's power even if the court punishes them severely. I hope your lord will think about it. Although the people need to open up wasteland in autumn and winter, the leftovers from the autumn harvest can still be used to raise cattle and sheep. Therefore, the cattle and sheep can be scattered among the families and kept by the people. If the cubs are bred during this period, they will be owned by the people. , It can also reduce the pressure on the Yamen. '

Song Yuan carefully read his official document twice, thought it over carefully, and decided that this person's idea was feasible, so she immediately took the official document to find Mu Lin.

Mu Lin had just finished his work, and when he saw Song Yuan coming, he stood up and clasped his fists: "I heard that Mr. Juncheng invited Mr. over, why isn't your lord here to accompany you?"

"I'm busy with official business, and I've been delayed for two days. I'm not missing now." Song Yuan handed over the official document: "We've had a headache these days about how to house these cattle and sheep. I read many people's suggestions and think that this The method people said is still feasible, so please take a look at Master Mu."

After taking a closer look, Mu Lin laughed: "This is a good idea, but there are not many people who have a good autumn harvest this year. I'm afraid there are not so many capable people. If the people who want to raise them can spontaneously provide grass to feed cattle Sheep, after the cows and sheep give birth to their cubs, it will be fine to distribute them together.”

"Although this method sounds good, it is difficult to judge how much effort will be put in. So I think that several families can be in charge of two cows at the same time, one male and one female. If a calf is born, it will still be raised by these families until it can be cultivated. At that time, they will also assign them to help with farming, and as for the sheep, they will be voluntarily chosen by the people, and then they will find a way to deal with them. If it is really impossible, the sheep will be sent to Jingzhao first.”

Mu Lin nodded: "That's fine, some can be solved. Now is the time when the vegetation is the most lush. Now that the decree is issued, the people can also stock up more grass. In this way, it will save weeding when building water conservancy projects. thing."

His thoughts coincided with his own, Song Yuan didn't delay, and immediately went back to consider the government order.

She was still busy, and after listening to An Zhou's class, all the grandsons and nobles came, "Yuan'er is really lucky to find such a powerful gentleman. I am a brother but not talented. I have a heartless request. I want to invite Mr. An." Come to my place for a year to guide and guide, and Yuan'er can open his mouth about money."

"Cousin wants to poach corners?" Song Yuan felt that this group of people were really greedy, just give money to teach you, why are you still thinking about getting them away?Which family eats with a pot?