The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 65 Spring plowing begins
Liu Tai planned policies, and Chu Hui supplemented the decrees.

I have to say that Liu Tai did not expect that Chu Hui usually seemed quite idle, but when he really worked, he had a very strong execution ability. He even had the energy to race against time, scheduling his time to the full and kept working. live.

There are no capitalists who don't like their subordinates to be like this. Anyway, King Juan only hurts those of his own class and those below him, and he can't hurt Liu Tai. Liu Tai wished that he could roll more powerfully.

Under Chu Hui's trend, the entire Taishan County recovered almost at a speed visible to the naked eye.

First of all, those soldiers in the army who are over 25 years old are assigned to be women of appropriate age.

These women of the right age were all captive women from wealthy families. Liu Tai proposed a classification standard to classify women.

One is to master knowledge and know how to read and write. The most important thing is that women who can read "Han Shu" are divided into one category.

Second, female workers who have mastered weaving skills, especially advanced weaving technologies such as Jacquard machines, are divided into one category.

The third category is the female dependents who have no skills.

For the first category of female intellectuals, Liu Tai was prepared to train them in the direction of female teachers.

When preparing to set up a primary school in the future, let them be teachers and even give them a certain degree of freedom and respect.

There is no way, there are too few scholars, so as long as these women can read and read "Han Shu" fluently, they can basically be selected.

The second category of women and the third category of women allow soldiers in the army who are over 25 years old but not yet married to choose concubines at will.

A soldier can only choose one person. Whether he is willing to straighten the woman or not is just a matter for the person concerned. Anyway, Liu Tai will not interfere.

But the second category of women who are selected will be sent to weaving factories. Liu Tai wants to train them to be weavers. As for the third category, they can only be used for work like slaves. .

Of course, if a very beautiful woman appears, it is usually reserved for people with the rank of village chief or above.

It has to be said that sometimes men are very self-aware. Even if the soldiers are allowed to choose their female relatives, the vast majority of those selected in the end are delicate women who have mastered textile skills or strong women who can do physical work or even go to the ground.

On the contrary, from a modern perspective, some charming women who were weak and weak were despised by the soldiers.

Liu Tai personally presided over the selection ceremony of the soldiers, allowing the soldiers to take these women back happily.

However, this selection of female relatives was just an appetizer. The work of demobilizing from the army began the next day.

Anyone over 35 years old in the army will be forced to retire, but after retirement, Liu Tai did not just ignore them, but arranged them to some small posts of [-] shi in Taishan County, or to the manors established by Liu Tai Worked as a steward, etc., or even as the head of the anti-robbery booth in some small villages in Taishan County.

These have been made clear to them, and the purpose is to truly control the entire Taishan County.

Most of these positions were originally held by aristocratic families, and the people who held them were inextricably linked to the aristocratic families.

Now that the wealthy families have been driven away, Liu Tai naturally wants to capture these grassroots positions.

Since Liu Tai didn't have many manpower, these veterans who had withdrawn from his army naturally became the best choice to help him control the situation at the grassroots level.

If you don't even control the various rights at the grassroots level, then how can you be considered to control Taishan County.

At least these veterans are very satisfied with the fact that they can still get these positions after retiring from the battlefield.

And as Liu Tai specially arranged the veterans' retirement ceremony, the veterans felt that they were not hanging out with Liu Tai in vain.

It also made the recruits feel that if they followed Liu Tai well, they would be able to survive droughts and floods in the future, which strengthened the team's confidence.

After the veterans are discharged from the army, the most important ceremony of land granting begins.

First of all, you must be serving soldiers with military exploits, and secondly, you must apply on a household basis. This is why you are asked to select female dependents earlier.

Even if there is only one steward in your family, it is fine to recruit some tenants to come over and cultivate your family's fields in the future, but if it is just one person, he will never be allowed to grant the land.

The man who wanted to grant the land received his wife a few days ago, and now that he has received the land, he can be considered a wife and a house owner.

More young soldiers feel that they can endure it a little longer. After all, Liu Taifa has a wife at the age of 25 and retires at the age of 35. They feel that they have a good chance of doing better and do not need to sell themselves out so early.

"Xu Tou, you have received two hundred acres of land!" Li Si couldn't help but feel envious as he watched Chief Xu get the land deed in his hand!

Tuen Chang Xu looked at Li Si, who was less than 20 years old, and smiled with his brown teeth.
"Xiao Li, why don't you also find a mother-in-law? With a mother-in-law in charge of the money, Liu Huben will give us farmland!"

"I still want to give it a try. If I become a village chief like you, I will be more beautiful if I get a mother-in-law! It would be even better if I could read!" Li Si said with some envy but also some determination.

"Literacy? Liu Huben is very precious. You are afraid that you have to become a school captain to get it!" Xu Tou shook his head.

To be honest, the soldiers below did not understand why Liu Tai treasured these literate female relatives so much.

But Liu Tai does not eat alone. As long as he is illiterate, Liu Tai has no interest no matter how beautiful he is.

So the soldiers below thought Liu Tai had some special hobby.

But no matter what, Liu Tai's move of letting the soldiers choose their female relatives still made the soldiers quite supportive of Liu Tai.

After all, normal people will support a regime that gives them wives.

"The Taishan soldiers didn't fight much, but quite a few went up to claim the land!" Li Si turned around and looked at the Taishan soldiers and couldn't help but muttered.

"Don't be jealous. This is Taishan's life. This is his fate!" Xu Tou patted Li Sidao.

"We are all Han people. There is no distinction between Taishan and Taishan!" Zhang He said as soon as he came out, "We take it as our own duty to defeat the Jin Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty. The people in Taishan County are also Han people. According to Liu Huben's words, we just want to unite them. Those who resist the Jin court!"

When the two of them saw Zhang He coming to teach him, they nodded and didn't dare to say no.

However, because the locals in Taishan County have local household registration, the soldiers will receive a certain degree of preferential treatment.

For the veterans in Liu Tai's army, this matter is still somewhat discordant.

After all, in the eyes of these veteran soldiers, the thousand quotas allocated by Liu Tai for the soldiers of Taishan County were originally theirs. However, in order to unite the local soldiers of Taishan County, Liu Tai ended up giving these quotas to those who did not contribute to the war. Taishan died.

Under such circumstances, it would be strange to say that the veterans who followed Liu Tai had nothing to do.The recruits in Taishan County naturally blushed a little when they heard this. After all, everyone has a face.

The army paid more attention to the issue of face. This war had nothing to do with them. As a result, Liu Tai was given a total of 15 acres of land, and Taishan registered soldiers took away one third. This land was very hot to hold!
Of course, a hot hand is a hot hand. If any of the Taishan soldiers refuse, I'm afraid they will be severely beaten.

Liu Tai was not surprised that Taishan soldiers had conflicts with his own veterans.

After all, Liu Tai, who came from his previous life, knows very well that there are not many ways to resolve conflicts, but there are a lot of ways to cover up or deflect them.

After all, sooner or later, your Yuancong faction will have conflicts with the local factions in your area. However, it depends on your own skills on how to make reasonable use of conflicts, how to suppress conflicts, and prevent internal conflicts from becoming your own problems.

As the field distribution ceremony in the army ended, neither Liu Tai nor Chu Hui relaxed at all.

Not only these two people, but also the ingenious team led by Jie Fei who had been paddling in Liu Taijiu's camp came in handy.

That is to let the people who have obtained the fields quickly carry out replanting and spring plowing, while the ingenuity team is working hard to produce spring plowing tools.

Although it was already the end of March, the people who had obtained the fields naturally began to cultivate.

Because the land distributed was all mature fields, people who had mastered the ridge cultivation method could quickly cultivate the fields and start planting.

"Why are they planting corn?" Liu Tai looked at the slaves cultivating corn in the collective farm, full of confusion.

In the past, he was either at war or training in the military camp, and did not personally take charge of a county, so Liu Tai actually didn't know much about the people farming.

But now that I am really in charge, I look at the people plowing in the spring, and I suddenly find that what the people are planting is not the wheat I remember, and I can't help but feel a little confused.

After all, there is rice in the south and wheat in the north. This has been Liu Tai's impression since ancient times, but he didn't expect that it didn't exist in this era.

So Liu Tai found Chu Hui and said, "Don't we grow wheat in the farmland here?"

"Compared to corn, wheat rice is more troublesome to handle, and it will be very unpalatable if left unprocessed. Therefore, northern families may grow wheat rice, but for ordinary people in Shengdou, growing corn is relatively cost-effective!"

Chu Hui thought for a while and then said seriously to Liu Tai, "Of course, the most important thing is that the technology for growing corn is relatively mature. Planting wheat may not be as profitable as corn."

Liu Tai nodded in recognition when he heard this.

Liu Tai knows that farming is not that simple. It seems that with seeds, there will be a bumper harvest. Any crop requires a suitable farming method.

It requires careful and scientific care from planting to harvesting, and even the nutrients it needs at each stage of its life need to be filled with chemical fertilizers.

Taking care of life is always the most troublesome thing.

Even if modern people raise cacti, they will die, let alone grow crops that ancient people didn't understand at all using seeds that they didn't understand at all.

Even if there are cultivation masters on hand, new seeds will need to be cultivated for several generations after they arrive, so that they can be thoroughly familiar with the local environment before they can be planted on a large scale in an area.

Liu Tai thought for a while and said to Chu Hui, "You specially sent people to find some experts who are good at growing wheat, especially winter wheat that can be sown in autumn, grown in spring, and harvested in summer. I will be of great use!"

Liu Tai didn't know whether the winter wheat variety had been invented.

But what Liu Tai knew clearly was that the emergence of winter wheat directly wiped out all crops in the north and became the staple food of the people in the north.

So I can just plant corn now, but I will definitely focus on wheat in the future.

Chu Hui didn't know why Liu Tai was interested in this kind of wheat, but he knew that if there was such a kind of grain sown in autumn and harvested in late spring, enough time would be freed up for the people to do corvee work in summer.

So Chu Hui came to the Yang family and entrusted Yang Man to help find talents and good seeds in this field.

At the same time, this is also a way Chu Hui hopes to ease the conflict between Tai Yangyang's family and Liu Tai.

After all, the Taiyang family had arranged a few branches to join Liu Tai's military history team, and had no intention of betting on Liu Tai.

Chu Hui was not surprised by this. After all, Taiyang's family was not only famous, but it was also the home of relatives of the Western Jin Dynasty. Not to mention Liu Tai, a miscellaneous general, even if Liu Yuan met him, he would still give him some bad treatment.

Under such circumstances, being able to add a few people to Liu Tai's military history team is already a great honor.

But Chu Hui has been with Liu Tai for a long time, and he also knows that Liu Tai is somewhat dissatisfied with Tai Yang's family.

But because Liu Tai was reasonable and the Taiyang family didn't cause much trouble themselves, there was no real conflict between the two parties.

But now that there is an opportunity to ease the relationship between the two parties, Chu Hui is still very happy to see it.

Therefore, Chu Hui entrusted Yangman to find any experts in wheat cultivation and purchase winter wheat seeds!

In fact, Yangman also knew that the county magistrate was inferior to the current manager.

He couldn't do something that would embarrass the Taiyang family by asking him to join Liu Tai directly, but Yangman was still willing to help each other as a favor!

As for Liu Tai being Liu Yuan's man?What does it matter?

He is not loyal to the Sima family, nor is he loyal to the Jin court. For the survival of his Taiyang family, what if he cooperates with Liu Tai.

Liu Tai is really capable of killing wealthy families!
Therefore, with Chu Hui coming to ask for help as a friend, Yangman really has no psychological burden when working for Liu Tai.

To a certain extent, this is also the attitude of the vast majority of the Jin Ting family.

Because the Jin court itself has always emphasized governing the country with filial piety, and the aristocratic families put their families before the country.

Therefore, when foreigners really threaten their family itself, wealthy families will often actively cooperate with the foreigners and become helpful accomplices in helping the foreigners rule China.

Not to mention that Liu Yuan's Huns and Han Kingdoms were branded with Chinese characters, and Yang Man helped Liu Tai without any psychological burden.

Don't Sima know this? He is also clear about it.

However, their founding of the country was not righteous, and their popular support was against them. Apart from their own interests, they could not win over the aristocratic family at all. This situation was almost doomed when the Sima family usurped the throne.

(End of this chapter)