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Chapter 199: It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to govern it! (Two-in-one please subscribe!)

Regardless of everything else, we must first provide the people with a stable environment in which they can farm in a down-to-earth manner.

If even the simplest safety cannot be guaranteed, no matter how fertile the fields are, no matter how good the climate is, and people even have to risk their lives to grow food, then everything will be in vain.

Therefore, Chen Yan's first thought was to reorganize Changze County Jiantiansi.

The role of the Jiantiansi itself is to eradicate demons and protect the environment and the people. The former Changze County Jiantiansi was basically a decoration. There were not even a few Flying Fish Guards. It would be good if they did not fish and flesh out the villagers, let alone Protect the environment and the people.

Chen Yan appointed Yuantong and Zhang Tianzheng to lead the Changze County Jiantian Division in order to prepare for the return of the 100,000 disaster victims outside Changze County.

After all, giving soup and providing disaster relief is only a temporary solution, and the victims gathered outside Changze County cannot stay like this forever.

Are the victims not wanting to return home?
of course not.

It was because my hometown was destroyed by evil spirits and ghosts, and occupied by bandits and bandits, coupled with natural disasters such as drought and floods, that I could not return to my home and could not return.

And if the chaos in Nagaze County is not stopped, the number of victims flocking to Nagaze County will only increase. One hundred thousand is far from the end.

At the same time, you can also supervise with the City God to avoid the situation where the City God's family is the dominant one.

But it's a pity that Chen Yan asked the Qingyao sisters in private. Their Qingji clan is very small. At least the Qingyao sisters have never seen other clan members except their own parents.

It is much simpler than when Chen Yan decreed the title of Mountain God of Black Mountain.

It is very simple to entrust the land of the city god at the county and town level. All it takes is a gold foil document stamped with the seal of the Xiangzhou commander, and it is supplemented by the earth evil technique of 'dispelling the gods'.

Since Qing Ji's method didn't work, Chen Yan had to find another way.

Reorganizing the Changze County Jiantiansi is only the first step in the boy's plan.

If you encounter powerful demons and ghosts, you will inform the land, and the land will report it to the Jiantiansi of each county, and then the Jiantiansi will send specialized masters Feiyuwei to deal with it.

However, it is almost impossible for the newly formed Changze County Supervisor to eliminate all evil spirits in Changze County.

Another thing is that Changze County is vast and rich in resources. Although it is not as good as the large counties in the Central Plains, it is still vast in territory and sparsely populated.

At least it's not possible in a short time.

Chen Yan and the Longque Army were able to occupy Heishan and Changze County at the right time, and the timely messages and instructions conveyed by the Qingji sisters were indispensable.

This made Chen Yan very sorry to hear this.

That is the city god and the land.

Of course, this requires on-site inspections and combined with the reputation of local villagers.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan said to Yuantong and Zhang Tianzheng:
"After you have established the Changze County Jiantian Division, you will immediately start to eliminate the evil bandits in the entire Changze County. The Dragon Bird Army will fully cooperate with your Jiantian Division in this matter. At the same time, you must pay attention."

Is there any way to enable towns and villages to have a certain ability to independently defend their villagers, and at the same time, can they deliver messages in a timely manner to seek support?

Of course, sealing the land of the City God cannot be a random seal. First of all, the object to be sealed, whether it is a ghost or a monster, has a necessary prerequisite, that is, it must be a good ghost or a good monster.

Therefore, each township must at least have a certain ability to defend itself, or in other words, the ability to report evil cholera in a very short period of time.

For example, Boss Zhao and others, although they turned into ghosts after death, they still have a "human heart". If they are granted the title of City God, they will definitely play a big role.

If you are not a monk, ordinary mortals will definitely not be able to achieve this ability.

Unlike later generations, which can be solved with a phone call, there were no telephones in ancient times. Even if it was a quick call, the information was timely.

The city god is worshiped if he performs meritorious deeds on the people, and can be worshiped if he can prevent disasters.

No, rather, two positions come to mind.

If the city god is the edict that Chen Yan wants to use to target ghosts, then the land is the edict that Chen Yan wants to use to target monsters.

Ordinary mortals can't do it, so they can only start from other aspects.

The first thing Chen Yan thought of was the monster Qingji clan.

This is definitely not possible.

After all, the number of Flying Fish Guards is really limited. Since humans can't, why can't they recruit ghosts with great righteousness and upright intentions to help?

Therefore, it is urgent to eliminate evil spirits, ghosts, bandits and bandits throughout Changze County.

He has the Qingji sisters under his command, and regardless of the timeliness of delivering the message, the message can be delivered within one day even if they are thousands of miles apart.

Chen Yan thought about his past life and thought of two characters.

If evil cholera breaks out in a certain town, the day lily will be cold if it is reported to all levels and the Feiyu Guards are dispatched to exterminate it.

In the previous life, the city god's role was to protect the environment and the people, suppress epidemics and cure diseases. If there were demons and cholera in various places, the city god would use his evil soldiers and ghosts to get rid of them.

Chen Yan's request for land is even simpler, he only needs to report it.

If there are enough Qingji all over Changze County, the problem of communication difficulty can be solved.

This timeliness is often measured in months.

In Chen Yan's expectation, the small town god at the county or town level was enfeoffed. The small town god did not need to be very powerful. He only needed to occasionally meet one or two lonely ghosts in the ghost stage to cause trouble, or if he had practiced Taoism for thirty or fifty years. The monsters in Cholera Village can be easily resisted once or twice.

There is no doubt that the importance of the city god to the people is self-evident.

The City God is very necessary for the current Changze County, even for the entire Xiangzhou, and even the entire Wu Dynasty Jiuzhou.

In this way, we not only ensured the safety of the environment and the people, but also avoided the dilemma of insufficient manpower of the Feiyu Guards of the Supervisor of Heaven.

As early as when Heihu was consecrated as the mountain god of Montenegro, Chen Yan had the idea of ​​conferring the title of city god in the world.

Yuantong and Zhang Tianzheng, who were at the bottom, listened seriously.

"Everywhere you go, pay attention to the local ghosts or monsters. If there is a loyal, virtuous, upright person, who protects the country and the people, and promotes righteousness, write down his name and report it to me. Don't limit it to the Wu Dynasty. It’s okay if it’s a ghost from the previous dynasty.”

Although Yuantong and Zhang Tianzheng didn't know the meaning of the young man's move, they just had to obey:
"Yes! We obey!"

Chen Yan nodded slightly and wiped out all evil spirits in the county, giving the people a safe and stable living environment. The next step was to consider how to keep the people full.

This question is difficult to say and easy to say.

It is difficult to say because ancient grain varieties were inherently deficient. Unlike later generations of hybrid rice, which can produce thousands or even thousands of kilograms of grain per acre.

There are not many fields in Nagaze County. Eight million acres may seem like a lot, but in fact this number is very small.

You can tell by simply talking about a number that Chen Yan heard from Li Taibai.

The original owner Chen Yan's hometown alone, namely Yiling County in Lingzhou, has a huge land area of ​​48 million acres.

Changze County can only get a fraction of Yiling County.

No wonder every time there was a famine in the Wu Dynasty, the people in the north would run to Lingzhou and Pingzhou in the south, because the Central Plains areas of Lingzhou and Pingzhou, due to their vast territory and being located in the plains, have vast land and are good places for farming. , only those who have fled to these places can have food to eat.

If you want to keep people fed, there are no more than two ways. One is to increase the number of fields, and the other is to increase the yield per mu.

The first one is to increase the number of fields. It is nothing more than opening up wasteland.

However, due to the mountains and lakes in Nagasawa County, the amount of wasteland that can be reclaimed is limited.

Of course, no matter how limited it is, it must be more than eight million.

Even based on the current population of 1.5 million in Nagaze County, the average of 8 million fields is only five acres of land per person.

And as the security of Nagaze County stabilizes, the population will inevitably usher in a period of explosion.

It is very likely that it will even exceed the 2.8 million people at its peak. No matter how evenly distributed the population is, there will be even less land allocated to each common person. Therefore, reclaiming wasteland is almost inevitable in Nagasawa County.

Although Changze County's inherent advantages are not high, Chen Yan has consulted Li Taibai and there is no problem in reclaiming another eight million acres of land.

Take Changze County City as an example. Changze County City was built on one of the few plains in Changze County. It is surrounded by open plains. Therefore, half of the eight million acres of land reclaimed by Changze County are located in Changze County. Near Zejun City.

But this is far from the limit of Nagasawa County.

Chen Yan estimated that it would not be a problem to cultivate another four million acres.

This also happened to solve the problem of more and more disaster victims gathering outside Changze County.

In exchange for work-for-relief, the victims dug wasteland and dug canals every day in exchange for daily rations.

As for the second one, increasing the yield per mu of fields, Chen Yan also has some ideas in mind.

First of all, the first one is the path of hybrid rice in later generations.

Although Chen Yan has no relevant knowledge, this is the world of cultivation!

Chen Yan didn't believe it. In the vast world of cultivation, there was no food that was between ordinary rice and spiritual rice, which had the advantages of higher yield, strong resistance to pests and diseases, and strong adaptability.

Create a cultivating version of hybrid rice.

However, since Chen Yan did not have talents skilled in related fields, he could only leave it until later.

There is currently no way to create an immortal version of hybrid rice, so if you want to increase the yield per mu, you can only start from other aspects.

What Chen Yan thought of was retting fertilizer and tools.

Retting fertilizer is easy to understand, that is, crop stalks, green manure, weeds, etc. are placed in water collection pits with river, pond mud and human excrement, and are fertilized by microorganisms.

Another advantage of this is that if the sump is closed and an air outlet is added, it will be the most primitive biogas pool.

Biogas is a fuel that can be burned.

Winter will be here in just a few months. If methane is available and can be accessed through underground tunnels to every household, the people of Nagaze County will be able to live a warm winter this year.

As for the tools, it is even simpler, that is, the plow for plowing the fields.

Occupying Heishan, Chen Yan had no shortage of iron ore at all, and it was still high-quality concentrated iron ore. Even if he had rough ore, the rakes made from concentrated iron ore were enough for the people of Changze.

As soon as he thought about this, Chen Yan immediately came down:

"Li Changshi."

"The old man is here."

Li Taibai bowed his head respectfully and waited for his orders.

"Starting from tomorrow, I order you to organize the victims outside the city to reclaim the surrounding wasteland, provide work for relief, and dig canals."

Speaking of this, Chen Yan paused and looked at Xu Ji aside:
"Xu Ji, please arrange for the county soldiers to assist Li Changshi to complete this matter."

"Yes!"

Xu Ji respectfully accepted the order.

Then Chen Yan looked at Li Taibai and said:
"In addition, you must also organize manpower to build toilets inside and outside the city."

"bathroom?"

Li Taibai was stunned, and Xu Ji and others on the side also had question marks on their faces. It was obviously the first time they heard this word.

"It's a place for defecation and defecation."

Chen Yan explained in due course.

Li Taibai suddenly realized: "It turns out to be a toilet."

Chen Yan shook his head: "Unlike toilets, the toilets built need to have special water collection pits. At the same time, you have released the news that people who can collect leaves, weeds and pond mud can exchange for ten coppers for each cart."

Yuantong on the side was stunned.

And such good things?

Just picking up a load of grass and digging a load of mud can be exchanged for ten copper coins?
If it weren't for the young man's long-standing prestige, Yuantong would have even thought that his master had lost his mind.

Although Li Taibai would not think so and knew that the young man's move must have deep meaning, he still couldn't help but ask:
"May I ask, sir, what is the purpose of this action?"

"Aimed at manure."

Chen Yan didn't show off and said straightforwardly.

"Manure?"

Li Taibai was even more confused. This was the first time he heard this statement.

"Dung soil, therefore, turns thin fields into fertile fields, and poor soils into fertile soils."

Before Li Taibai spoke, Yuantong beside him screamed in surprise:
"Turn thin fields into fertile fields? Turn poor soil into fertile soil?"

Speaking of this, Yuantong was completely shocked: "Can Sajia's excrement still have this effect?"

Chen Yan smiled mysteriously and said:
“You’ll know when you give it a try.”

Immediately, he reminded again:

"By the way, remember to build an air outlet when building the water collection pit. The manure can generate biogas, and the biogas can be burned. This gas can be passed to each house and can be used as firewood."

"The irritation produced by Sajia's excrement can even start a fire?!"

Yuantong's jaw dropped in shock, and then he looked at the young man suspiciously and said:
"Sir, are you sure this is not a spell?"

Chen Yan was too lazy to explain the chemical principles, he just nodded slightly and said:
"You will know when the time comes."

"After building the toilet, Li Changshi remembered to inform the whole city, including the victims outside the city, and even the entire county of Changze in the future, that from now on, no matter how big or small, defecation must be done in the toilet. If someone defecates in the open, they will be fined and warned, and in severe cases, they will be fined and warned. The rod punishes the corvee, and we will never tolerate it!"

Seeing the seriousness of what the young man said, Li Taibai did not dare to take it lightly. He quickly looked solemn and nodded solemnly:

"I obey!"

Chen Yan nodded. Another benefit of building toilets is to prevent the occurrence of plagues. After all, many plagues in ancient times were caused by people defecating everywhere in the city, which caused bacteria to breed and led to the emergence of plagues.

Finally, Chen Yan looked at Xu Ji and said:

"You write a letter to Qin Chong and ask him to send demon soldiers to transport a batch of refined iron ore to Changze County, and then mobilize all the blacksmiths in the city to make iron plows and cultivate the fields."

"Here!"

"Okay, please go down and don't let down the expectations of the people of Changze."

"I will definitely live up to your trust!"

Looking at the departing figures of Li Taibai, Xu Ji, Yuantong, Zhang Tianzheng and others, Chen Yan's eyes glowed faintly.

At the same time, news about Heishan's capture of Changze County finally reached the hands of Laoshan Road and Qianzhong County.

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(End of this chapter)