Chapter 320 Wasteland Reclamation (Repair)
All three hundred households nodded. Each hundred households had a work officer to transfer work hours and record working hours. Then a senior accountant was responsible for withdrawing money from the official warehouse of the household and handing it over to the work officer to pay. Finally, the amount of money was recorded and reported to the settlement record of the house of the secretary's cabinet.
The entire process is that those who manage the warehouse do not care about the money, and those who manage the money do not pay the money, and report it uniformly to prevent embezzlement and feeding, or even deducting wages.
In the Ministry of Cong Cao, there is a dedicated person responsible for the 100 households to visit and review them regularly. If the wages are deducted, it is a big deal. At the least, it will be lost, and at the worst, it will be imprisoned.
The treatment of officials from all households is very good. In the short term, no one will take the initiative to make local money and food. Over time, it will be based on the system.
Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, never trusted personal ethics, but only believed in the system.
In this regard, Wu Shizhong is not very adaptable. Fortunately, he has not arrived yet. In the future, there will be no money or food in the school house. The school house will be directly paid out from the household house. The school house only carries teaching, which will save Wu Shizhong trouble and avoid disputes.
The rammed earth road is built using stacking method, but it is actually the second most important official road.
As early as a thousand years ago, the ancient Rome's roads were basically paved with bluestone roads or cobblestones, and the least they were gravel roads.
The road status of Qinchi Road is also somewhat preserved, but that is the rammed earth road. Some road surfaces are preserved but no longer belong to the core operating area of the road, so they are kept relatively intact.
As for the official road of the Great Wei Dynasty, rammed earth and soil must be maintained regularly, so the road conditions are pretty good.
If you are disrepaired, you will be covered in soil on sunny days, and vehicles will be like sailing on the sea, with unstable ups and downs. On rainy days, mud will reach your waist and it will be difficult to move through mud.
With the current financial resources of Nan'an Hou Mansion, it can only build rammed earth roads. Fortunately, maintenance must be achieved. At least for a considerable period of time, rammed earth roads will be the mainstream of pavement construction.
Fu Qian explained some details about planting trees and dredging open ditches, and then he was about to get on the horse and leave.
A hundred households said: "Have we hundred households confirmed the land for open land?"
Fu Qian looked at him and said, "Your 700th house is located in the north, from eleven miles north, from eleven miles south, from twenty-one north, and from about fifty to sixty miles in a radius."
"Be good..." The 700th household official couldn't help but exclaim.
The 700th household was also a retired military soldier. He was injured in his arm and had half of his left arm amputated. After that, he studied literary and ink arithmetic at the Nan'an Houfu Villa. He was raised by the official and still received two jin of money every month. Then the hundred officials who were studying to learn had their hair straightened, which was a nightmare.
The current situation also shows that Nan'an Hou was really foresighted. More than 90% of the soldiers who retired due to injuries and illness have learned to calculate the book. Now they are either officials or officials from all hundred households, either for hundreds of households or for the chiefs of guards, and are in charge of grassroots regimes and security power.
There are also those selected from Wu Shuzhong, or the old generals of the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion, and some of them were selected one after another.
Through long-term recruitment and training, Nan'an Hou Mansion now maintains a team of very capable and practical officials. The team of officials served by Bai Ding, small officials and martial officials is actually more suitable and effective than the pure students selected by the Dawei through layers of examinations.
"It's about 50,000 acres of land?" Liu Baixing coughed and couldn't help asking Fu Qian.
"According to the measurement method, it is almost less than 50,000 acres." Fu Qian said: "When the road here is repaired, we must establish a water truck water diversion channel according to the range of each hundred households' farmland, build cross-sections along the middle of the fields, and carry chicken buses to enter and exit. It is best to pass a carriage, so as to pull farm tools, manure, and future harvests, and access are convenient. In addition, we must drive large areas of land and drain water through channels. If the channel does not reach it, dig wells, pull them with mules and donkeys, and water will be discharged day and night."
Everyone had an excitement in their eyes, and the crowd was also in a stir where Li Guozhu and others were.
"So many places, are there people and siblings?"
"It's almost the same." Fu Qian thought for a while and said, "In the future, a large number of new immigrants may come, and the quota of official households may not be enough. According to Junhou's idea, if the quota of official households is similar, some of them will be reserved for rewards. The new households are still private households, and they can be tenant farmers or servants of the marquis' mansion, and receive their salary to do things."
Several hundred households looked at each other, and more officials showed a look of pride on their faces.
When the tenant farmers are definitely not as good as the official households, after paying off their debts, the cotton fields they have reclaimed are all their own. As long as the money they have paid for in proportion, they can be paid for forty days of hard work.
The newly reclaimed fields are handled in one go, whether they are cotton fields or rice fields.
After that, the Marquis' Mansion may increase the payment ratio of the tribute money, which is actually a different level of taxation. However, compared with the heavy tax burden of the Great Wei, the tax amount of the Marquis' Mansion will still be very low and will not bring any unbearable burden to people.
In the first few years of land reclamation, no tax was collected, and each hundred households and each household reclaimed wasteland according to the number of people in the land.
Many people hate that they don’t have many people in their families and cannot open more acres of land.
If the land reclamation plan is successful, each family will have dozens of acres of cotton fields and more than 100 acres of rice fields. Due to the abundant large animals, sufficient farm tools and complete water conservancy, a family of five with three or two, planting more than 100 acres of land is simply a very easy task.
During the Tang Dynasty, the land was granted, and the Yongye land plus oral calculation land was also over 100 acres. The people still achieved a bumper harvest with simple tools.
In addition, people will be arranged to plant mulberry trees, and special silk farmers will pick mulberry leaves and raise silkworms to expand the raw silk production of Nan'an Hou Mansion. It is better to produce it yourself than to obtain a source of goods from others. This is not only the belief of Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian, but also the aspirations of the officials and the people under Xu Zixian.
Ordinary households will definitely not have more care for land reclamation, and the interest on loans will be higher. If they become tenant farmers, the land will still belong to the Marquis' Mansion, but they can live in and use agricultural tools for free, which is still a good balance for the official household.
If it is for a hired worker, then it is still rootless duckweed. The management of Nan'an Hou Mansion is quite strict, and it is impossible to be lazy and slippery when hired, which is even more unprofitable.
"One hundred households are fifty thousand acres." The one-armed hundred households of the seven hundred households said in contemplation: "Now dozens of hundred households have been built, and the number of land-opened acres must be more than one million acres."
"Not all households have their own tasks, but it's almost the same." Fu Qian looked at everyone and said, "So everyone has to work hard. Official households are always rated as subordinates, and they may be reborn as private households or hired workers. Don't complain at that time."
"How could it be?" Li Guozhu shouted from a distance: "Which of us, we have to use twelve points?"
There were also many people shouting together. Fu Qian knew that he had made a fist and said to everyone: "I'm not surprised that I'm talking about it, elders. However, if you have tens of strength and use tens of strength, don't give more strength. If you get sick, you should take care of your health."
These words also calmed everyone's slight dissatisfaction. Fu Qian is a technical official and is not good at these things, so many people also understand it in their hearts.
"The land that is opened is also a raw land." Liu Baihu said to everyone at this time: "We need to burn the wasteland first, let's do it. Then we need to plough deeply and remove foreign objects such as solid soil, grass roots, gravels, etc. Then we need to burn it with stone fire to remove pests in the mud. This is the third step. Then we will irrigate, which is the fourth step. At this point, we can plant it, but it is raw soil. It takes three or five years to plant it before it can be considered mature fields. You can work hard to cultivate and work hard. I see that Junhou has arranged it, and it has already asked many streams to dredge and dig out river mud that can be carried into loads. After we have done the fourth step, the mud of the river mud can be covered. Even if it is fertilized, it will be considered to be the soil of the mature fields."
The seven hundred household agreed and said loudly: "With the cultivation of mature soil, we have sufficient farming tools, sufficient population, and sufficient pasture and livestock. If we produce less than three stones per mu, it will be considered useless!"
"If the canals, water trucks, and deep wells are complete, and the water conservancy and fertilizers are sufficient, and more than one million mu of land are opened for fallow and rotation, the output of one mu of three stones can still be guaranteed."
"I hope so."
"What is a wish? But if you do it with manpower, don't rely on God, you will definitely succeed."
"This is what Junhou said. He dares to say it. We ordinary people should not talk nonsense, be careful to lose our lives."
Xu Zixian's words are still very popular. Many young students like to repost the words of the king and use them as their own support.
After Fu Qian and others were motivated for a while, many people became excited.
Without mentioning the benefits of cotton fields, the rice fields of more than 100 acres of rice fields alone are quite considerable. The vegetables grown are enough to eat, and there is enough food to raise chickens, ducks, and pigs. In this way, there is also a reserve of meat.
In addition, if the mulberry forest produces silk, even if it rotates, it will plant at least a few dozen acres of land a year, with an average yield of three stones, and the annual income is more than 200 stones.
How many kilograms of grain is this?
A family of five can grow more than 20,000 kilograms of grain a year. Even if every family has fine grains and white flour every day, they can't eat so much grain!
Even if the part that is to be handed over to the Hou Mansion and the share of grain that one family wants to eat, each household will still have a considerable amount of grain to sell.
Children and adults’ clothing, hats, salt and oil, as well as daily furniture and utensils, can all be earned from this part.
I also have money to ask for my children to marry a wife, and I save money to prevent diseases and old age. I am afraid that I can save it in a few years.
Everyone's eyes shine. Although it is really hard to work every day, everyone was basically busy for half a year when they were in Fujian.
After moving to the Dongfan, they burned deserts, dug canals, rivers, mud, built bridges, and built roads. They almost never had any spare time. Even if they were idle for a few days, the officials of all households would organize the soldiers and soldiers from all households to train and strengthen their troops, hunting clubs, bow and arrow clubs, horizontal sword clubs, and long sword clubs. All the clubs were all in the hundreds of households. All the men and women were there. When they were free, they practiced horizontal swords, long swords and long swords, and also practiced archery shooting techniques. Women tailored waist-length arrow clothes and made leather boots, and then handed them over to the Nan'an Hou Mansion for money.
Such days are really busy and full of hope.
There is no need to encourage you anymore. People are consciously and voluntarily trying to make more effort.
Fu Qian finally got on the horse and left. A small official stopped for a while and said to Liu Baihu: "Brother Liu seems to have a fever. Are there many people in the 1700 households who have fever in the past few years?"
"It's been burning for two days." Liu Baihu said: "It can move even if you force yourself, and you won't delay business."
"It's not about this." The minor official said, "There is an explanation from the superior. Anyone who travels on business trips who feels a fever must ask clearly. It is very important to isolate the matters and should not be delayed. No matter what the fever has, any position needs to be quarantined. If the fever is reduced, then the fever will be released..." The minor official looked at Liu Baihu and said in a deep voice: "Justice Fu is not good at speaking, so he can only speak frankly. Liu Baihu, you must temporarily resign and hand over the Baihu's responsibilities to the agricultural officer for temporary replacing. You can live in the isolation center and only after the fever has subsided."
Liu Baihu's surname was Liu Shujing, and was born as an old Wushu. In fact, he was not used to life in the military camp, but just to support his livelihood. Later, he was injured during the war in Jiangtan and naturally asked to retire. Then, because he had no family to live in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, he did not make things difficult for him to study documents. He came early when he immigrated to the Dongfan. When he established Baihu, Liu Baihu successfully took office and became a member of the officials of all households.
Everything went well until now.
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Chapter completed!