Xu Ping and Cao Cong had completed the handover and officially took over the military and political affairs of Qin Feng Road, and it was already late February.

The plan for the year is spring. Only when spring is planted can it be harvested after autumn. At this time, the overwhelming matter is to cultivate the fields. After Guo Zi, Wang Gongchen arrived with a large group of troops and went straight to Qinzhou, and temporarily placed it in the Metropolitan Deployment Department.

After several years of field business, Wang Gongchen was familiar with the field and did not need Xu Ping to guide the farming. However, Qinzhou was the extreme area to the west of the court, which was different from the mainland. The foreign and Han dynasties were mixed, with many mature households, and the land ownership around them was complicated, and the wasteland was very complicated. It was necessary to first clarify which land could be planted and which idle fields were unowned land that could be reclaimed. Xu Ping handed over to Zhong Shiheng and the lieutenant of Qinzhou to deal with Wang Gongchen.

A large number of companies and field management personnel moved from the two capitals, except for those who stayed in Fengxiang Prefecture who operated the field, the rest were under Wang Gongchen, and were distributed in Qin, Feng and Fengxiang Prefectures, which are suitable for cultivation. The field management and field management personnel in various places are responsible for the responsibility of the Tongzong and the field management. The Strategic Department has set reward and punishment clauses, farming, planting, management, harvesting, and assessments in stages.

Qinzhou's land atmosphere is later than that of the Central Plains. It starts to cultivate land in March and can be planted until May. Anyway, the planting is only one season a year. Xu Ping established a general principle: all newly reclaimed idle land should be planted with alfalfa farmland and then changed to economic crops after two years. Alfalfa is a legume family. The root system has the ability to fix nitrogen, which can increase the nutrients of the land. The root system is very deep and can loosen the soil to a certain extent. A folk proverb says that alfalfa is good for three years. In addition, the cultivated land that is cultivated should plant alfalfa after the winter wheat is harvested, regardless of soybean black beans, and mainly cultivate land. If grain crops are planted for more than five or six years, they should also plant alfalfa and then plant grain crops.

Although the natural conditions in this area are suitable for farming, in order to support military affairs, semi-cultivation and semi-cultivation are still appropriate. The pasture for farming in the fields cannot be nomadic, but can only be enclosed and pastoral. Planting forage grass is the right thing to do.

In addition to alfalfa, a piece of land is also circled around Qinzhou to plant sorghum, mainly sweet sorghum brought by Xu Ping from the Central Plains. Sorghum is used to make wine. Due to the special process of liquor, the taste will be reduced if the sorghum is less. Sweet sorghum itself can also be used as a forage, or to make edible alcohol, and then use the lees of good wine to make cheap liquor.

The grain in the border areas is scarce, and all the use of grain is too wasteful, and it is not affordable for the vast majority of Fan Qiang herders. Using sorghum stalks to make wine can be sold in large quantities at low cost, as a bulk material for trading with Fan Qiang.

Xu Ping ignored how Wang Gongchen and officials from the two prefectures and one prefecture cooperated, arranged personnel, and how to open up land and farm. After working in the field affairs for so many years, Wang Gongchen was able to stand alone, so he didn't need to point fingers.

In early March, the spring was bright, and Qinzhou City was busy from inside to outside, and it was a lively scene. The field business was busy devouring land and farming, and Sansipu was busy finding suitable locations in the city, establishing commercial institutions, and building warehouses to start storing goods. The surrounding situation is not familiar now, and the Sansipu was not officially opened, so Xu Ping had to choose a suitable time.

Taking advantage of the spring scenery, Xu Ping called Zhong Shiheng and Zhang Zai to meet in front of a building not far from the government office.

When he arrived at the place, Zhang Zai saw that Xu Ping and Zhong Shiheng were already standing there, and hurriedly stepped forward to see him.

After the ceremony, Xu Ping said to Zhang Zai: "Scholar, you have been arguing with Master Qisong all the way, and are you still fighting now?"

Zhang Zai said: "It's not that students want to fight, it's that monk who is pestering people. What can he do? He insists on pestering me every day to talk about Confucianism. Buddhism is a family principle. As long as he doesn't agree with his words, he will not let you go. After studying for twenty years, he hasn't seen such a stubborn monk. There is really no way!"

Xu Ping and Zhong Shiheng looked at each other and laughed. Qi Song was so famous and was pushed by many people. Is it so easy to deal with? When we first met, Zhang Zai was young and vigorous, and learned about the affairs of Xifan than Qi Song. He did not expect that the monk's patience had already surpassed ordinary people. Not only did he not be upset, he also stared at Zhang Zai, which was quite a bit of annoyance. He took out his perseverance to recite 100,000 Guanyin Bodhisattva Dharma Names every day. Qi Song ate and slept with Zhang Zai every day, which made him almost collapse.

After Zhang Zai complained for a while, Xu Ping said to him: "You are walking together, and everyone is watching the noise. Scholar, I ask you, do you know why I want to take you with you to work for the border affairs?"

Zhang Zai said: "Students read books of sages, so this is naturally to educate people, teach foreigners to know etiquette, and serve the people of the court."

"Where is the monk?" Seeing that Zhang did not answer, Xu Ping couldn't help laughing. Zhang Zai was tortured by Qi Song, and he probably didn't have the heart to consider this issue. Of course, Qi Song had never seen someone so difficult to convince, and he had to waste time with Zhang Zai.

Xu Ping said: "Using monks to follow the army and let him use Buddhism to educate the foreign people. It is the current policy of the court to control the foreign people. Follow the preferences of the foreign people, and follow their wishes, use them for the court, and serve the foreign barracks of the dynasty. As for you?"

Zhang Zai showed his spirit and blurted out: "Didn't the wisdom of the ruler think that using the strategy of the barbarians is unreliable, but he wants to turn the barbarians into Xia?"

"Yes, the boy can teach you!" Xu Ping nodded, "The princes use the barbarian etiquette to barbarians, and if they advance to China, they will be Chinese. If they have a king, they will be worse than the fall of Xia. Hexi Hehuang was originally the former land of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Today, the so-called French Qiang was mostly Han people a hundred years ago. They just entered the barbarians and forgot Chinese etiquette. Sikongtu's poem "Thoughts about Hehuang" in the late Tang Dynasty: From Xiaoguan to fight, Hehuang cut off the spring in a foreign land. The Han people all used Hu Er words, but cursed Han people at the city. Then they knew that since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had no time to take care of the land of Hehuang. For decades, the Han people had turned into Hu Er. Now the court wants to use troops to control the barbarians and use barbarians to control the barbarians. It is a strategy to make these French Qiangs a barrier of the court, and to re-turn them into the people of the court, and work together to eliminate the riots with the court to work together to eliminate the riots."

Xu Ping talked about history in his previous life and often talked about ethnic integration. One of the words that was often mentioned was that when the barbarians entered China, they would be China, and when the Chinese entered barbarians, they would be barbarians. The source of the words came from Han Yu. Of course, Han Yu did not mean this, but later the Mongolian destroyed the Song Dynasty and re-engaged this sentence in order to create legitimacy. Confucianism talked about the great defense of barbarians and Xia. When the Chinese entered barbarians, they would be barbarians. In this era, they would be barbarians. No matter what the source is, the imperial court always regards the Western Bund tribes, regardless of the source, they would be barbarians.

The exchange and integration of nations are two-way. The Han Dynasty’s foreign development was the sinicization, while the Tang Dynasty’s foreign development was the Huhuai. By the time of the Anshi Rebellion, the Hu wind was already prevalent north of the Huai River, which was also the social foundation that was so hard to fight against the rebellion. Of course, for future generations, whether the sinicization or the Huization of the nation was the great exchange and integration of nations, of course it was not wrong. It was this social foundation that Han Yu’s statement appeared. Of course, he said that the princes advanced to China rather than barbarians entered China.

The current general policy of the court in the northwest is to "use barbarians to control barbarians", that is, to use the northwest Qiang to deal with Dang Xiang Yuanhao as a barrier for the court. However, when Xu Ping arrived here, he felt that this might not be correct, and perhaps it might be more appropriate to turn barbarians into Xia.

To use monks to win over the various tribes of the Qiang tribes, it is to use barbarians to control barbarians, and to use scholars to educate and change customs, it is to turn barbarians into Xia.

Zhang Zai understood what Xu Ping meant, looked at the closed door in front, and said, "The emperor is very interested, but he just doesn't know what the purpose of getting here? Is this place a special intention?"

Xu Ping nodded: "Yes. This is the Nazhiyuan of Qinzhou. There are hundreds of tribes around the Qiang tribes, and there are many protons here. If you want to turn it into Xia, you will start from this place."
Chapter completed!