The weather in July is getting hotter and hotter. The entire East Palace has taken out the ice cubes stored in winter from the cellar. In the study, Si Mo was playing a feather fan for Mi Huang, Si Shu was writing and recording, while Mi Huang was asking Su Cong about various farming matters in the eastern suburbs, and listening to him answering her long-standing questions with his opinions, and also making records from time to time.

Su Cong kept holding hands, only half of his butt fell on the bench, sitting upright.

After thinking about every question raised by the woman with the most noble status of Chu State in front of me, I thought about it and thought carefully, "In my opinion, the right disciple's move in the eastern suburbs is a pioneering move. Looking at various countries, the farming production team is unprecedented in the world. In the past, the aristocratic family of the tyrants placed land to slaves and civilians, and they were farmed by themselves. Each household had different experiences and uneven income, so the food paid by the end of the year was uneven, and the public land was even less uneven because it was not taken care of by anyone and handed over to the court. Of course, there were also false reports by major landlords in the middle."

Speaking of this, Su Cong looked carefully at the woman in front of him, and saw that the woman who was also writing at the desk also frowned slightly, but did not interrupt him, but just listened with a focused expression. So he tried to say, "Taiwoman, can you give a pen to a piece of silk cloth? Maybe from the way he said and wrote down, Taiwoman can understand better."

"Okay, Si Shu takes more silk cloth and ink to come over."

"Yes, the grand girl!" Si Shu replied.

Mi Huang asked Su Cong about the problem of false reports from landlords, and when the water was clear, there was no fish. Since ancient times, people's hearts seek profit and there was no way to avoid it.

The monarchs of Chu State in all dynasties have thought of ways to increase taxes, but the gains are still very small. This is a cover for the entire bureaucratic system and cannot be solved at all. Moreover, as far as she has known in the past three years, many lords have begun to reclaim private land. These are lands that are not registered by the government, and the gains are even more abundant, and the government cannot verify them.

After Su Cong took the pen and silk cloth, he started writing on the cloth.

The two continued to write along a long case, saying, "But the right puppet has realized the division of labor system. Everyone actually plays a different role in this whole piece of land. For example, Su Cong is not responsible for production, but is responsible for management, and the management personnel are divided into many management personnel. The right puppet recruits many poor scholars and experienced farmers to assist and manage farming work in various fields, such as land reclamation, land preparation, breeding, transplanting rice, harvesting, and insect removal...

There are also those who are responsible for the maintenance and construction of various foundations in the field, just like the role of the Sigongfu, who is responsible for the construction of canals for field irrigation.

Here, Su Cong said that digging canals and irrigation has a very important effect.

Su Cong learned from some old farmers that most of the crops in the field were self-growing and growing. After sowing, many farmers didn’t know how to take care of them. Only when the weather was too hot would they carry water and irrigate. However, when the land was large, they could not manage it, so the seedlings were not happy to grow.

Now we have formed an agricultural production team, with a large number of people and great strength. We have dug canals together and irrigated the farmland by luring the streams from the surrounding mountains. It is much easier.

Lord Youtu also ordered Lord Gongshunian to build a water transport object called a water truck. This big object is even more magical. It can transport water from low places to high places. If we promote it to the counties below in the future, with these two methods of transforming land, we will no longer have to worry about the issue of irrigation in the fields."

“Land transformation?”

"Yes, Lord Youtu said that land transformation is a crucial one. Many lands are too wet or too dry, or contain a lot of acid and alkali. Soil quality needs to be improved through some methods. Otherwise, this land will not be able to grow good crops. In addition to these, the soil quality after drainage, irrigation or fertilization will be more suitable for growth." Su Cong replied.

"What is this water truck?"

Mi Huang looked at Su Cong curiously and asked, "Is it a carriage walking in the water?"

"hehe……"

Su Cong, who had always been cautious, finally couldn't help laughing.

Many people always ask this question when they hear him talking about water trucks. When he got home, he also told his father about the water trucks. His father also said, "Is this water truck a ox cart running in the water?"

Unconsciously, Su Cong couldn't help letting go a lot, looking at the woman who showed confusion on the other side, shook her head and smiled, "Haha, not, too girl. But the water truck is very similar to a huge wheel, so Lord Right said it was called a water truck. It can use the rolling wheel to fill the water downstream through the bucket, rotate it, and then transport it to the upstream for irrigation. By the way, Lord Gongshu also said that the upstream still needs a force to move the water truck."

Su Cong said while holding a pen to draw the principle of the waterwheel operation.

First, he drew a large water truck in the shape of a wheel, half submerged in the river and half exposed on the river surface. There must be a stream above the water truck, so each time the water truck is selected is very important. If there is no water upstream, they have to try every means to divert the flow. He drew an arrow to indicate that the stream downstream is impacting the water truck and moves the water truck. He drew a rotating arrow, which means that the water bucket can load water in the downstream river under the driving of the water truck, rotate it to the upstream through the axis, and then pour water out of the water bucket to a field along the ditches.

Mi Huang looked at the new thing he drew intently, "Can a bucket be used to transport water on the wheel? It's really incredible!..."

The more he heard him, the more magic he felt. Although she had heard in her previous life that Gongshunian had built many powerful siege weapons on the battlefield, she had never heard of a water truck. "I really want to see this water truck soon."

"Haha, in fact, besides the water wheel, I think the greenhouse is also very interesting, especially the bricks and stones used in greenhouses. I see that this brick is extremely hard, dozens of times harder than the ordinary city wall bricks made of earth compacted with earth. If it is used for the construction of the city wall, my Dachu city wall will no longer have to worry about the flood, and those giant trees that attack the city will not have to worry about. As long as the city wall is thick enough, it is simply solid."

Su Cong's eyes were almost lit when he said this.

He felt that the fired blue bricks were more effective than irrigation, especially for the defense of the city, which would reduce the pressure on defending the city.

"How did this blue brick be made?"

When Mi Huang heard this, she was curious. She didn't know that there were so many magical things in the small eastern suburbs.

"Su Cong didn't know about the blue bricks, it seemed that even Lord Gongshu didn't know about it. This was what Cheng Youtuo ordered people from other places, and it was said to be made." Su Cong stopped here. He was actually curious about how to make the blue bricks. He once knocked a blue brick with a hammer to open it privately, but he really couldn't tell what the components were inside, nor did he look like natural stone or simple soil.

"Sheng Jia did this."

Mi Huang nodded without showing too much surprise. Seeing that he was not aware of the situation, he continued to ask, "Then I don't know much about the farming production team you just mentioned. Why are the division of labor so detailed? In the past, can't these be done by a farmer? Why did Cheng Youtu share what one person does to so many people?"

"I know this. Su had this question from the beginning, but after the division of labor, I found that our production efficiency has indeed been greatly improved!"

“What is productivity?”

"I think about this."

Su Cong found out the bamboo slips he used to record his daily work from the small bag he brought. These were some of the things he specifically recorded that Cheng Jia said.

Turning on the thick bamboo slips, Su Cong pointed to the line above and said, "Mr. Righteous Tu said that productivity refers to the ratio between the actual output in the later stage and the maximum output in previous years with the same fixed investment.

This ratio can reflect the effect after achieving the maximum output and the predetermined target. If the output in previous years is calculated as 100, and 200 this year is generated, it means that the efficiency is doubled. Therefore, this ratio is very critical and can be used to measure my country's agricultural investment costs, as well as the annual performance value of later output and profit under the overall target of the year, so that it is convenient for the later promotion to the following counties and counties, and to compare the production efficiency of each county with the investment of land, seeds, and production teams, as well as the supervision strength of supervisors, and implement monitoring.

Our current land reclamation in the eastern suburbs is a standard reference version made nationwide. In the future, all counties below use the production data of the eastern suburbs as reference, and the proportion and quantitative comparison is made..."

Mi Huang heard this theory for the first time. Fortunately, she had learned some superficial arithmetics from Cheng Jia, so she could still understand it. If it were the King of Chu, he would have been confused, or simply shook his hand to the people below.

After hearing these unprecedented statements, she really wanted to know what Cheng Jia thought of it.

It is obvious that she, Ruo Ao Ziyan and him both studied under Taishi Pan, but they have never been exposed to such a theory of extraordinary arts.

Moreover, in the past, each county collected taxes based on the wealth and the amount of land they owned in each county. Now, according to Su Cong, Cheng Jia wanted to open a larger public land based on the original well-field system.

"Is this a reform of the well-field system? Is it necessary to expand public fields?" Mi Huang asked.

"This villain is not sure."

Su Chang did not dare to speculate on Cheng Jia's next political intentions at will.

"The Well Field System" was first established in the Shang Dynasty, and determined the state-owned status of land and protected the right to use the lords of the border. It has been used for hundreds of years. Although it has been constantly changing, it represents the interests of many noble and wealthy lords. If Cheng Jia really wants to make drastic reforms, it will definitely become the target of public criticism. However, he followed Cheng Jia for several months and felt that the right disciple was not such a stupid person, and even asked them to keep it secret from the outside.

Tai Nu is the first person Cheng Youtuan to let him take the initiative to explain.

"The well fields are 900 acres, and the public fields are uniform. However, although the well fields in the past have been continuously improved, it is believed that there are still many problems, especially without unified management and supervision comparison, there is no way to assess it.

Although Zhou Gong revised the "Midfield System" and stipulated that lawmakers should be supervised, in most cases, the public land that was supported by eight private houses at the same time still had no special person to manage. This is because the eight landlords of the eight private houses gave up the public, resulting in the income of public land far less than that of private land. In addition, natural disasters have continued, some counties and counties have to reduce taxes. However, after we reclaim wasteland, we will allocate the newly reclaimed land into public land, and then we will not divide the private land and enfeoff the land to the landlords, but rent it directly to farmers. Referring to the standards of the eastern suburbs, we will build all the basic irrigation facilities for farmers. A production team composed of migrant farmers can settle here and pay a certain proportion of grain every year to nationalize it. This can be seen that it will get greater benefits than the "tith" tax of the well field system.

This piece of Cheng Youtu has begun to pilot the "Public Land Responsibility Contracting System" in the East Suburbs. Then each piece of public land will be supervised by supervisors like me, who are dedicated to supervising and ensuring that farmers have something to do. They also form various farming production teams of all sizes according to the 50,000 system of the army. When they are free, they store pastoral weaving cloth and even hunting. When they are busy, they farm and harvest. In the East Suburbs, we not only produce grain, fruits, vegetables, but also provide pigs, cattle and sheep breeding, as well as cloth production. All of these will be repurchased by the East Suburbs at a price of 20% of the market price. Some of the grain, Cheng Youtu said, will be sold to some merchants at a price of 50% of the market price. Not only will the state be used to offset the income paid to farmers, but the state can bear the fiscal revenue without any expenditure. The rest can be confiscated to the principality and also stabilize the market price. In the years of famine, avoid the profiteering businessmen from placing prices.

It can be said that multiple goals can be achieved in one go.

If this system is introduced, it will be zero investment and high returns.

Su Chang dared not say that the "Public Land Responsibility Contracting System" would be better than the "Midfield System", but it is excellent for the country and the people.

Just take 20% of the repurchase ratio and is also higher than the "tith" tax ratio, which is more than the previous farmers paid landlords, and greatly increases their enthusiasm. Even the law-assisters who are responsible for supervision, Cheng Youtu said that they would give us one percent according to the total annual output value, and put one percent on such a large output, even if they spread it to each of our 100 managers.

Everyone is a poor man, and he is more motivated for his family."

Su Cong's eyes were burning and hot.

He praised Jia from the bottom of his heart.

Moreover, he has never seen anyone who can make the reform of "The Wellfield System" so perfect, and everything is overturned.

He felt that at least at this stage, they were all very energetic, so he also hoped that the young lady in front of him, the future crown prince, could look at the uninhabited land of the past in the eastern suburbs, and could use Cheng Youtui greatly. This was not only good for Cheng Jia, but also those who learned from Cheng Jia would be very good, so he continued to say excitedly.

"So many of us students chose to stay in the eastern suburbs after a period of management, and some even moved their relatives over.

Cheng Youtu also opened a remote residential area for us. The East Suburbs is really a good place. If the Taigun can draw a new city there and encircle the city, he can immediately form a new small city. Next to Yingdu, he can migrate more people. Now all the refugees there have been settled, and many refugees who come here have also lingered around the eastern suburbs and wanted to join. Originally, this time, I would like to ask Cheng Youtu if we can collect them all, but the Lord Youtu said before that, you cannot collect people easily, and I am worried that someone will sneak in, so I dare not accept it. But the rice flowers will soon bloom and will mature in more than a month. All our efforts in the first half of the year will be realized. At that time, the golden ears are hanging on the top, so it is so beautiful to think about it."

Su Cong couldn't help but think of the scene where rice flowers bloom in July and August and fruitful in August and September.

I really feel that every time I think of all this, I feel that he has done something very amazing this year and will definitely be recorded in history in future generations.

Mi Huang listened to the new system explained by Su Cong, and looked at his excited eyes, and felt a yearning for him.

However, now she thinks more far-reachingly. It can be foreseen that if this system is implemented, the royal family will no longer be subject to the major families because of no food. Even with these public fields that have been opened, the royal family will become the biggest benefit. To be honest, in the hands of a wise monarch, this is definitely a matter of greater benefits than disadvantages, but in the hands of a foolish monarch, it may be a peerless weapon. The royal power will be infinitely magnified, and even suppress all families without any restrictions.

The current monarch is still limited by the land. The more abundant the land, the more powerful the monarch has, the more power it has to speak. Otherwise, the princes of various countries will not rush to become overlords.

Moreover, according to the production standard in the eastern suburbs, Zhou Mu and others had no chance to be greedy. Even regulators did not dare to be greedy, and they could only act on a small scale.

Because the standard is there, if there is a standard, there is a ruler.

Those who cross the line will die.

Later, Su Cong said a lot of interesting things, such as "When there were a lot of insects some time ago, we all used the net to catch insects and eliminate insects according to the field management manual written by Cheng Youtu, and then roasted all the locusts that had harmed the rice fields in previous years and ate them."

"Can locusts really be eaten?"

The woman who has always been calm showed a disgusting expression for the first time.

But Su Cong found it very interesting. Thinking of the first time he ate insects, he frowned and clamped the locusts on the plate, and stuffed them into his mouth with his eyes closed like poison. He couldn't help but laugh, "Of course, the young lady, in fact, some old farmers also said that when natural disasters are very hungry, people can even eat tree bark bugs, let alone fat locusts full of meat and oil, which are not poisonous. And now we use locusts to squeeze oil to cook, and the vegetables we make are so fragrant."

"Locust's oil-made vegetables?"

Mi Huang thought about the fat insect, and she was not feeling well.

"If you don't believe me, then Su Cong will know if he takes the girl to eat."

When Su Cong thought of letting the most noble lady in Chu eat insects, he was a little prank.

As the two of them communicated in depth, Mi Huang's questions seemed endless. Su Cong racked his brains to answer. In the end, if he really couldn't answer, he tried his best to invite Mi Huang to stay in the eastern suburbs for a while and experience it personally.
Chapter completed!