Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 188

Zaiyu's carriage drove all the way through the outskirts of Tuqiu.

From the time the carriage arrived in Tuqiu territory, Zaiyu's buttocks had never sat down.

After driving out of Zhoudao, there were obviously more pedestrians on the road.

Among them were the miners who carried bamboo baskets to transport stones, the woodcutters who carried firewood back and forth on their poles, and the merchants who drove their carts to Tuqiu for sale.

Not far away, on the land that had just been leveled, dozens of strong men were practicing their weapons under the leadership of Shen Shu.

Summer has arrived and the temperature is gradually rising. It is a good time to prepare fertilizer for the next year's cultivation.

Next to the big pit beside the road, a group of farmers are making new fertilizers according to the newly promulgated fertilizer decree.

I saw that they first sealed and compacted the four walls of the big pit with broken pottery shards, then spread a layer of weeds on the bottom of the pit, poured manure, accompanied by the fertile black mud obtained from dredging the ditch some time ago, and then spread a layer of weeds on the bottom of the pit. Fish bones and other food residues were sprinkled with phosphate rock powder imported from Qi.

Finally, seal the cover plate and leave a small opening to volatilize the methane generated during the composting process, and you're done.

If this opening is not left, in case there is too much methane gas, it is not a joke to encounter an open fire one day, and a few people will collapse and die.

Even if no one died, it would be really disgusting to explode a person covered in 'shrimp'.

Dozens of fertilization pits like this have been prepared in the territory of Tuqiu, and the stored fertilizer is enough for the whole year of Tuqiu next year.

The plan to increase the agricultural output of Dodder is steadily progressing. With fertilizers, the next step is to consider improving irrigation methods.

Although there are ditches connecting the Zishui River in Tuqiu, the current waterway network in Tuqiu is not densely distributed everywhere.

So under normal circumstances, it is still necessary to use manpower to fetch water from the ditches, and then irrigate in turn.

But now, the plains near Tuqiu have basically been reclaimed, and the land in the steep terrain has to be reclaimed next.

The energy and time spent on cultivating these areas are far from comparable to those on the plains.

If Tuqiu is a large city with a large population, it would be fine to spend a little more manpower.

But Zaiyu's goal is to create an elite teacher who belongs to Tuqiu, and a real elite teacher must spend a lot of time on training.

In order to solve the problem of not spending too much manpower on farming, it is necessary to speed up the pace of research and development of water-turning dump trucks and high-drum trucks.

A water turner can irrigate hundreds of acres of farmland day and night.

The high-drum car can solve the problem of transporting water to steep areas.

Just when Zaiyu was thinking about how to make Zhou Li great again, Zigong suddenly asked.

"Son me."

"how?"

"Do you feel that the population of Tuqiu has increased recently?"

"It has changed a lot?"

Zai Yu glanced at Sang Tian, ​​it's okay not to look at it, but this look really made him discover a lot of strange faces that he didn't remember at all.

He looked towards the open space outside Tuqiu City, where groups of simple thatched huts had been erected at some point.

"People from the countryside have come to join us? I clearly remember that there were no such things before I went to Qufu!"

When Zaiyu saw this situation, he couldn't help sighing: "After more than a year of land distribution, it has finally seen results."

When Zaiyu took office, he formulated the public land distribution policy.

All people who lost their land in Tuqiu, or those who are willing to defect to Tuqiu, will be allocated [-] acres of public land each, exempt from taxation for one year.

After a year, the tax rationed on public land was the same as that collected on private land.

The only difference between the two is that the ownership of the public land still belongs to Tu Qiuyi, so private trading is prohibited.

The people only have the right to cultivate public land, but not the right to own it.

However, if they reclaimed new land by themselves, their private land would still be recognized as long as it was registered in the Tuqiu government office, and the newly reclaimed land would be exempted from taxes for the first three years.

This policy has three purposes.

The first is to balance the gap between the rich and the poor among the local people in Tuqiu.

The second is to attract landless people from other cities to join them.

The third one is aimed at the group of unknown guys in the mountains.

The social environment in ancient times was very different from that in later generations.

After King Wu overthrew Zhou, he wantonly enfeoffed the princes of all parties, but these princes did not live as comfortably as those county kings in later generations.

Zhou Tianzi canonized the princes, to put it bluntly, he gave you a country, but in fact he gave you a settlement, that is, a city.

When the state of Lu was founded, it only had Qufu in its hands.

When the state of Qi was founded, it had only one camp in its hands.

As for why the two countries became so big later, it was naturally punched out by myself.

However, even if the world is created with one punch and one punch, the actual control range of the monarchs of the two countries is only limited to the vicinity of the city.

As for the mountains farther away, although they are nominally the land of the two countries, in reality, their hands cannot reach that far.

Zhou Tianzi likes to talk about open borders, and his princes naturally follow suit.

For example, Zaiyu, Doctor Tuqiu, to put it nicely, granted the land around Tuqiu.

In fact, when Zaiyu first came to Tuqiu, all he could manage was Tuqiu Yi.

As for those small tribes hiding in the nearby mountains who couldn't tell whether they were refugees or Dongyi, they didn't listen to Dr. Tuqiu at all.

This group of people hides in the mountains farming and hunting all day long, and when there is enough food to eat, everyone gets along fairly well.

When there is not enough food to eat, they go down the mountain to grab food.

If the number of people gathers a little more, he even dares to attack Tuqiu County.

In order to deal with this group of people, Zaiyu naturally had to use both soft and hard tactics.

On the one hand, implement policies and tell them that as long as they come to surrender, the land you opened up will naturally still be yours, and I can also provide you with protection.

On the other hand, anyone who dares to go down the mountain to kill Tuqiu's people will be executed.

At first, the barbarians in the mountains obviously took Zaiyu's words as fart.

This group of people probably thinks that Marquis Lu didn't do anything to us in the past, so why are you pretending to be here, Dr. Tuqiu?
They have been doing their own way, and Jae Yu just turned a blind eye because they hadn't done anything out of the ordinary.

Until the end of spring this year, these people organized a large-scale downhill raid for grain, attacking several grain caravans going to Tuqiu.

This can be regarded as a knife stabbing Jae Yu's aorta.

Because in Jae Yu's view, it's fine if these people grab some food.

Anyway, there was a lot of food in Tuqiu's warehouse, so it wasn't worth fighting them for something like that.

Tuqiu's soldiers are all precious, and using them to fight wild people in the mountains is like shooting mosquitoes with missiles.

If a few soldiers died, Zai Yu would lose a lot of money.

In doing so, the investment and return are not directly proportional.

But you dare to attack the caravan, destroy the good business environment, and threaten the safety of the trade route.

Do you know how to write the word "free trade"?
On the day when the caravan was attacked, Zaiyu ordered the Yi Sima Shenshen to take the lead and lead the Tuqiu soldiers to carry out an encirclement and suppression operation codenamed "Wang Dao Jiaohua" against these ignorant mountain people.

In response to Jae Yu's call of "precise strikes, we must catch alive", Shen Sima led his subordinates to act overnight.

He first brought people into the mountains to grab the 'tongue', then influenced him with 'benevolence and righteousness', bought him with 'morality', and finally succeeded in transforming him into a 'leading party'.

Through the 'Leading Party', Shen Sui successfully determined which hilltop the offending tribe belonged to.

Then they quickly mobilized the recruits to pile up coke at the foot of the mountain, set off fireworks, and let off thick smoke to smoke them down the mountain.

In the end, it was the story of Shen Shun leading the soldiers like catching rabbits, and captured more than 70 men, women, children and children in a row at the foot of the mountain.

According to Zaiyu's instructions, the men among the captives were sent to the mines to receive reform through labor, the women to learn textile technology, all the young children were sent to Tuqiu Township School for secondary education, and all the elderly were handed over to fools for reformation.

If you still don't want to repent during the reform period, and there are still criminals, they will all be expelled from their citizenship and dealt with at a low price to the caravans of various countries to squeeze out the remaining value.

Maybe it was because he was afraid of being killed by Shen Suo, or because he felt that the living conditions during the labor reform period were not bad.

During this period of time, none of these people continued to commit crimes or fled.

They seem to have lost their previous vicious demeanor, and they have become good at singing and dancing.

To commemorate the great success of this operation, this month's "Tuqiu Monthly" also published an article titled "The Great Success of Kingly Education, Benevolence, Righteousness and Morality Are Invincible" on the front page.

A prisoner undergoing labor reform said in an interview with gratitude: "Barbarian customs turn people into ghosts, and benevolence and morality turn ghosts into people."

It is reported that this prisoner has been promoted to the head of the prison and is expected to integrate into Tu Qiuyi's big family after successful transformation.

Looking at the unfamiliar faces working hard in the mulberry field, Zai Yu couldn't help standing in the car and sighing.

"Those who belong to the barbarians and the Chinese are from the Chinese. Those who are from the Chinese to the barbarians are from the barbarians.

Since they are willing to embrace Zhou Li, then I should naturally put away the weapons and treat him with courtesy. "

After finishing speaking, Zaiyu yelled at Shen Shun who was training soldiers on the school field not far away: "Zi Zhou!"

Shen Shun heard his voice, and ran over with a smile on his face: "My lord, what do you want me to do?"

"Let's temporarily stop this month's 'Kingdom Enlightenment'."

"That..." Shen Jian couldn't help laughing out loud, "Actually, it's already stopped."

"what?"

Shen Suo clasped his fists and said with a smile: "You have been in Qufu these few days, you probably don't know yet.

More than [-] savages from nine tribes in the nearby mountains have all joined Tuqiu.

Now all the big and small tribes within a ten-mile radius of Tuqiu have surrendered to your rule.

The specific number, they are still counting.

But the actual number will only be more than what I said, and will not be less than what I said.

Now you are at least a doctor in charge of five hundred households. "

"Five...five hundred households..."

Jae Yu pinched his face, feeling a little unreal.

He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet and said, "Hey! If I had known about this result, wouldn't I have started promoting the 'kingly way'?"

　If the monthly ticket has its own trajectory, isn't the author's greatest luck and the source of all his courage the inability to predict the ending when asking for the ticket?
　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)