Northern Dynasties

There was a burst of drumming on the plain, and a group of knights in uniform rushed into the village like a whirlwind. The villagers stood on both sides of the road in shock, watching these majestic knights, and they did not dare to move rashly.

"Where is the head of the neighborhood and the head of the village here? Come and meet me!"

The knights dismounted from their horses on the open ground in the village. Immediately, a leader of the team held a knife and looked at the surrounding villagers and shouted orders.

Hearing this, the tense expressions of the villagers relaxed a little, as long as they didn't come to look for them, it would be fine, and then some people ran enthusiastically to inform the neighbor and village chief.

Not long after, the neighbors and village chiefs, who were often imposing in front of the villagers, walked up tremblingly, and bowed their hands from a distance and said, "May I ask what you need, General?"

The soldier commander who was impatient to wait rolled his eyelids, and immediately shouted and asked: "A month ago, the state government sent an order to the counties, counties and townships, ordering you to wait for the chief officials of the civil affairs to inspect the households in the villages and towns. The inspection is complete. No?"

After hearing the words, the head of the village and the others showed embarrassment, looked at the villagers who were still unaware and staring at the commotion, and then lowered their heads and said helplessly: "Reporting to the general, after the autumn, the farming is busy, and it is still busy until now. There are many things that have not been completed. The family members are not at home, so it is really hard to count..."

"Since you can't figure it out, someone will do it for you! Hurry up and summon all the young people from this household, don't miss it!"

The soldier commander ordered again with a stern face, and only then did the onlookers understand that their feelings were coming to the village to catch people.

So they all turned around and ran towards their own homes, some jumped straight into the fence with quick hands and feet, and buckled the fence gate from the inside.

Seeing that the matter could not be shirked, the head of the village and the neighbors, under the threat of these soldiers entering the village, knocked on the door with a bitter face and shouted: "Zhang Sanlu, don't hide! Your Erwan is half a year old, hurry up and get rid of that Hand it over, boy!"

"My son wants to retch hemp indoors, so he won't go wild in the school!"

The owner of that household held a wooden stick horizontally in his hand to block behind the fence gate, and he shouted loudly and replied: "Good farmer, if you don't learn how to plow and plow the land, what are you going to do in that school to learn some acrobatics that are not beneficial to production!"

"What nonsense! What kind of good man can you teach in your household? You can also sing 'chirp, chirp, chirp'?"

The head of the village knocked on the door, persuading him, and at the same time he was also amused. He couldn't help but look back at the soldiers who entered the village and asked with a smile: "The generals are practicing in the camp. Do you want to chirp again? Our state bishop sang this, You still have to enter the house to remind me, what kind of elegance is it?"

Hearing this, the faces of all the knights turned black, and they immediately said angrily: "The governor is highly intelligent, you ordinary people can understand? If you don't learn how to chirp, how can you chirp!"

While speaking, the soldier commander looked at the head of the household blocking the door and said loudly: "The governor has already issued an order to transfer [-]% of the rent from your fellow villagers to the students in the school. Your family can't go to school. The materials have already been used, if you are a big belly man, you can still make money if you are full!"

The head of the household's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this, and he quickly decided in his heart whether it would be more cost-effective to keep his son at home to help with work or send him to school to save on rations.

As the saying goes, a half-child eats a poor old man. Thinking about the size of that kid who has a grudge against rice and the clumsy worker who has a grudge against money, the attitude of the head of the household gradually softened. After thinking about it, he said: "I'm over 65 years old. Lu also belongs to Banding, can you go with me?"

Similar scenes happened in various parts of Jingzhou. The reason is that the state government issued an order to encourage students to study after the autumn, ordering all middle-class households in the prefecture with 14 to [-]-year-old half-dings to enroll in the military service. Every two-month semester, if you don't enroll, you will be punished as a fugitive.

With the issuance of this decree, the children of Juntian households scattered throughout the prefecture were transported by the county and county government in vehicles to Rangcheng, the prefectural government, and sent to the state school that had just been completed in Rangcheng.

Li Tai entered the state last year, and has been committed to expanding the registered households in the state. From war and looting to interest exchange, to various policy attraction, the results achieved are quite amazing.

Last year, there were only more than 8000 registered registered households in Jingzhou, but after the inspection after the fall of this year, the cumulative number of registered households in all counties and counties soared to more than [-] households, an increase of nearly two times the number!

Such a political achievement can definitely be regarded as excellent in any place. It is not the first time that Li Tai has served as the governor of a state or county. Various forms of concealment of cultivated land and population, such as military settlements and private settlements, have not been outstanding in political performance. The rankings of the states and counties are at the bottom of the middle reaches, and occasionally at the bottom.

But seeing the increase in the number of households in Jingzhou this year, he feels that he has the hope of being the best in this year's performance appraisal.Now that the number of household registrations has rushed up, other aspects naturally cannot hold back.

In particular, the school building in this state is so magnificently built, if you don't bring a group of schoolchildren to show off your achievements, it will feel almost tasteless.Although Jingzhou is mine, it is also yours. In the final analysis, it is still mine. You must study hard for my power to grow!

He dared to popularize compulsory education such as literacy classes in Jingzhou. Of course, it was also because of various sources of income to increase his confidence.This education cost seems to be not small, but the workload is actually not that big after careful calculation.

There are more than 2 registered residents, not every family has middle-aged men and half men of the right age, half of them would be good.

Literacy classes are held every two months, and there are six classes in a year. Due to the restrictions of the farming year, it may be more concentrated after autumn and before spring. Now, the penetration rate can reach [-]-[-]%, which is already very good.

When it continues to improve in the future, the corresponding experience and scale will also increase, and it can also be diverted to the next level of government such as counties and counties.

As for the cost is mainly food, each of these half-sized children can really eat, and the consumption of a single person is not even inferior to an adult battalion who maintains normal battalion training.

After a literacy class, the food consumed by a single person can reach nearly two stones.According to the most ideal situation, all the school-age boys in the state will participate in literacy education, and there will be less than [-] shi of grain in a year.Based on the calculation of three shi grains per mu, the income from one hundred hectares of fertile land is enough to eliminate illiteracy for schoolchildren in the state throughout the year.

Of course, one hundred hectares of arable land is not a small amount, but in some areas where land resources are highly concentrated, any large manor owner may hold dozens of hectares or even more land.Therefore, killing a local tyrant can provide literacy education to thousands or even tens of thousands of schoolchildren in the state.

These two months of literacy education may not change their lives, but it can give them an experience that they never had in life compared to their grandparents.And if they perform well enough in the two months of literacy education, the state government will of course provide them with opportunities for continuing education.

A literacy class is not a bright future, but it provides a possibility, and only one or a few local tyrants are consumed. In short, Li Tai feels that the deal is not a loss.

Of course, apart from the fact that Li Tai doesn't care about the consumables of local tyrants, it's also because he is really rich.

Not to mention these stable tax sources brought about by the expansion of domestic registered households, the Hanshui business and trade with Yueyang Wang Xiaoyu and others, after the first few trials and explorations, the performance and profits in the next few months will all fall. Even climbed to new heights.

Li Qianzhe, a local tycoon in Ankang, didn't even care about digging his family's gold mines. He sent his family slaves deep into Meridian Valley to build strongholds one after another. The return on profits is so rapid that even gold mining can't keep up.

The business is running smoothly, and it is getting bigger and bigger.After Li Tai sent Liang Shiyan and others to Caiyang to build the city and garrison troops, his friendship and tacit understanding with Yueyang King Xiao Xi reached a new level, so his dividends were also continuously exported from Xiangyang.

Of course, the money has to be spent, especially if there is a lot of Nanliang iron money in the profit.These things still have a certain purchasing power right now, so it's a pity that all of them have been melted to cast armored soldiers. Before Nanliang was in chaos, Li Tai also asked people to search and buy supplies in the Eastern Hand area, and then transported them back to Jingzhou via Xiangyang.

It is a pity that due to the continuous hostility between the Xiao Xi brothers and the Jiangling side, their business development in the Yangtze River area is not fast enough and the efficiency is not high enough, so they have to passively wait for the buyers from Jiangling side to come here. He took the initiative to open up the market but was thwarted.

However, Jiangling's choice is not limited to Xiangyang. After all, before the Hanshui trade route, the Shuzhong trade route was the mainstream of communication between Nanliang and the Western Regions.Shuzhong also has such a competitive industry as Shu brocade, so the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are still used to buying goods from Shuzhong.

Even if Xiangyang has a more price advantage, it will be difficult to shake Shuzhong's position in this business ecology in a short period of time.After all, it is not only buyers and sellers who benefit from this long-established business route, but anyone related to it will benefit a lot.

However, Li Tai also has a major means that has not yet been revealed, and that is the white sugar whose technology and production capacity are maturing day by day.When this thing is taken out, it will be a high-pressure water pump. The market competitiveness of Shuzhong is not enough to look at.