Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 191 Shuozhou's Planning

Naturally, the imperial court didn’t just move people to Shuozhou. There are border towns in Yinzhou, Songzhou, and Youzhou. A total of 30 households have been moved out. Moreover, they have also started the trial of the military settlement system in the border areas. This kind of big move It was announced that the food price in Chang'an had indeed stopped the upward trend, and that the supply of tofu produced by the Food Supervision Department increased the market supply, and it was firmly sold at the price of one penny per catty, which gradually caused panic among the people. weakened.

At the end of March, Sun Xiangfu had just started working in the newly opened fields, and the [-] households assigned by the imperial court dragged their families to Shuozhou, and they didn't have much surplus food in their hands. Li Shimin loves to give him difficult problems, and the first batch of relocated people are all impoverished households in Guanzhong.

In fact, Sun Xiangfu has been busy since the beginning of the new year. After the city was built, he started farming. Even if the people sent by Wang Xu don't take care of him, there are still [-] households in Shuozhou's four counties and one city. Woolen cloth!First of all, it started from the army's farming. In this era, all the soldiers knew how to farm. Three thousand young and strong cultivated [-] mu of land. Those who can work at the same time, according to Sun Xiangfu's request, after the [-] mu of land has been reorganized and sown, they start to organize the people to reclaim wasteland.

The military settlements are all ripe fields near the river. The land is more fertile than in Guanzhong. As long as it is planted well, the harvest this year should be good, but land reclamation is different. Because the soil texture is different, how to divide it into pieces and what crops to plant all require some planning. In this regard, no one else understands, so Sun Xiangfu can only do it himself.

However, the aborigines in Shuozhou had poorer farming skills than the people in the Central Plains. Sun Xiangfu had to disperse hundreds of craftsmen to the fields to guide the local people in farming. For more than a year, I have listened to many lectures when I was free, and I am much better than ordinary farmers under the influence of my ears and eyes. They guide those people who originally made a living from grazing to cultivate, and the effect is not bad.

There are only more than 1 households. At the end of March, their fields were basically in order. After seeing the sun for several days in a row, the temperature rose sharply, and after there was no repetition, Sun Xiangfu dared to let everyone sow seeds, because It is also possible to snow in March on the grasslands, and sometimes the ice and snow will not melt until mid-April. This year, the temperature is warmer, and the beginning of spring is relatively early.

When the time entered mid-April, the people who moved from Guanzhong finally built their own simple dwellings in the four counties and one city of Sun Xiangfu Shuozhou. Among the four counties, each of the four counties absorbed 2 households, and the remaining [-] households were resettled. Shanyang New City and its surrounding areas have been removed. Since [-] households were assigned to Sun Xiangfu, there are only [-] or [-] households that actually pay taxes to the court.

The weather has gotten warmer, and the houses don't need to be built too tightly, they are almost done, so Sun Xiangfu began to lead everyone to open up wasteland and farm.

More than [-]% of the land of Shanyang was originally grassland. When building the city, Sun Xiangfu collected and ate all the cattle and sheep in the hands of the herdsmen. Therefore, everyone has to learn to farm this year.

After dividing the area and burning the grassland, a large number of farming tools were distributed to the farmers. It was too late to do the work of dividing the fields to households. Sun Xiangfu simply set the quota and set up collectives for one year this year.

Due to time constraints, not only those who were assigned in Shanyang County, but also those local people from Shuozhou who had finished planting their own fields were also recruited by Sun Xiangfu. There were nearly 10 people in total, and it took only half a month to harden the land. He reclaimed nearly one million mu of grassland in the land of Shanyang, leaving less than 30 mu of grassland. In fact, an average person only reclaimed more than ten mu of land. Most of the time, Sun Xiangfu arranged for the establishment of the grassland. The village is a fortress. In the future, these more than 2 households will be scattered and resettled in these fortresses. In this regard, Sun Xiangfu followed the example of the Wang family. On the open and flat grassland, without building fortresses, it is difficult to resist wild animals and Attacked by foreign enemies.

It was also during this half a month that these people directly took out all of Sun Xiangfu's family assets. Of course, the effect was also obvious. The land of Shanyang became the same as Guanzhong, with a population of five miles, one village, ten miles and one fort. In the dense area, just one county, more than 2 households have been resettled, which can catch up with the previous state.

"Damn it, other people are making money when they become officials. My brother has only been in office for a few months, and he has posted 10,000+ pennies, and there are hundreds of thousands of shi rice."

Standing on the tall city wall of Shanyang, Sun Xiangfu used his binoculars to scan the surrounding dense green brick fortresses, complaining.

"Hehe, your efficiency is still high. I repaired the fortress two months ahead of schedule, and now I have just completed the reclamation of the fields. How to plant the fields next depends on you."

Wang Xu was very curious about what that brass pipe in Sun Xiangfu's hand was, but he had his pride and would not act like he was envious of other people's treasures.

Today he came to see Sun Xiangfu in Shanyang because the 80 mu of land he had reclaimed on the grassland had all been reorganized according to Sun Xiangfu's requirements, and it was time to start the next step of sowing.

Sun Xiangfu's high efficiency in handling affairs is because he has a relatively scientific distribution. In addition, he has enough farming tools and has more than twice as many people as Wang Xu. However, he will not provide Wang Xu with spice seeds for free. He has to get back some of the money invested by the common people in the state, otherwise, he will not be able to continue his business in the future.

"Prince Wang, you should know that spices are very valuable, especially the spice seeds that can be used for planting. My family has just been emptied by these people. You must find some money for me!"

Sun Xiangfu's complaints before were naturally a foreshadowing for bargaining. With this introduction, Sun Xiangfu could sit down and raise the price. You must know that before this, he had never mentioned this to Wang Xu. Now Wang Xu's serfs have moved Come here, the fields are ready to bloom, if Sun Xiangfu says not to give him seeds, Wang Xu will vomit blood in minutes.

"It's natural, the price is easy to talk about, just don't delay the planting." Wang Xu said with a relaxed smile. No matter how expensive spice seeds are, they are only one or two pennies per catty. Thinking of the millions of pennies of income, What is this investment worth?

"Prince, I don't want money, I want food, 80 shi of grain, millet or wheat, as long as you can get it for me, I will keep the 80 mu of land you opened to plant spices. "

"80 million stone?"

This number makes Wang Xu a little confused. You must know that this year’s drought in Guanzhong makes food very precious. Even though the imperial court has transferred grain from Lingnan to Guanzhong, and also transferred a large number of soybeans from Yangzhou to Guanzhong, the price of food is still rising slightly. Now The price of one stone of grain is almost two guan.

80 shi of grain, that's 160 million guan.It's not that the Wang family can't produce so much grain, but that putting so much grain on the market may affect the price trend in the market. This time the severe drought has raised the price of grain, but God helped them, a family with a huge amount of grain, It's not good to destroy the interests of the entire family group for your own benefit.

But when he thought that he had planted an acre of spice fields for only the price of grain, Wang Xu felt that this business was very worthwhile. The price is more than 100 guan, even if you sell it at half price or at a lower price, the net profit you get can easily reach several million guan.

"Uh, well, it's not that there is no food, but I have a request, that is, the food I give you, you can only feed the people of Shuozhou, and you can't sell it." Wang Xu finally put forward his own conditions.

"make a deal!"

Sun Xiangfu snapped his fingers to confirm.

Hearing this, Wang Xu felt relieved. You must know that [-] to [-] percent of the people in Shuozhou are actually his tenants. Sun Xiangfu can't do anything tricky under his nose.

Sun Xiangfu asked for food, of course it was for the people of Shuozhou, because the granary in Shuozhou was actually empty at this time, but with the 80 shi of grain, plus the output of the fields in Shuozhou this year, the reserve There is enough food for the [-] people in Shuozhou until next year's autumn harvest.

With such a rich food reserve, Sun Xiangfu dared to let everyone grow non-food crops. In places with such a developed water system in the Sanggan River Basin, the yield of melons, fruits and cotton is actually higher, and the income is greater than that of food.

In addition, Sun Xiangfu also plans to plant some flowers, and when the time comes, he will refine the essence and mix it with alcohol to make perfume. This thing will be fatally tempting to Hu merchants in the Western Regions, and it will not conflict with the edible spices planted by Wang Xu. After all, There are not many people in Datang who can afford spices. With Wang Xu's 80 mu of spice fields, it is inevitable that the price will plummet.

Even though there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, Sun Xiangfu was not optimistic about the price of food in Datang. Don't look at the price of food in Chang'an, it seems that the whole world is about to collapse. The aristocratic family carried it up.Many aristocratic families and businessmen have hoarded a large amount of grain, which is enough for the people of the Tang Dynasty to eat for more than two years. There is no other reason. Just look at the number of farmland and the proportion of the population in the Tang Dynasty last year. With more than 2000 million mu of land, on average, each person has more than 1 to [-] mu of land. Can one person eat up the output of [-] mu of land?

The answer is impossible, that's why last year's food supply couldn't hold up and plunged. This is because the aristocratic families and businessmen hoarded too much food, and it reached the point where it couldn't be sold without lowering the price.

Moreover, Li Shimin in history was able to survive this crisis, not to mention that now Sun Xiangfu introduced Champa rice, promoted two crops of soybeans, and increased the output of Datang's farmland so much. In fact, the grain produced in Guanglingnan now , The soybeans produced in Yangzhou can feed the people in Guanzhong when they are completely out of production. Therefore, after this year's crisis is over, the price of food will still plummet. This is why Sun Xiangfu did not let the people of Shanyang The reason why the newly opened fields are planted with grain.

Reasonable planning can maximize the income. This is the perspective of Sun Xiangfu who was born in modern society. Therefore, Sun Xiangfu will plant some strange seeds in the newly reclaimed fields. These things, In fact, it is not a crop at all.

(End of this chapter)