Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 204

Now that Li Shimin has turned around in Xingfu Village, he naturally has to look at everything. He has no intention of letting go of the chicken farm and pig farm on Chaishan, although these two places are mainly run by women now.

"Your Majesty, the current scale of our chicken farm has reached more than 20, and the daily output of eggs is at least [-] to [-]. There are hundreds of women who pick up eggs and feed them to clean the excrement, and there are thousands of hatchlings." High-yield chickens need to be served, and more than [-] new chicks are produced every month, and this area requires hundreds of people to work, and there is a shortage of people!"

Sun Dali explained, his tone seemed to be complaining, but in Xiao Yu and Fang Xuanling's eyes, it seemed that he was asking for credit. Except for Xingfu Village, who could build such a large-scale chicken farm? He was asking the emperor Are you asking for an official?

What they didn't know was that Sun Dali was really complaining. The original residents of Xingfu Village plus the family members of the guards, there were only more than 300 households in total. Some went to Luoyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou, and Shuozhou.

As for the recruited craftsmen, they all have their own work to do, and they will not be involved in this kind of ordinary production. There are so many industries in Xingfu Village, and they rely on a large number of hired workers when they operate, sometimes reaching more than [-] people. .

The food, drink, and wages for more than ten thousand people are not a small expense. However, after mastering certain skills, these hired workers are willing to work alone. After all, these breeding and planting techniques in Xingfu Village are not public Confidential, but also encourage farmers to self-operate.

This has led to the farmers around Xingfu Village gradually learning some planting and breeding techniques, and began to become self-employed. After all, using the things produced in their own fields as feed and farming, their income is higher than that of wages in Xingfu Village Many people, the annual income of those who planted fish and grass last year was tens of thousands is an example.

This makes it more difficult for Xingfu Village to recruit enough skilled workers nearby. You must know that people in ancient times were not like later generations. They had the habit of going out to work. During this period, they left their hometowns. Unless they were officials, it was equivalent to being tortured. The issue of recruitment has actually affected the output of Xingfu Village.

"Lack of people? I see that your happy village is full of people. How can there be a lack of people?" Li Shimin said from the open space of the chicken farm to the village at the foot of the mountain.

"Uh, these people are not employees of our Happy Village, they are all disaster victims! After the disaster is over, they all have to leave. I heard from Uncle Mi and the others that these disaster victims who started fleeing in May and June seem to be all The serfs and tenants of the noble families..."

When Sun Dali said this, Li Shimin frowned, and looked at Fang Xuanling.

"This is indeed a trick of those powerful children, in order to consume the money and food of the court and empty the treasury, so that the food hoarded in their hands becomes even more scarce. However, I have a trick here, so that they can steal chickens without losing money Grab the rice." Fang Xuanling thought of a plan in less than a minute.

"The plan will come out?"

"These serfs were originally private slaves without the official household registration of the government. Now that they are refugees, His Majesty can order them to issue a new household registration uniformly to provide relief to the people. It is reasonable for His Majesty to do so! I believe that after the identity change, Coupled with the fact that Xingfu Village can give them jobs and income, they will not be willing to return to their original masters as serfs, so that when the drought passes next year, it will be a headache for those hoarding pests.”

The aristocratic family holds a large amount of land in their hands. Without these serfs to help them cultivate it, it will become a wasteland. Fang Xuanling's move can not only solve the labor problem in Xingfu Village, but also give the aristocratic family a bottom line and destroy their foundation. It is a good strategy to deal with the family.

"Hehe, I'm afraid that Aiqing followed this boy's wish. Forget it, I can't ask you Xingfu Village to donate money to relieve these fake disaster victims for free. You can choose those serfs without household registration to recruit as workers! Later , I will send staff to give them all worker household registrations, and in the future, even if they want to go back to farm, they will absolutely not be able to."

Datang’s household registration system directly corresponds to the status level. There are clear divisions between scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen. Farmers have [-] acres of Yongye farmland, but workers do not. Moreover, different household registrations have different taxes and corvees. These people who were newly reorganized into industrial households did not have Yongye land, and they had to be recruited by the court to work. If they did not work, they would not even be able to pay the poll tax. Li Shimin did this to tie these people to death in Xingfu Village.

"In that case, I would like to thank Your Majesty." Sun Dali felt very proud that he, a farmer, could fool the emperor. He smiled obsequiously, and led Li Shimin to continue to visit.

After seeing the chicken farm, Li Shimin also went to see the pig farm. After more than a year of development, the scale of the pig farm has exceeded [-]. The pigs that came over, as well as the huge wild boars, were all hunted from the mountains by the guards during their usual training. There was no other reason. The wild boars are big, and some can grow to five or six hundred catties. The person in charge of the research on pig breeds Zhao Da wants to find these wild boars to borrow breeds, and crossbreed them to breed pigs that are more willing to grow. You know, the pig farm in Luoyangxi Village has formed a competitive relationship with the pig farm in Xingfu Village, and both sides are trying to improve their own pig breeds. , in order to get Sun Xiangfu's affirmation and reward.

Li Shimin often sees tens of thousands of horses together, but Li Shimin has never seen tens of thousands of pigs. The clean pig house broke Li Shimin's impression of dirty and smelly pigs.The sinks and defecation troughs in the pig house are cleaned by special personnel, and the pig houses in a row are all made of cement, bricks and tiles, which are very strong, but the pig pens are a little small, and the pigs cannot move freely. Of course, he didn't know about activities. Reducing the amount of activity of pigs was also a way to make pigs grow meat.

In the place that specializes in processing pig food, nearly a thousand women follow a set of procedures, each doing simple procedures in an orderly manner, ensuring the diet of all pigs.

Li Shimin just glanced at it, and said, "Zhao Da, you raise so many pigs, has the market in Chang'an digested it?"

Before Wangjianglou launched the delicious pork dishes, pigs had always been cheap meat in this era, which was disliked by scholars and dignitaries. However, with the mass production of castrated pigs, this custom has been gradually broken, and people have not been able to resist The delicacy of living pork, now not only ordinary people like to cut some pork at the market to eat back when they have a lot of money, but the demand for pork in the homes of dignitaries is also gradually increasing. The market had an impact, but the price of pork rose a lot because of the shortage of supply. Of course, this has something to do with the price increase of the entire food industry during the disaster.

"Your Majesty, the villain has only raised [-] pigs, which is not enough to feed the people of Chang'an! The market will not be able to digest them, and the pigs from pig farms in various places in the royal family may barely supply Guanzhong. The village chief said that the population in Guanzhong will only increase, the demand for meat and vegetables will also increase, and our scale will at least expand several times."

Zhao Da also feels very honored to be able to chat with the emperor. Now more than 30 pig farms in Huangzhuang all point at Zhao Da to get piglets, and the internal stewards jokingly call Zhao Da the pig king. I really intend to call him a swineherd.

When it comes to expansion, manpower is of course the primary consideration. Fortunately, Fang Xuanling's strategy has solved this problem.

Seeing this, Li Shimin also understood the charm of Xingfu Village, that is, to focus on production. For all businesses, production is the key. As long as production is well done, it is not difficult to enrich the country and the people.

Back at Sun Xiangfu's house, Li Shimin and several ministers had a simple dinner. In fact, it was impossible for Xingfu Village to greet him with shabby things, such as eel and loach, big fish in the reservoir, lean pork ribs and the like , I have them all, but it makes Li Shimin sigh with emotion. If the whole Tang Dynasty is like Xingfu Village, what can knock this country down?
After the meal, Li Shimin summoned Sun Erli again to learn about the various industrial data of the Royal Farm until late at night.

The next day, as Li Shimin put the place of governance in Xingfu Village, many officials also rushed here. Because of Li Shimin's order to catch locusts in an all-round way, the victims from all over the country, led by the officers and soldiers, began to go to the surrounding area The area is scattered, and the prerequisite for all infrastructure and production construction is to control the locust plague first.

However, with the passage of time, Li Shimin and many ministers who came to Xingfu Village became more and more depressed. Another two days have passed, and Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng have not yet come out of the isolated wooden house. Control, that is something more terrifying than the locust plague.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the Imperial Medical Office that as many as 760 people died of smallpox in Weinan County yesterday, and three imperial physicians contracted smallpox. The rest dare not come forward..."

Hearing this, Li Shimin felt his scalp tingling. Since the outbreak of the plague in Weinan County, more than ten thousand people have died. If they continue to die like this, the population of the entire county will be wiped out in a short time. The harm of the plague is too terrifying. .

"Your Majesty, smallpox is an incurable disease, and it would be futile to send an imperial doctor there. The current plan should keep people who are not infected with the disease away from this place..."

"No, there is no trace of smallpox infection. If the people in Weinan are allowed to flee, the disease may spread to other places and cause greater losses. The blockade must not be lifted..."

As soon as the news from Weinan arrived, many ministers and workers began to quarrel in front of Li Shimin. However, these officials were just talking about things. What annoyed Li Shimin the most were those who advised him to change his order and not to kill locusts, so as not to kill the locusts. An official who provoked the Locust God to impose a greater punishment.

"Cui Shixun, Wu Yingxue, Lu Kang, Zheng Peiwen... and other ministers who have made rumors to disrupt the country will be expelled from the court and demoted to common people. They will never be hired."

Li Shimin's patience has reached a limit, but he is an emperor, and he can't be happy, so at most he can only demote these people to common people.

In fact, doing so has no practical effect. Even if a group is dismissed, the group that comes up will still look like them. It just allows him to vent his anger. Therefore, regarding Li Shimin's remarks just now, Cui Shixun and the others didn't show any panic. They didn't need to open their mouths before someone jumped out to stop them.

"Your Majesty, you can't. It's patriotism for ministers to speak out for the country. Even if it's inappropriate, your Majesty will not accept it. If you punish the ministers for this, there are still officials in the court who dare to speak out. This is corrupt. Chao Gang's move, I ask His Majesty to take it back."

It was none other than Wei Zheng who spoke out. Li Shimin really couldn't find a reason to refute his words, so he just snorted coldly, "I want to punish them like this, but I didn't see you, Wei Xuancheng, shut up. You can see that there is a reason." , Regardless of whether they will be punished or not, they dare to speak out, and those who are unreasonable will not speak out because they are afraid of being punished."

"Your Majesty, that is to say, what I said is justified, so please take it back, and don't do this act of corrupting the court."

Li Shimin was blocked by Wei Zheng for a while, and his teeth were gnashing, but he had to admit that what he said was somewhat reasonable, no matter what Cui Shixun and others did behind the scenes, but now, on the surface, they really did He was admonishing for the imperial court. If they were punished for this, those aristocratic families would dare to blatantly call him a fool. For the sake of his own reputation, he had to compromise. Wei Zheng just acted as a lubricant for him to ease the relationship with the aristocratic family, and angered him. Also useless.

Flicking the long sleeves of his summer shirt, Li Shimin said helplessly, "Let's leave this matter at that. However, if anyone dares to confuse the public with rumors, I will not forgive them lightly. The officials of the disaster-stricken places in Guanzhong will organize the people to hunt and kill locusts with all their strength immediately. Those who dare to slack off will be severely punished."

A simple decree has encountered so many difficulties before it reaches the grassroots level. It is conceivable that the final execution ability, so Sun Xiangfu never thought of relying on the government to complete this matter at the beginning, and directly took the benefits It is more reliable to drive the people, as long as the local government follows the emperor's request, posting a notice that Xingfu Village buys locusts for a penny and a catty.

This is something that can’t be helped. There are too many people who put self-interest above the interests of the country. Even in later generations, such situations are too numerous to mention. This is human nature, and there are very few people who can transcend this human quality, so , at this moment, in Li Shimin's heart, Sun Xiangfu's image has become a bit taller, and it seems that he is gradually overturning the sixteen-character comments he gave him at first.

However, Sun Xiangfu didn't know what happened outside. He and Li Chunfeng were both young and strong. After the first two days of low-grade fever and weakness symptoms, their bodies gradually entered the recovery period, and their food intake began to return to normal. The feeling of low-grade fever and weakness It is relieving, and it seems that in a day or two at most, they will be able to return to normal.

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