Chapter 699 Restoration
Of course, 200,000 heads are the minimum standard, at least 500,000 heads are required to greatly increase productivity, people are prosperous, and national strength is rising.
"It seems that the next direction of governance is to plow ox!" Li Jia put down his pen and pondered: "In this feudal era, agriculture was the primary productive force. In addition to ox, iron plows are also needed. In this way, mining and iron smelting technology are needed; oxes will get sick normally, so the veterinary industry must also develop; oxes will be slaughtered when they are old, and slaughtering will also develop..."
"In addition, the demand for fertilizer has increased significantly, and human fertilizer is not enough. Animals are required. For example, pigs have a lot of daily yields, so the feeding industry also needs to develop..."
"It's a big move that moves the whole body. Sure enough, raising a cow is not easy!"
The more Li Jia thought, the more he felt that the driving effect of an industry's development is very obvious. Of course, the supporting facilities should be complete, such as veterinarians, iron plows, etc., to maximize the use of the productivity of cattle.
"I would have the gold fingers, and I would have produced small tractors directly, and the agriculture designated to be reborn..."
Sighing, Li Jia shook her head, and now she can only proceed step by step.
Therefore, Niu Zheng is more important to an agricultural dynasty than Ma Zheng.
When talking about Niu Zheng, Li Jia couldn't help but think of the Later Liang Dynasty, which was Zhu Wen, who killed Emperor Ai of Tang, massacred Baimayi, and established the Liang Kingdom.
Although Zhu Wen is a person with personal morality, he loves his wife and daughter, and he is not spared by his ministers and his wife, especially his son's wife and wife. He even likes him very much, and even decides the candidate for the prince based on his preference for his daughter-in-law.
Finally, because his adopted son Zhu Youwen's wife was beautiful and clever, she was deeply loved by Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen also loved Zhu Youwen very much, and even wanted to make his adopted son Zhu Youwen the crown prince. His biological son Zhu Yougui got a secret report on his wife's bed and immediately rebelled.
It's a long way to go...
Although Zhu Wen suffered from personal morality, he treated the best among all countries and had the lightest taxes in the Five Dynasties.
Even during the period when Li Cunxu was fighting for hegemony in Hedong, Houliang did not increase rent and taxes. Overall, Hebei under Zhu Wen's rule did not produce a large number of refugees even in a very chaotic war period.
Zhu Wen had a good policy, which was bull rent.
In the early years, Zhu Wen conquered Yang Xingmi in Huainan, but did not achieve any results, but unexpectedly obtained hundreds of thousands of cows.
As a hero of a generation, Zhu Wen naturally knew the importance of cattle. Therefore, after the establishment of the Later Liang Dynasty, Zhu Wen ordered that all these cattle be rented to the people and charge meager cattle rent.
This rent is nothing compared to a cow.
However, a good policy is afraid that people will become bad things.
More than ten years later, the cattle were dead, but the Five Dynasties still collected cattle rent from these people, and from the Later Liang Dynasty, the Later Jin, the Later Han, and the Later Zhou Dynasty, it took forty years before it was abolished.
Therefore, renting a cattle is not feasible.
The more processes you go through, the more officials will be able to do it.
Besides, who can collect the cattle rent?
In the Transshipment Office, they are tax-collecting cattle rent, not taxes.
Local government office? Isn’t this for them to peel off?
Sell directly?
Can the people afford it? A cow is at least ten taels, and several families may not be able to get it together.
So, can you just watch?
It's really distressing!
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But here, under the third year of Shenwu, the Eight Banners soldiers sent troops to Xichuan under the leadership of Pan Chongche, defeating tens of thousands of Song soldiers in one fell swoop, making them famous all over the world and are called generals.
The Eight Banners soldiers under his command were naturally famous.
Especially for the Tang Dynasty, the Eight Banners soldiers were cheap and had high combat power, so they were rare good soldiers.
Therefore, after more than half of the Eight Banners soldiers who died and injured were rich and no longer motivated, they were mostly gathered in Shaozhou, Changsha Prefecture and Chenzhou, Xiangxi Prefecture.
Many old men of the Eight Banners placed their land in Shaozhou, where they were seven parts of mountains, two parts of fields, one part of road and water, but in the end, they were much better than Chenzhou, where there were mountains everywhere.
Chenzhou was originally a banzhou. During the Ma Chu period, it was unable to rule, so it was granted the Daxian governor and established a rule.
During the Zhou and Chu period, with the confinement period continuing and the Chineseization continued, the rule of Chenzhou and other prefectures continued.
After Li Jia went north to Hunan and established the rule of the Tang Dynasty, he divided Langzhou and Lizhou into Jingnan Prefecture, Chenzhou, Jinzhou, Xuzhou, Zhuanzhou, etc., to be Xiangxi Prefecture, and sent Pan Chongche to lead the Eight Banners troops to station.
The Eight Banners soldiers were originally the Manliao in Lingnan, and they had the same origin as the barbarians in Xiangxi, and their living habits were roughly inseparable. However, because of the differences in tribes, under the leadership of Pan Chongche, they fought and continued to massacre and conquered various tribes and caves that were dissatisfied, and even the number of Han residents in Xiangxi Prefecture continued to increase.
Many barbarians were forced to go down the mountain, farm, accept exploitation from the court, and all households were allocated, which allowed Xiangxi Prefecture to continue to increase its strength.
However, as the Eight Banners soldiers went west and were abolished, the registered households in Xiangxi Prefecture immediately stopped.
This made Wei, the prefect of Xiangxi Fujing, immediately confused.
"It's not possible to continue like this!" Jing Wei drank a sip of tea, sat on the chair, and sighed: "Since the Eight Banners went west last year and General Pan left, the barbarians who went down the mountain have become more and more money. Last month, there were only less than a hundred people. How could this make a certain feeling?"
When Jing Wei thought of his political achievements in the past few months, he felt uncomfortable instantly.
He knew that being able to achieve this position was fundamentally proficient in the Han and Barbarians, and that constantly allowing barbarians to go down the mountain to form households was his political achievement.
You should know that the prefect of Jingnan Prefecture, Sun Guangxian, this old man, went directly to Changsha and became the prime minister, which made him envious.
"For my contribution, not to mention the prime minister, a minister is still feasible, right?" Jing Wei was quite content with his lack of background, and the barbarians were his political achievements and his achievements.
Now, there are fewer barbarians, where does this allow him to get political achievements? How can he be promoted?
"Mr., why not recruit the Eight Banners soldiers again and go to the mountains to clear them out again. In this way, there will be more barbarians going down the mountain!"
The staff on the side thought about it and put forward their own suggestions.
"No!" Jing Wei shook his head and said, "Let's not mention whether the court allows it yet, just talk about the Eight Banners soldiers who returned home with a lot of money. They now have fields and houses, beautiful wives and concubines, and are very happy. How could they sacrifice their lives for the soldiers again?"
"A fat-bellied hunting dog can no longer catch prey!"
"Then, why not rebuild the Eight Banners soldiers?" An aide suggested: "Recruiting Eight Banners soldiers from those Barbarian tribes again, using money as a temptation, so as to drive them to the mountains!"
"As long as you train a little, you will definitely not be inferior to your predecessors!"
"Okay, I'll write immediately and ask for the re-establishment of the Eight Banners soldiers!" Jing Wei said excitedly.
Chapter completed!