As the saying goes, "Spring rain is as precious as oil."

Spring is a critical period for crop growth, and a lot of water is needed. If the precipitation is sparse, it will inevitably affect yield.

Shao Xun first came to the more than 1,300 hectares of Xuntian to check it out.

I planted wintering wheat last fall, and this will be the time to grow joints and ears, so I will never be able to make a mistake.

Fortunately, there is water in Guangchengze.

As the rain was less, the 6,000 military soldiers from Jizhou were suffering, and they were asked to irrigate manually.

In fact, where there is a perfect canal network system, manual irrigation is not too troublesome. At least half of the fields in Guangchengze can be irrigated through canals, and the remaining half will be improved this year.

"After the wheat harvest, 400 people were transferred to Luyang and handed over to Wang Chan and others to lead." Shao Xun looked at the tutors who were carrying water in the fields to irrigate.

"No." The farmer Chu Hu, the assistant minister Chen Yougen, and the secretary Mao Bang agreed at the same time.

Of course, the farmer was responsible for the field, but when it came to the prisoners to be converted into auxiliary soldiers, the doctor also needed to order the department to participate.

Simply put, this is the intersection of the business of the two agencies.

In addition, this order needs to be issued by the yamen under the jurisdiction of the Dian Shuling (the eighth rank). At this time, the Dian Shuling is not there, and the Dian Shucheng (the ninth rank) will be recorded and handled.

The documents issued by the king of the country to the country are called "orders", and the Dians and Orders are responsible for drafting and issuing them.

Documents from all over the country are also received by the Order of Documents and submitted to the Prime Minister and the Lord of the State.

Sometimes, the Dians and Orders can even make suggestions for amending the submitted documents, and if they fail, they will be returned and started again.

In addition, Dian Shuling is also in charge of personnel recruitment - in the State of Luyang, this power was taken by Shao Xun.

There are five assistant officials in the Dian Shuling: one Dian Shucheng (the ninth rank), four Dian Shucheng (the ninth rank), and several subordinates.

Mao Bang is Mao Er, with an Imperial College degree and is eighteen years old this year.

After the New Year, Shao Xun asked him to serve as Dianshucheng.

The main job of the Dian Shucheng is to assist in drafting and issuing orders, which is generally a relatively important matter.

The four people's book management handled more complicated daily affairs, such as how many farm tools are needed here, how many oxen are needed there, and where to weed and clear the land this year.

The Dian Shuling is Yang Ming, so he will go to Luoyang to do business.

From Dian Shucheng to the four scholars, they were all student soldiers from the First Class of Donghai and the Second Class of Luoyang with Imperial College.

In fact, it was the group of people who followed Mao Er before. Most of them went to Yangcheng, Yangdi, Liang and Luyang to work as officials. A few outstanding people were awarded official positions in the public office, which was already a gap with their old classmates.

"Please care for the land is related to death in battle, illness, and pensions for disabled soldiers, so you must not be careless. How much millet was collected last year?" Shao Xun asked.

"More than 278,000 hu, all of which have been deposited in Yong'an Warehouse." Chu Huo had already figured out these things after taking over the position of Dayuan. He only heard him say: "The Yong'an Warehouse can store millions of hu of grain, and it will be completed in July last year."

Guangchengyuan’s main work last year was the construction of Yongjia Cang City and ancillary buildings.

Yongjia Cangcheng is very large. After two years of construction, it can station thousands of troops and store three million hu of grain - it is basically empty at present.

Yong'an Cang City is relatively small and is not planned by the imperial court, so it is used to store private grain storage.

After deducting the pension expenses of about 30,000 hu of per year for land supply, most of them can be used to pay the military pay of the soldiers of the silver and spear soldiers - the silk is not enough, and often the food is used to distribute the color.

The land of simplicity will increase to 1,500 hectares and then be fixed here, and will not increase in the short term.

After seeing the Sutian, Shao Xun and his group crossed two wooden bridges, walked three or four miles southwest, and arrived next to another field.

Yu Liang was waiting by the side of the road. When he saw Shao Xun, he immediately saluted and said, "Duke Shao."

There were four minor officials behind him, and they saluted the same.

Shao Xun was so thundered by his name.

I am only twenty-two years old, so I am called "Mr. Shao"?

But strictly speaking, he is indeed qualified to be a public official now.

Some people do not have titles, but because of their high moral character or high official position, others will call them "a certain duke". Shao Xun is a serious Duke of Luyang County. It is a bit strange to call him Duke without any problem.

"You are in charge of Lutian now, which is related to the welfare of the officials of the public office. You can't make any mistakes." Shao Xun held his hand and said as he walked.

The treatment of my brother-in-law is different, and Yu Liang is very helpful to me.

In order to work for Shao Xun, he recruited two powerful children from Yingchuan who depended on the Yu family, and accepted two poor and powerful officials from Hebei.

There were four subordinates in total, and he paid a lot.

In February, he was just given the position of the School Official Order (the eighth rank), mainly responsible for the education of the relatives of Luyang County's officials. But it is obvious that he doesn't need to do this. Managing Lutian well is his main job.

Shao Xun climbed up a high slope, looked at the treasurys who were watering the fields, and asked, "This is the fifth and sixth battalions of the Qingzhou Treasury Army, right?"

"That's right." Yu Liang climbed up and replied: "There are more than 7,700 people left, and Wang Mi's surviving people, most of whom are from Qing, Xu and Yan."

"How did you do in a year?" Shao Xun asked.

The land in front of me has a total of more than 1,400 hectares. It was opened in the autumn and winter of the year before yesterday. A crop of millet was planted last year. I won’t talk about the harvest. Anyway, Shao Xun did not leave a grain of rice, and it was taken away by the reclaimers - and even paid some more.

After the autumn harvest, it was taken over by Tunding of Qingzhou and planted a crop of winter wheat.

"It's still hard," Yu Liang said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of crying came from the fields.

Shao Xun looked at him, but saw the Yu family's corpse holding a scabbard and smashing it at a Tun Ding.

There were ten people in the group, the leader of the group was strong and strong, with a arch bow on his waist and actually had iron armor on his body.

Behind him, there were two men wearing leather armor, holding guns in their hands and knives hanging around their waists.

The other seven people were not armoured, but they were equipped with swords and guns, and two of them even carried step bows on their backs.

This configuration is OK!

The Tun Ding who manages the "concentration camp" is completely fine, and it is much better than the group of patrol customers brought by his eldest nephew.

"After the summer harvest, the four hundred people who worked hardest, sent them to Luyang, and handed them over to Wang Chan and others." Shao Xun ordered, and after saying that, he mentioned again: "Each person sends five hu of grain as a reward, and the Silver Spear Army borrows vehicles and transports them to the garrison. The four hundred people on the other side of the field will handle the same process."

"No." Chu Hu and others responded in unison.

Lutian will also expand to 1,500 hectares this year, and then maintain this scale.

Of course, it is called "Lu Tian", but more than 90% of the land still produces grain for the public administration. After all, only a dozen officials have been given out, and a total of 49 hectares of land have been allocated.

"Is that leeks and ginger?" Shao Xun asked, pointing to the field beside the woods.

"Return to Mr. Shao——" Yu Liang replied.

"Call me, my husband."

"Return to your husband." Yu Liang said: "That is Cui Xiang's land, with a total of six hectares. Five hectares are the wheat planted after the autumn harvest last year. This year, another hectares of open land was drawn. Cui Xiang's family arrived and ordered them to grow vegetables."

Theoretically, officials can choose what crops to plant in their family’s wealth. The government actually takes the land and people, and the harvest belongs to you as part of your salary.

During the Liu Song Dynasty, Tao Qian was appointed as the Pengze Order and had three hectares of land.

At that time, many officials were too lazy to care about what they planted in their own fields, so the department arranged to plant "shu" (shú, glutinous rice).

But Tao Qian's family disagreed, "My wife asked to plant japonica rice, so she ordered two hectares of 50 acres of sorghum and fifty acres of 50 acres of larvae."

During the Western Jin Dynasty, Lutian was sometimes called "vegetable fields", and it was not necessarily necessary to grow grain.

It’s up to you, and it’s up to you to collect more and less. Don’t yell at a loss.

"Cui Xiang is well-managed." Shao Xun said with a smile.

Everyone laughed intrigue twice, and at the same time, they thought secretly whether they should also consider how to manage Xia Lutian?

As long as their collective is not destroyed, as long as Guangchengze is not seriously damaged, as long as they do not betray others, these wealth fields are theirs.

Generally speaking, even if you have a seniority, you can slowly get promoted, and your salary will only increase, not decrease.

Growing millet and wheat is indeed not enough to make money, and growing vegetables and melons may make more profitable.

"Why don't I have a lot of money?" Shao Xun's nervous mood was greatly relieved after seeing that there were people in the fields, so he made a joke.

"Ming Gong——" Chu Huo stepped forward and said.

"Stop, you call me husband, too." Shao Xun said helplessly.

"Okay." Chu Hui smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "Mr. Lang has ten acres of land for wealth. Empress Hui sent someone to plant grass. It has turned green now and is growing very well. Forty servants are taking care of it."

Shao Xun was a little surprised, but he didn't know about this, so he asked, "Where did the forage come from?"

Unexpectedly, Chu Huo was even more surprised and said, "Zhang Qian sent a foreign country for 18 years and got alfalfa. It is found in the fields of Xizhou (Guanxi) today, and it grows every year. Seedlings grow in February, and seedlings are cut into vegetables, and you can cut three times a year."

Shao Xun nodded.

It turned out that it was brought back by Zhang Qian when he was on a mission to the Western Regions. Emperor Wu of Han tried a lot of effort to raise horses and even considered the forage. Unfortunately, it has not been promoted throughout the north for more than 300 years. At least Guangchengze has not seen many high-quality and high-calorie forages.

Of course, forage can also be planted manually.

In fact, the yield of artificial cultivation is much higher than that of wild ones, and can be cut three times a year. Sheep donated people to plant ten hectares of alfalfa, obviously for raising livestock.

This woman!

Shao Xun mentioned Dutian once, and Yang Xianrong wrote down, and then worked hard to do it, and it was quite decent.

Shao Xun said he liked to eat meat and drink milk, so Yang Xianrong wrote down again, and actually planted ten acres of forage to raise livestock.

Shao Xun was a little moved.

He looked at the farmland covered with alfalfa and said to Chu Huo: "There are seven big rivers in Guangchengze to replenish water. You can send someone to focus on these rivers and find someone to record the amount of rain. This year, I'm afraid this is not that simple."

"Your husband said there is a possibility of a severe drought?" Chu Hu asked in surprise.

"It's hard to say." Shao Xun was not sure, so he could only sigh: "I came here and walked around and felt a little relieved. But if there was a really severe drought, most of the hundreds of large and small lakes in Guangchengze would not be able to save a few, and then the irrigation of farmland would have to go a long way. Some water trucks are probably not used. Watch it first, I don't know how much production will be reduced this year, alas!"

After saying that, I took people to the north, which was a dense area of ​​Dutian and a lake.
Chapter completed!