That night, the inner hall of Linshuo Palace was brightly lit.

Yang Tong, Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin... and other civil and military officials planned carefully.

"Your Highness, the world will be in chaos next," Zuo Pu shot Yang Gongren and said: "The princes divide the population, which is the most important. Only those who have troops can produce food and support the army... Now there are troops on Hedong Road and Henan Road. It should be

Increase the intensity of arousal, especially in Hedong Road, which is suffering from Liu Wuzhou and the Turks, and it will be easier to absorb the population!"

Yang Tong smiled and said: "After General Xue Wanshu arrived in Shanggu, he made preparations to receive the victims of the Hedong disaster. Although there will not be too many people, they are a number. At the same time, it is recommended that General Xue Wanshu go south immediately tomorrow. After arriving in Wu'an, he will send a large number of detailed troops.

Shangdang tried his best to exaggerate the speed and ferocity of Liu Wuzhou and the Turks' advance, and described Jizhou as a pure man in troubled times! In principle, we should break up the clans one by one and build a village of ten households."

"Here!" Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanshu responded loudly.

Yang Gongren added: "Since ancient times, the most important thing in conquering the world is population, followed by money and food! Now our Jizhou population is not a problem, but the need for money and food is extremely huge. If we don't fight, we will not be afraid. But once the war expands or natural disasters come, the threat will be extremely great.

Great! Your Highness should continue to implement "relief for work" in Jizhou, build water conservancy projects, strengthen river embankments, and widen roads! At the same time, rent the remaining official land to families with sufficient labor for cultivation in order to obtain military support and tax grains, and strive to achieve

Be self-sufficient!”

"I have eight methods for developing people's livelihood. Please read it for Your Highness!" Yang Gongren took out a memorial and handed it to Yang Tong.

Yang Tong quickly took it and opened it carefully. After a long time, he said with admiration: "Zuo Pushe is a great talent!"

He did not tell any lies. Fang Xuanling, Yang Shidao, and Wei Zheng were indeed people who assisted the country, but Fang Xuanling was good at plotting the world and was good at looking at the overall situation; Yang Shidao was good at civil affairs, and Wei Zheng was proficient in law, in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Imperial

The three of them were somewhat inadequate in governing the country and enriching the people, and enriching the people and strengthening the army was the foundation for conquering the world. Without this, we would not have reached the end.

The counselors who plan the world, conquer all directions, and supervise the officials are valuable, but the civil servants who can enrich the country and strengthen the people, and rectify the internal affairs are the pillars of a country.

Yang Tong suddenly saw Jiang Xingben, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, hesitating to speak. He smiled and encouraged: "Master Jiang, if you have something to say, it doesn't hurt to say it."

Yang Gongren knew that Jiang Xingben, who was a craftsman, had low self-esteem, and encouraged him: "Everyone's original intention is for His Highness's great cause. As long as they think it is beneficial to the country and the people, they can speak freely, even if they are wrong, it doesn't matter."

"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you Pushe..." Seeing everyone looking at him with encouraging eyes, Jiang Xingben took a deep breath and said, "I have read many ancient books and found that the emergence of the plow and every improvement have increased production capacity.

Moreover, in the same fertile fields, the food produced with and without fertilizers is also different! It can be seen that the potential of the fields has not been maximized. Therefore, I think we can encourage skilled craftsmen to make improvements in agricultural tools, fertilizers, and grain seeds.

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"Your Highness, I agree with Master Jiang. If we can improve farm tools, fertilizers, and grain seeds, let alone doubling production capacity, even if it increases by 10% or half a percent, that would be a great achievement!" Wei Zheng was the first to support.

Yang Tong slapped his forehead and said, "Sir Jiang, he reminded me of an irrigation tool that can replace the overturned car!"

As he spoke, he picked up his pen and drew a waterwheel. He said to Jiang Xingben, who came over: "This thing is called a waterwheel. Its purpose is the same as that of a waterwheel. It uses low water but high usage. But the difference is that

Overturning requires manual stepping, but the water wheel is round like a wheel. It can automatically draw water up with the strong momentum of the water flow for irrigation. However, if there is a water shortage area, it can be used for farmland irrigation. In this way,

The area that can be cultivated will be larger, and valuable manpower will be saved.”

"There are also plows..." Yang Tong then drew the Quyuan plow in detail!

Jiang Xingben, who was deeply shocked by the waterwheel, looked at the Quyuan Plow again. He calmed down and looked at the drawings carefully, wondering what the purpose of each scattered component was.

Finally, he said with an excited face: "The curved shaft... can stabilize the center of gravity of the plow at the top of the arc of the curved shaft. No matter how the cattle move, the center of gravity will not shift. The straight shaft used in the past required two cattle to move forward at the same time.

OK... and the plow shaft changes from straight to curved, so that only one ox can pull the plow stick to plow the land. Your Highness's design is simply ingenious!"

Jiang Xingben was a connoisseur, and he saw the great significance of Quyuanli at a glance!

The simplest thing is to turn two cattle into one.

This means that under the premise of the same time and the same number of cattle, the speed of plowing the land is doubled!

Moreover, the curved shaft plow makes the plow frame smaller and lighter. With only one ox head, it is easy to turn around and turn. It is flexible to operate and can plow even the corners. It can plow about twice as deeply as a straight shaft plow.

In this way, food production will increase by at least 10%!

The most serious thing is, what if all Jizhou uses this kind of curved shaft plow?

Oh My God……

Jiang Xingben's hand holding the blueprint kept shaking, and he felt that the blueprint in his hand was as heavy as a mountain.

Everyone was surprised when they saw Jiang Xingben shaking with excitement.

"Plop!"

Jiang Xingben knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I implore Your Highness to hand over this Qu Yuan Li to Wei Chen to make it. In three days, no, two days, as long as two days, the Qu Yuan Li will be made."

Yang Tong said speechlessly: "I asked you to do it in the first place. Who will do it if you don't do it?"

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Jiang Xingben was overjoyed.

He knew the significance of this thing. Once it was as convenient as he had guessed, it would immediately replace the straight-shaft plow and be spread throughout the world. And as the first person to make this thing, wouldn't he be able to compete with His Highness the King of Qin who designed it?

Leave a name in history?

"Your Highness, Wei Chen wants to do it now..."

Just thinking that a certain history book records that he was the maker of the first curved shaft plow made Jiang Xingben almost crazy with joy.

Yang Tong smiled and said: "Go ahead! Make a waterwheel by the way, and then test it together."

"Here!" Jiang Xingben left happily.

Everyone looked at Jiang Xingben who was like a gust of wind and looked at each other.

"Your Highness, are the waterwheels and plows really so effective?"

"The waterwheel can pump water day and night without manpower; the Quyuan plow saves an ox and can be operated easily by one person, and the soil can be dug about twice as deep! Do you think it is magical or not?" Yang Tong asked Yang Gongren who asked the question with a smile.

Yang Gongren's eyes widened and he said, "With these two things, we can save a lot of manpower and animal power, and also increase the yield per mu by one to two percent?"

Yang Tong said firmly: "After saving half of the manpower and animal power, the common people can rent double the official land, produce double the grain, and the government doubles the grain tax... As for whether the output can be increased by 10% or 20%, I don't know, but it will definitely increase."

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Everyone was surprised and happy!

I was intoxicated by the blueprint described by Yang Tong.

"A small improvement can double the income of the court and the people. If a skilled craftsman creates an epoch-making agricultural tool, the benefits will be for generations to come. Therefore, everyone must not underestimate or despise the craftsmen in the future.

value!"

At this time, it was Kong Yingda, who was also obedient and didn't say anything about fancy skills or anything like that.

"Pu She talked about population and food, should the next thing be money?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.

"That's true!" Yang Gongren nodded and said: "In the past six months, Jizhou has had almost no income! But the money and food provided to resettle the victims every day and provide work-for-relief is used like water... If this continues, there will be big problems.

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Yang Guang stored mountains and seas of money, food and military equipment in Liyangcang, Zhuojuncang, Beipingcang, Huaiyuan Town in western Liaoning, Tongding Town in eastern Liaoning, Gongcang City in Linshuo, and Gongcang City in Linyu. Before Yang Tong went north, he also

The Luokou warehouse on Henan Road was completely moved back to Luocang. Therefore, Jizhou could easily resettle millions of victims and support hundreds of thousands of troops without any income. What is even more terrifying is that

There is still no shortage of these supplies.

After preliminary statistics, everyone generally believes that if all these reserves of money and food are used up, the more than 56 million people in the country can be fed for several years. But Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, and Jiang Xingben

It was agreed that the materials should not be moved.

They all agreed that no matter how hard or poor they were, they had to get through it on their own. Don't always think about getting something for nothing, pretending that you don't have those materials.

Yang Tong was also quite depressed because he could not use the money and food that was obviously a mountain and a sea. But he also knew that everyone was right. At the beginning of starting a business, if the inner circle of power did not have the determination to live a hard life, let alone achieve great things.

, I’m afraid I’m not far from death!

Hearing Yang Gongren's old words mentioned again, Yang Tong smiled and said: "We have seized gold and silver from the rebels, and countless rare treasures. The total sum is an astronomical figure! This is what we have gained in the past six months.

I think it can be used! What do you think?"

Yang Gongren said cheerfully: "This is what we got, there is no problem at all."

Yang Tong said: "Take out the gold, silver and jewelry, and divide Zhuojuncang, Liyangcang, Beipingcang, Linshuo Gongcang City and Linyu Gongcang City in the ratio of 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 100 hanging coins."

The money was exchanged for use. The money was piled up in the warehouse and the ropes were rotten. Some copper coins even had a patina! If they are not used anymore, they will no longer be used!"

"The most important thing is that copper coins are becoming less and less valuable. I'm worried that before long, copper coins will become a pile of waste. Therefore, when it comes to copper coins, we must not stick to the old rules. Even if we owe them, we must spend them in the shortest possible time.

.When we gain something, it will not be too late to replenish it one by one. We can even repay it with the purchased grain, cloth, iron ingots and other physical objects... In this world of chaos, only real things are priceless.

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The currency in circulation in the Sui Dynasty was the Kaihuang five-baht coin, which was worth a hundred coins. When Emperor Wen was still alive, he was careful about currency issuance and strictly controlled the standard of the five-baht coin. The credibility of the court was established. Since the Kaihuang five-baht was in small quantity, its currency value was very high.

It's high. Most people can live a month with just a few pennies.

However, after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he distributed low-quality new money indiscriminately. In terms of value, the new money was far inferior to the "Kaihuang Five Baht", but Yang Guang demanded that the value be equal to the "Kaihuang Five Baht". In addition, due to the lack of serious governance, private companies in various places

The casting trend became more and more intense, the quality of money became worse and worse, people's confidence in the court was shaken, and prices rose crazily.

The five-baht credit system of the Sui Dynasty has reached the brink of collapse and will be replaced by new money sooner or later. Spend them while they still have a little residual value!

No one objected to Yang Tong's decision.
Chapter completed!