Chapter 238 Development of Jinan County
Zhang Liao was very happy: "It's like dreaming. A few months ago I wanted to get a few horses that were all treasures, but now I suddenly have so many horses."
"Well, after all, this is the benefit. Whether it is Youzhou or Qingzhou, you will invest money in the short term. Xuzhou can really get tax sources."
I went south all the way, and I couldn’t feel the few people when I passed. When I came back, I really felt it was slow to pass the ferry, and the ferry was small and unsafe. If the weather was not suitable, I could not ferry. I had to wait until the wind was calm. I couldn’t build a bridge on the Yellow River, so I could only do it. I wouldn’t be able to build bridges on the Yellow River. There were quite a few rivers that were 100 meters wide near Jinan County, with only a small wooden bridge. The cavalry had to strengthen the bridge before they passed.
Lu Bu asked the generals around him: "Look at the river, the water is more than ten feet deep. Although it is not turbulent, the river surface is wide. Who knows how to build such a bridge?"
Chen Lan has more knowledge and still knows something: "Drive piles at the bottom of the river, and build a bridge deck after the piles are built."
"What you are talking about is a wooden bridge, which is easy to damage. I remember a bridge repairman who was a ruthless man who changed the river channel so that he could repair the bridge with peace of mind. As a result, the bridge was repaired and the river channel could not be changed, so he had to build another bridge."
In the era of underdeveloped technology, building bridges was extremely difficult. Asiders only listened to jokes, while those who were experts understood the difficulty.
While he was speaking, the vanguard army came to report: "General, General Gao Shun is here to greet him."
"What, Zhongda is here, please come here soon."
After a while, Gao Shun came over and saw Lu Bu quickly dismounting and saying, "Congratulations to the lord for taking Youzhou."
Lu Bu smiled and said, "Please get up quickly, why should you and my brother be like this?"
Gao Shun stood up and looked at everyone: "The lord and all the generals have lost weight. It seems that the trip to Youzhou is very hard."
"Thank you hard work is inevitable, but I have eaten a lot of beef. It seems that eating beef can help you lose weight." Lu Bu said as he took a pack of things from the Red Rabbit horse's back.
"This is a little gift for Zhongda, air-dried beef jerky. This thing is quite delicious, it's just a slut."
Everyone laughed: "The dried beef is too hard."
Gao Shun had prepared a camp and fodder for the army. Lu Bu ordered the camp to set up a camp and rest the soldiers.
The weather in the marching season is hot in summer, and people are prone to exhaustion.
What Jinan County has the most lacking is springs and lakes. There is a lake near the camp of the army, which is shallower than deeper. Lu Bu ordered people to make isolation fences and arrange soldiers to learn to swim in shallow water.
Lu Bu and Gao Shun came to Jinan City. At this time, Jinan County was built in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Although it was repaired, it still seemed dilapidated. After Gao Shun took over Jinan County, it turned out that the county magistrate was unwilling to surrender to Lu Bu, so Gao Shun drove it away. Local officials who were willing to surrender to Xuzhou would be retained.
Gao Shun is temporarily responsible for both civil and military affairs, so there are so many things.
Lu Bu inspected the military farming field, and Gao Shun was still very serious in his work. The military farming landed 25,000 mu and the civil farming stationed 20,000 mu. The corn that was mainly planted was not too late because it came late, so it was not too late to plant anything else. However, thousands of acres of vegetables were very decent, and the soldiers managed it carefully. The Huotou Army had already started to pick cabbage and rapeseed.
"Yes, Zhongda did a good job. It seems that life is not difficult now."
"There is no difficulty. From here, we are very close to Teng Country. A lot of potatoes, corn, and vegetables are transported by carts. Now we have started to produce our own products here, and there will be no problem in the future. Compared with the people's life in the army, there is a serious surplus of pig farms in Teng Country this year. Thousands of pigs are slaughtered every month. Now we can eat meat every three days."
Lu Bu didn't expect that Zhu Bin was so powerful that he made the pig farm too ruthless. There were thousands of sows and six pig farms. They were raised on a large scale in semi-herding and semi-raising manner, and a strict isolation system, leaving only but not in. The pigs had strong resistance to disease and grew fast.
Moreover, according to Zhu Bin's slaughtering standards, you can slaughter it if you raise it to 400 kilograms. There is no need to raise it to 500 kilograms. The bigger the pig, the more grain it consumes, and the meat-filling ratio is not suitable.
Gao Shun distributed a large amount of relief grain in Jinan to respond to emergency responses to the people who were not in love with the green and yellow. At the same time, like Xuzhou, childbirth subsidies were implemented, noodles and cornmeal were distributed to civilian families who gave birth to children, and milk powder was distributed to families without milk.
Especially for milk powder, there are countless living people, and Lu Bu's mighty power is increasing day by day.
Not far from the city, a village built with land nests appeared in the fields.
"This is a refugee village. Most of them were homeless people because of the Golden Rebellion. Of course, there are also people who were homeless due to the war recently."
Xuzhou's resettlement method is very good. For adults who take care of their children, each household has a homestead, each person has three acres of ration fields, and the government will pay for credit to seeds and agricultural tools. Agricultural tax is exempted from agricultural tax in the first two years, and 10% of the agricultural tax will start in the third year. For example, a family of three will be nine acres of land.
These nine acres of land, especially the new land, can starve people to death from other princes. But Xuzhou can do it, why can there be sweet potatoes, potatoes, and pumpkins? These three crops are resistant to barrenness, and they can grow more or less. It is impossible to eat and drink well, but they cannot starve to death.
"There are too many government affairs, so we have to arrange a dedicated person to take charge in the future. Our main force is only responsible for the war."
"The lord is right. There are only a few villages. People can die if it rains heavily, but the government is not able to build tiled houses for them. They can only maintain the status quo for the time being. Being able to eat enough is the first step. Some local big households strongly oppose our resettlement method. They want to use these refugees as their tenants and pay up to 30% of the land rent."
Lu Bu nodded and said yes, some big-name households wanted to knock on the poor, and they wanted to be a cattle and horse for them all their lives. Once this method was implemented, few people rented land to the big-name households, which affected their interests.
"Don't worry about them for now, let them make trouble. Once it's too much, it's uprooted. Go and go into the village to take a look."
This village is really not small, with 200 households. Although the homestead is quite large, every household is full of shacks. The village built drainage ditches, public toilets, public stone mills, etc.
There are piles of branches and shrubs at the door of every household. It is already noon, and the children in their teens are cooking, either boiling potatoes or boiling vegetables. There are exceptions, boiling fish.
"The potatoes in the village are not yet ripe, right? Is this issued by the government?"
Chapter completed!