On the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, the sky is blue and cloudless.

The clean sky is as spotless as the mood of the Guizhou leaders in Shahe Township. With a pious heart, they will collect the corn. They will dry it, put it in the warehouse, and wait for Wen Chou to send someone to extract some of the corn, which is quite orderly.

The next step is to cultivate autumn wheat, which is what we usually call winter wheat. Wen Chou has long distributed wheat seeds to farmers one by one. Of course, depending on the labor force, the number of wheat seeds distributed is also different.

But as long as you can cultivate a lot, Wen Chou will borrow the corresponding wheat seeds. The reason why it is said to be a borrowed is that when the harvest comes to the next year, the borrowed part must be handed over. Originally, this matter was usually done by the county's Shangguan when he inspected the village to show their kindness and benevolence.

But at present, bandits are frequent and in a turbulent period, they will not risk their lives and go to the countryside to show their benevolent politics. Therefore, if the people in Guizhou below are not well-cultivated, they can only rely on the local wealthy families, and then cannot bear it. The families bully and rise up... This is a vicious cycle. Now Wen Chou replaces the "fake species" that county officials should do, so naturally Wen Chou collects praise from the Guizhou people.

Now, it is the first day for villagers to cultivate wheat. Most of them have cleaned up the corn poles in the fields and piled them together, leaving them for Wen Chou to come and take them away. These straws are all food for military horses. According to the original market price, a bunch of straw is about three to six cents, and a bunch of shreds is about two to four cents, and the straw is the straw for crops. These are all voluntarily contributed by the villagers, and they are handed over together with the grain and rice they should pay.

Apart from the straw fields, some families are sprinkling some manure into them to increase the fertility of the ground. However, most people do not have so much manure for them to use, but it is not a big deal. After all, these fields have just been reclaimed, so there is no need to worry about the lack of ground power for decades. Even if the plump fields are not considered, medium-sized fertility fields still have not been run away.

The next step is to plow the land and level the land. In this link, it is also the time when labor is restricted the most. Originally, if the ox was plowed and the long plow was put on, it would not be a big deal. But Shahe Township now lacks oxen! Therefore, too much wasteland cannot be reclaimed. Often, four or five families are combined, and manpower is used day and night to fill the lack of accumulation.

Wen Chou also saw this phenomenon and was depressed in his heart. Because the plowing ox is in urgent need. He once sent people to other countries to buy plowing oxen, but the effect was not great. After going to several surrounding places, he only bought a hundred or so. Compared with the Xin'an refugee of Wanwu, it has to be said that it is a drop in the bucket.

It is even more nonsense to use horses instead of oxen to plow the land. There are only more than 300 horses in the entire Shahe Township. Moreover, these horses are the foundation of Wen Chou's military strength, and Wen Chou is reluctant to let it go. Besides, the horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty had relatively little strength and the effect of arable land was not outstanding. At the same time, the cold-blooded horses in Europe were more suitable for farming than horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, China was a oxen plow civilization, while Europe was a horse plow civilization. Of course, this was just one of the reasons.

For this reason, Wen Chou could only order that during the arable land, you must have enough food to avoid the villagers who are busy with arable land being unable to continue.

This is a suitable day for farming. However, in mid-September, villagers need to open up as much land as possible before the day of farming. After all, apart from ploughing and sowing, there is no other link that requires a lot of manpower to accumulate energy.

Basically all the villagers were busy in the fields, forming a craze for doing big and special work. From the birthday boys in their 80s to the children who were old, they were all part of this craze. Everything else had to be put on hold for the time being. Food is the most important thing for the people.

Compared with the rush of cultivation, the ditches dug after more than 10,000 people in Shahe Township for four months are about to be completed. Just wait for the farming and mobilization of villagers, I am afraid that the last section will be excavated in less than three days. By then, the wheat harvest of this season will be basically guaranteed.

The harvest is also very considerable for the corn that has been harvested.

Perhaps because of the abundant territorial capacity, the corn produced in the village can reach the level of four stones per mu on average, but it exceeds the average yield of three stones per mu in this dynasty. Some fertile fields have even reached the level of ten stones per mu! It can be called "a mu of Zhong Field", and all of these fields are located on the side of the river and canals, which is convenient for irrigation! This is also the reason why Wen Chou is eager to make the villagers dig ditches.

How much is all the cultivated fields in the hometown? If we look at the mass level of "100 acres per husband", there should be as much as 500,000 mu of land in the township. However, according to the calculations of the township Wangchong, there are as much as 600,000 mu of cultivated fields in the township, which is far beyond the ordinary period. Of course, this "mu" is a small mu, which is only one-quarter of the one acre in later generations. The yield of four stones per mu is also calculated based on the "small mu", and a total of 2.4 million stones of corn is harvested. If it is replaced by the quantity system of later generations, it is 375 kilograms per city, which is not high.

At first glance, it seems like a lot. However, according to the calculation that one person consumes 30 stones of grain per year, more than 20,000 Shahe villagers consume more than 600,000 stones of grain a year!

Excluding the various taxes that should be paid, such as the land rent of thirty taxes and one for 134,000 shi, each household has 200 shi annually, and adult men have 300 shi annually. For children aged 1 to 14, regardless of gender, 23 shi annually, 15 to 56 years old, 120 shi annually, 63 shi annually, 63 shi annually, etc., and other messy corvee taxes, which are as numerous as cow hair. Together, each household has to pay one or two thousand shi. If it is replaced with corn, it will be as much as 10,000 shi. One village will have another 60,000 shi to 70,000 shi!

Once these 800,000 stones are eliminated, one-third of the harvest is removed. This is because Shahe villagers have reclaimed wasteland, have abundant ground power and have increased their yields a lot. If it is normal for three stones per mu, it will be reduced by another 800,000 stones! The remaining 800,000 stones, four stones per person, is the harvest of these villagers in one quarter!

Of course, Wen Chou said that he would draw 50% of the harvest this time, and he had already calculated the taxes he should pay. In other words, each household still had 240 stones this season, so there was no need to worry about food. Wen Chou took out more than 1.2 million stones of grain and grass, and even if he paid 50,000 to 60,000 stones of tax, his Taolin Military Department would have made great progress!

Wen Chou himself no longer has to shrink his hands due to insufficient food and grass. This is his achievements in the past six months of taking office. Wen Chou felt very satisfied with this.

Of course, these foods and grass cannot be used to develop military affairs. After all, there are still 3,000 prisoners to support! But these populations are not worth mentioning compared to so many foods.

It can be said that Shahe Township has gone through the most difficult time, successfully got rid of the various drawbacks brought about by the influx of more than 10,000 refugees and entered the formal world. Wen Chou’s “big cause” can be regarded as a small step. Of course, there is still a long way to go in the future.

For example, popularizing the problem of literacy education among villagers, teaching children to follow the problem of scholars, leading the people to enrich the people through business, repairing the houses of flipped houses, rescuing the family of three thousand prisoners, renovating the innovation of farm tools, and impressing the poor scholars. These are all issues that have been put on the agenda, and there are countless others.

Wen Chou sat upright in the lobby and looked at the letter presented to him by Wang Chong, his mind flew, his face fluttered, his face was unstable, sometimes he was happy, sometimes he was as gloomy as water. He summarized the achievements made in recent actions, as well as the pros and cons; he thought about future development trends and plans.

I don’t know how long Wen Chou has been sitting in front of the desk. At this time, I thought I felt a little tired, stretched my waist long, and exclaimed: “Well, a million food! Even if I work hard and doubling my efforts, it’s worth it!”

Then he thought of something, his eyes flashed and said to himself: "I don't know what other heroes of this era are doing now, such as Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, etc.? But like me, are trying to expand their strength? Perhaps not exactly! After all, now, Liu Hong, the emperor who sells official positions and titles in Xiyuan, is still in his palace!"

"Well, Sun Jian should still lead troops to wipe out the bandits there in Changsha? I remember that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, his son was granted a title back to Jiangdong, and then guarded one side. When he was attacking Dong, he was already a prince!" Wen Chou frowned slightly and said.

After all, Wen Chou did not memorize the "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han" before the time travel. He just tried his best to recall the stories of the Three Kingdoms that he had known before and recorded them one by one. He could also accurately state the general trend of the development of the late Han Dynasty, as well as the battles and stories that were familiar to later generations!

But if Wen Chouyan talks about that character, what he did in that year would make it difficult for him. For example, Sun Jian, who was mentioned just now, was not named the prefect of Changsha after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but followed Zhang Wen, the general of the chariot and cavalry, to Liangzhou to suppress Bian Zhang, and Han Sui's rebellion. It was not until the fourth year of Zhongping that this year, that was the year of Changsha people's rebellion that the court appointed him as the prefect of Changsha and went to wipe out. This made Wen Chou right, and Sun Jian is now suppressing the rebellion in Changsha.

Wen Chou shook his head and said, "As for Cao Cao? Maybe he is the prefect in which county, right? He should have been the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan with Yuan Shao, Chunyu Qiong and others next year, right? As for Liu Bei, he may be an official position under Gongsun Zan?" He was full of uncertainty.

After a while, Wen Chou rubbed his frown and smiled bitterly: "What do they do? As long as I have enough strength, I can have a foothold in the future!"
Chapter completed!