The ice and snow on the ground melted, and as soon as the spring breeze blew, overnight, the green buds scrambled to break through everything that was pressing on their heads and emerged, and they grew rapidly. But after another night, the green buds turned into verdant.
You can still see the yellow wasteland. In just a few days, as far as you can see, it is all green, and the grass can even cover your toes.
The farmers immediately went to the fields to see the wheat seedlings. They saw that the wheat seedlings were green and green, with dewdrops still hanging on the leaves, which was very pleasant.
The farmers were so happy that they couldn't care about anything else. They immediately shoveled all the newly grown grass into the soil, fertilized the wheat seedlings and started plowing the ground to prepare for spring planting.
Zhao Hanzhang went to see the fields where the soldiers were stationed, and was very happy. He immediately ordered that all labor, military affairs, rituals and music should be stopped nationwide, and spring plowing should be the main focus.
No one is allowed to stand in the way of spring plowing.
The whole country was in a rush for spring plowing. For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang took the little emperor to the suburbs to demonstrate plowing on the spot. She and the little emperor both walked around the field twice holding the plow, and then asked the officials below to set an example and do the work.
It’s a good idea to teach farmers and mulberry farmers.
At this time, there were fewer state affairs, and there were not even twenty official documents that needed Zhao Hanzhang's correction a day. The people were busy, and the officials were also busy, and they had no time to do other things.
Zhao Hanzhang rolled up his sleeves, carried a hoe, and went to farm with Fu Tinghan on his farm.
The main thing is to fertilize the wheat, and then start plowing the land to prepare for planting wheat and beans.
In addition to wheat, beans and rice are relatively important foods in the Central Plains.
In the Luoyang area, winter wheat can be grown, as well as spring wheat, soybeans, rice and other crops.
Not much winter wheat was planted in time last autumn and winter, so this year spring wheat is sown on a large scale in Luoyang.
This is not only true for Luoyang, but also for all places affected by the war such as Bingzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou, not to mention Youzhou.
Youzhou is the hardest-hit area, and the main goal is to focus on this year's spring sowing. Not only Zhao Hanzhang attaches great importance to it, but Shi Le also attaches great importance to it.
Zhao Hanzhang personally went to the fields and inspected the fields in Luoyang from time to time to encourage people to farm. Shi Le did the same.
He traveled between counties every day, checking from time to time whether grain seeds had been distributed in which county, or if there were not enough grain seeds in any place, and he quickly bought them while they were still in the farming season and gave them away.
As a result, Zhao Hanzhang received telegrams from Shi Le every day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
Basically, in the evening, I cried to her about the shortage of grain and farm tools in some place, and the people had less than one tenth arable land. However, Youzhou was poor and had no money to buy grain, farm tools, etc., and hoped that the court could provide some support;
A telegram came to her in the morning to urge her, "Can what we discussed last night be accomplished? I wonder when the things will arrive?"
Zhao Hanzhang could only reply to him, "I know, I know, I'm working on it, don't rush me."
It was not easy to write long messages in the telegram, so she could only write to him and let him think of a solution on his own. The treasury was very poor, and she had already given special treatment to Youzhou. There were those in other places, and in Youzhou, and others.
Youzhou also has it if it doesn’t exist elsewhere.
Zhao Hanzhang told Shi Le, "There are mines in Youzhou. Send people to find them. The financial difficulties can be solved."
Now she has sent many people out to look for minerals. No matter what kind of minerals they are, Dajin is currently in short supply. Youzhou now covers most of Hebei and Shanxi, and there are quite a lot of mineral resources in it.
She planned to have people find it first and build the road later, so that things produced in Youzhou could be transported to the Central Plains, and things from the Central Plains could enter Youzhou more quickly.
In comparison, Qingzhou and Guangzhou are much stronger.
Since Zhao Kuan and Sun Linghui went to Qingzhou and Guangzhou, they rarely complained to Zhao Hanzhang, and rarely asked for things from the court. They were very self-reliant and self-reliant, and they were two very good children.
Although they were well-behaved, Zhao Hanzhang still wanted to write a letter to express concern and inquire about the situation in the two states.
Zhao Kuan did not receive the letter. He was leading a horse forward in the rain. Because the road was muddy and slippery, the group had to get off the horse and walk through the muddy water.
It was still raining, and they didn't dare to hide under the trees. There was thunder, and thunder in spring was rare.
"Your Majesty, there is a Earth Temple in front of you, where you can temporarily take shelter from the rain."
When Zhao Kuan heard this, he immediately quickened his pace and accidentally fell. The guards and the servant immediately stepped forward to help him, but their feet were unstable and almost fell on him.
Zhao Kuan climbed up from the ground with difficulty, holding his waist, watching in fear, and quickly stopped them from coming over, "I can do it myself, I can do it myself, don't come over."
After he got up from the ground and walked through this section of the road, he and others supported each other and entered the Earth Temple. After searching for a long time, he found a drier place in the corner.
It was raining heavily outside, and it was raining moderately inside the temple.
Zhao Kuan took off his coir raincoat and bamboo hat, shook the water and put them aside. The boy quickly brought a handkerchief up to wipe him, "Lang Jun, this is the spring rain. What if you get sick?"
Zhao Kuan stepped back and pulled him to the side to avoid getting wet by the rainwater leaking from the roof. "I'm wearing a bamboo hat. Nothing's wrong."
He looked at the road outside, which was becoming increasingly muddy under the wash of rain, and said angrily: "One day I will have to repair this road!"
The boy asked: "How much will it cost?"
Zhao Kuan: "Isn't it just money? When my people in Qingzhou finish their spring plowing, I will let them continue to dry salt. I can make a lot of money just by selling salt. If I plant more mulberry and hemp and weave more cloth, it will be money.
You can always make money.”
Zhao Kuan was full of confidence, "When the court builds the dock in two years and there are more merchants coming and going, I don't believe I won't even be able to get the money to build a road."
Zhao Kuan stood in the rain and looked forward to the future. He waited until the rain stopped before moving on. He arrived at the place when it was almost dark.
The village elder looked surprised when he came out, "Are you really our governor?"
Zhao Kuan: "Didn't you see the official seal? I heard that you guys were fighting over land? There is a lot of land now. Didn't each of your families get the full amount of land? How can you still fight over land?"
When the village elder heard this, he perked up and said: "Your Majesty, we have allocated the land in full, but there is still another generation. Our village has had twelve couples in the past six months, and now three of the wives are pregnant. It is estimated that this year
We have a baby in the fall, so if we have a child, we won’t be allocated land. That land is close to our village, so it should be allocated to our village. In the future, the children of our village will be allocated from that land.”
Zhao Kuan: "The land can only be divided after the children reach adulthood. There are still sixteen years left. Are you thinking too long-term?"
"Not far, not far. There are children in our village who are studying in the county school. What they said when they came back... something. If people don't think about the long term, troubles will surely come to their doorstep."
Zhao Kuan: "...If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries."
"Yes, yes, that's it. Sir, do you think you can tell the county government to allocate that piece of land to our village?"