Zhang Liang and Cen Wenben headed northward, but they were observing Cangzhou slowly.
During this process, a spy kept collecting information he had inquired and reported to Zhang Liang. Looking at the report content, Zhang Liang frowned.
It was not because these spies discovered that the officials in Cangzhou were corruption and bribery, and that the wealthy families were domineering.
Instead, it was found that even the officials of the court seemed to have sacrificed their families for the country to work.
To be honest, Zhang Liang felt particularly incredible when he looked at the report.
"When did the aristocratic families serve the country and the people like this?" Zhang Liang couldn't help but feel silent as he looked at the spies inquired about the situation.
Cen Wenben also took out paper and pen at this moment, carefully witnessing his own experiences, and his heart was filled with confusion.
What is a family? Others don’t know that the Cen family where Cen Wenben is located has been passed down from Cen Peng, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai in the Han Dynasty. After hundreds of years of inheritance, it can be regarded as a family of children.
If individuals in aristocratic families may have the idea of sacrificing themselves for their country, but the entire family will find it incredible not to mention the development of a state, even for the development of the country.
But now, according to the information found by the spies, the families of all sizes in Cangzhou took the initiative to take out money and grain this time, either investing in the land around the main roads, or encouraging the tribe members to reclaim wasteland around Nanpi.
Some even paid money to buy oxen from Youzhou for the people of the same village to plow the fields, making the whole spring plowing look particularly lively.
To be honest, those families in Youzhou who invested money in the early stage are quite disgusted with the behavior of the Cangzhou family.
At the beginning, Xue Dading wanted to start the Triangle Ring Road, and he needed the Youzhou family to pay the first money and food.
But with the construction of this road, these Cangzhou families more or less know the Cangzhou development plan that Li Tai gave to Xue Dading.
Those who immediately called their parents asked Xue Dading to contribute their insignificant strength to the entire project.
The Youzhou family was the initial investor and invested money in the road construction in advance.
Although Li Tai was not allowed to recycle the shops around the triangular ring road, with the tacit consent of Li Tai and Xue Dading, a part of the shops around the Youzhou family was taken away by the Youzhou family.
This made the Youzhou family even more devotedly call. After all, their investments are beginning to see returns!
But Li Tai's entire project, repairing the road is only the first step, first developing wheat, then growing cotton, and then developing sea salt.
It can be said that if this entire project plan continues to be implemented, it is far from enough to rely solely on the investment of the Youzhou family. For Li Tai, it is necessary to unite more forces that can be united. The Cangzhou family that I want to eat when seeing the sweetness is the most
suitable.
Not to mention that these Cangzhou families have a very important resource compared to the Youzhou families, that is, local land.
So with them joining, when they are willing to take out the land to plant wheat, the first phase of the project will naturally be fully carried out, especially in agriculture, and only with local families as protection will the local people be convinced.
For the local families in Cangzhou, they looked down on Xue Dading at the beginning and ignored the plan that Xue Dading had brought out at all.
What is the plan to develop Cangzhou? Who would be so stupid that he would spend money on the road and even pay for labor service and grain!
Is there so much money and food in your hand that I have no place to spend? Why not store it first and buy some land in the future!
But when these three roads were built, cars and horses were rampant on the car. When local families saw the benefits of the road, they wanted to set up intersections or bought surrounding land, they encountered difficulties.
Those who want to set up an intersection and want to collect tolls, Li Chunfeng took the initiative to let corvee work to accompany them to develop local armed battles.
These people faced organized and disciplined corvee, and it would be strange if they could beat the militia.
When the group fight was completed, Xue Dading sent someone to arrest people.
Li Chunfeng's corvee service was just a formality.
But the opponent was not so lucky. He was caught in prison and calm down first, and then sentenced according to the court's laws.
Simply put, if you want to charge tolls, the government will be sluggish.
As for those who wanted to buy the land around the triangular ring road, they soon discovered that all the land deeds around the avenue had been bought, and some of them were naturally taken away by the Youzhou family, and even started to build stores.
It can be said that the iron fist of feudal imperialism can make families of all sizes understand what the ruling class is.
If the imperial court cannot deal with wealthy families, it refers to one class, not individual families.
Even if the five families and seven surnames dare to break out of rebellion, one is counted as one, and the court will definitely wipe out the five families and seven surnames to make room for other wealthy families to survive.
Therefore, after the Cangzhou family found that the hard ones could only be broken, they could only choose soft ones to join the project.
These Cangzhou families who didn't get their first bite can finally get a few bites of soup now, so how could they not be willing to spend a few cents of money on food? No matter how hard they can't let outsiders make all their money away?
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In this process, the agricultural society of the agricultural institutions naturally took root in the local area.
There is no way. If you don’t work, for the aristocratic family, it would be too much for one person. It would be a waste of raising one person.
But when I really work, I want to treat one of my subordinates as two people. How could I feel that I have too much labor? If I have the technology to increase the labor force, I should support it quickly.
In this case, it is very important to teach how agricultural society and agricultural students to improve productivity.
Another point is that under the arrangement of Li Tai, the Agricultural Society began to master the valuable resource of oxen at the grassroots level.
Because the number of plowing oxen is limited now, Li Tai did not sell the plowing oxen to the local family, but chose to send it to the agricultural society first, so that the agricultural society could rent out the plowing oxen in the situation of renting.
To be honest, if it is completely left to market rules, then the ox will inevitably be rented away by the landlord family at a high price, or rented to them first. Li Tai did not specifically stop this, but allowed them to develop.
Because of this kind of thing, as the ox cultivated by the Grass Plan continues to increase in the future, it will naturally gradually benefit the bottom.
Besides, these aristocratic families in Cangzhou are not necessary to rent them. Some of them directly bought plowing oxen from the aristocratic families who participated in the "Grass Plan".
What Li Tai really needs is to calculate how many acres of land there are through these oxen plowing fields.
This is definitely different in estimate, but it is much more reliable than sending people to search slowly, at least it is a reference method.
It is also convenient to find out how many acres of land these aristocratic families have in the future to conduct land inventory policies or to make a policy of dividing acres to invest in a mu. There is always a good preliminary preparation.
This is also the second purpose of creating an agricultural society in addition to spreading planting technology. For the court, this kind of social attribute that can directly know the situation at the grassroots level is more important than making money itself.
As such, at this moment, not to mention Xue Dading, and the first batch of Youzhou families that invested in, those in Cangzhou families were also spending money and even renting oxen from agricultural institutions to cultivate fields.
Although the entire Cangzhou now supports the cultivation of wheat, the land is cultivated in spring and then planting beans first to nourish the fertility of the land, which can also bring good harvests to cultivate wheat in autumn.
At least last year, wheat was relatively forced to grow in autumn. Now, local families and local people have seen that the wheat grows lushly in spring and can be harvested in late spring and early summer, so enthusiasm will naturally come.
After all, after the wheat is harvested, time has entered summer. For ordinary people, if the court did not arrange for their corvee service and as the road has been built, they can go to the Grand Canal to work hard, because there is strength to live on the entire waterway.
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As long as the people come back in autumn, they will not be able to farm next year.
Such an arrangement is equivalent to freeing up a lot of time for the people to make money. For ordinary people, too long-term benefits may not be known except for studying, but if they are asked to calculate how many more copper plates can be earned.
, These people may be much more clear than Li Tai.
Therefore, now the entire Cangzhou, because of the advancement of this entire planned project, naturally became a rope from top to bottom.
The huge dividends brought by this project have even benefited from the officialdom to the aristocratic families, from the aristocratic families, from the rich families, from the people.
As the wealth of all classes increases, many problems will naturally be directly covered up by economic development.
This is why Zhang Liang felt that everyone in Cangzhou from top to bottom seemed to be particularly positive after coming to Cangzhou.
After all, if we can obtain wealth reasonably and legally, then these noble families will naturally not refuse.
The problem now is that the profits brought by this entire project are not the Cangzhou family, even if you add the Youzhou family, it can’t afford them, so it naturally spreads out.
However, how could Zhang Liang and Cen Wenben not be afraid after seeing this kind of scene of a wealthy family sacrificing their families for the country?
After all, in the eyes of anyone, the Cangzhou family and the Youzhou family that came to invest in are simply crazy.
It can be said that the whole trip to Cangzhou made the two of them look more and more terrifying, even full of incredible things.
But from the people to the aristocratic families, they all gathered to Xue Dading's subordinates, and according to Li Tai's comprehensive plan to go to the city, they worked wholeheartedly.
At least for the people of Cangzhou, the small amount of money they earn is the most real.
At the same time, Xue Dading, a guy with a violent execution, naturally began to work hard with his relatives from Hedong as his backbone and the people's strength in the province that has been gathering.
Xue Li followed the clan members to join Xue Dading's disciples. He originally thought that he would follow the clan members and hoped to have a chance to make a name for himself.
But unexpectedly, Xue Dading not only did not regard others as human beings when working, but even himself did not mean to be human.
Work for nine hours every day. As for his officials, it would be a good thing if they leave the government office. But as long as they stay under his command, you will basically get a new task and you will have to go out.
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It can be said that many yamen runners work under Xue Dading, which is really a complaint.
But Xue Li is different. For farmers who have been studying family martial arts since childhood and have personally gone to the fields to farm, Xue Li can complete it quickly and well, whether it is a matter in the fields or the tasks issued by Xue Dading.
After completing it, he immediately ran to Xue Dading's side, accepted the new task, completed it as quickly as possible, and returned to Xue Dading's side again...
Compared with other ordinary servants who had accepted the task and wished they could sway outside until dark after completing the task, Xue Li's arrival was really a big scroll king for the little scroll king, and the scroll was home.
But for Xue Dading, Xue Li, a tribe, appears by his side every time, and it is nothing once or twice, but he often hears Xue Li say in his ears: "Governor Xue, I'm done, this is a receipt, next
What's the mission!"
After listening to it for a long time, you will naturally notice Xue Li. In addition, Xue Li himself is even more heroic, which makes Xue Dading feel a little more favorable.
After checking Xue Li’s information, I learned more or less about Xue Li’s background and felt even more satisfied.
One day, Xue Dading called Xue Li, who kept going back and forth every day, and asked,
"Other yamen runners have taken over the tasks outside the government and will not rush back until today's Shenshi. Why can you often get back and forth in just one hour!"
"Maybe because I am also a farmer and I know that farming is not easy. If the governor and other policies that are beneficial to the people can be implemented earlier, then the people will have a better harvest!" Xue Li said sincerely.
"You are diligent and willing to work hard, and you are indeed my Qilinzi of Xue. Since you have some talent for farmland, I will write to King Yan to let you enter Youzhou Agricultural University to learn orthodox agricultural knowledge
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In Cangzhou, wheat cultivation is only the foundation, and in the future, it is also preparing to plant cotton in large areas such as Nanpi and other places with abundant water conservancy.
We have few people in Cangzhou know about this thing. I hope you can achieve success in your studies and help Cangzhou to be well-managed in the future!”
Xue Dading felt that he could not do whatever Li Tai said and did whatever he said.
After all, I don’t even know what cotton is, and the whole plan is what Li Tai said.
In the future, Nanpi will become the main cotton planting base and vigorously develop cotton. I have no plans to change this.
But I am the governor of Cangzhou and need to be responsible to the people of Cangzhou. What should I do if cotton cannot be grown here in the future, or the cotton planted is not sold smoothly and cannot be sold? Who will be responsible for the people of Nanpi at that time!
So Xue Dading felt that he had arranged for one or two of his own people to go to Youzhou Agricultural University to study agricultural knowledge well.
I don’t have much requirements for myself. First, I am learning wheat cultivation, second, I am learning cotton cultivation, and third, I am understanding the construction of salt fields.
At least if you have someone in your hands, you won’t be completely confused about what you are about to develop in the future.
After all, Xue Dading was a man who climbed from an official slave to the governor of a state. Although Xue Dading couldn't see the development of the situation clearly in the overall situation, Xue Dading was still very suitable to start small things when doing things.
Choose a few reliable tribe members to learn agricultural knowledge, which is not a loss for both the family and yourself.