After the Battle of Ziyun Mountain, the north and the south fell into a period of peace.
On the other side of Cao Wei, Cao Pi was seriously ill and stopped.
Because Cao Pi vomited blood several times and seemed to be terminally ill, the news spread, causing everyone in Cao Wei to panic.
When the Han Dynasty in the south received the news, they were naturally delighted. Zhuge Liang personally took up residence in Wancheng and began to train soldiers in preparation for the subsequent Northern Expedition.
The imperial court continued to adopt the policy of recuperating with the people, actively encouraging agricultural production, developing commerce, handicraft manufacturing, and the pharmaceutical industry, especially the pharmaceutical industry, mainly the development of gynecology.
In ancient times, the child mortality rate was extremely exaggerated. Cao Cao was already extremely dedicated to having children. Moreover, he was a top dignitary and used the best doctors and medicines. Even so, half of the 25 children died in infancy, which shows that premature death is inevitable.
How high is the rate.
Therefore, in order to obtain more people, the imperial court attached great importance to medicine and established an official medical office. It was necessary to ensure that every township had a medical office and each county had a large number of medical personnel, even if it could reduce the mortality rate.
That’s fine.
In addition to these basic measures, the Han Dynasty court was also actively exploring the south. Shen Chen had already proposed that the miasma in the south mainly came from mosquitoes, leeches, and bacteria from the decayed animal and plant corpses of the primitive jungle.
People feel scared about unknown things.
When the truth of the miasma is revealed and there are ways to prevent it, the development of the south has become an inevitable trend.
However, these policies have actually just begun, and we have to wait until the future to achieve success.
So there are no clear benefits yet.
The only good thing is that by the second half of the seventh year of Zhangwu's reign, the population of Han Dynasty exceeded 15 million.
In recent years, the number of newborns in the Han Dynasty has exceeded 200,000 every year. The most important thing is that people from the north continue to flee to the south, especially in Henan and other places. A large number of farm people have left Cao Wei and fled to Nanyang, Huainan and other places.
The reason is that Cao Wei's exploitation rate was relatively high. In the early days of history, Cao Cao could barely achieve 55% when he was farming, but in the middle and later stages, the exploitation rate reached 73% or 82%.
After a year of hard work in growing grain and harvesting, the Cao Wei government took away 70% or even 80%. By the time of Cao Fang and Cao Huan, the ratio even reached 91%. Who can withstand this?
Therefore, after the farmers in Henan have been increasingly exploited in recent years, a large number of people have fled to the south.
At the beginning, Cao Wei's army was still under control. However, after the war started, Cao Wei's troops were tense and a large number of soldiers were transferred to the front line. As a result, there was a serious shortage of people to guard the army in the rear. Many farmers took the opportunity to flee from the Dabie Mountains into Nanyang or Nanyang.
Jiangxia.
Many farmers even launched an uprising, which seriously threatened Cao Wei's farming system in Henan. As a result, there are now large areas of wasteland in Henan that are uncultivated, and the entire area from the north of Wancheng in Nanyang to the west of Runan is almost deserted.
As the population in the south increased, new construction work naturally had to be carried out. Therefore, the Northern Expedition slowly came to a standstill. By October, all the newly harvested autumn grains in Yangzhou and other places had been arrived.
According to past practice, after local governments collect grain and grass, most of it will be transported to Jianye, except for some areas that will be retained for development.
So October is the busiest time in Taicang in Jianye East City.
Ancient warehouses were often built near water sources. The warehouses were not afraid of moisture and had moisture-proof measures, but they were afraid of fire. Jianye's Taicang was built in Longzangpu, Dongcheng, just like the Luoyang Taicang was built by Luoshui River outside Dongcheng.
On October 12th, the East Market went to the market today, and it was very lively with people coming and going. At the end of the afternoon, Jiao Cheng walked out of his house.
Because there are no high-ranking officials with more than 2,000 shi in the court, the Jiao family of Shanyin cannot be regarded as an aristocratic family, but can only be regarded as a wealthy family. However, the family members are still spread all over the world, such as the male protagonist Jiao Zhongqing in "The Peacock Flies Southeast".
There is also the former general of Yuan Xi, now Cao Wei's general who conquered the captives, Dutinghou Jiaochu.
After Jiao Chu surrendered to Cao Cao, he was made a prince. His name was also included in the "Wei Gongqing Shangzunzou" written to Cao Pi to persuade him to proclaim himself emperor, so Jiao Chu was considered to be a clan uncle of Jiao Cheng.
Since they had no connections in the southern court, the Jiao family refused to hand over their property and slaves, and were suppressed by the court. It was only now that Jiao Cheng was working as a Taicang official.
Following the East Gate Waisu City all the way to Taicang, Jiao Cheng went to the warehouse after lighting his bow at the Taicang Lingcheng's Office on the pier.
At this time, the pier on the right side of the Qinhuai River was already full of ships.
In addition to fire prevention, the most important thing about building a granary by the river is transportation. Transporting grain by ship can quickly store the grain in the warehouse without having to transport grain from land again, which greatly reduces labor costs.
When Jiao Cheng came over, his colleagues were already directing the men on the dock to unload the goods. The goods entering and exiting each warehouse must be registered, once at the dock and once at the warehouse.
Therefore, Taicang officials will direct the entry and exit of goods at the docks and warehouse entrances.
When he saw him, a colleague who was familiar with him smiled and said, "Ji Ren, why are you here so late today? What were you doing last night?"
"What can we do?" Jiao Cheng yawned and said, "Aren't you sleeping at home?"
"I think you and your wife have been having trouble for half the night."
Colleagues laughed.
Even though Jiao Cheng was in the afternoon class, he usually arrived in middle school or middle school, but today he arrived much later than usual.
Who doesn't know that Jiao Cheng has recently married a new wife?
It's normal to be noisy for a while.
What surprised his colleagues was that Jiao Cheng responded absently, then looked at the ships and said, "How many more ships have come today?"
"More than a hundred ships."
Another colleague was sitting under a pavilion on the shore and using a writing brush to register the goods in his warehouse.
Jiao Chu turned his head and saw that the river was densely packed with boats.
The food stored in Taicang was not only used for storage and regulating food prices, but the most important thing was for frontline military rations.
The new governor of Danyang is from Yizhou. A few days ago, state officials held a meeting and requested that next year's grain be sent to the front line by the end of October at the latest.
Guan Yu's main force currently has 80,000 troops stationed in the Lujiang and Jiujiang areas. On average, each soldier consumes two to three shi of food per month, and the annual food consumption is measured in millions of shi.
Therefore, the top priority now is to ensure the delivery of military rations.
The grain collected from various places is delivered to Taicang at different times, and military grain must be new grain that year. Therefore, Taicang is currently replacing old grain with new grain, and wants to put the original old grain on the market in large quantities.
This can not only reduce the price of grain on the market, but also use these old grains to make wine, feed livestock, or transport them to areas with food shortages to replenish local grain stocks.
At present, the Han Dynasty in the south has achieved a considerable degree of material circulation through the water transportation network of the Yangtze River. The imperial court built a large number of warehouses on both sides of the Yangtze River. Once a disaster occurs somewhere, materials can be quickly transferred through water transportation to relieve the victims and quell the chaos.
Under such a relatively complete system, food prices in the South have been declining in recent years, and people's living standards have been improving. Compared to the North, which is still suffering from famine, the South is quite wealthy.
The main reason is that productivity has increased, and grain output has increased significantly through double-cropping of rice. The large number of people farming has caused grain supply to exceed demand.
Shen Chen actually knew little about governing the country, not as good as Zhuge Liang.
However, high school politics and history taught him a truth, that is, if there is too much food and too many people producing food, it will also harm the development of the country.
Therefore, he suggested that Zhuge Liang develop handicraft manufacturing and commerce in the south, remove a certain population from production, and speed up economic circulation.
As a result, not only agriculture has developed rapidly in the South, but the economy and culture have also developed very fast.
At least under the imperial examination system, counties began to establish county schools and township schools, especially in the Jiangdong area, and the literary style gradually became popular.
Jiao Cheng himself took the exam twice, and he passed the second time. Unfortunately, he failed the political examination. The elders in his family were too stubborn and refused to hand over the land and population to death, which harmed his future.
Otherwise, Jiao Cheng should not be an official now, but would be transferred to Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places to become an official.
He walked solemnly on the dock and inspected the warehouse with several other colleagues. The warehouse was to the north of the dock, and the warehouses were lined up like a dense market.
Each warehouse is protected by fences. Each warehouse is fifty steps long and forty-five steps wide. It can store thousands of stones of grain. There are hundreds of warehouses like this in Taicang, and they can store up to millions of stones.
Jiao Cheng and the others are only responsible for the warehouse where they are located, such as counting and storing grain, registering and making records, etc. As long as they complete the warehouse tasks they are responsible for, they will basically be much freer.
The warehouses in charge of several people were adjacent to each other, and they helped to count the goods together. Jiao Cheng entered his warehouse, where there were pallets and workers passing through, pulling grain in and out.
There were two colleagues guarding the door. When they saw him coming, one of them threw the pen and paper in his hand to him and said: "This morning, our warehouse put in 800 shi and went out of the warehouse 1,200 shi. They were all written down. , make no mistake.”
"Um."
Jiao Cheng responded somewhat unhappily.
The granary is the top priority, so a two-person and three-shift system is adopted. The dock is responsible for delivering goods to each warehouse, and the warehouse must also be counted and registered.
From the early morning at the end of the day, the first two people started working, the warehouse opened, and goods were purchased and shipped.
Then there is the afternoon shift, from the end of the day to the end of the evening, that is, from 1 pm to 9 pm.
After that, it is the work of the night patrol, and the warehouse will continue to patrol until the end of the next morning, that is, 5 o'clock in the morning.
And not only patrolling in the middle of the night, soldiers will also patrol during the day, but not inside the granary, but outside, so to speak, ensuring food security around the clock.
My colleague went to work early in the morning. He was a little tired after working all morning and wanted to take a nap. He didn't care about Jiao Cheng's attitude and left after handing over the work in hand.
Other colleagues have their own warehouses in charge. Jiao Cheng should be on the afternoon shift with another colleague. However, that colleague told him yesterday that he would be late for something to do this morning. He asked him to help order the order first, and he would arrive later.
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It happened that a batch of new goods had been delivered. Normally the next batch would be late. Jiao Cheng turned around and looked at the warehouse. He was the only one in the Ding Twelve Warehouse where he was in a short period of time.
This is something that is extremely inconsistent with the regulations. Once discovered by the superiors, they will definitely be held accountable.
When several workers working in the distance saw this situation, they walked to Ding Twelve's warehouse, and one of them chatted with Jiao Chu for a few words.
Jiao Cheng hesitated for a long time with a pen and paper in his hand, then put down the pen and paper and entered the warehouse. He saw that the warehouse was full of grain and grass, with new grain at the door on the right and old grain at the door on the left.
grain.
Now that the old grain has almost been emptied out, there is not much left. As usual, he should check it. Jiao Cheng walked into the warehouse, sweat began to drip from his forehead, and his face did not look very good.
After a while, he came out of the room. His face was already sallow and almost white. Finally, he forced himself to calm down and began to prepare for today's work at the door.
"Ji Ren, what's wrong with you?"
About two-quarters of an hour later, his colleague on duty came over in a hurry. Seeing that he was not in a good condition, he wondered: "What happened?"
"nothing."
Jiao Chengqiang smiled.
"Oh, I just asked at the dock. The next batch will be here in a quarter of an hour. Let's go check it out first."
The colleague responded.
Jiao Cheng said: "I have already checked it."
"That's okay."
When his colleagues heard that he had already checked, they didn't care. They pulled up a chair at the door and sat down to wait for the next batch of food and fodder.
In recent years, tables and chairs have also become popular in the South.
Although this thing comes from the Western Regions, I heard that the Hussar General liked it very much and often said that sitting on the chair was good for the body, so many hand-makers began to build various tables and chairs.
The upper-class dignitaries still maintained the etiquette of sitting on the floor, but the people at the bottom found tables and chairs useful, so they gradually expanded.
Soon new grain and grass were delivered. While carrying it, a worker casually said something about the smell of fish, which made Jiao Cheng's face change greatly.
Another worker said that it is next to the dock and a fishy smell is normal and that this is the past.
The sky is getting dark.
By evening, today's work was almost done.
Colleagues and Jiao Cheng stayed until the end of the evening, then locked up and got off work.
There are about 200 Taicang officials like them in all the surrounding warehouses.
Taicang is very large. In addition to the river, it has three main thoroughfares.
His colleague lived in a different place than him, so Jiao Cheng went to the west gate and said goodbye at the entrance of a warehouse.
The warehouse door was still open, and dozens of Taicang officials lined up to go out from the west gate, while on the other side, groups of soldiers entered the warehouse.
Jiao Cheng tried his best to stay calm. He saw the granary soldiers walking in neat steps along the passage between the warehouses.
The door of the warehouse behind him slowly closed, and open flames were not allowed inside, so only high-tower lighting was built around Taicang.
Through the light of the fire, Jiao Cheng could see the serious faces of the young soldiers.
At that moment, Jiao Cheng had a conflict in his heart.
However, when he saw a companion on the other side looking at him solemnly, Jiao Cheng gritted his teeth and lowered his head before moving forward.
There is more than one person like him who put fish paste into Taicang.
If he couldn't bear it and blew himself up, the whole family would suffer!