After sending off the little girl, Yang Fan felt a little heavy in his heart. In five days, he would leave for the capital.
There are many things I haven't done yet, and everything has just begun.
There's not enough time.
Yang Fan ordered the regiment training and the guard station to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, burn the bodies, shovel away the blood, and repair the houses.
That night, the remaining livestock and injured livestock were slaughtered, and all the reserved wine was taken out to reward the three armies.
Then pay the bounty according to the first level.
Rewards and punishments do not last overnight. This is the core factor in maintaining the combat effectiveness of the army. The team trainers were beaming with joy.
Everyone received a number of linen bags, each containing five pure copper coins.
With money, these people who are not married plan to marry a daughter-in-law. Those who are married plan to repair the house and buy some household items, or save it for their children as betrothal gifts or dowries.
Zhao Shuigen shined this time. He had previously received a reward for killing sixteen enemies. After the war, Zhao Shuigen killed thirty-one enemies and organized the entire group to kill fifty-five. He was promoted to squadron leader based on his merit.
In the future, he will lead a squadron of one hundred brothers. Zhao Shuigen received a total bounty of three hundred guan.
This time, many residents of Baihusuo also made gains. Butcher Huang and his family killed seven slaves and 15 bandits. They received a bounty of 145 kuan. Butcher Huang's smile almost reached his ears.
The casualties this time were also huge. Three thousand regiments were trained, plus 550 supplementary troops. A total of 3,550 people participated in the battle.
At last count, 2,100 people were killed and 345 were disabled. These people will face retirement. Nearly a hundred of them will lose the ability to work. The rest can only do non-manual work.
There are only 1,100 regiment training personnel who can continue to serve. There are less than 20 people left in the 100-household residence. There are also more than 100 casualties among the strong men.
Yang Fan discussed the land exchange with Mr. Wang Qi and Mr. Zhang Qi.
In any case, the wasteland on the other side of the river is much better than this one. At least there are no stones. The river bank there is high and the flood cannot go up.
"This is a drawing of a waterwheel. It can use the power of water flow to raise the water to a height of five feet, so that all the land over there can be turned into irrigated land." Yang Fan took out the drawing of the Lanzhou waterwheel.
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"Sir, this is really good stuff." Zhang Zongqi and Wang Zongqi were excited.
Although there have been droughts in the past few years, there is always water in the Luanhe River. As long as the water can be lifted up, the wasteland there can be developed. There is no salt and alkali there, and there are no rocks everywhere.
"The wasteland over there will be developed enough for at least 2,000 households to farm. We can recruit some refugees and transfer them to military household registration. I'll leave this matter to you two."
"Don't worry, sir, we will fulfill our mission and select strong and good sons to add to our ranks."
"In addition to farming, I also want to build a pasture. The area that is not suitable for farming will be used to raise livestock. I have seen that the cattle, draft horses and two thousand war horses I obtained this time have not been castrated. They can be kept for breeding.
, we will buy some good livestock later, breed and train them, and we will be self-sufficient in the future and no longer need to purchase horses or livestock."
"That's great, sir, our family can live a better life now." Wang Zongqi said excitedly.
Although the livestock on the pasture belong to adults personally, putting the pasture here can not only solve part of the employment problem, but there will definitely be no shortage of cattle for farming in the future.
At this time, the low grain output was directly related to the lack of cattle. Now the people pulling the plows are the people themselves.
Cattle are rarely seen in the fields.
Don’t people know that by raising a cow, they can cultivate more land?
Of course I know, but it costs a lot of money for people to raise cattle, and they have to feed them bean cakes when farming, otherwise the cattle will be exhausted.
Spending money is second, the key is to raise cattle and spend money, but you won’t need it a few times.
Whenever they went to plow the fields, the servants of the squire's family and the officers of the guard would lend them cattle for their own land.
How dare farmers refuse to borrow, otherwise the beatings they receive will be light. They have to use people to plow the land, and they have to buy bean cakes to feed the cattle of the people who borrowed the cattle. The people who borrowed cattle do not care for their own livestock, and not only do they not give them
If you eat well, you still beat it hard to squeeze it out, which is a strength. If you don't feed it.
When people have finished using it, the cattle will be useless.
When the gentry and gentlemen are used up, and when the guards and officers are used up, it’s the turn of the rogues from all over the countryside. Farmers can’t afford to offend these people. When they are all used up, the farming season has passed.
As time went by, no one dared to raise cattle anymore. People were used to pull plows. There were less and less land for farming, and a lot of land was abandoned.
They did not dare to fertilize the land. If the land was well cultivated and fertilized, it would probably cause disaster. Because the gentry was seizing land, tragedies were staged every day in the Ming Dynasty.
Farmers can only let their land become barren and do not dare to let their own land be better than others.
The Ming Dynasty seemed to have entered a vicious cycle, with agriculture shrinking year by year.
Now a young adult from the Hundred Households in the small rocky beach has come, and it seems that he has given the Junhumen a bright blue sky.
The military households who have lived in despair and numbness for generations are no longer the walking dead.
It was as if the wall of Ming Dynasty's big prison had been smashed open, and a ray of sunlight shone on their heads from the crack.
Your Excellency has said that in the future, all grain farming will be exempted and the land will be redistributed to everyone. According to the policy of their ancestors who were sent here by Emperor Taizu two hundred years ago, each person will receive fifty acres of land, and all of it will be irrigated land.
Your Majesty and the two commander-in-chiefs are arranging carpenters to build a large waterwheel. In the future, water from the Luan River can be used to irrigate the fields, and there will no longer be fear of drought.
Your only requirement is that all grain must be sold to hundreds of households at a set flat price. This flat price is the average price of grain in ten years.
The yield per acre of irrigated land can reach one quintal. If it can be grown twice a year, it can reach two quintals. One quintal of wheat can be sold for five taels of silver. Fifty acres of wheat with two crops can be sold for fifty taels. This is a terrifying number.
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After calculating this account, the military households themselves were frightened by the results. The good days seemed to fall from the sky.
Isn't this what the old man said about the military system of the prosperous Tang Dynasty? If so much land was allocated, military households could afford to bring their own horses, weapons, and armors.
Yang Fan does not need to collect the seeds from their fields, because Yang Fan will have a lot of things to sell to them in the future, and he only hopes that they will have purchasing power.
Even though the entire Ming Dynasty is sinking, I have the final say on this one-third of an acre of land.
Yang Fan knew that it was not climate change that caused the current predicament of the Ming Dynasty, nor was it the overall decline caused by natural disasters, but the unreasonable reality that caused everyone to make the situation worse and worse.
Yang Fan made up his mind to start from this small one hundred households, from these three hundred households, everything will be reset to zero, and new rules of the game will be started, just like a new sprout twisting and turning to avoid the pressure on his head.
