As soon as Fang Zhe left, Song Yang worked hard to pick up the sickle.
He led the people in Jiangzhou Fucheng to begin the mighty autumn harvest work.
Fortunately, crop planting in Jiangzhou is relatively concentrated this year.
And after one year of development, the number of cattle has almost doubled.
Spring plowing requires oxen to plow the fields, and autumn harvest requires oxen for transportation.
Of course, there are also more horses, and carriages can also increase part of the transportation capacity.
Overall, the autumn harvest went quite smoothly.
It only took more than half a month for the autumn harvest work in Jiangzhou Prefecture to be basically completed.
Half a million acres are intensively cultivated, and more than 100,000 acres are sown.
A total of 850,000 shi of food was obtained.
Enough to feed thirty-five people for a year!
However, Jiangzhou's current population is only about 200,000.
A bumper harvest of food!
This year's harvest has once again filled the granaries of the government.
The barns of every household are also full, showing a good harvest scene.
There was no place to store the excess food in the treasury, so they simply transported it all to areas where food shortages were caused by war.
With the support of Jiangzhou, the people of the newly attached state capitals such as Taizhou, Yuezhou, Suzhou and other places also had food to make ends meet.
What makes Song Yang more gratified is that under the leadership of Zhang Heng, Peng Ze, who had to rely on financial aid from the city last year, this year's spring plowing and autumn harvest went very smoothly.
Grain production has reached self-sufficiency.
And animal husbandry has not fallen behind either.
The output of poultry and livestock more than doubled, becoming Fucheng's main meat supply base.
Song Yang specifically praised Zhang Heng for this matter and gave him a two-level salary increase.
Yuezhou in the west did not receive a grain of grain last year and relied entirely on relief from Fengzhou and Ezhou throughout the year.
They also had a good harvest this year. Under the leadership of Xue Jing, the Renaissance Army of the four camps reclaimed a lot of land.
Although due to the impact of this year's war, we have not yet reached self-sufficiency.
However, grain production has basically reached half of the demand.
After the Battle of Tanzhou some time ago, Yu Ming brought back more than 10,000 people from Yuezhou.
With this labor force, Yuezhou's farming work can be carried out better next year.
Maybe next year we will be able to be self-sufficient in food.
At the end of October, the family affairs were finished, and Song Yang sent out several chief officials in the city.
Fang Zhe has only visited half of the state capitals so far, and he will die from exhaustion on his own.
With the help of these people, it will be mid-November.
All autumn harvest work within Song Yang's sphere of influence was successfully completed.
Moreover, Fucheng also took the opportunity of this inspection to basically grasp the basic situation of each state capital directly under the jurisdiction.
The results were pretty good, and some capable officials in some places were praised by Song Yang.
Some state capitals that were occupied by local armed forces through peasant uprisings also defected to Song Yang.
Song Yang did not punish them.
As long as the government developed people's livelihood and restored social order, Song and Yang would recognize it.
Those people also sincerely supported the Jiangzhou Group because of Song Yang's generosity.
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This year is another bumper year.
Almost every region has had good weather in the past two years.
I don’t know if it was God’s compensation for that natural disaster...
Starting from mid-November, the weather gradually gets colder.
But Jiangzhou’s work enthusiasm has never cooled down.
The joy of the harvest is brought to work, and people are full of energy.
The highway leading to De'an has already seen Maling Village.
Maling can be repaired before December, and the progress is very fast.
The cement plant is operating at full capacity, the supply of materials is stable, and the work efficiency is naturally very high.
Half of the Tiger Crouching Cannon production workshop has been shut down. The Tiger Crouching Cannon produced now will be used for the city defense of several important cities.
The freed manpower began to produce water pipes.
Wang Jinshi basically developed how to process threaded links in early November. Although it is still being improved, it should be put into use soon.
And under Song Yang's guidance, the steam boring machine was improved.
You can use a boring machine to boring threads directly.
The tap water plan proposed by Song Yang is about to be realized.
Early December.
Song Yang once again convened alliance members and directly affiliated state capitals to hold a year-end meeting in Jiangzhou.
The results reported from various places are also satisfactory.
Song Yang commended the members of the alliance and announced that the application of steam engines was transforming into industrial production.
The benefits of the steam engine will come soon, and the products produced by then will benefit the entire alliance.
The members of the alliance are also gearing up to do business.
Mid-December.
The special envoy of Lingnan Road, Crown Prince Song Lan, arrived in Jiangzhou in a motorcade.
Song Yang knew about Song Lan when he first entered Jiangnan Road.
They entered Jiangnan Road from Qianzhou.
Qianzhou is already the state capital directly under Song Yang.
However, the message sent by the prefect Liu Xing made Song Yang a little puzzled.
Song Lan, the Crown Prince of Nanhai, originally said that he would come to inspect the development of Jiangnan Road.
But when they arrived in Qianzhou, the prince never showed up.
Even the prefect Liu Xing only saw a figure behind the curtain.
Song Yang saw the report, but he couldn't figure out Song Lan's routine.
But the decision is also up to them.
As a result, Song Lan's motorcade headed north without stopping in any state capital for more than two days.
Passing by Jizhou and Hongzhou, I didn't even see the prince of Jizhou and the king of Hongzhou, so I went straight to Jiangzhou.
Song Yang received the news from the Crown Prince of Jizhou and the King of Hongzhou, curled his lips and said with a smile: "Okay. Let's just wait and see what the Crown Prince Song Lan is going to do!"
Early this morning, Chen Fu sent an urgent report that the convoy had passed De'an and was on its way to Jiangzhou.
"Haha. Finally here. Let's see what kind of character this prince is." Song Yang said with a smile.
"Is it the same as Song Yun?" Fang Zhe maliciously guessed.
That guy Song Yun is a weirdo. If you want to meet someone, you have to test your courage first.
He had been frightened by Song Yun, so he felt that Song Lan was also the same way.
"I heard that Lingnan Road has developed quite well in the past two years. People from Lao San's family should not have these strange problems." Seventh Uncle Song Tong said.
Song Jing, King of Nanhai, was Song Tong's third brother and Song Yang's third uncle.
Only then did Fang Zhe realize that they were real relatives, and it was not good for him, a lowly official, to slander his master.
"Which... I'm rude..." Fang Zhe hurriedly saluted Song Yang and Qi Shu.
"It doesn't matter. I was just thinking randomly." Song Yang smiled and waved his hand.
Everyone was chatting in the conference room, and it was noon.
While they were discussing whether to have lunch and wait, the guard came to report that Lingnan’s convoy had arrived!
Song Yang and his seventh uncle Song Tong came out with a kind of Jiangzhou officials.
At the gate of the government office, I saw the Lingnan convoy, a total of five carriages, and escorted by about a hundred soldiers.
If someone else comes over, Song Yang and Song Tong only need to wait in the room.
But the King of Nanhai, Song Yang, and Song Tong are brothers, so it is not too much for Song Yang to come out to welcome them.
As for Song Tong, although it is somewhat inappropriate for an elder to pick up a younger one, he is a guest in Jiangzhou.
When Song Yang came out, he had to follow him.
Outside the gate of the mansion, the carriage of the Lingnan convoy opened the curtain, and a person poked out from inside.
Song Yang and Qi Shu were both shocked when they saw the person coming.