The spring plowing in the 24th year of Jiajing was successfully completed before the season under the strict supervision of Yuan Hao, the superintendent of Baima Court, and Lei Shan, the chef. This spring plowing totaled more than 28,000 acres, which was 10,000 acres more than last year.
Two thousand acres, the growth momentum is gratifying.
At the same time, the number of allocated pastures reached 82 acres, an increase of more than 200,000 acres compared with last year.
Such a good situation was due to the continuous influx of population. Especially on the 23rd of the first lunar month, a major earthquake occurred in Weizhou, the capital city. Even the Taoist priests of Baima Academy in Hongyuan City felt the earthquake.
The earthquake affected three prefectures and fourteen counties, tens of thousands of houses collapsed and damaged, and more than 100,000 people were displaced.
For this reason, the entire northern Sichuan region was mobilized. Under the auspices of Xuanyuan Guan, the refugees were resettled and grain transported for disaster relief. The Du Teng Society, on behalf of the Songfan area, accepted the relocation and resettlement of 30,000 refugees in one go.
The capital has a population of nearly two million. It is felt that the population is too large and it is difficult to maintain. After receiving the Du Tenghui's commitment, the capital's Daomen and officials headed by Lu Tengen were immediately overjoyed and fully mobilized the victims to relocate to Songfan. As of the end of March, the actual number
There were more than 26,000 people in place, and Baimayuan swallowed 12,000 of them.
In addition, Bai Geng, who was in Xingqing, had been buying Han slaves, and the actual population under his rule now exceeded 45,000.
Of course, such leap-forward development has brought heavy debts to Hongyuan. In order to collect enough food for the newly relocated people, Baimayuan borrowed 20,000 silver from charity funds, bringing its own debt to 40,000 taels. The entire Hongyuan
The original total debt exceeded one hundred thousand taels.
However, in Zhao Ran's view, these new populations will all be stable sources of credibility in the future. It only needs to increase each person's annual credibility contribution value to five gui, which is the credibility value of Baimayuan in the 24th year of Jiajing.
It will definitely exceed 200,000 Gui.
In addition to contributing trust points, these people are also contributing merit points to Zhao Ran. Trust points are passively received and require people to pray sincerely, but merit points are actively absorbed. As long as you do good deeds, you can get them from the people.
Expropriation, there is no contradiction or exclusion between the two, and they can be obtained at the same time.
Therefore, Zhao Ran waited until the spring plowing was over and immediately started the construction of roads and canals.
Last year, in order to attract Dangxiang people to replace their fields, Baima Yuan drew a road map for the construction of official roads and posted it on the white wall outside the Taoist temple. In fact, this plan was not used by Zhao Ran to intimidate Dangxiang people.
, but it is something that is really going to be done.
When allocating cultivated land and pasture, Baimayuan deliberately reserved all the land near the planned official road route and did not allocate it. The purpose was to avoid causing disputes during road construction.
There are three official roads, one goes out from the west gate and connects with the Moon Crossing Hongyuan garrison, with a total length of thirty miles; one goes out from the north gate and connects with the Songfan Guards Camp in the Chewa Valley, with a total length of fifty-two miles;
From the south gate, it connects Zhebo Mountain, Yanggong Mountain, Haizi Mountain and Dajun Mountain, with a total length of 120 miles.
The terrain of Songfan is relatively flat, so it is much easier to build roads than Long'an Prefecture. Zhao Ran plans to complete the construction of the western and northern roads before the autumn harvest. Of course, for this reason, he asked Baimayuan to donate to Charity Fund again.
I borrowed two thousand pieces of silver.
It's useless to have money without food being transported in. In addition to encouraging shops to deliver food to Hongyuan, Zhao Ran urgently mobilized the Nangui Taoists and relied on the large storage tips presented by Rong Niang to continuously travel to Huguang, where food was abundant.
After three trips, 2,400 shi of grain and rice were transported back, which initially eased the food crisis in Hongyuan.
The first thing to start construction was the Thirty Mile Official Road on the Western Front. For this purpose, Baimayuan recruited 1,500 people. It was still the old method of building roads in exchange for food. On the day when construction started, Zhao Ran specially conducted a field investigation.
Yi, he did not use magic talismans and spiritual fruits. He used ordinary talisman paper, ordinary fruits, and ordinary drinks. The cost did not exceed ten taels of silver.
If we really have to spend thousands of taels of silver, we might not be able to invite the land and mountain gods out, but do the land and mountain gods have the professionalism and professional skills? Can they directly repair the road? Zhao Ran has serious doubts about this.
.If it is just to move bricks and stones and level the land, Zhao Ran said that the cost of using them would be too high - in this regard, Dajun Cave Heaven has a group of free professionals.
So, the workers were busy during the day, excavating soil, regulating routes, and filling gravel. After a sleep, they found that the road section that was initially cleared during the day yesterday had been compacted, and the gravel, loose soil and other engineering work for the next section of road had been completed.
The biggest work has been done, and the efficiency has increased several times!
According to the Taoist priests who supervise the work of Baima Yuan, this is the effect of Abbot Zhao’s rituals to invite gods. Many people also showed up to prove it. They said that when they got up at night, they saw with their own eyes the various deities invited by Abbot Zhao.
Gods, including the Nine Heaven Phoenix, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the Kunlun Kirin, etc., and some even swore that they saw the blue ox riding on Laojun's lower realm and helped build the road together.
This caused a sensation. The people simply didn't sleep at night. Everyone stayed up all night with their eyes wide open, waiting to see the various gods. Of course, they found nothing, but just when people were confused, they found that five people were in front of them.
Inside and outside, there is another newly repaired road section!
Many people left the construction site directly, without even bothering to eat, ran back to Hongyuan, and went straight to Baima Yuan to offer incense and pray. Baima Yuan once again set off a craze among believers to offer incense.
While the construction of official roads was in full swing, in early May, Baimayuan issued an announcement announcing that in order to encourage childbirth, starting from that month, all households with children under three years old would be rewarded with ten acres of grassland based on the number of children.
This decree comes into effect this month and will last for three years!
The whole Hongyuan became lively. People rushed to tell each other and came to Baima Courtyard to watch the announcement wall. After confirming the news, they immediately rushed home and started to prepare.
Those who were not married were busy looking for someone to marry; those who were married were working hard day and night, hoping to get into high school in one fell swoop. Within three months, 890 families completed their marriages, and 390 women passed on.
Good news, success comes. At the same time, in front of the statue of Taoist Cihang in the White Horse Courtyard, there were even more believers, men and women, praying that Cihang would open his eyes and quickly send a child to be reincarnated.
Incidents accumulated one after another, causing the people, especially the Dangxiang people, to gradually change their belief in Taoism from the initial resistance to being dispensable, then from being dispensable, to now gradually accepting it. They discovered that,
In fact, belief in Sanqing seems to be quite effective.
Of course, everything should not be too extreme, otherwise going too far is not enough. During this period, Baimayuan Fangtang received retribution three times. Three families had funerals in June. The deceased were all old men, all over sixty years old. It is really sighing.