Lei Hu successfully returned from the Song Family Mountain City!
"Your Highness, Song Que, the leader of the Lingnan Song Dynasty, agrees to cease the war!"
At the frontline camp of the Sui army, after meeting Jin Wang Yang Guang, he said directly: "But the Song clan leader has made a request, and I hope your majesty can agree!"
"As it should be, thank you Marquis Wu for your hard work!"
At this time, Yang Guang can definitely be called the King of Xian, and he has the kingly demeanor of a courteous and virtuous corporal.
It's just a pity that Lei Hu doesn't accept this trick.
"Your Highness, I don't want to participate in what's going to happen next, so I'll take my leave!"
After having a celebratory drink, Lei Hu went to Yang Guang privately and said directly: "If King Jin wants to call you for something, just send someone over to say hello!"
"That's fine!"
Yang Guang originally wanted to keep Lei Hu to participate in the negotiations with the Lingnan Song Dynasty, but after thinking about it, he gave up. This negotiation was not very glorious for the Sui Dynasty, so it was better not to involve outsiders, lest Yang Jian, who was in Guanzhong,
Not happy afterwards.
Lei Hu naturally does not want to get involved in such a thing. No matter how the two parties negotiate, they will be dissatisfied in the end. When the time comes, he, the person who made peace, will be complained by both parties at the same time. It is uncomfortable to feel like a human being inside and outside.
It's better to leave early. No matter how the two families negotiate, it will have nothing to do with him in the end.
After returning safely to the territory, he made no other moves. The number of people under his rule was still too small. If Qiantang, Taihu Lake, Jiaxing and other places were connected by canal, the development effect of the territory would not be obvious.
We can't have hundreds of thousands of people doing business, then who will farm the land?
At present, there are four spacious and solid official roads connecting the main towns in the territory, which is enough in Lei Hu's opinion. At least the four official roads have become prosperous and lively in a short period of time, and the villages and towns along the way have also benefited.
The military control he implemented was not too broad. Like Lao Zhu, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, he had to control where he sat at the table to eat and even how he moved his chopsticks. Lei Hu just wanted to get the people accustomed to this kind of military management.
When certain things happen, we can gather the strength of the people.
Of course, he will not do it like the government conscripting conscripts for free and requiring the people to bring their own dry food. Instead, the government and the army will distribute the working food uniformly.
As long as the labor is organized by the government or the army, people only need to come. The government and the army have to solve the problem of food, and they must be fed well.
If anyone reaches out, Lei Hu doesn't mind letting them, and the family behind them pay a heavy price for it.
Military control has extremely high requirements for discipline and efficiency, so even though Wu Hou Leihu has only been in office for a year, the traffic conditions in the territory have been greatly improved, even better than those in the well-developed northern lands.
The common people and the government in this era may have never seen the traffic situation where every village has access roads and every town has official roads connecting them. Wu Houling achieved this in just one year.
As long as it is the slack time for farmers, the military representatives stationed in the villages will work with the local government to organize the people to repair roads and bridges. Unless it rains, snows, or is too cold, this kind of work will not stop.
This is compulsory labor organized by the army representatives stationed in the village and the government. Unless you are really sick, you cannot escape the collective labor barrier.
Generally speaking, there is always a second-rate person in the village. After the military control representatives arrive in the village, these second-rate guys will become the main force of the labor force, and there will be no loopholes for laziness and avoidance.
In this era, the requirements for leading the way were not high, and the people's physical fitness was generally good. On the premise that they had enough to eat, they were very motivated to work, and there were points rewards to attract them to work hard. The entire Wuhou leader was able to move forward in just one day
After the year, it completely changed.
Whether it is Qiantang County, the Taihu Lake area, or the land of Suzhou, they will be regarded as the most elite fertile land in Jiangnan in later generations. Once the transportation in these areas is completely connected, the economic potential that can be unleashed is quite amazing.
At this time, several important towns in the Wu Marquis Territory were connected by solid official roads with a width of five meters, and the official roads between counties were also four meters wide and were also paved with gravel.
Even the official road connecting counties and villages is three meters wide. Although it is not paved with gravel, it can be used normally for ten or eight years without any problems.
As for the rural roads, they are all about two meters of compacted dirt, so there is no problem at all for communication between people. Of course, it is best to check for leaks and fill them up after a period of time.
In this way, the road problem that restricted economic development and commercial exchanges in the Wuhou territory was completely solved.
While the territory was building roads and bridges, Lei Hu's soldiers had cleared out all the public land in the territory and divided the land among them according to the standard of ten acres for each young man and five acres for each old and young man.
This is a land that cannot be passed on to future generations, nor can it be bought or sold. Moreover, the property rights of the land are still in the hands of the government. They are only allocated to the people for farming. There is basically no time limit until the death of the people who allocated the land is confirmed.
The entire Wuhou Territory has 500,000 people, of which less than one-third are young and strong. The government needs to distribute less than 30,000 foundation fields, which is too easy for the Wu Marquis Territory.
Although there are not many fields assigned to Leihu, they are standard high-quality paddy fields, and not only young men and women are assigned paddy fields, but also young and old.
The government allocates land based on population and household registration, regardless of who is male, female, old or young.
That is to say, a young and strong man only has ten acres of paddy fields in his name, while a young and strong woman also has ten acres of paddy fields in her name, and the old and young also have five acres of paddy fields in their names. They are under double supervision by the government and the army and are not allowed to occupy them in the name of their family members.
In this way, it is guaranteed that regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, or whether they are sick or disabled, they can all rely on the fields in their name to make a living.
As for whether these fields are cultivated by the person himself, the government will have strict management and supervision. In addition to taking the agreed share of the harvest, the government will also take away a portion of the grain and store it in a specific official warehouse.
Unexpected needs.
The government has no intention of deliberately exploiting the land. During the harvest season, people who own land, regardless of gender, old or young, can go to specific official warehouses to take away the grain stored in the previous year based on their household registration.
Such a policy is extremely attractive to hidden households. Not even half a year after this policy came into effect, the number of hidden households who took the initiative to declare their household registration to the government and the military has reached nearly 10,000.
For the people who farm the land, Leihu's worry-free policy goes beyond this.
If the ten acres of high-quality paddy fields assigned by the government were not properly managed, there would not be much harvest when the harvest came. He did not want the people under his rule to starve because of problems with the land management.
At this time, the role of the Holy Gate comes to the fore.
After experiencing the movement of deposing hundreds of schools of thought and favoring Confucianism during the Han Dynasty, during the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism was the dominant school, but the hundreds of schools of thought were dim and lackluster, and many theories have even completely disappeared in the long river of history.
Fortunately, the Holy Sect was formed by a coalition of frustrated members of the original hundreds of schools of thought, and it has preserved a very complete inheritance of various schools of thought, among which the inheritance of the peasant family is naturally included.
In addition, the "Essential Art of Qi Min", which was just born, and the "Four People's Monthly Order" from the Eastern Han Dynasty, have been passed down due to the strength of the Holy Sect.
Through the Yinkui sect's relationship, Lei Hu not only obtained relevant agricultural books, but also obtained many "professional talents" specializing in agriculture.
The Holy Sect not only only has two sects and six paths, but also more people who have no talent in martial arts, or have missed the best period of martial arts training, and can only exist as disciples at the bottom of the Holy Sect.
These disciples at the bottom have little fighting ability, but they can learn the complete and orderly hundreds of schools of thought in the hands of the Holy Sect. As long as they study hard, they can always become talented.
It is a pity that due to the general environmental factors and the lack of attention from the senior leaders of the Holy Sect, such professional talents can only be trapped at the bottom of the Holy Sect.
Of course, with the protection of the Holy Sect, their life cannot be said to be bad. It's just that the skills they have learned cannot be used on a larger and broader platform.
But the aristocratic family members are just the opposite. They attach great importance to the knowledge they possess, especially the knowledge that can be transformed into family strength. They also attach great importance to professional talents in all aspects.
There is a very interesting fact, that is, the aristocratic families at this time were better at farming than ordinary people and even the imperial court, which shows how powerful they were in monopolizing knowledge.
With the vast talent resources of the Holy Sect available, Lei Hu would naturally not seek help from the noble family, otherwise there would be countless stringent requirements and conditions waiting for him, and it would be hard to say whether the Marquis of Wu is his or not.
It's ridiculous. Agricultural knowledge, which was almost ignored in later generations, is now the core resource in the hands of aristocratic families, and it is also the core interest that ensures the superior position of aristocratic families.
After Lei Hu became the Marquis of Wu, he gradually became familiar with and understood these things. Naturally, he would not take the initiative to bow down to the powerful families. If he wanted to promote more scientific farming knowledge, he only needed to ask the Holy Sect for help.
You don’t have to pay so much.
Of course, in order not to irritate the sensitive nerves of the powerful families, the agricultural classics and professional talents from the Holy Sect were not released easily. Instead, they joined the army led by Wu Marquis and spread more knowledge to the people under their rule in the name of the army.
Advanced farming knowledge.
At the beginning, the effect was naturally not obvious, just like later countries when they first started to promote chemical fertilizers. People who had never used chemical fertilizers would not trust them, and some even simply poured the chemical fertilizers that the country had finally produced into the ditch.
Lei Hu understood that if he wanted to make the farming of the people under his rule more scientifically planned, it would take a long time to promote it and there would be clear examples.
Fortunately, he is not impatient at all. Anyway, the territory is full of fertile and high-quality paddy fields. In addition to the foundation fields allocated to the people, the rest of the fields controlled by the government as gifts are mostly owned by local garrisons and the Production and Construction Corps.
'Ploughing, these paddy fields were just used for experiments.
While Lei Hu was quietly farming in his territory, news came from the direction of Lingnan that the Sui army and the private army of the Song clan in Lingnan had stopped fighting and reached some agreements.