Originally, after practicing martial arts for a period of time, I felt good about myself.
Even Taishi Ci praised him for his talent in martial arts, which made Chen Mu feel a little embarrassed.
But in fact, he was self-aware and knew that he could not afford to offend those scholars who had practiced martial arts since childhood.
Thinking that Hua Tuo's fighting power shouldn't be too high, even if he can't fight for two or three hundred rounds, it shouldn't be a problem for him to fight for twenty or thirty rounds.
As a result, he was easily picked up by others, and then he was knocked off his horse with a pat.
Even though it was grass, and he still landed on his back, he didn't suffer any injuries.
But Chen Mu's self-esteem was severely hit and his self-esteem was hurt.
All right.
It seems that I am indeed not a martial artist.
From now on, I will continue to do Wu Qin Xi every day to exercise and strive for a long life. Don't expect anything worth it.
After a day of classes, I took Chen Feng with me to pick up Chen Zhi from Taishan Academy and returned to the Governor's Mansion.
Twenty-three-year-old Sun Shao came up to him. Chen Mu nodded to him and said to Chen Zhi: "Azhi, take my little sister to the backyard. Do you two have a good read?"
Chen Zhi preferred to dance with swords and guns in Taishan Academy, and his favorite was Tai Shici's martial arts class. He originally wanted to practice marksmanship after returning home, but he did not dare to disobey his elder brother's orders, so he could only say honestly: "
I know, brother."
"The governor."
Sun Shao saluted respectfully.
"Um."
Chen Mu passed him and walked into the inner hall: "Go in and talk."
Sun Shao was originally a Beihai County official. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were wars everywhere in Qingzhou and the place was in turmoil. Sun Shao had to abandon his official position and return home.
After Chen Mu arrived in Qingzhou, he sent Guan Yu to sweep Beihai, stabilize the place, and recall the officials from the original counties to resume their duties.
The county magistrate, county magistrate and county lieutenant in a county are all appointed by the court, but the officials in each county are generally appointed by the local chief.
For example, Zheng Xuan was initially appointed as a township official by the local county magistrate. Later, Beihai Prime Minister Du Mi inspected the place and discovered that he was a talent, so he was transferred to the county as a county official.
So now the vacancies of county magistrates, county magistrates and county captains in Qingzhou have been put up for sale by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. And Cao officials from various places have been called back to maintain local stability.
Because Sun Shao was excellent at appeasing the people and his political achievements were very dazzling among the county and county officials, he was promoted by Chen Mu and hired as a special driver to replace Shiyi's position.
The two of them walked into the main hall? Chen Mu walked up to the main seat and sat down.
Sun Shao took the folded official documents and said seriously: "According to the instructions of the governor? This month I sent people to inspect all the counties in Qi State? To check whether there are corrupt officials in various places. There are currently nineteen inspectors? One county captain, all
There was malfeasance in duty.”
"show me."
"only."
Chen Mu took the official document handed over by Sun Shao and checked it carefully.
Did he report the information that Qi State needed officials to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in March? It was probably in early April that the county officials were already in place.
Judging from the current situation, there is nothing wrong with the officials who bought their posts.
After all, a large number of those who can buy an official position are scholars, landlords and powerful people. Do these people have money? They cannot be corrupt officials.
And it’s a new arrival? It’s obviously impossible to act recklessly before you have a clear understanding of the local situation. Therefore, bullying men and women, embezzling disaster relief funds, or other crimes did not occur.
On the contrary, there was a county captain who was reported. During the Yellow Turban period, he once took refuge in the Yellow Turban, but now that the Yellow Turban has been put down, he shamelessly came back to continue serving as an official.
Of course such an official must be dismissed? Or even arrested and imprisoned for questioning.
In addition to this county captain, there are also some county officials and township officials who have more or less problems. For example, they embezzle public funds, collude with powerful people to oppress villagers, occupy fields, etc.
In fact, these matters were not under his jurisdiction as the governor. The only people in charge of the governor were officials appointed by the imperial court, with levels below the prefect of a state and above the county captain.
The officials in each locality are under the jurisdiction of the local prefect. If there is any incompetence, the county's postal supervisor will handle it, and there is no need for a governor.
But now that Chen Mu has everything under his control, and the entire Qi State is under his jurisdiction, he will naturally handle these matters.
"Well, you did a good job, Changxu. I leave these matters to you. In addition, in the name of the governor and the governor, I urge the local officials to properly handle the spring plowing and strictly guard against the problem of powerful people occupying the people's fields."
Chen Mu put down his official documents. He had read "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han" before. With his excellent memory, he could still remember that Sun Shao later became the first prime minister of Wu.
Now it seems that his talents are indeed outstanding. At present, he can only be a special person and engage in talents. In the future, he can be cultivated like Shiyi.
"only."
Sun Shao responded respectfully and was ready to go out.
Chen Mu thought for a while and then said: "Issuing a decree that no land sales will be allowed this year and encouraging people to open up wasteland. Then go to the counties to post notices. If there are powerful people who oppress the people and take advantage of them, once they are discovered, they will be severely punished."
"only."
Sun Shao walked backwards and left.
After he left, Chen Mu coughed.
The spy from the Military Intelligence Department who was hiding in the shadows of the hall came out, cupped his hands and said, "Si Ming."
"Where is Zhang Shiping?"
"Counting the days, we should arrive in Yangzhou."
It seems that we won't be able to plant rice this year and will have to wait until next year.
Chen Mu thought to himself.
Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang's investment in Liu Bei was very successful, and now they have moved their industry to Jinan.
Including Jinan's floor heating economy, they are doing it.
However, Jinan is not like Luoyang where the world's richest people gather. The effects that the floor heating economy can bring are very limited and cannot produce too high economic effects.
In the Han Dynasty, if you wanted to make a fortune by doing business, there were only three most valuable businesses: selling iron, selling salt, and selling wine.
Sea salt existed in ancient times. "Shiben" records: "During the time of the Yellow Emperor, the princes had the Susha family, who began to boil milk with sea water and fry it into salt."
Including the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they also made a fortune by boiling salt from sea water, and finally dominated the princes.
But during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the population of each country was only a few tens to millions.
Today, it is a war between counties.
Although it is still a little stronger than the village and town fighting like Japan's Warring States Period, it is not much stronger.
Therefore, the original craft of boiling salt in Qi State at that time had extremely low output. When the Han Dynasty unified the world and the country had a population of tens of millions, boiling salt with seawater would definitely not be able to meet the demand.
The main sources of table salt at that time were well salt and pool salt. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that sea salt gradually became the mainstream. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the sun-salting method was perfected, and well salt and pool salt were withdrawn from the stage of history.
It was easy for Chen Mu to make a fortune. After regaining Donglai, he promoted the sun-dried salt method in the Shandong Peninsula. As a result, the output increased dramatically, and his wealth would also skyrocket in an instant.
It's a pity that it's not the time to dry the salt yet.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had not died, and the salt and iron patent had always been in his hands. If Haiyan was really opened, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty would intervene, and Chen Mu would be used as a wedding dress for others.
Therefore, Chen Mu’s first stage now is to promote rice-based production in Qingzhou.
However, nothing should be done too hastily. We should neither deny it completely nor blindly introduce the old and bring out the new. Instead, we should proceed step by step.
Because rice cannot yet replace millet.
Rice does not require water like millet. Rice fields require a large amount of water for irrigation. Due to water conservancy problems, rice can only be planted near rivers and lakes.
As a result, the actual planting area is still very small.
We need to wait until water conservancy facilities can keep up in the future before we can promote it on a large scale.
Therefore, Chen Mu planned to plant rice near Judian Lake and use it to make wine, so as to make a fortune first.
After having money, we can use it to develop water conservancy projects, dig ditches and build water conservancy facilities in counties and counties across the state, divert water from the three major river basins of the Yellow River, Huaihe River, and Haihe River, and store water to build lakes.
In this way, rice can be promoted throughout the state.
Qingzhou is Shandong in later generations. Champa rice likes high temperatures and is very drought tolerant. It is not picky about the land and needs sufficient sunshine.
Qingzhou happens to be the place with the most sunshine in the north. There was even a place called Rizhao City in later generations, but now it belongs to Langya County of Xuzhou and is called Haiqu County.
If the geographical conditions are suitable, the problem of Huainan oranges turning into oranges will not occur.
It’s just that Champa rice needs to be sown in February and March in spring and matures in May and June (note that the lunar calendar mentioned here, if it is the solar calendar, it should be sown in March and April and harvested in June and July, which is the normal sowing time of early rice.)
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Although it is still summer in June and July, autumn will begin in a month or two, which is not suitable for the growth of Champa rice, so it will inevitably squeeze out the living space of millet.
This leaves us with a choice between millet and rice.
However, millet can be sown in the summer. After the rice is harvested, millet can be sown once in May or June and harvested when winter comes in October.
After the millet matures, winter wheat can also be planted, which sounds like three crops a year can be achieved.
However, that is only possible in theory. In fact, before the introduction of synthetic urea, the fertilization of the land could not keep up, and this was still not possible.
Therefore, after all conditions are sufficient, there are still only two crops to choose from.
Champa rice is planted in the spring, and millet and wheat are planted in the summer.
When Chen Mu was planning this, he thought it was an ideal agricultural planting method in Qingzhou.
In fact, before the Song Dynasty, why was the north the economic center?
This is because crops in the north can be harvested twice a year, sowing millet in the spring and wheat in the winter.
In contrast, rice in the south is harvested once a year, and the yield is far less than that in the north.
After the introduction of Champa rice, because the growth cycle is much shorter than that of local rice, it can achieve two crops in the Lianghu Basin and Jiangnan area, and even three crops in Lingnan where there is sufficient sunshine.
Slowly by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it developed into the current fixed pattern. There were two crops a year in the north and three crops a year in the south, which greatly increased grain production.
However, the yield of Champa rice itself is very high. One acre of millet can produce two to three stones, which is about 60-80 kilograms, while the yield of Champa rice can reach more than 100 kilograms per acre, which is one-third higher than the yield of millet.
This was the result of Song Zhenzong's personal experiments, and it was also an important reason why Champa rice was promoted in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, based on the above, it is not a bad thing for Chen Mu to promote Champa rice in Qingzhou.
But everything must be done step by step, because it has the advantage of high yield and short growth cycle, so it is not enough to promote it all at once.
We have to adapt measures to local conditions and solve various problems before we can finally make a decision.
Qingzhou has nearly 100 million arable land, and he only plans to test planting on the dozens of acres of land around Judian Lake first, wait until the harvest is complete to make wine, and then start water conservancy construction when he has money, and then slowly expand the rice planting area in Zhancheng.
This year is the third year of Zhongping, which is 186 AD. If all goes well, in two years, that is, the fifth year of Zhongping before the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, only one-third of the cultivated land in Qingzhou will be planted with rice.
, then the state’s grain production can be increased by one-ninth.
Although it may seem small, it is actually an astronomical number.
At that time, if Chen Mu builds grain warehouses in various places to store excess grain, once the world is in chaos, Qingzhou will immediately become a paradise.
certainly.
All of this is just an ideal state, and it takes practice to truly test the truth.
As for how to put it into practice, we have to wait until next spring to see whether the Champa rice seeds Zhang Shiping brought back from Jiaozhou this time can really bloom and bear fruit in Judian Lake.