Chapter 48: Treasure of the Grand Duke (1)

Du Yu walked slowly on his horse, and the horseshoe stepped on the broad commercial road paved with gravel to make a crisp tapping sound, followed by the lame financial officer Statunko, the stubborn old Duke Jones and a dozen others A guard wearing light mail
This time the tour was due to Du Yu's intention to come to the vicinity of the Samore Fort to see the upcoming spring cultivation. The Duke Jones, who was reluctant to go to Zhivading City to stay in Samore, was bored and insisted to follow the fat man. southern
　　 saw the wide commercial road on both sides of a large field of land that had just been reclaimed. The dark soil turned over with an iron plow exuded the aroma of the earth. Rows of newly reclaimed furrow fields were like a chessboard drawn on the ground.
　　 In early spring of April, on the phosphorescent Samouri River, farmers in nearby villages were driving a ten-meter canoe to fish in the river just thawed.
　　 The silvery Satsuma River water digs along the irrigation channel during the dry season in winter and flows into the surrounding fields waiting for irrigation. Some green buds have been exposed on the land.
　　Du Yu tried to take a deep breath with his nose, the spring rain that just stopped let the air mix with the smell of wet mud
　　 For this progress, Du Yu was basically satisfied, but the stubborn old man with him showed a novel look. For the Duke Jones who had been in the snow mountain area in the north for a long time, he still saw the southern water town for the first time
　　Du Yu knew that this was the first year of his own governance of the three counties, could he stabilize the hearts of people floating in the war, could he gather the power to dominate the South for himself, and was adequate food security the most critical issue?
The 180,000 northern refugees who fled from the north to the south were newly organized by Du Yu according to a group of 40 households and 400 households, and they were placed in the wilderness of the original sparsely populated mountains in the two counties of Samor and Sato. Tidal flat,
　　The settled refugees began to reclaim their new fields, which made the two county leaders who had been desolate and desolate because of the fleeing of most people renewed their vitality.
　　 Internal Affairs Officer Statunko re-divided the wasteland of the two counties into 18 districts according to the fat man’s idea, and each district accommodated 25 villages.
　　 This is a complex work involving land measurement, forest land division, etc., which caused the financial officer in charge of the internal affairs, Statunko, to be dizzy, almost vomiting blood, and the fair-faced aristocratic face was also
　　Finally, with the permission of Du Yu, the refugees were summoned from the refugees to discuss and negotiated for a full month before the boundaries of the land were redefined. It was finally completed before the end of the spring and rainy season
　　 In late spring of April, the air is fresh, and the rainy season just breaks,
　　The mountain gully is flooded and the land is moist and fertile to be planted. This is the most important time of spring cultivation in a year
　　 Lord Lord’s new
Cultivation Act
has already been sent to the heads of 1,348 villages in three counties, one month in advance,
　　 This new bill is completely different from the farmers who used to sow the seeds in the soil randomly
　　 Not only strictly dictates that all spring-cultivated land must go through more than ten procedures of intensive cultivation such as soil turning, irrigation and other intensive cultivation, but also has strict regulations on the depth of the cultivated land and the density of sowing.
　　This dissatisfied many farmers, because it greatly increased their workload, but after the new "Landing Tool Rental Act" was promulgated before the spring cultivation, such opposition almost disappeared.
　　 Active rewards, punishment
　　Carrots increase sticks, force and temptation coexist
　　It's the same from ancient to modern
　　According to the newly promulgated "Landing Tool Rental Act", villages willing to implement the new farming law can not only divide five horses for farming,
　　 And the food tax paid during the autumn harvest only needs to pay one-third of the food according to the new regulations,
　　The top ten of the food surrender will not only receive 1000 gold Luke rewards from the Marquis of Dustan, but also get a reward of 5 more horses,
　　 For those impoverished villages, this is simply a fortune for the world, shaking all farmers
　　 is that the richest local rich man in the village doesn’t necessarily have a farming horse in the farm. The oldest rich rich man of Sien still planted his buttocks in the field to sow.
　　How many people have never stepped out of the village in their entire lives, and the furthest away is to play game and pick wild vegetables on the back hill
　　 Go around the town and take a look at the lord’s towering castle from afar. That’s a pride worth reciting. It’s synonymous with having seen the world.
　　 Don’t talk about seeing horses, that is, don’t even see a donkey, let alone the dazzling golden light in the legend
　　 Now who dares to jump out and sing the contradiction with the new "Cultivation Act" of Lord Lord?
　　The poor, wailing, poor and poor households in the village will use the farming tools in their hands to let him know what the farmer's bravery is.
　　Naturally, the villages that do not comply with the new farming laws not only have less than five horses, but also need to turn in half of the original grain during the autumn harvest.
　　 The original complaint to the lord soon turned into support for the new bill
　　 Before the time of spring cultivation, all the villages have already turned upside down
　　 Du Yu remembered that he had seen a classic quote that pointed directly at people's hearts in his last life. His two hands were ready to fully confirm this sentence.
　　 "People do not suffer from poverty, but suffer from unevenness"
　　 This is what happened to the poor peasants in their own territory. Everyone is poor, the poor have nothing, the poor have a glance, and the poor even starve to death,
　　 Naturally, no one wants to spend more time on farming,
　　 Anyway, everyone is the same, no one laughs who
　　 Suddenly one day, an opportunity to make a fortune is in front of everyone, that is another matter
　　 Looking at the opportunities in front of me, the most thought is not how to grab the hand, but the most thought is
　　 "To be poor together, to be rich and everyone to be rich, I can't get rich, don't think about it"
　　This is the origin of "red eye disease"
　　Duke Jones pointed to a few peasants in the field beside the road, plowing horses in the field, plowing the soil in the field, one after another, about 10 centimeters deep, the question asked
"Master Dustan, does your land need to be dug so deep? Horses are very valuable materials. You even sent peasants to plow the fields. In our place, as long as you find a piece of wasteland and sprinkle the seeds to germinate, In the cool autumn, it will naturally grow into golden wheat. When the wheat is harvested, we will have enough food to go hunting on the mountain.
　　It's a waste of manpower to use horses for deep cultivation like adults. If so many people are sent to do some logging at this time, fishing is not better! Can also be sold to merchants to earn some money"
　　 Grand Duke Jones's face showed a bold smile from the northerners, without any consciousness that he was a Samor guest,
　　 Without hesitating to say his point of view, even from time to time to point out Du Yu's lack and improper
　　This kind of cool and proud character has already made fat people wonder
　　 The fat man was not in the mood to explain the intensive cultivation of ancient China with a stubborn old warlord,
　　Looking at the proud look of old Jones in front of him, the fat man quickly put on an embarrassed face and replied
"We can’t help it anymore. We are in the barren southern mountains, which is naturally not comparable to the fertile snow in the north under the rule of the Duke, especially because we lack the most basic agricultural tools. In order to resist the Kugits, all the irons They were all cast as weapons by Samor. I can’t let the farmers below dig up the soil by hand.
Samor’s original large amount of grain was also consumed in order to redeem the adults. In order to ensure that all of us have enough grain to survive the winter, even the horses in our army have to be sent to the farmers to cultivate land. Such embarrassment made the Duke Adult laughed! "
　　 This is a fat man reminding this stubborn old man
　　 "I took the food and redeemed you from the Kugits! It's not my food. You are still nibbling the hides of the Kugits."
　　 Hearing the fat man’s answer, made the proud Duke of Jones look blushed,
　　Remembering the grievances he had suffered from the Kugits, his radiant complexion became dim, and his face was not reconciled
　　 "Unfortunately the Kugitites now cut off the road to the north, otherwise I would be able to compensate your Samor's loss"
"make up?"
　　 The fat man's face was slightly stunned, and even Statunko, who was by his side, appeared unheard.
　　Dare to love this proud Duke of Jones, he still doesn’t know that his family is still talking with a few small lords around him, and the thousands of peasants mobilized in his own territory are still hungry and wailing.
　　In order to solve the temporary recruitment of thousands of farmers to eat, the Jones family counted as a pot to sell iron, and the already depleted territory property was even worse, it is said that it was almost going to bankruptcy.
"Why? Don't believe me? I'm one of the three Dukes of the North. Duke Jones! I guarantee the reputation of my Duke Jones. As long as the road to the north is clear, I will give you the most precious things of the Jones family, as My compensation for your Samor"
　　 Seeing the unbelievable face of fat men and others, the stubborn old man was anxious~EbookFREE.me~ shouted with his thin arms waving,
　　 "As long as the road going north is clear, I will use the title of the Grand Duke of the North as my compensation!"
　　 "hiss"
　　 There was a breath of air in front of Grand Duke Jones
　　 "This old man is too TMA's bachelor spirit!"
　　 Even the fat man who had just run into the Grand Duke didn’t expect that such a big bomb would pop out of the mouth of the stubborn old man, and he even dared to take the last shame on himself
　　The hereditary Grand Duke has only five titles in the whole kingdom,
　　 Three in the north, two in Kyoto, have always been hereditary, and are responsible for the important defense tasks of the north and Kyoto
　　 Similarly, this distinguished title has many privileges not available to other general lords,
　　 Independent military power, autonomy, does not need to pay the king’s authorization tax, and the king has no right to interfere in the appointment in the territory. It is simply an independent small kingdom.
　　 This stubborn old man seems to have seen through his weaknesses,
　　 That is to send troops to occupy the second county without permission from the king,
　　 Thinking of the title of Grand Duke on his head, he can completely eliminate his troubles of monopolizing the three counties. He can put the king's command book back on top, and he can also have a fertile duke leader.
　　I will be the common lord of the four lords of the kingdom
　　 At that time, there was a lot of beautiful women in front of me.
　　 Fatty eyes glow, swallowing greedy saliva
　　 also saw the chubby fat man who was happy in front of him, and a dark curvy arc in the corner of the mouth of Grand Duke Jones, and he smiled inwardly
　　 "Silly fat man! The five hereditary Grand Duke, know what is called hereditary? Do you want to eat meat, come up with some sincerity!