novelhk Chapter 164
Chapter 164
"The middle fields are used to grow soybeans, cotton, cabbage and a small amount of peppers." Liu Yu grabbed the old scholar's pen in the confused eyes.
Write down the names of these crops in the notebook.
Cai Yong was a little confused. Where did this young man get so many varieties of crops from?
Most of them were ones he had never heard of.
He stared at Liu Yu blankly, at a loss.
"Go to the fields and plant sweet potatoes and potatoes." Liu Yu continued to write down the names of the two crops in the notebook.
"Let the people open up as many fields as possible."
"This kind of land does not require high standards, as long as it can be used for sowing."
"The sweet potatoes and potatoes grown will be used as part of the supplementary food and consumed internally."
"The extra ones will be used to feed the refugees who will join later."
"The rest can be used for breeding."
Cai Yong frowned: "Do you want to recruit refugees?"
"Or... do you want to recruit the rebellious Yellow Turbans?"
"Of course." Liu Yu nodded in the other party's puzzled eyes.
"Population is the most basic and most important resource for a territory."
"Without population, nothing can be achieved."
"And this Yellow Turban Rebellion is the best opportunity to gather population."
"Those refugees are homeless, have no land to plant, and no food to eat."
"Tanghai County can provide them with all these."
"They are all good people who are forced to rebel for a chance of survival."
"Why can't we let these Han people have a place to settle down?"
"Wouldn't it be better if we all directed our spearheads to the land outside China?"
Cai Yong didn't know what to say.
The young county magistrate in front of him made him feel unclear.
You say he is greedy for power.
But he is keen on gathering refugees.
You say he is good to the people.
But he lets those people work hard.
Is everything the other party does really to let the people of the world live a good life?
Is such a lofty ideal a little too...
Cai Yong pondered for a long time in his heart, but could not find a more appropriate and accurate word to describe it.
However, he admired such an ideal.
Liu Yu handed the paper and pen back to the other party, and asked the twenty young men who followed to record it carefully in their hearts.
According to this idea, let them bring more assistants to convey the order in sections.
He taught the young men how to roughly identify the land level.
In the future, all these tasks will be handed over to the young men.
"Don't relax, we Tanghai County implements very strict review work."
"There are officials who are responsible for supervising the results of your work."
"I hope you will not slack off in your work, and you must not relax the quality of your work for various reasons."
"Yes!" The twenty young men replied solemnly.
With such an important opportunity, they must not be lazy at all.
"Even if you don't eat or sleep, you must do the best job assigned by the county magistrate!" Tiedan shouted with the young men.
Liu Yu ordered the young men to carry out his orders.
When it's night, don't forget to return to the city and learn to read and write with the old scholar on time.
Watching the young men run away with great morale.
Cai Yong asked: "I wonder what kind of supervisory officials the county magistrate has arranged?"
"What is the specific work process like?"
He was very interested in these.
"It hasn't been arranged yet." Liu Yu smiled bitterly and said: "There are too few scholars in the county. This matter must be handled by people who have a clear mind and are more upright."
"Make up for this aspect later."
Cai Yong was speechless.
Isn't this just firing a crossbow in the air?
But think about it.
Although it hasn't been arranged yet, announcing it to the young men like this can bring huge pressure to the other party.
Let them be invisible.
They can't see the so-called supervision, but they are afraid of being supervised by people in the dark corners.
In this way, it can be regarded as a certain deterrent effect.
This made him feel that people who are obsessed with stubborn principles are not suitable for being officials.
He is that kind of person.
So his ending is not good.
Alas!
Cai Yong sighed in his heart.
He didn't know when he could see his two daughters.
He didn't know whether the eldest daughter who was entrusted to the Yang family in Taishan was taken care of by the other party.
He also didn't know how the youngest daughter who was destined to be the second wife of the Yang family was doing?
With a sad face, Cai Yong felt bitter in his heart.
...
In Liu Yu's various decrees, the new people in Tanghai County continued to open up the land.
Later, the original people in Tanghai County rushed to the land of various levels that had been opened up to cultivate.
Different seeds correspond to different levelsfields.
Looking at the endless cultivated fields in the wilderness, Cai Yong was filled with emotion.
Although Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, it is often harassed by foreigners.
However, it also has many advantages.
Apart from other things, this vast land has a large area to be developed.
Moreover, the emperor is far away.
There is much less supervision when opening up land here.
It is better than in Jizhou or Sili, where it is difficult to open up land, but in the end, the fruits are picked by others.
"How much land have been opened up these days?" Cai Yong looked at the wilderness and planned to count the number of cultivated lands at all levels when he went back at night.
Liu Yu's orders for opening up have never stopped, and the people have been going out early and returning late every day.
It's just one word, work.
However, although the new people are tired, no one complains.
After all, there is work to do and there is food to eat.
Such hard work can allow them to eat three meals a day.
Or the kind of situation where they can eat as much as they want.
Let the people be extremely satisfied.
In the past, even if you worked hard for the landlord to death, the landlord would not give you any more food.
But it was different in Tanghai County.
The officials were supervising on the side.
Anyone who dared to be lazy would be punished by being deprived of food.
However, as long as you work hard, you will have enough food to eat.
Let the people know deeply that hard work will have good results.
Some people who work particularly hard have been commended by the Tanghai County government.
Won the title of the first batch of model workers.
Separated from the refugees and became formal citizens of Tanghai County.
No longer need to open up wasteland, but enter the sequence of farming.
Moreover, they have entered the city and have been allocated a house.
No longer live in a temporary camp outside the city.
Such commendation has inspired the new people to work again.
Cai Yong looked at the people who were full of energy every day, and he really couldn't understand what kind of power the model workers had.
They could actually inspire people so much.
It was amazing!
He could never forget the commendation meeting held in the wilderness that day.
Tens of thousands of refugees roared out the huge roar of Tanghai County.
It was like shaking the earth, shaking his ears and heart.
It made his old heart beat with excitement.
It seemed to shake his old bones apart.