In Yunzhongwu, the soldiers brought several large boxes of bamboo slips and wooden slips, and Shao Xun spent the whole afternoon looking at them.
Last year, Yunzhong, Kinmen, and Tanshan villages received a total of 65,000 dendrobium, which sounds like a lot. However, because Jianwu Fort occupied a lot of manpower, the original amount of farmland was too small, and there were too few ditches and other factors.
Not enough for use.
The 1,500 pieces of Hanoi silk obtained from Concubine Pei, and the 500 pieces of money had been spent long ago. The 500 pieces of Shu brocade that Pei Kang later gave were also used up. It can be said that the money was spent like water.
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But in troubled times, money is the least valuable thing, and Shao Xun is very tolerant.
The existence of Wubao allows for a relatively stable logistics base.
The existence of the logistics base allows him to feed these 600 Silver Spear soldiers and support their continuous training to continuously improve their level and combat effectiveness.
In the final analysis, people are the most important wealth.
Shao Xun now feels very accomplished.
His private soldiers slowly changed from "zero-level soldiers" to "first-level soldiers", and then to "second-level soldiers"...
Finally, they go into battle to fight, and those who survive will become "elite soldiers".
This is his greatest wealth and the biggest guarantee that he will not fall into the predicament of killing the donkey - the people of the Sima family like to do these things the most, how can they be unprepared?
"There are more than 1,300 households of refugees in Bingzhou, with a population of more than 6,300. The average household is less than five people. They have opened up 161 hectares of farmland and manage 174 livestock. This family's financial resources are much better than those of Shaoyuan." Shao Xun rolled up a bundle of bamboo slips.
, put it in the box at my feet, looked at a white cherry tree outside the window, and thought silently.
Because it is necessary to organize manpower to build the fort, and also to dig ditches and level the fields, Yunzhongwu did not organize autumn sowing this year, but will wait until spring next year before spring sowing.
The sown area should still increase to a certain extent, hopefully to 200 hectares or more.
Newly opened farmland, even if it is not pure wilderness but fertile farmland that has been abandoned, will not yield much high yields in the first year.
Shao Xun asked Mao Er from Tanshan Wu to count the farmland harvests of the three Wubao. Mao Er did a good job in arithmetic, and the final calculated seed-to-harvest ratio was only 1:4. In other words, if you sow 15 kilograms of seeds, you will only be able to harvest in the end.
60 kilograms of grain is very painful.
In the first year of planting grain, the harvest was just as good as Tuyile.
"Why am I so poor?" Shao Xun sighed, got up and left the courtyard, and began to patrol the Wubao.
The empty courtyard is filled with large and small bamboo plaques, mostly containing wild products to be dried.
Shao Xun picked up a dried mushroom and looked at it, not sure if it was poisonous.
An old man next to him was turning over dried mushrooms. When he saw Shao Xun, he immediately stopped and respectfully stepped aside.
"There's no need to be afraid, Mr. Zang, I don't eat people." Shao Xun put down the mushroom and said with a smile.
Unexpectedly, the old man became even more frightened. He murmured at the corner of his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't dare.
"You picked these mushrooms?" Shao Xun asked.
"Yes." The old man replied.
"Sell it for money or eat it at home?"
"eat."
Shao Xun frowned. His verbal communication skills were a bit weak, so he tried to think of what he wanted to ask and asked the other party to answer yes or no.
"Do you want to eat it when you're not healthy?"
"yes."
"What else can you eat besides mushrooms?"
"Wild vegetables, wild fruits, elm leaves, mulberries."
Shao Xun nodded.
In the 21st century, if a person eats more than a pound of grain a day, he may not be able to eat it.
But looking forward a few decades, it is not the case. It is not unusual for an adult man who does heavy physical work to eat three kilograms of grain a day, because there is no oil or water in his belly.
He still remembered that there was a man in the village who boarded the ship at the pier to pick goods. After returning home, he was eating noodles with a washbasin. He even ate all the soup and noodles. He didn't know how his stomach could hold it.
Shao Xun once had a conversation with him.
He said he went out to eat three large bowls of porridge in the morning and after picking up a few loads of groceries, he felt a little hungry after peeing.
People who cannot eat meat and dairy products and only consume carbohydrates will be so terrible if they happen to do heavy physical work.
Wild vegetables, wild fruits, leaves, mulberries, vegetables and everything they can get are ways for them to supplement their nutrition.
"How will the harvest be this year?" Shao Xun asked again.
"No." The old man shook his head.
"Do you have two husks of dendrobium?"
The old man nodded.
"How many acres of land will your family be allocated?"
"Eleven acres."
"If you plant well next year, you will have more land." Shao Xun took out a handful of copper coins from his arms, stuffed them into the old man's hand, and left.
Yunzhongwu is not yet self-sufficient, and this year it is completely under a rationing system. The people of the whole Wu, 6,300 people, eat 780,000 to 80,000 tons of grain every year just for daily work and life. Considering that they also need to build a Wubao,
Digging ditches and leveling fields consumes more money. Yunzhongwu's losses this year are really serious.
Next year, his requirements are not high, and he does not expect to turn losses into profits - in fact, it is impossible - he just needs to greatly reduce the losses.
In the third year, it reaches breakeven, or a slight surplus.
In the fourth year, there was a considerable surplus.
This is the best situation when he opens the agricultural cheat. In ancient times, collective land reclamation was basically pure investment in the first three years. This is the cruel reality.
When it comes to agricultural golden fingers, Shao Xun soon came to a place at the foot of the mountain.
There are mountains of "earth" here, more precisely, mountains of dung, which are a mixture of human and animal excrement and soil. The smell is very touching.
The most "ripe" batch of dung has been piled up for more than half a year. Someone has already picked it up and spread it on the farmland.
The "newest" dung soil mountain is still slowly growing taller.
On the banks of the canal valley, Ding Zhuang took advantage of the dry season in winter to pull over cartloads of silt, mix it with fresh manure, and then pile it up.
No one knows why they do this, they just follow orders.
Jin San was very resolute in executing orders and was very strict in his management. Although others were away and had gone to transport the armor, all orders were still carried out to the letter.
Governing the people with military law may not be very scientific or humane, but in troubled times, what else do you want?
The refugees in Bingzhou have no objections to this.
If you have not experienced the despair of hunger, you will not appreciate a stable life.
They are no longer refugees, but serious villagers, working, farming, and eating. Although it is hard work, they can survive and the whole family can be reunited. This is better than anything else.
Shao Xun took one last look at the livestock.
The overall number has increased and will be even more next year.
The gentle slopes of the hills near Yunzhongwu are not suitable for farming, but they are very suitable for grazing. The number of cattle, sheep and horses will increase year by year, and a large amount of fresh milk will be regularly produced every year.
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a large number of dairy products have been included in the diets of upper-level officials and ministers. Affected by this trend, ordinary people also eat more dairy products.
Such as milk porridge.
This is a kind of porridge cooked with millet, milk and wild vegetables. It is popular all over the country and is a very common food.
Even in the Tang Dynasty, people still often consumed dairy products and invented many varieties, such as cheese, physalis, etc.
Bai Juyi likes to cook milk porridge for himself.
But I don’t know why the later I go, the less dairy products I eat.
The biggest reason may be the contradiction between man and land. The population is growing too fast, and the per capita resource possession is less.
For example, those hills and gentle slopes that Shao Xun saw, and even the flat land between mountains, people at that time had no interest in farming because there were more and better farmland in other places.
You don't plow the sacred land, but you want to transform the barren hills?
These gentle slopes of hills, small basins and even forest glades in the mountains are most suitable as pastures. They do not need to be converted into farmland, and you do not have so many people to cultivate them.
The milk produced by livestock is mainly made into various types of cheese and milk residue.
Ordinary fort households don't have a share, it belongs to the Silver Spear Soldiers and is issued every month.
The Silver Spear soldiers regularly go to the mountains to train and hunt by the way. The prey is also theirs and has nothing to do with the castle owner.
It can be said that Silver Spear officers and soldiers are a privileged class.
The best treatment, the most sophisticated weapons and equipment, the most rigorous training, helping out in the field during the busy farming season, and tending some fruits and vegetables by myself, other than that, there is nothing else, except training.
The "competitiveness" of soldiers is so strong that it is not surprising that they are marrying wives one after another.
This is a brand new class: professional warriors, military meritorious groups.
It was cultivated by Shao Xun with a little care. It is just a seedling now, but it may grow into a towering tree in the future.
Troubled times are the best soil for them, and the birth of new things will inevitably burst out with strong vitality.
Some victories are military victories.
Some victories are political victories.
Some victories are victories of the system.
The three are actually inseparable and complementary to each other.
Only magic can counter magic.
Chapter completed!