Busy time always seems so fast, it seems that nothing has been done yet, and it is almost March.

The whole road in Guizhou is busy.

Every spring, everyone from Futai Yamen to farmers in the fields is busy with the same thing.

That is spring plowing.

You miss the field for a while, and the field misses you for a year.

Especially in a place like Guizhou Road, where there are seven mountains, two rivers and one farmland, we really can't afford any delay.

In previous years, if there was a slight natural disaster and God didn't show mercy, it would almost be a famine.

Poverty is the most intuitive feeling outside here.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty, whether it was the official family or the capital, was basically not very interested in this area, and only conducted a loose management in the form of restraints.

To put it bluntly, people here are just left to fend for themselves.

But now, Xiao Cheng has turned this place into Guizhou Road, into six prefectures and three states, an area nominally under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Of course, don't expect the imperial court to lend a helping hand here. Maybe they secretly don't want any trouble here to cause Xiao Cheng to suffer a serious fall.

It's amazing that this place can go back to what it was like in the past. It won't be a big deal.

On the contrary, if Xiao Cheng really managed this place well, they would be worried.

From different positions, everyone naturally has different understandings of one thing.

Regardless of whether this matter is good or bad for the millions of people in this land.

What they see is only good or bad for themselves.

In the past two years, Xiao Cheng has been taking the lead in cultivating terraces according to local conditions, investing manpower and financial resources in building water conservancy, improving seeds, and thinking of various ways to accumulate fertilizers. There is only one purpose, to increase production and income, and to minimize the use of external food.

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It should be said that after a few years, the effect is still very significant.

There are hundreds of thousands of acres of extra land along Guizhou Road. Last autumn, the first wave of grain was harvested. Although the yield is still low, one acre of good land only weighs 300 kilograms, and less good ones only one or two hundred kilograms.

It looked like a big one, but for Xiao Cheng, it was already a big surprise.

After all, this is the first year of farming, and the output will naturally increase gradually in the future.

Xiao Cheng was ready to give away a large amount of official land to the local people for free. Although not only the Futai Yamen, but also the officials from various prefectures and counties were opposed to this matter, Xiao Cheng did not

Be prepared to change your mind. Of course, it will be accompanied by a series of corresponding policies, tax reforms, etc.

Only if it is their own land, people will take good care of it and manage and plant it as carefully as they love their own babies.

If we want the people to taste the benefits and get the sweetness, they will work harder and care more.

Of course, it is also a huge project to do this. It is not an easy task just to prevent the land from being embezzled by big households, being robbed by powerful people, and being corrupted by officials during the process of dividing land.

Xiao Cheng plans to pilot it in Bijie first.

The prefect of Bijie is Luo Gang, who is his best friend, and in the past many years of cooperation, he has formed absolute trust and dependence on Xiao Cheng, because Luo Gang has never seen Xiao Cheng fail.

With absolute local cooperation, the pilot work can be carried out smoothly. As long as it succeeds in Bijie, other places will naturally flock to it, and there is no need for Xiao Cheng to push it.

The power of role models is always infinite.

Land reform, household responsibility system!

This is the foundation Xiao Cheng gave Luo Gang.

"In other words, these lands are actually government lands, and the common people still rent them. However, this lease period is extremely long. Thirty years can last for almost two generations." Listening to Xiao Cheng's story.

, Luo Gang said thoughtfully: "And the rent and tax are very low. In your words, it's called more reward for more work."

"That's the truth!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "For one acre of land, the government buys one hundred kilograms at a flat price. This price is only half of the market price or even lower. This is equivalent to the people paying taxes to us. The rest is

It's your own. Whether you get two hundred catties or seven or eight hundred catties, it's none of the government's business."

"How can one acre of land produce a thousand kilograms of output? This is just a dream. If you pay a hundred kilograms and still have a two to three hundred kilograms of savings, then the farmers will laugh out of their dreams!" Luo Gang said disapprovingly.

"It's impossible to tell!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "After this method is implemented, the people will try their best to increase the yield of crops. Yuting, let me tell you, the wisdom of the people is infinite. When the time comes, we will definitely

There will be countless new ways to do things, and we don’t know when the output will increase dramatically!”

"Of course I'm looking forward to it!" Luo Gang said with a smile: "When the people have more food, they will naturally sell it. When they have money and the government has food, life will be easy. Do you know that now I will

I am worried! There is a famine in spring. Futai opened his mouth and said that if people there starve to death, the officials will be punished. But isn’t it hard for us people? We are very worried!"

"I know that this requirement is still very high for you now, but I can only set the requirement high so that you will work harder. If you work harder, maybe many fewer people will die."

Xiao Cheng sighed and said: "If my requirements are low, you will naturally be even lower. I will tell you this."

"To be honest, when I was in Bianliang, I never imagined that there were really such poor people in this world." Luo Gang shook his head and said: "When I was in Hengshan in the northwest, it was not so miserable. Chongwen, let me tell you.

, under my rule, there was a family that was so poor that they only had one pair of trousers. When I went to the house, only the head of the house and his wife came out to see people, and the rest were hiding in the house. It was really unbearable to see."

Xiao Cheng patted Luo Gang on the shoulder: "Those people in Bianliang will never see these things. They all say that now is the prosperous age!"

"In order for these people under my control to be able to walk on the road openly and openly to meet people, I will also fully support your arrangement." Luo Gang said.

"Be careful of corruption, and worry even more about sabotage that harms others but does not benefit oneself." Xiao Cheng said: "Such an incident will inevitably touch the interests of some people, and there will definitely be a backlash, but our Guizhou Road has the same benefit.

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Gu Zai

Luo Gang laughed: "I know, we speak more with our fists. Our fists are strong and our voices are naturally loud. If someone really wants to take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble, then we will just deal with another batch."

Xiao Cheng burst out laughing: "That's not the benefit I'm talking about. The benefit I'm talking about is that we now have a large amount of official land, and the local landlords are far less powerful and intricately connected than the state and road forces outside.

So many things will be easy to do. We can do the same thing on Guizhou Road, but if you try it on Liangzhe or Jinghu Road, I guarantee you will die in an ugly way."

Luo Gang looked at Xiao Cheng deeply: "So at first, you chose Hengshan and the northwest, and then you chose to come to the southwest. These two places are traditionally places where the ruling power is extremely weak. In these places,

Can you more easily express your ambition and govern a place according to your ideas?"

"Yes!" Xiao Cheng made no secret in front of this good friend: "Not to mention other places, even in Hebei Road, where our Xiao family started, I still can't do it, because one person cannot compete with the same class.

Fighting. If you really want to fight, it will only lead to death."

"Now we are not alone!"

"As long as we achieve great success on the Guizhou Road, we can slowly promote it." Xiao Cheng narrowed his eyes: "We have to accumulate enough strength. One day, the world will be changed because of something.

If things change, we can go out, regain our strength, and reshape the country."

Luo Gang was a little frightened by Xiao Cheng's words and remained silent for a long time.

Xiao Cheng left Bijie. This time he came out to inspect spring plowing in various places. Bijie was just his first stop. Next, there were four more prefectures and three states to visit.

Especially in Zunyi Prefecture, Qiandongnan and other places, in these two places, the power of the Yang family and the Tian family are extremely strong. Although nominally they have been integrated into Guizhou Road, they have truly reached the lowest level. In fact,

All power is still in the hands of the Yang Tian family.

If you want to completely change all this, it is obviously not something that can be done in a short time.

But now, Xiao Cheng wants people in these places to understand one thing first. In this land, the highest leader is no longer named Yang or Tian.

There is only one leader in this land now, and that is Xiao, and he is Xiao Cheng.

To destroy a stubborn and conservative force, the first step is to knock them down from the high cloud platform, so that their true identity is exposed to everyone's sight, and everyone understands that they are nothing more than

It's just the same thing.

Without the sense of mystery of the past, people will naturally start to re-examine them.

The horse team knocked on the stone slab with a crisp sound. Xiao Cheng turned around and waved. Luo Xin, who was following him, immediately moved his horse to follow, riding alongside Xiao Cheng.

"The village where we stayed last night had very few young people. Most of them were old people, children, women and children. It can be said that if we don't help, their poverty will basically not be changed." Xiao Cheng said: "Yesterday you said

I went out at night and gave the village elder dozens of taels of silver. Do you think these dozens of taels of silver can help them change their current predicament?"

Luo Xin was startled, lowered his head and said, "So it turns out that Futai has seen it?"

Xiao Cheng smiled: "Do you think I'm cold-blooded? I ate there, stayed there, and when I left, I only gave me some food and lodging expenses, and didn't give me a penny more?"

"Don't dare!" Luo Xin's voice became even lower.

"Luo Xin, if you want to help the urgent but not the poor, your dozens of taels of silver will be distributed to everyone, even if the village elder is not corrupt. How much can these more than a hundred people get? How long can they control it? What happens next?"

Luo Xin was silent for a while, "I understand, Futai said that it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish."

"By the way, you are indeed very smart!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "These people can't do heavy work. Even if they have fields, they can't grow much food. So, I have made arrangements, and someone will teach them next.

How to grow fungus, mushrooms and other cash crops that don’t require much effort. These things are produced all year round and can be sold at a higher price than grain.”

"I'm just superficial."

"In addition, I don't give them money because I don't want them to think that money can be obtained easily." Xiao Cheng said seriously: "Only by working and paying, can we get corresponding rewards. In this regard, we need to let

Everyone understands that no one will cherish something that is too easy to obtain, because they will think that they can get it easily again."

"I've learned a lesson." Luo Xin's face turned redder.

Xiao Cheng smiled and said: "Your uncle said that you are very smart and skillful. I have seen it when you have been with me these past few months. Your uncle is an important figure in our federation. His face is important to me.

You have to give it no matter what. Now there are two ways, let’s see which one you choose?”
To be continued...