Xinfeng County is not big, it covers an area of ​​about two or three miles and has three or five hundred families.

This is also the size of ordinary county towns in this era.

The main residents are basically merchants, officials and clerks.

Generally speaking, the county town will become lively only on the market.

On weekdays, it is basically deserted. Occasionally, a few rangers get drunk on the streets and go crazy everywhere. They are soon captured by the officers from the neighbors.

What awaits them is naturally fines and labor.

Standing in the only inn attic in the county town that provides business travelers to stay in, Zhang Yue looks out at this small county town from afar.

Countless thoughts emerged in my mind.

"The county town of Xinfeng County is still too small..."

“Handcraft industry is seriously underdeveloped…”

“The private economy is backward!”

These are the situations he needs to change when he takes office.

As a civil servant who traveled through time, the first idea he first realized was to find Xinfeng's advantages.

This is the instinct of a modern bureaucracy.

"Maybe you can try to have a farm stay..." Zhang Yue thought in his mind.

The distance between Xinfeng and Chang'an City is very close, only thirty miles at most. The wealthy families, officials, disciples, scholars and merchants in Chang'an City can reach Xinfeng County in only two hours at most.

If several tourism projects can be developed, these people can be attracted to have fun.

Xinfeng's tertiary industry can develop.

This will absorb a large number of surplus population into the service and tourism industry and solve many problems.

However, this matter is definitely not done this year.

"Or you can do cotton planting and cotton textile industry in Xinfeng..." Zhang Yue thought about it again.

There are mountainous monuments in the southern part of Xinfeng County, and there are many beaches in the north, which are places where cotton can be planted.

If the technology tree of cotton textiles can be illuminated, even if it only develops the most primitive and simple cotton textile hand-woven industry, it can bring a lot of profits.

The only problem is that cotton planting requires supporting water conservancy facilities.

The last time Xinfeng County has been engaged in water conservancy construction in the whole county, it has to be traced back to fifteen years ago when Erkuan served as the Zuo Inner Historian.

Over the past fifteen years, Xinfeng has owed a lot of infrastructure accounts.

When Zhang Yue walked from Duyu Society to Xinfeng County, he saw that even the water conservancy facilities in the whole town of Duyu Society, which boasted that it was relatively complete, the water conservancy facilities in the whole town were actually terrible.

Only a few pavilions such as Yangli have irrigation channels.

In fact, water supply is seriously insufficient in those channels.

For general irrigation water, you can only rely on your servants to carry it on your shoulders.

What’s even more terrifying is that Zhang Yue learned that livestock farming does not exist in the entire Xinfeng at present.

The way people cultivate land is usually done by manpower.

Many people even choose the most primitive fallow work.

It not only allows part of the land to choose to hibernate to restore ground abilities.

This caused countless waste!

"If a water conservancy network can be built that connects the whole county, perhaps Xinfeng's agriculture can be operated for two seasons in the future..." Zhang Yue thought to himself: "Grow winter wheat in one season, and grow corn in one season..."

Winter wheat can be planted in autumn and August, and harvested in the next summer around April. (The month of the Taichu calendar should be similar to the lunar calendar in later generations) At that time, it was the time when rain and heat came together. If corn could be planted in time to ensure the fertility of the land, it would be harvested in four months.

For two seasons of food a year, even if one plus one equals two, at least one can do more than one or more!

The only thing that is more troublesome is perhaps the source of fertilizer.

If the fertilizer problem can be solved, Zhang Yue's idea can be almost realized.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered something that Liu Jin once told him that Sang Hongyang was fishing on the Qilu coast.

Fish bones are an important fertilizer resource in future generations!

Liu Jin stood beside Zhang Yue, not knowing that in this short moment, Zhang Yue had already opened up his mind and thought about many things.

He was a little excited at this time, holding the data he had just counted in his hand, and said to Zhang Yue: "Zhang Shizhong, I really benefited a lot from this trip! No wonder the ancestors all said: It is better to travel thousands of miles than reading thousands of books!"

Since their monarch and ministers arrived in Xinfeng County yesterday, they have booked this inn and used as a temporary office location to count the survey data along the way.

This work is simple, and it took only one night to do it.

At this time, what Liu Jin was holding was a freshly released copy of the Duyushe, the statistics of the land possession, income and burdens of the people of Xinfeng County.

"Your Highness's Holy wise..." Zhang Yue turned around and smiled: "When you all come back, your own data will be combined together, and combined with their investigation, I think you can almost write an article titled "Survey Report on Various Classes in Xinfeng County"..."

"Huh?" Liu Jin's eyes hopped, and his little heart started to beat involuntarily.

"Then, I and Your Highness can offer you His Majesty... for reference..." Zhang Yue said with a smile.

The inspection and investigation of Xinfeng, Zhang Yue and his party was a sampling survey.

As for the world, Xinfeng's situation can also be regarded as a sampling survey.

A glimpse of the whole leopard can be seen.

The situation in Xinfeng County can probably reflect the situation in the world.

Using this as a reference, the country can adjust its policies.

At the beginning, Li Kui made a reform of Wei and the first thing he did was to do was a similar investigation.

There is also a popular and praised article that has been published.

Almost all Han officials have read that article and can recite it with their eyes closed.

Chao Cuo imitated Li Kui's article style and wrote an article titled "On the Remarks of the Religious Salvia".

However, today, the data collected and investigated by him and Zhang Yue and his team were far more detailed than those of Li Ju and Chao Cuo.

The two of them alone investigated dozens of civilians, self-cultivated farmers and small landlord families along the way, and more than a dozen powerful landlord families.

I have obtained countless valuable data.

Combined with the situation of the other two ways, we can write an irrefutable article with detailed data.

Once submitted to you, it may change the world's agricultural policies!

And myself...

When Liu Jin thought of this, his heart beat even more violently.

Although he is the eldest grandson, he has not been established as an heir after all, and it is somewhat unsafe.

And as soon as this article is published, his status will be stabilized immediately!

Maybe, my grandfather Long Yan was so happy that he directly conferred him as the crown prince and appointed him as the successor!

Thinking of this, Liu Jin was immediately full of energy. He stretched his neck and looked into the distance, hoping that the other two subordinates would come back quickly.

…………………………

By around noon, Sang Jun took Chen Wannian and Zhao Guo, accompanied by more than ten followers, to the entrance of the inn.

Then, they moved a large box from the carriage.

"Your Highness, Shizhong Zhang..." Carrying this box, Sang Jun and others walked to Zhang Yue and Liu Jin and replied: "I am fortunate to have failed to humiliate my orders. I have traveled all over Xinxiang, more than ten pavilions in Linwei, visited more than 60 households, and obtained more than a thousand people's affairs!"

"There are also fifteenth water classics maps and eighteenth mountain and river maps, all of which are drawn!"

"Good!" Liu Jin immediately stepped forward, helped them up, and encouraged him: "Thank you for your hard work..."

Two more hours later, Gong Yu and other students rushed to the inn in a hurry.

They also brought back a large box.

It is filled with inspection reports and water meridian pictures and texts of the surveying and mapping.

However, compared with Sang Jun and others, the will of Tai students such as Gong Yu were much more depressed.

When Zhang Yue saw this, he asked, "Why are you all like this..."

"Oh..." Gong Yu sighed and bowed to Zhang Yue: "Our Tai students, in the past, sat alone in the Imperial Academy, buried their poems and books, turned a blind eye to the things outside the window, but did not know the hardships of the people and the difficulties of people's livelihood..."

"What I heard about this trip is really..." Gong Yu lowered his head, and Wang Ji and others also looked ashamed.

Since the Confucianism came to power, it has advocated "please the people for their decrees" and held high the banner of "Three Dynasties of Qi".

In the past, they could still yy on their own, and the situation in the world was very good.

But this trip to the grassroots level made them understand what level of the situation has become today?

As students of the Tai family, they are certainly ashamed of their own pillars of the country.

I even swear in my heart that I must do something for the people of Xinfeng.

At least, make their lives better.
Chapter completed!