Three Kingdoms: My Wife Is Diao Chan

Chapter 237
Chapter 238
"Liu Jing, how about managing these refugees and farming?" Cao Chong asked.

"Subordinates obey!"

"That's good! Pang Tong, you hand over to Liu Jing all the land, atlas and account books that are free in Luoyang, as well as the inventory of farm tools."

"Liu Jing, if there are refugees returning in the future, they will all be managed by the people in charge. You decide how to farm the fields yourself, and apply to the Ministry of Households for all supplies." Cao Chong instructed the two of them.

"Also, after the spring plowing, I will send someone from the refugee team to recruit some young and strong people to help build the city. You should pay attention to cooperate then."

"Young master, how many young and strong people should be drawn from the refugees? I can arrange it reasonably after I have a specific ratio."

Liu Jing is really talented in this area.

"This? Let's have a meeting the day after tomorrow to discuss and decide. The farm tools here in Luoyang are much more useful than what you usually see. You should familiarize yourself with their efficiency in the next two days, and then discuss with everyone the day after tomorrow."

The quality and performance of the new agricultural tools manufactured in Luoyang are far better than those in other places, and the farming efficiency must be much higher. Let Liu Jing figure out the situation first.

On the third day, Cao Chong convened another plenary meeting, announcing the construction plan of Luoyang New City this year, and discussing the proportion of people drawn from the refugees to build the city.

In the end, it was decided to take [-]% of the young and strong from the refugee team to build the city. This ratio is already very high. How many people can be recruited in the end depends on how many refugees can be recruited in the end.

However, the treatment for the refugees was also very high: all the income from the refugees’ farms belonged to them, and the government only recovered the seeds lent to them in advance and the rental fees for farm tools.

This is equivalent to taking [-]% of their land rent in disguise, and it's more than that. After all, the people who are drawn are young and middle-aged.

But this is already much better than other people in the country, at least they don't have to pay other exorbitant taxes, that is the terrible thing.

Cao Chong estimated that at least [-]% of the labor income of the people in the Eastern Han Dynasty was expropriated in various names. With such a heavy burden, the society will not collapse.

In addition, refugees can use the grain obtained from farming to exchange various living materials with the government, which is guaranteed to be cheaper than the market.

Due to the fineness of the farming tools, the efficiency of these refugees' farming is much higher than that of Lao Cao's Diannong Duwei, and there should be a lot of surplus to sell to Cao Chong.

Liu Jing took the refugees and various supplies to the fields, and Cao Chong began to supervise the groundbreaking of the first building in Luoyang New City.

Within two months, all the preparatory work has been completed and the building materials have been in place for the civil servants conscripted last year. Luoyang New City is really about to start building houses.

Everything went smoothly. After the spring plowing, Luoyang County also began to recruit farmers to help. After nearly half a year of training, the professional construction engineering team has also looked good. Compared with ordinary peasants, the efficiency is not comparable.

The brick factory and cement factory have been preparing bricks, tiles and cement for more than half a year, and the limestone from the lime factory has begun to show its excellent role in construction.

The first residential area in Luoyang New Town is being built at an incredible speed.

Why was an ordinary residential area built first, not Miyagi?

There is no other reason, this issue of overall consideration, it is built first just because it is the farthest among the first batch of buildings, and it will not affect the transportation in other areas.

Miyagi, who originally planned to start construction first, has no designer to welcome you because Cao Chong changed the original design blueprint!

While the Luoyang construction site was in full swing, Ye County and Wuyang County were also in full swing.

It was a fight, and a large-scale fighting broke out between the people of the two counties!

Originally, it was just two villages at the junction of two counties, and there were conflicts because of competition for irrigation water sources.

This kind of thing is too common in the countryside, so I don't pay much attention to it.

Who knows, it will get bigger and bigger.

From two villages to two pavilions, then to two townships, and finally to two counties, thousands of people fought with weapons, and the local gentry led their men to participate in it.

Then people were killed in the process of fighting with weapons. The gentry surnamed Fan in Ye County beat to death the son of the patriarch of the Dong family in Wuyang County. Killed several.

Finally, the governments of the two places couldn't bear it anymore and began to intervene.

It doesn't matter that this intervention in the investigation, only to find that neither of these two is a good thing!
Concealing the population and the amount of land does not count. On weekdays, bullying men and women, forcing women into prostitution, and robbing people's land by force, every family still has life lawsuits.

So the county magistrates of the two places carried forward the spirit of impartiality, selflessness and dedication to the people, and punished the two families. Those who should be exiled should be exiled.

As for the properties of the two families, those that should be confiscated will be confiscated, and those that should be returned to the people will be returned to the people.

All the judgments are well-founded, and there is absolutely no strictness or lenient punishment.

As a result, the gentry forces around the Wuyang Great Salt Mine were completely emptied!

Cao Chong all praised that the school affairs office has done a good job this time.

Instigate the two families that are not easy to deal with each other to fight each other, and let the government investigate the old background of the two families, and then everything will be bright.

After the local gentry forces were completely emptied, large-scale mining of salt mines began.

With the experience of mining salt mines near Xudu, coupled with the detailed exploration of the salt mines for more than half a year, the salt mine mining went smoothly.

The mined salt is transported to the salt factory not far from the river.

After being dissolved, filtered, purified, crystallized, and turned into snow-white table salt, it is then directly loaded on trucks and ships, and is transported to all parts of the Central Plains by water.

One month after the salt mine was mined, Fazheng reported to Cao Chong and Lao Cao: "The salt production of Dahan Salt Manufacturing Company can already supply 200 million people."

"The second and third mining sites of the Wushui Salt Mine are expected to be completed in one month, and the production will be further increased by then, and it can completely supply the salt consumption of Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou!"

After reading the report, Lao Cao sighed: "This is the largest salt production base in the world, and the Hedong Salt Pond is nothing!"

After sighing, Lao Cao ordered: "The new salt policy of the Han Dynasty has officially begun!"

After the Salt Administration received the order, one of the things it did was to classify the salt.

The Salt Administration divides the salt produced from all over the world into nine grades, and the top three are all produced by Dahan Salt Manufacturing Company!
At the same time, it was announced that salt warehouses would be established in Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou first, and other states and counties would be established later.

Only the salt produced by Dahan Salt Manufacturing Company is the best?Of course other salt-producing areas are unwilling!
Fazheng didn't give him any nonsense, and directly lit the comparison sample of the ninth-grade table salt, and no one said anything immediately!
The table salt produced by Dahan Salt Manufacturing Company surpasses other table salts by a large margin in terms of appearance and taste!

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