Royal road

Twenty or nine days is enough to freeze so that people can't stretch out their hands.In previous years, at this time, the whole family would nest in the house, shivering around the brazier.Calculating the ratio of planting grain to ration, hoping to dig more wild vegetables in the spring to satisfy the hunger.This year, however, is different.

Pushing open the crude wooden door, Li Er walked into the hut.His body was covered with hot sweat, and even the winter clothes were soaked a little wet.

"Quick! Take it off and put it on the kang to dry." Li Er's mother-in-law hurried up to help him undress.

But Li Er first took out a pancake from his bosom and handed it to his wife: "Today I won the top three, this is a reward!"

The lady of the Li family immediately beamed with joy, and took the thick pancake.

Li Er's family fled to Lucheng.His family originally lived in Qi County, but the local Huns made a fuss, saying that they wanted to establish a country, and officers and soldiers came to crusade.After coming and going, the house was burned, and people were almost dragged to serve as soldiers.Forced to be helpless, Li Er had no choice but to take his family with him, trying to escape from Bingzhou.

Where exactly he fled to, Li Er actually had no idea.Thinking about drifting with the tide, over the Taihang Mountains, to Yanzhou.Unexpectedly, when he walked to Shangdang, news came.The prefect of Shangdang was kind and ordered the counties to take in refugees and reclaim official land.Regarding this matter, Li Er was suspicious, after all, he saw people being dragged to Gaiwu Castle along the way.Doing hard labor in winter is no different from being a soldier working hard.

However, after walking for several days, when he came to Lucheng, the prefecture, he suddenly realized that the rumors were true.I saw that many houses had been built on the wasteland in the western suburbs of Lucheng, and there were even farmers driving cattle and horses to reclaim the wasteland.If you put it in other places, you can't even see it.How dare this group of people stay in Shangdang?It's not far from the Huns!

After all, he was still cautious, and Li Er inquired carefully for a long time, only to find that the person sitting high in Lucheng now was the legendary Buddha.Because of his blessing, the Huns who attacked Lucheng before were all killed by the thunder of the gods, and the stacked Jingguan are still piled up outside the city!I saw the high mound of sealed earth, and then I saw the officials who registered on the list outside the refugee camp.After all, Li Er made up his mind and stayed outside the city.

To reclaim wasteland, the officials and lords will provide plowshares and livestock.Seeds for cultivation can also be borrowed from the government.The land tax is a bit high, [-]% in the first year, and it will be reduced as appropriate in the future.But people have given so many things, and there is no other exorbitant donations, which is not too high.

What is even more gratifying is that in addition to opening up wasteland, soldiers will organize them to practice.All those who participated in the training were given a winter coat and a full meal every day.Although it takes two hours to practice, but the farm work is not too much now, so it can be sustained.After practicing for a full month, there will be a school exam every three days.All the top three runners, archers, and stone throwers have pancakes to receive.

Li Er's body is not considered strong, but he has excellent eyesight and steady hands, so he can win the top three in archery.This is nothing, if they can get the top three in the monthly exam queue, ten people in a team can get pancakes!

Such a thick pancake, soaked in hot soup, is enough for the wife and children to eat for two days, it is almost a life-saving food.It is even more important for newly attached refugees like Li Er who don't have much money left.

Seeing his wife happily accepting the pancakes, Li Er showed a little smile, took off his wet winter clothes, and got into the bed covered by the kang.This kang was only seen after coming to Lucheng, and every household of refugees has it.It is about three feet above the ground, and its structure is similar to that of a stove, under which firewood can be burned.As long as you add some firewood every day, you can make the bed warm and sleep until dawn.

It is precisely because of this earth kang that those refugees who lack cold clothes will not die of cold and hunger.When I can build my own house later, I have to build an earth kang first.

Mrs. Li quickly put her wet clothes on the kang, and sat down: "There are still a few days until the month-to-month competition. Can your team win?"

Li Er sighed: "Just look at the others."

The queue test is a team of people.As far as their team is concerned, there are still two people who have never made it.But the news he heard today is really moving.After thinking about it, Li Er said to his wife in a low voice: "When the spring begins, I'm afraid we will be formally enlisted. If there is a war, I want to go to battle and try."

When Mrs. Li heard this, her face changed: "Didn't you say that you are guarding the soil? Why do you still have to go to the battlefield..."

"If the Huns come, don't you have to defend the land." Li Er's expression was quite solemn, "This time is the best time. It is said that the participants still have wooden spears and longbows to receive. If it is in the future, I am afraid that they will have to bring their own .Besides, enlisting in the army will save you from military service, and you will be rewarded if you win, which is better than staying at home."

Immunization is still very attractive to most farmers.Hard labor is precisely because the government often distributes some heavy errands to the people below, and sometimes they even have to leave their homes to build walls and dig rivers outside, which is extremely miserable.I have just arrived, and I am still in the refugee camp. If I am dragged to do labor, the burden on my family will be heavy.

On the contrary, if there is a war, the time will not be too long, and there will be rewards for winning.Isn't he working hard to make life better at home?Now that you have learned yourself, you should show it off.Maybe, you can even get rewards for your achievements!

Hearing this, Second Lady Li couldn't help clasping her hands together: "Pharmacist Buddha blesses me and grants me the Realm of Glazed Glass. May my husband win all battles and return safely."

This is the most common prayer in the refugee camp, just like the pharmacist tablet enshrined at home.Li Er's expression became more serious.Yes, as long as the incarnation of the Buddha sitting high in the hall manifests, it is enough for them to guard this world safely.

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"Your Majesty, within two months, a total of [-] refugee households have been taken in in each county. The reclamation of wasteland is several times more than in previous years. The momentum is too strong, and I'm afraid it will slow down." Duan Qin held the newly compiled Guantian Huang Book, come to report.

"Shangdang originally had [-] households. The chaos in the past few years, coupled with the catastrophe, may have reduced a lot. The arable land alone should be enough. It's just that the food problem is a little serious." Liang Feng carefully read the yellow book and considered. Said, "Let's leave this winter alone, and we'll wait until spring next year. If there's a good harvest, we'll consider expanding cultivation."

During the Taikang period of the Western Jin Dynasty, the population was counted once. There were only a little over 1 households registered in the Shangdang.Based on a household of five, there are only 10 people in the ten counties of Shangdang.This number sounds like a joke in later generations.Any prefecture-level city must have a population of one million?Even during the Zhiping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it would have to exceed this figure by five times.

And now?After experiencing military disasters, natural disasters and large-scale fleeing from famine, it is doubtful whether the remaining population of Shangdang County has [-] households.That's why he said that relocating these people is not a problem.But there is land, but it does not necessarily support living people.Whether it is growing grain or rations, it is a huge shortcoming.Fortunately, he reported to Sima Teng that there were several military disasters this year, and refugees crossed the border, and part of the autumn tax was intercepted.Otherwise, even these people would not be able to support them now.

There is no food, so naturally we have to find a way to get food.It's a pity that in today's world, there is a food shortage everywhere.Last year, Luoyang was in chaos for a whole year. When Zhang Fang kidnapped the emperor, he plowed the Luoyang Palace again.Not to mention grain production, it will be good if there is no disaster in Sizhou next year.But Sizhou is short of grain, and there is no hope of supplying grain to Bingzhou.Even if there is food, it may not be able to be transported back.In addition, the Xiongnu made such a fuss, and the commercial road was almost cut off.If you want food, you really have to grow it yourself obediently.

"The old farmers in the counties should also recruit the county government as soon as possible, as well as people who are proficient in water conservancy. We must sort out a suitable spring plowing plan this winter." Liang Feng said.

This is also no way.Recruit those experienced old farmers, use their experience as a reference, and synthesize what is said in agricultural books to sort out a set of reasonable farming methods.This method has been tried in the Liang Mansion before, and the effect is quite good.However, each county has its own geographical environment, which needs to be studied carefully.If possible, it is best to record these agricultural achievements, just like the famous "Qi Min Yao Shu" in later generations, and compile them into a book.Agricultural books such as "The Book of Fansheng" and "The Moon Order of the Four People" are all written in the Han Dynasty, and they still need to be updated.

Duan Qin nodded: "The peasants are already on their way, and they will arrive in Lucheng in a few days. There is also a notice on the library. Master Cui said that the library will be open in ten days."

This library is also what Liang Feng thought of recently.It was Ge Hong's unintentional sentence that made him pay attention to the problem of collecting books.It is impossible for a mediocre student like Ge Hong to use paper.If you want to collect a favorite book, you can only use bamboo slips to copy it.Although Ge Hong is only 21 years old, he has written tens of thousands of words.Trekking all the way from the south to the north, a lot of slips alone were lost.Now when he conceived his new work "Baopuzi", he sighed repeatedly, if only he had met Lord Liang earlier.

This also made Liang Feng think of another question.In troubled times, the easiest thing to damage might be the letter.When fleeing for their lives, except for those who love books and become obsessed, how many people can travel with heavy letters?It's not the gold and silver treasures that are easy to carry.However, if the bamboo slips are replaced with paper books, the number that can be carried will be several times greater, and the transmission of knowledge will naturally not be interrupted.What's more, copying books also requires manpower. If a library is established, will it be possible to recruit more reserve talents?

When he told Duan Qin and Cui Ji about this idea, they immediately fell in love.No one knows better than them the allure and importance of books to those poor children.So after some consideration, Chongwen Library set up another library to store paper books.As long as students with good handwriting can enter the library to copy books.Every time you copy five volumes, you can get a volume of blank paper for free, and you can take the pen and ink to copy the books you want.

Just listening to this statement makes people flock to it!If everyone enters the library, they can copy five books with their own hands, and then copy one to take away.It's a good thing that can't be dreamed of!The collection of books by those aristocratic families will not let the common people easily pry into them.And the books I can find are only a few.Such an arrangement is like opening a treasure house to the poor. Who can be so hungry and want to copy a few more copies?

Someone copied it, so naturally someone had to provide books.In addition to Liang Feng's own family collection, he also made a suggestion that as long as [-] volumes of various books are provided to the library, he can enter the library at will and read all the books in the special warm pavilion.You can use pen and ink at will, and you can also watch other people's lonely copies.As a result, some book collectors can't help but lend some books to the library for others to copy.

In this way, there will be more and more books that can be copied, and it will become a real paper library.Wanjuan is just a matter of a carriage, isn't it wonderful!

And with such a treasury in hand, I don’t have to worry about those good scholars coming all the way to read many books.Coupled with the engraving and printing technology of the Liang Mansion, there is no need to worry about retaining talents!

Nowadays, the number of people who can buy scripture paper has decreased a lot due to the war. The sales volume of the "Diamond Sutra" has also declined. It is better to use the extra paper in more useful places.Liang Feng didn't just want rice, there were more important things to consider.

"The library must pay attention to fire prevention, and the Nuan Pavilion should also be well repaired to make it perfect." Liang Feng carefully reminded.

Before the real severe cold comes, we need to do a few more things.