Chapter 77: New changes in Anxi abolish corvee service

Chen Ying was also very surprised that he had seen football in this era across thousands of years of time and space.

Of course, this football was a toy that Chen Ying had put into fun in his spare time in the Western Regions. However, Chen Ying's invention failed completely, and the football rules completely changed in the eyes of the Anxi Army soldiers.

When they pass the ball, they do not rely entirely on their feet, but most of the time, they run with their arms and legs like rugby. At this time, the football in Datang can be said to be a mixture of football and rugby.

The softness of football in this era is incomparable to football in later generations. Although it is easy to inflate with pig urine bags, pig urine bubbles cannot withstand tossing and a layer of cowhide is wrapped in the outer layer of pig urine bubbles. Although it solves the problem of sturdiness and flexibility, it is still not easy to kick with your feet.

In the cold, the athletes wearing thin clothes were running on the football field. At this time, the Blue Side No. 7 was carrying the ball, and the player had already approached the ball to the "door front" of the Red Team. Suddenly, the Red Team No. 10 snatched the football from the foot of the Blue Side No. 7, kicked the ball hard, and kicked the ball hard towards the Red Team No. 1. The Blue Side No. 5 rushed over to intercept it, and the Red Team No. 1 also rushed towards the ball quickly.

Unfortunately, they were all one step slower. The No. 1 of the Red Team had not received the ball, but was intercepted by the No. 5 of the Blue Team.

Of course, this was a foul steal. During the football flight, the Blue Team No. 5 jumped up and held the football with both hands. The Red Team No. 7 and No. 13 were ready to attack left and right.

The Blue Team No. 5 held the ball and threw it to the Blue Team No. 7. The Blue Team No. 7 just caught the ball, and then he felt dark in front of him, his body was crooked, and he was declining with a standard turtle turnover. The ball was no longer known to be snatched away by some unethical guy who was smoking.

Chen Ying saw this scene and did not bother to explain to Li Xiuning, but cursed: "I'll say it for the last time. You guys who have been kicked by donkeys for eight lifetimes. Listen to me clearly. This is football, not the football raised by his grandmother and bitch..."

Of course, Chen Ying's voice was covered by a mountain-like cheer.

At this moment, the Blue Team No. 3 finally grabbed the football back from the Red Team No. 8. However, the Blue Team No. 3 took advantage of the main player of the Red Team to press on the door of his Blue Team, and turned around and didn't look at it, and then came a clearance-style long pass.

As a result... the football actually shot directly into the Red Team Net.

Chen Ying looked at this scene and was stunned.

The No. 3 shot of the basketball team started in the penalty area. Although the football field is extremely simple, it is a standard football field. This shot is definitely more than 85 meters.

The audience was immediately excited.

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Chen Ying did not stay in Liangzhou and turned to Anxi all the way.

Fortunately, the road from Anxi has been built into Liangzhou.

From Liangzhou City to the west, all four-lane sleds on both sides were loaded with wheels. The sleds originally used for transport were loaded on wheels and then entered the tracks of the sleds. Even the coachman didn't need them. There was no way for the four-wheeled carriage that entered the tracks to come out again. Even if the wheels of the carriage were broken, they had to pass through the tracks and temporarily parked in the emergency lanes on both sides.

When the carriage enters the track, the coachman doesn't care about driving, and can hide in the carriage to keep warm. Anyway, the carriage pulls the horse and you will know to rest until the post station.

Due to the emergence of the Chidao, Chen Ying and his group's speed increased more than twice. Originally, on the road without Chidao, even Chen Ying, a fully mule-horse-like army, could only advance 150 miles a year. An unexpected blizzard could not even advance 100 miles.

However, on the road, these four-wheeled carriages can travel at least 300 miles a year.

Li Xiuning was surprised to see that Chidao was built so quickly.

After all, Li Xiuning knew that when Chen Ying left Anxi, the Anxi Protectorate had a total of three towns and nineteen prefectures, and more than one hundred counties had about 300,000 households, less than one.5 million people.

The Western Regions have been fighting for years, with a large area and sparse population. One manpower is the wealth of making money. Therefore, manpower is very short. It requires not only military farming and grazing, but also reclaiming wasteland and mining mineral resources.

With all the plans, Anxi can use the manpower to build the road, and there will definitely not exceed 50,000. However, in less than three years, the population of Anxi has already experienced a blowout.

Today, the population of Anxi has already exceeded the three million mark. Among them, more than 60% of the young and middle-aged people are war slaves of all ethnic groups and tribes in the Western Regions.

The Anxi Protectorate has formed a feasible system for how to transform war slaves.

First of all, there were some unruly and naughty people among the war slaves. In order to stimulate their enthusiasm, Chen Ying let all these naughty and unruly war slaves be drawn out to form a slave-catching army. They carried out sinful slave-catching trade in Anxi Xun, Tubo, Sassanian Empire, and even the Byzantine Empire.

For craftsmen who can work, after the slave hunting army was captured, they used craftsmen to mine, build roads, clear ditches, and even build military farms and villages.

After all, Anxi is different from the mainland, where Han and Hu live in mixed habits, and the people here are strong. Now the Tang Dynasty has good national strength, and these Hu tribes dare not be too arrogant. However, once the national strength declines, bloody ethnic vendetta will definitely take place... In fact, there are no more Han immigrants in the Western Regions.

To this end, Chen Ying decided to adopt a system of setting up prefectures, counties, and towns in Anxi to avoid immigrants and people scattered.

Because at this time, the Western Regions not only had a harsh climate, but also a paradise for wild animals. Fierce wild boars, wolves, and bears are all here.

In addition to building large-scale projects led by the government, such as building cities and repairing and unblocking ditches, the war slaves in Anxi Protectorate's Office have temporarily rented them to merchants and then distributed them to major workshops.

Whether it is agriculture, animal husbandry, building canal dams, or posts, the soldiers of the Tang army monitored war slaves to build canal dams and posts; the generals seized the inferior horses and retreated for farming...

On December 29, the second year of Kaiyuan, Chen Ying and his party entered Yizhou.

Only then did Li Xiuning realize that she was a little unaware of the Western Regions now.

When we entered Yizhou City, there was a long queue in the city entrance gate. They were all people migrating from the mainland in the wind and snow.

A yamen runner said loudly: "Our Anxi is definitely different from your Liangzhou. If you know how to farm, as long as you are willing to put in your efforts, you will definitely get unexpected gains. Now we have a lot of wasteland in Anxi. Within five years, as long as you report to the government first, you can apply for a piece of unowned wasteland for reclamation. If you have three family members, you can apply for the reclaim of 100 acres of land. As long as you are exempt from taxes in the first three years, taxes within five years, and farming for twenty years, the land use rights here belong to the individual. You can pass on family members or rent them, but buying and selling is prohibited."

Li Xiuning's heart moved and said secretly: "This policy is good, and convection is absolutely attractive."

However, Xie An immediately thought of the difficulties...

Someone happened to ask: "The refugee has already broken his family and has no life. How can he buy seeds? Plowing tools? And cows?"

The yamen runner explained: "You are really worried. Our respected PROP has long thought of this. If you have nothing and it doesn't matter, you can apply for a loan from the government or Tongli Money House. There is an additional condition for borrowing a loan from Tongli Money House, that is, after the grain is harvested, you must sell it to them at a price below the market. You can apply for their interest-free loan at a discount of 1.5% below the market price. Of course, if you think it is not cost-effective, you can sell it to them at a price of one cent per year and at a market price."

When Li Xiuning heard this, she nodded seriously. No matter which method is adopted, the farmers are actually very compatible.

Someone asked again: "What if I borrow money from the government?

The yamen runner said: "The interest rate of the government should be higher, with an annual interest of two cents, and there will be five years to repay, ten years to repay, and twenty years to repay."

"Two cents of interest?" Someone said incrediblely: "How could it be so low?"

No wonder some people are surprised that among the gentry, there are three main items of wealth income, namely land rent, shops and loans. The interest rate at this time is very high. Even those who are more benevolent and righteous, the interest rate they issued is about three cents a year. In other words, if they borrow 100 jin of money, they must pay back 130 jin in a year, and 169 jin in two years, which are all calculated by profit and profit.

The yamen runner said: "Although the interest rate of our government is slightly higher in the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House, it can be used to use labor instead of loans."

"Oh?" Another person asked excitedly: "What is a loan for work?"

The yamen runner said: "In the past, every year when there was a famine, people had to borrow money to survive. Afterwards, due to the high interest rate, they did not have the ability to repay, and countless families were destroyed. Your Majesty knew this truth and ordered the governments in various places to credit according to the regulations. Our Protectorate stipulates that the task credit shall not exceed two cents of the annual interest rate, and those who violate the credit shall be credited to the family property. The lender may refuse to repay. If the people do not have the ability to repay the debt, they can participate in the government's recruitment and use wages to repay the debts when repairing rivers, roads and cities every year."

"So, don't you Anxi people need to perform labor service?"

The yamen runner said: "It doesn't need to be done directly. The Protectorate does not need to handle the engineering projects in our various places, but contracts out and deals with them by contracting them. Such as building roads, building city walls, connecting ditches, etc. Unless during the war, the government has no right to requisition people's power. Your Majesty said that during the war, all the people of the Tang Dynasty must respond to the imperial enlistment unconditionally. Those who shirk their responsibilities through excuses will be punished."

Hearing this, Li Xiuning felt a little incredible.

She couldn't help but speak out: "If the civilians are not recruited, how can the city wall be repaired? Do you need to worry about how the road is repaired?"
Chapter completed!