After hearing what Bao Zheng said, Xu Ping sighed: "I always thought that the land here is barren and there is not much production, but I didn't expect that so much wealth was buried under the ground. Unfortunately, there are not many households here and there are insufficient labor. I have to wait for some time to open it and mint it."

Bao Zheng said: "There is a convenient way to cast money, but hesitated in his heart and had not reported to the Protector yet."

"What's the point? Let's listen. Crushing copper coins nearby is an emergency measure. If it delays for a long time, it will be useless to mint money again. The faster the money is, the better."

Bao Zheng bowed and said, "A few days ago, I went to Sangduzhi where I saw a man who specialized in selling horse meat and mule meat from the Fan Realm, named Kang Dog Dog. He said that because the thieves have been strict recently, his business is not as good as before, and he intends to smuggle some bronzes and silvers from the Fan Realm to the territory. I think the Fan Realm is barren, and there are many bronzes from the whereabouts, so he did not reply to him for a while."

After hearing this, Xu Ping thought for a while and smiled, "I know where he was going to steal bronze ware. This is a habitual thief. You are an honest gentleman. I can't expect that it's understandable. Kang Dog's business has been doing well, but the business has been bad recently. He saw another way to make a fortune and was itchy if he didn't make a fortune."

Bao Zheng was stunned for a moment and said, "I have been in Huizhou for some time. I have heard it in my ears and seen it. It is really much worse than the Central Plains. I think this is the case in the foreign realm. If the households have no money, how can there be bronze and silver ware?"

"There are no other places, but there are in temples! The people of the foreign people value Buddhas, and they often donate their families. No matter how poor the family is, the temples are magnificent. No matter how small the temples are, there are still a few golden Buddhas? In the past few months, the dog has done all the bad things in the foreign world. It is very common to keep an eye on the Buddha statues in the temple. He has made great money and must have wanted to recruit soldiers and horses."

Bao Zheng then suddenly realized what the bronze ware was talking about by the guy with a thief-eyed look. Dangxiang, Tubo and Qiang tribes of the same origin and species, and even the customs were similar. They worshiped Buddhas and were sincere. There were many temples in the country. If the temple was of high quality, there were several golden Buddhas to support the scene. Of course, the golden Buddha could not be gold, most of them were made of copper. Kang Gou Gou didn't know how to find out about Huizhou to cast copper coins, so he deliberately came to Bao Zheng to release the wind and wanted to strip the bronze Buddha in the temple for money.

Since joining the line of Tan Hu, Kang Dog has been doing well. The area of ​​the Xishou Military Supervisory Office has been in a panic recently. In order to prevent the large livestock from being destroyed, mules, horses and camels were numbered together, and a large group of people gathered together to take care of them. Even so, he could not prevent Kang Dog. He first tried to steal the hoofs of the big livestock he was targeting, and then colluded with the people in charge that the livestock was broken. After slaughtering, he sold the meat again and made a fortune. After all, it was because of the collapse of the Dangxiang economy, and the foreign soldiers in this area were so poor that Kang Dog was willing to spend money, so people helped him do everything.

If we directly surrender to Song, there are psychological barriers for many foreign soldiers and generals. We are at ease to help Kang Gou Do these things. They rely on the mountains to eat, so what do they eat without eating military supplies? Kang Gou Dog's line has developed to the level of the governor, and the Xishou Military Supervisor Department has no choice but to do anything to him. Now he turns a blind eye, pretends to be confused, and everyone is just making a fortune together.

But the Tiandu Mountain South Courtyard where Yuan Hao was in charge did not go so smoothly. The treatment there was good and strict management. Kang Gougou had no place to do it, and he was so angry that he couldn't make up the Buddha statue and started another way to make money.

After hearing Xu Ping's words, Bao Zheng shook his head helplessly: "Xiaguan first came to Huizhou, but he didn't want to have this way. However, if this matter is spread, we indulge in stealing Buddha statues, which will cause people to fall into the hearts of the people. Protectors, don't know if they should do it?"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Tell Gougoo that bronze ware can be collected, and large pieces of copper can be collected, but the bronze statues are not collected. How can he transport them to sell them after melting them? What does it have to do with us? Nowadays, just cast a batch of money first."

Bao Zheng bowed his promise and thought about how to proceed with this matter. He lived a very good mind. In history, he was chasing the powerful and fiercely chasing the powerful, but he was not pedantic about such things. There were no such things in the two countries when they had so many wars.

After lunch and was about to leave, Xu Ping felt aroused, called the magistrate over and asked him: "Where are you from? Where did you do things before coming here to open up the land?"

The supervisor said: "Go back to the arch-protector, the young man was originally from Caizhou, and he recruited him when he set up a camp and field affairs in the west of Beijing. Because his boss thought the young man was honest and reliable, he followed him to the northwest. Before coming here, he worked in the camp and field affairs in Qinghe County."

"That's the expert in farming. If you look at it, are the fields here too barren?"

"Returning to the capital, according to the years of farming, this river beach is not considered barren. It is not far from the river, with deep soil, flat and water-deficient. However, the land lacks maintenance, and it is all raw land and lacks fertility. After it is opened, it is afraid that it will not produce much grain. If it can be carefully maintained for several years, it will become a good land."

Xu Ping nodded, knowing the meaning of being an official. The rivers and beaches in this area are allocated loess. In the words of his previous life, the soil base was good, but it lacked humus, resulting in insufficient fertility. If it had been planted for many years, the raw soil became mature fields, and the fertility increased, and with good irrigation conditions, it could still be a good land.

The supervisor was afraid that Xu Ping would not understand, and said, "The young ones turned around and saw that some places had retained the mature soil that our ancestors had cultivated for some reason. The land was quite good, not weaker than the land that had been cultivated by generations near Qinzhou. However, because of the long-term failure to cultivate, the silt and the mature fields became raw soil, and it was not suitable for growing crops for a while."

Since the Han Dynasty, we have been farming here, which was originally a mature field. However, later it became a foreign land, and the habit of production changed. Farming became nomadic, and mature fields were gradually abandoned. In addition, the silt accumulation of silt, it became what it is now. The land needs to be maintained, especially in this arid areas. Without dozens or even hundreds of years of maintenance, the grain is produced. It seems that the soil layer is deep, but in fact there is no nutrient in the ground and no grain is grown.

Including here, including the Hetao area in later generations, the fertile land has been accumulated over the years, and generations have continuously planted grain, applied manure, and the role of the plants themselves, which has cultivated the barren land into fertile soil. As the Han people who farmed here left and were even killed, the fertile land was deserted and turned back to its former state. I don’t know how many generations of efforts it would take.

Based on the farming conditions of this era, it is incorrect to believe that farming will lead to fertility loss. In fact, careful cultivation will form an artificial soil layer suitable for crop growth on the upper part of the original soil layer. The yield per mu of fields with this soil layer will be several times that of other lands. Such land is the capital for the farming nation to settle down.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to the official in charge: "There are many watery and barren areas, and it is much better to grow rice than wheat. You can open more ditches and try not to grow wheat in places where you can grow rice. In the past two years, there are many large troops stationed here, and there are also manure. I will take care of the army and pay attention to accumulating manure and send it to the field for you to farm. Everything in the world is the most difficult at the beginning. You should pay more attention to the land here and raise the land here again. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people and benefit the descendants."

The chief official crossed his hands and agreed, and then he remembered that this guru started his business by farming.

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