The local officials in the Song Dynasty were no longer more diligent when they were driven by the Sansi by whip. The censors who supervised all the officials did not have this majesty, and often even did not have the efficiency of the Sansi. The monster of the Sansi not only took the world's wealth, but also relied on the assessment of money and grain to control the promotion of local officials. As long as the local officials who pursued a little, they all regarded the requirements of the Sansi as the top priority of their work.

Xu Ping's memorial to recruit households from Fujian Road to Yongzhou to plant sugarcane for a few months. The Secretariat forwarded his request to Fujian Road Transportation Envoy and the following states. In a few months, fifty or sixty people were gathered together. Xu Ping saw that these people were old, weak, and even half of them were urban poor, and the enthusiasm in his heart was almost completely extinguished.

When the sugar transported from Yongzhou was sold, the statistics suddenly changed as Xu Ping's detailed account book of sugar made by the Sansi envoy was placed on the desk of the Sansi envoy. In the name of Sansi, there must be 3,000 people to Yongzhou before the end of March. The Sansi envoy's writing is different from other yamen. Each state has specific numbers and corresponding rewards, and even the application form has a strict format, and no word is wrong. The rewards for each state to complete the number, from the first rank of the official position to reduce the grinding survey for two years, the punishment for failure ranges from five years to one year, clear and clear. When rewards are achieved, they cannot be punished. The Sansi always does things so coldly, without any flower heads, which makes local officials love and hate them.

On March 26, 2,865 people had already reported to Xu Ping. After Xu Ping was over, he wanted to sign and seal the industry of the states on Fujian Road that followed him. Each state returned the numbers to the three departments with Xu Ping's signature and received their own rewards and punishments.

When starting from Fujian, the number of people exceeded 3,000. Such long journeys will inevitably lead to population loss. There are only so many people left in Yongzhou. The numbers set by Sansi will not be discounted. The states with fewer people will still have to make up for the number of people next month.

Xu Ping likes this kind of efficiency, but as a local official, he also knows clearly what is behind this efficiency. In Fujian provinces, for these 3,000 people, I don’t know how many families are crying and how many local officials are cursing. This matter in the historian’s writing may be recorded as his black spot. But what can I do? A clever wife cannot cook without rice. No one can do anything, so I can only subconsciously not think about those things.

After signing the last Shaowu Army's conduct, Xu Ping handed it over to Deng Xingshi, who was accompanying him to give it to him: "Teng Dujian worked hard all the way, I have some gifts here, you can take it back to the governors."

Deng Xingshi smiled bitterly: "Thank you, the judge. I just hope to find someone else to do this next time."

Xu Ping looked at Deng Xingshi and knew that the Quanzhou governor must have scolded him in his heart. In order to create political achievements for himself, he should not scold him.

After a long silence, Xu Ping asked again: "Mainland Supervisor, how many people fled on the road and how many died of illness? Is there a list where you have?"

"Why did the judge ask this? After I go back, the states will naturally make up for the missing people!"

Deng Xingshi looked alert and even a little angry. He didn't know how to explain it when he went back, so he only asked him to imprison him, but did not explain clearly what the number of people was missing on the way. According to Xu Ping's opinion, could he be held accountable here? The Yongzhou Tongzong could not take charge of his Quanzhou Chief Superintendent.

Xu Ping seemed to be unable to hear what Deng Xing meant, and sighed: "If the fleeing person doesn't want to talk about him, the one who died of illness finally embarked on the way to Yongzhou. I must not ignore it. If there is a list of the municipal government, Yongzhou will subsidize them for ten-tenths of money each. It is best to collect the body and not die in a foreign land. Let the rest give it to their families."

Deng Xingshi's expression calmed down when he heard this. Although the money could not be bought back, he always gave an explanation when he went back. He bowed to Xu Ping and said, "The magistrate is kind, and he is determined to understand. However, it still needs to be discussed how to do things. Fujian is narrow and densely populated, and sometimes life is not worth a lot of money. If you give your family ten points of money, you may not be sure of all the vicious people who will deliberately die and extort the money on the way."

"No way? It's just ten cents of money!" Xu Ping was shocked. He could not have thought of going up here.

Deng Xingshi just smiled bitterly and couldn't tell Xu Ping.

Fujian is no longer as good as other places in the Song Dynasty. It has not been war-torn for many years, and the population is very prosperous. Most of them are in mountainous areas. The land cannot carry so many people. People can do anything without enough food. A local evil deed is repeatedly banned. Often, some people get hidden diseases and take poison to the door of wealthy families and fall to death. This kind of thing is hard to explain. People who meet have to admit that they are unlucky and spend money to eliminate disasters. Even if the two families have enemies, they will directly let healthy people die at the door of enemies. No one knows whether the unknown officials are fooled.

Xu Ping went out for a reward of ten pounds like this, and many of the people who sent him next time were probably hiding a secret disease. Anyway, he would die sooner or later. He would just end his life on the way and earn some money for his family.

He would not interfere with things he didn't know. Xu Ping stopped asking and said to Deng Xingshi: "Since the magistrate said this, I will exchange the money for gold and silver for you to take it back. He will collect the body. How to divide the remaining money when you arrive at the place will be decided by the leaders of various places."

Xu Ping said at the beginning that he had enough money. One was because of his habit of flying in his previous life, and he always felt that saving worries was a bit lie. The other was also left room for the officials to do things, which was a kind of compensation. Since he had thought about it from the beginning, he simply handed over the distributed power to the local officials. As for the exchange for gold and silver, it was because it was inconvenient to carry copper coins. Although the copper coins were not taxed at this time, the freight was not cheap.

After everything was explained, Deng Xingshi stood up and said goodbye. He was not at all comfortable with this job, and he ended early and was relieved early, and had no intention of staying in Xu Ping.

Seeing Deng Xingshi away, Xu Ping stood on the mountain bag and looked not far away. Duan Fang and Tan Hu, the officials and soldiers were arranging temporary accommodation for the newcomers, and the long-term housing had to be built by them.

The three departments sent people to Xu Ping, and the rules also changed accordingly. Originally, the performance of officials in the Song Dynasty either took the fixed ancestral quota or compared with last year. Every 10% increased was counted as a level. The three departments gave Xu Ping the standard of sugar quota here, which was directly doubled to two million kilograms next year, and then every 10% increased was counted as a level.

Although there are people, the land needs to be reclaimed and the scale of sugar pressing needs to be expanded, Xu Ping still has a lot of chores. If he backfired and made such a big deal, the sugar quota would not be completed next year, Xu Ping would have trouble.

Looking at the large plains with small hills rising from time to time, Xu Ping sighed again. Not only did he have to plant sugarcane and squeeze sugar, he also had to direct the land to grow grain, and at least he had to feed the people here.

Xu Ping has already counted the yield of various crops by his subordinates. The corn yield, which was originally expected, was disappointing. The yield per mu was only 1120 kilograms, the rice was less than 250 kilograms, the beans such as soybeans and 80 kilograms, and the millet was 60 kilograms. He always believed that sweet potatoes, which were high-yield crops, were only 700 kilograms per mu, which was far from his impression in his previous life. The so-called high-yield crops were all piled up with water and fertilizer. It was a joke to say that high-yield crops in this era, and the differences caused by crop varieties were not worth mentioning at all compared to the differences in ground abilities.

Only sugarcane is worthy of being a cheating crop, with low requirements for ground abilities, and the yield per mu can reach 3,000 kilograms, which is an amazing number to convert into money. The disadvantage of sugarcane is that it requires a lot of manpower. In this era, manpower is not valuable, so you can try your best to pile up. A large increase in sugar yield will inevitably lead to a price drop. However, with the nature of Sansi, this process will be delayed for many years. They use this trick more skillful than anyone else. If they don’t get the heavens and people complain about Sansi, they will not give up the benefits they get.

The current Sansi envoy is Kou Yu, whose courtesy name is Cigong, and he was from Ruzhou. He was born as a Jinshi. However, in the officialdom, Kou Yu is most famous for being beautiful. Xu Ping has never seen him. However, everyone says that, you can imagine that this person is a rare handsome guy.

A good-looking man may not be as easy to talk like a woman. Kou Yu is very talented. He serves as an official in Sichuan and Sichuan, and has achieved political achievements in governing the people within. However, he is very strict with his subordinates and cannot satisfy his work. He is punished severely. Such a person, coupled with his early years, he relies on Ding Wei, and now many people have turned over his old accounts. Secretary Peng Qi also wrote a special article "The Lost Dog" to mock him. You can imagine his current mood. He can continue to sit in the position of the Three Secretary to the real power because the emperor valued his ability and did not pursue his past affairs. Kou Yu himself also understood that he was eager to make political achievements to show others, so he was so concerned about helping Xu Ping recruit people to Yongzhou. Such a person, he would not sell the sugar that had increased tenfold to ten times.

Xu Ping can ignore the matter of sugar, he just needs to make it. There are naturally three departments concerned about how to sell it. His most urgent thing now is to ensure sufficient food supply. There are not many food choices, and the most practical thing is to boil paddy fields and grow rice.

There is a lot of rainfall in Yongzhou, but the geology does not retain water and leaks severely. To expand the rice planting area, water conservancy needs to be built. A dam is a large rice field.

What is needed to build water conservancy?

Xu Ping couldn't help laughing at himself. Unexpectedly, when he came to this place, he discovered the importance of cement. Xu Ping originally thought that cement was used to build roads, but in this era there were no pneumatic tires and no heavy trucks, so cement roads were not necessary, so he never wanted to take that effort. When things came, he realized that he was wrong. The first important thing about cement was to build water conservancy, and paving roads was dispensable. With water conservancy facilities, there were paddy fields, rice could be grown, and sufficient food was available.

Fortunately, there is a lot of limestone in Yongzhou and there is no shortage of loess, so the conditions for firing cement are better than those in the capital.

The mountains in the distance are undulating, and the fog is steaming all year round. The sultry and humid weather has arrived again, but the bamboo forest and banana trees are growing tenaciously and more lushly, forming dazzling greens.

Xu Ping was a little dazed. During those free and easy days in the Central Plains, he never thought of making money from industrial knowledge in his previous life. Unexpectedly, when he came to the southern border of Lingnan, the situation forced himself to build a small industrial base here.

Reality is always not the same lane as ideal, and you like to joke with yourself mischievously outside the lane you have planned, and watch yourself chasing behind it happily.

Ps: The crop yield is based on the statistics before the liberation of the Fusui County Chronicle, which should not be much different from the actual situation. Corn is very dependent on water. The yield in the south is like this and even worse in the north. In fact, it can only be used as crops for small plots of land that are inconvenient to cultivate, and cannot replace local rice and wheat. The actual situation in history is also the same. Only after the development of industry can it be promoted on a large scale, and most of the crops from other Americas can be used as supplements. The pre-industrial era can only be used as a supplement. The two-season rice was not selected and successfully bred until the Qing Dynasty and widely promoted. At this time, even Guangdong and Guangxi could only use other crops to rotate. In fact, until the Republic of China, the number of replanting in southern Jiangsu, China's most developed agriculture was less than one, and today's China is close to 1.6, and the United States is less than 1.6, which is the time land in the book.
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