"As expected, the Eastern Han District is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and everyone wants to compete for the first place."

Chu Tian was slightly shocked. There were many lord players in the Eastern Han District and the competition was extremely fierce.

There are thirteen states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and even the remote areas of Jiaozhou and the Western Regions Protectorate have a large number of lords.

As early as the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had already shouted that princes, generals and ministers should have their own kind. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the generally believed truth is that whoever has the biggest fist has the final say, and he is qualified to compete in the Central Plains.

Moreover, the Eastern Han District is the largest district, and the probability of a big lord appearing is very high.

"Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Guanzhong are excellent horse-producing areas. In these places, the lords have a huge advantage in the early stage."

Chu Tian discovered that half of the top ten lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from states and counties where horses were produced.

These lords should already have a lot of cavalry. The power of cavalry in the cold weapon era is self-evident.

The emergence of the world's No. 1 town in the Donghan District is both a good thing and a bad thing for Chutian. The good side is that the overall strength of the Donghan District has improved, and the bad side is that in the future, "a small soldier at the border in the late Ming Dynasty" may

will become a formidable enemy.

A lord from the Youzhou area occupies the horse-producing land of Liaodong. Once he takes control of the sixteen states of Yanyun, not many princes and lords can stop him after entering the customs.

But Chu Tian was not anxious.

There are so many lords in the early stage, and the gap between the first echelon and the later lords is not obvious.

Summer Village will soon be upgraded to a town.

"My lord, after the population of the village has increased, the amount of farmland has been seriously insufficient. Please order the farmland to be reclaimed. Complete the land reclamation before sowing in October so that there will be enough food next year."

Li Kui, as the pianong officer, interrupted Chu Tian's attention to other lords.

You have to have dreams, but the problem at hand is to eat.

The food problem once again faced Chutian. The existing farmland in Xia Village was insufficient.

“How much gold and silver is needed to clear farmland?”

"There are many plains and wastelands outside the village, so there is no need to acquire land for gold and silver. As for labor, refugees can be used. The reclaimed farmland will be given to them for future cultivation, so there is no need to distribute gold and silver. The only cost is to purchase a batch of axes, hoes, etc.

Iron tools for clearing weeds and trees.”

"It is also necessary to organize villagers to divert water from the Yi River to newly reclaimed farmland and dig water wells. The amount of newly reclaimed farmland should be greater than the required amount to accommodate future population increases. Implementing the rotational farming system also requires more farmland.

Avoid affecting annual production. Half of the farmland is used for production and half of the farmland is used for fallow every year.”

"This is a map I drew recently after surveying the nearby fields. It basically lists the wasteland that can be reclaimed as farmland."

As a pianong officer, Li Kui seemed to be extremely conscientious in his duties. He had already prepared the map without Chu Tian's special instructions.

Chutian took the map and saw that the cultivated farmland outside Xia Village was huge, and there was basically no pressure on land use. It is estimated that the land use issue will become tense only at the city level.

"You should organize villagers who do not have farmland to cultivate new fields. Land belongs to the tiller. In addition, land sales are strictly prohibited for the time being, so that farmers can stay on the land."

Chutian weighed it up and banned land sales in the early stage to ensure that there would be no problem with next year's grain harvest.

"yes."

After answering, Li Kui left and recruited villagers in Xia Village who wanted to farm but did not have farmland to cultivate the land according to the location on the map.

Soon Xiacun implemented an agricultural policy of "land to the tiller".

The ownership of cultivated farmland belongs to the lord's government. If a family cultivates a piece of land for more than five years, it is assumed that this family always has the right to use the land.

As long as this family does not change the use of the farmland, the Lord's Mansion will not transfer the land use rights to other farmers.

About two hundred villagers followed Li Kui to open up wasteland before sowing in October. Carrying hoes, axes, shovels and other iron tools, these villagers were full of enthusiasm and high in fighting spirit.

The newly cultivated farmland will be their own land in the future, so they are naturally interested in it.

Although the ownership of these farmlands is nominally owned by the lord's government, the lord's government only holds the ownership for the purpose of collecting land taxes, prohibiting land sales, and expropriating land with compensation in the future.

Other than that, there is not much difference between these lands and their own.

All in all, as long as farmers pay the land rent on time, they can farm on the land forever.

The population of Xia Village gradually increased to 2,000, and the prosperity of Xia Village also increased due to the opening of new farmland.

As labor input in lumberyards, quarries, and mining sites increased, the scale of these resource buildings also expanded.

Finally, the fourth-level fish market was completed. The prosperity of Xia Village suddenly increased by 50.

The current prosperity of Xiacun is 504 and the population is 2021. Due to the completion of the fourth-level fish market, the prosperity of Xiacun ranks among the top ten villages in Xuzhou.

Conditions such as public sentiment, public security, and special buildings are also basically met.

There is only one condition left: 100 gold.

As a lord, if you don't have enough money, you have only two options: either rob other forces' money or borrow it.

Chutian chose to borrow money. The person he borrowed money from was not anyone else, but the alliance's Xiaozhu Village.

A first-level town can have four vassal village quotas, and Chutian is planning to annex Xiaozhu Village.

If Xia Liang, the village chief of Xiaozhu Village, is unwilling to accept the merger, Chutian can only use force to conquer her. Of course, conquering by force here means sending troops to surround Xiaozhu Village.

With the strength of a group of village warriors from Xiaozhu Village, there is no way they can withstand Xia Cun's battle to destroy the village.

Chutian has already greeted Xia Liang in advance, and the best way is to annex Xiaozhu Village unscathed.

There are many buildings in Xiaozhu Village that are not even found in Xia Village, such as mulberry gardens, trading houses, pawn shops, escort agencies, and textile workshops... These are all buildings that Chu Tian is jealous of.

"Go and invite the village chief of Xiaozhu Village to discuss the merger of the two villages."

Chutian arranged for a small group of cavalry to go to Xiaozhu Village to escort the village chief of Xiaozhu Village.

For such a big matter as the merger of two villages, it would be better to explain it clearly in person.

Can Xiaozhucun come up with such a huge sum of money like one hundred gold?

Chu Tian still had some doubts.

One hundred gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver. In the early stage, few lords could easily lend one hundred gold.

"Can you Xia Cun upgrade to a town if you still lack a hundred gold? If you want, I can bring it to you. But you have to pay it back within one year, and the interest is one-tenth of the principal."

Xia Liang informed Chu Tian in advance.

"no problem."

This guy can really take out a hundred gold.

Chu Tian discovered that the financially minded Xia Liang was simply a cash machine.

You must know that after all players are trapped in "Lord", they cannot use earth coins to exchange for gold and silver. In other words, these one hundred gold are the funds that Xia Liang managed to collect with the help of Xiaozhu Village.

One-tenth of the interest is ten taels of gold, which is completely acceptable to Chu Tian.
Chapter completed!