The autumn evening is a little noisy.

Xiao Die had someone bring a chair, sat on it, and waited quietly.

He was born in Nanliangfang of the Xiao family, the son of Xiao, and is currently the magistrate of Fuhan County in Hezhou.

As the seat of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy, the post of Yuhanling had never been given to outsiders. It was either a descendant of the Xiao family or an old official who was a disciple of the Xiao family.

In the third year of Dashun, Xiao Die took office, and it has been two years now.

Panhan County is still accepting immigrants, mainly Guanzhong households. Actually, there are not many, only twenty or thirty households a year.

There was a group of newly arrived people in front of them, from Wugong County, Jingzhao Prefecture, and miscellaneous officials were registering them.

"What's your name?" the envoy asked...

"Niu Dalang."

"No name?"

"That's Cow Dalang."

The envoy was stunned for a moment, but he still finished copying it seriously.

"How old are you?"

"thirty."

"When Jingzhao Mansion sent it, it said you were forty years old, why are you thirty again?"

"That's forty, I can't remember clearly."

The envoy raised his head, looked at him carefully for a long time, and finally wrote "thirty-five" to him.

This kind of situation is so common that he has long been used to it.

The Han people are pretty good, but many Tibetan people have no concept of age at all and are very ignorant.

Last time he registered one and asked him how old he was, the Qiang man said he might be thirty or fifty, which left him at a loss and had to rely on visual inspection, but the error was often very large.

"Don't run away. If you are caught, the fields will be confiscated and distributed to the mines." The messenger warned and went to the next household.

Immigrants who were resettled into households often fled, mostly Tibetan people.

People of the same tribe obviously support each other, form cliques, live together, and run away together. If you want to get information about someone whose whereabouts are unknown, his fellow villagers or people from the same tribe can definitely

Provide the most detailed information.

The main reason why the Tibetan people fled was because they refused to perform military service.

For example, a few months ago Xiao Yu, the military governor of Longyou, ordered 5,000 Tutuan villagers from He, Wei, Lin, Min, and Lan prefectures to march to Qingtang City to cooperate with the cavalry army, Xinquan army, Zhenguo army, and

The Luo, Liang, and Yang tribes suppressed the rebellious Tibetans.

The journey is long and blocked by mountains and rivers. You may die if you go there. The key is that there is no benefit.

But those who run are mainly singles, and those with families and jobs have a harder time.

The second biggest reason for running away is that they don't want to be disciplined, or they are not used to life, and there are many of them.

"What's your name?"

"Lu Rong, eight out of twenty." This is an exiled prisoner from Weizhou.

"Why didn't the family come?"

"I was taken back by my parents' family and I don't want to come."

The envoy noticed that this man was once a soldier, and couldn't help but take a second look. Uncle Wei Bowufu, it's incredible, if he hadn't offended someone, he would still be a popular drinker in his hometown.

"Don't run away, I'll catch you"

"I know." Lu Rong replied impatiently.

The envoy glared at him. It seemed that this guy didn't understand his situation. He was used to being a government soldier, right?

But he had a good heart. Although Lu Rong was ungrateful and looked like he was giving up on himself, he still said seriously: "Just settle down and live in peace. There is no shortage of women here. The forty-year-old widower has several children after he came.

"

Lu Rong was stunned for a moment and curled his lips, but finally said thank you.

"What's your name?" This is a Tibetan man, and he is still wearing shackles, which is relatively rare.

I don’t know what language the other party spoke, and the little messenger didn’t understand.

A driving officer came forward, talked to the man in native language, and then said: "The native regiment soldiers from Fengxiang Town went to Xingzhou to fight against grass thieves. Someone told him on the way that the first group of soldiers who went there died.

When he was naked, he ran away. Later, he planned to be sent to Tangzhou as a surprise general, but it happened that the commander-in-chief issued an order prohibiting criminals from joining the army, so he was sent here."

The envoy then understood and said: "I have worked hard in the forest farm for ten years, and I still owe fifty lashes. After the beating, I will send him to the forest farm."

Soon, several state soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers came forward and began to execute him in front of everyone.

The screams of agony shook the sky and the earth, and it was not until fifty lashes were given that he was dragged away and placed in a safe place.

Xiao Die watched for a long time, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he got up and left.

Receiving immigrants is a routine task for the Hewei states. The household registration register must be re-edited almost every few years, which is a huge workload.

The return journey is not very far and the scenery is very pleasant.

Xiao Die is a very "enthusiastic" pastoral poet. Although his poetry writing skills are average, he just likes to appreciate the countryside scenery, especially the slightly wild and unrestrained countryside like Hewei Countryside.

The flat valleys on both sides of the Daxia River are densely covered with farmland.

There is no trace of the old battlefield ten years ago. The common people are scattered among them, using their hard-working hands to strictly implement the new agricultural farming methods. In the past ten years, the livestock excrement, burning plant ashes and repeated planting of leguminous crops have extremely

The soil has been greatly improved, and there is almost no so-called barren land left. During Shao Shude's expedition to Lanzhou, he sent troops to secretly cross the Daxia River, defeat Tubo, and behead more than 2,000 people. This was the most critical battle to pacify Hezhou.

Hezhou governs the three counties of Panghan, Fenglin, and Daxia. In the fourth year of Dashun, the number of households was very close to 10,000, with more than 52,000 people, exceeding the household registration in Tianbao.

It’s just that the culture and education are not as strong as that! Xiao Die sighed. There are too many Qiang and Hu species among the more than 50,000 people now, and it can even be said to exceed the number of Han people. After nearly ten years of education, the results can only be said to be passable.

keep it up.

A melodious bell rang in the distance.

Xiao Die, who was riding on horseback, was looking for a place to look. Amidst the lush greenery, a Buddhist temple built against the mountain was vaguely visible.

The name of this temple is "Kaiyuan", which is the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the Xuanzong Dynasty that ordered all states in the world to build Kaiyuan Temple. After Hezhou fell to Tibet, the Tubo people did not think much of this temple because they were also fanatical about Buddha, but

The Kaiyuan Temple in Hezhou gradually fell into disrepair. The main reason was that a large number of people died or fled, making it difficult to maintain the temple.

After Xiao Yu left the town of Hezhou, he allocated funds to rebuild the temple, invited masters from Chang'an, opened a forum to teach the Dharma, and recruited many disciples.

It has to be said that Kaiyuan Temple still plays a considerable role in this area of ​​Pohan County. Both Tibetan and Han people like to go to this temple to pray for blessings. During important festivals, a market will be formed here.

There are many monk fields in Kaiyuan Temple, which are leased to the relocated Qiang people for farming.

The Qiang people are half-farmers and half-grazers, and their farming techniques are very crude.

Xiao Die once heard from his uncle Xiao Tao that when they left the town of Longyou at the end of the third year of Guangqi (887), the Tibetan people just stared at a piece of land and worked hard to plant barley or wheat, year after year, until the land was completely exhausted.

Then the land was abandoned and left uncultivated for five or six years, slowly growing overgrown with weeds, and the cycle started over and over again.

What is this called? This is called nomadic farming, which is different from nomadic herding, but not that big.

In fact, although Han people do not cultivate farmland, they still focus on planting a piece of land. Although there are some measures to fertilize the land, it is still not very effective. The yield per mu has never been increased. The largest number of middle fields has always hovered around the line of one dendrobium per mu.

After Longyou Town implemented the three-crop rotation system, the situation has greatly improved, and it is different here from Lingzhou. One acre of land over there is planted with alfalfa fertilizer this year, soybean fertilizer the second year, and wheat here.

It was alfalfa for two consecutive years, soybeans for two consecutive years, and wheat for two consecutive years. It was more worry-free and the yield was about the same. When Xia Wang first proposed this farming system, he probably didn't expect that the people would improve it themselves.

But it can only be planted for two consecutive years. Continuously planting millet and wheat will make the ground overgrown with weeds. If you don't spend effort to pull out the weeds, then the millet and wheat will not grow at all, which will undoubtedly cost a lot of manpower.

If you have little land at home, pulling weeds can be tolerated. For example, in the Jiangnan area, the average household has only a few acres to more than ten acres. The people have invested a lot of energy in intensive cultivation and carefully cared for the farmland, and they have achieved relatively high yields.

However, the land owned by a household in the Helong area is basically about 60 acres, and they have to take care of livestock, making it impossible to cultivate intensively, so crop rotation is very important.

Another variation is within four years: a rotation of spring wheat-winter turnip-spring soybeans-short-growing period cereals (such as mung beans)-Dawan alfalfa-winter wheat-coarse cereals. This efficiency seems to be higher.

There are so many tricks created by the common people, which are amazing. You just need to tell them the secrets of fertile fields of alfalfa and soybeans, and then use a large amount of livestock manure, and they will naturally know how to arrange the planting of crops.

The green and black city walls of Panhan County are clearly visible, and the nearby villages and people are gradually becoming denser.

Farmers and peasant women were in the fields, cutting down the neat wheat and placing it on the ridges, while the children were responsible for binding it.

In the alfalfa field separated by a ridge, the sheep grew fat and strong, almost as much as the smaller dolphins and pigs.

Xiao Die stopped and took a look.

Part of this year's autumn tax will be offset by sheep. According to the order of the Longyou shogunate, 40,000 sheep will be selected from Pohan County and sent to Huizhou.

Of course, it’s not Huizhou that needs sheep. In fact, Meng and Huaizhou need sheep. Huizhou itself is a large pasture. After the local sheep are sent to Heyang via Guanzhong, they supplement the sheep sent from Longyou Town to maintain the number of sheep.

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It is the eighth consecutive year of peace, and it seems that there are still many more eight years to go. Nearly half a million people in 32 counties in ten prefectures in Longyou have actually lived a peaceful life for eight years in this troubled world, and have accumulated a lot of wealth.

considerable.

During the prosperous age of Kaiyuan, people could have enough grain to sustain their lives for one year after farming for three consecutive years. How many years of grain surplus are there in the warehouses in the Hewei states now?

Such a solid foundation was the main reason why King Xia dared to act more and more fiercely in Qingtang.
To be continued...