Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 305: The Qihou Mansion discusses land reclamation!

There are 9000 shock points. The Jiangdong generals and ministers put together more than [-] shock points for Yuan Tan.

This made Yuan Tan couldn't help but look forward to the time when Sun Ce crossed the Yangtze River with soldiers and horses, and when thousands of personal guards wearing Xuzhou armor charged on the Jingxiang Plain.

Liu Biao, who was defeated by the Jiangdong iron cavalry wearing Xuzhou armor, learned that Xuzhou armor was produced in Xuzhou, when he came from Yuan Tan.

How many shock points can you provide yourself?
It's a nice scythe.

There is no end to the leeks that can be cut for yourself.

Yuan Tan smiled and shook his head.

Put these thoughts away for the time being, news has come in from outside the door of the house over there.

Zhuge Jin has already returned, and there are millions of stones and fodder with him.

"Your Majesty, luckily, Brother Zhong Xiang said that he will go to Xuzhou before April."

He didn't just accept his head and bow, but he had to come to Xuzhou to see it first, and then make a decision.

Yuan Tan was not surprised by Yu Fan's response. Most literati of this era were like this, so Yu Fan's performance was not too out of the ordinary.

Instead, Zhuge Jin came back now and solved many troubles for him.

There are more important things waiting for him to do right now.

"The land reclamation plan can start."

At the monthly meeting of the Qihou Mansion, Yuan Tan did his part to sit at the head of the meeting, while the think tank formed by Xun Yu, Chen Deng, and Zhuge Jin took the lead.

Xu Shu, as a long history official, had a salary of [-] shi, so naturally he could not stand on an equal footing with the three of them.

Standing behind Yuan Tan, temporarily playing the role of a clerk, holding a knife and pen in his hand, ready to write at any time.

Regarding the land reclamation, the three of them already knew some plans from Yuan Tan, but they were not comprehensive.

But they all knew that Yuan Tan was gearing up to stay in Xuzhou in order to be able to fight Cao Cao in the Central Plains next year.

But to achieve this goal, it is definitely not enough to count on the current population of 20 households in Xuzhou.

It is imperative to recruit refugees, and when refugees are recruited, they can not only be sent to cultivate wasteland and farmland.

It is also possible to select materials suitable for being a craftsman from among the refugees and send them to the Jiangzuo Academy for study.

At present, Xuzhou is full of waste, and there is a shortage of people everywhere except for the Xuzhou Army. It has not opened up to absorb refugees before.

It's purely because the soldiers and rations can't keep up.

Now that Jiangdong has sent the first batch of millions of grains of grain, these plans can finally be put on the agenda.

"According to statistics from counties in Xuzhou, there are [-] hectares of wasteland that have been abandoned within a year. These [-] hectares must be restored to cultivation within this year."

Zhuge Jin organized the collected data into a document, and Xu Shu distributed it to Yuan Tan and the others.

Wasteland is also graded. The longer the year of abandonment, the harder it is to restore cultivation.

Not only do we need to re-dred the river, but we also need to restore fertility, weeding, etc. These tasks do not take a few years, and it is simply impossible to restore these lands to their original fertility.

Even with Yuan Tan's compost, the land is similar to people, and some injuries cannot be healed by medicine alone.

It takes time to recuperate and recuperate.

Yuan Tan nodded.

Ten thousand hectares, to be precise, is 1 hectares. If it is converted into mu, it is not converted in hundreds as it is now.

One hectare is about fifty mu of land.

The amount of wasteland that can be reclaimed by one person in a year is limited. Even if the wasteland has been abandoned for a year, it is not bad to be able to reclaim [-] mu of land a year.

This can only be done with the assistance of sufficient livestock such as cattle and horses.

Animals and the like can be transferred from Hebei, and they can be paid for with grain and fodder.

Families that have just been hammered by Cheap Daddy should be more than willing to sell these animals.

With the help of Qu Yuanli, it is not a problem for a strong refugee to reclaim half an hectare of land.

But you must know that an adult refugee strongman is definitely not just a single person.

If you bring a family with you, it is equivalent to one family cultivating half a hectare a year. 1 hectares of land requires [-] households.

This translates into 12 or even [-] refugees who need to be recruited.

The food, fodder, livestock, seeds, etc. that need to be spent in the middle need to be paid by the government.

The documents Zhuge Jin brought obviously went through his deliberation, and finally gave a qualified number.

"It takes five shi of corn to resettle a family of refugees. From then on until the fallow of the twelfth lunar month, the government needs to pay a total of [-] shi of corn to support the refugees."

Twenty shi of corn is equivalent to 48 shi of grain. Xuzhou can afford this amount of grain now.

After all, recruiting refugees to reclaim and abandon the land within a year is a sure-fire business.

Even if the fertility declines in one year of abandonment, how can we still be able to produce a stone and a half of rice per mu in two seasons a year.

In the first year for the refugees to reclaim wasteland, all expenses were assisted by the government. Naturally, it is impossible for the people in Xuzhou to enjoy the policy of four publics and six peoples like the current people in Xuzhou.

Eight publics and two citizens is a more reasonable tax.

In this way, 1 hectares and 60 acres of land can produce about 90 shi of corn.

According to this standard, Xuzhou can recover 72 shi of corn from the reclaimed fields at the end of the year, and there will be a balance of 24 shi after deducting expenses.

Coupled with the estimated land tax that Xuzhou currently has, Zhuge Jin said that Xuzhou should be able to store millions of dan of grain by the end of the year.

But this number is far from enough for Yuan Tan.

Now the army spends less than 18 shi per month on food and fodder, but this is on the premise that there is no war!
Once a war starts, the physical exertion of soldiers will increase exponentially or even several times.

It is normal to directly increase the consumption of 18 shi to 50 shi. After all, there is also the consumption of transporting goods in the middle.

Ten stones of grain, transported from the rear to the front line, even if it is only a hundred miles away, will consume one or two stones.

If it is transported to the front line of Xuchang, it is normal to transport ten shi grains to the front line, and only three shi grains and four shi grains are left. After all, the civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers who are transferred also have to eat food.

Everyone wants a wooden cow and a horse, but it's not impossible to get it.

A million stone grains can support the war for at most two months, and these two months also include the time to assemble the army and drive to the front line of Chenliu.

"At least 300 million shi of grain must be stored, and the composting method is imperative. In addition, the fields that have been abandoned for two years must also be reclaimed."

Yuan Tan flipped through Zhuge Jin's summary documents, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then slowly settled on the tone.

There are only 1 hectares of land abandoned within one year, which is too small for Xuzhou, which is not considered vast, but has one state and six counties.

In its heyday, Xuzhou had 12 hectares of cultivated land.

At present, Xuzhou has reclaimed, and there are 1 hectares of land that has not been abandoned, plus the [-] hectares of land that Zhuge Jin plans to reclaim.

Before and after 3 hectares, it is still far from this figure.

But if you count the fields that have been abandoned for less than two years, there are at least [-] hectares that can be reclaimed.

It's just that after hearing the lord's words, Zhuge Jin, who hadn't shown a headache for a long time, said helplessly with a bitter face:

"Your Honor, those fields that have been abandoned for two years, even if they are cultivated, the harvest will not be enough!"

(End of this chapter)