Chapter 639 Farming and Office
Throughout August, there was only one thing in Henan, and that was the autumn harvest.
Shao Xun took his eldest son Jin Dao, his second son Badger Lang, and a group of soldiers to harvest in the fields.
There is a large wasteland to the north of Shahai, part of which was taken over by Yang Xianrong, and manpower was deployed from Guangchengze to plant pasture and raise livestock; the other part was used as Shitian and Lutian, because there was no There were enough manpower for farming, and most of them were used to graze horses. Only a few hundred hectares of grains were planted, and it was now harvest time.
The sharp sickle flew up and down, cutting the bundles of soybeans to the ground.
The two children followed their father, carefully picking up the pods and peas that had been left on the ground.
Shao Xun said while harvesting: "There are treasures at the roots of this thing, which can fertilize the fields. Remember it."
"Oh." Jin Dao and Badger Lang responded.
Shao Xun smiled and continued harvesting.
He remembered that when soybeans were harvested in rural areas in later generations, most of them did not wait until they were fully mature. Instead, they uprooted the green beans while they were still green and used them as edamame for cooking. After all, this is the age of chemical fertilizers, so the nitrogen-fixing role of soybean roots is not very important. In addition, not many are planted, and they are eaten as they are pulled out. By the time the soybeans are fully mature, there are often not a few left.
But in this era, the nitrogen-fixing role of crops, including legumes, is critical. The roots are usually left in the ground and turned over after harvesting, allowing them to slowly decay and decompose.
The main reason I brought my sons with me today is to let them experience the difficulties of being a farmer. So that when you are in power in the future, you will not know what to do and cause trouble - all of which are to squeeze the people, but there are often two results between knowing and not knowing.
"Eldest brother, second brother, drink water." Fu Bao came bounding over, handed a water bag to Jin Dao and Badger Lang, and then looked at them with a smile.
The brothers thanked each other profusely and started drinking.
The two of them were originally very alienated from this new sister, but Fu Bao didn't recognize strangers at all and became familiar with them, so they quickly got along with each other.
"Master, drink water." Fu Bao took another water bag from the soldier and handed it to Shao Xun.
Shao Xun was elated, this little cotton-padded jacket did not leak at all.
Fu Bao’s birth was originally an accident. Now it seems that it was a surprise sent to him by God. Shao Xun liked it very much. In just a few days, he had already rewarded her with many things.
Her little mouth not only deceived her father, but even her grandparents were coaxed into confusion and were rewarded constantly.
Fu Bao put the treasures he got in his small box, which was almost full. He heard that he was already looking for a second box.
I don’t know what it will be like when I grow up in the future.
Ms. Liu also came over, sitting in the carriage, opening the curtain and looking this way.
Shao Xun waved his hand.
Because Yu Wenjun is pregnant, he has been accompanying Ms. Liu these days, mainly to comfort her.
Cuddle up together at night, talk about things from the past, and talk about love. Without doing anything, she slowly adjusted her mood.
Shao Xun is a scumbag, but he is not heartless. When a woman loses her son and is in a gloomy mood, it would be unreasonable to ignore the situation.
After drinking the water, we continued harvesting. We were busy until the sun was getting darker, and then we stopped and rested among the woods by the river not far away.
Xiang Guo Yu Chen took advantage of the opportunity and came over with Liang Guoshi Zhong Yangman, Lieutenant Chen Yougen, Cao Shangshu Cai Cheng (formerly the prefect of Wei County), and Yushi Zhongcheng Cui Yu to report on the work.
Shao Xun waved and asked his two sons to come over and listen.
Yu Chen looked at Jin Dao and Badger Lang and greeted them with a smile.
Yang Man took a peek at Yu Chen's face.
Chen Yougen and Cai Chengze looked curious but indifferent. They are both descendants of Liang Gong. What is the difference?
After the second child arrived, Yu Chen signaled. Chen Yougen came first and reported: "Ming Gong, former army general Li Chong reported that Xiongnu cavalry broke into Jizhou and plundered everywhere. The people could not bear the disturbance. The autumn harvest has been greatly affected. Please send troops to Changshan, Zhongshan and Zhao counties.” It is normal to have one of the four generals on the front, left, and right.
After July, he took charge of Zhao County as a general of the former army, controlling the troops and horses of the counties and states in the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain.
The lieutenant Chen Yougen serves is one of the six ministers of the Liang Kingdom. He is in charge of the recruitment, training, and deployment of soldiers, but he has no command or logistics rights.
In addition to the generals of the front army, the general of the left army Wang Queer, the general of the right army Jin Zheng, and the general of the rear army were given to Hou Feihu.
Liang State currently only has these four generals, and they will slowly add more generals later.
After hearing what Chen Yougen said, Shao Xun thought for a while and asked, "Are the Yi Congjun families still scattered in Guangchengze, Xiangcheng, and Xuchang?"
"Exactly." Chen Yougen replied road.
"Wei Commandery experienced many wars and the household registration was not abundant. It took two years to move Yi Congjun and his family to Liyang, grant land and buy a house." Shao Xun said: "What Li Zhong asked for is correct. Three thousand people were transferred. Ride north and give it to him."
After saying that, he looked at Yu Chen.
Yu Chen responded immediately.
In front of the "founding emperor", the Prime Minister actually did not have much power at all. Because the founding emperor was so prestigious and capable, he also liked to care about all aspects of affairs, and even directly intervened, intentionally or unintentionally eroding the power of the prime minister.
But Yu Chen has a good attitude. Even if Liang Gong bypasses him and directly gives orders to the ministers and generals below, he has no objection - what objection can he have? So what if I have an opinion?
After Chen Yougen retired, Cao Cheng, the Minister of Cao in the palace, came up and said: "There are many soldiers in the palace, and there are many people who need to be replaced."
After Cai Cheng was transferred back, he immediately He was awarded the title of Chief Cao in the Palace, one of the six Cao Cao, and was in charge of the palace's forbidden troops, rituals, and treasury.
To put it simply, he manages the palace guards, honor guards, traveling carriages, treasury, etc.
He just said that there were "a lot of guardsmen" in the palace. He was being polite. In fact, there were almost none. Lao Cai was the bare commander. At present, Liang Palace only has one Fangzhou Pavilion and more than 20 buildings have been completed. Huang Nu Palace and Guanfeng Palace are still under construction, and the ancestral temple is even in the preparation stage.
Shao Xun felt that this matter was not urgent. Until now, he has always used his own soldiers as bodyguards.
But Cai Cheng brought it up today and thought it would be better to be more regulated. After all, the pro-army is actually a field army, not a gatekeeper, so he said: "Children of the four armies of Congfu soldiers, Yinqiang, Heijin, and Yicong. Let’s make a selection. We’ll discuss the position later.”
“Yes,” Cai Cheng slowly stepped back.
Next is Cui Yu, the censor Zhongcheng.
"Ming Gong, the supervisory censors are ready and can inspect the counties." Cui Yu said.
"Then let's go on an external tour. We will go to Hebei in groups of two and inspect the three counties of Ji, Wei and Dunqiu. If any officials do anything illegal, report it immediately." Shao Xun said.
The official position of Yushi Zhongcheng has long been held, and he is the deputy to the Yushi doctor.
At this point, his power has been reduced, and he can only correct trivial matters such as the etiquette of officials in Beijing.
Shao Xun ordered the establishment of a supervisory censor to regularly inspect the ten counties of Liang State and impeach officials for illegal activities. Cui Yu was responsible for this aspect.
In fact, Shao Xun wanted Pei Xian to do this.
Pei Jingsi's practical ability is a mess, but he is an honest official, his family has no money, and his moral level is very high - he can't do things, but he can find faults!
Unfortunately, Pei Xian is still in Youzhou. Let's wait a little longer. It will be more appropriate to transfer him back next year.
When seeing Cui Yu, Shao Xun thought of Wang Jun's wife Cui.
This woman is now placed in Junyi County by him. To be honest, Shao Xun didn't like her green tea attributes very much, but he didn't know why. Every time he saw Cui, he felt a little angry or impulsive, and wanted to severely punish and ravage this woman.
A few days ago, when I visited the counties of Chenliu and stayed in Junyi, I crawled on Ms. Cui’s body all night. I regretted it greatly at dawn, and I was fooled again!
Thinking about it carefully, it was probably because Mr. Cui liked to pretend to be frightened and frightened, and kept begging in the middle, and his mouth was full of literate tiger and wolf words, which made him more and more excited.
Damn it, never look for her again next time - just next time.
After Cui Yu finished his report, the servant Yangman came forward and said: "Ming Gong, King Langya sent people to float across the sea to Qingzhou. The envoy arrived in July and has not left yet. It is rumored that he will be entrusted with the title of "Ming Gong". Dongguan County Governor, Qingzhou Mu.”
“Is it reliable?” Shao Xun asked.
“It’s most likely coming from the other side of Mount Tai.” Yang Man said.
Shao Xun believed it.
When it comes to intelligence these days, the aristocratic families are still the most powerful because of their powerful network of connections.
As the Lord, if you want to establish an intelligence organization, you have to rely on them, using local people or even people from aristocratic families.
Sending intelligence officers from the central government to other places, stop talking nonsense, it is simply unrealistic. I don’t know which Wubao manor will be captured and used as a slave on the way.
The cost of sending a large team of troops would be very high, and it would be too public and not conducive to spying on intelligence.
The assassination governor of Shao Xun's brother Shao Fan currently has a very limited scope of activities, mainly in the western Henan, Chenjun, and large cities such as Luoyang, Xuchang, and Yecheng.
Beyond this range, it is basically inoperable, the loss of personnel is very serious, the cost has increased sharply, and there is not much valuable intelligence that can be detected.
In ancient times, when princes were fighting for hegemony, if something happened to one side, the other side would not know until a long time later. Do you really think they are imbecile? Don’t you know how to set up a detailed organization to spy on intelligence? The social environment is different!
It is difficult to recruit people, difficult to spy, difficult to deliver...
But it is much easier to rely on the big families. They get more information than you do, and they are more advanced because they have access to decision-making. layer.
If the value of the information is high enough, they will even send their core disciples, guarded by Bunqu Zhuangke, to deliver it in person - of course, there is no need to do this if it is a trivial matter, as the cost is too high.
If Taiyangshi said this happened, then it really happened and it couldn’t be false.
“Order: Hu Wufu, the general’s minister, offered wine in the West Pavilion and went to Xuzhou to urge Mi Huang and Liu Chou to stock up on money, grain, and weapons. After the autumn harvest, young men were recruited and trained strictly.”
"The general's right Sima Yangchen went to Mount Tai and took charge of the military and civilian affairs of the six counties of Taishan, Lu, Jibei, Leling, Pingyuan, and Qinghe. He stocked up on grain and grass and trained soldiers."
"Dragon" Xiang served as Zhonglang Xi Jian to Gaoping, supervising the training of the soldiers in autumn and winter, and inventorying the arsenal. "
"The general's office set up a foreign soldier Cao, and Liu Ling was appointed as a foreign soldier, and he set up in Jibei to lure Cao Cao. Yi party members."
"The Luoyan Army replenished its personnel and equipment as soon as possible, with Su Shuyan as its commander and Duan Mobo as his deputy, and moved to Leling."
These orders are not for Liang Guo officials. It was the general and shogunate who came down.
As the right chief historian of the shogunate, Yu Chen needs to be directly involved. Later, we will cooperate with the military commander, Sima, chief secretary and other assistants to implement these things as soon as possible.
"Okay, everything is done, let's continue with the hard work of farming." Shao Xun stood up, looked at his two sons, and asked: "Did you hear clearly just now?"
"Clear." They both replied together.
Shao Xun smiled. The children are still young, so I don’t expect them to understand now. Let’s feel the atmosphere first and be edified.
"Let's go and collect the beans." Shao Xun picked up the sickle and ordered.
The two children followed him silently with sad faces.
(End of this chapter)