Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

After the Great Zhou Dynasty experienced a drought that lasted for several years and the unrest of the displaced people, the population dropped sharply.

At least in the next 30 to 50 years, there will be a situation of underpopulation.

Especially in the territory of Lu Kingdom, all the major forces are secretly preparing for war, and the population will probably be smaller by then.

In the past, although the nobles did not regard the tenants as human beings, the population was too small.

At least there must be people on the ground, the family needs servants, and the army needs a lot of people and cannon fodder.

Therefore, although it is one thing to look down on the tenant farmers in terms of personality, it is also necessary to admit that the tenant farmers are an important strategic resource.

Now that the three towns of Heishui can leave tens of thousands of refugees, it has become a huge fortune that makes people envious.

For example, in the Gu Liang family, Gu Liangyu changed from Zhang He to an ordinary foundation building pill. After successfully completing the foundation building, his prestige in the family greatly increased, and he could finally speak upright.

"Patriarch, now that the drought is over, the land can be cultivated after this winter, but unfortunately the population of tenant farmers is seriously insufficient. There are only five towns with a total of more than 10,000 people."

Gu Liangcheng is Gu Liangyu's most staunch supporter. Now that Gu Liangyu has established a foundation and successfully controlled the family, he has handed over the management of the family to Gu Liangcheng.

"Third grandpa, I don't know anything about farming. I don't know how many people should be in our five towns?"

As a candidate for the head of the family, Gu Liangyu has always focused on training, and naturally he does not need to pay attention to such trivial matters as farming.

Even if the family is in the middle of the road, he is still busy with training and intrigue, and now he has no concept of population.

"Reporting to the Patriarch, in addition to Heishui Town, we have five towns in our hands. Under normal circumstances, there must be at least 20,000 to 30,000 people. If there are more, 50,000 to 60,000 people are fine.

For example, in Heishui Town, only one town has a population of 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the three Heishui towns add up to more than 60,000 people.

We have more than 10,000 people, with an average of more than 2,000 people in each town. We can't grow much land, and we can't collect too much rent. "

"Since there are so many people in Heishui Town, can we borrow some from Heishui Town, or buy some people?

Third grandfather, why don't we two go personally to see if we can buy people from Heishui Town. "

The two said to leave, and immediately Gu Liangyu drove the flying sword with Gu Liangcheng, and it took only a quarter of an hour to arrive at Heishui Town.

After the two entered the city, they looked at the prosperity of Heishui Town with envy in their hearts.

They used to have a city too, but now they are just like the villagers.

The worst thing is that there is not even a single spiritual vein or a spiritual field. There are many immortal cultivators in the whole family who have no source of spiritual power, and they do not know where to go?

Zhang He was only a tenant under their family at first, but now he can have such a family.

Against each other, both of them sighed a little to themselves.

After the two saw Zhang He, Daoming came to him, but Zhang He refused without thinking.

As long as they are willing to stay in the three towns under his jurisdiction, they are the people under his rule.

Although he never felt that he was a good person, he also had a certain bottom line. He would never do anything like buying and selling the people under his rule as commodities.

The two were rejected by Zhang He, but they did not dare to hold grudges.

Now that they have come, the two simply sold some ancestral inheritance, using a jade slip that is convenient for alchemy, and exchanged a batch of dried sweet potatoes from Zhang He.

For the Gu Liang family, there is really no other way now but to keep selling their ancestral inheritance. Fortunately, Zhang He is not picky about food, and accepts any jade slips.

Not long after Gu Liangyu and Yu left, Ye Jun from Dehua County also came to Heishui Town with his sword.

Ye Jun's purpose here is also for the population.

He has just taken over Dehua County and is preparing to make a big splash. Now there are not many people under his control, and no one is cultivating the land. How can this be done?

Today's Dehua County doesn't even have a decent army. If there is a war in the future, how will we deal with it?

Moreover, to form an elite army, it also requires a large population base in order to select suitable soldiers.

"Sorry, Heishui Town does not do human trafficking. If you can pay a higher price and let them go with you automatically, I will never stop it."

"Brother Zhang, don't think about it anymore?"

Ye Jun was in a very unhappy mood, and it seemed that Zhang He would not give any face at all.

"Feel sorry!"

Zhang He bowed his hands and expressed his apologies.

"Do it yourself! Farewell!"

After Ye Jun dropped a sentence, he walked away.

In fact, Ye Jun had already sent someone to try to recruit tenants from here, but these residents who stayed in Heishui Town were dead brains.

It seems that they all agree that Zhang He, no matter what he says, is unwilling to migrate to other towns.

After comprehensive consideration, it is better to buy the population from Zhang He, and then send an army to forcefully **** them away with Dao Song, which saves trouble and worry.

Unexpectedly, Zhang He, like those tenants, is dead brains.

After seeing Ye Jun leaving, Zhang He asked the Black Water Army to step up patrols recently to prevent accidents.

He is not afraid of Ye Jun, but Ye Jun is only a member of the Ye family. I heard that there are more than ten foundation-building cultivators in the Ye family.

Otherwise, the mere Ye Jun really didn't pay attention. He was even thinking about whether to send the little skeleton to go again and let Ye Jun follow in Ye Fei's footsteps.

Three days later, Fugui and Fat Hu returned to Heishui Town at the same time, Fat Hu said as soon as he entered the door:

"Sir, Dehua County has sent a special envoy to levy 15,000 corvée from Duihe Town."

Fugui also nodded: "We also received the same notice in Shangling Town, and we need to go to Daxing Township, 40 miles away, to build a canal for half a year."

These two towns are under the jurisdiction of Dehua County, and they are naturally obliged to obey corvée.

Every year in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were some corvée, and the types of corvée were various, such as helping the nobles to chop wood, build houses, raise cattle and horses, clean the courtyard, dig dung...

There is also a kind of corvée in the war to conscript people's husbands to **** food and grass.

In any case, corvées can be levied to do anything without any remuneration.

When a tenant performs corvée service, they need to bring their own dry food and quilts. If an injury or illness occurs during the service, it is their own bad luck, and there is no work-related injury.

In the past when the Guliang family ruled, UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com would often recruit corvée, but not on such a large scale.

Ye Jun had a good idea this time. If you go to work for him, you have to bring your own dry food, which is more cost-effective than buying population.

"Young master, or else we'll do the opposite!"

Fat Hu urged him nonchalantly, and Fugui was also watching Zhang He at this time, waiting for Zhang He to make a decision.

Zhang He tapped the table with his fingers, lost in thought.

This time the corvée is definitely not allowed to go. Nearly half of the population of Heishui Three Towns, this time there will definitely be no return.

And this kind of thing has a first time, and it is easy to have a second time.

I will ask you to ask for population today, collect some food tomorrow, and collect some gold and silver the day after tomorrow. It may be endless.

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