With the trenches successfully dug, the defense system of Dongning City has taken initial shape.
The next key tasks, besides training the Prince's Guard, are to build the new city of Dongning.
Construction also began on the city wall between the Shuibin River Watchtower and the Dongshan Watchtower.
Meanwhile, scouts from the Prince's Guard were widely deployed in Shuangcheng Prefecture, Xiande Prefecture, and other places, closely monitoring the movements of the grassland bandits.
Although the grassland bandits were still gathering, they did not head south.
Inside the Prince's Mansion.
"Your Highness,"
Liu Jingxuan said, "The grassland bandits are a big threat, but we can't stop doing everything else just because of them."
Spring has arrived, and it's time for planting.
If we delay planting now, we'll probably have to buy all our grain from other places this year.
"Your Highness, in my humble opinion, shouldn't we prepare for war while simultaneously preparing for spring planting?"
"Spring plowing."
Li Xin patted his forehead, "I almost forgot about this."
Our agricultural reclamation team has been established.
The agricultural reclamation team can be transferred away from the city wall construction, and preparations for spring plowing can begin immediately.
During this period, various merchants have already purchased a portion of iron farm tools, oxen, and seeds.
By the way, the blacksmith shop has forged a new plowshare that's much better than the current one.
You could ask the agricultural reclamation team to give it a try!
Liu Jingxuan quickly agreed.
Upon arriving at the blacksmith's shop, Liu Jingxuan was stunned when he saw the new plowshare laid out before him.
In this era, most plowshares were straight-shaft plows, which were inconvenient to turn and made farming quite strenuous.
The new plowshare placed in front of us is a curved plow!
This was something Li Xin found in the field of intelligent technology, and he improved upon it by combining it with the plowshares used by his family in later generations.
Its shape is quite similar to the plowshare we used when I was a child in the countryside.
If it weren't for the fact that most of the current plowing power comes from oxen, Li Xin would even be thinking of going straight to a three-furrow plow.
Three-furrow plows are efficient, but nowadays oxen probably can't pull them.
"Your Highness, this..."
Liu Jingxuan looked at the curved plow, then at Li Xin, somewhat surprised.
Don't just stand there.
Li Xin said with a smile, "Let the people from the state farm team try it out and see if it works!"
A moment later, the farm workers, along with their oxen and curved plows, went to the fields.
Dew!
Dew!
The farm workers shouted instructions as the curved plow ploughed the first rut into the black soil.
The turned-up soil can be pushed to one side, making it easy and effortless.
Liu Jingxuan stepped forward, reached out and grabbed a handful of freshly turned soil that exuded a pleasant fragrance, a look of surprise on her face.
"It's been turned up very deep!"
Liu Jingxuan smiled and nodded, saying, "The speed has improved a lot too!"
"The most distinctive feature of this curved-shaft plow is its lightness and ease of use."
Li Xin also had a smile on his face, "Look at this plow frame, it's much smaller than the previous straight-shaft plow, it's more flexible to operate, and it's easier to turn and turn around."
A straight-shaft plow requires at least two people to operate, while a curved-shaft plow can be skillfully operated by one person, saving manpower.
The speed of land cultivation will definitely be much faster!
"Great! Great!"
Liu Jingxuan's eyes were full of joy, and he praised her repeatedly.
After witnessing the benefits of the curved-shaft plow, the other members of the reclamation team also led their oxen, harnessed the curved-shaft plows, and began to work.
The members of the state farm team stood side by side, one in front of the other.
One after another, curved plows turned over the black soil.
They walked side by side, and before long, they had cultivated dozens of acres of land.
Dongning City is sparsely populated with abundant arable land.
The current agricultural reclamation team is the agricultural reclamation team of the Prince Xin's Mansion in Dongning City. Their task is to cultivate and plant crops.
Regardless of the harvest, the members of the agricultural reclamation team were provided with food and lodging by the Prince Xin's Mansion.
These members of the agricultural reclamation team also became members of the Prince Xin's mansion.
This applies not only to members of these agricultural reclamation teams, but also to engineering teams, hunting teams, and so on in Dongning City.
The Prince Xin's Mansion is now a large conglomerate.
All the staff under his command are employees of this large group company, and they go to work on time every day.
Work points are recorded according to different types of work.
Equivalent to attendance time.
This is to provide different standards of food and lodging, and different types of wages.
This policy was developed with reference to enterprise standards.
Although the drawbacks of the "iron rice bowl" system are inevitable, and some members will inevitably slack off and coast through work, it is unavoidable that some members will do so during work hours.
However, Dongning City still has too few people.
The construction of various projects requires a large amount of manpower.
Only in this way can all the human and material resources of Dongning City be fully mobilized.
Li Xin spent several days searching through intelligent technology before finding a relatively reasonable salary system.
Different job grade standards were established for workers of different jobs and at different levels.
Different salary and accommodation benefits are provided according to job level standards.
As for the salary and benefits, once they are finalized, Li Xin will begin to implement them.
However, there are not many copper coins in Dongning City now.
Moreover, these copper coins were extremely scarce, as they were needed to purchase supplies from various provinces of the Great Gan Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Xin adopted a new form for the salary and benefits he formulated.
Li Xin instructed the staff of the Prince's Palace to cut white paper into different sizes.
A simple piece of white paper, printed with different denominations, such as one coin, five coins, ten coins, fifty coins, and one hundred coins.
In addition, the official seal of the Prince Xin's Mansion was stamped on the white paper.
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