Chapter 439 Reward for Merit
Lü Desheng also used his position to transfer the Qin family to the military settlement closest to the governor's office in Liaoxi County. The Qin brothers' military life remained the same. The distance between the four counties was nothing to the Qin brothers, who could ride horses.
After the thaw in Northeast China, the earth began to return to spring, and young sprouts of wild grass emerged in the fields.
After a winter of rest, the people began to go out of their homes, picked up tools and started turning the soil.
The government began to organize spring plowing and set up land reclamation sites in the four counties of Pingzhou.
More than 30,000 soldiers in Pingzhou, regardless of whether they were new recruits or veterans, began to take turns to be dispatched to open up wasteland.
Under the constraints of the government, whether it was newly relocated civilians who wanted to open up wasteland or soldiers, they had to go to the reclamation site to open up wasteland in a planned manner and could not do so arbitrarily.
After the harvest, the wasteland reclaimed by the soldiers all belonged to the Pingzhou military camp.
After a year of experimentation and extensive summarization of previous experiences, Liaodong County has achieved some success in planting and breeding.
The government has its own planting and breeding areas. After the spring, the government will not only summon one or two representatives from each village to visit and learn, but will also send experienced personnel to the local areas to solve any problems.
At the beginning of spring, the farm used the warmth of the kang (kang bed) to hatch a batch of chicks. The price was very fair, and they distributed them to the grain and oil stores of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce, making them convenient for the general public to purchase. A set of breeding methods was also provided. Most families chose to raise three or five chicks.
When everyone in Pingzhou was busy with spring plowing, an urgent letter arrived from Chang'an.
The content of the letter was: Xie Zhan was appointed as the Governor of Lingnan for his merits.
Lu Desheng was stunned. "Xie Zhan became the Governor of Lingnan? This is so sudden! There was absolutely no sign of this."
Lu Songli's eyes darkened. Thinking of the news Chen Jinshui had brought back from the South, she thought to herself, there were signs.
"For merit? Let me see what great merits Xie Zhan has made?!" Lu Desheng glanced down.
Then he blinked, blinked again, and pushed the letter to Lu Songli, "My daughter, take a look at this letter. I always feel like my eyes are dazzled."
After reading it, Lu Songli said, "Dad, you shouldn't be dazzled."
Xie Zhan revealed a piece of news to the emperor that the rice on Zhuya Island can be harvested three times a year.
Hearing this, Lu Desheng slammed his fist on the table in anger. "This is outrageous! Just like that? The Emperor gave him the position of Governor when the news isn't even fully confirmed yet?"
Lu Songli silently put the letter back and thought to himself, yes, just like that, the emperor allowed Xie Zhan to jump from a commoner to a local official.
Lu Desheng was indignant. "The emperor is so partial! He is so bullying!"
They have made great contributions, but the emperor is very stingy in rewarding them. Think about how much they planned and did to get the position of Pingzhou governor, it is not easy.
As for Xie Zhan, after going to the South, he made two contributions. The first time, the emperor pardoned the Xie family, and the second time, he directly gave Xie Zhan the position of governor.
The emperor was too lenient to Xie Zhan and too harsh to the Qin and Lu families.
Lu Songli comforted her father, "Dad, don't be angry. Isn't anger punishing yourself for the mistakes of others? And just watch, Song Mo will regret it one day if he does this."
Song Mo's reward to Xie Zhan was too generous, and rationally, she could understand it. Food has always been a country's most important resource. The court, having just experienced the war in the northern border and the snow disaster in Yanmen at the end of last year, is now in dire need of food.
Xie Zhan's discovery surprised Song Mo greatly. I guess the entire court's attention is now on Zhuya Island, right?
She had already known about Xie Zhan's development of Zhuya Island from Chen Jinshui.
After Chen Jinshui followed Zhang Xian back to Chang'an, she changed her identity and went to the south. When she received the letter, she felt that Xie Zhan had some ability.
Lu Songli knew that this was also the emperor's way of making up for Xie Zhan.
Xie Zhan had helped him ascend the throne, but before he could be rewarded for his merits, she used him as a scapegoat and slaughtered him.
Now that Xie Zhan repeatedly helped him solve problems and gave him money and food, Song Mo began to appreciate his talent.
After a while, Lu Desheng calmed down. He picked up the letter and read it again, "My daughter, can the rice on Zhuya Island really be harvested three times a year?" Is that true?
Lu Songli: "Well, it should be true."
"If it's true, then isn't Zhuya Island a natural granary?" Such a good place is now under the jurisdiction of Xie Zhan.
Lu Songli didn't say anything. There was nothing she could do about it. Every place had its own geographical advantages.
Lu Desheng frowned. "Zhuya Island has three crops a year, but we only have one here. No matter how well we grow crops, we can't catch up."
Lu Songli simply proposed planting methods such as rotation, intercropping, and intercropping, and asked Guo Chunsheng, the warehouse officer in charge of agriculture and fisheries, to lead experienced farmers to explore and maximize the use of land and space.
Plus reasonable fertilization.
In this way, the harvest of crops in the fields will not be small at the end of the year.
Moreover, the taste of grains varies with the length of sunlight. Pingzhou can definitely select good varieties of seeds, and the grains grown will taste better, so they can go the high-quality route in the future.
Poor people can exchange refined grains for coarse grains from other places, which is enough for them to eat.
“Is this okay?”
"Give it a try." Lu Songli thought that she should try her best to play to her strengths.
Li people's residence
Xian Feng and his companions returned to the Li tribe's territory before the Chinese New Year. As soon as they arrived, they were called away by the chief.
After the chief asked them in detail about their life in Liaodong County, he remained silent.
They acquiesced to Liaodong County's suggestion that they plant sugarcane.
Afterwards, Xian Feng and his tribesmen spared no expense in acquiring sugarcane sprouts. At the beginning of spring, they went to the mountains to guide the Li people in planting sugarcane.
When Xian Feng and his men finished planting sugarcane and were preparing to head north, the chief sent someone to call them again.
When they headed north, they brought out four more young men.
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