The old Lu family is now in a vicious cycle.

If you want to do more things, you need more labor.

The labor force has been increased, but the food is not enough.

This is the situation where you take too much steps and almost have to get involved.

Unless he is willing to enter a slow-paced state, Lu Wu can only plan a balance.

Which thing is more important? Make the corresponding labor force to do that thing.

Take the secondary things slowly.

So, for the old Lu family, what are the things they are more anxious to do?

There is almost no need to think too much, what they need to protect the most is food.

There is a saying that goes, "If you have food in your hands, don't panic in your heart."

It can ensure that you don’t go hungry, and the rest of the things have the desire to do. Once a food crisis occurs, people should be so panic that they don’t want to do anything.

"Xian?" Lu Wu pointed his name and asked, "How many people do you need?"

Of course, Yu Xian thought the more the better, but he was very clear that it was impossible.

He thought for a while and said cautiously: "Lord, it must not be less than 20,000."

Lu Wu, who had already checked the documents, knew that Yu Xian used 10,000 people to reclaim wasteland when he went to war.

If we count this way, 80,000 mu of them were cultivated in four months. Is the efficiency fast or slow?

It depends on what terrain is being built on.

Therefore, it is difficult to judge the efficiency value of the effort.

Lu Wu remembered the content of the document presented by Yu Xian. The suggestion in it was to reorganize the cultivated land that had been reclaimed.

Those so-called cultivated land refers to the development of aristocrats before and later abandoned.

After all, the "yin" land has not been uninhabited since ancient times. Many nobles have been enfeoffed here. They have to work if they want to eat, which means they need to reclaim arable land.

Later, various reasons caused the aristocrats to disappear, and the population was reduced sharply in a very short time, and no one took care of them. The arable land must be returned to the wasteland ecology.

This type of wasteland is much less than the steps to reclaim the rest of the land. Generally, it only takes burning it and then processing the plant rhizomes.

Unlike cutting down trees, it is difficult to remove the stems and roots, and also to deal with the stones.

Even if you are cultivated in areas without woods, there is just as much debris to be processed.

Serving the land is a fine job, and there is no such operation as rough work, and it can be imagined that it takes time.

"But." Lu Wu's heart ached faintly, but he knew he could not refuse. He looked at Song Bin and asked, "How many people do you need to be recruited?"

Song Bin had a long time ago and said, "The master is already a 'central doctor', and his military position is a 'coach'. He needs to take 7,500 's soldiers' to receive taxes, and the fief must be stationed..."

Lu Wu cut off and said, "In five years, I can receive the tax less than the amount."

After becoming the "Go-Doctor", Lu Wu became the "Brig Commander". When he went to the Fu, he did not bring the 1,500 soldiers needed by the "Brig".

This is a "protective period" for the newly promoted nobles by Jin State, and it is allowed to pay taxes within five years.

Lu Wu knew that many nobles who had passed the "protection period" this year also did not bring full soldiers to receive the tax.

They were warned once that they beg their grandparents to sue their grandmother next time. No matter what method they use, they will definitely try to bring full amounts of soldiers to receive the tax.

Just because one warning is the limit, if the amount required for identity does not meet the amount required for your identity, the fiefdom will be reduced.

Song Bin was a little disappointed with Lu Wu's negative expression and said, "The Lord is a doctor of Jin State, and only the strong can always be strong."

Several other retainers expressed the same meaning.

The old Lu family is not considered slaves now, with a population of about 50,000?

Lu Wu has been increasing the number of warriors, and has repeatedly increased to three thousand.

It means that there are 3,000 households under his rule that do not need to pay taxes, and everything produced is considered their own family.

Of course, Lu Wu set out the land for the warriors.

In this way, the warriors need to reclaim arable land by themselves, which is no longer a burden that Lu Wu faces.

According to Song Bin's opinion, the old Lu family will need at least 13,000 samurai in five years, which means that the number of samurai can be increased year by year.

"Can this year increase to 4,000?" Song Bin said from a very direct perspective: "The 'sage' cannot be achieved in one day. If you don't become a 'sage' as soon as possible, how can you go to the expedition and receive taxes?"

Lu Wu was very hesitant.

Of course, he knew that as his identity improved, it was not whether he could do something, but that he had to reach that level.

Once you cannot form strength that matches your status, the higher you climb, the more painful it will fall.

It is no longer strong, and there is no chance of becoming weak again.

This is what the strong are always strong.

Lu Wu thought to himself: "This is forcing me to rob me again and again!"

Just management, no matter how hard you put it into practice, you cannot achieve "quantitative change" in a short time.

Just like "increasing revenue and reducing expenditure", if there is no "source" in itself, it will dry up the "flow". No matter how much "consumption" is, it will not change the "quantity" you hold.

By increasing the number of warriors, the topic goes back to the labor force.

Lu Wu thought that foreign wars could target Di and Rong people, while domestic wars needed to capture savages.

When food is short, the Hu people can be used as a consumable.

This is not racial hatred, it is entirely out of need.

Furthermore, Lu Wu knew very well that the threat to Zhu Xia after the Hu people grew stronger.

How could he be merciful if he could consume the Hu people?

To put it another way, know what the footbath chicken has dried, and have the chance to destroy the footbath chicken. Will it be done?

If you want to be a good person, first understand the harm caused to Zhuxia by the Hu people in all dynasties.

The Hu people merged into Zhuxia, not because they took the initiative, but because they were beaten to the point where they had to integrate.

With more double standards, savages need to integrate into the old Lu family to achieve rapid population growth.

This is not to treat savages in particular, it is purely because of the similarity and compatibility of culture and thought.

They made a careful calculation.

Twenty thousand laborers will be responsible for the cultivation of arable land.

One thousand warriors will be added in the short term.

The addition of warriors is not only Lu Wu, but the lack of a free labor force.

Each warrior has his own direct relatives, which suddenly made Lu Wu lose thousands of people who could assign labor at will.

The first step in building a city requires a manpower based on the 20,000 people required by Lu Wu.

After all the others were allocated, there were almost no idle people in the old Lu family's ability to move.

Lu Wu had the idea of ​​choosing to "concentrate people to do big things".

That is to concentrate manpower and material resources to complete something in a short time.

It is unrealistic to think about it carefully.

It’s not that you can’t complete something in a short time, but that doing it will inevitably have an impact on the rest of things, or even a fatal impact.

To put it bluntly, the "quantity" of the old Lu family is there. It is not that there is obviously a large "quantity", but the utilization rate is too low.

Later generations of the Celestial Empire were able to achieve "concentrate efforts to do big things" because the "quantity" was placed there.

The meeting ends.

Lu Wu called out Song Bin and said, "You can discuss with the warriors and practice with my skills."

Song Bin was confused for a moment.

The warriors of each noble family usually practice their own practice.

If you need to take the tax to fight, that's it.

If you don’t need to go to war, three months of the year will be concentrated for discipline and military formation training.

This is why after the formation of an army, the Jin army was always as strong as one person and made a neat step.

Lu Wu knew that the war of the Ge soldiers was the mainstream of the Xia Dynasty, but it was difficult for the old Lu family to catch up with the great nobles by following the "normal road", and it was even more impossible to compete for the number of people.

He brought Song Bin to an arsenal.

Many boxes were moved out, and after opening it, they showed a series of short swords.

The sword body of these swords is about fifty centimeters long, and the sword body is relatively wide and thick.

Some shields were also lifted out.

The shield is made of wooden, and looks semicircular on the top, but rectangular on the front; it is 1.6 meters high, 80 cm wide, and about 5 cm thick.
To be continued...