"It should be done by Min Yuanqi!"

In the secret room, Li Kecheng smashed the table hard, and the things on the table were rumbling in a ping-pong manner, almost all of them fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

Zhang Shilu rolled his eyes and whispered: "Yang Shida and his gang have more than 100 people. Does Min Yuanqi have this ability?"

"Has he been training troops all the time?" Li Kecheng said hatefully: "I heard it as a joke at first, but now I realize that my family has become a joke. Min Yuanqi dared to hurt people alone in Shuiguan. What's the difficulty of killing Yang Shida and his gang with dozens of people? That group of rascals cannot be compared with serious soldiers."

"What are the plans under the lord?"

"We have no choice." Li Kecheng looked a little afraid on his face. He thought for a while and said, "You can go to the city for me. When the commander is in charge, please ask him to leave the news to Yang Shili. If this matter comes out, we must also investigate the other end of Yancheng. Let's send the news in advance and sell a favor first. It's best if Yang Shili comes over to get rid of Min Yuanqi, which is also a pity for me."

"Xiaguan will leave tomorrow morning, not take a boat, but ride a horse."

"Hurry up," Li Kecheng said worriedly: "Some people are like awls, and they can accidentally tuck the bag through!"

...

Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi didn't know Li Kecheng's evaluation. If he knew, he could only say that the incompetent and greedy Thousand House officials finally spoke the right words.

The two hundred households finally met a few days later. Li Guoding was so happy to see that Wang Sanyi was safe and sound. At this time, Li Guoding's vague suspicion was also fulfilled. Of course, Min Yuanqi, the one who killed and saved people, and the final result also made Li Guoding sigh.

After a few days, the two of them went to the 300th household again. Wang Sanyi asked someone to bring ten stones of newly bought grain. The 300th household needed food for training soldiers. Wang Sanyi was tied up because Min Yuanqi offended Yang Shida, but if Wang Sanyi pretended to be nothing, he could not pass the hurdle in his heart.

After all, he was rescued by Min Yuanqi. Even if Yang Shida didn't kill him, he might be detained for many days. The root cause of the incurable disease was found in his body. Ten stone grain was used as a thank you, which was considered a sincere thank-you gift from Wang Sanyi.

It has been March, and the weather is gradually warming up. In February, the phenomenon of frozen soil erosion has disappeared. The roads are dry by the sun, and it is not difficult to push a cart on the narrow village road.

The weeds emerged from the ditches on both sides, and they looked green.

The wheat in the field began to grow taller and became even greener.

Willows, elm and poplar trees all see green. Although the green buds grown are less than the size of fingernails, they gather in small amounts, making people feel refreshed when they see them.

Two hundred households walked in front of the small carriage convoy with robes. Behind them were ten flag troops pushing chariots. A chicken bus could push up to two to three stones of grain, and even a strong flag army could push four or even five stones. However, it was still easier for ordinary flag troops to push carts to go long-range. It was not yet the busy farming season, and Wang Sanyi's flag army was not trained. Of course, he used more people to make it easier for everyone to make it easier.

The wooden cart made a squeaking sound. The two hundred households were less than ten miles apart. In the middle were large fields, small wastelands on the seaside, sparse forests and shrubs, an unknown river and large reeds that meandered through. To the south was Guanhe, the river was down, and to the west there was a tributary of the Huaihe River. To be fair, this place is a good place, with no mountains within a radius of thousands of miles, and there were no hills. Compared with Fujian, Shanxi, and northern Shaanxi, this is a blessing land for farming. There are plains in front of you, and the land on the plain can be fully opened into farmland. People are also

There is no reason not to do this. Large areas of farmland are mixed with villages, river embankments, roads, and are connected by fields and many rivers, which are suitable for irrigation. Logically, this should be a place for fishing and rice and a wealthy place, but people have insufficient harvests and their lives are not good. The main reason is that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River diverted the route to seize the Huai River and the sea. Large areas of land were washed away by floods, and water was emitted every few years. This made people not interested in farming. You don’t know which year is a good year, and when God will drop the flood and clean people’s efforts at once, without leaving any left.

In addition to direct disasters, floods caused the land to become sandy and salinized, and the harvest also decreased sharply. No matter how good the farming masters did not get a good harvest on unqualified soil. These two Huai areas were not inferior to Jiangnan before the Southern Song Dynasty. They were located in the north and south, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal shuttled through them. The fishing and rice land was transported with transportation. It was difficult for the place to be unlucky. After the Southern Song Dynasty, although the waterways were still crisscrossing and large plains, the harvest was far worse than that of Jiangnan. Only Yangzhou and Huaian, the cities of the prefectures supported by salt and canal transportation, remained relatively prosperous. Even so, Yangzhou and Huaian were far less prosperous than Jiangnan.

Yuntiguan is also a waterway crisscrossing here. Many large rivers gather here to the sea. Floods are not common here at the estuary, but there are large wetlands by the sea. When the river and sea water are washed away, the water volume is sufficient, the drainage is not smooth, and the groundwater level is high. The long-term infiltration causes the salt in the water to accumulate in the soil, thus forming a large area of ​​saline-alkali land.

Along the way everyone was walking, there were large areas of salt purlins and piled up salt hills. Before tillage, people would use tools to remove the salt and alkali in the fields and spread them out of the farmland and pile them on the side of the fields. Over time, large and small salt hills were formed. In some places, these dry and hard salt hills were used to make nitr salt, but they were not used here by the sea. The ready-made salt water boiled salt, and the large salt hills were ignored and gradually piled up.

In this land, the most suitable crops to cultivate are salt-resistant crops such as black beans and sorghum. The yield of black beans is not high, with an average yield of one stone per mu, or even less than one stone.

When saline and alkali are severely formed, the earth is white and dry. When people walk on the fields, they make crackling sounds. Looking around, it looks white. The earth looks like snow and frost, but in fact it is just a large area of ​​saline and alkali.

When Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi were walking towards the 300th household, the two began to pay attention to the growth of crops on both sides of the farmland. Last year's drought and the land lacked fertility, the growth of crops in the farmland on both sides of the road was not very pleasing, and it can even be said that it was obvious that the yield was going to be reduced again.

Wang Sanyi took out his white copper smoke pot, and Li Guoding took out the tobacco leaves from his purse at his waist. The two of them stuffed the tobacco into pieces, and then blew the fire folds. After the fire was ignited, the tobacco burned, and the blue smoke rose up. The two of them had a look of depression, but they seemed to feel relieved and light.

"It is expected that the harvest will not work." Wang Sanyi spat out a mouthful of cigarettes and said with a wry smile: "I have already thought about it. If I don't work, I will go to the Defense Department to sue the superiors in person to see if I can call the superiors to be kind and collect 10% to 20% less."

"I will go with you at that time." Li Guoding said: "The superiors must not let the soldiers survive. There is a precedent!" Speaking of which, most of the land under the feet of the two people no longer belongs to the garrison, that is, they do not belong to the state. Originally, according to the deployment of Emperor Taizu Gao, the soldiers were given land to the garrison, and each farmed, farmed for busy farming, went to war, and garrisoned for nothing. The country not only did not spend money to raise soldiers, because they gave these poor people acres of farming, while practicing farming, they also had to hand over grain and various weapons and weapons to the state while practicing and preparing for war. For example, a certain garrison had to hand over 100 iron armor, one thousand bows and arrows, bow strings, rubber, paint, or pure grain, or military jackets and robes every year. Anyway, the tasks assigned to the year have not changed in more than 200 years.

However, the fundamental reason for the destruction of the military sect system was that there was no real constraint on the military officers of the sect. After Yongle, the military officers of the sect embezzled a large number of military households. This kind of behavior that was well aware of was not managed or restricted. At this time, Dahewei had 969 hectares of nearly 100,000 mu of land. Logically speaking, 14,000 stones of grain were paid every year, but the amount paid was not enough every year. It would be good to have a third of the sect quota. In fact, one was that the weather was not good, the harvest of the acres was not good, and the other was that 70,000 to 80% of the sect sect sect were owned by the military officers of the sect. The commander and commander divided the majority of the grains and the small half of them belonged to the thousand households and the hundred households.

If the harvest is not good, the official tax and grain you hand in hand must be reduced. In addition, the senior military officers must be kind to the top, and the land tax will be reduced from command to one level of thousands of households. Only then can the flag soldiers survive...

"The lawsuit is also difficult to fight this year." Wang Sanyi frowned and said, "I heard that the visiting soldiers came to Huai'an Prefecture City and not only robbed the offices of our two guards, but also almost requisitioned the residences of commanders, co-magistrates, assistants, and politicians. The visiting soldiers' generals should have temporarily settled in Huai'an Prefecture City. However, since Caozhou Liu planned to settle down in various places in Huai'an, it would not be too good to offend the rich gentry and grain households. He wanted to point to local officials and rich gentry and grain households to collect grain and wages for him. Our garrison office just doesn't love his mother, which is neither good nor useless. I heard that the garrison offices, public housing, garrison schools, and warehouses in the prefecture city were all requisitioned, and even the commanders' private houses were requisitioned. After such a mess, the life of the superiors was also sad, and I'm afraid they would not agree to the reduction too much..."

Li Guoding smiled bitterly and said, "The visiting soldiers do not take our garrison soldiers into consideration at all."

"It's also a fault for not being able to do it... But it is also because of the crisis in the capital. Liu of Caozhou also served as the general of the guardian of the grain. He could not have known that the grain transportation is important. If it weren't for the crisis in the capital and the grain transportation was normal, he would not dare to go to Huai'an to disturb the war and disrupt the grain transportation. This is a serious crime that can make him lose his head!"

"Lost your head?" Li Guoding smiled coldly and said, "How could the emperor be willing to cut off the heads of military generals at will? Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, and Liu Liangzuo. These generals, not to mention the Yongle period of Hongwu, even Jiajing and Wanli periods, had long been arrested and punished. Now they are not only fine, but they all hold heavy troops in their hands. Like Liu Zeqing, who did not flee south by the imperial edict, and Wu Sangui, the general of Liao Town, deliberately delayed and refused to lead troops to serve the king. The emperor endured it. If I asked me, the emperor himself was broken and could not blame others."

"Just forget to say this to me, don't talk to others."

"Yes."

"It's Yuan Qi's matter, I can talk more about it."
Chapter completed!