The grain reserves in Xu Zhijin and Wang Yuan's family are very amazing. In this world, both of them know that food is even more important than silver.

A full 1,400 stone is equivalent to Li Zheng's salary for twenty years! It seems that these two people have been busy with a lot of work in recent years.

At this time, Li Zheng started to use tricks again. He asked Chu Zhi to confiscate 50 of them and transport the remaining 1,350 stones of barley rice to his mansion.

In order to dispel Chu Zhi's concerns, a loyal minister, Li Zheng directly told him that all this food was used on the people.

That night, Chu Zhi and Liu Dagui secretly transported the grain to the county yamen courtyard.

Looking at the bags of barley rice piled in the warehouse, Li Zheng immediately made up the calculations.

1350 stone barley rice is 162,000 kilograms. After the same amount is converted into Ganqing No. 5 seeds, there are so many.

Then, based on the seed sowing amount of 45 kilograms per mu of land, 3,600 mu of land can be sown.

According to Li Zheng's memory, people in ancient times were very strong farming, and one person could plant one field. The modern unit of measurement was 70 acres. Now, it is calculated that each person can sow 50 acres, which requires 72 people. Currently, the number of people under Li Zheng is more than enough.

"3,600 acres are still a little less. There is still surplus in my hands, and it is a waste to put them in. But I can't create seeds out of thin air..." Li Zheng supported his forehead and thought about countermeasures.

After thinking hard for a long time, Li Zheng finally thought of only one way - granary!

The next day, Li Zheng secretly summoned Chu Zhi and Liu Dagui in the study.

"There are more things to do next, so you two should listen carefully."

"The first thing. Now the land in our county is seriously abandoned. I plan to take back the land near the suburbs of the county. I need 8,000 acres of land."

As soon as Li Zheng finished speaking, he was opposed by Chu Zhi.

"Sir, the people have no land, so they can't even pay taxes."

Li Zheng shook his head, "I'm not forcibly occupying it, I'm renting it!"

"Rent?" Chu Zhi and Liu Dagui were both shocked.

At this time, the land policy of the Sui Dynasty was the equal land system, and the people distributed the land equally. Each person had to pay two stones of millet to the state every year, which was called rent; paying two zhang silk, three thighs of cotton, two thighs, and three kilograms of hemp, which was called adjustment; 20 days of labor service, plus two days in a leap year, is the main service.

Of course, it needs to be added that the current Sui Yang Emperor's labor force is too severe, and with the exploitation of corrupt officials from all over the country, the taxes and labor force burdens the people are far higher than this number.

In other words, the country rents land to the people, but I have never heard of the government renting land to the people!

Not to mention the Sui Dynasty, there have never been such policies in all dynasties, including modern society.

"The special policies in special periods are nothing strange." Li Zheng replied, "You can tell the people that we not only pay the rent for them, but also, each household will distribute 150 stones of corn every year. But we only pay the rent for them, and we do not pay the reconciliation for them and exempt them from labor."

According to the consumption of 30 stones of corn per person per year, a household of five is 150 stones. It seems that Li Zheng did not give much "rental", but in fact, the people can only harvest more than 100 stones of grain in planting 70 acres of land. The family must have two middle-aged laborers to maintain the supply of grain. But now Emperor Yang of Sui recruited a large number of laborers, and there are not many families with strong men at home, so so many hungry people appear.

However, Li Zheng directly offered a condition of 30 stones per person, and he could eat enough without doing anything. This is already an attractive condition!

"Sir, this..." Chu Zhi still had too many questions in his heart.

Li Zheng did not give him the opportunity to ask questions and directly explained the task. "Chu Zhi, let you leave this matter to you. You can let Qi (qi Ersheng) notify you again, let them notify Li Zheng again, Li Zheng notify the security chief, the security chief notify the neighbor chief, and the neighbor chief notify the household! The nearby people adopt the principle of voluntary, first come first served, and collect 8,000 acres at the end."

According to the system at that time, four households and one neighbor, one neighbor, five neighbors and one security guard, one security guard, five guarantees and one mile, five li, one village, five li, one village, and elders, those in the fields are villages, and one village is established. The most efficient method is to notify each layer, otherwise the notification from each household will be over, and the time for sowing will be passed.

"If there is any omission within the jurisdiction of anyone, it will be dismissed and investigated for negligence!"

"This..." Chu Zhi's mind was in chaos. He didn't know what Li Zheng wanted to do.

Li Zheng thought for a while and continued, "This matter is more urgent. It's time to sow seeds soon. You can leave now and inform us. Be sure to get this matter done within 3 days."

Seeing that Li Zheng was anxious, Chu Zhi could only let go of his questions for the time being and answered, "Yes, sir."

After saying that, Li Zheng went out and called two trustworthy subordinates, and rode his horse and hurried out of the yamen.

Liu Dagui looked at Chu Zhi out with a confused look on his face. At this moment, he had not figured out what was going on.

"Dagui, don't stand there, you have a task too."

"Master, sir, what do you want me to do?"

Li Zheng smiled slightly, "Does my original military officer and servant still have 46 people locked up in prison?"

"Sir, there are 46 people."

Li Zheng nodded, "Okay, now is their chance to make contributions. You will take them to dig a deep pit in the suburbs of the county, collect the feces of people, the stable manure, and the weeds into it."

Liu Dagui didn't say anything. The prisoner should have done these dirty and tiring tasks.

"In addition, you will organize a group of 150 soldiers in total. When Chu Zhi collects the fields, I will ask them to start applying fertilizer immediately and then sow seeds." Li Zheng looked at Liu Dagui's exaggerated look and explained, "Simply put, I want them to be responsible for planting these fields."

Since Li Zheng had collected the land, he naturally had to plant it himself. Although it was a bit weird for the troops to farm, it was as expected by Liu Dagui, so Liu Dagui had no objection to this.

But Liu Dagui is a farmer himself, and others are a little stupid, but not stupid. He suddenly asked, "Sir, can we really pay so much food to the people after collecting so much land?"

Li Zheng smiled slightly, "According to my method, we not only need to provide food for these people, but also provide food for the people in the county!"

Liu Dagui seemed to understand, but the county magistrate Li Zheng gave him the feeling that there were many tricks. Sometimes his style of doing things was even worse than his, so maybe he really had a way.

“But it’s expensive,”

When Liu Dagui heard Li Zheng’s tone was wrong, he suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, Li Zheng said the most critical task, "Dagui, I want to borrow 1,650 stones of grain from the granary, and I can pay it back in the autumn. Can you help me think of a solution?"

Li Zheng is actually very serious because he knows that he doesn’t have much time, so he has to make this big bet.
Chapter completed!