Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 114: Differences
Bai Gong invented a new plow that was several times more efficient than previous ones and could be operated by a single ox instead of two.
Bai Gong made yellow cattle easier to tame and water buffaloes capable of plowing the land...
Mr. Bai can help everyone harvest 10% more food...
Baizhou Mu ordered that each county have official cattle for rent, which can be used to offset the grain tax of the previous year...
The governor of Baizhou ordered the Ministry of Civil Affairs to coordinate with the counties to distribute samples of Baigong plows to every ten households, and ordered officials to assist in the promotion...
Baizhou Mu exempted some taxes on land reclamation...
A series of news spread in Jiangdong, Yangzhou, and the Thirteen States of the Han Dynasty!
As for the incident that Xu Gong vomited blood and fell to the ground in the main hall of Bai Tu that day, it was not even gossip. At most, people who had grudges against the Xu family heard it and took the opportunity to spit at him.
Are you familiar with the Xu family and have received favors from the Xu family?
That can’t be blamed on Bai Gong!
At least on the surface, no one dared to say that Bai Gong forced and oppressed the Xu family. Not only among the nobles, no one supported him, but also among the people... anyone who dared to say so would probably be tied to the Shennong Temple and burned to death.
The per capita water buffalo ownership in Jiangdong was far less than that in the Central Plains. After all, water buffalo could not be used as animal power to assist in farming before.
After Bai Gonghuan suddenly became popular, the price of cattle in Jiangdong quickly surpassed that in the Central Plains - after all, water buffaloes are half the size of yellow cattle, and naturally have more physical strength, and there is also the factor of scarcity.
Fortunately, Bai Tu had already prepared official cattle for the people to rent. At the same time, Bai Tu also personally sat in the Ministry of Personnel and made the feeding and leasing of official cattle the main assessment indicators.
Whoever dares to let Guanniu die unclearly, then he will die clearly...
It is said that people in many places in Jiangdong have begun to send Bai Tu's statue to the Shennong Temple to keep Shennong company .
Even when the news of Bai Gongli spreads, even if they are not from Jiangdong, I am afraid that Bai Tu will be grateful to him...
If the previous papermaking technology and the Four Books of Elementary Education helped the poor, then the current Bai Gongli is helping people all over the world!
Not to mention the ordinary people, the aristocratic and wealthy families in Jiangdong were also tied to the chariot at this time. Previously, under Lu Kang's activities, many aristocratic families bet on Bai Tu. In addition to being optimistic about Bai Tu's strength and potential, it was also because of the effect of "Grandmaster of Enlightenment" - after all, their own children would also benefit from Bai Tu when they were enlightened, and there was an additional layer of relationship similar to that of teacher and student, whether close or distant.
Now that Bai Tu has directly increased the grain output under his rule by 10%, he is even more comparable to the ancient saints who walked out of mythology.
Even Cao Cao, who had a prejudice against Bai Tu and was wary of him in every way, did not dare to reduce the reward for Bai Tu.
Soon the news reached Yangzhou. In addition to being the governor of Yangzhou, Bai Tu was given the honorary title of "Grand Minister of Agriculture" and was granted the title of "Marquis of Qu'a". He also had the same privileges as Lu Bu - temporary authority over the imperial court and the right to command the three divisions.
There is an additional "位比万石". "位比" is just a level, which is half a level lower than the simple "位". "位比万石" is half a level lower than "位万石".
In the Han Dynasty, only the prime minister and the general were "ranked 10,000 stones". The Eastern Han Dynasty did not have a prime minister. Even Cao Cao was not the prime minister at that time. Before that, the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty was only the now-flagged Dong Xiangguo...
Although "Rank equal to ten thousand stones" is only an honorary title, one should know that this is not the kind of official position that princes can hold themselves, but is specially awarded by the imperial court, which is enough to show the respect.
The public resentment caused by Bai Tu's tax increase and replacement of relief grain was also eliminated invisibly. Even if some noble families who were unwilling to be lonely, such as the Xu family who did not want to reveal their names, tried to lead the trend in secret, it had little effect.
It wasn't that Bai Tu wanted to "levy heavy taxes and levies extortionately", it was actually that the governor needed surplus grain so that he could provide relief to Huainan a year later!
The autumn harvest season has passed and the slack season has arrived. Bai Tu's policy of hiring corvée laborers to dig wells with relief grain has also been fully implemented.
Well-digging tools were distributed, and the number of wells dug was included in the evaluation indicators of local officials.
For a time, digging deep wells became a trend in Danyang, northern Wu County, and Poyang County...
Naturally, this move also attracted a lot of criticism, but fortunately Bai Tu provided relief food as a reward, so it did not cause public resentment.
During the slack season, corvée labor was very cheap. Although it was called compensation, it was actually just food, and at most he could leave some for his wife and children to take back home.
In fact, this kills two birds with one stone. The people now have the relief food distributed by Baitu to eat, and they can save the stored grain at home. Then next winter, if they are really affected by drought, the people's ability to resist disasters will be stronger!
If the people of Danyang and Wujun are really affected by the disaster, Bai Tu will have to issue relief grain to them even for free. So... it would be better to use it for hiring now, at least he can hire some corvée labor.
Taking advantage of this period of abundant manpower, Bai Tu hopes to put the expansion of Moling City and the construction of Jingkou Fort on the agenda.
Both Qu'a and Moling are just small county towns, not as prosperous as Wu County. But because Bai Tu had already set his sights on Moling, he did not plan any major expansion projects in Qu'a.
However, Lu Su had reminded Bai Tu before that Moling's "feng shui" was the best in Jiangdong. Although it was destroyed by the First Emperor before, more than 400 years have passed, and Lu Su is completely capable of restoring its structure.
Moling, formerly known as "Jinling", was passed by by the First Emperor when he was on tour. The alchemist accompanying him said that there was the aura of an emperor here. Therefore, Qin Shihuang, who was always superstitious about alchemy and domineering, dug mountains and opened rivers in Jinling to destroy its feng shui. To be on the safe side, he also changed the name of "Jinling" to "Moling".
Fodder is fodder for livestock. From gold to fodder, it can be said that the price is very cheap, and its reputation also destroys the feng shui of this place.
Later, it was in this year that Qin Shi Huang died on his way back from a tour...
Bai Tu didn't want to think too much about Feng Shui, something he couldn't understand at all. He only considered the geographical location - if your Feng Shui is real, then it should be consistent with my scientific site selection.
The later Eastern Wu also established its capital in Jinling - and arrogantly changed its name to "Jianye".
Although Bai Tu had already regarded Huainan as something in his pocket, even if he recaptured Shouchun one day, Bai Tu was not prepared to move his capital to the gate of the Central Plains.
Compared with Jinling, Shouchun is close to the south bank of the Huai River. In the pre-Qin period, after Qin defeated Chu in its last coalition, the capital of Chu was moved from Yingdu to Shouchun. Now as the base camp of Yuan Shu, Shouchun can be considered a prosperous place.
However, Bai Tu's staff had different attitudes towards the start of construction in Moling.
Lu Kang, Yu Fan, Zhang Zhao and others hoped that Bai Tu would not rush to expand Moling, and after conquering Huainan, move the government back to Shouchun, under the pretext of - sitting in dominance over the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers and advancing into the Central Plains.
However, Bai Tu was not interested in this. On the first day of September in the first year of Jian'an, the six ministries and staff of the governor's office held a monthly meeting. Everyone knew that whether the construction of Moling would start this year, or where the government would be moved in the future, would also be decided today...
