Lord of the Gaming World Chapter 36: The tiller has his own field
"The Eastern Han District really is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and everyone wants to compete for the first place."
Chutian was slightly shocked. There were a large number of lord players in the Eastern Han District, and the competition was extremely fierce.
There are thirteen prefectures in the Eastern Han District, and even the Jiaozhou in the remote areas and the Protectorate of the Western Regions have a large number of lords.
As early as the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had already shouted that the princes and generals had a kind of kindness. In the Eastern Han region, the generally accepted truth is that whoever has the bigger fist has the final say, and whoever has the right to compete in the Central Plains.
Moreover, the Eastern Han District is the largest district, and there is a high probability of a large lord appearing.
"Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Guanzhong are excellent horse producing areas, and the lords in these places have a huge advantage in the early stage."
Chutian discovered that half of the top ten lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from the prefectures and counties that produced horses.
These lords should already have quite a few cavalry. The power of cavalry in the age of cold weapons is self-evident.
The emergence of the world's first town in the Eastern Han District is both a good and a bad thing for Chutian. The good side is that the overall strength of the Eastern Han region has improved, and the bad side is that in the future, the "small soldiers at the border in the late Ming Dynasty" may become a strong enemy.
A lord of the Youzhou region occupies the land of horse production in Liaodong. Once he is in charge of the sixteen states of Yanyun, there are not many princes and lords who can stop him after entering the customs.
But Chutian is not anxious.
There are many lords in the early stage, and the gap between the first echelon and the lords behind is not obvious.
Xia Village will soon be upgraded to a town.
"Master, after the population of the village has increased, the amount of farmland has been seriously insufficient. Please order the farmland to be reclaimed, and the land reclamation should be completed before sowing in October, so that there will be enough food next year."
Li Kui, a Dian Nong official, interrupted Chu Tian's attention to the other lords.
The dream is to have, and the immediate problem is to eat.
The food problem is once again in front of Chutian - the existing farmland in Xia Village is insufficient.
“How much gold and silver does it take to reclaim farmland?”
"There is a lot of wasteland in the plains outside the village, so there is no need for gold and silver land acquisition. As for labor, it is enough to use refugees, and the reclaimed farmland will be used for them to cultivate in the future, so there is no need to distribute gold and silver. The only cost is to buy a batch of axes. , hoes and other iron tools used to remove weeds and trees.”
"It is also necessary to organize villagers to divert water from the Yi River to the newly reclaimed farmland, and to dig wells. The number of newly reclaimed farmlands should be greater than the required amount, so as to accommodate the population increase in the future. The implementation of the rotational farming system also requires more of farmland to avoid affecting the annual yield. Half of the farmland is used for production and half of the farmland is used for fallow each year.”
"This is a map drawn by the minister recently after exploring the nearby fields. It basically lists the wasteland that can be reclaimed as farmland."
As a Dian Nong official, Li Kui seemed extremely conscientious, and he had already prepared a map without special instructions from Chutian.
Chu Tian took over the map. The reclaimable farmland outside Xia Village was huge, and there was basically no pressure on the land. It is estimated that when the city level is reached, the land use problem will be tense.
"You should organize the villagers who don't have farmland to reclaim new fields. The cultivators have their own fields. In addition, the sale of land is strictly prohibited for the time being, and the farmers are left on the land."
Chutian weighed it and banned the sale of land in the early stage to ensure that there would be no problem with the grain harvest next year.
"Yes."
Li Kui left after answering, recruiting villagers who wanted to farm but did not have farmland in Xia Village, and reclaimed according to the location on the map.
Soon Xia Village implemented an agricultural policy - "the tiller has his own land".
The ownership of the reclaimed farmland belongs to the lord's mansion. If a family has cultivated a piece of land for more than five years, then the family will always have the right to use the land by default.
On the premise that the family does not change the use of the farmland, the lord's government will not transfer the right to use the land to other farmers.
About 200 villagers followed Li Kui to open up wasteland before planting seeds in October. These villagers carried iron tools such as hoes, axes, shovels, etc., and they were full of enthusiasm and high fighting spirit.
The newly cultivated farmland will be the land of their own family in the future, so they naturally pay attention.
Although the ownership of these farmlands is nominally owned by the lord's mansion, the title of the lord's mansion is only for the purpose of levying land tax, prohibiting the sale of land, and requisitioning land for compensation in the future.
Other than that, these lands are not much different from their own.
All in all, as long as farmers pay their land rent on time, they can farm the land forever.
The population of Xia Village gradually climbed to 2,000, and the prosperity of Xia Village also increased due to the reclamation of new farmland.
The size of these resource buildings has also increased as the labor input of the logging, quarry, and mining farms has increased.
Finally, the fourth-level fish market is completed. The prosperity of Xia Village suddenly increased by 50.
The prosperity of Xia Village is now 504 and the population is 2021. Because of the completion of the fourth-level fish market, the prosperity of Xia Village ranks among the top ten villages in Xuzhou.
The conditions of popular sentiment, public security, and special buildings are basically satisfied.
Only 100 gold is left.
As a lord, if you don't have enough money, you have only two options - either to loot other forces' money, or to borrow it.
Chutian chose to borrow money. The object of the loan is not others, but the Xiaozhu Village of the alliance.
A first-level town can have four vassal villages. Chutian is ready to annex Xiaozhu Village~IndoMTL.com~ If Xiaozhu Village's village chief Xia Xia Liang is unwilling to accept the merger, Chutian can only use force to conquer her. Of course, military conquest here refers to sending troops to surround Xiaozhu Village.
With the strength of a group of brave villagers in Xiaozhu Village, they could not resist the battle to destroy the village in Xia Village.
Chutian has already greeted Xia Xia Liang in advance, and the best way is to annex Xiaozhu Village unscathed.
There are many buildings in Xiaozhu Village that even Xia Village does not have, such as mulberry gardens, commercial houses, pawnshops, security bureaus, textile workshops... These are all buildings that Chutian admires.
"You go and invite the village head of Xiaozhu Village to discuss the merger of the two villages."
Chu Tian arranged for a small team of cavalry to **** the village chief of Xiaozhu Village.
It is better to make it clear face to face for such a major event as the merger of the two villages.
Can Xiaozhu Village come up with such a huge sum of money as a hundred gold?
Chutian was still a little skeptical.
One hundred gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver. In the early stage, few lords could easily lend one hundred gold.
"Can your Xia Village be upgraded to a town without a hundred gold? If you want, I can bring it to you. But you have to pay it back within a year, and the interest is one-tenth of the principal."
Xia Liang informed Chutian in advance.
"No problem."
This guy can really take out a hundred gold.
Chutian found that the financially minded Xianliang was like a cash machine.
It should be known that after all players are trapped in "Lord", there is no way to exchange earth coins for gold and silver. That is to say, this hundred gold is the funds that Xia Tianliang managed to collect by relying on Xiaozhu Village.
One-tenth of the interest is ten taels of gold, which Chutian can fully accept.
Upgrade to a town in advance, and you can conquer other villages, which will bring more tax than interest each month.