The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 211 Mother Concubine V5
"Princess, the third, fourth and fifth masters are here to pick you up!" Ye Fei said while looking at the front.

Xia Jing naturally also noticed the three galloping horses and the people on the horses.

"Appreciate~"

"Mother, you have worked hard all the way!"

Li Chengmu took the lead, and was the first to run across the front guard camp to Xia Jing's horse.

Xia Jing welcomed him with a smile.

Li Chengmu's eyes scanned Xia Jing's whole body like a radar, and said with a smile: "Mother, you are black!"

The smile on Xia Jing's face faltered slightly, this is Li Jingfu's son, yes, it's not heart-warming at all if she can pack it for him!
"Mother Concubine."

"Mother, welcome back!"

Li Chengyi and Li Chengli rode over.

Xia Jing smiled at them: "During the time I'm not in the capital, I've worked hard for you brothers. Is everything okay in the capital?"

Li Chengli glanced back at the city gate of the capital, and said with a smile: "Everything is as usual, that is, the cultivation has ended, and the repairs to the city walls and the palace are nearing completion. After the repairs are completed, several main roads in the city can be renovated."

Xia Jing nodded and looked at the slow-moving team: "That's good, let's advance to the city."

Li Chengmu squeezed to Xia Jing's side, "Mother Concubine, this trip to the grassland has been very rewarding, did you bring any presents for your son?"

Xia Jing controlled the horse to move forward at a constant speed. After listening to his words, she glanced at the two stepson next to her with pricked ears, and pointed back: "There are two thousand horses behind, and there are many thousand-mile horses among them. Go and pick one, as a gift from me!"

Li Chengmu was overjoyed, "The son first thanked the concubine for her generosity!"

Xia Jing was annoyed by his words, "Hey, what did you say? You said it as if I was stingy. If you don't like this gift, you don't have to choose it. It just so happens that my team can have one more cavalry!"

Li Chengmu listened to Zhi Le: "You have heard my latent meaning, but Mr. Ma will still choose it. If someone gives you a gift, why don't you!"

The mother and son bickered all the way, and soon returned to the palace.

After Xia Jing finished washing, she lay on the bed feeling that her bones were about to fall apart, "I'm so tired!"

"Hongmei, don't let anyone disturb you, I want to sleep to replenish my strength!"

"Princess, I understand!"

The next day.

Everyone fell asleep, full of energy.

Xia Jing ordered that the head soldiers of the barracks kill cattle and goats, and the whole army celebrated their triumphant return.

The cattle and sheep brought back from the grassland can improve the food of the military camp for a long time. If the breeding is good, maybe the big sheep can give birth to lambs, and the big cows can give birth to calves, and the breeding will continue.

Then they have an endless supply of mutton and beef.

At that time, there was no such thing as beef cattle or farm cattle, and the cattle raised on the grasslands were also common breeds. Dairy cattle had not been introduced to the grasslands at this time.

The big cattle brought back from the grasslands are already difficult to train into farm cattle, and some small calves can be trained for a period of time, maybe they can be trained into farm cattle.

Another point is that adult cows have adapted to the climate of the Central Plains, and they can also be trained as farming cattle when they give birth to calves next year.

Long Yutian looked at Xia Jing who was sitting at the top through the bubbling mutton hot pot: "Princess, what do you plan to do for the Beidi herdsmen who are escorted back this time?"

Xia Jing took a piece of tofu and put it into a bowl. After listening to his question, she stopped her movements: "These herdsmen are ordinary herdsmen without herds. They are the people who live at the bottom of the grassland. Help the leader to graze.

I don't have a herd, so I can imagine how hard life in the grassland is.Now that Dayu is here, I, Dayu, have a lot of arable land that no one is cultivating. If we rent some fields for them to cultivate, I believe they will be very happy to live in Dayu. "

You must know that herdsmen live in no fixed place in the grassland, and they live freely with the pasture.

Now that Dayu has come, they don’t need to live in tents, they have a fixed residence, and they can share a few acres of land. I believe they can settle down in Dayu.

Long Yutian stroked his beard, thought for a while and asked, "Rent the land for them to cultivate. Will the herdsmen know how to farm?"

Xia Jing glanced at him, "You can learn it if you don't know it, let the farmers teach it, as long as you are not a fool, you will learn it one day!"

Li Chengmu swallowed the delicious mutton in his mouth, and after hearing what they said, he asked, "Concubine Mu, you rent the land to the herdsmen, how much rent do you plan to charge?"

Xia Jing had already made up her mind about this matter, and when her son asked about it, she told everyone present her thoughts:

"The population loss in the Gyeonggi area is serious. I wanted to carry out land reform, but I didn't want the aristocratic family to directly help me make the choice. Since they voluntarily gave up the industries in the Gyeonggi area, I just happened to take over all the fields in the Gyeonggi area. From now on, all the fields in the Gyeonggi area will belong to me. If someone wants to rent the seeds, they will be charged % of the rent.”

When regaining the lost land in Gyeonggi, Xia Jing sent a notice to the world at that time, as long as those who have property in Gyeonggi area come to Gyeonggi area to register within one month, their property can be returned.

On the contrary, if you don't come to the capital to claim the property after one month, all of it will be returned to the public, and it will be impossible to get your own property back later, unless you buy it back from the yamen with silver.

Hearing this, Long Yutian glanced at Li Chengli and Li Chengyi. When the two brothers heard the announcement, they wrote directly to Jiankang and asked their daughter-in-law to send over the land deeds of all the properties in the Gyeonggi area.

For this announcement, the houses of the palace have no losses.

The only one who has lost is probably the powerful family. They boast that they have a great family background, and they don't pay attention to the court. The notice has been issued, and they don't take it seriously.
Long Yutian didn't like the aristocratic family at all, they were unlucky, he was happy to watch the show!

Li Chengyi also asked: "Mother, the herdsmen from Beidi have come to Dayu. If there is no one to guard them, are you afraid that they will flee back to the grassland?"

"I give them preferential policies, they have houses and fields, and they can live and work in peace and contentment. If they still want to escape back to the grassland, then I can only say that they are born servile and lowly, and no one can help them. They can only fend for themselves in the grassland. Bar!"

For the people of Dayu who were kidnapped by Beidi, they were rescued this time. Those who want to go back to their hometown can go back to their hometown, and those who don’t want to go back to their hometown can live in the village arranged by the government.

If there is no land, you can lease the government's land, and you only need to pay % of the output every year to continue planting.

This comparison is much more cost-effective than renting the land from the landlord's house.

Moreover, if you rent the government's land to farm, you don't need to pay other taxes when you harvest it. The % of the rent includes taxes.

Such a good policy, when the people below heard about it, they were ecstatic.

They feel that at least they will have a head start in the days to come, and they will no longer wake up or use up all their courage to live hard.

When Xia Jing came back, Wei Dong, who was already busy surveying and counting the land, was so busy that he hit the back of his head with his heels.

The rescued former Dayu people had to be resettled, and the Beidi herdsmen had to be resettled. This year they don't even think about farming by themselves. For a ration, they can only help the government manage the fields.

It was the fields that Ding Dazhuang was in charge of cultivating. The crops in these fields urgently needed personnel to manage them. The herdsmen and Dayu people brought back from the grasslands were considered to have solved his urgent needs!
The Batu family were ordinary herdsmen who came from the grassland this time. They traveled across mountains and rivers to Dayu's capital. They thought that their fate would be to spend the rest of their lives in the mines.

But he never thought that Dayu's government treated them as ordinary people, not only giving them houses, but also giving them fields to cultivate according to the officials.

Within a few days, their family and several herdsmen were assigned to a village at the foot of the mountain. They also came with more than a dozen families of Dayu people who did not want to return to the remote village.

"Officer, is there no one living in this village?" Someone asked at the entrance of the village.

The officers and soldiers who sent them over looked at the desolate village, "Three years of drought, everyone who was out of breath ran away, how could there be people in the village? However, the princess issued a notice some time ago, and some people returned to Gyeonggi, but none of them People in this village."

Batu pointed to the houses scattered throughout the village, "My lord, how should these houses be distributed?"

This is very important. They are herdsmen captured from the grassland. According to Dayu people's xenophobic behavior, if he doesn't make it clear now while the official is present, he is afraid that when the official leaves, the herdsmen of their households will live in the worst palapa.

"You can count down the houses that can live in people, and then draw lots to decide together, or draw lots and sort them. Everyone chooses the houses in order, and the ones in the front are selected first!"

Officers and soldiers proposed, of course, how to choose is up to them to decide.

Batu clasped his fists at the officers and soldiers: "I also invite a few officials to bear witness for us!"

Seeing this, the leading officers and soldiers could only nod their heads. If he disagreed, it would be troublesome if these herdsmen clashed with Dayu's people if they left.

Under the supervision of the officers and soldiers, Batu chose a house on the outskirts of the village, with three rooms and a small yard. Although it was a little dilapidated, it was quite satisfactory for herdsmen who lived in the grassland without a fixed place. up.

The houses were selected one after another, and some of them were inevitably satisfied, but even if the officers and soldiers were not satisfied, they did not dare to chatter.

Before the officers and soldiers left, they called everyone to the entrance of the village.

"Now you have settled down. The large fields outside the village need someone to manage them. If you are interested, you can find a manager. The wages will not be owed or deducted."

When the villagers heard his words, their eyes lit up.

"My lord, if we manage the crops in the field, will we be paid by the day or by the month?"

Officer and soldier: "It's all right, it's up to you to choose!"

The entrance of the village boiled instantly.

They settled down in the village and were worried about the livelihood of the whole family.

The government decided to hire them to manage the crops in the field. The more such good things, the better.

The officers and soldiers clapped their hands, motioning for everyone to be quiet.

"Now you have settled down and have your own home, but the officers and soldiers still have to fight the rebels. If anyone among you wants to make life better for your family, you can sign up to join the army.

As a Dayu soldier, as long as you make great achievements in battle, you will be rewarded by the government, you will be promoted to rank, fertile land and herds, gold, silver and jewels are all possible. Getting any of these things can make your family live a better life. A good life, for the sake of your family, you should think about it carefully. If you think about it clearly, you can go to the Yamen to sign up!
But, remember, there are only ten days to sign up for conscription! "

When Batu heard this, his heart was disturbed. He felt that this policy was completely prepared for their Beidi herdsmen.

You must know that grassland herdsmen are born with riding and archery skills. It can be said that they are well-trained cavalry when they ride on horseback, and qualified herdsmen when they get off their horses!

If he made meritorious service in the army and the government really rewarded good land, then his family can basically take root in Dayu, and life will get better and better.

There are quite a few herdsmen who have the same idea as Batu. Within five days, the conscription office recruited grassland men.

Five hundred prairie men are proper five hundred cavalry. Even training can be saved, and they can be pulled directly to the battlefield to become the main force in the battle.

When this news came back to Xia Jing, she was very happy to know the number of people.

She smiled and said to Long Yutian: "It seems that it is necessary for us to raid the grassland tribes. The life of ordinary herdsmen in the grassland is too difficult. We will organize several times to rescue them in the future!"

Long Yutian was also happy when he heard her words, but the corners of his mouth still twitched uncontrollably, "What the princess said is reasonable, if we go to the grassland a few more times, it will be no problem for us to form a cavalry force of tens of thousands."

"Heroes see the same thing!"

Xia Jing was really thinking about when she would go to the grassland again, to get both horses and people, and the most important thing is that grassland herdsmen are natural cavalrymen.

This temptation is a bit big!
Just as she was planning to conquer the grassland again, Jiankang's messenger sent a letter from Jiankang.

"Mother and concubine, what did the father say in the letter?" Li Chengmu asked.

The meeting was interrupted, Xia Jing simply opened the letter in front of everyone, read it at a glance, and pressed the letter on the desk.

"The emperor wants to send officials to govern the Gyeonggi area. What do you think about this matter?"

A look of surprise flashed in Li Chengmu's eyes: "Father actually compromised with the courtiers? He even came up with such a bad idea, who does he want to govern? Without military power, no matter who governs, he will not be able to secure this position."

The Gyeonggi area is surrounded by tigers and wolves, and not everyone has the courage to work here.

Li Chengyi looked at Li Chengmu: "How does Xiao Wu know that the father compromised with the courtiers?"

"You don't need to think about it. According to the temperament of the father, he will not go to great lengths to plot against the concubine mother."

Li Chengmu wanted to say that he didn't have the guts or the brains, the most important thing was that he was too lazy, otherwise how could he have become a dandy among the dandies in the capital.

Xia Jing sneered: "Even you can see the problem clearly, but your father didn't see it, and he complied with the courtier's wish, and wrote to inform me. It can be seen that he has lived too carefree these days, a little drifting! "

She didn't even know how much she weighed, so she dared to grab her wool!

Li Chengli was very curious about how Xia Jing would respond, "Concubine Mu, what would you do if the officials came?"

Xia Jing raised her eyes and glanced at him, and said coldly: "If you are sensible, go back the same way, if you are not, my mine just missed a worker who went down the mine!"

"Pfft!" Li Chengmu gave his mother and concubine a thumbs up.

The mother and concubine are mighty!

(End of this chapter)