Qingtai Town is surrounded by vast plains, endless. The water blocking next to it is an important tributary of the Tangbai River. It not only has the benefits of shipping, but also has a series of ponds upstream, which are convenient for irrigation. During the Han Dynasty, the agriculture here was developed, the population was dense, and rice was planted in large quantities. Later, after wars, the population fled and the water conservancy was not repaired, and the scene at that time was never reproduced. When the world was stable in the early Tang Dynasty, it was temporarily restored, but later after the chaotic times of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was desolate. This area has never reached the population size of the Han Dynasty for nearly a thousand years.

There are also some villages around, mostly located on major transportation roads, with a very small scale. Large areas of abandoned farmland are full of thorns.

Not far from Qingtai Town, Dushui East Bank is a demonstration area of ​​field camp selected by Du Zhongxiao, and he personally manages it. If there are farmers in the selected area, they will either move away or incorporate them into field camps and fields, and the administrative division and agricultural layout will be completely overturned.

According to the established plan, there are fifty households in a village and ten villages happen to be a battalion, which is roughly connected with the military organization.

The battalion, also known as command, is the basic organization unit of the Song Dynasty army, with a total of 500 infantry and 400 cavalry. Although it is not uniform, the army in the world is roughly like this. Theoretically, the battalion has a fixed organization, and the army and wings are all temporary organizational, and the number of people is not uniform, so it can be organized according to the needs of the war. The size of the army is counted, whether it is the Privy Council or the Three Yas, it is based on the number of camps.

The reason why the army of this size is called is that unless the situation is special, it will not be broken up. The station is Yingpan. The iron-killed soldiers are the commanded military camps. However, in this era, not only the iron-killed soldiers are iron-killed, but the soldiers are also fixed.

The radius of twelve miles is the planned land for the land management. Each village has fifty households, with villages about three miles apart, and the command base is in the middle, and the remaining nine villages are evenly distributed around. Each village is fine-tuned according to the geographical environment, and the major principles remain unchanged.

Each household has 30 mu of arable land, and in principle, ten mu of paddy fields and twenty mu of dry land. In a village, the arable land accounts for about 40% of the land, the rest are orchards and vegetable fields, as well as river beaches, ponds, grasslands, and the rest are idle fields.

The model village selected by Du Zhongxiao covers an area of ​​60 miles and is divided into five battalions. It is distributed on the plain opposite Dushui and extends to Zhongyang Mountain in the east. There are a total of 2,500 households, which is approximately equivalent to one Zhongxian.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, the river is clear, the willows are green, and there are more birds flying in the sky. The breath of spring is getting heavier day by day, and the vast plains wake up from the sanctuary of winter, and both people and nature are becoming busy.

Du Zhongxiao passed the blockade, rode a horse, and took officials such as Cui Zhubu to the selected places to inspect.

The cultivated land is sparse, and large tracts of woods on both sides of the road fly out of the grass from time to time, flying into the distance. Occasionally, you will see groups of farmers in groups of five or three and walk around the forest.

Du Zhongxiao saw a lot and asked the Zhubu Cui beside him: "This season, although it is not time to plow spring, there are many farm work in the fields and repair the ridges. Why are so many people not busy with farm work, but instead wandering around in the wild? Do the villagers here do not pay attention to farming?"

Cui Zhubu said: "That's not the case. There are so many oak trees in the wild in this area. They are looking for a suitable place to lay silkworms in a few days."

Du Zhongxiao said strangely: "The climate here is humid and you planted mulberry trees well. Why don't you raise silkworms?"

Cui Zhubu said: "It takes a lot of effort to raise silkworms. There are many oak trees in the wild, and raising silkworms will make a lot of profits. Who will have trouble picking mulberry leaves?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded. It seemed that it was a habit of growing in large populations and small land. Since ancient times, there have been two types of silkworms in China. One is tussert silkworms, mainly distributed in the north, with Jingdong Road as the main production area, and there are also many here on Jingxi Road. The other is mulberry silkworms, mainly distributed in the south, with Liangzhe River as the most. Mullet silkworms are mostly raised by homes, planting mulberry around their homes and picking mulberry leaves. Tussert silkworms are mainly stocked, and choose suitable places in the wild as silkworms and silkworms as silkworms, and in spring, they are stocked on suitable trees. There are slight differences in silk between the two, but the prices on the market are basically the same.

Tangzhou is a place suitable for raising mulberry silkworms. Although mulberry silkworms are labor-intensive, they have stable output, convenient breeding, and more mature technology. However, they have been widely and sparsely populated for a long time, and the geographical climate is suitable for the growth of oak trees. In this era, they mainly raising tusser silkworms.

The village planned by Du Zhongxiao has a special mulberry field, which requires every household to raise silkworms. I don’t know if the boatmen who come to cultivate the fields and local villagers can adapt to the new production methods. This is the future direction, and mulberry silkworms will inevitably replace the tussaurus.

After passing several small villages, he arrived at the place chosen by Du Zhongxiao. Five commanders waited early at the entrance of the village and brought the small officers below to welcome Du Zhongxiao and his party into the village.

Looking at the neat houses on both sides of the street, Du Zhongxiao said: "Are these houses newly built?"

Commander Sun, who was leading the way, said: "The Huiyun Judgment was built these days. There was no shortage of grass, trees and reeds around it, so it was easier to build thatched houses. However, the commanders of the yamen all need to build soil, which took some more effort."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Although the land construction is labor-intensive, it can live in a house for a long time, and it will not be difficult to pass on for several generations. When farmland is planted here, you can set up a few places to burn bricks and build brick houses in the future, which will be even better."

Commander Sun said: "Yun Jue said it well, but where are there so many people? I have to wait until there are more people in the future."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It doesn't take long. As long as two or three years are spent, everyone has some savings at home, you can do it. When you open the fields, pay attention to the surrounding soil. Where is suitable for burning bricks and tiles? Remember it."

Several commanders said yes together, but they didn't agree. It took countless efforts to build these land-building houses, and their subordinates had no time to free themselves since they arrived here. Other boatmen did not have these hard regulations, and their lives were idle, and there were many complaints below.

The resettlement area is under Commander Sun. The commander's yamen is located in the middle of the village, and now it is renamed Yingyamen. It corresponds to the local administrative divisions. One commander is about a township, and this place is considered a township government.

There are very few officers in the army who command this level, just commanders and deputy commanders, without officials. They are grassroots units of the army, and their salary is paid, and they are trained regularly, and all kinds of miscellaneous tasks are all based on battalions. In fact, the two commanders of the chief and deputy cannot do so many things. Generally, a few smart and smart soldiers will follow them to deal with miscellaneous tasks. With such an organizational structure, it is far from enough to manage the civil affairs of a township.

Du Zhongxiao asked the chief and deputy commander to be literate. The illiterate Yingtianwu yamen opened a literacy class and learned it as soon as possible. If you really learn it, you will be transferred to other places directly under the Yingtianwu yu and become a small official. In addition, each battalion must add two books to correspond to the local village scholars and handle various official documents. Now everything is invented, and there are too few people who know literacy among the boatmen, and they are recruiting locally.

After entering the yamen, Commander Sun ordered tea to come and pointed to a picture drawn on the wall and said, "According to Yun Jue's instructions, every village here has been drawn, so that people can see how each village is like at a glance. This is the picture here of the subordinates, not only the village, but also the nine nearby villages."

Du Zhongxiao looked at this picture and was very simple, just using lines to draw a rough picture. One picture contains the names of ten villages. Connecting them with lines is considered a road, marking the mileage, and I don’t know if it is accurate. The other picture shows the village, where there are arable land, how many paddy fields, how many dry land, where there are ponds, orchards, where there are mulberry fields, and where there are vegetable fields, they are roughly marked.
Chapter completed!