Hou Dayong was always worried about his marriage with Fu Ying. The main reason was that Fu Ying was the sister of Queen Fu. After marrying Fu Ying, Hou Dayong would become Chai Rong's brother-in-law. If he didn't understand history, it would be fine. Hou Dayong knew that Zhao Kuangyin and his subordinates would stage a good show of "yellow robe" at Chenqiao Post in a few years. Originally, it didn't matter who became the emperor. As an ordinary minister, he just kowtowed. But as Chai Rong's brother-in-law, he was a royal relative, and his fate was hard to say. Now it is September of the first year of Xiande, and Chai Rong's death is only a few years before Chai Rong's death.

Through official documents, Hou Dayong knew that Zhao Kuangyin had begun to train the imperial guards, and things were developing step by step towards historical records. Hou Dayong had no reason or ability to stop Zhao Kuangyin's rise. To be fair, Hou Dayong believed that Zhao Kuangyin was still a good emperor. After he seized the throne, his civil and military achievements were very good. His martial arts were manifested as "pacifying Jingnan, conquering Hunan, destroying Later Shu, destroying Southern Han, and destroying Southern Tang", which led to the Song Dynasty. Civil and political rule was manifested as "interpreting military power in the vassal states, charity and music, and blocking the source of turbidity. The ministers of the prefectures and counties, from the imperial courts and ministers, from the imperial courts and officials to the court, he personally led his own counterparts. He worked hard to promote agriculture and education, cautious punishment and poor concentration, and rested with the world, and finally Piping. The governance was successful and rituals and music were produced." It quickly gathered people's hearts for the emerging dynasty.

After Hou Dayong came to ancient times, he had been striving for survival. Now his status has improved, and the number of people dependent on him has also increased, such as Chunlan, Qiuju, Xiaowu, Xiaowen, brothers and sisters saved from the porridge field, and Fu Ying, who had not passed the door. Hou Dayong felt the weight of the burden on his shoulders.

Hou Dayong's sense of crisis is getting stronger and stronger, and he continues to engage in fierce ideological struggles. "There are three choices now. First, obey history and allow Zhao Kuangyin to be the emperor. Now, we must take the initiative to show goodwill than Zhao Kuangyin and say that he has no ambitions; second, help Chai Rong and let him avoid that serious illness, the history will be different; third, if Chai Rong cannot be saved, he will compete with Zhao Kuangyin for a long time." Hou Dayong did not intend to choose the first plan. Second, the third plan can be considered, but whether it can save Chai Rong's life is indeed an unknown, because there are too many unpredictable variables in the meantime, the Jiangzhuling incident is an excellent example.

"Now Zhao Kuangyin's status is similar to mine, but he has a central place, and he will get the moon first near the water and towers. And I also have an advantage. After all, I am Chai Rong's brother-in-law, Zhengzhou base, and a Black Eagle Army with strong combat power. Perhaps God has given me a sacred mission to return here. Is it better to have a king, prince, general and minister? Why can't I take on this burden?"

"The Song Dynasty inherited the Sui and Tang Empires, but it was weak for a long time. It was defeated by Liao, Xixia, Jin, Mongolia and others. From then on, China gradually went from its peak to its decline, which was extremely inconsistent with the developed technology, culture and economy of the Song Dynasty at that time. If I replaced Zhao Kuangyin, could I do better?"

Hou Dayong thought over and over again, feeling that he still needed to prepare for the future, take advantage of the advantages from modern times and basically clear about the general direction of historical development, manage Zhengzhou well, use this as a base, enhance his strength, and then decide to advance and retreat based on actual conditions.

After making up his mind, Hou Dayong began to take the initiative. In the first three months, Hou Dayong did not clarify his ideas, but just fulfilled his duties. Now the overall idea is to operate Zhengzhou with the purpose of establishing a base, but no one can see the intention.

Hou Dayong planned to do four things well. One thing is to reassure the refugees and make the refugees who have fallen into Zhengzhou the most loyal supporters of Hou Dayong. This thing is the easiest to win the hearts of the people. Secondly, it is necessary to establish a school similar to the Whampoa Military Academy. Of course, it cannot be called a military academy, named "Songshan Academy". It can train a group of loyal cadres, and the specific handling needs to be carefully considered; third, it is to study the new weapons that have emerged in this era, improve equipment, change tactics, and improve the combat effectiveness of the army without increasing the number of troops; fourth, it is necessary to increase trade, gather wealth, and improve economic strength. These four things can only be carried out in the form of "snoozing into the night with the wind and moisten things silently", and carry out a quiet change under the legal cloak, striving to achieve results in two to three years.

After clarifying his ideas, Hou Dayong first carried out his work among the refugees. Most of the refugees were placed in wasteland north of Zhengzhou and south of the Yellow River. As the resettlement work went smoothly, nearly 1,000 refugees flowed into Zhengzhou, reaching more than 5,000. Zhengzhou had previously raised 800 stones of grain, 30 kilograms of jin, 4 jin was stone, and about 120 jin per stone. 800 stone was about 96,000 jin, but there were very few people who were assigned to each disaster victim.

Hou Dayong went to major households again to raise grain in the temple. He persuaded him and coaxed and deceived him half of the threat. In addition, he also raised more than 3,000 stones of grain. Although it could not solve the fundamental problem, it was better than not.

Then, Zhengzhou Prefecture issued a notice and set up voluntary donation sites in each county. Everything that can be eaten and used is within the scope of donation. At that time, many people believed in Buddhism and most of them were willing to do good deeds and accumulate merits, so they donated grain more enthusiastically. Ten days after setting up grain donation sites, each donated grain donated nearly 2,000 stones, and more than 700 stagnant of coins. In addition, some clothing, daily necessities and vegetable seeds were donated.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the household registration system has been very strict. Hou Dayong made military achievements in Cangzhou and obtained Liu San Manor. After he registered his household registration in Cangzhou, he became an official member of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He had no household registration before, so he could only be considered a black household.

The household registration in Dazhou mainly includes three items: household registration, land, and tax service, and is stipulated to be built every three years. In the early month of the first month of the quarter, officials in charge of household registration in each county will bring the hand-made and accounted for the county's previous two years to the prefecture to build a household registration in the prefecture. The household registration will be registered in a household order according to the township and the household registration will be registered in each household. Each household is headed by the head of the household, and their name, age, gender, Dingzhong, household, etc., and identity. If there is an official honor; secondly, family members (including good and untouchables); finally, they will also register the number of fields that should be received by the person, and the number of fields that have been received, but not the number of fields.

The book is copied in three copies in one form, and it is glued into a roll in a township unit. The bonding area is written on a certain prefecture, a certain township, a certain village, a certain prefecture, a county, a county name is marked with a prefecture, and a county official seal to prevent changes and cheating. After the production is completed, one copy is decorated and sent to the Ministry of Revenue of the Shangshu Province, and two copies are stored in the prefecture and county registration office (store). The population growth, death, decline, escape, and new slave transactions within three years after the booking is created must be registered on the hand and account, and the new household registration must be noted on the next time.

In order to enhance the sense of belonging of refugees, Hou Dayong ordered anyone who had wasteland in Zhengzhou or who had a living in Zhengzhou to register with Zhengzhou, and ordered officials from various counties to speed up registration. After the refugees were trapped in Zhengzhou, they accidentally obtained a piece of land and also received food for survival. Most of the refugees were willing to stay in Zhengzhou to enter their households. As a result, Zhengzhou had more than 900 households and more than 4,000 people.

This move made officials in Zezhou, Luzhou, Jinzhou, Qinzhou and Daizhou very dissatisfied, because the increase and decrease of population were important contents in the annual assessment of the Ministry of Households. At that time, the labor force was insufficient and the increase in population was an important political achievement of local officials. Now the population has been lost to Zhengzhou, which made these local officials very angry, so they tried all kinds of ways to forge some household registrations to improve their political achievements.

Hou Dayong led more than 20 central guards including Du Gang and Chen Meng to set out from Zhengzhou and visited Sishui, Xingyang, Mi, Xinzheng and other counties to inspect the resettlement of refugees.

Hou Dayong did not say hello to the counties. He only went to find the county magistrate, county magistrate and county magistrate to the refugee resettlement area after arriving in each county to avoid fraud. After walking in a few counties, it was pretty good in general, with the grain, seeds and farm tools in place. Although most of the houses were temporarily built and the conditions were simple, the basic living conditions were already met.

In September, the heat has passed, the autumn is clear and the weather is clear. All kinds of crops are basically planted in barren fields.

China's grain production structure was the first to be dominated by millet and rice. The so-called "normal millet and southern rice" was. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China's economic center of gravity was always in the Yellow River Basin in the north, so millet had an important position in the national grain supply. This pattern was broken in the Sui and Tang Dynasties as the economic center of gravity moved south. Rice gradually replaced the position of millet in grain supply, and wheat followed closely and was in the same position as millet. A situation in which rice, millet and wheat divided the world.

In addition to grain, there are already a complete variety of vegetables. Along the way, there were so many types of vegetables that far exceeded Hou Dayong's imagination. The names that the guards could call were dwarf yellow, big white heads, small white heads, onions, garlic, gourds, winter melons, yam, radish, chicken heads, etc. Hou Dayong only recognized a few of them.

Seeing that the refugee resettlement was in good condition, Hou Dayong was in a better mood. Whenever he encountered a flat road, he would race horses with his guards. "Feng" had not run over this happily for a long time and threw the guards away.

Before he knew it, he entered the ground of Zhongmu, but the wasteland gradually increased, and some fields were covered with weeds. Seeing this scene, Hou Dayong slowed down. Hou Dayong remembered that there were more than 800 refugees and more than 300 households in Zhongmu. Why did there be so many wastelands?

In order to find out the truth, Hou Dayong took his personal guards to the refugee gathering site before entering Zhongmu County. The refugee gathering site was a remote village. Hou Dayong and his group walked for nearly three hours before they reached the gathering site. When they arrived, it was supper time.

A lot of small houses similar to shanty towns were temporarily built at the gathering site. A child playing outside had met Hou Dayong in the porridge field and recognized him immediately. After a while, a large group of people were greeted by an old man.

Hou Dayong dismounted, asked everyone to get up, and asked the old man, "Old man, you're living a good life in Zhongmu County."

The old man said, "I finally have a place to settle down. After the past six months, I will have a harvest next year."

Seeing the old man wearing ragged clothes and with vegetables on his face, Hou Dayong said, "How much grain, seeds have you allocated? Do you have any farmers?"

The old man said, "Everything is good, everything is good."

A young man next to him said, "We have less grain, seeds and agricultural tools here than in other counties, and each household has less than one pound of grain."

Hou Dayong was stunned. According to the food collected from various channels, each of the victims was divided into about two jun per person. If there were four people in the family, there would be eight jun to nine jun. "It seems that the refugees actually received not much food and did not meet the distribution requirements." Hou Dayong did not say anything again, and walked into a shanty townhouse casually and saw a broken clay pot full of wild vegetables.

The old man followed behind and saw that Hou Dayong looked bad, he explained: "Now there are wild vegetables, so eat less food. When it is winter, when it is impossible to dig wild vegetables, use the food."

Hou Dayong didn't know what to say to these refugees. After thinking about it, he said to the old man: "I have food, so you have food, don't worry. Now, according to the farming season, you can grow some vegetables and eat them yourself, and you can also sell them in the city for some money."

When the old man heard this, he wiped his eyes and said, "We cannot rely solely on relief. With land, farm tools, and seeds, we cannot starve to death, and the great kindness of the envoys, we can only turn into a cow and return it to horses in the next life."

Hou Dayong left several more households, and the situation was similar. By visiting refugees, Hou Dayong concluded that there was something wrong with the magistrate of Zhongmu County. So he took his personal guards and rushed to the city. When he arrived at Wuyang County, the city gate was closed. The personal guards reported their names. The gate leader saw that the defensive envoy was here in person, so he hurriedly opened the door.

Hou Dayong asked the door to lead the way and went straight to the residence of the Zhongmu County Magistrate.

(End of Chapter 9)
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