On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, it was a sunny day.

When Guan Yu was inspecting the city, he casually said, "Winter is almost over."

This sentence made Li Mengxi remember it carefully.

Winter is almost over, and several trees are about to sprout, which means that seeds can germinate after being planted, and farming can begin.

Li Mengxi hurried back to the city lord's palace. He dug out the files that had been piled up to check the fields. Julu said it was big or not, small or small, or not big. That was compared to the entire Han Dynasty.

Compared with the rebel army, which does not even have a governing structure, it is too difficult to take charge of the thousands of miles of land in Julu.

In order to plan for farming, as early as 2000, Li Mengxi sent many teachers to various places to investigate the land situation.

The investigation situation is not optimistic. The land is mostly deserted due to giant deer. More than half of this deserted land is not planted with anything. We can’t wait until spring to quickly replant some emergency crops so that we can see some food.

The rebel army now only has a military structure and no government structure, so Li Mengxi has no way to even clear the land. He can only send a large number of people to explore and visit the land based on the method of collecting intelligence.

During this period, files kept coming back, and the rolls of cloth recording the land conditions in various places were piled up in several carts.

It took Li Mengxi a long time to dig out all the files and add up the number of acres found in the files bit by bit. The final calculation showed that Julu has fifteen counties under its jurisdiction and a total of 20 million cultivated fields.

More acres.

After calculating this figure, Li Mengxi found it incredible. He calculated it again and found that it was still more than 20 million acres.

"Fuck!" Li Mengxi's eyes widened, "So many places?!"

Li Mengxi just lamented that there were too many acres of land, but he didn't know whether 20 million acres of land in a place as big as Julu was too much or too little.

He summoned Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and Li Mengxi discussed with them how to start farming.

Li Mengxi said to Guan Yu, "General Guan, if we go by what was discussed before and based on the output of the fields, four or five acres of land can feed one person. However, this year's weather is not good and the grain is not abundant, so we should have slightly more acres of land to be able to sustain a living."

After speaking, Li Mengxi frowned and calculated, "Then, if each person is divided into six acres, and according to the two-year rotation system, one person needs to be divided into twelve acres of land, which is enough for one person to eat."

Speaking of this, Li Mengxi asked curiously, "General Guan, how much is my Han Dynasty's food allowance?"

Guan Yu replied, "There is a tax of one for ten, one for fifteen, and one for twenty." As he said that, Guan Yu paused and sighed, "Oh, it changes every year."

Listening to Guan Yu's tone, Li Mengxi could vaguely guess that the Han Dynasty must be changing orders every day. The tax laws are chaotic and the taxes are getting higher. If the taxes become looser and looser, Guan Yu will not sigh.

The so-called tax is one for ten, one for fifteen, and one for twenty, that is, the harvest of ten acres of land is paid to one mu, or the harvest of fifteen acres is paid to one mu.

We have already figured out that the output of six acres of land per capita is enough to eat enough. If we only allocate these six acres of land, the people will be able to eat enough, but there will be no surplus food to pay taxes.

This won't work. If you don't pay taxes, how will you get the military rations to fight the war?

Therefore, how many acres should be allocated.

If the tax rate is one per ten, then adding one-tenth of the tax to twelve acres of land would be two cents per thirteen acres.

If there is a tax of one per fifteen acres, twelve acres plus one-fifteenth of the twelve acres will be equal to eight cents per twelve acres.

That is to say, the average person of the people has twelve acres of land and eight acres of land. According to the two-year cycle, six acres of land are cultivated every year. Four acres of the six acres are planted. Six acres are enough for oneself to eat, and four acres are taxed.

After Li Mengxi made some calculations, he said, "I know that Julu has 20 million acres of land, and our army has a total of 150,000 people. If the land is divided according to 15 taxes, and the average land is divided into 12 acres and 80%, then

With a population of 150,000 people, the total land required is 1.92 million acres.

And the rest, more than 10 million acres..."

At this point, Li Mengxi fell silent.

He wouldn't know if he didn't do the calculations carefully. Once he did the calculations, he was frightened.

Based on twelve acres of land per person, if the figure of Julu’s 20 million acres is correct, then the upper limit of Julu’s land can support three to two hundred people.

But now, there are only 150,000 Yellow Turban refugees in the army, and there may still be a hidden population in Julu. Take Julu as an example. Li Mengxi also went to the countryside to see it. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is not even one household in ten in the countryside.

How much additional population can be hidden in the entire Julu? Even if there are another 150,000, another 300,000, and another 450,000, the 150,000 in the Canadian army are only 600,000

.

With 600,000 people and 20 million acres of land, Li Mengxi found that there was no one left. Even if the land was divided among adults and children, and even if one person was divided into 30 acres, there would still be land left.

During the Yellow Turban turmoil, Julu's population fled or died, and the whole place was almost empty.

Li Mengxi was silent. He understood at this moment that talking about ancient wars and talking about ten rooms and nine empty houses was not an exaggerated description.

Spring is just around the corner, and we can’t plant so much land, but we still have to plant it, and we can’t leave it unused.

Li Mengxi wanted to control all of Julu, take all the land into the hands of the rebels, and then divide the land equally.

The scattered people in Julu countryside will also be brought under the control of the rebel army when they start to work in the fields in spring.

Regarding the farming plan, Li Mengxi wanted to rely on the current organization of the rebel army and then disperse it into farming stations according to the organization.

The reason for this is to preserve the organization.

The Rebels were mostly the old Yellow Turbans, but one of the key reasons why the Rebels were several times stronger than the Yellow Turbans was that the Yellow Turbans did not have an organization, while the Rebels spent a lot of energy and time to barely establish an organization during their battles.

Having a preliminary organization means that when a small group of hundreds of thousands of people is marching, it can follow its own team flag for tens of hundreds of miles and the queue will still remain stable; having an organization means that in the event of a war, the queue will be scattered and collapsed.

As long as they are not too scattered, the civilian soldiers can find themselves under their own team flags and regroup within a few dozen steps; having an organization also means that with an organization, they can have basic and effective

The management of order means that military orders can be issued from top to bottom, which means that the distribution of military rations can be provided by teams.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! And if there is no organization, hundreds of thousands of people would have to line up for several miles to get the porridge every day, queuing from morning to night to complete one turn.

Nothing can be done without preparation.

It can be said that the establishment of the twelve zodiac flags is the most precious wealth and foundation of the rebel army now, and it is extremely difficult to establish this foundation.

Therefore, in order to preserve the combat organization of the rebel army as much as possible and to facilitate management, the farming must be carried out based on the military system.

Therefore, Li Mengxi's plan is that, as a first step, the 20 million pieces of land owned by Julu will be equally distributed to the 150,000 rebels.

Then when the field team arrived at a certain place, they established a military base and order, took control of all the local fields, and absorbed all the wandering people into the rebel system with their fields.

In this process, land must be seized, all land must be taken.

If you think about it, you can be allocated a large amount of land and the people will follow suit, but the powerful landlords will definitely become resistance.

However, as Li Mengxi said, there are tens of thousands of people, but there are only a hundred powerful people, and they cannot defeat hundreds of enemies.

Furthermore, Julu was the place chosen by Li Mengxi for hegemony. Julu had just experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the turmoil was unprecedented elsewhere. In the violent turmoil, Zhang Jiao attacked the state and destroyed the government, killing all of Julu.

This resulted in Julu becoming a unique vacuum zone. Julu had neither government nor powerful people, so it was naturally conducive to the policy of equal distribution of land.

Twenty million acres of land are divided equally among 150,000 people, which means that one person controls 133 acres of land.

The minimum organization of the rebel army in the field is twelve banners, one hundred and twenty battalions, and one thousand two hundred teams. The smallest is a small team. Excluding the old, weak, women and children, and excluding elite soldiers, a team has seven

About ten people.

In other words, a farming team of 70 people controls more than 7,000 acres of land.

No matter how you calculate it, there are far more giant deer than people in the chaos, and farming in the coming year will be troublesome.

But Li Mengxi knew very well that the most indispensable thing for the Han Dynasty was people. There were many ways to fill the empty land. The people who fled would return, the refugees from other places could be absorbed, and the territory would expand. Therefore, there would be a situation of less people and more land.

It will last for two or three years at most and then it will end.

However, in this first year, the population and labor force seemed to be extremely insufficient. How to farm, Li Mengxi frowned.

Although the artifact of the Qu Yuan Plow was added as a helping hand, even with the Qu Yuan Plow, it seemed that the manpower was still insufficient.

Li Mengxi then wondered if there was any way to improve productivity. Apart from technology, other than inventing a curved shaft plow, nothing else could be invented in a hurry.
Chapter completed!