Chapter 452 Take precautions before they happen
"Jiahe, produces five grains a day."

"A grain of Jiahe rice can satisfy hunger for a day."

Ganquan, Black Bear took advantage of his free time to come to his own fields to study grain improvement.

But no matter whether it is millet or wheat, as long as it is refined by white magic power, it will all become good crops.

God berries and blood peaches can only speed up the healing of wounds and restore physical strength, but they cannot make a hungry person full.

But the grains of Jiahe are all round and the size of soybeans, and are wrapped in husks.

After repeated refinement many times and in many kinds, all that is seen is Jiahe.

The black bear couldn't help feeling disappointed, which was even more disappointing than the disappointment in human nature.

Now the two blood peach trees produce ten peaches a day, which is still somewhat insufficient.

If you want to quickly stimulate the frenzy of the Taiping Dao in Shuzhong and Nanzhong, you must ensure an adequate supply of peaches.

There are many considerations for giving Li Feng a longevity peach.

The first was that he had promised and deceived this guy, explaining the way of medicine, that a longevity peach should allow Li Feng to get the longevity he wanted.

Only by eating the longevity peach will you get the longevity peach core, which can then be purified into a blood peach tree.

As for longevity peaches, you can just keep one on hand for emergency use, as another one will grow in half a month.

So let Li Feng eat one to ensure his physical condition... If he died inexplicably, it couldn't be that he choked to death while drinking water, so he could just kill all the officials and scholars in Shu.

The plan to refine and improve the grains failed, so the black bear left the field.

Under a roadside wooden shed, Fa Zheng was lying on his side with his eyes closed, taking a nap, while in his other hand he was holding a white silk embroidered folding fan and slowly waving it.

Rather than staying in the shogunate to handle official business, Fa Zheng preferred to follow Black Bear on patrols. Anyway, Zhuge Jin also cherished these work opportunities.

The people around him pulled at Fa Zheng's trouser legs, and Fa Zheng came to his senses and immediately stood up: "Your Majesty."

"It makes Xiaozhi tired."

"I dare not, Your Majesty is joking."

Fa Zheng put away the folding fan. The official land allocated to him was also nearby, only 600 acres.

This was simply not something Fa Zheng and his wife could handle. He had an official rank of 600 dan and could employ six households of workers.

But it was difficult to find landless tenants and hired workers in Guanzhong now, so he could only pay money to rent six slaves from the government to help him farm.

He was not short of money now, and he had purchased enough oxen, draft horses and farming tools, so he completed the spring plowing work easily.

As for the subsequent weeding, pest control and the like, his wife would lead six slaves to work on the fields.

Black Bear sat down, and Dian Wei, who was accompanying him, handed him a pot of warm tea. He picked up the teapot and poured water into the wooden cup on the table, looking around: "When I came here last year, I felt that the fields and mountains were vast, but now it seems a bit narrow. Standing on the mountain, I can't see farther, but the view is blocked by the layers of mountains."

Fa Zheng raised his cup and also looked out: "Your Majesty, you abandoned the South Mountain and came to the North Mountain of Ganquan. If you think the North Mountain is narrow, then where can you go to meet your Majesty's wishes?"

"I don't know. I just occasionally feel emotional. Xiaozhi, don't worry about it."

Black Bear took a sip of tea and said, "There have been many criticisms in the official documents in recent days, saying that the coexistence of two chief clerks is not conducive to the operation of the Huangge. I want to change the chief clerk to the secretary's office, Xiaozhi as the secretary-general, Zhuge Ziyu as the secretary supervisor, and the rest of the secretaries remain the same. In this way, there will be order of rank, and when we go out to fight in the future, Xiaozhi will accompany us, and it can also show the difference between the camp's political orders and those who stay behind."

Fa Zheng frowned slightly after hearing this. Having two chief clerks at the same time was indeed not a good idea, but Zhuge Jin was a generous and accommodating person.

Fa Zheng also respects such people.

The more people like this there are, the more comfortable everyone's life and work will be.

There's nothing going on among them, so why are outsiders talking about them?
But he also felt that the idea of ​​improving the Huangge of the Chief Clerk into a secretary's desk was appropriate, so he nodded and said, "If your Majesty were to think about it, should the secretary's desk be set up in another place, or should it remain in the Huangge?" The black bear's residence would be painted vermilion.

The "Huang" in Huangge is the same as the "Huang" in Huangmen Shilang.

"Since we have set up a station, we will open another office, but we will still be on duty at the Huang Pavilion."

Black Bear held the teacup in deep thought, weighing the pros and cons. The secretary's desk had to be kept under his nose, and these people would be his mouthpiece.

If things get out of control and people start talking nonsense and causing chaos, even if it is easily calmed down, it will cause a crisis of trust for a long time to come.

So he said to Fa Zheng: "The Secretary General will stay behind and take charge of the affairs of the Secretariat; the Secretary General will be on duty at the Huangge. This way, when we go out to fight in the future, the Secretary General will stay on his own and it will be difficult for outsiders to communicate, which will save us from many hidden dangers."

Fa Zheng listened and nodded repeatedly. Thinking that the official rank was linked to the amount of official land, he gave up the idea of ​​asking about the new official rank.

Hei Xiong finished his tea and added: "The Secretary-General has a rank of 1,000 dan, the Secretary-General has a rank of 2,000 dan; below them is the Secretary-General, with a rank of 600 dan; the Secretary-General has a rank of 600 dan; the Secretary-General has a rank of 400 dan."

As he finished speaking, several secretaries around him all looked miserable. The secretary's original official rank was three hundred stones.

Those who were selected to serve as secretaries generally had meager family wealth; they relied on meager salaries, the power of horses awarded as rewards, and the help of their families to complete the cultivation and harvesting of the 300-koku official land.

Seeing these people's unhappy faces, Black Bear said: "After the spring plowing is completed this year, the Secretary's Office will re-grant land according to the new official rank next year."

"Yes."

Several secretaries stood up and bowed, all smiling. An increase of one hundred stones in official rank meant that the family could support two more children.

Their salaries were enough to support their families and buy some tools.

As a member of the Yellow Pavilion, his three meals a day were connected with Black Bear, so he would never be short of food; especially when he was away on an expedition, there was always meat.

Some secretaries have become even stronger.

There are also clothes, shoes, socks, quilts, mattresses and the like, which are rewards given in both winter and summer.

Compared with officials of the same rank in other institutions, Huang Ge was treated exceptionally well.

Fa Zhengze sat aside and pondered, and asked in return: "Your Majesty, when the future law of nobility and salary is promulgated, will an official like me with a rank of 1,000 stones only be able to purchase 1,000 acres of private land?"

This was the standard for some officials in Guanzhong to purchase private land. Most of these officials were also in the process of starting a new business, establishing a family business, and establishing a family.

"Well, the official rank is equal to the amount of private land quota."

Black Bear looked up and gazed into the distance as he spoke. He didn't want to continue discussing the rest of the conversation.

The cost of tax collection will only get higher and higher, and the group of officials will become larger and larger.

People tend to love leisure and hate work, and they all want their relatives, nephews, and nieces to take up a good job that is easy and leisurely and provides a stable income.

It is best not to take responsibility and have no one to hold accountable.

Therefore, the expansion of the officialdom is almost inevitable.

This made Hei Xiong very difficult. The original purpose of the Zhitian Order was to stimulate officials' enthusiasm for farming and producing grain.

But now he wants to link the amount of official land and private land to the title and salary.

This matter is too complicated and huge, so it has to be kept secret for now. It will not be too late to implement it after the people trained by Qinghuawei have been deployed to the grassroots level in various counties in Guanzhong.

As for Yizhou, we can only make special arrangements and give them a window of opportunity to make contributions to the shogunate and be promoted.

I hope they can seize the opportunity and not make things difficult for themselves.

(End of this chapter)