I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Now Dunhuang County must focus on trade, and Jiuquan County can be regarded as a little bit of light, Wuwei County is engaged in textiles, and Zhangye in the middle seems to be a bit out of date. What can it do?

Liu Tan held his chin and said, "I remember that there is also a large pasture in Zhangye, right?"

Huo Guang sighed and nodded: "Yes, so there is not too much arable land in Zhangye, and the grassland and Gobi occupy too much space, so they don't have an advantage in farming."

The most important thing is that these resources are scarce, so there are fewer things that can be provided to passing caravans, and there are not even many water sources.

Liu Tan said: "You are so regretful that you want Zhangye to follow the path of agricultural production, right?"

Huo Guang didn't speak. He knew Liu Tan's question must have something on his mind.

Sure enough, I heard Liu Tan say: "I will send someone to circle a few pastures later."

Huo Guang was taken aback for a moment: "Enclose the grass field? What is Your Highness doing to enclose the grass field?"

Now there are enough pastures in the northern border country. Horses do need good pastures, but they don't have so many horses to raise.

Liu Tan said, "What else can I do? Raise sheep!"

Only then did Huo Guang suddenly realize that he hesitated and said, "But if I raise sheep by myself, I'm afraid it will increase the cost instead."

For the Xiongnu and some countries in the Western Regions, wool is useless, and they are useless. If you sell it to the big man at a low price, you can get back part of the money, which is a win-win situation. The recent purchase of wool by the big man is basically negligible.

But if you raise your own sheep, just for the wool, the cost will be much higher.

Mutton can indeed be sold, but when the number of farmed sheep increases, the price of mutton will also decrease, so if it is inside and outside, it will increase the cost instead.

Liu Tan said: "We can't rely on the Western Regions and the Huns. What if there is a war and others can't provide us with wool? It won't work if we only rely on Danyang and Axuan? If the market for the big Han rises, Wusun's wool will be in short supply. Up."

When Huo Guang heard Liu Tan say this, he suddenly asked vigilantly, "What is Your Highness going to do?"

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion, "What am I going to do? Isn't everything I'm going to do here?"

Huo Guang said: "Your Highness just said that in case of a fight..."

Liu Tan said helplessly: "You are too sensitive, right? Isn't it a hypothesis in case of a fight? What's more, even if I don't assume it, you should think about it sooner or later."

Huo Guang didn't say a word. In fact, he had predicted it himself. Although he didn't know how to march and deploy troops, he still had some experience in predicting national power and predicting the time of war.

Seeing his expression, Liu Tan asked, "Tell me, what do you think?"

Huo Guang simply said: "I feel that within 20 years, there will be a war between the Northern Territory and the Xiongnu."

Liu Tan abruptly swallowed back the sentence that 20 years is too long.

Young people do not lack drive and enthusiasm, but the downside is that they are impatient.

At Liu Tan's place at the beginning, I felt that the time was very long in terms of years. I had more contact with political affairs and settled down a little, but at most I could bear a five-year plan or something.

If he really asked him to make a 15-20-year plan, he would feel very anxious.

However, he also knows that Huo Guang's thinking is relatively safe, and 20 years is enough time for the northern border country to undergo earth-shaking changes.

He didn't comment on this matter, but asked, "What about the Western Regions?"

Huo Guang gave Liu Tan a warning look: "The Western Regions can now be regarded as King Wusun's private land. Your Highness should not take care of the Western Regions if you don't want to be an enemy of King Wusun."

Liu Tan raised his eyebrows: "You mean we can't fight the Western Regions?"

Huo Guang nodded decisively: "Not bad."

Liu Tan didn't dare to tell him that he wrote a memorial to Liu Che. If Huo Guang thought so, then Liu Che probably thought the same way, then Liu Che might not agree to this memorial. If so, then there is no need to tell Huo Guang.

He said decisively: "Okay, this is all for the future. Anyway, you can't rely on other people's resources. You must have a spare in your own hands. And from now on, you may not be able to provide wool within a year. It takes time."

Huo Guang didn't say anything, anyway, even if he failed to do what he wanted to do, he wouldn't hurt his muscles and bones. It's really not easy for Zhangye to do anything else, so let him try first.

The sheriff of Zhangye County left happily. Although building a ranch is not as good as a wool workshop, the ranch needs a lot more manpower than a wool workshop.

Now everyone basically knows that His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory has created a water-turned spinning wheel. As long as people watch the spindles or wool spindles regularly and fixedly, it is enough, and then there is maintenance on the spinning wheel, and there is no need for it in the spinning process. Others are in charge, so not many people are used.

The pasture is different, there must be someone to graze, right?This will at least allow him to retain the population, which is good.

With the departure of the sheriffs, the cutting machine was also produced, and this time the complete cutting machine was produced.

Liu Tan even took a special time to take someone to the field for an experiment.

In order to adapt to different groups of people, Gong Shucan made the cutting machine into a form that can be operated by human and animal power.

Like the northern plow, the cutting machine can also be made into larger and smaller ones. The size of the manpower control is fixed. If it is large, it can only be pulled by oxen.

Huo Guang took a look again, and found that the cutting machine not only has the function of cutting, but also has the function of collecting. After the ridge is harvested, all the grains or other crops will be received in the big sacks behind. , and when they reach the ground, all the crops in the sacks will be unloaded, and then continue to the next ridge.

In this way, the workload required for harvesting will be much smaller.

Liu Tan watched the cutting machine clean up the land on his farm in a short while, and couldn't help but smiled and said, "It seems to be quite easy to use, but... the cost is a bit high."

Compared with the Northland plow, the price of the cutting machine is higher than the blade.

If the blade is smooth, the price will be lower, but the service life of the smooth blade is too short, and it needs to be sharpened from time to time. Although the gear cuts slower and is more expensive, it can last for a long time.

But even if it is replaced by a light blade, not everyone may be willing to buy a cutting machine.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is how those who are willing to buy can buy it in the short term.

Liu Tan turned to look at Huo Guang and said, "You said earlier that there was a way to promote it in a short period of time. What method did you use?"

Huo Guang said calmly, "Lease."

Liu Tan asked in disbelief, "Is this the way you said?"

They have researched about leasing a long time ago, and there is even a stable leasing market for plows in the northern border, but to be honest, not many people are willing to rent them.

Because the rental fee is not particularly cheap, especially when there is no cattle in the house, if you rent manpower, it means that there is not much land and it is not worth renting.

Those who have so much land that they need to rent it are generally inclined to buy it, unless they can't make up the money and have a large area of ​​land.

Of course, this is not the main problem. The most important problem is not that the cutting machine also needs to be controlled by humans. Whether it is human or animal power, animal power needs to be controlled by humans. The current problem has become so serious that there are not enough people. Why do you still rent it?

Huo Guang said confidently: "It is rented out at an extremely low price, and at the same time we will provide people to control it. That is to say, as long as the people rent the cutting machine, they can just wait for the crops to be harvested, and they don't need to take care of other things."

Liu Tan frowned: "Where did you find so many people to do this?"

His first reaction was to unite with various families to produce slaves, but the question is why should they produce slaves?You only charge the rent of the harvester, obviously you don’t charge money for manpower, do you want the treasury to subsidize each family?

Then he looked at the old god Huo Guang and said, "Yes, and it doesn't cost money."

Liu Tan was curious: "Where is it? You're not going to mess with the Huns again, are you?"

Huo Guang said: "In the prison."

Liu Tan:? ? ? ? ?

Huo Guang sneered and said: "The witchcraft case involved many people before, and the prison was almost too full, and the daily rations were consumed a lot. Before Jiang Chong asked if he wanted to kill a group first, I thought it would be good to let them go. "

Generally, it is cut after autumn. If it is not the time now, it is not easy to make an exception, and the waste can be reused.

Liu Tan looked at Huo Guang blankly, thinking that this man was simply too good, and was stunned to bring out the reform through labor of later generations in advance.

Oh, no, this is not considered reform through labor. The full name of reform through labor is labor reform. Anyway, if you do well, you can reduce your sentence.

But when you come to Huo Guang, you still have to kill, but you can live longer if you do the work.

As long as they are not particularly staunch people who want to die, they will probably choose to use labor in exchange for life time.

After Huo Guang finished speaking, he turned to look at Liu Tan: "What do you think, Your Highness?"

Liu Tan stroked his chin and said, "These people have never done farm work, so they don't know if they can do it, and since they know that they will die sooner or later, they may not have much motivation to do it. How about this? If you do it fast and do it well, you will be rewarded better." For those who are charged with relatively minor crimes, the death penalty can even be changed to life imprisonment."

Huo Guang frowned: "Your Highness, this case cannot be opened."

Liu Tan waved his hand and said, "There's nothing that can't be opened. I also said that it's relatively light. It's the kind of people who didn't really participate in witchcraft, but were implicated because of their relatives. Do you want to change these people to indefinite?" After imprisonment, there is a large number of people who can be used many times."

Huo Guang said coldly: "Since these people have been arrested, they are all within the three or nine clans. Your Highness, His Majesty knows about this. If you let him go easily, His Majesty may not be happy."

Liu Tan: ...

Yep, almost forgot about this.

Liu Tan is still not used to the continuous sitting punishment these days, so he always wants to change it, but what Huo Guang said makes sense.

He thought for a while and then said: "That's it... Except for these people, the rest of the crimes that violate the law, except for murder, if they can be pardoned, they will become life imprisonment, isn't that all right?"

Huo Guang's expression softened: "Okay."

Liu Tan said: "The summary of Jiang Chong's case is almost there, isn't it? Just give me a copy later, and I will report it to my father."

Although there is Liu Che's embroidered clothes emissary here, maybe Liu Che has known about the situation here, but there is still a process to go.

Facts have proved that you can't talk about people during the day and ghosts at night. Liu Tan and Huo Guangzheng talked about Liu Che, and Liu Tan received Liu Che's order.