C167 Withdrawal and Request (2/2)

It had already been half a year since Xiao Wen teleported to this strange world. And during this half a year, the war between the Han, Liaoning, Ming, and Qing kingdoms continued unceasingly.

According to the information sent over from the battlefield, because of the war between the whole country and the Liaoning Province, they had already missed their agricultural time. The passable grain reserves had been completely used up in this war.

Xiao Wen had even heard that the four capitals of Liaoning (five from Song and three from Ming) had such tragic events where humans ate humans.

As for the Kingdom of Qing, it had lost more than half of its population in this war. It could be said that it was on the verge of being destroyed.

However, Emperor Song, who supported the armies of the two countries, remained calm about the cost of the war.

According to figures from the Ministry of Revenue, Song's surplus this year was less than 10 per cent lower than last year.

That is to say, the Song people had less than ten percent of their income in surplus, which supported the troops of the two countries of Hamming to go to war against their own country for less than half a year.

Needless to say, many of the preparations for the early stage of the war were also made with the help of the Song Kingdom.

It could be said that the wealth of the Tang and Song dynasties would be sufficient to support the conquest and occupation of the whole world by all the Chinese. Of course, whether they would be as divided as the Mongol Empire, and as the Golden Horde would be overthrown by Mao, and forced to change the religion of the landscape, that is, Christianity, which they had originally believed in the Mongolian steppes, into a religion which could not be spoken of, was another story.

However, these matters didn't actually have much to do with Xiao Wen.

Just like in '44, Li Yunlong didn't care about Europe or the Pacific, he only cared about his own Peace County. Xiao Wen was similarly concerned about his own territory.

Originally, Xiao Wen had thought that after obtaining the title, he would be able to obtain land and slaves and lead a life similar to that of a landowner.

However, he didn't know if it was true or not, but after checking, he was shocked.

When the officials checked Xiao Wen's household registration information, they found out that he was not a worker or farmer businessman, but rather a rogue cultivator who specialized in recruiting Han's talents, just like the country of Qin, after inheriting the system of Qin.

”Is it strange?” The eunuch and the mother-in-law didn't tell you before that the Xiao family and the Zhou family both came from the Southern Tang Country in the southern part of the Song Kingdom. ”It can be said that we don't even have thirty years in the Han State.”

Hearing this, Xiao Wen was instantly speechless.

According to the rules set by the big men of this world, if they gave a group of foreign nomads land, they would only be able to focus their minds on farming and forget their duty of contributing their wisdom to the country.

Hence, as long as Xiao Wen was still a rogue, he would only be able to train, research, and invent.

Of course, Xiao Wen was still allowed to do things that included being a soldier, practicing medicine, and fortune-telling.

Even if he could become a marquis one day, he wouldn't be allowed to own land.

After all, even if they gave Xiao Wen land, the officials still felt that it was impossible for Xiao Wen to personally farm — That was a fact.

As a result, giving Xiao Wen land was a waste.

Of course, in place of this, Xiao Wen would receive a salary that was several times higher than that of his peers every autumn. It would be guaranteed that he would receive it as compensation.

”What a pity for my agricultural knowledge. If I had land, I might be able to multiply the country's land output several times in a few years through experiments on it. ”Agricultural techniques will not be so cheap as those nomads …”