Zhou Xian thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "The grade of the eighth-rank governor is too low. During the Three Kingdoms, Wei appointed Diannong General and Diannong Chief Commander, and were divided into military farms, in charge of agricultural production, civil affairs and land rent, and his power was comparable to that of the prefect. At that time, it was a chaotic time, and the issue of food was particularly important. Now it is roughly the same as the situation at that time. We cannot treat these people who really do practical things unfairly. Shi Zunyi, I will set a special position for you! Diannong Lang, the salary of the sixth-rank governor."

Shi Zunyi was stunned, and Han Chang was stunned. He was promoted from Yijie Buyi to the sixth rank of official. Although this official was only temporarily granted by Zhou Xian, such a reuse was unique.

Han Chang first reacted and reached out and touched Shi Zunyi. The latter reacted and quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you, Governor, for your reward."

Zhou Xian helped him up and said, "Shi Zunyi, in the future you will be responsible for farming, breeding and other things. My requirements are not high, just two. One is to increase the types of crops and try to find some high-yield crops. The other is to cultivate new seeds and make every effort to increase the grain yield per mu of land. To sum up, it is necessary to solve the problem of people's food. The lives and deaths of thousands of people are on your shoulders, so you have to work hard. Tell me what you need directly, and I will try my best to satisfy you."

Shi Zunyi looked serious and bowed: "The villain must do his best."

In fact, Zhou Xian unanimously felt that his biggest problem at present was not to quell the Liu Zeqing rebellion, but to feed the many people in Shandong. In order to solve this problem, Zhou Xian also made some preparations in advance. For example, the high-yield potatoes and potatoes were promoted in Laizhou, which allowed a large number of fishermen to go out to sea to fish, changing the problem of excessive singleness and inadequacy of meat in the past. As for sea fish, 30% of the meat in the army currently comes from this.

But these are limited to the narrow area under Zhou Xian's rule, with many mountains and few fields, and food is always lacking. Without external supply, he could only barely maintain the basic life of the people of Denglai Prefectures, and even the soldiers under his command could not be self-sufficient. With the increase of the occupied land, Zhou Xian's strength also increased, but the poor people in the occupied land also became a burden to him. He could not ignore the people in the control of the people like Liu Zeqing, and could only try his best to save more.

But as the governor of Shandong, Zhou Xian must consider more military issues. Between the army and the people, he could only satisfy his soldiers and could not go to war with hunger. As for those people, he only hoped to starve to death less and not cause any major disasters.

Zhou Xian waved his hand to let Shi Zunyi go to work, and he rode around for a while. He kept thinking all the way, and finally turned to Han Chang and said, "When the farming is completed, most of the people here will be idle. Once people are idle, they will do nothing and cause trouble everywhere. You go to Yidu to find Yu Baiyi, and while he asks him to lead troops, he will pick out five thousand people from the slightly inferior quality. A police station was set up according to the Jinfu and two states. After training, it will be assigned to maintain local public order in various prefectures. But the situation in Qingzhou is too chaotic at present. In order to avoid them from having trouble again, weapons are only given short swords to them."

Han Chang said: "Then I will go now."

Zhou Xian thought for a moment and continued: "There is also to recruit some workers for the artillery factory, mine, and shipyard in Laizhou in my name. If they are willing to go, the government will provide travel expenses for them. In addition, try to use the people of Qingzhou to make them have a livelihood if they are transporting food and grass, and the weapons."

Seeing Han Chang leave, Zhou Xian raised his whip and ordered: "Let's go to Changshan Front."

Liu Zeqing stood up in shock, "What the hell are you doing? Why are you robbed again?"

The ginseng general Kong Lin knelt on the ground with his hair disguised, his face full of discouraged, and red blood kept oozing out of the white cloth wrapped in his chest. "General, this is really no wonder that subordinates! The people sent to transport grain were infantry, and most of them were newly recruited. Wu Zhiying had a total of 3,000 cavalrymen! They didn't know when they were hiding, but suddenly rushed out and rushed out. The soldiers who protected the grain were fighting against the enemy, not to mention that they didn't pee their pants directly. If the subordinates didn't escape quickly this time, they would never see you again."

Liu Zeqing kicked Kong Lin over to the ground, "Useless thing, what else do you do besides eating dry food? Why don't you die there directly? Three thousand stones of grain were burned all over. Now I want to roast you, a waste, live."

Kong Lin felt pain, screamed and fell to the ground.

Mei Yingyuan stepped forward, helped Kong Lin up, and said to Liu Zeqing: "General, this cannot be all blamed for General Kong Shen. All the elite troops of our army were sent to the front line. The soldiers who transported the grain could not withstand the attack of the three thousand cavalry. In view of General Kong Shen's usual diligence and attentiveness, you should spare him this time!"

Liu Zhigan next to him also persuaded: "Uncle, Old Confucius is his own, so you can spare him!"

Liu Zeqing felt a little angry and scolded, "Get out! If General Mei hadn't pleaded for you, I would have chopped you up."

After the rebels' uprising, many generals in Shandong surrendered to Liu Zeqing, and Mei Yingyuan was one of them. He was originally a general in Jinan. When Liu Zeqing was in Jinan, in order to survive, he took his subordinates to tie down Shandong Governor Qiu Zude and presented the entire city of Jinan to Liu Zeqing.

Because of this reason, Liu Zeqing trusted and valued Mei Yingyuan very much and appointed him as the left governor. His position was higher than that of most generals who had followed Liu Zeqing for a long time. However, Mei Yingyuan knew that he was not Liu Zeqing's direct subordinate, and knew that what he did would definitely not be tolerant of the court, so he could only be loyal to Liu Zeqing. He worked hard on his daily work, and often surrendered himself to make friends with those direct generals of Liu who were much lower than his status.

Kong Lin usually doesn't like Mei Yingyuan and thinks that Liu Zeqing values ​​a traitor like him too much. But at this time he had to bow reluctantly: "Thank you, Left Governor Mei."

Mei Yingyuan nodded and then said to Liu Zeqing: "General, we must find a way to transport food and grass as soon as possible. The daily consumption of the 50,000 army is not a small amount, and the maximum amount in the army can only last for fifteen days. Once the food and grass are short, the morale of the army will be in chaos, and the consequences will be unimaginable at that time."
Chapter completed!