After the autumn harvest, the whole Mayi movement continued. First, a large number of people were dispersed to other counties, and these married people were the first batch to be dispersed.
Although Xu Wei funded them a lot, getting married still put them in debt, which required them to work harder. In order to mobilize them to go to other remote counties, Xu Wei not only subsidized them 300 yuan a month, but also
They can also keep half of the income from the land they cultivated in Mayi for a period of three years. Such superior treatment makes them excited.
Also, their wives generally only know how to herd sheep, and even have ten sheep as a dowry. There are no pastures for grazing in Mayi. Only in places like Pingcheng and Dingxiang County, which are sparsely populated, can there be grazing.
Pasture.
Many young couples who are good at business even bought dozens of sheep, planning to do half farming and half herding. Herding is too profitable these days. The popularity of Mayi hotpot has caused the price of mutton to rise sharply. A sheep generally costs 200 cents, and
The price of wool is also rising, reaching 4 cents per catty. The wool of a sheep in spring and autumn alone is worth 30 cents. The money earned from raising 100 sheep is almost equivalent to the income of more than 30 acres of land.
Therefore, once the accounts were calculated, none of the tribesmen who married Xianbei people wasted their daughter-in-law's herding talent! They generally bought dozens of lambs in Mayi. If there were father-in-law and mother-in-law at home, the number of sheep increased dramatically.
to hundreds.
And Xu Wei also agrees with the tribe's development of animal husbandry. Now there are more and more textile machines in Mayi, and the bottleneck of woolen cloth production has been opened. In the future, Mayi will need more and more wool, and it is also possible to develop animal husbandry in advance.
Avoid insufficient raw materials.
In order to support their grazing career, Xu Wei also handed over the silage feed technology to them. He hoped that their grazing career would go smoothly!
And it’s not possible without support. Mayi itself has a lot of livestock, and the pastures are already very tight. Xu Wei was forced to get green storage fodder, and then he could barely feed a million cattle and sheep. And now there are 100,000 more horses.
200,000 cattle and 2 million sheep cannot survive even if they are reduced to desert, so diverting them to other counties is the best option.
While Xu Wei was working hard to farm in Mayi, the world outside had been turned upside down.
News of Zhang Yan's actions in Jizhou also reached Mayi. Everyone marveled at Zhang Yan's luck. He could turn the tables in such a situation and occupied half of Jizhou. At the same time, everyone also lamented that Fu Bian was such a good official.
He was assassinated by the powerful nobles of Jizhou.
At the same time, the news that 100,000 Xiliang troops surrounded Chencang also reached Mayi. They were about to attack Chang'an, Xijing of the Han Dynasty. Everyone suddenly felt that the strength of the Han Dynasty was exhausted.
Wang Ge and the others excitedly said to Xu Wei: "Commander Qu is a God-given opportunity. Now the Han Dynasty is surrounded by enemies on both sides, and the number of rebels is as high as 100,000. It will be impossible to quell it in a while. Now is the best time for us to conquer Yanmen Pass! Maybe we can still
We can take advantage of the victory to attack Taiyuan County and capture the entire Bingzhou."
This ambition is getting bigger and bigger!
Even Xu Wei was secretly surprised. It seems that the big man is in a precarious situation and has exhausted his strength. Could it be that the butterfly effect I brought prevented the big man from being able to survive Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang?
Xu Wei carefully thought about what he had done when he came to this world, and found that the scope of his influence was really small. Only a crowbar made the fortress of the wealthy nobles become like a piece of white paper, which could be broken with just one poke.
The entire Jizhou has been raided three times by the Yellow Turban Army this time. Is it because of this that it affected the Han Dynasty's finances, which made it impossible for the Han Dynasty to have enough strength to fight against the Xiliang rebels, and then accelerated the financial collapse of the Han Dynasty.
Xu Wei has read a lot of novels about the late Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen, an idiot, knew how to raise taxes desperately and push Li Zicheng's rebel army into more and more troops. Many times, Li Zicheng's subordinates were all killed, but because of the tax collection, they were forced to rebel again.
There were millions of people, and Li Zicheng came out of the mountains with another million troops.
In the end, all the people in the north were forced to rebel. Li Zicheng came to ask for wages and was forced to hang on a tree with a crooked neck in the Forbidden City. (Li Zicheng can be said to be a role model for our generation in beating workers. He used armed force to demand wages and finally forced the boss to commit suicide. How heroic!)
.If he had the brains to kill a few corrupt officials, the salt merchant wouldn't be hanging on a crooked neck tree!
Relatively speaking, Emperor Ling is much smarter. Although the Zhang Niujiao Rebellion was caused by him randomly increasing taxes, he quickly corrected it. In the past two years, the tax revenue of the Han Dynasty has been very stable. This is also the reason for the Han Dynasty.
Outside of Jizhou and Liangzhou, there is not much reason for rebellion, because the ordinary people are not yet driven to the point where they cannot survive.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Wei didn't know whether this was a butterfly effect caused by himself or an existing historical event. Most of Xu Wei's understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms came from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
But "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" only talks about Zhang Jiao's uprising in the first chapter, and Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang in the second chapter. There was a gap of 4-5 years between them. When he first came to this world, Xu Wei thought that these 4-5 years were not mentioned at all.
The Han Dynasty was peaceful and uneventful for five years.
But these two years of experience have made Xu Wei understand that Luo Guanzhong is a historical idiot. There have been wars every year in the past 4-5 years. However, the scope and impact of these wars are not as large as the Yellow Turban Uprising, so there are no records.
At least he knew that Zhang Niujiao's rebellion had nothing to do with him, but this time Zhang Yan's rebellion spread to the entire Jizhou, and the rebellion that spread to the entire Xiliang had nothing to do with him, which meant that it would have happened in history.
Such a major rebellion that spread to a state was not mentioned at all in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This was so incredible that it made Xu Wei think that the world was peaceful in the past few years!
As for the situation in the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo would be in chaos whether he entered Luoyang or not. Xu Wei now felt that Dong Zhuo was taking the blame for the entire late Han clan, making it seem as if the world was in chaos because of Dong Zhuo!
The nobles and nobles were all loyal, and they raised an army to attack the rebellious Dong Zhuo, but they were unable to do so and failed to defeat Dong Chenggong. Everyone was loyal, and only Dong Zhuo brought disaster to the country and the people!
Just like the great uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen had good personal ethics and was indeed trying to restore the situation of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the dozen or so emperors before the Ming Dynasty, he can be regarded as a cautious person who refined elixirs and cultivated immortality, and played crickets.
, A person who has ignored state affairs for thirty years and worked as a carpenter will not subjugate his country, but someone who works hard to be an emperor and demands himself according to the standards of a wise emperor will subjugate his country. Is this still justified?
So Chongzhen lost his country, but everyone was full of sympathy for him. In this way, the blame for the demise of the Ming Dynasty would not be placed on Chongzhen, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, no warlord like Dong Zhuo appeared.
Okay! Now the Donglin Party is revealed.
It's because of your Donglin Party's tax evasion that the Ming Dynasty went bankrupt. It's your Donglin Party that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty because of your party's unity and opposition to differences. All the blame has been placed on the Donglin Party.
Daqing in the old days had a bad feeling about the Donglin Party and believed that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed because of them. They severely attacked the big businessmen in the south and launched several literary inquisitions, directly interrupting the so-called budding business.
In the Internet era, the reputation of the Donglin Party has become even more infamous. Those who wrote novels about the end of the Ming Dynasty basically stepped on the Donglin Party, and even considered them to be eternal sinners, making China lag behind the entire industrial era for hundreds of years.
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But the reputation of the noble families in the late Han Dynasty was much better. The counselors and generals who wrote the Three Kingdoms novels were basically from the noble families, but no one paid attention to it. Although the reputation of the noble families has been a little worse in the past two years, it is not like Donglin.
The party is like that, everyone sees and tramples on you.
But in fact, both sides are in the same boat. Judging from Xu Wei's experience in the past two years, although the Han Dynasty has more martial virtue than the Ming Dynasty and can quickly suppress every judgment, such a rebellion will not solve the fundamental problem of the land.
It will disappear, it will only be suppressed more and more, and finally, like the late Ming Dynasty, it will consume all the strength of the Han Dynasty and completely collapse.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei suddenly remembered that Luo Guanzhong was also a scholar. Maybe he really wanted to whitewash the peace. You see, before Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City, although there was a Yellow Turban uprising, it was quickly put down. After that, the world was peaceful and peaceful under the governance of civil servants.
As soon as Dong Zhuo, a rebellious minister and traitor, occupied Luoyang City, the whole world fell into chaos and became divided among the heroes. All this was Dong Zhuo's fault and the fault of the lawless warriors!
The internal logic of this explanation makes sense. If we really include the Zhang Niujiao Rebellion and the Xiliang Rebellion, wouldn't it mean that the world was already in chaos before Dong Zhuo!
"Qu Shuai! Qu Shuai!" Wang Ge shouted when he saw Xu Wei was in a daze for a long time.
Only then did Xu Wei realize that he was still in military discussions.
However, being interrupted by Wang Ge made Xu Wei figure it out. No matter what the butterfly effect was, the life and death of the big man had nothing to do with him. What he had to do now was to conquer Yanmen Pass and build a barrier for Mayi!
So he said: "Prepare ordnance, food and grass, and make a battle plan. We have to break through Yanmen Pass before it snows. We don't have much time left!"
Wang Ge and the others said happily: "No!"
Although they did not mobilize all their troops to capture Bingzhou as they had hoped, it was still the first step.
In the past two years, they had spent time with Xu Wei day and night, and found that their commander-in-chief liked to stay in one place, farming and building the place. Instead of marching and fighting to conquer cities and territories.
The other warlords have an army of 100,000, and they have already conquered the city and occupied a state. However, their Tengjia Army has only occupied one Dingxiang County and half of Yanmen County, and it is also the most remote frontier. Now Xu Wei can be regarded as taking a step forward.
This was the first step, which was enough to make Wang Lei and the others happy.
Three days later, Wang Ge and others prepared an army of 15,000, and then Xu Wei led this army to march toward Yanmen Pass in a mighty manner!
After Xu Wei defeated the Xianbei people, Ding Yuan, the captain of Yanmen Pass, paid great attention to the movements in Mayi and even placed spies in Mayi. Therefore, he immediately noticed the movement of Xu Wei's army and immediately asked for help from the prefect of Yanmen County and the court.
Ask for help!
Mayi and Yanmen Pass are not far away. Xu Wei marched for one day and already led his army to station outside Yanmen Pass.
After arriving here, Xu Wei immediately began to build his own camp. The stronger the better, and in order to deter the defenders of Yanmen Pass, Xu Wei built the camp very large, as if there were really 100,000 troops. If the defenders abandoned the pass without fighting,
Then Xu Wei will make a lot of money.
The impressive momentum of the camp stretching for more than ten miles directly deceived Ding Yuan. In his letter to Guo Yun of Yanmen County and the court, he directly stated that Lei Gong had gathered at least 100,000 troops outside Yanmen Pass and they were about to attack the pass.
, the 3,000 defenders of Yanmen Pass alone could not hold it. He begged Guo Yun and begged the court to immediately recruit reinforcements to support Yanmen Pass, otherwise the entire Bingzhou might be captured by Lei Gong!
After Yanmen Prefect Guo Yun received Ding Yuan's request for help, he knew that the situation was critical and immediately brought 2,000 soldiers to support Yanmen County!
Ding Yuan saw these reinforcements and smiled bitterly: "Guo Fujun, I have written hundreds of letters asking for help this month, but only these 2,000 reinforcements came. Lei Gong has 100,000 elite troops to defeat the Xianbei people. Do you think that with this?
Can 5,000 people hold on when Yanmen is closed?"
After Xu Wei defeated 100,000 Xianbei cavalry, Ding Yuan discovered that Xu Wei's strength had expanded too much. The soldiers in his hands were far from his opponents. They could not even defend Yanmen Pass with these 3,000 men, so he had been
The imperial court is required to increase troops at Yanmen Pass to guard the gate to Bingzhou.
Guo Yun also smiled bitterly and said: "I have submitted several blood letters, but the court's answer is that there are no reinforcements. The fighting on Yongzhou and Chencang is getting more and more intense, and the counties occupied by Zhang Yan in Jizhou are becoming more and more intense."
There are too many, and now the court can’t find any reinforcements to support us!”
Ding Yuan said helplessly: "The imperial court is trying to force us to death. How can 5,000 soldiers be the opponent of Lei Gong's 100,000 army!"
Guo Yundao said: "We have no chance of winning. Lei Gong is so proud that he only came to attack us after the autumn harvest. It is already mid-September, and this year's snowfall will come in a month at most. Then Lei Gong will have to retreat!"
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Ding Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid we won't be able to defend it for even this month. Don't forget, Mr. Lei, that Duke Lei is a good siege expert. It would be difficult for the Yellow Turban thieves to conquer the Wubao of the noble clan.
But when Lei Gong came up with the crowbar, the city walls in the world turned into paper. In recent years, whenever the Yellow Turban thieves started to cause trouble, they would definitely break through a large number of Wubao. The noble families in Jizhou had already suffered heavy casualties. The prince from Fu
Keep your faith for a month!”
"Sir, why should you let someone else's ambition destroy your own majesty! I am willing to go down to the city and fight to surpass the majesty of Thunder Lord, so that Lei Gong will know that our Bingzhou Army is not easy to mess with!" A nine-foot strong man said confidently.
Ding Yuan said angrily: "Lei Gong has an army of 100,000 people. You can destroy it at your request. Going to the city now is just a matter of losing your life. Why don't you retreat quickly?"
As soon as Guo Yun saw this man's figure, he said to himself: "What a strong man!"
Anyone with such a figure is a fierce general who can be defeated by thousands of people. The war is about to begin, and it is naturally a matter of joy to have a strong general on your side.
So he asked Ding Yuan: "Brother Jianyang, who is this general?"
Ding Yuan said: "This is my son Fengxian. He was originally from Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County. Because of the rebellion caused by the Xianbei people, he had to flee to Taiyuan County. I saw that he was tall and brave, so I adopted him as my adopted son.
In the past few years, he has repeatedly made military exploits, and the Xianbei people he fought did not dare to approach Yanmen Pass. Because he is good at riding and shooting, and has extraordinary physical strength, he is called a flying general by his colleagues!"
Guo Yun looked at him with interest and said: "Now is the time for you to make a contribution. In this battle to defeat the Thunder Lord, if you can make a contribution, Fengxian, I will recommend you to the imperial court as a school captain!"
Ding Yuan was stunned by Lu Bu and said, "Why don't you thank the Lord soon!"
Lu Bu saluted and said, "Thank you so much Lord Guo, my subordinates will definitely kill Duke Lei! Get rid of this scourge for the imperial court!"
After saying that, he left here on his own!
Ding Yuan said helplessly: "I'm so arrogant!"
Guo Yun said nonchalantly: "A capable person is naturally arrogant. This time I may have to rely on you, my adopted son, to guard the gate!"