September of the fifth year of Zhongping (188 years).
The entire Bingzhou has begun to enter the autumn harvest season. Xu Wei attaches special importance to this autumn harvest. Maybe he moved God. Although disasters have continued throughout the Han Dynasty this year, Bingzhou has not been affected by the disasters. Even just looking at the growth of wheat
You know, Bingzhou has had a great harvest this year.
This is unprecedented good news for Xu Wei. Now he is under too much pressure. Nearly 5 million disaster victims have flooded into Bingzhou. Adding the original population of Bingzhou, the sparsely populated Bingzhou has caught up with the population for the first time.
Jizhou next door has reached a figure of 7 million.
Even though Xu Wei controlled the entire Bingzhou grain supply, these 7 million people consumed more than 6.5 million shi of grain every month. In the past two months, there was a shortage of 13 million shi of grain in the Bingzhou granary. Xu Wei was really frightened to see it. He
The grain and grass confiscated from the entire Bingzhou state was only enough to sustain food consumption for four months.
Now the autumn harvest can finally allow Xu Wei to take a breather. From now on, whether he drinks porridge or eats dry rice depends on the situation of this autumn harvest.
Mayi is now the largest granary in Bingzhou. Xu Wei personally went to Mayi to take charge. In order to ensure that there were enough manpower for the autumn harvest, Xu Wei brought a total of 100,000 people to Mayi to help harvest wheat! Anyway, there is not much in Bingzhou now.
There are so many people, the population even exceeds that of Jizhou, which once had the largest population.
At the same time, Xu Wei wanted to mobilize these 100,000 people to purchase wheat, which would require stopping many factories, but now he only needs to recruit some disaster victims, and they are very happy to do this.
Everyone worked hard for 10 days to completely harvest the grain in Mayi, and Xu Wei happily followed everyone in harvesting every day. This year, Mayi was indeed an unprecedented bumper harvest. The grain output of the entire Mayi harvest exceeded
20 million shi, and the average yield per mu has reached four shi, which can be said to be an unprecedented bumper harvest in Dahan. Because even the best fields are only a little more than three shi. But here in Mayi, there are 5 million acres of fields, and the yield per mu exceeds 4 shi.
Shi, the top management of Mayi breathed a sigh of relief. Just one Mayi can solve half of their food problems!
At the same time, the entire Mayi high-level officials also supervised the major grain harvests separately. The one who stayed in Taiyuan County was Wang Laohan, and Zhang Baiqi went to Xihe County to supervise the grain harvest and count the grain output of the autumn harvest. Then good news came from everywhere, Yun Zhong
Niu Gui of the county reported that Yunzhong County had a bumper grain harvest this year, with the output exceeding 10 million shi, and it was barely self-sufficient!
Good news also came from Zhao Rong of Wuyuan County. The grain output of Wuyuan County also exceeded 3 million shi. The grain output of Shuofang County exceeded 6 million shi. Taiyuan County was originally the largest grain producing area in Bingzhou. Although the yield per mu was not high because of the newly allocated land.
There are no water conservancy facilities and struvite to increase grain production, but there are still 15 million shi of grain output, plus 5 million shi of grain in Xihe County. The entire Bingzhou's autumn harvest grain output this year is close to 60 million shi.
For the 7 million tribesmen in Hexi, this number can barely last for a year as long as they are not open to eating. It can be said that people in Bingzhou can barely starve to death. This is already a prosperous scene in other parts of the Han Dynasty!
Zhang Baiqi looked at the data reported from various places and said with surprise: "This is unbelievable. The grain output of Mayi's 5 million acres of fields has reached 4 dan. Struvite is so important for increasing grain output! Next year Xihe
The water conservancy facilities in the county and Taiyuan County can also be used. With the use of struvite to increase production, our annual grain output in Bingzhou can exceed 100 million dan! At that time, we can relax the restrictions on grain and eat as much as we want!
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Old Man Wang was surprised and said: "This is not much worse than Jizhou! Jizhou is the granary of the Han Dynasty, can't you make a mistake?"
Zhang Baiqi said: "It's not wrong. We use struvite and other fertilizers, and add elevated water canals, and the general grain output has increased by more than three times. If Taiyuan County and Xihe County also use struvite next year, even if
Not counting the newly cultivated land, the production will increase by 20-30 million yuan!"
Old Man Niu sighed: "Four stones of grain per acre are produced. Even though I was in Jizhou, I had only heard of it a few times, but I never thought that most of our fields in Mayi could have this yield. This is unbelievable!"
Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "We want to promote the struvite planting method throughout Bingzhou. This year we will commend 2,000 Litian people, and then assign them to various parts of Bingzhou to let them promote the struvite planting method to our vines."
Every village in Army A must double its food production!"
For Zhang Baiqi now, struvite is a magic weapon for a good harvest and a sharp tool for resettling disaster victims. Sure enough, his layout is too small and he cannot see the long term as Qu Shuai does!
Xu Wei laughed and said: "Everyone has forgotten the summer harvest. As long as our Mayi two-year, three-year method is promoted throughout Bingzhou, the grain output can be increased by more than half. By then, Bingzhou alone will be enough to feed our 7 million tribesmen!"
After Xu Wei said this, everyone remembered that they had already planted winter wheat, and now the grain in Bingzhou does not need to wait for a year to be harvested, but only 9 months.
So, as a time-traveler, you can change the world by just farming. Bingzhou was originally a remote and remote area, but thanks to Xu Wei's method, food production increased fourfold, and Bingzhou, a remote and remote area, became a land of abundance.
Well, this is not much better than fighting.
Xu Wei continued with a smile: "This is also thanks to the struvite. Without the 1 million stones of struvite that came to Bingzhou this year, Bingzhou would not have the bumper harvest it has now. If we want to have a higher output next year, the entire Bingzhou will need more."
There will be more struvite, preferably more than 2 million struvite! And if you want more struvite, transportation will be a big problem!"
Then Xu Wei said to Old Man Wang: "Old man, the shipyard will build more transport ships next year! Only if there are enough transport ships, there will be enough struvite entering Bingzhou!"
Old Man Wang said: "Qu Shuai, don't worry. We have developed a standard 2000-stone transport ship. It is manufactured according to the standardized method of our Tengjia Army. Next year, the production of transport ships can more than double!"
Then Xu Wei said to Navy Captain Fan Xian: "Fan Xian, from now on, you will put all the focus of the transport ship on transporting struvite to Youzhou. I hope that your Navy can guarantee that you will dig 1 million.
Stone struvite!”
Fan Xian said feebly: "I'll try my best!"
This is not because Fan Xian is lazy, but because he is really tired!
If we evaluate the model workers in Mayi this year, Guo Daxian, who supervises the granaries in various places, is considered a model worker in Mayi, and Fan Xian, who is in charge of the navy, is also considered one. In order to transport people and materials to the three counties of Heshuo, Xu Wei appointed Fan Xian as the navy commander.
The naval battalion of 5,000 men was expanded to 6 battalions with 30,000 men.
The navy fleet of the Tengjia Army has been busy on the Yellow River waterways day after day. In the past two months, Fan Xian has transported more than 2 million people and tens of millions of grains of grain into Shuofang County and Wuyuan County.
In this way, without the efforts of Fan Xian and others, most of the victims would still be moving slowly in Mayi!
Wang Ge slightly thought: "Our Tengjia Army relies on struvite for its current food production. If Youzhou cuts off our struvite, wouldn't our food be in danger?"
Wang Yong also said: "Now the struvite is the lifeblood of our Tengjia Army, and it needs to be in our own hands. I think we must find a way to capture Youzhou, so that we can completely control this lifeline!"
Li Gang and other captains immediately shouted: "Shuai Qu, Brother Yong is right, we cannot give our life to the Youzhou Army!"
"Yes, that Gongsun Zan of Youzhou has always been obstructing our fleet. If he cuts off the Sanggan River waterway, our current situation may be ruined!"
Zhang Baiqi said angrily: "Youzhou now has an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people. How can it be easy to deal with it? The food we have accumulated now is not enough to feed Bingzhou tribesmen for a year. You still want to fight. Do you want Teng Jia?"
The army is approaching a desperate situation!"
Although Gongsun Zan's cultivation this year was not as large as Liu Bei's, there were still 50,000 people.
Moreover, compared to Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan was a truly ruthless person. It was simply impossible for him to open up wasteland by himself. He would not do such a stupid thing.
He directly found and annexed the wealthy gentry in Youzhou military camp, and used his own army to suppress them and spit out these fields. However, the wealthy gentry in Shanggu County and Dai County found Liu Yu and sued Gongsun Zan, saying that he had harmed the gentry and wanted Liu Yu to be dismissed.
Gongsun Zan.
Under normal circumstances, the good-natured Liu Yu would have been able to reconcile Gongsun Zan with Xi Ni. But this year was different. The Yellow River burst its banks, and millions of refugees were displaced throughout the Central Plains. It can be said that the Han Dynasty was already in a life-or-death situation.
In this state, Liu Yu felt that farming was the only way to change the situation of the Han Dynasty. He was disgusted with any annexation of farming. In addition, these farming fields were originally cultivated by Liu Bei. Due to these many reasons, Liu Yu stood up this time.
By Gongsun Zan's side.
He also warned the nobles in Shanggu and Dai counties: "You don't let Gongsun Zan farm because you want Thunder Lord of Mayi to invade Youzhou! Now Thunder Lord has millions of disaster victims as his subordinates, and his elite army alone exceeds 200,000."
And we have less than 30,000 soldiers in Youzhou. You are still obstructing Gongsun Zan's farming because you want your family property to be confiscated by Lei Gong and you to be hanged by Lei Gong.
You can go find your relatives in Bingzhou and ask what Lei Gong did in Bingzhou. Without Gongsun Zan's 50,000 field troops, would you sleep well? Moreover, the land Gongsun Zan asked them to hand over belonged to the imperial court. I did not give it to him.
They compensate for this year's losses because you are a loyal and loyal man!"
After being scolded by Liu Yu, Liu Yu scolded these wealthy nobles back.
It's just that they didn't expect that Gongsun Zan's revenge would come so quickly. All the noble families who dared to sue Liu Yu were beaten to death by Gongsun Zan! All their food was harvested by Gongsun Zan.
Moreover, Gongsun Zan also warned them that if they dared to complain again, it would take more than a little food to settle the matter.
Gu Xing
Therefore, the 50,000 field soldiers in Gongsun Zan's hands were treated much better than Liu Bei. Liu Yu also found ways to help Gongsun Zan obtain a large amount of weapons and equipment, and Gongsun Zan also strictly trained these field soldiers, completely following the regular army. It can be said that the soldiers in Gongsun Zan's hands
The 50,000 soldiers stationed in the field have been in his hands for more than half a year, and they are no longer inferior to the soldiers of Youzhou County.
This is also the reason why Zhang Baiqi did not agree to attack Youzhou. The frontier army in Youzhou has always been one of the three elites of the Han Dynasty. With an army of nearly 100,000, and the vast terrain of Youzhou, it is difficult to defeat them!
If a war really breaks out, as long as it takes a few months, a large number of people in Mayi will starve to death. Not to mention that the Tengjia Army attacks Youzhou. Liu Bei in Jizhou and Dong Zhuo in Shangdang County will remain indifferent.
Inadvertently this will turn into an all-out war between the Tengjia Army and the Han Dynasty.
If the refugees had just begun to enter Bingzhou, Zhang Baiqi would not have objected to such a war, but now that the refugees from all over the country have been resettled, and the bumper grain harvest in Bingzhou has given Zhang Baiqi hope, he does not want to risk breaking the current situation at all!
Xu Wei also agreed: "Liu Yu of Youzhou is a steady man. He knows the situation in Bingzhou and does not dare to cut off the Sanggan River waterway. But if Gongsun Zan wants to do such a thing, he is bullying us.
A saber is not good! Still think that our 200,000-strong army is just a decoration! The Youzhou Army will not dare to cut off our waterways as long as they don’t want to die!"
Under the opposition of Xu Wei, Zhang Baiqi and others, Wang Ge and others gave up their plan to attack Youzhou.
Bingzhou has a bumper grain harvest, and other places in Dahan have good harvests too!
God seems to have spared the people of the Han Dynasty, and other parties have also begun to enter the autumn harvest season. Although the output of grain in these places is not as good as that of Bingzhou, the grain harvest is not small.
For example, Wei County, which was occupied by Zhang Yan, generally had a good harvest of grain, and the people of Wei County were happily purchasing their own grain.
Zhang Yan's millions of tribesmen also purchased grain in Wei County. He did not collect the grain of ordinary people, but all the fields belonging to the noble families in Wei County were confiscated by Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan collected 15 million yuan of grain from these lands alone.
Stone grains, with the income from these grains, Zhang Yan can finally guarantee the rations of his million-strong army.
In other places in Jizhou, Liu Bei personally commanded the army and wanted to help all parties harvest grain and supervise all parties to pay taxes according to the Han tax policy. Anyone who dared to evade taxes would be severely punished by Liu Bei.
, he knew the significance of Jizhou's grain harvest to the Han Dynasty. The tax revenue of Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou was basically finished, and he could only rely on Jizhou's support. Liu Bei knew that he had a heavy burden.
This year's autumn harvest in Jizhou will bring in 10 million yuan of grain. According to the current price of grain in Jizhou, it is worth 3 billion yuan. This plan is the annual fiscal revenue of the Han Dynasty. And if it were in Qingzhou, Xuzhou and other places, it would be worth 5 billion yuan.
When Liu Bei's taxes were reported to the imperial court, all the officials in the imperial court praised Liu Bei as the pillar of the country!
Today's Han Dynasty basically relies on the granary of Jizhou to support them, so even if the court saw the tacit understanding between Liu Bei and Zhang Yanyou, they did not break this tacit understanding, but waited for the food from Jizhou to support the court.
Soon the imperial court issued an order, asking Liu Bei to support the Qingzhou Army with 1 million shi of grain, and the Xuzhou and Yanzhou Army with 2 million shi of grain! At the same time, Liu Bei was asked to take advantage of the end of the autumn harvest to completely annihilate Zhang Yan's tribe!
But after the autumn harvest, Liu Bei found Zhang Yan again and said, "Qu Shuai wants to live a normal life in the Han Dynasty. Recruitment now is the best opportunity!"
"Zhao'an" Zhang Yan said with a strange look: "It's too late now. Liu Xuande, you have a very good reputation. I also know that you are a good official, but we don't trust the powerful nobles in Jizhou, nor do we, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army." I have suffered enough from the powerful nobles and I don’t want to continue living under them. It’s better not to talk about the recruitment. We will fight again after this winter. Either you will die or I will.”
After experiencing what happened to Fu Bian, Zhang Yan knew that she was destined to die for the powerful nobles, and Zhao'an could only die! They could only continue to fight, and either you would die or I would live. In short, one of them would fall!
But Liu Bei firmly said: "The world is not the world of nobles and nobles, but the world of my great man. As long as Commander Qu agrees, Bei will ensure the safety of Commander Qu and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army!"
Zhang Yan didn't believe it and said: "The noble families in Jizhou hate us very much. Is there a way to make these noble families in Jizhou stop hating us?"
Liu Bei said: "Whether Commander Qu is willing to garrison the fields and guard the border? As long as Commander Qu is willing, I would like to recommend Commander Qu as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. He will be able to cultivate fields in Liaodong. Liaodong is vast enough to house millions of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army!"
Zhang Yan hesitated and said: "Liaodong is cold and bitter, so I'm afraid it's not suitable for farming!"
Liu Bei said: "That was in the past, but now we have warm woolen cloth, fire pits, briquette stoves and briquettes. Even Liaodong can be lived in!"
Zhang Yan thought for a while and said: "I want to discuss it with my subordinates!"
Liu Bei said: "Okay!"
After Zhang Yan left, Guan Yu hesitated and said: "Brother, if the settlement in Liaodong is indeed a good way to deal with the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, I'm afraid the imperial court will not agree!"
Liu Bei said firmly: "Even if we don't agree, we must work hard. Although the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains has been defeated because it cut off the refugees, and some of its remnants have gone up the mountain, the Tengjia Army has really followed the millions of refugees. Now Lei Gong has 20 Thousands of elite warriors, this is already a force that cannot be defeated by any other force. If we don’t annihilate the Tengjia Army, I’m afraid they won’t be able to suppress it after the Tengjia Army digests these millions of refugees!”
"How powerful the Tengjia Army is. Through this relief effort, everyone has seen that the millions of victims that the imperial court had no choice but to rescue were actually completely annexed by Lei Gong in the barren land of Bingzhou, and they haven't heard of it until now. Talking about the turmoil in Bingzhou, the administrative energy of the Space Tengjia Army is already greater than that of the imperial court. If the Tengjia Army calms down, how can the imperial court face the attack of hundreds of thousands of Tengjia Army? So now Zhang Yan It needs to be solved immediately. The smaller the cost, the more advantageous it will be to the big man. I think all the guilds in the court will see this!"
Zhang Fei disagreed and said: "Brother, I think you have a high regard for the princes of the imperial court. Judging from the floods of the Yellow River this time, they are not much better than idiots. Brother, don't be frightened by their reputation. This is all What they have blown away, if you really want them to do something, they are no better than idiots!"
Jian Yong said: "Xuande, you value Lei Gong too much. You must know that Jizhou, as the granary of the Han Dynasty, only has 6 million people. Bingzhou can be regarded as the most miserable place for our Han Dynasty. In the past, it could feed up to 2 million people. Now
There are millions more people, and the population is already much denser than that of Jizhou. Bingzhou cannot be maintained. I think after Lei Gong consumes all his grain reserves, Bingzhou will definitely be in turmoil!"
But Su Shuang, who had been at the end, said: "Brother Xianhe is really wrong about this. Mayi has a bumper harvest this year, and it is an unprecedented bumper harvest. It is said that there are millions of acres of fields in Mayi with an output of more than 4 shi per mu.
, plus the Tengjia Army has two years and three calculations, this summer harvest will be bumper again, the food problem will be completely solved soon, and the millions of victims from the Han Dynasty will become the confidants of the Tengjia Army!"
Jian Yong couldn't believe it and said: "The most fertile land in Jizhou is only a little more than 3 shi. How can there be millions of acres of fields in Mayi that can produce 4 shi per mu!"
Zhang Shiping said: "It's true. Mayi uses struvite to improve soil fertility. The amount of struvite excavated in Youzhou this year alone has exceeded one million stones. It is said that Lei Gong personally ordered the import of struvite in Mayi next year.
The number of bezoars will double!"
"Actually, if you go to Youzhou and inquire about it, you will find that the grain output in many places in Youzhou is very high this year. However, everyone did not believe that struvite can increase soil fertility at first, and the price of struvite is not low.
It’s used very little, but after Mayi’s demonstration this year, I’m afraid Youzhou’s food harvest will be bumper next year!”
Liu Bei was surprised and said: "Struvite really has such a strong effect?"
Zhang Shiping said: "Increase in production is inevitable, otherwise Lei Gong will spend tens of millions of dollars on struvite. Of course, there must be supporting water conservancy facilities. If nothing else, Guang Tengjiajun spent tens of billions of dollars on the entire Bingzhou New Area."
It is no accident that Bingzhou’s bumper harvest was achieved due to the construction of water conservancy.”
Liu Bei naturally knew about Mayi's water conservancy facilities and started building them from Mayi. When he was about to leave Daijun to farm, he could see Mayi's elevated canal on the bank of the Sanggan River. Lei Gong built it along the Sanggan River.
Hundreds of miles of water conservancy facilities are so big that he can see them in Youzhou. With such attention and such large investment, it seems that the bumper harvest in Mayi here is not unacceptable.
Liu Bei thought for a while and said: "We don't have the financial resources, but we can also try it with some struvite!"
Wei County, the Yellow Turban Army's tent!
Zhang Yan summoned all his confidants, and then told them everything he had discussed with Liu Bei about Zhao'an today.
But at this time, Zhang Yan's Xiao Wangdang was the first to object: "Commander, you have been fooled by Liu Bei. Are you completely responsible for what happened between us and Fu Bian Zhao'an? How many noble families in Jizhou have we killed?"
,will they let us go?"
Sun Qing also followed up and said: "Now that we have strong troops and horses, why should we order an imperial edict? It would not be good to directly destroy Liu Bei and dominate Jizhou!"
Zhang Yan said angrily: "To conquer Jizhou, we can't even break through the blockade of Liu Bei's 30,000 cavalry. What do you mean about conquering Jizhou? Do you intend to let the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army walk to the plains and be wiped out by Liu Bei's cavalry!"
Moreover, Liu Bei has 100,000 elite troops. If we want to destroy these 100,000 troops, how many people will die, and even whether we can win is a question!"