Chapter 214, the iron wall encircled on the grassland
Xu Wei originally wanted to go to Mayi for his inspection, but he heard Zhen An say that Qiangyin County has now become a grain import and export center, so he also planned to visit Qiangyin County!
Most of these victims were assigned to Yanmen County and Yunzhong County, with Yunzhong County having the largest number. After more than two years of hard work, Niu Gui spent a lot of money and manpower to finally build a project in Yunzhong County.
Mayi's elevated water canal network has more than tens of millions of acres of fields flowing through the canals. Now Yunzhong County has become the granary of the entire desert. In winter, hundreds of thousands of herdsmen spend the winter in Yunzhong City. It can be said that the entire Yunzhong County
Zhongjun has become another center of the grassland, even more than Mayi. After all, Mayi is still too old for the Ming Dynasty compared with Yunzhong.
While out farming, Niu Gui was also developing the textile industry, herding industry, steel mills and various handicraft industries. Last year's population of one million people was all resettled. When he wrote to Xu Wei, he was still asking for young and strong labor force.
If this is the case, Xu Wei can only think that Niu Gui has developed Yunzhong County well, but Niu Gui is not the only one to say that there is a lack of labor force. Zhao Rong of Wuyuan County, Wang Lei of Shuofang County, and even Sun Qing of Qiangyin County said
If there is a lack of population, Yunzhong County will be left alone.
Except for the line of the Yellow River where farming can be done, the rest of Wuyuan County is either grassland or desert. Needless to say, Shuofang County is the largest in Bingzhou in terms of land area, but a small part of it is desert, and the remaining half is also desert.
Xu Wei was worried that it would be difficult to resettle the millions of victims, but he did not expect that Zhao Rong and the others would actually have more people. In addition to the food problem Zhen An mentioned this time, Xu Wei simply came to the border areas of Qiangyin to see Niu Gui and the others.
What on earth are you doing, you still need more people!
After the first victims arrived in Qiangyin County, the county magistrate Sun Qing came with 100 cavalry to greet them.
He loudly said with a hint of joy: "We are going to the grassland for reclamation. It is no better than the hinterland of the Central Plains. There are barbarian invasions everywhere. If you want to survive, you must defend your homeland with a sword. Therefore, everything in this reclamation camp is based on
Engage in military law! Everyone must be a soldier. The young and strong rise every day, spend half a day clearing land, train half a day, and work after meals. Women also have to spin and herd. Build forts. Without forts on the grassland, there would be nothing.
To be safe, you must obey orders and obey the rules!"
"Do you all understand?"
"I understand!" Naturally, the victims did not dare to say anything dissatisfied when they saw such dignified officials.
In fact, on the way here, the officials of the Tengjia Army had already told them roughly what was going on on the grassland. The people who came to the grassland to colonize the camp were half army and half civilians, and they had to work together to survive.
Even on the way here, we have already talked about various rules and regulations of the settlement camps. Most of them are similar to those in the refugee camps. It can be guaranteed that they must obey the distribution and management. When the Xianbei people come, have the courage
It is enough to take up the sword and fight.
As long as they can do this, they can be guaranteed to have a house, hundreds of acres of land or thousands of acres of pasture, and dozens of cattle and sheep in three years at most! For disaster-stricken families like Zhao Tian, all they have to do is work hard.
They are willing to get a share of the family fortune, even if it means sacrificing their lives!
After talking to the victims, Sun Qing discovered Xu Wei. He was surprised and said: "Qu Shuai, why did you come to Qiangyin County!"
Xu Wei said angrily: "Niu Gui, Wang Lei and the other prefects say it's okay to say they lack the population, but why do you, a small county magistrate, get involved! How big of a territory do you have, and you want to settle tens of thousands of people!"
Sun Qing said unconvinced: "My current territory is not much worse than a county in the Han Dynasty. Now the grassland with thousands of miles in Hantan Mountain is more expensive than our Qiangyin County. I only live in towns with more than a thousand households on the grassland."
There are more than a dozen, but if Brother Niu didn’t agree, I could have settled all the hundreds of thousands of people!”
It can be seen that the territory Sun Qing divided for himself is really not small. If the entire grassland of Hantan Mountain were to be eaten up even less than half, it would be larger than the area of Taiyuan County.
Seeing Sun Qing being so heroic, Xu Wei smiled and said, "You also have a way to solve the food problem!"
Sun Qing confidently said: "We have more than three million dan of grain in Qiangyin County, which is enough for everyone!"
Xu Wei slapped Sun Qing on the head and said, "You actually hid so much food secretly!"
Sun Qing realized at this time that the food in the Tengjia Army is now transferred to the central government, and there is nothing in the small treasury. But with such a large amount and no explanation, he can no longer be the county magistrate."
Sun Qing could only explain immediately: "Qushuai, I honestly handed over the grain grown in Qiangyin County. I told the herdsmen under my rule to defraud Liu Yu of these. In addition, the merchants defrauded Liu Yu."
They were unwilling to continue transporting the grain brought by Youzhou to Mayi and sold it to us, so they left so much grain behind.
I originally wanted to hand over some, but thinking that there are still hundreds of thousands of herdsmen in Qiangyin who need to eat, and I won’t be asking you for help then, I thought I might as well not go to such trouble and just keep this batch of food here!”
Xu Wei asked seriously: "Where do you get so much money? 300 shi of grain, according to the price of our Tengjia Army, it is already more than hundreds of millions of dollars!"
Sun Qingdao: "There is a salt lake in Qiangyin, and the entire Tengjia Army buys salt from us. Plus, I have nothing to do but raid the Xianbei people's pastures and seize a large number of cattle, sheep and war horses. 100 million yuan will be of no use to us in Qiangyin County."
It’s nothing!”
Xu Wei pointed at Sun Qing helplessly and said: "You guys are all following hamsters, but since you all have so much food, it's up to you to take care of the food rations for these hundreds of thousands of people!"
At this time, Sun Qing said unconvinced: "Commander Qu, I am a county magistrate who is responsible for the food rations of hundreds of thousands of victims. It would be fine if they became people under my rule, but most of them are going to Yunzhong County."
Yes, this should give Brother Niu a big head!"
Xu Wei said calmly: "I don't care about that. We were eating chaff and drinking water in Taiyuan County. I thought you would be worse off than us, but now it seems that you are living quite well. You will be responsible for the food rations of these victims.
You can discuss the proportion!"
Sun Qing thought for a while and said: "Okay, but Qu Shuai wants to support more woolen cloth worth 100 million yuan. It will also cost us to go to Youzhou to exchange for food. And now I don't know if Liu Yu is aware of it! If he is aware of it,
By now, this food route may be cut off!"
Xu Wei sneered and said: "It won't be of much use if he notices it. He is kind-hearted and soft-hearted. He can be a good official in the prosperous age. If he was in the reign of Emperor Wu, he could even become the prime minister.
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But these are troubled times, and a good old man like him can't suppress the wealthy nobles in Youzhou! The wealthy nobles in Youzhou are inherently bold, otherwise there would not be Zhang Chunzhangju, and the two rebels who dared to proclaim themselves emperors, if not for Gongsun Zan
Hold on, I'm afraid that Youzhou now won't be much better than other states and counties in the Han Dynasty!"
Thinking of this, Xu Weidao said: "I will give you 500 million worth of woolen cloth and money. You can contact the noble families in Youzhou and ask them to sell their excess grain to us."
Xu Wei suddenly thought, since it is all smuggling, why not expand it a bit? Anyway, there is so much grain in Youzhou this year, it can even be imported back to Jizhou. The nobles and nobles will not like to keep the grain in their hands. If they can sell more
No matter how many times the price is paid, they don't care whether the food ends up in the hands of the rebels.
After arriving in Qiangyin, Xu Wei remembered that the grassland had now become the territory of his Tengjia Army, and the Great Wall outside Shanggu County of Dai County had become a defense force against the Tengjia Army.
Xu Wei thought for a while and continued: "We can even go to the border of Youzhou Great Wall to pick up the goods, so that they only need to transport the food out of Youzhou. I imagine that the noble families in Youzhou will definitely agree to such a profitable business.
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When Sun Qing heard this, he said happily: "Commander Qu, don't worry, my subordinates are very familiar with them. With these supplies, I can trade tens of millions of stones of grain!"
Xu Wei knew what he was thinking and said calmly: "I will find someone to transport these grains to Taiyuan County!"
When Sun Qing heard this, he realized that his work was not in vain. He quickly said: "Qu Shuai, this journey is thousands of miles away and it is too troublesome. It is better to stay in Qiangyin County! You are continuing to immigrate to the grassland.
, the grassland is so big that even if it transports tens of millions of people, it can be accommodated there!"
Xu Weidao: "Don't worry, Qiangyin County has connected rail carriages. I will definitely use the rail carriage with the largest transportation volume. It won't be a lot of trouble!"
After saying this, Xu Wei asked Sun Qing to take him to the county government office in Qiangyin County and ask him to show him the sand table in Qiangyin County.
He knew that Sun Qing and the others were occupying the territory of the grassland, but he didn't know how much territory they occupied. Now even Sun Qing, a county magistrate, dared to say that he was stronger than the prefect. He really didn't know how much territory Sun Qing occupied in the grassland!
Xu Wei was shocked when he saw the sand table in Qiangyin County. Not only did he take over Khantan Mountain, but he also went hundreds of miles into the desert to build forts. Xu Wei looked at the sand table and there were more than a dozen forts.
The bare land area is indeed more than twice the size of Taiyuan County.
Sun Qing said with a proud smile: "There is no way, these Xianbei people can't help but fight, and the territory they occupy has become so big. In fact, I am still a small one. Brother Niu, Zhao Rong and the others occupy a big territory.
It is said that they are already thinking about how to occupy Beihai. The territory occupied by each of them will probably not be lost to a state of the Han Dynasty!"
In fact, after many years of fighting with the Xianbei people, the Tengjia Army has long summed up a set of methods to deal with the Xianbei people. Don't look at what the Xianbei people say about nomadic people, and you really think that they are wandering around. In fact, they are not at all. It is a place with abundant water and grass in the desert.
They are basically close to water sources, and these are the most fertile lands in the desert.
So the way Wang Lei and the others concluded is to build a fort where there is a river on the grassland. A thousand-man fort is enough to defend against the siege of tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry. If there is an elite cavalry of 5,000 people who can support it at any time,
, tens of thousands of Xianbei people would have difficulty breaking through such a fortress.
And now what Wang Lei and the others are doing is to continuously migrate to the rivers on the grassland and build forts. The forts connected by these rivers are like a chain, and the forts are the locks. As long as one fort is successfully built, a large area can be locked up.
of grassland, a river can block the grassland within a radius of several thousand miles.
And it is also the most fertile pasture on the grassland. Over the past few years, as Wang Lei and others continued to invade the Xianbei people's pastures and annexed the Xianbei herdsmen, last winter's battle completely broke the backbone of the Xianbei people. Now the Xianbei people have
I don't dare to fight the Tengjia Army anymore.
This made it easier for Wang Lei and the others to build forts on the grassland. Now the entire Tengjia Army has hundreds of large forts on the grassland. Each such fort has thousands of households and a population of nearly 5,000. They are near the water source.
Land is cultivated locally, and grazing is done where there is no water source. With silage fodder, everyone only needs a small piece of pasture to support themselves.
As these chains become tighter and tighter, the Xianbei people on the grassland are divided into several small pastures. The Xianbei people in the entire Monan have been divided into scattered small tribes. For example, during the Tanshihuai period, tens of thousands
The human tribe has been completely defeated by the Tengjia Army!
And even this small Xianbei tribe is often raided by Wang Lei and his cavalry. Every time they are raided, there will be fewer tribes on the grassland. Now there are more Xianbei people living in the Tengjia Army's territory than in the Xianbei Kingdom.
, many tribes have begun to flee to the territory of the Xianbei tribe in the east. Anyway, they dare not stay in the west, in the central Xianbei country.
It was because Wang Lei and the others kept pushing their territory deeper into the desert that they kept telling Xu Wei that they were short of manpower. This meant that they did not have an overall map, otherwise Xu Wei would find that his territory was more than twice as big! The grassland area was already far larger.
It exceeded the land he occupied in Dahan.
Hearing that Wang Lei and the others were going to occupy Beihai, Xu Wei could also imagine how much grassland territory Wang Lei and the others had occupied, but Xu Wei was a little confused and said: "It's not that the Hu people are very powerful, it means that the Han people only suppressed them when they were at their peak.
, they fought back and forth with us the rest of the time, so now facing our Tengjia Army, they are like paper and can be broken with just one poke?"
The Hu people have been the enemies of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. They were defeated by themselves in just a few moments. From now on, they can only survive by being good at singing and dancing. Even though Xu Wei is a modern person, he still can't believe it.
Sun Qing looked at Xu Wei and said strangely: "I don't think this barbarian is that powerful. His few elites can be as powerful as the Han frontier army, but if all these elites are killed, their combat effectiveness will be just like this. They are not as powerful as our common people."
What a big difference, how could Qu Shuai have such strange thoughts!"
Sun Qing felt that the Xianbei people had the strongest combat effectiveness when Helian attacked them. After that, the Xianbei people became worse every year. In the past two years, they were beaten to the point where they had no power to fight back. He felt that the Xianbei people now have no ability to fight back.
The combat effectiveness of the people is just like the original Yellow Turban Army.
Of course, he didn't have the same feeling as Xu Wei, because in his memory, the Hu people had always been such a scumbag of war, and had been beaten by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. The people of the Central Plains called Dacao Valley the first time. After all, the name
It can be imagined that in the eyes of the Chinese people, the original Hu people were just living grass valleys.
Are the Xianbei people very powerful? There is only one Tanshihuai who has been very powerful for more than ten years.
Sun Qing did not have the experience of later generations, but he was not as confused as Xu Wei. In his opinion, the victory of the Tengjia Army against the Xianbei people was just a matter of course. On the contrary, it was a special situation for the big man to be beaten by Tan Shihuai!