As the saying goes, a year's plan begins with spring.
A person may be mistaken for a time, and a place may be mistaken for a year.
On the land of Hehuang, from west to east, from south to north, people are rushing to farm and plant.
The two sons were fighting in the front, and the old father Liu Xiangyu was behind to make plans to calm the people, leading the Xining students to collect land and plan for the new year's grain cultivation.
In fact, there is no point in posting the list. The people who can understand the list are highly overlapped with the people who fled east. Those who did not run east, even if they can understand the list, don’t care what is written.
It's just a matter of changing the landlord. The people are thinking that I don't even have the money to escape, so who can I farm for?
But the situation is really different from what they thought.
As soon as the army of the Marshal's Mansion moved eastward, there were rural officials from Xining stationed behind them. These rural officials took office very crudely, with no official robes, no seals, and only a letter of appointment.
Generally, there are three people from each village.
A veteran with a northern Shaanxi accent is a rural official holding a commission, a Spanish young man who can speak Chinese is a follower, and a Tatar who can only understand but cannot speak Chinese is an errand boy.
Ask how many registered residences there are in the local area, how many acres of land there are, and for every 200 people, recruit a breadwinner from among the poor young people in the local area who can't make ends meet, and then start work, inventory the land acres, population, and complete the statistics.
Nominally, the township officials are all students sent by the Xining government office, but the local people look left and right and feel that these students are not serious... Let's say they can read, they can read; let's say they can count, they can count; but
They just don’t have much culture, and they don’t have the nobility of officials. They are more like farmers than workers, and they are more like soldiers than farmers.
There are so many serious students in Xining, let alone scholars. Scholars all have to be teachers in Xining, and the ones who stay with Liu Xiangyu are mostly children.
The people stationed there are the most capable graduates of Zhuantianmao Academy from the Marshal's Mansion.
Among them, those with outstanding achievements are highly educated talents who entered Xining Prefecture School for two years as Yuziying Baizong in the early years.
These people really don't have much education. What they can speak, read and write are common vocabulary. They basically only dabble in professional things such as drawing calculations, camp calculations, military laws and regulations, weapons deployment, and baggage management.
But they all have the same experience. They were born in poverty in Yan'an Prefecture, and Liu Shishi was the only life-saving straw in the drought that swept the world.
With their weak bodies, they challenged the officers and soldiers who were armed to the butthole. After experiencing hardships and sacrifices, they survived, received life-saving food and the opportunity to read and write, and became outstanding peasant army officers.
Everyone has experience in managing twelve, sixty or more soldiers. Some have suffered irreparable injuries on the battlefield, and some are over forty and no longer suitable for the battlefield.
In the end, with Master Liu's instructions, full enthusiasm and infinite loyalty, they stood on another battlefield without gunpowder smoke and fought for their return to their homeland in their lifetime.
Liu Chengyun rushed back from Nangqian day and night. Because the road was blocked by heavy snow, his journey was delayed. He had no time to rest in Xining, so he went straight to his new job.
He ran all the way to Machang City, where the battle had just ended. After the chieftain army failed to stop him, this place became Liu Chengzong's main transport camp. Here, Liu Xiangyu allocated supplies to the front line and managed the newly received land.
Mr. Liu was overjoyed at the news of the shipment.
Everyone is good at different things. Liu Xiangyu is very good at managing people, but his background as an official makes it difficult for him to put himself in the shoes of the common people and think about problems from the perspective of the people. It is very easy for him to take over the land, but he can change the land according to his second son's ideas.
The production method is somewhat difficult to start with.
Therefore, Liu Xiangyu's choice was to pave the road first and send township officials from the Marshal's Office to various places to find out the population of the fields and the intricate interpersonal relationships in various places to ensure that orders could be conveyed to every village unhindered in the Erbaili Valley. p>
It happened to be shipped over at this time. This was a talented person in the family who managed things carefully. Liu Xiangyu happened to be free to send a group of old, weak, women and children to Xining.
These old and weak women and children were the mother, wife and children of Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of the Lintao Army, Chai Shihua, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, and Tian Yinglong, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province. They were all sent to Xining and given careful care and attention.
In Cheng Yun's eyes, things in Hehuang are actually much simpler than those in Kangning Mansion. At least the people here can understand what he is saying, and he can also understand what others are saying.
In Machang City, I saw the population of the land handed over by each township, and immediately rushed to the mouth of the river to meet Liu Shizi.
Liu Chengzong had stayed in Hezui Pozhuang for half a month. Along the way, he saw villages surrounded by checkpoints, as well as temporary soldiers living in the villages.
He learned from Liu Xiangyu that there was a smallpox outbreak in the east, and he also knew that Yang Yao, the commander of the cavalry in the Marshal's Mansion, was going to be a guest pox doctor at Hezui.
However, when he approached the mouth of the river, what he saw did not look like he was trying to vaccinate the people with variola. On the contrary, the entire river mouth seemed to have become a huge construction site.
The beach surrounded by the Huangshui River is more than ten miles long, but the width is only between four and six miles. However, tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers transported earth and rocks, dug trenches, and even built two hundred-foot-square bridges at the head of the river bend.
The foundation of the earthen fort.
Chengyun looked at this posture, scratched his head, and thought to himself, is the second brother planning to build a fortress at the mouth of the river?
Then he met Yang Yao who was walking the monkey.
I was really walking a monkey. I don’t know where I got a macaque, and I was walking on a leash on the northern hillside. When I saw Chengyun from a distance, I raised my arms to say hello. I pointed to the hillside and said from a distance: "Chengyun, the commander is here."
On the mountain platform, you will see it when you go up."
Liu Chengyun suppressed his doubts and led his horse onto the platform. Not long after, he saw Liu Chengzong on the edge of the platform with a telescope overlooking the entire river mouth, and quickly informed the surrounding guards.
Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong didn't let him get close at all. He just said from a distance: "Don't come over. I have an acne. Go to the tent over there and talk."
On the hillside not far away, there were two adjacent military tents standing alone. Liu Chengzong entered the eastern one, and the guards led Chengyun into the western one. There were two layers of tents between them, and Chengyun said anxiously: "Brother, why do you have acne?"
Already?"
Liu Chengzong's muffled voice came from the other side of the military tent: "It's okay. I was vaccinated against human pox. Your brother is stronger than a tiger. He was vaccinated twice. Don't worry, it won't affect anything."
Chengyun felt relieved when he heard that the vaccine was caused by vaccination. The vaccine was much less toxic than Tianxing's vaccination. There was no need to worry about Liu Chengzong's safety. However, he became worried about the situation of the battle again and asked: "Brother, what are you doing?"
If you’ve been vaccinated against acne, how can you go east to fight it?”
Liu Shizi sighed at the pity on the other side, and then said to Chengyun: "We can't defeat it. Before the Eastern Expedition, we didn't count the smallpox outbreak in the east. More than 20,000 of my 30,000 troops were not vaccinated, especially the regular ones."
Army, the cost of continuing the Eastern Expedition is too high."
Chengyun asked: "Real army?"
"It's Basang, Erhu and Ahai Daiqing. Ahai Daiqing is Chuoketu's surrender. The soldiers rushed into the place with smallpox. Every one of them got sick."
Liu Chengzong believed that in terms of natural resistance to smallpox, the Han people were the strongest, followed by the Mongols and the Xifan people.
This is not a good thing. It is just because the Central Plains is densely populated and has always been a place where plagues rage. Generations of ancestors have been victors in fighting various plagues. Only the best genes can be passed down, so there is a little bit of it.
Resistance.
Mongolians and Westerners have never seen this disease, and those who have seen it are all gone. Either they are separated by the yin and yang of fools like Xiao Lazun, or they are tortured by complications on the plateau.
So these people don't have any antibodies against smallpox.
Liu Chengzong said: "Now the imperial court has stationed a large army in Lanzhou and south of the Yellow River. There is a smallpox-prone Gansu camp in the north of the Yellow River. We only have eldest brother and Yang Yao's more than 7,000 soldiers. It is easy to deal with the Gansu soldiers, but it is impossible to stand up after defeating them."
Stop."
Liu Shishi sent troops for two purposes. The first goal was to solve the shortage of food and grass caused by the influx of people into Xining last year; the second was to fully seize the Hehuang Valley.
At this time, the Hehuang Valley was still fifty miles away, but more than half of the food and grass problems were solved with the war.
Chengyun answered: "So I plan to build a fort here and confront the Lanzhou army?"
"Let's not talk about confrontation, let's defend and counterattack. I heard that Lanzhou has gathered commanders from five towns. Although I don't know who from the five towns is leading the army, no one of them dares to stop advancing because of smallpox and bear the responsibility for losing ground.
This battle is inevitable."
"First let the Mongolian soldiers build fortifications, and let General Yang Shen vaccinate the Fan soldiers; after the Fan soldiers were vaccinated, they would be given to the Mongolian soldiers; tens of thousands of vaccinia were raised, and all the people in Hehuang were vaccinated this year."
Liu Chengzong's reaction to the acne on his body was very weak. It neither affected his activities nor his thinking. He even had very few acnes on his body. He had been thinking about the situation these days. Although he knew in his heart that this battle was inevitable under normal circumstances, Daming...
To be honest, it is difficult to figure it out with normal thinking.
So he had to be prepared whether he would come or not.
When they come, they will rely on the location of the fortress to block them for a while with cannons, cannons and rivers, until they relax, and then use the vaccinated army to attack them. If they dare not come, they can use this time to build siege equipment and wait for the vaccination to end.
So he went over and captured Lanzhou.
Liu Chengzong has not yet received exact information on how many border troops there are in the five towns of the imperial court, but what he is sure of is that the imperial court cannot afford to delay them.
This has happened so many times, and he was urged to send out troops because of food and grass problems before he was ready. Liu Chengzong believed that this time was no exception, and this army should be coming soon.
Chengyun listened and suddenly answered with a smile: "I just met General Yang Shen at the foot of the mountain. He led a monkey. It was quite fun."
"Well, the macaque was caught by Li Wanqing who was fighting in the mountains in the north. I asked him to try to inoculate smallpox on cattle. He was quite able to draw inferences about other cases. He gave it to rabbits, cattle, pigs, chickens, horses, sheep... and so on.
Everywhere, try planting anything that can move."
Chengyun listened to what his second brother said, and could even imagine Liu Chengzong shaking his head on the other side of the tent: "Some succeed and some fail. No, Li Wanqing caught a monkey and a lynx for me to play with. He
I'm about to get vaccinated when I see one. If you like it, ask Li Wanqing to catch another one for you, or Yang Yao to give it to you after the vaccination."
Liu Chengzong said from the other side of the tent: "Hey, not to mention how smart he is, have you calculated the people and land in Hehuang?"
When Chengyun heard this, he knew that the brothers' chat was over. Although Liu Chengzong couldn't see it, he still sat upright in the military tent and took out the small notebook he had prepared in advance.
Before setting off for Kangning Mansion, Liu Xiangyu from Racecourse City had considered what his second brother would ask him when he saw him. He memorized the details in his notebook and relied on this to confidently say: "I have roughly calculated it now, but I haven't reported the details to my second uncle yet."
That."
"There are more than 23,000 households in the Huangshui Valley to the east of Xining, more than 120,000 people, and 720,000 acres of land. It is estimated that there will be 200 protections and 20 township protections." p>
720,000 acres of farmland.
Liu Chengzong took a deep breath and was very satisfied with this number.
The Hehuang Valley is a good land for growing wheat. From west to east, the terrain becomes lower as you go east. Based on this figure, if the general and his army decide in a battle, if they capture the entire Hehuang Valley, the fields in the valley alone will be enough.
Increase one million acres.
The millions of acres of fields that have not been affected by the drought are different from the fields in Kangning Prefecture. No matter how many fields there are in Kangning Prefecture, it will not be of much help if there is no man's land in the middle. However, Hehuang only has only 1 million acres of land in Gansu and Longxi.
The Yellow River is a natural barrier. If you say you can rush over it, you can rush over it.
At this moment, Cheng Yuan turned over the notebook and said: "Brother, I took a look when I came here. Along the two hundred miles from Xining to Binggou, there are forty-seven longitudinal valleys from north to south. The valley area is less than the population of Hehuang and the farmland. The maximum is
The people and the land are all on the mountain."
Chengyun said: "If we can take all the mountainous land, I estimate that the farmland will be at least 30,000 hectares, and the population should be around 400,000."
Liu Chengzong knew this, and he said: "In the mountains, there are either chieftains or fan tribes. I plan to move the chieftains to the west, and then the remaining native people and fan tribes will also be organized into households. However, this is not a temporary success. Focus on the river valley first."
Right."
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In fact, Liu Chengzong couldn't care about anything at the moment. The annexation of the valley was a swallow-up similar to the southern expedition to Kangning.
Historically, various separatist regimes have expanded rapidly in a short period of time, and he cannot avoid the shortcomings of insufficient accumulation. Professional talents are always insufficient, and there are not enough when fighting in Kangning. Forcibly changing sergeants to rural officials is just trying to survive.
Now it is still not enough to swallow the Huang River, but the imperial court has stationed heavy troops on the other side of the Yellow River, which makes it impossible for him to deploy sergeants to do other things, so that he subconsciously does not want to swallow the land in the mountainous areas north and south of the Huang River.
"Brother, I know what you are worried about, but I have a different view on this matter."
It’s not that Chengyun has different opinions, he has too many opinions. He feels sorry for the land in the mountains.
What he does in Kangning Mansion is to cultivate land, working hard to get the best land. The output of two acres of land is probably about the same as the mountain fields in Hehuang.
From Cheng Yun's point of view, the forty-seven valleys running from north to south in Hehuang have a population and farmland that far exceeds that of the Huangshui River Valley. Even though it is not the best farmland here, it must not be given up.
He said: "In a short period of time, there are not enough people who can write and calculate. The terrain of the valley is complex and support is not good. The local natives live in a mixed environment and there is not a large number of manpower. I am afraid that the civil society where the second brother shares grain and buys taxes will not be able to run in the valley, but this is exactly the case.
It’s an opportunity.”
Liu Chengzong asked: "What opportunity?"
"Leave a way out, brother. This is the first time we have done this thing of unifying the grains and buying grains in the civil society. It consumes manpower and material resources. I don't know whether it can be done. If it is done, the people in each township will have enough grains."
It’s not enough to eat, and we don’t know whether the commander’s military rations are enough.”
"So I feel that the people and the land in the mountains must be held in our hands. At least we should let them know that Hehuang has changed his surname."
Chengyun said: "From Xining to Binggou, there is one post station for forty miles, five in total. Based on these five stations, five additional towns will be built, with 500 troops stationed in each town. If there are not enough troops in the north, they will be transferred from the south. Set up every ten miles.
Urgent delivery."
In ancient times, a town was not entirely an administrative unit. From the Northern Wei Dynasty, it mainly referred to the name of a place where the military and military relatives were stationed, and it had the meaning of guarding.
"I think." Cheng Yun said: "In the river valley of the Huanghuang River, Baojia is organized, a folk society is established, the fields are divided, the government provides planting, the grain is uniformly grown, and the harvest is purchased uniformly; the local people in the Forty-seven Valley in the mountains also have to
Organize households and integrate the people, regardless of their cultivation, but they must pay grain to the government."
"In this way, even if the harvest of the civil society is not satisfactory, there will still be 47 ditches of taxed grain, and at the same time, the 2,500 sergeants in the five towns can be mobilized at any time to intimidate the various tribes and quickly quell the chaos when necessary.
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After Cheng Yun finished speaking, his tone became relaxed and he asked: "Brother, did your idea of government management of planting come from Emperor Taizu?"
Liu Chengzong was amused. His idea had nothing to do with Emperor Taizu, but Zhu Yuanzhang did care about what the people planted, but he didn't control it as harshly as he did.
Zhu Yuanzhang's farmland was between five and ten acres, and he planted half an acres of mulberry, cotton, hemp, and twice as much as ten acres or more.
Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "Almost, but it's the other way around. Ninety percent of the land in each commune is owned by the communes, and one percent is reserved for the communes themselves. Vegetables, cotton, mulberry, and hemp are allowed to be grown. Ninety percent of the land must be grown in grain, but what kind of grain is left to the owner.
Each township recommends doctors who are proficient in farming and adapt measures to local conditions."
After that, Liu Chengzong warned: "I'll leave the affairs of Hehuang Field to you... When the war here subsides, Yang Shen will make a safer vaccine, and you can inoculate it to avoid smallpox in the future.
