Li Tai had just returned to the Blackwater Defense City, and Zhu Meng, who had stayed behind to serve as the defense chief, strode forward to greet him, holding a book in his hand and looking happy.
"Mr. Lang, during this month's defense we have recruited more than three hundred warriors from the countryside, all of whom can be used as formations. We have also built two new garrisons. Please review them, Mang Jun!"
Zhu Meng handed over the registration book before entering. Li Tai briefly looked through it and nodded with satisfaction.
Even if the isolated city is not defended and the Yellow River natural danger is as steep as Tongguan, it is necessary to set up forts around Guancheng to separate the key points and support each other. No matter how strong the Heishui City is built, the surrounding areas still need to be divided to form a complete and thorough defense.
line of defense, thereby effectively deterring thieves in the surrounding area from committing minor offenses.
Although the county and county organizations in this area have been abandoned for a long time, they are not completely deserted. There are still many small wall settlements such as the one where the military commander Lu Chuan lived in seclusion in his early years. If they can be effectively integrated, it is also important to establish regional defense.
Base.
There are usually not many people in these docks, and the places where they are guarding are desolate and hidden places. It is difficult to make a living. Once they are discovered by the wandering Jihu tribe, it will be a disaster.
Last year, Li Tai wandered in this area for many days and rescued many Hanhu slaves from the Jihu tribe. At that time, due to limited strength, he could not effectively unite these people, so he could only let them live in the wilderness and make a living independently.
This year Li Tai left and returned to establish a defense zone and farm in this area. The villagers who were rescued before became a good local personnel foundation, and they came back one after another and brought many other villagers with them.
These people can struggle to survive in the harsh barren environment, and they are also very brave and courageous. With a little integration and training, and issued with bows, swords and armor, they become excellent rural defense soldiers.
"The food and drink must be sufficient, the land must be provided quickly, the muscles and bones must be nourished, and the people's hearts must be supported! If the people you are guarding are not up to par, ask Luochuan for help!"
Li Tai also warned that it is easy to annex a population, but difficult to unite people's hearts. If you don't have faith, you will not be established. These villagers responded to the call and enlisted. It is not easy for them who have been in trouble for a long time and are used to seeing turmoil. The cost of trust is
If you are too high, you will pay the price of your life at every turn. If you can't quickly consolidate this power, it will be difficult to calmly gain a foothold.
After Zhu Meng heard this, he nodded: "Everything is according to Langjun's plan. When you join the army, you will be given fields, when you become a naturalized citizen, you will be given farm tools and grain seeds, and when you sow, you will be given bow and knife training. Be diligent in preparing for war in case of autumn and winter."
Li Tai stayed in Heishui Fangcheng for another two days to inspect the cultivation situation of the farmland here. The two cultivation modes have created nearly a thousand hectares of cultivated land. Although they are all lightly cultivated and coarsely cultivated,
The advantage lies in its vast area, and the harvest this autumn is expected to be quite considerable.
Here we have to talk about the relationship between climate and the general trend of the world. In 538 AD, which was the fourth year of the reign of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the second year after the Battle of Shayuan, elephants were discovered in the Henan area of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so the Eastern Wei Dynasty changed its name to Yuan Xiang.
The discovery of elephants in Henan means that the Little Ice Age that began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty has officially ended, and agricultural production has once again entered a period of rapid development. It also means that agricultural civilization will surely rise again.
Changes in the meteorological environment have allowed farming civilization to obtain more stable and sufficient supplies, and its efficiency is far behind that of nomadic peoples.
Although the Western Wei and Eastern Wei were all bred from the Beizhen Legion of Erzhu Rongba Mansion, they also had to make concessions to varying degrees to the Han people who mastered farming technology in order to stabilize their hegemony and gain the qualification to dominate the world.
The national discourse power, which has been out of order since the Wuhu chaos in China, has also changed in different ways in the post-Three Kingdoms era. No matter what kind of heroic figures they are, anyone who goes against this trend will suffer failure in success or failure in life.
The dead are destroyed.
Although Li Tai does not personally work in the fields, he can quite concretely feel the changes brought about by climate change on agricultural production. For example, in the lower reaches of Luoshui today, this year has just passed, and there are various signs of harvest.
And the benefits are already obvious.
After some rectification, most of the hydraulic facilities on the Luoshui River were controlled by Li Tai. With the arrival of the flood season, the profits of various processing also increased along with the river water.
The daily chemical and food industry such as soap fragrances, which he doesn't like very much, has seen profits rising steadily this year, and prices have soared a level compared to last year.
For ordinary households with equal land, they can barely make ends meet, and those local tycoons with considerable assets have become willing to consume as their incomes increase. Grain is cheap, labor is expensive, and it is about to become a (this chapter)
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a common social phenomenon.
It should be noted that in the third year of Datong, Guanzhong also encountered a severe famine, so that Yuwentai had to lead his troops to rob the Hengnong granary, which triggered the Battle of Shayuan. Now in the eleventh year of Datong, the food has been
It is no longer the primary issue plaguing the situation in Guanzhong.
According to this situation, in fact, even if there is no big defeat in the Battle of Mangshan in the ninth year of the Great Unification, Yuwentai Bafu must still pay attention to the increasingly powerful Guanlong powerful people with rural capital and carry out effective integration and win-over.
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Li Tai has also caught up with the times and been able to develop his own power in northern Shaanxi, which has been barren for a long time. Otherwise, the investment period would only last for one year or even several years.
It's enough to bring him down.
The so-called heaven and earth all help when the time comes, but when the hero is gone, he is not free. This is probably the situation. The fate of destiny is sometimes mysterious and vast and cannot be explained, but sometimes it is manifest and concrete and can be seen everywhere.
A single spark can start a prairie fire. Although the reclaimed area of the Black Water Defense Area is currently less than 1,000 hectares, Li Tai believes that as long as this autumn and winter can be stabilized, there will be exponential growth in the coming year.
When the remaining people of Hanhu Township here realize that they can live and work in the soil and water of this township with peace of mind, without having to worry about being invaded and plundered by thieves and bandits at any time, they will definitely flock here in droves.
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The upper reaches of the Kuli River is a construction site for canal construction, and thousands of Jihu Zhuang died captured last year are working here. The ones from Beihuazhou are on loan. As for the captives from Xiazhou, Li Tai will help Xiazhou transport 100,000 shi this year.
Exchange the supplies with Yu Wengui.
These supplies were allocated by Bafu and Xiazhou raised them themselves. Li Tai was only responsible for transporting them into the country. Even so, the burden was huge. Therefore, in order to make up for the lack of troops in the three defense cities, Li Tai borrowed two thousand troops from Xiazhou.
Guard and supervise the environment.
These two thousand men and horses were not under the command of Yuwen Guizhou Prefecture, but Li Tai borrowed them from various powerful chiefs in Xiazhou through his relationship with Li He's family. Although they were borrowed men and horses, Li Tai was also very good at eating them.
He drank and offered food, hoping that the people would come back and be accepted as his subordinates.
Li Dao, who was supervising the work here, also went out of the camp gate to greet him, and reported to Li Tai the progress of the canal construction: "The ponds and swamps in Luodong have been enclosed into a large pond weir of more than 500 hectares, and the rivers in Luoshui have been connected."
The rivers and canals have also been connected and open, and it is expected that the Kuli River will be accessible by the end of the year. By then, the rivers will be smooth, and more than 10,000 hectares of land will benefit from watering!"
The progress of this project can be said to be rapid, far exceeding that of Longshou Canal, which has been repaired on and off for a year.
Li Tai was also very happy after hearing this, but he remembered another verse and asked: "How much labor was lost in building the canal?"
"Since the beginning of the year, more than 3,000 people have been damaged. The damage will inevitably be greater in the autumn. If we want to complete the project as scheduled, we still need to add more."
Hearing what Li Dao said, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh. Although the canal was built very quickly, it still cost people's lives. Although it was not a pity to die for these rebellious Jihu Dingzhuang, from the beginning of the construction to now, the number of casualties exceeded
It's a third of the time, which is also very headache-inducing.
After pondering for a while, Li Taicai then said: "The project continues as usual. If the number of casualties increases sharply, there is no need to hurry up with work in the autumn and winter. There may not be enough work this year, and there will be more work next year. You can not miss the spring plowing."
Although barbarians are rampant here, they are not inexhaustible weeds. The large-scale raids from last year to now have exhausted the fishing grounds. Even if there are remaining blackwater barbarians, they have all fled far away and dare not enter the area again.
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The Heishuihu tribe of less than 3,000 people that Li Tai rounded up before was already his biggest harvest in this period of time.
However, those escaped Hu tribes will definitely continue to gather and harass this autumn and winter. After all, their activity space has been compressed to the extreme, and the output of farming, animal husbandry and hunting will also be very limited. If they want to survive, they will have to take risks.
As long as they survive this winter's wave, the Blackwater Barbarians will no longer exist in this area. A regional barbarian force that has existed for many years may really be extinct under Li Tai's oppression. Even if there are still some remnants, they will go elsewhere.
Escape to make a living.
Of course, Li Tai doesn't feel any guilt about this. As long as you are good people, well-informed and knowledgeable, and come to welcome me and serve me as your master, I will not exterminate you. Last year, you ran away like the dogs I chased.
In this embarrassing situation, do you really think I have no temper?
Li Tai does not intend to include the land that will be reclaimed here in the future within the scope of Fangcheng Farming, but as a recommendation (this chapter is not finished yet!)
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It is a base for opening up China and France. Although this regulation has not been implemented yet, it does not prevent Li Tai from encircling and hoarding land.
It is really not easy to work for Yuwentai. When this smelly black otter sent him here at the end of last year, he only paid half of the supplies needed for the two defense cities. The rest was said to be given to Xu after the new year. But after the new year, he
He has been sending letters to demand for half a year but has received no response. It seems that he is afraid that he will not be able to receive this supply until the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
As for the cost of building canals, it was not included in the Bafu's budget, and Yu Wentai simply didn't mention it.
Li Tai is already well versed in the principle of making enough food and clothing by himself, so he simply erased this matter from the letter to the Bafu. If you don't mention it, then there will be no such thing! I will build the canals myself and farm the land myself, and will not add any trouble to the boss.
trouble.
At the moment, things are in hiding. When the official launch of the Central Government is officially implemented, he can directly take possession of it and let the rich and powerful people from all over the world who covet salt and profit become his tenants, sit on the land and collect commissions, and become the biggest tycoon in northern Shaanxi!
After many days, Li Taicai returned to Luochuan Fang, which was also his base camp to connect the past and the next and communicate with other places.
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