Chapter 2074: Reclamation in the Wilderness Mountains
After the war.
Inside Jicheng.
There was great joy.
Liu Yan, the governor of Youzhou, hosted a banquet in person.
In fact, Wen Rensheng knew that this statement was wrong.
At this time, Liu Hong had not yet changed the title of Prefecture Governor to Prefecture Mu.
In Youzhou, there is a chief who supervises the power of all officials called "Provincial Governor".
The salary was low, but the power was great. Later, it was changed to a state pastor, and he was in charge of the military and civil affairs of a state. It was equivalent to separatist power, which was very powerful.
Now it is only a low-level official with a rank of 600 shi. At that time, the county magistrate's salary was 1,000 shi.
The prefect is the highest official of the "county".
But the world obviously tolerated this mistake. This is the power of everyone's will.
Wrong can also become right.
Of course, it is limited to the secondary world, the real main world, or the big world, which is definitely not possible.
Individual will cannot resist the laws of nature.
Just like in the martial arts world, stepping on the left foot and the right foot to reach the sky is considered normal and powerful, but as readers generally have attended nine years of compulsory education, it becomes increasingly unacceptable.
One version of the world for each generation of readers.
"The success of this battle and the capture of more than 40,000 Yellow Turbans are all due to the work of the captain." Liu Yan toasted to the captain Zou Jing.
"Thank you Mingfu." Zou Jing was also very happy.
This achievement is enough for him to be promoted.
"I heard that on the battlefield, there were strange people using chariots to build cities and defeat bandits. Is this possible?" Liu Yan asked.
Zou Jing directly expressed his merits and said: "Exactly, this was done by Sima Zhaoquzhang of another department under his command. It is extremely powerful and can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop."
"Hurry and invite this strange man to our table."
Yes, at this celebration banquet, the following music director cannot participate.
The participants were all high-ranking state and county officials...
You do the hard work, and they get the credit.
This is also the reason why many Han cities were damaged by the Yellow Turbans.
They all come here by buying posts and trying their best to make money. Who cares about the military equipment of sergeants?
The soldiers had no merit and were not willing to defend the city desperately.
But Liu Yan is different.
He has long been rebellious and has big plans in mind.
It can be said that his strategic vision is absolutely unparalleled.
It's a pity that people can't predict the future, so he died early, and his strategic planning was in vain to benefit others.
At this time, Wen Rensheng came to participate as ordered.
I saw him wearing long robes and a rich crown, which looked unusual.
"Sure enough, he is a strange man. Please take a seat, sir." When Liu Yan saw him, he saw that he had a sense of being out of the world.
Similar to Sima Decao, Sima Hui's temperament.
Although he is young, there were many awesome people in the Han Dynasty, and they all became awesome at a young age.
The most famous one is of course Huo Qubing. In his 20s, he completed what others had accomplished in a lifetime and then left.
"I wonder which county king you are from, sir?" Liu Yan asked again after Wen Ren was promoted to the banquet.
"Farmers in the mountains, how can they talk about the hope of the county?" Wenren said calmly.
"Oh, I wonder if you, sir, would like to join the prefecture and county? I want to recruit you to work for me, but I wonder if you, sir, would be willing to give in?" Liu Yan said earnestly.
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
The bargaining chip given to Liu Yan was quite big.
This official position is to assist the governor of Zuozhou and is one of the senior left officials of the governor.
When the governor inspects a state, he will ride in a passing car, hence the name Biejia.
Commentators at the time called him "half of the history of provincial governors".
The current Liu Yan is actually the governor of Youzhou.
The senior officials from the state and county who attended the banquet looked at Wen Rensheng one by one.
They thought to themselves that this boy had really reached the throne of the Emperor in one step.
This Liu Yan was a real clan member of the Han Dynasty and was deeply trusted by the current emperor.
When he is appointed as a distinguished official, and then recommended, he becomes an important official in the imperial court.
However, no one expected that Wen Rensheng just smiled and said: "The troops are raised in the mountains just to defend the village from misfortune. We don't want to be heard by the princes."
"Sir's ambitions are indeed noble." Liu Yan felt very pity.
But this is normal.
Many celebrities today are like this, deliberately refusing to be recruited to enhance their reputation.
Anyway, Wen Rensheng's refusal will spread his reputation to all the banquets of the major aristocratic families tomorrow.
"Thank you so much for the compliment, I don't deserve it." Wen Rensheng smiled.
Then everyone toasted, drank, and praised again.
It is obvious that empty talk has taken hold.
After three rounds of drinking, someone suddenly said: "Master Fu, now more than 40,000 Yellow Turbans are being imprisoned in the military camp outside the city. There are so many of them that the food and grass alone will consume hundreds of dan every day. It will be difficult to maintain them for a long time."
"I wonder what you can do?" Liu Yan asked.
"It's better to kill them directly and build Jingguan to scare the bandits." A state official said.
Everyone gasped at the same time.
Someone shook his head and said: "It's too cruel. Most of them are from the countryside. Why is it like this?"
"No, they are all from other states. They come to our state to cause trouble. If they don't kill them, how can they deter others?" the state official insisted.
At this time, Zou Jing suddenly said: "I have considered this matter before. Mr. Zhao said that these people can be sent to Changshan and other valleys to reclaim wasteland. In this way, they can harvest grain and grass without any effort."
"But Changshan is the land of Jizhou, and we, Youzhou, are not affiliated with each other. How can we send it in?" Someone else asked.
"We also have a mountain range in Youzhou that is connected to Changshan Mountain, and you can enter from here." Someone said.
"Let's do this. I will send another letter to the governor of Jizhou, asking him to allow these prisoners to enter the mountains to reclaim wasteland and resettle one or two." Liu Yan then said.
He wanted to be a beggar neighbor and throw these thieves to others.
If the other party doesn't accept it, then deal with it.
But this food and grass is really a big problem.
Eating 100 kilograms a day, even if mixed with grass roots, tree bark and other grains, is too much consumption.
No wonder they all killed the prisoners.
At this time, Wen Rensheng took the initiative to ask for help and said: "God has the virtue of good life, and I am willing to escort these people to open up wasteland in the valleys of Daijun Mountain."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Leave it alone, don't drive it improperly, and go to the valley to open up wasteland?
Aren't you sick?
The valley is cold and barren. Once you enter, you will easily die before reaching the age of forty.
Only fools go there.
"Sir, you are indeed benevolent and righteous. In this case, I invite you to serve as the captain of Youzhou Diannong School and go to the mountains to lead people to cultivate land."
"Thank you, Mr. Fu."
Wen Rensheng thought to himself, seeing as you contributed a little more to your initial start, I will help you.
"It's easy to say, I will help you with 500 shi of grain and grass, some farm tools, and 100 oxen..." Liu Yan continued to show his kindness.
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He actually already knew Wen Rensheng's abilities from the people around him.
It is possible to build a chariot, and a thousand people can resist the attack of tens of thousands without chaos.
If he learns this skill, he will be able to fight against the imperial court.
He had a rebellious spirit, and two of his three sons imitated him.
The eldest son and the second son later contacted Ma Teng and attempted to attack Dong Zhuo in Chang'an, but were killed.
"Thank you, Mr. Fu."
Then a banquet ended.
Wen Rensheng then ordered the students to organize the prisoners without stopping.
It should be said that it is the hungry people.
Student A worriedly said: "Teacher, tens of thousands of people are like frightened birds. How can we calm them down?"
"With food in one hand and a sword in the other, you can make peace with it." Hearing people are confident.
Where is this?
He wasn't worried at all about this kind of situation.
Then everyone began to use food as a lure, telling the hungry people that they would take them to cultivate wasteland.
Then a notice was posted that 40,000 people would be divided into 500 men per battalion and organized into 80 battalions.
Then a large pot of gruel was cooked, and soldiers suppressed order.
After eating a bowl, one person was formed. Wen Rensheng used the village commanders and corps commanders he had trained to serve as battalion leaders with more than ten people.
A dozen or so well-armed, well-fed and well-fed men can still deal with a frightened bird.
Even Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others each got a battalion head, and the number of troops suddenly expanded to 500.
However, 40,000 people, with the minimum energy guarantee for a day, would consume hundreds of stones of grain and grass. Even if they were mixed with weeds, it would still consume a lot.
Liu Yan gave him five hundred dan, but no matter how much he saved, it was only enough for ten days.
Fortunately, Wen Rensheng had already prepared.
He also raised grain and grass from Zhangjia Manor in Zhuo County, sold his property, and prepared 3,000 shi of grain, and built a grain station along the road, which could last for two months.
Of course, the food must be very poor. Even if you can barely walk, you won't starve to death, and you can't even think about doing any heavy work.
But most of the prisoners were already content.
After all, what they were most worried about at the beginning was not starvation, but being captured.
This is so common.
When the Yellow Turbans were destroyed, prisoners were killed and Jingguan built in many places.
Now that we have food to eat and someone to take care of it, we don’t have to worry.
After all, no one would waste too much food before killing prisoners on a large scale.
This is not to execute the prisoner, but to give him a meal before he is decapitated.
Then he organized the battalion leaders to go on the road one by one, using chariots to carry food and grass to suppress the formation.
Then he collected donations from large households in Jicheng and collected more than a thousand stones of grain and grass.
In fact, he knew that these large households had at least 100,000 stones of grain and grass, but they would rather leave it in the cellar to mold than use it for disaster relief.
That's how outrageous.
Then he took these battalion heads on the road and came all the way to Daijun.
Of course, he did not go directly into the mountains, but first went to the Youzhou counties that had been harmed by Cheng Yuanzhi before.
There were always some fortresses of large households that had not been breached. The chariots were driven around in front of them, and they finally collected more than two thousand stones and grains.
Cheng Yuanzhi couldn't capture it. If he showed off his chariot, anyone with a discerning eye would know that he could capture it.
The chariot is slightly modified and becomes a siege vehicle.
After doing this.
He took the students and escorted 80 battalions into the mountains in a mighty manner.
These 40,000 people will be his capital to start a business in the future.
At least 8,000 elite soldiers can be trained.
Because they are all hardcover.
How could the old, weak, sick and disabled travel long distances to a border area like Youzhou to cause trouble?
After entering the mountains, we had to disperse.
Because there is no valley that can directly accommodate tens of thousands of people.
There are still some places in the mountains with fields, but they can only accommodate hundreds or thousands of people.
This is why Liu Yan and others don't care.
How did they know that Zhang Yan later relied on reclamation in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains and gathered hundreds of thousands of people, leaving the heroes of the North like Yuan Shao helpless?
One problem with reclamation in the mountains is that there must be enough food and grass.
Otherwise, they will starve to death before food is cultivated.
Based on the map of the Three Kingdoms in his memory, Wen Rensheng began to arrange for the students to carry the camp heads to different locations.
After entering the mountains, he no longer cares about the restrictions of any state or county.
Many of the valleys here are interconnected.
He chose ten large valleys and placed people in them.
The resettlement of 40,000 people has basically been completed.
Then they distributed grain, grass and farm tools, summoned blacksmiths, cast the captured weapons from the previous battlefields into farm tools and axes, and asked them to cut down wood to build houses and cultivate the land on the spot.
This is the time of spring and summer.
There are also some game animals and bark and grass roots in the mountains and fields, which can be used to make ends meet.
If you cultivate at this time, you can still produce some harvest in summer and autumn.
It’s probably about 20 kilograms of grain harvested from one kilogram of grain.
One acre of land can produce 80 kilograms.
It takes about 5 acres of land for one person to survive.
Because a part of it must be collected as farming expenses.
In any case, with Wen Rensheng's hard work day and night, ten villages were finally completed.
In the meantime, more than 2,000 people died due to disease, hunger, injuries, and wild beast attacks.
It would be a shocking event in later generations, but at this moment, not many people cared.
Instead, they all praised Wen Rensheng's virtues. Thousands of people lived there, and everyone called him "Zhao Gong".
After doing these things, Wen Rensheng continued to open his mountain school.
He wants to cultivate the fields for a year with peace of mind.
At the same time, they continued to march to other valleys in the Taihang Mountains and collected Zhang Yan's group of thieves.
In the mountains, chariots are inconvenient.
Fortunately, the soldiers have been trained and mastered the art of covering each other.
He happened to change it to the Yuanyang Formation.
This is the magic weapon for dealing with mountainous and hilly terrain.
Moreover, the mountains and hills are not afraid of the opponent's cavalry assault.
As long as you are familiar with the terrain, it is easy to ambush the enemy.
Wen Rensheng still maintained a standing army of thousands of people.
The village chiefs usually train the people, and in their free time they gather together to listen to Rensheng's lectures and practice.
Because the road in the mountains was difficult, Wen Rensheng always moved around the ten valley camps to give lectures and train troops.
Ensure that everyone knows him and that he is the only leader in everyone's heart.
Others can only play a leading role in a small area.
At the same time, we focused on logistics with one hand and armaments with the other, concentrating weapons workshops and granary reserves in the middle valley as a base.
Now he has more than 5,000 shi of food in stock, which means he can eat a lot since the 40,000 people start working. However, he can also supplement it with forest prey, which can reduce some consumption.
One person eats one kilogram of grain a day, and 40,000 people eat 400 shi of grain.
In other words, his food is only enough for 10 days, not counting the transportation consumption.
But because they have been scattered in the valley to cultivate wasteland, many people can eat three ounces of grain mixed with wild grass bark.
This year was still the Han Dynasty, and the destruction of mountains and forests was not very serious.
The main reason is that the mountains and forests belong to the princes and officials, and the people are not allowed to go up the mountains to cut them.
So they can still be used for one month.
The only place Wen Rensheng can take advantage of now is the Zhang Family Manor.
He also reached an agreement with some large merchants and landowners in Youzhou, exchanging wine-making skills and farming methods, and received more than 5,000 shi of grain in exchange.
It is actually impossible for other princes to spend one hundred thousand shi of food at every turn.
Food is precious throughout the Three Kingdoms.
It was not until the great development of farming that the food problem was initially solved.
If Wen Rensheng wanted to wait until there was no shortage of food and the food could sustain itself, it would have to be at least until autumn.
There are still five months in between.
Because he had many farming methods improved by later generations.
For example, he taught his disciples one by one how to farm, how to plow the land with less effort, and how to improve farm tools.
This made his reputation grow higher and higher.
Among these mountain people, he rivaled Wang Mang before he usurped the throne.
