Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 779 Peacetime (please subscribe!)
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With the peace talks between China and Gold, Dazhong ushered in a rare period of peace.

Taking advantage of this hard-won peace period, Dazhong vigorously developed.

At the beginning of the year, the corn and sweet potatoes that Li Yan forcibly pushed out in Hebei, Ludi, and Henan with an iron fist are showing great power now—the sweet potatoes in Hebei, Ludi, and Henan are mostly cooked twice a year, and the spring potatoes are now Harvest, in the eyes of people in this era, its yield is really high and a bit scary. Its yield per mu is double that of rice and other crops in good years, and the growth of summer potatoes is even higher than that of spring potatoes. Even better, if there are no accidents, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes will be three times that of rice and other crops in good years, and it may be more.As for corn, although it has not yet been harvested, based on the experience of the experimental field last year and the current growth situation, its yield per mu may be higher than that of sweet potatoes.

Of course, this is also because the sky has fulfilled people's wishes. This year's rain is neither too much nor too little, and it is destined to be a bumper year.

In such a good year, not only Hebei, Ludi, and Henan have bumper harvests, but Jianghuai, Jingchu, Shaanxi, and Hedong, including Yanyun and Pingluanying, will also have very good harvests. As for Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Indochina Peninsula have a bumper harvest or are about to have a bumper harvest.

This made Li Yan heaved a sigh of relief.

Due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the year before last, many areas in the Central Plains had no harvest. Last year, although Dazhong officials tried their best to persuade farmers, many areas had not been recovered by Dazhong when it was time to sow. It has not yet stabilized, which has caused many areas to miss the time for sowing, so that the Central Plains did not harvest much food last year.

Let's put it this way, in the past two years, almost all the food needed in the Central Plains has been transported from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indochina Peninsula and other places by the fleet on which the sun never sets, which has brought a heavy burden to Dazhong.

You know, there are tens of millions of people in the Central Plains!

Such a huge population base cannot be relieved by external relief alone.

Needless to say, if it is like last year, every grain eaten in the Central Plains has to be transported from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Indochina Peninsula. In two years at most, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Indochina Peninsula will all have to be dragged by the Central Plains. collapsed.

Good luck!

Li Yan survived the most difficult level!
It is precisely because of this that Li Yan often said to the left and right: "Recovering Yanyun and Liaozhou (Li Yan drew the large and medium-sized lands from Enzhou to the south of the paddock and Songtingguan to the north of Yuguan, including Chifeng Mansion. At the same time, a new state was established, and Li Yan named it "Liaozhou"). I am certainly happy, but I am even more happy that corn and sweet potatoes can be successfully transplanted in my university."

There is food at home, so don't panic.

No matter how good Dazhong's policies are, it's not like real food can calm people's hearts.

It was only a little more than a year and a half since the establishment of the Dazhong Dynasty, and it was only a little more than a year and a half since Li Yan replaced the Zhao family as emperor. People in the Central Plains no longer went hungry, and many families even saved some surplus food.

In addition, Dazhong regained Yanyun and Liaozhou, formed an alliance with Xixia, negotiated peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, and made the world peaceful.

Such a big and medium, such Li Yan, was gradually accepted by the suffering people of the Central Plains, and Zhao Song was gradually forgotten by the people of the Central Plains.

The rule of Dazhong and Li Yan tended to be stable.

but--

Li Yan was not complacent because of this, and he didn't even dare to relax his vigilance, because, apart from the sea in the east, today's Dazhong is surrounded by Jin Kingdom and Mongolian tribes in the north, Xixia in the west, and Southern Song Dynasty in the south. Yan can be taken lightly.

In September, Yue Fei and the [-] to [-] rebels under his command were withdrawn from the north at the request of Li Yan. , then continue to stay in Yandi to garrison.

Although Li Yan did not tell Yue Fei what he was doing to bring these rebels back, but according to the tradition of the Chinese army, Yue Fei can roughly guess that Li Yan sent these people back because he wanted them to accept the recruitment department and the political department. Rotation training, which is also the training that all Chinese soldiers must undergo.

In this regard, Yue Fei is very supportive.

Because soldiers who have been trained by the Recruit Department and the Political Department generally have higher obedience and a stronger sense of belonging.

According to the imperial decree issued by Li Yan, Wang De was promoted to deputy capital commander, and Yue Fei temporarily handed over the military power of Yandi to Wang De, and then led the rebel army he recruited to go south.

in fact--

The leaders of the rebel army, such as Pang Rong, Fu Qing, Cao Cheng, Liang Xing, Zhao Yun, Li Jin, etc., were actually very uncertain about the imperial court recruiting them back to Beijing.

But Yue Fei patted his chest and promised that they would only get rewards and nothing else during their trip.

Things were exactly as Yue Fei said, and Li Yan and the court did not disappoint Yue Fei. Pang Rong, Fu Qing, Cao Cheng, Liang Xing, Zhao Yun, Li Jin and other rebel leaders arrived in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and Li Yan personally He met them and gave them a lot of rewards, including real estate, money, and beauties. At the same time, they were promoted to official positions according to their past achievements.

After that, Li Yan also personally explained to Pang Rong and others the importance of going to the Recruit Department and the Political Department for advanced studies.

The emperor Li Yan came forward to tell them about this in person, and after rewarding them, not to mention that Pang Rong and the others didn't have much psychological barriers in their hearts, even if there were, they could all get over it.

Li Yan settled Pang Rong, Fu Qing, Cao Cheng, Liang Xing, Zhao Yun, Li Jin and other leaders of the rebel army, and the remaining soldiers were easy to deal with.

Dazhong's recruitment department and political department are very mature. With the cooperation of Yue Fei, Pang Rong and others, they quickly divided the [-] to [-] rebels into several parts and trained them separately.

After dealing with the [-] to [-] rebels, Yue Fei was free for the time being, and went to court every day or went to the library to read books.

During this period, Li Yan never summoned Yue Fei, nor did he reward Yue Fei, as if deliberately showing Yue Fei.

Some people saw this, combined with Li Yan's handling of Yue Fei's recruitment of rebels, and thought that Li Yan was punishing Yue Fei. Some people even pessimistically believed that Yue Fei, who is less than 26 years old this year, may have reached the end of his official career. What's more, they think that Li Yan is planning to imitate Zhao Kuangyin's drinking and releasing military power and start to take over the military power of generals, while Yue Fei is just the beginning, and soon Wu Jie, Han Shizhong, Yang Yizhong, Wang Yan, Zhang Xian and other generals will have military power It will also be taken back by Li Yan, and Dazhong will live in peace with Silin in the future.

Regarding these discussions, neither Li Yan nor Yue Fei made a sound.

this day.

After the morning court was over, Li Yan called Yue Fei who was about to leave with the crowd, "Yue Aiqing, I have something to say to you."

Seeing this, the other ministers of civil and military affairs knew that this pair of monarchs and ministers might have a showdown.

Yue Fei replied: "No." Then he followed Li Yan and left the Chong Gong Hall.

Under Li Yan's leadership, the monarch and his ministers did not go to the apse, but to the garden behind the Chuigong Hall.

After walking for a while, Li Yan stopped suddenly, then turned around to look at Yue Fei and said, "I never thought of letting you, Yue Pengju, guard Yandi."

Yue Fei listened to the words and bowed, "No."

Li Yan looked at Yue Fei and asked, "Don't you wonder why I didn't let you guard Yandi?"

Yue Fei replied: "Jane is in the emperor's heart, and the minister only needs to follow orders."

Hearing this, Li Yan said, "Is this what Zhu Wu told you?" and sat down on the wooden chair beside him.

Today, Jin Yiwei and the Du Wei Mansion, which was born out of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, have placed eyeliner everywhere, how could Li Yan not know that the good old man Zhu Wu has talked to Yue Fei several times to appease Yue Fei?
Yue Fei didn't deny it, "I think so too."

Li Yan listened, and said noncommittally: "What do you think of those rumors outside?"

Yue Fei didn't hesitate or beat around the bush, but said directly: "They don't understand the official family, and the official family is definitely not the kind of unprogressive emperor they think!"

Li Yan said calmly: "Oh? You think so?"

Yue Fei nodded, and said: "I dare to take my minister's head as a guarantee!"

Li Yan looked at Yue Fei and asked, "Is that why you have so much confidence in me?"

Yue Fei said: "Just as the officials have absolute confidence in the ministers, the ministers also have absolute confidence in the officials."

After hearing this, Li Yan smiled and said, "How do you know that I have confidence in you?"

Yue Fei said: "If the officials don't have confidence in the minister, it is impossible for the minister to support the minister all the time. Without the support of the official family, the minister will never recover Hebei and Yan."

Li Yan looked Yue Fei up and down, and said: "You, Yue Pengju, have also learned how to flatter horses?"

Yue Fei said: "What I said is psychological, I can swear to the sky."

Li Yan didn't make Yue Fei swear, but said again: "Then guess again, why didn't I assign you a job during this time?"

Another person would definitely say: "I can't guess it." No matter whether he can guess it or not.

But Yue Fei didn't, he said directly: "The officials should want the ministers to lead troops to attack the Song Dynasty."

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That... because I earn too little, the two of us quarreled again.

Writing a book is really a matter of mood, so although we have a truce now, I still can't enter the state of writing a book, so I can only upload the chapter I wrote before the quarrel, and Chapter 2 will not be released today. wrote.

By the way, I would like to advise you, don't jump into the fire pit of marriage without a certain economic foundation.

(End of this chapter)