Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1078

The weather was as fine as ever.

Although it was the first month, Luo Yi was only wearing a single-layer gown.

Outside Sunset City, the flowing water of the Zhangzi River flows around the city, the moat is clear, and a row of willow seeds brought from the Central Plains has grown very well.

Luo Yi tugged at his collar, "This weather, I can't believe it's just after the Chinese New Year. This is at least the weather after the Dragon Boat Festival in the Central Plains."

Now is a rare good season here. After staying here for a few years, Luo Yi is also very familiar with the weather here. Every year from the Dragon Boat Festival to the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is almost always the rainy season here. It rains continuously for several months, intermittently and endlessly Gone.And after Mid-Autumn Festival until the Dragon Boat Festival of the following year, it will be a rare dry season.

During the rainy season, the rainfall is concentrated, and there are often torrential rains and heavy rains. In the dry season, sometimes there may be no rain for a month or two.

Another characteristic of the weather here is that the four seasons are not very distinct. Even in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, you still only need a spring shirt.

In fact, Luo Yi still prefers the dry season, at least people will not be wet all day long.

"I can't go to Guangxi anymore."

Luo Yi tore the collar a little further, E Guanbo's belt is not suitable here, but he is not used to wearing short shirts like ordinary citizens or slaves, wearing straw sandals and clogs, or even barefoot shirtless.

In the distance, there is the newly reclaimed cultivated land, and groups of Chenlan slaves are working in the field.

The climate here is good, and the rice seeds brought over from Champa in the south are planted. There are three seasons a year. It is the first month now, but the rice in the field is about to be harvested.

Looking at the paddy fields, Luo Yi sighed, although it is true that this place is too remote, it is really a feast from the heavens.

Level the land casually, dig ditches to divert water and drainage, and then the land does not need to be plowed very deeply, just sow rice seeds, and it will grow wildly. In the past, those local Chenla people didn't even have any management theory at all, and they didn't know how to sieve seeds. Seedling raising and transplanting these are simply spreading seeds, and then there is almost no management, allowing them to grow like weeds, and they can be harvested in three months.

This made Luo Yi, an aristocrat who is not a peasant, be jealous.

The immigrants of the Han family even lamented that the savages in Chenla were wasting such a good field weather.After they came, they leveled the fields, dug and repaired ditches, optimized seeds, raised seedlings and transplanted them, and diverted water for irrigation. Even in the dry season, they could use water trucks to ensure water for the rice fields, and successfully completed three crops a year.

Originally, the people of Chenla were very casual about planting. Anyway, the land here is sparsely populated and there are many fields. You can sow seeds wherever you want and wait for the harvest. There are even all kinds of bananas and other fruits that are inexhaustible.

But the Han immigrants were different. They carefully organized the fields, cultivated them carefully, tamed oxen and plowed the plow, brought the farming technology of the Central Plains, and completed a leapfrog farming upgrade on this land.

Luo Yi is in Lingnan, the most important thing is food, although the population is small, but now Sunset Country only has two counties, and the total population of civilians, slaves, soldiers, etc. is only more than [-] people, but the fields that have been sorted out, There are three crops a year, and the warehouse is full of grain.

The food output can't be eaten up, but the people are reluctant to give up those lands. There are still three seasons a year, and they are even continuing to level the fields and cultivate new ones.

Luo Yi raised his foot to kick a stone, and the stone fell into the moat. A big fish that was grazing grass jumped and got under the water wave.

What a big fish.

There are fish everywhere in the moat, and even the rice fields are full of fish and shrimp, and there are all kinds of snails, frogs, loaches, eels, etc. In this kind of place, there is really no need to worry about not having enough food or famine.Aside from the raging mosquitoes, the unacceptable water and soil, and being far away from the Central Plains, this is actually a really good place.

"I originally wanted you to take up the new post of county lieutenant, but now it seems that I have to wait."

There is an iron hook on Li Shimin's right arm. On his originally handsome face, he has a thick beard and a black eyepatch. He looks like a rough man in his 30s. It's hard to imagine this In fact, he was a son of a famous Central Plains aristocrat in his early twenties.

"In fact, I also expected it. After all, the king is a clan, and he was conferred the title of king here. Without the emperor's will and the court system, the kings cannot leave the fief."

"That's right. The government soldiers stationed in the feudal state are not allowed to leave the border without order, and the princes are also not allowed to go out of the border without order. Although this rule is a bit troublesome, it is the imperial court's system after all. I can't violate it. I can't make a bad mistake." head."

Although Luo Yi and the kingdom's soldiers cannot go out of the border, Luo Yi still plans to send troops to Guangxi.

"I have already summoned 500 people's children, and there are more than 1000 young and strong Chenla tribes who have surrendered to the order. I have added another [-] Chenla slave soldiers, and I have gathered [-] people."

The military talismans of the government's Wuwu Privy Council ordered that the military talismans of the Wubing Ministry not be allowed to transfer without authorization, but Luo Yi only recruited a group of feudal children as a voluntary, and then recruited a group of Chenla Tibetans and a group of slave soldiers, which bypassed it.

"I plan to ask you to lead this group of voluntary children. After leaving Wushiling to Rinan County, you can take a boat directly to the seaport of Puyang (Rong City). I have some property there, and I have already written to the steward over there to start Zhang Luo hires a ship, and when you arrive, you can board the ship and go to Guangxi directly."

Li Shimin smiled, "Your Majesty, this is just playing around the corner, right?"

"The living can't be suffocated by urine. This time you led the army to the north, not only to help the court fight against the rebellion, but also a good opportunity for our Ninan Kingdom to expand. Anyway, Ningyue and other four counties are now rebellious places. , if you bring people there, you can safely rob, rob money and rob people, I don't want land, cities, or food, I don't lack these here, I want money and people, especially people, regardless of whether he is Han or Slang Liao, as long as he is attached to Ning Changzhen and others to cause rebellion, they can attack and plunder."

Luo Yi is now west of the Changshan Mountains, a separate country, several hundred miles away, with a population of just over 1, of which less than half are Han immigrants.For Luo Yi, this is exactly what Sunset Country needs most now.

The Sunset Country has a lot of arable land, and can easily grow enough food to feed a large number of people. Right now, there is a shortage of people.With the population, you have everything, you can build more villages, open up more new counties, build more cities, build the handicraft workshops you need, etc., to conquer more Chenla barbarians and open up more territories.

"Although we can continue to fight against the barbarians in Zhenla, these barbarians are too poor and too lazy. Besides food and fruits, what else is there in those villages? At most, there are a few elephants and cows. Am I missing this? It’s different in Guangxi, Ning’s and Feng’s have been operating for several generations, and Ningyue County is not only rich in Beihai Hepu Dazhu, but also has good handicrafts such as weaving, firing porcelain, and salt.”

(End of this chapter)