I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 192, Discuss Zhao'an again

In September of the fifth year of Zhongping (188).

The whole Bingzhou has begun to enter the autumn harvest season. Xu Wei pays special attention to this autumn harvest. It may be that he moved God. Although there are many disasters in Dahan this year, all kinds of Bingzhou have not been affected by the disasters. Even just looking at the growth of wheat You know, this year the entire Bingzhou had a bumper harvest.

For Xu Wei, this is unprecedented good news. Now he is under too much pressure. Nearly 500 million disaster victims have flooded in the entire Bingzhou. In addition to the original population of Bingzhou, the sparsely populated Bingzhou has caught up with the population for the first time. Jizhou next door has reached a figure of 700 million.

Even though Xu Wei controls the grain of the entire Bingzhou, the 700 million people consume more than 650 million shi of grain every month. In the past two months, a total of 1300 million shi of grain has been lost in the Bingzhou granary. Xu Wei is really terrified to see.The grain and grass he collected in the entire Bingzhou was only enough to last 4 months of grain consumption.

And now the autumn harvest can finally give Xu Wei a breather. Whether to drink porridge or dry rice in the future depends on the situation of this autumn harvest.

Now Mayi is the largest granary in Bingzhou. Xu Wei personally went to Mayi to sit in town. In order to ensure enough manpower for the autumn harvest, Xu Wei brought a full 10 people to Mayi to help harvest wheat!Anyway, there are not many things in Bingzhou now, but there are many people, and the population even exceeds that of Jizhou, which used to be the largest.

At the same time, Xu Wei wants to mobilize these 10 people to buy wheat and stop many factories, but now he only needs to recruit some victims, and they are very happy to do this.

Everyone worked hard for 10 days before completely harvesting the grain in Mayi, and Xu Wei happily followed everyone to harvest every day. This year, Mayi was indeed a bumper harvest, and it was an unprecedented bumper harvest. The grain output of the entire Mayi harvest exceeded 2 million shi, with an average yield of 000 shi per mu, which can be said to be an unprecedented harvest in Dahan.Because even the best fields are only a little more than three stones.In Mayi, however, there are 500 million mu of land, and the yield per mu exceeds 4 shi. The high-level officials in Mayi are relieved, and only one Mayi can solve half of their food problem!
At the same time, the entire Mayi senior management also supervised the grain harvest separately. Old man Wang stayed behind in Taiyuan County, and Zhang Baiqi went to Xihe County to supervise the grain harvest and count the grain output of the autumn harvest.Then good news came from all over the country. Niu Gui from Yunzhong County reported that Yunzhong County had a bumper harvest of grain this year, with an output of more than 1000 million shi, barely enough to be self-sufficient!
Zhao Rong from Wuyuan County also received good news. The grain output exceeded 300 million shi, Shuofang County’s grain output exceeded 600 million shi, and Taiyuan County is the largest grain producing area in Bingzhou. There are no water conservancy facilities and struvite to increase food production, but there are still 1500 million shi of grain production, plus 500 million shi of Xihe County's grain.The grain output of the entire Bingzhou this autumn is close to 6000 million shi.

This figure is for the 700 million people in Hexi, as long as they don’t open their mouths to eat, they can barely eat for a year. Now Bingzhou can barely starve to death. This is already a prosperous scene in other places in Dahan!
Looking at the data reported by various places, Zhang Baiqi was pleasantly surprised: "It's unbelievable. There are 500 million mu of land in Mayi with a grain output of 4 shi. Struvite is too important for increasing food production! Next year Xihe The water conservancy facilities in the county and Taiyuan County can also be used, and with the use of struvite to increase production, our annual grain output in Bingzhou can exceed 1 million shi! At that time, we can relax the restrictions on food and eat as much as we want! "

The old man Wang said in surprise: "This is not much worse than Jizhou! Jizhou is the granary of the big man, can't you make a mistake?"

Zhang Baiqi said: "It's not wrong. We use various fertilizers such as struvite, together with elevated water canals, to increase the general grain output by more than three times. If struvite is also used in Taiyuan County and Xihe County next year, even if Not counting the newly reclaimed land, the production will increase by 3-2000 million!"

The old man Niu sighed: "The grain yield of four stones per mu, the old man has only heard of it a few times even in Jizhou, but he didn't expect that most of our Mayi fields can have this output, it is unbelievable!"

Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "We want to promote the struvite planting method throughout Bingzhou. This year we will commend 2000 Litians, and then distribute them to all parts of Bingzhou, so that they can spread the method of using struvite to our vines." Every village of the Jia Army! We must double the grain output!"

For the current Zhang Baiqi, struvite is a magic weapon for a good harvest, and a sharp weapon for resettling the victims. Sure enough, his structure is too small, and he is not as handsome as Qu Shuai in the long run!

Xu Wei said with a smile: "Everyone has forgotten the summer harvest. As long as our Mayi two-year three-year method is promoted throughout Bingzhou, the grain production can be increased by more than half. By then, Bingzhou alone will be enough to feed our 700 million people!"

After Xu Wei said this, everyone remembered that they had already planted winter wheat, and now the grain in Bingzhou does not need to wait a year to harvest, but only needs to wait 9 months.

So, as a time traveler, just farming can change the world structure by fighting a battle. Bingzhou was originally a backwater, but it was brought down by Xu Wei's tricks, and the grain output soared by 4 times. Bingzhou, a backcountry, has become a land of abundance. Well, it's not much better than fighting a war.

Xu Wei continued to laugh and said: "This is also thanks to the struvite. If there were no 100 million stones of struvite that came to Bingzhou this year, there would not be a bumper harvest in Bingzhou. Next year, if the output is higher, the whole Bingzhou needs more There will be more struvite, preferably more than 200 million stones of struvite! And if you want more struvite, transportation is a big problem!"

Then Xu Wei said to the old man Wang: "Old man, next year the shipyard will build more transport ships! Only if there are enough transport ships, there will be enough struvite entering Bingzhou!"

The old man Wang said: "Don't worry, Shuai Qu, we have developed a standard 2000 shi transport ship, manufactured according to the standardized method of our Tengjia Army, and the production of transport ships next year can be more than doubled!"

Then Xu Wei said to Fan Xian, the lieutenant of the navy: "Fan Xian, from now on, you put the center of gravity of the transport ship on the transport of struvite to Youzhou. I hope that your navy can guarantee to dig 100 million yuan. Stone struvite!"

Fan Xian said weakly, "I'll try my best!"

It wasn't that Fan Xian was lazy, but that he was really tired!

If we evaluate the model workers in Mayi this year, Guo Daxian, who supervises the granaries in various places, is considered a model worker in Mayi, and Fan Xian, who is in charge of the navy, is also counted as one. General Shi Zhonglang, the naval battalion of 5000 people, expanded into a 6th battalion with 3 people.

The naval fleet of the Tengjia Army is busy on the Yellow River waterway every day. In the past two months, Fan Xian has transported more than 200 million people and tens of millions of grains into Shuofang County and Wuyuan County. In other words, without Fan Xian's efforts, most of the victims would still be moving slowly in Mayi!
Wang Ge thought for a while and said, "Our Tengjia Army relies on struvite for its current food production. If Youzhou cut off our struvite, wouldn't our food be in danger!"

Wang Yong also said: "Now the struvite is the lifeblood of our rattan armor army, and it needs to be in our own hands. I think we must find a way to capture Youzhou, so that we can fully grasp this lifeblood!"

Li Gang and other captains immediately shouted: "Shuai Qu, Brother Yong is right, we can't give our lifeblood to the Youzhou Army!"

"That's right, that Gongsun Zan in Youzhou has been blocking our fleet all the time. If he cuts off the waterway of the Sanggan River, our current situation may be ruined!"

But Zhang Baiqi said angrily: "Youzhou now has 7 to 8 troops, how can it be easy to deal with? The food we have accumulated now is not enough to feed the people in the state for a year. You still want to fight. You want to kill the rattan armor. The army is approaching a desperate situation!"

Although the scale of Gongsun Zan's reclamation this year was not as large as Liu Bei's, there were still 5 people.

Moreover, Gongsun Zan was a real ruthless person compared to Liu Bei. It was impossible for him to open up wasteland by himself. He would not do such a silly thing.

He directly found the nobles who had annexed the Youzhou military colony, and used his own army to forcefully suppress them to spit out these fields. The nobles of Shanggu County and Dai County approached Liu Yu and sued Gongsun Zan, saying that he had harmed the gentlemen and wanted Liu Yu to dismiss them. Gongsun Zan.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Yu, who is a good old man, might really be able to transfer Gongsun Zan in the meeting with the mud.But this year is different. The Yellow River broke its embankment, and the entire Central Plains has millions of refugees. It can be said that the Han Dynasty is already in a state of life and death. Liu Yu thinks that farming is the only way to change the situation of the Han. He is disgusted by anyone who annexes the farming. In addition, these farmlands were originally cultivated by Liu Bei. With the addition of many reasons, this time Liu Yu stood by Gongsun Zan's side instead.

He also warned the nobles in Shanggu County and Dai County: "You don't let Gongsun Zan farm the fields because you want Leigong from Mayi to invade Youzhou! Now Leigong has millions of disaster victims as his subordinates, and the elite army alone exceeds 20.

And there are less than 3 soldiers from the counties in Youzhou. Now you are still obstructing Gongsun Zan's farming, because you want your property to be confiscated by Lei Gong and you yourself to be hanged by Lei Gong.

You can go to your relatives in Bingzhou and ask Lei Gong what he did in Bingzhou. Without Gongsun Zan's 5 soldiers, would you sleep well?Moreover, the land that Gongsun Zan asked them to hand over belonged to the imperial court.I didn't ask them to compensate for the loss of this year, it's because you are big men and loyal! "

After being scolded by Liu Yu, Liu Yu scolded these aristocratic families back.

It's just that they didn't expect Gongsun Zan's revenge to come so quickly, and all the powerful and noble families who dared to sue Liu Yu were all beaten to death by Gongsun Zan!All their food was harvested by Gongsun Zan.

Moreover, Gongsun Zan also warned them that if they dare to sue again, they will not be able to settle with a little food.

Therefore, the 5 field soldiers in Gongsun Zan's hands were treated much better than Liu Bei. Liu Yu also tried to help Gongsun Zan get a lot of weapons and equipment, and Gongsun Zan also trained these field soldiers strictly, completely in accordance with the regular army. The [-] field soldiers have been in his hands for more than half a year, and they have not lost much to the national soldiers of Youzhou County.

This is also the reason why Zhang Baiqi did not agree to attack Youzhou. Youzhou's frontier army has always been one of the three elites of the Han Dynasty. With an army of close to 10, plus Youzhou's vast terrain, it is not easy to defeat!

If we really want to fight, as long as it drags on for a few months, a large number of people in Mayi will starve to death.Not to mention that the Tengjia Army attacked Youzhou. Liu Bei in Jizhou and Dong Zhuo in Shangdang County would be indifferent. If you are not careful, it will turn into an all-out war between the Tengjia Army and the big Han.

If the refugees had just entered Bingzhou, Zhang Baiqi would not object to such a war, but now that the refugees from all over the country have been resettled, and the bumper grain harvest in Bingzhou has given Zhang Baiqi hope, he does not want to take the risk of breaking the current situation at all!
Xu Wei also agreed: "Liu Yu from Youzhou is a prudent person. He knows the situation in Bingzhou and would not dare to cut off the waterway of the Sanggan River. If Gongsun Zan wants to do such a thing, he is bullying us." Armored sabers are not good! We still treat our 20 army as a display! As long as the Youzhou army doesn't want to die, they dare not cut off our waterways!"

Against the opposition of Xu Wei and Zhang Baiqi, Wang Ge and the others gave up their plan to attack Youzhou.

Bingzhou has a bumper harvest of grain, and the harvests in other places in Dahan are also good!

God seems to have spared the people of Dahan, and other parties have also begun to enter the autumn harvest season. Although the grain output in these places is not as good as that in Bingzhou, the grain harvest is not small

Like Wei County occupied by Zhang Yan, the grain harvest is generally good, and the people in the whole Wei County are happily buying their own grain.

And Zhang Yan's millions of people also bought grain in Weijun. He didn't take the grain from ordinary people, but Zhang Yan confiscated all the fields of the powerful and powerful families in Weijun. Five million shi of grain, with the income of these grains, Zhang Yan can finally guarantee the rations of his million-dollar army.

In other places in Jizhou, Liu Bei personally led the army to help all parties harvest food, and supervised all parties to pay taxes according to the tax policy of the Han Dynasty. Anyone who dared to evade taxes was severely punished by Liu Bei , he knows the significance of Jizhou's grain harvest to the great man.Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou's taxation is basically over, and they can only rely on Jizhou's support. Liu Bei knows that he has a heavy burden.

This year's autumn harvest in Jizhou alone yielded 1000 million shi of grain. According to the current price of grain in Jizhou, it is worth 30 billion yuan. This opportunity is the annual financial income of Dahan. If it is in Qingzhou, places like Xuzhou will be worth 50 billion yuan.

When Liu Bei reported this tax to the imperial court, the three princes and nine ministers of the imperial court praised Liu Bei as the pillar of the country!
The current big man is basically supported by the granary of Jizhou, so even if the court saw the tacit understanding between Liu Bei and Zhang Yanyou, they did not break this tacit understanding, but waited for the food from Jizhou to support the court.

Soon the imperial court issued an order to ask Liu Bei to support the Qingzhou Army with 100 million shi of grain, and Xuzhou and Yanzhou Junge to support 200 million shi of grain!At the same time, let Liu Bei take advantage of the end of the autumn harvest to completely wipe out Zhang Yan's tribe!

But after the autumn harvest, Liu Bei found Zhang Yan again and said, "Shuai Qu wants to live a normal life in Dahan, and recruiting security is the best opportunity now!"

"Zhao'an" Zhang Yan said with a strange face: "It's too late now, Liu Xuande, your reputation is very good, and I know you are a good official, but we don't trust the elites in Jizhou, and neither do the soldiers of our Yellow Turban Army." I’ve had enough suffering from the nobles, I don’t want to continue living under them, so don’t talk about recruiting, we’ll fight again after this winter, when it’s either you or me.”

After experiencing what happened to Fu Bian, Zhang Yan knew that he was already a mortal person to the nobles, and Zhao'an could only be a dead end!You can only continue to fight, both sides are either you die or I live, in short, one will fall!
But Liu Bei firmly said: "The world is not the world of powerful and noble families, but the world of my big man. As long as Qu Shuai agrees, Bei will definitely guarantee the safety of Qu Shuai and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army!"

Zhang Yan couldn't believe it and said, "The nobles in Jizhou hate us to the bone. Is there a way to make these nobles in Jizhou stop hating us?"

Liu Bei said: "Whether Qu Shuai is willing to garrison the fields and defend the border, as long as Qu Shuai is willing, I would like to recommend Qu Shuai as the general of the garrison. In Liaodong, Liaodong is large enough to house a million Yellow Turban soldiers!"

Zhang Yan said hesitantly: "East Liaodong is bitter, I'm afraid it's not suitable for farming!"

Liu Bei said: "That was in the past. Now there are woolen cloths to keep warm, a kang, coal pellet stoves and briquettes. Even Liaodong can live in it!"

Zhang Yan thought for a while and said, "I want to discuss with my subordinates!"

Liu Bei said: "Yes!"

After Zhang Yan left, Guan Yu hesitated and said, "Brother, if he settles in Liaodong, it is indeed a good way to deal with the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou. I'm afraid the court will not agree to it!"

Liu Bei firmly said: "Even if we don't agree, we still have to work hard. Although the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains has been defeated because it cut off the refugees, and the remnants went up the mountain, the Tengjia Army has really resettled millions of refugees. Now Lei Gong has 20 people. Elite fighters, this is already a force that cannot be defeated by Chao Chao, if the Fuji Armor Army is not wiped out, I am afraid that after the Fuji Armor Army has digested these millions of refugees, the court will not be able to suppress it!"

"How powerful the Rattan Armor Army is, everyone has seen through this rescue of the victims. The millions of victims that the imperial court could not relieve were actually swallowed up by Lei Gong and the barren land of Bingzhou, and they have not heard of it until now. Speaking of the turmoil in Bingzhou, it can be seen that the administrative power of the Tengjia Army is already higher than that of the imperial court. If the Tengjia Army has calmed down, what will the court use to face the attack of hundreds of thousands of Tengjia Army? So now Zhang Yan To solve it immediately, the lower the price, the more beneficial it is to the big man, I think the court officials will see this!"

Zhang Fei disagreed and said, "Brother, you think highly of the princes of the imperial court. Judging from this time, apart from the flood of the Yellow River, they are not much better than idiots. Don't be frightened by their reputation, brother. They blow it out, really ask them to do things. Brother, you will find that they will only drag you down!"

Jian Yongdao: "Xuande, you value Lei Gong too much. You must know that the granary of Jizhou as a big man is only 600 million people, and Bingzhou can be regarded as the most miserable place for my big man. It used to be able to feed up to 200 million people. Now With a few million more people, the population is already denser than Jizhou, and Bingzhou cannot sustain itself, I think Bingzhou will definitely be in turmoil after Lei Gong consumes all his food reserves!"

But Su Shuang, who was always at the end, said: "Brother Xianhe is really wrong about this. This year, Mayi has a bumper harvest, and it is an unprecedented bumper harvest. It is said that there are millions of acres of fields in Mayi with a yield of more than 4 stones per mu." , plus the Tengjia Army has two years and three calculations, this year's summer harvest will be bumper again, the food problem will be completely solved immediately, and the millions of disaster victims from the Han Dynasty will become the Tengjia Army's confidantes!"

Jian Yong couldn't believe it and said: "The most fertile land in Jizhou is only a little more than 3 shi. How can there be millions of acres of land that can produce 4 shi per mu in Mayi!"

Zhang Shiping said: "It's true. Mayi uses struvite to improve soil strength. The struvite excavated in Youzhou this year alone exceeds one million stones. It is said that Lei Gong personally ordered to import the birds in Mayi next year." Bezoars will be doubled!"

"Actually, if you go to Youzhou to inquire, you will find that there are many places in Youzhou that have a very high grain output this year, but people didn't believe that struvite can improve soil fertility at first, and the price of struvite is not low. It is used very little, but after the demonstration of Mayi this year, I am afraid that next year's grain harvest in Youzhou will also be bumper!"

Liu Bei was surprised: "Does struvite have such a strong effect?"

Liu Bei also used struvite in Jizhou, but because the fertilization time was too short, and the local people in Jizhou also had doubts, it was not widely used and the effect was not obvious, so the refugees did not care!

Zhang Shiping said: "The increase in production is certain, otherwise Lei Gongbuhui spent tens of millions of dollars on struvite, and of course there must be supporting water conservancy facilities. Among other things, the Guangtengjia Army spent tens of billions of dollars on the entire Bingzhou Xin Building water conservancy and Bingzhou's bumper harvest is no accident."

Liu Bei naturally knew the water conservancy facilities in Mayi, and started to build them from Mayi. When he was about to leave Daijun to farm, he could see the elevated canal in Mayi along the Sanggan River. Lei Gong built it along the Sanggan River. The water conservancy facilities spanning hundreds of miles are so large that he can see them in Youzhou.With such an emphasis and such a large investment, it seems that it is not unacceptable to think of the bumper harvest in Mayi here.

Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "We don't have the financial resources, but we can try it with some struvite!"

Wei Jun, the Yellow Turban Army tent!

Zhang Yan summoned all his confidants, and then told them about his discussion with Liu Bei about Zhao'an today.

But at this time, Zhang Yan's Xiao Wang Dang was the first to object: "Commander, you are being fooled by Liu Bei. Have you forgotten what happened between us and Fu Bianzhao'an? How many powerful families in Jizhou have we killed?" , will they let us go?"

Sun Qing also said: "Now we have a strong army and horses, why do we want to Zhao'an? It's not good to directly destroy Liu Bei and dominate Jizhou!"

Zhang Yan said unhappily: "To dominate Jizhou, we can't even break through the blockade of Liu Bei's 3 cavalry. What about dominating Jizhou? You are planning to let the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army go to the plains and be wiped out by Liu Bei's cavalry! Moreover, Liu Bei has 10 elites, how many people will die if we want to eliminate this 10 army, and even whether we can win is a question!"

(End of this chapter)