I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 213 Encircled by the Iron Wall on the Grassland

Xu Wei thought of going to Mayi for the inspection, but he heard Zhen An say that Qiangyin County has now become a grain import and export center, so he also plans to visit Qiangyin County!
Most of these victims were assigned to Yanmen County and Yunzhong County, among which Yunzhong County was the most. After more than two years of hard work, Niu Gui spent a lot of money and manpower, and finally built a building in Yunzhong County Mayi's elevated canal network, the canals flow through more than tens of millions of acres of fields, and now Yunzhong County has become the granary of the entire desert, and hundreds of thousands of herdsmen will spend the winter in Yunzhong City in winter.It can be said that the entire Yunzhong County has become another center of the grassland, which even surpasses Mayi. After all, Mayi is still too old compared to Yunzhong.

When he came out to farm, Niu Gui was also developing the textile industry, grazing industry, steel mills and various handicraft industries. Not to mention that last year's million people were all resettled, when he wrote to Xu Wei, he was still asking for a young labor force.

If this is the case, Xu Wei will only think of Niu Gui. He has developed Yunzhong County well, but Niu Gui is not the only one who said that there is a lack of labor force. Zhao Rong from Wuyuan County, Wang Lei from Shuofang County, and even Sun Qing from Qiangyin County said If there is a lack of population, Yunzhong County is fine.

Apart from the Yellow River, Wuyuan County can be farmed, and other places are either grasslands or deserts, let alone Shuofang County. Although it is the largest in Bingzhou in terms of land area, a small half of it is desert, and the rest is mostly desert. Xu Wei was worried that it would be difficult to resettle the millions of victims, but he didn't expect Zhao Rong and the others to have more people.In addition to the food problem that Zhen An mentioned this time, Xu Wei simply came to the border areas of Qiangyin to see what Niu Gui and the others were doing, and they actually needed more people!

After the first victims arrived in Qiangyin County, the county magistrate Sun Qing came to meet them with 100 cavalry.

He said loudly with a hint of joy: "Everyone is going to the grassland reclamation. There is no comparison to the hinterland of the Central Plains. There are barbarians invading everywhere. If you want to survive, you have to defend your homeland with a sword. Engage in military law! Everyone should regard themselves as a soldier, young and strong, rise up at sunrise every day, open up wasteland for half a day, train for half a day, work after eating, and women also weave and graze. Build docks, there is no docks on the grasslands Be safe, in short, obey orders and obey the rules!"

"Have you all understood!"

"Understood!" The victims naturally dared not say anything dissatisfied when they saw such an airy official.

In fact, on the way here, the officials of the Tengjia Army had roughly told them about the things on the grassland.Coming to the grassland reclamation camp is half army and half civilian, and it takes everyone to work together to survive.

Even on the way here, the various rules and regulations of the reclamation camp have already been said a lot, most of them are similar to those in the refugee camp, which can guarantee that they must obey the distribution and management, and have courage when the Xianbei people come. It is enough to take up the sword and fight.

As long as these can be done, they can be guaranteed to have a house, hundreds of acres of land or thousands of acres of pasture and dozens of cattle and sheep for at most three years!For disaster-affected families like Zhao Tian, ​​they can get a family property if they fight hard, even if they will sacrifice their lives!

After speaking with the victims, Sun Qing discovered Xu Wei, and he was pleasantly surprised: "Shuai Qu, why did you come to Qiangyin County!"

Xu Wei said unhappily: "Niu Gui, Wang Lei and the other eunuchs say that it's okay to say that there is a lack of population, but what do you do with a small county magistrate! How big of a territory do you have, and you want to resettle tens of thousands of people!"

Sun Qing said unconvinced: "My current territory is not much worse than a county in Dahan. Now the grasslands with a radius of thousands of miles in Khantan Mountain are expensive to come from our Qiangyin County. I have towns with more than a thousand households on the grasslands. There are more than a dozen, if Brother Niu doesn't agree, I can resettle all these hundreds of thousands of people!"

It can be seen that the territory that Sun Qing divided for himself is really not small, if he eats less than half of the entire Hantan Mountain grassland, it will be larger than the area of ​​Taiyuan County.

Seeing Sun Qing so proudly, Xu Wei smiled and said, "You can also solve the food problem!"

Sun Qing said to himself: "Our Qiangyin County has more than three million stones of grain, which is enough for everyone to eat!"

Xu Wei slapped Sun Qing on the head and said, "You actually hid so much food!"

It was only at this time that Sun Qing realized that the food in the Rattan Armor Army was mobilized by the central government, and a small treasury was fine, but with such a large amount, without an explanation, he would not be able to serve as a county magistrate. "

Sun Qing could only explain right away: "Shuai Qu, I honestly handed over the grain grown in Qiangyin County. I confessed that the herdsmen under my rule cheated it from Liu Yu. They were unwilling to continue transporting the grain brought from Youzhou to Mayi, and sold it to us, which is why so much grain remained.

I originally wanted to hand in some, but thinking that there are hundreds of thousands of herdsmen in Qiangyin who need to eat, and I don’t want to ask you for help at that time, I don’t want to bother so much, this batch of food is left here! "

Xu Wei asked seriously: "Where did you get so much money? 300 shi of grain, according to the price of our Rattan Armor Army, has exceeded hundreds of millions of dollars!"

Sun Qingdao: "There is a Yanze Lake in Qiangyin, and the entire Tengjia Army buys salt from us. In addition, if I have nothing to do, I raided the pastures of the Xianbei people and seized a large number of cattle, sheep and war horses. [-] million yuan is fundamental to our Qiangyin County. It's nothing!"

Xu Wei pointed at Sun Qing helplessly and said, "You all are like hamsters, but since you all have so much food, you will provide the rations for these hundreds of thousands of people!"

At this time, Sun Qing was not convinced and said: "Shuai Qu, a county magistrate like me is actually responsible for the rations of hundreds of thousands of disaster victims. It would be fine if they became the people under my rule, but most of them are going to Yunzhong County Yes, this should give Brother Niu a big shot!"

Xu Wei said indifferently: "I don't care about it. We ate bran and drank water in Taiyuan County. I thought you would be worse than us, but now it seems that you are living quite well. The rations of the victims will be provided by you. The ratio can be negotiated with you!"

Sun Qing thought for a while and said: "Okay, but Qu Shuai wants to support more wool cloth worth [-] million yuan, and it will cost us to go to Youzhou to exchange food, and I don't know if Liu Yu has noticed it now! If he notices When it arrives, this food road may be broken!"

Xu Wei sneered and said: "It doesn't help much if he realizes it, he has a soft heart, he can be a good official in a prosperous age, and even a prime minister in Emperor Wu's time.

But now it's a troubled time, and a good old man like him can't hold back the elites of Youzhou!The nobles in Youzhou are inherently daring, otherwise there would not be Zhang Chunzhangju, the two rebels who dared to call themselves emperors, if not for Gongsun Zan, the current Youzhou would not be much stronger than other states and counties of the Han Dynasty ! "

Thinking of this, Xu Wei said: "I'll give you 5 million worth of woolen cloth and money, and you go to contact the nobles in Youzhou and ask them to sell the surplus grain to us."

Xu Wei suddenly thought, since it is all smuggling, why not expand it. Anyway, there is a lot of grain in Youzhou this year, and it can even be imported into Jizhou in reverse. They paid several times the price, and they didn't care whether the food was in the hands of the rebels.

After arriving in Qiangyin, Xu Weicai remembered that the grassland had now become the territory of his Tengjia army, and the Great Wall outside Shanggu County in Dai County had become a defense against the Tengjia army.

Xu Wei thought for a while and continued: "We can even pick up the goods at the border of the Great Wall in Youzhou, so that they only need to transport the grain out of the borders of Youzhou. I imagine that such a lucrative business will definitely be agreed by the elites in Youzhou. of!"

Sun Qing said happily when he heard this: "Don't worry, Shuai Qu, my subordinates are too familiar with them. With these materials, I can trade tens of millions of shi grains!"

Xu Wei knew what he was thinking, and said calmly: "I will find someone to transport these grains to Taiyuan County!"

When Sun Qing heard this, it was not a waste of work. He hurriedly said: "Shuai Qu, the journey is thousands of miles away, and it is too troublesome. You might as well stay in Qiangyin County! You are continuing to immigrate to the grasslands. , The land of the grassland is too big, even if tens of millions of people are transported, it can still be accommodated!"

Xu Wei said: "Don't worry, Qiangyin County is connected to the rail carriage. I will definitely use the rail carriage with the largest transportation volume, and it won't be too much trouble!"

After saying this, Xu Wei asked Sun Qing to take him to the county government of Qiangyin County, and asked him to show him the sand table in Qiangyin County.

He knew that Sun Qing and the others were occupying the territory of the grassland, but he didn't know how much territory they occupied. Now that even Sun Qing, a county magistrate, dared to say that he was better than the prefect, he really didn't know how much territory Sun Qing occupied in the grassland!
After seeing the sand table in Qiangyin County, Xu Wei was very surprised. Not only did he occupy Khantan Mountain, but he also went into the desert for hundreds of miles to build Wubao. Xu Wei saw that there were more than a dozen Wubao on the sand table. The light site is indeed more than twice the size of Taiyuan County.

Sun Qing smiled proudly: "There is no way, the Xianbei people can't help but fight, and they have become so big by fighting for the territory. In fact, I am still a small one. Brother Niu, the territory occupied by Zhao Rong and the others is called big. It is said that they are already thinking about how to occupy Beihai. I am afraid that the territory each of them occupies will not lose to a state of the big man!"

In fact, after years of fighting the Xianbei people, the Tengjia Army has long since summed up a set of methods to deal with the Xianbei people. Don't just think that they are wandering around just because the Xianbei people say nomadic.In fact, it is not at all. The places with lush water and grass on the desert are basically close to water sources. These are the most fertile land in the desert.

So the way Wang Lei and the others concluded is to build a Wubao where there are rivers on the grassland. A Wubao with a thousand people is enough to defend against the siege of tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry. If there is another 5000 elite cavalry that can support at any time It is difficult for tens of thousands of Xianbei people to break through such a Wubao.

But what Wang Lei and the others are doing now is to continue to immigrate to the rivers on the grassland and build docks. The docks connected by these rivers are like a chain, and the docks are like locks. Grasslands, a river can lock the grasslands within a radius of several thousand miles.

Moreover, it is the most fertile grassland on the grassland. Over the past few years, as Wang Lei and others have continuously invaded the grasslands of the Xianbei people and annexed the herdsmen of the Xianbei people, the battle last winter completely broke the backbone of the Xianbei people. I dare not fight with the Rattan Army.

This made it easier for Wang Lei and the others to build docks on the grasslands. Now the entire Tengjia Army has hundreds of large docks on the grasslands. Each of these docks has thousands of households with a population of nearly 5000. The local area reclaims the fields and grazes in places where there is no water source. With the silage fodder, everyone only needs a small piece of pasture to support themselves.

And as these chains became tighter and tighter, the Xianbei people on the grassland were divided into several small pastures.The entire Xianbei people in Monan have been divided into scattered small tribes. For example, the tribe with tens of thousands of people in the Tanshihuai period has been completely defeated by the Tengjia Army!
And even this small Xianbei tribe is often raided by Wang Lei and his cavalry. Every time they raid, there will be many fewer tribes on the grassland. Up to now, there are more Xianbei people living on the territory of the Tengjia Army than Xianbei. , Many tribes have begun to flee to the territory of the Xianbei tribe in the east. Anyway, they dare not stay in the west, the central Xianbei country.

It was because Wang Lei and the others kept pushing their territory deep into the desert that they kept telling Xu Wei that they were short of manpower. This meant that there was no overall map, otherwise Xu Wei would find that his territory was more than twice as large!The area of ​​the grassland has far exceeded the land he occupied in Dahan.

Hearing that Wang Lei and the others were going to occupy Beihai, Xu Wei could also imagine how much territory Wang Lei and the others had occupied in the grassland, but Xu Wei was a little confused: "It's not that the barbarians are very powerful, it's just that they suppressed them when they were at their peak. , and fought back and forth with us at other times, so now facing our Tengjia army, it's like paper, and it will be broken with one stab?"

The Hu people have been the enemies of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, so they were defeated by themselves, and they can only survive by being able to sing and dance in the future. Even though Xu Wei is a modern person, he still can't believe it.

Sun Qing looked at Xu Wei strangely and said: "I don't think this barbarian is so powerful. His few elites can be as strong as the big Han frontier army, but if all these elites are killed, the fighting power will be like this. It is not as good as our big Han people. What a big difference, how could Qu Shuai have such a strange idea!"

Sun Qing felt that the time when the Xianbei people had the strongest fighting power was when Helian attacked them. After that, the Xianbei people became worse every year, and in the past two years, they were even more powerless to fight back.He felt that the fighting power of the Xianbei people now was the same as that of the Yellow Turban Army back then.

Of course, he doesn't have the feeling that Xu Wei has, because in his memory, Hu people have always been such scumbags who have been beaten by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Dacaogu was originally called by the people of the Central Plains. After all, the name It can be imagined that in the eyes of the Chinese nation, the Hu people were the grass valley of activity.

Are the Xianbei people very powerful?There is also a sandalwood tree that has been powerful for more than ten years.

Sun Qing has no experience in later generations, so he is not as confused as Xu Wei. In his opinion, it is only a matter of course for the Tengjia Army to defeat the Xianbei people. On the contrary, it is a special case for a big man to be beaten by Tan Shihuai!
(End of this chapter)