I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 501, Grain Harvest, Temple Counts War
Of course Xu You knew that paper money was worthless, but he still sneered and said, "If you can't resist Lei Gong, Yuzhou and Sili belong to Lei Gong, why should we worry about Lei Gong's territory!"

Guo Tu immediately retorted: "If we resist Lei Gong, but Yuzhou and Sili are thrown into chaos by you, Xu Ziyuan, you will be the eternal sinner of Yuzhou!"

But Xu You said with a sneer: "Ordinary people have fields and food, and no matter how much they lose, they can go there. Merchants and the like are just fat sheep. Dong Zhuo can kill them, but we can't!"

This Yuan Tan said: "Uncle Xu is right. Now we are all focused on protecting Yuzhou and Sili. All we do is to ensure that Yuzhou and Sili will not be baptized by the flames of war. The people will consider our difficulties. of!"

compared to ordinary people.Yuan Tan is still more concerned about his own rights. The common people cannot help him resist Lei Gong, but with tens of billions of money, he is sure to resist Lei Gong's attack!
Then Yuan Tan took Xu You's hand and said sincerely: "Please ask uncle to raise another 50 billion yuan for my Yuzhou within half a year!"

Xu You said to Yuan Tan: "The old minister must devote himself to death!"

Seeing this scene, Xun Kan had no choice but to secretly think, Yuzhou is going to perish now!
In July of the first year of Jian'an (AD 196)!

Youzhou, Jixian,
When Liu Bei and the others had a bumper harvest, the big dry winter wheat also experienced an unprecedented bumper harvest!
Yang Feng and Huang Long from Yanzhou reported a bumper harvest for the entire Yanzhou, and the food was enough for the entire Yanzhou people to eat for two years.The two of them even proposed a battle plan to attack Yuzhou, but Xu Wei refused!

The Wang Guojun in Jizhou also reported the good harvest to Xu Wei. The Wang Guojun took Zhang Baiqi's training. When Zhang Baiqi was a state herdsman in Jizhou, he built new water conservancy, built waterwheels, and canals. In addition, Jizhou is originally a flat land. land, the cost of building aqueducts is the lowest.

It's just that in the past three years, the continuous outbreak of droughts in the Han Dynasty did not reveal what Zhang Baiqi did. It shouldn't be said that most of the grain production in Jizhou was preserved because of Zhang Baiqi's doing these!Let Dagan have the ability to continuously attack Xiliang and Yanzhou in the year of catastrophe.

This year, the whole of Jizhou is in good weather, so the effect of the canals built by Zhang Baiqi in the past few years has been revealed. There has been an unprecedented harvest in Jizhou, and hundreds of millions of grains have been harvested in Jizhou alone. It can be said that this The numbers shocked the entire Dagan senior management!

And Xiliang, which has been in turmoil for more than ten years, also had a bumper harvest this year. The grain output was enough for the local people in Xiliang to be self-sufficient. This is already a very big progress. It can be said that this is the first year of Zhongping (184 AD ), Xiliang was able to feed the local people for the first time without importing foreign food!
The harvests in Youzhou and Liaodong were the first to come to the court of Ji County.It can be said that the news of bumper harvests this year makes the whole Dagan very happy!There are crowds celebrating the harvest everywhere.

Consulate!
The high-level officials of the entire Daqian gathered here. At this time, dozens of officials were holding abacus, calculating the food tax reported by various places with a bang!
After everything is calculated, everyone will report the total to Niu Gui!
After Niu Gui saw the figures, he said excitedly: "The government, this year we will collect 2 shi of grain!"

This number made everyone in an uproar, and they couldn't even believe it!

The old man Wang even stood up and asked: "Could it be that someone made a false report for political achievements!"

It’s no wonder that Old Man Wang doesn’t believe it. This number is too much, it’s unbelievable. In this way, the population of the entire Dagan is almost the same. That is to say, according to the minimum survival standard, this year’s summer harvest can barely support the entire Dagan. Members, you should know that Dagan collects 20% of the tax, that is to say, the entire Dagan has three times the grain output this year. If the autumn harvest is added, the grain output of the entire Dagan for one year can be achieved without starving to death. , can feed the entire Dagan people for six years, and even according to the standard of [-] shi per person, the grain output of Dagan this year can feed the entire Dagan people for three years.

You may not know what this means!In this feudal era, even if the weather is good, it takes three years to accumulate one year's grain, and it takes nearly 10 years to accumulate three-year rations, but this is almost impossible. In just one year, he did what would have taken him ten years. No wonder Old Man Wang couldn't believe this number!
Xu Wei also followed up and said: "Immediately send the censor to various places to monitor the county magistrates and county magistrates to prevent them from embezzling the people's food for their political achievements!"

At the same time, Xu Wei also looked at Xiang Kai and said: "Master, please contact the councilors from all over Dagan to let them collect information about officials violating tax collection. If such a thing happens, please notify the executive government as soon as possible!"

Xiang Kai nodded and said: "Don't worry about governing, I will immediately contact the members of the Quartet and ask them to focus on this year's food issue!"

Hearing such a huge number, Xu Wei was not happy but terrified. This kind of thing had happened in history. He didn't think the bottom line of his officials would be so high!

But Niu Gui said: "It should be true. This year's large number is mainly due to the bumper grain harvest in Jizhou. Jizhou is the world's granary. Zhang Baiqi has invested tens of billions of money in Jizhou's water conservancy facilities these years. Moreover, there are a large number of government-run farms in Jizhou, most of the food for this bumper harvest was provided by these farms, and the workers on the farms are all our retired soldiers, if the Royal Army comes here, the staff should know the news!"

Wang Ge stood up and said: "There is no news of soldiers crying for grievances from the armed forces in Jizhou! Moreover, the military farms in various places will also receive news of an unprecedented bumper harvest. From this point of view, this year's harvest in Jizhou is true!"

Although the land in Jizhou was divided, each household only allocated 30 mu. The current number of people in Jizhou is simply not enough to divide all the land in Jizhou, so about half of the land in Jizhou belongs to the Dagan government.

And these lands were not abandoned by Xu Wei. He established a military reclamation farm, and the retired soldiers became farm workers. They had the most advanced farm tools and a large number of cattle and horses in their hands. Among them, the most powerful eight-ox plow required 20 plow horses to pull it. , One day can cultivate a hundred acres of land!It can be said that the efficiency is not lost to small tractors at all.

Moreover, they still have a lot of struvite fertile land from Jizhou Island. In addition, Jizhou is the most fertile land in the Han Dynasty. The water conservancy facilities have also kept up with Zhang Baiqi's construction, and this year's weather is also good. , it can be said that the right time, place, people and various factors all come together to have a bumper harvest in Jizhou this year!
And the grain output in Jizhou is not as high as Xu Wei imagined. After all, except for a small amount of food, most of the rest of the grain in the army farm is handed in. It is because the army farm in Jizhou, or even the entire Dahan army farm, Pushed up the tax on dry grain this year.

Niu Gui said again: "In addition, the winter wheat harvest in the Liaodong area has also been bumper. After our army occupied Fuyu, we established a large number of military reclamation farms. This year, these farms handed over more than 3000 million shi of grain. It can be said that It is because these two places provide less than half of the grain output that this year's bumper harvest is possible!"

Only then did Xu Wei feel relieved. The development of Liaodong has been going on for several years. This achievement should be true. Although Jizhou's grain has doubled, Jizhou has not suffered from drought this year, and the increase in grain production is also very reasonable!

Wang Ge said: "I am reporting the harvest of this year's grain everywhere in Dagan. Someone may be falsifying in one place, but it is impossible for our entire Dagan officials to be falsifying. If this is true, I will die in Dagan! "

Old man Wang also followed up and said: "This year, the grain production in Ji County has indeed more than doubled. Judging from the reports from various places, the weather is generally good this year, so there is such a bumper harvest!"

The high-level executives collected the news they found in the local area, and Xu Wei believed that the explosive growth of Hebei's grain production this year was likely to be true, and he was relieved!
Then he said to Niu Gui: "This year's big grain harvest has been bumper, and Niu Gui has made great contributions. We applaud Niu Gui to express our congratulations!"

After Xu Wei finished speaking, he applauded Niu Gui!Others also applauded along with Xu Wei to congratulate Niu Gui for his achievements!

Niu Gui was even more excited, being recognized by everyone was his happiest thing!
After the applause ended, Wang Ge said: "Government, we now have plenty of food and grass, should we launch an attack on Yuan Tan's forces in advance? After all, the sooner we attack Yuan Tan, the less Yuan Tan's forces will recover, and the greater our losses will be." few!"

After the end of the Central Plains War last year, the war and the relief of the people in Yanzhou basically used up the granaries of Daqian, and Jizhou provided hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of civilians, so that it affected the autumn harvest of the entire Jizhou.

Therefore, after the end of the Central Plains War, the senior management of Dagan estimated the grain storage of Dagan. The senior management of Dagan felt that if there were no natural disasters affecting the grain production in Hebei, they could only launch a full-scale attack on Yuan Tan's forces after accumulating grain for a year. But if there is another natural disaster in the big man, then accumulate two years of food before launching an attack on Yuan Tan!
But even Xu Wei, who is the most confident, never imagined that only one season of grain accumulated in Hebei would be enough for Hebei to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to wipe out Yuan Tan!

At this time, Xu Wei also looked regretful. He had to know this year's grain harvest in advance, and it was still such an explosive harvest. He should have prepared for the army a few months earlier, and now he can take advantage of the summer harvest. The Tan faction's attack, and the heavy damage Yuan Clan suffered in the Central Plains War, I'm afraid they can't resist his attack at all!
But it was too late now, even Xu Wei had to prepare for more than half a year to launch a war with hundreds of thousands of troops, but now they were not prepared at all, so they could only waste such a good opportunity.

And even if they are going to launch an attack on Yuan Tan now, two months later, the entire land of Hebei will usher in the autumn harvest. This time is not enough for Dagan to complete the preparations for accumulating hundreds of thousands of troops, so Xu Wei and the others also It is difficult to assemble and finish after the autumn harvest.

And after the autumn harvest, it will be winter, and it is not the season for marching and fighting at all, so Dagan will not be able to launch an attack on Yuan Tan until next spring at the earliest!

But it is not too late to prepare now, so Xu Wei said to Wang Ge: "From now on, your staff department will formulate a battle plan against Yuan Tan's forces! After the spring plowing next year, we will launch an attack on Yuan Tan's forces. Fight for the complete elimination of Yuan Tan's forces!"

At this time, Wang Yong suggested: "Let's start discussing the battle plan against Yuan Tan now!"

Most of the top executives of Daqian are military generals. Compared with boring government affairs, they still prefer to think about where to conquer in front of the sand table!So Wang Yong's words got everyone's attention!
Xu Wei thought about it and agreed with Wang Yong's idea!

So everyone came to the meeting room with a giant sand table!
Then Wang Ge looked at the sand table with his baton and said: "After our army conquered Yanzhou, we have divided Yuan Tan's power into two. Among them, there are about 6 troops stationed in Sili, and most of them are newly recruited by Yuan Tan. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is not strong. Now Sili is surrounded by our army on three sides. As long as we break through Yingchuan County, we will completely cut off Yuan Tan's connection with Sili, so that our army can isolate the enemy of Sili. Zhong Zhigu, Luoyang City is in danger of eight passes, and the difficulty of attacking Sili is still greater than that of Yuzhou!"

"Yuan Tan has 14 troops stationed in Yuzhou, most of whom are veterans, and their combat effectiveness is relatively strong. Although Yuzhou is suitable for our cavalry, all of Yuan Tan's elite are in Yuzhou, and Yuzhou is too close to Jingzhou. We attack Yuzhou. Tan Yiyi has Liu Bei's full support!"

Wang Yong said: "With the strength of our army, we can completely attack Sili and Yuzhou at the same time, and this will easily make Yuan Tan feel uncomfortable. Our army in Yuzhou gallops with cavalry, so what if Liu Bei supports Yuan Tan! The cavalry in his hands is in the Central Plains battle. It's almost time for us to wipe them out, I'm afraid we don't even have a thousand cavalry now, it's better for him to support Yuan Tan, we wiped out Liu Bei's main force in Yuzhou, so that we can attack Jingzhou in the future!"

But Li Gang said: "If we really want to attack Yuzhou, I am afraid that Cao Cao will gather troops to threaten us in Jizhou to support Yuan Tan. After all, Cao Cao will definitely not watch us destroy Yuan Tan!"

Wang Yong said disdainfully: "At most, the coalition of princes will come again. They were not our opponents when they were the strongest. Could they be our opponents now? We didn't deal with Cao Cao not because we were afraid of him, but because he was Yuan Tan. It's just the next dish after that."

"If Cao Cao wants to encircle Wei and save Zhao, then we will mobilize 20 troops in Jizhou to station on the north bank of the Yellow River, and at the same time mobilize 5 troops in Yanzhou to stand on the front line of Mount Tai and Xuzhou. If Cao Cao dares to disturb our cavalry, we will enter Xuzhou. Xu Wei, can turn Xuzhou upside down, I don't believe that Cao Cao dares to support Yuan Tan when such a situation is difficult to protect itself!"

(End of this chapter)