The heavens start from saving Daming

Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong in history were really a pair of good friends who fell in love and killed each other.

The two fought from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the fall of the Tang Dynasty, but in the end, neither of them could do anything about it.

However, Zhu Quanzhong destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but Li Keyong always regarded himself as a Tang official, and Li Cunxu also established the Later Tang Dynasty after his death.

Li Keyong is from Shatuo, and the hometown of Shatuo people is Daibei.

In order to deal with Li Yunze, the imperial court gave Li Keyong the rich Hedong to strengthen his strength.

Li Yunze's counterattack was quick, forcing the court to arrange Zhu Wen to be the boss of the Daibei camp, which not only cut off Li Keyong's connection with the Daibei Shatuo tribe, but also became its nominal boss.

Of course, Li Yunze knew that Li Keyong might be a little reckless, but Zhu Quanzhong was definitely a clear-headed person.

Such a simple strategy of driving tigers and wolfs away cannot be hidden from him.

It doesn't matter if you can't hide it, this is a good strategy.

The northern land is barren, and Zhu Wen has neither Li Yunze's time and space gate, nor is he good at managing internal affairs.He maintained the current size of the army by relying on the money and food obtained from the horse trade with Li Yunze.

Li Yunze gave him the opportunity to expand his territory, so Zhu Wen would definitely seize it.

Having a territory means having a population, taxation, food, supplies and so on.

For the vassals and towns, expanding their strength is more important than anything else, even if it is against the powerful Li Keyong, Zhu Wen will not hesitate.

Of course, to Li Yunze, these things are just trivial things that are not worth mentioning.

Although the prestige Li Ke used was great, it was just that in his own eyes.

As for Zhu Wen, he is a master at playing tricks, but it's a pity that Li Yunze is more sophisticated than him.

Since it can't pose a substantial threat, of course it doesn't matter.

What Li Yunze valued at this time was the upcoming autumn harvest.

He does have a portal, but sometimes he is a bit powerless in the face of the huge consumption of supplies.

This is especially true for bulk consumables such as food.

It is not difficult for Li Yunze to provide food for thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

Even the needs of tens of thousands of people, he gritted his teeth and could deliver them.

But when the number expands to millions or even more, the transport capacity that Li Yunze can mobilize is not enough.

When it comes to feeding millions, local food harvests are what matter most.

This year, almost every household has shared their land, and Li Yunze has also been exempted from all land taxes.

Coupled with the construction of water conservancy and the provision of agricultural tools, seeds and pesticides, the rogues in the countryside were wiped out, and all kinds of rich temple households who gave out interest were also directly wiped out.

With so much good news, the grain harvest in Li Yunze's jurisdiction has been unprecedentedly bumper this year.

It's really unprecedented, the kind that is shocking when you say it.

Even after thousands of years of development, the land of the Central Plains is already a real mature field.But its food production, at least in Li Yunze's opinion, is far from enough.

Here, the yield per mu is just a few buckets per stone, which can't last more than two stones.

In conversion, it is about two to three hundred catties per mu.

Here we are talking about ripe fields, top-grade fields.In exchange for bad fields, low-grade fields would only look like a hundred catties.

Due to the limitations of human farming, the number of acres that each labor force can cultivate is not much.

The output is so low, coupled with the need to leave enough crops, and the exploitation of countless people, it is normal to often not have enough to eat.

If a person can't even eat enough to eat, then naturally he doesn't have the energy to do other things.

Therefore, eating enough food has been the number one major event in Tianzitou for thousands of years.

And this year, the grain output of Li Yunze's various regions is generally close to [-] catties!
In this era, it is definitely an earth-shattering number, enough to make countless farmers cry.

Veteran farmers who have been serving crops all their lives have never imagined that one mu of land can produce so much grain.

The main reason for the large increase in grain production is the new grain seeds brought by Li Yunze, as well as the amazingly lethal insecticides, and of course soil fertilizers.

Grain seeds can only be planted once a year. There is no way that such grain seeds are indeed high-yield, but if they cannot be planted again, it will be fatal.

Although the yield of Li Yunze's choice is not as high as that of high-yield grain, and there will be problems with the gradual deterioration of the seeds, it is at least a hundred times better than not being able to replant at all.

As for the insecticide, it was much simpler, Li Yunze just placed an order and bought it directly.

Moreover, the insecticide can be formulated and diluted with water to act on a large area of ​​land.

The more critical reason is that the pests of this era have no resistance to pesticides at all.

As long as the insecticide is used, it can be done directly.

There is soil fertilizer.

Modern fertilizers are indeed effective, but the demand is too large, and the damage to the land is also great.

Engaging in modern industry without a comprehensive industry will do more harm than good.

So Li Yunze used soil chemical fertilizers, the effect was not as good as industrial chemical fertilizers, but it was better than nothing.

Moreover, it is relatively easy to obtain, and the damage to the soil is not too great.

It is precisely because of the superimposition of various favorable factors that there is a miracle of nearly [-] catties per mu.

But after the miracle, there are many things.

"I don't understand, what else is there to judge?"

In the county government office of Chenliu County under the jurisdiction of Bianzhou, Li Yunze looked at the case being tried before him, and impatiently interrupted the county magistrate's endless nonsense, "Jiedushi Yamen has long ordered that the purchase price is lower than the price per bucket." Those with two hundred wen will be dealt with as profiteers.”

Speaking of this, Li Yunze pointed to several grain merchants in the lobby, "These guys bought grain at a price of [-] yuan per bucket, which has undoubtedly violated the order of the Jiedushi Yamen. You are here to judge Those who went to the interrogation, what exactly are they interrogating?"

The county magistrate was sweating profusely, he hesitated and didn't know what to say.

Li Yunze glanced at him with disdainful eyes, "Needless to say, I also know that these grain merchants have given you benefits and colluded with each other to oppress the farmers to sell grain at a low price. If the farmers hadn't gone to the Jiedushi Yamen to file a complaint, I didn't know you were so bold.

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These words are very serious, the county magistrate hastily came out from behind the case to salute and plead guilty.

"You are all school elites, selected through examinations and arranged to serve the local people." Li Yunze, standing with his hands behind his back, sighed softly, "I treat you well, and the annual salary is not only enough to support the family but also the There are a lot of leftovers. I was thinking about you
Will do my best.It didn't take long for him to think that he was no different from the people in the yamen before.What a disappointment. "

Many officials in the county government came out to salute one after another, with different expressions.

Li Yunze trained a group of new civil servants. He thought they would be different from the old civil servants, at least they would be full of vigor.

It didn't take long for him to collude with profiteers to oppress farmers, which really disappointed him.

Although not all newcomers are like this, it is obvious that this is not a special case.

He has made up his mind that after returning, he will carry out a large-scale investigation, and then strengthen the supervision of newcomers.

Of course, he must resolve this situation as soon as possible.

"Jiedu." Perhaps sensing Li Yunze's murderous intent, the county magistrate forced himself to argue, "It wasn't us who did the evil, but the minimum grain harvest was [-] cash per bucket, and the maximum grain sales was [-] cash per bucket. At this price, the grain merchants will only lose money if they do not make a profit, and the business cannot be done.
Going down will affect the livelihood of the people in the city. "

Looking sideways at Li Yunze, the county magistrate, he said a word.

"quibble!"

"Jiedushi Yamen collects grain at [-] Wen per bucket, and there are special grain stores in various cities and towns that sell it at a price of [-] Wen per bucket. How does it affect the livelihood of the people in the city?"

Li Yunze had no intention of giving the grain merchants a living at all, he just used economic means to drive them away.

Moreover, most of these so-called grain merchants were sent by the feudal towns in the surrounding areas, because Li Yunze's grain here is not only abundant but also cheap.

Long before the autumn harvest, Li Yunze had already made arrangements to buy the surplus grain from the common people as a reserve.

The purchase price and sale price are fixed for this purpose.

Food as a strategic material, of course, cannot be cheap for others.

As for the county magistrate's sophistry, he just wanted to win a chance for himself.

Li Yunze didn't bother to say anything more, he waved his hand, and a group of tooth soldiers immediately stepped forward and dragged the grain merchant and the people in the yamen out.

After interrogation, the unclean among these people will be disposed of.

The news of a bumper grain harvest in the area under Xuanwu Army's jurisdiction attracted countless peeping eyes from all around.

No way, in this era, food is the most important strategic material.

If it weren't for the Xuanwu Army's fighting power being too strong and Li Yunze's reputation too strong, countless wolves would have rushed up to bite and rob him.

In this case, it is already a very civilized performance for them to be able to send people over to buy food.

Li Yunze, who was not short of money, bought almost all the surplus food from various places and hoarded it.

With so much food hoarded in his hands, Li Yunze also had his own plans.

He first sold a batch to Weibo Town in the north at a lower price, so that Weibo Town, which had just ended the internal strife, would be honest for a while.

Weibo Town has 10 horses, and its combat effectiveness is very strong.

That is to say, there is a lack of a real strong leader, so nothing has been done much.

Li Yunze made a strategy of going south first and then going north, first using them as a wall to block the many powerful feudal clans in the north, especially Li Keyong from Hedong.

Then they provided support to the Huaixi Army and used them to hold Yang Xingmi back.

Of course, Li Yunze was very vigilant about Yang Xingmi, who established the Wu Kingdom, and had to arrange an opponent for him to waste time and energy before freeing up his hand.

In the end, it is an offensive against short-term goals.

The Zhongwu Army, Yicheng Army, Yongping Army, and Dongdu Defense Envoy who secretly participated in the Xuanwu Army's siege before were Li Yunze's next targets.

In the name of dividing the land and distributing food, he lured the people under the rule of these two or five boys in the west to flee to his place.

On the one hand, it weakens their strength, and on the other hand, it leads them to be impatient and take the initiative to attack.

Not many warriors in the late Tang Dynasty were truly intelligent, and most of them were reckless men who relied on steel swords in their hands to run wild.

Some soldiers and horses of the Yicheng Army entrenched in the Xingyang area could not bear the desire to plunder, crossed the border into Bianzhou and surrounded a county that was said to store hundreds of thousands of shi of grain.

Li Yunze, who heard the news, immediately laughed and patted Zhang Hui's thigh.

The timing he needed was delivered to his door.