I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 17: Good governance is to gather the people, cultivate the fields to support the army, and build the city to make the land
"Yang Changshi, how long will it take to open 50 acres of farmland on the front line? It's not just as simple as how many people are needed to farm the land. We are in close confrontation with the Wei army. While farming, we must prevent the Wei army from raiding our fields at any time."

"So your strategy is impossible to implement!"

"It's possible! We can open up fields and build a walled city for defense at the same time. Wherever our fields go, the walled city will be built!"

This time Yang Yi and Fei Yi were stunned.

Yang Yi said: "Is it still the Jie Hard Village you mentioned last time?"

"Yes."

"It's unbelievable for you to be able to defeat the Wei army with such a clumsy method!"

"It's not clumsy. The key to this method is to solve two problems. These two problems happen to be the shortcomings of my big man."

"Which two questions?"

"The first is food, and the second is people." Li Heng said calmly, "Our army is in Wuzhangyuan at this time, but Wuzhangyuan is not owned by our army."

"It's a joke. Our army has occupied Wuzhangyuan. How can we say that Wuzhangyuan is not owned by our army?"

"Our troops may withdraw at any time!"

"How outrageous!" Yang Yi slammed the table angrily, "How dare you talk about withdrawing the troops! Believe it or not, I will punish you with military law!"

Yang Yi is like an angry wild dog, quite aggressive.

No wonder he and Wei Yan were in tit-for-tat, both of them had bad tempers.

Moreover, Yang Yi is obviously still impatient, making quick judgments on affairs and easily going to extremes.

This kind of person has very strong execution ability, is not afraid of difficulties, and will not be easily discouraged when encountering things.

But the pretensions are very high and the pattern is not big.

Used well, it can play a big role.

For example, when Zhuge Liang was around, Yang Yi could be protected and use her talents in her areas of expertise.

As soon as Zhuge Liang died, he was exploited in disguise and encouraged to kill Wei Yan because of his character problems, and was subsequently liquidated.

Zhuge Liang glanced at him and said lightly: "Wei Gong, please let me finish what I have to say. We are not in the army now, and we are not discussing matters in the army."

"Yes." Yang Yi immediately restrained himself.

"What does it mean to be an occupation?" Li Heng continued, "If the soldiers can be powerful, the people are willing to stop, the officials can show their strength, and the people will naturally follow their will!"

Zhuge Liang's expression remained normal. He didn't nod or shake his head, let alone express an opinion. He just said: "Continue talking."

"Good governance is to gather the people, to cultivate the fields to support the army, to build cities to build the land, and to attack without attacking!"

The place fell into a dead silence.

Zhuge Liang stood up at this time and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Ji'an had so many great opinions at such a young age. Given time, he could become useful."

"The Prime Minister is so complimentary that I feel ashamed to deserve it."

Li Heng knew that Zhuge Liang said this to give himself face. The general direction he said today was okay, but the specific implementation strategy was basically not mentioned.

For example, how to gather people?

For example, where to build a walled city?

Another example is a walled city. How many military and civilian configurations are needed?
How long does it take to mine iron ore?
How many blacksmiths are needed?
These are all issues at the specific implementation level.

If a person does not know how to implement and directly rises to the level of strategic decision-making, this person is most likely just talking on paper.

During Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, he paid a heavy price because of a certain person.

His control over many things has become more and more strict and stable.

It’s difficult to do everything at once.

However, Li Heng knew that the prime minister began to recognize him and became interested in him.

That's what he wants at this stage.

He couldn't expect Zhuge Liang to reuse him immediately, that was impossible. "The Quyuan Li is of great importance, so be prepared with both hands." Zhuge Liang looked at Li Heng and said, "I will ask Yang Yi to mobilize Zhu Yejian from the army to arrange part of the manpower for the production. As for the private sector, you can make your own arrangements."

As for the private sector, you can make your own arrangements.

This sentence can be regarded as leaving a space for Li Heng to operate on his own.

"Here."

Zhuge Liang took Yang Yi and Fei Yi out.

"Everyone, go slowly."

After Zhuge Liang and others left, Li Ruji came around and said angrily: "Don't scare me to death. Stop daydreaming from now on!"

"Why am I daydreaming?"

"Isn't it just daydreaming to talk about military and national affairs?"

"Aweng, why don't you go out and relax, there are still many villages in Weinan, but if you go there and stroll around, you might even meet a few beautiful women."

Li Ruji angrily scolded: "What do you mean by this?"

"I encourage Aweng to enjoy life and not stare at me, an unfilial son, all day long!"

Li Ruji:......

After leaving the papermaking factory, Zhuge Liang was quite excited. Now he was indeed preparing to farm on the east bank of Xieshui.

With the Quyuan plow, farming becomes even more powerful.

Yang Yi added: "Prime Minister, I think there is something fishy about what happened today."

"Oh?"

"What a coincidence. We met Qu Yuuli and found the papermaking factory. Li Heng said those words. This must have been intentional on his part!"

"You mean, Li Heng deliberately used Qu Yuan Li to lead us to the papermaking factory, and used Qu Yuan Li to state his views on the future war situation to us?"

"Yes, he did this because he wanted to speculate. It seems that he is not satisfied with the official position of the Chief of Weaving and Dyeing Department!" Yang Yi started to get angry. "He wants to take this opportunity today to seek a higher official position. This People are very scheming!”

Fei Yi coughed twice and said, "If you really have talent, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Fei Yi's two coughs seemed to be in advance of Yang Yi, when the late emperor visited the thatched cottage three times to invite the prime minister.

The Prime Minister didn't see him the first two times. Wasn't that intentional?
Do you, Yang Yi, want to say that when the prime minister was young, he was also a scheming boy who only wanted to seek an official position?
"Raise an army of [-] people?" Yang Yi shook his head and said, "We have an army of nearly [-] people. According to Li Heng's calculation, we need at least [-] counties for those people to farm day and night to meet military needs. Once the size increases, , our side may change from the offensive side to the defensive side."

Fei Yi said: "Li Heng is not saying that he wants to raise the entire army. Although our army is close to one hundred thousand, it is really capable of fighting elites, more than thirty thousand. The rest of the troops can mobilize food and grass from Hanzhong. This is not bad. As for raising one hundred thousand It is not impossible for the army to stand firm here and take Longyou from the west."

When he reached the slope of Wuzhangyuan, Zhuge Liang glanced at the camp east of Xieshui and murmured: "Maybe the stronghold mentioned by Li Heng is indeed a good idea."

Now that we have paper, we can ensure refined control after large-scale farming.

With the Quyuan plow, the progress of field opening can be greatly accelerated.

In the evening, Li Heng went back as usual and looked at the top of Wuzhangyuan. He knew that Zhuge Liang was now ready to put pressure on Sima Yi and start large-scale farming and building strongholds.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

Sima Yi wants to be a tortoise, Li Heng has a way to draw his blood, as long as Zhuge Liang is willing to build a stronghold in Guanzhong.

On April [-]th, the Wei army camped.

"Report! Grand Governor, the main force of the Shu army is coming towards our camp!"

"Who will the Lord be?"

"Zhuge Liang personally leads the troops!"

When the generals heard this, their expressions changed slightly, and Sima Zhao said: "The Shu army just crossed the slanting water two days ago, and now Zhuge Liang is impatient to attack us! It seems that Zhuge Liang is not going to take Longyou, but to fight with us Confronted in Xieshuidong, he wants to take Chang'an!"

Xiahou Ba, who had been frustrated in the previous two days, stood up and asked for help. He said loudly: "Grand Governor, please give the general [-] troops to attack this vanguard!"

"No!" Sima Yi said with a calm face and a calm tone, "No one is allowed to send troops without my permission, otherwise military law will be dealt with!"

(End of this chapter)