After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

In the plot of the original book, Xiao Shaoke established the Hou Qi Dynasty and was a big figure in the world with the King of Zhenbei, Duke Jingguo and the Lu family. Yu Zizhen didn't think that he would let himself find him easily again after leaving his surveillance.

Of course, with her interfering in the middle, no matter how hard Xiao Shaoke tried, it would be impossible to establish a harem as written in the plot of the original book.

What Yu Zizhen didn't know was that Xiao Shaoke, who was indeed more ambitious than the emperor, the eldest prince, and the second prince, had been running for his future as she had guessed.

He did not, as the emperor expected, take the money he got from Yu Zizhen and find a stable place to live incognito. Instead, he successively found generals from various places and heads of aristocratic families who could help him.

However, as Yu Zizhen expected, this time Xiao Shaoke did not successfully win over those whom he was optimistic about as the plot of the original book said.

Different from the plot in the original book, where he just escaped from the capital secretly, this time he was directly notified of his death by the Lu family.

As a "dead person" like the emperor, the eldest prince, and the second prince, even if those whom he favors to win over want to raise a rebellion in his name, the Lu family can still claim that Xiao Shaoke and Ben Ke are some other unrelated person. Wait for the fake ones.

In this situation where the public is right and the mother-in-law is right, the role that Xiao Shaoke can play as the youngest son of the late emperor is really limited.

Xiao Shaoke, who was running into obstacles everywhere, felt very depressed, but he didn't want to give up. If one person rejects him, he goes to the second person. The second person also rejected him, so he went to find the third person.
After running so persistently for such a long time, Xiao Shaoke really managed to win over a few people who were willing to support him.

It's just that these people, without exception, are not the people he originally considered as alternative targets.

There was no other way. After many attempts to win over him failed, he could only settle for the next best thing and force himself to compromise with the cruel reality.

Unlike Xiao Shaoke who encountered obstacles everywhere, as soon as Yu Zizhen appeared as a greedy wolf, the aristocratic families and generals in the eastern region could not sit still.

The big shots who were originally waiting to watch, analyze, and wait for a price suddenly realized that they had no chance to sell for a long time due to the frequent activities of Yu Zizhen's private soldiers.

They immediately sent out people to inquire about the news, and immediately started walking around with those who were in the same class as them.

Under Yu Zizhen's nose, they exchanged news and made a private agreement to help each other at critical moments.

Yu Zizhen would personally read through the important information collected by the spies every day, but she never did anything to deal with those aristocratic families and generals who kept making small moves.

Only a few people know that while they are connecting and forming alliances with each other, Yu Zizhen is also constantly improving the relationship map of the characters in her house.

She would add or delete something on it every day, updating the latest developments of these aristocratic families and generals in real time.

At the same time, Yu Zizhen also made intensive preparations for the war. However, unlike the pre-war preparations made by King Zhenbei and Duke Jing, Yu Zizhen's first pre-war preparation was not to collect grain and grass and recruit new soldiers, but to stabilize the rear and develop basic industries such as agriculture, breeding, and weaving and dyeing.

The various talents that she had been collecting continuously before were all mobilized by her at this moment.

In terms of farming, tool improvement, scientific planting, improved seed cultivation, fruit tree grafting, sericulture breeding, etc., which she had previously only allowed people to study, try, and promote privately, were directly taken over by her after she took complete control of the eastern and western regions of Daqi. It was publicized for free in the name of greedy wolf.

Incidentally, she also asked Jiang Yunshan to help write a letter to all people in the world, which was roughly "I only wish that all people would be fed and warm", creating an image of a saint who cares about the world and helps the people.

With the instant messaging tool she left to intelligence chiefs from various places, the message to the people of the world, which Jiang Yunshan revised several times before it was finally completed, quickly spread like wildfire throughout Daqi.

Although those scholars who have achieved fame are not used to the straightforwardness of its words, ordinary people who are more numerous like it very much. It is not difficult to understand at all and they can easily remember it. Book of All Nations".

They rushed to tell each other, and quickly went to the carpenter and blacksmith to customize the new farm tools that Yu Zizhen made famous all over the world.

What about scientific planting, breeding of improved seeds, and fruit tree grafting? Not all ordinary people have the courage to try it first, but those new agricultural tools that are said to make farming, harvesting, and threshing easier, basically people who rely on farming to make a living will be interested.

Even for farm tools that require expensive iron products, they can't afford one for every household. They can still afford it if they share one with relatives, friends, and good neighbors.

Different from the curiosity and expectations of these lower-class people, those who aspired to rule the world in troubled times almost immediately felt the great threat to their own interests from Yu Zizhen's big move.

Although the land in their hands is dozens or even hundreds of times that of ordinary people, Yu Zizhen announced this, they are actually more profitable, but who wants them to seek big things, they need not only small profits in front of them, but also those in power must not The most important thing is "people's hearts and minds".

If they can't win over people's hearts, if all the ordinary people can live a good life because of Yu Zizhen's move, and no longer have to worry about no food at home, and the whole family will starve to death, then where are they going to recruit enough people to help them? Charge into battle?
They are not like Yu Zizhen, who spent a lot of money and food to train private soldiers for themselves over the years. These big shots have become accustomed to being aloof. Except for a few elite soldiers under the banner of guard, they have really carefully trained them. For the remaining strength gaps, they But they all hope that when the war actually breaks out, ordinary people who cannot afford to eat will be used to fill the gap.

Yu Zizhen, who caught those guys off guard, didn't know that she just wanted to win people's hearts, but in the end, she accidentally ruined the recruitment plans of many big shots.

After she spread the knowledge about farming, she never cared about the subsequent development of the matter.

What she is currently focusing on, in addition to the deployment of personnel and horses, the transportation of munitions and ordnance, and the production and improvement of defense and siege equipment, is also the mass production of new military rations that are high in calories, durable in storage, and portable, as well as the production of new military rations under her name. The expansion of various workshops.

Warfare is a costly job, with people to feed and horses to feed, so she had to increase her efforts to attract money from the property under her name. (End of chapter)