At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 365, Maodun’s prepared retreat and the power of organization
Zang Yan's words silenced everyone. The Xiongnu nobles knew that this battle was inevitable, but they did not expect that this battle would come so quickly.

There will be so many enemies to face, an army of 60, and the Xiongnu only has so many young men combined. How should we fight this battle? What are their chances of winning?

Mao Dun said: "Fight if you want. Although the Han people are powerful, we, the Xiongnu, are not soft persimmons. The Han people can pinch them if they want. Not to mention that the Han people's cavalry can reach Mobei, which is only hundreds of thousands of people. Our equipment can also catch up." When they come up, they also have weapons specially designed to deal with the Han army, so we, the Huns, may not be incapable of fighting. "

Mao Dun said proudly: "This battle may not be an opportunity for us Huns. The strength of the Han people is too strong. We are no match for the Han army in the border counties of the Han Dynasty. But they traveled thousands of miles to Mobei and took the initiative." We are the ones who are the most vulnerable. The Han army has high armor coverage, but they have poor maneuverability and do not know the geographical advantages of the desert.

The desert stretches thousands of miles across, and there are many areas where our Huns warriors can gallop. We only need to hold back the Han cavalry, attack their food routes, consume the energy of the Han army, and drag them to the point of exhaustion.

The turning point for our victory will appear. We, the Xiongnu warriors, will take advantage of the geographical location to annihilate and even severely injure the elites of the Han who came to Mobei.

We can regain the territory of Monan and even change the offensive and defensive trends of both sides. The Han people can come to our Monan, and our Xiongnu warriors can also go to the Central Plains. "

He looked at Zang Yan and said, "I also ask the Prime Minister to monitor every move of the Han people in the Central Plains and pay attention to the movements of the Han army."

Zang Yan said: "Promise"

"Order King Zhelan and King Loufan to alert the Han army's actions and prepare them for a surprise attack by the Han. At the same time, let the tribesmen in Monan move to Mobei to avoid the pursuit of the Han army. Be prepared to fortify the walls and clear the country, as long as the Han people are found Entering the desert, they killed all the cattle and sheep, and the water sources were polluted. The Han people were not able to get a single piece of wool or a sip of clean water in the desert, which increased the logistical pressure on the Han people. The Chan Yu wanted to make the Han people Even the water is transported from the Central Plains.”

Mao Dun's strategy made King Lou Fan, King Kun Xie, and King Xiu Tu sense a glimmer of hope of victory. When there was no hope, Mao Dun could find a way for everyone to defeat the Han army. These people were dissatisfied with Mao Dun. The smoke disappeared in an instant. The tax on cattle and horses didn't matter. The key was to repel the Han people.

Only King Ding Ling, who newly became the Xiongnu Empire, was full of doubts. In his opinion, the Xiongnu army was already the most powerful army in the world. Is there really an army in the south that was more powerful than the Huns?

After all these people left, Maodun said to his eldest son Jizhi: "My father has named you the Righteous King. You will lead the two tribes of Xubu and Juqu to farm in the territory of the original Wusun Kingdom. At this time, If you preside over it, my father will explain to the public that this is to hoard food for the Mobei War."

Some of Ji Zou said in astonishment: "Mobei is about to have a war, how can the child leave?"

Mao Dun said: "It is because of the war in Mobei that you have to leave. The Han Emperor is completely different from the other emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty. The other emperors of the Central Plains regard us Huns as barbarians. They look down on us Huns from the bottom of their hearts, so they They can only kill and drive us away, but as long as the desert is there, our Xiongnu tribe can exist. "

"But the Han Emperor did not have such an idea. He really regarded us Huns as descendants of Dayu, with blood from the Central Plains. But this is even more dangerous. If the Han people assimilate us Huns, the Huns will disappear completely. The Han Emperor is The most dangerous enemy of my Huns.”

"This Mobei war is related to the life and death of our Huns and even the entire grassland nation. If my father can defeat the Han Emperor, the balance between the Han and Huns can still be maintained, and the Huns can continue.

But if my father is defeated in Mobei, the Xiongnu in the desert will disappear completely. You in the Western Region are our only hope. "

To be honest, Mao Dun looked down upon his eldest son. He liked all kinds of books written by the Han Dynasty. He worshiped Zang Yan as his teacher. He liked to discuss various Han systems with the scholars who had fled to the Xiongnu. In the world of Datong promoted by the Han Dynasty, the emperor imagined the same thing. Ji Porridge looks more like Han people than Huns.

In Mao Dun's view, this so-called world of great harmony is just a trick of the Han people, just like the shaman who likes to deceive the warriors going south, saying that the Huns warriors who died in the battle will ascend to the Immortal Heaven, there will be a herd of cattle and sheep, and they will live a life that has never been better. White disaster days.

But Mao Dun clearly understood that when a person dies, he is dead. There will be no Immortal Heaven, and there will be no cattle or sheep in the Immortal Heaven. Even the lies of the Han Emperor can't be seen. Jizhu has really been Chineseized.

But this world also respects the strong. The strength of the Han Dynasty is far greater than that of the Xiongnu. Being able to become a Han and learn the political system of the Han is not necessarily a bad thing. There must be a reason for what the strong do, and the weak should learn from the strong. Those who learn. Maybe it was the world of Datong that he didn't see through that gave the big man such great strength.

If they could not defeat the Han people, then what the Han people did was correct, so Modu regarded Jizhou as the only hope for the Huns.

Mao Dun thought for a while and continued: "If my father wins the battle in Mobei, everything will be easy, as long as you create a granary for the Huns. If my father loses, you can continue to go west and escape to a place where there are no Han people." Place, do you understand?”

Seeing how serious Mao Dun said, Ji Zhou could only say: "I understand."

The next day, in front of all the leaders of the Xiongnu tribes, Maodun named Jizou the Righteous King and ordered him to go to Wusun to farm.

On April 20, the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, in Peach Blossom Village, Hu County.

While the desert is in flames, Guanzhong is still peaceful. The people in Guanzhong are trying to find ways to make more money so that they can live a prosperous life.

Xu Fan visited Guanzhong and came to Peach Blossom Village again. The Stone in the Peach Blossom happily led Xu Fan to a Tukang room.

It is said to be a Tukang house, but the construction is not bad. It uses blue bricks and cement, and there is also a layer of cement on the ground. This house is the best in the whole peach blossom.

Shitou said: "This hatchery can hatch thousands of poultry every month, and the hatching rate of poultry is over 95%."

Then Shitou pushed a simple and honest man and said: "Hu Qiang's contribution, although His Majesty's invention of the thermometer is the main credit, but other people do not have the patience. The temperature of the fire pit is either high or extinguished, which often leads to a large number of unhatched eggs." There are even cases where all the poultry are spoiled.”

Speaking of this, Shi Tou still had an angry look on his face. For Shi Tou, who was frightened by hunger, waste like this was something that should never happen. "

Then he smiled and said: "But since Hu Qiang took over this hatchery, the hatching rate of poultry has never been lower than 90%. He is the king of hatching in our entire Hu County."

Xu Fan smiled and said: "King of Incubation, this is a good title. No one in our Shanglin Garden has such a high level of incubation. When you have time, I will invite you to go to Shanglin Garden to take classes."

Hu Qiang said excitedly: "I am waiting for your order from the Emperor."

Then Shitou led Xu Fan to a half-acre field, where there were villagers working with hoes.

Shitou said: "This is a high-standard earthworm field established by our village. We went to the river to find stones and poured cement into it. We spent a lot of money to build it."

"Your Majesty!" These villagers just wanted to salute Xu Fan.

But Xu Fan waved his hand and said: "You guys do it for you."

So these villagers continued to work skillfully with hoes.

The smell here in the earthworm field is not very good, because the humus of pig manure and chicken manure must be covered on the earthworm field that has been cleaned. Although it has been fermented, you can still smell it. For people who work on the farm, this smell may not matter, but for Xu Fan and others, the smell is really smoky.

There were so many earthworms in the earthworm field that the farmer skillfully dug them out and put them into a bucket.

Shitou said: "Poultry will grow slowly if they only eat wheat, so they need to be mixed with some earthworms, small fish and shrimp, so that the poultry can grow fast. Our Taohuali is better than other places. You can go to the big river to catch fish and shrimp, and you can also feed earthworms. In other villages It takes half a year for the poultry to grow up, but the poultry in our Peach Blossom weighs 5-6 pounds in three months, which is twice as fast as other places.”

Xu Fan asked: "There won't be chicken plague, right?"

If there are too many poultry, chicken plague will easily occur. Because Xu Fan has never been in a chicken farm, he doesn't know much about these things. At most, he has only heard of the term bird flu in the news.

But last year, there was a chicken plague in Shanglin Garden, which wiped out tens of thousands of chickens in Shanglin Garden. Xu Fan finally understood what it means that a family with thousands of dollars and feathers does not count. This is going to happen to ordinary farmers, and the family will definitely go bankrupt.

Xu Fan began to pay attention to the hygiene of poultry. For this reason, "The Book of Wealth" published a new issue to introduce various methods of disease prevention. The breeding industry in Guanzhong has only just emerged, and the scale is not large. It is basically free-range and does not cause much harm.

Shitou said: "The farmer's master taught us that as long as the earthworms are cooked, chicken plague can be greatly reduced. Moreover, we are raising free-range chickens on the dam, and there has never been any chicken plague." Speaking of this, Shitou looked complaining. Cao Sheng, the magistrate of Xianghu County, said: "There are more and more poultry, and we don't have enough land in Taohua. A certain person wants to buy several mountain dams in the surrounding area, but the county magistrate has never allowed it."

Cao Sheng rolled his eyes and said: "The imperial court has issued an order. Mountains, seas and pools are the common property of all people in the world. It is strictly prohibited to sell them to individuals. Violators will be severely punished by the imperial court. The mountains around Peach Blossom are also mountains. I will sell them to you in Peach Garden." , you want to make someone lose his official position! Even if you don’t buy it now, you are not using it well.”

Shitou said: "A certain person also wants to renovate the mountain. It would be extremely inconvenient if he didn't buy it."

Xu Fan saw Cao Sheng and said, "You can sign a lease contract. The mountain still belongs to the imperial court, but it can be leased to Taohuali. Just set the price and term."

Cao Sheng said: "I accept the order."

After settling the breeding site, Shitou took Xu Fan to see the breeding farm in Taohuali.

There are lush shrubs on the hillsides of the farm, but not many poultry can be seen.

At this time Shitou took out a whistle.

"Dudududu!"

The sound was as if the mountain was shaking. Not long after, Xu Fan saw countless chickens flying down the mountain and arriving near the chicken coop and the trough. Soon there was a dense flock.

Shitou saw the chickens and said proudly: "There are nearly 10 chickens here. There are more than ducks and geese in the duck house next to the river. restaurants in Hu County have come to our Taohuali to order poultry. After the track is opened, people coming to Hu County will The number of caravans in the county has increased several times, and I plan to double the scale of breeding this year, so that all the people in Taohua Village can earn an annual income of yuan."

Xu Fan clapped his hands and said: "If you are ambitious, if the income of the people in Peach Blossom can exceed that of the people in Chang'an City, I will ask for credit for you."

Shitou is worthy of being a man who came out of troubled times. His organizational ability is better than that of ordinary Han officials. He has learned the agricultural books and "The Book of Wealth" that Xu Fan taught him well.

Because breeding requires too many people, the scattered small-scale farmer economy can no longer meet the development of Taohuali. Under the leadership of Shitou, the people in Peach Blossom have all become agricultural workers, farming and breeding together.

Under the leadership of Shitou, they built high-standard hatcheries, chicken farms, duck houses, and earthworm fields. Under the leadership of Shitou, the whole village is busy all year round.

But Shitou's behavior soon became a joke all over the country. Someone actually built a brick house for hatching poultry. I'm sure he's not a fool. Why did he use cement to build an earthworm field? The earthworms were also grown?
Yes, technology has become very popular around Chang'an City, but houses 100 miles away from Chang'an City have become myths and legends. The speed of information circulation in this era is too slow.

All of Shi Shi's actions made them laugh. Some people really believed the stories sung in the opera. How could a fire kang hatch poultry? What else would chickens and ducks do? If they wanted to feed poultry, they would even raise earthworms. Everyone in Peach Blossom and Shi Shi Just as stupid.

But Shitou didn't care about the rumors from the outside world and focused on doing what the "Getting Rich Sutra" and the peasant students said.

A month later, there was a sensation all over the Peach Blossom Village, because the poultry in the Peach Blossom Village was really hatched. Villagers in other villages saw countless small poultry hatchings hatching out of their shells. Only then did they believe that the hot kang hatching method was real. .

Then the surrounding villagers discovered that the chickens and ducks raised in the peach blossoms grew very fast, and in just one month, the chickens and ducks in the peach blossoms were half as big as theirs.

Other villagers realize the benefits of feeding earthworms to poultry, but it is difficult for them to organize the whole village to develop the industry like a stone. The villagers alone cannot catch a few earthworms.

So the surrounding villagers could only look on with envy. The farmers in Taohuali could add thousands of poultry almost every month. Soon the people in Taohuali could eat an egg and duck egg every day, or a meal of chicken and duck in a few days. . Even if they couldn't finish it all, they salted the eggs into salted duck eggs, caught the poultry and sold them to restaurants in the county.

In less than half a year, the difference in life between the two parties has become huge, and they can only look at it with envy.

After the rail link between Chang'an and Luoyang City, Hu County became the transportation hub from Guanzhong to Luoyang City. The number of caravans increased greatly. The poultry produced in Taohuali also entered the mass production period. There was a huge market and the income of Taohuali villagers increased. The straight rise has made the stone's prestige in the local area even higher.

Seeing that noon had arrived, Shitou said: "Your Majesty, will you stay in my peach blossom for lunch? Although the food in my peach blossom is not as good as in the palace, it is not bad."

Xu Fan said: "Okay."

Taohuali is already somewhat semi-industrialized. The young and the strong have their own busy things to do, and precious manpower cannot be wasted on three meals a day, so Taohuali has its own canteen. Several women and children from the village cook. When the time is up, a bell will ring to notify the young people to come and start cooking.

In the cafeteria, there are rice wine, chicken, duck and fish, as well as an egg drop soup, and more than a dozen baskets of steamed buns, which are full of aroma and make people want to eat. This standard of food is no longer inferior to that of later generations.

Xu Fan asked: "Do you eat like this every day?"

Shitou smiled and said: "You can eat meat in a few days, but it's not as good as today. You can still eat like this during festivals. The arrival of the emperor is a festival in our peach blossoms."

Xu Fan nodded, as long as it wasn't too exaggerated.

Xu Fan is the emperor, so he naturally invites you to take a seat. The three elders in the village will accompany Xu Fan for dinner. They were extremely excited to have dinner with the emperor.
Xu Fan toasted to the three elders and praised them for their outstanding people in the peach blossoms. They gave birth to outstanding people like Shitou and built their hometown into a wealthy town.

Xu Fan's compliment made the three elders in Peach Blossom laugh happily.

They also praised Xu Fan, the emperor, as a holy king who brought the world into prosperity, and they, the old people, could live a peaceful life for a few years.

Both parties complimented each other, and the host and guest were satisfied with the meal.

After inspecting Taohuali, Xu Fan said to Shitou before leaving: "You must not forget your original intention and lead the elders in your hometown to become rich. Taohuali is considered rich now, but other villages have not yet reached the standards here. You alone are in Taohuali." Being rich does not mean being rich. Only when everyone is rich can you be considered rich. If you are capable, you should play a stronger leading role and become an expert in getting rich.”

Taohuali is no longer a self-sufficient small farmer economy, but a standardized agricultural production base. Xu Fan thinks this model is good and worth promoting.

There is a saying from later generations that Xu Fan thinks is very reasonable. No matter how great an individual's ability is, it cannot be greater than an organization.

In the arena of the world, the power of an individual is extremely weak. Only in a huge organization can powerful power be unleashed.

If a craftsman does not have his own organization, then you will fall from being a master to a cow and a horse. If a farmer does not have his own organization, then you will not be a part of the good things in the world, and the heavy burden of the world will still fall on you.

As for the farmers in the Han Dynasty, Xu Fan believed that only by finding ways to organize themselves could they be able to fight against powerful landlords and powerful workshop owners in the future.

Shitou said: "I will certainly live up to His Majesty's expectations."

Xu Fan originally wanted to say something more, but he was afraid that it would be worse than that.

Too many things happen because of impatience, and good things turn bad. Let's just let it develop naturally.

Xu Fan left Taohuali and entered Hu County, originally wanting to inspect the situation in Hu County. But at this time, the urgent letter from the court arrived in Xu Fan's hands.

Only then did Xu Fan learn that Han Xin had advanced the Northern Expedition and had already annexed the Aries tribe. The southern territory of the Mobai Yang tribe had been occupied by him. Now Prime Minister Zhou Zhang asked Xu Fan to return to Chang'an City to discuss the next strategy for dealing with the Huns.

(End of this chapter)