Rebirth of Lu Bu, the tyrant of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 80, the advent of the waterwheel, the farm system

In the evening, all the generals came one after another and entered the Sheriff's Mansion.

Wine and meat had already been placed in the hall, and a whole golden-yellow roast whole lamb was placed in the middle.

"Haha, the general is back, and Yun Chang misses him very much." Guan Yu was the first to arrive.

Lu Bu stood up and went to greet him, crossing his hands with Guan Yu's arms, "I haven't seen you for a few months, Yun Chang is a bit burly and strong again."

"In the past few months, I followed Wen Yuan to practice soldiers every day, and I danced and practiced sword skills when I heard the chicken.

"If you want to say that you are hungry and thirsty, I am afraid that no one is more hungry and thirsty than me." Two people came to the door, it was Zhou Cang and Zhang Liao.

Dian Wei stood up with his chest upright, "If you are really hungry and thirsty, I would like to discuss with you."

Zhou Cang glanced at Dian Wei's increasingly vigorous body, and quickly retreated behind Zhang Liao, "This hunger and thirst is not the other hunger and thirst, you guys will definitely not understand, hurry up and play."

Everyone looked at each other and laughed.

Not long after, Yue Fei, Luo's father and son, Li Guang, Guo Yu, Xi Zhicai, Wang Ping and others walked into the hall one after another.

"Everyone, please take a seat. I haven't seen you in a few months. Everyone, please stay safe," Lu Bu said.

"Haha, thanks to the general's blessing, everything in Wuyuan County is normal, nothing special happened," Xi Zhicai said.

"That's right, the general is away without my brothers to accompany him, which makes everyone very worried," Zhang Liao said.

Zhou Cang took a sip of his drink impatiently, and said first, "Wen Yuan and I originally planned to go to Luoyang City to find the general."

"I made you brothers worry, come, let's have a drink together, let's have a good drink tonight, and talk about business tomorrow," Lu Bu said happily.

It was also rare for everyone to get together, and with Lu Bu's return, everyone was naturally very happy.

But the boy at the door was too busy, jar after jar of wine was continuously carried into the hall.

It was not until late at night that the generals dispersed.

Lu Bu led Chen Gong and Guo Jia to sit in the small garden. Guo Jia held a pot of hot tea in his hand and said in a concerned tone, "The general just drank a lot, drink some hot tea to warm up."

"Thank you Fengxiao, let me introduce you. This is Brother Gongtai, from Dongwuyang, Dongjun. He is studying in Yingchuan. I met Brother Gongtai when I passed by Yingchuan, and I specially invite him to come to Wuyuan County to help. I can help you," Lu Bu said.

Guo Jia looked slightly happy, "You must be Chen Gongtai, Chen Gongtai, you have admired your name for a long time."

Chen Gong's face was a little excited, and he hurried up to meet him, "Where, where, Guo Fengxiao's name is just like thunder, Gongtai has always wanted to get to know Brother Fengxian, but there is no chance to meet him, I didn't expect to meet him here today, I feel very sad rejoice"

Both of them were from Yingchuan, and they hit it off immediately and couldn't help chatting for a while.

Then Lu Bu continued, "How is the situation in Wuyuan County during my absence?"

Guo Jia said with a smile, "All the generals are very cooperative, and with the help of talented people, everything is going smoothly."

"When I entered Bingzhou, I heard that several counties in Bingzhou were hit by drought and locust plagues successively, and there was no harvest. In addition, Dong Bandits expropriated and extorted money, and the people were miserable. I don't know what is going on in Wuyuan County," Lu Bu said.

Guo Jia sat down and said, "During the drought, Zhicai went to the fields in person and asked General Wenyuan to lead the soldiers to help the people dredge the ditches and divert water to irrigate the fields. In addition, I relieved the people's burden by [-]% without the general's permission. Taxation will benefit the people in Wuyuan County a lot."

Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction on his face, "It's really reassuring to hand over the internal affairs to Fengxiao. It's not easy for the common people. In a troubled year, we should be more considerate of the common people, but it would be a waste of manpower to divert water for irrigation. , we can build waterwheels, which can save a lot of manpower, and the extra people can be used for other production.”

"Waterwheel? I don't know what the general said about the waterwheel."

Lu Bu said, "This water wheel is also called a sky wheel. It is three feet high. It is supported by an axle with 24 wooden spokes, which spread out radially. There is a scraper and water bucket on the top of each spoke.

The scraper scrapes water, and the water bucket is filled with water.The river rushes in, and the spokes are slowly turned by the inertia of the water, and the buckets are filled with river water and lifted up step by step.

Near the top, the water bucket is naturally tilted, and the water is injected into the aqueduct and flows into the irrigated farmland, so that a lot of manpower can not be wasted to irrigate the farmland. Tomorrow, I can draw a blueprint, and you can send someone to build it, and try it out first. , Make sure there is no problem before putting it into production and use in large quantities.”

Chen Gongdao, "The general is really well-informed, and such things can be created. If this is the case, we can indeed save a lot of manpower."

Guo Jia continued, "There is indeed a difficult matter that needs to be discussed with the general. Before leaving, the general told me to recruit a large number of soldiers. I have recruited [-] soldiers according to the general's instructions.

Generals Zhang Liao and Zhou Cang led 4000 troops to form an infantry battalion, generals Luo Yi and General Luo Song led [-] troops to form a spear battalion, and generals Li Guang and General Guo Yu led [-] troops to form an archer battalion.

General Yue Fei led 2000 troops to form the Yue Family Army.

Because the war horses were expensive, General Guan Yu led two thousand troops to form a cavalry battalion, of which the Golden Fire Cavalry was temporarily commanded by General Guan Yu, while Wei Wuzu and the White Robe Army were assigned to the management of General Li Guang."

Lu Bu was overjoyed, "It's so good, Feng Xiaozhen is a god and man, and he helped me form an army of [-] in just a few months."

"Although there is an army, the daily expenses of [-] soldiers are also scary. In just a few months, our granaries have already run out of money. A few days ago, I spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy hundreds of carts of grain. , and now there is not much left. In addition, the soldiers have not eaten meat for many days, and there are many complaints in their hearts. When training soldiers, they are not as strong as before.

Although the generals didn't say anything, it can be seen that they are very dissatisfied."

Lu Bu nodded with a deep expression, "That's true. It's easy to recruit soldiers, but it's hard to raise them. We didn't need much food when we had a few hundred people. Now we have more than 2 mouths, enough to feed a poor county."

"General, there is no need to worry, we can implement the farming system in the army," Chen Gong said.

Tuntian system?
Lu Bu vaguely remembered that there were relevant contents mentioned in the history books, but he didn't know how the farming system should be.

Seeing the puzzled expressions on Lv Bu and Guo Jia's faces, Chen Gong went on to say, "The garrison system, generally speaking, is to connect soldiers with peasants, fight in wartime, garrison fields in leisure time, reclaim wasteland, and solve the problem of military rations and salaries. We can The barren and unowned farmlands are owned by the state, and a large number of recruited refugees are organized into groups according to the formation of the army. The state provides land, seeds, cattle and farm tools, and they cultivate them. The harvest is provided by the state and the farmers divided proportionally".

Lu Bu suddenly realized.

He was born as a special soldier in his previous life, and there was also such a situation in the military camp. He gathered those soldiers who did not participate in the battle, farmed the fields in their spare time, fought in wartime, and solved the military ration problem by themselves.

(End of this chapter)