Lu Dynasty

Chapter 553: Huang Zhong of Hulao Pass
For the sake of Zhao Yun and Ma Teng, I agreed to give Ma Chao more food than they asked for.However, I ordered Jia Xu to give Ma Chao all the food that had been steamed.During the delivery, I asked Jia Xu and Ma Dai to explain clearly, and Ma Dai could understand my behavior!After all, Ma Chao is not my subordinate yet, so I can't take advantage of the excellent resources researched by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry!
I don't know if Ma Chao was unlucky. It was very cold from the beginning of winter in the second year of Dahan, even to the point where dripping water turned into ice, but there was no rain or snow.Even when Ma Dai and Pang De came to borrow food, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly!Because there is no snow, many people are saying that this year will be a famine year, auspicious snow heralds a good year!But the day before Ma Dai and Pang De borrowed food to prepare for the journey, it rained heavily, and at night, it snowed heavily.When I wake up in the morning, the whole Luoyang has become a world of ice and snow.Although the people in Luoyang are considered well-off, the frugal people have never been willing to light coal stoves, and only a few have.On this day, thick smoke billowed from the sky above Luoyang, and almost every household turned on their coal stoves.

Pang De and Ma Dai were dumbfounded when they looked at the icy and snowy Luoyang City shrouded in smoke.Cold weather is no problem, nor is snow.From Liangzhou to Luoyang, it is said that it is not close or far, but it has become a huge problem to transport tons of grain back to Liangzhou in this snow and ice!If Ma Dai and the others waited for the snow to melt before transporting food back, people in Liangzhou would starve to death!Besides, Ma Dai and Pound didn't know if it snowed in Liangzhou.If it snows in Liangzhou, Ma Chao's food will be even more scarce!

Depressed, Pang De and Ma Dai decided to transport the grain back to Liangzhou no matter how difficult they were.Since they decided so, Jia Xu will not stop them.Anyway, no matter what difficulties you encounter, it's none of my business.Naturally, there will be no problems in Sili, but outside Sili, especially in the vacuum zone of Liangzhou, I worry that there will be stragglers from other ethnic groups.What's more, there are also many people in Jizhou who escaped but are unwilling to be controlled. These people have long since become bandits and robbers!Those places in Bingzhou and Liangzhou that are no longer cared about because of foreigners are just right for them!For the sake of Ma Dai and Pound, I asked Jia Xu to send a small team of cavalry to escort them along the way.After all, I have invested enough capital in Ma Chao and Ma Teng, and now that something happens, all my previous efforts will be for naught!
In fact, Yuan Shao and Cao are also very troubled now, their army is different from ours.My soldiers are professional soldiers, with military pay and subsidies, and arrangements when they get old. They don't have to worry about life at all, and they don't have to worry about the family's fields being uncultivated.Cao implemented the system of military and civilian settlements, and he was better than Yuan Shao.Yuan Shao's troops are engaged in soldiers and nothing in agriculture!Yuan Shao summoned an army of one million, coupled with the looting of foreigners, many lands under his rule were left uncultivated.After the new year, the spring will start farming. If this time is delayed, Yuan Shao will have no food to eat this year.Yuan Shao should know better than anyone what will happen if there is no food!And Cao is also considering whether to send some troops back to farm!This is the benefit of high grain yield. On the same acre of land, if I harvest more grain, I can free up more people to engage in other industries, and even study how to increase grain yield. Such a virtuous circle can be scientifically and systematically developed. Let our army go faster than Cao and Yuan Shao, so that we won't be like Yuan Shao doing all the fishing!However, even if I tell Yuan Shao and Cao, they still can't understand the saying that technology is the primary productive force!I don't think even Guo Jia and Jia Xu are so smart, they don't understand why I always walk ahead of Cao and Yuan Shao.Because no aristocratic family will care about what the people eat, and no ruler will worry about the lives of the people. The things I do are all trivial things and things that the aristocratic family disdains!

Yuan Shao has one advantage. He doesn't think about things he doesn't understand or understand. Anyway, he doesn't care about the lives of the people.In Yuan Shao's heart, as long as he can defeat me, everything will be there!Yuan Shao, who had lost the help of foreigners, sent a letter to Cao, hoping to join him in attacking me.Cao He didn't want to defeat me, he sent Zhang Yan and Guan Hai to the front line of Xingyang, but he didn't expect that I would send both Zhang He and Xu Huang there.Guan Hai and Zhang Yan were naturally no match for Zhang He and Xu Huang.Cao thought to himself, since our army has sent Zhang He and Xu Huang to Xingyang, Cao feels that this shows that our army has insufficient generals.So Cao asked Guan Hai and Zhang Yan to besiege Xingyang, forcing Zhang He and Xu Huang to be unable to support other places, and then sent Xiahou brothers to bypass Xingyang and attack Luoyang.But Cao didn't expect that when the Xiahou brothers were about to bypass Xingyang, Lu Bu suddenly appeared with wolf cavalry, and the Xiahou brothers were defeated, almost defeating Zhang Yan and Guan Hai's troops.When Cao knew that Lu Bu was not at Hulao Pass, he hurriedly ordered to attack Hulao Pass, but when he arrived at Hulao Pass, a veteran in his 50s was waiting for him in front of the pass with thousands of archers.

Cao knew Huang Zhong, but he didn't know Huang Zhong's martial arts.In the past, he only paid attention to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, and never paid attention to Huang Zhong, because Huang Zhong was already a parent when he joined me. , like to show yourself.Even if I once said that Huang Zhong's martial arts are comparable to Lu Bu, Cao didn't really believe it.Cao had never seen Huang Zhong's martial arts, but he had seen him piercing Yang with a hundred steps. He immediately said to the people around him: "Be careful, everyone. Although I don't know how good this veteran martial arts is, his bow skills are extraordinary!"

"Hey! Old man, I heard that you are good at archery, but I just don't know if you can beat the big sword in my hand!" Cao Hong was reckless and foul-mouthed. He hated Cao to praise others the most.After provoking Huang Zhong, he went out to fight with a long knife in his hand!In ancient times, generals shot arrows on horseback. Five out of ten arrows was considered good, and nine out of ten arrows was considered a good archer!Generals like Cao Hong, who has not practiced archery since childhood, almost all of them can shoot nine out of ten horses!Even if the martial arts of the Xiahou brothers are much higher than Cao Hong's, their bow skills are only a few tricks back and forth. He has never seen Cao Hong who is really good at shooting.However, today, Huang Zhong will tell him what is a sharp shot and what is a supernatural skill!As the saying goes; summer insects cannot speak ice!Huang Zhong will let Cao Hong, a frog in a well, see how big the sky is!
(End of this chapter)