According to farming habits, there will be spring plowing in Yongjia in the eighth year.
Those who are more diligent will start working at the end of the first year.
Those who enjoyed it a little began to get busy one after another after the Spring Society Festival.
In early February, Shao Xun came to Xuchang Palace again.
If the Jingfu Hall has been turned into a mulberry forest and the Ju Room has been turned into a vegetable garden, the Chengguang Hall where Emperor Wei held court has become a farmland.
Shao Xun led the shogunate officials and military generals to conduct a spring plowing demonstration here.
Almost at the same time, various troops also gathered in Xuchang and Xiangcheng one after another.
There are still more than 10,000 soldiers in Xuchang, and 5,000 were dispatched this time.
Compared with previous expeditions, this one was obviously much more positive.
Outside Xuchang City, there were crowds of people and cars and horses like dragons.
The last group of people heading to Puyang are about to set off and are saying goodbye to their fellow villagers.
"Zhou Lu, your son, my son, has become a soldier and will live a good life in the future." An old man, leaning on a cane, said with emotion as he looked at the middle-aged man, who was about forty years old.
"Actually, it's just like that." The middle-aged man had an uncontrollable smile on his face. He waved his hand and said modestly, "It's not like farming the same land?"
"That's different." An old woman said at the side: "You have someone to help you plant. You only go to the fields when the farming is busy."
The middle-aged man smiled from ear to ear and said: "They are all common people, they are just common people."
"I heard that you can become an official." The old man added, "If you become an official, it will be different from us."
"Zhou Lu, your son used to like my granddaughter and even peeped at her bathing. Why not let them get married? It would be a beautiful thing."
"Zhou Lu, you and I have been in battle together and have a very close relationship. My daughter can be your son's bride, how about it?"
"Zhou Donkey, do you want to buy a donkey? I have an extra donkey at home, and it is only five years old. When we go to war, we must have pack animals to carry the armor."
"The Zhou family is going to be prosperous..."
The envy, jealousy, and hatred of the villagers greatly satisfied the vanity of the family members of the soldiers.
I went to Puyang. I had 150 acres of land at home, and someone was helping to cultivate it. If I took care of it, I would have at least 500 bushels of grain for the autumn harvest.
Well, although those fields used to be fertile fields, they have been abandoned for a few years after all. They may not be that high, but they can still get three to four hundred dendrobiums of corn. The family of five only eats sixty dendrobiums a year - well,
Now that I have become a soldier, I naturally can't save as much as I did before, so I'll just have a hundred dendrobiums, and there's still some food left over to feed three households.
When there is free time, let the tribe go to the common land to cut grass, feed a few cows and sheep, and there will be milk during the week. During the New Year, they will slaughter one or two sheep, and there will be meat to eat.
There are still some harvests in the vegetable garden and orchard in the house, and some chickens and ducks are raised. This is truly a "classy" life.
It is really worth working hard for this family business.
After the last group of family members of the soldiers left, the others slowly dispersed, but the impact had just begun.
The five thousand Xuchang soldiers who followed Shao Xun southward were full of high morale and enthusiasm.
Although they may not necessarily fight, it is outrageous that they actually expect to fight.
It seems that in this era of serious class consolidation, when the opportunity for class advancement is presented to them, too many people really rush to fight for it.
According to rumors, in order to get the opportunity to go south with the army, the first-level officers of Xuchang Shibing fought openly and secretly, and even had private fights. Those who succeeded in the competition were proud, and those who failed were not upset, because they had already begun to figure out when.
You can go to Heyang to change defense, maybe in March.
Hearing that the construction of Fangtou South City has been completed, Sizhou Dingzhuang was exhausted from building and defending the city. They had already begun to retreat home for spring plowing. Their replacements were 3,000 Dingzhuang recruited from Chenliu, plus
There are five thousand people in the begging army.
The Heiyang Army was transferred from the three cities of Heyang. The government soldiers had been guarding there for more than half a year and were about to withdraw. It was just in time for the soldiers of Xuchang to come forward. This was their opportunity.
In order to make progress, you really have to seize every opportunity.
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After confinement, Shao Xun was able to see his wife.
However, the journey south is imminent, but there is not much time to be gentle.
After having dinner together in the morning, we started to pack things.
Yu Wenjun had not yet recovered. After holding his daughter and kissing her again and again, he handed her over to the wet nurse, and then directed her four concubines to help organize clothes and daily necessities.
She was a little disappointed with these four people.
She has been pregnant for such a long time, and it has been almost three months since her husband returned home. He actually stayed at Le's and Lu's rooms every night and never touched four people.
Yesterday Mrs. Lu came to visit her, and they chatted for a while. In the end, Mrs. Lu vaguely mentioned that maybe four concubines could serve her husband.
Yu Wenjun was a little surprised and a little angry, and together with Xun Niang, he thought she was not allowed.
Well, she was really a little reluctant, but after suppressing the sourness in her heart, she could still reluctantly accept the four little sisters serving her husband, because this was something that was destined when she got married.
Xunniang actually had no choice.
Her husband stayed in her room, and she became pregnant.
In the first half of her life, she was the noble Princess Fan Yang, and now she is Mrs. Lu of the Shao family. If something went wrong because of her advanced age and giving birth to a child, she would really want to cry without tears, so she warned her tactfully.
Alas, it’s really——
There were unhurried footsteps in the courtyard, and occasionally there was the sound of conversations.
"Yuangui, the hotel is very important and cannot be ignored. It was only last year that all the iron armors of the Yinqian right camp were equipped. So far, the Heiji army only has two or three hundred soldiers, and the six buildings of the middle camp have less than a hundred pairs of soldiers.
The gap is huge, you have to be more careful."
"As commanded."
"That's all, pretend I didn't say that just now."
"Ming Gong, this is..."
"Don't be too hasty. Try your best to recruit craftsmen first, and then let them bring apprentices. You can take some money and food, and set the reward for bringing an apprentice, and the reward for starting a apprentice early."
"Where does the money and food come from? The shogunate's expenses are really tight..."
"Let me ask you, Zhang Xiaoer, is the Li Mazi Rebellion really just as simple as it seems? Do the Runan tribes feel any resentment for being expropriated with so many people, money and food? Think about it carefully.
This is all your doing."
A long silence.
Yu Wenjun subconsciously tightened the hem of her skirt, her eyelashes trembling slightly, feeling a little sad.
"The camp commander has a list. You can burn it after reading it, so that you know what's going on. Some people may be friends with you on the surface, but what do they think of you secretly? Do you really know that? Some people laugh at you as a fool!"
The tone of hatred that iron cannot be transformed into steel sounded again.
There was another unspeakable silence.
Yu Wenjun felt sorry for his brother.
It turned out that his "good friend" who played and had banquets with him secretly looked down on him so much that it would be uncomfortable for anyone to do this.
But Yu Wenjun was a little angry.
My brother doesn't know people well, employs people poorly, and has an impatient temper. He has caused such a big trouble to his husband. When can he change his ways?
"I asked Mrs. Wen to come back and help me." Yu Liang's voice sounded.
"Okay, you have your friends, I don't care." Shao Xun said, "But Wen Qiao is in Jinyang, why did he come to Henan?"
"Liu Kun and Wang Jun have an enmity, but the Taiyuan Wen family and Wang Jun have no enmity, so they can use the floating sea to go south."
"He is very passionate, but he may not be willing to go south. You can do it as you see fit. Going back to what happened just now, all the remnants of Zhang and Li's troops have been demoted to miners. These people have been in battle and have seen blood.
Having killed someone, how to control them takes a lot of thought, so you can take care of yourself."
"yes."
The two stopped talking, and footsteps came towards the door.
Yu Wenjun quickly stood up and stepped forward to greet him.
After the door opened, only Shao Xun could be seen, while Yu Liang had left far away.
"Husband." Yu Wenjun warned himself to be more dignified, but he couldn't help but hugged Shao Xun's waist and pressed his face into his arms.
"You are already a mother, but you are still so childish." Shao Xun laughed.
In fact, he is also very useful.
Of all the women out there, which one could not wait to rush into his arms as soon as they saw him?
Cherish this time, because in a few years, Yu Wenjun may not do this anymore. This is a passionate emotion that belongs only to girls, not the carnal desire between him and mature women.
Yu Wenjun slowly let go of his waist, took his hand and sat down.
"Have you prepared so many clothes?" Shao Xun glanced at the purple, red, and blue robes and said in surprise: "It won't take long."
Yu Wenjun tried his best to use a calm and magnanimous tone and said: "Bring more clothes and change them. Your soldiers are all strong and powerful, but they don't know how to wash their clothes. Every time they come back from an expedition, their clothes are full of stains. It's not like that."
A county prince, a governor."
"I just like the serious look you put on." Shao Xun pinched her nose and smiled.
Yu Wenjun immediately broke his guard and leaned into his arms again. After giggling for a while, he said softly: "Husband, just go and take care of important things. Next month, I will gather all the female family members for an outing. Will it be moved this year?"
Planting mulberry seedlings? Last year, a lot of mulberry seeds were planted in Jingfu Garden, and they have all sprouted this year, so they are just in time for transplanting."
"You are really a good wife." Shao Xun smiled and said: "That's fine. If there are 200,000 acres of mulberry forest in the four counties this year, I will be satisfied."
"Twenty thousand acres of mulberry forest can produce more than 100,000 pieces of silk, right?" Yu Wenjun blinked and asked.
"I asked Yuan Gui about this question, but he didn't know." Shao Xun said with emotion: "Two hundred thousand acres of mulberry forest can produce at least 100,000 pieces of silk. If it's good, there can be 130,000 pieces of silk. But the newly planted ones
There are not necessarily so many mulberry trees."
Silk is money, and mulberry trees are money printing machines.
With silk, not only can it be used to give rewards, but it can also be used to make transactions with other places.
For example, the Hu people who sell horses like to collect silk, even more than gold and silver. Because they may not be able to sell the latter, but silk can be resold to merchants further away, which is equivalent to making two yuan.
all over.
He bought horses last year. The cost of a Liangzhou horse, converted into silk, was no less than thirty horses, and a Qinzhou horse was less than twenty.
If two thousand Liangzhou horses were bought entirely with silk, it would cost 60,000 to 70,000 pieces of silk. If taxes were collected normally, 40,000 households would be needed to support them.
This does not take into account the road losses and expenses. In fact, the cost is also very high. It is conservatively estimated to cost 100,000 pieces of silk.
Gold and silverware are stocks and disposable items that cannot be replenished in a short period of time after use, but silk is available every year in an endless supply.
Ironware, grain, silk, and horses are the most important strategic materials in troubled times. This cannot be overemphasized.
"I understand. What else should I plant?" Yu Wenjun asked with his face raised.
"There is too much to sow." Shao Xun said: "But there is no hurry, take your time. It is important to take care of yourself after you have given birth. We have a lifetime to live."
"Yes." Yu Wenjun lowered her head, her heart filled with joy. She even started counting on her fingers when her husband would come back and give him another child.
On February 15th, Shao Xun said goodbye to his family and led his army to Nanyang.
At the beginning of the new year, various ministries also began to mobilize.
He Lun's 5,000 men were stationed in Fangtou North City, and they will be stationed here permanently from now on.
Sizhou Dingzhuang's 7,000 people from Fangtou Nancheng gradually withdrew, and they were replaced by Chenliu Dingzhuang and his army of beggars.
Nancheng was already in its final stages, and the eight thousand people transferred there were not only building the city, but were also responsible for its defense.
Tiaoyi's army of 1,500 cavalry was stationed in the north city of Fangtou, where another unit of the Shengsheng Capture Army was set up.
In the direction of Heyang Beicheng, the black army has arrived at Xiangcheng.
Five thousand soldiers from Xuchang were mobilized to the north city of Heyang. Six thousand soldiers from the government and their tribes dispersed and returned.
Buildings 21-26 of the Silver Spear Army continue to head to Zhongli City for training.
Three thousand men from Heyang were recruited to guard Nancheng.
Tiaoyi's army of 1,500 cavalry was stationed in the north city of Heyang. The army to capture the unborn increased their efforts and raided Hanoi.
In spring, not only the people in the Central Plains are in a state of drought, but also the herdsmen.
After a whole cold winter, the livestock have lost a lot of weight and used up 77% of the hay, which is very difficult. In addition, when the livestock is in heat in the spring, they have to take care of newborn lambs, calves, foals, and a lot of other things.
I’m telling you to be busy! I’m going to send people to harass you right now to make you even busier!
On the 15th, more than 400 soldiers escorted Shao Xun and Lelan Ji south. Xuchang's 5,000 soldiers and 2,000 Yi Congjun accompanied them.
After arriving at Xiangcheng, they gathered together 3,000 black troops, 6,000 silver spears from the left camp, and 5,000 strong men from Xiangcheng, and marched straight down to Nanyang.
After they left, there were only less than 2,000 soldiers and a thousand Yi Cong and light cavalry left behind in Xuchang.
Liu Shan has begun to recruit a new batch of 5,000 soldiers. No one wanted to be a soldier before, but now things have changed a lot.
Chapter completed!