In late July, Pei Xian, the supervisory censor, Yu Mi, the prime minister of Honglu Temple, and some middle and lower-level officials from Taichang arrived one after another.
When they arrived, the farce had just ended.
A small Xianbei tribe who was temporarily stationed near Gaoliu County in the northeast of Pingcheng heard that the land was being ceded, and fled north angrily. As a result, they were intercepted by Puyang Mountain and Yijing towns heading south from Dongmugen Mountain.
With the old, weak, women, children, cattle and sheep in their tents, they were in a mess. They were defeated by a sudden attack. More than a thousand people died and more than ten thousand were captured.
At this time, everyone knew the key to Gaoliu and Wuzhou.
When dragging their families and fleeing to the north, generally speaking, they have to follow the river. There are only a few routes, including Pingcheng, Gaoliu, and Wuzhou.
If they fled eastward, they would advance along the Sanggan River and enter Daijun. Mrs. Wang's brother Wang Feng and Daijun Wei would not necessarily let them pass.
If they fled westward, they would have to pass through Mayi, where there was a Kelan garrison and it was also very close to Yanmen Pass. Wuhuan was accustomed to building Wubao forts in the area. It was hard to say whether the powerful Jin people would help them.
In short, after this communication, the thoughtful people temporarily restrained themselves and decided to wait for an opportunity before talking.
"I heard that there are many people who are secretly hooking up with Tuoba Yihuai." On July 28, Shao Xun said while looking at the horses galloping freely in the distance.
They were war horses recently transferred from Duanbu Xianbei. Thousands of them were roaming on the plains, grazing leisurely. On the east bank of the Sanggan River across the river, there were acres of farmland, and some early-maturing varieties had already
Harvest has begun, and mid- to late-maturing varieties are about to be harvested.
As for the late-ripening millet, which is only harvested in August, we don’t have it here. We have to go to the Yinshan area.
"Your Majesty is too concerned." Wei Xiong, who came from Dai County to take up the post of Assistant Prime Minister, said: "The Wuhuan people may not run away, but the Xianbei people may not."
The Wuhuan people were indeed reluctant to part with it.
They also graze, but farming is a very important income, even more than the income from grazing.
Wuhuanhao built a strong and powerful fort, and there is already a tendency to settle down. Are you willing to give up these things? You are reluctant to give up.
What's more, if you go to Suotou, you are really a stepmother, and there may not be much land for them to plant.
Their psychology is very tangled.
It is impossible for all the Xianbei people to run away, because some of them are farmers, but the proportion of nomads is higher than that of the Wuhuan people.
To put it bluntly, the south of Pingcheng is not a pure nomadic area. It is an area where Dai's new party gathers. Mixed farming and animal husbandry are booming. It is also the most important silk and linen production area in Dai.
Apart from anything else, it is impossible for the powerful Mayi gang who compiled the family tree to leave.
The Mo family, who built a small city called Mohanbi, could not leave either.
"Winter is coming, there is no need to worry." Shao Xun said: "But you are right. If you don't run away, it does not mean that you are interested in the Jin Dynasty. It is possible that they are secretly hooking up with Tuoba Yihuai. But so what.
?Helan Aitou invites Dai Gong to go north and meet at Yinshan. Such arrogant people will be punished sooner or later."
"Even if we don't do anything, these tribes may turn back when He Lan comes."
"If Mr. Dai just blindly pleases and appeases, and does not do anything, wouldn't this fight be in vain? Is he sick?"
"This is like taming a horse. When it first gets rid of its head, it will be restless and very uncomfortable. After a long time, you will get used to it. If you don't obey, just beat it. This is not something that can be accomplished overnight."
Wei Xiong was silent.
The word "Dai Gong" actually refers to the King of Liang himself.
Just leave after the fight, without even leaving a garrison or anyone to intervene. Are you here to do good deeds?
"Yesterday I received an order to select a thousand strong and brave men and send them to Pingcheng." Wei Xiong said again: "The Ji family sent out 500 people, the other wealthy families in Guangning and Daijun sent out a total of 2,000 people, and the Wang family sent out 2,000 people." He also selected 2,500 family soldiers, children and servants, and sent them to Pingcheng. Mayi, two Yunzhong counties, powerful families, and tribes sent 4,000 warriors. Dugu and the eldest grandson each selected 1,000 brave soldiers, totaling 12,000 infantry and cavalry, and other The family moved to Pingcheng, distributed houses, land, and pastures, and thought that they would protect the four guards on behalf of the father-in-law. This matter——"
"I know this." Shao Xun said: "Do it quickly, don't delay. Just after Pingcheng was conquered, the leaders of the ministries were still a little afraid. Although they were physically painful, they would still agree. If you wait until next year, the scars will be healed and the pain will be forgotten, but It won’t be that pleasant.”
"I'm already urging you." Wei Xiong agreed.
Some things, done at different times, have very different results.
Now we are asking people to come here, and after half a year of rectification, people's hearts will be at peace.
The candidates for the four guards of the pro-army must be carefully considered. The officers at all levels must be mainly Wuhuan of the Wang family. In this way, these twelve thousand cavalry are stationed near Pingcheng, farming and herding, and Daigong can be considered to have some freedom. The power of protection.
Of course, everything depends on their methods, especially Mrs. Wang's brother Wang Feng.
While Shao and Wei were talking, they had already arrived at Xinping City.
Pu Gulu, the leader of the Pu tribe, had already seen the mighty army, so he went out of the city several miles to meet Daozuo.
Shao Xun did not enter the city. He pointed his riding whip at the millet that had just been harvested not far away and asked, "How was the harvest?"
"We harvest one bush of dendrobium per acre and two bushels of dendrobium per acre," Pu Gulu replied.
Shao Xun nodded and said: "A little less."
One bush and two bushels of dendrobium weigh just over forty pounds, and the seed-to-harvest ratio is between 1:3 and 1:4, which is very bleak.
"How many years have you been studying farming?" Shao Xun asked again.
"Three years."
“Where did they originally graze?”
"Han Shan has no old county."
“Compared with grazing, how about doing both farming and animal husbandry?”
"Much stronger."
"Where is the strength?"
Pu Gulu thought for a while and said: "You can kill less livestock in late autumn, because the stalks can also be fed to cattle and sheep. The weather here is warm and humid, with crisscrossing rivers, a lot of flat land, and the grass grows well, so you can harvest more hay in autumn."
"Do you want to return to Shanwu?" Shao Xun asked.
Pu Gulu smiled bitterly and said: "Why does King Liang test it? If Aitou is willing to give me the pasture near Shengle, I will join him, but he cannot give it to him. His tribe is still going south from Yixin Mountain.
.If he can capture Shuofang and give me pasture, I would be willing to go, but I heard that Shi Le personally conquered Shuofang this year and surrendered several small tribes, so I don’t think he can give it to me."
As the saying goes, the Yellow River is full of dangers, but only one group is rich. This "tao" refers to the Hetao. A further breakdown is the front tao (Hohhot, Baotou), back tao (Bayannur), and the east side of Helan Mountain at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain.
There are three major plains in Xitao (Yinchuan).
Helan Aitou currently only occupies the front cover, while Shi Le personally conquers the back cover.
"When I came to Xinping, I realized that Shanwu was a remote and remote place, and I never wanted to go back." Pu Gulu said.
Shao Xun smiled, saying this was half true and half false.
Pu Gulu must have some objections to him in his heart. If Tuoba Yihuai captured Pingcheng, proclaimed himself the acting king, and guaranteed the interests of Pu's tribe, Pu Gulu would never object.
But it would be difficult for him to abandon the good fields and pastures near Xinping City and go to Shengle to join Helan Aitou. Even if he agreed, the clan leaders below may not agree.
This is a very complex psychology.
As long as the fig leaf of the Wang family and her son is still there, Pubu will never be able to make up his mind to abandon his family and career and run away.
"You can harvest more grain from this land." Shao Xun led everyone down to the field and said, "This land has almost never been plowed. You have many horses, so why don't you plow it with horses? Even if it is only shallow plowing and the yield per mu is low, but
We can cultivate dozens more acres of land."
"The method of plowing with horses is unheard of." Pu Gulu shook his head and said.
Shao Xun was helpless.
In fact, just as many things were invented in ancient times in the Central Plains and then suddenly disappeared, only to be reinvented in later generations, the crux lies in the dissemination and promotion of knowledge.
If it cannot be disseminated and promoted, then this invention will be lost in the dust of history. In the end, future generations can only admire it in museums.
They may be thinking that ancient times were really powerful and invented so many things, but the real situation is very cruel. Most of the inventions were short-lived and did not benefit the people at all and did not improve productivity. Even when such inventions were used in some places, the country's nine
People in the above areas don't know it at all.
When the people who used this invention failed to persist due to various factors, this new thing disappeared.
Shao Xun felt that the Hu people might have used horse plowing, but it was not popular and the generals really didn't understand.
"Horses can use light plows and shallow plowing." Shao Xun said: "The farming season is often tight. Once it is missed, the harvest of the year will be lost. During the farming season, oxen can plow one acre of land, while horses can plow two or three acres.
If you can grow more land, why worry about not being rich?"
There are many types of horses, but Mongolian horses are not suitable for plowing.
A poor horse can only plow 50% faster than an ox, while a slightly better horse can plow two to three times faster. If it is specially bred, trained from an early age, and has perfect coordination measures, it can even be four to five times faster.
In the Middle Ages, Europe also used oxen to plow at the beginning. However, because they had fewer people and more land, they found that oxen plowing was too slow and could not plow much land during the farming period. Therefore, the six oxen pulling the plow (two heads in a row, front and back) were used.
(Three rows, pulling heavy plowshares) The front two are replaced by horses, and the speed is much faster - the oxen are too lazy and walk slowly, and the horses are fast. The leading oxen is replaced by horses, which can drive the four oxen behind to speed up and roll up.
After the Black Death, there were fewer people and more land, so horse farming completely eliminated ox farming in most areas.
So what if the seed-to-yield ratio is low? Plant more and cultivate more land, but you still make money in the end.
Pu Gulu looked at Shao Xun with a mixture of surprise and doubt in his eyes, and after a moment he said: "It's a pity that no one knows this method, and there are no farming tools."
"What if I send officials who are good at farming to help you here?" Shao Xun asked, "If Dai doesn't have it, doesn't Jin have it?"
Pu Gu Lu was silent for a long time.
"Day by day, I don't know what's going on in my mind!" Shao Xun said in a tone that said he hated iron but could not make steel.
After saying that, he looked at the clan leaders behind Pu Gu Lu and asked, "Pu Gu Lu doesn't want to harvest more grain, do you think so?"
Pu Gulu clenched his fists slightly.
The clan leaders looked at each other, and after a while, most of them remained silent, but they were still communicating with each other with their eyes. They were obviously moved, but they just didn't want to openly cause trouble because of the face of the big Pu Gulu.
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But in such a large tribe, there are always people who have conflicts with Pu Gu Lu, or who are more filial, such as——
"Sir." A rough man stood up, looked at Pu Gu Lu, and said: "Whenever there is a disaster, the tribe cannot feed so many people. Some go around plundering and killing, and some people die; some
The tribesmen were allowed to starve to death; some even sent sixty-year-old men to the mountains to fend for themselves. Who would have thought about such a day?"
If someone takes the lead, others will naturally follow.
A moment later, when everyone was shocked, someone else stood up and said: "The more food you harvest, the more people you will live. My son wants to separate the family, but I have always disagreed because I don't have enough people from the Putun clan."
If there are more people alive and more cattle and sheep, then the families can be divided. The King of Liang is the father of Gongya, so why not ask him for help?"
"In the past, Yilu repeatedly asked Liu Kun to select officials for him and appointed many Han officials. How come Liu Kun could do it but the King of Liang couldn't?"
Shao Xun clasped his hands behind his back, looked into the distance, and said to Wei Xiong in a "whisper": "If you replace the grain with millet, the harvest per mu can be higher. After the autumn harvest, plant some winter vegetables such as turnips in the ground. During the winter,
It is not only edible for livestock, but also for humans. Once there is a white disaster, this can be a life-saving thing."
"Your Majesty." Wei Xiong also whispered: "I don't know if Xinping can grow turnips."
"You will know once you try it." Shao Xun said: "If it can be done, it will be a blessing to the people of the country."
"The king's broad mind is really impressive."
"The Dai Dynasty is a vassal state of the Jin Dynasty. I am a general. I regard the people of Hu and Han as one family. How can I favor one and deprive the other of the things that benefit the people?" Shao Xun said: "The human heart is made of flesh. I am a commoner of Xianbei.
How can the people of Xianbei turn their backs on me when they are working so hard to make a living?"
As soon as he said this, all the Pubu leaders who could understand Jin dialect looked at him blankly.
Shao Xun laughed, walked up to those people, patted the shoulder of the person who just spoke, and asked: "You want to carry me?"
"No...I dare not." The man quickly bowed and saluted.
Shao Xun walked up to another person and asked, "Are you going to harm me?"
"I don't dare." The man also bowed and saluted.
"If I ask your family to harvest more grain and raise more livestock, will you abandon me?" Shao Xun walked up to the third person and asked.
"If I were so heartless and crazy, God would be disgusted with me." The man immediately replied.
"Good man." Shao Xun punched him hard and said with a smile: "I brought wine, let's drink together tonight."
The man grinned widely and said, "I will go into the mountains soon to hunt some prey for the king."
Pu Gulu has calmed down.
For some people, when he stood there and said a few words to others, he often hit the point. His grace and demeanor often touched people's hearts.
King Liang's style was straight-forward and very appealing to prairie men. And he could indeed bring benefits to everyone. In just a few words, he captured the hearts of some clan leaders and created rifts within the tribe.
Can you really beat him?
Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, stepped forward and said, "I ask your Majesty to send the peasant officials here."
Shao Xun turned around and looked at him and said, "Agricultural officers already exist."
Pu Gulu was startled.
"There are various Cao Cao in the Shanyu Protector's Mansion, and there will be officials who are good at farming." Shao Xun said: "Do you think the Chanyu Protector's Mansion is good?"
"Okay..." Pu Gulu sighed.
Chapter completed!