"Great victory! Lu Shuai defeated the Wei people on the river!" In Guancheng County, Zhengzhou, Lu Bu's swift knight flashed past.
Just like a stone thrown into a calm lake, it instantly causes large ripples.
Zhengzhou is the headquarters of the Wuwei Army.
Once upon a time, Zhengzhou was harmed twice by Qin Zongquan, and then experienced fierce wars between Xia and Liang, resulting in a large population loss. However, with the arrival of a large number of military family members and immigrants from Kansai, Zhengzhou regained its vitality at a jaw-dropping speed.
Millets and wheat grow here, livestock are transported from far away, business travelers travel between Luobian and Luobian, houses are built one after another, and canals are cleaned one by one. With Zhengzhou's heritage, development is inevitable.
In the latest household registration census, Zhengzhou has recorded more than 76,500 households with more than 394,000 people, more than 30,000 hectares of fertile farmland, and an annual harvest of three million hu of millet and wheat.
Zhengzhou could not have developed so fast.
This is a living example of a passive take-off due to changes in the political center. As the eastern barrier of Luoyang, it was first included in Ruzhen, the eastern capital, and then included in Zhili Road. The court asked people to give people and money to give money.
The rapid development has made it beyond the reach of other prefectures and counties in Henan.
Under such circumstances, how could the people of Zhengzhou not be attracted to Daxia? What's more, the residential structure here has been deeply changed. There are less than 400,000 people, and about two-thirds are immigrants.
This is the current situation in the seven counties of Zhengzhou.
Lubu's swift knights quickly left the city and continued westward toward Xingyang County.
The people on the street who heard the news, even if they did not cheer for joy, looked happy - not to mention other things, they had won the battle, and their fathers, brothers, and husbands could come back early and receive rewards.
Happy?
"Lu Shuai can be said to be our most brave general in Great Xia." Someone said.
"Isn't that right? Continuously conquer the three states of Xingming and Cizhou, and then conquer Beizhou. If Wei Bo is defeated, Li Tangbin will be nothing!" Someone echoed.
If you say good things about Li Tangbin in Zhengzhou and think that Lu Huaizhong is not good enough, you may be beaten...
Shao Shude also arrived in Guancheng County at this time.
On the evening of the 25th, he stayed at Guanchengyi in the west of the city. During the day of the 26th, he arrived at Putian Town in the east of the city.
The news of Lu Huaizhong's victory in Weibo had naturally spread long ago.
The military report said that the enemy was defeated on the river, which is absolutely correct.
The Yi Congjun led more than 20,000 soldiers from Bian, Hua, Cao, Song and other prefectures to the north, built a pontoon bridge to cross the river, fought with the enemy, and defeated them. They beheaded more than 4,000 people and captured 3,000 people. Weibo's Yellow River defense line suffered heavy losses.
, Linhuang and Guancheng counties fell, and Qingfeng County surrendered. A large army surrounded Lisuo Dunqiu County in Chanzhou. The enemy troops in Neihuang retreated without fighting and fled back to Weizhou in a hurry.
The army of 100,000 has been chewing on the turtle shell for so long, and finally found an opportunity for the enemy to make a mistake, and opened up the situation in one fell swoop. I am truly congratulated.
This also confirms what Lu Huaizhong said before.
He believed that although Wei Bo held the entire front, he would surely lose if he held on for a long time, and there would always be those who could not keep calm and wanted to fight. Now it really came true.
Shao Shude is now looking forward to Luo Shaowei's reaction.
Battle after battle has shown that they neither have the strength to defeat the enemy in the field, nor the capital to spend it for a long time. Now Wang Rong's envoy has also gone to Luoyang to seek canonization, and Shao Shude deliberately delayed it to delay Chengde's troops from going south.
What will Luo Shaowei do to rescue Wei Bo?
Will the warriors in the Weibo states become more sober?
"Zhengzhou has Yongfu Lake in the west, Putianze in the east, and Caojiapi and other water conservancy projects..." Shao Shude walked on the endless rural plains and said: "I have been fighting in the south and north for so many years, and Zhengzhou is so suitable.
Farmers are rarely seen."
From Guancheng to Zhongmou, Putianze stretches about forty miles from east to west and more than twenty miles from north to south. It is a quite huge lake.
There are sand dunes in the center of the lake, and there are twenty-four piers above and below it. Business is booming and boats are constantly passing through.
Good place!
"There is also Li Jiapi in the east of the county. He returned eighteen miles around and named Li Chong after Emperor Xiaowen of Wei Dynasty. In the sixth year of Tianbao, it was renamed Guangrenchi." Zhang Xuanyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, introduced: "Zhengzhou has seven counties.
There are Pichis everywhere, especially Guancheng, Yingze, and Zhongmou counties. The people cultivated along the ponds, and it became a land of fish and rice."
Shao Shude hummed.
In later generations, some of these lakes disappeared, some areas were greatly reduced, and agricultural conditions were much worse.
The prosperity of Henan at this time was due to the fact that they had water resources that were not inferior to those of Jiangnan in later generations. The terrain was flatter than that of Jiangnan and there were fewer diseases. Therefore, they were able to develop on a large scale, with criss-crossing roads and fertile fields.
Pu Tianze was named Yuzhou Seru in "The Rites of Zhou", a world-famous large lake. At this time, it still had hundreds of square kilometers of water, and the water depth was sufficient, with 24 trading docks. How could it be the one in Zhengzhou in later generations?
Comparable to a small lake park.
"Ask Tuoba Sijing to come see me." Shao Shude sat down by the edge of Pu Tian Ze and said.
Li Yixian had already prepared the fire with great skill, and then started frying the meat on a large iron plate.
The ministers also sat around happily, looking at the sizzling and oily mutton.
The big iron plate is a "great invention" made by Wei's Blacksmith Shop in Huaizhou a few years ago. For the first time in history, a whole piece of iron can be made that big. If it is bigger, it can be forged with water power, but
Obviously not now.
"Meet Your Majesty." Tuoba Si, who was already a successful businessman, bowed to the ground.
"Get up." Shao Shude waved his hand and said, "Are you still doing business in cattle and sheep?"
"Yes." Tuoba Sijing replied: "Half of the cattle and sheep in the seven counties of Zhengzhou come from Tuoba's cattle and sheep business."
There is no need for Tuoba Sijing to hide anything. Shao Sheng has known these things clearly for a long time, and concealing them will only do bad things.
"The other half comes from Zhuge's cattle and sheep business." Shao Shude laughed and said, "You two have done a great business."
Tuoba Sijing and Zhuge Zhongbao, the two defeated generals, focused on doing business and did not care about political affairs. Moreover, they had special status, no one bothered them, and they lived a comfortable life.
Over the years, they have always sold hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep to the Central Plains, which has greatly supported the development of agriculture in the Central Plains. Especially in the Zhili and Dao prefectures, the implementation of the three-crop rotation system requires a large number of livestock, Tuoba
, Zhuge and his two men were a great supplement to the sources of the government, and they made great contributions.
"I heard that you are also breeding fine-wool sheep?" Shao Shude asked again.
"Yes." When mentioning this matter, Tuoba Sijing looked excited and said: "Your Majesty, the Wuyan sheep bred by me produce more and longer hair, and are also finer and softer. They are better than Dongzhang sheep..."
Seeing the former governor of Shengzhou, the smile on the face of the new Sinong Qing Liang Zhixia froze a bit. Tuoba Sijing decisively changed his words: "It's a fluke, it's just a fluke."
In fact, cultivating new species does involve considerable accidental factors.
The investment of talents and resources is of course essential, but sometimes luck is also very important. Tuoba Sijing got the big food Hu sheep from the Western Regions, and then bred them with the local Hexi sheep in Lingxia, and maybe mixed with some Shayuan sheep.
The bloodline of sheep, Hedong sheep, actually allowed him to create a sheep that produces slender, soft wool, and the genes can be passed down stably. It is really weird.
After Shao Shude heard about it last year, after careful research, he decided to use this "Huluoyang" (Tuoba Sijing's pasture is near Huluo Yanchi) as the male parent to continue breeding and further improve and purify the genes.
At present, there are more than 10,000 Huluo sheep, most of which are sent to various pastures under the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple to breed. After the population reaches a certain level, they are distributed to prefectures and counties and rented to the people. The whole people work hard to continue
Do it.
Shao Shude believed in the principle of strength in numbers. Isn't the Hu Luoyang created by Tuoba Sijing the result of the human sea tactic - Tuoba Sijing was canonized as a man of Changze County and granted a food seal of 300 households.
"Liang Qing, you don't have to be in a hurry when you take up your new position. There are some things that require luck. Take your time and I'll wait." Shao Shude smiled.
Liang Zhixia just breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the first half of the sentence, but when she heard the three words "I'm waiting", her scalp went numb.
"The sheep matter is of great significance to the entire Northland." Shao Shude said: "It doesn't matter that Youzhou can still grow mulberry and raise silkworms. If one day it fails, the people will be poor. For the grassland, it is even more important.
In this way, it is better to give the herdsmen a little livelihood than to die in poverty. Most of the troops in the Forbidden Army have changed into sweaters to keep out the cold, and they will always be in control from now on."
In fact, it's not just the Imperial Army. One of the new official uniforms issued by Shao Shude to people was made of woolen cloth - of course the officials were treated well, and the woolen materials used were carefully selected soft wool, which made them more comfortable to wear.
Shao Shude himself also took the lead in wearing sweaters, and people in the concubine palace were learning how to knit sweaters. Through his own practice, he must bring up this trend until northerners can no longer do without this thing and it becomes a part of traditional culture.
Many traditional festivals and cultures of later generations were actually promoted by ancient kings. Shao Shude believed that he could do it too, as long as he persevered.
On September 27, Shao Shude went to the countryside again and summoned the township chiefs, township assistants, and Li Zheng who had retired from the imperial army for a discussion. When he learned that Guancheng County had excessively collected money from manual lessons as salary, he was furious and dismissed several of them directly.
Officials were assigned as far away as Johor - the so-called "hand-made money" means using capital instead of service. It initially only existed among officials in the capital, but later gradually expanded to the whole country as part of officials' income.
"Your Majesty, in fact, overcharging for manual labor lessons means overcharging. It's nothing." The veterans said: "These officials are still a little afraid of us, but they are not too much. And they are usually quite reliable in doing things. They are not people who are just sitting on the corpse. It's a pity.
Already."
"Two different things." Shao Shude said: "They are afraid of you now, but in twenty or thirty years they may not be afraid of you anymore, and the oppression will be even more severe."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"How is your family?" Shao Shude asked again.
"Sinong Temple sent people to bring new wheat seeds, and we tried planting them last year. The harvest seems to be a little more," the veteran said.
"About half a percent more," someone added.
"Why do I feel the same?"
"Your mother-in-law is too lazy to hoe the grass in the field. You feel like shit."
"The harvest per mu is indeed a little higher. But maybe it was because last year was good, it's hard to say."
These people were all eloquent and spoke very straightforwardly without beating around the bush. Shao Shude was very willing to listen.
Breeding, of course, is not limited to animals, plants are also being promoted, such as rye promoted in the bitter cold areas of the north, such as new wheat seeds, Sinong Temple is even cultivating forage that is more suitable for the climate and environment of Henan. In short, the project is quite good
Many.
"Do it well." Shao Shude encouraged: "You can cultivate the seeds and livestock yourself. If there are results, what is the meaning of the title?"
Everyone was happy when they heard this and said one after another: "Your Majesty should be a saint. Master Zhao in the village told everyone that since ancient times, he has never seen a king so dedicated to farming, cultivating good livestock, good wheat seeds, and trying every means to get wheat from the Western Regions.
It’s really heartbreaking to have new crops. Everyone thinks so.”
"Oh?" Shao Shude asked with interest, "Does everyone think so?"
"Of course. Master Zhao is very knowledgeable and is admired by people from all over the country. Even people from Zhongmu, Xingyang, and Yuanwu counties came to study. When the Ya'er Army chased the nest thieves to Zhengzhou and plundered everywhere, Master Zhao was so scared that he lost his legs.
Trembling, he still angrily rebuked the Jin soldiers, and the Jin general Li Siyuan retreated in shame. His reputation is very important, so everyone believes it."
"Reward Master Zhao with a hundred coins." Shao Shude said on the spot: "Wait a minute, don't give him this money directly."
Shao Shude thought for a while and said: "Those officials who were exiled, their wives and daughters were taken away to Yeting, their property was confiscated and sold, and the money they got was used to build a college for Mrs. Zhao, and I personally gave it a plaque."
After that, he asked someone to bring a pen and paper, and after concentrating his energy, he wrote down the twelve characters of "The courage of a benevolent person makes him a gentleman of Confucianism".
His handwriting is indeed somewhat popular, and there are too many talented women around him, so there is nothing he can do about it.
"Zhengzhou, I know it." Shao Shude put down his brush and said.
