The spring breeze turns into rain, and the vegetation is lush.
In the village of Wen County, Mengzhou, Shao Shude was walking in the green fields wearing a raincoat and straw sandals.
The overwintering wheat is growing well, and it will be almost ready to be harvested in another three months.
Last year, Heyang harvested 400,000 grains and beans, which was a bit regretful. Because the immigration was too hasty to open up wasteland, officials, farm tools, cattle and other materials were also very scarce, and the agricultural production potential was not fully utilized.
After a year of transportation, the quantity of the above-mentioned materials has increased significantly, which has greatly alleviated the problem. Sorry, it has not been alleviated at all. In fact, the shortage has become more serious because the population of Heyang has increased significantly.
Shao Shude was not willing to launch a large-scale war in Heyang last year, and led his people to Huainan, suffering the people of Guanzhong, Jinshang, Xiangyang, Tang and Dengsui towns, and captured the four prefectures of Shen, Guang, Shou, and An in one fell swoop.
Apart from being recruited by Gao Renhou to attack Guanghe, Banzhu and Zhongli City, the people of Heyang never experienced other wars. They were able to reclaim wasteland and repair ditches with peace of mind, and their agricultural vitality was restored. In autumn, the area sown with wheat in winter increased.
A huge increase. Song Le predicts that we should be able to harvest 300,000 to 400,000 grains and beans this summer. By the end of last year, the wave of people who arrived at the beginning of this year will be ready, and spring sowing will be carried out on a large scale. By autumn, we should be able to harvest a few more grains.
One hundred thousand dendrobium, the total annual output exceeds 800,000.
Of course, Heyang is still in tax-free status. The most important role of these 800,000 grains and beans is to feed the locals. In fact, it is not enough. A large amount of grain needs to be transferred from the outside world to provide work relief. While feeding the people,
Continue dredging the river channel.
For more than a year, Heyang has basically made a net investment, and has not seen any economic returns. According to Song Le's prediction, it will not be able to balance the balance of payments this year, and it will have to continue to provide assistance for another year next year (the fourth year of Qianning).
, by the autumn harvest, we may be able to be barely self-sufficient.
"In the fifth year of Qianning (898), it is almost time to collect taxes." Shao Shude walked on the field ridge with one foot high and one foot low, and said with a smile: "People say that raising children is not easy. It is difficult to build a piece of land from scratch.
It’s very difficult.”
Heyang Erzhou may be the first large-scale and high-intensity resettlement and development behavior by the Shuofang Military and Political Group.
Although Longyou and Hexi Towns have been immigrating, they are mostly carried out through the deportation of prisoners, voluntary recruitment by households, the dispatch of captives, and the transportation of small-scale refugees. The time span is relatively long, and the number of people at one time is not large.
It’s a matter of adding up a little and making a lot.
Meng and Huaizhou have done more. In less than two years, the local population has grown from tens of thousands to more than 200,000, to close to 300,000. The growth rate is very alarming. The battle of Heqing captured the
The enemy's grain and grass have been exhausted, the grain and grass transported in the river have been exhausted, the grain and grass supported by Shaanxi Town have been exhausted, and Guanbei Lingxia is still being transported repeatedly at high intensity. The resources invested are amazing, far exceeding the war consumption.
This is still the consumption of food. The demand for officials and miscellaneous tasks is extremely huge, and cadre resources have also been invested in large quantities. In addition, in Xiuwu County, Marshal Shao’s wife’s industry has invested heavily in it, and the military industry system has also transferred manpower.
The capital of Huaizhou was newly built, and the captured Liang and Huai prisoners were sent to Xiuwu County one after another. They were busy mining, making bricks, and logging wood.
This is a waste of money!
"Your Majesty, if you want this 'child' in Heyang to grow strong, you must allocate more grain, grass, farm tools, and livestock." Song Le seized every opportunity to ask for supplies, only to hear him say: "The current situation is still different from that in Guanbei.
The big gap between the three-field system is only in Jiyuan and Hanoi counties. Households raise a lot of sheep, but Xiuwu, Huojia, Wude, Wuzhi, Heyang and Wen counties are still far behind.
I mean, Your Majesty..."
Shao Shude almost slipped and fell.
In the Battle of Luoyang that ended before, thousands of horses were killed or disabled. They were all urgently transferred from the newly built pastures in Heyang, and not necessarily all of them were war horses. Qibizhang had already taken a detour to Gold Merchant, and he would soon do so.
A large number of war horses have been replenished. The six pastures of Yinchuan, Yongqing, Xishi, Xiedan, Heishui and Dongshi have been urgently allocated. At present, all the forage supply and fattening fields along the way are occupied by passing horses, and there is really not much that can be squeezed out.
It was given to passing sheep, and tens of thousands of them died.
"Your Majesty, we must do this no matter how difficult it is." Song Le said seriously: "How long will it take Li Keyong to take care of the war in Hebei? Your Majesty knows it well. Once the war is over, there will be no time to do anything else. What I planted today
Wheat and lambs will be able to provide assistance. Perhaps, sometimes victory or defeat is just a hair’s breadth away. Your Majesty, you don’t want to retreat when you run out of food when you besiege Jinyang, right?”
"What the gentleman said is true." Shao Shude nodded and said, "Then I can only suffer more..."
The people in Guanzhong are suffering endlessly! But there is nothing we can do. Who makes Guanzhong be in the middle zone connecting the Western Regions and the northern part of the Great Wall?
This year, there are also families of the Yumen Army who are moving to Heyang. We have been negotiating with the Suzhou Long family for a long time about this matter. The main reason is that the big soldiers are willing to work for Marshal Shao. Not many want to go back to Suzhou to eat sand, so Long will not
I had no choice but to hold my nose and agree. There were another 5,000 households, which was quite stressful.
After inspecting the spring plowing in Wen County, Shao Shude rushed to Xiuwu County to inspect the farmland and the local smelting and ironmaking workshops that were expanding their production scale. On the way, he received news: Xin'an County was close to surrender.
…
What is close to surrender? This is actually a very interesting thing.
In short, Hu Zhen's persuasion to surrender still had an effect. Although it failed to make the Liang people open the city, it did dampen their morale. The whole atmosphere was no longer the desperate struggle before, but became a bit sad and depressing.
In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of people leaving the city.
Duan Ning, the newly appointed Henan Prefecture Secretary who joined the army, gathered people outside the city. In just half a month, he gathered nearly a thousand people and took them all to Luoyang, where they were asked to clean up the ruins, organize materials, and build houses.
There were originally more than 4,000 defenders, but a thousand people were suddenly gone, and the remaining people had no intention of carrying it out.
On the first day of March, Hu Zhen went directly into the city and found Xu Huaiyu.
"Does Xu Erlang know why we started the uprising back then?" Hu Zhen asked calmly, sitting directly opposite Xu Huaiyu.
"Strive for wealth." Xu Huaiyu looked much older and sighed.
Well, the answer is correct!
Not all the peasant uprising troops can survive. At least Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao are rich and powerful, they have many people under their command, and their equipment is no worse than that of the official army. After they started, their core thugs also
Not farmers, but the dispersed Pang Xun rebels hiding in the rivers, lakes, mountains and forests.
This group of rebel soldiers were originally serious warriors. When Pang Xun went to Xuzhou to start an uprising, he focused on recruiting soldiers from the defeated Silver Sword City, and their combat effectiveness was greatly increased.
People like Hu Zhen and Xu Huaiyu were from very good families. They joined the rebel army just to gain wealth. They always thought that after their boss was recruited as a military governor, they would also have a good background.
"Being rich does not necessarily mean being noble." Hu Zhen nodded and said, "Wang Rende doesn't want to cause too many casualties this summer. How can Xin'an be defended like this? Once you die, Erlang, how long can the family's wealth be maintained? After Qi Fengguo's death,
, what kind of wealth can be passed down to the descendants?”
Hu Zhen's words are also on point. Zhu Quanzhong is somewhat lacking in taking care of his old brother. Moreover, Xu Huaiyu's family members are all in Xin'an City. If he really refuses to surrender, he will have to drag him with him.
The whole clan was ruined together, let alone wealth.
Some people may ask, why didn't Zhu Quanzhong detain the families of all the generals in Bianzhou? In fact, not only Zhu Quanzhong, but also most of the feudal towns were like this, and it couldn't be done.
Historically, when Ge Congzhou went out to control Yanzhou, he took his family with him. Zhu Zhen went on an expedition and brought his family to the army. Zhu Quanzhong was only suspicious, but he could not break the rules and stop him. Wang Yanzhang was ordered to station in Chanzhou to monitor Wei
Bo also brought his family over.
As the commander of a town, he can only focus on the big ones and let go of the small ones, and use hints to let the generals who control heavy troops or guard key positions leave their families for granted. But if they really want to take away their families, it is really not easy to stop them.
It's just that in this way, the relationship between the superiors and the subordinates will definitely be unharmonious. What to do depends on each person's choice.
Hu Zhen had no choice, and his family stayed in Bianzhou. Zhang Quanyi had a choice, and took away his wife, concubines, and children. At Xu Huaiyu's level, Zhu Quanzhong would not stop him.
"Hu Dalang, you are really..." Xu Huaiyu smiled bitterly.
Now that he has reached this point, what else can he do? King Xia knows how to employ people, so having Hu Zhen, a veteran in the Xuanwu Group, persuade him to surrender, which really worked.
"Why are you hesitant, Erlang?" Hu Zhen said with a smile: "The king of Xia promised you the position of a state and county. Wouldn't it be nice to hand over Xin'an and stop being a general? You can become an envoy and enjoy wealth and honor in peace."
"The king of Xia wants to confer on me the governorship of Hezhou?" Xu Huaiyu asked after a long silence.
"The King of Danzhou has just died of illness. Xu Erlang will go to Heyang to meet Queen Xia before he can take office." Hu Zhen said.
When Xu Huaiyu heard the word "Danzhou", he understood in his heart. This state is located in Hengshan, and there are many Dangxiang tribes under its jurisdiction, all of which are vassals of the Yeli clan. If you become the governor of that place, people are really not afraid of what you will do.
Just keep working for a few years and then move to another place.
In fact, there is nothing to transfer. It is estimated that he will be rotated between the positions of governors in various states. He will work here for a few years and there for a few more years until he is old and becomes official.
After working hard for most of my life, it seems that I am not losing money by changing to the position of governor. At least under Zhu Quanzhong, there has been no such good thing. However, my mood is still very complicated. When I get old and change my boss, everything accumulated before
It's all void and you have to start over from scratch.
But in these troubled times, not many warriors can get a good death, so this ending is actually not bad, isn't it?
"Come here!" Xu Huaiyu made up his mind and shouted.
"What's the envoy's order?" A general came forward and asked.
"Go find a sheep." Xu Huaiyu's voice was low, and he kept sighing as he spoke.
"As ordered." The general left quickly.
Hu Zhen twirled his beard and smiled. It was an ancient ritual to lead a sheep out with its flesh naked.
After being consulted by the palace to join the army, the King of Xia also rewarded two beauties. It was said that they were both the daughters of officials in Chang'an City who were implicated by the Ximen family. Such a generous treatment made him burst into tears of gratitude, and at the same time he was a little flustered.
Today I have finally made my first contribution, and there may be opportunities to continue to make contributions later. To persuade Liang Guan and General Liang to surrender, there is indeed no one more suitable and professional than him.