Faced with Cao Song, who was all about cultivating good fortunes and prolonging his life, Cao Cao also had to press the idea of attacking Xuzhou in the east first, and began to concentrate on internal affairs.

After all, spring is coming.

Spring ploughing, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the 21st century, is the most important thing in China.

If the spring ploughing is mistaken, the whole country will be ready to go hungry.

The food problem is bigger than heaven!

This is why the ancient times paid so much attention to the repair of the calendar, from the court to the peasants were based on the calendar to carry out spring plowing and autumn harvest, if the calendar is not accurate, it will kill many people.

This year's spring ploughing is also the first spring ploughing in Jizhou and Yanzhou after clearing the land and dividing the land, both Cao Cao and Ma Qiang attach great importance to it.

Cao Cao asked Cao Ang and Xun Yu to sit in Juancheng, and he took Zaoyi to Dong'e.

In the first year, Cao Cao didn't think that the eight counties of Yanzhou could do a good job, he just needed to ensure that the three counties of Dongjun and Chenliu and Jibei could do a good job.

Here I want to re-talk about the county guards of the eight counties in Yanzhou.

Dongjun Xiahoudun naturally supports Cao Cao, Chen Liu, Zhang Miao, and Jibei Baoxin are Cao Cao's hardcore friends, trustworthy, and also regarded by Cao Cao as his basic plate.

And the Shanyang county guard was originally Yuan Yi, has died at the hands of Yuan Shu, and now the county guard is Mao Hui, Mao Hui was originally Liu Dai's subordinate, after Liu Dai's death, he followed Bao Xin and others to take refuge in Cao Cao, Cao Cao is also regarded as a peach to repay Li Li's heavy responsibility, Mao Hui is also grateful to Dade, Cao Cao's military and political orders are honestly implemented, and there is no sign of disloyalty for the time being.

Cao Cao's suspicion is not needed, and the employment of people is not suspicious, not to say, throughout his life, he has indeed achieved bold appointment in employing people.

Among the remaining four counties, Taishan Yingshao has been in panic every day since Cao Song was intercepted and killed, it is said that the family has been sent away, ready to run away at any time, Jiyin County Taishou Wu Zi, Ren Chengguo Minister Deng Sui, Dongping Taishou Xu Xi and Cao Cao did not have much friendship, especially Xu Xi, who had Liu Dai left behind in his hand, and had a grudge against Qingzhou, and was extremely dissatisfied with Cao Cao's friendship with Qingzhou.

In short, compared with Ma Qiang's authority in the two states of Qinghai and Hebei, Cao Cao, who is still Cao Envoy, is not too authoritative.

Dongjun was divided into north and south by the Yellow River, Cao Cao understood that once he and Ma Qiang fought in the future, Hebei's Dongwuyang, Liaocheng and other places would definitely not be able to hold, and only Dong'e in Henan was the base that he could really rely on, so Cao Cao's Tuntian this year paid the most attention to Dong'e.

He also appointed Zao Yi as the Governor of Tuntian and Dong Ah Ling, with full responsibility for Tuntian affairs.

- Dong'a

Dong'e is located in the Luxi Plain, on the shore of the Yellow River, with abundant water resources to use, and the land is mostly a plain formed by the flooding of the Yellow River, which is very suitable for agricultural farming.

Here, nearly 100 tuntian villages have been set up, each village has hundreds of people, and many displaced people who fled from Guanzhong and Yuzhou to Yanzhou have gathered here for tuntian. bar

Originally, Qingtian would be a troublesome thing even if the local clan acquiesced, but the head of the Dong'a Shi clan was Cheng Yu, and with his full support, Dong'e's land clearing work was carried out faster than Ma Qiang's in Jizhou.

"Ming Gong, you see, this Tuntian can not only collect grain, but also collect troops, we follow the practice of Qingzhou, each Tuntian village has a village head, a village accountant, a village guard captain, and a number of deputies.

Among them, the village accountant is responsible for counting, supervising, and handing over the taxes of the tuntian, and the captain of the armed guard is responsible for gathering the villagers for military training during the slack time, and the village chief is naturally fully responsible for all work.

And many of these captains are disabled soldiers who have retired from our army, both loyalty and actual combat experience, so these villagers usually farm, once necessary, they can pick up ordnance at any time and become sergeants, these hundreds of villages, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers! Zao Yi and Cao Cao walked into a village together, and Zao Yi asked the village chief to take out the roster and hand it to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao flipped through it, checked the improvised ordnance placed in the village arsenal, and then asked, "In that case, then Ma Qiang should have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands." ”

Zao Yi nodded and said, "Qingzhou and Jizhou now have no less than seven million, once the division of the fields in the north of Mazhen is completed, at least seventy or eighty percent of the people can be mobilized, and the expansion of the army is 200,000 or 400,000, only in his thoughts."

And Ma Zhenbei has been operating Qingzhou for several years, as early as when he was in Youzhou, he popularized education in the Red Star Camp, so that he has a very large team of students in his hands, which Mr. Xun feels the deepest, taking Pingyuan County as an example, where the children, as long as they are in good health, a little smarter can read and write, they are all reading Qingzhou official school, and the North Pole of Ma Zhen is respected in the language.

After these students complete their studies, they can participate in the imperial examination, and as long as they pass the examination, they can also serve as village chiefs and accountants in the village at the very least, so that Ma Qiang has a firm grip on the grassroots villages in various places. ”

"If it's a tuntian village like ours, will other villages be willing to let outsiders preside over village affairs?" Cao Cao couldn't help but wonder.

Village affairs are not only farming or mediating conflicts between households in the village, but also a lot of ritual work, such as the crown ceremony is one of them, how can such a thing be allowed to be done by foreign surnames in various ethnic groups.

Zao Yi looked at Xun Yan, Xun Yan shook his head and said, "Although I don't dare to agree with some of Ma Zhenbei's practices, I have to admire his daring to think and dare to do."

Ma Qiang's land division is to disrupt and resettle all ethnic groups, and the major ethnic groups in Jizhou are now busy dividing their families, even if the main family does not want to divide their families, those partial houses and branches also want to leave, after all, the temptation of fifty acres of land for one person is too great. ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart, he didn't dare to do that with Ma Qiang, unless he was ready to overturn all of Yanzhou and start over.

It was also Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan who helped Ma Qiang, and the Jizhou melee for a year removed too many obstacles for Ma Qiang to govern Jizhou.

Cao Cao couldn't help but wonder if Yuan Shao didn't forcibly relocate those big people, would Ma Qiang's development be slower.

"Ming Gong! Look, they're plowing the fields with ploughshares! ”

Cao Cao looked at the farmland not far away, where several farmers were pulling ploughshares to plough the fields.

No way, there are too few livestock.

"The order is that from today onwards, it is forbidden to kill cattle, horses, donkeys and other livestock, even if it is injured or sick, it must be reported to the official and the official will conduct identification and registration before it can be slaughtered!"

Cao Cao was also a bastard back then, so he naturally knew which heroes dared to drive their livestock to the cliff for the sake of delicious food.