On the second day of the second month of February, the dragon raised its head.

On the banks of the Yushui River, the cold wind is still cold, and groups of thousands of displaced people live helplessly. Some people try to go down to the river every day to catch fish, and some want to pick some wild vegetables that have just sprouted in spring.

But because there are many people and few vegetables, a little wild vegetable sprout may break the head and cause a group of beatings to kill people.

Some of them are local wealthy families in Yangle County, who barely hid some seeds of Liang and wheat last year, but seeing the chaos in front of them, many people know that they may miss the agricultural time if they don't plant again, but they still hesitate to plant, and watch the mature farmland put on hold in vain.

What if someone digs up the seed that has just been sown? What if other homeless people with blood-red eyes find out that you actually have hidden seeds, and you want to divide the big household?

Everyone is so desperate, especially the thief who led the way last year, and occasionally when the sorrow comes, he still has a little strength, and he looks up to the sky and cries: "Zhang Ju Zhang Chun, who is killed, why is he blind and follows that group of jackals, it is better when the court is there." ”

More often than not, they refuse to cry and save a little physical strength.

Crying, easy [txt fo] hungry fast.

When Lu Su and Tian Chou were working in the barren fields on the west bank of Xiaoyushui and in the south of Yangle County, they first saw such a scene.

Lu Su was born in Donghai County, which is a warm and creamy place, and it is quite unbearable to see such a tragic situation for the first time.

He asked his subordinate officials to immediately start publicizing:

"Liu Fujun has opened a bailout, and those who are willing to farm and pay off their debts have come to listen. Liu Fujun allocated export grain from the military rations, one liter of millet per ding per day, and two liters after the autumn harvest. The court rented the cattle for farming, and the cattle were rented for forty percent of the harvest. Lack of tools and seeds is counted.

Those who are willing to land can occupy up to 100 acres of barren land, on a first-come, first-served basis, and take bamboo chips to occupy the field. The fields on both sides of the Yushui River are mainly ripe fields, and there will be a harvest that year, so don't miss it. ”

If it is a wasteland that no one has planted at all, of course, few people will agree to such conditions in Lusu, because basically nothing can be planted in the first year of reclamation.

However, the two sides of the large and small Chongqing rivers were originally ripe fields, but because of the war, the people fled, and the locals were also robbed of seeds and rations, which led to the desertion, and the geology itself is not bad.

The western Liaoning corridor is 400 miles long, and it is close to the quality of the hundreds of square kilometers of cultivated land along the large and small Chongqing waters, and the quality of the cultivated land is good, carefully measured and calculated, at least equivalent to one or two million mu in later generations, equivalent to seven or eight million mu in the Han Dynasty (one mu of Han Mu is less than 0.3 mu in modern times, and the Han Dynasty defaulted to the people occupying 100 mu of land per ding, which is equivalent to 27~28 mu in later generations)

Therefore, even if it is calculated according to the calculation of 100 acres of land occupied by each Zhengding, these lands are enough to house 80,000 people. If the fields on the other side and in the Great Chongqing River can be further developed, it will not be a problem for the upper and lower reaches of the Chongqing River to meet the needs of 200,000 or 300,000 strong men for cultivation.

Liu Bei originally brought 20,000 captives, plus 30,000 or 40,000 homeless people here, and the west bank of Xiaoyushui could be settled.

Listening to the shouts of Liu Beijun's officials, the hungry people's eyes instantly became angry.

No one thinks that there is any usury in "give you grain now, and repay it twice after the autumn harvest", but think that the interest is very reasonable.

Liu Beijun used the sand boats of the Mijia caravan to transport the grain from the sea, didn't it cost him? Don't you want to make money?

This is life-saving food, and it should be repaid twice after the autumn harvest. At the same time, other landlords took advantage of the danger of others, and they were much more vicious.

"I'm willing to Tuntian! The prince of the mansion is benevolent and righteous, and he stutters! As long as you can barely survive! ”

"Take your time! Don't mess around! All lined up! The field realm has been redivided, and when the time comes, cultivate in order and don't cross the boundary! The five households in the same row are one guarantee, and each guarantee elects one household as the chief of the guarantee, who is responsible for managing the cultivated cattle rented by the government and the unified cultivation of the fields of the five households! ”

In order to prevent chaotic management and forcible seizure, when granting land to these displaced people, not only were they given bamboo chips with information on the location of their fields, but they even had to tattoo characters on the back of their arms and brand them with official seals.

Fortunately, it was stabbed in the arm, not to insult people, but to confirm the property rights to prevent the "title deed" from being snatched by others and causing chaos. And these people were waiting to starve to death, and they were also very cooperative, anyway, they covered their arms with clothes on, which was nothing more than a pain at first.

People who are about to starve to death, who cares if the stabbing hurts or not.

The method of tattooing was thought up by Lu Su and Tian Chou, and it is also to confirm the power and responsibility, for the good of everyone. If they don't tattoo the characters, depending on the public security situation of these displaced people, no one knows anyone, maybe many people will be killed before the autumn harvest and take away the "land deed", and the tattoo on their bodies will ensure their personal safety and will not be killed and robbed of treasures.

After Li Su heard about it, he didn't object, but out of unbearability, he taught Lu Su the ten numbers of the poisonous country, and asked him to transfer it to the little official who stabbed the characters.

When they are allowed to number and tattoo characters, they can have fewer strokes to pierce, so that the small officials can work easily and work several times faster, and the hungry people will suffer less flesh and skin.

The so-called body poison is India. Therefore, the number of body poison is the Arabic numeral, which was already invented in India during the Three Kingdoms era. Li Su's move was not a show, it was purely out of benevolence. Even if it spreads, it also simplifies the convenience of bookkeeping across the country, and it should be regarded as a worldwide neutral BUFF, and the merit is immeasurable invisibly.

Under the conscientious work of Lu Su and Tian Chou, in the first few days of February, tens of thousands of migrant workers were finally arranged to settle the tuntian, and hundreds of petty officials were tired into dogs, each of them had to go through the formalities for hundreds of households, distribute rations and seeds, make accounts, and distribute cattle for rent.

But fortunately, there was not much delay in farming. After the harvest is obtained, these people can feed back, and they will no longer drag down Liu Beijun's military rations.

In order to take into account the speed of harvesting, Tian Chou recommends not planting all staple grains, but a variety of cooked vegetables that can be harvested quickly and are easy to barely eat.

In terms of the selection of staple food varieties, Lu Su overrode public opinion and suggested that the best plots along the river should be planted with rice - Lu Su also personally went to the front line to investigate, and found that the spring irrigation conditions along the large and small Chongqing rivers are very good, and the amount of water is sufficient, so rice with a higher yield than wheat can be planted.

In fact, the Northeast region is indeed one of the main rice producing areas in later generations, and Henan and Hebei are the main wheat producing areas.

This is because once the Northeast Water Conservancy is built, it is actually very suitable for growing high-yield rice in the long growth period. It's just that the water conservancy in the late Han Dynasty was not good, so it could only grow rice along the riverside plots along the bank of the Xiaoyushui River and no more than one or two miles in depth, and the weir mouth had to be specially treated.

Lu Su's suggestion was not dared to respond at first, because the rest of Liu Bei's camp were all northerners and had never planted rice.

In the end, Li Su knew a little bit of history, carefully interrogated Lu Su, and confirmed to Lu Su whether he really knew a lot about rice farming in Donghai County when he was in Donghai County, and after getting Lu Su's affirmative answer, Li Su supported Lu Su's point of view.

With Li Su's affirmation, Liu Bei, who had already trusted Li Su unconditionally, saved Lu Su's decision.

Tian Chou also hurriedly did a good job of supporting work, and also assigned hundreds of small officials to concentrate on studying the "Four People's Moon Order", so as not to delay things because the northern farmers would not plant rice.

Everyone was busy.

Even Li Su, a person who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, once again personally inspected and persuaded farmers to understand the situation in this busy season of spring ploughing, and he was so busy that he could not finish his hair and did not grow hair.

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On the east bank of the Great Chongqing River, in the city of Changli.

King Wuhuan and his advisor Yan Rou are really a little incomprehensible these days.

Since the end of January, when Liu Bei's army advanced to the west bank of Xiaoyushui and set up camp, they thought that Liu Bei was about to launch an attack on Tuhe and Changli.

Liu Bei traveled through four hundred miles of no-man's land to crusade! How is it possible to fight a protracted war! Even if Liu Bei has money and food, it won't be in vain if he can't transport it to the front line!

No one understands better than the Wuhuan natives how terrible the drag on logistics is from the 400-mile no-man's land!

Therefore, although the rebels are also short of food, they believe that Liu Bei is the side that is even more short of food! etc., it's more beneficial for the rebels!

As long as Liu Bei crosses the river, even if Liu Bei's soldiers are more elite, they will be punished by the half-crossing attack, and they will also be threatened by the attack of Tuhe City and Changli City!

Liu Bei dares to attack the whole army in Tuhe City, and the main force of Changli's Difficult King will stab Liu Bei's chrysanthemum in a roundabout way!

It's a pity that all this was well thought out, but it didn't come true.

Liu Bei's news blockade was done very well, and the scouts sent by the King of Nanqiao to inquire about the military situation were often shot dead by Zhao Yun, who was also patrolling the scouts.

If the kind of scout with a squad of only a few dozen people unfortunately bumps into Zhao Yun, he will often be completely wiped out! Not a single living mouth can come back!

Such an asymmetrical intelligence environment caused King Nanqiao and Yan Rou to not know that Liu Bei had hoarded a large amount of military rations by sea in the water village at the mouth of the Xiaoyushui River until the end of February.

Many of the Mi Zhu family's fleets chose to enter the port in the evening to unload their cargo and return before dawn, and they didn't know how many ships were coming, and occasionally a few ships were discovered.

As for the tuntian on the west bank of Xiaoyushui, it is more difficult to keep it secret, but because when the planting was first organized in February, the seedlings had not yet germinated, even if they saw a large number of people active, the Wuhuan people thought that the Han army was building fortifications or doing some other useless work.

Who let the displaced people only flow from Liaodong to Liaoxi, but none of them returned? Liu Bei was so merciful to the hungry people, but everyone who came stayed and refused to leave, even if there was a person who felt that Liu Bei was living more bitterly than under the rule of the Wuhuan people, and after knowing the situation here, he rebelled back to the Wuhuan people for the second time, and the Wuhuan people could get the information faster.

It can only be said that it is a pity, there are not a single such hungry people.

The king waited until March, when the originally abandoned fields on the south bank had grown half-foot-tall seedlings, before he could react - it turned out that the Han army was in Tuntian!

"What? The Han army actually contained all those hungry people? Also organize them to tuntian? How is it possible, Liu Bei has to pass through four hundred miles of no-man's land to supply food to the front line, even if there are sea ships, the loss of his grain transportation will be so small? Can you afford to fight us like this for a long time? ”

After the king knew the truth, he was directly confused.

"I planned to wait for Liu Bei to be dragged down by the loss of grain transportation in the no-man's land", but he lost a good opportunity to attack first while Liu Bei's foothold was not stable.

"King, why don't you organize cavalry in a few days, cross the river to attack, and trample and destroy the tuntian of the Han army?" Yan Rou took the initiative to make suggestions.

The king paced back and forth: "What's the use of destroying the fields? The Han army was able to tuntian, which means that Liu Bei's grain can last at least until August! Even if the tuntian was destroyed, it would only destroy the enemy's only food supply in August. But our own food may not last for August!

At least we have to wait for the end of the busy spring ploughing, and then take these tuntian fields over in the summer and protect them until the autumn harvest. The Han army is too despicable, last year's harvest of green and yellow wheat, harming the wheat farmers in Liaoxi almost wiped out, is this lesson still small? ”

The two were discussing, and another scout came to report: "Report! Returning to the king, Guan Yu, the captain of Liaodong of the Han army, led thousands of men and horses, crossed the Xiaoyu River at dawn today, camped on the east bank of the river, and also put up a position, as if to maneuver along the river to prevent our army from crossing the river and destroying the Han army's tuntian. ”

King Nanqiao's expression instantly became very unbelievable: "Guan Yu actually dares to take the initiative to cross the river and stop us from crossing the river?" Haha, how many people can Guan Yu have? ”

Scout: "About three or five thousand." ”

The King of Nanqiao smiled suppressively: "Good come! ”

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