Having a soldier as an emperor is undoubtedly a good thing for the generals of the empire.

Having a person who can fight well and whose military exploits are rare in ancient and modern times to be the emperor is undoubtedly a blessing for the generals of the empire.

At least that's what Lejin thinks.

When he was marching and fighting, he was not too worried, and he did not think that his military merits could surpass His Majesty the Emperor and reach the point of high merit.

In many cases, you don't have to tie your hands and feet, and you don't have to worry about this and that when you fight, because the emperor is always full of confidence.

So Lejin thinks what Man Pet said makes sense.

"I have been following His Majesty for fifteen years, and I have seen with my own eyes that our army has grown from 10,000 to more than 50,000 now.

But since Your Majesty led our army to defeat Yuan Benchu, I feel that our army has no opponents, and everything after that is a chicken and a dog, a person who sells his head, as long as His Majesty leads me to wait for a charge, he can defeat all the enemy troops. ”

"The turmoil of the former Han Dynasty can be contained within 20 years and reunified, without causing a longer period of chaos, all depends on the current Majesty, if there is no Majesty today, we don't know where to do what we are doing, I am afraid that if we don't see peace, we will regret it for the rest of our lives."

Man Zhong sighed deeply: "I can't see peace, where can I have the power of leveling the world now?" ”

Lejin also deeply agrees with what Man Pet said.

Your Majesty today, the strong 360 degrees have no dead ends.

The two were silent for a while.

"By the way, I heard that Zhang Wenyuan fought a big victory in the south of Huiji County and annihilated more than 40,000 people in Shanyue, right?"

Lejin asked.

Full Pet nodded.

"At the beginning of April, Zhang Wenyuan annihilated a large group of Shanyue thieves in the south of Huiji County, close to Lingnan, counting, this should be the last large-scale Shanyue thief, Zhang Wenyuan has already appeared to His Majesty before, saying that the Shanyue thieves have been basically wiped out, and this last one is left."

"It's been four or five years since this battle."

Le Jin sighed a little: "This battle has been fought since the fall of Sun Wu, large and small battles have been fought for a long time, and the army has changed two or three times, but it is finally over, Zhang Wenyuan has been awarded the first-class marquis by relying on this group of mountain thieves, and the number of food has increased to 4,900 households."

is only less than Cao Zixiao's 6,300 households, and further up, if someone can be awarded the title of Duke by virtue of military merits in the future, that is, Cao Zixiao and Zhang Wenyuan, I will have to go to the back row, and I don't know if it is possible in this life. ”

Le Jin, who only has 2,700 households that have actually sealed the food estate, is still full of envy for Zhang Liao.

"And he deserves it."

Man Zhong couldn't help but sigh: "More than 600,000 Shanyue thieves, more than 600,000 before and after, more than 40,000 were beheaded by him, no less than 100,000 were burned to death, and the rest were all beaten out by him and incorporated into the households."

Now that several counties in Yangzhou are developing so well, His Majesty has to build the Grand Canal to strengthen his rule, otherwise he will worry about chaos in Yangzhou, how is this not Zhang Wenyuan's credit? ”

"Zhang Wenyuan is really a famous killing god in Jiangnan now."

Le Jin couldn't help laughing and said: "I heard that he set fire to the forest in Yangzhou, some of the fires stretched for hundreds of miles, and they were not completely extinguished for a month. ”

"Your Majesty didn't criticize Zhang Wenyuan, and also issued an edict to praise Zhang Wenyuan, saying that he happened to be the fastest way to deal with miasma, let him continue to do this, don't hesitate, anyway, it's a place where no one lives, just burn it."

Man Zhong smiled: "Didn't Your Majesty still let you also set fire to the forest to attack Nanzhong?" ”

"Yes, I didn't expect that setting fire to the forest could destroy the miasma and save the army from being attacked by the miasma, it is true, when I led the troops to fight the four counties of Jingnan, there was a big fever, and few people were really sick, most of them were well-behaved."

Le Jin was amazed by this: "Nanzhong can't run away, I have prepared a lot of oil, and when the time comes, I will directly burn it over, and burn him upside down, I don't believe that it will not only burn those barbarians!" ”

"Don't burn it too hard, you burn it too hard, won't I be the one who will be in trouble then? There's so much I have to do, so let me save some effort! ”

Full of pets with a wry smile on his face.

"What's the matter? Isn't everything that should be solved solved? In addition to building roads and grain, you can also send someone to keep an eye on the rest, so you don't need to do it yourself, right? ”

Lejin looked full of pets.

Full Pet sighed.

"It's not that simple, the land of Shuzhong has been isolated from the land of the Central Plains for a long time, I went around in Shu for a while, and found that the situation of the land in Shu is not simple, and it is quite tricky to deal with."

"What's the trick? Excessive annexation of land by wealthy and powerful households? ”

"No, who would dare to annex land now? Isn't that looking for your own death? ”

Man Pet shook his head: "It's that many farmers in Shuzhong lag behind in their farming skills and the Central Plains, and they don't know how to use manure to increase production, and there are even many who don't know how to drain water."

As a result, the soil is white, it is impossible to grow food, and the land is directly unusable, and there is really a lot of such land, and local officials report a lot of it, which gives me a headache. ”

"Oh, there's this thing."

Lejin nodded.

Earlier, during the period of Qingyan Erzhou, Guo Peng carried out a number of large-scale operations in Qingyan Erzhou.

Whether it is the control of locusts, the construction of water conservancy, the establishment of tuntian farms, or the construction of second-level political power in the villages, these are all major projects, and there is another one that has a great impact, and Lejin still has the impression that it is the action of cultivating land and draining the water.

At that time, there was not only a danger of flooding along the Yellow River, but also a lot of the kind of soil bleaching that Manzhong said.

After the construction of Tuntian Village, many grassroots officials reported to Guo Peng that every year there would be an additional batch of land in the local area that could no longer be used to grow grain, and the peasants had to give up the land.

It often takes years for some of this land to be replanted.

When Guo Peng sent someone to find out, he found that such a situation had existed for a long time.

Officials reported that the surface of the albino land would have a white layer of salt-like stuff, and when put into the mouth, it would taste salty and bitter.

This has been the case for a long time.

When local officials report, they will also quote the old farmer, saying that in such a situation, he can only leave it for a few years without planting, and some land will slowly return to its original state, but some will be difficult.

Even if there is a slight recovery, food production will be reduced.

Then Guo Peng directly led a team of officials directly into the village to conduct field research, realizing that this was the problem of land salinization, so he proposed some solutions.

Guo Peng convened a conference at the time, at which he suggested that the soil had become like this because they had built a water conservancy project and brought in water from various places to irrigate farmland.

This water flows on the ground, carrying something that is invisible to the naked eye as it flows, and when it is introduced into the farmland, the water is absorbed and these things are left behind.

As soon as the sun shines, the water is evaporated and used, and these things accumulate in the land.

As time grows, more and more accumulates, more and more, and this will happen, so that the soil will be whitened and the land will no longer be able to grow food.

Solutions are limited, such as collecting more rainwater when it rains and watering the land with clean rainwater.

When there is a lack of rainwater and water needs to be diverted for irrigation, it is necessary to take drainage measures and make full use of the cultivation methods such as the Daida method to fallow and give the land time to rest and self-recover.

Land that does not need to be cultivated requires a large area of deep soil, allowing clean rainwater to wash over the land, thus slowing down the salinization of the improved land.

In addition, Guo Peng also asked the local grassroots officials and the officials in charge of agriculture at the time to go to the grassroots villages to explain such problems to the farmers, so that they could pay more attention to prevent large-scale salinization of the land.

Local officials have also been assigned to be responsible for counting the number of acres of salinized land and comparing each year with the previous year in order to adjust agricultural policies.

After Guo Peng became emperor, such a thing fell on the officials of the Department of Agricultural Affairs of the Central Ministry of Civil Affairs in charge of agricultural affairs.

And the number of officials in this part is also the largest in the entire Ministry of Civil Affairs.

They need to often go from the central government to various places to conduct field research, write reports, and then tell local farmers about the latest technological developments, so as to teach them to farm more scientifically and efficiently.

It is also necessary to continue to be responsible for counting the number of acres of soil salinization in the whole world and carrying out macro control.

These people run all over the world, no less than the tax collectors.

Therefore, it has recently been rumored that Guo Peng intends to separate the Department of Agriculture from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and set up a separate Ministry of Agriculture to be responsible for the world's agriculture.

Now I know that such a situation has also appeared in Yizhou, and the situation is quite serious, so Lejin feels that it will not be long before the Ministry of Agriculture, which is responsible for the world's agricultural issues, will be established.

"Okay, you're so busy over there, I'll take more snacks on things here, you can prepare logistics with peace of mind, and when the things on your side are almost done, the road on my side can be repaired almost, and then the plan of the four counties in Nanzhong can be officially implemented, and then ......"

Le Jin narrowed his eyes: "The Yong clan in Nanzhong is not very stable, after Yonghong was named Yongchang Taishou, he is not satisfied, and he has to let the court make him the governor of Nanzhong, the governor of the military and political affairs of the four counties of Nanzhong, and he has to move inch by inch, I think, this person will not be so simple to stop and wait until we repair the road." ”

Full Pet nodded.

"This person has bad intentions, and has guided the Nanzhong barbarians to test the garrisons of our Yuewang County and Qiqi County several times, and General Zhang He and General Huang Zhong have repelled the temptations of the Nanzhong barbarians several times, but at the moment, it seems that this kind of temptation is just the beginning."

"What does Your Majesty think?"

Lejin asked full of pets.

"Your Majesty means that he wants to be tempted, even if the temptation is good, anyway, come and fight once, come and fight once, in short, his request, the governor of Nanzhong cannot give it to him easily, he can give it, but he must continue to negotiate.

Grinding little by little, delaying little by little, slowly giving in little by little, so that if he is stabilized, other parties will discuss and maneuver with him more, anyway, as long as he thinks that our army is strong, he will not dare to act rashly. ”

Man Zhong said: "Let's perfunctory him for a while, we will step up road construction and preparation for war, the number of Han soldiers and barbarians he can gather is definitely not a few, if you really want to fight, I'm afraid it's still a little difficult, let's be ready." ”

"If it's really going to fight, I'm not worried."

Le Jin shook his head and said: "Just those barbarians in the south, I will kill one if one comes, I will kill two when I come, it is better to come all of them, annihilate them directly, and I will look for them everywhere in the province."

If we really want to attack, we have to set fire all the way over, which is very troublesome...... By the way, has the fire oil I wanted? Without fierce fire oil, this dense forest with no end in sight is really not easy to burn. ”

"Every month, about 3,000 cans are sent to the Chengdu arsenal for safekeeping, and now there are almost 30,000 cans in stock, if you really want to fight, it should be enough."

Man Zhong smiled: "Do you also want to learn from Zhang Wenyuan, use fierce fire oil to open the way, and burn all the way?" ”

"How can I do it without burning? The miasma hurts people, and if it doesn't burn, I don't know how many people will die. ”

Le Jin smiled: "How convenient it is to burn all the way, and I feel that we really shouldn't go out at this time, it is rainy at this time, it is not convenient for me to wait for the burning of the forest, and when the autumn is crisp and winter, it is definitely more efficient." ”

Lejin is full of confidence, and has no doubts about whether he can successfully occupy the entire four counties of Nanzhong.