In the thirty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang, late May.

Xiao He, the county guard of Nanjun, stood at the dock of Yingxian County, watching the last batch of grain and people board the boat and leave.

As those sail shadows went east along Yangshui, the elder brother of Marquis Wu Zhong, the "Tuntian Duwei" with a dignified face, breathed a sigh of relief, saluted solemnly to Xiao He, and said from the bottom of his heart:

"I don't have any other skills except farming, I can get together the hundreds of thousands of stone grain I want on the front line, but if it weren't for the proper coordination of Xiao County's guards, Nanjun, which is already mostly young and strong, will definitely not be able to gather 50,000 people to go north within a month......"

Xiao He hurriedly returned the salute: "He just did his best." ”

"Don't be humble in Xiao Junshou."

Wei Zhen showed a sincere smile: "My brother wrote a letter back, repeatedly instructing me to follow Xiao Junshou's plan. ”

"He also said, town the country, care for the people, give gifts, and keep the grain, I am not as good as Xiao He!"

"Marquis Wu Zhong's opinion of me is so high?"

Xiao He was a little stunned, generally speaking, the overall work in the rear is thankless, the army attaches great importance to military merits, those who have worked hard, experienced the war, and beheaded people are often praised, and the scribes are considered to be "talking about literature and ink in vain", and the soldiers do not think that he has merit.

"But after all, it's Marquis Wu Zhong."

Xiao He said: "In this world, the most important thing is the general who attaches great importance to the accumulation of grain and grass, so I can understand my merits, Xiao He has not dreamed of sleeping at night in vain these days......"

It turned out that in view of the situation that after a year of hard fighting, the people of Nanjun were tired, their enthusiasm for war declined, and they did not want to go to the front line to serve and transport grain, Xiao He took several measures.

The first measure is the old rule of the Qin State: in this battle of entering the customs, all those who serve in the southern county will be given each level of the people. Although there is no ripe land to divide in Nanjun, the people have long stopped eating the land allocated to the frontier, so Xiao He changed to allow him to open up 100 acres of land in the mountains and forests near Lilu, and it is not included in the tax field.

Xiao He couldn't be the master of such a big matter, but Heifu agreed to this method: "One hundred acres of rent-free land more than other counties should be regarded as a benefit to the elders of Nanjun......"

The Qian's leaders are reluctant to serve because they lose money in distant service, so give them a little benefit.

The second measure is to reasonably allocate tasks according to the actual situation of each family, and according to the provisions of the "Military Law", cohabitation should not be parallel, and two men in a family should not go to service, but should be reasonably distributed according to the list of conscripts. Officials below 100 stone also took the lead in taking turns, and the problem of fairness was alleviated to a certain extent.

Third, in response to the fact that the service members are worried about the delay in their family production, the Lizhong organization helps each other, and mobilizes all the field slaves and concubines in the township to help the families who go to the front line to serve in the front line to do some work.

Fourth, it is first of all to improve the living conditions of the service, Xiao He asked that from this month, each pavilion in Nanjun should set up 10-15 large pottery pots, hoard firewood, and distribute a part of the grain from the county warehouse to serve as a meal and drink for the people, and each pavilion should also strive to have a barefoot doctor set up in Changsha County during the Southern Expedition to take care of the sick.

Although those barefoot doctors who don't know much about medicine can't cure serious illnesses at all, at least hot hot food and a person with the name of "healer" can give the servant a great comfort in his heart, believing that he is not going to the front to fill the ravine.

In this way, the corrupt officials who arbitrarily apportioned the service quota have been killed before, and the lives and interests of the service members are guaranteed, what is the difference?

Xiao He felt that it was enough, but Heifu on the front line sent a team of people back, consisting of Jiayou, Zhuyou, and dwarfs......

"There's still a lot of propaganda work left." This is the original words of Marquis Wu Zhong.

This is Heifu's supplement to Xiao He's measures: propaganda and mobilization in the name of "protecting the job bowl and defending the fruits of the turnover".

A group of outstanding officials who have completed the "study to strengthen the army" set out from various counties and went to the townships to explain this truth to the illiterate villagers......

"The urgent demand of the people is peace, but if you fight the snake and don't die, you will leave it behind, completely overthrow Hu Hai, and let the Marquis of Wuzhong dominate the world, so that we can enjoy peace."

"Aren't most of the soldiers on the front line from Nanjun? If everyone doesn't want to send food, then the hungry ones will be their own children! ”

Even, Heifu also found a few "homes" in Nanyang Wancheng, as well as the nobles' advocacy.

Heifu provided ideas, got the script lines at home, advocated excellent acting, and finally drummed up a model play, which was called "The Northern Expedition Can Enjoy Peace".

The plot is nothing more than that: a certain Nanjun Qianshou Zhong family was oppressed by the imperial court's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and at this time, Hu Hai and Zhao Gao plotted to kill and usurp the throne, and became more and more perverse, and wanted to arrest all the Nanjun people to be prisoners.

Marquis Wuzhong received the edict of the first emperor, raised troops to fight the Northern Expedition, rescued the people, reduced rent and burned coupons, and began to recruit soldiers and servants. Qian Shouzhong resolutely joined the Northern Expeditionary Army and went north with Marquis Wuzhong to beg for thieves......

But such a vulgar story that purely serves politics, the chaotic stage and the embarrassing acting skills, when it was performed in Gangneung City, the people were stunned and relished.

"If Marquis Wuzhong can't overthrow the puppet emperor, then the beast returns to Nanjun, and my family will also suffer, Brother Kun, brothers and brothers, the Northern Expedition can enjoy peace!"

When the advocate who pretended to be his mother there said this in a Nanjun dialect, the whole Gangneung was boiling like thunder, and the audience was moved and applauded......

A song adapted from the "Military Song of the Northern Expeditionary Army" drummed by Heifu, and a song that can do anything also sounded in Gangneung City:

"Tax reduction, tax reduction, go to the front, go to the front!"

"It is difficult for the Northern Expedition to succeed, it is difficult for the Northern Expedition to succeed, enjoy peace, enjoy peace!"

For a time, the citizens of Gangneung City enthusiastically signed up and competed to be servants.

This effect was something that the officials of Nanjun County had never expected, and even Xiao He, who was praised by Heifu as "I am not as good", was stunned, and said secretly:

"Marquis Wuzhong is really comparable to the ancient sages, he can think of us never thought of it, he also knows Nanjun enough, knows the preferences of the people in his hometown, "Yangchun" and "White Snow" can't impress their peers, what he loves is this kind of "Xiali" and "Ba Ren" plays."

"He said that he is not as good as me in the town and the country, and in caring for the people, he is really humble."

In this way, through the efforts of Heifu and Xiao He, at the end of May, the conscription work in Nanjun was finally successfully completed, and a total of 50,000 people from each county went north, accounting for almost one-seventh of the remaining males in Nanjun......

100,000 sons and 100,000 soldiers, in order to win this war, the people of Nanjun have paid too much.

Looking at the servants who were carrying food, clothing, and grass mats, or on foot, or by boat to the north, Xiao He arched his hands and waved at them:

"I hope Marquis Wu Zhong can succeed in one battle."

"I hope that the two and three sons who went north today can be returned!"

……

In the thirty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang, at the end of May.

Although it is far away from Wudang Mountain, the head of the southern county of Qian, who served in the north, will still dream of that huge roar.

He never forgot that when he passed through Wudang Mountain, he heard a loud noise from afar, like thunder, and raised his head, but the sky was clear......

"What the hell."

At that time, the servants were terrified, thinking that it was a fierce beast lurking in the mountains, but since then, it has not sounded again.

It's just that the loud reverberating thunder will reappear in the shrike dreams from time to time.

Shaking his head, Shrike stood up, they were the first batch of servants who went north, although Xiao He County Shou and Marquis Wu Zhong improved the treatment of servants, but now tens of thousands of people are gathered in Danyang, and the sleeping place is still just a seat of hay, and it is not only people who rest on it.

Syllable! The shrike killed a fat flea that was still resting on its neck, leaving a pool of blood in his palm.

"Dare to suck Naigong's blood."

After scolding, he walked out of the makeshift shack, and although it was only early in the morning, it was already a little hot. Looking around, I saw that Jindu in Danshui County (Siwan Township, Xichuan County, Henan) was already full of grain ships from Nanjun, and they were constantly unloading the grain on it.

The boat is equipped with a paddle wheel, and with the oars and oars, you can use your hands and feet at the same time, so it is easier to sail against the current.

Generally, grain is loaded in Jiangling, along the Yangshui into the Han River, and then up the river to Xiangyang. Xiangyang is the center of the Northern Expeditionary Army's transportation, there are two Jin, back and forth boats, anchored on the shore, thousands of sails gathered, 10,000 people gathered, and the food, soldiers, and materials were continuously transported to the garrison of each tributary of the Han River.

Most of the ships will continue northwest to Xiangyang and enter Danshui to arrive here.

Waterways are the most convenient and fast way to pass in this era, and the real campaign strategic-level transportation is to transport materials from all over the place to the material stations of the campaign through waterways, and then transfer them to the front line by manpower.

Although Danshui County is further upstream, it can also be navigated in the season of abundant water, and if you are lucky, if you have a slender man pulling a boat, you can even drive the boat to the place of business in one go. However, there are also many dangerous shoals, the valley bottom is narrow in some places, the mountains are sandwiched, and the rushing current is boiling, and the northern army has even more to obstruct the southern army from entering the Wuguan, and has scuttled large ships in many places, resulting in the severance of the waterway.

Therefore, the Northern Expeditionary Army stored the grain of Nanjun in Danshui County, and the servants naturally gathered here, and from this point on, they had to rely on manpower to send the grain outside Wuguan and to the rice bowls of the front-line soldiers......

The folk husbands of Danyang are in charge of Xiao Tao, the lieutenant of Nanjun, and the people are divided into different rates, hundreds, tiths, and troops according to their origins, and the small officials who brought them have turned into hundreds of chiefs and even chiefs, and they took the people to the shore warehouse to wait for the assignment of tasks.

Today is the last day of May, and it is said that the front line has been gathered, and the Northern Expeditionary Army needs to continuously transport grain to Danyang.

But looking left and right, the shrike found that there were no cattle and horses assigned to them, and it seemed that this time it was not the work of driving the cattle and horses and carts, but the work of pulling the carts with more effort......

After all, cows, horses, donkeys and mules were limited, and more often than not, the servants had to carry heavy burdens, or two people pulled a heavy "chariot" with many grain bags piled on it, and trekked through mountains and rivers at the speed of a turtle, and when they reached the place, their hands were almost wasted.

"I've got to take a shoulder hit."

Shrike smiled wryly and touched the cocoon marks on his shoulders, which had been left by years of hard work. He heard that it was a trek of hundreds of miles, and the roads along the way were difficult, and he had to rest for two nights to get to the front line.

However, what Shrike did not expect was that the warehouse official assigned a strange car to everyone.

The car is wooden, but unlike the rickshaw "chariot" that is usually pulled by two people, this wooden car is more compact, with double handlebars in the front and rear, which can be pulled forward and pushed back, and the most unique thing is that the car only lands on a single wheel......

This...... Can a wheel be pulled steadily? Shrike was a little stunned, and couldn't help asking:

"What kind of car is this, and why is it so weird?"

The warehouse clerk in charge of distributing the wheelbarrow showed a hint of disgust, and said impatiently:

"This is made by the Mo, Marquis Wu Zhong said, it is called 'Wooden Ox Flowing Horse'!"

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PS: Boarding the plane for the honeymoon went, three is even more impossible, just enough to barely maintain the appearance of constant change, good night.

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