Chapter 30: Potatoes

"Captain Chen Cheng asks to see you."

When Guan Jing heard the soldier's briefing, he was a little disappointed in his heart. This Chen Wenzheng seems to be okay to fight, but his temperament is not stable enough, and he still needs to be honed. He walked to the door, with a smile on his face, and said, "Oh, Wen Zheng is in such a hurry, is there anything important?" ”

Chen Cheng first saluted, and then said, "I remembered something just now, so I came over to ask Guan Changshi." A certain has some experience in treating wounded soldiers, and is ready to set up a sanatorium in the city to receive and treat the wounded. ”

"Hmm," Guan Jing was stunned for a moment, twisted his beard and said, "I have also heard that Wen Zheng is good at healing patients, since you have a heart, then I should speak to the lord." Rest here for a while, and I'll come as soon as I go. ”

He said to the soldiers outside the door: "Come on, prepare some food for Captain Chen." ”

Chen Cheng hurriedly said: "I've already eaten it, so I won't trouble the long history." ”

Guan Jing rushed to Gongsun Zhan's residence and explained the matter. Gongsun Zhan was already preparing to withdraw the army, and was feeling a headache for the thousands of wounded and sick in the army, and when he heard that someone was willing to take over, his heart suddenly felt a lot easier, but when he heard that it was Chen Cheng, he still snorted and said, "Invite people to buy people's hearts!" ”

Guan Jing asked, "What does the lord mean?" ”

An unconscious sneer appeared on Gongsun Zhan's face, and he said, "Give it to him!" Lang Zhonghe medicine in the army can also be left to him, but the grain and grass let him figure it out by himself, and there are not many in the army! ”

Guan Jing frowned and said, "Don't give it at all, okay?" ”

"Hmph," Gongsun Chan sneered, "I'm going to give it to you!" ”

When Guan Jing returned to his residence, his face was full of smiles again, and he said to Chen Cheng: "The lord has agreed!" ”

Chen Cheng took out a box, put it on the desk, and said, "Then thank you for Changshi." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Guan Jing unconsciously took the box and said angrily: "Am I a greedy person for money?" ”

He opened the box a little, and when he saw the yellow color inside, he was immediately happy, "Don't take it as an example, don't take it as an example!" ”

Guan Jing thought for a while, and then said: "The lord will be a class teacher in a few days, and Wen Zhengda can live here." The people around Guanzi City have run away, and the fields are ownerless........."

He said to Chen Cheng: "You know what I mean, right? ”

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "Thank you again for Changshi." ”

When he returned to Zhao Yun, several soldiers in the courtyard were drinking with red faces, and when he saw Chen Cheng coming in and wanted to toast him, he smiled and declined. After taking a look in the wing, Zhao Yun was still asleep. Looking at it again, the health has risen from one percent to three percent, and it seems that it will be better in less than ten days and half a month.

The next day, Gongsun Zhan's army returned east from the camp, leaving Tian Yu to garrison Guanzi City. When they left, they took with them most of their cattle, sheep, horses, and other supplies, leaving behind only devastation and more than 3,000 lightly and seriously wounded. In just one day, nearly 200 seriously wounded people did not make it through, otherwise the number of wounded would have been even higher.

In one world, up to the time of the Second World War, the treatment of wounded soldiers was a problem. In this era when modern medicine has no shadow, it is difficult to treat more than 3,000 wounded. Even if Chen Cheng still opened the cheat, he could only add the most seriously injured soldiers to the team first, and the others were divided into three places according to the severity of their injuries.

He was busy for several days, and after discussing with Tian Yu, they first moved the Han people on the west bank of the river to Guanzi City, and the Jin Sanhuan Department let them graze their own cattle along the banks of the river. Before leaving, Gongsun Zhan had already appointed Tian Yu as the acting county commander of the local area, and although the official appointment of the imperial court had not yet come down, he had already begun to take charge of the affairs as the Marquis of Baili.

After taking over the county order seal, Tian Yu immediately appointed Chen Cheng as the acting county commander, and promoted some meritorious soldiers to fill in the merits, and then began to deal with the problems faced. There are two main problems in front of him now, one is the thousands of wounded left behind by Gongsun Zhan, and the other is food.

Because Chen Cheng had already taken over the treatment of the wounded, what Tian Yu had to think about was how to fill the stomachs of his subordinates. The rebels were entrenched here for two months and ate almost everything. Those Hu people can still drive cattle and sheep to live in grass, and live on goat's milk and horse milk, so what should the nearly 4,000 Han people in the city eat?

It's almost autumn now, and it's okay to grow some vegetables, but it's not yet season to grow food. Looking at the bare ground around him, Tian Yu had no other way but to mobilize people to go fishing in the river, and at the same time send people to borrow grain from the next county.

After eating fish for several days in a row, and the soldiers' injuries were stabilized, Chen Cheng went to find Tian Yu, who was leading people to fish on the river. Tian Yu shouted loudly on the shore: "Throw the fish into the wooden basin, and the crabs and other things are gone!" ”

Chen Cheng was stunned for a moment, and when he saw the soldiers throwing the crabs the size of ordinary people's faces back into it, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Why are you throwing the crabs back?" It's also edible! ”

Tian Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "I know that this thing can be eaten, but if you eat too much and have diarrhea, it will kill you." ”

"Is that what you say?" Chen Cheng thought about it, and it seemed that eating crayfish caused rhabdomyolysis in his memory, but he didn't hear much about eating crabs. Then I thought that the fish and shrimp in freshwater have parasites, and in this era of liking to eat raw, it is not surprising that they will eat all kinds of diseases.

He also has the impression of a celebrity from the Three Kingdoms period who died because he liked to eat sashimi.

However, he is not afraid of eating bad stomachs, and as long as he cooks it for a while longer, it will be no problem.

"If you don't want it, then give it to me!" Chen Cheng said: "I'm going to get more firewood, it's very delicious when cooked." ”

Speaking of which, he realized that he had run away, and he didn't come here today to discuss crabs!

"I heard that the country is worried about food?" Chen Cheng said: "I have a solution. ”

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"I have a crop here called the potato .........."

After listening to Chen Cheng finish talking about the benefits of potatoes, Tian Yu was very skeptical, "The production capacity per mu is one or two thousand catties?" How is this possible? ”

Tian Yu was not a complete stranger to farming, he said excitedly: "If there is such a high yield, where will anyone starve to death?" ”

"I just said it's possible," Chen Cheng thought about the data in his memory, and was a little uncertain, and said, "How much can be produced depends on the weather and the fertility of the field." But now it's too late to plant anything else, so it's better to plant potatoes. ”

"Wenzheng, the potato you said can be sown in the fall?"

After receiving a positive answer, Tian Yu made a decision without thinking about it: Then we will plant potatoes!

Anyway, the land outside the city is barren, and it is not a problem to get a hundred and eighty acres of land to grow crops. The problem was that Chen Cheng didn't have too many potatoes in his hands to sprout, because he had already given half of them to Liu Bei before.

"It's okay," Tian Yu said with a smile: "It's better than nothing." ”

After the two finished talking about crabs and potatoes, Chen Cheng turned the topic elsewhere and said, "The sages said: People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. Immediate problems must be solved, and long-term things must also be planned. Zhonglang will hand over Guanzi City to the hands of the country, I don't know how to govern it? ”

Tian Yu thought for a while and said, "Naturally, it is in accordance with the laws of the imperial court. ”

"Exactly?"

Tian Yu said: "I plan to lay off most of the soldiers, and then divide the land outside the city to them equally, so that they can farm, so that the army needs much less food." The people are for the people in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. Organize them to train at your leisure, and when the enemy comes, recruit them to fight! ”

After getting an unexpected answer, Chen Cheng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and then asked, "Ding Yuan, they can also divide the land?" ”

Tian Yu said in surprise: "They are also the people under the rule of the imperial court, why can't they?" ”

"You have to pay rent for farming, right? I don't know how much land tax the state is going to collect? ”

Tian Yu said: "At the beginning of the country, Tian Fu was thirty taxes and one .........."

Seeing the disapproving expression on Chen Cheng's face, Tian Yu continued: "Of course it's impossible now, but the rent of seventy percent is too high. ”

He shook his head and said, "Jun San Min Qi, what does Wen Zheng think?" ”

Tian Yu defended: "There is no way to collect such a high tax, this is located on the border, so you have to raise soldiers." Raising soldiers costs money and requires food, and no matter how little it is, it really can't be sustained. ”

"This is already very good," Chen Cheng laughed and said, "If this can be done, I will thank Ding Yuan and them first." What about the Wuhuan people in the Golden Three Rings? They don't know how to farm. ”

Tian Yu said: "I have also thought about this. Guanzicheng is located on the edge of the grassland, which is the barrier of western Liaoning, and if the Hu people want to go south, they will inevitably come to fight for it. After a while, I will let the Golden Third Ring go to the north to graze, and if there is an enemy attack, it can also be used as a buffer. ”

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "The talent of the country is enough to assassinate the history of the state and the position of the county order, which is too condescending." ”

Tian Yu was embarrassed and said: "Compared with Wenzheng, I am still far behind, and I am just a little foolish in governing the place." ”

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Otherwise, the country can govern the army with the horse, and the people can be governed by the horse." If you experience a break in the local area, it is not a problem to enter and exit. ”

Tian Yu laughed and said, "That's too much." ”

"It's not an exaggeration," Chen Cheng's voice became slower, and his voice became lower, "Now above the court, rotten wood is an official; Between the palaces and majestys, birds and beasts eat Lu; The wolf-hearted dog-lungs are in charge; Servile and servile people, one after another! How many people are like the state and can take the people and the country to heart? ”

Tian Yu's face changed greatly, and he shouted in a low voice: "Be cautious! ”

Chen Cheng blinked, laughed, and said, "Jokes, don't take them seriously!" ”

Tian Yu also laughed, but his eyes were full of worry. On the map of the empire, there is now a beacon of smoke, from south to north, from east to west, there are wars everywhere, there are people rebelling everywhere, who does not know that this is abnormal? Who doesn't know that something is wrong with the country?

As soon as Huangfu Song exterminated the Yellow Turban Army, Yan Zhong persuaded him to rebel while he had hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands. It's like Zhang Ju, isn't he calling himself the Son of Heaven? It's just that he was soon beaten down by Gongsun Zhan.

Chen Cheng smiled for a while and said, "Then I won't bother for now, don't throw away these crabs, pick the bigger ones and send them to the sanatorium." ”

Tian Yu said: "Don't worry, I will pick the biggest one for you." ”