In the summer of the second year of Yanhe, it came in the blink of an eye.

On the first day of the fourth month of summer, the horse pavilion in Linwei Township is very lively early in the morning.

Li Ke, the pavilion chief, put on the brand-new official uniform that had been sewn last month, with a copper seal symbolizing his identity hanging around his waist, and pushed open the door of his house majestically.

Outside the door, hundreds of men, women and children were already waiting.

Seeing Li Ke, they all asked, "Pavilion Chief!" Pavilion chief! It's okay to open a sickle, right? ”

And on the road outside this horse pavilion, dozens or even hundreds of carriages crowded the road.

Everyone is waiting for the first harvest of this new harvest to be opened.

Li Ke raised his head, straightened his clothes slightly, and said loudly: "In the second year of Han Yanhe, the year is in Gengyin, the month of Mengxia, the day of Jiazi, and the ...... of Zoumating in Linwei Township, Xinfeng County."

He paused slightly, then took a deep breath and yelled with all his strength: "Open the sickle!" ”

Knock knock!

The gong hanging from the official office in the pavilion was struck.

Several militiamen were on the flag booth, shouting loudly: "Open the sickle!" ”

As a result, more than 70 households, more than 600 men, women, and children in the pavilion immediately rolled up their sleeves, took the sickle at home, and flocked to the wheat fields outside the village pavilion.

Zoumating is the champion of wheat seed replanting in Linwei Township last year.

The 2,500 acres of fields and more than 700 acres of fields in Quanting were all replanted with winter wheat under the call of the county government.

At the time, a lot of people laughed at them.

I think they're going to get nothing.

Even the villagers themselves are also beating drums in their hearts, and there is no bottom at all.

Some people even regret it as soon as they replant the wheat.

I felt that this was playing the piano indiscriminately, and I wanted to delay next year's harvest, so I planned to quietly take my family and shovel the seeds in the wheat field overnight.

At that time, when Li Ke first served as the pavilion director of this horse pavilion, he was faced with this complex environment and the changing people's will.

As a student who has just come out of Taixue's poetry, books, etiquette and music and the classics of the ancestors.

For a moment, he panicked.

Don't even know what to do?

However, he soon knew what he should do.

Because, Zhang Shizhong personally brought people to Linwei Township.

Go down to the villagers' homes, move them with affection, and know them with reason.

He also inquired about his difficulties and solved them on the spot.

At the same time, it is also guaranteed that the yield of winter wheat per mu is guaranteed by the county government, which is less than two stones per mu, and is supplemented by corn by the county government official warehouse.

At the same time, it was promised that the price of winter wheat to be harvested in the coming year would not be less than 60 yuan per stone, and if it was lower than this price, the county government would collect all of it.

From that moment on, Li Ke felt that he had seen the sun.

Moreover, it is as warm, warm and warm as the sun of spring!

As a result, he has completely become a follower and supporter of Shizhong.

Frost comes and goes, and the seasons turn.

In the blink of an eye, it's summer again.

And he has grown from a white-skinned scholar to a husband with a shallow beard, five big and three thick.

In this grassroots pavilion, a lot of experience has been accumulated.

Understand the problem of the relationship between the people, and know what the people need?

In the spring of this year, the old father of the family brought someone to Xinfeng.

When leaving, my father burst into tears, held his hand, and said, "My son is already a husband, and my family is prosperous!" ”

Thinking of his father's expression, Li Ke lowered his eyes: "Big husband? I'm still far away! ”

"The real husband should be like a servant!"

"Wen Neng is stable and stable, and Wu Ke is thousands of miles away!"

Before he knew it, Li Ke walked to the wheat field.

In front of me, the golden ears of wheat are full of ears.

The people, men and women, young and old, all of them carried a sickle, and with the greatest strength and the fullest spirit, they cut bundles of wheat one after another.

Soon, the ears of wheat were piled up like a hill.

In the wilderness, the officials of Shaofu, Dasi Nong, and Zhijinwu stood in the center of this wheat wave, and everyone's face was full of the famous saying: the joy of happiness.

And the sentiment of the harvest spread in the hearts of those people who were bowing their heads and toiling.

Li Ke looked at it, and he found that almost everyone was laughing.

A year's hard work will be fully rewarded!

………………………………………………

Thousands of miles away, Zhang Yue looked at the yellow sand and wilderness in front of him, and a slight smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth: "This is really a good battlefield!" ”

What appeared before his eyes was a narrow strip of undulating Gobi, wilderness and desert.

The wind blowing from the Mongolian plateau, heading south, brought the sand and dust here.

Then it was blocked by the grasslands and wetlands of the southern part of the country.

For millions of years, the forces of nature have interacted here.

Sometimes, the steppe wins.

Sometimes, sand and dust win.

In the midst of this constant competition, the geography of this region has been completely reshaped.

The wind and sand have eroded all the hills and highlands, leaving only patches of knife-cut rock pages and barren land.

The little slave of Zhushui, with his head down, introduced softly in Zhang Yue's body: "Great angel, here, we call it 'Wolf Plain', in the past, whenever summer and autumn are handed over, the wild wolves of the entire grassland will gather here, ambush and hunt, and the beasts that migrate from the Gonglu River in the Hanhai Sea......"

Zhang Yue listened and nodded, the wisdom of the wolves is really okay.

It's really a great place for ambushes and interceptions.

And in the history of human warfare, this wilderness must have had earth-shattering wars.

It's just that the nomads have no tradition of recording history, so they are annihilated in the long river of history.

However, Zhang Yue knows that it will be more than a thousand years.

This will become the place where Zhu Di became famous.

Here he succeeded in besieging Nai'er Buhua, the Taiwei of the Northern Yuan, and finally forced him to surrender.

"Start arranging your defenses now!" Zhang Yue held his sword, looked at the vast wilderness, and began to order: "All departments will spread along this area, all the way, and build facilities to defend against cavalry in front!" ”

"Yes!" Zhushui slaves and more than a dozen Wuheng nobles received orders one after another.

Immediately, the great cause of construction began.

However, the infrastructure capacity of the Wuheng people still needs to be strengthened.

This, combined with the fact that the geology in this area is harder and there is very little rainfall, has slowed down the excavations.

A horse trench may require dozens of people to dig for two or three hours.

This is still on the premise that the Han army provides them with a large number of excavation tools, otherwise, I am afraid that it will become extremely difficult to even dig the ground.

However, the other type of trap for cavalry and attacking infantry progresses much faster than trapping.

This trap is simple.

Like a horse trench, you need to dig a hole.

However, it is not necessary to dig a long trench like a horse trench, nor to pursue any height.

It only needs to dig a small pit about one step in length on the surface and dig about three feet into the ground.

Two Wuheng are young and strong, and one can be dug out in an hour.

Immediately after the digging was completed, someone led him up and unloaded the cylindrical wooden cylinders loaded on the crane.

These cylinders, in groups of two, are installed into these small pits, and then a dozen sharpened wooden thorns from hard logs are nailed into these cylinders to turn them into a hedgehog covered with spikes.

Then, on top of these small pits, do some simple camouflage.

This kind of trap is one of the yin tricks invented and created by the goshawk back then.

Under the border plug of Yanmen County, thousands of similar traps were once densely covered.

The Huns were among them, and they suffered a lot.

Even many Huns would rather go to the fortified cities of the Han army than attack those beacons that may be densely packed with similar traps.

Because, once someone steps on these traps, the consequences are very terrible!

Regardless of the centaurs, as long as they step on it, under the action of gravity, it will immediately drive the cylinder fixed in the trap to rotate.

And as soon as these cylinders turn, sharp wooden thorns will pierce the skin and muscles, and cut through the blood vessels of the entire thigh!

The horses are better.

At most, it's the loss of a horse.

If a person steps on it, he will immediately become disabled or seriously injured, but it will not cause immediate death!

Even, it can be rescued through rescue.

It's just that, from then on, the person must be disabled.

Therefore, this trap once frightened the Huns.

What is more terrible than death is that life is better than death!

On the battlefield, the poor people who step on these traps will let out a cry that makes everyone hear it and tremble.

It has an extremely effective effect on deterring the enemy and demoralizing it.

The Han army has meticulous research and rich experience in how to let their enemies take the initiative to step on these traps.

Under the guidance of the hundreds of generals and officers of the Changshui Captain who came with the army, the Wuheng people were like groundhogs, digging countless similar traps along the front.

Of course, traps, horse rejections, iron thistles, copper thistles, these are only auxiliary means.

Disgusting enemy ways.

In order to achieve a real victory, it is still necessary to repel the onslaught of the Huns face to face!

And this, it is necessary to let Wu Hengyi's followers exert their strength and determination of more than 120%.

To make a group, to this extent.

We need the stimulation of hatred, the encouragement of hope, and a firm heart!

Hatred, there is no shortage of Wuheng people.

There is a dragon city in the distance, digging the revenge of the ancestral graves of the Huns, and there are bloody examples of the Hulu Department nearby.

There is no need for Zhang Yue to incite anything, these Wu Hengyi know from them that once the Huns step on this defense line, their homes and pastures will become hell!

Encouragement is also enough.

At the time of the oath, Zhang Yue had already promised that as long as he made military achievements, he would not hesitate to reward him!

Women, livestock, salt, iron, cloth, money, all kinds of rewards.

It is this firm fighting spirit and hope of victory, Zhang Yue has to think of a way to give them them.

Looking at the yellow sand and wilderness in front of him, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered something.

So he rode forward and went into it, and after going about a few miles, he turned over and dismounted, and grabbed a handful of gravel from the ground with his hand.

"Good!" Rubbing the sand in his hand, which was still carrying the hot temperature, Zhang Yue laughed.

Now, he knows that he holds the key to victory!

After returning to the camp, Zhang Yue summoned the nobles of all the tribes and announced to them: "The Huns will definitely attack only in the morning and at dusk!" ”

"You only need to hold on every morning and sunset, and the Huns will withdraw!"

The crowd listened and looked at each other.

It feels like Zhang Yue is talking about the book of heaven!

The enemy attacks only in the morning and at dusk?

Will the Huns listen to your arrangement?

However, no one dared to question it, and everyone went back in disbelief and told their respective subordinates about it.

Surprisingly, compared to these superiors, the lower herdsmen and cavalry firmly believed in this.

"The angel is a god-like figure, since the angels have said that the Huns will only attack in the morning and at dusk, it must be like this!"

Many people said this, so the fighting spirit and determination in their hearts involuntarily became firm.

If you can't beat the Huns, you can't hold the two waves of attacks in the morning and at dusk?

You can fill it with your life!

Whereas......

As long as you can hold ......

Their own goddesses, livestock, domes, and pastures are all beckoning to them!

…………………………

When the sun rises to noon.

In the wheat field of Zoumating, the first batch of harvested wheat ears have been transported to the public sunning flat in the pavilion.

Here, the envoy of Taisun Liu Jin, Chen Wannian of Xinfeng County, and the officials sent by Shaofu and Dasi Nong, have been waiting for a long time.

And outside the sun-dried valley ping, countless people moved.

The retainers of the ministers and lords stretched their necks and stared at the ears of wheat that had been picked up by the farmers.

"Are you sure it's fifty acres of wheat?" Someone looked at the place that had been piled up in the center of the floor, divided into several wheat ears mountains, and his eyes widened in disbelief and muttered to himself.

"This matter, but His Majesty is paying attention to it...... someone laughed: "In addition to Shaofu and Dasi Nong, the horsemen who hold Jinwu have come to dozens of them, and they are staring at the fields, they say that it is fifty acres, then it must be fifty acres!" There is nothing wrong with a penny! ”

"If something goes wrong, it's a big crime of bullying, and you have to lose your head!"

"This is too exaggerated...... "A few people from Kanto looked at those wheat ears and gasped

Especially a person from Hedong couldn't believe his eyes and ears.

Fifty acres of wheat yields so much?

Isn't the anointed land east of the river going to be a joke?

In the midst of these people's discussions, the Cheng Danchun, who were drawn from Shaofu and Dasi Nong, stepped forward and took over the threshing work.

Relying on the ancient method of beating, the plump and golden grains of wheat were beaten into pre-prepared containers.

Soon the vessels were filled with wheat grains and overflowed.

And the weighing work began immediately.

"Ten stones!"

"Fifteen stones!"

"Thirteen stones!"

With the loud reports of the officials.

The numbers were recorded on a blank sheet of paper and pasted on the outside of the container, and then an official from the holding of the gold went up and took over the relevant custody and guarding work.

At the same time, several officials of the big Si Nong picked up the abacus and crackled.

When the final threshing of the ears is complete, the container is lifted and weighed.

The total number has finally been counted.

"The total is three hundred and ninety-one stones, thirty-five catties and twelve taels!" An official put down his abacus and said in a loud voice.

"It's the same here under the officials...... Three hundred and ninety-one stones, thirty-five pounds and twelve taels! Another official stood up and shouted.

But......

No one listens to them anymore.

The whole world, at this moment, seems to fall into eternal silence!

Fifty acres of land, yielding three hundred and ninety-one stones?

In other words, the average yield per mu is nearly eight stones?

In front of this number, the only thing everyone can do is one thing - swallow saliva!

This is an unprecedented record!

It's a number never seen before!

Before this, the highest yield per mu in the world came from Hedong County.

Twenty-seven years ago, Hedong County set a record of an average yield of four stones per mu.

Since then, however, it has not been seen again.

And now, Xinfeng County has doubled this record all at once!

What does this mean?

It couldn't be more obvious!

Almost at the moment of reaction, every onlooker immediately spread their legs, wishing that they had grown wings, and ran back desperately to their master!

Because......

Twenty-seven years ago, Hedong County's yield per mu broke out in the year when the record of four stones.

At that time, the price of corn in Hedong exceeded twice the market price.

The whole world is frantically eating corn from Hedong.

Eat at any cost, at all costs!

Because, that is a good breed that has already proven its 'high yield' results!

And now......

Xinfeng's wheat, how much should it be sold for a stone?

Five-fold?

Ten times?

Still is......