"A year? Can it be extended a little longer? A year is indeed a bit tight. ”

"I have to get these 3,000 horses in place within a year, you have to figure out a way." Su Xiu shook his head and said.

"In that case, then okay, one year is one year, and it's a big deal to transport a little more at a time." The two looked at each other and gritted their teeth in agreement.

"Then I wish us a happy cooperation."

In the next time, the two of them learned about Taishan's news intentionally or unintentionally, and they were even more amazed after learning that Su Xiu had already incorporated two cottage thieves in just over half a year after taking office, and their cognition of Su Xiu in their hearts was raised to a higher level.

In this era, communication is still very backward, although the two of them are businessmen, the news will come a little faster than ordinary people, but Taishan was not their target area originally, and Su Xiu's news blockade is still in place, the two really don't know what happened to Taishan.

Three days later, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping came together again, but they brought with them a high-headed horse covered in blood red and a few heavy boxes.

"What do you mean by that?" Su Xiu's face was suspicious, and she didn't know what the few boxes brought by the two were for.

"Lord Su, this is a little bit of our mind, these things are not of much use to us, but they can play their role in the hands of adults." Su Shuang said.

"Yes, Lord Su, this sweaty horse was obtained by accident in the Xianbei tribe the year before last, and it is an ordinary mount in the hands of the two of us, and if you can follow the adults to gallop across the field, this can give full play to its difference."

"And these boxes are filled with fine iron, just enough to make some weapons for adults. After the two of us went back, I inquired, we also heard about the policy of benefiting the people in Taishan, it can be said that the development prospects of Taishan are very good, and these things I believe will be able to play their due role in the hands of adults. ”

"In this case, it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate, but if the two of you don't dislike Taishan's poverty, you can move your family to Taishan, and within the scope of my jurisdiction, the two of you don't have to worry about anything happening at home."

Su Xiu was very happy, this trip to Zhuojun cut off all the sources of funds for Liu Bei's start, so it will be even more difficult for Liu Bei to make a fortune in the future. In return, Su Xiu felt that he should protect the families of the two, not to mention that Su Shuang was also facing the threat of Panlong Village.

"In this case, the two of us will thank you first."

……

The trip to Zhuojun was overfulfilled so far, not only successfully recruiting Zhang Fei, but also bringing Liu Cuier back to Mount Tai together, and successfully befriending Su Shuang Zhang Shiping, getting the source of war horses and cutting off the source of funds at the beginning of Liu Bei's rise, which is a real win.

At the beginning of May, Su Xiu and Zhang Fei and his party successfully arrived at Mount Tai. The core team of Taishan rushed to hear the news and reported to Su Xiu about the situation for more than a month. After understanding the situation, Su Xiu himself was shocked, he didn't expect that Xi Zhicai and Yu Ban would run Taishan so well according to his previous business strategy.

In terms of people's livelihood, new agricultural tools such as curved arm plows and windmills have been popularized throughout the county, which has increased the working efficiency of the people by nearly 30%. The reclamation of wasteland has reached 100,000 mu, and you must know that there are less than 10,000 peasant households in the entire Taishan County, which is equivalent to an average of more than 10 mu reclaimed by one household.

In terms of craftsmanship, the scale of the artisan workshop has grown and the production efficiency has reached a higher level.

In terms of military affairs, the issuance of the conscription order has made more and more people of Taishan rush to join the army, and now not counting the soldiers who came from Zhao'an, there are 15,800 soldiers in Taishan County, which is a full 10,000 more than when Su Xiu first arrived.

In addition, after Yu Ban and Xi Zhicai discussed, let the people of Tiger Roar Village and Python Cloud Village be selected, and recruit those cottages that still have some conscience, and isolate those heinous cottages, and the results of a month are also quite gratifying, with a total of more than 13,000 people in seven cottages before and after.

……

"I can't imagine that in the more than a month since I was away, everyone has done so many things, and I thank you all here!" After speaking, Su Xiu got up and bowed deeply to Xi Zhicai and the others.

"Lord, by all means, you are the lord of Mount Tai, I can't wait to do some things, not enough to worry about, but the lord went out for a month to find a tiger general like Yide, so that I Taishan like a tiger with wings, it is really gratifying." Xi Zhicai hurriedly avoided Su Xiu's gift and said.

"Yes, my lord, these are the things of my subordinates, and now that the situation of Mount Tai is very good, I believe that soon we will be able to completely turn Mount Tai into a good place to live and work in peace and contentment." Yu Ban also avoided Su Xiu's big gift, and said with his hand.

"But my lord, now there is a problem, that is, at present, we have more than 30,000 troops in Taishan, according to your previous decree, Taishan is exempt from tax for one year and three and a half years in taxes, and our military rations are afraid that they are not enough, so we can't always rely on buying grain to support it."

"Well, that's a question, so, Zhicai, what do you think if the military tun system is adopted?"

"The lord means the army tuntian?"

"Yes, although the Mi family provides 100,000 stone grain and grass for free every year, but the further back you go, the more it is a drop in the bucket, and I can also buy 3,000 high-grade war horses on this trip to Zhuojun, this is a baby bump, and it must be fed with refined grain, so I have been thinking about this problem on the way back."

"Three thousand? Or a superior war horse? My lord, your surprise is getting bigger and bigger. With these horses, we will be able to assemble a good cavalry, which is not an ordinary advantage on the battlefield in the future. ”

"But my lord, Taishan County is not very suitable for war horses to gallop, I suggest that we can let the cavalry train first without participating in the battle, after all, they are just some bandits, and the foot soldiers are completely enough to deal with it. As for the tuntian system that the lord just mentioned, I think it is completely feasible. ”

"Since this is the case, then from now on, all Taishan belong to a part of the tuntian, which will be changed every six months, so that the training will not be delayed, and the supply of military food can be guaranteed. In addition, the whole county was notified that those who open up wasteland are not allowed to deliberately destroy forests and change fields, and if it is verified, they will be punished with a hundred lashes, and those who destroy forests in military camps will be punished twice. ”

When Su Xiu heard that the speed of civil reclamation was so fast, he thought that the Yellow River was diverted many times in later generations, wasn't it because of the deforestation and land reclamation in the upper reaches? As a result, instead of helping the lives of the people, the famous Loess Plateau was created, and homes were often washed away by the Yellow River in the lower reaches.

"Lord, do you understand what this means?"

"Zhicai, let me tell you, if the deforestation is converted into farmland, it is easy to cause soil erosion, and once the rain floods, it will cause flash floods, which will be a catastrophe for the people."

"It's still the foresight of the lord." Xi Zhicai didn't understand what soil erosion was, but when he heard the consequences of the aftermath, he naturally understood the seriousness of the matter.

The next day, Yu Ban took Zhang Fei to familiarize himself with the environment in the Taishan military camp. Zhang Fei saw that the Taishan soldiers were all actual combat confrontation training, and couldn't help but be curious, after understanding the intention of this training method, Zhang Fei admired Su Xiuna's five-body throw.

Zhang Fei was originally a super-first-class military general of the Three Kingdoms, how could he not understand how great the actual combat was for the promotion of generals and even soldiers, this is just as Su Xiu said, 'More sweat in training, less bloodshed in wartime, more bloodshed in training, and less loss of life in wartime'.

Then Zhang Fei pulled Yu Ban to talk about the things in the barracks, and when he knew that Taishan had strict military discipline and even Yu Ban had been punished with military sticks, Zhang Fei was even more surprised.

The ancients said that 'the punishment is not a doctor', which indicates the nobility of the scholar class. Although Yu Ban said that he was far from the level of a doctor, he was also the number one in this Taishan Army (except for Su Xiu, of course), just imagine that he would be punished if he practiced a leader, so who would dare to enjoy the privileges.

In the next two months, Zhang Fei did not get Su Xiu's appointment, but directly threw Zhang Fei into ordinary soldiers for training. Zhang Fei was also puzzled at first, but after Xi Zhicai explained to him, he understood Su Xiu's hard work.

When Su Xiu took over Mount Tai, he also trained with the soldiers and shared weal and sorrow with them, and at that time, the soldiers of Mount Tai were still a group of old soldiers; The current Taishan soldiers are all elites when they are pulled out, and their natural eyes are higher than the top, without their recognition, they will naturally not be convinced, and it is easy to cause the phenomenon of poor orders.