The atmosphere was at a stalemate again, and Luo Songting hurriedly said:

"It turns out that you and General Wei have known each other for a long time, and today it is also a blessing for the two armies to turn enemies into friends. Ladies and gentlemen, grain and grass are very important, how about deciding how to borrow grain first, and then reminiscing about the old feelings? ”

"Hmph, then you say, how to borrow this grain and grass." Hi Guang pursed his face, and his tone was extremely unhappy.

"Our army has not much food and grass, so we can only borrow food once every three days, and after three days, our army will let people send food, what do you generals?"

Hearing the news for three days, Ji Guang finally couldn't sit still, and anger jumped on his face.

"If you have the surname Luo, don't deceive people too much. How to stabilize the morale of the army with three days' food, I can really be bullied when I am in the country. ”

At this time, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) intercepted and said:

"That's a good feeling, your army can take care of yourself, and our army will not accompany you." Bailiyan turned around and urged the horse to leave.

Wei Han said at this time:

"General Ji, the overall situation is important, let's bear with it for a while."

"Hmph, today's humiliation will be repaid twice as much in the future."

Bai Liyan's face sank when she heard the news, and she turned around again and said:

"Borrow one for one, and use words as evidence, otherwise not a grain of grain will be given."

"Wei Xian, don't deceive people too much!" Wei Han couldn't bear it anymore, and his forehead was bruised.

"Is Ben going to be a deceitful?" Bai Liyan pointed to herself, and then said: "General Ben remembers that twenty years ago, the Song State had a grain shortage, and borrowed one to repay three to lend grain and grass to the Song State, forcing the Song State to only compensate with war horses, cattle and sheep. Now it's a matter of borrowing one for one, so why not. ”

"You!" Wei Han gritted his teeth, he also knew that the Jin Kingdom was unreasonable in this matter.

At present, there are two things that can be used for usury, one is to borrow grain, and the other is to borrow soldiers, and no matter how high the interest rate of borrowing money is, it is not as fast as these two things, because grain and soldiers are directly linked to land and productivity. Borrowing troops brings political gains and gains from land, garrisoning, and occupation rights, while borrowing grain is an economic means to hollow out the national strength of the country that borrowed grain.

The interest on grain borrowed is often as high as 50 percent or more, and during periods of food famine, it can be three or even four times as high.

When a strong laborer cultivates by manpower, a season can be cultivated up to 12 acres, most can only cultivate 8 or 9 acres of land, with a family of two old people, a young couple, three children of the population ratio, pure human farming, a maximum of 278 acres, more than 30 acres of land in the first quarter, under normal circumstances, can not reach so much, only more than 20 acres, if there is a cattle, a cow can easily cultivate more than 25 acres, supplemented by manpower, a family of seven people to cultivate thirty or forty acres of land is not difficult.

But in other words, with ploughing cattle, you can plow twenty or thirty acres a day, and a family of seven people can't plow one hundred or two hundred acres? Otherwise, the ploughing oxen, ploughs and the columbs that appeared during the Han Dynasty only solved the problem of farming, not the problem of harvesting, and an adult laborer, with a sickle, could only harvest seven or eight points of land a day, and one acre of land was held to death, and a very small number of strong laborers could harvest one acre of land a day.

Therefore, the ploughing ox can easily plough 30 acres a day, but it takes 40 days to mow a strong laborer, which is converted into a family, almost six or seven days, and it is almost half a month to 20 days to close it, dry it, turn the ground, rotate and plough again. [Note 1]

The food ration required for a year for an adult man to work hard is roughly five stone of rice, one and a half stone of vegetable soup or other small amount of non-staple food, and a little salt. Based on the calculation of seven families of old and young, the grain and grass required for a year's ration are around 20 to 25 stones.

The yield per mu of thin fields is roughly between one stone of rice, and the output of more than two stones is the middle field, and the one with more than three stones is the fertile field.

If it is not wasteland, the output of ordinary land is more than one stone, and the common people's cultivated land is mostly ordinary land with half of the acres and middle fields, and the fertile land is occupied by the powerful and nobles, and the ordinary people rarely have fertile land. Therefore, the vast majority of Xianguo can grow two crops of rice a year, or one season of rice and one season of wheat.

Regardless of famine years, ploughing cattle and the structure of family members, in a normal year, a season of rice is counted as a family of seven people, 30 acres of land can be cultivated in one season, 40 to 45 stone of grain can be collected, and 1.356 stone less is collected, and 40 to 50 percent of the land is levied every quarter, and the people can barely make ends meet for a year with the surplus grain in the first season.

In the second season, the surplus grain on hand of the people can be used to buy daily necessities and non-staple food, and the surplus can be kept to prepare for famine and grow grain.

Even if the tax is levied on the basis of fifty fields, the strong laborers can still basically eat enough. During the war, the land endowment increased to 70 percent, and the living standards of the common people would be on the line of life and death, and there would be no natural disasters.

The Song State was a plateau grassland prince, and its thin fields yielded less than half a stone per mu, and accounted for half of the country's farmland.

To have such a barely self-sufficient prince, paying three times the interest, was no longer borrowing grain, but usurious to hollow out the Song state, forcing it to mortgage livestock and horses to repay the debt.

Now as long as the Jin State borrows one and pays it back, Ji Guang and the others feel that it is too much, so the Song State should be slaughtered? What kind of truth does this have?

When Wei Han was angry, Bai Liyan said again:

"Our army can borrow grain, if the Jin Kingdom doesn't plan to pay it back, it doesn't matter. But if you don't want to bear the consequences of this, several generals should think clearly, don't regret it, hehe......"

After some cynicism, Bai Liyan turned around and urged the horse away, and the angry Ji Guang and Wei Han fried their livers and lungs like liver, and they were helpless.

When Bai Liyan turned to leave, Luo Songting was still unhurried, and even had a very polite smile on his face:

"General Wei is young and upright, the two generals must not go to their hearts, or decide the matter of borrowing grain as soon as possible, what do you think."

"Mr. Luo, borrow one and return a copy of the general's admit, but give food once every three days, it's too little, it's limited to ten days, and the grain is transported once every ten days, and it can't be less!" Hi Guang said toughly.

"That's not going to work." Jiang Qian refused: "The grain and grass have now been controlled by the Sima Mansion of the city government, and three days of grain is three days, and one more day is not good." ”

"It turns out that there has been a fuss for a long time, and you can't talk about it, so go to Sima Mansion in Guangxin City, and General Ben will personally discuss with him."

"Hehe, the current general Sima of Guangxin is General Wei Xian, the two of you want to talk, you can talk face to face, why bother to enter the city."

Luo Songting said tepidly, Wei Han was about to vomit blood and fall to the ground in front of him, tossing and tossing, didn't he just want to say that there was no room for negotiation.

"Mr. Luo, Major General, three days is three days, don't you want to play any tricks!"

Wei Han couldn't bear it anymore, his face turned pale, and he asked in a deep voice:

"General Wei, where is the face of my Jin Kingdom like this."

Wei Han said with a bitter face:

"Now that it has reached this point, Wei Xian does not let go, how can there be any room. General Ji, for the sake of more than 200,000 brothers, bear with me for a while. ”

People are under the eaves, how can they not bow their heads, Baili Yan is in charge, holding the Jin army's rice pocket, if Wei Han does not take a step back, although Bai Liyan will not really cut off the Jin army, but day by day, the grain and grass will be mixed with some sand and some soil, and in the long run, tossing can also toss to death.

And when the time comes, you have to return the grain, otherwise with Baili Yan's means, it can really turn the world upside down. Wei Han didn't want to be at this juncture, so that the soldiers and his stomach couldn't get by, so he just endured it for a while.

Just when Wei Han persuaded Ji Guang to think that he was safe, Luo Songting took out a note from his arms and handed it to Wei Han, and after reading it, he almost fell down the horse and vomited blood to death, Ji Guang was furious and reprimanded and roared:

"Don't deceive people too much, you are rampant today, and you will be paid back ten times in the future!"

Luo Songting said slowly:

"General Hey, Luo Mou is also for the sake of the reputation of the Jin Kingdom, it is better to write clearly in black and white, if your army turns his face and does not admit it one day, Luo Mou will not be able to substitute for Jiang Gong. And the young master of my family is here, Luo Mou has made a military order, in case your army does not return, Luo's head will move. ”

"Okay, Ben will sign it for you, just wait!" Ji Guang put down the cruel words, and people used pen and ink to write down their names.

Luo Songting confirmed that it was correct, so he put the IOU in his arms, and then led the Jin army to Guangxin.

The two armies arrived outside the West Gate after dark, and Geng Peng's army was the first to arrive to join the division with Ji and Wei Han, and set up a military tent outside the West Gate in advance, and the Jin army could move in when they arrived. All the wounded soldiers of the Jin army will stay outside the city for treatment, and the soldiers will not be allowed to enter the city, and Guangxin will supply a grain and grass medicine.

Soon after the Jin army set up camp, Wei Han returned to the big tent from the camp, and his anger was not gone, and he vowed to make the Xian army pay the price.

"General Hey, the soldiers have all been settled, and the general should rest early."

"Rest! Ben won't be able to swallow this breath! Hi Guang said hysterically.

"I have already let the sailors go to sea and go to Jiangdong to transport grain and grass to solve the urgent needs of our army, and then it is not too late to take a boat back to Jiangdong."

"This defeat and humiliation by the Xian army, greatly frustrating the national prestige of our Jin country, such a great shame, if I don't report it in this life, I will be unable to escape the blame."

"General Hi, this defeat is not the fault of our army, it is actually the fierceness of the rebels, and the Xian army is still difficult to parry, not to mention that our army has fallen into the treacherous plot of the black turban thieves, and the king will definitely not condemn the general. The top priority at the moment is to withdraw as soon as possible, and not to be used by the Xian army again, and use the strength of our army to consume the rebels. ”

"They're delusional!"

Wei Han tried his best to excuse Ji Guang and find some face and psychological comfort, but in fact, he knew very well that Ji Guang had set his sights on Pucheng and Guangxin from the beginning, and before the Xian army attacked Shao Ping, Xi Guang acquiesced in the rebels to withdraw troops from Gubai and Ikeda, which laid the foundation for today's defeat.

The Black Turban Army's attack on Beihai County this time took advantage of Ji Guang's greedy nature and deliberately ceded Pucheng to the Jin army.

Jiguang is a cousin of the king of Jin, but not the core noble, so Jiguang has no fiefdom, after Han Hegong retired into the inner dynasty, the king of Jin used the nobles to control the northern army, and it was at this time that Jiguang was recommended to serve as the general of the expedition to the north, and went out to fight against the country to deter and defend the country.

This time to send troops to Xianguo, it was not only the permission of the King of Jin, but also Jiguang had other plans, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to expand the territory in Xianguo, so as to seize a rich land from Xianguo in the future.

Guangxin Gong has always been anti-minded, no matter what means are used to level Guangxin, Ji Guang will have a reasonable excuse for himself. Moreover, the crown princess's uncle Uncle Fang nominally sealed each Yin Yangjun, can't Jiguang seal a Guangxin Jun?

It was with such interests that Ji Guang was blinded by fame and fortune, and finally fell into the trap of the rebels step by step.

Moreover, Wei Han had already learned from Geng Peng that the Guangxin Army knew that Lei Cheng was going to be lost as early as 267 days ago, but Geng Peng did not think so, and as a result, Lei Cheng was lost. This means that the Xian army knew from the beginning that the rebels had a comprehensive plan and deliberately led the Jin army to fight to the death with the rebels.

On the evening of the second day when the Jin army arrived in Guangxin, the Black Turban Army arrived in the north of Dingyang City under the leadership of the Thunder King, and surrounded Dingyang on all sides with lightning speed.

In the night, Ding Yanghou stood in the north gate tower and looked at the direction of Guangxin, and the frustration in his heart jumped on his face:

"You'er, there's news from the messenger sent to Chenling."

"I haven't heard back from my father yet."

"Alas, the Jin army is defeated, and the situation in Beihai may be very bad, if you knew this, your father should have let you stay in Chenling, so as to leave a bloodline for the clan."

"Why did my father say this, Ding Yang is the foundation of my clan, how can a child be a seven-foot man, how can he be greedy for life and afraid of death."

"Okay, it's a good boy from my Zhang family, even if it's wrong, I have to admit it." In frustration, Zhang Jun suddenly felt a little more relieved.

[Note 1] In the agricultural era, the production capacity of agricultural land determined the land output and population base, and the population base and land size determined the comprehensive national strength of the dynasty in the agricultural period.

Ancient China as a typical and successful agricultural empire, with a perfect agricultural system, China was the first in the late Qin and early Han dynasties to invent the "columb", a kind of automatic seed drills for planting dry crops, and the modern automatic seeding machine principle is basically the same, the use of cattle can achieve a day easier 100 acres of wheat or beans, while the popularization of the use of iron plough, so that China's agriculture has a long period of higher output.

However, the columbus can only be used for dry farming, both wheat and beans, and the yield per mu of wheat and beans is 30 percent lower than that of rice, especially the ancient breeding and plant technology is immature, much lower than rice, and at the same time the land for planting wheat needs more nutrients than rice, so the emergence of columbus has not solved the production capacity of China's high-yield staple rice.

At the same time, the cocoon cart and the iron plough only solve the problem of planting, but not the problem of harvesting, and the physical exertion of harvesting is more onerous than manual sowing and transplanting, and an adult labor force can only harvest eight or nine acres a day, and some more than one acre and two cents of land.

Therefore, even if there are ploughing cattle and columbian carts, they can plough 100 acres a day, but a person can harvest 100 acres a day, a family of seven and two elders, two husbands and wives, and two children, close the harvest, threshing, drying grain, turning the ground, ploughing the land, and sowing seeds, and the manpower of a family of six in a season can only plant more than 20 acres of land, and one more ploughing cow can plant more than 30 acres.

Therefore, the emergence of cattle ploughing technology has liberated the labor during planting to a certain extent, shortening the time for planting, ploughing and sowing, so that the time before harvesting can be used for other productive labor.