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Outside Guangling City, Yang Wu did not know that the envoy he sent to Fuzhou had been killed by Wang Zhenzhi.

At this time, he was leading a group of little ones to watch the rice harvest outside the city.

This year is the first year that Champong rice has been popularized in large quantities throughout Huainan, and according to the predictions of Gao Miao and others, this year's harvest will be at least about 20% more than last year's.

An increase of 20 percent is already a large number, which means that the population that can be supported by the same area of farmland will increase by 20 percent all at once.

In this era of no pesticides and no chemical fertilizers, Yang Wu and others have been pleasantly surprised that they can increase so many harvests just by relying on the innovation of rice seeds.

Of course, Gao Miao also mentioned that many places in Jianghuai and Zhejiang have been in war for a long time, and a large number of water conservancy projects have fallen into disrepair, which not only cannot play the role of irrigating farmland, but also cannot play the role of regulating water conservancy, which makes many fields will be flooded by rivers during the rainy period, and are prone to drought in the rainy season.

If investment in water conservancy projects can be increased, the annual agricultural harvest can be increased even more; It is a pity that the continuous war every year has consumed too much money and grain in Huainan, and the construction of the Hanhaiyan and Shengzhou city walls has made Huainan not have much spare energy to invest in water conservancy construction.

For this reason, Gao Miao has mentioned to Yang Wu more than once that he wants to temporarily stop the war and first devote himself to restoring agricultural production in order to accumulate strength and consolidate the fundamentals; Wait until the treasury is full, and then send troops in one fell swoop and sweep the south.

For Gao Miao's suggestion, Yang Wu was deeply gratified in his heart, because he felt that this was the pattern that a prime minister should see.

If he pays attention to the war on all sides all day long, but does not pay any attention to the construction of internal affairs, then Yang Wu will be disappointed, because Huainan is not short of people who are good at military affairs, and what is lacking is a government talent like Gao Miao.

However, praise is appreciated, but Yang Wu did not agree with Gao Miao's opinion.

Now that the major feudal towns in the north are all holding each other down and are powerless to interfere with the actions of Huainan, this is a great opportunity to unify the south, how can we stop and do anything to restore production?

More importantly, although Huainan has experienced a long period of war, it has recovered to a certain extent after more than ten years of recuperation in the Yang Xingmi era; If we want to further improve the level of agricultural output, the input is not a little bit, but a large-scale input, and its efficiency-cost ratio is too low.

Therefore, water conservancy projects must be built, but there is no need to invest a lot of money and grain in them at this time; The best time to do it is to wait until the world is really peaceful.

Of course, there are some necessary projects that have to be put into construction immediately.

For example, not long ago, Liu Wei, the governor of Lianshui, proposed to invest manpower to dredge the Grand Canal, and Yang Wu agreed.

Since the opening of the Sui Dynasty, the Grand Canal has played an extremely important role in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, providing great convenience for the economic exchanges between the north and the south.

But now, many places have begun to silt up and block, and even small boats are difficult to pass when the water surface is shallow in the freshwater season, which will obviously affect Huainan's control over the northern states, and even Huainan's Northern Expedition will be seriously affected in the future.

Therefore, once the completely necessary project of dredging the canal was proposed, it was highly valued by Yang Wu.

"See? This is rice. The rice we usually eat is grown from the rice fields! Yang Wu gently pulled out an ear of rice from the rice field on the side of the road and explained to the few little ones behind him.

These little guys are Yang Wu's three younger brothers, nine-year-old Yang Longyan this year, seven-year-old Yang Meng and six-year-old Yang Pu, in addition to two little guys also followed, this is Cheng Xun's nephew Cheng Zong and Liu Renzhen, they came as Yang Longyan's companions.

Yang Wu didn't want the clansmen of the Yang family to grow up without dividing the grains, separating themselves from the people, and making jokes like Emperor Jin Hui's "Why don't you eat minced meat".

So taking advantage of this time to be relatively free, Yang Wu took a few younger brothers out to have a look, and in the future, several other younger Yang family children will also come to receive these education when they are older.

However, the other little ones are obviously still young, and they only care about playing when they come here, after all, they grew up in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, and they have never seen such wild scenery, if it weren't for Yang Wu restraining them, I'm afraid they would have gone crazy a long time ago.

However, the second brother Yang Longyan, who is nine years old this year, and Liu Renzhen, who is only six years old, are already more sensible, and they pestered Yang Wu and kept asking.

"Brother, how long does it take for this rice to be planted to harvested?"

"King, how much can you harvest per acre of this rice?"

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These questions made Yang Wu happy at first, after all, he had high hopes for these two little guys.

It can be expected that when the Northern Expedition is in the future, he will definitely lead the troops in person, and at that time his own son is still young, but he is afraid that it will not be enough to take on the task of sitting in the rear, and the second brother Yang Longyan will be just the right age at that time.

As for Liu Renzhen, this is the seed of a famous general in the future, he is so smart and studious at such a young age, and if he cultivates it well, his achievements in the future may be greater than in history.

But not long after, Yang Wu had some cold sweat on his forehead, because the questions asked by these two little guys became more and more difficult, and even he couldn't resist it in the back.

After all, he hadn't done a day of farm work in his previous life, and it was impossible to do it in this life, and what he knew about rice was only the most basic things, and he didn't know it if he went a little deeper.

If the two of them continued to ask, Yang Wu might have to reveal his stuffing on the spot. This made him sigh that it is really not easy to be an enlightenment teacher for children.

Fortunately, just when he was about to be unable to withstand it, the general from the Jiedu Envoy gave him a reason to get out.

"King, the envoy sent to the Taifeng Kingdom to be canonized has returned." The person who came hurriedly said to Yang Wu.

"Really? But have you found out what's going on over there? Yang Wu's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly asked.

Although he had already learned about the situation on Jeju Island and the peninsula from the envoy of the Taifeng Kingdom, he could not rest assured that he would not send his own people to find out the information, so when the envoy of the Taifeng Kingdom returned to China, Yang Wu sent an envoy to accompany him on a return visit; Of course, among these envoys, there were naturally also spies from the Long Sword Capital.

Unlike the envoy sent to Fuzhou who set off late, the envoy to the Thai feudal kingdom set off a long time ago, so he had already completed his mission and returned at this time.

"This little one doesn't know!"

Yang Wu patted his head, and then he reacted, but he was too anxious, the person in front of him was just a messenger, how could he know those things.

After returning to the Jiedu Embassy with a few little guys, Yang Wu summoned the envoys and secret agents, as well as Gao Miao, Li Shenfu and others.

“…… As the king said, there is indeed a large island there, which the locals call Tamna. The local climate is relatively warm and humid, and the water and grass are relatively abundant, which is indeed a good place to raise horses. Moreover, the local natives have the habit of raising horses, and there are many horses on the island now. It's just that the horses raised by the locals are very short and not suitable for riding at all......"

The secret agent of the Long Sword Capital was a Shatuo man, one of the three thousand Shatuo cavalry who went south with Li Chenghe, and he knew the horse nature very well, but unfortunately he was injured on the battlefield and could not continue to fight, and later Fan Yu took a fancy to him and asked him to do this task.

Listening to the words of the secret agent, Li Shenfu and the others were a little excited, if there is anything about the weakest point of the Huainan army now, it must be the lack of cavalry.

When Yang Wu proposed that there was a large island in the south of the Taifeng Kingdom, where the climate was suitable for raising horses, Li Shenfu and others still did not believe it.

In their opinion, horses must be raised on the northern steppes, how can horses be raised on an island?

But now that they have heard the news that the secret agent has personally discovered, these people have to believe it.

For Huainan, if the island can really raise horses, it is undoubtedly the most suitable place for Huainan to raise horses, after all, Huainan's strength is the water army, and raising horses on the island is not only easy to manage, but also easy to defend.

Whether it is the various feudal towns in the north today, or the Khitan and other steppe nomads that may be encountered in the future, the strength of their naval army is far from being comparable to Huainan.

In the future, if Huainan can always control this horse breeding place in the hands of Huainan, then Huainan will be able to gradually make up for his weaknesses in cavalry.

"Immediately dispatch a naval army and occupy this island!"

"Yes, such a suitable place for raising horses, this is completely God's gift to me Huainan, if I don't take it, even God will punish it!"

Everyone was suddenly excited and shouted one after another.

At present, the operation of sending troops to Jiangxi has not officially begun, after all, there has been a saying since ancient times, Zhong Chuan has just died of illness, and he must give people a little time to bury him.

Moreover, some of the necessary preparations for the dispatch of troops have not yet been completed. Although it is not a preparation to dispatch more than 100,000 troops at one time like the last Northern Expedition, even if it is an expedition of 40,000 troops, it is not something that can be dispatched casually, and it must wait for all kinds of preparations to be made.

However, if you send troops to attack Tamna Island, you need very few troops, I heard that the country established by the local natives has a population of only tens of thousands, no more than a few hundred troops, and has never been at war with other countries, and its combat effectiveness is very low, so it is definitely easy for Huainan to conquer such a small barbarian country.

Of course, although the indigenous strength of Tamna Island is weak, after all, this island is close to the three kingdoms of Silla, especially the Later Baekje, which divided the southern part of the peninsula, and is obviously not against the Taifeng Kingdom supported by Huainan.

In order to prevent this small country from being ignorant and wanting to interfere with Huainan's possession of Tamna Island, Yang Wu finally decided to send 5,000 troops to teach them a profound lesson if necessary.