"The art of pleasing thieves and reassuring the people lies in strengthening the army and having enough food. Now that I have seen that the soldiers in the camp are ready and the soldiers are working hard, what is lacking is to have enough food for the people! ”

After Yan Zhi said his opinion, Zhou Liang smiled, although he was noncommittal, but he was a little disappreciative in his heart, these insights, Yan Xing had also mentioned many times when he was talking with them, if this Yan Master only learned this point, it was really in vain, but it was just a mediocre talent.

Zhou Liang continued to ask.

"Then how do you feed the people?"

"In Tuntian!"

Hearing Yan Shi talk about Tuntian, Zhou Liang unconsciously showed a hint of a playful smile, and secretly said that this person really has no real talent in his chest, and the Tuntian he said is not what he has been doing recently, what is there to show off.

Yan Xing, who was at the top, also smiled faintly and said:

"Sir doesn't know, recently in Jiangyi and Linfen, the camp has sent officials to start the matter of tuntian."

Master Yan turned his gaze to Yan Xing.

"The tuntian that the captain said is to forcibly occupy fertile land, drive the head of the Qianqian into cattle and horses, and then search for the income at the end of the year to replenish military supplies?"

Forehead!

Yan Shi's words really made Yan Xing a little embarrassed.

The matter of Tuntian is easy to say, but it is really difficult to implement.

First of all, where did the land and population come from, Yan Xing's strength was limited at the moment, so he could only occupy some fertile land in Jiangyi and some fields near Linfen by forcibly occupying them by force, and then drive the displaced people Ding Zhuang and his family and Baibo army captives to cultivate those fields.

As for the cattle and seeds, most of them were captured by the Baibo army and borrowed from the family of the powerful family of Jiangyi.

The system was created, Tuntian is basically just a framework, there are many places that are omissions, and in the early stage of implementation, all kinds of problems emerge one after another, Zheng Duo and Huang Po are all small officials, and after being responsible for the affairs of Tuntian, they are also busy, and Yan Xing can only support the progress of Tuntian through this kind of tough means.

For example, those refugees Ding Zhuang and Bai Bo captives were all in order to survive or were forced to be helpless, so they began to work between the fields under the supervision of the Xiliang soldiers who were eyeing them, and the harvest in the fields actually had nothing to do with them.

Secondly, the question of the ownership of the fields has not yet been resolved, Yan Xing let the army forcibly occupy those fields, this method can be used expediently in wartime, but it is not a long-term solution, how to let those abandoned land in the future be reclaimed, someone intensively cultivated, a set of effective systems are urgently needed.

Yan Xing and others have also thought about this problem, but they have not yet come up with a set of exact plans on how to implement it.

Since this strict master has criticized their current Tuntian system, then Xi Zhicai is also curious, wanting to know what good advice this strict master has for Tuntian in Hedong.

So Xi Zhicai also began to speak.

"Sir said that I have the shortcomings of Tuntian in Jiangyi and Linfen counties, but I don't know if there is a good way to teach me?"

Yan Shi set his eyes on this white-faced scribe and slowly spoke:

"The method of tuntian is nothing more than opening rivers and canals, opening up fields, making altars and houses, persuading crops, cultivating arboriculture, and cultivating and weaving. Linfen has the benefit of Fen water, Jiangyi also has the convenience of muddy water, diversion canal, Zerun thousands of acres, so the key to Tuntian, and the first in water conservancy! ”

After hearing Yan Shi's words, Xi Zhicai was a little surprised and looked at Yan Xing again, he remembered that when Yan Xing was discussing the implementation of Tuntian, he also took the lead in building river canals and water conservancy.

Yan Xing felt Xi Zhicai's eyes, he smiled, and didn't say anything, in fact, these words of Yan Shi just now were in line with his heart.

From the perspective of later generations, China is a country with a long agricultural civilization, in which the intensive cultivation of the small-scale peasant economy is the material driving force to promote the progress of civilization, and the primary guarantee for the intensive cultivation of the small-scale peasant economy is the country's large-scale water conservancy project.

"Guanzi" said in the "Water and Land Chapter", "The water is the blood and gas of the earth, like the flow of tendons and veins." Therefore, it is said: water, materials also. "Huainan Honglie" also talks about the water is "the heavens are rain and dew, and the earth is moist; All things are not born, and everything has to be done. ”

To build an empire, there need to be enough yeoman farmers to support the small peasant economy, so the ruler often has corresponding measures to protect the yeoman peasants, either to restore production, or to combat the powerful, but all this needs to be based on the intensive agricultural fundamentals, that is, huge water conservancy projects.

It was also the solid foundation of the empire.

It is important to know that the birth of China's first country began with large-scale water control activities. Dayu "three through the door without entering", "leading the hundred rivers into the sea", the wind and rain, footprints all over the Central Plains, successfully governed the river, China also gave birth to the first country - the Xia Dynasty.

Therefore, a strong and powerful country needs a large number of yeoman farmers, and the intensive cultivation of yeoman farmers, in turn, needs the guarantee of large-scale water conservancy projects in the state.

This logic was clearer than anyone present. He is also better able to understand the meaning of "the method of tuntian, which is nothing more than opening rivers and canals, opening up fields, making altars and houses, persuading crops, cultivating arboriculture, and cultivating and weaving".

Without the construction of these infrastructures, the scale of the tuntian fields can only be limited to the method of "forcibly occupying fertile land, driving the heads of the Guizhou into cattle and horses, and then searching for the income at the end of the year to replenish military supplies."

Yan Xing's mind turned back and forth for a while, and he thought of many questions that Xi Zhicai, Zhou Liang, and even Yan Shi would not think of, and between his contemplation, Yan Shi was no longer willing to just talk and compare, but asked for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and removed the wine and food, and began to depict the river canal and tuntian project he imagined in his heart on the paper.

Watching Yan Shi write the case, Yan Xing not only smiled again, when they first met, Yan Shi also drew a picture on the case, explaining his origin, at that time Yan Shi stared at himself and said, "This is Chen Cang City, the city is small and strong, it can curb the gold of the West, the mountains are high and the water is long, it is the most dangerous, the army is killed, it is here!" He still remembers these words.

When Yan Xing saw that Yan Shi had withdrawn the wine and food, he simply got up with a smile, and came to Yan Shi's side with Xi Zhicai and Zhou Liang to look at the sketch of Tuntian he drew on the dining table.

Judging from the map, Yan Shi had personally set foot in the geography of the mountains and rivers of Hedong County before he came to Jiangyi, so he was very familiar with the geography of Hedong County, and along the two major rivers in the north and south of Hedong County, the trend of Xiangshui and Fenshui, divided dozens of different tuntian areas.

Yan Shi then began to indicate that those were controlled by the Baibo army, those were under the control of the Hedong County Government, those were abandoned, those were to be cultivated, and the distinction between drought and paddy fields.

Xi Zhicai and Zhou Liang looked at Yan Shi's strokes, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened, from their current rough point of view, this sketch is indeed the geography of the mountains and rivers of Hedong County, and if the situation of the tuntian fields in this sketch is true, it will definitely be a precious information for Yan Xing and them to control Hedong County in the future.

Among them, Zhou Liang was the most touched, and he secretly said that it is no wonder that the captain is the most majestic on weekdays, but today he treats this old man with extraordinary kindness, not only treating him with respect, but also being tolerant in the face of this old man's arrogance and accusations.

Dare to love this old man, he really has the skills to govern the country and the people, and he is also the kind of talent that is most lacking in Yan Xingying.

Before Yan Zhu came to Jiangyi, he had spent several months traveling to many places in Hedong County, and he had been to Hedong County when he was young and traveled all over the world, so although this sketch is not perfect, it also roughly covers the situation of Tuntian in Hedong County.

This kind of Tuntian sketch has been depicted many times by hand when he traveled and observed various counties, and now in order to have the effect of saying on the spot, he simply started to draw a complete sketch, and when he depicted it, he also pointed to explain to Yan Xing and the three of them the difference between what was drawn on this map and the field investigation.

After Yan Zhi finished drawing, he slowly put down his pen, soothed his somewhat sore wrist, stroked the long beard on his chest, and looked at Yan Xing, Xi Zhicai, and Zhou Liang, only to see that the three of them looked at their sketches, all of them with solemn and thoughtful faces.

Yan Xing was the first to react from his thoughts, and he began to say:

"If you are as strict as the master said, nothing else is left to rest for the time being, just in Jiangyi and Linfen, how much people are needed to dredge the canals?"

"The canals in Jiangyi and Linfen, compared with other cities in the north, are generally smooth, and the deployment of civil power does not exceed 5,000, and it takes two to three months to complete!"

After Yan Xing heard the answer, he nodded, this kind of consumption, he can barely support it at present, but this is only the early stage of dredging and repairing the canal, the canal still needs to be maintained in the future, and the cultivation of fields and the making of altar houses also require a lot of manpower, if you count other cities in the north that are more seriously damaged, then even if Yan Xing successfully annexes the Baibo Army, with his strength, it is not enough to support the large-scale and huge expenses in the early stage.

Thinking of this, Yan Xing asked again:

"The soldiers in Hedong are in turmoil, and the people are scarce, if you follow the plan of Tuntian, so many people, but you don't know how to collect?"

Hearing Yan Xing ask this crucial question, Master Yan's face was also solemn, and he pondered for a while before he slowly spoke:

"How about Tuntian with a large army first?"

Sure enough, Yan Xing had just vaguely predicted in his heart that the solution to the people's power given by Master Yan was to implement the military tun first.

The army is also a huge potential labor force, and there are many successful precedents in the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty for the implementation of military cantonment and the use of the army to cooperate with civilian service to complete large-scale infrastructure construction.

Although it can not fully meet the grain and grass needs of the border garrison, it can indeed alleviate the food pressure of the border garrison, and the Cao Wei regime, Cao Cao chased the Central Plains in the early stage, and swallowed Wu Shu in the later period, and the national strength support, Zao Yuan, Ren Jun, Deng Ai and other people's military tun have played a huge role.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the river burst at the gourd, in order to block the mouth and build an embankment, Emperor Wu also once gathered a large number of troops, and finally successfully blocked the mouth, so that the river direction was restored to the original river.

It's just that this "ploughing, belonging to the shackles" military affairs is easy to say, but there are also many difficulties in implementation, how to make the Xiliang army, which has always been accustomed to licking blood with a knife, willing to pick up farm tools to cultivate the fields, this also requires some careful thinking and consideration, before we can come up with a set of effective plans.

From Yan Xing's face, Master Yan also saw that Yan Xing was interested in this matter of Juntun, but he also had some concerns, and he was not in a hurry, but quietly waited for Yan Xing's response.

Although Juntun is good in Yan Xing's opinion, but the war with the Baibo Army is in full swing at the moment, after the beginning of spring, there must be a big war waiting for him, and he is also worried that the troops in his hands are insufficient.

So, when it comes to the matter of Tuntian and Juntun, it has come to an end for the time being, Yan Xing did not indicate whether he supported it for the time being, and under the accosting of Xi Zhicai and Zhou Liang, Yan Shi was also appropriate, and soon talked about the recovery strategy of Jiangyi and Linfen, which were in ruins.

In general, it is still inseparable from the two things of "the end of the business, the colonization and trade of goods", Yan Shi's strategy in the oxtail gathering, Yan Xing also discussed with him, this is also the way to enrich the people in the "Theory of the Hidden Husband", that is, agriculture, industry, and commerce are regarded as the right way to govern life, emphasizing agriculture, use, and currency, and taking the tour industry, clever decoration, and strange as the end, focusing on the basics and suppressing the end, and enriching the country and the people······

This thin banquet has been chatted until the afternoon, both sides have a good time, Yan Shi used his talent in his chest to impress Xi Zhicai, Zhou Liang and others, and Yan Xing also treated Yan Shi with courtesy, after the banquet he invited Yan Shi to rest in the other tent first, saying that he benefited a lot, and will continue to ask Yan Shi for advice.

After Master Yan left, Yan Xing discussed some things with Xi Zhicai and Zhou Liang, and after handling some military affairs, he remembered that Xiaolu also came with Master Yan, and he didn't know how she was doing after a long absence, so Yan Xing hurriedly came to the other tent where Xiaolu lived.

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When he saw the fawn again, Yan Xing felt that the girl in the mountains a year ago had also become much more mature. It's strange to say, among the women he knows, he admires the woman of the Pei family mostly, pities Zhang Rui in Chang'an, and loves Yan Wan, but when facing Xiaolu, he can't have any strong emotions, but feels a sense of relief in his heart.

"It's really rare, you and I will see you again, this moonlight is just right, shining in the sky."

Yan Xing remembered that the night he and Xiaolu first met, it was still a murderous night with a dark and windy moon, and he commanded the mountain people to ambush and repel a coalition army.

And when they met again, Yan Xing looked at the smiling deer, and he didn't know where to start, but he just looked up and saw that the bright moon was in the sky, shining everywhere, so he talked about the moonlight.

When the fawn heard his words, he covered his mouth and smiled, and said in a playful tone:

"When is this moon not visible, but you are a busy person, who only cares about your own affairs on weekdays, so tonight I am busy and see the moonlight, I will be surprised, like me, I can see the bright moon every night, so I will not be surprised by this!"

"Haha, what you said is also true, there is no moon in the night, it's just a few idlers like me."

Hearing the word "two", the deer couldn't help but smile, full of affection, and his eyes turned into a crescent moon.