Most of the generals of the Western Expedition Wenwu Army have Liangzhou people or experience in Liangzhou, and most of them are still old acquaintances with the Liangzhou officials of Dunhuang County, so the two sides did not pay too much attention to etiquette, and after greeting each other, they followed the Liangzhou officials and entered Dunhuang County to participate in the reception banquet reported by Zang Min and Ma Teng.

After being full of wine and food, everyone rested for two days, and it was not until the third day that Fu De, as the chief general of the Western Expedition, led the generals of the Western Expedition, and Zang Min and Ma Teng, went to the military camp outside the city to see the first military parade after the meeting of the army.

Since the time of Emperor Xiaowu of the former Han Dynasty, in order to control the Western Regions, Dunhuang County was formally established in Hexi Province after "four counties and two passes" were officially established, and Dunhuang County became the only important place for the Han Dynasty to reach the Western Regions.

Ying Shao, a scholar of this dynasty, said, "Dun, Da Ye." Huang, Sheng also. "The two are one, of course, the meaning of the word does not mean that Dunhuang County is vast and prosperous, after all, it is a bitter cold place, how good can this kind of place be? The real meaning of "Dunhuang" is to say that the road from here to the Western Regions is vast and prosperous, but unfortunately, since the Western Regions are blocked and the Silk Road is cut off, the original broad and prosperous road, together with Dunhuang, has gradually withered.

Dunhuang is located in the west of the Han Dynasty, although it is an important place leading to the Western Regions from the borderland, but because of the small population, the city is not as good as the big city of the Central Plains, and naturally it cannot accommodate the elite horses from all over the country that Fuquan has drawn over the years.

At the beginning, before Ma Teng took office, the former Dunhuang county guard was sad to death, and in order to prepare for the construction of Dunhuang and ensure that the road to the Western Regions had no worries, not only the garrison transported troops here, but also large-scale immigration and the preparation of Tuntian.

If the former is good to say, although Dunhuang County has few people and a small city, it does not mean that its jurisdiction is small, the former Taishou chose a saline-alkali land outside Dunhuang City that is not conducive to farming, and sent people to rebuild a very large military camp to let the soldiers rest and recuperate.

However, the latter almost took the life of the former Dunhuang Taishou, after all, when Fuquan did not completely destroy the people of the Qiang people in Liangzhou in Dunhuang County, there were only tens of thousands of Han people on the register.

It can be said that the population of Dunhuang County is not even as good as a rich county in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, which also leads to the fact that Dunhuang County will only get a filial piety quota every few years because of the small number of people.

However, since Fuquan pacified Liangzhou, all the Qiang people were changed their surnames by him, and after the households were compiled into Qi people, Dunhuang County suddenly had a population of more than 100,000, which can be said to have skyrocketed in population.

The consequence of the population explosion must be that the cities in the county were built smaller, and the houses in them were not enough.

Among them, it has to be like the local heroes of Dunhuang County, and there is no mansion in the county, which is not to say that Dunhuang City is desolate, just because they live in the city, for those who are strong and strong, there are mansions in the county to live temporarily, and their foundation is still in the self-built dock fort outside the city.

After all, since the founding of this dynasty, Liangzhou has experienced four Qiang rebellions, which can be said to be in chaos for a hundred years, and every time there is a rebellion, the Qiang people will definitely attack the city.

Especially in Dunhuang County, these wealthy families close to the border often have to deal with the Qiang people and other Hu people in the border area, attack each other from time to time, or trade in harmony, and build their own dock forts, and can reclaim fertile land without restrictions, and recruit private soldiers.

It's just that for Fuquan, as the throat of the Western Regions, the population of 100,000 in Dunhuang County is obviously not enough for the 30,000 cavalry sent by Fuquan to transport and consume grain, grass and ordnance along the way.

Of course, the revenue of the government treasury is insufficient, and Fuquan can be transported from the rest of Liangzhou, as well as the rich Sanfu land, but if there are not enough people, they cannot forcibly recruit people from other counties to help.

30,000 cavalry, even if the goal of fighting is clear, but it also needs to be carried and escorted by people, and the swords, arrows and weapons of the cavalry also need a large number of people to escort. And the 30,000 cavalry, if you still need to recruit auxiliary local soldiers to follow, then at least tens of thousands of men need to help the army.

Obviously, with the population of only 100,000 in Dunhuang County at that time, it would definitely not be able to complete the logistics task of the Western Expeditionary Army, so after Fuquan vigorously weakened the powerful people of the world, he relocated all those who were imprisoned because of Yuan Shao's rebellion, and all of them were relocated to Dunhuang for various reasons, and Tuntian was implemented in the form of military management.

Although there are only a few thousand people in the Haoqiang clan who have migrated to Dunhuang County, this does not mean that the population growth of Dunhuang County is not slow, because it is this wave of immigrants that the number of registered people in Dunhuang County has exceeded 200,000 for the first time in the history of Dunhuang County, reaching as many as 230,000.

It can be said that it directly scared the attention of many Dunhuang people, because for those Han people who have never been out of Dunhuang in their lives, hundreds of thousands of Han people are indeed unimaginable.

The reason for the rapid growth of the population of Dunhuang County is naturally that these powerful clans who were forcibly relocated by Fuquan brought all the private soldiers and tenants in the original county without the need for the imperial court to mobilize.

After all, Fuquan is not implementing a policy of extermination, they know that it must be very bitter to go to the Biansai family, but it does not mean that they will decline, as long as someone has land, and then there are Confucian scriptures inherited by these powerful clans, they will definitely be able to rise again, naturally, the land cannot be taken away, but the people who originally belonged to them were induced to take away at the greatest cost.

It is precisely in this way, with the blessing of two waves of immigrants, with the efforts of the former Taishou, Dunhuang County has the feeling of the rise of the county, and because of the great leap forward-style governance of the people, Fuquan replaced the former Taishou with Ma Teng, and also transferred him to the Beijing Division, appointed as the Jiuqing Dasi Nong, in order to show his hard work.

The military camp outside Dunhuang County is very far away from the county seat, and some of them do not conform to the normal rules of the Han Dynasty, but it is because the predecessor was too guarded and could not bear to destroy the land that can be cultivated near the city. After all, Dunhuang has a lot of wind and sand since ancient times, and there is little land that can be cultivated, so it is natural to cherish more.

Fu De and other Central Plains generals also came to Dunhuang for the first time, and after knowing the reason, they were not dissatisfied, but they were just distracted, and rode slowly all the way.

Along the way, but see a lot of fields, the crops have already sprung up a lot, look at this growth, although not as full of grain as the Central Plains, but for the bitter cold of the Biansai, it is good.

"Ma Dunhuang, the crops along the road are growing gratifyingly, it seems that this year is out of the jam, what a good omen!" Fu De laughed loudly, after all, looking at the two Han Dynasty, the former Han Dynasty used troops in the Western Regions, often burdened by logistics, while the Later Han Dynasty only used elite soldiers to go out of the fortress, with thousands of soldiers at most, although there are various domestic reasons, but the biggest reason is the logistics problem.

The Later Han Dynasty is not like the former Han Dynasty, in the Western Regions around the vast Tuntian, since Guangwu removed the national soldiers of the county of the world, the border land Tuntian greatly reduced, naturally sent troops to the Western Regions with few soldiers, it is really too much logistical pressure, which is also the reason why Fuquan has emigrated in Liangzhou in recent years.

"If it weren't for the 'fertilizer' made by the hussars, Dunhuang would have today's harvest?" Ma Teng replied, with a lot of respect in his tone, indeed, the divine object of fertilizer produced by Fuquan is indeed a thing of benefit.

"Fertilizer?" Fude was surprised and said, "No wonder so! In the Central Plains, according to this thing, the grain has a number of growth potential, the border land has been barren since ancient times, and today there is a bumper harvest, which is indeed rare! ”

"This great man is prosperous, pacifies the auspiciousness of the Quartet, and the hussars are true gods!"

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Endure compliments with Ma Teng and other officials who heard the praise, and after speaking, Fude finally jumped out of this compliment circle and found leisure.

Of course, this is not to say that he has an opinion on the fertilizer made by his brother Fuquan, on the contrary, after knowing the yield of grain after using chemical fertilizer, he admires his brother even more, because he knows that this divine object that can make food grow wildly is really a weapon for national revitalization and territorial expansion.

In Fude's memory, the fertilizer is the elder brother Fuquan, specially asked people to find some old farmers who can farm the land, in the Han Dynasty farming will add manure, plant ash these things, to improve, with human and animal feces urine, plaster, water, mixed in different proportions, cellared and buried.

It is said that at that time, hundreds of old farmers selected from all over the world used their own methods of planting manure and plant ash to modulate their own proportions, and Fuquan specially asked people to record the proportions.

After the fertilizer came out, he found Fu's private land outside Luoyang City, and let these old farmers plant separately until the autumn harvest, observing whose field grain is the most pleasing to watch.

Fu Quan is not a chemist or engineer, although he knows that chemical fertilizer is a big killer of growing food, but in his previous life, as a city child, he grew up in business, and he never even went to the ground, so how can he know the proportion of chemical fertilizer, so he can only choose this soil method, hoping to find out the best fertilizer ratio from these experienced farmers.

After all, as early as the pre-Qin period, the Chinese ancestors who made a living from farming were constantly looking for experience in increasing grain harvests, and so far, manure fertilization has also been widely used, but for various reasons, the effect is not very good.

There is a saying in the "Book of Songs: Ode to Zhou", "The decay of the grass stops, and the millet stops", which shows that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the farmers had realized the role of fertilizing the fields after the weeds decayed. In the "Book of Rites and Monthly Order", "you can dung the fields and you can beautify Xinjiang", which also shows that the use of high temperature and rainfall in summer to rot weeds and increase land fertility; "Mencius" even said "a hundred acres of field, a hundred acres of dung", "Xunzi" directly clarified "manure field", and so on about the fertilization of a lot of records, which shows that in today's world, the hard-working Chinese ancestors who do not know what chemical knowledge have discovered natural fertilizers and used them by their own experience.

Knowing this, although Fuquan can't make chemical fertilizer, it doesn't mean that he won't use the probability problem, let those experienced old farmers use their experience to blend according to the basic materials in their memory, even if the final fertilizer can only make the usual harvest a few percent, but for Fuquan, it is also a complete victory.

In the end, a 60-year-old man from Henan won the victory with the land he planted, and the grain was 30% higher than before, and then Fuquan asked people to continue to prepare chemical fertilizer recipes on the one hand, and on the other hand, he forcibly ordered all localities to call on the people to experiment with farming according to this proportion.

Today, in the Central Plains, with the continuous improvement of chemical fertilizers, the grain in some places has been twice as harvested as before, and even the border land has also increased by several percent of the new income, which can be said to benefit the world.

And with the spread of chemical fertilizer, the people of the world all call this thing auspicious, it is God sent hussar general Fuquan to give to the Han Dynasty, to give the emperor's well-being, invisibly, let the "dragon" Fuquan, which has always been famous for killing, is a lot more famous.

Public opinion is like this, once there is something good for personal interests, those who are benefited will change their views, and the world is often for the sake of profit, and this is the case.

Of course, Fu Quan knew in his heart that the improved soil and fertilizer like him, which was a blind cat and killed a mouse, would definitely be better than the fertilizer factories of later generations, whether it was the effect or the output, it could not catch up, but there was and there were not, those were two concepts.

Even if the effect of those land is not very significant, but compared with the harvest of the barren land in the border land in the past, the yield increase effect of the use of chemical fertilizer is almost immediate, whether it is in the border land or the Central Plains!

Looking at these lands that are growing well, Fu De couldn't help but think in his heart, if he waited for another ten or twenty years, after the land in Biansai was reclaimed by his brother Fuquan immigrants, coupled with the fertilizer that is said to be still improving, it can make the crops grow more than a few percent, and the Han Empire's conquest of the Western Regions, and even more western, wouldn't it greatly reduce the difficulty?

However, the thought of the jars of fertilizer that he had seen from the ground made him sick to his stomach.

I remember the first time, when Fu De followed his brother Fu Quan to look at the fertilizer, after the fertilizer jar was opened, the strong pungent smell that immediately came out made him extremely uncomfortable. Moreover, the smell was continuous, and as it spread, Volde could only cover his nose with his hands all the time, and the smell, like the thatched hut that had not been cleaned for a long time, was disgusting and disgusting.

Unconsciously, Fude and his group finally arrived at the spacious barracks that could accommodate more than 30,000 people and nearly 100,000 horses, and after getting acquainted with the generals of the barracks, they began the first military parade.

Looking at the galloping Han elite cavalry, especially when they made a lot of actions that the cavalry could not do without stirrups and horseshoes before, the generals of the Han army, whether they had seen it for the first time or had seen it before, began to compliment the ups and downs again.

Of course, for them, it is a pity that it is inconvenient to cover up the news because of the large-scale change of clothes of the Han army, and Han Sui, who is far away in the Western Regions, also knows about this sharp weapon, which is also the reason why he began to be undefeated in the alliance of the Western Regions with weak soldiers.

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