It was already mid-March when the newly formed cavalry was trained properly.

During this period, the reconnaissance of Chen An's territory did not stop for a moment. The scout cavalry club is composed of old battalion cavalry, still a group of ten, taking turns to cross the river to Longxi to carry out the reconnaissance mission.

In early March, the scouts also came back with extremely shocking news: Chen An sent his brother Chen Ji to lead 30,000 Qiang people to pursue Liu Yao, who had returned to the dynasty after the defeat of Yang Nan. Who knew that Chen Ji's department was defeated by the Han Zhao elite cavalry led by Hu Yanyu, the general of Han Zhao Wei, and Chen Ji could not escape and was beheaded by Hu Yanyu.

Chen Ji's defeat greatly shook Chen An, who was invincible at first. Chen An had no choice but to lead the remnants to retreat to Shangqi in order to stand on the ground.

In fact, after returning to the teacher, Liu Yao was also recuperating, and he did not immediately mobilize the main force to retaliate against Chen An. According to the intelligence collected by Li Yanzhao, Chen An does not have many subordinates at present, and the actual territory under his control is also very limited. It is nothing more than Shangqi, Longxi County, and Jincheng County.

Most of Henan's territory is still in the hands of the Diqiang tribe. The few Qiang tribes raised by Chen An before had been defeated by Han Zhao. Although the situation in Henan has temporarily calmed down, all departments are secretly accumulating strength and are ready to deal a fatal blow to the other party at any time.

Although the situation in Guanzhong and Henan has calmed down temporarily, it has even calmed down without a trace of waves. However, Li Yanzhao still knows this situation. In this devastated land, Chen and Zhao are actually strong and weak. If there is no accident, once Zhao Lord Liu Yao commands his troops, Chen An will be defeated.

It's just that this kind of strange tranquility before the mountain rain is about to come, makes Li Yanzhao feel that this matter is unusual. After all, with Liu Zhao's national strength, recovering Henan and defeating Chen An is just an easy matter. Why was Liu Yao, who was attacked and chased all the way on the way to the class and was almost taken prisoner, able to endure these shameful things so calmly?

Fortunately, this temporarily stable environment also provides a rare opportunity for Liangzhou to develop. From the beginning of the year to the end of March, several waves of displaced people arrived in Guangwu County through the sentinels who crossed the river. There are hundreds of people, and thousands of people. As a result, with the attack of Chen and Zhao, the number of refugees who fled to Liangzhou to avoid the war has exceeded 10,000.

In order to provide for these refugees, the grain in the county and county government coffers has been basically exhausted. Naturally, a considerable number of refugees were divided into various families such as the Song family, the Yin family, and the Suo family to become Yin households. The other part of the displaced people continued to be scattered and resettled in the county towns and the suburbs of the counties.

The county government and the county governments have been racking their brains for the livelihood of these displaced people in recent days. First of all, Taishou sent people out to buy grain from neighboring counties such as Xiping, Jinxing, and even Guzang, Zhouzhi. The sale of harnesses and pencils led to a significant increase in the county's revenue, and the county's finances were in a good financial position.

It's just that the government sent people out to collect grain, which caused the price of grain in neighboring counties to rise one after another, and the people complained. In the end, the grain merchants in all the counties closed their doors one after another, and stopped selling grain. In desperation, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and instead purchased a batch of cattle and sheep from the bald Xianbei department that had been placed in Xiping County after the rebellion was quelled last year, in order to solve the urgent need.

After purchasing grain, cattle and sheep from all over the country, in addition to the food supplies distributed to the displaced people, the treasury of the county and each county was gradually replenished again. Cattle, sheep and other livestock, except for a part of the sheep as non-staple food, the county government recruited some of the old and weak women and children in the households to be responsible for grazing.

During this time, Xin Fujun, who was troubled by the food problem, now attaches great importance to this problem. Now most of his family members in his own house are taking care of them in the fields. Sow seeds and weeds with the farmers. Thinking that these people from well-pampered families in the past have to plow themselves now, they naturally complain.

Taishou did not condone this kind of demolition behavior of his own family. I don't know if I learned the method from Li Yanzhao, and the two sons and two nephews who complained the most fiercely were locked up for three days. After that, there was no more opposition at home.

After this incident, Li Yanzhao had a better impression of Taishou himself. In the past, the perception of the family of this era was nothing more than the selfish interests of the same surname, and intrigue and squeezing people's wealth; Relying on the privilege of the scholar class to grasp political resources, it blocked the opportunity for the children of the poor to become officials and show their ambitions. It can be described as the scourge of the country and the cancer of the world.

Including after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, although there were still heroes who stuck to the north and fought against Hulu, such as Liu Kun, the assassin of Bingzhou. Although he was born in a family, before and after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Kun, who was isolated and helpless, still insisted on an enclave in the state for more than ten years. Although he had the shortcomings and limitations of being a scholar of this era, just under the crisis of Hu Liang on all sides, he adhered to the state for the Jin Dynasty and faithfully fulfilled his duties as a assassin, which made Li Yanzhao admire enough.

Now from this move of Taishou, it can be seen that although he is not a talent in the world, although he lacks a big pattern and vision in handling important military affairs. However, he was by no means one of the many rhetorical scholars of his time. It is a pragmatic talent with strong execution and enough to do things.

Because the county has a large number of people, and it is also the time of spring ploughing. Although the displaced people under the control of the county government have been allocated to the responsible fields and encouraged to reclaim them. However, manpower is still insufficient. As a last resort, Taishou finally ordered the county soldiers to be mobilized to assist in the reclamation.

In this way, Li Yanzhao, who knew nothing about farming, took 300 cavalry composed of all kinds of people under his command and embarked on the road to reclamation.

Due to his ignorance, Li Yanzhao fortunately arranged for Liu Jiwu to command this reclamation operation. Liu Jiwu followed his father in the fields since he was a child, and he is naturally no stranger to this stall. Hearing Li Yanzhao's arrangement, he readily agreed.

The cavalry members were together with most of the battalion, and after walking more than 20 miles, they arrived at the opposite bank of Yongdeng County. This place is already the upper reaches of the reverse water, and along the reverse water, you can go upstream for more than 20 miles, and go straight to a small village called Xiawan, and there are more than 300 hectares of uncultivated land in the valley surrounded by valleys on both sides.

Only two miles away from Yongdeng County is a small village called Ganjiazhuang. There are only about 30 households in this small village, and most of the villagers are surnamed Gan, so it is named. Legend has it that in the early days, these villagers were also side branches of the family. It's just that later, the family fell into the middle of the road, and I had to move here as a last resort and work hard.

The cultivated land of the residents of Ganjiazhuang is only a few dozen hectares. Out of Ganjiazhuang and continuing to the north, it is the wasteland that Li Yanzhao and other horsemen need to assist the displaced people to reclaim this time.

The infantry battalion came here to support the reclamation of the wasteland, because there were few people, so they were arranged to cross the backwater and reclaim the wasteland on the east side of the backwater. Looking at the long and narrow wasteland on the other side of the river, which was only about two miles wide, Li Yanzhao was speechless for such an arrangement.

The number of people who came from the infantry battalion was only a few dozen fewer than they had brought, and the amount of wasteland allocated to them was at least twice as small as their own. For this arrangement, he could only shake his head and sigh, and then picked up his tools, gathered around Liu Jiwu, who arranged the reclamation, ready to listen to the work arrangement, and then led his cavalry to start working hard.

These three hundred horsemen walked through Ganjiazhuang and gathered at the end of the endless wasteland, all waiting for Liu Jiwu, who took the lead, to speak.

Liu Jiwu first walked around and checked the topography of this wasteland. Then he summoned a few hundred commanders and the team leader, and ordered them to lead their subordinates to go forward first, and cut down all the grass and trees on this wasteland. The trees were then dragged out and ready to be transported to the county town for use, and the remaining trees and weeds were piled up on the wasteland that was about to be reclaimed.

After grouping his subordinates into groups, Li Yanzhao looked at his subordinates with a languishing look, knowing that if his subordinates dealt with the assignments assigned by Taishou with such a negative attitude, they didn't know how long they would have to reclaim the current famine.

Simply stopped the chiefs who were about to leave, Li Yanzhao took out the money bag from his arms and took out a bunch of money. He lifted it up and said to them, "Divide this wasteland into areas of responsibility today, and see which one has the most wasteland." The one that cultivates the most will come and receive the reward after the sunset is over! On the other hand, if you reclaim the least of them, you will be responsible for tonight's sentinels! ”

Hearing Li Yanzhao's reward encouragement, the eyes of the leaders of each party were all emitted an inexplicable brilliance. It's not because they're greedy for money. It's just that if you fall behind, you will be punished by the sentry guards, and these chiefs, of course, are willing to do their best to fight for the reward.

Li Yanzhao made a visual inspection, this spindle-shaped wasteland on the west bank of the reverse water was about four miles wide, and the soldiers under his command could be divided into fifteen shi, each responsible for a section seventy or eighty steps wide. Thus the race begins, and at sunset, there is a lot of wasteland that has been cultivated, and it can be seen at a glance.

After Li Yanzhao and Liu Jiwu each determined the position that they had to be responsible for, with Liu Jiwu's order, the cavalry rushed straight to the wasteland like tigers descending from the mountain! Seeing the scene of his subordinates working in full swing, Li Yanzhao also laughed, and followed Qin Dayong's men and horses with an axe on his shoulder, rushing towards the grass and trees in the wasteland.