PS: The top two chapters of the 5000 big chapter, read slowly

Since the suppression of the robbery in October last year, Zhao Wuxian's forces have made a lot of money in the internal struggle of the Lu State, and his reputation has been unmatched for a while, and then he has been dormant for half a year.

Lu Guoxi looks calm on the outside, but inside Sanyi, it has undergone tremendous changes.

The new policy, called the "Restoration", has been implemented in every township pavilion and small town in Sanyi, and a thousand heavily armed standing soldiers are the pressure to force the local forces in the township to submit. The temporary permission of the clans to own and control the land, and the promotion of young children from each clan to the Zhuyi as officials, was the bond that ensured the cooperation of the three clans.

Under the implementation of both soft and hard, the new policy was implemented smoothly, and Wuxi's control over the territory was greatly improved. The most intuitive evidence is the high efficiency of this year's spring planting and summer harvest, as well as the military drill called "Spring Search and Summer Seedlings".

"As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. In the same way, the matter of a farmer must have a prune, a cho, a sickle, a rake, a vertebrae, and a spine, and then become a peasant. A woman must have a sword, a cone, a proverb, and a bowl, and then she will become a woman. ”

In the face of the Spring and Autumn Social Economy of male ploughing and female weaving, Zhao Wuxian proposed that production tools should be improved.

As for the weaving of women, he did not pay any attention to it in his previous life, so he did not know how to improve, so he could only find some lonely and weak women to work in the weaving workshop, and encourage them to find some ways to improve efficiency.

As for agriculture, this is a necessary pillar of any civilization, and it is also a matter for which the uncaring forces have experience and foundation, and it is naturally easy to do.

Wei and Lu belong to the land of Yanzhou, and the terrain in the west is relatively low-lying and damp. Although the land is not particularly fertile, it is "the middle and lower of the soil." The soil is only a black grave", but the level of agriculture is at the forefront of the times.

After all, the ancestors of the Zhou people are Houji. It is a tribe that started from farming, and it is still the same after moving to the country of Lu, just as they boasted in "Lu Song", "Millet is heavy, and wheat is harvested; There is a dying country, and the people have crops; There is millet and millet, and there is rice and straw", in short, this area has a very strong agricultural foundation.

Therefore, after Zhao Wuxian came here, he saw that the tools used by the people in the fields were no worse than those of the overlord Guojin people. Basically, everyone has a rake and a plow made of hardwood, and there are fewer metal tools for turning the soil.

Some types were even more advanced than those used by the Jin, such as when he found that the people of Xiaqiu had actually used iron ploughs......

This is not a new invention, as early as more than 100 years ago in the era of Guan Zhong, Guan Yiwu of Qi State had "dollars to cast swords and halberds, try dogs and horses; Evil gold is cast with a hammer, an axe, and a loam". It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period, iron smelting has gradually developed in the Central Plains. However, there are many impurities in smelted pig iron, and there are still technical bottlenecks that cannot be broken through in the production of iron weapons. It can be used to make agricultural tools, but it can.

It's a pity that the plough of the peasants in the hill has no plough wall, so they can only loosen the soil and break the soil. It can't turn over the soil and make ridges, and the structure is relatively simple, which is far worse than the Quyuan plow that Zhao Wuxian had seen in his previous life when he was at a relative's house in the countryside. Since I still remember the style of the farming implement. When he was in the Jin Kingdom, he also had people try to make it, so he naturally wouldn't hide it and not take it out.

Shirtless though can provide a mature tool style for later generations. But he can't make the smelting technology surpass the people of a hundred years ago, so he can still only follow the old path of his predecessors. I plan to use impurity iron of average quality to make rough iron farming tools.

Although Lu is extremely short of copper and tin, the iron-smelting industry has gradually developed, and there are two iron-smelting areas that occupy a large area in Lucheng. At the same time, within the feudal territory, there are several iron mountains, concentrated in the hilly areas south of the Taiyi mountain system, and there is also a smaller one near Yuncheng. This kind of thing belongs to the mountains, forests, rivers and rivers, and generally speaking, if it is not specifically distributed to a nobleman, it is the public property of the state and is under the management of the Dasikong Meng.

For bronze, Meng Shi looked very closely, but he had an indifferent attitude towards the Iron Mountain, and let the local Yi doctor excavate it. The reason for this is that there are too few examples of iron being used to make weapons in this era, which is not enough to attract the attention of Meng.

In this era, probably only the metallurgical powers such as Jin, Qi, and Wu paid attention to the management and prohibition of iron.

As a little Sikou, Wuxian has a complicated relationship with the Meng family, although the two sides are faintly guarded, they can still sit down and talk about cooperation. What's more, the Meng clan can't control so many scholars and doctors in Lu State, as long as there is enough money and silk, they can transport the rough iron smelted locally to Yuncheng and Xiaqiu one by one.

There, there are quite a few mountains and forests that can provide firewood, and despite the swamps of Yuncheng, there are also a few shallow Shini mines (coal).

Now that the raw material problem is solved, the next step is how to make it.

Because of the importance attached to the handicraft workshop, many craftsmen were brought from Lucheng and the Song Kingdom, and the metallurgical casting industry at the same level as the era was established in Liaoqiu. There were dozens of skilled goldsmiths, as well as many captured thieves who were punished as subordinates, and they were ready to smelt, cast, and forge at any time.

Unlike ordinary doctors, Zhao Wuxian did not let them cast gorgeous ritual vessels, such as tripods and other objects, but divided the goldsmiths into two categories. One group was responsible for the smelting and casting of bronze weapons, while the other group had to smelt iron into agricultural tools from pottery molds, and at the same time study how to improve the art of iron smelting.

Something similar had already been done in the Jin Kingdom, because of the experience and lessons of becoming a township, the policy of improving agricultural tools without compassion was implemented in the Lu State for several months, and it was very smooth.

When the spring flowers bloomed, at least on the public fields that belonged to Zhao Wuxian around Sanyi, the wooden ones were basically eliminated. Before working in private fields, farmers who were hired to help untipped farmers were provided with hoes and shovels for cultivators, as well as nou, which resembled rakes, which were effectively used for weeding, loosening, mulching, and soil cultivation.

Another big problem is the number of cattle and horses, Sanyi is located in the Central Plains, naturally not as good as the Jin Kingdom and Rongdi mixed places, there are many sources of livestock.

However, Wuxian also collected the cattle of Sanyi, plus a lot of buffalo that Zigong bought from Taoyi, and distributed them to the township pavilions for a fee, and used them with Quyuan ploughs.

He demonstrated a method of "coupling ploughing" in the public fields. The operation method is one person to lead the ox and one person to palm the plough to adjust the depth of the cultivated land. The ploughshare head of the curved plough is V-shaped, and the plough wall is increased. When used, it can be used for deep ploughing, soil ploughing, and ridge cultivation at one time, and the furrow that is one foot deep and one foot wide required by the Daida method can be cultivated, and the surrounding village pavilions have followed suit.

After Ji Qiao's inspection, he happily reported to Zhao Wuxian: "Two cows and three people." At the beginning of spring, three or four hundred acres of fields can be ploughed, and the cultivation speed is fast. It will not delay the agricultural time. ”

What Wu Xi thought of was that if the fields around the city could be updated in the next year, and the original rake could be completely replaced in Sanyi within three years, plus the Daida method, it would be possible to double the harvest of Sanyi!

The development of productive forces also means being able to feed more people and more soldiers!

He also attached great importance to rice cultivation in the Yuncheng area, and the middle and late spring and autumn were warm periods, with abundant rain and much higher temperatures than in later generations. Onozawa is close at hand, so Yuncheng has been growing rice.

"Compared with millet, millet and wheat, the most able to feed the population is actually rice......

However, if you eat rice alone, you will inevitably have a lack of protein in your body, but fortunately, the farmers of this era are still engaged in the auxiliary economy of fishing, hunting and gathering.

With the trial planting of winter wheat last year, the substitution method has been accepted in some areas and put into practice in spring ploughing. During the spring ploughing, Wuxian sent many children from mixed sources to the township pavilion as agricultural officials to inspect the township pavilion and urge the towns and township pavilions to sow seeds.

Under the management of the Shiwu system, this work has been carried out very smoothly. Now the millet, rice, and millet growing in the fields make the people happy to see it. If there is no disaster year this year, it will be another good harvest in autumn!

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After the spring planting in February, it will enter a two-month agricultural slack period, and the people will not be idle. Rather, it was prepared for military training called "Spring Sou".

"The farming work is done well, but the military can't be pulled down, you know. The most intuitive evidence of the organization of a regime is the speed of conscription! ”

Zhao Wuxian's words. The pressure on the military officials who were responsible for going to the Xiangting to recruit soldiers was extremely stressful.

"Sima Law" once said: All battles: the orders issued to the whole army must be implemented within three days; An order issued to a small army of 100 people. It must be implemented within half a day; Instructions to individual personnel should be carried out immediately.

From the Lingyi conscription, as far as the Zhao clan of the Jin State is concerned, the conscription can be completed within one day in one mile, three days for a township, ten days for a county, and at least half a month for the entire Qing clan to assemble. This is already extremely efficient, and the national assembly of the Lu State must be prepared at least a few months in advance, and it will take another month, which is still under the condition that the three Huan do not hinder each other......

This is also one of the reasons why the war in the Spring and Autumn Period was low in intensity and not protracted.

However, in the "Spring Search" exercise, the militia was assembled without sympathy in Sanyi, and it took only three days to arm 3,000 or 4,000 people, ready to deal with foreign invasions or take the initiative to attack.

There is also a difference between fast and slow, which was originally positioned as a military fortress of Qi State, and Xiaqiu, which is called up to fight every year, is the fastest, two days. Zhen Di was drafted twice last year, and it took them two and a half days to get used to the martial arts experience. Only Yuncheng was the last to reluctantly unify the soldiers in three days, but they were also the ones who had the least complaints about Zhao Wuxian's recruitment, and as long as they trained more, they would definitely be faster.

According to the provisional law of Sanyi, each of these potential military forces had to serve in Yuncheng, Xiaqiu, and Zhen twice a year during the agricultural slack to ensure that the number of defenders of 500 people would not shrink.

In addition, young adults must also serve after the age of seventeen, and can choose to be a one-month eunuch or a one-month civil servant. The people's energy is limited, so they can only concentrate on building a public works every time they serve in labor, although Sanyi is in ruins, but there must be a trade-off, so he first chooses to dredge the water conservancy project.

In this respect, Zhen and Liqiu are not as good as Yuncheng's earlier river network and ditches, while Yuncheng's irrigation system only needs to be repaired before it can be used.

Therefore, after a spring of agricultural repair, the Yuncheng waterway network was dredged, and the passage connecting the north and south of the city has been unimpeded, and various ditches can also operate normally. He was even allowed to send Wu Jing to lead the "boat soldiers" for training, and the sailors recruited many of the people who lived near the water in Yuncheng and were outstanding in water, many of whom were fishermen.

This is the beginning of May, this race of 100 boats on the Jishui River.

At this point, Zhao Wuxian has basically digested Sanyi, vacated his teeth, and is ready to continue looking for the next prey!

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After watching this water war drill, Wuxian and his subordinates returned to the Wangjiang Tower in Yuncheng, and he liked this place very much. You can overlook the Pushui Jishui like two jade belts, and there is a bright bronze jian. Wild ducks and waterfowl fly together, and Onozawa has a bit of artistic conception.

Every time I come here. He was also a little complacent.

"This is my fiefdom! It's completely my territory! ”

In front of the table here, there was also a map made of hemp paper, and every time it was spread, Zhao Wuxian's complacency disappeared and turned into a greater claim for territory.

"On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore!?" He said to Zhang Mengtan!

Regarding where the forces that have been deeply rooted in the country of Lu will go in the future and where they will develop, the two of them have also had a lot of plans.

Wuxian pointed to the map and said, "Now we are entrenched in Sanyi, with a population of more than 60,000. Victory of 5,000 soldiers. In the north, Qinyi and Fanyi are separated from the Qi State, in the east there is the connection between Gaoyu and Yuncheng, and in the west and south are the Weiguo, among which the land of Punan has been sent to infiltrate. Around Daze, there are seven or eight thousand servants under the thieves, with a population of forty or fifty thousand. ”

Zhang Mengtan, as the second-in-command of the shirtless, analyzed the situation very well.

"Now Si Kou is a vassal of Lu after all, and it is okay to secretly let Zhongdu Zai serve Si Kou, but it is impossible to annex it directly. The State of Qi did not take advantage of the Yanghu Rebellion to attack the State of Lu. Although the relations between the two countries have not yet been mended, they have eased somewhat, and our strength is so small that taking the initiative to attack Qi is the way to bring about our own destruction. Don't do it either. Wei Guo has not betrayed Jin yet, and Wei Hou has always been patient, but I guess he hates being humiliated. I definitely can't wait for this autumn to turn against Jin. ”

Zhang Mengtan was planning for the sake of compassion, and the interests of the sovereign were more important than the interests of the Jin state: "When the time comes, Jin and Qi will once again go to war for the defense. It is hoped that the Zhongxing clan, which is adjacent to the Qi State, can attract the main force of the Qi army, and then Si Kou will be able to profit from it. The chess pieces laid out in the nearly 100-mile area of Weiguo Punan can also take effect one by one. ”

Wuxian groaned: "So in the short term, I can still only stabilize the fiefdom, and at the same time open up the Onozawa group of bandits!" ”

However, Onozawa's foot, which is closest to Wuxian, is also a forager with fangs and claws, and it is also frantically hunting in the summer, so it is not easy to bite this bite......

Wuxian arranged a thousand standing soldiers in Yuncheng, specifically to prevent thieves from looting, but this year the thieves seem to have changed their nature, at the beginning of spring, began to test the defense of Yuncheng, the soldiers fought a battle with the group of thieves, and the group of thieves was defeated on land, but the soldiers watched the enemy flee by boat with the wounded, but they could only watch.

That's why Zhao Wuxian started to train the boat master, but the performance of the boat soldiers was not very satisfactory, and they couldn't go deep into Onozawa to pursue, so Wuxian was thinking about it, should he find someone else who was good at water warfare?

The Wu people, Chu people, and Yue people in the south are all good at this, and it is not bad to send a messenger to inquire when they have time, and it is difficult to say that they can also connect with the upper nobles of Wu and Chu to see if they can dump some Sanyi products and buy copper and tin.

On the other hand, after the thieves hit a nail in the Pubei area and went back, they began to exert their typical thief thoughts, deliberately avoiding Zhao Wuxian's territory, and first robbed Cao, Wei, and Lu Lingyi townships in the west, east, and south of the lake. It is said that it has reached the level of "the pivotal household of the cave chamber, driving people and cattle and horses, and taking people and women".

This time, the group of thieves also used a new tactic, a large number of soldiers came to retreat by boat, a small number of them surrounded and annihilated, and if they did not come, they rampantly plundered along the river. This way of playing made the doctors of each city helpless, so the towns they passed, the big countries defended the city, and the small countries were insured, and there was a lot of complaints.

However, Zhao Wuxian's Sanyi was protected by the military guards, but there was nothing wrong.

It was the middle of summer, and the winter wheat was harvested very quickly because of the fear of raiding and plundering, and it was now in storage. They will be ground into a delicious powdered food that will be popular throughout the Western Suburbs, and will be praised by Chinese families who can afford it.

Further east of Yuncheng, Zhongdu and Kancheng in the east of Onozawa Lake were protected by military guards, and Zai Yu of Zhongdu and Zhao Wuxian were in the same breath, just like his Yi Zai, and many Zhongdu affairs would be decided without mercy. When the thieves attacked, Zai Yu would ask for help as soon as possible, but as soon as the soldiers came, the group of thieves retreated.

The thief struck the west, retreated west by boat, and tried to attack the idea of Yuncheng, but just happened to meet the "Xia Miao" of Sanyi's second conscription training, and his more than 1,000 forwards were resisted by the conscripts, so they failed to succeed.

This is obviously a tired enemy's plan, and Wu Xian can naturally see it, but the thief soldier is ghostly, and he is smart, he never stays far from the main river, and every time he runs away after grabbing the boat, he can't catch him for a decisive battle.

Therefore, this slippery loach may not be able to be caught, but Zhao Wuxian has also been sticking to his previous point of view.

"The problem of the Onozawa group of bandits is, after all, an economic problem, not a military problem."

If it weren't for the heavy endowments of the surrounding countries, would the people have gone to the barren Daze? Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger!

If someone can give a light on the meager endowment, the people will naturally fall into the water. Therefore, Zhao Wuxian decided that since he could not completely eliminate it physically, he would first disassemble the limbs and siblings of the thief.

In the past six months, the Yuncheng pioneer recruitment policy organized by Zhang Mengtan and Ji Qiao has attracted nearly 1,000 wild people from Nouzawa to return to Shun, who have cultivated lightly taxed land without compassionate supply, and have become household members and people, and no longer want to live without a fixed place to live, fishing, hunting and feeding. But more people are still united around the thieves, in a wait-and-see state, anyway, in addition to the helplessness of the thieves and Wuxi, the rest of the cities around Daze can basically grab the bowl every time.

The cities that suffered in the Lu Kingdom would also complain to Qufu about their distress, and Lu Hou and Sanhuan asked Zhao Wuxian, as a little Sikou, why he failed to protect Zhuyi?

Zhao Wuxian's reason left them speechless.

"The thieves are cunning, often shouting about the east and attacking the west, the subordinates only have three provinces, the soldiers are only enough to protect Kancheng, and the rest of the provinces can not be taken care of by the ministers."

Kan Cheng strengthened the defense of the tomb after the dangerous situation in October last year, and the main task of Zhao Wuxian, the little Sikou, was to protect the Jiuling of Lu Gong, how could he let the thieves come to surround it again for the sake of other inconsequential Xiaoyi?

Sanhuan was dumbfounded, and the meaning of Zhao Wuxian's words was very clear: "Don't give me more power, don't want me to work harder." ”

But Sanhuan, especially the honorary ruling Ji clan, is no longer willing to make greater concessions in the distribution of power, he is also a prince of the Lu State, and the natural xenophobic nature of the clan makes Ji Sunsi not want to continue to sit in the West without mercy.

So this deal was handed over by Zhao Wuxian on his own initiative, hoping to make a profit without a fight, and the thieves and looters continued, Wuxian continued to play hide and seek with him, while Ji Sunsi was a vegetarian meal, and the Jian Mu in the cities around Daze was getting higher and higher.

In mid-May, Wuxian received a letter on hemp paper, but it was the handwritten letter of the eyeliner he left in Lucheng, and the content was about Confucius, the "wanton teacher".

After watching it, he said to Zhang Mengtan: "Although Confucius is not a new official, he has to burn three fires!" Ji's miscalculation, the spoiler is coming! (To be continued......)

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