At this time, Yuan Shuxing tens of thousands of soldiers, wanted to recapture Shouchun, but in Hefei, encountered Ganning hundred cavalry robbery camp, just like that generation of Sun Quan encountered Zhang Liao, defeated and returned, Ganning Chaohu water army successfully defended Shouchun, until the people in the northern part of Huainan all migrated to Runan, Yiyang.

Tai Shici and Ma Zhong's second generals successfully subdued more than 4,000 remnants of Liu Xuan, and under the escort of the Ganning Naval Division, they entered directly from Jiangxia County and returned to Yiyang County.

Huang Zu sent his son Huang Shot and the general Su Fei to lead the troops to stop them, but they were defeated by Tai Shici.

Cao Cao was born, Liu Biao'an was born, and this July was born.

Wei Yan's men and horses were tired from fighting for a long time, and they had to reorganize the army and resume production, so they did not continue to use troops against Jingzhou.

Wei Yan beat Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao to pieces, which greatly shocked the forces of the Quartet, especially Zhang Xiu, and finally convinced, so that Wei Yan's power was not only limited to the three counties of Yiyang, but also Jingzhaoyin, Fengyi County, Hongnong County, and Henan County.

Moreover, he also sent the general Chen Zhi to lead the troops to capture the Shangyong counties in the upper reaches of the Han River, set up Shangyong County, and appointed Chen Zhi as the Taishou of Shangyong County.

Today's Wei Yan has eight counties, and his power is no longer under Cao Cao and Liu Biao.

As long as it develops steadily for one year and the foundation is stable, it will be a posture that sweeps all directions!

Since then, the eight counties of Yiyang have entered a period of quiet development.

Occasionally, Wei Yan settled accounts with some so-called neutral families who colluded with rebel families and hostile forces.

However, there are not many families who have been settled by the Autumn Queen, and the families who have reached a cooperation alliance with Wei Yan have all obtained a place in the local county government for their elite children as they wish.

Of course, most of these positions were vacated after the death of the children of the rebellious families who did not know how to cherish them.

Wei Yan made a clear principle, unless there are particularly military talents of the children of the family, the ordinary children of the family can only be civil officials, and this civil official cannot hold financial power and supervision power.

Although Wei Yan never wrote it in black and white, he always insisted on assigning military power, financial power, and supervision power to the children of Hanshu, who had no foundation and could only be loyal to him, such as Xu Shu, Xu Huang and others.

Those families who signed a cooperation agreement with Wei Yan were intimidated by Wei Yan's military prestige after getting the official position, and they were willing to pay for the grain in one piece.

Although Wei Yan's tax collection is only one mu and two buckets, the eight counties have a total of 30 million mu of cultivated land, and they can also collect 6 million stone of grain, plus nearly 5 million mu of tuntian, and the grain that can be collected is probably 10 million stone, of course, this is a more ideal algorithm.

Because of the invasion of Cao Cao and Liu Biao, the raging rebellion of the family and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, the grain in various places was greatly affected, and the fertile fields in many places were trampled or harvested or even burned by the enemy, and the yield was reduced by half.

According to Wei Yan's calculations, one stone of wheat in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was about equal to 30 jin in later generations, and 9 million stone wheat was about 270 million jin in later generations.

Of course, Wei Yan was able to call on more than these nine million stones.

Around October last year, Wei Yan purchased a large number of wheat seeds from all over the country, allowing the people to plant wheat widely.

During this period, the people were more accustomed to planting millet, millet is the legendary millet, millet is drought-tolerant than wheat, and there is no need to be so carefully served, so the people prefer to plant millet and do not like wheat, and there is much resistance to Wei Yan's orders.

Wei Yan first asked the people from all over the country to elect representatives and came to Yiyang New Town, Wei Yan explained to them that wheat can be ground into flour, which can be made into bread, steamed buns, biscuits, cakes, noodles, fritters, oil cakes, fire burnt cakes, pancakes, dumplings, fried dumplings, buns, wontons and other foods, especially after being made into steamed buns, it is easy to carry as dry food, which is conducive to marching, and as long as wheat is cultivated properly, the yield is easy to increase.

On the other hand, millet is domesticated from wild dogtail grass, although it is drought resistant and barren, suitable for planting in arid areas, it can be sown in spring and summer, it was once the first food in the north, but its yield is very low, in the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty without chemical fertilizer and hybrid technology, its yield is difficult to break through one hundred and twenty catties, and the yield of wheat is definitely higher than that of millet as long as it is well served.

These representatives of the people went to various counties and counties to convey Wei Yan's concept of heavy wheat, and after their patient explanation, the people around the country successively accepted that wheat is better than millet, and went to various government offices to receive free wheat seeds, according to Han Hao (this person has been subdued by Wei Yan, the routine is the same, there is no need to repeat), Shi Tao and other agronomists taught the wheat yield planting method, deep roots, extensive application of specially treated farmhouse green manure, and then water conservancy irrigation.

Summer is coming, and the golden wheat waves are rolling on the fertile land of the eight counties of Yiyang.

It could have harvested 150 million stones, but due to the impact of the war, only 110 million stones, or about 3.3 billion catties, were harvested.

These 3.3 billion catties of wheat seem like a lot, but in fact, the population of the entire Han Dynasty was nearly 60 million at its peak, the cultivated land area was nearly 600 million mu at the most, and the average grain yield per mu was three stones and five buckets, which was equivalent to about 110 catties, and the highest output of the entire Han Dynasty exceeded 60 billion catties, and the 3.3 billion catties were only one-twentieth of the peak output period of the Han Dynasty.

The total population of the eight counties of Yiyang accounts for one-ninth of the largest population of the Han Dynasty, and it can be inferred from this that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the grain production of the eight counties of Yiyang, of course, provided that there is no war or famine.

There are about 7 million people in the eight counties of Yiyang, each person eats an average of 300 catties a year, they take into account the millet in the second half of the year, and only leave the wheat to be eaten in the next two years and the seeds of the next year to pay the grain tax, and there are more than 500 million catties of wheat left, most of which are taken out for sale in exchange for money to buy other daily necessities, such as buying a piece of cloth to make a new clothes.

Wei Yan took advantage of the bumper harvest and the sharp drop in grain prices to buy grain frantically, in addition to some families hoarding more than 200 million catties of wheat, Wei Yan purchased more than 300 million catties of wheat, plus the grain taxes collected, Wei Yan now controls 600 million catties of wheat.

The millet planted in the summer has been sown, and the military officials have calculated that Wei Yan's existing men and horses and the people that Wei Yan has to feed for the time being will need to consume more than 150 million catties of wheat in the five months before the autumn millet harvest.

Wei Yan now has 300,000 horses under his command, including 100,000 regular troops and 200,000 garrison soldiers.

The soldiers in the tuntian are sufficient for self-sufficiency, and only 100,000 people really have to use the wheat stockpile, and each person will eat about one and a half catties of flour milled from two catties of wheat and other meat, vegetables, and soy products a day, and about 30 million catties of wheat in the next five months.

War horses do not need to be fed wheat, but barley and red beans, these crops cannot occupy fertile fields, and are planted on the edge of wasteland and on the slopes of mountains.