After giving a lesson to Zhao Guangde and his cronies on the platform of the Pingqiu Society, it was almost evening, Zhao Wuxian and others got off the high platform, and everyone either turned on their horses or drove around, along the field path, out of the field, up to Tu Road, and went to Pingqiuyi.

Galloping horses on the road, the field moved back, the wind was blowing, and the spring was dazzling.

Thinking of what Zhao Wuxian said on the stage, everyone's thinking became farther and farther away, recalling all kinds of things that had happened in the past six months.

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After Lang Yaobing in May and June last year, anyone with a discerning eye could see that although Lu did not preside over an alliance meeting, the treaties delivered by pedestrians were signed one by one by the princes of Lu, Xiaoyi, Teng, Xue and other countries, they were equivalent to vassals of Lu State, and Zhao Wuxian became a little uncle of Sishang!

In July, after Ju and Lu reached a secret agreement to exchange land, looking south of Mount Tai, Lu had no worries, Zhao Wuxian put all his energy on the autumn harvest, this day, Lu people have been looking forward to it for a long time.

After Zhao Wuxian became the ruler of Qufu, he implemented the "abolition of the prefecture and the county", so that the power scattered in the hands of the doctors of each province was concentrated in the hands of the shogunate. He is no longer like Lu Hou and Qing doctors in the past, who are only satisfied with pretending to be in the cadastral fields at the beginning of spring, and completely free-range how the farmers farm.

The shogunate had its own government office in charge of agricultural affairs, and it took an attitude of active intervention, vigorously grasping agricultural production during the festival, and urging each prefecture to organize spring ploughing.

Not to mention that the great farmer Cheng Fan had to take a group of disciples who were born as farmers, teach them to read and write, and actively run around the country. In order to popularize the practical method of replacing fields in Xilu, Fan Xu carried out strict planning and deployment, first of all, to carry out technical training for the county agricultural officials "Qiangfu" and the township "Litian" and experienced old farmers, in addition to teaching the method of replacing fields, but also to give them iron agricultural tools and ploughshares, through these grassroots personnel to promote the new technology.

Through the efforts of agricultural officials. The townships of the five counties of Xilu first bid farewell to the backward wooden plows, and adopted coupling plows, hoes and other convenient agricultural tools, and the ploughing of two oxen and three people can be cultivated two and a half hectares, and the efficiency is equivalent to several times that of "one husband and one hundred acres" in the past!

In July and August, when millet and rice were ripe, Lu ushered in a long-lost bumper harvest.

The Shirota method has indeed achieved good results, and the total output per unit area has been increased. Originally, the flat cropping field that did not implement the substitution field yielded one stone of corn per mu, but after the implementation of the substitution method, the yield per mu increased to one and a half stones! Or even two stones!

According to the many documents in the storage room, Ji Qiao wrote an estimate to Zhao Wuxian, which briefly reads as follows: "The territory of the Lu State is thousands of miles in circumference, with a total of 900,000 hectares of land, and according to preliminary statistics, excluding the mountains, hills, forests, lakes and marshes, and seven-ninths of the settlements, there are still 200,000 acres of land, and the per capita is only more than 20 acres. ”

"In the past, the fields were cultivated. The yield per mu is one stone, and the farmers who are diligent will receive three buckets per mu, and those who are not diligent will be subtracted by three buckets. Therefore, in previous years, the annual harvest of the Lu State was seven or eight million stone millet, plus the remaining small amount of rice, millet, wheat, barley, soybeans, adzuki beans, hemp, etc., which were evenly distributed to the heads of each Lu people, and they could only barely satisfy their hunger. After reading it, Zhao Wuxian didn't wonder why Lu Guoli Shu had been in a state of half-hunger.

But last October, the clock was counted, and the overseas Chinese estimated. Add one piece of grain from the summer harvest and autumn harvest of Lu Kingdom, and it will be close to 10 million stones!

This is also because it is the Meng Territory and the Eastern Doctor, who have not implemented the county system, that have lowered the average value. The yield of farmland in Yuyi and Dongdi has not increased much.

Therefore, after the autumn harvest, the warehouse of grain and rice in the treasury of the eight counties of Lu State was full, and the people of Lu State tasted the fragrant and hot new rice happily, and the rejection of a foreigner from the Jin State to rule them was temporarily forgotten.

In this regard, the round-eyed Dongdi doctor did not react much, but the witty Meng family slaughtered the people when they began to run out. However, he resolutely decided to integrate the Meng territory, abolish the small towns, and merge them into "Yu County".

Seeing that the rule of the shogunate was becoming more and more stable, Mengsun Shuo, who had a mild-tempered temperament, also put away all his thoughts. He was willing to hand over all his military power in exchange for the Meng clan to retain the right to govern the people.

Being able to settle the Meng clan peacefully, Zhao Wuxian naturally readily agreed, and Zifu He immediately took office as the county magistrate of Yu County.

After collecting millions of stone in kind grain tax, Zhao Wuxian found that he had become rich overnight, and the Song State also began to repay the grain borrowed before in batches.

In August and September after the autumn harvest, Zhao Wuxian announced that he would formally reform the military establishment of Lu and re-establish the three armies!

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The state of Lu reached its heyday during the reign of Lu Xigong, known as a thousand times, with 30,000 apprentices.

But then, in order to weaken the power of the office, the Ji clan abolished the central army after dividing the people and soldiers of the office, and led the right army by himself, and the left army was divided equally between the Shusun clan and the Meng clan. In fact, the so-called Second Army of the Lu State is the private soldier recruited by Sanhuan.

But now, Zhao Wuxian has written to Lu Hou, believing that the national strength of Lu has been restored, and in order to conform to the due status of the "Kingdom of Zhou Gong", the three armies should be reset.

The "three armies" were organized on a county-by-county basis, with divisions, brigades, soldiers, divisions, and corps under their jurisdiction, all of which were matched with the grass-roots organizations of the county, township, pavilion, division, and army, and five men were selected for each of them to serve in turn. In peacetime, the village officials, pavilion chiefs, even chiefs, and army chiefs were military officials at all levels in wartime.

The Right Army is the most experienced of the three armies, composed of the people of the five counties of Zhao Wuxian's territory, with a total of more than 13,000 people, and five divisions under its jurisdiction, and its combat effectiveness is superior to that of the three armies.

The Chinese army is composed of soldiers from the four counties of Lu, Liangfu, Fei and Yu, with more than 12,000 soldiers and five divisions under its jurisdiction.

The left army is a miscellaneous army composed of doctors in the east, with no divisions under its jurisdiction, but brigades as units, each doctor provides a brigade, barely enough 10,000 people, and its combat effectiveness is the lowest among the three armies, and Zhao Wuxian does not expect them to come in handy.

The three armies had a total of 35,000 combat forces, all of whom were non-professional conscripts, who worked as farmers or laborers on weekdays and were called up in wartime.

And Zhao Wuxian's killer weapon, the martial soldier, has also completed his own expansion, from the original one division to two divisions, one division is composed of Song people, and the other division is composed of Lu people, these 5,000 elite soldiers belong to the standing professional soldiers!

Then there are those wanderers who are thieves and recruit soldiers, who are maintained in the first division, and on weekdays they are stationed in the fields around Onozawa on the border of Luwei, and once there is a police, they can fight with spears.

There is also a boatmaster in Onozawa. Under the construction of Xu Cheng, a boatman from Wu State, it was also faintly formed, and after the short-distance canal between Jishui, Pushui, and Dayozawa was dug through, those big wings, middle wings, small wings, and ships could go down the river at any time to threaten the Qi country!

Finally, there is a system of palace guards, Yi soldiers, and pavilion guards, which are responsible for public security in Qufu and various places.

The Meng clan and the Ji clan lost their military power and could not intervene at all. Zhao Wuxian is the supreme commander of the three armed forces. Moreover, the three armies did not set up formal generals, but in wartime, Ran Qiu, Yang Tongue Rong, and Tiger Hui were temporarily commanded as division commanders and held the festival of great generals.

After Mo Xie provided the technology, the iron production of several iron workshops in Taoqiu and the southern foot of Mount Tai was increasing day by day, and the iron spears produced every month could arm a brigade of people, and the rate of the Lu army increased significantly. It's just that the armor rate has been delayed because of the lack of leather in Ludi, but the development of iron armor is far away, so I can only weave some rattan armor and wooden armor, as for the paper armor that Zhao Wuxian has heard of in later generations. At present, the production of paper, which is still a luxury product, cannot be supported, and can only be said later.

In October last year, Zhao Wuxian, who had achieved the goal of "foot soldiers" and "enough food", began to formulate a war plan, because the forces established in Shandong could expand the territory and become stronger when attacking, and blindly defending the weak could only decline!

So the country of Lu, which was as docile as a little sheep in the past, actually began to show its minions, and it was the first to bear the brunt. Of course, he repeatedly betrayed the Jin State and was blacklisted by the Zhao family. The army is weak and vulnerable again!

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The war began in early October, and the state of Lu dispatched military soldiers and the Chinese army, together with the state of Song, which had pacified the internal turmoil, and the state of Cao, which wanted to expand its territory, to attack the state from the east.

And the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom, which had already been in contact, also forced the Handan clan to attack Puyang. Post Wu Zhengze crossed Jianjin and attacked Liyan in an attempt to capture a stronghold on the south bank of the Great River for Western Zhao.

None of them declared war, and they were caught off guard by surprise. As for why not declare war? The reason is very simple, Wei Guo never ceased war with Jin, Lu and Song. Wei Hou also repeatedly threatened to make Zhao Wuxian and Song Guo pay the price because of the male favorite son Chao and Nanzi not marrying, and he naturally did not need to be informed in advance if he was beaten.

Although Wei Guo has been in decline for many years, and has not regained the status of a great eastern power in the time of Wei Kang Shu and Wei Wugong, it is also a medium-sized state in the Jishui and Pushui basins. Sangjian Pushang is a rich land, with many cities and towns, rich economy, a population of more than 500,000, and two armies on the left and right.

But after being involved in the Jin and Qi hegemony, being pierced twice by Zhao Ying, and being seized by Zhao Wuxian, the cities of Weiguo were becoming more and more unbearable. Wei Hou Yuan also tried to send Gongzi Dynasty to intervene in the Song civil war, but the Gongzi Dynasty was humiliated in front of the two armies, and the three or four thousand people of Wei Guo were all buried and became serfs who opened up wasteland in the hills of Lu State.

Therefore, the less than 20,000 people left to defend the country suddenly lost an inch in the face of the sudden attack of the strong enemy from all sides. Mi Zibian was defeated again and almost died in the battle, but fortunately, Wang Sunjia reacted quickly and ran quickly, pulling the main force back to Puyang and preserving the vitality of the country.

Wei Hou was terrified, and hurriedly asked Qi Guo for help, Qi Hou was rumored to be sick, lived in the deep palace for a long time, and let Gao, Guo, Bao, and Chen Siqing be in charge of the government. Siqing was undecided, and finally sent an army to try to attack Lu and save the defense.

But it did not have any effect, there was a right army defense in the west of Lu State, and there were doctors from the east guarding Mount Tai in the east, and the Qi army without the determination to fight a decisive battle was not progressing smoothly, and was blocked by the Lu people, and could not go south to help.

With this delay, the Punan land of the defense of the country could not be saved, and the Pingqiu, Pu, Wufu, and Susi Yi were surrounded by the regiments of the United Army with superior military strength.

Inspired by the military merits, both the military and the Chinese army performed very well in the war, and everyone was eager to make meritorious contributions. In addition, the "Cloud Ladder", a new siege weapon made by Xiaogong Losing Ban, was used to siege the city, and the rammed earth walls that were only a few zhang high were broken before the heavy snowfall.

Under the auspices of Zhao Wuxian, Punandi was divided between Lu, Song, and Cao, Cao got Xu, Song got Wufu, and Pingqiu and Pu were controlled by Eastern Zhao and handed over to his trustworthy cousin Zhao Guangde to garrison.

(Change the setting, the original Punan is more appropriate to call Jixi, where Punan is located in the west of Cao State, north of Weiguo, and Lu does not border, which is the above four yi)

In the whole war, the Lu army suffered no more than 1,000 casualties, but killed and captured four times as many guards as himself, which was an unprecedented victory.

People are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden, and the people of Lu were too cowardly in the past, and they were often pressed to the ground and humiliated. However, after changing a Zhengqing and implementing the system of awarding fields for military merits, the originally timid peasants of Lu suddenly became angry and became invaders.

In short, in that half a year, General Zhao personally went down and taught the people of Lu this truth:

Although virtue is insufficient, it is available to all! Lile morality cannot solve the entanglement of interests, and in this world, it really depends on whose fists are hard enough!

PS: Chapter 2 in the afternoon (to be continued.) )