In April, the wheat has grown very high, and June is the wheat harvest season, and the time is getting closer and closer. Tao Ying knows that agriculture is the foundation of the past three years, but agriculture in this era is particularly underdeveloped, so if you want to support agriculture, you should take the lead in supporting agriculture, and Xuzhou will have new hope.

As a result, Tao Ying sold agricultural bonds at the newly established central bank, and the funds raised were used to build new large companies that could guide the development of traditional backward agriculture into a new agricultural era.

Walking out of Taoling Town, Tao Ying wanted to really see the real situation of agriculture in this era. In the farmland at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were peasant uncles everywhere, and they were killing insects.

There were no pesticides in this era, and after harvesting the wheat, the ploughs were ploughed straight instead of curved. The ground is not deep, there is no chemical fertilizer, many alkaline ones suddenly do not know how to neutralize the acid and alkali, and many clay and sandy soil are planted in fundamentally different ways, but the common people have very little.

The lack of mechanization has left a large number of people trapped on the land, which is also an important factor affecting the establishment of a large industrial era.

Because every household is constantly reclaiming the land, knocking down patches of barren forests and filling in useless ravines, Tao Ying's policy in recent years is to reclaim wasteland and farm. Because there is no fertilizer in the world and there are many insect pests, the family is generally not good.

There is no mechanization, and when the wheat is harvested, the whole family goes into battle to harvest it by hand. After the harvest is finished, it will be pulled to the field and the stone will be pulled by people to grind, so that after the wheat is harvested, I don't know how many days have passed.

Manpower is consumed on this, who can have time to work? I usually don't harvest wheat, and I catch insects at home, and I am busy weeding, etc. No, agriculture needs a big change!

In the face of the decision of the farmland Taoying, the task in the second half of the year is to focus on reforming agriculture, and his task is to stop writing books about the first industrial revolution, change to the writing of agricultural books, and then strengthen the construction of agriculture. In order to be able to unify management and reform, Tao Ying still decided to take the road of company management, that is, the establishment of Xuzhou Agricultural Corporation!

Xuzhou Agricultural Corporation is also divided into three parts, the first part is the Xuzhou Agricultural School, Agricultural Technology Research Institute as its agricultural tools, fertilizers, pesticides production and research and development departments. They are responsible for researching the land in different parts of Xuzhou, which they then use to make more suitable fertilizers, and then replace them with new farming tools. The new farming tools should be prepared to be written in their new book, and they are responsible for putting them into practice.

After researching chemical fertilizers and farm tools, Tao Ying asked him to set up agricultural factories, fertilizer factories, farm tool production plants and other manufacturers in various parts of Xuzhou. Then sell it at the cost price in Xuzhou, and keep reducing transportation costs and various costs, so that every household can really use chemical fertilizers.

How can I reduce my shipping costs? Tao Ying still allows each county to produce locally, so there is no need to ship it to various places after it is produced in Pengcheng. In this way, it not only saves transportation costs, but also promotes local economic development and solves employment problems.

Time passed little by little, in May, when the central bank had entered the trial operation stage, Xuzhou Agricultural Corporation also held an unveiling ceremony in Pengcheng.

June is the wheat harvest season, so Xuzhou has begun to enter the busy farming period again, and all the work at this time revolves around the wheat harvest.

The common people have to harvest wheat, the state has to collect public grain, and Xuzhou has a lot of military reclamation land, and half of the soldiers have to harvest wheat for their next year's grain and grass. So everywhere is busy, and when it gets busy here, bandits, mountain bandits, and robbers also start to be active everywhere.

In order to crack down on banditry, Tao Ying was going to organize a force that was good at mountain warfare, and the task of this group was to encircle and suppress mountain bandits in Xuzhou.

Thinking about it, the generals who can be used around him are all stationed in important places, who can take on this task? Just when Tao Ying was in trouble, Zhuge Jin came from Pengcheng to visit Tao Ying, and seeing Tao Ying's unhappy face, Zhuge Jin asked a little puzzled: "Lord, this year Xuzhou is a bumper harvest year, and the grain harvested this year is enough for Xuzhou for three years, but why is the lord depressed?" ”

Tao Ying told Zhuge Jin what he thought in his heart, and Zhuge Jin hurriedly recommended a general, and that would be He Qi, the general of Zhuge Jin's subordinates who was appointed by Tao Ying as a partial general!

Speaking of He Qi, Tao Ying suddenly remembered, isn't the process of He Qi's development in history exactly the suppression of bandits? He exterminated bandits everywhere in the six counties of Jiangdong, and stationed in Fujian for a generation, so that the southerners did not dare to rebel, and assessed the civil strife when Sun Quan was out, why didn't he let him be his peacekeeper?

Zhuge Jin recommended the general He Qi, and in June, Tao Ying recruited He Qi and gave He Qi 2,000 military horses to go around to suppress bandits. Hearing that the lord let him go to suppress the bandits, although He Qi was very happy, he refused the soldiers and horses given by Tao Ying.

It is now three years of peace, and without war, there will be no military industry, and there will be no promotion. However, the suppression of bandits is meritorious, and it is easier to suppress bandits than the regular army. However, He Qi knew the difficulty of the mountain bandits in the south, so they hid in the mountains, and the northern military horses given by Tao Ying were all good at fighting in the plains!

He Qi knelt down and asked Tao Ying to let him go to the south to recruit athletes who were good at mountain warfare and then go to suppress the bandits, Tao Ying asked him what he wanted, and He Qi begged beside him: "Please give me a token so that I can mobilize local military horses to assist where there are mountain bandits in each county." ”

Tao Ying nodded and named He Qi as the general of the bandits, and the generals of the bandits were not under the jurisdiction of the military department and were directly led by themselves. Moreover, Tao Ying also gave He Qi a letter that he could recruit troops in Xuzhou, and then gave a letter of cooperation from all over the country. In order to be able to fight against the bandits with more than 10,000 trees and really settle down in Xuzhou, Tao Ying also made up his mind and gave He Qi an amount of 5,000 recruits, and there was no limit to the types of troops.

Tao Ying asked when he would be able to eliminate nearly 30 bandits in Xuzhou, and He Qi thought about it and said that it would take five years. Five years seems to be a bit long, so Tao Ying said: "Five years is too long, maybe five years will I continue to fight, and when the time comes, the general will continue to suppress bandits, so I only give the general three years to exterminate thirty bandits in Xuzhou!" ”

For three years, He Qi frowned a little. It's not that he doesn't have this ability, and there are many mountains in the south of Xuzhou, and there are many mountains in the northern generation, so I don't know how long I have to find them just to go over the mountains and mountains to start a war. And after recruiting the military horses by yourself, you still need a year of training, and it is impossible to send the soldiers and horses to death after recruiting them!

"My lord, in three years, I am afraid that the end will not be competent. It takes a year to train soldiers, and if the lord wants to fight quickly, he will be able to train his soldiers and horses for three months, and then go into suppress small groups of bandits and water thieves while training the army. The end will live in the south for a long time, there are not only mountain bandits and many water thieves in the south, if these are levied, the Erlang must be trained on both the water and the ground, so the end will ask for another year, four years, Xuzhou bandits can be leveled! ”

After He Qi finished speaking, Tao Ying nodded. He Qi is at least a sincere person, he can build a soldier for himself who can be used both land and water, and he will naturally give him better treatment.

So in order to stabilize his rear, Tao Ying helped He Qi up and said: "You are training a special military horse for me, four years will be four years, in order to be able to stabilize the rear, I will give you the banner of the Eagle Army, and it will be my second Tianzi military horse in Xuzhou in the future, I hope you can cherish it!" ”