Chapter 209 Fierce Troops and Horses, Prepare for War
Time flies like a white horse, and three months have passed in a flash.
Because of the rebellion in Longxi, this year's tax revenue for the whole year, less than half of previous years, most of the wheat in the field was plundered by Wudu soldiers and horses and the Qiang people, and the losses were quite heavy.
So under the supervision of Zheng Hun, the counties carried out a series of agricultural activities in full swing, persuading farmers, borrowing seeds, preparing cattle, weeding and preparing the land, dredging ditches and so on, and so on, and the difference from previous years is that this year there is a new method, under the suggestion of Cai Yong, Zheng Hun borrowed more than 10,000 soldiers from Lu Bu, and sent them to reclaim wasteland with the people in Shangdi to Xiangwu, and cultivate mulberry bamboo and winter wheat.
As a result of these agricultural activities, the territory of Hanyang is full of green wheat fields, and it is expected that there will be a good harvest in the coming year.
In terms of military affairs, according to the actual situation of each general and Jia Xu's consultation, Lu Bu assigned them all to be stationed in various counties, on the one hand, to supervise the local county officials, on the other hand, to train soldiers and horses, and more importantly, to prevent the bandits from wandering in Hanyang.
In the second half of this year, Zheng Hun and Lu Bu were the busiest in Hanyang, clearing out bandits, running counties, controlling public security in counties, collecting grain, and recruiting soldiers. It's training the new army again, and there are almost no days of stopping, and it's very busy, but Lu Bu is a little more relaxed, these things are still supported by Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Cheng Yu, and Li Ru, and many generals are very reassuring to Lu Bu, and they don't need Lu Bu to supervise them one by one, but Zheng Hun is different, although he also has Cai Yong's help, but he is still busy with his feet hitting the back of his head, and he personally inspects the newly reclaimed farmland, and deploys various things such as grain seeds, ploughing cattle, preparing land, and dredging ditches in various counties, and he is almost not seen in Hanyang.
In winter. Chen Gong is worried that after the spring next year, due to the lack of food, a large number of people and displaced people will enter the mountains to do crimes, but from a small point of view, the situation is not as bad as Chen Gong thought.
It turned out that Jia Xu had thought of this, in order to prevent the people and homeless people from entering the mountains to do the tricks, from the beginning of autumn, Lu Bu began to arrange, successively sent some soldiers and horses into the mountains, seized the dangerous places in Hanyang, firmly guarded, blocked the roads between the mountains and the county seat, and let Cheng Lian and Wei Yue take turns patrolling in Hanyang, and Zheng Hun also increased his efforts in disaster relief.
Several aspects are combined, so after the beginning of spring, there was no large-scale people, displaced people into the mountains to do the Kou, of course, the stars scattered into the Kou, the people and the displaced people are still there, but in Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and the joint attack of the generals stationed in the counties, those wandering bandits were all broken, and they did not become the climate and died.
In the surrounding counties of Longxian, because of the army of Lu Bu in the south, the situation seems to be good, and there are no ordinary people and homeless people engaged in the activities of bandits, but the warriors and Yuzhong thousands of miles away from Longxian County are not optimistic.
The warriors of the north and the elm begin in autumn. The county is becoming more and more chaotic day by day, all counties are short of grain, and the powerful landlords have grain, but most of them hold it in their hands and refuse to take it out, the county has no grain relief, and the life of the displaced and poor people is becoming more and more unbearable.
I heard that the most scarce food was the warriors, and the powerful landlords there believed that they were in the most remote areas of Hanyang County, and they were not subject to Lü Bu's jurisdiction, and whenever Zheng Hun sent officials to urge, they prevaricated on various grounds.
It is precisely because it is located at the junction of Hanyang and Jincheng that the powerful landlords of the warriors have nothing to fear, and they are not afraid of the soldiers and horses in Lu Bu's hands, as long as Lu Bu dares to send a large army to suppress it, they will not hesitate to take refuge in Han Sui and raise troops to resist Lu Bu.
After a winter, the warriors went to the Yuzhong area, two or three of the five civilians and homeless people froze to death and starved to death, the situation in the county was slightly better, out of the county town and went to the countryside, the situation along the way can be described as miserable, the corpses were clogged up, the starvation was all over the roadside, the fields, the pavilion, there were too many dead, the county did not even have enough manpower to bury the corpses, so they could only be exposed to the wilderness, and became the belly of wild dogs and jackals.
The displaced people and common people who survived the winter could no longer endure hunger and cold, and they did not care about the laws and regulations of the king, so in order to have a way to live, they took risks in groups, or gathered in the mountains and forests, plundered passers-by, or gathered in groups to attack the grange.
There are soldiers and horses in the county, and the desperate homeless and poor people do not dare to attack the county seat for the time being, but if the shortage of food is not alleviated in time, I am afraid that this day will not be far away, so at the suggestion of Chen Gong, Lu Bu ordered Cheng Lian and Wei Yue to post notices in the counties where these bandit activities are more rampant, if the people who enter the Kou want to live, they will come to Longxian to join the army, otherwise when the spring passes, Lu Bu will be overwhelmed by the army.
Under the envy of the army of Lu Bu and the offensive, many villagers who entered the Kou have held a huge migration, for a while, Longxian County has become the holy place that the displaced people yearn for, they bring the old to help the young, the family migrates, after a long journey, they finally came to Longxian, Luoyang, Jieting area.
And Lu Bu did not break his promise, under the call of Yang Fu and Jiang Xu, various families have opened warehouses to help the homeless, Lu Bu among these homeless people, selected 20,000 hardcover people to supplement the camps, the rest of the homeless, poor Lu Bu did not ignore, under the instruction of Lu Bu, Zheng Hun led the soldiers to help them reclaim wasteland, build houses, cultivate fields, and let these homeless people settle in Longxian for a while.
Lü Bu also specially selected 5,000 strong men who specialized in Orion from among the displaced people, and formed a tiger and leopard battalion with the recruited Qiang people, implying that they were as fierce as tigers, swift as leopards, and as sharp as wolves.
After all this, it was already March of the following year, during which although Lu Bu was very busy, he would also go home from time to time to visit his wife and children.
Now Lu Lingqi and Huang Wudie are fourteen years old, and they are much taller than ordinary girls, and under the guidance of Ma Chao, their martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds. Zhang Xiu felt guilty after learning of this situation, he originally promised Lu Bu to teach Lu Lingqi marksmanship, but due to the tight war, he has not found time to teach Lu Lingqi new marksmanship, struggling in his heart for a few days, in order to make up for his mistakes, so he drew the marksmanship of the bird Chaofeng gun, so that the fast horse was handed over to Lu Bu, Lu Lingqi and Huang Wudie have a gun spectrum, their marksmanship is more perfect, and the lethality is sharper than before, at least they can now walk more than ten rounds in Ma Chao's hands.
Just when Lu Bu was sharpening his knives and fighting his horses, Pang De happened to come back from Xiqiang, and at the same time, a shocking news came from the direction of Chang'an: Dong Zhuo died.