Since the autumn of the third year of Zhongping, Li Zheng has been busy in this era, laying the foundation for the grassland, as if he can never stop.

I don't think about it now, but it's rare to have a few months of leisurely time.

From a false alarm at the beginning of the year to spring sowing in March, another four months have passed now, and it seems that it is almost August. In the past four months or so, Li Zheng's power has developed extremely rapidly.

First of all, the soldiers and horses under his command have just broken through the 10,000 mark, and the number of armorers has reached eighty, that is, the terrifying number of eight thousand!

With this power in hand, Li Zheng's confidence is getting stronger and stronger.

Therefore, of course, the two counties near Lingzhou - the west of Lingzhou, Lian County across the river and Fuping south of Lingzhou - were all included in Li Zheng's palm!

With the addition of Baishuichuan, the territory area controlled by Li Zheng has reached a radius of nearly three hundred miles!

Within this radius of 300 miles, the number of households with a population of more than 25,000, plus the captives of the Qianren who served Li Zheng free of charge, totaled a little more than 100,000 people!

Feeding 100,000 people is no small matter.

Fortunately, Lingzhou and Fuping counties have just harvested spring-sown wheat, and Li Zheng has received a large amount of grain, and it is not too difficult to share a cheap county.

At the same time, this year's winter wheat will also begin to be sown in the three counties ruled by Li Zheng in a maximum of one month. This sowing is mainly based on ginseng wheat.

Of the 60,000 mu of ginseng wheat planted last winter, except for the 10,000 mu that fell into the hands of Lingzhou Haoqiang, the remaining 50,000 mu of harvest is all for the present.

The 50,000 acres of ginseng wheat harvested as seeds can fully meet the needs of the three counties, and there is still a lot of surplus. It can be expected that after this winter, by next summer, no one within the scope of Li Zheng's rule will go hungry!

Of course, because of the special requirements for the growth of ginseng wheat, in order to maintain the soil strength and make the ginseng wheat can be harvested all the time, Li Zheng also gave a special order.

Within the scope of his rule, the sowing of ginseng wheat must be carried out alternately in spring and autumn.

Explain in detail that if a piece of land is sown in spring this year, it is not allowed to be sown in the winter of this year and the spring of the following year, and it is necessary to wait until the winter of the following year to plant winter wheat.

The demand for soil and water is too high, and if the seeds are sown continuously, the soil fertility of a field will drop rapidly, and in the end, it will be barren and almost impossible to grow anything.

Therefore, correspondingly, it is also necessary to do a good job in the construction of fertile land and water conservancy projects.

Fertilizing the land is simple, and the excrement of people, poultry, and animals, or the ashes of plants, trees, and trees can be done. In terms of water conservancy, it is a large project, which requires a huge investment of manpower and material resources.

Of course, Li Zheng has never relaxed in this regard. After taking Lian County and Fuping into his palm, Li Zheng is doing this work.

Fortunately, the land in the three counties is fertile and close to the big river, otherwise it would not be possible to grow crops such as ginseng wheat with high soil fertility for a long time.

Agriculture is thriving, on an equal footing, and even animal husbandry, which is more important to Li Zheng, is thriving.

The Baishui River, a radius of 100 miles, is now full of thatch. The lush thatched grass sets off this grassland picturesquely.

Cattle, sheep and horses, all kinds of war horses, all grow and reproduce freely in this fertile land.

The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep, and the vitality makes people feel refreshed.

Some of the livestock, such as cattle and sheep, raised in the Baishuichuan pasture is used for civilian use. After Li Zheng completely mastered the three counties, every household was given a ploughing ox and three sheep.

In just this moment, tens of thousands of bullocks and hundreds of thousands of sheep were consumed by Li Zheng.

Of course, this is not for free. Regarding the inferior nature of human beings, Li Zheng is clear in his heart. The so-called Shengmi En's fight against rice hatred is not an easy task if it is too good for people, but it will make people uneasy. On the contrary, if it is conditional, people will find it more reasonable.

This ploughing ox and three sheep must be repaid to Li Zheng in the form of taxes after the harvest is obtained.

In addition to this part, the main use of livestock such as cattle and sheep is to provide raw materials for forging centers.

Under the Huns, the hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses harvested were indeed too rich for Li Zheng.

Not only can it easily meet the needs of the people's livelihood under the rule, but also meet the demand for leather in the forging center at this stage, and it has also obtained tens of thousands of slaves who have contributed labor without compensation, which is simply a good thing to kill three birds with one stone.

For example, the red jade bird and the echinoderm pig.

The combination of these two types of guò system is a special war horse that is widely preferred by the upper class of the Northland counties because of its delicious taste and nutritional value. The Shenzhou Commercial Bank presided over by Zhou Lin always opens up new markets and takes these two specialties as pioneers, which is always invincible!

Under Li Zheng's attention, these two more important livestock have developed extremely rapidly with the help of the wonderful function of growth accelerators.

Today, there are more than 20,000 red jade birds, and more than 10,000 eggs are laid every day. The growth of echinoderm pigs was slower, slightly more than 3,000.

At this stage of the development of the base of the red jade bird population, with the anti-heaven effect of the biological growth accelerator, a batch of cubs can be hatched every seven days, and if this continues, within this year, the entire Baishui River will almost be occupied by the red jade bird!

Therefore, Li Zheng has begun to open the breeding of red jade birds to the three counties and some ordinary people.

Of course, this is not without conditions. Especially for the wealthy.

Li Zheng's purpose is very clear, which is to take this opportunity to disarm the family soldiers of the powerful and powerful!

To get the Jade Bird cubs, you can, disarm the family soldiers first, otherwise there is no way. Moreover, the powerful families who refuse to disarm their families will not only not get the opportunity to raise red jade birds, but also cut off the opportunity to grow ginseng wheat!

But it's not easy to do that.

In this kind of world, although the three counties under Li Zheng's jurisdiction are very peaceful and peaceful, who knows how long this situation will last? It is better to rely on no one than on yourself, and the strength in your hands is the key.

Therefore, the vast majority of Haoqiang would rather be cut off by Li Zheng from the opportunity to plant ginseng wheat than disarm their family soldiers.

This made Li Zheng helpless at the same time, but also sneered in his heart.

He is not in a hurry, and there will be an opportunity to rectify these powerful families in the future. After those hard-line powerful families saw that those cooperators had obtained eye-popping benefits from them, when Li Zheng was so strong that they felt that they could not compete, they would naturally come to Li Zheng.

The system is produced and must be a high-quality product. Li Zheng has absolute confidence in the red jade bird and the echinoderm pig!

Shenzhou grassland, evening.

At the top of the hill where Li Zheng usually practiced martial arts, Xun You and Li Zheng stood side by side, quietly watching the sunset in the distance. The red and bright clouds reflect the earth, mountains and rivers, and the magnificence makes people intoxicated.

"A few months have passed, Mr. Gongda, what do you think now?"

A few months ago, Li Zheng also asked Xun Yu like this.

Xun You's long body was as tall as a pine, his hands were behind his back, and his wide sleeved robe swayed slightly against the wind. The jade hairpin with a bun on the top of the head looks a little dazzling in the sunset.

Hearing this, he turned his face slightly, glanced at Li Zheng, and then fell on the sunset on the horizon.

After a while, he said: "The day before yesterday, Xun went to the mining area to take a look, and the ore production efficiency of each mining area in the Helan Mountain branch has been improved to the limit. ”

As he spoke, he paused and said, "The number of mineral-eating beasts has reached the level that should be contained, and unless a new mine is opened, it is completely sufficient." ”

"Ugh"

Hearing Xun You's answer, Li Zheng couldn't help but feel helpless, his face was full of expression, but he bowed his head slightly: "Mineral-eating beasts reproduce very quickly, as long as there are enough mineral deposits, they can reproduce indefinitely." But Mr. Gongda may not know that this special war horse, on the premise of no mineral deposits, will eliminate the old and weak on its own. So there is no need for human containment, as long as there are no mineral deposits, they will automatically shrink the population. ”

"I see."

Xun You smiled and said, "Xun's time in the Shenzhou grassland is not short, but many times there is always a feeling of loneliness. ”

Between the words, there was some self-deprecation.

"Don't say you, it's me, why not sometimes?" Li Zheng couldn't help laughing.

As the master of the system, Li Zheng consciously still stays in the initial stage of understanding the system. Every time a new function option appears, a new war horse, the system will not give a detailed explanation, he needs to understand it himself, and even in the process of using the finished product, he can learn information that he did not know before.

"Mr. Gongda," Li Zheng asked again: "You haven't answered Li's question just now." ”

When Xun You heard this, the expression on his face did not change at all, and said, "What's the problem?" ”

"You!"

Li Zheng raised his eyebrows, glared at him, and said, "I'll just ask, when are you willing to do things for me?" ”

"Hasn't this been doing things for you all the time?"

Li Zheng was helpless: "Okay, okay, let's talk about it later, I'll talk about it later." But I'll tell you, it's better to make a decision early! My Li Zheng's current power is not small, and when I make a name for myself, the talents will come to vote one after another, don't say that I didn't give you a chance at that time! ”

Xun Yu was speechless.

Why is this man so dead-eyed? Could it be that the talents produced by the Xun family are all with this temper? Li Zheng shook his head, turned around and slowly walked down the mountain.

Just walked a few steps, but suddenly stiffened, one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, the whole person was stunned!

"Lord!"

"What?!"

Li Zheng echoed this title in his mind, and it took a long time to look back, his face was tense, he stepped over in a few steps, grabbed Xun You's sleeve, and said loudly: "Say it again!" ”

Xun You's face showed a solemnity that Li Zheng had never seen before, he broke free of Li Zheng's hand, took a few steps back, flicked his big sleeves, and bowed to Li Zheng: "The lord is above, please bow to Xun You!" ”

Under the sunset, Li Zheng stretched out his hands and froze there, Xun You bent over and arched his hands, motionless.

After a long time, a loud laugh like a ghost crying wolf came from the hills, which made the people in the entire grassland startled.

"Hahahawow roar"

Li Zheng roared, his face was excited and excited, it was indescribable, and he hurriedly helped Xun You, who was already suffering from back pain, and laughed: "Okay, okay, Li has finally waited for this day!" Xun Gongda, your choice is extremely correct, look at it, Lao Tzu Li Zheng will definitely reign in the world, you Xun Gongda is the first prime minister of the ages! ”

Xun You looked at the excited Li Zheng, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl.