Chapter 70: Final Preparations
In the sixth year of Zhongping, on February 15, the spring breeze blew through the land of Jizhou, and the sky was clear, so it was a good season to warm up.
Gaoyi county west and school field.
Wen Chou stood outside the school grounds, looking at this group of elite soldiers lined up solemnly! There was a sense of pride in my heart.
Liu Zhong was in front of the entire army, standing tall and majestic. Wen Ba is located in front of the right side of the entire army, holding a spear and wearing black light armor, which is majestic and majestic. Li Ji is located in front of the left side of the entire army, holding the sword according to the sword, and the armor is close to him, and he is heroic!
In addition to the three, the entire army was divided into eight columns. On the contrary, there is a military marquis standing in front of the queue, that is, the length of this song team! Every one of them in an ordinary army can be a Sima. The elite of Wen Chou's army is here!
Wen Chou's visit this time was a pre-review. In the near future, there will also be a large-scale review ceremony, which is also a ceremony for the army. The departure ceremony of sending troops to the house and defeating Guo Daxian.
In addition, Wen Chou naturally had to go to the school outside the city to inspect the Gaoyi county soldiers led by Lu Liang and Dong Zhi. There are 3,000 soldiers and horses there, and they are the backbone of Gaoyi County's military force! It is the mainstay of the ugly forces!
Now, these three thousand soldiers and horses are almost equal in other aspects except for the equipment that is slightly inferior to the thousand six elites led by Liu Zhong. But there is no possibility of further growth, and this is where their limit lies. Or after a series of bloody battles, their combat power will grow slightly, becoming more bloodthirsty and more cold, but there is a limit, which is limited by their own qualifications.
But Liu Zhong's Thousand Six Elite is not, they still have a lot of room for improvement. These soldiers are all existences that can grow into hundred-man generals, after experiencing the training of the battlefield. to be able to fully exploit their potential. When they were recruited, they were the most physically fit part. They are the future of the ugly forces. The backbone of the future.
As for the Taolin soldiers and the Pingjian County soldiers, there is no need for Wen Chou to run a military parade, and when the time comes, Dong Jiang, Yan Liang and others will personally lead the army to participate in Wen Chou's final military parade. Begin to march towards the house county. Reclaim the land of a county again! Make the prestige of Wen Chou spread throughout the land of Jizhou!
Such a day is not too far away, and more than ten days have passed, the fields under the jurisdiction of Pingjian and Gaoyi counties have returned to green for a long time, and some of them will have appeared to sit on the ears, in addition to the abundant rain and snow in the middle of winter in the past, so that the fields are rich in water, and this is another harvest season.
As long as another month or two passes, Wen Chou will have another grain input. It can replenish his current slightly empty granary, and provide the most powerful guarantee for future wars. At present, there is less than 100,000 stone of grain in his stumbling. In one year, millions of stone of grain were consumed, some of which were donated to the displaced people in Xin'an, and some of them were transported to other counties for trading.
In this era of war, Wen Chou dared to trade so much grain stock, which shows that Wen Chou attaches great importance to trading and is confident that the grain under his jurisdiction will be bumper in the next season. With Wenchou's huge grain reserves, there are 40,000 or 50,000 people who choose you to settle down in Gaoyi County, otherwise. How could Wen Chou's subordinates surge the population of such gambling! It's really ugly, and there is a guarantee of food here! People take food as the sky, this is an ancient saying!
It won't be a few months before another harvest can be won. And this season's harvest is definitely much more than its harvest in Shahe Township! Because the population, fields, tools, etc., under its jurisdiction are all several times stronger than before.
Not to mention anything else, in terms of population, the peak population of Wenchou in Shahe Township was only 30,000 people, five or six thousand households, and the land that could be reclaimed was only more than 600,000 mu! At present, the population under the jurisdiction of the following ugly is close to 200,000. That's more than six times as much! Naturally, they will be able to cultivate six times as much land!
According to the average output of two stones of grain per acre of land, it is also more than 7 million stones! This Chinese ugly does not extract, because it spends so much thought and invests so much financial resources to help the people of the county and the people of Xin'an to cultivate land and harvest. He took half of them, and these Qianshou people would not have any opinions.
In addition, one acre and two stones of secretly inferior land are not common in the jurisdiction of Wenchou, because Wenchou also implemented a lot of policies to benefit the people during this year, especially in water conservancy, fertile land, breeding and other aspects. Not to mention anything else, it is not a problem to reach a yield of four stones per acre. In this way, the annual output of the entire Wenchou jurisdiction is 15 million stones.
Among the 1,500 stone of grain, Wen Chou took 700 stone of grain from it as the income from the investment he made this year, so it should not be a problem. After the next year, Wen Chou's harvest of grain for the county residents will not be such a large share, and it will return to the ordinary situation of 20 draws and 1 draw, which is the situation of Wen Chou's government.
Although in the first year, Wenchou extracted nearly half of the grain production, but for the people of Qianshou, they still benefited a lot, because their overall output went up, and their grain planting and harvesting were guaranteed, and they were no longer under the threat of 'man-made disasters' at all times.
Such a bumper harvest is not only Wen Chou, but also Huangfu Song, the former left-hand cavalry general who gave Jingzhou three million stone of grain on credit the year before last, also had a lot of harvests. Thanks to his generosity, the entire Jizhou and the state have accommodated as many as three or four hundred thousand displaced people! As a result, the situation of thieves and robberies in the two states has been alleviated to a great extent.
These homeless people don't have high requirements, but they can have some food and some clothing. But before that, they could not sustain these basic things of life, or they were plundered by other thieves, or looted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials at the top! How could they not rebel in such a situation? How can you not conquer the city? For nothing else, a chance to survive.
Now that the Emperor Fu has given them this opportunity, they will naturally not raise the banner of righteousness again. Wen Chou has given some of them a better life and better choices, so they will be loyal to Wen Chou and praise Wen Chou. It's as simple as that.
In addition, the Emperor Fu Gong also did his old job, led the army to suppress some of the rebels in Hanoi, and deserved to be one of the three famous generals of the empire today, the shot was extraordinary, and the effect was very immediate. In the ears of thieves, there has long been such a saying, 'When you meet the army of the emperor, you can break and escape!' It is the thief who stood in the imperial political machine unexpectedly, and respectfully called Huang Fu Song 'Huang Fu Gong', which shows Huang Fu Song's prestige in the empire.
In addition, not long ago, Huangfu Song defeated the Liangzhou rebel kingdom and others in the Chencang area, which can be regarded as a relatively large victory for the empire in the Liangzhou rebellion that began in the second year of Zhongping. Before again, Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo, Zhang Wen, Duan Xuan and others had led their troops to fight against the Liangzhou rebels, but they did not achieve any breakthrough victories.
And Huangfu Song's suppression this time seemed to have given this empire a sigh of relief in the twilight of the West, so that he could breathe for a while and a half longer. And today, Liu Hong, who has been sick for several months, seems to be back to the light, a little better. Even though he already knew that his life was probably short, he also began to plan for his future, and the most important thing for me is the issue of succession, which is also the problem of the next son of heaven!
Although the current crown prince Liu Wei is older, he is not as favored by Liu Hong as his younger brother Liu Xie, and Liu Xie is also more intelligent and clever. And the existence of the current queen He and the general He Jin has made Liu Hong difficult again! He wanted to make Liu Xie the emperor, but he was afraid that after his death, the He brothers and sisters would cause chaos in the government. Such examples are very common, isn't Liu Hong himself set up by his relatives?
In addition, when today's son also sensed the threat of the current state pastor Dong Zhuo, he ordered him to enter Luoyang as the position of Jiuqing, but Dong Zhuo refused to relieve himself of his military power and entered Luoyang as an excuse that he had been a military general at the border for a long time and the generals at all levels under his command were reluctant to leave. Instead, they stationed their troops in Hanoi to wait for the times to change! This made Liu Hong, the son of heaven, quite a headache.
And these are the headaches of today's son, and they don't have much impact on Wen Chou, who is far away in Gaoyi County, and his plan to become famous is still being carried out in an orderly manner. After entering March, it is the time when Wen Chou's various soldiers and troops are in place, and it is the day when Wen Chou takes the initiative to attack Guo Daxian.
This time for Guo Daxian, it has reached the point where there is no escape. This big game of chess played by Wen Chou is not only to take Guo Daxian and the house county, but also to give Zhang Yan, who was originally in the north of the county, a signal, that he Wen Chou is not so easy to bully, even if Zhang Yan is a black mountain thief Daqu Shuai, it is in vain. It is also a deterrent and reminder to the other two forces in the county - Minister Feng Gong and County Lieutenant that he is no longer a person to be manipulated!
And Wen Chou's invitation letters to famous people in other counties in the state and county were also distributed, of course, most of the people he invited were people who had a certain relationship with him. This is to let these scholars come to see the majesty of the army, and its powerful meaning.
If you want to be famous, you might as well make a big one. Anyway, it's not far from the chaos in the world, so why is he afraid of being ugly! (To be continued......)