In October 194, in the middle of the ninth lunar month, the time for the autumn harvest arrived.

To be honest, this year's harvest was not very much, mainly because the climate in these two years was relatively dry and rainless. Fang Yun has already tried to solve this problem by using water wheels and reservoirs, and even digging irrigation wells, but it has still caused a certain reduction in production.

It cannot be denied that this reduction in production is somewhat directly related to the locust plague in late summer and early autumn. But a locust plague was eliminated in the bud, and the people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If the locust plague is allowed to become the weather, this year's harvest will be really bad.

Rao is like this, the output of Fang Yun's popular high-yield crops this year still scared those land contractors. Obviously the weather has been dry like this, and there is still more than three times the output of the past, what if the wind and rain are good?!

As the saying goes, grain cheapness hurts farmers, and a large amount of grain directly leads to low grain prices. Fortunately, when Fang Yun formulated his pension, he had already linked his salary to five baht, so no matter how much the price of food fell, the officials had nothing to lose. On the contrary, with less money, you can buy more rice, and you still have a lot of salary left, so you can buy something else.

The high grain yield has also completely relieved the officials, who were somewhat worried about the reform of monetary salaries. In the past, why grain was used as a stipend, in the final analysis, was not because of the low grain production?

The lack of intensive cultivation technology, the lack of further research on agricultural technology, and even the improvement of planting have made the yield per mu about one stone. As early as the fact that the Taihang Mountain base area, after the optimization of agricultural technology, the output was directly increased to more than three stones. Now the yield per mu is more than six stones.

The large amount of output makes the problem of food no longer a problem, and it can basically meet the living needs of the people under Fang Yun's rule. There is even a lot of surplus.

White potatoes, corn and potatoes are three high-yield crops, which also directly make people have more choices, these three crops are indeed not suitable for every meal, but they are all high-starch crops, which can be made into vermicelli or multigrain noodles. The price is not expensive, and the people deduct the money to buy grain every month. There is still a lot of money left over for consumption.

However, more people choose to buy more food and keep it at home. It doesn't matter if you can't finish eating, there is food in the rice tank, and your heart is steady. When the rice jar is filled with grain. They will only consider making other purchases.

As for the problem of grain prices, the market has helped to solve some of them, and the large purchases of the people have raised the price of grain somewhat. The rest, of course, is government procurement.

According to the habits of the future, Fang Yun set up the so-called regular closing positions in various places. Buying surplus food from the people at a slightly higher price. At the same time, in the case of food shortage, the grain inside will be sold at a reasonable price. As long as the supervision is strong enough, then this can indeed avoid the occurrence of 'grain cheapness hurting farmers' and 'grain being expensive hurting the people'.

It's just that at this stage, let alone this grain, it will be used to stabilize prices. Most of the grain is used as a military reserve, just because there are currently more than 300,000 soldiers under Fang Yun's command, distributed in all spheres of influence. One hundred thousand of these soldiers were newly recruited recruits, and they were still in training.

However, more than 50,000 of them have already begun to enter a state of combat readiness. Fang Yun didn't plan to be controlled by others, he just wanted to strike first and further expand his territory. In fact, it is also to further reduce the area that needs to be defended.

As early as September, the Ministry of Military Affairs had already begun to draw up plans for foreign operations. In this plan, Xuzhou and Qingzhou are key defense areas. At the same time, don't ignore the Xianbei tribes outside the pass.

In terms of battle, the goal has been determined, that is, the largest soft persimmon among all the princes - the White Wave Army!

According to the latest intelligence, the White Polish Army did not join the Allied forces, but only remained neutral. Yang Feng obviously didn't plan to get involved in the struggle for power in the Han Dynasty, he just wanted to be a good soil emperor in Sizhou.

Over the years, he has become more and more extravagant, and the people are miserable for this. He currently has about 200,000 soldiers under his command. They are all real thugs, but they have done a lot of bad things, and it is not a pity to kill them.

Originally, if there were conditions, the liberation of Sizhou or something. Fang Yun should have done it a long time ago. However, there have been too many things over the years, and most of the experiences have been dragged away, so that there has been no way to attack Sizhou.

For the military department, Sizhou, whose position was not firm, should have been left to deal with it last, in the circumstances of the time. After all, Yang Feng obviously has no desire to fight abroad. Hope. As long as it doesn't disturb him to enjoy, then basically he won't take the initiative to fight.

Taking advantage of this time, it is natural to deal with key things first, such as the defense work of Xuzhou and Qingzhou. At that time, Xuzhou and Qingzhou were not even Fang Yun's territory.

Now that the two places have become the territory under his command, and the basic defense arrangements have been made. Then it is naturally time to take Sizhou back. At that time, the defense line can be further pushed outward, and about 30,000 or 40,000 troops can be saved, which is already equivalent to the combat effectiveness of a partial division.

Besides, Fang Yun has always been the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and he has also used Jinyang as a companion. In fact, everyone knows that there are two capitals in the Han Dynasty, one is Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, and the other is Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The former was already in Fang Yun's sphere of influence, but in order to be able to better control the Hebei region, Fang Yun could not choose Chang'an.

As for Luoyang, it is obviously a good choice, but it has been destroyed by himself and Dong Zhuo once, and he doesn't know what it looks like to be ruined by the Bai Bo Army. Besides, it is still in the hands of Bai Bojun now, and if he doesn't take it back, it seems that it will be very damaging to Hanting's face.

Yes, this is the reason why Fang Yun sent troops, at least on the surface.

Under normal circumstances, it is generally a matter of blocking the news, and a sudden attack has the best effect, but it is a measure that will only be used when the weak fight against the forces of the same weak, or even the strong.

The teacher of the Son of Heaven is a dignified and upright teacher, and from the very beginning, Fang Yun occupied the name of righteousness, so he did not mean to hide it, but directly informed the Bai Bo army, surrender or be killed, choose one of the two!

The newspaper criticized Bai Bojun's evil deeds in Sizhou, and listed a large number of so-called evidence, as well as various data, each of which was so shocking. Even the kindest and most war-hating people, after seeing these data, couldn't help but shout: "Destroy these beasts!" ”

Yes, this is not a battle between people, but an act to kill the evil beasts that have brought disaster to the world! This is the effect that Fang Yun needs to create, and even Zhao Li, Chen Tao and Fan Chou have already led their own troops and begun to prepare to enter Sizhou to fight.

The two armies were showing off their might at their own gates, and Yang Feng naturally had no way to ignore them. Fighting against Fang Yun, to be honest, he didn't have much confidence, he just couldn't understand why Fang Yun could ignore the crusade of other princes against him, and instead come over to attack himself who maintained neutrality, this step didn't act according to the script at all!

Naturally, he couldn't sit still, so he immediately planned to contact Yuan Shu and join the army of Fang Fang.

However, Han Sui, who came to him not long ago, stood up: "It's okay to go and contact Yuan Shu, but I heard that Yuan Shu has no harvest this year, so he is powerless to support." It is impossible to say that it will be embezzled by Cao Cao or Liu Bei.

Don't look at him as the so-called alliance leader, but driven by actual interests, who will care about the so-called alliance? Compared to Fang Yun, who was not easy to eat, Yuan Shu was more like a piece of fat. And Fang Yun obviously saw this, so he launched an attack on us generously. ”

"Then you mean, just let us sit here and wait for death, or fight with Fang Yun to the death?" Han Sui was a celebrity and had brains, so Yang Feng also relied on him more and appointed him as a military advisor.

"No, I mean, it's useless to go to Yuan Shu for help now, it's better to go directly to Cao Cao or Liu Bei for help. In addition, we have to contribute somewhat, otherwise I'm afraid that the two of them won't help. If we can win a battle, even if it's a small battle, we can make them less covetous.

Don't think I don't know, in fact, the two of them are also very greedy for our territory. The reason why we didn't attack before was mainly because we wanted us to become a buffer zone here, as a second battlefield, to avoid damage to our territory from fighting. Han Sui helped him analyze it, and finally teased Liu Bei and Cao Cao with disdain.

"I heard that Chen Tao, Zhao Li and Fan Chou, there are also about 5,000 soldiers under their command, and the soldiers are coming in three ways. We have an army of 300,000 here, and we are afraid that we will not be able to kill 5,000 of them? Besides, if you want to talk about the familiarity with Sizhou, how can it not be their turn! When Yang Feng heard this, he also said confidently.

"I hope so, but don't underestimate them. It is definitely no coincidence that Fang Yun was able to get to this position step by step. Below are a group of elite generals, Zhou Cang and Xie Ran are all generals under their command, and their abilities are naturally good. Besides, compared to hard fighting, finding a way to achieve the greatest victory with the least consumption is meaningful and can make people look up to us. Han Sui proposed.

"What does the military advisor think?" Yang Feng asked curiously.

The two began to discuss it, but apparently they forgot that the art of war had always been a combination of odd and positive. On the surface, Chen Tao, Zhao Li and Fan Chou attacked.

In fact, Zhou Cang, who was stationed in the Yang'a area of Shangdang County, and the Ma Clan army on the side of Hangu Pass, had already begun to mobilize manpower and joined this reconquest battle! Of course, these newspapers will not report it...... (To be continued.) )

PS: Persimmon is looking for a soft pinch, obviously the White Wave Army is the softest.

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