But what Liu Ping didn't calculate was that Liu Ze not only became the lieutenant of the plains, but also had the power of appointment, dismissal, reward and punishment given by Gong Tingshi, and when he was in the barracks on the first day, he beat the Sima and the military marquis who refused to do so with eighty military sticks, dismissed from their military positions, and expelled them from the barracks.

Later, Liu Ze appointed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as military commanders, Jia Xu as marching counselors, Chen Zhi and Guan Hai as other military commanders, and Wu Anguo and others as military marquises, firmly holding the military power of Pingyuan State in his hands.

However, the weakness of the soldiers in Pingyuan County gave Liu Ze a headache, this Liu Ping was originally a gentleman, and the soldiers he brought out can be imagined. Fortunately, Guan Hai served as the head of the Phoenix Valley, and Chen Zhi also served as the captain for a long time, both of them can be regarded as good at military training, and Liu Ze is very relieved to hand over the training of the county soldiers to them.

This year's cotton planting has expanded to hundreds of acres, and it is no longer enough to rely on oneself to arrange manual planting. Liu Ze thought of a way to sign a planting agreement with farmers, provide seeds to farmers for free, and recycle cotton at a guaranteed price. At first, the farmers were reluctant to plant this inedible thing, but seeing that Liu Ze's conditions were attractive, the lowest purchase price was higher than the price of one mu of millet with a bumper yield, and Liu Ze promised that no matter whether it was drought or rain, as long as he signed an agreement to ensure that he could get a guaranteed price. Think about Liu County's credibility, and many farmers have signed agreements with Liu Ze to plant cotton.

After a year of breeding, Liu Ze already has a large flock of pigeons, due to the good selection of breeding pigeons. Each of these pigeons has been bred to become carrier pigeons.

Jia Xu couldn't help but sigh, in his opinion, Liu Ze was a typical plaything, soaking in the pigeon loft all day long, leaving military and political affairs behind. I have known Liu Ze for several years, and Jia Xu has the impression that the lord will not be the kind of gentleman who likes to fly eagles, lackeys, and playthings, and how can he be obsessed with pigeons since he came back from the plain palace, and he is still happy to do it. Could it be that he was contaminated with the vices of the King of the Plains?

Think about it again. Jia Xu is still ready to persuade Liu Ze, after all, whether the main business is successful or not is closely related to his future and destiny.

"My lord, these pigeons are good, but they are just playthings. The Lord is the one who accomplishes great things. How can you lose a big because of a small one? ”

Liu Ze was teasing a white pigeon. Looking at Jia Xu's stern appearance, he couldn't help but laugh and said with a smile: "Wenhe, but you want to persuade me not to lose my mind as a plaything?" ”

Jia Xu's face was slightly red. Said: "Whenever the lord acts, he has a deliberate action, but he is just stupid and does not understand his meaning. ”

"How about Ven and look at these pigeons?" Liu Ze handed the white dove to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu didn't know anything about pigeons, how to identify the advantages and disadvantages of pigeons, and said with a smile: "Xu doesn't know anything about pigeons, how can you see the good and bad." ”

"I would like to ask Wen He if he knows what the pigeon is used for?"

"Purpose?" Jia Xu was even more stunned, "In addition to playing, Xu is often steamed and barbecued to eat, the lord's words are that this pigeon has another wonderful use?" ”

Liu Ze couldn't help laughing, Rao is Jia Xu is smart, and he definitely wouldn't think of using pigeons to transmit messages, the carrier pigeons recorded in history are still in the Tang Dynasty, and no one in the Han Dynasty can know the wonderful use of pigeons, which is no wonder Jia Xu.

"Wen He casually writes a few words on this note." Liu Ze handed Jia Xu a note and a brush.

Although Jia Xu was puzzled, he still picked up a pen and wrote a few words on the note. Liu Ze took it, rolled up the note, tied it to the feet of the white pigeon with a string, handed the white pigeon to Pan Feng behind him, and said: "Ziyi, you quickly lead people to catch the county and release the white pigeon at the gate of the county, there must be no mistake." ”

"No!" Pan Feng took the order, didn't say a word, and went out with the white pigeon in his arms.

The county is directly north of the plain, separated by more than 100 miles, and Pan Feng is a fast horse, and it will take an hour to arrive. Liu Ze ordered someone to set up a chess game outside the pigeon loft, and said to Jia Xu with a smile: "Jiu Wenwen and he is a master of hand talk, how about our Yi game?" ”

Although Jia Xu was confused, he didn't want to ask anything, so he played Go with Liu Ze.

Liu Ze knew a little bit about Go in his previous life, but it was an amateur level, and he couldn't get into the hall of elegance, fortunately, the level of Go in the Han Dynasty was not too high, and Liu Ze, a stinky chess basket, could also be regarded as being able to pretend to play a few games, after all, Liu Ze still knew something about the Chinese stream in the later generations, and he still knew something, even if he played against the famous Go masters of the Three Kingdoms, he would not lose ugly.

Go pays attention to the heart is like water, Jia Xu has a distraction at the moment, naturally he can't concentrate and calm down, the rules are all chaotic, and a big dragon was slaughtered by Liu Ze alive.

"Wenhe, you lost this game." Liu Ze said with a smile.

Jia Xu threw away the chess pieces dejectedly and said: "The master's move is difficult to understand its meaning, and I hope to give advice." ”

Liu Ze looked at the sun, felt that an hour had passed, and said with a smile: "Wen He is not in a hurry, and he knows himself." ”

As he spoke, the white pigeon circled down and stopped on Liu Ze's shoulder, Liu Ze picked up the white pigeon, gently stroked its smooth feathers, untied the string on its feet, and handed the small roll of paper to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu opened it and saw that it was the note he had just written, wasn't this note tied to the pigeon's feet and taken to by Pan Feng to the county? The county is more than 100 miles away, and it can only be reached a quarter of an hour before the calculation of Pan Feng's fast horse. Only a quarter of an hour later, the note returned to the plain like a ghost, and it returned to Liu Ze's hands with unmistakable accuracy, which is too unbelievable!

Could it be that Pan Feng didn't take it to Qi County? This thought flashed, Jia Xu immediately denied it, Liu Ze's order to Pan Feng was to go to Qi County, and Pan Feng's execution was absolutely out-and-out, and he would not be able to do it for a mile. Use? That's what the lord mentioned? Jia Xu seemed to understand a lot for a moment, and was very surprised and excited.

As soon as Jia Xu raised his head, Liu Zezheng looked at him with bright eyes, and said with a smile: "Wenhe must have guessed the purpose of the pigeons, yes, I bred these pigeons to transmit messages." Pigeons have the ability to identify nests, even if they are thousands of miles away, and once released, they will go out of their way to return to the nest. Moreover, the flight speed of the pigeon can reach four or five thousand miles a day, and the information on the battlefield is ever-changing, whoever can grasp the battle situation information first, who will occupy the initiative on the battlefield, Wen He can imagine the effect of increasing the information transmission several times. ”

No need for Liu Ze to remind, Jia Xu has long been pondering the wonders of this pigeon, four or five thousand miles a day, even a thousand miles of horses are dwarfed by it, not to mention a stagecoach who travels six hundred miles a day, the opportunity on the battlefield will be an important factor in determining the outcome of the war, Liu Ze has a carrier pigeon, undoubtedly will have an absolute opportunity, enough to be invincible on the battlefield, Jia Xu is extremely smart, how can you not see the mystery of this?

Jia Xu got up and bowed: "The great wisdom of the lord is really unprecedented, and he wanted to persuade the lord not to lose his mind by playthings, but he was extremely stupid, ashamed and ashamed!" ”

Liu Ze smiled: "There is no such thing in the world, how can Wen He know?" I just learned some truth from the characteristics of pigeons that are good at returning home, and I made good use of them. This batch of pigeons after a hundred miles of test flight, all home, the next step I will plan a thousand miles of test flight, from which to select excellent pigeons as breeders, and then train. It is believed that in a few years, each branch of Jinyingwei will be equipped with carrier pigeons, and a carrier pigeon communication network will be built, and the world's information will only be in the moment. ”

A few days later, Liu Ze ordered Pan Feng to take people to take all the pigeons to Youzhou to fly, and the result of the hundred miles of release all returned to the nest, this time thousands of miles of release, only about thirty percent of the pigeons flew back.

Although the loss is as high as seventy percent, Liu Ze is still very satisfied, through the survival of the fittest this time, the remaining pigeons have fully possessed the ability to become carrier pigeons, among these pigeons, the best breeding, I believe that the new generation of pigeons will fly farther, fly faster.

Since the ambush, there has been no rain for a long time, the sun has wantonly scorched the earth, the water level of the Yellow River has dropped to the lowest line, exposing large areas of dry mud and tidal flats, some small rivers have been completely cut off, people and livestock are extremely difficult to drink, the arid land is cracked, the seedlings are withered, and this year's harvest is about to go to zero.

The peasants of the Han Dynasty basically relied on the sky to eat, and the years and months of the wind and rain could make a living, once the disaster occurred, they suffered from famine, and people who died of hunger abounded, otherwise the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty would have risen one after another, which lasted for more than 20 years, and it was not that the common people really had no way to live and were forced to rise up.

Liu Ze has been busy during this time, and he has taken out money and food to help the victims and comfort the people, but this is only a symptom but not a cure, and if he really wants the people to have enough food and clothing, he has to think of ways to fight drought and reduce disasters.

Liu Ze inspected the Yellow River, and now the water level of the Yellow River is low, and the possibility of diverting the Yellow River for irrigation is zero, so Liu Ze had no choice but to give up this plan. However, there is still one way left, that is, to dig a well to get water, fortunately, the groundwater is not as over-exploited as the descendants, although it has suffered from drought, and the water level has dropped sharply, but it is still possible to see water when digging more than ten zhang deep in the ground.

However, digging wells is a laborious and costly business, and it is not worth it if there is too much, and it can be regarded as a devastating blow to the economy of the Pingyuan County Office, which has already used a large amount of money and grain to relieve the victims, and how can the county office be able to pay such a huge amount of well-drilling expenses. Liu Ze had no choice but to order Guan Yu to take 200 million money from the Qingzhou Qianzhuang branch for emergency purposes, but fortunately, this money was the income from helping Gong Jing transport taxes at the beginning of this year, and it was taken from the people and used for the people. (To be continued......)