Chapter 66: One hundred thousand Sui troops are coming
Don't look at Donglai in this era, far away from the Central Plains, located in a remote border, but it is also controlled by the family. The Boling Cui clan alone occupies tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, two large salt boiling fields, and more than a dozen other industries in Donglai. Yuwen valve also occupies a lot of heaven and earth and mines, and there are many other small families and landlords.
It can be said that in this small place, which originally had a population of about 500,000 people, all the nobles and clans took all the benefits that they could share. Chen Quan naturally couldn't bear this situation, and after stabilizing the situation, he led the army to sweep away all the family forces in Donglai as soon as possible.
The whole process was crude and straightforward, and completely unreasonable. All those who resisted were either escorted by Chen Quan to work in the mines, or sent to Wang Cheng to build roads. A large amount of farmland is then leased to ordinary farmers on a 10% basis.
It is precisely because of such actions that in the following years, Chen Quan's reputation outside Donglai can be said to be extremely stinky, and he was basically beaten into the ranks of unscrupulous rogues by various forces. However, it is precisely because of this that the two sides of the good and the devil who have the absolute right to speak in this world and the other three major valves except for the Yuwen valve did not take Chen Quan in their eyes at the beginning.
Chen Quan was also happy that these forces did not take themselves seriously, and after completing this series of actions, Chen Quan began to take a series of good things out.
First of all, a series of iron agricultural tools, including the Quyuan plow, were just in time for spring ploughing, and in just half a month, Chen Quan asked Wang Cheng to lead the craftsmen of the Household Information Division to build 10,000 sets of various iron agricultural tools, and sell them to farmers in the form of an extra 20% rent per year for five years.
The second is to take out all kinds of high-yield grain varieties and set aside more than 300,000 mu of fertile land for official planting. The reason why Chen Quan did not directly distribute these high-yield grain varieties to farmers for planting is because many grain varieties are not known to farmers, let alone planted. Moreover, in this era of lack of food and clothing, if half of the grain seeds are distributed and can be planted smoothly, Chen Quan will recite Amitabha. In addition, only when the people can see the yield of these high-yield grains with their own eyes, will they have higher enthusiasm to introduce seeds.
The third good thing is the salt-drying technology. In feudal times, salt was definitely one of the most important materials besides food. Unfortunately, for thousands of years, the salt-making technology has never been up to par, so that ordinary people cannot afford to eat salt most of the time.
Therefore, when Chen Quan used the cement brought from Daming to build a salt drying field and harvested the first batch of 100,000 catties of fine salt, including Kou Chong and Xu Ziling and other disciples, all the people present at that time were crazy with joy. Some local craftsmen in Donglai even knelt down for Chen Quan on the spot.
It was also from this day that not only a large amount of white salt poured into the market in Donglai, but also a large amount of cheap salt slowly appeared in other areas of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and even the whole world. These salts brought a lot of wealth to Donglai, making Chen Quan the richest force in the world in just one year.
The fourth important good thing is steel, but unlike table salt, although Donglai's steel production has increased significantly in a very short period of time, and the quality is even better than the world, Chen Quan firmly controls the secrecy of steel technology and the outflow of self-produced steel. So much so that for three or four years, few people knew that Chen Quan had an annual steel output that exceeded that of all forces dozens of times.
There are many other good things, such as white paper, printing, sugar, soap, matches, glass, even high-efficiency textile machines, shipbuilding technology, and so on, all of which were taken out by Chen Quan one after another within half a year after occupying Donglai.
While these things brought a lot of wealth to Chen Quan and the people of Donglai, they also brought Chen Quan the trouble of a serious shortage of manpower. Although Chen Quan promulgated the policy of encouraging childbirth at the first time, far water could not save the near thirst, and it could not solve Chen Quan's short-term troubles at all.
No, Chen Quan could only send a large number of his subordinates out to the Qingzhou region, Xuzhou, and even Hebei and Henan regions to abduct the population. In half a year, Chen Quan spent more than 1 million yuan, but only brought less than 100,000 people into extreme poverty. Sprinkled on the land of Donglai, it was absorbed cleanly without even seeing a splash.
"Alright! The question of population is not urgent. You'd better greet the Sui army first! According to the report of Xiao Chong and Xiao Ling, they received information in the eastern capital, and under the tandem of Yu Wenhua and the families who were red at the wealth of Donglai, Emperor Yang of Sui had agreed to take Hou Er as the commander and Zhang Xutuo as the vanguard, leading an army of 100,000 and more than 200,000 people, claiming that 500,000 came to exterminate us. After about a month and a half, the army was able to make the march and enter the territory of Qingzhou. ”
Seeing that Chen Quan was worried about the population again, Dongfang Undefeated handed Chen Quan a piece of information. “
It's only 300,000! ”
After receiving the information, Chen Quan's thoughts were still on the lack of population, and after receiving the information for a while, Chen Quan's thoughts were still on the lack of population, and he didn't react for a while. However, after reading the information, Chen Quan quickly reacted. It's just his performance, but it makes Wei Zhenzhen, who was following Dongfang Undefeated, purse her lips and want to laugh.
"Well, so 300,000 people were automatically sent to the door!"
"How happy are you now! If you want to be happy, you have to wait until you defeat this 100,000 army, and it's not too late to be happy! ”
Dongfang Undefeated gave him a blank look, this guy was stunned if he wanted more people.
"It's not easy! Rest assured, it's not a problem to deal with these 100,000 troops! And I just took advantage of this war to collect all the populations of Beihai and Gaomi counties. When the army of the Great Sui Imperial Court is completely defeated and the situation is completely stabilized, I can also turn my mind to deducing the second layer of the Qiankun Battle Body. ”
Chen Quan said happily.
"The second level of exercises? Do you already have eyebrows? ”
As soon as he heard Chen Quan say this, Dongfang Undefeated suddenly became interested.
"Hmmm! Through research Wishing you prosperity the four of them, Xiaoxiao, Wu Tong and the two of them are fellow practitioners of the Qiankun Battle Body and the Five Elements of the Immortal Formula, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, and I have roughly deduced the overall context of the second layer of the Qiankun Battle Body. With the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and yin and yang, we build a complete and self-contained body world, and constantly improve and strengthen the battle body. ”
In the past six months, the three disciples Chen Jigong, Chen Sixi, Chen Hongfa, and Chen Fengcai, who were named by Chen Quan after Wishing you prosperity, and Dongfang Xiaoxiao, who worshiped Dongfang Undefeated as a teacher, all chose the Qiankun Battle Body and the Immortal Secret of Immortality, so that Chen Quan could have a complete understanding of the Immortal Technique. He also has a deep understanding of the interaction between the seven longevity tips and the Qiankun battle body. In this case, the second layer of Chen Quan's Qiankun battle body finally had a general idea.
"That's good news. But I have good news for you! ”
Hearing that Chen Quan's Qiankun Battle Body second-layer exercise had an eyebrow, Dongfang Undefeated suddenly said mysteriously.
"What, you're pregnant?!"
Chen Quan patted Dongfang's undefeated stomach with a cheap smile.
"Go! I'm talking about good news in practice. I also found a way to go further by referring to the Yin and Yang chapter of the Longevity Recipe and some previous exercises. ”
As he spoke, Dongfang's undefeated eyes suddenly began to change, one eye exuding a scorching aura, while the other eye exuded a cold aura of Xuan Bing. What surprised Chen Quan even more was that the cold and hot attributes of his eyes could be rotated and changed.