Chapter 1018 Having More Children Is the Key
When Shen Long sent them over, he originally planned to invite Guo Xin, Yang Xigu and others to take a look at Juliu City, but now that he heard Guo Xin take the initiative to speak, it saved a lot of trouble.
That night, the chef sent by Shen Long showed his hand, a large plate of chicken, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and other delicacies made these veterans eat heartily, this new taste stimulated their taste that had become sluggish, if it wasn't for the chefs who were advised in advance and deliberately controlled the amount, they had to eat a few bad people, and suddenly overeating when they couldn't eat enough for a long time would have an accident, but fortunately, the big guys had a lot of experience in starvation, and they understood it as soon as they explained Guo Xin.
After staying in Qiuci for a few days, and after Guo Xin was ready, the group set out on the road to Juliu City, and half of the people sent by Shen Long stayed, responsible for teaching the Qiuci garrison how to raise earthworms, how to raise chickens, how to grow these new crops, and how to cook these foods they had never seen before.
Guo Xin and the others met Yang Xingu on the way, Yang Zhengu and Guo Xin also had the same plan, they both wanted to go to Juliu City to see how Guo Yuanzheng made such a big move in Juliu City.
When they were about to arrive in Juliu City, Shen Long got the news early and went thirty miles out of the city to greet them, and Guo Xin and Yang Xingu praised them when they saw them.
When they arrived around Juliu City, they saw with their own eyes the large area of land that Shen Long had reclaimed, and they all got off their horses to watch, and listened to Shen Long introduce them to them, "This is chickpeas, although the yield of chickpeas is not as high as potatoes and corn, but it can fertilize the fields, and the combination of wheat and chickpeas can restore the soil power consumed by wheat and save the effort of recuperation." ”
Guo Xin's veterans who are familiar with farming nodded silently, in their hometown, some land can not be cultivated every year, two kinds of three years or even one for two years often occur, the reason is because planting crops will consume land resources, if you plant every year, for a long time, this land will not grow many crops.
If it is really as Shen Long said, this chickpea can fertilize the field, then just like the present, divide the land into strips, one for wheat and one for chickpeas, and wait for the second year to replace the original wheat field with chickpea fertilizer, and plant wheat on the field that has been fattened, so that it can be cultivated every year.
And Guo Xin's eyes were on those canals, "Yuan is just a big deal, even if it is the land in Guanzhong, I'm afraid the canals haven't been repaired so well?" ”
"The land in Guanzhong is owned by each family, and it will be troublesome to repair the canal, but the land here belongs to the entire army of our Anxi Army, and it is a lot less trouble to repair the canal, and the soldiers work together, so it will naturally be easy!" Shen Long said that in fact, the most important thing is that he has a scientific plan and is willing to lead by example.
"It's getting late today, why don't you have dinner and rest for a night in the advanced city, and then go to see the place where weapons and armor are made tomorrow?" Shen Long looked at the time and led them back to Juliu City.
When they arrived in the city, Guo Xin and Yang Xinggu found a strange place again, there were many Tang soldiers walking around the streets with women in the city, and many of those women were pregnant, what was going on?
"Dadu Hu, now it's not as good as before, in the past, the imperial court would continue to send us new soldiers, but now the road is cut off by Tubo, and the imperial court is temporarily unable to take care of the Western Regions, although these teenagers can fight for another twenty or thirty years, but what should they do when they are old? We've got to have new recruits, too! "How can no one do a war?
"So after occupying the six cities, I will arrange the women in the city to them, so that they can also have a queen, and when these children grow up in the future, they will also take over their horizontal knives and continue to fight for my Datang, if someone dies in battle, there will also be incense for them!" If these veterans also married wives and had children in the Western Regions, how could they be all white-haired veterans in Qiuzi and Xizhou City now?
According to Shen Long's plan, it is not enough for each of them to marry a wife, as long as the six cities can be supported, the more wives the better, the more wives there are, the more children there will be, and the population will be larger, is Datang still worried about not being able to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions?
As for the origin of these women, there are those they captured when they captured Juliu City, and there are also Shen Long who bought them from nearby tribes through commercial trade, and now the status of women is not high, as long as they marry, most of them will live with their husbands with all their hearts, and when these children grow up, Shen Long will also teach them to read and write, practice martial arts, and tell them the glory of the Tang Dynasty, so that they can remember that they are the proudest people of the Tang Dynasty in the world.
"Accept a wife before the battle, this morale ......" Guo Xin seemed to hesitate, the military laws of all dynasties and dynasties were very strict in this regard.
"Most of them look at it, do they look like they are neglecting to train because of the drag of their families?" Shen Long pointed to the guards in the key places in the city, and they all stood up straight.
"They all know that their wives and children are in the city, so once the enemy attacks, they are afraid that even if they risk their lives, they will have to save their wives and children." This is a double-edged sword, and if it is not used well, it will damage morale, but if the strategy is correct, in order to protect their families, they can burst out with stronger combat effectiveness.
"If there wasn't so much food, we wouldn't be able to feed so many people!" Guo Xin just pondered why he didn't let all the soldiers marry wives and have children, but after thinking about it, how much food does it take to feed so many people, if it weren't for Shen Long's ability in Juliucheng Tuntian, he probably wouldn't have had such an idea, right?
Yang Zhengu nodded silently, if it weren't for the food sent by Shen Long, his Xizhou City would be running out of food, and even the soldiers themselves wouldn't be able to eat, so there was still a way to marry a wife and have a baby.
"A caravan has just sent a group of women, Guo Junwang and Yang Du might as well take some with them when they go back, so that the soldiers of Qiuzi and Xizhou can have a home." Shen Long didn't forget them, and also prepared women for them.
"No, no!" Guo Xin and Yang Zhenggu blushed, they were already a little embarrassed to take food and weapons from Shen Long, and now even their wives had to be brought back from here, which was really not good-looking.
"What's wrong? The soldiers have been fighting for my Datang for decades, and they are only alone when they are old, how can they be embarrassed! And...... And they don't have much time left, the king of the county, the protector of the capital, how can we watch these soldiers die without even a person to offer incense? At this time, people took incense very seriously, and Shen Long took out this reason, Guo Xin and Yang Zhengu were really hard to refuse.
And Shen Long felt that since these white-haired soldiers could hold horizontal knives and fight, it would definitely be no problem to have children.
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