Anyway, he agreed, Chu He naturally wouldn't play tricks with Gan Tian in these subsections, a set of armor, including battle armor, steel knife/steel gun, steel bow, and steel shield, were all complete, which made Deng Huang and Xu Jing ecstatic.

In this troubled era, having such an all-steel set of equipment is no different from having one more life, or even more exaggerated, it is several more lives.

A third-grade Blood Condensation Realm martial artist, with such a battle armor, the defensive power is comparable to that of the fourth-grade martial arts, and the attack power is also greatly improved, and he also has a strong long-range attack method, it is really not too much to say that there are a few more lives.

After all, the survival rate of the Fourth-Rank Martial Sect in the war was far higher than that of the Third-Rank Martial Sect.

One of the battle armors is particularly eye-catching, and it is the second most powerful equipment produced in Changding Township today, the alloy battle armor.

These alloy armors were originally intended to be rewarded to the generals who made meritorious contributions in this siege battle, but now they have taken a suitable set for Gan Tian to wear.

Only the Chu blacksmith carefully forged, and the superalloy with added raw materials is much more powerful than silicon-manganese alloy steel.

It's just that the output of this superalloy steel is extremely low, and most of it is used to forge the bowstring and bow body of the Eight Bull Crossbow, and the rest is to create the Crazy Dragon Breaking Tiger Gun for Jiang Wei, and the superalloy armor is too late to build.

Even so, there are not many silicon-manganese alloy battle armors built by Changdingxiang, except for Jiang Wei and Chu Wu, there are few who are qualified to wear them, that is, Chu Mu and Chu Shi are the same, Chu He only brought out three sets this time.

Except for a few generals, ordinary generals can be equipped with ordinary steel armor.

Looking at these mouth-watering all-steel equipment, Deng Huang and Xu Jing liked it more and more, and couldn't help but put it on the spot.

Then two iron warriors appeared in front of everyone, majestic, and after infusing their internal strength, they shone brightly, like heavenly soldiers, and under the cover of their masks, they couldn't recognize their original appearance.

With the help of alcohol, the two actually fought on the school field, one spear shadow was like a flower, the other sword light was like a rainbow, and a loud noise broke out, which was indeed quite powerful, and everyone on the school field was amazed.

The leaders of the mountain bandits who asked themselves to be eligible for the armor looked at the wooden box with red eyes, and they were reluctant to look away for a long time, as if after looking away, the armor would be snatched away by others.

Chu Qianzhong finally came, and he came with Chu Wen.

After the news of Chu He sent back, the two people who were still on the road immediately sped up, and tens of thousands of convoys stretched out more than ten miles away, one after another was really spectacular.

The young and strong people in the city were also recruited by the Chu River to help transport rice and grain, 500 yuan per person a day, plus a reward of 5 catties of rice grain, which made these worried people overjoyed.

They were originally worried that the Chang Dingjun would ask them about the crime of helping the Yellow Turban Army defend the city, but they didn't expect that Chu He not only did not settle accounts with them, but instead took out rice, grain, money and silver to hire them to work, and they worked very hard.

You must know that the Yellow Turban Army requisitioned them into the city, only provided them with coarse grain meals for three meals a day, and transported food to the front line, it is difficult to say whether they can return to Fenglai County, in contrast, of course, it is more cost-effective to help the Changding Army.

Bags of rice and grain were moved from the granary to the car, and tens of thousands of people and strong coachmen carried it together, and there was no need for Chang Dingjun to take action.

Together with the convoy in the city and 20,000 vehicles, you can transport 200,000 stone of rice grain back to Changding Township at a time.

The people of Shuangfeng Mountain also led the convoy to happily transport rice and grain back to the cottage, and twenty mountain bandits wearing steel armor and holding steel soldiers walked in the front of the team, which was full of momentum and had a very good attitude of looking down on the world.

Next, the Yellow Turban Army really did not react, and the Changding Army stationed in various important places in Fenglai County did not find any trace of the Yellow Turban Army, but only arrested a number of displaced people who were suspected of being the Yellow Turban Army.

The overall situation was settled, Chu He did not stay in Fenglai County, only Jiang Wei and Chu Wen remained here.

In terms of soldiers and horses, 1,000 Qianyuan Guards plus 2,000 Changding troops are not enough to control the entire territory of Fenglai County, but it is not a problem to protect Fenglai City.

Chu Wen, a little scribe, really flew on the branches and became a phoenix this time, and became the chief official of Fenglai County as soon as he came, in charge of all people's livelihood and governance affairs, and Jiang Wei managed Fenglai County with one article and one martial arts.

After investigation, Fenglai County now has only 180,000 Dingkou, less than 50,000 young and strong, and a large area of land is deserted.

The Yellow Turbans let them cultivate the most fertile fields with plenty of water.

The grain produced in the fields was basically collected, and only the peasant households who joined the Yellow Turban Army or worked for the Yellow Turban Army could get rice, grain, clothing and cloth from the Yellow Turban Army.

Of the 1.8 million stone rice grain in Fenglai County, Chu River only transported 1.2 million stone back to Changding Township, and the rest stayed in Fenglai County.

He couldn't watch the villagers starve to death, and every household distributed rice and grain, which was enough for these villagers to suffer until the time of spring ploughing.

The benevolent government of the Chu River also brought an unexpected surprise, on the side of Shuangma County, tens of thousands of people secretly relocated to Fenglai County one after another.

In addition, there are three families from Shuangma County who go to Changding Township, but they want to raise their families to take refuge in the Chu River.

Chu He was overjoyed, although the sum of these three clans was a hundred tribesmen, and there were more than 200 other family guards, this strength was not worth mentioning to Chu He, but this showed that Chu He's reputation had spread.

There are nobles who are willing to take refuge in themselves, and this is an excellent start.

Chu He personally met with them and inquired, only to know the reason why the three clans came to vote.

It turned out that when the Yellow Turban Army attacked Shuangma County, these three scholars tried their best to help the Shuangma County government fight against the Yellow Turban Army, and most of the thousands of Ding Nursing Homes died on the battlefield, and now only these people remain.

Later, the Yellow Turban Army captured Shuangma County, out of concern, for fear of causing a backlash from all the gentry in Shuangma County, they did not raise a butcher's knife against them, but they also made it difficult, not only taking away most of their family wealth, but also asking them to throw all the younger generations of their families into the Yellow Turban Army.

The three families have been circling many times and spent a lot of money and silver, so that they can keep their children.

When they heard that Fenglai County was captured by the Changding Army, and the Yellow Turban Army of Shuangma County, which went to aid Fenglai County, was also defeated, these three families had a mind and secretly sent people to Fenglai County to find out.

Knowing that Chu He implemented benevolent governance, treated the villagers well, and did not oppress the gentry in Fenglai County, the three families summed it up and felt that if they stayed in Shuangma County, they would be harmed by the Yellow Turban Army sooner or later, so they simply moved their clan to Changding Township.

Out of the measure of buying horse bones, Chu He simply used the children of the three families, just because he lacked management manpower in his hands, and the children of the three families were basically educated and could help in various affairs.

On the side of Datong County, after learning that the Changding army had returned victoriously, the continuous convoy transported the rice and grain back to Changding Township, and escorted Zhao Yiyi and others back to Changding Township on the same day.

The Datong County troops who sent Zhao Yiyi back were led by the county commander Li Yan and the county Cheng Suke.

After arriving in Changding Township, the two lowered their posture and asked to see Chu He, and then the two had a secret conversation with Chu He in Chu He's study for a long time.

The others didn't know what they were talking about, they only knew that Chu He personally sent them out when they went out, and the three of them were all smiling, obviously talking happily.

When I returned, there were 1,000 ox carts, all loaded with rice and grain.

On the surface, the relationship between Datong County and Changding Township has not changed much, and Datong County has also turned a blind eye to Changding Township's wanton military training.

But the well-intentioned people of the Datong official office vaguely felt that something had changed, and Deng Dianwu, who originally proposed to control Zhao Yiyi's family and threaten Chu He, was dismissed from his post after Liu Yan and Su Ke returned with rice grain.

Chu He found a problem, the reason why the living density of people in this world is extremely low, and the huge Datong County, which is placed on the earth, does not have many millions of people, and now it has a population of 300,000, there are three reasons.

First, agriculture is underdeveloped, farming technology is backward, and there is not much output in the field, and one acre of land is usually one to two stones.

The second is that the people here eat a lot of food, and one person is three people on the earth. There is little produce in the fields, and there is a lot of food, so there are not many people to feed themselves.

Thirdly, the peasants here are lowly people, and those who work in agriculture are trying to get rid of their peasant status, so that there are fewer and fewer people who work together.

The situation in other places is not clear, but on the side of Qinzhou City, the supply of grain has never been sufficient.

He has now reached an agreement with Liu Yan and others that except for the county seat of Datong, all other places will be under the management of the Chu River, and the Chu River only needs to ensure the food supply of the residents in the city.

In addition, Fenglai County, which has an area of nearly 100,000 square miles (25,000 square kilometers), is enough for the Chu River to show its strengths, and it is decided to make large-scale changes to agricultural production at the moment.

This improvement is actually very simple, it is some of the methods that Chu He knows can increase production.

Such as seed selection, deep ploughing, rotation tillage, manure, digging ditch irrigation, etc.

Anyway, now there is a large amount of rice grain, there is no need to pay taxes, and a large number of villagers have died in the war, and the number has decreased, and the Chu River has recently accumulated more than 2 million stone rice grains, which is enough for Datong and Fenglai counties to eat for a year.

Even if something goes wrong with the new farming methods, it can be sustained.

Taking advantage of the fact that the people had nothing to do after the autumn harvest, the Chu River organized manpower to dig ditches, divert water to open the source, select seeds with full particles, plough and weed, and use grass ash, livestock and human manure to fertilize the fields.

Of course, Chu He just gave a direction, and it was Chu Zhenhai who was in charge of agriculture who really did the work.

In some places where the terrain is high and difficult to irrigate, the Chu River has also built a number of large water wheels to help divert water, coupled with the use of a large number of high-quality iron farming tools, and enough livestock, Chu River believes that even if there is no chemical fertilizer and pesticide to increase the yield, the yield of the field will definitely exceed three stones per acre.

What surprised Chu He the most was that he didn't know if there were sweet potatoes and potatoes here, so he just distributed the portraits of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and promised to find these two plants, one of which was rewarded with five hundred silver.

Unexpectedly, there are really farmers who know about this crop, and a farmer from Fenglai County, who looks honest, under the strict escort of Qianyuanwei, tremblingly took the sweet potatoes with seedlings and stems to Changding Township.

The farmer was not frightened.

He saw a picture of sweet potatoes pasted on the city gate, and there was a line of words underneath, and asked curiously, it turned out to be an order issued by Chu Qianyuan himself, whoever finds these two plants can get five hundred taels of silver.

The old farmer went home and hesitated for a long time, looked at the two grandsons who had just reached his waist, and finally gritted his teeth, and no matter whether it was right or not, he took the sweet potatoes to the city, and told the Qianyuanwei at the city gate that he knew where the sweet potatoes were.

Under normal circumstances, the farmers would never want to come into contact with these soldiers. You must know that the officers and soldiers in the past were not easy to get along with, and when they entered the city, they could punch and kick the peasants if they paid less capitation fees.

Where did this old peasant try to be treated so politely and solemnly by the generals, and he never imagined that he would see the officials of Fenglai County with his own eyes, and then under the escort of dozens of ironclad generals, he rushed all the way to Datong County.

Fenglai County made such a big move, but it almost didn't scare the old farmer to death!

Chu He personally met the old farmer and personally inspected the sweet potatoes he brought, which were exactly the same as the sweet potatoes of the earth, only a little smaller.

He asked with a pleasant face, it turned out that this sweet potato was excavated and eaten by the old farmer as a wild vegetable, and he had not tried to plant it.

Chu He felt strange, and thought that the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes was not good, after all, those sweet potatoes and potatoes in later generations were all improved and bred to detoxify and other means, so that they had a yield of thousands of catties per mu.

I don't know how to ask, but the reason is quite speechless.

Although the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes was not as high as in later generations, according to the farmer, a sweet potato tree has six or seven fist-sized tubers, and the yield is much higher than that of rice.

The problem is that sweet potatoes are not easy to store, and he does not know how to breed and grow them, so the old farmer does not dare to replace the rice that has been planted in the field for sweet potatoes for decades.

In case of any accident, no one wants sweet potatoes, and there is no rice in the field, and the grain cannot be paid, and the family will be doomed.

In other words, it's because you can't afford to take risks.

Of course, Chu He's ability to bear it is not the same as that of the old farmer, and he also knows how to preserve sweet potatoes, such as digging cellars for storage, or making potato flour.

At that time, Ru promised to reward the old farmer with five hundred taels of silver, and sent two hundred Qianyuan guards to escort him back to Fenglai County, investigate the situation of sweet potatoes, and dig up some of the sweet potatoes with roots and soil back to Changding Township.

Chu He met the old farmer at home, and Chu Quan saw that Chu He was treated so solemnly, two hundred elite Qianyuan Guards, and even captured Datong County, just for a plant that didn't know its origin?

He couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "He'er, this may not be a bit of a labor, right? Now training new soldiers, supervising the construction of city walls, etc., all need to use the Qianyuan Guard, if two hundred people are sent out, the manpower will be a little insufficient." ”

When Fenglai County was captured, nearly 4,000 Yellow Turban troops were captured, and thousands more young people asked to join the Changding Army.

Chu He selected one of them, expanded the army by 5,000, and the rest of the Yellow Turban troops were thrown to the mines and city walls to serve in labor, and it took at least three years of labor to get rid of the identity of surrendering the army.

Naturally, they had to send people to take precautions.

Training recruits requires more manpower.

Only by infiltrating the Changding Army into the recruits can the recruits be trained faster and form combat effectiveness, but the 3,000 men and horses stationed in Fenglai County naturally make Chu He a little stretched.

Nowadays, agriculture and military affairs are the top priorities, especially the construction of the city wall, which has mobilized more than 100,000 people, and there are so many things that none of the leaders of Changding Township can be idle.

Hearing Chu Quan say this, Chu He's face turned straight, and he said in a deep voice: "No matter how much attention you attach to this sweet potato, you can't pay too much attention to it! Not to mention two hundred hidden abyssal guards, even if it is two thousand, the child's heart is a little unstable." ”

"If it is said that the Qianyuan Guard, the Standing Army, the Eight Ox Armor-Piercing Crossbow and the Steel Soldier are all powerful weapons for dominating the world, then the sweet potato is another sharp weapon!"

Chu Quan suddenly gasped: "What? This sweet potato is so important?"

Chu He nodded: "As long as sweet potatoes can be planted on a large scale, even in Datong County, it can feed millions of people!"

"Nowadays, children are still uncertain about the yield of sweet potatoes, but it is not a problem to produce ten stones of sweet potatoes per acre of land!