The soldiers rode their horses, intending to train these prisoners in advance who could not resist their hands and shoulders, so they slowly increased their speed.

The prisoners escalated from a trot to a big run in an instant.

After a short run, some people could not hold back and wailed, and the soldiers looked at their useless physique with disdain, and drank the people up a little, slowing down a little.

Gongsun Baoyue sat on the bumpy prison car, no longer resentful that she couldn't be a man, and was extremely glad that she was a woman.

The prisoner cart drove through the middle of the fields in the suburbs, and Gongsun Baoyue realized why almost all the Xu soldiers in the city were female soldiers and not many male soldiers.

It turned out that the male soldiers had been brought to the fields.

They are teaching the farmers who have been reassigned to the fields how to tend to the crops in the fields.

The farmers were smiling, looking at the fields they had been assigned, and they couldn't see their teeth, and the granges in the suburbs were full of joy.

Gongsun Baoyue had never seen a peasant smiling so happily, in the past, she went out of the palace to inspect, her eyes were full of sorrow, and she only numbly hoeed the land under her, like an empty shell without a soul.

She kindly stepped forward to talk, and the other party knelt down in fear and said, "Your noble person is well." He remained silent.

Because no matter what they do, it is in vain.

The fields are not theirs, the food they grow does not belong to them, and there is no hope in that life.

Previously, Zhao was injured in the Battle of Jizhou, and stayed in Jizhou to clean up the old men of the Runan Group with Lu Meng, who came to meet.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei followed Xu Yue and Xu Dalang to Bingzhou.

After the northern capital was broken, Sun Ahsan and other rebel armies were divided into two, and some of them followed Xu Daqian to pursue the fleeing Zhao Yuanji and others.

The other half, under the leadership of Xu Dalang, quickly cleaned up the leadership teams of the counties and counties in the state and took over the transformation tasks of the counties and counties in the state.

It was now April, and it was still too late to plant hybrid rice, so it was imperative that the rebels complete the cultivation of hybrid rice to replace low-yielding grains such as corn in places suitable for growing hybrid rice in the state.

If people want to eat, this year they can transport grain from Youzhou to feed millions of people in Hebei and Hebei, but if they still point to Jizhou to feed next year, it will be absolutely impossible.

If you want to eat well, you have to rely on yourself.

There are many places suitable for planting rice in Jizhou, and the natural geographical advantages are here, and Gongsun An (cousin), who is responsible for the food of the Xu family, does not agree.

However, the water conservancy conditions in Jizhou are not as good as those in Jizhou, and all the Xu Jiajun in the suburbs of the northern capital of Jizhou are only instructing farmers how to better cultivate drought-resistant wheat and corn.

At the same time, they also asked them to open up the vacant land in advance, just waiting for the new crop seeds from Youzhou to be sent over, and they would be cultivated immediately.

The new crops include the potatoes that Xu Yue exchanged for before, and the cotton that has been planted in Youzhou for a long time.

Both crops will arrive in mid-April, and if they are fast enough, they will barely make it in time.

This land is not suitable for growing rice, but it is suitable for growing potatoes and cotton.

They can exchange potatoes and cotton for rice flour in Jizhou and Youzhou, and they can also eat a full meal.

At this time, the Xiaoice River has not yet arrived, and most areas north of the Yellow River have abundant rain and a warm climate, and Jizhou can grow two crops of rice.

Not to mention Youzhou, with the Northeast Great Plain, even if you only plant one season, with the high yield of hybrid rice, it is enough to feed yourself, and you can still have a surplus to support the state.

Xu Yue, who had calculated the economic accounts, understood very well why all the lords wanted to take the three states of Hebei, You, and You, because in this historical period, the north was richer than the south, and the population was larger.

With the population and land, you can feed more soldiers who are out of production, and in this era of manpower warfare, the side with more troops has a natural advantage.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the reason why Zhuge Kongming in Shu would still fail was because the territory of Shu was too small, and it was impossible to defeat Cao Wei, who occupied the five states in the north.

The congenital conditions determine the failure of Shu, and sometimes fate is so helpless.

Gongsun Baoyue, who was sitting in the prison car, didn't know what had happened in the other parallel world, she only knew that if Zhao Yuanji and the others who escaped failed to get the assistance of the Xiliang Ma family, I am afraid that this world would really fall into the hands of the Xu family.

Now that the Xu family army is sitting in three states, it is enough to fight against the largest force in the south, the Cao family.

Cao De should not sit idly by, let the Xu family army grow, and now, Xiliang has become a key point.

Whoever gets Xiliang first will be able to put the other party to death!

The Ma family in Liangzhou is in danger.

.......

Xuzhou Xudu.

In April, the temperature rises, and in the bustling Xudu, pedestrians are changing into cool clothes and are busy making a living.

At this time, it had been two days since Sima Fang got off the boat from Qingzhou and arrived in Xudu by car.

He first disembarked at the Qingzhou Wharf, and after leaving the comfortable big ship, he returned to Xudu by carriage.

At first, Sima was seasick, but now that his seasickness is better, he actually began to get motion sickness.

On this part of the way back to Xudu, Sima Fang was so bumpy by the carriage that he couldn't stand it, and he lost five pounds alive.

Originally, on the first day he arrived in Xudu, he should have burned incense and bathed in the palace, and then entered the palace to meet the emperor and the prime minister, and told them what he had seen and heard in Youzhou.

However, His Majesty was gracious, and for the sake of his age, he asked someone to come over and inform him, so that he could go home and rest first, and then enter the palace to meet him when his body was well.

Now lying at home and resting for two days, Sima Fang finally regained some energy.

Seeing that the weather is just right today, he ordered someone to hand a post to the palace early in the morning, and at this moment after breakfast, tidy up his clothes a little, and prepare to enter the palace.

"Master, if you dress like this to see the prime minister, the prime minister won't blame you, right?" Old Madam Sima looked at the strange clothes on her husband's body worriedly and reminded.

This is the linen shirt brought by Sima Fang from Youzhou, divided into two bodies, and the top is a narrow sleeve placket button-down shirt, which is a bit similar to the Tang costume worn by the old man in later generations.

The lower body is an ordinary pair of trousers, the trousers are wide and wide, and the linen cloth is breathable, which is very cool.

The only special thing is that the trousers don't need to be belted, and the side wooden buckle is just fastened, which is very lightweight.

Sima Fang spent a winter in Youzhou, and at first he disliked Xu Jiajun's strange uniform, but it was really fragrant when he put it on.

On this return trip, I saw the spring and summer clothes sold in advance in the Youzhou ready-to-wear store, so I bought a lot of sets.

Not only is he wearing what he is wearing now, but he also has two sets with his entourage, and he will present them to His Majesty and the Prime Minister in a while.

They are all similar styles, and they are still very comfortable to wear at home in the hot summer.

Hearing his wife's worried question, Sima Fang waved his hand and said that it was okay, and after a while, he put on a Confucian shirt and went out again.

"No one will see it, old wife, don't worry."

He can bring the Sima family to this position, what can and cannot be done, he knows it in his heart.

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