The major affairs of the country are in Rong, but in the eyes of all Li Shu, this is all.

The ribbons will pursue bloody wars and lavish sacrifices, and the people of Li Shu know that there is only one major event in life.

That's food!

Therefore, the first thing Zhang Chong did after the battle and the recounting of his achievements was to take his troops and the prisoner camp to several dock walls outside the mountain to help plant millet.

Summer arrived, this time is the time to plant millet, it is a matter of farming, Zhang Chong did not dare to slack off for half a minute, the so-called "people are wrong for a while, the land is wrong for an autumn", after a little rectification, he handed over the general affairs to Du Man, and then took everyone down the mountain.

Previously, after a series of high-intensity battles, Zhang Chong successively eliminated the Zhang Suo Department of Diaoyao Mountain, the seven Gongsun Divisions of Wangqin Feng, and the seventeen families of Zhou Zhuangshan Liao.

According to the statistics after the war, a total of 2,000 Dingkou were captured, of which 1,000 were brave and brave, these were the brave warriors among the people of Mount Tai, and they were the elite soldiers of the entire Han Dynasty.

In addition, there were also two and sixteen leaders of the mountain liao, a total of forty-six people, including Na Chang Xuan and Yu Ban, all of whom were lowered.

That's right, Yu Ban also surrendered to Zhang Chong.

At first, Zhang Chong was of course surprised when he heard that the man who was hunted by the people in the mountains was called Yu Ban.

He never expected that in the future, Cao Wei's fifth son, who was also Cao Cao's first general, would kneel in front of him and ask for surrender.

Zhang Chong recalled it carefully, thinking that the first time this person appeared on the stage of history was as one of the 20,000 Taishan soldiers recruited by Bao Xin, who was a powerful Taishan soldier, and later Bao Xin was attacked and killed by Qingzhou Taiping Road, and this person was returned to Cao Cao, and then relied on military merits to emerge all the way.

In this way, it is reasonable for Yu Ban to be a Taishan thief, otherwise how would he know Chang Xuan, who is also a Taishan Kou.

After accepting Yu Ban, Zhang Chong was also a little happy, after all, it was the first time that a historical heavyweight had joined his army, which was worth being happy about, and under the joy, Zhang Chong rewarded Yu Ban with a big piece of money and asked him to work hard.

Yu Ban is also full of bitterness, what can he do!

When he was hunted by the mountain squirters, he saw that all they wanted was a full meal, and he became bitter, thinking that I was the leader of fifty thieves, and it was only worth a few buckets of corn.

Lamentable.

And when the man named General Shi asked him if he was willing to surrender?

He was angry in his heart, but in his mouth he replied in a ghostly manner:

"Surrender!"

Gongsun Qi is dead, he is still alive, so he will die with Gongsun Qi? It can't be like this.

Gongsun Qi's martial arts is over, and he hasn't started yet.

So, he surrendered in the ban, not ashamed, right!

At this time, on the ridge of He's wall, forty miles north of Wangzhou Peak, Zhang Chong was listening to the teachings of his father Zhang Gouzi.

"Don't look at you now leading thousands of people, I think it's amazing, in the field of farming, Naigong is still Naigong! Come see how I do it! ”

After speaking, Zhang Gouzi picked up the hoe and skillfully planed the ground.

He taught Zhang Chong while planing:

"The soil that has been dug out will be piled up into ridges, don't look at this little step, he is wonderful! Otherwise, your ancestor wouldn't have gone to learn from their old Zhang family back then.

That year, in order to steal this hand, your ancestor lay on the edge of the land all night long, teaching our brothers all the work in the field, but he was not tired to death.

Don't talk about it, come, I'll tell you what's so good about it.

You see, now a ditch has been plowed, and then we will put millet seeds in this ditch, and then the millet seeds will sprout into grass.

But this grass is most afraid of the wind, and when it blows, it will fall down, and the soil ridges we are piling on both sides are just to block the wind for the young grass. Wonderful, you say? ”

"Wonderful!"

"There's even better! You see now we plant millet in the ditch, right, when we plant the corn later, we will plant it on the ridge, you see such a round of planting, it does not hurt the ground, wonderful? ”

"Wonderful!"

Zhang Chong really thinks this method is good, because the magic of this method is that it does not increase the workload, but it can increase the yield per mu through overall planning, how is it not good!

Zhang Chong was not a farmer in his previous life, nor had he cultivated land, but he knew that if he wanted the people to have enough to eat, there were two ways, one to increase the yield per mu, and the other to increase the cultivated area.

Zhang Chong has been getting along with Daddy for the past few days, and knows that the methods to increase the yield per mu in this era have been composting, crop rotation and other methods. But the effect is not ideal!

Zhang Chong asked Daddy, and he said that this is because the things planted are not good, if you plant wheat like before, that mu will be half more than planting millet, and twice as much as planting soybean.

Zhang Gouzi recalled to Zhang Chong that the best days when he was a child were the days when the family planted wheat, but unfortunately he couldn't plant it now.

Zhang Chong asked why?

Zhang Gouzi said what else, lack of water.

This kind of wheat requires more water than millet, but they don't get water. In the past, there were water conservancy ditches built by the official temple, but then no one took care of it, and they could only go to the distant Pitang to get water.

Moreover, even Napitang was later fenced by Zhang Hong's house, saying that they would raise fish and no longer give water to everyone. Or if they want water, they can pay ten stone of grain to their family every year.

Therefore, Da Sangli switched to millet, although the yield of this thing is not high, but it can also grow on dry land, and it is good to live!

Zhang Chong understood, the root is here:

When the country is strong, water conservancy is built, so that more small people can get water, and once the country declines, there is no money and food to maintain water conservancy public works, then it is difficult for small people to use water.

Thinking about this article, what about the second one, which increases the area of cultivated land?

First of all, if you want to increase the cultivation speed of Yiding, it is necessary to rely on oxen and horses.

After all, if you rely on people to cultivate more land by themselves, how much more can you do!

However, the cost of raising cattle and horses is not low, and it is even more expensive than raising people, which is not something that every household can do.

In addition, don't look at the fact that there are only 50 million people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are a lot of fields, you feel that the contradiction between man and land is not tense.

But in fact, the population of this world is mostly concentrated on both sides of the Yellow River, and this place is prosperous, but there is not enough land.

On the contrary, the vast south is very small. The feasible idea is to let the people of the north go south to develop, and the population of the Tang and Song dynasties in later generations will depend on this.

However, this kind of immigration does not rely on the spontaneous formation of the people, not to mention where they eat and drink all the way, let's just say that they will not be able to produce grain in the first year of land reclamation, and they will not be able to last a year without grain storage.

This is also the reason why the people on both sides of the Yellow River would rather starve in their hometowns than leave for the south. Therefore, this kind of big project can only be led by the government.

At this point, Zhang Chong seems to have grasped a general trend in the world.

An Tianxia, there are six characters, respectively, "break the strong and strong, even the field".

There are also nine characters to govern the world, which are "rejuvenating water conservancy, selecting good seeds, and opening up the south." ”

The former reshapes production relations, the latter improves productivity, and the combination of the front and back can break the historical cyclical law of the Xiaoice Period.

At this point, Zhang Chong felt that he had thought it through.