Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong in history are really a pair of good friends who love and kill each other.

The two killed from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the fall of the Tang Dynasty, but in the end, no one could help anyone.

However, Zhu Quanzhong destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but Li Keyong always regarded himself as a Tang minister, and Li Cunqiao also established the Later Tang Dynasty after his death.

Li Keyong is a Shatuo person, and the hometown of the Shatuo people is Daibei.

In order to deal with Li Yunze, the imperial court gave the rich Hedong to Li Keyong to enhance his strength.

Li Yunze's counterattack was very fast, and he coerced the imperial court to arrange Zhu Wen to be the boss of the Daibei camp, which not only cut off Li Keyong's contact with the Daibei Shatuo tribe, but also became his nominal boss.

Of course, Li Yunze knows very well that Li Keyong may be a little reckless, but Zhu Quanzhong is definitely a clear-headed person.

Such a simple strategy to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf can't hide it from him.

It doesn't matter if you can't hide it, this is a clear policy.

The northern land is barren, and Zhu Wen has neither Li Yunze's time and space gate, nor is he a good hand at managing internal affairs. He maintained the current size of the army, relying on the money and grain obtained from trading horses with Li Yunze.

Li Yunze gave him the opportunity to expand his territory, and Zhu Wen would definitely seize it.

Having territory means having a population, having taxes, having food, having supplies, and so on.

For the feudal towns, expanding their strength is stronger than everything, even if it is to fight with the powerful Li Keyong, Zhu Wen will not hesitate.

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Of course, for Li Yunze, these things are just trivial matters that are not worth mentioning.

Although Li Keyong's prestige is great, it is like that in his own eyes.

As for Zhu Wen, he is a master of playing with power, but unfortunately Li Yunze plays more than him.

Since it can't pose a substantial threat, of course it doesn't matter.

At this time, Li Yunze's important thing is the upcoming autumn harvest.

He does have a portal, but sometimes he is a little powerless in the face of huge consumables.

This is especially true for a large consumable such as food.

Satisfying the food supply of thousands or even tens of thousands of people is not difficult for Li Yunze.

Even the needs of hundreds of thousands of people, he can grit his teeth and transport them.

But when the numbers expand by millions or more, the capacity that Li Yunze can mobilize is not enough.

To feed millions of people, the local food harvest is the most important.

This year, almost every household has been given a piece of land, and Li Yunze has also been exempted from all land taxes.

In addition, the construction of water conservancy and the provision of agricultural tools and seeds and pesticides have swept away the ruffians in the countryside, and all kinds of large temples that have made money have been directly bulldozed.

With so much good news, this year's grain in Li Yunze's jurisdiction has achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest.

It's really unprecedented, the kind that scares you to say it.

Even after thousands of years of development, the Central Plains is already a real ripe field. But its grain output, at least in Li Yunze's opinion, is far from enough.

The yield per mu here is more than a few buckets of one stone, and it can only last for two stones.

Converted, that is, the yield per mu is two or three hundred catties.

This is talking about ripe fields, high-quality fields. If you change to an inferior field, the inferior field will be a hundred and ten catties.

Due to the limitations of manpower farming, the number of acres that can be cultivated by each labor force is not very large.

The output is so low, coupled with the fact that there is enough grain to be left, coupled with the exploitation of countless people up and down, it has become a normal thing to often not have enough to eat.

If people can't even eat, then they naturally don't have the strength to do anything else.

Therefore, eating enough and falling for a thousand years is a big thing in the sky.

And this year, the grain output in all parts of Li Yunze's jurisdiction is generally close to 500 catties!

In this era, it is definitely an earth-shattering number, enough to make countless peasant people cry.

The old farmers who have served their crops all their lives have never thought that one acre of land can produce so much grain.

The main reason for the sharp increase in grain output is the new grain varieties brought by Li Yunze, as well as the indestructible pesticides and, of course, the soil and chemical fertilizers.

Grain is not planted only once a year, and there is no way that the grain is indeed high-yielding, but it is very fatal if you can't continue to plant.

Although the yield of Li Yunze's choice is not as good as that of high-yield grain varieties, and there will be the problem of gradual degradation of seeds, it is at least a hundred times stronger than not being able to continue planting at all.

As for the pesticides, it is much simpler, Li Yunze placed an order and bought it directly.

Moreover, pesticides can be blended, diluted with water, and can be applied to a large area of land.

The more critical reason is that the pests of this era are completely unresistant to pesticides.

As long as you use pesticides, you can do it directly.

There is also soil fertilizer.

Modern fertilizer is indeed significant, but the demand is too great, and the damage to the land is also great.

Engaging in modern chemical industry before full-scale industry will do more harm than good.

Therefore, Li Yunze uses soil fertilizer, and the effect is not as good as that of industrial fertilizer, but it is stronger than nothing.

And it's easier to obtain, and the damage to the soil isn't too great.

It is precisely because of the superposition of favorable factors in all aspects that there is a miracle of nearly 500 catties per mu.

But there are many things that happen after the miracle.

"I don't understand, what's so good to judge here?"

In the county yamen of Chenliu County, which is under the jurisdiction of Bianzhou, Li Yunze looked at the case being tried in front of him, and was already impatient to interrupt the endless nonsense of the county order: "Jiedu has already ordered that if the purchase price is less than 200 wen per bucket, they will all be disposed of as profiteers." ”

Speaking of this, Li Yunze stretched out his hand and pointed to several grain merchants in the hall, "These guys buy grain at a price of 100 wen per bucket, which is already undoubtedly against the order of the Jiedu envoy Yamen." What are you interrogating here? ”

The county commander was sweating profusely, and he didn't know what to say.

Li Yunze, who was staring at him, glanced at him, "Needless to say, I also know that it is nothing more than these grain merchants who give you other benefits, collude with each other and oppress the farmers to sell grain at low prices." If it weren't for the peasants who went to Jiedu to make a complaint to the yamen, I didn't know that you would be so bold.

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This is very serious, and the county order is already hurriedly coming out from behind the eucalyptus to salute and plead guilty.

"You and the others are all elites of the academy, and they have been selected through exams again and again and arranged to be the masters of the people in the local area." Li Yunze, who was standing with his hands behind his back, sighed lightly: "I can't wait, the annual income is not only enough to support the family, but also has a lot of leftovers in Hukou." Ben thought about waiting

Will be dedicated to civil. I didn't think it would take long to be no different from those people in the yamen before. It was such a disappointment to me. ”

Many officials in the county government came out to salute one after another, with different expressions.

Li Yunze trained a group of new civil officials, thinking that they would be different from the old-style civil officials, at least full of vigor.

Unexpectedly, it was only a long time before the collusion with profiteers to oppress the farmer appeared, which really disappointed him.

This may not be the case for all newcomers, but it's clear that this is not an exception.

He had already made up his mind that when he returned, he would carry out a large-scale inventory, and then strengthen the supervision of the newcomers.

Of course, he must solve this situation as soon as possible.

"Temperance." Perhaps sensing Li Yunze's killing intent, the county commander argued, "It's not that we are evil, but the minimum grain collection is 200 wen per bucket, and the highest grain sales is 200 wen per bucket." At this kind of price, grain merchants will only lose money if they don't make a profit, and they can't do business

If it goes down, it will affect the livelihood of the people in the city. ”

Li Yunze, who squinted at the county order, said a word.

"Sophistry!"

"Jiedu makes the yamen collect grain in various places at 200 wen per bucket, and there are special grain stores in various towns and cities that sell it at a price of 200 wen per bucket, why does it affect the livelihood of the people in the city?"

Li Yunze didn't intend to give the grain merchants a way to live at all, but just used economic means to expel the grain merchants.

Moreover, most of these so-called grain merchants were sent by the surrounding feudal towns, because Li Yunze's grain here was not only large in quantity but also cheap.

As early as before the autumn harvest, Li Yunze had already arranged for him to buy the surplus grain in the hands of the people as a reserve.

The purchase price and the offer price were fixed for this purpose.

Of course, food, which is a strategic material, cannot be cheapened by others.

As for the sophistry of the county order, it is just to fight for a glimmer of life for himself.

Li Yunze didn't bother to say anything more, he waved his hand, and a group of tooth soldiers immediately stepped forward and dragged the grain merchant and the people in the yamen out.

After the interrogation, any of these people who are not clean will be disposed of.

The news of the bumper grain harvest in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwu Army attracted countless peeping eyes from all around.

No way, in this era, food is the most important strategic material.

If it weren't for the Xuanwu Army's combat effectiveness being too strong and Li Yunze's prestige being too strong, countless vicious wolves would have pounced on him and directly plundered it.

In this case, they were able to send people over to buy food, which was already a very civilized performance.

Li Yunze, who was not short of money, bought almost all the surplus grain in various places and hoarded it.

With so much food hoarded in his hands, Li Yunze also has his own plans.

He first sold a batch to the town of Weibo in the north at a lower price, so that the town of Weibo, which had just ended the infighting, could be honest for a while.

The town of Weibo has 100,000 horses and is very combative.

That is, there is a lack of a really strong leader, so there has been nothing too much to do.

Li Yunze set a strategy of first the south and then the north, and first used them as a wall to block many powerful feudal domains in the north, especially Li Keyong in Hedong.

Then he provided support to the Huaixi Army and used them to drag Yang Xingmi.

Of course, Li Yunze was very vigilant about Yang Xingmi, who established the State of Wu, and before he freed up his hands, he also had to arrange an opponent for him to consume time and energy.

In the end, it's an offensive against short-term goals.

The Zhongwu Army, the Yicheng Army, the Yongping Army, and the Eastern Capital Defense Envoy, who had secretly participated in the Xuanwu Army's encirclement network before, were Li Yunze's next targets.

In the name of dividing the land and distributing grain, he hooked the people under the rule of these two or five boys in the west to flee to his place.

On the one hand, it weakens their strength, and on the other hand, it leads them to take the initiative to attack without patience.

The martial artists at the end of the Tang Dynasty did not have many real brains, and most of them still relied on the reckless men who relied on the steel knives in their hands.

Some of the soldiers and horses of the Yicheng army entrenched in the Xingyang area could not resist the desire to plunder, crossed the border into Bianzhou, and surrounded a county town that was said to have stored hundreds of thousands of stone grain.

Li Yunze, who learned the news, immediately laughed and patted Zhang Hui's thigh.

He needed the time and delivered it to the door himself.