Sun Lei led the army along the waterway and soon reached the Yangtze River, and after crossing the river, he returned to the military camp outside Yangzhou.

"Brother!"

Xiao Jiasui, who stayed in the camp, hugged his fists.

"Strategist, what's the news?"

Sun Lei looked at Xiao Jiasui and asked, since he crossed the river, he hadn't paid attention to the situation in the north for a long time.

"Brother, not long ago, the Jurchens captured the Jingdao in Liaozhong and issued an edict."

Xiao Jiasui saluted and handed over a piece of paper.

"Liao politics is not outlined, and people and gods abandon it. Now I want to unify China and foreign countries, so I ordered you to lead a large army to carry out a crusade! ”

Sun Lei looked at the short edict in his hand.

"It's not a small tone! After taking a Zhongjing Dao, I began to think about the unification of China and foreign countries? ”

Sun Lei said with a smile, the Jurchens are so crazy that they have already begun to think about the unification of China and foreign countries after beating a Liao State Zhongjing.

"Brother, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom fled from Zhongjing to Xijing, and now the Jurchens have also mobilized a large army to attack Xijing!"

Xiao Jiasui spoke again.

"Well, the army will be pulled out, return to Liangshan, take a rest, and soon there will be another big battle!"

Sun Lei nodded, and the matter in Jiangnan was over, and he moved north.

In April, spring is already blooming in the north, and the weather is gradually getting hotter.

Spring ploughing has long been over, the crops are growing vigorously in the field, and everything is so smooth without all kinds of taxes and exploitation by the imperial court.

Sun Lei rarely participates in farming, and he has never really farmed in his two lives, even if he was a rural household in his previous life, but he has never been serious about the land, let him farm, it is difficult to say what can grow in the field.

But Sun Lei knows one thing very well, that is, professionals do professional things, ploughing and farming, sowing and harvesting, weeding and watering, no one understands better than generations of hard-working farmers, as long as they don't blindly command and toss, everything will go smoothly.

"This year's crops are growing well!"

Sun Lei looked at the wheat in the roadside field, the wheat in the north was planted early, and some of them were headed, and they could be harvested in two months at most.

"Brother, there will be a bumper harvest of grain this year, and now our Liangshan grain is piled up, which is a problem."

Xiao Jiasui said.

"Well, isn't it brewing?"

Sun Lei asked suspiciously.

"Brother, the consumption of brewing is also limited, we have had a bumper harvest in Liangshan for several years, and now we control the land of 20 states, Shandong and Huaibei, which have been grain production places since ancient times, and this year's grain is afraid that the granary will not be able to pile up!"

"As for winemaking, this thing actually doesn't consume as much food, and there is a lot of wine, so storage and sales are also a problem."

Xiao Jiasui opened his mouth and said, he also has a headache about this problem, there has never been enough food in the world, and it is unprecedented for Liang Shan to worry about too much food.

"How much food can we eat?"

Yue Fei also came to be interested, his family used to be hungry and full when it was difficult, how could there be a time when there was too much food.

"Why don't you have enough food?"

Sun Lei asked with a smile.

"This ...... It's not enough to eat! ”

Yue Fei's mind couldn't turn, and the common sense was: When did you have enough food to eat?

"There are only more than 100 million people in the world, and the cultivated land area of the imperial court is 720 million mu, counting the uncounted, the cultivated land has been cultivated privately in recent years, and the cultivated land is close to 1 billion mu, and the rice yield in the south is high, one mu can have three or four hundred catties, and the wheat yield in the north is low, but more than two hundred catties can also be guaranteed."

"You can grow two or three crops in the south, and you can grow two crops in the north, and you haven't counted the fruits and vegetables, you calculate carefully, and it's more than enough to eat!"

Sun Lei said with a smile, with a huge land, why can't the Great Song Dynasty of 100 million people eat enough?

Why was Xicheng established? Isn't it just that he has taken a fancy to the land that the people have cultivated for so many years?

In recent years, the taxes on official land were too heavy, and the people could only support themselves with private land.

"This ......"

Not only Yue Fei, but the rest of the people also looked at each other, they really hadn't calculated these carefully, if they looked at it this way, there was really no reason to be hungry.

"It's nothing more than exploiting too much profit, a poor farmer, planting ten acres of land a year, collecting 5,000 catties of grain, and 4,500 catties are all exorbitant taxes and go, can you not be hungry?"

"Now our Liangshan tax burden is light, every family has divided the land, ordinary people have twenty or thirty acres of land, a year can have tens of thousands of catties of grain output, will leave a large amount of grain, these grains far exceed a family's annual grain storage, if it is not disposed of, it will lead to private sale!"

Xiao Jiasui added that ordinary farmers will keep enough food rations and seeds for their families after harvesting, and sell the surplus, so as not to attract snakes, insects, rats and ants, and can also exchange some money.

However, if every household has surplus grain, the price will be very depressed, and at this time, it will lead to private sales, such as selling grain to the Liao State, which is short of grain, which is equivalent to a disguised enemy.

"Since the wine is not exhausted, then encourage breeding, chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, sheep, pigs, horses!"

Sun Lei thought about it and said, grain is not suitable for long-term storage, that is, digging a large cellar, and storing it for a few years is the limit, but the ground is growing every year, it is better to consume it on the spot, people can't eat it, then give it to livestock, and eat meat at that time.

"Yes, brother!"

Xiao Jiasui hugged his fist, he actually had this idea, but he didn't dare to say that agricultural food was a big deal, and it was consumed this year, if the war was not going well next year, if the year was not good, there would be a big problem, and this decision must be made by Sun Lei.

Return to Yangsan.

Everything is still the same, and Liangshan Town is always so crowded.

The army directly entered the camp outside the water pool, and the army only had a month's rest time, and after a month, nearly half of the army would enter Cangzhou, and the future war would be mainly concentrated in the north.

"Brother, there is no news from those people in the Ming Sect."

Li Zhu looked at Sun Lei and said.

"Give them some time, after all, the official army is still in Jiangnan, and it is not easy for them to bring so many old and weak women and children."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, it is not easy for Lou Minzhong and those people to get out with women and children this time.

"Let's talk about the north, the Liao State has sent a letter again, or wants to unite us to deal with the Jurchens, what conditions do you think I have to fool them?"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and asked, although the Liao Kingdom is in the waning west, there are still many elites in the land of Yanyun.

"Brother, since they want to unite us? Then naturally give me the way to Liaodong, and the coastal states east of Nanjing Road are good! ”

Wu Song said.

"Wu Erlang is right, let's fake the Dao, we have to borrow the Dao first!"

Pang Wanchun laughed, Liang Shan never wanted to cooperate with Fanzi, it was nothing more than to use it, and if he finished using it, he would do it together.

"Now that Liao has lost Tokyo Road, Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Xijing Road are in danger, the only safe thing is Nanjing Road, let's open a few states, and the Liao people are afraid that they will not be willing."

Lin Chong shook his head and said, Liao has lost most of its land now, and it is extremely important to the rest of the country.

"Then talk to them first, five states, two or three states still have to give it under the bargain!"

Sun Lei thought about it and said, the most important thing is naturally Pingzhou, which is the only way to Liaodong. (End of chapter)