The trivial military affairs mentioned by Zhuge Jin were arranged by Liu Bei personally, so he didn't ask again.

Zhuge Jin is just a guest who came up with ideas, and he has other big moves that he needs to hold back in person and tinker with trial and error.

Regarding the cultivation of overwintering mustard greens, this is the most urgent, because it is necessary to rush the agricultural time. Liu Bei immediately ordered on the same day, and he asked Sun Qian, who had just arrived in Guangling, to be fully responsible for this work of persuading farmers to promote the peasants.

If you really don't understand, you can ask Zhuge Jin to teach, but you can't overwork others.

In just a few days, Sun Qian brought in a large number of mustard seeds in order to persuade the peasants to let the people try planting.

Sun Gan also took into account the problem of the people's acceptance, and was afraid that it would not be able to be effectively promoted to more people and more fields in a short period of time, so Sun Gan concentrated on cultivating the mustard seeds in advance to raise seedlings, so that the time for rapeseed germination would not be delayed.

In the next ten days and half a month, as long as the farmers and powerful farmers are willing to change their minds, the government can directly send the germinated seeds with soil to them for planting. In short, a lot of methods have been used, trying to grab a variety of time, but after all, it is the first year, and how much effect can only be said to be doing one's best and obeying the destiny of heaven.

While the internal affairs of persuading the peasants are in full swing,

Liu Bei and Guan Yu's military operations to check and fill in the gaps and expand the results of the battle also went according to their plans.

In just seven or eight days, some progress has been made.

On the Huaiyin battlefield in the north, on August 14, Guan Yu, who was defending Ji Ling, made a breakthrough first.

Guan Yu used the cavalry left by Liu Bei to make an attempt to attack Xuyi behind the enemy, forcing Ji Ling to worry that the grain route would be cut off and the old nest would be stolen, so he had to waver and retreat.

Guan Yu also used the news of Guangling's change of hands to spread all kinds of military morale to attack Ji Ling, further urging Ji Ling, and finally half frightened and half sent, forcing him out of the territory of Guangling County completely.

Ji Ling has always been reluctant to waste the opportunity of "Xiapi was stolen, causing Liu Bei's soldiers to be homesick and demoralized".

But the matter has come to this point, Yuan Shujun's own Guangling is sure that it has been lost, and the situation is very different from the beginning.

Ji Ling felt that Liu Bei should be able to stabilize his morale, and he could only give up if he was reluctant.

At this point, Yuan Shu's offensive against Liu Bei, which began this summer, can be regarded as a complete collapse.

In the future, if Yuan Shu wants to fight, he will have to reorganize from scratch, and it will not come so quickly, but Guangling County will no longer be threatened by the military for the rest of this year.

After Guan Yu won a great victory, his cavalry was also quite tired and could not afford to travel hundreds of miles a day to report the news, so it took two days on the road to reach Guangling County on August 16.

And Liu Bei's side, just on August 16, finally relied on the strategy of attacking the heart, forced landing to pacify Hailing County, and a Yuan army stationed in the local area Sima led the crowd to surrender, which was regarded as a bloodless opening of the city.

Liu Bei got the surplus grain from the warehouse of about thousands of stones in a small place like Hailing, and made up for it a little.

But the problem is that because Hailing County surrendered peacefully, 2,000 soldiers also voted for Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was needed from now on.

Those few thousand stones of surplus grain are not enough for these two thousand people to eat until next year's summer grain harvest, and at most they are only enough for local soldiers and officials to eat until the end of the new year.

Liu Bei's soldiers and horses are recovering and growing, and the food crisis has not been alleviated at all for the time being, but he is asked to raise more and more food mouths.

Out of this worry, Liu Bei didn't dare to delay much after taking Hailing, and hurried back that day.

He just wanted to see for the first time how Sun Qian's persuasion of farmers in Guangling was to let people grow mustard greens, and how well it was promoted.

Let's take a look at the other open-source food channels that Zhuge Jin is drumming up, how well they have been deployed.

But in any case, after Hailing was taken, Liu Bei's military defensive pressure was indeed relieved.

Because his territory was finally completely wrapped by the natural geographical barrier formed by the rivers and seas,

To the north of the Huai River, the entire northern border is south of the Huai River except for Mi Zhu's hometown of Qu County, and there is a big river as a barrier.

In the same way, the west is to Hangou, the south is to the Yangtze River, and the east is to the sea. Two rivers, one river and one sea completely surrounded his territory on all sides, and the enemy could not attack without a water army, so Liu Bei could farm with peace of mind for the time being.

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After a night and a day's march, Liu Bei returned to Guangling County exhausted and fell asleep.

When I woke up the next morning, it was August 18.

He didn't even have time to listen to the reports from all sides before going to bed last night, and he didn't even have time to read the good news that Guan Yubu sent to Guangling two days ago.

Hastily washed and dressed early in the morning, Liu Bei drank gruel while seizing the time to look at Guan Yu's report.

Seeing that Guan Yu actually expanded the results of the battle in the process of forcing Ji Ling to retreat, and captured more than a thousand prisoners of the Yuan army who were slow to escape, Liu Bei didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

He's so poor that he can't live now.

After putting down the good news, Liu Bei inevitably went through the recent changes in the size of the army and the capture of battle losses in his mind.

"Before the war, our army had more than 14,000 people, and the final casualties in the decisive battle of Huaiyin reached two or three thousand, but the casualties in the battle of Guangling were fewer, all because Liu Ye retreated cowardly, and did not fight to the death with our army. However, coupled with the peripheral operations when Yun Chang forced Ji Ling to retreat and our army captured Hailing, the cumulative casualties and escapes should be hundreds.

All the dead and wounded Lin totaled at least more than 4,000 people. Counting the fleeing soldiers, the total loss was more than 5,000, and only 9,000 of the 14,000 veterans remained.

Even if there are one or two thousand lightly wounded people who can slowly recover and return to the team in the future, there will definitely be homesick soldiers who will flee because their families are at Lu Bu's place during this time, and the two will be offset, and it will be difficult for the old department of our army veterans to recover to more than 10,000 people.

Yide captured more than 600 captives when he destroyed the thunder, and some of them were incorporated and transformed. During the decisive battle of Huaiyin, two or three thousand people were captured, more than 1,000 people were captured here in Guangling, 2,000 people in Hailing surrendered directly, and more than 1,000 people were captured when the Ji Ling Department retreated. All these are counted, and the total number of available troops in the future can be restored to a total of 16,700, which is a slight profit compared to before the war.

It's a pity that these six or seven thousand prisoners of war are disloyal, and their families are also in Huainan and Lujiang, and I am afraid that they will not be able to use them completely with confidence within a year and a half, but they still have to spend food to support them first, at most let them help grow mustard greens, and learn from Cao Cao to build a military camp after the beginning of spring, but at least in the first half of the year, they can only get in and out......"

Liu Bei took stock of his military situation in his mind, he was not worried about the current size of the army, and the total number of people after the battle had increased slightly, so he was only worried about whether he could survive.

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After taking stock of the current situation, Liu Bei felt that it was time to personally manage government affairs and supervise the progress of people's livelihood.

So after breakfast, he immediately found Sun Qian and asked about the situation of persuading Nong Dongke.

Sun Qian reported with a bitter face: "In the past five or six days, we have tried our best to use our lips and tongues, but unfortunately no one in Huainan has ever planted like this before, even if I heard that Jiangdong can grow live, the vast majority of people are still worried that Jiangbei is too cold."

On the one hand, I desperately used Zizhong's money, grain, and business travel channels to buy a large number of mustard seeds, and the idle soldiers in the army cultivated soil and seedlings, so as not to miss the agricultural time. On the other hand, it is also to learn Cao Cao's method of military tun, so that the soldiers can forcibly plant mustard according to the military order.

Especially those prisoners of war of Yuan Shujun, now they don't dare to use them into battle, so they all force them to farm first.

On Yunchang's side, I have also sent a letter detailing the cultivation method, and I have also sent some old farmers who know how to cultivate soil and seedlings to help Huaiyin County also plant winter mustard, but it is estimated that there are fewer people who are willing to accept it than here. ”

After Sun Qian finished speaking, he finally gave an estimated statistical conclusion: if only the soldiers were relied on, at most seven or eight thousand people would be able to grow winter mustard.

The army also has to maintain combat readiness, and it is impossible to disarm all of them and return to the field, otherwise if Yuan Shu Sun Ce finds out that Liu Bei's armament is lax and comes to attack again, it will be all over.

And if the peasants can be persuaded to succeed and fully mobilize the people, Sun Qian estimates that the sown area will increase by five times at most, and the army and the people will be able to grow 350,000 seeds together.

Of course, the young and strong population of Guangling County is much larger than this, but Sun Gan has to take into account the tight time, and the most they can persuade farmers to affect is at most two or three counties, and they can only count on the relatively open-minded people among them.

It's a pity that the effect of persuading farmers is extremely poor now, and there are only a few thousand people who can persuade them.

If there is no new booster, the final result may be that more than 10,000 people in the military and civilians will grow winter mustard, and subsidized military rations will be harvested by the end of February next year.

Between the upper and lower limits, there can be a difference of 30,000 yuan in the income of growing vegetables.

After Liu Bei listened, the joy and sorrow were invisible, but he felt helpless in his heart.

He is well aware of the people's suffering, and he also knows what the people are worried about.

Although the government persuaded the peasants to give great concessions, and the seeds could be bought by Mi Zhu and given to the peasants for free, the effort spent was, after all, the people themselves.

Guangling has not been peaceful in the past two years, and the people have been very bitter, and everyone has a dish.

If you don't toss, you can lie down in bed for a few more hours in winter, reduce some basal metabolic consumption, and your stomach will be hungry a little slower, maybe you can eat one or two coarse grains less every day.

In the years of war and famine, the people wanted to save what little effort they had. In case the white vegetable seedlings freeze to death, the strength of the white flowers may starve to death.

Liu Bei lacked the means to improve his credibility.

It can even be said that there is a lack of "miracles" to improve one's folk credit.

"That's it, but do your best, and let everyone obey the destiny of heaven." Liu Bei sighed, exhaled the turbidity in his chest, and looked very tragic, only then did he remember that Zhuge Jin seemed to have other tricks, so he held the last trace of hope and asked Sun Gan,

"By the way, what's going on over there Ziyu? A few days ago, I went to collect Hailing, and when he left, he said that he wanted to find a way to improve fishing and hunting and increase the supply of military food, but did it work? ”

Sun Gan is not very knowledgeable, but he said honestly: "It seems that it has not been effective a few days ago, it should be improved, and Mr. said that he was afraid that the effect would not be good, so he rashly made it public and made the people despise it."

I only know that he asked for a lot of sergeants, cut down bamboo everywhere, and dismantled some damaged bamboo horses in the army, I don't know what he is making, it should be fishing gear, right? ”

Liu Bei thought about it, and there was no other hope at the moment, so he instructed Sun Gan: "Let's go, let's take a look around today, observe the people's feelings, listen to the people's reluctance to plant winter mustard, what they think, and go to Ziyu in the afternoon to have a look, in case there is a harvest." ”

This is also a dead horse as a live horse doctor.