On the tenth day of the fifth month of the second year of Yongjia, it was already the third day after the end of the war.

The remnants of the enemy were basically wiped out, and after being closed for several days, the gates of Luoyang were opened again.

Everything seems to have returned to its former state.

Lu Zhi, Yu Liang and others hurried to Pan Garden, and what they saw was that Lu Yanghou was plowing the fields with his soldiers, preparing to plant a crop of miscellaneous grains.

He walked up and down the ridge and found that the overwintering wheat he had planted last year had been destroyed, and not much remained.

In less than a month, the wheat will be harvested.

"There are more and more borderless lands in the suburbs of Luoyang, as long as you want to plant, you can occupy whatever you want." Shao Xun threw the nail rake to Tang Jian, wiped his sweat, and said with a smile.

Lu Zhi could only smile bitterly.

If there is still some recovery in the past few years, and the price of Luoyang fields has rebounded, after the rebellion of Wang Mi, the price of Luoyang fields is afraid that it will fall to the bottom.

More and more people will move away, and more and more people will move away.

The surrounding area of Pan Garden is a good anointed land, there used to be a master, but now there may not be, if you organize people to farm, you should be able to harvest a lot of grain.

"The prince wants to drive the captives to farm?" Lu Zhi stopped by a canal and asked.

Although there are a lot of weeds growing in the canal and it is slightly silted, the water is still playing a tenacious role in irrigation.

The so-called anointed land refers not only to soil fertility, but also to complete water conservancy facilities.

Within more than ten miles near Luoyang City, there are large reservoirs such as Qianjinwei and Hongchipi, supplemented by rivers such as Gushui, Yishui and Luoshui, and irrigation is very convenient, so the yield of farmland is extremely high.

It is indeed a pity that these good fields are left uncultivated and constantly abandoned.

In the future, if wars become more frequent, water conservancy facilities will be destroyed, and it will be more difficult to restore farmland after it has been abandoned for a long time, and Luoyang's agriculture will be abandoned.

"I caught 12,000 thieves in Yuyuanguan, Yanshi, Luoyang, and Fupingjin, and I didn't want to raise them in vain. In the past few days, they were divided into three battalions, and the soldiers of the Yamen Army were sent to guard them, and they searched for some borderless land in the vicinity to grow miscellaneous grains. After the autumn harvest, we will transfer people from various docks and manors to teach them to plant winter wheat, and they will be able to harvest it in May and June next year. Shao Xun said: "In the hands of Lao Tzu, how can it be so cheap." ”

"Are there enough farm tools and cattle?" Lu Zhi asked.

"Farm tools are good to say, thieves don't like to rob this. Yanshi, Wushi and other counties have been plagued by them, and I have sent people to look for them, and it will be difficult to cultivate cattle. Speaking of this, Shao Xun smiled and said, "However, it is not impossible for people to cultivate. These thieves are not sorry to die. If you don't plow, you will die. ”

Lu Zhi didn't react, but Yu Liang's heart skipped a beat.

In the end, Lu Yanghou killed the martial arts, and he was ruthless enough.

"There are also 5,000 captives over there in Yushanwu." Lu Zhi reminded.

"It was organized into the fourth battalion on the spot and drove to Yangcheng County to find a borderless land to cultivate." Shao Xun said: "Huang Biao came to report that Liang County had collected about 8,000 prisoners, and I ordered them to be organized into the fifth and sixth battalions and sent to Guangchengze to open up wasteland. ”

"Enough food?" Lu Zhi said tightly.

He knew that the prince had obtained a lot of thieves and soldiers, and there must be food, but it was a question of whether it was enough for more than 20,000 captives to chew.

"The seized grain and beans haven't been counted yet, but it's not much, it should only be two or three hundred thousand hundred, these poor ghosts." Shao Xun scolded with a smile.

Lu Zhi silently calculated, if the captives were only half-fed, this amount of food would be enough to feed them for about half a year - they couldn't eat enough, and they would work in the field twice for three days, and the captives would have no strength to escape even if they wanted to.

However, the miscellaneous grains can be harvested in three months, and after this part of the grain is put into storage, together with the captured grain beans, it will be enough to feed the captives until the wheat harvest in May and June next year.

I just don't know how many of these captives will be left at that time, what Luoyang will look like, and whether there will be a war.

"Junhou, this time the thieves are raging, and the Yanshi, the Gui family, Yangcheng, Yangzhai and even Xiangcheng counties have been very damaged...... Lu Zhi said again.

"Say, I'll listen." Shao Xun said.

"The prince can go to the counties, collect the bones, and pay tribute to the victims......" Lu Zhisui said.

To put it simply, these places have been destroyed quite violently, and there are still a few bandits active to this day.

Family or nothing - there are no big families in these places.

But Xiaohaoqiang, Hanmen and even ordinary people have suffered great disasters, and there are many borderless lands.

Lu Zhi suggested that he first collect a wave of popular support, and then use the fame of winning the battle there to divide those borderless lands - give priority to the families of the silver spear soldiers who are about to be relocated, and also place the government soldiers.

Shao Xun was a little emotional when he heard this.

Lu Zhi, the "image designer", is qualified, and he has done everything possible to build momentum for him and consolidate the hearts of the people, and at the same time quietly pocket the benefits.

In addition, he was even more emotional, when he first arrived in Liang County, he still needed to make the local tyrants spit out the illegally occupied land, but he didn't expect Wang Mi to make such a fuss, and he didn't have to bear any notoriety, and directly harvested countless good fields - as long as you have the force to keep these lands.

Wang Mi's rebellion may be a great opportunity for this small military and political group he established to lay a solid foundation and develop rapidly.

The families of the Silver Lancers left the cramped and cramped dock fort and went to live in the fertile plains of Yangzhai, Jiacheng, and Xiangcheng, and their small lives improved by leaps and bounds.

The placement of government soldiers can also be carried out in depth, without directly tearing their faces with the family.

Even the family members of the Yamen Army can consider moving over, there is a lot of land.

If this matter is done, he will have a complete foothold in Guangchengze, Xiangcheng County, and the northwest corner of Yingchuan.

From now on, Luoyang is his shield, sheltering him from the wind and rain - if necessary, he will raise troops to the north to shelter Luoyang from the wind and rain, and help Luoyang, in fact, to help himself.

The preferred direction of expansion is the Nanyang Basin, which requires patience and waits for opportunities.

Yu Liang was stunned when he heard it.

If it takes a year and a half to get these things done, Luyang Hou will in fact become the overlord of the Rushui and Yingshui areas, even if there are many Yingchuan families, but none of them have the strength to compete with him, the difference is too far.

Thinking of this, Yu Liang's heart was a little sour.

Wang Mi came, and the Yingchuan family didn't dare to call out.

The Hou of Luyang has become a climate, and the Yingchuan family also does not dare to call out.

If the Huns come in the future, the Yingchuan family is afraid that they will not dare to call out.

In this world, the way of change is too fast.

It's no wonder that even his uncle (Yu Yu) no longer attacks his sister for marrying Shao Xun, and his uncle (Yu Min) readily agrees. Judging by what he meant, if Shao Xun couldn't look down on Jun Shang, he was even willing to marry his granddaughter.

In addition, the Xuchang Chen family, which is close at hand, seems to have this meaning.

Lu Yanghou has not married a wife until now, probably just waiting for this opportunity.

Yu Liang took a long breath, he found that compared with people like Lu Yanghou and Lu Zhi, he was still far behind.

"Let's go, go to Pan Yuan and sit down." After Shao Xun and Lu Zhi finished talking about the character packaging, he waved his hand and took the two into the manor.

Pan Yuan seems to have been occupied by an army of thieves, and it was a mess.

The houses were destroyed to the point that they were not in shape, and a lot of bamboo and wood were cut down, and it is not known what was done.

In the garden, human and animal feces are everywhere, and the smell of urine is everywhere.

After the soldiers cleaned roughly, Shao Xun pulled them to sit down.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "This time I joined the Weijing Division, and I can be regarded as a meritorious service. Wang Situ may have a little affection there......"

At this point, his fingers lightly touched the table, as if he was making a final decision.

Lu Zhi and Yu Liang were silent and waited quietly.

"Zidao used to be the middle school secretary, and it was more than enough to be a guard." Shao Xun looked at Lu Zhi and said, "I want to make you the Taishou of Xiangcheng, how about it?" ”

"The prince has an order, and he obeys it." Lu Zhi seemed to have expected it, and said lightly.

"Okay, then let's do it according to this goal." Shao Xun said with a smile: "I lack talents in my pocket, and I don't know who can replace Lu Yangxiang?" ”

"Qinghe Cui's family is known to be virtuous, if the prince is willing, he will send people to the north, and he will definitely say that several people will come to vote." Lu Zhi glanced at Shao Xun and said tentatively.

Shao Xun didn't seem to notice his eyes, and readily agreed, "It's troublesome." ”

Lu Zhi was born in the Fan Yang Lu family.

The big families in Hebei are married to each other and have a complicated relationship.

Lu Zhi's wife, Cui, is the granddaughter of Cao Wei Sikong Cui Lin and the daughter of Cui Shen in the imperial history.

Lu Zhi also has two brothers-in-law, one is Liu Kun, the assassin of Bingzhou, and the other is Wen Hu, the former Taishou of Hedong.

Wen Qiao, the son of Wen Xiang, was recruited by the captain of the school at the age of seventeen, supervised hundreds of officials, and impeached Yu for looting people's wealth.

Yu Yu didn't care, but praised him a lot, so he became famous, was promoted to Bingzhou Xiucai, and now works in Wang Yan's Wang Situ shogunate.

By the way, because of the impeachment of Yu Liang, Wen Qiao also got to know Yu Liang.

The competition between the big families is ruthless, but if you look closely at the relationship between them, it is extremely complicated, and they are probably all relatives.

Yu Liang listened with envy on the side.

In fact, he was eager to try Lu Yangxiang, but he was self-aware, with his current age, identity, and status, he was indeed a little worse.

After finalizing these things, Shao Xun said again: "This matter should not be delayed. Luoyang broke Wang Mi up and down, and when Taifu heard about it, or he was resentful in his heart, I was worried that he couldn't help but go back to Beijing. It's a little late today, so tomorrow Dao and I will go to Luoyang to meet Wang Situ and settle this matter. ”

"It's fine." Lu Zhi naturally had no opinion.

As for Shao Xun's statement that Sima Yue returned to Beijing, it is not impossible.

But what can he do when he comes back now? There are people who oppose him everywhere, and there are great opinions about him between the government and the opposition.

He may be able to rely on the convenience of He Lun and Wang Bing to master the forbidden army and show off his power in Luoyang, but there is no benefit except for deepening his clown image.

If his mind is clear enough, even if he returns to Luoyang, he should calm down, slowly regain his image, and use soft means to regain power little by little.

But this only slowed down his decline a little.

In the matter of Wang Mi, he was too wrong after all.