Liu Tai took Zhang Song to Zhao An's military camp, and Zhao An came out to greet him and saluted, "I've seen the general!" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "I came here with Zhang Changshi this time, I have a task assigned to you, and you need to gather the soldiers immediately, and you will set off to Jizhou tomorrow at the latest!" ”

"But Youzhou Wang Jun called!" Zhao An knew that Wang Jun had quite the initiative because he controlled the horse farm.

The positioning of his army relies on the people to fight behind enemy lines, although this mode of war is not as beautiful as the frontal battlefield, but Zhao An himself enjoys it quite a lot.

And after learning the "Book of Han", he also knew that Peng Yue, one of the three generals in the early Han Dynasty, took this route.

As long as you honestly follow this tactic, you will definitely have a place in the county army.

In contrast, whether it is Ge Xin, Zhou Ping, or even Liu Ming next to the county prince.

Although they fought head-on, the battlefield was even more enthusiastic, but the existence of the county prince actually covered up the three of them, but they and the county prince are not the same way, maybe they can be one or two positions ahead of this guy because of their own combat characteristics.

Therefore, hearing that he had his own business at this moment, Zhao An was still quite excited, and it was time for him to show his skills again.

Liu Tai didn't know where Zhao An's excitement was, and said:

"I need your war department to be broken into pieces, and take advantage of the autumn harvest season to go to Youzhou, Fanyang and Yanguo counties first.

No matter what method is used, destroy Wang Jun's grain reserves as much as possible, and withdraw to Youzhou before the other party reacts.

This trip is full of dangers, can you dare to complete the task! ”

"Dare to disobey!" Zhao An heard Liu Tai's words and replied very decisively.

To tell the truth, Liu Tai meant that it was all this time, so he went there and set a fire, and basically the grain was burned clean.

But this kind of thing makes me, a person who has always been a person who is close to the people, and he can't just make it clear.

The lethality of this kind of thing is actually very large, and you can't do it.

This needs to be understood by Zhao An himself.

Liu Tai believes that even if he can't comprehend it now, he will eventually comprehend it after getting there and looking at a large amount of food.

How to destroy these grains quickly, under the pressure of time, they will naturally find the most suitable way.

And Liu Tai looked at Zhao An's loud answer, and was also very satisfied, and said, "Whatever you need to prepare, I will let Zhang Song prepare it for you!" ”

"I want fried flour, it tastes great with mille-feuille and tea leaves!" Zhao An said decisively.

"You're very picky!" Liu Tai didn't expect that he just mentioned it like this, but Zhao An was not polite.

The so-called fried flour is to add seasonings and heavy salt to fry the flour, and then re-dry it and then grind and encapsulate a kind of military food.

It's hard to eat, at least without water, and the average person can't swallow it at all.

But when this thing is soaked in hot water, it can form a similar paste of lotus root flour and other foods.

Although the taste is strong, this thing can replenish energy, but if you eat it for too long, it will lack vitamins.

However, these were also made up for by two subsequent things, that is, dried meat and tea.

Among them, the jerky is mainly the meat after slaughtering of various poultry from the animal husbandry industry raised in Qingzhou.

Constantly beating to destroy muscle tissue, and then taking advantage of the crisp autumn season to dry the water, and the cycle repeats.

Almost 1,000 catties of meat can make 300 catties of jerky, even in the Qingzhou area, this thing is considered a luxury.

However, cut a few slices of this jerky and throw it into the paste of the fried flour and cook it together, and it still tastes very good.

As for tea, it is even rarer, not that this thing is rare, but that tea has not yet become a commonly used drink, and now it is used as a medicine more because of its medicinal value.

If he only needs to drink tea by himself, Liu Tai wants to get some tea leaves, and there is no problem at all.

After all, there are wild tea trees on the hills of Qingzhou, and even Mount Tai, especially Xu Xi really found it out for Liu Tai, and put it in the medicine area of Qingzhou to cultivate.

But if you want to supply the entire army, save it, three years, no, maybe it will be possible in six years.

Liu Tai said: "Don't think about tea, I know that people will get sick if they don't eat green vegetables for a long time, and they will allocate a doctor to you."

When the time comes, there will be a doctor watching, looking for some herbs nearby, and in addition, a lot of cocoons have been dried in the past two years, and you can also bring them if you want! ”

Piggy is mint, Western Han Dynasty Yangxiong's "Ganquan Fu": "Accumulate and merge with Leaflets, and they are all killed." ”

And this herb, which can remind the gods of the brain, is still quite useful in the army.

In particular, Liu Tai's army has not completely removed the blindfold so far, and it can only be said that it is still in continuous treatment and maintenance.

Adding mint to the diet of the soldiers can play a good role in purifying the heart and brightening the purpose.

Therefore, in addition to the growth and cultivation of such things as tea, which is too slow, such as mint, which is almost not picky for growing land, Liu Tai not only established a special plantation by himself, but also purchased a lot from the private sector and hoarded a lot, but they were all exchanged for salt tickets.

Zhao An saw that although it was a pity that he didn't get the tea, he didn't say much if he had a mint substitute.

Decisively said to Liu Tai: "Please also ask the general to prepare five thousand servings for me, half a month's number, we will set off immediately!" ”

Liu Tai nodded and said: "Half a month is enough, you remember to complete the task in half a month, and then all of them will be withdrawn to Jizhou, there is no need to fight with Wang Jun's army in Youzhou, remember, you are just going to destroy the autumn harvest of Fanyang and Yanguo!" ”

The core counties of the entire Youzhou are Shanggu County, Fanyang County and Yanguo County, and these three counties are also the core areas of Wang Jun.

Therefore, for Liu Tai, as long as the autumn harvest of these three counties is affected, the military rations of Wang Jun's army will inevitably be damaged.

In addition, these two counties border Jizhou, and it is not difficult to withdraw quickly, plus he is not attacking the opponent's important stronghold in order to attack the city, but just to destroy the opponent's autumn harvest.

With this food, the entire army can fight for about half a month, so Zhao An's actions can be much calmer.

"Please rest assured that Ann will complete the task!" Zhao An assured Liu Tai.

Liu Tai nodded, and didn't say anything more, this kind of guerrilla matter is naturally the most convenient for Zhao An to deal with.

And Zhao An immediately gathered his army, and even Gao Zhan, who was a staff officer for Zhao An, was also notified.

Gao Zhan was destroyed by the Xianbei cavalry, so the entire family moved to Qingzhou.

After thinking about it, he moved to Donglai County in Qingzhou, which is a slightly remote county but has some potential for development.

After Gao Zhan came to Liu Tai's power, he found that Liu Tai's power structure was actually quite strange.

Liu Tai's foundation is not a wealthy family, and the most important family is the Chu family of Liu Tai's mastermind Chu Yu, and the other is the Su family.

As for the local family in Qingzhou, it seems that they have experienced a catastrophe, and they are crippled and can run.

But even so, the people of Qingzhou do not seem to be down, after the removal of the family, the fields reclaimed by the people have been harvested into five layers, and the people thank Liu Tai one by one, and they do not feel that they are so heavy and hard.

Think about the taxes of the Jin Dynasty, are they so heavy? Why do these people seem to be so resistant?

These uncommon things made Gao Zhan feel that he should not jump directly in front of Liu Tai, but should first be a staff officer under Zhao An, and continue to observe and observe here.

In Gao Zhan's view, having Zhao An is enough for his Gao family to gain a foothold in Qingzhou.

And Liu Tai does not rely on the family, sooner or later there will be a catastrophe of overturning, Gao Zhan feels that it is safer for him to stay here in Zhao An.

In the future, even if you want to liquidate, you will not be liquidated if you are in a humble position.

After all, the current Gao family only has its own façade, so you have to be careful!

In the past year, under Gao Zhan's careful observation, it was soon discovered that Liu Tai's foundation was a collective farm reorganized from the land collected from the Qingzhou family and the forced labor.

The grain produced by these collective farms became Liu Tai's basic plate.

Gao Zhan was relieved when he really observed this.

This is normal, any regime first looks at where the other side's food comes from, and can determine the other side's basic plate to some extent.

If there is no way to guarantee the stability of food, then there will definitely be considerable turmoil in this regime.

And Gao Zhan immediately discovered Liu Tai's second basic plate, that is, the military field of the government soldiers.

Liu Tai did not collect taxes directly from the hands of these government soldiers, but Liu Tai opened a special channel for these government soldiers.

This was discovered by Gao Zhan after he became Zhao An's army staff officer, and Zhao An's army was very different from other armies.

Compared with other armies, Zhao An's army has much less military formation training, and is more about training in hundred-man teams, rather than the kind of large-scale, multi-arm training.

And this is at most a matter of military positioning, Gao Zhan does not feel that his insight can be higher than that of the victorious general Liu Tai, and Zhao An, who single-handedly established this army, but he only has doubts in his heart.

But what really surprised Gao Zhan was that Zhao An's army would take the initiative to help the military families who had legions and were a little too busy to help whenever they were busy with farming.

After completion, if it is still in the busy farming season, it will even take the initiative to help the local people with spring plowing or autumn harvest.

Gao Zhan has never seen such an army, and even Gao Zhan can see that this army is willing to do these things, and even the soldiers in the army feel proud.

Because of this incident, Gao Zhan also asked Zhao An, "Aren't you afraid that the county prince will know about this?" ”

After all, in Gao Zhan's opinion, Zhao An's behavior can be regarded as a bit hopeful, which is too bold.

But Zhao An replied to Gao Zhan: "The general knew about this matter, and the soldiers here were all specially selected by the general, and they were all soldiers who were good at talking and willing to help the common people!" ”

After listening to Zhao An's words, Gao Zhan's head was buzzing, but he didn't say much.

It's just that after understanding the positioning of Zhao An's army, Gao Zhan understood why Liu Tai made such an arrangement, and added a little awe to Liu Tai's ability to govern the army.

As Gao Zhan gradually became familiar with Liu Tai's army, Gao Zhan found that all soldiers who owned military land would come to the door directly to ask if they would sell grain to Liu Tai after successfully producing food.

The price is fixed, if you are willing to sell it to the imperial court, it will be pulled away when it is still wheat, and the follow-up process does not need these people to worry about at all, in addition, these exclusive salt tickets can buy equipment and materials in the army, and the price is about two layers lower than the outside.

Of course, you can also choose not to sell it to the imperial court, then you will be responsible for handling the grain yourself, and you need to buy yourself a set of equipment at the world price.

Through careful comparison, hard bargaining, careful selection, and hard work in various processes, the total price of these produced grains will be about one layer cheaper after purchasing the goods that the government soldiers need to transfer.

This process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there will be cost overruns if you are not careful, and it is quite troublesome to calculate carefully.

This is Liu Tai's second basic market, although it can be sold to merchants, but the vast majority of government soldiers still choose Liu Tai.

Third, it is the turn of ordinary people to base the market.

These people collected five layers of taxes and did not mention it first, but when these people wanted to sell the grain in their hands, Liu Tai said that all the people who collected taxes would buy grain with salt stamps at a price two layers higher than the market price.

Among them, the amount of acres of land they pay taxes determines the amount of grain buyback.

This kind of behavior directly makes the people pay their taxes very closely.

After all, he paid his own taxes, but the amount of taxes he paid was somehow topped by someone, causing him to find that when he wanted the court to buy grain, the court did not buy it, and the people soon made a fuss.

After all, a bucket of rice in the eyes of the family is sand, but a liter of rice in the eyes of the people is life.

If someone can level all the hands and eyes, Liu Tai said that he is powerful, and he can't help it.

But as long as there is a little bit of smell coming out, then Chen Yuanda, the Fa Cao of Qingzhou, will smell it.

This master doesn't even have to give Liu Tai's face, let alone these little officials, all of them will be liquidated, and none of them will be left.

And for Liu Tai, his foundation is not these small officials, and he doesn't need other emperors to compromise with them like families, and they can deal with one of them as they should be.

Although Gao Zhan didn't know Liu Tai's salt, he didn't know how much he couldn't eat it at all, as long as he exchanged it for salt tickets, he could always get it out.

At the same time, all kinds of official materials in Qingzhou also recognized that salt tickets could be exchanged, so the people were also willing to accept salt tickets in exchange for food.

It is under such a benefit model that the people of Qingzhou have naturally become Liu Tai's third basic plate.

In Gao Zhan's thinking all along, the people are like lambs, the family is like a shepherd, and the world will fall apart without the family.

But I definitely didn't expect that Qingzhou, a ghost place, could run so smoothly without the world's home.

This made Gao Zhan feel even more instinctively afraid, because Gao Zhan was more or less a middle-level and upper-level wise man in this era, he looked at the situation in Qingzhou, and always felt that if Qingzhou was not destroyed, would the family be destroyed by Qingzhou!

Because the proportion of the family in the entire Qingzhou political base is too low!

This made Gao Zhan even more afraid to come out, so he should continue to mix under Zhao An.

In this world, the more I look at it, the more I can't understand it!

(End of chapter)