When the spies entered the city, they went directly to the county government office and asked the county magistrate to discuss some secrets.

The servants did not dare to neglect him and immediately led the man into the county magistrate's private residence.

In the secret room, when the spy saw the county magistrate, he was neither humble nor overbearing. He just cupped his hands and asked, "Your Excellency, are you the magistrate of this place?"

"Exactly." The county magistrate was unsure of the identity of the person coming, so he dealt with it carefully.

The spy took out the seal from his pocket and handed it to the county magistrate. When the county magistrate checked the seal with the seal of the state capital, he laughed and said, "A few days ago, the Yellow Turban soldiers invaded Zhuo County, and the prefect ordered me to spy on the thief.

Along the way, I still had doubts as to why so many refugees were coming towards Zhuozhou City.

When I arrived outside the city, I saw porridge shacks all over the place, and I suddenly realized that it was the adults' plan to appease the people!

He managed to appease the Yellow Turbans all over the county without spending a single soldier, what a good trick the county magistrate had!"

The county guard's envoy did not hesitate to praise him.

"With this good policy, I will report it to the prefect, and I can look forward to it!"

The county magistrate's expression was extremely complicated. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to report Liu Xuande's misappropriation of official grain to the emissary of the prefect, but now he heard that the emissary mistook the recruitment as his own doing.

The county magistrate's expression suddenly stiffened, and then he smiled awkwardly.

That's it...why not, just make the mistake.

The county magistrate rolled his eyes and immediately thought about it.

"The secret envoy did not know. In order to appease the Yellow Turbans, the food supply in my official warehouse has been exhausted. It is still uncertain whether the prefect will punish him or not." The county magistrate sighed, looking embarrassed and pretending to be the best.

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Unknown to outsiders, after the eunuch's secret envoy met with the county magistrate, he left the city non-stop overnight to report the news about the Yellow Turbans in Zhuo County to the eunuch immediately.

As for whether the credit for recruiting the refugees belongs to the county magistrate, will it be revealed?

Why not? The county magistrate laughed. The order to collect grain was issued by a certain order to the county government. In order to put an end to the thieves as soon as possible, the elders of Zhuozhou and the powerful people in the city came together to help, and finally raised thousands of dan of grain.

Then, thinking about the hardships of the people, he returned all the food of the people to the people, and only used the food of the powerful.

Therefore, the people were not disturbed, and the work of recruiting them was completed.

If you don't believe it, ask the emissary to come again and ask all the people in the city whether it is the food collected by the county magistrate. Did the county magistrate see that the grain collected by the big families is enough for appeasement, and then ask Liu Xuande to give the grain to the people?

, and return all the money to the people?

If the secret envoy secretly inquires, the people's testimony will definitely be like this!

Why must this be so?

Huh, Liu Xuande's military advisor is very good at making strategies and doing things flawlessly.

If so, when meeting the prefect and the prefect asks why he thought of pacifying the Yellow Turbans instead of conquering them, how should he respond?

So how did Liu Xuande's military advisor say so?

right!

"Sending troops to conquer is not a temporary success. If the power of the thieves is not clear for one day, the people in the surrounding areas will surely suffer military disasters."

"As the county magistrate, I should protect the environment and the people, and plan for the people. The sooner the Yellow Turbans are appeased, the sooner the people will enjoy peace. The Yellow Turbans must be dealt with quickly."

That's it.

The boy with a yellow mouth was very sharp-tongued, and he made it very clear on that day the pros and cons of the two strategies of appeasement and conquest.

If the prefect asks again, how should the recruitment policy be carried out?

Set up a porridge shack, and ride around to spread the word to the four surroundings, thinking that it is a way to attack the heart. Then, spies from the Yellow Turban will come to spy first.

When the yellow turban spies come, don't argue with them and let them spy.

Then, knowing that food was indeed released and that there was a way to survive through surrender, the Yellow Turban refugees were all worried. How could they not come and ask for surrender?

That's what Liu Xuande's military advisor said that day.

If this recruitment was not done by the county magistrate, who else could have done it? The county magistrate was in a good mood, and when the recruitment was suddenly used as an opportunity for promotion, the county magistrate's hatred for Liu Xuande suddenly became clear.

disappeared without a trace.

After hearing about this great success in recruiting people, the county magistrate had already begun to think about what official position he could get if he was promoted to a higher position.

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to June.

The wheat is ripe in the fields, although Zhang Fei's farmhands still have enough manpower to harvest the wheat.

However, many of the Yellow Turban refugees wanted to help cut the wheat.

It has been made clear that there is no wages for harvesting wheat, but the Yellow Turban refugees are still eager to contribute.

When harvesting wheat, even if the wheat you harvest is not your own, if you experience it for yourself, it will feel like you are harvesting your own wheat.

For the Yellow Turban refugees who have lost their land, helping to harvest wheat is not just an effort, but a source of happiness.

When the sickle is lifted up and dropped, it is like one's own land.

Therefore, the refugees were very enthusiastic.

When it came time to cut the wheat, Zhang Fei's family had never been so full of manpower.

Not to mention using a sickle, even if you use your hands to pull it out, with more than 10,000 refugees working together, Zhang Fei's family has more than 2,000 acres of land, which is not enough to divide it.

Li Mengxi was suddenly surprised to discover something, it was June!

May has just passed and it’s June!

June, what’s wrong?

It's time, the time when the wheat matures is a bit different.

Li Mengxi remembered an ancient poem, "The Tian family has a few free months, but in May people are twice as busy."

This poem clearly states that May is the time to harvest wheat. The wheat will mature in May when planted and the wheat will be harvested in May.

At first, Li Mengxi thought it was due to ancient wheat species. Maybe ancient wheat species matured later than modern wheat.

But when I thought about it, it was wrong again.

The poem "The young Tian family has a leisurely month, but in May people are twice as busy" is not written in modern times, but also an ancient poem!

What does this mean? It means that although ancient wheat and wheat seeds are different from modern wheat seeds, ancient wheat should ripen in May, not June.

It's the climate. The climate is a bit abnormal, so that the wheat that was supposed to ripen in May did not mature until June.

Li Mengxi looked up at the sky, his face a little solemn.

"Could it be the legendary Little Ice Age?" After thinking about it, this guess is very close.

Three or four hundred years in the past, three or four hundred years in the future, the years with the worst harvests or even more than ten or twenty years have allowed me to catch up, Li Mengxi complained in his heart.

Another thing that surprised Li Mengxi was the wheat itself.

Wheat in modern people's impression is yellow and heavy, with large ears and plump kernels. There are dozens of wheat in one ear. Wheat is like this, right?

However, when his younger brother Li Zhuan, wearing a big straw hat, was carried back from the field by Liu Bei, Li Mengxi took the wheat ears in his brother's hand and took a look.

The ears of wheat are small, only slightly larger than soybean pods in later generations. Moreover, the ears of wheat are very shriveled. Li Mengxi crushed the ears of wheat, blew off the husks, and counted only eighteen wheat ears per plant.

Liu Bei also said that this is the wheat seed that has been cut.

My God, the yield of wheat in the Han Dynasty was so low.

The largest ear of wheat only has eighteen wheat ears, so isn’t it an average number of fourteen or fifteen wheat ears, which is not as big as one-third of the wheat ears of later generations?

Memories related to ancient wheat production suddenly emerged.

It is said that the harvest ratio of wheat planting in ancient Rome was one to six, that is, if you sow one pound of grain seeds, you can harvest six pounds of grain.

In the dark Middle Ages, the advanced agricultural technology of ancient Rome regressed. In the UK, one pound of grain seeds could only be harvested three pounds of grain.

In the Central Plains region, due to the use of curved shaft plows and various advanced agricultural tools in the Tang Dynasty, the harvest ratio in the Tang Dynasty was one to two hundred.
Chapter completed!