In May, Anqing is peaceful and quiet. In the entire Anqing area, large areas of mature fields have been covered with green seedlings about one foot high. The crops in these fields are growing very well. It makes Yun Zhao and others smile happily. If it goes well.

, In autumn, you can have a good harvest.

Anqing was poisoned by the Mongolians last year, and a large number of local natives were killed and looted, with sorrow all over the world, and a miserable cloud. After several fierce battles, the Anqing border army headed by Yun Zhao finally drove the Mongolian army headed by Guo Luo's troops.

After leaving Anqing, the survivors who escaped into the mountains were able to return to their homes. With the help of the Anqing border army, they seized the critical moment of spring sowing and sowed seeds.

Almost all the Mongolian army controlled the territory around Anqing, but only Anqing, an isolated island, still has the flag of Dayue flying. This flag constantly attracts the people around him to escape. The arrival of these people has caused those who have been massacred.

The abandoned land was reused, and the Anqing border army rented these already unowned land to the refugees in the form of renting seeds, providing them with agricultural tools, seeds, and animal power. At the same time, they agreed to divide the amount of 50% after the autumn harvest.

The indigenous residence names still maintained the previous 28 tax rate, that is, 20% of the harvest that year will be handed over to the Anqing border army as taxes.

As the influx of refugees became more and more, the mature land was gone, so we had to re-open the land. Since the newly reclaimed land was a raw land, the harvest was definitely not good at that time, but it was better to have it than not.

Zhao still ordered various conveniences for these refugees, and at the same time stipulated that these newly opened fields would be exempted from any taxes in the first year.

After two or three years of maturity, these fields will become fat fields. That is the harvest season. Yun Zhao is not so anxious about obtaining food immediately. What he values ​​is the continuous influx of

These are the most important places. First of all, there must be people. Only with people can there be vitality, taxes, and continuous wealth creation. Only with a large number of young people can they be reinvigorated into the army.

The Chengdu Pharmaceutical Floor in Hulu Valley is not currently large. In addition to supplying the medicines to Anqing Bianjun, the rest were sold to the Meng people in Tanzhou. In exchange for batches of grain, produced in Bayanka.

The well salt from Lashan was also pouring into Tanzhou, Luzhou, and even the desert area in large quantities, and what was exchanged was still truckloads of grain.

Anqing now has only more than 100,000 people in the army and the people. The food required by these people is only a very small amount for the current Mongolian Yuan court. In their opinion, He Jiao sent the food in.

I can only maintain that Anqing will not starve to death.

Another way of food is Yizhou. After briefly speaking, I don’t know what I said to Pan Haoran. In short, although the amount of food, grass, and weapons in Yizhou is not large, it is still moving towards Anqing.

Come.

"After this autumn harvest, we can get rid of our dependence on food from the Mongolian Yuan!" Looking at the crops growing well, Yun Zhao happily said to Jiang Feng: "At that time, we began to gradually reduce the amount of medicines used for the Mongolian Yuan."

And the sale of herbs. Only sell salt to them.”

Yan Xiaoyi said: "If we don't rely on their food, we can also be self-sufficient. Why not stop the salt and sell things to the enemy, and always feel strange."

Yun Zhao laughed, "Business is done, people are fighting, and both are not wrong. Even if we are self-sufficient in food, we still need to store a large amount of food in order to prepare for the famine or the big war will break out again.

, Gold and silver storage are not as good as grain storage. Our production of medicines itself is not large, while salt is different. The first output is large, and we can't digest it in Anqing. If the salt produced by the salt workers cannot be sold, there will be no income, and they will also want

Secondly, we have more than just salt. Even if we don’t sell it to them, the merchants in Dayue will still transport salt in through various channels. All of us are just price advantages.

.We have a lot of money to exchange for the food we need with these endless salts.”

Jiang Feng nodded, "General is right. To be honest, we are still too weak now. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we have to seize the time and strengthen ourselves. When the mistress turns around, we must at least protect ourselves.

strength."

Yun Zhao sighed, "I am really conflicted now. I hope that the Mongolians will suffer a few big defeats in Taizhou and other places, and it is best to drive them back to the desert, and hope that they will be in stalemate with Feng Congyi.

We are growing to gain more time.”

This is a relatively sensitive topic, and Jiang Feng and Yan Xiaoyi were both silent. Several people walked slowly along the ridges of the fields, and the scenery in front of them was constantly changing. The fields under their feet were walking past before.

It's completely different, and the crops are growing sparsely.

Yun Zhao squatted down, reached out to grab a handful of soil, and rubbed the petals in his hand, "Are these just-opened wild fields?" he asked Jiang Feng.

"Yes!" Jiang Feng also squatted down and reached out to pull the green seedlings. Although he was an officer before, he later returned to his hometown and returned to his hometown. He was an expert in farming, and he opened up some of the trash.

After looking at the roots of these green seedlings, he said, "These resettled refugees have already put their hearts in mind, but the land is not fertile enough and they cannot make a good deal this year, so they can't fill their stomachs."

Patching hands, Yun Zhao stood up and said to Jiang Feng: "Old Jiang, we are not fertile enough. We can think of a way. In most places, the rotten leaves and rotten wood are several feet deep. These things are transported out.

Good fertilizer.”

"Will these refugees have the power to get them out?" Jiang Feng smiled wryly, "Just serving these lands will take most of their time."

"They have no strength. Let's do it and mobilize non-front troops to transport these fertilizers from Bayankala Mountain and provide them to farmers for free." Yun Zhao said.

"Ah?" Jiang Feng looked at Yun Zhao in surprise and mobilized the army to enter the mountain just to get some fertilizer for the farmers. He had never heard of it.

"Nothing is surprising!" Yun Zhao said: "First, this can bring us closer to these farmers and let them know that the government is very concerned about them. Second, we still exercised during this process.

The physical strength of a soldier and the organizational ability of an officer can kill two birds with one stone, why not do it?”

"General, you are so good!" Jiang Feng said with a smile.

Yun Zhao went around in a few circles and said, "Now we may not have any big troubles to fight in a short period of time. Soldiers can't just be locked in the camp to train. This will make them sick and have some trouble.

We came here and found some things for them to do. The fertilizer was transported enough, so we organized soldiers to dig ditches and ponds. The ponds could store water, and the ditches could deliver water to the fields, providing convenience for farmers in various places!”

"General is also considering the development of water conservancy. After these things are done, the people of Anqing will benefit a lot!" Jiang Feng said.

"Their benefits are our benefits!" Yun Zhao said: "Our army of more than 10,000 people will rely on them after eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. Doing these things for them can also be regarded as serving ourselves."

"Since ancient times, only the people have served labor, but I heard that some officials do these things for the people for free." Jiang Feng sighed.

"When I was in Yunjia Village, I often hoped that there would be a clean official to do some good things for us ordinary people, such as building bridges and roads, building water conservancy, etc., but I didn't expect it. Now that I am an official myself, of course I have to do it. These are not in vain to be an official for me!" Yun Zhao laughed.

"If we dig these ditches and ponds, it will be very helpful for our future battles!" Yan Xiaoyi suddenly said: "The Mongolian army is mainly cavalry. When we are repairing these ditches, we might as well dig them. Weighter and deeper, after cutting these flat land outside Anqing City into small pieces and small pieces with ditches, the Mongolian cavalry could not exert their speed, which was also extremely beneficial to us."

Jiang Feng slapped his hands and exclaimed: "Well, this is a killing two birds with one stone. Why didn't I expect it?"

Yun Zhao looked at Yan Xiaoyi with appreciation, "In addition to the Bayankala Mountain behind Anqing, we spread the plains. We are not strong enough troops and mostly infantrymen. We have insufficient mobility and can only garrison a strategic point, and Meng The army is different. They can intersperse into Anqing at will. A small-scale dozens of cavalry army came in to harass us. We are unable to defend ourselves. In the past few months, Tuotuo has adopted such a strategy. Anqing does not The crops in a few places were destroyed by them, and many people were killed. He Ren and his friends attacked several times, but they didn't even find the shadow of the enemy. Su Dingfang personally took action, but he just set up an ambush in advance and used the method of waiting for the rabbit to catch him. A such army slaughtered dozens of cavalry, and our efforts were greatly improved compared to the harvest. This situation must be improved!"

"Tutuo suffered a lot of great losses, but this time he became smart!" Jiang Feng sighed: "We really don't have many ways to deal with his move!"

Yan Xiaoyi said angrily: "Tutuo has so many evil intentions. I bet that these terrible tricks must have been thought of by the stinky woman Yaldan."

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "Xiao Yi is right. Such a tactic must have been created by Yaldane. The purpose is nothing more than to destroy the people's livelihood in Anqing. If this situation cannot be curbed in time, they will be better. As we attack more and more, the distance we attack will become deeper and deeper. Yaldan thought we could not get rid of our dependence on Mongolian food."

"General, in your opinion, how should we deal with this matter?" Jiang Feng asked.

Yun Zhao shook his head, "For a moment, I can't think of any good way. I can only form some cavalry patrols to try to annihilate some of these small armies. Xiao Yi, you and Heren, each bringing a hundred horses and horses. , take the action in rotation!”

"Yes, general, but these Mongolian troops are very cunning now, so I'm afraid the effect will be very poor."

"Let's talk about it for a few days when you're playing with them, there's always a way." (To be continued...)

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