Chapter 2072: In the Reclamation Mountains
After the war.
In Jicheng.
There was great joy.
Liu Yan, the governor of Youzhou, hosted a banquet in person.
In fact, Wen Rensheng knew that this statement was wrong.
At this time, Liu Hong had not yet changed the governorship of the state to the state pastoral position.
In Youzhou, there is a chief who supervises the power of hundreds of officials called "Provincial Governor".
The salary was low, but the power was great. Later, it was changed to a state pastor, and he was in charge of the military and civil affairs of a state. It was equivalent to separatist power, which was very powerful.
Now the rank is only 600 shi, just a low-level official. At that time, the county magistrate's salary was 1,000 shi.
The prefect is the highest official of the "county".
But the world obviously tolerated this mistake. This is the power of everyone's will.
Wrong can also become right.
Of course it is limited to the secondary world, the real main world, or the big world, which is definitely not possible.
Personal will cannot resist the laws of nature.
Just like in the martial arts world, stepping on the left foot and the right foot to reach the sky is considered normal and powerful, but as readers generally have attended nine years of compulsory education, it becomes increasingly unacceptable.
One version of the world for one generation of readers.
"The success of this battle and the capture of more than 40,000 Yellow Turbans were all due to the work of the school captain." Liu Yan toasted to the school captain Zou Jing.
"Thank you Mingfu." Zou Jing was also very happy.
This contribution is enough to get him a promotion.
"I heard that on the battlefield, there were strange people using chariots to build cities and defeat bandits. Is this possible?" Liu Yan asked.
Zou Jing expressed his merit directly and said: "Exactly, this is the work of Sima Zhao Quchang of another department under his command. It is extremely powerful and can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop."
"Please invite this strange man to the table quickly."
Yes, at this celebration banquet, the following music director will not be able to participate.
The participants were all senior state and county officials...
You do the hard work, and they get the credit.
This is also the reason why many Han cities were damaged by the Yellow Turbans.
They all came here by buying official positions and working hard to make money. Who cares about sergeants’ armaments?
The soldiers had no merit and were not willing to defend the city desperately.
But Liu Yan is different.
He has long been rebellious and has big plans in mind.
It can be said that his strategic vision is absolutely unique.
It's a pity that people can't calculate the fate. He died early and his strategic planning was in vain.
At this time, Wen Rensheng arrived as ordered to participate.
I saw him wearing long robes and a crown, which looked unusual.
"Sure enough, he is a strange man. Please take a seat, sir." When Liu Yan saw him, he saw a sense of being out of the world.
Similar to Sima Decao, Sima Hui's temperament.
Although he is young, there were many powerful people in the Han Dynasty, and they were all powerful at a young age.
The most famous one is of course Huo Qubing. In his 20s, he completed what others had accomplished in a lifetime and then left.
"I wonder which county magistrate you are from, sir?" Liu Yan asked again after Wen Ren was promoted to the table.
"Farmers in the mountains and fields, how can they talk about county hope?" Wen Rensheng said calmly.
"Oh, I wonder if you, sir, would like to join the state and county? I want to recruit you to work for me, but I wonder if you, sir, would be willing to give in?" Liu Yan asked earnestly.
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
The bargaining chip given to Liu Yan is big enough.
This official position is to assist the governor of the state and is one of the senior assistant officers of the governor.
When the governor inspected a state, he would ride in a passing car, hence the name Biejia.
The commentators at the time called him "half of the governors".
The current Liu Yan is actually the governor of Youzhou.
The senior officials from the state and county who attended the banquet looked at Wen Rensheng one by one.
They thought to themselves that this boy had really reached the throne of the Emperor in one step.
This Liu Yan is a real clan member of the Han Dynasty and is deeply trusted by the current emperor.
Become a distinguished official, and then recommend him to become an important minister of the imperial court.
However, no one expected that Wen Rensheng just smiled and said: "The purpose of raising troops in the mountains is only to defend the village from misfortune, not to seek to gain knowledge and reach the princes."
"Sir's ambition is indeed true. Gao Jie. "It's a pity for Liu Yan.
But this is normal.
Nowadays, many celebrities are like this, deliberately refusing to be recruited to improve their reputation.
Anyway, Wen Rensheng’s rejection will spread his reputation to all the banquets of the major aristocratic families tomorrow.
"Thank you for the compliment, your Majesty. I feel ashamed to deserve it." Wen Rensheng smiled.
Then everyone toasted, drank, and praised again.
Obviously, empty talk has taken hold.
After three rounds of drinking, someone suddenly said: "Master Fu, now more than 40,000 yellow turbans are imprisoned in the military camp outside the city. There are so many of them that the food and grass alone will consume a hundred dan every day, which will be difficult to maintain for a long time."
< br>"I wonder what you can do?" Liu Yan asked.
"It is better to kill them directly and build Jingguan to scare the bandits." A state official said.
Everyone gasped at the same time.
Some people shook their heads and said: "It's too cruel. Most of them are from the countryside. Why is it like this?"
"No, they are all from other states. They come to our state to cause trouble. If they don't kill them, how can they deter others?" the state official insisted.
At this time, Zou Jing suddenly said: "I have considered this matter before. Mr. Zhao said that these people can be sent to Changshan and other valleys to reclaim wasteland. In this way, it can be done without any effort. We can harvest grain and grass."
"But Changshan is the land of Jizhou, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Youzhou. How can we send it in?" Someone else asked.
"We also have a mountain range in Youzhou that is connected to Changshan Mountain, and you can enter from here." Someone said.
"Let's do this. I will write another letter to the governor of Jizhou, asking him to allow these prisoners to enter the mountains to reclaim wasteland and resettle one or two." Liu Yan then said.
He wanted to beggar his neighbor and throw these thieves to others.
If the other party doesn’t accept it, we’ll deal with it later.
But this food and grass is indeed a big problem.
Eating 100 shi a day, even if mixed with grass roots, bark and grains, is too much consumption.
No wonder they all kill the prisoners.
At this time, Wen Rensheng took the initiative to ask Ying and said: "God has the virtue of good life, and I am willing to escort these people to open up wasteland in the valleys of Daijun Mountain."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Leave it alone and go to open up wasteland in the valley?
Are you sick?
The valley is cold and barren. Once you enter, you will easily die before you reach the age of forty.
Only fools go there.
"Sir is indeed benevolent and righteous. In this case, I would like to ask Mr. Biao to be the captain of Youzhou Diannong School and go to the mountains to lead people to cultivate land."
"Thank you, Mr. Fu."
Wen Rensheng thought to himself, since you gave me a little more strength in the initial start, I will help you.
"It's easy to say, I will help you with five hundred stones of grain and grass, some farm tools, and one hundred cattle..." Liu Yan continued to show his kindness.
He has long been self-reliant.
He actually already knew Wen Rensheng’s abilities from the people around him.
It is possible to build a chariot, and a thousand people can resist the attack of tens of thousands without chaos.
If he learns this skill, he will be sure to fight against the imperial court.
He had a rebellious spirit, and two of his three sons also imitated him.
The eldest son and the second son later contacted Ma Teng and attempted to attack Dong Zhuo in Chang'an, but were killed.
"Thank you, Mr. Fu."
Then a banquet ended.
Then Wen Rensheng ordered the students to start organizing the prisoners without stopping.
It should be said that it is the hungry people.
Student A worriedly said: "Teacher, tens of thousands of people are like frightened birds. How can we calm them down?"
"With food in one hand and a sword in the other, you can calm them down." Hearing people are confident. Where is this?
He is not worried at all about this kind of scene.
Then everyone began to use food as a lure, telling the hungry people that they would take them to reclaim wasteland.
Then a notice was posted that 40,000 people would be divided into 500 battalions and organized into 80 battalions.
Then they cooked a large pot of gruel and used soldiers to suppress order.
Wen Rensheng made up one person after eating a bowl. Wen Rensheng used the village commanders and corps commanders he had trained to serve as battalion leaders with more than ten people.
A dozen or so armored, well-fed and well-fed men can still deal with the frightened bird.
Even Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others also got a camp head each, and the number of troops suddenly expanded to 500 people.
However, for 40,000 people, the minimum energy guarantee for a day would consume hundreds of stones of grain and grass. Even if they were mixed with weeds, it would still consume a lot.
Liu Yan gave him five hundred shi, but no matter how much he saved, it was only enough for ten days.
Fortunately, Wen Rensheng was prepared in advance.
He also raised grain and grass from the Zhangjia Manor in Zhuo County, sold his property, and prepared 3,000 shi of grain, and established a grain station along the road, which could last for two months.
Of course, the food must be very poor, just can barely walk, starve to death, don't think about doing any heavy work.
But most of the prisoners were already content.
After all, what they were most worried about at the beginning was not starvation, but being captured.
This is so common.
When the Yellow Turbans were destroyed, prisoners were killed and Jingguan built in many places.
Now that we have food to eat and someone to take care of it, there is no need to worry.
After all, no one would waste more food before killing prisoners on a large scale.
This is not to execute the prisoner, but to give him a meal without his head.
Then he organized the battalion leaders to go on the road one by one, using tanks to carry grain and grass to suppress the formation.
Then he collected donations from large households in Jicheng and collected more than a thousand stones of food and grass.
Actually, he knew that these large households had at least 100,000 stones of grain and grass, but they would rather leave it in the cellar to mold than use it for disaster relief.
It's just so outrageous.
Then he took these battalion heads on the road and came all the way to Daijun.
Of course he did not go directly into the mountains, but first went to the Youzhou counties that had been harmed by Cheng Yuanzhi before.
There are always some fortresses of large households that have not been breached. With the chariot swinging in front, they finally got more than two thousand stones and grains.
Cheng Yuanzhi couldn't capture it. If he showed off his chariot, anyone with a discerning eye would know that he could capture it.
The chariot is slightly modified and becomes a siege vehicle.
After doing this.
He took the students and escorted 80 battalions into the mountains in a mighty manner.
These 40,000 people will be the capital for him to start a business in the future.
At least 8,000 elite soldiers can be trained.
Because they are all hardcover.
How could the old, weak, sick and disabled travel long distances to a border area like Youzhou to cause trouble?
After entering the mountain, we had to disperse.
Because there is no valley that can directly accommodate tens of thousands of people.
There are still some places in the mountains with fields, but they can only accommodate hundreds or thousands of people.
This is why Liu Yan and others don't care.
How did they know that Zhang Yan later relied on reclamation in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains and gathered hundreds of thousands of people, leaving the heroes of the North like Yuan Shao helpless?
There is a problem with reclamation in the mountains, that is, there must be enough food and grass.
Otherwise, they will starve to death before food is cultivated.
Based on the map of the Three Kingdoms in his memory, Wen Rensheng began to arrange for the students to carry the camp heads to different locations.
Once in the mountains, he no longer cares about any state or county restrictions.
Many of the valleys here are interconnected.
He chose ten large valleys and placed people in them.
The resettlement of 40,000 people has basically been completed.
Then they distributed grain, grass and farm tools, summoned blacksmiths, and cast the captured weapons from the previous battlefields into farm tools and axes, and asked them to cut down wood to build houses and reclaim the land.
This is the time of spring and summer.
There are also some prey and bark and grass roots in the mountains and fields, which can be used to make ends meet.
If you cultivate the land at this time, you can still produce some harvest in summer and autumn.
Probably, one kilogram of grain is grown and harvested around 20 kilograms.
One acre of land can produce 80 pounds.
It takes about 5 acres of land for one person to survive.
Because part of it must be collected as farming expenses.
In any case, with Wen Rensheng’s hard work day and night, ten villages were finally completed.
More than two thousand people died in the meantime due to disease, hunger, injuries, and wild beast attacks.
It would be a shocking event in future generations, but at this time, few people cared.
Instead, they all praised Wen Rensheng's virtues. Thousands of people lived there, and everyone called him "Zhao Gong".
After doing this, Wen Rensheng continued to open his mountain school.
He wants to farm the fields for a year with peace of mind.
At the same time, continue to march to other valleys in the Taihang Mountains and collect all Zhang Yan's bandits.
In the mountains, chariots are inconvenient.
Fortunately, the soldiers have been trained and have mastered the art of covering each other.
He happened to change it into a mandarin duck formation.
This is the magic weapon for dealing with mountainous and hilly terrain.
And the mountains and hills are not afraid of the opponent's cavalry assault.
As long as you are familiar with the terrain, it is easy to ambush the enemy.
Wen Rensheng still maintained a standing team of a thousand people.
The village chiefs usually train the people, and in their free time they gather together to listen to Rensheng's lectures and practice.
Because the road in the mountains is difficult, Wen Rensheng always moved around the ten valley camps to give lectures and train troops.
Guarantee that everyone knows him and that he is the only leader in everyone's heart.
Others can only play the role of leader in a small area.
At the same time, we focused on logistics with one hand and armaments with the other, concentrating weapons workshops and granary reserves in the middle valley as a base.
Now he has more than 5,000 shi of food in stock. The 40,000 people have eaten a lot since they started working, but he has also supplemented it with forest prey, which can reduce some consumption.
One person eats one kilogram of grain a day, and 40,000 people eat 400 shi of grain.
In other words, his food is only enough for 10 days, not counting the transportation consumption.
But because they have been scattered in the valley to cultivate land, many people can eat three ounces of grain mixed with wild grass and bark.
This year was still the Han Dynasty, and the destruction of mountains and forests was not very serious.
The main reason is that the mountains and forests belong to the princes and officials, and the people are not allowed to go up the mountains to cut them.
So they can still last for one month.
The only place Wen Rensheng can exploit now is the Zhang Family Manor.
We also reached an agreement with some large merchants and landowners in Youzhou, exchanging winemaking techniques and farming methods, and received more than 5,000 shi of grain in exchange.
It is actually impossible for other princes to have one hundred thousand shi of food at every turn.
Food is precious throughout the Three Kingdoms.
It was not until the Daxing of Tuntian that the food problem was initially solved.
If Wen Rensheng wants to wait until there is no shortage of food and the food can sustain itself, it will have to be at least until autumn.
There are still five months in between.
Because he had many farming methods improved by later generations.
For example, how to farm, how to plow the land more effortlessly, and how to improve farm tools, he taught them all to his disciples one by one.
This made his reputation growing.
Among these mountain people, they are as close to Wang Mang as he was before he usurped the throne.
(End of this chapter)