stubborn thief

Chapter 344
As the saying goes, the plan for a year lies in spring.

People are wrong for a moment, and people are wrong for a year.

On the land of Hehuang, from west to east, from south to north, there is a rush to cultivate and cultivate.

The two sons fought in the front, and the old father Liu Xiangyu set up a list to calm the people in the back, and led the Xining students to collect the land and plan the grain cultivation for the new year.

In fact, it is useless to make a list. The people who can understand the list are highly overlapped with the people who fled to the east. Those who did not run east, even if they can understand the list, they don’t care what is written.

It’s nothing more than changing the landlord. The common people think that I don’t even have the money to escape. Who is it not to plant land?
But the situation is really different from what they thought.

As soon as the army of the Marshal's Mansion moved east, there were township officials from Xining stationed behind them. These township officials took up their posts in a very simple way, with no official robes, no seals, and only a letter of appointment.

Generally, three people come from each village.

A veteran with a northern Shaanxi accent was a township official with a certificate of commission, a young man from the West who could speak Chinese was a follower, and a tartar who could only understand but couldn't speak Chinese was a runner.

Ask how many household registrations and how many acres there are in the local area, and for every 200 people, recruit a strong man who manages food from the poor young people in the local area, and then start work, check the acres and population, and complete the statistics.

In name, the township officials are all students sent by the Xining government government, but the local people look left and right, and feel that these students are not serious... Say you know how to read, know how to read; say know how to count, know how to count; but It just has no culture, and it doesn't have the noble spirit of officials, like farmers more than students, like soldiers more than peasants.

How can there be so many serious students in Xining, not to mention scholars, all scholars have to be teachers in Xining, and most of the students retained by Liu Xiangyu are children.

Those who are stationed here are all the graduates of Zhuantianmao Academy who are the most capable in the Marshal's Mansion.

Among them, those with excellent grades were highly educated talents who entered Xining Prefecture School for two years as Yu Ziying Baizong in their early years.

These people really had no culture, they could speak, read, write and use common vocabulary, and basically only dabbled in professional things such as drawing calculations, camp calculations, military laws and regulations, weapon deployment, and logistics operations.

But they all had the same experience. They had very unfortunate poverty backgrounds in Yan'an Prefecture. In the drought that swept the world, Liu Shizi was the only straw that could be grasped.

With their weak bodies, they challenged the officers and soldiers who were armed to the asshole. After experiencing hardships and sacrifices, they survived, got life-saving food and the opportunity to read and write, and became outstanding peasant army officers.

Each had experience managing a dozen, sixty, or more soldiers, some irreparably wounded in the field, some too past forty to be fit for battle.

In the end, they took Master Liu's entrustment, with full enthusiasm and infinite loyalty, and with a letter of commission, they stood on another battlefield without gunpowder, fighting to return to their homeland in their lifetime.

Liu Chengyun rushed back from Nangqian day and night. Because the road was blocked by heavy snow and the trip was delayed, he had no time to rest in Xining, so he went straight to his new work.

He ran all the way to Machang City, where the battle had just ended. After the chieftain army failed to block it, it became Liu Chengzong's main supply camp. Liu Xiangyu was here to allocate supplies for the front line and manage the newly received land.

Mr. Liu was overjoyed by the news of the carrier's return.

Everyone is good at different places. Liu Xiangyu is very good at managing people, but his background as an official makes it difficult for him to put himself in the shoes of the people and think about problems from the perspective of the people. It is very easy for him to take over the land, but he wants to change the land according to the second son's ideas. There is no way to start with the production method.

So Liu Xiangyu's choice was to pave the road first, and then send the township officials from the Marshal's Mansion to find out the population of the fields and the intricate interpersonal relationships in various places, so as to ensure that the order can be conveyed unimpeded to every village in the [-]-mile valley.

It happened to be transported at this time, this is the meticulous management talent in the family, Liu Xiangyu happened to be free to send a group of old and weak women and children to Xining.

These old and weak women and children were the mother, wife and children of Wang Chengen, a general in Lintao, Chai Shihua, a general in Gansu, and Tian Yinglong, the capital of Shaanxi.

In Chengyun's eyes, the matter in Hehuang is actually much simpler than in Kangning Mansion. At least the people here can understand what he is talking about, and he can also understand what others are saying.

In the racecourse city, I saw the population of the fields submitted by the townships, and then rushed to Hezui to meet Liu Shizi.

Liu Chengzong had been staying in Hezui Pox Village for half a month, and along the way he saw villages surrounded by checkpoints, as well as Fanbing temporarily staying in the villages.

He knew from Liu Xiangyu that there was smallpox in the east, and he also knew that Yang Yao, the commander of the horse soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion, was going to be a pox doctor in Hezui.

But when he got close to the mouth of the river, what he saw didn't look like he was going to inoculate the people with smallpox. On the contrary, the whole mouth of the river seemed to be a huge construction site.

The beach surrounded by Huangshui is more than ten miles long, but the width is only between four and six miles. There are tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers transporting earth and rocks, digging trenches, and even building two hundred-foot-square bridges at the head of the river bend bridge. The base of the bunker platform.

Chengyun looked at this posture, scratched his head, and thought that the second brother was going to build a fortress in Hezui?

Then he saw Yang Yao walking a monkey.

It’s really walking a monkey. I don’t know where I got a macaque. I walked around the northern mountain platform with a rope. I saw Chengyun from a distance and raised his arms to say hello. He pointed to the mountain platform and said: “Chengyun, the commander is here On the mountain platform, you will see me when you go up."

Liu Chengyun suppressed his doubts and led the horse to the platform. It didn't take long to see Liu Chengzong on the edge of the platform overlooking the entire mouth of the river with a telescope. He hurriedly asked the surrounding guards to report.

Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong didn't let him approach at all, but said from a distance: "Don't come here, I have acne, talk to the tent over there."

On the hillside not far away, there were two adjacent military tents standing alone. Liu Chengzong entered the one to the east, and the guards led Chengyun to enter the one to the west. They were separated by two layers of tents. Chengyun said urgently: "Brother, why do you have acne?" gone?"

Liu Chengzong's muffled voice came from the other side of the military tent: "It's okay, the human pox was planted, your brother is stronger than a tiger and lion, and the pox was planted twice, don't worry, it won't affect anything."

Cheng Yun heard that it was the pox planted, so he was relieved. The pox vaccine planted with pox is much less toxic than Tian Xing Shi pox, so there is no need to worry about Liu Chengzong's safety, but he immediately became worried about the situation of the battle and asked: "Brother, how are you?" How can you go east if you have been vaccinated?"

Liu Shizi sighed a pity on the other side, and then said to Chengyun: "I can't beat it. Before the Eastern Expedition, there were thousands of calculations. I didn't count the smallpox in the east. More than 2 of my [-] troops have not been vaccinated. Army, the price of continuing the Eastern Expedition is too high."

Chengyun asked: "Army?"

"It's Basang, Erhu, and Ahaidaiqing. Ahaidaiqing is Chuoketu's surrender. Fanbingmeng soldiers rushed into the place with smallpox. One counts as one, and they all get sick."

Liu Chengzong believed that in terms of natural resistance to smallpox, the Han people were the strongest, followed by the Mongols, and the Western Fans the worst.

This is not a good thing, just because the Central Plains is densely populated and has always been plagued by plagues. Generations of ancestors have been victors in the fight against various plagues. Only the best genes can survive, so there is more or less Resistance.

Mongols and Westerners have never seen this disease before, and they have all seen it. They were either separated by a fool like Xiao Lazun, or they were tossed by complications on the plateau.

So these people have no antibodies against smallpox at all.

Liu Chengzong said: "Now the imperial court has stationed a large army in the south of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, and there is a large camp in Gansu with smallpox in the north of the Yellow River. Only the elder brother and Yang Yao's more than [-] soldiers have had pox. Hold your feet."

Liu Shizi has two purposes for sending troops this time. The primary goal is to solve the shortage of food and grass caused by the population influx into Xining Prefecture last year; the second is to fully seize the Hehuang Valley.

At this time, the Hehuang Valley was still fifty miles away, but more than half of the problem of food and grass was solved with the war.

Chengyun answered, "So brother is planning to build a fort here to confront the Lanzhou government army?"

"Let's not talk about confrontation, let's defend and counterattack. I heard that Lanzhou has gathered the commanders of the five towns. Although I don't know who is the leader of the five towns, none of them dare to stand still because of smallpox and take responsibility for losing ground. This battle cannot be avoided."

"Let the Mongolian soldiers repair the fortification first, and let General Yang Can vaccinate the Fan soldiers; after the Fan soldiers have the pox, then give the Mongolian soldiers; just tens of thousands of vaccinia have been raised, and they will be vaccinated for the people of Hehuang this year."

The reaction of Liu Chengzong's pimples is very weak, it neither affects his activities nor his thinking, and there are not even many pimples on his body. He has been thinking about the situation for the past few days, even though he knows in his heart that this battle is inevitable under normal circumstances, but Daming... To be honest, it is difficult to figure out with normal thinking.

So he has to decide whether to come or not, and prepare with both hands.

They come, take advantage of the location of the fortress, block him with guns and rivers for a while, drag them down until they relax, and attack them with the army that has been vaccinated; Just go and take Lanzhou.

Liu Chengzong hasn't got the exact information on how many people are in the frontier army in the five towns of the imperial court, but what he can be sure of is that the imperial court can't afford it.

How many times have similar things happened, and they urged troops to be dispatched because of food and grass problems before they were ready. Liu Chengzong believed that this time was no exception, and this army should come soon.

Chengyun listened, and suddenly answered with a smile: "I met General Yang at the foot of the mountain just now, and he led a monkey, which was quite fun."

"Well, the macaque was caught by Li Wanqing, who was fighting in the mountains in the north. I asked him to plant smallpox on cows to try. He was quite good at giving rabbits, cows, pigs, chickens, horses, sheep... whatever happened. Try planting anything that moves."

Hearing what the second brother said, Chengyun could even imagine Liu Chengzong shaking his head on the other side of the tent: "Some have succeeded and some have not, no, Li Wanqing caught a monkey and a lynx for me to play with, he If you like it, let Li Wanqing catch another one for you, or Yang Yao will give it to you after vaccination."

Liu Chengzong said from the other side of the tent: "Hey, don't say he is very smart, have you figured out the people in Hehuang?"

When Chengyun heard this sentence, he knew that the chat between the two brothers was over. Although Liu Chengzong couldn't see him, he sat upright at the side of the military tent and took out the small notebook he had prepared in advance.

Before he set off in Kangning Mansion, Liu Xiangyu in Racecourse City, he had considered what his second brother would ask him when he saw him. That."

"There are more than 12 households, more than 72 people, and [-] mu of land in the [-]-mile valley of the Huangshui River to the east of Xining. It is estimated that there will be [-] Baos and [-] Township Baos."

72 mu of land.

Liu Chengzong took a deep breath and was very satisfied with this number.

The Hehuang Valley is a good place to grow wheat. From west to east, the terrain gets lower as you go east. According to this figure, it will be determined by the generals and the army. If the entire Hehuang is taken, the fields in the valley alone will be able to increase by one million acres.

The millions of mu of land not affected by the drought is different from the fields in Kangning Prefecture. No matter how many fields there are in Kangning Prefecture, it will not be of much help if there is no man's land in the middle. The Yellow River is a natural danger, and if it is said to rush over, it will rush over.

At this moment, Chengyun flipped through his notebook and said, "Brother, I read it when I came here. There are 47 north-south longitudinal valleys along the [-]-mile road from Xining to Binggou. The valleys are less than the population of Hehuang. and the land are on the mountain.”

Chengyun said: "If we can take all the mountain land, I estimate that the fields will be at least 40 hectares, and the population should be around [-]."

This Liu Chengzong knew it, he said: "In the mountains, there are either chieftains or Fan tribes. I plan to move the chieftains to the west, and the remaining Tumin and Fanmin will also be registered as Qimin, but this is not a short-term success. Focus on the valley first Bar."

In fact, Liu Chengzong can't care about anything at the moment, and the annexation of the Valley is a whale swallow similar to the Southern Expedition to Corning.

He cannot avoid the shortcomings of rapid expansion and insufficient accumulation of various separatist regimes in the past. There is always a shortage of professional talents, not enough when fighting Kangning.

Swallowing Hehuang is still not enough now, but the imperial court stationed heavy troops on the other side of the Yellow River, which made it impossible for him to transfer sergeants to do other things, so that he subconsciously did not want to swallow the land in the north and south mountainous areas of Huangshui.

"Brother, I know what you're worried about, but I have a different opinion on this matter."

It's not that Chengyun has different views, he has too many views, he feels sorry for the land in the mountains.

What he did in Kangning Mansion was to reclaim the land, and worked hard to cultivate the best land. The output of two mu of land was probably about the same as that of Hehuang's mountain fields.

From Chengyun's point of view, the 47 valleys running north-south in Hehuang have a population and fields that far exceed those of the Huangshui River Valley. Although the fields are not the best here, they must not be given up.

He said: "In a short period of time, there are insufficient talents who can write and count, the terrain of the valley is complex and the support is unfavorable, the local natives live together, and there is not a large number of people. It's an opportunity."

Liu Chengzong asked: "What opportunity?"

"Leave a way out, brother, this is the first time we have done the unified farming and buying of grain by the people's commune, and it is a waste of manpower and material resources. I don't know if it can be done; if it is done, the grain of the people in each township will be enough. We don’t know if it’s not enough to eat, or if the commander’s military rations are enough.”

"So I think the people and land in the mountains must be held in our hands, at least let them know that Hehuang has changed his surname."

Chengyun said: "From Xining to Binggou, there is a post station for forty miles, a total of five. Based on these five post stations, five additional towns will be established, with [-] troops stationed in each town. If there are not enough troops in the north, they will be transferred from the south. Quick delivery."

In ancient times, the town was not entirely an administrative unit. Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, it mainly refers to the name of the garrison where the army and military dependents are stationed, and it has the meaning of guarding.

"I think." Chengyun said: "Hehuang is a river valley, which is organized into Baojia, Liminshe, and divided fields. The government will plant, uniformly grow grain, and purchase the harvest; the Fanmin and Tumin in the 47th ditch in the mountain should also be registered as households. Qi Min, don't care about its cultivation, but let it pay the government."

"In this way, even if the Minshe's harvest is not satisfactory, there is still tax and food in the 47th ditch. At the same time, [-] soldiers from the five towns can be mobilized at any time to deter the various tribes in Fantu and quickly quell the chaos when needed."

After Chengyun finished speaking, his tone relaxed, and he asked, "Brother, did your idea of ​​being in charge of planting by the government also come from Emperor Taizu?"

Liu Chengzong was amused. His idea had nothing to do with Emperor Taizu, but Zhu Yuanzhang did take care of what the people planted, but not as hard as he did.

Zhu Yuanzhang had five to ten acres of private land, half an acre of mulberry, hemp and kapok each, which was twice as much as ten acres or more.

Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "It's almost the same, but it's the other way around. [-]% of the land of each community belongs to the community, and once it is kept by the community, it is allowed to grow vegetables, cotton, mulberry, and hemp. [-]% must grow food, but what kind of food to grow depends on Each township protector recommends a doctor who is proficient in farming, and adjusts measures according to local conditions."

After all, Liu Chengzong warned: "I will leave the matter of the Hehuang field to you... When the fighting here subsides, Yang Shen will make safer vaccines, and you can inoculate them again to avoid smallpox in the future. "

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)