Overlord!

Chapter 33 Tuntian and Jiang Dongli
The treacherous situation in Danyang County and the rise of rebellion have nothing to do with Sun Ce now.

He himself was injured, and the army was still reorganizing, so he could only entrust everything to his uncle Wu Jing.

However, Sun Ce was very generous. Wu Jing and Sun Ben led the army to suppress the rebellion, and Sun Ce gave both of them a large amount of equipment and supplies.

Each has two thousand spears and heavy halberds, one thousand sword handles, and three hundred bows and crossbows. In addition, each of them has twenty war horses.

In addition to the needs of the army, the two of them also had a hundred catties of gold and thousands of bolts of cloth.

Gold Baiyi has been the treatment that can only be enjoyed by national scholars and high officials since ancient times.

Ruan Ji, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, wrote frivolous poems even after drinking in this era. When he was young, he sang frivolously and sang well.The extreme that can be imagined in it is that the gold is overflowing, and the resources are often suffering.

This wave of generosity successfully made Wu Jing and Sun Ben feel the wealth brought by the clan because of Sun Ce's successful establishment of the army.

They also had ambitions in mind, and after receiving thousands of bolts of silk, they distributed them to the army officers and soldiers along with their weapons, and then sent out troops to quell the rebellion.

Sun Ce, who had calmed down, put all his energy on farming.

Farm farming is a very meticulous job, and it is not easy to take people to a wasteland. Cao Cao's farm farming has undergone a lot of bureaucratic repair systems, and it took many years to have a charter.

Liu You, the captain under Sun Ce who was in charge of farming, also sorted out a thick pile of laws and regulations. He originally planned to report to Sun Ce in the big tent, but Sun Ce insisted on going to the farm to see in person, so the two greeted each other. The spring breeze came to the river.

There were a total of more than [-] troops in Tuntian, many of whom were recruited refugees, and even Fan Neng's soldiers who had been defeated on the battlefield and were desperately recruited.

These people have already assembled under the Niuzhu camp, and will settle down in the land of Jiangdong in the future.

The spring in the south of the Yangtze River is milder than that in the north, and the spring breeze blowing on the face brings coolness instead of chill.

Looking at the busy soldiers in the field, Sun Ce felt comfortable and relaxed, and even the pain of the wound in his waist and abdomen seemed to have eased a lot.

Liu You asked worriedly: "The general claimed that he was wounded to lure the snake out of the hole. Is it okay to appear in front of everyone so grandiosely?"

"What's the problem?" Sun Ce smiled lightly: "People tend to believe what they want to believe. The news of my injury has spread, and even if you solemnly tell the tyrants that I am not injured, they will not believe it. They thought we were stabilizing the morale of the army, intending to frighten everyone and stabilize the situation."

"Besides, we've all changed into coarse sackcloth, and it's hard to recognize us unless we get close. Don't worry about it, and tell me about farming."

Speaking of business, Liu You immediately looked solemn and pointed at the foot of Niuzhu Mountain: "Fan Neng's troops have been stationed here for more than a year. Not only have they been fighting endlessly, but also their military discipline is very corrupt. There are almost no people in the vicinity, and a lot of farmland has been abandoned. Even There are two or three powerful manors that have been abandoned, filled with dead bodies."

"So I plan to choose here as the place to farm, and try not to conflict with the powerful people in the county."

Sun Ce stood on the soil slope by the river with his knife in his hand, looking at the vibrant scene at the foot of the mountain, he really couldn't understand these princes in troubled times. Isn't this thriving situation not good?

What are they trying to do when they have nothing to do to burn, kill, loot and fish.

This is true for shallow-sighted generals like Fan Neng and Yu Mi, and even for a hero in troubled times like Cao Cao.

The huge Xu County has been killed to the point where there are almost no people. An official can easily recruit 10,000+ people and cultivate millions of acres of fertile land.

Cao Cao's 10,000+ people are promising to cultivate millions of acres of land, and Sun Ce's more than 10,000 people should be able to cultivate [-]+ acres of two fields in Shicheng County.

So Sun Ce took a deep breath and replied: "Just do as you said. There is no need to be too patient with Hao Qiang, Hao Qiang will not welcome me just because we are patient. Besides, they don't even dare to fight Fan Neng and his like , being killed and looted, or even extorting his wife and daughter, it will be difficult to make a big deal after all."

Jiangdong's strong resistance is unavoidable, and it cannot be easily resolved by simply being patient or violently killing.

The two sides have been entangled for many years in fighting and reconciliation, surrendering and resentencing, and finally they can merge into one, find a posture that both parties can accept, and enjoy life.

Liu You immediately bowed to accept the order: "No. I will focus on farmland, reclaim wasteland as much as possible, and irrigate water conservancy."

"Well, at present everything is focused on military supplies. We are still far away from the step of taking control of Danyang and appease the powerful. How is the progress of farming?"

"I have selected hundreds of talents in the army to serve as agricultural officials, sincerely promote water conservancy, and teach the people to cultivate the fields."

"That's right, Julitian is a good government since ancient times."

Litian is also the talent listed in filial piety Litian.They are filial piety to parents, respect to elder brothers, and hard work in farming.

In the Central Plains, farmers who are good at farming, who can guide their neighbors, control the solar terms, follow the farming season, and carry out farming are important talents.

During festivals and festivals, the government rewards the people with labor. The three elders and the filial can get five pieces of cloth, and the fraternal and Litian can also get two pieces of cloth.

It is a good way to quickly restore production by employing a hundred experienced farmers as persuading officials, and each of them will guide a hundred soldiers to cultivate.

People, as long as the mind is not slippery, there are always more ways than difficulties.

If all these 100 agricultural officials can take the initiative, more than [-] land reclamation sites will expand rapidly, and every acre of farmland will be reclaimed, and the mountains and plains will soon be filled.

Liu You introduced: "Compared with the Central Plains, the war in Danyang has eased a lot. A large number of farmlands will be abandoned for a year or two. Weeds in the fields will be removed and the plows will be plowed again, and they will soon return to life. But after all, it is not as fertile as the Central Plains. Fertile land is limited, and many agricultural officials have no choice but to burn miasma trees and forests to expel miasma, and reclaim wasteland."

Sun Ce immediately waved his hand and said, "I strongly disagree with your opinion. Jiangdong is the real land of fish and rice. It's just that it's underdeveloped, so it looks barren and withered. One day, the world will have a consensus. Jiangdong is ripe, and the world is full."

The land that Sun Ce is now stepping on is Nanjing of later generations. It is only a few hundred miles away from Jianye City. The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the prosperity of Jiangnan are staged here.

He has all the conditions to develop agriculture and become rich, even enough to support Jianye, a commercial center in the south of the Yangtze River.

Now there are many bushes and jungles, but no one has developed it on a large scale.

Sun Ce believes that as long as he is willing to devote energy to promoting internal affairs and developing agriculture, this place will definitely become prosperous and civilized.

But things are not as simple as Sun Ce thought, and it can be developed, and it has been developed for hundreds of years.

Liu You's brows were all knit together: "General, the problem is that a lot of resources are needed to develop and reclaim wasteland. Now the soldiers are slash-and-burn, and after burning the bushes, there are not even enough equipment to reclaim the wasteland. There are only more than two thousand iron tools, and there are not enough Leisi , many soldiers had to dig the ground with their swords."

Sun Ce is still calm. After all, the lack of iron is not the problem he faces alone. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even throughout the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the people of the Central Plains have insufficient iron.

The more chaos there is, the more scarce ironware is.After all, there is only so much iron and steel production, and if one more is used to forge weapons and armor, farm tools will be scarce.

So Sun Ce said, "Go, go down and have a look."

At the foot of the mountain, there are soldiers plowing the land with Leisi. "Lu Shi Chunqiu·Ren Di" has a saying: "It is a six-foot Leisi, so it becomes an acre."

Leisi is a farm tool similar to a shovel. According to the "Book of Changes", Shennong kneaded wood to make it, that is, the stick in his hand, and cut wood to make it, which is the equipment for shoveling soil.

Theoretically, after Emperor Xiaowu set up iron officials to produce farm tools, all the pikes should be made of iron.

But theory is always theory, and in reality, wooden Leisi has been kept in large numbers among the people.Once the iron is insufficient, the common people have to cut off the seasonal materials to get them in time.

But right now, these soldiers are using wooden Leisi.

Sun Ce couldn't bear to see it. In Jiangdong, where the land is stiff after the cold winter, a group of people are desperately plowing the fields with blunt wooden tools. How can they not work hard.

Sun Ce turned to look at Liu You with a heavy heart: "Aren't there cattle in the army? Why don't we organize cattle farming to replace soldiers and increase production?"

"There are oxen." Liu You took Sun Ce away for more than a quarter of an hour, and came to another reclamation area, pointing to the plows and oxen in the field, and introduced: "There are 450 oxen in the army. plows, but only 89 plows can be used for farming, mainly because of the shortage of plows, and the carpenters in the army are working hard to build them.”

The efficiency of ox plowing is indeed much faster than that of soldiers holding wooden plows. Even if it is also a wooden plow, the strength of oxen is greater than that of ordinary people.

Sun Ce looked at it for a while, and the soldiers helped the plow to plow the field.The soldiers leading the ox immediately took off the plow from the ox, and the two of them turned the plow in a different direction with great effort, then moved back to the ox, put the plow back on, and plowed towards Sun Ce.

When they got close, Sun Ce could see clearly why they took so much trouble, because their plows had an extremely clumsy shaft that dragged the sharpened wooden plow shovel underneath, and they couldn't flexibly turn the direction.

This is the most common plow at present, the straight-shaft plow. It depends entirely on this thick wooden plow shovel dragged in the soil to plow the land. It is a miracle of hard work.

Sun Ce was in no mood to instruct Liu You to design a Quyuanli for a moment.It is easy to replace a straight shaft with a curved shaft, but the plow shovel does not have an iron blade, and I am afraid that it is not as good as this straight shaft when it is twisted and twisted in the ground.

Sun Ce said: "The efficiency of military settlements is too low. There is nothing wrong with your system design. The key is the serious shortage of military equipment. We must find a way to improve it."

Liu You frowned: "But where do you go to find tens of thousands of equipment in a hurry? According to "Guanzi", the tiller must have a harvest, a harvest, and a harvest. The gap between the army is too great."

In fact, the more than two thousand iron wares were brought by Liu Youbuqu, and the refugees, the old and the weak didn't have much production equipment in their hands.

Sun Ce thought about it seriously, and said, "I will order swords to be cast into plows, and all remaining swords and swords in the army will be cast into plows. Chen Wu, where is Gong Cao and Jiang Yuan?"

Chen Wu immediately replied: "Jiang Yuan? He should be carving saddles in Niuzhu Camp. The number of war horses in the army has increased a lot, and he is trying his best to replenish the luggage."

"Let him come over, let's put aside the matter of the saddle for now. Didn't he accept an apprentice, let his apprentice be in charge for the time being."

Chen Wu arranged for two personal guards to go to the camp, and soon brought Jiang Yuan over on horseback.

In the past few days, the situation has not been seen, and the appearance of this worker Cao Chuan has changed a lot.

Although it is still a soap suit, the material has changed from coarse cloth to wool.He wears a white dark coat inside, a soap suit over the outside, and a crown of honors on his head. Even his shoes have changed from straw shoes to sandals, that is, shoes with two sharp horns protruding from the front.

Sun Ce looked him up and down, and said dumbfoundedly: "It can be seen that the supplies in the camp are abundant. You have changed all your luggage from head to toe."

Jiang Yuan quickly cupped his hands and said: "It's all thanks to the general's generosity, the output of military uniforms and equipment is endless."

Hearing his explanation, Sun Ce became a little happy instead.

If an official responsible for the production of military uniforms does not improve his robes, the soldiers may wonder whether the army is making full efforts to sew military robes.

Sun Ce never thought of asking all officials to worry about the world's worries first, and there is no need to wait for the entire battalion to put on new clothes before Cao Cao, the worker, buys new clothes last.

He is close to the water first, and he is in charge of the production of military tents. He chooses the clothes for himself first, which is more in line with the mentality of ordinary people.

So Sun Ce skipped the matter and asked instead, "What are the blacksmiths in the army producing now?"

Jiang Yuan quickly replied: "I see that there are a lot of weapons and equipment in the camp. Now the blacksmiths mainly produce armor. It is said that the armor rate in the army is extremely low, less than one in ten."

"Where are the carpenters? How many are there and what are they doing?"

"The number of carpenters is quite a lot, about 400 people. They are mainly producing luggage carts. The army is about to exceed [-], and there are only more than [-] trucks in total including all the captured ones, which is seriously insufficient. Duan Lu said that when Taiwei Duan sent troops to Rebellion, with an army of ten thousand people, carrying more than three thousand vehicles. Let me build according to this number."

Sun Ce nodded. With a carriage of this size, there is no need to hide in a county, and it can launch an attack, destroy powerful enemies, and expand the territory.

The Taiwei Duan mentioned by Lu Fan is Duan Jiong, a super famous general of the Han Dynasty and one of the 72 generals of Wumiao.

Similar to his logistics level is Bao Xin, the prince who challenged Dong. When he sent troops to challenge Dong, he led [-] disciples and [-] riders, and he also brought more than [-] luggage.

However, both of them are fighting across states. Sun Ce's current battle is mainly in Danyang County. Even if he reaches Qu'a, it is also in the west of Wu County, next to Danyang County.

Therefore, for the time being, less than a thousand carriages are needed, and eight hundred are enough.

Sun Ce said: "Stop building your cart. Let the craftsmen make the plow with all their strength. I will draw a new figure for you. Replace the long straight shaft with a short curved shaft, and then replace the plow and shovel with cast iron ones. It belongs to our Jiang Dongli."

The structure of Quyuanli is actually not much different from that of Zhiyuanli. Sun Ce has not only seen it in textbooks, but also seen real objects in rural areas. Even in later generations, this thing is very common in northern rural areas.

Sun Ce modified the real thing, and it was the original version of Jiang Dongli.

What's interesting is that the original name of Quyuanli in history was also Jiangdongli, which was invented by the people of Jiangdong in the Tang Dynasty.

Now Sun Ce is also invented in Jiangdong. Except for a slight change in the timeline, there are really not many conflicts.

　Thanks to book friend Pengfei Qian for the 300 starting coins

　　
　
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