The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 97 The Arrival of Cao Yi

There was nothing new in the ensuing war. It was just that Zhao An and Liu Tai's armies took turns chasing each other, and Tian Tian led the remnant troops to run around.

It's just that the pursuing Liu Taijun can not only change men, but also horses, but the number of beggars being pursued continues to decrease.

The remaining troops fled back to Linzi first, but Liu Tai's army broke into the city immediately, allowing them to continue their escape.

Then Tian Tian followed the escape route on the note and helped Liu Tai clean up some of the remaining aristocratic families in Qingzhou.

Especially those aristocratic families with serious land occupation are Liu Tai's key targets.

In addition to dealing with the Qingzhou family to obtain land and resources, it was also to clean up the number of beggars.

After all, Liu Tai can't take on a scale of 50, but if there are only 40 or even 30 left, Liu Tai can successfully eat this population.

There is no way, Liu Tai also wants to save everyone, but he really doesn't have the ability!

In the end, he was able to save 30 people because these beggar soldiers destroyed the family's manor. Liu Tai sent people to take over the manor.

With the accumulation of food, Liu Tai calculated that he could feed these people, and then let Tian Tian perform a death scene to end it!

Then I felt Tian Tian's loyalty and accepted the remaining begging army.

After this, the Qingzhou script finally came to an end. As long as Liu Tai could digest the 30 beggar troops, not to mention fighting for the world, but to separatist forces in Qingzhou, it would be considered a foundation.

"Marshuai Tian, ​​how does it feel to experience your own funeral and have 30 people cry together?" Liu Tai asked.

"Don't make fun of them, Governor!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Tian Tian shook his head and sighed, "General, please treat them kindly.

They are more or less miserable people who cannot survive. If it were not for the locust plague, they would not come to Qingzhou. "

"Of course I know how to settle them, don't worry!" Liu Tai looked at Tian Tian meaningfully.

At this moment, Tian Tian was hesitant to speak, but also looked a little worried, and he hesitated for a while.

"Do you have anything you want to say to me?" Liu Tai looked at Tian Tian and asked.

"Provincial Governor, where should I go next?!" Tian Tian looked at Liu Tai and said worriedly:
"In the coming days, it's not suitable for me to appear in front of these soldiers!"

After all, anyone who sees a dead person appearing in front of these newly surrendered begging troops will naturally know that they have been deceived. By then, the 30 surrendered begging troops may not be about to riot.

"I have already thought about it for you. If you go to Changguang County to rule the south, I need you to train the navy. You will be the naval commander of our Han army from now on!" Liu Tai looked at Tian Tian and said.

"The general asked me to train as a naval engineer?!" Tian Zhen couldn't help but open his mouth when he heard Liu Tai's words. Unexpectedly, Liu Tai suddenly mentioned this matter.

"Well!" Liu Taize took out a map covering Qingzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou and Liaodong.

Tian Zhen was a little stunned when he looked at this map, because this map covering the entire area surrounding the Bohai Sea was something he had never expected. Now that he saw it suddenly, Tian Zhen was still a little bit stunned.

He raised his head and looked at Liu Tai again, and asked with a little surprise, "Is this map the general's hard work?"

"It was sorted out these days!" Liu Tai replied to Tian Tian, ​​then pointed to the map and said,
"We are now in Qingzhou. Although Gou Xi was defeated, the Jin court still has Wang Jun, a powerful general. The first person we have to deal with next must be Wang Jun from Youzhou!"

"Wang Jun has commanded his troops well and has Xianbei cavalry to help him. Shi Le has won great victories many times now, but he has never won against Wang Jun yet!" Liu Tai said to Tian Tian,
"If we were to fight Wang Jun, he would have the advantage of cavalry on land, so I wouldn't dare to underestimate him.

All I could think about was that I would attract from the front and wait until all of Wang Jun’s attention was drawn to us.

You lead the navy into the Bohai Sea from the flank to attack Youzhou, and the outcome will be decided in one battle! "

"Is it just like how we dealt with Gou Xi today?" Tian Zhen couldn't help but take a deep breath when he heard Liu Tai's words.

However, he was very worried: "But, are there really ships that can sail the sea and attack Youzhou?"

Liu Tai said calmly at this moment: "During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan sent ships to contact Gongsun Du, so technically speaking, there is absolutely no problem with sea navigation.

I remember when I was young, I hid at sea with my uncle Wang Mi for a while.

Therefore, Qingzhou has all the shipyard craftsmen and materials needed for the research and development of maritime ships.

It's just that now that Qingzhou is in ruins, these things are complicated to find, and you need to spend some time slowly sorting out the resources. "

"Please rest assured, Governor, that my subordinates will do their best to train this maritime navy!" Tian Tian said.

"It's hard work for you to stay anonymous for several years!" Liu Tai couldn't help but hold Tian Jin's hands when he heard Tian Jin's words, and said earnestly,
"But when your navy takes shape and raids Youzhou, you will definitely leave your name in history and be the number one navy in history!"

When Tian Tian heard this, he was also excited and said, "If it weren't for the general, how would I have had this opportunity? Thank you so much for the promotion, general!"

Tian Tian knew that Liu Tai did not have the thought of throwing away the things after using them, but actually arranged a position for himself.

Being anonymous these past few years and putting all my thoughts on this is nothing.
Liu Tai knew very well that it was difficult to train elite soldiers and even more difficult for cavalry, but compared to the naval army, it was far behind.

The navy is definitely the most advanced technical force in this era. Tian Tian wants to train the navy from scratch. Even if it is just along the Bohai Bay and all the way to Youzhou, he is afraid that he will have to conquer the keels one after another. Sealed cabins, lead boards (predecessors of sextants)... and further improvements in various sail and mast technologies, and even upwind maneuvering techniques based on hard sails.

These require both manpower and accumulation, and most importantly, they require mathematics. Liu Tai feels overwhelmed just thinking about it!

Where did Tian Tian find a good place? He just found a big hole!

Of course, attacking Youzhou may not necessarily require so many and comprehensive skills, but even so, when will the navy be able to be trained to the point where it can be pulled out and sailed, Liu Tai thinks it will take at least three years!

"Try hard to come up with the entire supporting system needed by the navy!" Liu Tai couldn't help but take a deep breath. He always felt that he had jumped into a sinkhole, but he had to choose the path he had to walk on his knees. It’s over!
For Liu Tai, the first thing he needs to do now is to settle the 30 beggar army and the people of Qingzhou.

There is no nonsense, all these beggars naturally entered Liu Tai's collective farm to work.

After all, they are a beggar army. How can they be viewed purely from the perspective of ordinary people.

They must be restrained by laws and regulations and allowed to reclaim a large amount of land in Qingzhou that was laid waste by the war.

This war started in May and lasted until July. I had to seize the time to replant winter wheat.After the 30 beggar troops were settled, Liu Tai naturally began to divide the fields among the soldiers who followed him to fight.

Compared with when he distributed the fields in Taishan County, Liu Tai was much more generous this time when he distributed the fields in Linzi.

Almost every soldier with a family was given a field. There was nothing he could do about it. Liu Tai was paid by household. Those who did not have a family were rewarded with only meritorious service and no fields. Even if you had a concubine and someone to take care of it, it was still a reward. Of course, if you are single, you have no choice but to give priority to those with families.

But even so, there is so much land in Qingzhou that it is impossible to distribute it all.

Ever since his father Liu Bogen started his army, Qingzhou has been used as a chessboard and a battlefield. Especially when Wang Mi was defeated and fled, almost the entire territory of Qingzhou was wiped out by him.

This is also the reason why there are not many people in Qingzhou. In addition, since I let the begging soldiers wander around like this, the entire Qingzhou is really full of people and deserted fields!

However, as Liu Tai continues to recruit people to cultivate fields in Qingzhou, Qingzhou has stabilized for a while.

Even after the sowing of winter wheat in autumn, Liu Tai began to arrange manpower to start building roads and mobilize all the people in Qingzhou.

As long as you are human and as long as you can move, come to work for me!

Of course, apart from food, the most important thing is that after acquiring Qingzhou, the salt industry, the most important material in this era, is finally in his hands.

Qingzhou's land plain area is quite vast, but because some places close to the ocean are too low, seawater will flow back into it, so a large area of ​​the coastal area is saline-alkali land.

It is not practical to cultivate food in these places. At least you need to be a god of agriculture at the level of Grandpa Yuan to cultivate them.

Therefore, the only thing Liu Tai can do is to use the saline-alkali that cannot produce food to produce sea salt, and then use the land that can produce food to produce wheat.

The production cost of sea salt, due to the sun salt method, is actually quite low.

At least compared to the current salt mining methods in inland areas, the cost is much lower, but the salt technology in inland areas is relatively mature, and there are almost no impurities in the entire production process.

But when producing table salt from the ocean, there are still quite a lot of impurities, and it’s troublesome to handle.

But for Liu Tai, it was not a troublesome matter. After all, the large amount of sea salt produced was not supplied to the nobles, but to the common people.

For the vast majority of people, no matter how big the problem is, sea salt is still table salt.

In this day and age, it’s great to be able to eat salt. Who cares about the hygiene of salt?

Of course, if you want to eat snowflake salt that has been filtered through layers of layers, Liu Tai's ability is not impossible to get it.

But the problem is that it will not be popularized in a short period of time. Not to mention, after treating the brine through various physical and chemical methods, and then using the protein in soy milk to continuously neutralize the harmful substances in the salt, the salt produced will be more Conducive to human consumption.

But before soy milk is mass-produced, only you can eat this kind of salt!

But for Liu Tai, the biggest role of salt production is not as simple as selling salt, or controlling the salt trade, or taking out salt and directly destroying the salt system of this era.

But with salt as the target, Liu Tai can finally start playing with financial instruments that are not unique to this era.

The most difficult commodity in this era is naturally food, but the problem is that Liu Tai himself doesn't have enough food. If he lets a short-sighted guy mess up the situation by playing with food bills, the financial system created by Liu Tai will probably backfire immediately.

But now that there is salt, if the face of the bill is forcibly linked to the salt, or the corresponding salt can be exchanged just by relying on the bill, then this kind of bill will be quickly accepted by the people even in troubled times.

With such a relatively stable bill, Liu Tai wanted to use the bill to allow people to obtain a general equivalent that could be used to trade all things, instead of requiring people to barter with the items in their hands.

After all, the most important thing about the emergence of currency is that it improves the efficiency of the entire society and reduces transaction costs.

In this era, the imperial court always thought of harvesting the people through building coins, but it never thought that stabilizing the face value of the currency itself would maintain the smooth operation of the entire society, thereby allowing the entire country to gain greater benefits.

Don't go crazy and harvest the people in a hurry for quick success. Let the people breathe a little easier and have a little extra money in their hands. Then the people will spend the money themselves and let wealth circulate throughout society.

Liu Tai had the same idea, except that he needed to organize the people of Qingzhou to build houses, roads, city walls, and various facilities that were destroyed in the war.

In this process, the bills with salt as the subject matter in his hand began to gradually circulate in the hands of the people.

At first, the people felt that the bills could only be used to buy salt and some food.

But as time goes by, credibility slowly accumulates, especially through the daily payment of wages, more and more such notes are accumulated in the hands of the people.

The people would naturally try to use this kind of bill to buy other commodities, and after they discovered that at least in Qingzhou, this kind of bill could circulate freely to buy all the products they knew, they naturally accepted this kind of bill.

As a general daily equivalent, let them think that this kind of bill can purchase all production items.

But in fact, as long as the product reaches a large scale, this kind of thing can only be used to trade salt and serve as an IOU for salt.

Just when Liu Tai took over Qingzhou and was working hard to develop Qingzhou as much as possible, Chu Hui came over.

And not only Chu Hui, but also Cao Yi came to Qingzhou with a large amount of gold and silver treasures and various books.

"I've seen Liu Qingzhou!" Cao Yi saw Liu Tai and quickly saluted Liu Tai.

This is Liu Tai, the new generation of devil who killed Gou Xi in front of him and then directly killed an army of 50 beggars.

Cao Yi, who was beaten violently by Gou Xi every day, was very respectful to Liu Tai at this moment.

"Cao Changshi?" Liu Tai looked at Cao Ni. He naturally remembered that Cao Ni was beside Wang Mi and said, "Aren't you always by your uncle's side? Why are you here?"

Cao Yi said: "After Duke Donglai captured Luoyang, he heard that the general had captured Qingzhou, so he asked me to transport property to Donglai first.

There are also various miscellaneous books that Liu Qingzhou likes here. Donglai Gong also obtained a lot of them in Luoyang and brought them to you, general! "

"Uncle, you have me in your heart!" Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and then took Cao Yi's hand and said:
"Cao Changshi, sit down, sit down quickly! My uncle has captured Luoyang, tell me what's going on over there!"

"No!" Cao Yi nodded to Liu Tai.

(End of this chapter)