On the second day of the second month, the dragon raised its head.

On the banks of the Yushui River, the cold wind is still bitter, and thousands of refugees live helplessly. Some find ways to go down the river to catch fish every day, while others want to pick some wild vegetables that have just sprouted in spring.

But because there are too many people and few vegetables, a little bit of wild vegetables may snatch the head and cause a group to beat people to death.

Some of them are rich local households in Yangle County. Last year, they barely hid some beams and wheat seeds. But looking at the chaos in front of them, many people still hesitate to plant them even though they don’t plant them, and they still dare not plant them. They watched the mature farmlands be shelved in vain.

What if the newly scattered grains are dug up? What if other refugees with blood-red eyes find that you have hidden seeds and want to divide into major households?

Everyone was so desperate, especially those who had been led by the thief last year. Sometimes when they were sad, they still had some strength to cry, and they all said to the sky: "Why did Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, who killed the sky, be blind and followed the group of jackals? It was not as good as when the imperial court was there."

More often, he doesn't even want to cry, saving some physical strength.

Crying is prone to hunger quickly.

When Lusu and Tianchou were working on the west bank of Xiaoyu River and the deserted fields in the south of Yangle County, the first thing he saw was this scene.

Lu Su was born in Donghai County, which was a warm and fertile land. It was a very unbearable to see such a miserable situation for the first time.

He asked his subordinates to start publicity immediately:

"Liu Fujun has opened relief. Those who are willing to farm and repay their debts will come and listen. Liu Fujun allocated exports from military rations, with each liter of grain per day, and two liters after autumn harvest. The imperial court rented the oxen to plowing oxen, and the oxen rented it to 40% of the harvest. There is another calculation for lack of agricultural tools and seeds.

Those who are willing to farm can occupy up to 100 acres of barren land, first come first, and take bamboo to occupy the fields. The fields on both sides of the Yushui River are mainly mature fields, and there will be harvests in the year, so don’t miss them.”

If it is a wasteland where no one has planted a pit, Lu Su will rarely agree to such conditions, because there are basically no things to plant in the first year of land reclamation.

However, the two sides of the Yushui River were originally mature fields, but because of the war, the people fled and the locals were robbed of all seeds and food, which led to the abandonment and the geology itself.

The western Liaoning Corridor is 400 miles long, just close to the hundreds of square kilometers of cultivated land along the large and small Yushui River coast, with good quality. If you carefully measure it, it will be at least one or two million mu in later generations, equivalent to seven or eight million mu in Han mu (one a mu in Han mu is less than 0.3 mu in modern times. The Han Dynasty made accusation that the people of the Han Dynasty accounted for 100 mu of land per person, equivalent to 27 to 28 mu in later generations)

Therefore, even if each official resident accounts for 100 mu of land, these lands are enough to accommodate 80,000 people. If the fields on the other side and Dayu River can be further developed, it will not be a problem to meet the cultivation of 200,000 to 300,000 strong people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yu River.

Liu Bei originally brought 20,000 prisoners of civil servants, and 30,000 to 40,000 refugees here, so the west bank of the Xiaoyu River can be resettled.

After hearing the shouts of the minor officials of Liu Bei's army, the hungry people instantly became angry.

No one thinks that there is any usury loan shark "now you will give you food, and you will pay it twice after the autumn harvest." Instead, they think the interest is very reasonable.

Liu Beijun transported grain from the sea with the sand ships of the Mi family caravan. Does it cost you? Does the Mi family want to make money?

This is life-saving food, and it is worth paying it twice after the autumn harvest. In the same time, other landlords and powerful people took advantage of the dangers of others and were much more vicious to take advantage of others.

"We are willing to farm! The mandarin and righteousness give us stutters! As long as we can barely survive!"

"Take it slow! No chaos! All are arranged! The court has re-divided the fields. When the time comes, do not cross the boundary by farming in order! Five households divided into the same row are one insurance policy. Each insurance company will choose one household as the chief, responsible for the management of the ox rented by the government, and the five households will cultivate land together!"

In order to prevent management chaos and robbery, when giving land to these refugees, not only did they have to send bamboo shoots that registered the land location information, but they even had to tattoo the back of the people's arms and use official seals to mark them.

Fortunately, it was stabbed on the arm, not to insult people, but to confirm the property rights to prevent the "land deeds" from being robbed by others, causing chaos. These people were waiting to starve to death and cooperated very well. Anyway, they would cover their arms with clothes, which was nothing more than a pain at the beginning.

Who cares if the tattoo is about to die of starvation?

The method of tattooing was thought out by Lu Su and Tian Chou, and it was also a confirmation of rights and responsibilities, for everyone's good. If you don't tattoo, no one knows who is the public security situation of these refugees. Maybe many people will be killed and taken away before the autumn harvest. The stabbing on them will at least ensure their personal safety and will not be killed or seized.

After hearing this, Li Su did not object. He just gave Lu Su ten numbers of the body poisoning country out of unbearableness and asked him to teach him the tattooed clerk.

Let them use fewer strokes when numbering characters, so that the stingers can easily, speed up their work speed several times, and the hungry people will suffer less flesh and blood.

The so-called body poison is India. Therefore, the body poison number is Arabic number, which has been invented in India in the Three Kingdoms era. Li Su's move was not to show off, but was purely out of benevolence and righteousness. Even if it spreads, it simplifies the convenience of accounting in the whole country. Just treat it as a world-wide neutral BUFF, with infinite merits.

With the diligence of Lusu and Tianchou, in the early February, tens of thousands of refugees were finally arranged in the military farming process. Hundreds of minor officials were all tired, each of whom had to handle the procedures for hundreds of households, and also distributed ration seeds to account for the accounts and allocated cattle to rent.

Fortunately, it did not delay the farming work much. After the harvest was achieved, these people could feed back and no longer drag down the military rations of Liu Bei's army.

In order to take into account the harvesting speed, Tianchou recommends not planting all staple foods, and a variety of cooked vegetables that can harvest faster and easily fill their stomachs.

In terms of selecting staple food varieties, Lu Su went against the opposition and suggested planting rice on the best plots along the river. After Lu Su personally went to the front line for investigation, he found that the spring irrigation conditions of the large and small Yushui River along the river were very good and the water was sufficient, so rice with higher harvests than wheat could be grown.

In fact, the Northeast region in later generations was indeed one of the main rice production areas, while Henan and Hebei were the main wheat production areas.

This is because once the Northeast water conservancy is built, it is actually very suitable for planting high-yield rice in the long-term growth period. However, the water conservancy in the late Han Dynasty was not good, so you can only grow rice along the river bank of the Xiaoyu River with a depth of no more than one or two miles, and you have to specially treat the weir entrance.

No one dared to respond to Lu Su's suggestion at the beginning, because the rest of Liu Bei's camp were from the north and had never planted rice. I heard that I was going to plant rice in Liaodong, which was very resistant.

Finally, Li Su knew some history and carefully interrogated Lu Su and confirmed to Lu Su whether he was really familiar with rice farming when he was in Donghai County. After receiving Lu Su's affirmative answer, Li Su supported Lu Su's point of view.

With Li Su's affirmation, Liu Bei, who had already trusted Li Su unconditionally, made Lu Su's decision.

Tian Chou also quickly did the supporting work and assigned hundreds of minor officials to study the "Four Civil Monthly Orders" in a concentrated manner to prevent northern farmers from not being able to plant rice and delaying their affairs.

Everyone was busy.

Even people like Li Su who are not diligent in four bodies and are not diligent in different grains once again inspected and persuaded farmers to understand the situation during this busy spring farming season. They were so busy that they had no hair and no hair on their hair.

...

On the east bank of the Dayu River, in Changli City.

The King of Wuhuan Nanqiao and his adviser Yan Rou have really not understood these days.

Since the end of January, Liu Bei's army advanced to the west bank of Xiaoyu River to camp and defend steadily, they thought that Liu Bei was about to attack Tuhe and Changli.

Liu Bei traveled through the 400-mile unmanned land to fight! How could he fight a protracted war? Even if Liu Bei has money and food, it would be useless if he could not transport it to the front line!

No one knows better than the Wuhuan natives how terrible the logistics burden of the 400-mile unmanned land is!

Therefore, although the rebels also lack food, they believe that Liu Bei is the more food-deficient party! Then, it is more beneficial to the rebels!

As long as Liu Bei crosses the river, even if Liu Bei's soldiers are more elite, they will be punished by half-crossing attacks and threatened by the attack of Tuhe City and Changli City!

If Liu Bei dares to attack the entire army, the main force of Changli's Nanqiao King will poke Liu Bei's chrysanthemum in a circle!

Unfortunately, all this was thought well but it did not become a reality.

Liu Bei did a good job of blocking news. King Nanqiao sent scouts to inquire about military information, and were often shot and killed by Zhao Yun, who was also a scout on the patrol.

If a scout of a team of only a few dozen people unfortunately bumped into Zhao Yun, he would often be killed! Even a living person would not come back!

Such an asymmetric intelligence environment led to the fact that King Nanqiao and Yan Rou had not known that Liu Bei had stockpiled a large number of military rations transported by sea in the water camp at the mouth of the Xiaoyushui River.

Many of the Mi Zhu family's fleets chose to enter the port to unload their goods in the evening, and went back before dawn. They were false and real, and they didn't know how many ships were coming. Occasionally, several ships were discovered. With the knowledge of the Wuhuan people who had no idea about sea transportation, they could not understand the degree of threat.

As for the military farms on the west bank of the Xiaoyu River, it is even more difficult to keep them confidential, but when the seedlings were just organized in February, the seedlings had not sprouted yet. Even when a large number of people were active, the Wuhuan people thought that the Han army was building fortifications or doing some useless work.

Who made refugees flow from Liaodong to western Liaoning, but there was no one who turned back? Liu Bei was so kind to the hungry people that he would stay and refuse to leave. Even if there was one person who felt that he was suffering more than the rule of the Wuhuan people, and after knowing the situation here, he rebelled back to the Wuhuan people again, the Wuhuan people could get information faster.

It can only be said that it is a pity that there are no such hungry people.

King Nanqiao waited until March when the abandoned fields on the south bank had grown half a foot tall seedlings, before he could react - it turned out that the Han army was farming!

"What? The Han army actually hosted all the hungry people? They also organized them to farm. How could it be that Liu Bei had to travel through the 400-mile unmanned land to supply grain to the front line. Even if there were sea boats, would his food loss be so small? Can he afford to fight with us for a long time?"

King Nanqiao was stunned after knowing the truth.

He, who planned to wait for Liu Bei to be dragged down by the loss of grain transport in the unmanned area, lost in vain to take advantage of Liu Bei's position to attack without firmness.

"King, why not organize cavalry in a few days, cross the river and attack, and trample on and destroy the Han army's military farmland?" Yan Rou took the initiative to make suggestions.

King Nanqiao paced back and forth: "What's the use of destroying the fields? The Han army can cultivate farms, which means that Liu Bei's food can last until at least August! Even if the military farms are destroyed, it will only destroy the only grain supply that the enemy's army has in August. But our own food may not be able to survive in August!

At least we have to wait until the spring plowing is over, and we have to take these military fields in the summer to protect them until the autumn harvest is rushing to the harvest. The Han army was too despicable. Last year, the harvest of green yellow wheat caused wheat farmers to almost never harvest. Is this lesson still a small lesson?"

The two were discussing, and another scout came to report: "Report! Report to the king, Guan Yu, the commander of the Liaodong army of Han army, led thousands of troops, crossed the Xiaoyu River at dawn today, camped on the east bank of the river, and even set up a formation, as if to move along the river to prevent our army from crossing the river to destroy the Han army's military farm."

The expression of King Nanqiao instantly became very incredible: "Guan Yu actually dared to cross the river to stop us from crossing the river? Haha, how many people can Guan Yu have?"

Scout: "About three or five thousand people."

The King of Nanqiao smiled in depression: "Good come!"

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Chapter completed!