Li Su's Jingzhao Yin's life is temporarily unfolding like this.

Throughout mid-May, because Cai Yong, Liu Ba, Guoyuan and other talents were not in place, he did not make any big moves. He simply organized the people to rush locusts, dig canals, and create simple overturns. He listened to reports every day and rested with the people.

After more than ten days of rectification, many severely short of water were temporarily rescued, and the crops could last for a while. Li Su didn't know how to farm, so he went down to the fields and inspected the crops one by one. He took the crops in the fields and asked the local old farmers to evaluate how much food could be saved.

According to the feedback from the old farmers in the country, at least 30% of the poor harvests in various places this year are the least, and the more important problem is that the growth period of crops will be extended - Li Su didn't know this at the beginning. The main reason is that he doesn't understand agriculture and botany.

In fact, plants will have certain stress and dormant in a state of water deficiency. The metabolism and photosynthesis transpiration effect are reduced, and the accumulation of sugar and starch will slow down. Therefore, the crops that could be harvested in July may be harvested until August at the latest.

But those with more severe water shortage will be unable to do anything. By September, the sunshine and accumulated temperature will drop sharply, and the wheat will not be able to fill up the grout, and those that have not yet been harvested will be over. At most, crops such as sorghum and corn that are relatively cold-resistant than wheat and have lower requirements for sunshine can be slightly extended to the growth season.

Li Su went to the grassroots people personally and seized time to understand every day. After he had so much knowledge of the disaster, he also used his brains to find ways to discuss with his subordinates who knew about farming, and also paid attention to asking old farmers for advice, such as "I found water-deficient wheat fields that were obviously unrescued. After re-irrigation in May of the lunar calendar, do I still have time to shovel the semi-dead wheat seedlings and replant the sorghum that can continue to grow until late autumn."

If this possibility is available, the minor officials will go to the countryside to persuade them, speed up the repair of overturns and canals, and then immediately water the fields, shovel the wheat that is destined to be unable to be rescued as soon as possible, plow it into the fields and turn it into fertilizer, and then plant sorghum.

The yield of sorghum is much lower than that of wheat, and a mu of land may not be able to harvest two stones, but fortunately, it is more cold-resistant and drought-resistant. If sorghum cannot be planted in special circumstances, it has to settle for the second best beans. Beans are easier to survive in late autumn, but the yield is also lower. One mu of land may not be able to harvest one and a half stones, but it is better than not at all. It is just to be considered as a fertile land for the spring of the next year.

This kind of work is not easy. Before Li Su, he was not as realistic as the official of Jingzhao Yin. Because it was always the people's own business, or the powerful families had professional talents who helped them manage the manors, so the imperial court needed to be so meticulous.

So Li Su is so careful that he will really violate the interests of some powerful people.

On the one hand, there was no "patent law" in the late Han Dynasty, nor did there be intellectual property protection. Therefore, many agricultural handicraft production methods in the strong manors can only protect their own unique interests by confidentiality.

This is obvious, just look at the agricultural book "Four Minutes and Monthly Orders" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Many of them are business books of aristocratic families, and they are completely different from the "Qi Min Yaoshu" which later mainly focuses on small peasant economy in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Li Su sent people to interfere in how the big landlords planned the planting and sent small officials to conduct personal inspections. During the process, he would definitely find the secrets of the unique farming of some aristocratic manors who had hidden their unique skills. Although Li Su himself might not think that these secrets were advanced, but not everyone understood them. If they hid them, they could still win many years of relative competitive advantages.

If everyone has learned efficient and technological farming techniques, wouldn’t it be better for poor people who don’t study to farm? Once the scientific knowledge of production is popularized, how can they expect uneducated poor people to live a waste and have to sell their land to survive? Then how can they merge land?

However, these conflicts are quite small, mainly because the Guanzhong family was at least murdered by Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and Guo Si for two rounds. Many of them died of iron. Those who survived were more or less afraid that the warlords would be unreasonable, so Li Su was too lazy to deal with it.

Watch warlords in troubled times, and only when the war is over

If it weren't for the real world, but to the Three Kingdoms novels that used "How to fight against the powerful families" to hydrate, this scene would have been at least 100,000 words.

However, in addition to this contradiction, Li Su's refined management also caused a lot of other contradictions.

First of all, he had overhauled the car, and the results were slow. Some old-school officials thought that he was exhausted and damaged the people. In addition, the technology itself was not popular, and it was promoted by Li Su. Some civil servants who are known for their integrity somewhat doubted whether he was greedy for project payments in this process.

After all, when lay audit officials cannot understand technology, they are most likely to suspect engineers’ bad money, which is true in ancient and modern times. Li Su has always lived a luxurious life, and this aspect is easy to make people think of black spots.

Finally, Li Su forced the people to destroy locusts, which also touched many people's blind spots in folk beliefs and ghosts. In history, until the Tang Dynasty and Yao Chong destroyed locusts, many people still thought that locusts were the will of heaven, and were a warning to punish the king for cultivating virtue. Only by cultivating virtue can locusts be driven away and not culled by force.

Some people ignored Li Su's "Theory of the Palace of Fun" that had obviously replaced Dong Zhongshu's "Theory of the Response of Heaven and Man" into a new official ideology. It was just because they were old and when they were young, they read Dong Zhongshu's "Theory of Spring and Autumn and Floods" and was the theory of the Response of Heaven and Man, so they continued to jump out and attack Li Su's disrespect for the gods and corrupt their morals.

Finally, because Li Su organized prisoners and prisoners of war to eat locusts on a large scale, he also encouraged the poorest refugees in Fengyi County, Beidi County, Anding County to eat locusts. Although he taught how to eat them, due to the limitations of communication and surveillance methods, there must be distortions in the implementation of local governments. Many locusts have problems eating methods, and it is inevitable that they will die of eating.

Those old masters who felt that they could not kill locusts were counted as eating locusts and eating people to death on Li Su's head. They said confidently that "the ones who eat locusts are all warnings to the King of Hanzhong and Jingzhao Yin. They cannot try to change the will of heaven and cannot replace virtue with skills."

Li Su didn't have time to deal with them. Every day, he visited each county and township and persuaded farmers to inspect and rectify the situation.

Until late May, Liu Ba, Guo Yuan, Cai Yong and others arrived separately. Liu Ba could support Li Su in terms of tax exemption and financial means, and Guo Yuan could support Li Su in terms of engineering and technology for farming. With these two deputy officers at the level of the Grand Secretary and the Chief of Workers, Li Su could free up his hands to manage ideological rumors.

In addition, Liu Bei's family members arrived in Guanzhong at the same time, Li Su's maids left in Hanzhong, as well as the families of some generals who were asked to stay in Guanzhong, and Liu Miao, the Wannian Princess who should return to Wannian County to take up the vassal.

These people were all at the end of April. Liu Bei felt that Chang'an was about to be taken down, so he sent a message back to ask them to come to Chang'an and set off in early May.

Liu Bei's concubine Wu Xian still did not come, mainly because of the eldest son Liu Yongcai two months old. He was really afraid that the hardships on the journey would be detrimental to the children, so he continued to live in Nanzheng.

When Cai Yong came, of course he didn't bring his daughter Cai Yan. Cai Yan calculated that the time he would be born from September to October this year, and he still lives in Chengdu.

The families of the other generals such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not come because the food in Guanzhong was too short. On May 15th, Zhang Fei had already set off to return to Yizhou with all the remaining more than 20,000 southern barbarian mountain troops.

Moreover, the army was brought back to Brazil and the four counties in Nanzhong to temporarily stay. Even if Liangzhou was to be pacified in the next two years, it would be the main battle of the cavalry troops. There was no need to recruit so many barbarian troops in mountain warfare. Even if mountain soldiers were to be used in the future, it would probably be for the unification of the southern battlefield or to attack the northern part of Jingzhou.

Guan Yu also brought tens of thousands of Han infantry and thousands of cavalry back to Hanzhong to station, and moved to military farming on site in Hanzhong. In May this year, it was too late to grow staple food crops, but you can still grow a line of beans, or go to the swamp areas of Shangyong County to solve the rations of the troops and be self-sufficient.

Among all the senior generals, only Zhao Yun's wife Fan Juan came to Chang'an. Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's cavalry troops were required to defend Guo Si, or to recover Xiliang after the food was recovered next year.

Other middle-level generals who are good at riding and shooting and fighting in the north, such as Taishi Ci, Gao Shun, and Xu Huang, will also stay and be transferred to Zhao Yun's subordinates, and their families will also be brought.

...

On May 23rd, the two sisters Jinse Xiuse took twenty beautiful maids and took several carriages and slowly entered Chang'an.

With them, Liu Miao, the princess Wannian. Liu Miao was supposed to go back to Wannian County, but she said that the princess' mansion in Wannian County was mostly broken and she didn't want to spend money to repair it during the disaster, so she wanted to borrow a place in the palace to live. Of course, Liu Bei would not make things difficult for her, so she allowed her nominal niece to find a side palace in Changle Palace to live for a year.

They and Li Su had not seen each other for four months, and of course they would also care about Li Su's achievements and reputation as the main strategist after the success of the Northern Expedition. So along the way, they also concealed their identity in vain and deliberately wanted to ask the local gentry about "what is the political achievements of the new Jingzhao Yin."

Unfortunately, many gentry asked at the beginning were all "Jingzhao Yin, who was arrogant and did not know how to respect the heaven and the law ancestors, rely on human intelligence and force against the heavens", or "extravagance, corruption, and a great reversal, and the chaos of Emperor Ling's time."

Liu Miao and Jinse were of course very angry when they heard these words, but they were originally asking servants and maids to come forward to ask through the curtains of the car, so they were not angry.

Jinse was still careful. Later, people asked more questions about the people who were hit by mud legs and felt that Li Su was good. But what surprised them was that the people might not have read Li Su well, mainly because they felt that it was a waste of money.

Liu Miao and the others were angry for a long time, and Jinse thought it through and comforted him: "Princess, don't be angry with those fools. Isn't it just May now? The people themselves don't understand it. Of course, they think whatever the gentry around them says.

Disaster relief requires time to verify the results. How do the people know whether this will work before the autumn harvest? At least they don’t know which one is higher, the more expensive food they collect or the cost they spend now, and the people will not be able to count. By the time the autumn harvest is the better, the people will naturally know that the sir is doing."

"I'm so angry that such a good person has to be wronged for two months first! These foolish people!" Liu Miao spat and stopped getting angry for the time being.

Jinse frowned and said worriedly, "I don't know how extravagant Mr., but I'm a little restrained. No matter what he usually does, he is now the Jingzhao Yin, and it's better to be restrained in the year of a major disaster. After a while, I have to persuade him no matter how he says. Now is not the time to avoid suspicion in front of the king and ask for the land and house."

As the women were chatting, the carriage convoy had already arrived at the gate of Jingzhao Yin Mansion, and then for the first time, a group of soldiers who installed a bathhouse for Jingzhao Yin Mansion were driven out.
Chapter completed!