It’s golden autumn again in a blink of an eye, and it’s another season of harvest.

Although the climate today is not satisfactory, with months of droughts in spring and floods in summer and autumn, Bingzhou's grain production hit a record high and achieved a bumper harvest.

Such a good harvest is naturally due to the comprehensive promotion of intensive farming. After two years of piloting, the intensive farming method has achieved quite good results. In the pilot area, the grain output has increased by at least 60% to 70%, and the highest place can be doubled. Such impressive results have doubled Cao Liang's confidence. Therefore, this spring, Cao Liang decided to promote intensive farming to the entire Bingzhou. In addition to mountainous lands that are not suitable for promotion, more than 80% of the fields in the plains have implemented intensive farming methods.

Comprehensive promotion is different from pilot projects. In the pilot area, Cao Liang can invest a lot of manpower and material resources to ensure the farming effect. After the comprehensive promotion, many supporting conditions, such as water conservancy, seeds, oxen, and labor must keep up. This will be a huge and systematic project. After all, it is not easy to change the inherent thinking of farmers.

Cao Liang appointed a large number of agricultural officials to various counties and counties to supervise and manage vegetation, guide and help farmers to carry out intensive cultivation.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, let alone such a huge project. However, with the efforts of a large number of agricultural officials, meticulous farming has been effectively promoted. After experiencing severe drought in spring and severe flooding in summer and autumn, grain output has not decreased. The success of meticulous farming has made the people of Bingzhou happy and celebrated a bumper harvest.

Food is the most important thing for people. Graining and scattering has always been a problem that plagues the ruling stage and ordinary people. Although there are many lands in the world, the widespread planting and small harvesting. Inefficient farming methods cannot solve the food and clothing problems of the people in the world. When encountering famines, there is no harvest, and farmers who farm have become refugees. How can the world not be in chaos?

Cao Liang's meticulous farming is undoubtedly the best way to improve production efficiency. Over the years, Bingzhou has always been known for its many mountains and few lands and poor land. Therefore, among the thirteen states in the world, Bingzhou has always been ranked last in terms of economy and population.

Even if Cao Liang occupied Bingzhou, Sima Yi didn't agree. In Sima Yi's perception, Bingzhou was desolate and remote, with limited grain and grass production, and could not support too much population at all. Cao Liang used Bingzhou as his base and wanted to compete with the Sima family, which owned most of the world, wouldn't that be foolish?

So Sima Yi would rather focus on dealing with Wang Ling in Huainan than take Cao Liang from Bingzhou seriously.

Generally speaking, if ten people draw one soldier, that is to say, the normal ratio of soldiers and civilians is 10 to 1, and if there are 100,000 troops, then one must have a population of one million. Can a desolate and remote Bingzhou have a population of one million?

Of course, it is not impossible to do this ratio. However, if there are too many troops to support, the heavier the burden on the people, because the main source of the food and wages required by the army is taxes, which is the burden that will fall on everyone. The larger the number of troops, the heavier the burden on the people. In the absence of food production, ordinary people will be overwhelmed. The military can indeed improve combat power in a short period of time, but in the long run, it will inevitably lead to the people's lack of life and complete collapse.

Now the battle sequence of the Bingzhou Army has exceeded 100,000. Such rapid expansion of the army can certainly improve the combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou Army, but it will also be a serious test for the Bingzhou economy.

But the promotion of intensive farming has made all this no longer a problem. The doubled grain output has allowed the people of Bingzhou to have surplus grain for the first time, and also made the treasury of Bingzhou full. With the current economic strength of Bingzhou, let alone feeding 100,000 troops, even more troops, it is not a problem.

Of course, Cao Liang's gains are not limited to this. In the past six months, Liu Ying asked Cao Liang not to stay outside even if he is busy with official business. No matter how late he is, he has to go home to accompany his wife.

Cao Liang did not dare to go against the enemy, so he had to follow the old lady's instructions, go out early and come back late every day, and is very diligent.

With hard work, there will naturally be a reward. Yang Huiyu and Sima Ru's belly is getting bulging, and Liu Ying is naturally happy.

When the first snow fell in the winter of Zhengshi in the tenth year of Zhengshi, news that Cao Liang had been waiting for was also heard from Luoyang.

However, Cao Liang was not surprised at all about this news. From the moment he chose to withdraw from Hanoi, Cao Liang knew that Wang Ling's defeat was destined, but according to his estimate, Wang Ling could hold on for a little more time, at least survive this winter.

But Wang Ling failed to persevere. A continuous heavy rain accelerated Wang Ling's defeat. Sima Yi just seized the opportunity of the weather and flooded Shouchun City. Wang Ling, who had reached the end of the road, did not try to fight the final decisive battle, but chose to surrender. The battle in Huainan came to an end after nineteen months.

In October of winter, Sima Yi returned to Luoyang. In order to show his merits, Cao Fang changed the reign of Jiaping, so this year became the first year of Jiaping.

Halfway through the journey back to Luoyang, Wang Ling, who was under house arrest by Sima Yi, chose to commit suicide. Perhaps for him, this was the most decent way of death.

However, Sima Yi obviously would not let his body go. After returning to Luoyang, Wang Ling's body was pulled to the streets of the downtown city, and was whipped in public. The originally intact corpse was whipped into blood and blood.

And that's not all. In addition to exposing his body for three days, Sima Yi also cut off his head and hung it at the gate of Luoyang for public display.

This is the highest punishment for rebels. Even if a person dies, the body will be borne on his behalf. Sima Yi wants to use this method to intimidate the people of the world. Those who obey me will prosper, those who go against me will perish, and those who dare to rebel and cause rebellion will end up Wang Ling.

Is it Sima Yi the only way to punish Wang Ling alone? Sima Yi is probably doing more extreme than anyone else in terms of eliminating the roots. Wang Ling's three sons: Wang Guang, Wang Feixiao, and Wang Jinhu were all beheaded in the downtown area.

There is also Linghu Yu, who was captured in Yanzhou earlier, and he was also executed this time. He enjoyed a higher "treatment" and was given a punishment of splitting the car, which is commonly known as the five horses dismembering the corpse.

The people who were killed this time were also very wide. About a thousand confidants of Wang Ling and Linghu Yu were executed, and thousands of people were exiled and exiled to the frontier. Luoyang City experienced another bloody storm.
Chapter completed!