Chapter 33 Living a poor life

"General!" In the Taishou Mansion of Guiyang County, Kou Feng, Bao Long and Zhu Ran, dressed in uniform, told Zhao Feng.

"Thank you for your hard work. How's the war?" It was Zhao Feng who sat in the main seat, but Zhao Fan, the official Guiyang Taishou, was sitting with the Prime Minister.

"Our army has won a complete victory, and the people of Shanyue are hungry. These days have been forced to go down the mountain, and Bo Miao is busy collecting them." Zhu Ran, the captain of Fenwei, reported. At this time, when Mai was ripe, Zhao Feng still used the old method in Jiangdong to deal with Shanyue, forcing them to go down the mountain. As a result, after a requisition, several mountains in Guiyang County were also cleared. It is expected that there will be seven or eight thousand soldiers, and the people will be about four or fifty thousand, so that at least a little less can be recruited.

I learned from Zhao Fan that although there are mountains in those mountainous areas of Guiyang, the number and scale are much smaller than that of Jiangdong, and far less than that of Jiaozhou. After this clean-down, it is almost a complete eradication of the disaster of Shanyue here. The general is indeed a famous general in the world. The mountain has been in trouble for many years, but the general raised his hand to destroy it. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been unbelievable. Zhao Fan complimented on one side.

"Exactly!" Bao Long also said in the same way. On this road, Baolong was really an eye-opener. In order to achieve the best results, Zhao Feng used the front-line combat troops he transferred from Yangzhou. Its combat effectiveness is far from comparable to these Jingnan soldiers, and Bao Long is also completely subdued.

"At present, the wheat has been harvested. Zhao Taishou, Jingnan is suitable for alternate planting of rice and wheat. It is about to distribute rice to the people for planting. There must be no mistake!" Zhao Feng ordered again at this time. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, rice and dry rice have not been promoted much, and they are only planted in Jiaozhou and Jiangdong. However, Zhao Feng, as a time traveler, naturally knows that there are many benefits of alternating cultivation of rice and wheat, and now it is also vigorously promoted in Jingnan.

"That's right!" Zhao Fan also accepted it. Zhao Fan is still a civil servant. Although he is not good at war, he can still solve this matter. Seeing Kou Feng and Zhu Ran returning from victory, Zhao Fan also ordered a banquet to celebrate everyone. The group of people feasted until late at night before they dispersed. Zhao Feng and others went back to the hall to rest.

Recently, Zhao Feng has been very busy. After sitting in Jingnan, he first had to eliminate the Shanyue in Guiyang, and then settle the people who moved to the south and the Wuxi barbarians in Wuling, and let them and the Construction Corps reclaim the wasteland in Jingnan. There will be conscription within half a month. However, with nearly 10,000 Shanyue troops at present, the pressure of recruitment will be less.

"Is the general resting down?" At this time, Zhu Ran's voice came from outside the door. Not yet, what's wrong with Yifeng? Zhao Feng was about to rest, but he quickly asked when he heard Zhu Ran's words.

"I want to discuss something with the general!" Zhu Ran was outside the door. Zhao Feng quickly opened the door to let him in. After the two sat down, Zhu Ran first opened his mouth and said, "General, the humble position is to suppress the mountain in accordance with the general's law, which is really unfavorable. However, although the people of Shanyue are brave and good at fighting, there are only thousands of people this time, and there are no leaders here. Shanyue people are unruly, and I'm afraid that there are some difficulties between reading and training into an army in a hurry!"

"What Yifeng said is not unreasonable!" Zhao Feng said that he was also a little worried about Guan Yu**'s naked picking of peaches. He tossed 50,000 Shanyue army in Jiangdong for a long time, but in the end, most of Guan Yu was cheaper. After the latter saw the excellent combat effectiveness of the Shanyue army, he immediately pulled him to supplement the army. At present, most of the Shanyue troops he has collected are in Jiangdong, Jingbei and Yuzhou, led by Guan Yu and Zhang Liao. As the originator, I now have thousands of people who have just been collected, and on average, I haven't got 20% of the benefits.

With these thousands of mountains and troops, Zhao Feng will not say anything to give people in vain. Recruitment is about to begin. According to Zhuge Liang's budget, at least 20,000 troops will be recruited to supplement Jingbei this year. As for Jing Nan, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu did not say anything, not to mention to let Zhao Feng find a way by himself. What can Zhao Feng do? It's just to make do with it and recruit points. At present, it is a good start to have these thousands of mountains and troops. It should be possible to recruit thousands more people from Shamoke immediately. In addition, he brought nearly 20,000 soldiers, and the whole Jingnan gathered together, and there were tens of thousands of front-line combat troops. At that time, when they are trained into the army, it will at least be the beginning of next spring.

"In this way, Yifeng, choose the two hundred most elite Shanyue troops, plus my original three hundred guards, and form an army. The rest were all scattered and integrated into the team to practice with the new recruits. Zhao Feng thought for a thought. He is not a momentary painstaking work**. Think about that those famous generals have their own unique direct subordinates, just like Guan Yu's 500 school swordsmen, Zhang Fei's Yanyun's 36 generals, Zhang Liao's 800 iron riders, Huang Zhong's 1,000 Changsha soldiers, and Gao Shun's 800 fallen camp. Since I am also famous, I can't be exempt from vulgarity. Don't have too many people, just get 500 people. Zhu Ran had no choice but to choose the right person for Zhao Feng.

After counting, Zhao Feng and others came to Wuling. Jin Xuan, the governor of Wuling, and Sha Moke, the barbarian king of Wuxi, came to welcome Zhao Feng. See you, General Zhao!" Jin Xuan saluted meticulously. Samco hesitated for a moment and still bowed on his chest.

"Why do you two need to be more polite!" Zhao Feng didn't like to worship all day long, so he quickly stopped him. It was the first time I saw Samoco, but I saw this man with messy hair, a beastskin coat and a tiger skin skirt, bare feet, and some ornaments made of beast bones on his neck and wrists. He was a complete savage.

However, after talking for a short time, Zhao Feng was surprised to find that Samoco's Chinese was extremely smooth, which was impressive. As if to see Zhao Feng's doubts, Jin Xuan explained on behalf of others: "Although the sand leader is from Wuxi, the people of Wuxi have a lot of contact with the Han people, and Thai can speak Chinese."

"So that's it!" Zhao Feng also suddenly realized, and immediately asked Shamoke, "Sha leader, I don't know how many people are waiting for the Wuxi ethnic groups?"

"There are dozens of tribes of all ethnic groups in Wuxi, and there are about 200,000 people. At present, except for some tribes, most of them are willing to follow me to reclaim the land. Shamoke replied. Later, Shamoco introduced the situation of their Wuxi barbarians in detail. Although they were known as barbarians, they also mastered the means of farming and fishing and hunting. Generally, life in a smooth year is enough to be guaranteed, but in the barren year, it is inevitable that food and clothing will be poor. When Liu Biao was in Jingxiang, he would give grain and rice every year of famine. The Wuxi barbarians felt their kindness and did not hate the Han people very much. In peace, they occasionally exchanged markets, using the animal skins and medicinal materials of the Wuxi barbarians for grain, rice and salt. However, this is all spontaneous and does not form a systematic large-scale mutual market.

"In this case, the sand leader, Jin Taishou, can set up several counties near the left side of Wuxi. The county magistrate is held by the Wuling people themselves, and another scholar of the Han people is sent to serve as civil servants, and they will be exempted from taxes within three years. In addition, open official schools, markets, shops, and build cities for mutual markets!" Zhao Feng thought for a thought. This method should be the ronym of ethnic autonomy, which is enough to greatly accelerate the integration of the Wuxi people and the Han people. Jin Xuan hurriedly responded, and Shamoke was even more overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly thanked him. However, he also proposed that he was not very good at being an official and was willing to join the army.

"I still have tens of thousands of warriors in all ethnic groups in Wuxi. Each of them is brave and good at fighting, and can be from the army!" Samoco is quite a little bragging. Zhao Feng knew that these residents living in the mountains and forests were indeed of outstanding in physical fitness. The people of Shanyue were like this, and so were the barbarians of Wuxi. Since Liu Bei has allowed Shamoko to join the army in history, there is no reason for him to refuse. At present, after the migration of Shamoke and other ethnic groups, they will be selected to join the army.

"Yes, general, we have been repeatedly attacked by the Southern Central Barbarians in recent years, and we have suffered a lot of losses!" Shamoko suddenly said again. The southern barbarian department? Zhao Feng asked incomprehensiblely. Shamoke explained carefully that although the southern barbarians and the Wuxi barbarians were of the same lineage, they had been silent with each other for a long time. Originally, it was not safe, but a few years ago, after a young patriarch of the Southern Central Barbarian Department succeeded, Enwei and Shi integrated many tribes in the Southern Central Committee. Unexpectedly, there were no less than 700,000 or 800,000 people under his command, and 100,000 elite soldiers. His strength is far from comparable to the Wuxi ethnic groups. Samoko has suffered a lot of losses in fighting with him over the years.

"What's the name of that young patriarch?" Zhao Feng's mind moved, but on the surface, he asked quietly.

"His name is Meng Huo. He is only 20 years old now, but he is brave. This man forced us to submit to him. If we can't wait, we will send troops to attack. Over the years, some small tribes have been annexed by him. Samoco continued.

"So that's it!" Zhao Feng also gradually understood that the reason why Sha Moke asked him to reclaim the wasteland was more or less because he could not survive by Meng Huo. From this point of view, this Meng has a lot of ambition. According to Samoko, Meng Huo is ready to unite with the barbarians to form a barbarian country and completely get rid of the rule of the Han people. I have to say that this slogan is still very tempting.

"Well, Sha leader, go and tell the barbarian tribes who were bullied by Meng Huo and let them come to Jingnan. There is a large area of land that no one cultivates here, and there is an urgent need for people to open up the wasteland for me. I don't think it!" Zhao Feng thought for a thought. It's also good to be able to dig some corners of Meng Huo as soon as possible. Shamoke hurriedly promised. As for the collection and compilation of Wuxi people, Zhao Feng let Shamoke and other people migrate a little more stable before implementation. It is initially estimated that the Wuxi people + the Shanyue army + their own old troops + the young people selected from the construction corps before, so there have been nearly 40,000 troops. The six counties used to add up to nearly 20,000 county soldiers, but now they are trained separately by generals stationed in various places. In this way, the total of the first-line and second-line combat troops in Jingnan will add up to nearly 60,000.

Zhao Feng felt that it should be almost the same. Shi Guangyuan told him that it was expected to wait for the rice harvest in September, the four counties of Jingnan + the second counties of Jiaozhou, even after the population migration, plus the Shanyue and Wuxi people, it is estimated that there will be more than 1.4 million people. About 300,000 of the nearly one million people in Jingbei flowed into Jingnan, and about 200,000 flowed into Yuzhou. Compared with the proportion of soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou and other places, there should be 70,000 front-line combat troops in these six counties and 30,000 national soldiers. After Zhao Feng issued the recruitment order, there were many new recruits registered by Jing Xiang. By the end of September, it had reached nearly 20,000. Zhao Feng trained the recruits with the previous Shanyue army and the young soldiers he selected, and prepared to hand over 20,000 of them to Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang in the winter. The migration of Samoco's people has not been fully put in place, so he will not be forced to conscript this year.

"The poor man also wants to live!" Looking at the recruits who were training, Zhao Feng sighed. When I was recruiting troops in Xuzhou or Yuzhou, I wanted to recruit soldiers with enough money and food. It's not like now, it's the extermination of the mountain, and the mercadence of the Wuxi barbarians, and finally barely gathered tens of thousands of people. After supplying the two uncles, Guan Yu and Kong Ming, I don't have much left.

At this moment, he heard an exclamation from the recruits who were training. Zhao Feng looked at it, but saw a man holding a stone of hundreds of catties high, and then walked slowly.

(to be continued)