At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Man Chong's status is quite special, his wife is the daughter of the Guo family's royal family, and Man Chong himself can be regarded as a relative of the emperor, and has won the trust of Guo Peng.

So Le Jin thinks that Man Chong is a good communication partner.

On the level of personal relationships outside of official business, Le Jin is very willing to associate with Man Chong.

Man Chong saw Le Jin first.

Seeing Le Jin carrying a load and carrying soil outside, he walked forward with a smile on his face.

"General Wen Qian personally picks the soil and does the work. It can be said that he is a model of understanding the sufferings of the people by himself. I want to express my contribution to General Wen Qian."

When Le Jin turned his head and saw Man Chong standing in front of him in coarse clothes and dirty shoes, he burst out laughing.

"I won't be fighting for the time being, I'm still idle, why don't I come to the construction site to find something to do, or to learn about the progress of the project nearby, it's nothing, but Bo Ning is running around, the clothes and shoes are so dirty It is also a model for officials if they don’t change after they are done!”

The two looked at each other and laughed for a while.

Afterwards, Le Jin put down his work and sat down with Man Chong to drink a bowl of water.

"It is estimated that this road will be completed in more than half a year. It will reach Yuexi County and Cang County, and then connect to Zhuti County. However, if you want to continue to the south, it will be quite difficult. It is estimated that it will stop at Zhuti County.

If we continue to go south, I am afraid that after Nanzhong is completely pacified, otherwise we will not have the conditions for road construction. If one side is repaired, the other side will be destroyed. It is impossible to guard against it, so we probably have to walk the road ahead. . "

Man Chong gave Le Jin a thorough understanding of this road construction plan.

Le Jin took a breath and turned his gaze to the south.

"It's not a big problem. As long as the army and luggage can be transported up, you won't have to be so tired afterwards. If you can reach Zhuti County, it will be considered a big problem."

After a pause, Le Jin spoke again.

"When His Majesty asked me to attack the four counties of Jingnan before, I knew that His Majesty would definitely not let the four counties of Nanzhong go, but the four counties of Jingnan and the four counties of Nanzhong are different. The roads of the four counties of Jingnan are comparable to those of Nanzhong. The four counties are much easier to travel, and the number of Han people is also large, and the four counties in Nanzhong... I am afraid that Zhang Wenyuan's method will be used."

Man Chong nodded.

"Before, Your Majesty issued an edict to remind you of the problem of miasma in the four counties of Nanzhong, saying that miasma is not the reason for the natural generation of poisonous gas in Nanzhong, but that the humid and hot environment in the south is prone to mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes themselves are small and numerous, and clusters look like black miasma from a distance. They are poisonous and can make people sick after they bite, so the army should prepare more wormwood. "

"Your Majesty knows too much."

Le Jin took another big gulp of water and said with a smile: "Whether it's a trebuchet, a thunderbolt, or a horseshoe, His Majesty gave the army equipment, and now our army relies on these things to no avail.

Bo Ning, to be honest, sometimes I feel that even without me, the army can win the battle naturally. I don't know if I am the only one with this idea, or everyone has it. "

"His Majesty will prepare the foundation for you to win the battle before the battle. If you can't win the battle like this, it can only show that you have a problem."

Man Chong never turned a corner when he spoke: "Your Majesty's ability to know soldiers today is far above that of generals. If His Majesty hadn't wanted to govern the country in the capital, if His Majesty were to conquer by himself, the four counties in Nanzhong would be like a thin piece of paper. It was torn apart by His Majesty in an instant."

Man Chong has full trust in Guo Peng's military capabilities, and has no doubt that Guo Peng will take any detours in the military.

Chapter 1033 One thousand and 43 Zhang Wenyuan is now really a famous killer in the south of the Yangtze River

It is undoubtedly a good thing for the generals of the empire to have a soldier who knows the soldiers as the emperor.

It is undoubtedly a blessing for the generals of the empire to have a man who is good at fighting and whose military exploits are rare in ancient and modern times.

At least Le Jin thinks so.

When marching and fighting, he didn't worry too much, and he didn't think that his military merits could surpass His Majesty the Emperor and reach the point where his merits were so high.

In many cases, there is no need to restrain your hands and feet, and you don't have to worry about this or that when fighting, because the emperor is always full of confidence.

So Le Jin thinks what Man Chong said makes sense.

"I have been fighting with Your Majesty for 15 years. I have seen with my own eyes that our army has grown from 2 to more than [-]. When we first fought, I still felt worried. When I faced Yuan Benchu ​​earlier, I The army is also at a disadvantage.

But ever since His Majesty led our army to defeat Yuan Benchu, I feel that our army has no opponents anymore. Everything after that is a generation of chickens and dogs, inserting labels and selling heads. As long as Your Majesty leads me to wait for a charge, we can defeat all enemy. "

"The chaotic times of the former Han Dynasty could be contained within 20 years and returned to unity without causing longer chaos. It all depends on the present majesty. Without the present majesty, we don't know where we are doing what we are doing. I am afraid that we will see If we don’t reach Taiping, we will regret it for the rest of our lives.”

Man Chong sighed deeply: "You can't even see Taiping, so how can you have the power to calm the world today?"

Le Jin also deeply agrees with what Man Chong said.

Today's majesty, strong 360 degrees without dead ends.

The two were silent for a while.

"By the way, I heard that Zhang Wenyuan fought a big victory in the south of Kuaiji County and wiped out more than [-] people in Shanyue, right?"

Le Jin asked.

Man Chong nodded.

"At the beginning of April, Zhang Wenyuan wiped out a large group of Shanyue bandits in the south of Kuaiji County, near the south of Lingnan. Calculated, this should be the last large-scale Shanyue banditry. Zhang Wenyuan has already submitted to His Majesty before, calling Shanyue The thieves have been basically wiped out, and only this last strand is left."

"This battle has been fought for four or five years."

Le Jin sighed a little: "This battle has been fought since the fall of Sun Wu. The big and small battles have been fought for a long time, and the army has been changed two or three times, but it is finally over. Zhang Wenyuan has won the battle with the help of these mountain bandits. With the title of first-class marquis, the food town increased to [-] households.

It's only less than Cao Zixiao's [-] households, and if someone is able to become a duke by virtue of military exploits in the future, that is, Cao Zixiao and Zhang Wenyuan, I will be in the back row, and I don't know if it is possible in this life. "

Le Jin, who had only [-] households sealed off as a food town, was still full of envy towards Zhang Liao.

"That's what he deserves."

Man Chong couldn't help sighing: "There are more than 60 mountain thieves, more than 60, he beheaded more than [-], burned to death no less than [-], and the rest were all beaten out by him and incorporated into civilian households.

Now the development of several counties in Yangzhou is so good that His Majesty has to build the Grand Canal to strengthen his rule, otherwise he will have to worry about chaos in Yangzhou. How could this not be due to Zhang Wenyuan? "

"Zhang Wenyuan is really a famous killer in the south of the Yangtze River now."

Le Jin couldn't help laughing and said: "I heard that he set fire to forests in Yangzhou. Some of the fires stretched for hundreds of miles and didn't go out completely in a month. It's really bad luck for the Shanyue bandits to be burned like this. Pitiful."

"Your Majesty did not criticize Zhang Wenyuan, but even issued an edict to praise Zhang Wenyuan, saying that what he did was just the fastest way to deal with the miasma. Let him continue to do this. Don't hesitate. Anyway, it is a place where no one lives, just burn it."

Man Chong smiled and said, "Didn't Your Majesty ask you to set fire to the forest to attack Nanzhong?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect that setting fire to the forest would destroy the miasma and save the army from being attacked by the miasma. It's true. When I led the troops to attack the four counties in Jingnan, there was a big fire. Individuals who are sick, most people are fine."

Le Jin was amazed at this: "Nanzhong can't escape, I have prepared a lot of kerosene, and when the time comes, I will directly burn it there, and burn him upside down. I don't believe it will not only burn those barbarians!"

"Don't burn it too hard, you burn it too hard, won't it be me who will be in trouble then? I have too many things to do, let me save my energy!"

Man Chong smiled wryly.

"What's the matter? Haven't everything that needs to be solved been solved? Apart from road construction and food fodder, you can also send someone to watch over it. There's no need to do it yourself, right?"

Le Jin looked at Man Chong.

Man Chong sighed.

"It's not that simple. The land in Central Shu and the Central Plains have been separated for a long time. After traveling in Central Shu for a while, I found that the situation in Central Shu is not simple, and it is quite difficult to deal with."

"What kind of tricky method? Powerful and powerful households merge land too much?"

"That's not the case. Who dares to annex land now? Isn't that courting death?"

Man Chong shook his head: "It's because many farmers in central Sichuan lag far behind the Central Plains in farming technology, they don't know how to use manure to increase production, and many even don't know how to drain water.

As a result, the soil has become bleached, food cannot be grown, and the land is immediately unusable. There are quite a lot of such land, and local officials reported a large number of them, which gave me a headache. "

"Oh, and this stuff."

Le Jin nodded.

Earlier, during the period of Qingyan Erzhou, Guo Peng had carried out many large-scale operations in Qingyan Erzhou.

Whether it is controlling locusts, constructing water conservancy projects, setting up farms, or setting up a secondary government in rural areas, they are all major projects, and one of them has a great impact. Lejin still has the impression that it is the action of cultivating land and drainage .

At that time, there was not only the danger of flooding along the Yellow River, but also the problem of soil bleaching that Man Chong mentioned.

After the Tuntian village was built, many grassroots officials reported to Guo Peng that there would be a lot of land that could no longer be cultivated in the local area every year, and farmers had to give up these lands.

It often takes several years for some of this land to be cultivated again.

When Guo Peng sent someone to find out, he found that this situation had existed for a long time.

Officials reported that there would be a white layer of salt-like substance on the surface of the bleached land, and if you put a little bit in your mouth, you could taste salty and bitter.

This has happened a long time ago.

When the local officials reported, they would also quote the words of the old farmers, saying that in such a situation, they could only let it go for a few years without planting anything, and some land would slowly return to its original state, but others would be very difficult.

Even with a slight recovery, food production will decrease.

Then Guo Peng led a team of officials directly into the village for on-the-spot investigation, and realized that this was a problem of land salinization, so he proposed some solutions.

Guo Peng held a meeting at that time, and at the meeting he proposed that the soil became like this because they built water conservancy projects to introduce water from various places to irrigate farmland.

The water flows on the ground, and some things that are invisible to the naked eye will be carried in the process of flowing. After being introduced into the farmland, the water is absorbed and these things are also retained.

Once the sun shines, the water is evaporated and used, and these things are accumulated in the land.

As time goes by, more and more are accumulated, and more and more, such a situation will occur, making the soil bleached, and the land cannot be cultivated for food.

There are limited solutions, such as collecting more rainwater when it rains and using clean rainwater to irrigate the land.

When there is a lack of rainwater and water needs to be diverted for irrigation, drainage measures must be taken. In addition, farming methods such as the substitute field method must be fully utilized to allow the land to rest and recover itself.

The land that does not need to be cultivated needs a large area of ​​deep plowing to loosen the soil, so that the clean rain can wash the land, thus slowing down the salinization of the improved land.

In addition, Guo Peng also asked the local grassroots officials and the officials in charge of agricultural affairs to go to the grassroots villages to explain such problems to the farmers and ask them to pay more attention to prevent large-scale salinization of the land.

Local officials are also specially assigned to count the number of acres of salinized land, and compare each year with the previous year to adjust agricultural policies.

After Guo Peng proclaimed himself emperor, this kind of thing fell on the officials of the Agricultural Affairs Department of the Central Ministry of Civil Affairs in charge of agricultural affairs.

And the number of officials in this part is also the largest in the entire Ministry of Civil Affairs.

They need to often go to various places from the central government to do field research, write reports, and then tell local farmers about the latest technological developments, teaching them to farm more scientifically and efficiently.

It is also necessary to continue to be responsible for counting the number of acres of soil salinization in the world for macro control.

These people ran around all over the world, no less than those tax collectors.

So recently it has been rumored that Guo Peng intends to separate the Department of Agricultural Affairs from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and establish a separate Ministry of Agriculture to be responsible for the agriculture of the whole country.

Now that this kind of situation has also appeared in Yizhou, the situation is quite serious, so Le Jin feels that it will not be long before the Ministry of Agriculture, which is responsible for the agricultural problems of the world, will be established.

"Okay, you're so busy over there, I'll take care of the things here, and you can prepare the logistics with peace of mind. When the things on your side are almost handled, the roads on my side can be repaired similarly. At that time, the plan of the four counties in Nanzhong will be officially implemented, and then..."

Le Jin narrowed his eyes: "The Yong family in Nanzhong is not very stable. After Yong Kai was appointed as the prefect of Yongchang, he was still not satisfied, and the imperial court wanted him to be the governor of Nanzhong. The governor of the four counties of Nanzhong is making progress. , this person won’t simply stop and wait until we fix the road.”

Man Chong nodded.

"This person has bad intentions and has led the barbarians in Nanzhong to test our garrisons in Yuexi and Cang County several times. General Zhang He and General Huang Zhong have repelled the temptations of the barbarians in Nanzhong several times, but it seems that this kind of temptation is only just now. It's just the beginning."

"What is your Majesty's opinion?"

Le Jin asked Man Chong.

"Your Majesty means that if he wants to test it, just try it out. Anyway, come and fight once, come and fight once, in short, the governor of Nanzhong can't give him his request easily, he can give it, but he needs to continue to negotiate.

Grinding bit by bit, delaying bit by bit, giving in slowly bit by bit, so that he can stabilize him, and discuss with him more in other aspects, anyway, as long as he thinks our army is powerful, he will not dare Act rashly. "

Man Chong said: "Let's perfunctory him for a while. Let's speed up road construction and prepare for the battle. The number of Han soldiers and barbarians he can gather is definitely not small. If we really want to fight, I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult. We have to be ready .”

"If we really want to fight, I won't be worried."

Le Jin shook his head and said: "As for those barbarians in Nanzhong, if they come, I will kill one, and if two come, I will kill two.

If we really want us to attack, we have to set fire to burn all the way through, which is very troublesome...By the way, has the fire oil I wanted arrived?Without strong fire oil, this dense forest that can't be seen at a glance is really not easy to burn. "

"About [-] cans are sent to Chengdu Arsenal for safekeeping every month. Now there are almost [-] cans in stock. If we really want to fight, it should be enough."

Man Chong smiled and said: "You also want to learn from Zhang Wenyuan, use fierce fire oil to clear the way, and burn all the way?"

"How can we do without burning? Miasma is harmful to people. If we don't burn, we don't know how many people will die."

Le Jin smiled: "It's so convenient to burn it all the way, and I feel that we really shouldn't go out at this time. It's rainy at this time, so it's not convenient for me to burn the forest. It's absolutely efficient to burn it all the way in autumn and winter." higher."

Le Jin is full of self-confidence, and has no doubts about whether he can successfully occupy the entire Nanzhong four counties.

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