Rebirth: The wedding night, my whole family was exiled, I raised 500,000 soldiers

Is it so easy for the Shen family to be conferred the title of nobility?

He is a marquis. If it were a man, the title would definitely be hereditary. Their Shen family would have changed from then on, and he would be a marquis' son with a title in the future.

However, the person who was granted the title of nobility was a woman.

Can this honor benefit the sons of the Shen family?

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It is the annual harvest season again. Not to mention other places, Shen Lanxi's jurisdiction can be said to have a bumper harvest. The military and civilians work together to collect grain, and everyone has a smile of harvest on their faces.

After Shen Lanxi came to the Northwest, he built water conservancy projects, promoted farming and animal husbandry, adapted to local conditions, and soon reaped the benefits of vast land and sparse population.

"General, thanks to the improved farm tools, otherwise so much grain would not be delivered so quickly!" Che Mingyuan's smile was brighter than ever.

Since ancient times, many great heroes and great men started their careers by cultivating the land. Even after they became powerful, they never forgot to cultivate the land. That's because those people were born in the lower classes and knew the consequences of not having food to eat.

But their general is not impoverished, so why do they attach so much importance to military farming and understand so many elements of military farming?

How strange and bizarre!

Shen Lanxi: "Although it's not spring yet, there are still many plants that can be planted."

These words were not spoken to Che Mingyuan, but to Liu Yanhui who was standing beside him.

"In the northwest, the wind and sand are too strong in spring, autumn and winter. Planting trees on sandy soil can stabilize the sand, improve the soil and retain moisture. After a few years of green trees, the sandy soil can become arable land!"

Liu Yanhui nodded: "The Qinglong Lake water diversion project has been completed by two-thirds. We are diverting water while utilizing both sides of the canal. Now we have opened up more than 800 acres of vegetable fields on both sides of the canal, and there are 30 pits for growing vegetables and 30 pits for growing mushrooms in winter. There are also 10 greenhouses for fattening and hatching chickens, ducks and geese, pig pens and cattle sheds..."

Ban Sicao felt dizzy as he listened to this. He had not expected that a military commander, apart from fighting, would also be in charge of these things.

So far, he has followed Shen Lanxi to inspect the vegetable shed countless times, the chicken, duck, goose, cattle, sheep and pig pens countless times, watched her plow the land, helped her plant vegetables, assisted the cows in giving birth, and watched the breeding pigs mate...

Tsk~ I can only say that it’s really not easy to support so many soldiers!

It is said that starting a business is easy but difficult to maintain it. But for Shen Lanxi, it is easy to recruit soldiers but difficult to maintain them.

If it were that stupid prince, he would have been scared away by the soldiers who opened their mouths to eat every day.

Although Liu Yanhui explained it in detail, Shen Lanxi still jumped out of the question.

"Where is the feed? Have you made the feed I asked you to prepare before?" Livestock will not grow meat if they only eat straw bran and leaves, and the egg production of chickens, ducks and geese will not increase either.

Liu Yanhui almost didn't catch it, but fortunately he had already received some feedback about the feed.

"The animal husbandry officer has already made bean cakes and has tested them on chickens and ducks. Both the egg production and egg size have increased significantly!" Liu Yanhui's face turned red when he made this kind of report for the first time.

After a long time, I have no time to blush. In the past, the eggs laid by a chicken were only slightly larger than those of a quail, but now, an egg is twice as big as before. In the past, a chicken would only lay an egg every two or three days, but now it lays eggs every day. In the past, the eggs laid by a hen in a month were not enough to sell for ten coins, but now the eggs laid by a chicken can sell for six or seven hundred coins.

They can earn this much from just one chicken, and they raise six or seven thousand chickens. The amount earned in a day is unimaginable!

After Liu Yanhui figured out the account, he never dared to look down on these farmers and livestock herders again.

"The feed has been formulated. It uses powder made from ground pork bones, fish bones and shells, as well as a mixture of corn husks and straw. After a month, cattle and sheep that eat this kind of grass can grow six or seven kilograms more than those that don't eat this kind of grass."

Shen Lanxi nodded with satisfaction. The infrastructure for supporting the troops was finally in place.

What we need to do next is to seek stability and prolong this state, so that logistics and military camps can advance in tandem and grow together.

The annual grain harvest season is always the most restless time for foreign tribes.

After several years of war, the Great Zhou had completely cut off trade with the three tribes. The salt they were eating now was purchased from foreign tribes at high prices.

There were also cloth, sugar, tea and herbs. If they didn't successfully negotiate with the Great Zhou and reopen the trade routes as soon as possible, the three tribes would be the ones to suffer.

On the issue of trade routes, the three tribes had no fewer than several conversations led by Abe Hiroshi.

Every time, things started out as a happy occasion but ended in unhappiness. The root cause was money.

Persia was willing to provide salt and cloth to the Turks, but the price was too high. Similarly, the Turks were willing to provide leather and dried meat to Persia and Tatar, but they also set a sky-high price. Tatar planted a large area of ​​barley and wanted to sell it to the two tribes, and they were waiting for a price. The three tribes refused to give in, and they did not want to barter, so the stalemate has continued until now.

During the years of war, the Turks' consumption was obviously higher than that of the other two ethnic groups. Due to the long-term confrontation with the Great Zhou, the failure of peace talks and the failure to gain any benefits from the Great Zhou, Abe Hiroshi's prestige within the Turks began to gradually decline.

Recently, the voices against Abe Hiroshi within the Turkic people have become louder, to the point that some voices have begun to boycott the Queen Mother's reign and demanded that she return power to the Turkish prince.

When Abe Hiroshi received the news from the imperial court, he became anxious and summoned his men to discuss the matter overnight.

The next day, the Turkic envoy came to Che Mingyuan again.

Che Mingyuan went to negotiate with the three Turkic tribes again.

"How many times has this happened?" Xiao Fang folded his hands and shook his head as he watched Che Mingyuan leave.

I really don't understand what these literati and advisers are talking about.

It's all about the same thing. Is it fun to keep arguing about the same thing?

If you have the guts, then fight me!

Qian Feng smiled and said, "Be patient. Do you think a battle between two armies is that easy?"

Xiao Fang also went with Shen Lanxi to check out the logistics supplies, and of course he knew that fighting a war was not as simple as it seemed.

He is just impatient!

"I guess I'll only be able to fight in battle and kill enemies in my lifetime!"

Qian Feng patted his shoulder and said, "The war will end sooner or later. When it's over, who are you going to fight with?"

Xiao Fang: “…”

Time passed quickly, and several months passed in the blink of an eye. On the winter solstice, Abe Hiroshi suddenly sent an envoy, willing to give up the occupied city on the condition that trade with Da Zhou was resumed.

Che Mingyuan immediately repeated the other additional conditions and easily sent the Turkic envoy away.

Then the envoys of both sides fought back and forth like playing a game of football, and finally as the year was coming to an end, the three tribes made concessions.

The Turks were willing to give up the occupied cities, return the captured people of the Great Zhou and other slaves, and pay the Great Zhou 20,000 taels of silver and 2,000 cattle and sheep. At the same time, they put forward a condition.

"General, the Turks want to sign a ten-year peace treaty with our Great Zhou, and also want our Great Zhou to support the eighteenth prince to become king!" Che Mingyuan unfolded the scroll with the terms and placed it in front of Shen Lanxi.

"According to the spies, a coup d'état took place in the Turkic imperial court some time ago. The Turkic queen mother has been claiming to be ill until now, and three of the princes have died!"

Wei Dongzhu: "No wonder Abe Hiroshi is so active, it turns out that something went wrong in the Turkic interior!"