[Three Kingdoms] Xinghan

With the successful development of the second paddy field, more and more Jiujiang people applied to go out of the city to open up wasteland.

Ling Han was naturally very happy about this.

But if you are happy, you must not let them all go out to open up wasteland.

Firstly, it is necessary to choose the land for reclamation in a planned way, and send armored soldiers to protect it from the attack of wild beasts; secondly, the farm tools needed for reclamation are not enough.

Ling Han will regularly inspect the iron mining camps and land reclamation sites.

It was Pei Yuanshao who was in charge of supervising iron smelting and burning farm tools.

Seeing Ling Han coming, he hurriedly saluted: "I have seen Your Highness."

After getting the order to get up, Pei Yuanshao bared his teeth at Yang Zhen and aimed at his ass: "How are you doing?"

Yang Zhen glared at him angrily, but ignored him.

Ling Han also couldn't help but glanced at it, the twenty military sticks were obviously not just for fun.

In fact, it was almost healed, but when I rode here today, it probably started to hurt again.

Just let him have a longer memory.

Ling Han coughed lightly, and asked, "How many iron farm tools have been produced in total now?"

Pei Yuanshao put away his smile and returned to his serious appearance: "If you return to Your Highness, there are more than [-] pieces of all kinds of farm tools. However, all of them have been borrowed."

After so long, there are only more than [-] pieces.

Ling Han then said: "Send some more people to increase production."

Pei Yuanshao hesitated and said, "Your Highness, land reclamation does require a lot of farm tools, but we lend them to farmers and captured soldiers. If they finish land reclamation, wouldn't all these farm tools be wasted?"

Ling Han said: "The land in Jiujiang is finished, and there are lands in other counties and counties. Besides, who said that farm tools are needed only for land reclamation? These farm tools are far from enough. I want every farmer in Yangzhou to have them. There are iron farm implements."

Pei Yuanshao said in surprise: "Then how much is this! Your Highness, these iron ores are still kept..."

Thinking of his own knowledge and His Highness's knowledge, he lacked confidence, and his voice became smaller and smaller: "It's better to save it for making armor and weapons."

But Pei Yuanshao really couldn't understand.

The cost of renting agricultural tools is so low, it is estimated that it cannot be worth the food and grass consumed by the soldiers to smelt iron and make agricultural tools here.

Taxes are also so low. When the time comes, each person will have a farm tool, and the common people will have food, but will it be of any benefit to us?

Since His Highness has set such a low tax, he will definitely not rob the people of food.

It is enough to let them eat enough. If every common people has extra food on hand, isn't it a waste?

Yang Zhen scolded: "What Your Highness says, you just do what you want. Do you think you know more than Your Highness?"

Pei Yuanshao hurriedly said: "This subordinate dare not, and this subordinate absolutely has no such intention."

In fact, there is no need to explain.

However, Ling Han believed that it was still necessary to instill them with correct concepts, so he added one more sentence: "Only when the people are rich, can the government be rich. If the people are rich but the country is not, it can only show that the government is incompetent. But the other way around If the country is rich but the people are not rich, then the country will not be far from subjugation."

Pei Yuanshao said that he didn't understand at all.

Ling Han had no choice but to put it another way: "Reducing taxes and renting farm tools at low prices will make the people more enthusiastic about working."

"Once they have stored food, this king will naturally have a way to let them hand it over, and hand it over happily."

Pei Yuanshao suddenly realized: "It turns out to be like this."

He believed it.His Highness can always come up with ingenious ideas, even the generals and sheriffs are no match, let alone those ordinary people.

After asking Pei Yuanshao, Ling Han came to the small blast furnace again.

There are many small blast furnaces not far from the iron mine area, and countless soldiers are busy.

Seeing the arrival of King Changsha, except for the soldiers who were operating the bellows, the rest of the soldiers knelt down and saluted.

Ling Han said: "Get up, everyone, everyone has worked hard."

"For this king, the most important thing right now is to allow the people to reclaim more land. To reclaim land, you need a lot of iron farm tools."

"Digging iron and smelting iron is originally the job of a craftsman. But at this moment, it is a major issue related to the success or failure of the national policy, so this king sent you here. It will not cause people to lose their lives, and it seems There is no credit to take, but it is also a war, a war that this king must win."

"Whether this battle is won or lost, it all depends on the lords."

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The soldiers could not fully understand what His Royal Highness Changsha said, but they all realized one thing: that is, what they are doing now is very important to His Royal Highness Changsha.

So one by one worked harder.

After some encouragement, Ling Han left here.

Pei Yuanshao laughed and said: "I think back when I was in the Yellow Turban Army, the people below didn't have much awe of the imperial court at all, at most they were afraid. Looking at it now, His Highness's prestige is much higher than that of the late emperor."

After hearing this, Ling Han said coldly: "What nonsense! Don't say such things again."

Pei Yuanshao was taken aback, and shut up quickly.

Yang Zhen also taught him a lesson: "Monarchs and ministers, father and son. Even among the common people, no matter how good the father is, the son must obey orders. The first emperor is His Highness's father. You just spread the words like that. If people think it was His Highness's instruction, It will damage His Highness's reputation!"

Ling Han said silently in his heart: Father?

The vocabulary was too foreign to him.He never met his parents.

It was his grandmother who brought him up.When he was a child, he asked about his parents, but his grandmother didn't say anything.

As for Emperor Han Ling, of course it has nothing to do with him.

However, when Pei Yuanshao said those words just now, Ling Han completely refuted the other party subconsciously.

It's not for my own reputation, or anything else, but more like a... instinct.

Yes, instinct.

It was as if the real Liu Ying merged with him at that moment, and then spoke out through his own body.

Han Lingdi has nothing to do with him, but Liu Ying's father.

In addition, there is Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, who is his "imperial brother".

Think of the name Liu Xie.

A strange impression suddenly appeared in Ling Han's heart, about Liu Xie.

But he didn't know exactly what this impression was.

It's as if a person sometimes suddenly realizes that he forgot to do something, but he can't remember what it is.

Maybe I didn't just stray into the space-time tunnel and travel through it.

Ling Han stretched out his hand, quietly staring at his palm.

What if... I am really that Liu Ying?

This thought was so absurd that he couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

But this crossing is undoubtedly a mystery.

He has an intuition that as long as he meets Liu Xie, most of the answers to this mystery can be revealed.

Han Xiandi Liu Xie, like himself, is also an orthodox Han prince. No matter who gets him, it is impossible to kill him.

Ling Han believed that he would meet Liu Xie sooner or later.

After inspecting the iron mining camp, Ling Han went to the newly reclaimed dry land.

The people are busy in the fields.

Ling Han was a little puzzled, and approached a little closer.

Because he was wearing casual clothes and making no noise, no one noticed him.

The people are not just digging the ground, but actually planting crops.

It's already July, and rice and wheat are indeed out of season, but of course there are more than these edible crops.

Ling Han forgot about this for a while.

"Sure enough, the wisdom of the masses is the most powerful."

Ling Han sighed with emotion in a low voice.

At this time, someone suddenly saw Ling Han.

The other party opened his mouth and was about to kneel down to salute immediately. Ling Han immediately put his index finger to his lips and made a booing motion.

He didn't want to disturb the people's farming.

The farmer froze for a moment, maintaining a half-squatting posture.

At this time, the woman next to the farmer turned around and bumped into him.

The farmer accidentally dropped a dog and ate shit.

Surrounded by soft soil, he was naturally not injured, but his actions were very funny.

The peasant woman giggled immediately.

This smile caught the attention of others, Ling Han immediately turned his back.

The people working around couldn't help laughing out loud when they saw the picture of their friends eating shit.

Ling Han also raised the corners of his mouth, and left quietly.

The land reclamation situation in Jiujiang County is very good.

Recently, people who have fled from Jingzhou and Yuzhou have been continuously received.

After Ling Han returned to the city, he calculated carefully.

With the continuous increase of farm tools and the increasing enthusiasm of the people, the speed of land reclamation must be faster and faster.

If this development continues, perhaps in another year or so, Yangzhou's grain production will surpass the northern states and rank first in the country.However, things often don't go our way.

In the afternoon of the next day, Ling Han received bad news: the Shanyue forces sneaked into the southwestern part of Jiujiang, not only took away the wheat that was waiting to be harvested, but also killed five civilians.

Ling Han immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

The reason why the southwest was robbed this time was because there were no soldiers left behind in the southwest.

The newly reclaimed land by myself is farther away from the county town.Once the soldiers are withdrawn in the future, won't the Shanyue forces rob them if they want?

To be honest, Ling Han didn't pay much attention to Shanyue's influence at first.

Although in history, the forces of Shanyue did bring great troubles to the state of Wu——

Zu Lang, one of the leaders of Shanyue, almost killed Sun Ce.

As brave as Sun Ce, the Jiangdong Army he led fought for several years, but failed to completely wipe out the Shanyue forces.

It was not until Sun Quan took over Jiangdong, and decades later, that most of the Shanyue in the south of the Yangtze River were forced out of the mountains, moved to the plains, and registered in the register.

But the situation I am facing is completely different from that of Sun Ce in history.

First of all, in history, although Sun Ce successfully occupied Yangzhou with the help of the army, because of his humble background and his personality problems, he hardly received the support of any aristocratic family.

Even the popular support gained is not enough.

The reason why the Shanyue forces are powerful.

It was because of bandits, aliens, and clan forces that the three joined together to form an alliance.

The so-called clan forces are local armed regimes organized on the basis of clan villages.

To put it simply, they are ordinary people led by local wealthy families.

On the bright side, it is divided into many forces, large and small, by a leader who is good at fighting, and he commands as many as [-] to [-] people, as few as a few thousand.

Behind the scenes, the aristocratic families provided information and used unregistered people as their reserve forces.

Even so, the combat capabilities of the Shanyue forces are still mediocre.

Most of them just rely on their familiarity with the mountain terrain to fight guerrilla warfare with the government's army.

But if left alone, they will jump out and bite you from time to time.

In history, when Sun Quan conquered Huang Zu in the west, he had to lead his troops back because of the sneak attack by Shanyue.

The reason why Ling Han didn't pay attention to them before was because he had the support of almost all Yangzhou aristocratic families.

Maybe some of them were also dissatisfied, but they didn't have the guts to oppose him at all.

As for those people who were not originally registered, they are now busy applying to the government to open up wasteland outside the city.

It can be said that one-third of the Shanyue forces in history, or the most important one-third, have completely become Ling Han's people.

But this doesn't mean that Ling Han can really relax.

Historically, the Shanyue forces were capable of attacking Jiangdong.

Now, they have lost this ability.

At the same time, Jiangdong in history did not reclaim wasteland on a large scale outside the city, and they were not very afraid of the other party's plundering of food.

And this is what Ling Han needs to guard against.

Ling Han couldn't help sighing: "Although the situation has changed, the choice is the same."

For the long-term plan of food growth, he must find a way to wipe out all the Shanyue forces!