scientific farming

The impoverished city is located at the border between the two countries, and the enemy country is farther south and west than the Dali Dynasty. The soil quality is relatively rough, and there is very little arable land. There is not enough food all year round. Therefore, I often come to the impoverished city to grab the grain in the land. Rush into the city to loot.

During those two years when Xiao Lue guarded him, he was quite peaceful.

Now it's a comeback!

Fortunately, the fields outside the besieged city had been barren due to the war, and it was not suitable for farming. The people just planted at will, and it was still close to the besieged city.A little farther away, there are also poor people at home who planted it, and now they don't keep any of it.

People in impoverished cities usually go to Lin County to work, buy grain and bring it back. It would be better if there is a profit in the field, and it’s fine if they don’t. It’s not a big hindrance.

Therefore, there is a shortage of food and grass, that is, the defenders of the besieged city.

It's just that although the people in the impoverished city have food in their homes, they also walk around with Linxian all the year round to earn money by working.Once the city was besieged by the enemy army, the work could not be done, and the food could not be bought. In fact, the people in the city could not last long!

Xiao Lue and the others did bring a few carts of food into the city, there were two large carts that Song Wen and Ah Mian pushed into the city alone, and some came in from other city gates at the same time.Because Xiao Lue was attracting attention at the city gate here, it didn't take much effort to bring in the other gates, and the people arranged by Xiao Lue directly brought in the food.

It's a pity that the amount is not much. After all, they broke in from the enemy's siege. It is extremely difficult for each gate to break in with a cart.

For more than 3000 soldiers and horses in the city, this little food is enough for a day or two.

The original food and grass in the city can only last half a month at most.This was donated to Zhu Hongyi by the wealthy households in the besieged city. If the wealthy households hadn't volunteered to donate generously, the besieged city defenders would have run out of food half a month ago.

Listening to Zhu Hongyi detailing the situation in the besieged city, Song Wen felt more and more that Zheng Zhengbiao was an idiot!What a general, he couldn't beat others in martial arts, and he was beaten so hard that he didn't dare to go out in the city; as for literature, he couldn't even write a note to ask the court for food and grass!

If you can write a good book, as for the empty granary, do you still need people to donate food? !

Zheng Zhengbiao reacted quickly, looking at Shang Song Wen with your idiot eyes, he was about to shoot up: "You..."

Song Wen Shi Shiran stretched out his hand to take it out of his bosom, but Zheng Zhengbiao faltered all of a sudden, sat back silently, shrunk aside aggrieved, not looking at Song Wen's expression, making trouble!

Xiao Lue said: "Gou Tou came from the capital, and the journey is far away. The grain, grass, soldiers and horses have to arrive, and it will take a month at the earliest. We have half a month's grain and grass left, we have to find a way."

He turned to ask Zhu Hongyi, "Is there enough food for the people in the city?"

Zhu Hongyi said hesitantly: "It's enough for the family to eat. There are also a few households that are already poor, and I'm afraid they won't be able to survive."

Xiao Lue said: "Order the county magistrate of the impoverished city to count the people who have no food in their homes, register and make a report, and distribute some of the food from the army's rations..."

"No!" Zheng Zhengbiao couldn't bear it anymore, and once again complained, "every entry and exit of food and grass in the army must be recorded in the book. How can you distribute it if you say it?! Besides, there is not enough food and grass, and it will be distributed to the people. You can't be a full-fledged ghost even if the whole army is sent to death!"

Xiao slightly crossed his eyebrows, he was too lazy to say a word with him, and directly wanted to throw him out.

"General Zheng..." Song Wen uttered a voice, stopped Xiao Lue from making Zheng Zhengbiao throw away, turned to Song Wen, and waited for him to speak.

Zheng Zhengbiao said: "Even if you have the token of the first emperor, you can't move the food and grass in the army."

Song Wen smiled and nodded, "Of course we can't move the food and grass in the army."

This little county magistrate who followed Xiao Lue actually spoke to him?Zheng Zhengbiao glanced suspiciously at Xiao Lue's expression, his cold face remained motionless, he could only look at Song Wen again, his eyes full of vigilance.

Song Wen said with a smile: "Of course General Xiao is not going to move the army's food and grass. General Zheng is not good at fighting, and he can't write the booklet for asking for food and grass well, so he doesn't even have a good memory?"

Song asked what he wanted from you, and said sadly, "General Zhu said just now that the army has long run out of food and grass. Now the army is fed by donations from wealthy households in impoverished cities, and it does not belong to the army's food and grass. , Of course, it doesn’t need to be recorded in the book, and it can also be distributed to the people who starve to death without food.”

Zheng Zhengbiao choked when he was face to face, and he said angrily after a while: "Since the food is donated to the army, it is naturally counted as food in the army. This general has recorded him in the book early..."

"No, no, no!"

Song Wen shook his head, "Is that grain and grass donated to General Zheng? I don't think so. It was because the rich households in the impoverished city saw in General Xiao's face that they couldn't bear the hunger of General Xiao's old troops to defend the city. That's why they donated it. If General Zheng doesn't believe it , you can go out and ask the rich households in the city, who is the food for? Is it for General Xiao, or for you?"

Zheng Zhengbiao's face was livid!Xiao Lue is equivalent to the Emperor of Earth in this impoverished city, if you ask yourself, it's no wonder that the wealthy households in the impoverished city can turn to him!At this moment, he has an instant connection with the officials of the imperial court who are far away in the capital - this Song Wen really deserves to die!

After "tidying up" Zheng Zhengbiao, Song Wen could finally have a good talk with Xiao Lue.

"It's really not appropriate to directly give the people the food donated by the wealthy households in the city. General Xiao might as well ask the county magistrate of the impoverished city to gather the people who have no food at home and plant the land in the city. Receive the food according to how much they contribute."

In this way, there are people who need to farm the land, and the people don't have to go hungry.

In fact, it is okay to let the defenders come to farm the land, and there is no shortage of manpower.The main reason is that the besieged city has been surrounded by the enemy for too long, and it is really depressing in the besieged city. Let the people have things to do, have food to earn, and the morale in the city can be high, so that they will not be defeated before the battle!Moreover, calling the defenders to farm the land, Song Wen was a little bit scrupulous, so he needed to take it step by step.

Zheng Zhengbiao originally decided to ignore Song Wen, but he couldn't bear it when he heard about farming, and asked again: "Sir Song, what do you want the people to do?"

"Planting!" Song asked.

Zheng Zhengbiao thought it was funny, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "Master Song, could it be possible for the people to grow food by farming the land?"

It was really absurd, but he became interested instead, "I want to see how Master Song cultivates the land under the siege of the enemy! Don't talk about farming, as long as Master Song can make the food and grass in this city last to Xiao Lue's so-called imperial court The food and grass sent to the besieged city, I, Zheng Zhengbiao..."

He looked around and didn't know what poisonous oath he should make!

"If I can do it, what about General Zheng?" Song Wen asked following the trend.

Zheng Zhengbiao stared and said viciously: "If you Song Wen can do it, I, Zheng Zhengbiao, will be a dog in front of Song Wen and Xiao Lue's door in the future."

To be a dog for nothing... Song Wen was somewhat disgusted, but he didn't say anything.

Zhu Hongyi was very excited, and immediately ran out to find the county magistrate of the impoverished city to count the exact number of households in the city that were dying of starvation without food, register and make a list before sending it over.

Xiao slightly looked through the records of remaining food and grass sent by Zhu Hongyi's people, and after a little calculation, he directly ordered the three meals in the army to be rationed: in the morning, each person can only have one steamed bun and one bowl of porridge, and at noon, he can eat dry food , Two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge at night.

Lieutenant soldiers already eat a lot, and this kind of ration will leave them with something in their stomachs, and they will not be able to eat enough.

Song Wen looked at Xiao Lue's plan and said: "Most of the vegetables I bring are fast-growing vegetable seeds. I will find a place to plant them immediately. The fastest ones will be ready to eat within three to five days. Then the vegetables will be mixed in the porridge, and then they will be eaten again." Cut some meat into it and make it into salty porridge, which can take up some stomach and prevent you from starving so quickly!"

Xiao slightly nodded: "I'll take some people out of the city to go hunting in the mountains, and bring back some meat. But first, we must repel the enemy encirclement at the gate of the city, and we can't let them get too close."

There are more than 3000 soldiers and horses in the besieged city, plus those who must stay in the city to defend the city, there are only more than 1000 people who can be used.The enemy army alone surrounded the besieged city with a total of 8000 troops.

One thousand against eight thousand, or confrontation...

Even Xiao Lue felt a headache.

Song Wen searched through the memories of the original body, but found nothing, so he simply asked Xiao Lue: "In the capital, I asked General Xiao to help find Qiang Shuang. General Xiao can see that others have used Qiang Shuang?"

Xiao slightly didn't understand why, but still shook his head.

Song Wen was immediately delighted, his eyes glowed brightly and he said, "General Xiao, would you trust me?"

Xiao slightly nodded: "Naturally."

Song asked: "I see a lot of bamboo forests in besieged cities. General Xiao might as well go up the mountain and cut some bamboo knots back. If you want to temporarily retreat from the enemy, you only need enough bamboo knots."

Zheng Zhengbiao couldn't listen any longer, and started whining again to interrupt.

Song Wen was really annoyed by this ignorant person, so he stopped acting this time, took out the token from his pocket, waved it in front of Zheng Zhengbiao, and said, "Does General Zheng want to kneel here, or go back to sleep honestly?" Son?"

Zheng Zhengbiao: "..." Turned around and left, walking fast!

When people leave, it is finally clean.

Song Wen said solemnly: "Not only bamboo joints, but also wall frost and realgar."

Most people don't know the usefulness of wall frost, and all they get are clods with wall frost.When he was in the capital, what Song Wen had to use was the clods of wall frost soil. He refined saltpeter behind closed doors, so he was naturally not afraid that others would know how he used wall frost to make the flowers bloom suddenly.No one to point out, others want to study, it is not something that can be researched in a year or two.

This time because of the urgency, Song Wen directly asked Xiao Lue to appoint a few reliable people, and the last ones were Ah Da and Ah Er.The wall frost was collected by Xiao Lue in the old department in the besieged city. Song Wen put the wall frost soil block back into the bucket directly, soaked it in water, and then filtered it out. For the sake of speed, he directly boiled the filtrate to get Obtain saltpeter crystals.

In order for Xiao Lue to understand what he was asked to do, there was bamboo in the general's mansion here, so he cut it off directly. Song Wen stuffed saltpeter crystals and realgar into the bamboo tube, poured grease on it, and put the bamboo tube far away. on the clearing.

Song asked, "How is General Xiao's archery?"

Xiao Lue said bluntly: "Piercing Yang with a hundred steps."

"What about the fire on the arrow?"

Xiao Lue directly took a rocket, lit it on fire, pointed it at the bamboo tube, and shot out the long arrow with a swish, the arrow passed through the bamboo tube, and the fire was burning... Looking back at Song Wen, his eyes were full of pride!

boom!

Xiao Lue turned his head abruptly, seeing that the bamboo tube was directly blown to pieces, the place was scorched black, clusters of small sparks ignited where the pieces of the bamboo tube fell to the ground, and burned up in no time!

Xiao Lue held his bow, looked at the place where the explosion occurred, and turned his head to look at the calm Song Wen, he was silent for a moment!

Ah Da was also a little stunned by the movement.

Ah Er was a little stunned, but quickly returned to look around, noticing if anyone hadn't cleaned it up, and noticed this side.

"What's this called?" Xiao asked slightly.

Song Wen said, "Fire. Powder!"