Chapter 909 Strategies and empresses

   Someone took Li Yi down, and then A Dou opened the letter in front of Feng Yong.

  After reading it, he handed it to Zhang Xingcai habitually.

  Lu Xun's letter described in detail the process of the Battle of Lujiang.

   At the end of the letter, there is a special mention:

  I heard that General Feng Junhou of the Han Dynasty sent troops to Xiaoguan, and even broke through stable and strong cities and solid pools, and the raids were as fast as wind and fire.

  After reading it, Zhang Xingcai smiled and said:

   "No wonder Xiangfu specially sent someone to deliver the letter. It turns out that the plain text was mentioned in the letter from the Wu people."

  While she was talking, she signaled Xiao Huangmen to pass the letter to Feng Yong.

  Having been in Dahan for ten years, Feng Yong has long been used to everything here.

  The only thing I am not used to is that the brush writing is still like a dog crawling.

   As for reading letters and the like, there is no obstacle at all.

   After Feng Yong took it and read it, he folded the letter again and smiled knowingly:

   "I'm afraid that the people of Wu are worried when they see my big man regaining Longyou Liangzhou one after another, so they want to inquire about the methods of attacking the city in the army."

  The content of the letter was a little bit beyond Feng Yong's expectation.

  Because in my impression, Lu Xun never seemed to have been defeated in his life, and he never thought that there would be a day when he would be forced to retreat by being full of favors.

  Zhang Xingcai nodded:

   "It is indeed possible. It's just that the method of siege is a secret in the army. Can An easily show it to others?"

   Feng Yong nodded in agreement:

   "That's right. Not long ago, I learned from Xi Zuo that the Wei thief Sima Yi was farming in Guanzhong, and he used eight ox plows for farming."

   "Before the big Han passed the Ba Niuli to Wu, I never heard of anyone other than the big Han using it."

   "Two years ago, His Majesty gave the eight ox plows to the state of Wu in order to show his friendship with the state of Wu. Who would have thought that the state of Wei would soon have the eight ox plows."

   "In my opinion, this matter has something to do with Wu Guoding."

  Before the great Han regained Longyou, as long as the two gates of Yong'an and Hanzhong were closed, the middle of Shu would become its own world.

  If the court deliberately controls it, even if someone wants to take Ba Niuli out, it will be extremely difficult.

  But after the Dahan regained Longyou, the situation has changed.

  As Ba Niuli is being used more and more publicly, it is impossible for this thing to be kept as secret as before.

   Coupled with the Han-Wu open alliance, the relationship between the two countries has been in a honeymoon period in the past two years.

  So the big man made a favor and sent Ba Niuli to Jiangdong as a gift to strengthen the relationship with Wu.

  Of course, Governor Feng also has a little selfishness in this matter.

  Wu Guo reclaimed wasteland in Jingzhou. If there were eight ox plows to help, wouldn’t it be possible to cultivate more and more sugar cane?

   But generally speaking, the possibility of Wei Guo getting the plow from Wu Guo is much greater than the possibility of stealing it from the big man.

  The words of Governor Feng are seeking truth from facts, but not Black Sun Wu.

  Hearing Feng Yong's words and seeing his calm expression, Zhang Xingcai couldn't help raising his eyebrows:

   "I look at Mingwen, it seems that this has been expected for a long time?"

  Feng Yong smiled slyly:

   "The eight ox plows given to Wu by the Han Dynasty are not exactly the same as the eight ox plows used in the Han Dynasty."

   The eight-ox plow that Feng Yong took out at first was made of all iron, and it is strong to use, but the iron material required is also huge.

  Huang Yueying tried to simplify it at the very beginning, changing non-critical components into wood.

  Combined with the application in the past ten years, it has provided a wealth of experience for the improvement of the eight-ox plow.

  Combined with the actual situation of Dahan, Ba Niuli has been improved for an unknown number of versions.

  Now Dahan has two styles, four styles, six styles, etc., and different styles can be changed according to different environments.

  The Ba Niuli given to Wu State was the original all-iron version.

  In the two countries of Wei and Wu, there is no such person as Feng Yong who attaches great importance to improving production tools.

  Second, even if there is, it does not have the influence of Feng Yong.

  So this is doomed that the two countries will use this stupid version for a long time.

  At this time, they are probably still worrying about the iron materials for making the eight-ox plow.

  Because if too much iron is used to build the eight-ox plow, what if there are not enough weapons?

  So, development is the last word.

  For fear that your opponent will surpass you, and dare not even use good things, that is cowardice and ignorance.

  Taking away a few advanced technologies from Dahan, but without the social foundation to support the continued development of technology, will not change the overall situation at all.

  The eight-ox plow requires a lot of iron tools and a lot of cattle.

   Governor Feng established a ranch from the beginning, and then tried his best to improve the smelting method.

  At the same time, year after year, a huge amount of money and food has been invested to establish basic education, increase productivity, and improve the quality of the labor force.

   This laid the foundation for this kind of development to continue.

   It’s still the same sentence, how many nails can be driven by only one person or a group of people, even if the whole body is made of iron?

  If you don’t want people to die, you must develop social trends and social classes that can sustain the policy.

   And all of this requires strong enough financial support.

  The government of the Han Dynasty can guarantee that the ranch will lend a large number of cattle to the people.

  Wei Guo or Wu Guo, which one of them can do this?

   It's not that Feng Yong looks down on them. I'm afraid that the two countries even have enough cattle to pull eight ox plows.

  Hearing Feng Yong's explanation, Zhang Xingcai was overjoyed and said:

   "It turns out that the plain text has a plan for this, and it really is a foresight!"

  But see Feng Wenhe said modestly:

   "The empress praised it absurdly. From my point of view, although the Wei and Wu kingdoms use eight ox plows, although it is beneficial to them, it may not be harmless."

   Upon hearing this, Zhang Xingcai whispered something in Adou's ear.

  A Dou quickly sat upright, had someone remove the leftovers, put hot soup on it again, lit the incense burner, and then bowed his hands to Feng Yonggong:

   "Please Feng Qing teach me."

   This is the attitude of policy theory.

  Feng Yong glanced at Zhang Xingcai.

   This is indeed the empress!

  Thinking so in his heart, Governor Feng didn't dare to neglect, he quickly sat upright, and said solemnly:

   "The eight-ox plow uses a lot of iron materials and cattle, but how many ordinary people can afford to use iron materials to cultivate cattle? In addition to government garrison, the people who can use the eight-ox plow are the wealthy families."

   "After the rich family gets this thing, they can open up more fields and accumulate money and grain. However, the Wei and Wu countries are not restrained by the rich, and it is difficult to collect taxes, money and grain from the right of the rich."

   "The more land Jieshi Haoyou occupies, the greater his power will be. Wei and Wu Kingdoms, I am afraid that sooner or later they will be backlashed by the aristocratic family."

  Zhang Xingcai nodded again and again:

   "Thus, the former Han and the later Han, and even the first emperors and fathers, all had actions to restrain arrogance. This can be called a foresight."

  Although the later Han Dynasty was founded with the support of powerful landlords, there were measures to restrict the powerful in the early stage.

   Zhang Xingcai's words are not wrong.

   It's just that the later Han Dynasty was destined to be unable to fundamentally restrain the powerful landlords because of the foundation of the founding of the country.

  So this is one of the reasons why Ji Han has been vigilant against the aristocratic family.

  But seeing Zhang Xingcai asked again:

   "According to what Feng Qing said, the two countries of Wei and Wu won eight ox plows. There are advantages and disadvantages. The big man doesn't have to worry too much, right?"

   "Queen, the Great Han has been promoting Ba Niu plow for ten years. How many places can use this plow now? Wei and Wu have only been around for a long time, so why worry too much?"

   Speaking of this, Governor Feng smiled strangely again:

   "Speaking of this, I reminded me of something. Although the method of siege cannot be leaked, the Han and Wu are allies after all."

   "Besides, the purpose of the state of Wu this time is to attack the thieves of Wei. How about if the big man supports the state of Wu with some weapons?"

  Zhang Xingcai was slightly taken aback: "Weapons?"

   Governor Feng nodded:

   "Yes, it is weapons. Hasn't the big man started to replace new weapons in the army now?"

   "The replaced old weapon, why not sell it to Wu State, and exchange it for some more money and food for the big man."

  Nanxiang produces coal, and Nanzheng has the largest iron mine in Hanzhong.

  Due to the improvement of smelting technology, the quality of weapons produced by Hanzhong Smelter is greatly improved compared with the first year of Jianxing.

  In the first battle of Xiaoguan, the soldiers who protected Qiang Xiaowei's mansion proved the superiority of the new weapons in actual combat.

   As far as the ring sword is the most common weapon in the army.

  The pawn's ring sword is quite different from the Qingqi's saber.

  The Huan Shou Knife in Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion is different from the old-fashioned Huan Shou Knife in the past.

   Not to mention the improvement in the quality of new weapons.

  In the past, the ring-shoudao knives in the hands of ordinary soldiers were mostly made of thick iron.

  Now, due to the appearance of coking coal, the improvement of blower and water drainage, the new ring head knife is equivalent to the start of 30 smelting.

  Middle-level officers, that is fifty training.

  Senior generals, each with a hundred swords.

  After the battle of Xiaoguan, the Han army began to eliminate old weapons in a planned way and replace them with standard weapons made in Hanyang.

  In addition to the policy of elite soldiers and martial arts implemented by the prime minister over the years.

   It can be said that the next Wei-Han battle in Guanzhong, what the Wei thieves will face is a big Han elite army that is completely different from the battle in Longyou.

  The Manufacturing Bureau led by Ah Mei, after completing the first-generation Hanyang manufacturing standards, began to study and formulate the second-generation standards.

   Some of the eliminated weapons have been used to arm the Hu Yi, and formed the volunteer army to fight with the Han army.

  But before the battle of Longyou, the big Han had more than 100,000 troops.

   During the Battle of Longyou, many weapons were seized from Wei thieves.

  Combined with the inventory of the arsenal, etc., the obsolete weapons that have been eliminated are not a small number.

   If you really want to use all of them for the Hu people, I'm afraid Governor Feng won't be able to sleep well at night.

   Let's go back to the furnace and rebuild... for the technology of this era, the cost is really a bit high.

   It's better to sell it, not only earn money, but also consolidate the alliance with Wu State, and gain a good reputation.

  Of course, what Wu Guo will do with this weapon will not be under the control of the big man, will it?

  Wu Guo had weapons, so he had surplus iron materials to forge eight-ox plows.

  This is a win-win situation.

  Hearing Governor Feng's plan, even Adou had strange eyes.

   After all, he is also the Son of Heaven, and there are some things that Ah Dou still knows.

  I only heard him remind:

   "Well, Mingwen, I remember, there seems to be a shortage of food in Jingzhou in Wu State. Where did they get the money and food to exchange weapons with us?"

  Although in the early years, because of the lack of food in Jingzhou, Lu Xun wrote to Sun Quan, suggesting to encourage the generals in the army to increase the fields in Jingzhou.

  Policy is a good policy, but it can’t hold back the people below have more ideas.

  With the particularity of Wu’s military system, coupled with the power of the aristocratic family, a considerable part of the fields opened by those generals were planted with sugar cane.

   After all, growing sugarcane can make more money than growing grain.

  Of course, a certain wood beetle said that this was entirely due to the normal regulation of the market, and had nothing to do with his intention to raise the price of raw sugar in the past few years.

  As for the return of the brown sugar after selling the raw sugar, that is an industry rule, and no one can fault it.

   "Your Majesty, Jingzhou is short of grain, but we have it! Jiangzhou is directly connected to Jingzhou, and it is also a place of grain production. Just sell some grain from Jiangzhou to them."

  Feng Inspector Dayi said awe-inspiringly, "Since the two kingdoms of Han and Wu are working together to hunt down thieves, they should help each other."

  The little fat man still didn't turn the corner, and subconsciously said: "But Liangzhou..."

   "Over there in Liangzhou, as long as there is more grain, it will be enough! After another two years, we will be self-sufficient."

  Feng Yong said quickly.

  Yuexuan, Jiangzhou, and Hanzhong are all places of grain production.

  More importantly, the current Shu family has been tidied up, and the fertile plains in the middle of Shu will finally become the grain production area controlled by the big Han.

  With the transportation guarantee of Dongfeng Express, are you afraid that you will not be able to ship it out?

  Although the food of the Dahan is not very abundant now, as long as Guanzhong is conquered, the Dahan will have two kingdoms of abundance.

  Things like the lowly valley hurting the people may really happen.

  This is the specific manifestation of the increase in productivity leading to changes in production relations.

  So it is also necessary to prepare in advance.

   Zhang Xingcai's eyes were shining brightly, and he lightly held Adou's hand under the case, preventing the emperor from continuing.

   She asked instead:

   "According to the plain text, it is best for Wu to exchange coarse sugar for our weapons, isn't it?"

   Governor Feng nodded:

   "What the queen said is very true. If we directly say that Wu Guo will plant sugarcane, they may still have concerns."

   "But if we let them exchange raw sugar for weapons, and at the same time we can sell them food, so that they don't have to worry about it, then things will happen!"

  In spite of the information explosion in the future, there are still people who are constantly trying to break through the red line of arable land.

   There are even some well-known well-dressed people who publicly advocate abandoning the red line and opening up food imports.

   Not to mention the state of Wu in this era, even if someone can see through it, it is still a question of whether Sun Quan has the ability to stop the Jingzhou family from planting grain and sugar cane.

  Zhang Xingcai couldn't help cheering:

   "The strategy of Mingwen is really brilliant! Even if Guan Zhong is reborn, it's nothing more than that!"

   "The queen praised me!"

   Governor Feng said modestly.

   It's not that he is clever, but that he never dared to underestimate the greed of capital.

  In ancient and modern China and abroad, capital has always been the purest, without the slightest change.

  Zhang Xingcai shook her head, smiling all over her face:

   "The big man has such good ministers and generals as Mingwen, so why worry about it?"

   Saying that, the empress of the Han Dynasty glanced at the palace servants around her with a mighty look, her face turned cold and stern:

   "Today, your majesty's discussion with the princes and marquises is a secret of the country. If someone dares to leak half a sentence, he will be punished! The three clans will be degraded, and they will never be good!"

  All the palace people turned pale with fright, and they all prostrated themselves on the ground: "No!"

   Then the Queen turned to Governor Feng again, with a smile on her face again, and asked softly:

   "Mingwen's policy discussion with His Majesty this time, how about writing it in a book and sending it to the Prime Minister's mansion to ask the Prime Minister's father's opinion?"

   "It's all up to the emperor, cough, it's all up to His Majesty."

   Governor Feng said quickly.

  The queen seemed to be talking to herself, and seemed to be discussing with Governor Feng:

   "It's just that this matter is of great importance. If we can establish a mutual market in Yong'an and coordinate management with Wu Guoyi City..."

  Damn it, Ah Dou saved the galaxy in his last life?

   Or is it true that Liu Bei has a vicious vision? Even picking a daughter-in-law is so accurate!

   As Governor Feng thought this way in his heart, he suddenly remembered that the queen had a younger sister, and his heart immediately regained his balance.

  (end of this chapter)