Spring and Autumn I Am King

After giving Zhao Guangde and his cronies a lesson on the platform of the Pingqiu Association, Zhao Wuxi and others got off the high platform. Tu Dao, go to Pingqiu.

The galloping horse drove on the road, the field moved back, the wind was blowing, and the spring sun was dazzling.

Thinking of what Zhao Wuxi said on the stage, everyone's thinking became farther and farther away, and they recalled all kinds of things that happened in the past six months.

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In May and June of last year, after Lang Ying Yaobing, anyone with a discerning eye could see that although the State of Lu did not preside over an alliance meeting, the treaties delivered by pedestrians were signed by the princes of Zhu, Xiao Zhu, Teng, Xue and other countries one by one. They are equivalent to the vassals of the state of Lu, and Zhao Wuxi has become the uncle Sishang!

In July, after Juguo and Luguo reached a secret agreement on land exchange, looking south of Mount Tai, Luguo had no worries, Zhao Wuxi devoted all his energy to the autumn harvest. Lu people have been looking forward to this day for a long time.

After Zhao Wuxi entered Qufu, the "abolition of cities and counties" was implemented, so that the power scattered in the hands of the officials of each city was concentrated in the hands of the shogunate. He is no longer satisfied with the cadastral fields at the beginning of spring, just like the former Luhou and Qing doctors in the past, and he is completely stocked on how farmers farm.

The shogunate had its own bureau in charge of agricultural affairs, and adopted an attitude of active intervention, paying close attention to agricultural production during festivals and urging the counties to organize spring ploughing.

Not to mention the big farmer Fan Xu took a group of disciples from farmers, taught them to read, and actively traveled around the country. In order to promote the practicable Daitian method in Xilu, Fan Xu carried out strict planning and deployment. First, he provided technical training to the county farm officials "Qianfu" and the township "Litian" as well as experienced old farmers. In addition to teaching In addition to the Daitian law, they were also given iron farm tools ploughs and shovels, and through these grass-roots personnel, new technologies were promoted.

through the efforts of farmers. The townships in the five-county access road of Xilu first said goodbye to the backward wooden scorpions, and adopted ingenious agricultural implements such as coupling ploughs and hoes. The ploughing of two oxen and three people can cultivate two and a half hectares of land, and the efficiency is equivalent to the "one husband and one hundred acres" in the past. " multiple times!

In July and August, when millet and rice ripen, the state of Lu ushered in a long-lost bumper harvest.

The Daitian method has indeed achieved good results, and the total output per unit area has been improved. Originally, the flat crop field that did not implement the replacement field produced one stone of corn per mu. After the replacement of the field method was implemented, the per-mu yield increased to one and a half stone! Even two stones!

Ji Qiao wrote an estimate to Zhao Wuxi based on the many documents in the keeping room. The brief content is as follows: "The territory of Lu State is thousands of miles, and there are a total of 900,000 hectares of land. According to preliminary statistics, excluding mountainous areas , hills, forests, lakes and swamps, seven-ninths of towns, and 200,000 hectares of land, which is only more than 20 acres per capita."

"In the past, the fields were cultivated. One stone per mu was produced, and farmers were paid three more per mu if they were diligent, and minus three per mu if they were not diligent. Therefore, in previous years, the annual harvest of Lu was seven or eight million stone millets, plus a small amount of rice and millet. , wheat, barley, soybeans, adzuki beans, hemp, etc., are spread evenly on the heads of each Lu person, and they can only barely satisfy their hunger." After reading it, Zhao Wuxi was not surprised why Lu Guoli Shu was always half-starved. status.

But on the clock last October, Jiqiao estimated. Adding a piece of grain from the summer and autumn harvests of the State of Lu is close to tens of thousands of stone!

This is also because the Mengshi Territory and the Eastern Land Doctors, which did not implement the county system, lowered the average. Yiyi and Dongdi's farmland output did not increase much.

Therefore, after the autumn harvest, the warehouses of the eight counties of the state of Lu were full of grain and rice, and the people of the state of Lu happily tasted the fragrant and hot new rice. later.

To this, the short-sighted Dongdi doctor didn't have much reaction, but the witty Meng family's slaughter suit was under the circumstance that the subjects began to run out. However, he resolutely decided to integrate the Meng family's territory, abolish the small towns, and combine them into "Yuxian".

Seeing that the shogunate's rule became more and more stable, Meng Sun said that the gentle temperament also put away all his thoughts. He is willing to surrender all military power in exchange for Meng's right to govern the people.

If the Meng family could be resolved peacefully, Zhao Wuxi readily agreed, and Zifuhe immediately took office as the magistrate of Yunxian County.

After receiving millions of stone in kind of grain tax, Zhao Wuxi found that he became rich overnight, and Song Guo also began to repay the grain he borrowed in batches. Now that he has reached a state of "sufficient food", Zhao Wuxi T-shirts naturally have to win Longwangshu and pursue "foot soldiers".

In the first month after the autumn harvest, Zhao Wuxi announced that he would formally reform the military establishment of Lu and re-establish the three armies!

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The state of Lu reached its heyday in the time of Duke Xi of Lu, known as the Thousand Vehicles, with 30,000 disciples and soldiers.

However, in order to weaken the power of the public office, the Ji clan canceled the central army and led the right army, and the Shusun clan and the Meng clan divided the left army equally. In fact, the so-called Second Army of the State of Lu was the private army recruited by Sanhuan.

But now, Zhao Wuxi has written to the Marquis of Lu, believing that the national strength of the state of Lu has been restored, and in order to meet the due status of the "state of the Duke of Zhou", the three armies should be reset.

The "Three Armies" this time are organized in counties, under the jurisdiction of divisions, brigades, soldiers, Shi, Wu, one by one to match the grass-roots organizations of the county, township, pavilion, Shi, Wu, and each Shi has five Men, take turns serving. In peacetime, village officials, pavilion chiefs, even chiefs, and corporal chiefs became military officials at all levels in wartime.

The Right Army was the most experienced of the three armies. It consisted of people from five counties belonging to Zhao Wuxi, with a total of more than 13,000 people. It had five divisions under its command, and its combat effectiveness was the best among the three armies.

The Central Army was composed of soldiers from four counties, Lu, Liangfu, Fei and Yun. There were more than 12,000 soldiers and five divisions under their command.

The Zuo Army is a miscellaneous army composed of doctors from the East. There are no divisions under its jurisdiction, but brigades are used as units. Each doctor provides a brigade. Don't expect them to be of any great use.

The three armies have a total combat strength of 35,000, and they are all non-professional conscripts, who are usually engaged in farming or labor, and are conscripted in wartime.

And Zhao Wuxi's trump card, Martial Pawn, has also completed his own expansion, from the original one division to two divisions, one division is composed of Song people, and the other is composed of Lu people, these five thousand elite soldiers are standing. Professional soldier!

Then the robbers of the robbers recruited soldiers and maintained the first division. On weekdays, they set up fields around Dayozawa on the Luwei border. Once there were police officers, they could fight with spears.

And the boat master in Onozawa. Built by Xu Cheng, a boatman from Wu State, it has also taken shape. After the short-distance canal connecting Jishui, Pushui, and Onozawa is dug, those big wings, middle wings, small wings, and scorpions can flow downstream at any time. Threatening Qi Kingdom!

Finally, there are Gongwei, Yibing, and Tingzu systems, which are responsible for the security of Qufu and other places.

Meng Shi and Ji Shi lost their military power and could not intervene at all. Zhao Wuxi was the supreme commander of the three armies. Moreover, the three armies did not have official generals, but were temporarily commanded by Ran Qiu, Yang Tongrong, and Huhui as division commanders during the war.

After Mo Xie provided the technology, the iron production of several iron workshops in Taoqiu and the southern foot of Mount Tai has been increasing day by day. The iron spears produced each month can arm a whole group of people, and the Lu army's holding rate has increased significantly. It's just that the armoring rate has been delayed due to the lack of leather in Ludi, but the development of iron armor is still far away, and we can only weave some rattan armor and wood armor. As for the paper that Zhao Wushi had heard about in later generations First. At present, the paper output, which is still considered a luxury, cannot be supported, and we can only talk about it in the future.

In October of last year, Zhao Wuxi, who had achieved the goals of "foot soldiers" and "sufficient food", began to formulate war plans, because the forces established in Shandong can expand and become stronger by attacking, but blindly defending the weak will only decline. !

So the country of Lu, who used to be as docile as a sheep, actually began to show its minions, and it was the first to bear the brunt. Of course, he repeatedly betrayed Jin and was blacklisted by the Zhao clan. The weak and vulnerable fish belly is defending the country again!

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The war began in early October, and the State of Lu dispatched military soldiers and the Central Army to attack the State of Wei from the east, together with the State of Song, who had calmed the domestic turmoil, and the State of Cao, who was eager to expand the land.

The Zhao clan of Jin, who had already been in contact with them, also forced the Handan clan to attack Puyang. You Wuzheng crossed Jijin and attacked Linyan in an attempt to seize a stronghold on the south bank of the Great River for Xi Zhao.

They didn't declare war, and they caught Wei Guo by surprise. As for why not declare war? The reason is very simple. Wei never stopped fighting with Jin, Lu and Song. Weihou also threatened to make Zhao Wuxi and Song Guo pay the price because the boy's favorite son Chao and Nanzi did not marry.

Although Wei State has been in decline for many years, it has lost its status as a great power in the East when Uncle Wei Kang and Duke Wei Wu were in power, but it is also a medium state in the Jishui and Pushui basins. Sangjianpu is on a fertile land, with many cities and towns, a wealthy economy, a population of more than 500,000, and two armies on the left and right.

However, after being involved in Jin and Qi's hegemony, he was penetrated twice by Zhao Yang, and after Zhao Wuxi seized the Jixi land, the city and towns of the Wei Kingdom were reduced day by day and became more and more unbearable. Weihou Yuan was still out of his capacity and tried to send the Young Master Dynasty to interfere in the Song civil war. As a result, the Young Master Dynasty was humiliated in front of the two armies, and the three or four thousand people in Wei State were also buried, becoming serfs who opened up wasteland in the hills of Lu State.

Therefore, with less than 20,000 people left in Wei, facing the sudden attack of powerful enemies from all directions, they suddenly lost an inch. Mi Zixia was defeated again and almost died in the battle. Fortunately, Wang Sunjia reacted quickly and ran quickly, pulling the main force back to Puyang, preserving the vitality of Wei.

Weihou was very frightened and hurriedly asked Qi for help. Qihou was rumored to be ill and lived in the palace for a long time. Siqing was undecided, and finally sent an army to try to attack Lu and save the Wei.

But it did not have any effect. The west of Lu was defended by the Right Army, and in the east there were doctors from the East guarding Mount Tai.

With this delay, the Punan area of ​​Wei State could no longer be preserved, where Pingqiu, Pu, Wufu, and Xusiyi were immediately surrounded by a coalition with superior military power.

Inspired by the military merits, both the military pawns and the central army performed very well in the war, and everyone was eager to make meritorious deeds. In addition, Xiaogongshuban's new siege weapon "cloud ladder" was used to siege the city, and the towns with only a few feet high rammed earth walls were destroyed before the heavy snowfall.

Under the auspices of Zhao Wuxi, Punan was divided among Lu, Song, and Cao. ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Cao got the beard, Song got Wu Fu, Pingqiu and Pu were controlled by Dong Zhao and handed over to the trustworthy His cousin Zhao Guangde was stationed.

(The setting is changed, the original Punan area is more suitable to be called Jixi area. Here Punan is located in the west of Cao State, north of Wei State, not bordering Lu, which is the above four cities)

In the whole war, the Lu army killed and wounded less than a thousand, but killed and wounded four times as many guards as his own. This was an unprecedented victory. In Lu, apart from Ji Sunfei, he was still muttering about the Lu Wei brothers. Besides, everyone else was inspired.

Renshan was bullied by others, Ma Shan was ridden by others, and the people of Lu were too cowardly in the past, and were often pinned to the ground and humiliated. However, after the change of a senior official and the implementation of the system of granting land for military merits, the timid peasants of the state of Lu suddenly became angry and became invaders.

In short, during that half-year, General Zhao personally came off the court and taught the people of Lu the following truth:

Although virtue is insufficient, the public is available! Ritual, music and morality cannot solve the entanglement of interests. In this world, it really depends on whose fist is hard enough!

ps: Chapter 2 will be continued in the afternoon. ..

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