Chapter 30
The plan for a day lies in the morning, and the plan for a year lies in spring.
Among the four seasons of the year, spring is the most important, because spring plowing will be carried out in this season. If spring plowing is delayed for a whole year, no food will be harvested, and everyone will live hungry. In troubled times, there are wars, so many people are killed, why is there still not enough food for the living? It was because of the war that they missed the spring plowing, so they faced the dilemma of lack of food in the future.
Among the Three Kingdoms, many princes have worried about food. For example, the hero Cao Cao, the Central Plains suffered from wars and severe droughts, and there was no food and grass under his rule, so that the counselor Cheng Yu proposed the so-called "human candied meat", that is, eating dead human flesh. It is also based on the plight of lack of food, so Cao Cao was the first among the heroes of the Three Kingdoms to promote farming.
In the famous Battle of Guandu, although Cao Cao sent people to behead Yan Liang and Wen Chou, which frustrated Yuan Shao's spirit, the real turning point was the burning of Wuchao, and Yuan Shao's entire army was defeated without food. More than a hundred riders fled back to Yecheng in a hurry.
Although there are still thousands of stones of grain and grass in Licheng, more and more people are unable to hold back and come to Licheng. Liu Ye doesn't want his army to starve to death after defeating the Yellow Turban Bandits. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to carry out spring plowing. Necessary.
Liu Ye immediately posted an order that all residents in the city could leave the city to farm, and two-thirds of the income would go to him, and one-third would be handed over to the treasury. There are no Yellow Turban bandits around Licheng today. Therefore, the residents who were afraid of hiding in the city before dared to leave the city. Anyway, with these invincible defenders standing against them, what is there to be afraid of the yellow scarf thieves?
Seeing that most of the people were willing to cooperate, Liu Ye couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. If these people didn't cooperate, he would definitely have a way to let them go out of the city to cultivate land. Knowing how to farm, how can there be such a good thing in the world?
The common people resumed the temporary production order in Licheng. They went out to farm during the day and returned to the city to rest at night. Seeing the seeds sprouting and sprouting from the fields, a touch of green nourished the vitality of all things. Finally, Liu Ye It was a sigh of relief.
However, although spring plowing is important, the impact will be several months later, and the imminent matter now makes Liu Ye feel even more worried.
He is a team leader.
The team leader, the so-called general of a hundred men, only has the right to command a hundred men in battle, and Liu Ye already has more than a thousand elite soldiers under his command, and more than 30,000 residents take shelter under his command. Words don't go well.
When Liu Bei first raised his army, why did Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the commander-in-chief with tens of thousands of enemies under his command, fail to establish a great cause for half his life? It wasn't because the official position was too small, but the yellow turban bandit who broke the big bandit only made one Wenxi county lieutenant, and then he simply whipped the governor and quit.
Later, when the Eighteenth Route Princes met, Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, asked him to sit down, and said: I let you sit down not because you are the county magistrate of Pingyuan, but because you are the clan of the Han Dynasty.
Later, when he met the emperor in Xuchang, he was named General Zuo and identified as Uncle Liu Huang. Later, Liu Bei separatized Jingzhou and captured Bashu, which achieved a great cause. So Cao Cao held the emperor in his hands, and the princes from all directions came to ask him to be an official. This is the importance of position.
Liu Ye didn't want to be a general, even if he was a military lord or other Sima first.
"Wu De, you led twenty riders to Jinan City, you must hand over this letter to the Prime Minister, you know?" Liu Ye solemnly handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Wu De.
Wu De's face turned serious, he clasped his fists and said: "Brother, but you have an order, Wu De is omnipotent, so let's go." After saying that, he strode out of the county office, and after recruiting twenty riders, a group of people galloped out of the city Door.
Originally, the first emperor unified the six kingdoms and changed the world into prefectures and counties. However, the great ancestor Liu Bang replaced the Qin Dynasty with the Han Dynasty and enfeoffed the kings surnamed Liu to protect the world. To his children, he was called Liehou, so the Han Dynasty was actually a parallel state.
By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country had actually become a county-level administrative region. Although it was called differently, the chief executive was the prime minister or the county governor, but they were actually under the jurisdiction of the governor, just like today's county-level cities and counties. It is the same as the county-level administrative districts.
The destination of Wu De's trip was Jinan City, and the person who was going to give it to him was the Prime Minister of Jinan. Now that neither Song He, the county magistrate, nor Sun Chang, the county lieutenant, survived, the Prime Minister of Jinan would definitely not be indifferent to Liu Ye. I have to give Liu Ye three melons and two dates.
Liu Ye sat down, frowning and thinking, when a sound of footsteps disrupted his train of thought.
A guard rushed in at a trot and knelt on one knee five steps away from Liu Ye: "Brother! Nearly a thousand yellow scarf thieves surrounded a wave of residents who came to join us in Licheng more than a dozen miles away. Brother Xu dare not Acting rashly, I am here to ask my brother for instructions."
Liu Ye didn't have time to think about it, so he stood up and said, "Order Xu Zang to lead the cavalry to gather and go to the rescue first, and a certain number of 500 infantry will arrive later."
The guard said "Here", turned around and left. Liu Ye was served by his own soldiers, wearing armor and armor, holding a long spear and walking out with tiger steps.
After Xu Zang received Liu Ye's order, he led more than 200 riders and galloped out without saying a word (Twenty riders were taken away by Wu De's letter), and galloped out in the direction of the Yellow Turban Bandit.
At this time, it was more than ten miles north of Licheng.
"Grow up! The young and the strong are in front, and the old, weak, women and children are in the back."
"Don't be afraid of thieves, my wife and children are behind me, how can I retreat?"
I saw more than a thousand yellow turban thieves besieging the people. The number of people was about the same as that of the yellow turban thieves, but they brought their families and took care of the old and the young. Among the thousand villagers, there were only more than 400 young and strong, and they held all kinds of things in their hands. Some are knives and guns picked up from the road, and some are hoes and rakes for farming.
But these four hundred people looked disheartened, but they gathered into a dense formation, all of them were on the periphery, protecting the old and the weak in the middle. These old and weak are their parents, wives and children, so although the yellow turban bandits are powerful, the more than four hundred young men are clenching their teeth and fighting to the death.
"Hold on, everyone! This place is only ten miles away from Licheng, and Liu Yuqing's elite soldiers will arrive in no time, and it will be easy to destroy the thieves."
And in the people's formation, there were several shouts from afar, and there was actually a person in the middle commanding it, it seemed that this simple circular formation was formed under the command of this person.
But the yellow turban thief couldn't help attacking for a long time, and couldn't help becoming anxious.
"It's not far from Licheng, so Liu Yuqing is not easy to mess with!"