The wheat planted before winter the previous year was green again in the ground.
The green wheat seedlings are connected together in sheets, which makes people feel so relaxed and happy.
"We must keep the water canals open and the water trucks are not enough. The Chief Envoy must make up for it as soon as possible. The main task this year is to harvest as much grain as possible." Liu Heng squatted on the field ridge and looked at the wheat field in front of him with soft eyes.
Food is the cornerstone of whether a power can be stable.
After taking over several state capitals in Shaanxi, the originally abundant food reserves of Tiger Character Banner suddenly became tense.
Also located in the northwest, Shanxi has experienced the ravages of the Little Ice Age, but the situation in Shanxi is much better than that in Shaanxi.
In Shaanxi, not only the common people are having a hard time, but also the farmers and small landowners in Shaanxi are having a hard time.
In another year or two, even if the Tiger Flag does not intervene in Shaanxi, Shaanxi itself will be in chaos and set off a wave of peasant armies.
Most of the grain reserves that Tiger Character Banner has accumulated in the past few years have been spent on the several state capitals in Shaanxi that were captured by Tiger Character Banner.
Because of this, Liu Heng gave up the idea of taking over all of Shaanxi.
It's not that the Tiger Character Banner doesn't have the strength, but that there isn't that much food to feed all the people in Shaanxi. They can only occupy some of the state capitals in Shaanxi first, return a wave of blood, and then capture the remaining state capitals in Shaanxi.
"Not to Death has notified the farmers' associations in various places and sent personnel to each county to set up camp. Personnel from each county and town will be sent to the farmers' association to stay permanently. As long as there are problems with farmland anywhere, we will find the problems as soon as possible. Solve the problem." Zhao Yutu said.
Liu Heng reached out and touched the thin green leaves of the wheat seedlings and said: "It is a good thing for people to sink, but we must also avoid the style of the imperial envoy. The Tiger Character Banner is at best an armed regime, not a qualified real regime. I don’t want to see things like corruption and oppression of people just after a few good days.”
"My lord, what did you hear?" Zhao Yutu's face darkened. He didn't think Liu Heng would be unintended.
Liu Heng took his fingers away from the leaves of the wheat seedlings, stood up from the field ridge, patted the soil on his hands, and then said, "Let's take a walk."
After saying that, he walked along the field ridge into the depths of the field.
Zhao Yutu hurriedly followed.
As a guard, Zhao Wu followed them with several guards, while everyone else was blocked outside.
Liu Heng, who was barefoot, walked deeper and deeper along the field ridge, and soon his feet were covered with mud.
The two leather boots under the feet of Zhao Yutu, who was accompanying him, were covered with a thick layer of mud. It took a lot of effort to take a step, and his feet would slip from time to time.
Liu Heng looked back at Zhao Yutu, who was struggling to move forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and said: "The ground has just been poured with thawing water. It is not easy to walk on the ground."
"It's okay, I can leave." Zhao Yutu replied with a smile.
Liu Heng lowered his head and glanced at the thick mud on Zhao Yutu's boots, then continued walking forward.
Zhao Yutu, who was following behind, showed a trace of bitterness on his face. He gritted his teeth and followed closely, not letting himself fall behind.
We walked another section of field ridge.
After being some distance away from the people on the ground, Liu Heng finally stopped, and this also made Zhao Yutu, who was almost unable to follow behind, secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
"Walking on the newly watered field ridge, it is easier to walk barefoot than wearing shoes, especially if you are wearing leather boots. Isn't this road difficult to walk?" Liu Heng asked with a smile.
Zhao Yutu said with a wry smile: "It's really difficult to walk. If I keep going forward, I'm afraid my subordinates won't be able to keep up."
"You probably haven't been to the fields a few times, and you haven't even done much farm work, right?" Liu Heng asked.
Zhao Yutu nodded and replied: "I have been studying since I was a child, and I never let my subordinates do farm work at home. Later, when I joined my master, I didn't have the opportunity to do farm work."
"Want one?" Liu Heng took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhao Yutu.
Zhao Yutu shook his head.
Liu Heng put the cigarette into his mouth, took out the fire stick and lit the front end, and then took a deep puff to let the tobacco burn.
call!
He blew out the smoke that had been sucked into his stomach, and took another puff of tobacco that was stuck on the tip of his tongue.
Cigarettes are made in workshops and are easy to carry and use. However, the cigarettes Liu Heng smokes do not have filters. If they are not filtered properly, the tobacco will get into his mouth.
Liu Heng took a puff of cigarette and continued: "When I was a child, I ate Baijia rice. I was often hungry and full. During the busy farming season, I would help the people in the village tend the fields and eat for a while. Later, I became a soldier." , life became a little better, and I could eat every day. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before I followed Du Shuai to fight the old slaves. Unexpectedly, I suffered a tragic defeat. In order to survive, I followed Shi Yunhu and fled all the way to Shanxi."
As he spoke, he picked up the cigarette in his hand and took a puff.
What he was talking about was all about his past life, or maybe his whole life, because even he didn't know which of his two life trajectories was illusory and which was real.
"When a person is given a great responsibility from heaven, he will definitely have to work hard. The things my lord has experienced in the past are precisely because he is valued by God." Zhao Yutu explained.
However, when Liu Heng heard this, he snorted lightly and said, "God values shit. There are many people in the world who are worse off than me. It's just that they are unlucky and have no chance to get ahead until they die."
Resurrecting his life is his biggest secret.
If he had not experienced that life, I am afraid that he would have turned into a pile of bones and been eaten by wild dogs. At least in the life he experienced, there was no tiger-shaped flag, and there was no local armed force rising from Shanxi.
Zhao Yutu was very embarrassed.
Liu Heng's words made it difficult for him to continue, and he couldn't continue to curse God.
As a scholar, although I believe in not talking about strange powers and chaos, and stay away from ghosts and gods, I am still very cautious about God's affairs in my heart.
"Mr. Zhao is not young anymore, it's time to get a wife." Liu Heng said suddenly.
After hearing this, Zhao Yutu hurriedly said: "We are married and our children are over two years old. Now mother and son are living in Qingcheng. I am my lord, so I should have someone by my side to take care of me."
"Didn't you go to Qingcheng to see your sister-in-law and nephew during the Chinese New Year?" Liu Heng asked.
Zhao Yutu smiled bitterly and said: "Years ago, the Tiger Character Banner captured several state capitals in Shaanxi. Although military control was implemented, various supplies needed to be provided by Shanxi. The chief minister under him was so busy that he couldn't spare any time. Go to Qingcheng to meet the two of them."
As for letting mother and son come to live in Shanxi, he didn't mention it.
For high-ranking officials like him, the mother-in-law and children of the Tiger Banner have to stay in Qingcheng after they get married. On the one hand, this is because Shanxi is a battlefield, and the Ming army may counterattack at any time, so people in Shanxi will be in danger.
On the other hand, being in Qingcheng also means being a hostage.
