In Qingzhou, Taoist Huang Tian was playing with a sweet potato in his hand. The sweet potato was very big. At a glance, one could tell that it was cultivated carefully in the finest fertile fields.
In this era, sweet potatoes have long been popular, but except for the sweet potatoes that are exclusively for the nobles, poor people often plant sweet potatoes in wasteland instead of fertile land. The reason is simple. It is difficult to sell sweet potatoes at a high price and is not as good as other foods.
More importantly, if you plant sweet potatoes frequently in the field, it will consume too much soil and affect the yield of other grains.
Moreover, even if they are planted in fertile fields, if they do not spend a lot of energy to take care of them, it will be difficult to grow to a huge size. Most of them will be thin and long, and taste dry and tasteless. Only the lower class will eat this thing to satisfy their hunger.
Therefore, anyone with a discerning eye can immediately conclude when they see this size. It is not easy to grow this sweet potato. It is not just the amount of effort it takes to achieve such a result.
However, Taoist Huang Tian, as the resident golden immortal, is aware of the subtleties. He knows that this thing does not come from intensive cultivation, but is forced to come out by the strong soil power.
Others only think that the dew falls from the mountains. The so-called dew is just a fabricated thing used to win people's hearts in the name of ghosts and gods.
The sweet potatoes distributed to the mountain people are only the best products grown by Zhao Cheng after he spent a lot of effort and intensive cultivation.
If you don't care about the yield, it is not difficult to plant only a few plants on a large piece of land and have people take care of it carefully. Using the soil fertility of the first crop of land after burning, it is not difficult to achieve this effect. After all, the land after the first burning will , is the so-called fertile land.
It's just that there is little water in the mountainous areas. In sunny weather, it even needs to be watered every day, which is really very labor-intensive.
Indeed, Lianshan is a deserted land, and no matter which force is there, no intelligence system has been built in Lianshan in advance.
Because, before Zhao Cheng, no one thought that someone would develop their base in that bitter cold place in the mountains.
This is no longer half the result with half the effort, but even if you spend dozens of times the effort, you may not be able to get half the result.
However, now that so much time has passed, the news and some things in Lianshan have been delivered to some caring hands.
For example, Cao Zheng in Qingzhou, Taoist Huangtian, Wu family, Feng family, and Chen family in Nanhuang.
With the strength of these people, whether they are organizing a caravan to Lianshan, or buying people in the caravan, even some caravans already have their people.
Using businessmen as spies has existed since ancient times, but anyone with ambitions will not neglect the construction of an intelligence system.
In fact, many merchants sell multiple products and provide various information to multiple people at the same time.
From summer to winter, many caravans have visited Lianshan in the past few months. Not only has the number of caravans not been reduced due to the war, it has even been slightly more than in previous years.
However, this kind of temporary intelligence system is not only slow to transmit information, but also many things are based on hearing and seeing. Businessmen can spy on the intelligence in the village, but they cannot enter the military camp and see inside. s things.
And even the various rumors in the cottage are deceptive to the extreme.
Ancestors had dreams, ten people came out of the temple, books were hidden in the belly of beasts, foxes spoke in deceitful words, two emperors gave orders..., every rumor rarely mentioned the specific situation of the military camp, and some just talked about the destiny of General Yingtian. After returning home, there was very little talk about the inside of the military camp.
As for the parts that spread to the outside, they are also painted in the same style as the rumors above. The main theme is that a god has come to the world, not a mortal.
In this case, the various forces had a misjudgment of Zhao Cheng's impression. What's more, he was a person who was good at deceiving people and had some tricks.
As for the food problem, it is nothing more than dispersing the troops and hunting in all directions before the autumn harvest. After the autumn harvest, training is reduced and the soldiers are only given enough rations to survive. It is not difficult to survive this winter.
However, this will inevitably make the military mentally and physically exhausted, and the subsequent combat effectiveness will be reduced a lot.
As for Roshan Lianghai, if they, the rulers, believed in this thing, they would be no different from the ignorant people.
Throughout the ages, these strange things of ghosts and gods have long been outplayed by the seniors.
It is only because the mountain people are isolated from the rest of the world that they are more likely to be deceived.
Only Taoist Huang Tian knew the value of understanding Huang Tian's reconstruction. He had already glimpsed some truth from the rumors.
This is even more true when you get sweet potatoes today.
In fact, some time ago, Zhao Chengcheng sent someone to deliver something to Taoist Huang Tian, but he did not deliver sweet potatoes.
Now that he saw Fanshu, Taoist Huang Tian also laughed. He was testing Zhao Cheng and wanted to see more whether he could really be entrusted with the foundation. Zhao Cheng was also testing himself to see if he had the guts to make a big gamble. Big picture.
At this moment, apart from the sweet potato in his hand, there was also a silk book pressed on it.
Taoist Huang Tian did not read the silk book directly, but handed it to the person next to him and said, "Mr. Li, this is Lian Shanzhong's reply. What do you think of this?"
When Mr. Li heard this, he spread out the silk book. There were only a few big characters on it: "I swear I will not return it if I don't take Wucheng."
This reply was delivered to Taoist Huang Tian almost at the same time as the sweet potato, but the channel was different.
When Mr. Li saw this, he immediately made a sign of anger: "This son is supporting the army and respecting himself. He must have a disobedient heart and disobey the orders. According to the law, he will be executed without any injustice!"
This Mr. Li, named Li Tonghai, is in his forties. In his early years, he was just a poor teacher. Because of his poor family background, it was difficult to achieve anything. However, after he joined Huang Tianjun, he made many ingenious schemes and even almost let Huang Tianjun. Take the city of God.
It was only because the Divine City was so strong that the imperial court was able to take a breather and call on heroes from all over to work hard for the king. It was also that battle that caused Huang Tiandao to turn from prosperity to decline, and now he is shrinking in a small Qingzhou.
"Mr. Li, what I want to hear is the truth."
Upon hearing this, Taoist Huang Tian showed a rare smile.
"My lord, what I said is the truth."
Mr. Li said seriously.
It turns out that some time ago, news came out in Lianshan. At that time, Huang Tianjun's general suggested that heroes like Zhao Cheng be quickly recalled and trained in the army. Such talents would not be placed in Lianshan. waste.
These words are high-sounding, and anyone with a little bit of discernment can see that what appears to be promotion is actually a seizure of power.
In this world, all official positions are nothing more than four situations: high position and high power, high position and low power, low position and high power, and low position and low power.
