"For farming, how do you get the seeds, farm tools, and cattle? Do you already know where the areas are divided?" Xi Zhicai asked with doubts after coming out of the main tent.
He didn't expect that Zhang Han had such a plan in mind. When he was still working as a literary publisher under his own account, he never showed off his talents. He just learned to be self-respecting and listen first.
It would have been nice if we had discussed it more with him at that time.
"No," Zhang Han grinned.
"We need to win this battle first and then think about the specific farming issues later. But after the bandits return, they will definitely be willing to become farmers. As long as the government orders are arranged well and there is no rebellion, it will be fine."
"It makes sense," Xi Zhicai rolled his eyes at Zhang Han. The top priority now was indeed to put down the Qingxu bandits first.
I just didn't expect that this Han spoke so directly, isn't it sad? Those who didn’t know it thought it meant “mountain people have their own clever ideas”.
Tsk, so annoying.
He was originally my client.
…
Cao Cao knew that the strategy was appropriate and ordered his troops to attack and harass the Qingxu thief.
According to Zhang Han's strategy, "when the enemy retreats, we advance; when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack"; the army uses elite cavalry and extremely fast light-armored infantry to march together.
So thousands of soldiers and horses, plus Bao Xin's five thousand elite troops, pursued Qingxu's thieves without fighting to the death or advancing rashly.
During this period, we must advance and retreat in a controlled manner, keeping the thieves and bandits in check and not entering dangerous areas. For more than ten days in a row, the competition is patience.
But once the Qingxu thieves find a small group of men who fall behind, the cavalry will immediately rush up to round them up and force them to surrender.
In the past few days, the food supply of the thieves has been unsustainable.
At this moment, Cao Cao seized the opportunity and personally led his troops out, fighting day and night with Bao Xin and his troops. After Qingxu Huangjin's last breath, he finally began to surrender at the end of March.
When the first batch of bandits surrender, the leaders of other tribes will panic. After all, the first surrender is like a pioneering work, and the favors received by those who follow may not be as good as those who came before.
In early April, these Qingxu thieves began to rush to surrender and brought their people across the border to pray for surrender to Cao's army.
Cao Cao and Bao Xin, who continued to surrender, found after totaling that the number of thieves plus the refugees exceeded 800,000, and they were still increasing.
Eventually it reached a million.
One million people surrendered, of which 300,000 were surrendered by the bandits. If they were said to have committed serious crimes, most of them were just homeless and blindly seeking survival. If they were said to be innocent, they also killed the Prime Minister and the Governor. , at any rate, one is two thousand stones, and the other is eight hundred stones.
The eight hundred stones for the governor are not that simple. In the early years, the governor only had the power of supervision. However, later on, most of the governors were selected from among the prefects, and they also had military power. The military system of the government has been around for hundreds of years, which early gave each place the potential to use troops to stand on its own, so naturally Also an important figure.
Cao Cao and Bao Xin felt even more troubled.
However, a headache is a headache, and the arrow has to be fired. If there are too many people at this time and they don't want to surrender, maybe the damage to the reputation is just a minor matter, and the continuous dissent and mutiny are a big deal.
When Cao Cao started his business, he suffered the Danyang Rebellion and almost died in the early stages of starting his business. This was equivalent to being robbed while raising funds. It's one thing to feel uncomfortable, but the calculation that hidden dangers may break out at any time is a big deal.
People like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao don't like to be plotted behind their backs, so they think more complicatedly and don't want others to guess their thoughts.
April is the last month of busy spring plowing and farming.
When the spring rain continued, Cao Cao issued an order to promote Zhang Han to the chief of staff, and rewarded him with ten gold coins as a reward. He also gave him a choice of ten guards to accompany him.
A mansion was given in Juancheng to accommodate his family. However, Zhang Han currently has no family members, so he only has maids and servants in charge of him for the time being.
Only at this moment did he truly treat Zhang Han as a real counselor, just like other counselors who personally invited him to come out.
Zhang Mansion in Juancheng has a newly hung sign on the door. Entering the courtyard is a spacious and grand courtyard with stone slabs. Zhang Han was crouching on the threshold in the courtyard at this time, reading some geographical records and unknown information that had just been sent to him by the opera. Strategies written by famous counselors.
At the same time, the system reward record panel can come to mind.
[Providing advice and meritorious service, pacifying millions of thieves, command +3, force +1]
【Command: 72】
[Force: 83]
Force represents strength and basic martial arts, while command refers to the understanding of the art of war, the ability to lead troops, and the basic abilities of marching and leading troops.
It has nothing to do with Wenzhi.
Improved intelligence can make it easier for him to study and learn literature, and internal affairs is a specialization in internal governance. Now Zhang Han wants these even more.
When it comes to pure force, intelligence is better when your strength is limited. Otherwise, once the things you encounter have nothing to do with the "prophet" given by the convenience of time travel, and you need to really deal with intrigues, you may make mistakes.
I was clearly offering advice as a counselor, but what I got was [force], but it doesn't matter. Internal affairs are real civil affairs priorities. If we can do a good job in the farming affairs, we can definitely continue to improve.
"I don't want to go back to fight in blood again."
"It's dangerous just to think about it." Zhang Han was able to survive the previous year mainly because he didn't encounter a regular army and had been following Cao's army to wipe out the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. Although these bandits were numerous, they were easily defeated, and they had no famous generals to lead them, and no famous men came out. seek.
At this time, Cao Cao had already walked into the courtyard gate. The two guards outside the gate didn't even have time to notify him. He had already strode in, covered in dust.
Cao Cao had just returned from the military camp. He had almost finished surrendering the remaining bandits, and he personally led his army to the mountains to wipe out the bandits. From the time he sent out troops to the end of the war, he was personally in charge of the army.
Now back to Juancheng, I came to see Zhang Han as soon as possible, looking forward to the farming strategy that Zhang Han had mentioned before.
Beside Cao Cao, there were elegant scribes following him, the serious Xun Yu. After picking up Cao Cao at the east city gate, he followed him all the way to see Zhang Han.
When they met again at this time, he also began to speak sternly to Zhang Han. The main reason was that Cao Cao made it clear that Zhang Han had a way to resettle farmland here, which could solve the current difficulties.
However, Xun Yu just smiled and said nothing, thinking that maybe Zhang Han didn't know that Qingxu's return was not only bandits, but also refugees, totaling millions.
If you know that he still dares to boast about Haikou, then it is worthy of admiration.
But out of politeness, I decided to come and listen.
Sitting down in the main hall, there was no tea in Zhang Han's house, so they could only serve some wine and food. The few of them immediately discussed the current situation.
"Bo Chang can speak freely. If you have a plan, don't hide it in your heart. If there is something hard to say, you can ask me and Wen Ruo. We will make a plan today."
"Today?" Zhang Han raised his brows. He didn't expect such a vigorous and resolute move.
"today."
Cao Cao took a sip of wine, then looked serious and listened attentively.
He wanted to hear what was different about farming from Zhang Han's mouth.
If not, then go back and have a deep talk with Xun Yu tomorrow. If it still doesn't work, then ask Zhang Miao to support grain, grass and military supplies to resettle the refugees.
Anyway, the situation is initially determined at this time, and it can either be solved with brains or with shame.
In short, we must settle down and establish a firm foothold in Yanzhou before we can compete for supremacy.
