Having a war-knowing person becomes an emperor is undoubtedly a good thing for the generals of the empire.

Having an emperor who is good at fighting and has a prosperous military merit is undoubtedly a blessing for the generals of the empire.

At least Le Jin thought so.

When he was marching and fighting, he was not very worried, nor did he think that his military achievements could surpass His Majesty the Emperor and reach the point where he was so successful that he could shock the Lord.

Many times, there is no need to be restrained, and there is no need to worry about this and that when fighting, because the emperor is always full of confidence.

So Le Jin thinks what Man Chong said makes sense.

"I have been following His Majesty for fifteen years. I have seen our army from 10,000 to 20,000 to more than 500,000 now. When we first fought, we still had some worries. When we faced Yuan Benchu ​​earlier, our army was at a disadvantage.

But since His Majesty led our army to defeat Yuan Benchu, I feel that our army will never have any opponents. Everything after that is all native chickens and dogs, and people who sell their heads. His Majesty can defeat all the enemy troops as long as he leads us to a charge."

"The chaotic times of the former Han Dynasty were able to be curbed and reunified within twenty years without causing longer chaos, all depended on Your Majesty today. If you hadn't your Majesty today, I wouldn't know where to do what you are doing. I'm afraid that if you can't see peace, you will regret it for your whole life."

Man Chong sighed deeply: "Even Taiping can't be seen, how can we have the power to defeat the world now?"

Le Jin also deeply agreed with what Man Chong said.

Your Majesty is now strong, 360 degrees without any blind spots.

The two were silent for a while.

"By the way, I heard that Zhang Wenyuan won a big victory in the south of Kuaiji County and annihilated more than 40,000 Shanyue people, right?"

Le Jin asked.

Man Chong nodded.

"In early April, Zhang Wenyuan wiped out a large number of Shanyue thieves in the south of Kuaiji County, near Lingnan. In short, this should be the last large-scale Shanyue thieves. Zhang Wenyuan had already submitted a letter to His Majesty, saying that Shanyue thieves have basically been destroyed, and only this last one is left."

"This war has been fought for four or five years."

Le Jin sighed a little: "This battle has started after the destruction of Sun Wu. The wars of all sizes have been fought for a long time, and the army has been replaced by two or three times, but finally it has been completed. Zhang Wenyuan has been awarded the title of first-class marquis and his fief has increased to 4,900 households.

There are only 6,300 households with Cao Zixiao. Going further, if someone can be awarded the title of Duke through military merits, that is, Cao Zixiao and Zhang Wenyuan, I will be in the back row, and I don’t know if it is possible in this life.”

Le Jin, who had only 2,700 households who had a fief, was still full of envy towards Zhang Liao.

"That's what he deserves."

Man Chong couldn't help but sigh: "There are more than 600,000 thieves in the mountains, more than 600,000, he beheaded more than 40,000, and he burned to death. All the rest were beaten out by him and included in the household.

Nowadays, several counties in Yangzhou have developed so well that His Majesty has to build the Grand Canal to strengthen his rule, otherwise he will have to worry about chaos in Yangzhou. How could this not be Zhang Wenyuan’s credit?”

"Zhang Wenyuan is really a famous god of killing in Jiangnan now."

Le Jin couldn't help but laugh and said, "I heard that he set fire to the forest in Yangzhou. Some of the fires lasted for hundreds of miles and were not completely extinguished for a month. The Shanyue thieves were burned like this and it was a disaster. It was so pitiful."

"Your Majesty did not criticize Zhang Wenyuan, and also issued an edict to praise Zhang Wenyuan, saying that his doing so was the fastest way to deal with miasma. Let him continue to do this, don't hesitate, anyway, it's a place where no one lives, just burn it."

Man Chong smiled and said, "Didn't your Majesty ask you to set fire to the forest to attack Nanzhong?"

"Yes, I didn't expect that setting fire to destroy the miasma and prevent the army from being attacked by miasma. This is true. When I led my troops to attack the four counties in Jingnan, I had a lot of fire. Few people got sick, and most of them were in good condition."

Le Jin was amazed at this: "I can't escape from Nanzhong. I have prepared a lot of tincture oil. Then I will burn it with fire and turn it upside down. I don't believe that I can't burn all the barbarians!"

"Don't burn too hard. You burn too hard. Isn't it the one who's troubled by then? There are so many things I have to do, so let me save some effort!"

Man Chong smiled bitterly.

"So what's wrong? Haven't everything solved? In addition to road construction and food, you can also send someone to keep an eye on others. There is no need to do it yourself, right?"

Le Jin looked at Man Chong.

Man Chong sighed.

"It's not that simple. The land in Shuzhong is isolated from the Central Plains for a long time. I have been in Shuzhong for a while and found that the land in Shuzhong is not simple and it is quite difficult to deal with."

"What a tricky way? Excessive merger of land by powerful families?"

"It's not like this. Who dares to annex the land now? Isn't that asking for death by myself?"

Man Chong shook his head: "Many farmers in Shu lag behind the Central Plains in their farming skills. They don't know how to use manure to increase yield, and there are even many who don't know how to drain water.

So much so that the soil is whiten and food cannot be grown, the land cannot be used directly. There are quite a lot of such land, and local officials report it in large quantities, which makes me feel a headache."

"Oh, there's something going on."

Le Jin nodded.

Earlier, during the Qing and Yan prefectures, Guo Peng carried out a number of large-scale operations in the Qing and Yan prefectures.

Whether it is to control locusts, build water conservancy, establish military farms, or build rural second-level governments, they are all major projects. One of them has a great impact. Lejin still has the impression that it is the land drainage action.

At that time, not only was there a risk of flooding along the Yellow River, but there were also many problems of soil whitening as Man Chong mentioned.

After the completion of the village of Tuntian, many grassroots officials reported to Guo Peng, saying that there will be an additional batch of land in the local area that cannot continue to cultivate grain every year, which has forced farmers to give up these lands.

It often takes several years before a part of these land can be cultivated again.

When Guo Peng sent someone to find out, he found that this situation had existed for a long time.

Officials reported that there would be a layer of white salt-like things on the surface of those whitened lands. Putting them into your mouth a little bit, you could taste the salty and bitter taste.

This situation has happened a long time ago.

When local officials report, they will also quote the old farmer, saying that in such a situation, they can only be left for a few years without planting things, and some land will slowly be restored to its original state, but some will be difficult.

Even if it recovers slightly, grain output will be reduced.

Then Guo Peng directly took the official team to the village for field research, realizing that this was a problem of land salinization, so he proposed some solutions.

Guo Peng held a conference at that time, and the meeting proposed that the soil became like this because they built water conservancy projects and introduced water from irrigated farmland in various places.

This water flows on the ground, and during the flow, it will carry some things that cannot be seen by the naked eye. After being introduced into the farmland, the water is absorbed and these things are also retained.

As soon as the sun shines, the water is evaporated and used, and these things accumulate in the land.

As time goes by, more and more accumulations will occur, which will cause the soil to whiten and the land will not be able to cultivate grain.

The solutions are limited, such as collecting more rainwater when it rains and irrigating the land with clean rainwater.

When there is a lack of rainwater and watering, drainage measures must be taken. In addition, make full use of farming methods and other farming methods to give the land a rest and self-recovery time.

Land that does not need to be cultivated requires large areas of deep pine soil to allow clean rainwater to wash the land, thereby slowing down the salinization of improved land.

In addition, Guo Peng also asked local grassroots officials and officials in charge of farming at that time to go deep into grassroots villages to explain such issues to farmers, so that they could pay more attention to prevent large-scale salinization of the land.

Local officials are also specifically asked to count the number of salinized land acres, and they must compare them with the previous year to adjust agricultural policies every year.

After Guo Peng became emperor, such a thing fell on the officials of the Agricultural Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Central Committee, who was responsible for agriculture.

The number of officials in this part is also the largest number of people in the entire Ministry of Civil Affairs.

They need to frequently go to local localities from the central government to conduct field research, write reports, and then tell local farmers about the recent technological developments, so as to teach them to farm more scientifically and efficiently.

We must also continue to be responsible for counting the number of soil salinization throughout the world and conducting macro-management.

These people ran around the world, no less than those tax collectors.

So recently, it has been reported that Guo Peng intends to leave the Agricultural Affairs Department from the Civil Affairs Department and set up a separate Agricultural Affairs Department to be responsible for the whole world's agriculture.

Now that I learned that this situation also happened in Yizhou, the situation was quite serious, so Lejin felt that it would not take long to establish the Ministry of Agriculture, which is specifically responsible for the world's agricultural issues.

"Okay, you are so busy, I will have more snacks for the matter here. You can prepare for the logistics with peace of mind. When the matter here is handled almost, my roads can be repaired almost the same. By then, the plans of the four counties in Nanzhong will be officially implemented, and then..."

Le Jin narrowed his eyes: "The Yong family in Nanzhong is not very stable. After Yong Kai was granted the title of Yongchang Prefect, he was not satisfied. He also wanted the court to designate him as the governor of Nanzhong and the military and political affairs of the four counties in Nanzhong. I think this person will not be so simple and stop and wait until we have built the road."

Man Chong nodded.

"This person has a bad intention and has guided the barbarians in the south to test the garrisons of our Yueli County and Jingli County several times. General Zhang He and General Huang Zhong have repelled the barbarians in the south to several times, but now it seems that this kind of temptation is just the beginning."

"What does your Majesty think?"

Le Jin asked Man Chong.

"Your Majesty means that he wants to test it, so he can test it. Anyway, he will fight it once and once. In short, the Governor of the Southern Central Committee cannot give it to him easily, but he can give it to him, but he will continue to negotiate.

If you grind little by little, delay little by little, and make slow concessions little by little, you will discuss and deal with him more in other aspects. Anyway, as long as he thinks that our army has strong combat power, he will not dare to act rashly."

Man Chong said, "Person him for a while first. We will speed up the road construction and prepare for war. The number of Han and barbarian soldiers he can gather is definitely not a small number. If it really takes place, it will be a bit difficult. We must prepare."

"I'm not worried if I really want to fight."

Le Jin shook his head and said, "Just those barbarians in the south, I will kill one, and two of them will kill two. It's better if you come, you will destroy them directly and save me from searching everywhere.

If we really want to attack the main attack, we have to set fire all the way through. It’s very troublesome... By the way, has the hot turquoise oil I want? Without the hot turquoise oil, it’s really hard to burn this dense forest that can’t be seen."

"About 3,000 cans are sent to Chengdu Arsenal every month. Now there are almost 30,000 cans in stock. If you really want to fight, it should be enough."

Man Chong smiled and said, "You also want to learn from Zhang Wenyuan, use hot turmeric oil to open the way and burn it all the way?"

"How can I not burn it? Miasma harms people. If I don't burn it, I don't know how many people will die."

Le Jin smiled: "It's so convenient to burn all the way, and I feel that we shouldn't go on the battle at this time. It's rainy at this time, which is not convenient for us to burn the forest. When the autumn is clear and the winter is cool, it's absolutely more efficient."
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