In the blink of an eye, it is golden autumn again, and it is another harvest season.

Although today's climate is not as good as it could be, with months of drought in the spring and floods in the summer and autumn, the state has seen a record high in grain production.

Such a good harvest is naturally thanks to the comprehensive promotion of intensive farming, after two years of pilot, intensive farming has achieved quite good results, in the pilot area, the output of grain has increased by at least six or seven percent, the highest place can be more than doubled, such proud results, so that Cao Liang is confidence doubled, so in the spring of this year, Cao Liang decided to promote intensive cultivation for the entire state, in addition to the mountains that are not suitable for promotion, More than 80 per cent of the fields in the plains are cultivated intensively.

Comprehensive promotion is different from the pilot, in the pilot area, Cao Liang can invest a lot of manpower and material resources to ensure the effect of farming, after the full promotion, many supporting conditions, such as water conservancy, seeds, cattle, labor must keep up, this will be a huge and systematic project, after all, it is not easy to change the inherent thinking of farmers.

Cao Liang appointed a large number of agricultural officials to various counties and counties to supervise and manage the planting of seeds, and to guide and help the peasants to carry out intensive cultivation.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, let alone such a huge project, but with the efforts of a large number of agricultural officials, intensive cultivation is still effectively promoted, after experiencing a great drought in spring and a flood in summer and autumn, the grain output has increased unabated, and the success of intensive cultivation has made the people of Bingzhou rejoice and celebrate a bumper harvest.

Although there are many lands in the world, but the extensive planting and thin harvest, the inefficient farming method can not solve the problem of food and clothing for the people in the world.

Cao Liang's intensive cultivation is undoubtedly the best way to improve production efficiency, for generations, and the state has been known for its mountains and little land, and the land is barren, so among the thirteen states in the world, the state has always been ranked at the bottom of the list in terms of economy and population.

Even if Cao Liang occupies the state, Sima Yi doesn't think so, in Sima Yi's cognition, the state is desolate and remote, the output of grain and grass is limited, and it can't feed too much of the population at all.

Therefore, Sima Yi would rather focus on dealing with Wang Ling in Huainan than take Cao Liang in Bingzhou too seriously.

Generally speaking, ten people draw one soldier, that is to say, the normal ratio of soldiers to people is ten to one, with 100,000 troops, then there must be a million people as the basis, a desolate and remote state, can there be a million people?

Of course, it is not impossible to raise this ratio, and it is not impossible, but if there are too many troops to feed, the heavier the burden on the people, because the main source of food and salary required by the army is taxes, which is a burden that will fall on everyone's head, the larger the number of troops, the heavier the burden on the people, and in the case of no increase in grain production, the ordinary people will be overwhelmed.

Now that the battle sequence of the merging state army has exceeded 100,000 people, such a rapid expansion of the army can certainly improve the combat effectiveness of the merge state army, but it will also be a serious test for the economy of the merger state.

But the promotion of intensive cultivation has made all this no longer a thing, and the doubling of grain production has allowed the people of Bingzhou to have surplus grain for the first time, and it has also made the treasury of Bingzhou full, with the current economic strength of Bingzhou, let alone feeding 100,000 troops, even if it is more troops, it is not a problem.

Of course, Cao Liang's harvest is not limited to this, in the past half a year, Liu Ying has asked Cao Liang not to stay outside even if he is busy with official business, no matter how late it is, he has to go home to accompany his wife.

Cao Liang didn't dare to rebel, so he had to follow the old lady's instructions, go out early and return late every day, and be very diligent.

A hard work, there will naturally be a harvest, Yang Huiyu and Sima Ru's stomachs are bulging day by day, and Liu Ying is naturally overjoyed.

When the first snow fell in the first ten winters, the news that Cao Liang had been waiting for for a long time also came back from Luoyang.

However, Cao Liang was not the slightest surprised by this news, from the moment he chose to withdraw from Hanoi, Cao Liang knew that Wang Ling's defeat was already doomed, but according to his estimates, Wang Ling could hold on a little longer, at least survive this winter.

But Wang Ling failed to persevere, a continuous heavy rain accelerated Wang Ling's defeat, and Sima Yi just seized the opportunity of the day, flooded Shouchun City, Wang Ling, who had reached the point of exhaustion, did not try to carry out the final decisive battle, but chose to surrender, and the battle of Huainan came to an end after nineteen months.

In the winter of October, Sima Yi returned to Luoyang, and Cao Fang changed the Yuan to Jiaping in order to show his merits, so this year became the first year of Jiaping.

On the way back to Luoyang, Wang Ling, who was under house arrest by Sima Yi, chose to commit suicide, perhaps for him, this is the most dignified way to die.

However, Sima Yi obviously would not let go of his corpse, and after returning to Luoyang, Wang Ling's corpse was pulled to the streets of the downtown area, and he was whipped three hundred corpses in public, and the originally intact corpse was whipped into a blur of flesh and blood.

And that's not all, in addition to exposing his body for three days, Sima Yi also cut off his head and hung it at the gate of Luoyang for public display.

This is the highest punishment for the rebel, even if the person dies, the corpse will be taken on his behalf, Sima Yi is to use this way to intimidate the people of the world, those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me die, those who dare to rebel and make trouble, Wang Ling is the end.

Punishing Wang Ling alone is not Sima Yi's only means, in terms of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, Sima Yi is afraid that he has done more extreme than anyone else, Wang Ling's three sons: Wang Guang, Wang Feixiao, and Wang Jinhu were all beheaded in the city.

and Ling Huyu, who was captured in Yanzhou earlier, was also beheaded this time, and he enjoyed a higher "treatment", and was given the punishment of car splitting, which is commonly known as the split of five horses.

The number of people who were punished this time was also extremely wide, about a thousand Wang Ling and Ling Huyu's cronies and descendants were beheaded, and thousands of people were exiled and sent to the frontier, and Luoyang City experienced another bloody storm.