Ke in the west of Khotan, Guo Xiaoke took his staff to inspect Tuntian, in addition to the official tun of the imperial court, the number of merchants from the people, like Dunhuang, is obviously more than the official.

"With only this 'eight-ox plow', the prince should be respected by future generations."

As Guo Xiaoke, he shouldn't have commented on the prince of the empire like this. Although the left and right staff members are cronies, they also opened their mouths to remind them, but Guo Xiaoke himself was very casual, waved his hand and smiled: "It doesn't matter, don't behave like this." ”

"General, should we also follow the example of those merchants, make 'grass squares' at the edge of the barren fields, and then plant trees?"

"Look again."

Guo Xiaoke was a little serious, "Whether it is effective or not, that is, this year's thing." And the year before that, they had been doing so, and the pastures had not decreased. At the beginning of the year, I went to the south of the city, passing through Pishan Town, where there was a Khotanese stall of the 'West Qin Society', and there were 11 million acres of pasture in Pishan Town......"

"One, one million acres!"

The cronies were also shocked, according to Hebei Province in recent years, especially in the hometown of the Dingxiang Governor's Mansion, as long as one acre of land is planted properly, it can feed two cows. With the green feed tower and the planting of beans and wheat, the weight of the two cows is much heavier than that of the nomadic herd, and the meat yield is very considerable.

The only thing that makes people criticize is nothing more than the taste.

In the early years, the imperial court did not directly open up the Silk Road in Dunhuang, mainly due to financial problems. It is not a problem to march and fight, nor is it a problem to win, Hou Junji marched all the way to the west and directly attacked the northeast of Tulun Moraine, and the likes of Qiuzi were not vulnerable at all.

However, at that time, it was only to maintain Xizhou and Yizhou, and according to the calculation of 10,000 Tang troops, Tuntian alone would consume more than 15 times the labor. This is only the initial pure investment, and it does not include the intermittent operations of "public order warfare" and "suppression of bandits."

At that time, the main source of income was only plunder and war profits. The two sides are offset, the court is at a loss, and only the military leaders and the accompanying caravans make money, and at most the barbarian aristocracy.

However, with the retirement of time, the updated agricultural technology and agricultural tools, relying on Cheng Chubi, who was still a lieutenant at the time, soon burst out with amazing energy.

Only a small agricultural population is needed to maintain a very large scale of agricultural land. During the period of Cheng Chubi and the end of the Duwei, Dunhuang only needed to allocate the finance to buy military supplies, and the rest was just Cheng Chubi to purchase on the spot, and then it could maintain the offensive nature of the army, and it did not need to be as conservative as Xizhou Yizhou.

A good finance, a good army, and a weak opponent are naturally a virtuous circle.

In the eyes of the "Sage Khan" at that time, this was naturally "a tiger father without a dog", and Cheng Saburo was invincible, which was really a consolation to the sacred heart.

The people of the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not see any problems from the accounts, and the work report of the Dunhuang Palace also listed the accounts clearly, one to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and one to the Inner Government.

The investigation of the Ministry of War did not find anything out of the system in Cheng Chubi, most of the caravans accompanying the army were closed and ransomed, and they had not directly traded with the army, and the yin and yang eunuchs who operated the "Xing Yi Field" were even more of the emperor's people, how could there be a problem.

So in the eyes of everyone, as long as it is the person who has not arrived and the end, this is Cheng Chubi's unparalleled martial arts in the art of war, which is really blessed by God, and it is very fortunate.

Only Guo Xiaoke, who was taken care of by Li Ji and Zhang Gongjin, figured out the taste.

Li Ji asked Guo Xiaoke to act carefully, and if there was a change, he would rely on Cheng Chubi, but now it seems that it is not Cheng Chubi who relies on it, but the huge Shangtun, camel team, horse gang, dart bureau, and club behind Cheng Chubi.

These forces are the ones that propelled Cheng Chubi to accomplish the great cause that the Han Dynasty needed more than 500,000 laborers to complete hundreds of years ago with very little manpower.

In the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Cheng Cheng, the commander of the southern capital, was only twenty-six years old.

"General, even if Tulun moraine is not as good as Hebei, Monan, and Hetao, one acre of land can feed half a cow, which is more than five million cattle. This...... If the Turks had such skills back then, how could they have waited for me? ”

The staff members were in a cold sweat, and Guo Xiaoke really couldn't cry or laugh: "How can there be such a calculation." ”

Shaking his head, Guo Xiaoke said: "Maintaining the green fodder tower and planting grass are all in order. And the peasant official of the last city is a disciple of the Jia family, and he is proficient in this way. Although the imperial court promoted agriculture in those years, it was only slightly arranged in Guanzhong, Hetao, and Hedong. ”

"In the final analysis, it is still money and food."

One person sighed, "At this time in the summer, Shule, who has no money and no food, should ask for mercy." ”

"Not necessarily."

Another person looked solemn and recalled the events of the past few months: "I don't know how many Shule reinforcements were intercepted and killed by the Nannan Army, as well as the envoys who Shule asked Dunhuang to surrender. Now, many of the Shule monarchs and ministers have sent envoys to Yizhou and Xizhou, hoping to ask the Tang Dynasty to surrender to the internal ......"

"Cheng Sima is really bold."

"But it's normal, now it's the difference between friend and foe. Just probe the horse and intercept the killing and report carefully, and it will be fine. In the future, the Ministry of War or the Metropolitan Protectorate will investigate, and it will not be a crime to do so. What's more, no one in Dunhuang dared to offend Cheng Sima again. ”

"I heard that in the south of the city, there are still people assassinating Cheng Sima."

"There are so many people who want to kill Cheng Sima."

When everyone was talking, everywhere they looked, they were farmers and herdsmen, and most of the people here had a grudge against Cheng. The city of Khotan in the east, at this time last year, still had its own monarch, but now it has not even been a decent nobleman.

Destroy their kingdom and destroy their worship......

Although he already knew that Cheng Chubi was ruthless and basically left no room for it, he was still in the scene, and the people who were officials and robes of the same dynasty felt that every pore exuded coldness.

Although some people will always use "the initiator, there is no aftermath" to remind themselves to "leave a line of life", but when they think of the forces behind Cheng Chubi, they feel envious, what is there to be afraid of?

I heard that the Xue family's Western Qin Society, with the help of Boluguo, has a Western Tianzhu Tubang named Shi Hanna.

It is unheard of for the company to take the country as its property!

But this is what really happened in the Western Regions, and the profits that thousands of mountains and rivers can't stop make a large number of Guanlong old clans take risks. They also had to take risks, and the loss of Chang'an, the political center, would inevitably lead them to further collapse in the empire's power map.

If you want to gain a firm foothold in Luoyang, which has been washed by the emperor three times, it is not enough to have "Jane in the emperor's heart", but also enough money to support this emperor's mercy.

While the Western Army was entangled inside and outside, the "Sage Khan" who arrived at Luoyang Palace was waiting for Youling to sing "Whose jade flute is flying in the dark, scattered into the spring breeze in Los Angeles".

Good poems, good poems, it is said that they were written by two talented women in Luoyang back then, and they have been famous for centuries.