Watching the people in the distance driving the cattle slowly to the north, Sang Yi smiled and said, "Yunxing, are you going to buy all the cattle in Jiaozhi?" After a few months, those Cochin people couldn't even plant the land! ”

Xu Ping said: "Is there any way?" Twenty or thirty thousand people gathered in this small place, the big Chinese New Year, can't let them not eat meat, I don't buy from Jiaozhi, where do you buy it? The cattle from Jinghu rushed to Yongzhou, how could it be a few months later, how could it be in time? ”

"Why don't you buy pigs and sheep from Cochin?"

Sang Yi shook his head, specializing in buying cattle from Jiaozhi, who doesn't know what Xu Ping is thinking? The local magistrate on the Jiaozhi side has strictly ordered that the cattle should not be sold, but the cane sugar business is rich and can afford the high price, and there is still a steady stream of Jiaozhi people selling cattle to the border and selling them to the Song army stationed in Langzhou.

However, what Xu Ping said is also the truth, more than 10,000 township soldiers are now stationed in Langzhou, plus the 5,000 troops brought by Sang Yi, the population has skyrocketed, and the food supply is unprecedentedly tight.

On December 25, Xu Ping marched into Langzhou, and it was nearly a year after the pacification was settled, and in order to prevent the counterattack of Jiaozhi, this year could not be passed. Today, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Langzhou, as well as more than 20,000 people, who are constantly building various defense facilities day and night. In order to ensure that these forty or fifty thousand people can have wine and meat every day, Xu Ping has exhausted all means.

The road from Menzhou to Langzhou has been built, and pigs and sheep from around Taiping County are in an endless stream on the road every day, and Xu Ping has used almost half of the meat reserves of the cane sugar business in Langzhou. In order to make up for the gap in the previous year, the sugar cane department sent special personnel to Yongzhou, Guizhou, and even as far as Jinghu Road to sell cattle and sheep.

Of course, the most convenient source of meat is still Cochin, which is close to each other, and is the essence of Cochin agriculture hundreds of miles away, which is much more convenient than the source of the Great Song Dynasty, which is thousands of miles away at every turn.

Xu Ping specializes in buying cattle from the territory of Jiaozhi, and the ostensible statement is that the cattle are large and have a lot of meat. It is relatively easy to traffic over long distances, and in fact, of course, it is still digging the roots of Cochin. Without the ploughing cattle, the grain cultivation in Cochin will inevitably be greatly affected in the coming year, and it will be seen how much Li Foma still has to find trouble in Langzhou.

Fighting a war is a matter for the government, where do the common people care about that? At this time, it is the time of farming, and raising cattle is also a burden. The Song people paid a high price, why didn't the Jiaozhi farmers sell? Moreover, in this year, the Red River Delta, the great granary of later generations, had just begun to develop, and the rice transplanting technology was limited to a few areas, and there was no shadow of multi-cropping rice, and the delta crisscrossed by the river was still full of swamps, and scattered cattle were everywhere. The Jiaozhi farmers do not regard the ploughing cattle as treasures, where are they like the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River, raising a cow is the same as serving their father. I'm afraid of losing a little fat.

Xu Ping looked at the cattle dealer who returned from the south, and secretly said in his heart, I just bought cattle, not specifically bought cow hooves, and I couldn't be more kind. I really have the heart to pit Jiaozhi people, with the financial resources of the cane sugar business, the whole country of Jiaozhi is not enough to pit, maybe the dragon chair under Li Foma's ass can be bought.

The sun is overhead at this time. The sun is warm, for Xu Ping and Sang Yi, two people from the Central Plains. I don't feel the smell of winter at all.

On the hillside, the people are leveling the land, three miles to the left and right of the valley mouth, and all the south-facing slopes are to be leveled into smooth slopes, and large rocks and trees and jungles are to be removed. This is the offensive route that Xu Ping left for the soldiers and horses to attack Jiaozhi, and it is also their Shura field.

Sang Yi looked at the busy people from the top of the mountain. Listening to the explosion of gunpowder blowing up boulders from time to time, he said to Xu Ping: "Sometimes I really don't know what you think, when you fight, you fight, soldiers and horses face each other, and swords and guns face each other." Rushing and killing in the formation is the true nature of a man. As a result, if you fight a war, it will be the same as farming, leveling the land, and digging ditches and building weirs, so you want to rely on farming to lose the Jiaozhi seeds? ”

"What's that? I cane sugar for tens of thousands of people, and I don't need them to transport grain for defensive operations, of course, I have to repair the battlefield. Do you think, in order to defend the place, who does not know to build a city? I'm just going to be bigger. ”

Sang Yi just shook his head. Of course, he is not against Xu Ping's approach, as a general who rushes to kill on the battlefield, he certainly knows the importance of terrain. But Sang Yi really couldn't figure it out, he could understand the construction of the city and the road, but it was strange for Xu Ping to completely repair the terrain of the entire place by spreading out the stalls like this.

However, Xu Ping did not repair the city, but regarded the two mountains sandwiching the valley mouth as city walls, so that thousands of people were busy here, rolling wood and stones were placed here, but the valley mouth did not build a pass.

Is this what normal people do?

Xu Ping looked at this lively scene, but he was full of pride.

As a person with memories of his past life, how can he be as petty as people in this era? Whether you are farming or fighting, what you want is the courage to change the world! If you have manpower and material resources, you want to turn the world upside down, and you want the world to follow your own mind.

Defending the enemy's must-attack place with superior forces is a really coveted opportunity strategically! In the era of guns and cannons in later generations, the amount of earth and stone was more than building a city.

Jiaozhi mobilized troops and horses to attack Langzhou, how could it take a month, in this month, Xu Ping wanted to turn Langzhou into a Shura field for Jiaozhi people.

Sang Yi looked at this hot scene, and he was also full of pride. He is also a person who has participated in the provincial examination, but he has no choice but to give up his writing and follow the military, and of course he wants to build a meritorious career. In the first battle of Guangyuanzhou, the most difficult thing was not the battle, but the logistical march, which was just an appetizer for him. In the face of the Jiaozhi army in Langzhou, it is the time to really show your skills and make contributions.

"Hey, aren't those two veterans guarding Yuxian Tower, why did they come here too?"

Looking at the bottom of the mountain, Qiao Datou helped Chen Laoshi to the valley mouth, and Sang Yiqi said.

Xu Ping followed Sang Yi's gaze and saw the two of them, and said: "Han Zong is also messing around, the manpower of the sugar cane business is not tense to this extent, and he wants to get the two veterans to the battlefield!" ”

"It's not necessarily Han Zong's head to blame, no matter what these two people say, they are still Xiang Jun, maybe Taiping County sent all the Xiang Jun in service."

Sang Yi is more familiar with the situation of the Xiang Army than Xu Ping, and he is mainly in charge of these people as a soldier and horse inspector.

Seeing that the two of them arrived at the mouth of the valley, looking south at the land of Jiaozhi, motionless, Xu Ping said: "I will go back and tell you later, these veterans are here, and they are just raised." Nowadays we have no shortage of manpower, and there is no need to work these people and stir up other people's gossip. ”

Sang Yi agreed, and suddenly smiled at Xu Ping: "Seeing these two people, I remembered one more thing." These days, a lot of liquor is sold to Jiaozhi here in Langzhou, and it can't be shipped there in Taiping County for a while, and the taste of liquor is much weaker. I also tasted the sake that was shipped to Cochin, but the taste became stronger. ”

"You still drink less wine, the stronger the wine in your mouth, the more it hurts your body. I won't tell you the truth, none of the wine that was transported to Cochin has ever been aged, and it is a trivial matter to drink too much and have a headache, and it is not uncommon for one to be blind, or even lose your life. ”

There are far less grains such as sorghum in this area than in the Central Plains, and there are no good sake lees, and the liquor made with alcohol is extremely violent, and the damage to the body is much greater than that of the liquor. Xu Ping spent the money to buy cattle and used this inferior liquor to return money from Jiaozhi, but not for his own people.

(There's another chapter in the evening.) (To be continued.) )