This two-year truce agreement between the elder brother and Cao Cao was nominally abolished the peace of the world to cherish the lives of all living beings, but in fact it was just a preparation for both sides to recuperate and accumulate strength for the next comprehensive decisive battle.

This can be seen from the fact that the two sides were still guarding each other after the truce, and without relaxing their guards, we could see a clue. From Qingzhou, Xuzhou to Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, plus Liangzhou and Hanzhong, our army stationed at the forefront, and the scouts worked hard for twelve hours, and the same was true for Cao's army.

Even when Cao Cao led his army to attack Liaodong, the Cao army stationed on the border would never have subsided by 150,000 people.

In addition, according to the detailed reward, Cao Cao was trying his best to recruit soldiers, forge weapons, and prepare for war. At the same time, he tried his best to collect grain and grass.

In the first Northern Expedition, Cao Cao had to seek victory with surprise troops due to the lack of food and grass, but he was plotted on this point.

When talking about the gains and losses of the Northern Expedition afterwards, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both believed that food and grass played a crucial role in the victory or defeat of the war.

However, even though Cao Cao tried every means to raise food and grass, he had to be controlled by the population and land...

After the First Northern Expedition, the population ratio between Liu and Cao was about 6:4.

Furthermore, in terms of climate and land fertility, there is also a big gap between the north and the south. Due to population migration and the attention of the court, farming in counties and counties south of the Yangtze River is becoming increasingly prosperous, and the proportion of grain production is increasing year by year.

There is no problem in Jiangdong and Jingnan counties that have two grains ripening in a year. In Jiaozhou, three grains can be achieved. (In history, grain production in the south exceeded that in the north, around the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty. But the situation in this book has changed, haha)

Five years ago, Deng Zhi, who was the prefect of Kuaiji at the time, introduced "Zhanhe" from Jiaozhou, which was native to Jiaonan, and tried the planting in Kuaiji counties, and the result was a great success, with a per mu grain yield rising by more than 30%.

Then, Zhuge Liang, a farmer from the Grand Secretary, personally surveyed and studied this new type of rice and believed that it could be promoted. At present, the six counties in Jiangdong, four counties in Jingnan, and all counties in Jiaozhou have begun to plant on a large scale. The harvest in the past year alone is equivalent to one and a half times the harvest of the past.

At the same time, under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, Jiangbei began to implement rice and wheat rotation, so that in previous years, the counties and counties could only mature in one ripe area. In contrast, the prefectures and counties under Cao Cao, who could only mature in one year, naturally could not compare.

In this era, population, climate and land are the most critical factors that determine grain output. However, Cao Cao was not the only one who was the best.

Cao Cao lost a lot in the competition of food alone.

According to Fa Zheng, who returned from Liaodong not long ago, Cao Cao seemed to intend to attack the Three Koreans to solve some food problems.

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After the New Year, Sima Yi officially took office as Zong Zhengcheng. However, the "war" caused by him was still smoke. Sima Yi's "On Loyalty and Filial Piety" triggered a major debate among scholars all over the world.

The question of loyalty and filial piety is the first priority.

Thousands of scholars divided into two schools——Southern scholars and some northern scholars agreed with Sima Yi’s argument, believing that “loyalty is the first to filial piety”, that filial piety to parents is just “small filial piety”, and that loyalty to the emperor and the country is the real “great filial piety”.

Which one is more important is obvious at a glance; the other northern scholars advocate "filial piety is the first priority". They believe that if they don't sweep a house, they will not be able to sweep the world. If they are not filial to their parents, how can they be truly loyal to the emperor and the country?

In just two months, countless famous scholars and scholars wrote Wen Li's theory and refuted each other. Later, Sima Yi, the "culprit", seemed to have become a decoration. (Note: Historically. The debate on loyalty and filial piety in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was indeed quite fierce)

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On the 25th day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Zhanghe, the eldest brother left Lujiang and headed north to Zhangling, Shouchun and Guangling to visit the people who went south to avoid disaster. He then went north to Xuzhou and Qingzhou to continue to inspect military and political affairs and appease local military and civilians.

After the New Year, Xiao Adu was just eight years old and also traveled with his elder brother as a training to see the sufferings of the people and increase his horizons. What is ridiculous is that Xingcai girl who has never traveled far away.

I heard that Adou was going on a tour with his elder brother, but he actually took the opportunity of a family gathering. He pestered his elder brother to go out for a "game".

My elder brother has always doted on the little girl. Perhaps he was worried that Adou was too young and could not stand the loneliness during the inspection. After asking for advice from my second brother and I, he simply traveled with Xiao Guan Xing with Xing Ribbon.

Bao'er was kept by me because he needed to practice martial arts diligently. At first, he was very unhappy, and it was not until I promised him to go to see the army with Xiao Deng Ai that he comforted the kid.

On the eighth day of the second month, I brought Xiao Deng Ai and Baoer back to Jingzhou to personally preside over the training of the recruits.

At the same time, my second brother also went south to Danyang to inspect the training of new recruits in Yangzhou.

As of October last year, Jing, Yang and Jiaotong have recruited a total of 100,000 new recruits. In addition to the surrendered soldiers captured during the Northern Expedition, the size of our army is now no less than 350,000.

If Liangzhou, Xichuan and Hanzhong are added, the total force should be more than 450,000.

The surge in the number of people does not equate to the increase in combat power. During the first Northern Expedition, the 200,000 soldiers who participated in the war were all elite soldiers who had been in the army for many years and had participated in at least two wars.

There will be no problem with such an army command. But an army that has just formed an army for a long time and has not even experienced a war, once it encounters difficulties, it is easy to have "blasting camps" or even "military shock" when it comes to the battlefield.

To prevent problems before they happen, you can only carry out the most stringent exercises, or even actual offensive and defensive exercises.

Fortunately, many disabled veterans voluntarily stayed to help train new recruits at the request of the court. The veterans were almost dead and alive after many battles. Their greatest wealth lies in their rich battlefield experiences that they have personally experienced.

The recruits can benefit greatly from it.

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In March, the spring is cold and the earth has not yet recovered.

However, Xinye City is already in full swing, and 20,000 new troops in Jingzhou are training here.

"Huh~ha~hey~!" One by one, the infantry phalanx practiced a series of techniques such as stabbing, blocking, picking, slashing, hanging... and other neatly.

Other recruits conduct two-way attack training.

"Missary, are you not eating or something? Even a woman is more powerful than you!"

"Da Hei, you are quite like a cow. You just know how to use your strength. Have you forgotten all the skills you teach you? "

On a field, two new recruits, one tall and one short, were watching with a headless wooden gun, attacking each other with a headless wooden gun, while a one-armed veteran scolded and guided him loudly.

After the tall recruit shot the opponent, he stared at the one-armed veteran with anger, as if he was very dissatisfied with the other party, and he was very stunning, "Come up and try it yourself."

The one-armed veteran grinned, but the long centipede-like scar on his left cheek made his smile look a little scary: "Da Hei. Want to have a fight with me?"

Although the tall recruit named Dahei did not speak, he answered with his expression.

The one-armed veteran stopped talking nonsense. He asked for a wooden gun from another recruit, walked to the opposite side of Dahei, and looked at the other party with a disdainful smile.

Unable to bear the veteran's contempt gaze, Dahei roared and stabbed him hard.

The one-armed veteran took a few steps back and made way for the black force to stab him like a mad tiger. Then he saw the opportunity and just shot him at the other party's feet.

Dahei, who only cared about his hands, did not notice the situation under his feet. He accidentally tripped onto the wooden gun, and suddenly lost his balance and rushed forward like a mountain.

The one-armed veteran smiled. After getting out of the other party, the wooden spear turned around in his single hand for half a circle, and then slammed Dahei heavily on the back of the screams of the new recruits.

He fell to pieces. Dahei wanted to get up and continue fighting, but found that a wooden gun was only half an inch away from pointing at his cheek.

With only a dozen breaths in between, Kong Wu's powerful Dahei actually lost to the veteran who only had one arm left, and the rest of the new recruits were extremely shocked.

"Nine years ago, I followed the general to fight Jiangdong. There were not a hundred wars, six or seventy. I killed hundreds of people, and there was also a captain of the Cao army. If I hadn't violated military discipline, I would have been a military Sima now.

I was not lucky. I accidentally lost my arm in Runan the previous year and had no chance to go to the battlefield. Otherwise, how could I come to teach you guys?

"The one-armed veteran took back the wooden gun, carried it on his shoulder, kicked Dahei lightly with his left foot, and cursed with a smile, "If I had a real gun in my hand, you kid would have been nailed to the ground. Why don't you get up for me?"

Dahei stood up in shame. After admitting his mistake to the veteran, he returned to the team.

It was the first time that a group of new recruits heard one-armed veteran mention their experiences. He was shocked and curious. One person couldn't help asking: "Boss Tian, ​​if you killed hundreds of people, you must be a first-class meritorious person. Why haven't you seen your meritorious person's card?"

"Baby, how can I show you something to you?" Although he said that, the one-armed veteran threw away the wooden gun and took out a bronze medal of meritorious people from his close-fitting underwear, holding it in his hand very cutely.

"It's really a meritorious card, there's jade on it!"

"I have seen a second-class meritorious card. The middle is silver. This piece is actually jade. It must be a first-class meritorious card..."

A burst of exclamation immediately sounded around him.

Soon, the one-armed veteran chuckled and put the meritorious card back into his underwear.

"Tian Ming (2 guest appearances of Tianya Mingyue), what are you playing with?" A loud and unusual voice suddenly came from the left.

"Who..." The one-armed veteran thought he was other veterans, and turned his head and was about to greet him with habitual swear words. But after seeing the person clearly, he immediately fell to one knee and said, "See General!"

The other recruits also saw the visitor clearly and knelt on one knee: "See General!"

"All up!" A black-armored general came over, pulled up the one-armed veteran and waved his hand to the new recruits.

After scanning the recruits, the black-armored general smiled and said to the one-armed veteran: "I did a good job and I have such a little attitude, but I'm still far from going to the battlefield..."

"Don't worry, General, the villain will definitely train them well!"

"Well..." General Black Armor patted the one-armed veteran on the shoulder and said with a laugh, "I'll come and see you again in a few days, don't embarrass me!"

After the Black Armor General left, the one-armed veteran patted his chest and laughed and said, "Did you guys hear that? The general will come to see us in a few days, so why don't you practice it for me."

At this moment, no one dared to doubt the glorious past of one-armed veterans. After all, even the General of the Western Expedition who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops could call out his name. What an honor it would be!

More than a hundred new recruits, including Dahei, dared not neglect any longer and immediately devoted themselves to the training with great energy.

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On March 14, 2014, news came from Lumen Mountain - Pang Degong suddenly passed away due to illness at the age of 67.

Two hours before his death, Pang Degong was still teaching Xiao Jiang Wei. Later, because he felt unwell, he returned to his room to rest under Jiang Wei's escort. Jiang Wei originally wanted to seek medical treatment, but was rejected by Pang Degong.

He said that he only needed a few hours to rest and could do it without any hindrance, and told Jiang Wei to complete the assigned homework himself.

During this period, Sima Hui happened to go to Lumen Mountain to visit his old friend. After hearing Jiang Wei talk about the situation, Sima Hui felt something was wrong and immediately went to the bedroom to visit him. He found that this great scholar of the world had passed away.

I remember a year ago, this great scholar who was well-educated in heaven and man joked to me that "I wish God would give me three or five years of life to complete the teachings of his disciple Jiang Wei, who was close to the family." However, God still did not give him this opportunity.

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Chapter completed!