Compared to the scattered and busy Bingzhou, Heishanzhai seems to be more orderly. After all, we have lived here for a year or two, and we are familiar with the environment and the routines of doing things. Unlike Bingzhou, all Xianbei people do things under the strict discipline of the soldiers. In order to make them obedient, some methods must be used.

Of course, they were better than some Han people who were captured by them. At least Huo Hai could let them have a meal, which was actually not much worse than their previous life in the tribe.

Because the Han people are poor, these nomadic peoples are poorer than the Han people. They are not only scarce of food, but also very scarce of daily necessities.

Through their survival status, Huo Hai has clearly felt that the limitations of the way of heaven are everywhere.

It seems that the way of heaven does not want to see human development and prosperity. Perhaps it is the rise of mankind that will destroy the way of heaven.

It was another day to interrogate Su He La for a whole day, and Huo Hai once again got a lot of novel and useful things from him.

It turns out that the wizard's attack skills are no less than those of the Taoist priests.

They have curse and killing techniques, dream techniques, puppet techniques, witch techniques, poison techniques, hidden techniques, and of course, they also have the skills of alchemy and medicine refining. Moreover, they are very unique and can achieve the effects of elixirs refined by Taoist and Buddhist monks.

These knowledge are only classified in general in Taiping Qingling, but there is no specific method of casting, so Huo Hai naturally cannot see the effect of casting.

First of all, the first curse and killing technique was to make Huo Hai confused. Influenced by later TV series, he only thought he was making a straw man, writing his birth date and pricking it with a steel needle. However, after Su Hela's explanation, he realized that it was not that simple.

Wu Kui used to cholera in the Central Plains because he used the curse and killing technique. This is a secret technique that can affect people's psychology, thus instigate people to do irrational things, and ultimately achieve the effect of killing people, or even constantly killing people.

If the means are used to the extreme, it can even affect the fortune of a country and a nation and destroy it.

It is hard to count how many people died in the witchcraft disaster back then. Huo Hai is sure that it almost affected the national destiny of the Han Dynasty.

Dream art is even more amazing. It is a skill that influences others' subconscious, prompts people to dream, affects people's cognition, and even guides people's fantasy. Even charm art is just a small branch of it.

Through dreams and fantasies, it can amplify various desires of people and thus achieve the secret of the caster.

For example, if Huo Hai dreams that someone beats him every day, he will naturally feel disgusted towards this person. If he dreams of having sex with a woman every day, he will have a good impression of this woman and possessiveness, and even fall in love with this woman directly, and will be influenced by this woman.

Fortunately, compared with other skills, the cultivation of these two skills is extremely difficult and the casting is also extremely difficult. Otherwise, it would be really unpredictable.

Because, if you are not a great wizard who is proficient in witchcraft, you cannot realize that you have been cast by others. They think everything is natural and belong to their own cognition.

"I never thought that the ancients could study psychology to this level. I even more unexpectedly, the party members actually used such a method to Liu Hong. It seems that he has been living in a few years."

From Su Hela, Huo Hai learned that Yuan had close contacts with the Xianbei, and Morak, the great wizard of the Xianbei in the eastern region, was the guest of honor for Yuan. He was invited by Yuan to enter the Han area two years ago, and it was very likely that he wanted to use skills to the emperor.

As far as Huo Hai knows, the West Garden was built by Yuan Kui. I think that Morak's arrangement should be in the West Garden. Every time Liu Hong went to the West Garden to play, he would make some very special decisions, perhaps because of the influence of witchcraft.

Huo Hai naturally chose to ignore Liu Hong's experience. After all, his goal was to change a new world, and what made him want to study in depth was the power of the next level of witchcraft.

After all, warriors have two completely different levels of power, internal strength and qi, and there are also Taoist and Buddhist monks, so there are certainly witchcraft.

Huo Hai felt that there must be products that transcend later science in this world, but people in this era have not yet discovered it.

Their understanding of these superscientifics is still at the superficial level of the ancients in the original world's understanding of science.

"Young Master said, the emperor didn't have long to live?" After arriving in Bingzhou, Zhang Ning, who had never left Huo Hai, said in surprise.

You know, Liu Hong is only in his thirties and is in his prime.

"Yes, it will take at most three or five years! He will not be able to suppress the ambitions of all forces. When everyone hopes that he will die, he will die if he doesn't want to die. By then, it should be the time for Fatty Dong to rise." Huo Hai nodded.

"Why isn't it the time for the young master to rise?"

“Aren’t we rising?”

Zhang Ning smiled when he heard this.

Who would have thought that Heishanzhai, which was struggling last year because it had to solve the problem of food and clothing for millions of people, would have spared no effort to support Bingzhou this year!

Of course, this is not because Heishan Village has surplus grain, but because Huo Hai thought of a way to get food from the Bingzhou gentry.

Land replacement.

A noun that is familiar to later generations is rarely mentioned in this world.

Because everyone will regard the fertile fields that can produce crops as their lifeblood. It is not that no one is willing to replace them when there is no way out.

But Huo Hai is different. If you are willing to take food for cooked fields outside Yanmen Pass, you will exchange them for food. As for the original owners of these fields, they will have new fields waiting for them to develop.

Because they had even lost their homes, they were no longer able to farm and did not rely on Huo Hai, so they would not survive the autumn harvest.

Therefore, these Bingzhou gentry and Huo Hai cooperated happily, and each family had hundreds to thousands of cooked fields, and Huo Hai also obtained food from them that could be eaten and consumed by more than 200,000 people to autumn harvest.

This replacement not only solved Huo Hai’s problem, but also established a bridge of communication between Huo Hai and the Bingzhou tribe. If you have any problems in the future, you can discuss it. If you have money, you can make money together!

Sometimes, after a critical step is turned over, all other problems can be solved by the way and enter a virtuous cycle.

As long as we follow the current model, Huo Hai's territory will expand, and more and more cooked fields can produce grain under the names of the Bingzhou gentry and military soldiers. Correspondingly, the more grain Bingzhou will produce, and the more grain it produces, it will make them want to replace more fertile fields.

The door to promote local development was easily opened by Huo Hai.

"Young Master, this is a summary of the spring plowing situation sent by the clerk. If there is no accident, after the summer grain harvest this year, there will be 300,000 stones of grain, and after the autumn harvest, it will reach 800,000 stones." Zhang Ning handed a note found from numerous information to Huo Haidao.

"Is there a few hundred thousand stones of grain? Compared with the expenses of tens of thousands of troops, it is still a drop in the bucket!" Although the number is gratifying, Huo Hai still frowned.

"After the winter begins, the young master plans to dispatch 50,000 troops to recover Hexi. Calculate based on two kilograms of grain per person per day, the daily cost of the army is about 1,500 stones. If more than 10,000 horses are counted, the cost of food and grass should be doubled. Three thousand stones a day, and 90,000 stones a month is required, and 800,000 stones should be able to support it until the beginning of next spring." Zhang Ning calculated.

"The account is not calculated like this. Eighty-hundred thousand stones of grain were transported from Heishan Village thousands of miles away to Hexi, and even 400,000 stones would not be left. In winter, the food of people and animals will increase, and these grains can only support the army for three months at most.

Judging from the weather in Hexi, after winter every year, the ground is covered with ice and snow for as long as six months, so we are still about twice as short of our grain reserves.”

"Young Master can continue to exchange land with the Bingzhou gentry. My subordinates have discovered that the more than two million stones of grain they exchanged in the land in the hands of your master this time are less than half of the grain they have in their granary." Zhang Ning advised Huo Hai.

"Most of these gentry will save enough food for more than three years at home. I am not surprised that they have food in their hands. However, the growth of the gentry must be within our controllable range. The land of Hexi County, unless it is some nearby gentry, I do not intend to replace them too much."

"So, how can we solve the problem of food?" Zhang Ning wondered.

"Only by constantly urging live water into our pockets, we can become a vast ocean." Huo Hai said to Zhang Ning in the tone of the school entrance examination.

Zhang Ning, who was slightly contemplative, suddenly had his eyes lit up. Huo Hai knew that she had already understood what she said.

Soon, the spies in charge of the messaging were summoned by her.

I believe that in a few days, the news that Huo Hai used cooked fields to exchange grain from the Bingzhou gentry will spread to various states. Some gentry who wanted to buy property and expand their industries should be able to bring grain to Bingzhou with them.

After all, grain is produced in the fields every year. Although the people do not have surplus grain, the aristocratic families have all kept a lot of it, which is not rare.

The cooked fields that can produce grain are the hens laying eggs, which are scarce resources. After occupying them, the energy source continues to provide food for themselves.

Huo Hai’s asking price is not high, and it can even be said to be cheap. With such a bargain, the gentry will be well developed and will fall behind if they don’t take advantage of it.

At least they may lag behind in terms of financial resources and war capital. Which gentry would like to see this situation?

Huo Hai thought of attracting more foreigners to Bingzhou to check and balance the local tribes in Bingzhou.

Sure enough, after the summer, a large number of carriages and horses came to Bingzhou. Before that, Huo Hai received many letters from Jizhou, Yuzhou, Sizhou, and even Guanzhong families, all of which were interviewed. The gentry who exchanged grain for land and had a smaller appetite, had to spend hundreds of land and arranged a branch to Bingzhou.

If you have a bigger appetite, you will directly need the territory of one county or even several counties.

Because, this is their opportunity to strengthen their strength.
Chapter completed!