Looking at the people in the distance, driving the cows slowly towards the north, Sang Yi smiled and said, "Yunxing, are you going to buy all the cows in Jiaozhi? A few months later, those Jiaozhi people can't even plant the land!"

Xu Ping said: "What's the solution? Two or three thousand people gather in this small place. For the New Year, they can't make them unable to eat meat. If I don't buy it from Jiaozhi, where can I buy it? It will take a few months for the cattle from Jinghu to Yongzhou. How could it be too late?"

"Why didn't you buy pigs and sheep from Jiaozhi?"

Sang Yi shook his head and bought cattle from Jiaozhi. Who doesn’t know what Xu Ping is thinking? The local officials in Jiaozhi have already ordered that they should not sell cattle. However, the sugar sugar business is rich and can afford high prices. There are still people from Jiaozhi who continue to sell cattle to the border and sell it to the Song army stationed in Liangzhou.

However, what Xu Ping said is true. There are more than 10,000 soldiers stationed in Liangzhou now, and the 5,000-flat army brought by Sang Yi, the population has skyrocketed and the food supply has been extremely tight.

On December 25, Xu Ping marched into Liangzhou, and it was almost over the past year. In order to prevent the counterattack of Jiaozhi, he could not pass this year. Now Liangzhou has 20,000 troops stationed, and more than 20,000 civilians are still building various defense facilities day and night. During the Chinese New Year, he must let his subordinates eat some good food. In order to ensure that these 40,000 to 50,000 people can have wine and meat every day, Xu Ping used all his means.

The road from Menzhou to Liangzhou has been completed, and pigs and sheep coming from around Taiping County are constantly on the road every day. Xu Ping almost used most of the meat reserves of Sugar Service in Liangzhou. In order to make up for the gap in the coming year, Sugar Service sent a special person to Yongzhou, Guizhou, and even to Jinghu Road to sell cattle and sheep.

Of course, the most convenient source of meat is Jiaozhi, which is close to each other. A hundred miles away is the essence of Jiaozhi agriculture. It is much more convenient than the source of the Song Dynasty, which is always far away thousands of miles away.

Xu Ping specializes in buying cattle from Jiaozhi. On the surface, the beef is big and meat is relatively easy to trade for a long distance, but in fact, of course it is still to dig the roots of Jiaozhi. Without plowing ox, Jiaozhi's grain planting will inevitably be greatly affected next year. It depends on how much Li Foma still has to find trouble for Liangzhou.

War is the government's business, and what do ordinary people care about? It is the slack season, and raising cattle is also a burden. The Song people offered high prices, so why didn't Jiaozhi farmers sell? Moreover, in this year, the Honghe Delta, a large granary in later generations, had just begun to be developed, and the transplanting technology was limited to a few areas. There was no trace of rice in many seasons, and the delta with rivers was still swamped, and the scattered cattle were everywhere. Jiaozhi farmers did not regard plowing cattle as treasures, and they did not raise cattle like farmers in Jiangnan, raising cattle was like serving their fathers. They were afraid of losing some fat.

Xu Ping looked at the cattle seller who returned from the south and thought to himself, "I just bought cows, but I didn't buy cow hooves specifically. I was so kind that I couldn't be more kind." I really wanted to cheat Jiaozhi people. With the financial resources of the sugar business, Jiaozhi's whole country was not enough to add up. Maybe the dragon chaise under Li Foma's butt could be bought."

At this time, the sun was above my head. The sun was warm, and for the two people from Central Plains, Xu Ping and Sang Yi, I couldn't feel the breath of winter at all.

On the hillside, the civil servants were leveling the land, three miles from the left and right corners of the valley. All the hillsides facing south should be flattened into smooth inclines, and the big rocks and trees and jungle must be eradicated. This is the attack route Xu Ping left for the troops who came to attack Jiaozhi, and it is also their Shura field.

Sang Yi looked at the busy civilians from the top of the mountain. Listening to the sound of gunpowder explosions from time to time, he said to Xu Ping: "Sometimes I really don't know what you think. When fighting, the soldiers and horses are opposite each other, swords and guns are facing each other. The nature of a man is to rush into the formation. As a result, if you fight, you will make it the same as farming, and you will level the land, dig ditches and build dams. Do you want to lose Jiaozhi by farming?"

"What's the matter? I'm using sugar to deal with tens of thousands of people. They don't need to transport grain when defending and fighting. Of course, they have to repair the battlefield. You think, in order to defend the place, who doesn't know that they need to build a city? I'm just building a bigger one."

Sang Yi just shook his head. Of course he was not against Xu Ping's approach. As a general who rushed on the formation, he certainly knew the importance of the terrain. But Sang Yi really couldn't figure it out. He could understand how to build a city and build a road, but if you have to completely renovate the terrain of the entire place in this way, Xu Ping seemed strange.

However, Xu Ping did not build a city, but regarded the two mountains at the entrance of the valley as city walls, leaving thousands of people busy here. Rolling wood and stones are placed here, but the valley entrance does not build a pass.

Is this what a normal person does?

Xu Ping looked at the lively scene, but was full of passion.

As a person with memories of his past lives, how can he be as petty as the people of this era? Whether farming or fighting, what he needs is the courage to change the world! Human resources and material resources are to turn over the world and to follow his own wishes.

It is a strategic opportunity to defend the enemy's must-attack with superior forces! This kind of small scene is wherever it goes. In later generations, when using guns and cannons, the amount of earth and stone is more than building a city.

It took only one month for Jiaozhi to mobilize troops to attack Liangzhou. In this month, Xu Ping wanted to turn Liangzhou into a Shura field for Jiaozhi people.

Sang Yi looked at the lively scene and was full of enthusiasm. He was also a person who had participated in the provincial examination, but he had no choice but to give up his literature and martial arts, and he gave up his pen and joined the army. Of course, he wanted to build some achievements. In the battle in Guangyuanzhou, the most difficult thing was not the battle, but the logistics marching, which was just an appetizer to him. In Liangzhou, facing the Jiaozhi army, it was the time to truly show his skills and make achievements.

"Hey, aren't those two veterans guarding Yuxianlou? Why did they come here too?"

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

Xu Ping followed Sang Yi's gaze and saw the two of them, saying, "Han Zong is also a nonsense. The manpower of sugar business is not so tight yet. He wants to bring the two veterans to the battlefield!"

"It's not necessarily the blame on Han Zong. These two people are still the Xiang army after all. Maybe Taiping County sent all the Xiang army to come here."

Sang Yi's situation on the opposite side of the Xiang army was more familiar than Xu Ping. His military inspector mainly cared for these people.

Seeing the two of them reaching the valley entrance and looking south at Jiaozhi, without moving, Xu Ping said: "Go back and give me some instructions. Even if these veterans come, they will just raise them. Now we do not lack manpower, so there is no need to work these people, and they will only make others gossip."

Sang Yi agreed and suddenly smiled at Xu Ping, "Seeing these two people, I remembered another thing. These days, Liangzhou has sold a lot of white wine to Jiaozhi, but Taiping County has not been lucky for a while, and the wine taste has become much lighter. I also tasted the wine transported to Jiaozhi, and the taste became stronger."

"You have drunk less wine. The more intense the wine goes into your mouth, the more it hurts your body. I will tell you that the wine transported to Jiaozhi has not been aged. It is a trivial matter to drink too much headaches and discomforts. It is not good, and it is not uncommon to blindness and even lose your life."

The grains like sorghum in this area are far less than those in the Central Plains, and they do not have good wine lees. The white wine produced by skewers with alcohol is extremely violent and is much more harmful to the body than the white wine brewed. Xu Ping spent the meat pain when buying cows. He used this inferior white wine to collect money from Jiaozhi, which was not for his own people to drink.

(There is another chapter tonight.) (To be continued.)
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