The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

After a pause, he added: "In addition, this autumn, an Enke will be held! This news will spread throughout the country, every county, every county within ten days!"

"Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous!" Xun Yue also felt that everyone should have nothing to say after reaching this level.

"Speaking of..." After Xun Yue left, Liu Tao also remembered something, "Is there still no tax in Yunzhong County?"

"After all, when His Majesty passed by, the taxes over there had been collected many years in advance." Jian Yong joked.

So Liu Tao could only find a way to make money on his own, and at the same time increase the grain output, lower the grain price, and use the money he earned to recruit soldiers and buy grain... It was really not easy to start a business in the early days.

"But now the income over there in the cloud is increasing every year. If we continue to set it according to the original time, we will suffer a lot!" Liu Tao complained.

"This is the only way to highlight His Majesty's benevolence and righteousness. Let the Ministry of Rites focus on publicizing it. Let the people of the world know that the income of the people in Yunzhong has increased by more than three times compared to before. However, the court still abides by the rules and does not collect taxes before the deadline." Jian Yong. proposal.

"You can have this. The imperial court's credit can't be too much, just too little!" Liu Tao affirmed this proposal.

It is conceivable that the people in Yunzhong must be happy, but they have not been able to collect taxes for more than ten years, and the government's finances in Yunzhong can only be subsidized by the central government.But this is also good, we can consider improving the fiscal budget system as a pilot.

Afterwards, it will be gradually popularized, so that the fiscal revenue obtained in each state every year should be able to be improved to a certain extent.

But at this time, Guo Jia, the Minister of the Ministry of War, came to see him.Liu Tao was taken aback for a moment, then allowed him to come in.

"Jia Xu won't come here in person?" Liu Tao looked at Guo Jia. After all, Jia Xu is a candidate for the Minister of War, that is, the chief officer.If you don't come by yourself, you can't just send your subordinates to say something.

"Jia Shilang is busy setting up Yizhou Jinyiwei and Jinyiwei's hidden guards..." Guo Jia quickly explained.He has already left Jinyiwei, but when it comes to secret guards and intelligence work, he is almost never idle as a consultant.

"Forget it..." Liu Tao didn't pursue it after hearing the words. If he didn't come here because of his low-key personality, then he couldn't forget it like this. "So, what else do I need to decide?"

After all, it wasn't during the early court period. He came to ask for an interview at this time. It should be some major move by the Ministry of War that required him to nod.

"Prepare a large amount of supplies this year, and plan to attack Yizhou in half a year. Now that they surrender directly, should these supplies be put back into storage?" Guo Jia quickly explained.

"What are you doing in the warehouse? The Northwest needs supplies, and Youzhou and Bingzhou also need supplies. Consume as much as you can on the way, and transport things over there. We don't deal with Yizhou, so we can go to Xianbei or Wuhuan for fun!" Liu said. Tao replied.

After all, it is mobilized from all over the world. At this time, it will be put into the warehouse, where will it be put into the warehouse, Yizhou?

Huang Zhong and Guan Yu have also been idle for a while, so don't let them be too idle.Considering the follow-up, if they want to transfer them to the southern guard, let them fight an enjoyable battle in the grassland as the end of their guard in the northern border...

Chapter 657

"General, these Xianbei people have become more and more erratic recently." Lieutenant General Wen Chou complained when Huang Zhong was marching on the prairie.

It was quite early in the beginning. After all, there were scrolls, and with the acceleration technique, the huge grassland seemed to be a happy place for the Han army.

Over the past few years, more than a dozen large and small tribes should have been wiped out.Thousands of Huns were taken captive, most of them were women and children.The males are very stubborn, fighting to the end, anyway, this is the result reported by the frontier army.

They didn't know at all that there were actually Jinyiwei's hidden guards lurking in the army... It's just that Liu Tao always turned a blind eye to such things, as long as they don't go too far.

After all, it doesn't matter if the history of China is chaotic, or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, or the Yuan and Qing dynasties, they are allowed to slaughter, and they are allowed to merge... Just because it is China's "state of etiquette", why is China not allowed to take the initiative to merge?

Liu Tao may be able to pay attention to the Great China, but the generals below the problem cannot, and he has no way to forcibly correct it.Not to mention how strange it is to do so, the courtiers below inevitably complained about him: Why are you being so polite with a group of barbarians?

Why didn't you lay down the grassland before? After all, the terrain of the grassland is not suitable for farming at all.For farming civilization, this kind of land with no obvious landmarks, cold weather, and no way to cultivate it, it's worth noting!

Liu Tao's generation is different. Rich iron ore was discovered in Baiyun, and a large number of ore veins were also discovered in Yinshan.Especially with the success of the concentrated breeding farm experiment, the northern grasslands are untouched gold mines for businessmen.

Those guys in the prairie are too lazy and only know how to nomadic herding. This kind of grazing efficiency is too slow, which directly leads to the high price of livestock.The price is high and the quantity is low. After transporting to the south, it can only be bought for the imperial court or aristocratic families, and the price is not close to the people.

It's better to raise them by yourself, and raise them in a large number, because there is a lot of fodder anyway.Moreover, it is not suitable for growing crops, but it is suitable for growing grass. In addition, grass sorghum can also be grown. This is a solution found in the past few years.

Liu Tao asked to find food crops suitable for planting on grassland terrain, and then others found grass sorghum.The output is not as low as later generations, but at least it can be used as food.The rare thing is that the grassland environment can also be planted!

With this crop, it means that the army can gradually move towards the grassland and gradually live in the grassland.After all, down jackets and earth kangs have gradually become popular.

So roads are constantly being repaired, and landmarks and various signs are also being arranged one after another.The army began to go deep, and established one or two outpost cities... The problem is that their opponents, those Xianbei people, are getting harder and harder to find.

"It was the same for the Xiongnu back then. They were taken from this grassland by the Xianbei people, and some of them surrendered to the court." Huang Zhong lamented that the alternation of power on the grassland was actually very frequent.

I didn't study it before, but after I was stationed here, I was usually idle and bored, so I took a little seriously to understand the grassland people.

It is found that their civilization is very backward and they have been nomadic all the time.So there will be no fixed settlements.Their animal husbandry methods are also very backward, that is, they are constantly migrating, letting livestock go to the grassland to graze everywhere.

The whole tribe revolves around livestock, not so much their way of life as they are forced to accept it.

When a tribe has more people, it needs more food, but there are only so many pastures at home, so they either give up some children and people, or they can only fight with others to get more pastures.

From this point of view, these grassland peoples are basically slaves to livestock.Their survival and lifestyle are directly influenced by livestock.

Huang Zhong felt that perhaps the great Han's conquest of the grassland would be the best result for this place.After all, the big man can bring a more stable way of life, whether it is planting grass or sorghum, and then focusing on breeding techniques...

These can make the people here settle down, no longer need to live by water and grass.When their lives are stabilized, the wolf nature and the law of the jungle will gradually fade away, just like the Southern Huns who were raised in captivity by the big man.

Liu Tao also thinks that way, others have no choice but to live this kind of life, they can only go to war or prepare to fight in order to survive.If you don’t fight wars, you have to guard against others coming to fight you... Why do people in future generations still envy and advocate such a life?

What is wolf nature?The wolf nature is that the boss can't make money and can't convince the crowd, so everyone fires him together.Then continue a new round of scrambling until the superior position that can help the company make money and no one can do anything about it is called wolf nature.

In this way, the boss who brought the wolf-like spirit to the company can truly understand what it means to "lead the wolf into the house".

"What's the north of the prairie like?" Pound next to him asked curiously.

"I don't know. No one has set foot in the grassland itself. Who knows in the north of the grassland?" Huang Zhong replied, "But those barbarians would rather go south than go north. It can be seen that it is colder and the environment is worse than here, right?"

"But now we have conquered the grassland environment. Could it be that we can't conquer the further north?" Pound was full of fighting spirit.

"Haha, Your Majesty is at the peak of his age, so maybe there is a way to conquer that place." Huang Zhong laughed, "But I may not see it anymore. It will be ten years at most, and I should retire."

"Ten years from now, the general will only be in his 60s and less than [-], and he will still be fierce!" Wen Chou quickly flattered.

"Your Majesty has stated before that he intends to let the generals retire at the age of 70 or [-]. Not only is it to give young people the opportunity to practice and practice, but it is also convenient for us to teach the next generation after retirement. The youngest son of the old man is also growing up. Go back and teach him how to practice martial arts." Huang Zhong laughed.

According to the will of the imperial court, next year or the year after, he will go south to Jiaozhou to guard for three years, return to Luoyang after three years, serve in the Ministry of War, or even in the Ministry of Education, and finally retire.

Wen Chou didn't say a word, he was only thirty years old, and he still had more than twenty years to serve.The higher you get to the top, the fewer official positions. If Huang Zhong really insists on not retiring at the age of 80 or 60, he may not be able to go up until the age of [-].

In the long run, the retirement system is indeed a very good move for young people like them.It's just that Huang Zhong is his boss now, so he must say something to comfort him, so as not to be said to be unreasonable...

"General, we found traces of Xianbei...they are encircling us!" With that said, some spies had already returned to report.

"Haha, if this step is achieved, if they don't close the siege, there will be no chance of a comeback!" Huang Zhong was not surprised when he heard this, but laughed out loud.

For these erratic Xianbei people, Jia Xu's idea was to occupy all the water sources.There are only a few rivers in the grassland, as long as the water source is occupied, I still don't believe that they won't come to a decisive battle!

Looking at it now, Jia Xu is really good at predicting things.

Chapter 658 Huang Zhong's peak life

The Han army indeed drove Xianbei to a dead end. Several important water sources were first asked by the Han army among the traitors in Xianbei, and then pressed forward step by step according to the drawn road map.

Seeing that there is the last water source left, everyone has nowhere to go. They can't go north to the bitter cold place, right?