Three Kingdoms

Food and grass...

It would be great if there were potatoes at this time.

Fei Qian was a little depressed.

Although this thing was all over the streets in later generations, no matter which supermarket it was, it was definitely available, and even if it was not fresh, there were various products made from potatoes, but now, this thing is even rarer than gold.

You can't even see it if you want to. At this stage of time, potatoes should still be thrown around in the hands of American Indians...

And sweet potatoes.

It should still be in America.

Fei Qian was full of malicious thoughts, wondering if it was because these two high-yielding food species in the Americas meant that the indigenous peoples in the Americas had less enterprising spirit. As a result, in the later period, they encountered the hungry European indigenous people who had to deal with them. After all, the food and clothing With no worries, the thought of conquering everywhere will naturally disappear.

In this current Eurasian continent, which species is more productive?

There seems to be none.

The food in the Han Dynasty was already very comprehensive. Basically, most of the food in later generations was available, more or less.

How to obtain more food on barren land is a big problem, and Fei Qian is like a greedy old landowner, thinking about how to dig more land...

This problem is not a small one.

Of course, the Linghu family in Shangdang, the Wang family and Wen family in Taiyuan, and other noble families, if we dig into their old bases, we can probably get a batch of them, but this is not a long-term solution.

Unless Fei Qian still wants to fight all kinds of arduous struggles with the nobles in his life, the first step is to go out first. For this source of food and grass, he cannot rely too much on the nobles.

Eaters have short mouths and take others with short hands. This has been the case since ancient times.

In the Han Dynasty, it seemed that relatives and eunuchs took turns to govern, but the political territory was always divided into three parts of the world, and the other part was the so-called Qingliu, that is, the gentry.

Now, Fei Qian has been involved in it, and he knows more clearly that in later generations, many things in the Han Dynasty have been obscured by the dust of history, so many people believe that the gentry was at its peak during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. , the so-called Wei and Jin clans had far-reaching influence, extending to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even to later generations.

This argument is half right and half wrong. The gentry clan in the Han Dynasty has already reached its peak. If the Wei and Jin Dynasties are regarded as a symbol of the gentry reaching its peak, then the Han Dynasty has already reached at least three-quarters of its height.

There are also some gentlemen who advocate violence and say, what are the nobles? They go up with knives and eat either flat noodles or shaved noodles. Those unarmed nobles are not allowed to be obedient?

But only by truly understanding the history of the Han Dynasty can we deeply understand those unreasonable events in later history...

Why was Yuan Shao, the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes, able to conquer Jizhou without a single blow?

Why did Zhang Miao, Cao Cao's early good friend and close friend of life and death, and Chen Gong welcome Lu Bu and betray Cao Cao?

Why did Guo Jia judge that Sun Ce would not live long without having any contact with Sun Ce?

Why did Sun Quan massacre the four families of Zhang, Gu, Zhu and Lu, and finally turn around and marry the shrunken Lu Xun?

Why did Cao Cao repeatedly ask Sima Yi to serve as an official, but after letting Sima Yi become an official, he still refused to reuse him?

Why is it that Yang Biao has been dealt with by many people and has been relegated to the second line, but Cao Cao still believes that Yang Xiu must die and can only act according to military law?

Why, under these many reasons, under the thick dust of history is the huge wave of power of the noble families here. In three to four hundred years, the noble family has been cultivated into a behemoth. It did not just crash to the ground in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Although the ninth-grade Zhongzheng system was only proposed by Cao Cao in his later period, at that time it already meant that Cao Cao was completely Compromising with the noble family, he completely abandoned his original recruitment order and abandoned the meritocracy system in exchange for the Cao family to replace the Liu family and ascend to the throne of emperor.

There is also the famous saying "Today's heroes are only envoys and Cao Er". Could it be that Cao Cao was just testing him?

Whether it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or even Sun Quan, in fact, the three of them have been in love and killing each other with the nobles all their lives. However, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are somewhat similar. They both have the ambition to calm down the troubled times, and they have encountered setbacks of one kind or another. They are all the same. He had to survive in adversity again and again, so at least some of Cao Cao's words were sincere.

The selfishness of the nobles was concealed by politeness. When Fei hid in the Lushan cabin, he discussed this issue of the nobles with Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others. At this stage, we cannot do without the nobles, but we must not rely too much on the nobles. Once we are too involved with the nobles, it will be difficult to turn around. Just like if Cao Cao won all the way, fighting from the north to the south, and then The Battle of Chibi will be decided in one battle. Maybe Cao Cao's meritocratic policies and strategies can really be maintained until later...

But history did not go like this. Liu Bei remained homeless despite his wanderings, Cao Cao experienced countless conspiracies and betrayals, Sun Ce finally fell in front of the Iron Curtain full of conspiracies and filth, and Sun Quan buried his hatred and ideals with salt... …

Fei Qian didn't want to take this path, so he had to go his own way.

On this road, Fei Qian has only taken a little step forward.

The first step is to step on the education of the barbarians...

This second step must focus on the source of money and food...

The land of Pingyang can be regarded as money and food in his own hands, and he can support his conquests in the north and south. However, the land in one city is limited after all. After the expansion, Pingyang alone will not be able to maintain the expenses of the entire situation.

If the land of Yinshan wants to become a productive area like Pingyang, one has to wait for people, and the other has to wait for land. Although the land full of green grass is fertile, there is still no competition for crops and remaining grass seeds. Yes, it takes two or three years of deep cultivation to completely clear away the weeds in the ground before the yield can really increase.

Therefore, we must have additional sources now. Otherwise, we can only hold back our troops now and save money. Otherwise, when something big happens, we will not even be able to draw out military rations and the team will not be able to mobilize, which will be a huge disaster. joke.

But how to obtain new food and grass resources now?

Fei Qian couldn't help but stand up, and walked around in circles in the hall. Suddenly he saw the items placed on the table, and suddenly his heart moved, and he couldn't help but pat his head gently, oops, In fact, I still have some fixed thoughts. In fact, it is still possible to change the angle...

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"General, the commander of Baishi Qiang is here..." Fei Qian's personal guard reported outside the hall.

Fei Qian stood up and walked outside the hall. At a glance, he saw the big white bun on the head of Lina Gu, a Qiang hero. Speaking of which, the white towel Baotou in northern Shaanxi became popular in later generations because of this habit of the Qiang people?

"Old friend, long time no see..." Fei Qian smiled and greeted Lina Gu.

"Dear General, yes, it's been a long time..." Linagu stroked his chest as a gesture of courtesy and bent towards Fei Qian.

At this moment, Fei Qian is now very different from when he first arrived in Bingbei. Although the relationship between Fei Qian and the Qiang people has always been good, it does not mean that the Qiang marshal Lina Gu can remain the same. Treat Fei Qian more casually like before.

"Come on, please sit down." Fei Qian asked Lina Gu to come into the hall and take a seat, and then ordered some tea, soup, dried fruits and snacks to be served.

After the attendants came up and left like a stream, Fei Qian smiled and invited Linagu to drink tea and snacks.

Linagu was a little confused. He suddenly received Fei Qian's invitation and rushed over from near Guide. He didn't know what Fei Qian had in mind, but since he was here, he could only wait for Fei Qian to reveal the truth. The trump card.

But soon Rinagu was attracted by these exquisite snacks on the table...

Fei Qian pointed at a pastry from the bean container on the table and said to Lina Gu: "This is a butter cake. The ingredients are similar to yours, but the method is different, so the taste is still the same." Yes, why don’t you, Shiraishi Haoshuai, give it a try?”

"Okay, okay..." Lina Gu looked at the delicate and small pastry and couldn't help but gently pinch a piece with his fingers, as if he was afraid that he would crush the pastry if he used too much force.

This butter cake is golden and very eye-catching. It smells sweet, and it is obviously made with sugar. In the Han Dynasty, it was not easy to have some sugar.

Most of the crops of later generations were almost fully developed by our ancestors in the Han Dynasty. Such crops as millet, millet, rice, wheat, bean sprouts, beams, etc. are basically common on the market. And using these as raw materials, the food produced is also diverse.

There are even more fruits, including peaches, apricots, plums, pears, dates, longans, lychees, oranges, tangerines, pomelos, persimmons, bayberries, plums, pomegranates, etc. Fei Qian has seen them all.

The varieties and rich styles of food were actually not bad in the Han Dynasty.

Linagu put the butter cake into his mouth, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded in praise.

Human beings seem to be born with a preference for food with more fat and sugar. This seems to be something engraved in the genes. Even children of two or three years old cannot resist sweets, let alone those with added fat. After that, it became a little more fragrant.

The Hu people on the grassland are actually very active, and because the geography is cold, most of them like something with a strong flavor, and this butter cake is just that.

Linagu nodded, smacked his mouth, and said with some confusion: "General, this taste... this, it seems..." Linagu was a little confused, because the smell of the butter cake was very fragrant, but it was not made of mutton. It doesn't taste like butter either.

Fei Qian chuckled and said: "...Haha, it's fine if the handsome man likes it... It's just that the procedures are a little special..."

When it came to business, Linagu immediately put down the butter cake and leaned forward slightly, listening to what Fei Qian was about to say.

"...Actually, there are two things for inviting Brother Baishi here today... First, we Han people, like you Qiang people, also like to raise some animals, but most of you Qiang people raise cattle and sheep, and The ones we Han people raise are a little more messy. We basically have chickens, ducks, cats and dogs..." Fei Qian said slowly, as if chatting, "...and then, this time, I specially invited Bai Shihaoshuai to come over. , It’s like asking Baishi Haoshuai to recruit some veterans of animal breeding to me. After all, the Qiang people are better at raising animals... Of course, this kind of reward will naturally satisfy Brother Baishi..."

"...Hey, these are all old friends, why should we ask for compensation or not, hahaha... But, I don't know, what kind of animals does the general want to raise?" Rina Gu laughed, but there were some asked hesitantly.

It is not a big problem for the Han people to raise livestock, but if Fei Qian, the general who conquered the West, specifically raised it, there must be some problems. Although Lina Gu is a Qiang, his mind is not completely rough and he doesn't care about anything.

Fei Qian smiled and said: "...It's not cattle, sheep, or horses, haha, don't worry, Baishi Haoshuai! Speaking of these big guys, the Qiang people raise them well, but we are still a little bit behind... Besides, we can't rob them. It’s an old friend’s business, isn’t it?”

As long as it’s not cattle, sheep and horses, Lina Gu immediately relaxed a little. For the Hu people on the grassland, cattle, sheep and horses are equivalent to the land of the Han people, and their importance is actually the same, so as long as Fei Qian is not staring at it These important livestock are naturally easy to talk about.

"...This time, I want to raise more domestic pigs..." Fei Qian said lightly, "...but raising one and two pigs is meaningless, and it won't provide more meat for the men in the army. Therefore, I want to find a piece of land in the southern suburbs of Pingyang, and use it specifically to raise pigs, at least four to five hundred... However, my sons have not raised that many, so I am a little worried about whether they can raise them well. , so I came to ask Brother Baishi for help and find some good guys..."

It turns out I want to raise pigs...

When Bai Shiqiangli Nagu heard this, his heart immediately dropped into his stomach.

Pigs are animals that can only be used for food. They can neither go to battle nor work, so they are not considered by the Qiang people at all, and few people feed them specifically.

Therefore, on the prairie, there are no Qiang people who specialize in raising pigs. When they occasionally want to eat, they go to the woods to hunt one or two. However, the taste of this pork is not very good, and it is not as good as that of beef and sheep. The taste of General Zhengxi is a bit strange...

But what the hell.

"...Of course, since the general asks for it, there is no problem. After I go back, I will choose a few well-trained hands to come over and assist the general!"

"Okay! Brother Baishi, let's talk quickly. Come on, let's drink tea instead of wine. Let's finish this bowl first. Let's have a few drinks later in the evening!" Fei Qian said, "...this second thing... Zichu , ask someone to bring over the brocade box on the table in the back hall..."

Attached is a piece of literature, which is a radio speech given by a salt-carrying man from the Confucian family of a thousand-year-old family at a specific period, so that everyone can understand the spirit of the noble family. Due to space limitations, it is divided into two paragraphs... In commemoration of Christmas, Qufu Kong Lingyu would like to inform his compatriots across the country that today is the 2494th birthday of the great saintly master Confucius. Just like last year's national ceremony, an expanded commemorative ceremony will be held. However, in commemorating Christmas this year, we pay special attention to publicity, hoping that the belief in respecting Confucius will be deeply rooted in the people. Therefore, holding a grand national sacrifice is not just a spectacle, but also has great significance. Let me describe it here. 1. Create new people in Tao. Confucius' method of teaching people is based on the principle of virtuous and new people, and the best of new people lies in being close to the virtuous and benefiting from happiness. Since then, the meaning has been unclear, and ordinary scholars and people may have tended to be utilitarian. Therefore, this expanded propaganda is intended to arouse national consciousness. First, relying on the teachings of Confucian ethics, they unite with each other and work together to eradicate Britain and the United States. All the old contaminants are washed away, and the atmosphere of restoration is revealed. This means one. 2. Building a new country. The rise and fall of our country's governance over the past two thousand years has been based on the strength and inability of our country to follow Confucius' teachings. Since the Qing Dynasty, Western material civilization was imported, and the political and economic system changed. Those who are ignorant actually despise Confucius and even blatantly advocate the abolition of sacrifices. They do not know that the situation of the Republic is actually caused by the teachings of Confucius. Follow his special spirit, practice it diligently, and self-sufficiently carry forward the country's glory and prosper the country's destiny. Let’s take a look at friendly Japan. Since the Restoration, Confucianism has still been respected, and it has become a world-class power, which is clear evidence of this. Since friendly countries take the lead, our country should take measures and take effect later. To coexist and prosper together. This has two meanings...