Meng Da's shouts came, and Ma Chao kept asking him to find a tent for Meng Da and Fa Zheng and settle it for the time being.

When they arrived at the Central Army tent, Dong Zhuozheng and Xun You and others discussed matters related to refugees.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees migrated from the mountains, and it is impossible to do nothing every day. After all, food consumption alone is not a small number.

If it weren't for the successful farming in Hedong, Dong Zhuo would not be able to support these refugees.

Of course, relying solely on Hedong is definitely not enough. Dong Zhuo has already written a letter back to Luoyang and asked Xun Yu to find a way to collect grain from Guanzhong and deliver it.

Once refugees are unable to eat enough, the riot is only a matter of time.

A population of hundreds of thousands also means a large amount of labor output.

With labor, there is the possibility of creating value.

The best plan is to use these refugees to carry out large-scale military farming in Bingzhou like Hedong. However, after Wei Ji's investigation, he shook his head and said that the geology in the Shangdang area is not suitable for military farming, and there is less water source.

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo frowned. If he could not farm on a large scale, it would be difficult to deal with it!

Xun You proposed that some people should be migrated out first and keep the food even, otherwise, judging from the current food consumption, they will be in a state of loss and will sooner or later not be able to withstand it.

The population of Hedong County has been saturated. Could it be that it will be moved to Luoyang?

Li Ru's idea was that since the bandits in Heishan had already surrendered, they should take advantage of the situation to send troops to capture Jizhou.

Although Bingzhou is relatively poor, it is rich in iron ore. It only takes refugees to go into the mountains to log wood, and then cooperate with the guns and spearheads produced to create a large number of crude weapons in a short period of time, and then use refugees as cannon fodder and lead them in front. As long as the war is frequent enough, there is no need to worry about food consumption.

Using war to reduce the population of refugees, while also being able to harvest enemy cities and reduce their own food expenses is the best of both worlds.

Dong Zhuo did not nod.

At this time, he remembered a famous proverb from later generations: If you want to be rich, build roads first.

Shangdang and Hedong are separated by many mountains. Whether you come in or go out, you must take a lot of mountain roads, which is particularly difficult to transport food.

If a road can be carved in the middle, it will save a lot of time and food expenses along the way.

I didn't dare to think so before, because I couldn't find so many people. Now, hundreds of thousands of laborers are placed here, and even if I pick up a stone, I can quickly and later level these hindering peaks.

So Dong Zhuo waved his hand and started doing it!

With the manifesto signed by Taishi Dong, the bored refugees had a new job, carried hoes and shovels, and used Yugong's spirit of moving mountains to move mountains and began their career of digging mountains and building roads in full swing.

In addition, Dong Zhuo also divided a small number of experienced refugees to survey the coal mines, and then conducted large-scale mining after determining the location of the coal mine.

In fact, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there were precedents of mining coal mines and using coal as fuel. "Records of the Grand Historian: Family of Foreign Relatives" records that the year when Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, that is, in 180 BC, Empress Dowager Dou's younger brother "Dou Guangguo... went into the mountains to make charcoal". "Entering the mountains to make charcoal" was actually going into the mountains to make coal. At that time, there was a "shore collapse" (lands collapse) accident, and "more than a hundred people under the shore" and "squeezing all the coal mining scale at that time was already quite large.

However, coal was not widely promoted in the end.

The reason is that the danger of mining coal is one aspect, and more importantly, it is easy to get poisoned.

Therefore, the men of the upper class families dare not use it, and the people at the bottom cannot afford it, so the utilization rate of coal has almost become transparent.

Dong Zhuo is different. He knows the role of coal. Before the emergence of oil and natural gas, coal was definitely the first choice to make a fortune. If we can use coal in this era, society and technology will take a big step forward.

As long as he has enough time, it is not a problem to beat the world!

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The story of Dong Zhuo opening up mountains and building roads in Shangdang quickly came to Yuan Shao's ears.

All the advisers under his command agreed that Dong Zhuo's move was intended to open up new paths to save time and facilitate the transportation of grain from Hedong.

"This old thief is really leisurely."

Yuan Shao sneered and offered hundreds of thousands of refugees. He did not think about how to solve the population problem. Instead, he was still leisurely cutting trees and building roads in the mountains. Dong Zhuo was also very generous.

It is best to dig two of the Taihang Mountains to save him some effort.

The bandits in Taihang Mountain surrendered too quickly, and all Xingguan on the mountain were taken over by Dong Zhuo. In this way, the timing of the attack was in the hands of Dong Zhuo.

This is a pretty fucking thing for Yuan Shao.

The advisers under his command suggested that Yuan Shao didn't have to worry. Dong Zhuo would not evacuate the refugees to various places. It was a fool to rely on the barren Bingzhou to support these refugees. In less than a year, Dong Zhuo had to accept his fate.

At that time, these refugees will still rebel if they have no food.

Wen Chou’s revenge can be avenged later.

The most urgent task is that a large number of Yellow Turban remnants have emerged in Qingzhou, which is adjacent to Jizhou. The Qingzhou Governor Jiao He is a useless person. He has many soldiers and sufficient food, but he dares not fight with the Yellow Turban, which has become more and more rampant in the territory.

This is a great time to seize Qingzhou!

"The lord can send a letter to the governor of Qingzhou, and raise the flag to rescue Qingzhou. After the army enters the city, control Jiao He and suppress these remnants of the Yellow Turbans. Qingzhou is the one in his pocket!"

Pang Ji, Shen Pei and others offered good advice.

After hearing this, Yuan Shao's eyes shone brightly.

Qingzhou is also a rich place. If Qingzhou can be taken down, his strength can at least double!

If you want to deal with Dong Zhuo at that time, you will be more confident!

As for the hatred of the love general Wen Chou, let’s write it in the account first and then revenge it later.

After the meeting, Yuan Shao immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Qingzhou.

At the same time, we secretly mobilized the army and waited for Jiao He to nod to enter Qingzhou under the banner of suppressing the bandits.

South of Jizhou, Yanzhou East County.

After the failure to fight Dong, Cao Cao, who acted as General Fenwu, went to Yangzhou to recruit soldiers. Later, when he returned to his hometown, he heard that Dongjun was robbed by Heishan bandits, so he personally led his soldiers to conquer and defeated Yu Du and other Heishan leaders in Dongjun, making the Black Mountain bandits dare not commit again.

Yuan Shao then went to the court and submitted that Cao Cao was the governor of Dongjun County.

During Cao Cao's tenure as the county magistrate, Dongjun achieved stability and made great progress.

In addition to the previous righteous acts of seeking Dong and Cao Cao's own personal charm, many talents were also rewarded during this period.

On the other hand, with the financial support of his father and some friends, Cao Cao actively developed military affairs and expanded his soldiers.

There are now five or six thousand war-going people under their command.

Although the number of people is not large, Cao Cao understands one truth.

Soldiers are not about breadth, but about essence.
Chapter completed!