Wu Song said: "The strongest Wu Zhuang force in our hands is the Dongping Prefecture Army, with 5,000 people. Although this team has been trained every day since its establishment and has fought several times with the bandits and bandits in the Shuibo Liangshan Mountain, there has not been a high-intensity battle once. It is difficult to form a military soul without experiencing bloody battles."

Wu Yong said: "This is the reason, but we have thousands of people and horses that are difficult to play a major role in the melee of 500,000 and 600,000."

Wu Song said: "There are small ones, and the larger ones are big ones. Five thousand people say that there are not many, and there are not many. If the command is done well, it can play a big role. The Ministry of War wrote that it will arrive at Yan'an Prefecture at the end of the first lunar month. It seems that the Chinese New Year is about to set off. There are two months left for the Chinese New Year, and we just prepare strategic materials. I will call Cheng Zhi over later. Let's discuss it carefully."

"Okay, the first battle must be fought well, beautifully, not only not weakened, but also strong in the battle. I don't think so, so I immediately set up the Yan'an Prefecture branch and do not take on any business for the time being. Prepare some supplies first in case of need from time to time." Wu Yong said.

Wu Song nodded: "Okay, find a young young man from the team to replace Shi Jin, Chen Da and Yang Chun from Huanghua Salt Field, transfer these three people to Yan'an Prefecture, bring one hundred guards, and immediately recruit and form a Yan'an Prefecture branch."

"yes."

In this year, due to backward transportation, both sides began to dispatch troops for several months before the war, so Wu Song made an arrangement that was appropriate. Shi Jin could order the team to Yan'an Prefecture to open a semicolon, and Wu Song and others continued to train troops in Dongping Prefecture. At the same time, Wu Song decided to open a glass workshop to produce glass. Of course, the production started with a simple mirror at the beginning, but everything had to start from scratch, and the road was still long.

If it weren't for the Dongping Prefecture Army going out to fight, it would be so happy that it would be endless. Why do you say that? It is because the 100,000 people in Dongping Prefecture and the 30 foreign population have already lived a life of food and clothing. Since the beginning of autumn, sweet potatoes have been harvested, cotton has been harvested, and other various grains have also been harvested. Especially sweet potatoes and cotton, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes has reached an unprecedented 6,000 kilograms, and the yield of cotton has reached four or five hundred kilograms.

There are two ways to preserve sweet potatoes. The first is to dig a cellar to preserve it. Every household who grows sweet potatoes will dig a cellar to the dry land, in front of and behind the house, and store three to five thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes preserved in this way are more delicious, but there will be a lot of losses. The second method is to use a insert plate to wipe the sweet potato slices and dry them. The dried sweet potatoes can be kept until the spring of the next year. During this period, you need to feed the animals as you pick them up and use them as you want.

If the bumper harvest of grain is just the foundation, then the vigorous development of horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and aquatic product breeding has driven the overall economic improvement. Now, more than 10,000 large animals such as cattle and horses in Dongpingfu are more than 10,000. What is this concept? In the farming era, 10,000 large animals are equivalent to 30,000 labor force. A small Dongpingfu suddenly has more such animals, liberating more wealthy labor force to engage in other things. Some cultivate and spend more time to manage the land. Some develop breeding, and the breeding of pigs, sheep and other animals has increased greatly. More people have entered workshops or various other businesses.

A mountain village under Dongping Prefecture is called Qingshigou Village. There are more than 100 households in the village, with 3,000 people in about 500 people. It is difficult to see the harvest of sorghum in the mountains here, and it is basically difficult to see the harvest of wheat. Tax officials do not come here to collect taxes because they cannot be collected. It turns out that the people here carry vegetables and are very poor, so today it is different. Cheng Wanli brought his master and the vendors who harvested pigs in a very short dress. The people in the village were very happy to see that there were pigs.

"Boss, I want a few pigs. I have one at home." An old man said. The old man is in his sixties, but he is still very strong. He brought Cheng Wanli to his home. The mountain village has no other characteristics, there are many stones, and a pig house with more than half acres of land was built in the backyard. A small part is built with a straw shed, and other places are open-air.

There is an old sow in the pig house, with six hundred kilograms of half a big pig, and ten twenty or thirty kilograms of small pigs.

When Cheng Wanli saw that this could be considered a professional household, more than a dozen pigs.

"Do you sell pigs with more than a dozen pigs or have you raised them to sell fat pigs?" Cheng Wanli asked.

The old man said: "The price of piglets is low, and the market for fat pigs is good. Of course, it is to sell fat pigs."

"Do you have enough feed? So many pigs eat a lot every day," said Cheng Wanli.

At this time, a woman in her forties came, who was the old man's daughter-in-law. The woman said, "Boss, don't worry, boss, there is enough feed. Look at these two baskets of pigs' snacks."

When Cheng Wanli saw that these were two baskets of carrots and pumpkin slices, they were washed and sliced.

"Since last year, we have grown a large number of pumpkins and carrots. People don't have to worry about eating them, and it's better to feed them to pigs. The main feed is dried sweet potatoes, and they will feed them once when it's almost dark." The woman said.

"How many kilograms of sweet potatoes can a mu of barren mountainous land like you produce?" Cheng Wanli asked.

The old man said: "Sweet potatoes are better than soybeans and wheat. Such land can produce 3,000 kilograms per acre. My family has five people and 30 acres of mountain land. In the past, the agricultural tax was not paid. This year, it is much stronger. Sweet potatoes and pumpkins are very good. Not only can I raise pigs and sell them, I can still have meat to eat."

Some villages also develop forestry and fruit industries. For example, Zhujiazhuang has developed peppercorns on a large scale. Although there is no effect in the short term, it will gradually develop greatly.

Qingshigou Village is just a microcosm of the agricultural development of Dongpingfu. The promotion of sweet potatoes has made the people eat. The promotion of cotton has allowed the people to wear clothes, and the development of commerce has activated the economy. The first phase of the Dongping Small Commodity City built outside Dongpingfu City has been completed and more than 200 merchants have moved in. In addition to traditional industries such as tea, silk, cotton cloth, paper, and porcelain, there are also rattan weaving, woodworking, ironware, special dry goods, dried fruits, and fur.

The river is full of water, and the agricultural tax revenue of Dongping Prefecture is 40% higher than last year, the working tax doubles compared with last year, and the commercial tax has also doubled. Dongping Prefecture has now become the fastest-growing government. Cheng Wanli couldn't hide his happiness, and the officials of Dongping Prefecture, such as Tongzong and Tongzhi, were very happy there. They would have complained about the heavy use of Wu Song. After all, Wu Song was Cheng Wanli's son-in-law, and he had to avoid suspicion when using it. Now no one said this. Wu Song is a capable man. It took two years to double the economy of Dongping Prefecture and the people live a prosperous life.
Chapter completed!