Su Tongmao suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. Yang Hanmo seized the opportunity and took immediate action, making drastic moves and using both soft and hard tactics, including threats and inducements. He accepted all those who surrendered, and secretly dealt with those who refused to surrender.
Without Su Tongmao as the leader, the officials of Taiyi Prefecture were like a group of scattered sand in front of him, the prince.
He can do whatever he wants to anyone!
The identity of "King Mo" is definitely a powerful weapon. A higher-ranking official can crush others.
Although the appointment, dismissal and punishment of officials all need to be verified by the court and reported to the emperor,
The situation is so chaotic now, and the court's control over the local areas is becoming increasingly weak.
Yang Hanmo no longer cared about so many things and simply seized power. In his opinion, Dagan was already in turmoil and might fall apart in two years.
Even if he guessed wrong, and the border was settled, Beiqing was destroyed, and the world was at peace, and he was brought to justice, it would not matter.
At worst, he can just act pitiful and cry. After all, he is his biological son. Can the emperor kill him?
As a prince, Yang Hanmo is fearless.
Yang Hanmo was busy consolidating power and taking over the entire Tongzhou. Lin Xiaoman was also very busy. First of all, food was the foundation.
First you need food, then money, then you can have soldiers and horses, and only then can you be qualified to compete for the world.
However, my cheap brother only has 20,000 soldiers under his command, and a large part of these 20,000 soldiers are scattered in various counties as city defenders.
No soldiers!
Well, the entire Tongzhou has such a small population, but Yang Hanmo can still squeeze out 20,000 soldiers. He is considered capable.
Lin Xiaoman’s first goal is farming. After all, if war breaks out in the future, each state will be in charge of its own affairs, and even if you have money, you won’t be able to buy food.
But this piece of land in Tongzhou can be described in two words: barren!
Most of the area is sandy soil, and the common crops in Dagan are: millet, sorghum (broomcorn millet), rice, beans (soybeans), barley, wheat, coix, etc.
Tongzhou mainly grows millet and sorghum. Not only are they not tasty, but the key is that the yield per mu is still low. Tongzhou's climate is obviously not suitable for growing rice, so Lin Xiaoman thought of sweet potatoes and corn.
However, it doesn’t exist in the world.
Lin Xiaoman found 10 on-the-job painters and set up a crash course in sketching, bringing charcoal pencils to the public and creating a "realistic painting style".
The abstract paintings here are really... I won’t say more. It’s a picture of a wanted criminal, which is really too abstract.
It took three days and the first batch of apprentices were trained quickly.
Lin Xiaoman found a book called "Plant Encyclopedia" in his mind, and selected 10 kinds of crops that can be eaten, such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and yams, and made a simplified version of "Food Encyclopedia".
The original copy was then given to the apprentices to "copy" it. The copies were distributed by the government to the headmen of each village, who then informed all villagers that if they found the crops in the book, they would be rewarded handsomely.
After creating the "Food Encyclopedia", Lin Xiaoman created another "Plant Encyclopedia", in which he drew pictures of all the useful plants, and then "photocopied" them for everyone to popularize and search.
While mobilizing the masses to search, Lin Xiaoman was thinking about the local specialties.
Wealthy prefectures all have their own specialties, such as Fengzhou's specialty grains, Zezhou's specialty limestone, Minzhou's specialty iron ore, and Zhongzhou's specialty medicinal herbs...
Tongzhou specialty: poor people!
Why.
Without further ado, a sound economic system must be established, with sufficient food and a developed economy, in order to attract people to come in and become a city with an influx of people! You must know that in ancient times, people were the primary productive force. Without people, there was nothing to talk about.
Like a busy little bee, Lin Xiaoman, after investigating everywhere, began to develop the economy according to local conditions.
Although the land in Tongzhou is a bit poor, there are still many wild plants, including many materials for making linen.
However, hand-weaving is a very slow process, and it takes several months to produce a piece of cloth. A piece of linen is not expensive, so the input and output are completely disproportionate.
Therefore, not many people are willing to weave.
The key is still: the loom!
Taking into account the current technology, Lin Xiaoman selected a simple blueprint and then asked Yang Hanmo for more than 10 carpenters and blacksmiths.
Lin Xiaoman personally directed and participated in the production, and in two days, the first loom was born.
Yang Hanmo exclaimed in amazement at the loom's incredibly fast weaving speed. "Xiaoxi, you're amazing! You even managed to get your hands on such top-secret blueprints!"
This kind of textile machine is probably only available in weaving factories, and its manufacture is absolutely a big secret.
Knowledge creates wealth. When the first high-efficiency loom came out, Yang Hanmo felt as if silver and gold were flying towards him.
They can set up a weaving factory!
After successfully making the loom, Lin Xiaoman handed over the subsequent task of "setting up a factory" to Yang Hanmo, and went to inspect it again.
Linen is a kind of cloth used by ordinary people. It is an everyday necessity and is not sold at a high price. Lin Xiaoman does not expect the linen factory to make a lot of money. It is enough as long as it can meet the daily needs of the entire Tongzhou.
The fabrics available in Dagan include silk, cotton, linen, and wool. Rich people wear silk clothes in summer and fur in winter.
Only silk and wool can be sold at a high price.
However, due to production limitations, neither of these can be mass-produced, the output value is very small, and therefore the price is also high.
Tongzhou is not suitable for large-scale sheep and rabbit farming, so forget about fur and wool. As for silk... we still need to conduct on-site inspections. There are no white and tender domestic silkworms at the moment, so we can only find it from wild silkworms.
After drawing another sketch, Lin Xiaoman drew the appearance of mulberry trees, silkworms, silkworm pupae, and moths, and then "photocopied" them again, giving each village a copy to mobilize the masses.
Realistic sketches, with specific references and the temptation of a "big reward", made the public very enthusiastic.
Then I was surprised to find corn and sweet potatoes in the deep mountains and forests.
Well, the next step is naturally to cultivate high-yield mother seedlings. Lin Xiaoman is very busy.
Lin Xiaoman is very busy, and Yang Hanmo is not idle either. Tongzhou is basically in their hands, so they have to reach out.
However, there was no way for him to reach out to the well-ordered provincial capitals like Minzhou and Fengzhou. The only ones he could develop were his two miserable neighbors, Youzhou and Huaizhou, which had also suffered a disaster and were still in dire straits.
Yang Hanmo received the news that Youzhou and Huaizhou were in dire straits.
Emperor Wusheng doesn't care whether you cause trouble or not. He will just conscript soldiers and force you to join. The people who have finally survived the disaster are in trouble again. Then, where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Youzhou and Huaizhou were in a mess.
As for them, perhaps because his tearful letter of sympathy aroused the little fatherly love in Emperor Wu Sheng's heart, they were lucky to escape the disaster. In any case, Tongzhou did not receive the conscription order.
Yang Hanmo was itching to take over Youzhou or Huaizhou.
Alas, he couldn’t make the decision himself, so he asked his sister, who is so smart!
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