Chapter 399: It's so lively
The tens of thousands of people sent out by Emperor Qingluo lived up to his expectations and successfully captured a city before New Year's Eve.
In fact, the fact that the Qingluo people were able to capture the city of Yansha Kingdom so smoothly this time was also related to the fact that Chu Qinshu had previously let the spiritual birds send away the Yansha troops stationed in those two places.
The Yansha Kingdom is surrounded by the sea, and their border defense forces are all coastal defense forces, mainly defending the Qingluo Kingdom, Sheng'an Kingdom and Chiling Kingdom.
Among these three countries, Qingluo was the closest to them, so they deployed relatively large numbers of troops in several garrisons across the sea from Qingluo.
What Chu Qinshu asked the spirit bird to send to Ouyang Yue were the coastal defense forces stationed in these places.
Although Liu Renyi did not continue to attack the city, he still defended these three garrisons.
In the cities close to these three garrisons, there were only city defense troops, with each city having approximately one thousand to three thousand men.
Emperor Yansha focused on the gold mines. It was not that he did not value the three lost garrison terminals, but he blindly trusted the city defense forces of several nearby cities.
As long as they could hold the city gates, the Qingluo people would be locked outside and would starve to death without food and fodder in the winter.
In this way, when this winter is over, those places will still be his.
It was because he took it for granted that Emperor Qingluo had the opportunity to take advantage of him.
With a city of one or two thousand defenders facing off against tens of thousands of Qingluo people, what are the chances of winning?
What's more, when Chu Qinshu sent these Qingluo people to the Yansha Kingdom, she didn't even leave out their weapons.
When she sent the Yansha Coastal Defense Force to the Chiling Kingdom, the part of them that was sent to Ouyang Yue did not bring any weapons.
Therefore, Emperor Qingluo has enough weapons at his disposal.
The Qingluo people were not the Youzhou army who would consider treating the people well. As soon as they broke through the city gates, they entered the city to burn, kill, and loot.
Emperor Yansha had already collected food and grass from the people several times for the purpose of gold mining, and the remaining food in the hands of the people was already very limited.
But the two coastal defense forces of Qingluo Kingdom together have 60,000 to 70,000 people, plus the royal family members who need to be supported by them.
When resources are limited, the strong will naturally prey on the weak.
In order to gain food for themselves, Qingluo's 60,000 to 70,000 coastal defense troops began to massacre the city.
Within a few days, no Yansha people could be seen in the small town of Yansha that they had just occupied.
On New Year's Eve, Emperor Yansha received the news that the border town had been occupied, and he was immediately frightened.
In a panic, apart from sending people to deal with the situation, he just hid in the palace every day and shivered.
When Chu Qinshu sent the second group of people to Emperor Qingluo, Emperor Qingluo's eyes gleamed with brilliance.
Since his Qingluo Kingdom was occupied, he would occupy Yansha Kingdom.
This idea is exactly what Chu Qinshu wants.
So Chu Qinshu also helped Emperor Qingluo. She asked Lingqin to send the third batch of Qingluo soldiers directly to Yansha Imperial City, along with their weapons.
Seeing the foreign soldiers descending from the sky, Emperor Yansha was almost scared to death, "Someone, come here, shoot for me, shoot the people in the sky for me."
Unfortunately, by the time his archers were ready, the foreign soldiers had already landed safely, and under the leadership of their generals, they reorganized their troops and began to fight.
"Occupy the imperial city and destroy the Yansha Kingdom." the general shouted.
Although he guessed that his emperor was most likely in Yansha Kingdom, who made him lucky enough to be sent to Yansha Imperial City?
Once the Yansha Imperial City is occupied, it will be hard to say who will be the emperor in the future.
Chu Qinshu was satisfied with what she saw, and asked Lingqin to send the fourth group of people over, this time to a different city.
Let the generals who were originally stationed in various places of Qingluo Kingdom take the opportunity to occupy their respective territories. After that, Yansha Kingdom will become extremely lively.
"Dad, you don't need that mineral vein map anymore."
Chu Qinshu looked at the busy spiritual birds and the bustling Yansha Kingdom, and came up with a new idea.
"Well, Shu'er and Dad are on the same page."
Chu Chengyi and his one year and four month old daughter smiled at each other.
No one knows what evil plans this father and daughter are planning.
The father and daughter were busy for a month, and when they returned to the capital, it was already the spring ploughing season.
Last year there was a bumper sweet potato harvest, and this year is the first time that people are allowed to grow sweet potatoes.
Emperor Yongping accepted Chu Qinshu's suggestion. Of course, he heard Chu Qinshu muttering this suggestion in her heart.
He discussed it with Chu Chengyi before asking the Ministry of Revenue to draft specific clauses.
The Sino-Agricultural Temple took the lead and arranged two promotion officers to go to the counties under the jurisdiction of the capital to carry out promotion.
One group was led by Fu Song, who took more than a dozen colleagues to several counties west of the capital.
One group was led by another official from the Ministry of Agriculture and went to several counties east of the capital.
The Minister of Agriculture only divided the areas for them and asked them to promote the policy according to the policy given by the Ministry of Revenue. He did not care whether they relied on the power of local officials or used their own resources.
But these two groups will compete, the winner will receive awards from the court, and the loser will be sent to a remote place for promotion next year.
After becoming an agricultural official, Fu Song knew that he wanted to promote sweet potatoes.
Therefore, when the sweet potato harvest was good last year, we had already made plans for this year’s promotion.
He picked out several estates owned by his family in the counties and prefectures under the jurisdiction of the capital to grow seedlings.
It is not easy to change farmers' mindsets, but Fu Song is clear-headed and will not make things difficult for himself.
He used to be a businessman, and although he is an official now, he is only a minor official. In the eyes of the farmers, he is not as good at farming as them.
Therefore, he did not consider the actual farmers at all for the first batch of sweet potato planting quotas, but gave them all to merchants.
Merchants have either shops or farms, so no one would be short of this piece of land.
Regardless of whether they believe in the high yield of sweet potatoes, as long as they are not stupid, they will give Fu Song this face.
Therefore, Fu Song has no pressure in promoting the product.
As for the local farmers, they like to see is to believe, so we can take them to the farm during the autumn harvest to see the harvest with their own eyes.
By then, farmers will rush to plant the crops without him having to say anything.
The sweet potatoes planted during the promotion period were to be used as seeds, and the court would buy them back at a unified price.
For farmers, planting a year earlier or later does not make much difference.
Chu Chengyi and Chu Qinshu stayed in Yu's study for an hour every day, and then left the palace to inspect the counties around the capital to check on the work progress of the two promotion officers.
The group of agricultural officials who wanted to use the power of the government to promote the product were still holding meetings with the village heads to persuade them to grow sweet potatoes, but Fu Song had already led people to grow seedlings on his own farm.
Those merchants who had made agreements with him in advance also began to fertilize the land in preparation for planting sweet potatoes.
With this first step, he left his colleagues far behind, and the result was obvious.
"Fu Song is an agricultural official who was delayed by doing business."
Chu Qinshu was inspired when she learned about Fu Song's promotion method.
Business people are really smart and have excellent resources at their disposal.
"Well, what Shu'er said is absolutely right."
Chu Chengyi thought his daughter had good vision, so he decided to give Fu Song a promotion after the autumn harvest this year.
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