Daqin Engineers

Just when Shen Bing was frowning about the cavalry, Fatty walked in.

He didn't dare to speak up when he saw Shen Bing and several people discussing things, but Shen Bing asked:

"Is something important?"

Fatty Tun hurried forward and responded:

"General, the people in Tuntian in the west of the city have asked to move to the east to spin..."

Shen Bing answered without thinking:

"No!"

The fat man responded, was about to quit but hesitated again, then turned around and asked:

"General, there is one thing unknown to his subordinates. I don't know..."

Shen Bing nodded with a "hmm".

The development of the cavalry encountered a dead end and was in no hurry, so Shen Bing put it aside for the time being.

Fatty Tun said:

"Subordinates have calculated."

"If the monthly profit of the textile workshop exceeds the annual tax of Yanmen County, why don't I wait to change all the fields in the west to a textile workshop?"

"The textile land in the east of the city is tight, but there is a large field in the west for growing ramie and five vegetables."

"Even if it is used for farming to produce grain next year, it will not be as good as weaving."

"That's why the people don't want to farm land."

Shen Bing did not expect this problem to occur.

But think about it, if the worker’s wages are big, twenty dollars a day and still quite stable...Working in a textile workshop is hard to control, that is, you have wages all year round.

With this calculation, the money a worker can make is several times that of a farmer who farms. Of course, the farmer is not willing to replant the land and hopes to work in a textile workshop.

This is also a problem faced by modern industrialization: all farmers go to cities to work, and large tracts of land in the countryside are not cultivated.

Shen Bing only replied:

"If I don't wait to farm, how can I wrap my belly?"

Fatty Tun answered:

"The subordinates thought that we could exchange cloth for food, just as Yunzhong County is doing now."

"The same laborer, the output of textiles is more than twice that of farming!"

Shen Bing asked again:

"If one day, the Xiongnu cut off the Yunzhong County grain road and even besieged Yunzhong County Tuantuan?"

There was no sound when the fat man was standing.

Shen Bing explained:

"Food is the heaven for the people, and food is the foundation of Yunzhong County's survival. We cannot give up farming at any time."

"Tell the people that all grains grown in Yunzhong County are tax-free!"

This is actually another way of subsidizing farmers. There is no reason why farmers are unwilling.

The fat man replied and withdrew.

Fusu sighed:

"The general is very farsighted."

"And the people who get this benefit will surely come in droves!"

What Shen Bing didn't explain is that his move was not actually against the Huns: Yunzhong County is backed by Yanmen County, and there is little threat of being cut off by the Huns.

What Shen Bing really guarded against was that one day he might become an enemy of the Qin Army... then it was important to farm land.

Wang Ben said with some worry:

"Yunzhong County can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people is the limit."

"It is said that the country will be annihilated by our army. At that time...not to mention another 100,000 people will move in."

Shen Bing couldn't help but feel a headache. It's not because there are fewer people, and it's not because there are too many people.

Zhao Wangjia moved out from the north, but the number of people from the front and the back was at least 300,000.

This time, a part of it was lost, and the return of 200,000 people would be counted as less.

How can a small Yunzhong County accommodate 200,000 people?

Shen Bing didn't think much, and immediately ordered:

"Train the recruits and continue to prepare for the outer enclosure."

Wang Ben responded with a rush and passed the order on.

This was the established strategy of the Shen Bing at the beginning, which was to expand in the direction of the Xiongnu in a step-by-step manner. In this way, it would always be a defense without considering cavalry combat.

There is nothing wrong with Shen Bing's plan, as long as it slowly develops into a proportional expansion.

But Yingzheng seems to be unable to wait.

To be precise, it is not that Ying Zheng can't wait, but that Li Si is behind the scenes.

Li Si is the prime minister of the Kingdom of Qin after all, and his scheming today is not comparable to that of ordinary people. At the beginning, even his junior brother Han Fei was able to kill him for the sake of power. How could Shen Bing get better at this time.

After thinking about it, he saw that the development of Yunzhong County could not be restricted, so he changed his approach.

On this day Li Si went into the palace privately and said to Ying Zheng:

"Majesty, at this time when the Central Plains was harvesting, most of the Huns were scattered and plundered."

"If another country destroys 200,000 people, it will not be possible to move to Yunzhong County."

"Why don't I wait to take the nine originals?"

Ying Zheng hesitated and said:

"But the Northland General only had more than 10,000 people, I'm afraid..."

Li Si replied:

"Great King Mingjian."

"The last time in the Battle of Cloud City, the Northland General defeated tens of thousands of Huns with a mere thousands of people."

"Now Yunzhong County has more than 100,000 people."

"If the Northland general recruits from the common people and defends the city with them, he then raises Jiuyuan with his elite..."

"It is not difficult to recover the nine originals."

Of course Zhao Gao understands Li Si's thoughts and echoes:

"Majesty, it is said that the Xiongnu are good at riding outside the city and not good at offense and defense, but the Northland general has both offense and defense."

"Moreover, there are sufficient crops and mature crops in all parts of our army. At this time, we will be able to win the victory by taking Jiuyuan."

"If the Nine Yuans go down, the Xiongnu will lose their foundation in the south, and Yanmen County will no longer suffer from the Huns."

This is correct. If the Jiuyuan is included in the Daqin territory, the Xiongnu's base area can only be pushed north to west, hundreds of miles away from Yanmen County. It would be much more difficult to looting.

Ying Zheng is right to think about it.

Moreover, I found out that there were no more than 3,000 Huns stationed in Jiuyuan. More importantly, the Huns didn't repair the damaged walls and gates... the gates were burned down when Shen Bing evacuated from Jiuyuan.

Ying Zheng didn't know the Xiongnu's tactics at all, so he took the thinking of defending cities in the Central Plains for granted, so he thought that Li Si and Zhao Gao were justified, and the next order was sent to Shen Bing.

Shen Bing was stunned when he saw the order to send troops to Jiuyuan.

Yunzhong County is two hundred kilometers away from Jiuyuan. This distance is not something that "step by step" can pile up there!

But Yingzheng's orders had to be followed, and the entire plan was disrupted.

What's more serious is that there are only 3,000 Xiongnu in Jiuyuan County.

There may indeed be only 3,000 people in Jiuyuan County, but the Xiongnu cavalry ran and looted everywhere. Once they found that there was a Qin army marching into Jiuyuan, they would come from all directions for reinforcement.

So the enemy will soon become thirty thousand or more.

Shen Bing immediately called Wang Ben, Wei Wei and others to discuss countermeasures.

But there is no way to discuss it.

The difficulty does not come from defending the city, nor from the strength of the troops.

During this period, Yunzhong County recruited five thousand recruits and trained them day and night. After another period of training, they can be used to defend the city. After all, the Xiongnu cavalry are also rookies when it comes to siege, and even the people may not be able to defend the city. Take down.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the Northland Army's attack on Jiuyuan will inevitably expose the supply line under the Huns.

Two hundred kilometers...

If the cavalry is strong enough, it will be fine to protect the supply line with cavalry.

The problem is that the Shenwu Army at this time is not strong enough.