Chapter 21 Three Years Passed, Changes in the Capital
Ji Hao's thoughts were so fast that Cai Yong couldn't keep up with his pace for a while.

"General, don't joke about this. Even if Zhen Ji delayed her marriage, she can only find a remarriage now. There is no way for her to marry the same person as her sister..." Cai Yong wanted to refuse.

But he was not a stupid man. After he realized what was happening, his eyes lit up.

Ji Hao hadn't married yet, so why was Cao Cao urging him to do so?
Of course, it is because a lord without a wife and children is worrying - what if Ji Hao dies in a war one day, who will inherit his legacy?
Without a leader, wouldn't the Ji Group fall apart in an instant?

Who can bear the fact that subordinates have worked hard for many years, but in the end, all their fame and fortune are gone?

Therefore, he was not only urged to get married, but also to marry more and have more children. If there were too many offspring, the struggle for succession would cause chaos, and that would not be embarrassing at all.

It would be embarrassing if you have no children, work hard all your life, and finally lose your kingdom to someone else.

Dong Zhuo was also a capable man, so why did he change completely after entering Beijing?
It wasn't that power corrupted him, it was that he had no descendants, only a nephew!
Then why bother working hard?

All his subordinates now know the advantages that Ji Hao holds. As long as they do not fall apart, they will surely dominate the world in the future. Even if they cannot unify the country, they will never lose to anyone.

Then, the child must be had.

With inheritance, the group will not disband even if he dies.

Without children, if something happened to him, would Zhao Yun be able to convince Cao Cao, or would Cao Cao be able to convince someone else?
Zhou Cang never submits to others!
Under such circumstances, there was no problem for Ji Hao to marry Cai Yong's two daughters at once - in aristocratic families, two daughters would not serve the same man during a marriage, because there could only be one principal wife.

But if one has the ambition to become Jackie Chan, then such a large harem can accommodate many people.

Having two daughters together actually provides some support.

Cai Yong was able to teach a treacherous man like Cao Cao, and he himself was exiled by the emperor and suffered a lot, yet he was able to get close to Dong Zhuo. Naturally, he didn't have any idea that "the Han Dynasty is greater than heaven" in his mind.

After thinking it through, he immediately said, "Of course, if the lord is willing, there will be no problem!"

At the same time, he was muttering in his heart: Madam asked her daughter to bring the food, was she doing it on purpose?
It’s not like I haven’t been out and about before, and I’ve never seen my daughter bring me meals!
"Don't worry, don't worry. We are the descendants of Yan and Huang. We believe in mutual consent. Let's just date each other first and wait for them..." Ji Hao wanted to wait until they grow up a little, but as soon as he returned, Guo Jia, Chen Gong and Xun Yu, who received the news, came to force him to get married.

Ji Hao is already in his twenties, still unmarried and childless.

They are really worried.

Because people over 30 are considered "unconfused" in this era and are not far from death!

"Wait, the betrothal gifts haven't been delivered yet! What do you mean by sending the person here first? Her parents...don't lock the door from the outside! How am I going to get out tomorrow?"

……

More than three years have passed in a flash.

During these three years, Ji Hao built the "Chengtian Ferry" upstream and wrapped the two banks with cement, making it into an iron barrel. He built houses according to the "six-story building with small property rights" model, thickened one wall, and built a 20-meter city wall.

It is almost impossible to cross it unless you use ladders or catapults to attack.

The ferry has also been built.

Especially after taking over Qingzhou, Ji Hao found iron ore and mined it on a large scale. He produced "reinforced concrete" that was extremely similar to modern ones and built a large "Chengtian Bridge" in the Yellow River.

Completely connect the north and the south.

With this as the foundation, they had already accumulated a lot of wealth by selling the refined salt obtained from Qingzhou.

The Qingzhou noble families were even more obedient: after hybrid rice was promoted, they received subsidies and thought they would make a steady profit, but Ji Hao's yield was over 500 kilograms per mu.

After removing the two-stone subsidy, there are still two stones left.

They are still the ones cultivating the land, Ji Hao got it for free.

The major families were naturally unwilling to accept this and wanted to take back the land, but facing Ji Hao who had already won the hearts of the people and the contract stated in black and white that it would last for thirty years, they did not dare to go back on their word.

They can only use some small tricks in secret, such as replacing hybrid rice with ordinary grains during harvest.

They secretly took rice seeds and planted them on private land without any cooperation.

As a result, the harvest was dismal the following year, and the intercepted rice seeds did not produce that much yield - by this time, the people of Jingzhou had become wealthy and every household had sufficient grain stores.

Simplified Chinese characters were also popularized among the people.

They looked back and suddenly realized: Damn, we are no longer a noble family!

In other words, everyone in Qingzhou became a noble family.

So much so that in the third year, when hybrid rice became truly popular, the aristocratic families could no longer cause any trouble.

Ji Hao also made a lot of money. But in the eyes of the princes and the court, Ji Hao was still the poorest prince: after he made money, he did not want gold or copper, but built a "Tianshui Dam" on the bank of the Yellow River.

It stretches for dozens of miles and consumed millions of laborers to create a river every ten miles in Qingzhou.

In addition, all disaster victims are welcome.

Useless old people, babies in swaddling clothes, and women who are powerless.

I want everything.

As long as the victims go to Qingzhou, they will be able to have enough food and a home.

But at the same time, he also spent money like water, and he pushed the "Great Wall" strategy like crazy, insisting on wrapping up the entire Qingzhou and building it into his own "manor".

Many princes complained about it.

But it also made me feel at ease.

Because he had run out of money, he could no longer recruit soldiers, and he kept the army at 20,000. In the early days, it was still a lot, but in the later days, when the Xiliang army had 300,000 soldiers and the Bingzhou army had hundreds of thousands, it was dwarfed by the others.

As for the "Datong Army" that was not equipped with any armor or weapons and was only trained, it was directly ignored.

You didn't even give us horses, but just some crossbows and some damn compound bows. Are you kidding me?
"Ji Hao is a talented person, but unfortunately, he became petty after becoming the governor of a state. He keeps messing around in his own territory. He is not as good as Cao Cao who is stationed at Chengtian Ferry." Emperor Ling shook his head.

As he spoke, swordsmen rushed out and started hacking at General He Jin.

This was not his order.

It was the Ten Eunuchs who wanted to kill He Jin, so he had no choice but to agree. He originally wanted to support Ji Hao to the top and create a "three-legged tripod" to balance the court, but Ji Hao just ran away.

Haven't seen him for three years.

"I'm sorry, Lord He, this is not what I meant!" said Emperor Ling of Han.

In response, He Jin smiled coldly and said nothing.

At the same time, outside the capital, two large armies quickly gathered: one was the Bingzhou cavalry led by Ding Yuan, with Zhang Liao leading the way and Lu Bu following closely behind.

On one side was the Xiliang Army led by Dong Zhuo.

Hua Xiong took the lead, followed by Li Jue and Guo Si.

"The capital is about to change!" Cao Cao watched from afar, put a letter with a large string of Arabic numerals written on it into the letter bag on the leg of a carrier pigeon, and sent it into the sky.

……

On the other side, in Qingzhou, Ji Hao was counting the food.

"We, the descendants of Yan and Huang, are born with three mental illnesses: one is the 'infrastructure mania', one is the 'hoarding mania', and one is the 'fear of insufficient firepower'!"

In response to this, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Chen Gong and others covered their heads and had nothing to say.

They understood it.

After discovering that labor was extremely cheap in this era, Ji Hao suddenly proposed a "three-city" plan: one in the county town, one in the state capital, and one along the Great Wall.

We must defend against bandits at home, resist the princes in the middle, and resist foreign countries abroad.

Nowadays, the county towns are more than ten meters high, and the state towns are thirty meters high, which makes people doubt that even the Yellow Turban Army in its heyday would not be able to cross this high wall.

With no one to resist!
And the hoarding disease is happening.

Everyone suspected that Ji Hao was a "hamster" in the Chinese zodiac. Not only did he produce enough food for ten years by growing hybrid rice, but he also continued to hoard it and did not sell any of it.

They even summoned skilled craftsmen to research something called "canned food."

In extreme cases, the idea is to store food for a hundred years.

Leaving everyone speechless.

You are saving it for your descendants and grandchildren for eight generations to use when they offer sacrifices to you, right?

As for the fear of insufficient firepower, this is easy to explain, because people in the Three Kingdoms period also had this disease. Scholars had to carry a three-foot sword with them, otherwise they would feel panic.

Generals, many of you don’t even take off your armor when you sleep!
"According to the spies, His Majesty is already seriously ill and won't live long." Chen Gong said, "The Bingzhou Army and the Xiliang Army are fighting right now. Should we take advantage of this opportunity to let Meng De take Luoyang?"

(End of this chapter)