Chapter 64: Bringing Back The Tuntian System
In his room, Lie Fan decided to sketch the official mask that his bodyguards will wear to be made by the craftsman under the Lie Clan enterprises using the Book Of Knowledge to search for practical designs that can also help protect his bodyguard
Lie Fan sketched the design according to the Japanese iron battle mask with its helt of course but he make the helt bit smaller than the original making it a bit ghostly with the colors yellow and black mixed up
Feeling satisfied with the design he make, Lie Fan put the sketch inside his inventory and go changing his clothes the lay down on his bed to take sleep for today as a march from Guangling towards Huai'An is pretty far
The next day Lie Fan woke up feeling refreshed after a long sleep, seeing that he have free ti and in a friendly territory where he feels secure he decided to continue the cultivation that he abandoned for almost 3 years to prepare himself for the position he has now
ditating for so ti to accumulate the inner force and opening his ridian, Lie Fan began to do so physical training in his yard like push-ups, hand-to-hand combat, and his halberd combat technique to receive the inner power strengthening his body entering through his ridians
Doing all the exercises he knows of to also improve his body strength and endurance as he also neglected physical exercise so it's like hitting two birds with one stone
Bo Cai and Liu Pi are his bodyguard who was on guard duty just changed their shift with Gong Du and He Yi who was now taking a rest and saw him training they joined him, Lie Fan saw that he was training so they decided to join him in training their skills and strength
Lie Fan approves what they were doing and the three of them continue training until late morning sowhere between 10 and 11 AM when Lie Fan feels he maybe fill up half of the inner power needed to level up his cultivation
Jia Xu enter Lie Fan's courtyard and saw that Lie Fan sitting down ditating while Bo Cai and Liu Pi are dueling against each other, shaking his head at them Jia Xu walk forward toward Lie Fan
Jia Xu: "My Lord, Prefect Lie is looking for you at his study saying that he has sothing important to talk about with you"
Lie Fan: "Alright, let clean up first and Master Jia Xu can wait for at my father's study"
Jia Xu: "Yes My Lord!"
Lie Fan goes to take a bath while Bo Cai and Liu Pi clean up the courtyard and then quickly go rinse themselves when Lie Fan is done taking his bath both of them already waiting for him in from of his door
Lie Fan go walk toward his father's study while reminiscing how far he has grown becoming the youngest inspector in History from the son of a prefect, while he feels delighted with what he has accomplished but now the situation will grow more serious because they are entering a new chapter
Lie Fan reached his father's study eting with Jia Xu who was waiting for him outside together they enter the study eting with Lie Shang who was drinking tea
Lie Shang: "Fan'er you're here! Master Jia is here to co and take a sit the both of you"
Lie Fan: " Morning Father, why do you look for ?"
Lie Shang: " It's like this Fan'er, the 10.000 forr Yellow Turbans that you send here to beco part of your army is burdening our military granaries as our supply is lower than what we should have"
Lie Fan: " Don't we have a lot of food supply now thanks to the Crop rotation system that we implented?"
Lie Shang: "Yes we have but we use that to sustain the city population, to be used as a trade commodity, and the farrs also need to have their portion of the yield"
Lie Fan: "Hmm that's true, how much do we need to sustain all of the military personnel we have?"
Lie Shang: "60% of what we gain from the farrs, so what should we do?"
Jia Xu: "My Lord If I may, I have an idea that can be implented"
Lie Fan: "Of Course Master Jia Xu please"
Jia Xu: "Have My Lord and Prefect Lie heard of the Tuntian System?"
Lie Shang was familiar with the system as in the early Han Dynasty it was used but later abolished Lie Fan doesn't know about it but it sounds familiar to him like he have read about it sowhere
Jia Xu: "My Lord the Tuntian system is where soldiers in peaceti used as farrs and cultivate farmland where all crops that we're harvested will be used as a military supply that was set by Emperor Wu, we can use the 10.000 forr Yellow Turbans to cultivate the land where they will train their body doing labor and raising crops for us"
Hearing Jia Xu's explanation Lie Fan mbers this system that was used by Cao Cao where agricultural production in particular was severely disrupted due to the Yellow Turbans rebellion, and population movents from war-ravaged areas led to massive flows of refugees
Lie Fan: "I see what an excellent system! We should also use this system for the refugees of the Yellow Turbans so that our burden will be reduced and we also receive so crops for them while we provided them the tools at low prices"
Jia Xu and Lie Shang marveled at the idea that Lie Fan gave so together the three of them draw up the system to accommodate their situation where then it will be implented at Huai'An as the testing site where if it proved fruitful then combined with the crop rotation system Xu Province will beco massive crop machine
The three of them draw up the Tuntian system until late afternoon and then they down the hunger strikes as they haven't had breakfast yet so after Lie Shang ordered a page to call for the Head of the Agriculture Departnt the three of them have lunch while waiting for the Head of the Agriculture Departnt
Lie Shang praised Lie Fan for the marvelous idea of introducing the Tuntian system to the civilian where it was used as a military system in the past, Jia Xu agree with what Lie Shang said as even he hadn't thought about using it as a civilian system also
Lie Fan smile at both of them while receiving the praise and doesn't feel ashad of ripping off Cao Cao's future idea that he will implent himself as this is the benefit of having a future knowledge
When they finished having lunch, Lie Shang was inford that the Head of the Agriculture Departnt already waiting for them path the main hall so they walked there to et him
Arriving at the main hall, the three of them saw the Head of the Agriculture Departnt waiting for them so they go toward their respective position before Lie Shang inford him of their plan
Lie Shang: "I called you here because Master Jia Xu and my son just draft up a new plan to counter the crisis of military supply that all of you can't solve"
HAD: "How can it be?! All of us worked day and night to co up with a new plan"
The Head of the Agriculture Departnt receive the plan from Lie Shang and began to read it slowly and ticulously, he was shocked when he the paper containing the plan that Lie Fana and Jia Xu made
He knows about the Tuntian system but doesn't know it can be made becoming a civilian system also and if this proves successful then not only have they managed to solve the ergency but have plentiful crops for them to store
HAD: "Marvelous! Marvelous! What an ingenious way to solve our ergency! Young Lord I an Lord Inspector managed to blow our mind as always"
Lie Shang: "So do you think the agriculture departnt can handle this alongside the military departnt?"
HAD: "Of Course My Lord! Please excuse as I have to inform the others to prepare for this"
The head of the Agriculture Departnt hurriedly says goodbye and takes his leave to go back to the Agriculture Office, seeing that he has free ti Lie Fan dismissed Jia Xu and spends so ti with his father
Lie Fan and Lie Shang spend so ti together talking about their family and when will Lie Fan marries Ying Yue to their clan as Lie Shang can't wait to hold his grandchildren and teach them like how he taught Lie Fan and Wannian before
Lie Fan told Lie Shang that he planned to marry Ying Yue here at Huai'An but due to the position he has now he will hold the marriage at Xiapi as the number of guests he needs to invite will be massive and he is afraid that Huai'An can't accommodate the guest
Lie Shang: "Father agrees with your choice Fan'er, Even though Father wants you to hold your wedding here at Huai'An but considering the status you have now it's better to hold it at Xiapi as the list of guests you will invite will mock you and look down on you if we held it at Huai'An"
Lie Fan: "Father we don't have to care about what they think, I'm choosing to hold my wedding at Xiapi to accommodate the number of guests we will have!"
Lie Shang: "Public opinion is important Fan'er no matter what you think, You will do politics from now on and you must rember that"
Lie Fan: "Okay Father I understand, it's not that I don't care about public opinion it's just their opinion will be worth nothing in a couple of years"
Feeling the situation turning awkward, Lie Fan decided to change the topics and talk about his expedition which Lie Shang is imdiately interested in so they spend ti together until the evening when they have dinner together and after dinner goes back to their rooms
Before going back to his room, Lie Fan called a trusted page that the Lie Clan has cultivated to bring his sketch for his bodyguards to the blacksmith and craftsman that the Lie Clan have in their workshop to make 6 of the mask and helt then he goes back to his room
Lie Fan inside his room decided to cultivate seeing as he doesn't have anything to do, sitting down on his bed he began to take a deep breath and concentrate on opening his ridian
As his cultivation is called the art of war, there are two ways he can cultivate by practicing his martial arts and physic but also by reading military books with the utmost concentration to embed the energy they have toward his ridian which is what he will do tonight
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Na: Lie Fan
Title: Yellow Heaven Subjugator
Age: 17 Years Old (184 AD)
Level: 13
Next Level: 712.000
Renown: 153
Cultivation: Art Of War (level 7)
SP: 176.700
ATTRIBUTE POINTS
STR: 422 -> 426
VIT: 167 -> 169
AGI: 178 -> 180
INT: 186
CHR: 90
WIS: 143
WILL: 115
ATR Points: 0
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