Chapter 813: Defend Shubei
The situation in Shanxi is good, and most of the city is controlled by the "Red Flag Army" headed by Hanzi and Yang Danian.
There has been no war disaster for more than a year, and the people are finally able to give birth with peace of mind.
Last spring, three to four million Shanxi peasants and tun residents not only planted wheat but also planted new crops such as potatoes and maize, and on average each household ensured that they had 50 mu of farmland, and a total of 30 million mu of land had received a good harvest.
Under the condition of ensuring the food of the local people, at least 500,000 stone wheat can be squeezed out to save the emergency.
If potato flour, vermicelli, and vermicelli are converted into refined grains, they can also reach 500,000 stone wheat.
The tunhu in Gyeonggi, which belonged to the "Red Banner Army", also had a surplus of grain, and that was because of the extensive cultivation of potatoes, and the whole potato flour that could be preserved for a long time already had a reserve of tens of thousands of stones.
After these years of development, the western Liaoning corridor has no idle fields, and the grain produced can also support the hinterland, and more than 100,000 stone potato flour has also been stored.
The "Red Flag Army" system is effective in asking for protein from the sea, fishing boats have multiplied over the years, and the military has given a minimum price for a large number of marine fish products, and if the market cannot eat the output of fishermen, the military will buy them at a protective price.
With the reassurance given by the "Red Flag Army", the fishermen's enthusiasm for production can be imagined.
Because the damage to the ecology caused by the fishing industry, which relies entirely on manpower and wind power, was extremely limited, and there was no overfishing in the Middle Ages, the fishery resources were abundant.
Seeing that many fishermen borrowed money from the "Sifang Qianzhuang" to buy fishing boats and made a fortune, from one boat to several, more fishermen participated in it, and the food obtained from the sea every year will not be less than 2 million stones.
Canned marine fish with a shelf life of one year has now been exported to Shanxi, and due to the limited quantity of long-distance trafficking, the supply exceeds demand, and the merchants are lucrative.
This is not surprising, in Shanxi, Henan, and Zhongdu, where military disasters and natural disasters are continuous, grain once reached a bucket of rice and one or two taels of silver, and as long as it was food, it could be sold at a good price.
The breeding industry in the western Liaoning corridor and Gyeonggi is in the ascendant, and a large number of professional households raising pigs, chickens, ducks and geese have appeared, and a large number of poultry eat insects in the fields and mountains and forests, which has better curbed the large-scale outbreak of insect plague.
Huang Han spared no effort to make additions, so that the last Ming Dynasty had more than 20 million stone grains, and nearly 10 million more Han people survived.
In response to the imminent famine in Sichuan, and in the face of the three to four million hungry people in Sichuan, the "Red Banner Army" will certainly do everything in its power to ensure the supply of basic food rations for these people.
Why is it said that there is a great famine in Sichuan that is about to occur rather than it has already been? That's because Gu Zhun used the reserve grain of the "Red Banner Army", and also asked Qin Liangyu to use the military rations, and requisitioned all the grain harvested in the autumn of the Qin family and the Ma family manor.
Qin Liangyu was not ambiguous at all to save the people from fire and water, she saw that Gu Zhun didn't care about using the food brought by the "Red Flag Army" to give porridge, and also used the food sent by the King of Shu to help the hungry people, and some prejudices brought about by-for-tat were also eliminated.
Look at a person's personality, don't look at what he says, but look at what he does, Gu Zhun is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, and he is really trying not to let a hungry person starve to death.
Qin Liangyu, who understands the righteousness, what else can she say, of course she will call on the white pole soldiers to do their best to exterminate the bandits, and strive to seize more grain to alleviate the food shortage.
The reason why Gu Zhun dared to run out of food in order to complete the order of the general not to starve to death was because he received an urgent official letter of six hundred miles.
It is known that the grain ships of the Sun and Moon Shipping have sailed on the river, and at least two million stone of grain will be transported into Sichuan and delivered to the vicinity of Chengdu.
With the intervention of the army, the grain stored in the city of Chengdu, including the surrounding cities that were not breached by the rogues, were used intensively.
Not all of this grain was military rations and grain stored in official warehouses, but the vast majority of it was grain borrowed from landlords and bureaucrats, and Gu Zhun did not fight local tyrants and divide the land in Sichuan, because the premature intensification of contradictions at this time outweighed the losses.
The "Red Banner Army" issued receipts to prove the amount of grain borrowed, and the principal and interest would be repaid next autumn, and if the merchants were willing to sell it, the "Red Banner Army" would settle the settlement with a maximum bid of two silver dollars and one stone of rice.
If there are landlords and old profiteers who are thinking about hoarding Juqi to make a fortune, the "Red Banner Army" calming officials and propagandists will brazenly inform these people that they will no longer be protected by the "Red Banner Army" and the white-pole soldiers.
This is in fact a naked threat, and if the bureaucratic landlords who own the grain do not borrow and sell it, they will be robbed by thousands of displaced people.
If it really develops like that, not only will food be lost, but people will be killed, belongings will be looted, and houses will be burned.
Under the power, there are no people who do not know how to lift, and besides, these people have no losses, but they cannot get huge profits, and it only took more than ten days for the "Red Flag Army" to concentrate on hundreds of thousands of stone life-saving food.
The army forcibly took the grain stocks of bureaucrats and businessmen for rationing and supply, and the Sichuan people who had not been transferred had to register their accounts to receive grain loans to survive.
The Chengdu Plain is densely populated, and the land resources can no longer keep up with the needs of population development, so it is planned to take advantage of the opportunity of this time to emigrate about 200,000 households and about 1 million people to "Hanjiang Province".
Qin Liangyu participated in the suppression of the Kou and the relief of the hungry people for more than a month, and deeply understood the importance of guarding Sichuan.
Gu Zhun proposed that at present, it is necessary to ensure that the remaining Sichuan people have acres of land to cultivate, and to ensure that the farming can be harvested.
If it is plagued by the scourge of the gangsters again next year, I am afraid that even the "Red Flag Army" system will be helpless, and millions of people will be able to barely hold on to the deficit for a year.
Qin Liangyu has already lost a lot of enthusiasm for killing the enemy, and his temper is much smaller at this time, seeing that the people of Sichuan will not be displaced, and seeing that the momentum of robbers is being curbed, of course, he affirms the merits of the "Red Banner Army".
After bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new year in Chengdu, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, a thousand general "Red Banner Army" regular soldiers, a thousand general guard army and three thousand villagers bravely pushed 2,000 wheelbarrows loaded with 10,000 stone rice to Baoning Mansion.
The white pole soldiers dispatched 7,000 people, including a battalion of Qin Gongming's new army, and Qin Liangyu personally led the troops.
Hou Liangzhu of the Sichuan Army sent 3,000 troops, and the leading general was the guerrilla general Hou Cai, who was the adopted son of Hou Liangzhu, who had been demoted to a general.
At the same time, Ma Xianglin, Zhang Fengyi, and Qin Yiming also marched to northern Sichuan by separate routes, guarding Qipanguan, Yangping Pass, Lishukou, Jianzhou, and other dangerous points in northern Shu.
At this time, the main force of the Liukou is far away in Xi'an and Xianyang, and I believe that Qin Liangyu and Gu Zhun can complete the deployment before the spring ploughing.