More than a million people, plus more than 100,000 troops, including tens of thousands of horses, cattle and other animal power, how much food do they need to consume every day?

Even Shen Zhezi at the moment still doesn't have a specific concept of this. Because it is too difficult to count, and these populations and troops are not concentrated in one place, but widely distributed on both sides of the Yellow River.

What Shen Zhezi knows is that none of the parties he controls now are not suffering from food poverty. And it was precisely because of this anxiety that he deeply realized how powerful a gunpowder bag was in his arms that could explode at any time.

The Huainan Army's income in Hebei is not only the population, but also the surrounding areas of Liyang, Yedi, Jijun and other areas that have been around for a long time and have thick reserves. But this is still a drop in the bucket compared to the huge demand, and it is quickly depleted.

Originally, Shen Zhezi also hoped to be able to gain something in Heluo, after all, the peach leopard has occupied Heluo for several years, although there is little operation, but the superior geographical conditions of the Heluo Plain are here, even if it is only by plundering, it can accumulate a little savings. As a result, Kim Yong Cheng burned to ashes, and not only did he gain nothing, but he also had to worry about the stationing of the army.

If you want to meet such a large food supply, in fact, the best strategy is to be self-sufficient and replenish it on the spot. However, the current situation is that there are almost no rivals of large grain reserves around, and even if they start reclamation immediately, it will be difficult to quench their thirst from far away.

Therefore, if you want to get replenishment on the spot, you still need to rely on the most primitive fishing, hunting and wood, so that the manpower can be fully dispatched.

Hebei's millions of people are still mainly concentrated in the counties along the Yellow River. Soon after Shen Zhezi arrived in Luoyang, nearly 30,000 households were transferred to Heluo, which greatly enriched the popularity of the Heluo area, but coupled with the original local people, with such a weak production base, it had reached a limit of accommodation.

In addition, more than 50,000 households have been moving south, and they are about to arrive in Chenjun, Yingchuan and other counties under the control of the Huainan Governor's Office.

The most important task of the Jin army's powerful fleet, which was the envy of the enemies of all directions, was to catch all kinds of river fresh from the Yellow River and its tributaries day and night. Shen Mu collected a part of the grain and the extremely important thousands of stones of salt from Taishan County, which was a slight relief from the urgent need.

Of course, the food supply of the Jin army is not for this huge number of refugees, and the manpower is used as much as possible. They want to survive the cold winter, and they are not only trapped by food, but also by shelter and heating.

It is also imperative that houses be built enough for the villagers to live in before the cold really arrives. Fortunately, there is no shortage of materials in this area, such as hay, reeds, bamboo and wood in the wilderness, which are all materials for building houses.

Of course, the camp needs to be built in this way in terms of fire prevention, and fortunately, most of the people are extremely poor, and there is no savings and demand for private farming.

Therefore, the structure of each residential camp tends to be unified, and the walls of the four sides are located in the leeward place, because unlike the frequent precipitation in Jiangdong, the demand for water accumulation is not too large, and the base digs deep into the semi-sunken soil, and the soil is used as a base, and the heating and diet mainly rely on the large fire pond located in the middle of the camp.

The income from fishing, hunting, and woodwork needs to be stored and distributed in a centralized manner. Although this increases the administrative burden, it minimizes the need for people to flee and riot.

But even so, these gains alone will not be enough to meet the basic needs of survival, let alone the reserves needed when the cold winter of outdoor production is completely impossible.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi's second move is to fight the autumn wind. Although in the entire Central Plains, including the surrounding areas, there are no forces that can provide supplements, but there are still some farther away.

For example, between Hedong, Hongnong, Shangdang and other counties, there are still some Jin people, Haozong and Zhuhu tribes and other forces, although these places are still not under the king's control, Shen Zhezi does not plan to continue to use troops in the short term, but it does not prevent them from scaring them.

Therefore, when the surrounding areas of Luoyang had just stabilized, Shen Zhezi frequently sent envoys to the four directions, and all the local forces that had heard of it went to visit. Of course, outside of visits, extortion is the main purpose.

If these forces want to exist in peace, it is only right that they pay protection money. When Shi Zhao ruled here, this was also their way of survival. Although Shen Zhezi pretends to be a king, he has no intention of abandoning this tradition. How much dedication is the intention, and it is not forced, but the amount of the intention can show the attitude of these people towards the northward march of Wang Shi, and they will naturally be treated with intimacy in the future.

Of course, the main meaning of this move is to show the influence of Wang Shi, and the demand for money and food is secondary. Moreover, even if these township tyrants have savings, they are only narrowly superior to the extremely poor villagers, and it is impossible to say that they can accumulate a family business as rich as the Shen family in Jiangdong.

Therefore, the supplement in this area is only better than nothing, sending so many envoys, and the forces of all parties are also cooperating, but the grain and goods that can be collected will only be tens of thousands, which has already made those forces heartbroken, and it will not help the huge gap at present.

Therefore, in order to fully meet the needs, it is mainly necessary to rely on donations from Jiangdong.

Although it is now late autumn and cold, after several years of operation, the shipping has become quite large-scale, and it is not limited to the section of Huaishui to the south, earlier Shen Zhezi even let the fleet continue to connect Liaodong to the north to dig the corner of the Murong family, which can be regarded as preparing for reaching the mouth of the Yellow River in advance.

Shipping is risky, and it will become more difficult due to the influence of the monsoon, and the Yellow River is often frozen during the Xiaoice period, so it cannot be used as the mainstream, but can only be used as a supplementary means. The Wuzhong family is Shen Zhezi's most solid supporters, and it is not difficult for him to ask for a part of the subsidy.

But this time, Shen Zhezi's biggest financier is still from Jiangzhou. Jiangzhou's own potential is not inferior to Wuzhong, in the late Southern Dynasties and even hidden surpassing, becoming the main area of high-ranking officials and dignitaries enclosure self-fertilization, these years the wind and rain are smooth, and there is no major event, if the precipitation of its private capital is completely leveraged, through the current predicament will be more certain.

This requires Shen Zhezi to have more in-depth communication with the Jiangzhou family, and to provide them with a realistic and reliable return prospect, which is not possible at the moment, and must return to Huainan to meet with the Jiangzhou family in person.

Moreover, Shen Zhezi also intends to take this opportunity to sort out the business forces of all parties with Dingcang as the core.

Although he has been promoting the development of commerce and trade and has benefited greatly from it, it is aimed at the relatively closed state of Jiangdong, but in fact, he has always been very clear in his heart that the prosperity of commerce and trade must always be based on the prosperity of the productive forces, otherwise it will be a rootless flower, which seems to be gorgeous and withers quickly.

Now that the entire Central Plains region is under control, it is a good time to restore productivity and production scale. In such a situation, he does not want the businessmen to become popular and dominate, but needs to be used as a kind of impetus to help the Central Plains recover as soon as possible. What's more, commerce and trade can even be used as a means of foreign invasion to weaken the power of the Quartet.

This means that Shen Zhezi needs to strengthen his control over this aspect, and how to avoid achieving this goal in the face of business resistance is also a problem he needs to consider recently.

As for the current consumption of the army and the people, it is mainly borne by the Huainan Governor's Office, in a way that is almost exhausted and the root cause is severely damaged, and even some of the grain in the various cantonments in Huainan has been misappropriated. And the subsidies that can be obtained from other towns, including the center, are really very few.

Of course, Shen Zhezi will not blame others for this, the reason why he faces this predicament is mainly due to his personal stubbornness, and he has taken on responsibilities beyond his own ability. And after surviving the test of this period, he will only be able to enjoy the results, only him!

During this period, many officials of the Huainan Governorate also went north in large numbers to devote themselves to various management affairs. The existence of the Xinshi Pavilion has provided Huainan with a large number of reserve officials, who may have different political views and opinions, but they can basically match their responsibilities in terms of knowledge and ability.

In fact, there has always been no shortage of officials in Huainan, including the current situation of the great expansion of the sphere of influence, and the real shortage is still the grassroots officials of the nature of general affairs. And this level of authority is the stage where the township sect forces are most likely to intervene and the easiest to breed new local forces.

Even if it is the Wei and Jin dynasties, no matter how good the gateway is, how long the inheritance is, counting up several generations, the vast majority of them are the evil rich in the township and the small officials in the county.

What doesn't have a thousand-year-old empire, but there is a thousand-year-old family, it's all bullshit, as small as one person, as big as a family, people have to be flexible when they live in the world, the longer they exist, the more they have no bottom line at all, peel off the skin, the same stink inside, it's by no means something worth showing off.

Grass-roots general affairs personnel are the cornerstone of a huge organization, and there is no guarantee that there will be no shortage over abundance, and once they are missing, there is no way for the upper level to talk about it. Veterans are a source, and internal training and selection are also a supplement.

In the future, the importance of government affairs in the entire Central Plains region will be greatly increased, and it will even gain the same importance as the military. Shen Zhezi also hopes that among these low-level officials, some of the good talents who can be appointed to the state and county can be honed.

After sorting out these affairs in a general context, Shen Zhezi finally found time to pay homage to the ancestral tombs of the Xuan, Jing, Wen and other Sima families located in Beibi Mountain. In fact, there is nothing to worship, because the tombs of the former kings of the Zhongjin Dynasty have already been dug up by Liu Yao, leaving only a pit full of wild grass.

After doing this, Shen Zhezi finally pulled out and returned to Huainan.