The Chinese nation - ingenious, industrious and simple, endurance is even stronger amazing, there is no house to live in, they can build a shack, no bedding to keep out the cold, they can huddle together to keep warm, obedient, hard work, as long as there is still a mouthful of food in the bowl, they will not rebel, the problem is, now there is a serious shortage of food!

Cao's army launched a large-scale northern expedition, dispatched hundreds of thousands of soldiers, millions of people, and countless livestock and vehicles, and fed people and horses every day, and the consumption of materials was extremely huge.

Even so, the logistics supply is still difficult, because of the shortage of food and grass, Cao Cao prepared to withdraw his troops several times, but fortunately he stubbornly persevered, so he conquered Yecheng, captured and killed Yuan Shang, and achieved a brilliant victory!

The victory was in hand, the price was equally heavy, Cao Jun lost more than 80,000 casualties, countless wounded, and more importantly, after nearly a year of war, the treasury of Henan, Yan, Xu, and Si prefectures was already exhausted, that is, there was no food and no money!

Some people can't help but ask, Jizhou is fertile for thousands of miles, with a household registration of one million, and it is a famous grain-producing area, so it is enough to collect grain and grass locally, and it can also save the pain of long-distance transportation, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone!

The answer is: Although Jizhou is rich, it is strong and dry, and there is really no food to collect, and this bad situation is all thanks to Yuan's father and son!

Yuan's domination of Hebei for more than ten years, building a large number of buildings, being poor and extravagant, exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and constantly forcibly conscripting people into the army, a good rich land, just made five tuberculosis and seven wounds, the young and middle-aged people were completely damaged, and the countryside was all barren, otherwise there would not be so many refugees after a snowstorm!

"How long can the grain in the camp last, what is the price of food in Yecheng, can you let Wen Ruo and Gongda raise some grain and grass quickly?"

Cao Cao is proficient in Tao strategy, and naturally knows that 'the army will die if it has no baggage', and once the soldiers are hungry, they will plunder the people and corrupt the place; At worst, there will be a mutiny and a rebellion!

"There are only 100,000 yuan of grain left in the camp, supplying soldiers and relieving the victims, even if they save money, they can only last for about 20 days, and the price of grain in Yecheng is as high as 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, which is dozens of times that of a normal year, and the imperial court has no financial resources to buy it!

The treasury of Yan, Henan, Xu, and Si Prefectures has been consumed cleanly, and Xun Yu and Xun Yu have worked hard to raise much food, and there is heavy snow and blocked roads, even if there is food, it can't be transported! ”

Cheng Yu smiled wryly, touching the silk hair on his temples, all of which had been worked hard recently, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of refugees, he had great skills, and he couldn't feed so many mouths!

Moreover, the price of grain in the city has been rising, and hundreds of thousands of aboriginal residents in Yecheng are also facing the embarrassment of lack of food.

What's even harder is that I am obviously exhausted and have trouble sleeping, and I have to pretend that nothing happened, otherwise let people know that the food and grass will be exhausted, and I am afraid that countless messes will be born!

"I have ordered the Xiliang Thorn History-Seedling, as well as the Xiqiang and Xiongnu tribes, to raise a batch of cheese, butcher shops, cattle and sheep as soon as possible, and drive all the way to the east to alleviate the famine in Hebei!

He also asked Zhang Xiu to lead the Xiliang soldiers, clear the snow, clear the road, and stationed at the Baima Ferry, as soon as the grain and grass from Xuchang arrived, they were immediately escorted to Yecheng! ”

Xiao Yi stroked his left rib with his hand, and he was also worried, his two measures were just a drop in the bucket, and they could not fundamentally solve the problem, if they wanted to feed millions of soldiers and civilians, they had to use some extraordinary means!

"It's better to divide troops to garrison Qing and merge the two states, so as to alleviate the food shortage in Jizhou, as long as it lasts until the end of spring next year, things will be much easier!"

"It's snowing heavily and the roads are blocked, so we can't let the soldiers march hungry, and there is famine everywhere, and there is no food in Qingdao and the two states!"

"If you really can't do it, you can only forcibly disperse the refugees, leave food and grass to raise soldiers and horses, starve to death a few refugees, Hebei is still ours, if you starve to death the soldiers, you can rest everything!"

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If you really want to 'kill the people and raise soldiers', you are afraid of losing the hearts of the people in Hebei, and those who lose the hearts of the people will inevitably lose the world!

In fact, everyone understands in their hearts that Hebei is rich and has a profound heritage, and it is not that there is no food, but it can't be made, because the food is in the hands of the Shi clan!

The problem is that they are unwilling to donate food, let alone relief to the victims, because the benefits of the snowstorm in front of them are too great!

First of all, the accumulation of wealth, in the year of famine, rice is as expensive as pearls, the gate valves have food in their hands, which can be exchanged for a lot of money, the price of food in Yecheng rises three times a day, and it is also caused by their behind-the-scenes operations and hoarding, as for how many people starve to death, the gate valves don't care at all!

Secondly - annexation of land, land is the lifeblood of the people, but under the pressure of hunger and cold, they can only dig up meat to mend sores, and sell it at a low price in exchange for the rations of the whole family.

In the end - the animal slaves, the people pawned the property, it was still difficult to survive, and in the end there was nothing left to sell, but to sell their bodies, and in the year of famine, only a few liters of food were needed to exchange for a strong slave, or a beautiful slave girl!

The scholars in the world have raised a large number of slaves, ranging from hundreds to thousands, and there are some super families with more than 10,000 slaves, and they obey their masters, and with a little training, they are an army, that is, the capital of rebellion!

Therefore, the more serious the disaster, the more numerous the refugees, and the greater the interests of the scholars, they naturally refused to donate food for relief, but feared that the situation would not be serious, and they would secretly obstruct the disaster relief!

Money, land, population, the lifeblood of the country, as long as these three things are controlled, the gate valve of the scholar clan will expand indefinitely, and even set aside the imperial court and become the actual ruler, the decline of the Han Dynasty to this point, half of the responsibility is on the gate valve!

Of course, as the controller of the dynasty, he is also suppressing the power of the gate lords, such as Qin Shi Huang, after unifying the world, he destroyed the world's weapons, cast them as the twelve golden people, and forcibly moved 60,000 rich households from all over the country to Xianyang City to monitor their every move!

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was more domineering, appointing Zhang Tang, Zhao Yu, Ning Cheng, and Yi Zong...... A large group of cool officials wantonly killed local tyrants, prevented land annexation, and safeguarded the interests of the country!

The problem is that when you encounter the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch, you can still deter the gate valves, and when you encounter the Unconscious Monarch, it will not work at all, Emperor Shun, Emperor Qian, Emperor Zhang, Emperor Huan, Emperor Ling...... The monarchs of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, generation after generation is more waste, the gate lords take the opportunity to annex the land, raise private slaves, and the country is not chaotic!

Now, this problem has appeared again, if you want to solve the problem of famine, you must get a lot of food, and if you want to get food, you must attack the gate valve of the scholar clan, this determination is not easy to make!

"The old man wants to emulate Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and whip the gate lords of the Shi clan with the whip of the king, so that they will be obedient and hand over the food in his hand?"

Cao Cao stroked the sword in his hand, his eyes were full of murderous intentions, and he was ready to solve the problem by force, there was no way to solve the problem horizontally and vertically, it was better to break the situation with force, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could kill it, why couldn't he kill it?

"The power of the gate valve is deep-rooted and has a great influence, and it will affect the whole body, I am afraid that it will cause drastic changes, please think twice?"

"Hebei has not yet been completely pacified, at this time, it is afraid that it will cause a big mess, and the Yuan clan will take the opportunity to make a comeback, and the situation will be unpredictable!"

Guo Jia and Cheng Yu hurriedly dissuaded them, the officials in the world were born in the scholar clan, or had a relationship with the scholar clan, at least more than eighty percent, once this behemoth was angered, how to clean up the mess?

Cao Ying has always been meritocracy, seeking, promoting, and reusing the children of the Han family, trying to cultivate a Shu group, but it is not a day of cold, and it will take a long time to confront the Shi clan gate valve!

Xiao Yi also shook his head frequently, opposing the use of force to solve the problem, on the one hand: the Shi clan is deep-rooted, and the power is all over the government and the opposition, if it is really hard-hitting, it is difficult to say who loses and who wins, or even loses both!

On the other hand, Cao Cao was a traitor in troubled times, even if he had to deal with the gate lords of the Shi clan, he would not go out in person, but borrowed a knife to kill people, as for the sharp and easy knife, I am afraid it is Xiao Yi himself!

In this way, it not only shocked the gate lords of the Shi clan, consolidated the foundation of the Cao family, but also made Xiao Yi's hands bloody, set up countless enemies, and lost the opportunity to win the world, which can be described as the best of both worlds!

Xiao Yi's goal in life is not to be someone else's knife, but a knife bearer, so naturally he must resolutely oppose it, he only kills for the country, not for others!

In this way, everyone discussed repeatedly, and after working for most of the night, there was no result, so they had to go back to rest and think about whether there was any other way to get food in a short time!

Patrolling the camp - encountering assassination, plotting late at night - no good plan, Xiao Yi was physically and mentally exhausted, returned to the bedroom and fell asleep, and slept until noon the next day, then got out of bed!

At the same time, a soldier came to tell him that his lifelong friend, Liang Xiaoyu, the second chaebol in the world, came to visit!

"Haha! --The God of Wealth is here, the food problem will be easy to solve, please invite him in quickly! ”

(End of chapter)