"Also, Han Feng, you have to urge Zheng Hun and Zhou Maitian from the arsenal as soon as possible to quickly transport new tools such as cylinder cars and overturned cars to Chang'an, and cooperate with Huang Langzhong and Yan Langzhong to place them in various places in the division to alleviate the drought next year." Ma Chao added this and continued: "By the way, Zidu, next year you can't buy all the money for grain, and leave enough materials, seeds and farm tools for next year's cultivation and sowing!" ”

"By the way, everyone in the Ministry of Rites should also actively patrol various places, especially Hanzhong and Liangzhou, and try to let them come over on credit for some grain and grass....... Also, the propaganda team, we must do a good job of propaganda and guidance in advance, people will win the day, and there must be no rumors that the sky has fallen on the Ma family! ”

"The shadow of the military department, at the beginning of spring next year, you must keep an eye on those guys who look like me, if you find any signs, you don't need to tell you, you will immediately raid the house and destroy the door! Whoever dares to poke the basket of the Ma family at that critical moment, the Ma family will poke them out! ”

"And the plague of locusts, I thought that since locusts can eat people, that person can also eat locusts. I remember that locust powder also had medicinal properties........ Inform Hua Tuo and ask him to cooperate with the propaganda team and issue a statement in his name to encourage the victims to eat locusts! ”

Speaking of this, Ma Chao felt that he still had a lot .......of measures coming out of his head. But His Royal Highness's military officials were all retching for a while, and they seemed to be angry about Ma Chao when they talked about eating locusts, especially Ma Chao added: "What? Haven't you all eaten? That thing is cooked, and it tastes like chicken........"

"Lord!" Xun Yue couldn't bear it at first, as the Xun family's poetry and writing, he couldn't understand Ma Chao's request, and frowned and said: "Locusts are transformed by fish eggs, hatched like flying shrimps, how can they be eaten?" ”

"What?" Ma Chao frowned, and then understood: In ancient times, people did not know enough about locusts, and most of them thought that locusts looked similar to shrimp, thinking that they were flying shrimp on dry land, and they were the things that the gods would do.

Thinking of this, Ma Chao had an even more headache, knowing that next year's drought and earthquake may be better, but the locust plague is probably the time to really test the Ma family. However, at this time, he could not escape, thinking that Li Shimin's iron-blooded man had done a good job, he said: "Needless to say, if the locust plague hits next year, I should set an example and eat locusts myself!" If you are afraid of death, you can not follow it! ”

In the third year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the locust plague swept the Guanzhong Plain. There are rumors among the people that it is God's punishment for Li Shimin to kill his brother and destroy his brother, and only by returning to power to the emperor can the nirvana plague be eliminated. Li Shimin couldn't tell the difference, and swallowed the locusts in grief and indignation, and said: "If I am guilty, let the locusts devour my heart and liver, and punish me alone, and don't eat the food of my people." ”

Seeing that Ma Chao was so resolute, all the civil and military officers glanced at each other, and then knelt down and said: "If the lord does not give up, the humble post (subordinates) is willing to suffer with the lord, and he will never give up!" ”

But Ma Chao looked at these people with a look of wanting to go to the soup, and he was speechless in his heart: You all know a fart! In later generations, fried locusts are a famous dish, especially ancient locusts, which are pollution-free, pollution-free, and high-protein food, so that you can eat, please wait and enjoy the taste!!

In the end, Ma Chao looked at Yang Xiu, who was drafting the military order, suddenly tilted his head, and whispered to Xun You and Li Ru: "The military department is the top priority this time, whether it is to migrate the victims or maintain stability under the rule, it is necessary for Gongda and Wen You to bother a lot......." Speaking of this, Ma Chao paused, as if he hesitated slightly, and then continued, "In addition, when you separate the displaced people and migrate, try to move them in the direction of Hangu Pass!" ”

"Ahh ....... The lord ........" Xun You and Li Ru immediately understood what Ma Chao meant, and looked at each other in shock. Especially Xun You, he even opened his mouth and said: "Lord, you also said before, we can't use such short-sighted and hurtful schemes!" ”

"I can't .......help it," Ma Chao had a gloomy face, pointed to the sand table in the center of the Deyang Palace, and said: "Raising war with war is the last step of insurance I do." If the famine really gets out of control next year, I can't put the entire Ma family in it! And at that time, I won't be able to care about any face!! ”

With a sigh, Ma Chao stared at the map and said leisurely: "As the saying goes, persimmons pick up soft pinch, Liu Jingzhou is a person who guards the city, short-sighted and indecisive, we have to look for him!" ”

"But ......." Xun Yu said anxiously: "But my lord, now that I have just become a subordinate, it is already a step to swallow the tiger." Whether it is military or civilian, we must start steadily, and if the war starts again in the disaster year next year, I am afraid that I will ........"

"Gongda! Do you think I have any other options?! Ma Chao shook his head painfully, as if he was trying to get rid of something: "Don't look at the way we discussed just now, but in fact, everyone knows it in their hearts. Once natural disasters come one after another, whether our things on paper can work or not, it is still two words! As the head of the Ma family, in order for those victims to survive, I don't mind being saddled with the name of a criminal who has caused trouble!! ”

"It's ....... Alas........" Xun You and Li Ru made a silent calculation in their hearts, and they had nothing to say for a while. In the end, in order to break the embarrassing and heavy atmosphere, Jia Fox asked: "Even so, why didn't the lord choose Hanoi Zhang Yang?" Zhang Yang's subordinates are only 50,000 rabble, and they are vulnerable......."

"Yes, Zhang Yang is also a soft persimmon, but Zhang Yang has only one Hanoi!" Ma Chao looked back at Jia Xu and explained: "If Zhang Yang can't hold on, can we really spend it with him?" Only Liu Biao, the guy who killed the headless man, abandoned Wancheng and the city, and will cut the land with us to make peace!! ”

Historically, after Li Dao and Guo Yan attacked Chang'an together, the two fought among themselves, and Zhang Ji's mediation was ineffective. It happened that he arrived at the great famine of the fourth year of Chuping, and Zhang Ji had no choice but to leave the Chang'an area with his troops and invade the northern part of Jingzhou to eat. And Jingzhou is Liu Biao's territory, the two armies fought, unfortunately, Comrade Zhang Ji was hit by a stray arrow, and he died very unheroically. Zhang Xiu was a general Jianzhong in Zhang Ji's army at that time, and after Zhang Ji's death, the troops were naturally inherited and led by him.

Later, Jia Xu came to vote, and the first thing he did for Zhang Xiu was to promote the reconciliation between Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao. Liu Biao knows how to be benevolent, righteous and polite. As soon as Zhang Ji died, his subordinates were very happy and congratulated Comrade Liu Biao. But Liu Biao said, don't be so happy, Comrade Zhang Ji came here because he had nothing to eat, and our comrades were not very polite to him, so that they fought each other, which was not my intention at all, so you can come here to pay your filial piety, not come to congratulate!

So Liu Biao sent someone to greet Zhang Xiu and expressed his willingness to accept Zhang Ji's people. And this is also Liu Biao's consistent means of governing Jingzhou, the main and not the main battle. At that time, the old fox of Jia Xu personally went to Liu Biao here to promote peace, and the two sides reached a memorandum of understanding. The alliance of the two armies allowed Zhang Xiu's troops to be stationed in Wancheng.

In this incident, some people said that Liu Biao was a guest who sat down to talk in vain and boasted, and that he was simply a peace messenger who did not come out and did not come out. But some people also say that Liu Biaolian Jingzhou's heavy clan and killing the sect thief Ping Jingzhou is definitely a capable minister in troubled times, and his move to take in Zhang Xiu makes Zhang Xiu the defense of the north of Jingzhou, and it is also a safe plan to lose a place and keep safe.

But in any case, Ma Chao hopes that if he is really forced to have no way to live, he will go to Liu Biao to beg for food, and Liu Biao will treat him like Zhang Xiu in history, generous and selfless....... Anyway, today's Ma family is much better than the old Zhang family, right?

What's more, as long as that incident comes as scheduled next year, Ma Chao can not be condemned by the world at all, and perfectly solve the problem of the victims in one fell swoop........

"We must find a way out for those disaster victims," Ma Chao had a gloomy face, and after repeating this coldly, he continued to say something very international: "The Ma family's Su Tiejian must open up land for the Ma family's Quyuan plow!" ”