Although it is autumn now, Hedong County does not have any joy of harvest.

Due to the great drought in the country, locusts have crossed the border, and the crops in Hedong County have either dried up and died, or have been gnawed clean by locusts.

Chen Xu led the army all the way, looking at the bare crops, and his heart was a little blocked.

The mountains are so vast that it is almost impossible to see a living person, and even the villages are empty.

In the open air, although not a single intact corpse was seen. Occasionally, however, you can see the gnawed bones around the remaining campfires.

Many of these bones are those of wild beasts, but many more are human bones. There were also some young human bones mixed in.

There are arm bones, leg bones, and ribs......

Chen Xu could imagine that those hungry people were looking for the corpses of the prematurely dead all over the mountains, and even directly attacked the rest of the living and killed them to satisfy their hunger.

In his previous life, when Chen Xu read the poem 'White bones are exposed in the wild, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles', and he didn't feel anything.

However, now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he feels extremely heavy in his heart.

In this era, he has seen too much: Yi Shou invites remuneration; Eisonibalism. What a heavy blood and tears are revealed in these words.

Thinking about Chen Xu a lot, his mood was naturally a little low.

Looking at the trees on the side of the road, which were a little yellow due to drought, Chen Xu said in a hoarse voice: "Yuan Hao, after seizing Guanzhong, you have to send people to appease the people and let everyone get through this difficulty." ”

"Too many people have died in the world today. I only hope that I can leave some more seeds for this nation. ”

Tian Feng is a decent scholar, and he naturally has the Confucian compassion for the world and the feelings of the world.

When he was in the state, he also knew that the drought was very serious. However, due to Chen Xu's advance preparations, even though the grain production was seriously reduced, there was no such tragedy as Hedong County.

When he saw shocking cases along the way, Tian Feng felt lucky, fortunately, there was a strange person named Changyu in Bingzhou.

Otherwise, it is unimaginable what will become of the state.

Nodding heavily, Tian Feng said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, my lord, after I capture Puzi and open the passage with the annexed state, I will start to appease the people in Sili's territory." ”

Population, territory, and food are the factors that restrict the development of a force the most.

Drought and famine are disasters for the princes of the world. But for the current merger, isn't it an opportunity?

If the state can take advantage of the fact that the people have no food to live and the people are displaced everywhere, it will be of great benefit to the future development of the state.

Si Li is the confidant of the Han Dynasty, where there are many families and heroes. Originally, even though Chen Xu won Guanzhong and wanted to completely control Si Li, it was not something that could be completed overnight.

After all, Chen Xu would not be like Li Dao and Guo Yan, who blindly suppressed the big families and wantonly robbed them of their food, fields, and property.

If you act like this, even if you can get away with it for a while, sooner or later you will reap the consequences.

However, this drought has brought a great opportunity to Chen Xu.

The situation of land annexation in Guanzhong was particularly serious, even after Dong Zhuo's rebellion; Princes discuss Dong; As well as the rebellion of Li Dao and Guo Yan, many families still firmly control the ownership of local land.

However, everyone is equal in the face of natural disasters. Moreover, the occurrence of natural disasters will also suffer man-made disasters. In fact, sometimes man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters.

Not to mention the hungry red-eyed outcasts, who will be reduced to ferocious bandits, plundering for a living.

Let's just say that the Xiliang Army led by Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji, when they were short of food in the army, they used even more cruel methods than bandits.

It can be said that almost all of the big families who have stored grain in Si Li's family have been looted.

Even those wealthy families who have not been plundered, their fields are not harvested.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, coupled with the fact that the price of grain in Guanzhong is more expensive than gold, even those powerful families cannot afford it at all.

There are many people who directly abandon their ancestral homes and fields and go to distant relatives. Even those who did not leave, they were barely able to support themselves.

Tian Feng believed that as long as the state was annexed and Guanzhong was obtained, he could buy all the land that had been annexed by the powerful and the big clans at a very small price.

With these lands, more people can be settled. In this way, within three years, the strength of the Chen Group will increase several times.

At this moment, Chen Xu was anxious, but he didn't think about it so much. He wanted to capture Guanzhong as soon as possible, and then settle down to help the homeless.

Because he knew that for every day he delayed, thousands of people in Guanzhong would lose their lives because of hunger.

Whether it is for humanitarianism or for the future development of the Chen Group, it is necessary for him to help these people and let them live.

"I wonder how the war is going on in Puzi?"

Chen Xu thought about the vanguard army that had not moved, and there was a little haze in his heart.

He brandished his whip and urged his horse to hurry forward, just to reach Puzi earlier. However, the transportation of the army's grain, grass and baggage was extremely slow.

Along the way, even with the deterrence of the army and the baggage team of the state army, they still suffered several robberies.

The hungry bandits and rogues, after they saw those grain carts covered with official roads, they had completely lost their minds.

In the face of such a famine, Chen Xu did not dare to be careless about grain and grass. He had to personally lead the army and carry the grain and grass all the way.

Now, the big cars in Yongan County have also been collected by Chen Xu. These carts are simply not able to transport Yong'an's grain and grass at one time.

After all, this time, Chen Xu not only brought enough grain and grass for the Bingzhou army, but also some coarse grain to be distributed to the victims.

The remaining grain and grass baggage are all in Yong'an County, under the care of Hao Zhao.

"Yongan County is destined not to be pacified, I hope Bo Dao Mo will disappoint me."

Chen Xu was thinking about it in his heart, when suddenly a forward messenger came and said that he wanted to repay him again.

When Chen Xu heard this, he was overjoyed. Since Gan Ning sent a messenger over, it means that there must be good news for Puzi.

He didn't believe that the vanguard army with Jia Xu would suffer a big defeat.

Sure enough, the messenger came to Chen Xu's side and hurriedly shouted: "Lord, General Gan will capture Puzi County without blood. ”

"Then, General Gan led the surrender army in the city, as well as 500 light cavalry from the state, and attacked the rest of the county towns for thousands of miles, and connected three cities in two days."

The messenger's words made all the generals in Bingzhou shocked and inexplicable, and Lu Bu's face sank even more.