Chapter 842: Northern Expedition to Youzhou (4)
A quarter of an hour passed.
Zhao Fengcai spoke: "What does Zijing think?" ”
Lu Su pondered for a moment: "Yuan Shao's move shows. ”
"Yuan Shaojun may have made some kind of decision."
The message sent by Tian Feng said.
During the autumn harvest in Hanoi County, Yuan Shao sent a large army to assist the people in harvesting grain quickly.
This would have been nothing strange.
Zhao Feng had often done this before.
Because the double rush not only has to grab the harvest, but also to grab the seed, the time is very tight.
With the help of a large army, it will naturally give you more time.
In this way, it can not only win the favor of the people, but also increase the area of cultivated land in the area under its jurisdiction.
After all, when the people have extra time, they will consider opening up a little wasteland to cultivate.
Of course, wasteland is limited, and it is not so easy to open up wasteland.
But if you can add one acre of wasteland, you can also increase the harvest a little in the coming year.
The point is that after Yuan Shao sent a large army to assist the people in harvesting the grain, he directly took the grain away.
The people did not receive a grain of food.
Mei Qiqi said, because it was the first time to collect grain taxes from various places, in order to let Yuan Shao's government know all about the situation in the territory.
Then ensure that the people will not falsely declare grain taxes, so Yuan Shao needs to calculate it uniformly.
The implicit meaning is that he will go to Yuan Shao's side first, and when the grain tax situation is calculated clearly, Yuan Shao will send someone to return the grain belonging to the people to the people.
Of course, this is all according to what Yuan Shao said to the people, secretly expressed.
But Yuan Shao didn't say it directly.
The people may not see that there is anything wrong.
But Tian Feng immediately felt that there was a lot of article in this.
So I sent the information of Hanoi County to Zhao Feng urgently.
Zhao Feng nodded: "I also think that Yuan Shao should take action." ”
At the beginning, Zhao Feng had already judged that the taxation of the four counties of Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu would not be able to feed Yuan Shao's army of more than 50,000 at all.
At the beginning, Yuan Shao could still rely on the grain of Cao Cao in Yanzhou to support one or two.
Now Cao Cao Yanzhou is not guaranteed, and most of Yanzhou has fallen into the hands of Lu Bu.
Cao Cao is now unable to protect himself, let alone support Yuan Shao's food.
In this case, Yuan Shao must make a decision.
And Zhao Feng, Tian Feng, Lu Su and others speculated at the beginning.
If Yuan Shao has the courage.
He should lead his troops across the Yellow River and entrench himself in Yin, Henan.
Although Henan Yin is nominally Zhu Jun's.
But because of the population of Henan Yin, they were forcibly relocated to Jingzhao Yin by Dong Zhuo.
So Henan Yin can be said to be a terra nullius land, or it can be said to be a no-man's land.
There is no owner, which means that Yuan Shao occupies it and does not need to spend too much effort.
No one can recruit a large number of displaced people to fill the population of Henan Yin.
Now there's an opportunity.
That's the drought in Guanzhong!
When the time comes, not too many people will be displaced.
In this case, not to mention that Yuan Shao can meet it.
Zhao Feng could have predicted it a few months ago.
At the beginning, Lu Su also suggested that Zhao Feng come to help these victims in order to win the hearts of the people.
It's just that the people's hearts in the Sili area are more taboo, so Zhao Feng has not decided.
But if Yuan Shao is entrenched in Yin, Henan, and Yuan Shao wants to do this, there will be no big problem.
Because Henan Yin is in the Sili area.
As long as Yuan Shao can be appeased, it won't take a year for Henan Yin to regain his vitality.
Of course, the idea is good.
But to attract a large number of displaced people, food is also needed to feed them.
If nothing else, at least feed until April next year.
Otherwise, what will the people eat during this time?
And among the princes of all walks of life, there are those who can do this at present.
It is also Zhao Feng, Liu Biao, Liu Yan and others.
However, Yuan Shao packed all the grain from Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu counties.
It can indeed attract a lot of displaced people to enter Henan Yin.
And Yuan Shao did this, not only so that he could get enough food to go to Henan Yin to develop.
can also hand over the mess in the four counties of Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu to Zhao Feng to clean up.
You must know that as soon as Yuan Shao leaves, then the land of these four counties will naturally fall into the hands of Zhao Feng.
At that time, the people of Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu naturally became the people under Zhao Feng's rule.
Can Zhao Feng still look at these people and starve to death?
Apparently not.
Therefore, Yuan Shao's move not only allowed him to get enough benefits for himself, but also indirectly weakened Zhao Feng.
Of course, the strength of this weakening depends on how much Zhao Feng's grain reserves are.
If Zhao Feng has a lot of grain reserves, it won't be weakened much.
If Zhao Feng doesn't have a lot of food reserves, the impact will still be great.
You must know that the population of the Sili area is already very large.
Otherwise, the county will not be so dense.
Zhao Feng estimated that there were at least 200,000 people in Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu.
And these people, if they want to feed until April next year, they will need at least 500,000 stone of grain.
Of course, this is only a rough estimate.
If you want to get specific data, you can only send people to occupy the four counties of Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu, and get the roster of the four places to calculate the specific data.
Similarly, the grain in the four counties of Huaixian, Shanyang, Wude, and Xiuwu was all snatched by Yuan Shao.
Then Yuan Shao will be able to recruit about 200,000 displaced people in Yin, Henan.
Then naturally, he learned from Cao Cao and began to rob tombs in Yin, Henan.
This allowed for the excavation of a large number of bronzes, which could be recast into small coins.
In this way, Yuan Shao will be able to quickly restore the vitality of Henan Yin.
At least self-sufficient!
After all, Henan Yin has a Luoyang.
Although the Luoyang Imperial Mausoleum was excavated by Dong Zhuo once.
But the people who can live in Luoyang are naturally rich and powerful.
Surrounding mausoleums, not too few.
Henan Yin, the same.
Lu Su pondered for a long time: "I'm afraid that Yuan Shao's actions are not just what we speculated before. ”
"Perhaps, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will unite again!"
Zhao Feng listened, and his heart moved.
Earlier, Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou, and in order to maintain relations with Zhao Feng, he promised Zhao Feng not to accept Yuan Shao into Yanzhou.
Of course, there is a meaning of friendship with him, and it is also because of the acceptance of Yuan Shao into Yanzhou.
Cao Cao's situation in Yanzhou will only become more chaotic.
And now, the situation in Yanzhou has been so bad that it can't be worse.
Cao Cao naturally didn't have too many worries.
So Cao Cao reunited with Yuan Shao, which was very normal.
Zhao Feng sighed in his heart, he was really too naïve.
In fact, it's not that Zhao Feng is too naïve.
Rather, people are self-centered and then think about problems.
Although Zhao Feng has a black belly and uses means, Zhao Feng is still very honest.
Then Zhao Feng naturally will not violate the content of the agreement, at most he will play a side ball.
And Cao Cao obviously planned to violate the original agreement!
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