Fanyang, the capital of Lujiang County, like many of today's county seats, had its walls demolished under the edict of Emperor Shi last year, and from a distance it looked like a county town full of thatched houses.

The architectural pattern of the county town is chaotic, and when you look at it from the outside, the road seems crooked, and you can't see a road of more than 100 meters at all.

It may be the relationship of the protracted war, or the 150,000 troops of Xiang Liang are coming, there are almost no shops in business in the county, and there are very few people walking around the streets, and occasionally people are in a hurry.

The Qianshou here is different from Nanjun, their expressions are always full of insecurity, and their faces also look like they are undernourished and look like vegetables.

At the beginning of the turmoil in the south, except for Nanjun, where the turmoil was quickly suppressed, most of the granaries and farmland in various places were destroyed in the war, and at the beginning there was still some surplus grain to eat, but by June it was in a state of food shortage.

Months of fighting have decimated the population in a very short period of time, and food shortages have forced many people to leave their homes in search of food. As a result, the chances of getting sick during the migration are increased, and many people die in search of food.

Before the turmoil in Lujiang County, there were more than 1.3 million people, and the number of people who died in the war was uncountable, and some people became displaced people and migrated to other counties, and after half a year of losing order, the population of Lujiang County was less than 800,000, so no matter how bad the order is, it is better than no order.

Now there should be more than 700,000 in the mouth under Huan Chu's rule, there are about 100,000 on the other side, and there are about 100,000 on the other side, and Lu Zhe has 130,000, so at least more than 300,000 people will wither in the war.

With a population of 800,000, Huan Chu maintains an army of 80,000 people under such a population base, so is it ten Qianshou to feed a soldier?

Wrong, it is simply impossible for ten Qianshou to raise a soldier except for the Qin State, and Great Qin has a mature system of cultivation and warfare, and many times it is eight laborers who raise a soldier. At some special moments, it was even possible for four Qianshou to feed a soldier, which depended on the changes of Shang Ying. In other countries of the same period, a soldier needed at least twenty chiefs to feed, and countries with poor social conditions even needed fifty chiefs to feed a soldier. So what are the factors that determine the ratio of people to soldiers? In fact, it is produced!

In the current social situation, there is a very obvious phenomenon in the south, the more severely destroyed the county soldiers, the fewer soldiers, not that these forces do not like to have more soldiers, but they really can't afford to raise them.

Huan Chu can have 80,000 soldiers is not enough for Lujiang County, what kind of output can a county that cannot achieve production due to constant war? The reason why he was able to maintain an army of 80,000 was because he was able to trade grain from Nanjun, and later he was able to rely on lending troops in exchange for a large number of weapons.

Of the 50,000 troops brought by Gib, 20,000 soldiers were exclusive. Of the 30,000 auxiliaries, 20,000 were leased troops lent by Huan Chu to Lü Zhe.

Lü Zhe borrowed troops like Wu Rui and Huan Chu to fight against the southbound Qin army, so he took out the weapons in his inventory and armed the 50,000 people on lease in a very short time.

The Qin army went south, and Lu Zhe also went north with the loaned troops, but for various reasons, these 50,000 people did not experience any fighting, and even said that there were few opportunities to use them to wave their flags and shout beside them.

The lease period of this leased army is two years, far from the time to return, but things are always flexible, this time Xiang Liang's soldiers forced Lujiang County, Huan Chu felt that he was not defeated Xiang Liang said to Lu Zhe to return. Lü Zhe's strategy of maintaining Lujiang County as a buffer zone is no longer appropriate, so it is inevitable for Lü Zhe to take Lujiang County, and what time limit will the leased army talk about in this case.

Ji Bu was supposed to set off for Fanyang immediately after he landed at the ferry, but something happened again.

A large number of soldiers who had never been on a ship were already shaken and dizzy on the ship. I don't know what the situation is when I go ashore, but there are many soldiers who go straight to the ground, and some soldiers who vomit wildly on the boat don't vomit when they go ashore, but their body temperature rises.

Ji Bu had seen an epidemic in the Qin army, and an army of 150,000 people who had experienced a hundred battles lost at least 50,000 combat effectiveness in the epidemic. In that case, anyone who is a general will understand what it means for a large number of soldiers to get sick.

Feeling nervous, Ji Bu immediately isolated the soldiers whose body temperature had risen, and faced the more than 400 soldiers who had been isolated and the thousands of soldiers who had been vomiting a little sadly, and decided to set up camp on the shore.

"This is normal. After getting off the ship, they were still vomiting but they hadn't eased up, and those soldiers with elevated body temperature were also due to psychological factors, not the epidemic as the general thought. Qin Jia was too entangled, every moment of delay in this support army, Huan Chu, who was confronting Xiang Liang, was a little more dangerous: "It's normal to feel shaking when you stay on the ship for a long time and just get on land." They walk, move, and quickly adapt to land. ”

Ji Bu didn't know about the water army, and was a little suspicious: "Is that so?" ”

Qin Jia smiled bitterly: "Naturally, that's the case. ”

No matter what, Ji Bu still decided to set up camp and observe, and Qin Jia, who was in a hurry, was both angry and helpless.

If it weren't for the sake of the overall situation, Qin Jia would have wanted to contact the officers of the troops who had been loaned out in private, leaving Ji Bu and the gang to rush to the front line of Wuyang to meet Huan Chu by himself, after all, now that there are 20,000 more troops, it is an extra point of insurance, and with 20,000 reinforcements, Xiang Liang will probably be a little more scheming?

After a day of stationing, Ji Bu really found that things were similar to what Qin Jia said, and the soldiers under his command stopped vomiting after a day, but their bodies were very weak. What about the soldiers with fever? Their illness was not contagious, and some even had a fever after a night's sleep.

"Make arrangements to bring the sick and frail soldiers to Yugan and camp them outside Yugan City." Ji Bu didn't want to stop, he got the military order to bring the troops to Fanyang within seven days, and now five days have passed.

Qin Jia, who had seen Ji Bu's change of heart and decision to continue the march, was naturally overjoyed, and he said that he would inform the county Yin (county order) of Yugan to prepare more meat and vegetables for the stopped troops, saying that improving the food would also allow those who were not suitable for sailing to recover quickly.

It seemed that he was reminded by Qin Jia, and Ji Bu immediately said that he would send people around to buy meat and vegetables.

Hey, hey, it's winter now, Qin Jia said that those are just polite words as a host, and now you can buy some meat, but even in the south, which is not too cold, there are no vegetables!

"Huh? Our army still has a supply of vegetables at present, you ...... "Ji Bu is not talking nonsense, Lu Zhe is also a person who understands engineering, and sometimes he will take on some small projects of greenhouses, although there is no plastic when he comes to Qin, there are other alternatives, so it is not strange to make a large number of greenhouses, so that Lu Zhejun is still providing vegetables this season.

Qin Jia thinks that this general of Lu Zhejun likes to talk nonsense so much? said that Nanjun was rich, because there were often businessmen from Nanjun who came to Lujiang to do business, which he wanted to believe. said that there was no shortage of food in Nanjun, and he also believed that Lu Zhe could still take out a large amount of food to exchange population with Huan Chu. As for the vegetables in winter? Nanjun is better than other counties, but he thinks that Jibu brags not like that.

"Forget it." Ji Bu didn't force Qin Jia to believe it.

Leaving behind more than 2,000 frail and sick soldiers, Ji Bu embarked on the road to Fanyang with supplies and provisions, and what they saw on the road was basically desolate, and occasionally there were no traces of people when passing through the village.

When approaching Fanyang, there were more people in the wild, and those were Qianshou who were picking wild vegetables and digging grass roots in the wilderness.

"Lujiang County is so short of food?" Jibu cried out in surprise when he heard that tens of thousands of people had been starving to death in the past month.

"No corpses were found on the road because the lord was afraid of a plague and asked the township to patrol and restrain it." Qin Jia pointed to Fanyang, which was full of thatched huts in front of him, "There was originally a population of 50,000 before the war, but now there are only 20,000. The classic records of Lujiang County have a population of 1,364,000, and it should be a blessing that there are 800,000 people in the entire Lujiang County now. ”

Gibb was silent.

Nanjun was because Lu Zhe led a group of people to suppress the rebellion and drive out the Baiyue people in a very short period of time, so that the whole society stabilized before it completely lost order. Because of such a large army as Lu Zhe, some of the people who raised troops did not have time to develop and either exterminated or absorbed early, so it can be said that the turmoil in the south was triggered by Nanjun, but Nanjun was the county that preserved the most vitality in the turmoil.

Later, Lu Zhe led the army to attack Baiyue, and robbed Baiyue in Qianzhong County of a large amount of grain hoarded for war. Moreover, because of Lu Zhe's cash-for-work, Nanjun in the midst of the war not only quickly restored its order, but even said that the infrastructure construction of roads, water systems, cities, etc. was faster than before.

According to a number of statistics, before Lu Zhe took power and started a large number of projects, the income of ordinary Qianshou in Nanjun was about three to five and a half taels a year, and there were basically a large number of idle people in the countryside who were not busy with farming. After Lu Zhe started a large number of projects, although he did not dare to say that there were absolutely no people who died of starvation in Nanjun under the military disaster, there was no famine, and because the roads in various townships and miles increased and became smooth, because the development of roads led to a surge in commerce, and while the merchants got benefits, the income of ordinary Qianshou within half a year was between five and a half taels and nine and a half taels. What about the many gentry and those clans? The benefits they got were unimaginable, otherwise why did Lu Zhe get the support of the sentient beings of Nanjun in less than a year?

Ji Bu can see the changes in Nanjun, but he is interested in politics and people's livelihood...... Even he didn't know much about the military, he saw that the environment of Nanjun was very good, and he felt that other counties should also be damaged in the war.

There are a lot of people like Ji Bu in Nanjun, and they don't understand why the people of Nanjun go from numbly accepting Lu Zhe's governance in a short period of time to slowly supporting Lu Zhe's governance.

Now let's compare Nanjun with Lujiang County...... Jib didn't know how stupid he looked. (To be continued......)