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Chapter 862: Grim Form

When entering July, Dingzhou was still very cool, but in Ningzhou, Dengzhou and other places were already very hot, and the wanton destruction of Ningwang during the retreat of Ningdeng and other places was greatly devastated, and the grain was almost looted, and the green seedlings that were growing very well were seriously damaged, and there was no hope for the autumn harvest, which made Li Sizhi, who had just been transferred to be the governor of Ningdeng, have an unusual headache. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The people take food as the sky, and now Ningdeng and Ningdeng are facing this major problem. And Li Qing specially transferred Uncle Li Sizhi from Luzhou to serve as the governor of Ningdeng, because it was the uncle's many years of experience in local governance, and the current severe situation in this region is not something that ordinary people can handle.

Even if Li Sizhi is experienced, he is a little poor in the face of this mess, and he can't talk about anything else now, first of all, he must let the people live, otherwise, the Ningdeng area will be chaotic, and the hungry people who are crazy will do everything.

For the people to survive, there must be food, but where does the food come from?

Yizhou has food, but Yizhou has to support the operation of tens of thousands of troops over the mountains, and at the same time it also has to support the whole state, Jinzhou, there is no excess food at all, and Dingzhou itself can only be self-sufficient, even if it can squeeze some out of the teeth, facing the two places of Ningdeng, it is also a drop in the bucket, and the distance is far away, and the transportation cost is extremely high.

Despite this, Li Qing still ordered to send grain to these two places as much as possible, and at present, Li Sizhi can only count on Liaoshen and Shenyang. In this war, Shunzhou and Weizhou were seriously damaged, but due to the death of Zeng Yifan, Zeng Chong and the Zeng clan surrendered, and these two places were almost completely retained.

However, although Liaoshen has grain, it will have to wait until after the autumn harvest, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of King Ning entered Weizhou a year ago, and the required military food and materials were taken from Liaoshen, and now Liaoshen will not have too much even if there is a surplus.

The Zeng clan surrendered, and for the sake of stabilizing Liaoshen, Li Qing still used the Zeng clan as the governor of Liaoshen and Shenzhou, Zeng Chong served as the governor of Liaoshen, and Liu Yuan served as the governor of Shunzhou and Weizhou.

At the same time, the governor, but it was obvious that Li Sizhi's status was much higher than that of the first two, and Li Sizhi wrote a sharply worded letter to Zeng Chong, asking him to raise a million stone of grain at the end of July to send it to the Ningdeng area at the end of July, so as to solve the urgent need.

At present, Li Sizhi can be relieved that although Lu Dalin is a military general, after occupying the Ningdeng area, he immediately perceived the crisis in Ningdeng, stopped all military operations, mobilized with all his might, organized the people to save themselves, and planted green seedlings, hoping to harvest a little more or less after the autumn and reduce the pressure, and at the same time spared no effort to collect the surplus grain of the people, especially the surplus grain of some large families, and gathered all the grain and rationed it in the two places. However, the Ningdeng area was originally rich, and due to the relationship of time, King Ning did not miss a few, and the accumulation of small amounts also allowed Lu Dalin to raise millions of stone of grain.

These two measures of Lu Dalin greatly alleviated Li Si's predicament after taking office, otherwise when he came from Luzhou, the daylily would be cold.

But there are still a lot of problems left to Li Sizhi, Lu Dalin's measures can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it is okay to relieve the urgent need for a while, but it is obviously not a policy that can be implemented for a long time, King Ning fled, the officials of the original Ningdeng area were either wrapped up by King Ning, or packed and fled, abandoned the official and left, the entire Ningdeng area almost fell into anarchy, the countryside is a little better, especially some big cities, such as Ningzhou City, Dengzhou City, the original officials do not exist, and all government agencies are suspended, It is impossible to carry out day-to-day management functions, and now the two places can only exercise military management.

After Li Sizhi took office, while Zhang Bang called on the former officials to quickly return to their posts, perform their duties, and vouch in their personal names, and never investigate the previous crimes of these officials, Li Sizhi's personal guarantee was still somewhat effective, and after July, some officials returned to the yamen to start the council, but this was only limited to some low-level officials, and almost none of the senior officials returned. While calling on the original officials to return to their posts, Li Sizhi visited some famous literati and retired officials in the two places and asked them to come out to do things. Assisted Li Sizhi to start disaster seeking work in Ningdeng and Ningdeng. At the same time, Li Sizhi wrote a letter to Li Qing urging him to quickly send civil officials to the Ningdeng area to enrich the yamen of various ministries.

The civil official group has always been the short board of Dingzhou, although Li Qing has been working hard to cultivate civil officials, but the effect has not been obvious, and later welcomed back the king of Zhou, under the confirmation of the heirloom jade seal, and the Great Chu Dynasty competed for the orthodox status, which has improved slightly, Qingliu Shilin also began to differentiate, many people began to turn to Dingzhou, set up in Dingzhou Taixue after more than a year of efforts, the Quartet recruited talents, trained officials, instilled the new policy of Dingzhou, but the time was too short, even the professors and students of Taixue together, There are only three or four hundred people, gritting his teeth, Li Qing sent them all out to Ningdeng in one go, some old masters who only want to be scholars and do not want to be officials, Li Qing did not hesitate to condescend to visit, whether it was righteousness or coercion, in short, they were persuaded one by one, and for a while, Taixue was a person who went to the empty building. There are only a few handymen left in the huge Taixue.

From the occupation of Ningdeng in May, to the end of July, the form was finally stabilized, although the officials were not enough, but the yamen were finally able to operate, I don't know what to do, I actually got 1.2 million stone of grain from the Liaoshen area to Li Sizhi, and transported it to the Ningdeng area through the sailors, it was actually overfulfilled the task, with these grains, although it cannot be said that they are full, but they can survive their lives until the autumn harvest, it is still possible. And Li Sizhi has lost more than 20 pounds alive in the past two months, and he is already skinny.

The severe economic form also dragged down the military action, Lu Dalin's hundreds of thousands of troops all stopped the pace of advance, if there is no war, the soldiers can do one pound of grain a day, but once the war starts, it is common to consume two pounds of grain a day, without food, the war will naturally not be able to fight, and Luoyang side after occupying Bozhou, is also eager to stabilize the local form, build a defensive system, and have no spare strength to launch an attack on the Ningzhou army, the two sides are tacit for a while.

But the situation in Bozhou is much better than that of Ningdeng, because of the agreement between King Ning and Shang Haibo, King Ning's final madness did not involve the Bozhou area, and the Bozhou taken over by Shang Haibo is intact, compared with the chaos in Ningdeng, Bozhou has a considerable advantage.

On the military side, by July, under the strong recommendation of Shang Haibo, Qiu Zhi, who had not neglected much, became the commander of Bozhou, which made the form of the Dengbo front line instantly tense. Small-scale friction began to emerge constantly.

In view of this form, Lü Dalin personally went to the front line in Dengzhou to supervise the whole army and deal with Qiu Zhi's active offensive strategy, while Tian Feng sat in Ningzhou and commanded the army dominated by Guo Quanfeng's departure from the camp, and attacked the remnants of King Ning in the 100,000 mountains.

Bozhou, Qiu Zhi finally made a comeback again after being hidden by the apocalypse for nearly two years, and the inexplicable complex relationship with the Li family was the reason why Qiu Zhi was left out in the cold, but throughout the years, Qiu Zhi, who had not suffered any big losses under the strong attack of Dingzhou, was one of the rare figures in the Luoyang military, so under the insistence of Shang Haibo, Qiu Zhi was sent to Bozhou.

Qiu Zhi is almost seventy years old, which is a rare age in this era, let alone able to lead a large army to fight, and the old guys of his era have either retired to live at home for a long time, or have gone to the underworld to deal with the king of Yama, so Qiu Zhi is very proud.

After arriving in Bozhou, Qiu Zhi did two things, the first is to take the initiative to seek war, the Pang army was defeated at sea, and Dingzhou has developed a very powerful weapon The intelligence has arrived in Luoyang, and sent to the desk of the commanders, after carefully studying the other party's weapon, Qiu Zhi concluded that in the face of such a fierce attack weapon, no matter how strong the fortress is, it is impossible to hold, only by taking the initiative to attack, and the other party can find a flaw in the sports war, in order to find a chance to win.

The staff division has found out that this weapon is named Shenwei cannon, and each cannon weighs thousands of catties, so the weight of this determines his limitations in the war, so there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Second, under the instruction of Shang Haibo, Qiu Zhi built a fortress at the mouth of the Lai River in Bozhou, the Lai River runs through several states, all the way through Pingzhou, Suzhou, Xingzhou, and enters the sea from Bozhou.

This is also the reason why Shang Haibo went to Ningzhou tirelessly after the defeat in Ningzhou, and tried to snatch Bozhou over, if Bozhou fell into the hands of Li Qing in Ningzhou, the advantage of the Luoyang court would be gone.

After Qiu Zhi took office, he chose many points to investigate, and finally selected the fortress blocking the Lai River in Qingtan, which was about 50 miles away from the mouth of the sea. Qingtan water flow is more rapid, the river is narrow, the mountains on both sides of the bank are forested, occupy the highlands on both banks, build a fortress, you can completely seal the river, at the same time of building the fortress on both banks, Qiu Zhi is on this section of the river will be dozens of ships only loaded with stones, sink to the bottom of the water, at the same time from the Central Plains to transport countless wool iron, melted in Bozhou to make an iron pillar one by one, planted into the water, from the outside, the waterway is no different from previous years, in fact, it has already been a reef from the living, murderous machine lurking, want to enter from this waterway, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.

But Qiu Zhiren did not dare to have any carelessness, and he could not be too careful to fight with Dingzhou, under such a strong fortress, he still stationed 3,000 soldiers on each side of the strait, and sent his henchmen and generals to command, and strive to be foolproof.

At the end of July, the deployment of Qingtan was completed, and Qiu Zhi's attention turned to the front line of Dengbo.

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