I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 396

Although the threat from Ma Teng and the others was not great, for Yuan Shao, this battle would make his situation worse.

Now he can't even rescue the victims, and he has to arrange an army of 7 to fight an inexplicable war. The small amount of food is so inexplicably wasted millions of stones. After this battle is over, Wanguanzhong will return Are there people here?
Can his remaining food withstand the unending drought?

If it weren't for Guanzhong being a dangerous place, he would have thrown Guanzhong directly to Ma Teng and the others to see what they could grab now.This group of idiots is now causing locust plagues in Guanzhong, and they don't know what to do when they go to Guanzhong to grab food at this time!
Yuan Shao's tactics against Ma Teng and the others were also very simple. He himself was stationed at Hangu Pass and blocked all the passes in the pass. All the troops in the pass were concentrated in Chang'an City and did not fight Ma Teng and the others. , See if they can grab a blade of grass!

And this tactic was really very targeted. Ma Teng and the others originally entered the Guanzhong to grab food, but they turned around in the Guanzhong, and they couldn't even find a few grasses that the war horses wanted to eat.

Leading a large army to attack Chang'an City, thousands of people were killed before the city wall was climbed. Ma Teng and the others were originally a bandit alliance, and they were not willing to contribute at all when they could not see the benefits.

They just realized now that the current Guanzhong is simply a dead zone, but they don't want to leave without grabbing something, so now the two sides are in a stalemate under the city of Chang'an.

To Yuan Shao, Ma Teng and the others were just a group of horse thieves, a group of scourges.At this time, the drought and locust plague in Guanzhong had helped him complete the fortification and clearing of the fields. Ma Teng and the others didn't want to die, and they would retreat within a month at most.

For Yuan Shao now, where is he going to find money and food?If he can't get any more food, he will take soldiers to rob like Ma Teng!

And at this moment, the plan brought by Xu You was simply a beam of light illuminating his hopes for Yuan Shao, who was already in a state of desperation.

Yes!I can annex the entire Xuzhou aristocracy to survive this crisis!
So Yuan Shao handed over the battle in Guanzhong to Zhang He.

I went back to Luoyang City by myself, and called all my counselors and the patriarchs of the noble families from all over the place, and they gathered together to discuss how to solve the drought!

After half a month of discussion, they found that there was no other way but to annex Xuzhou's elite clan.

The scope of the drought is getting wider and wider. The entire Sili and Central Plains have already fled more than 100 million people to Hebei. If they don't find a way to solve this situation, they will lose the battle with Lei Gong before it even starts.

They also want to help the victims, but there is no food. At this time, there are only two classes left in the Central Plains, the clan and the common people. Treating the nobles as fat pigs is the only way to stabilize the situation.

Everyone thought about it, and found that there really seemed to be only one way, so Sili and the nobles of the Central Plains silently expelled the nobles of Xuzhou, so that they were not considered as their own.

After this decision was made, Yuan Shao immediately appointed his second son Yuan Xi as Xuzhou Shepherd, Xu You as Xuzhou Shepherd Chief Shi, and sent Yuan Xi's [-] troops to Xuzhou to collect money and food!

So when Xuzhou's elites were still dreaming of selling high and buying low, they didn't know that they had been abandoned by the entire Central Plains.

This time it's their turn to be fat pigs and save the Han Kingdom!

Divide the words!

In the land of Hebei, this year's winter wheat has just been harvested!But the reported data is not very good.

Bingzhou, the hometown of Dagan, has been affected by the drought, and many fields in the mountainous highlands have completely lost their harvest. The cut-off of rivers and streams has rendered the canals useless, so that Bingzhou only received about 8 stones of wheat this year, which is less than last year. Half, based on the 000 million population of Bingzhou, these grains are not enough for even half a year.

Jizhou suffered the most severe drought, but because Zhang Baiqi has been building water conservancy facilities for the past six months, the grain harvest on the land close to the water source is barely preserved. In addition, the land in Jizhou is flat and there are many rivers. Although the winter wheat in Jizhou is not much, but But he also harvested 6 million stones.These grains are barely enough to feed more than 000 million people in Jizhou for the first half of the year.

Youzhou was a surprise. The drought this time did not affect Youzhou too much, and even Liaodong and other places didn't even know there was a drought.

It can be regarded as Xu Wei's luck. The areas where he has put a lot of effort into reclamation this year are all in Yuyang, the coastal areas like Youbeiping County, and the wild places like Liaodong. The drought this time has not affected these places. The grain production areas in the state unexpectedly avoided the drought that occurred once in a hundred years.

After more than a year of reclamation, the harvest of winter wheat in Liaodong and Youzhou areas is actually 6000 million shi!Bingzhou and Jizhou actually wanted Youzhou to import grain.

Xu Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief when he got the data of this year's summer harvest from Jia Xu.

Although the drought this year is severe, nearly 2 million shi of grain has been harvested in the summer harvest alone. If the grain is matched according to the minimum amount, it will be enough for the people in Daqian to eat for a year, and the grain harvested in autumn generally accounts for 60% of the total grain. , plus tens of millions of shi of beef and mutton, and tens of millions of shi of fish every year.

In other words, even if there is a severe drought this year, the grain harvest of the entire Dagan should exceed more than 4 million shi and 2000 million shi of meat.

At present, there are more than 2400 million people who work hard to calculate. Although there is no surplus, it can barely feed everyone.

Jia Xu looked incredible when he got this data. This year's drought is rare in a century. At least he has never seen such a severe drought when he grows up.

If this happened in Dahan, millions of people would not be able to get through it without starving to death. Now that Dagan has survived, and the people of the whole country can barely eat enough, this is simply unbelievable.

Jia Xu believes that even in the most powerful period of the Han Dynasty, millions of people would have to starve to death to survive this drought.

Later, he thought about running around with Xu Wei in the past year, and the whole Dagan was full of water conservancy projects. A country like Dagan that likes to build water conservancy projects has never been seen in the history books. It is not as good as the current Dagan. Almost every county in the three continents of Hebei has built water canals under the leadership of the county magistrate. If such efforts are made, people will starve to death. God is really short-sighted. what.

Jia Xu couldn't help but sigh, as expected, it is indeed a new government, and its ability to resist disasters is so strong that it can survive such a severe drought safely!
He recalled what had happened to Dahan in recent years, and sighed: "The situation that Dahan has become into is not only caused by natural disasters, but man-made disasters are the main reason!"

Also suffering from natural disasters, Dagan can barely eat enough to eat here, but the big man on the other side of the Yellow River has escaped more than 200 million victims. Even if Jia Xu didn’t go to the Central Plains, he knew that the current Central Plains must be full of refugees and starving. , a doomsday scene!
Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "Government, should we block the Yellow River and prevent the refugees from continuing to go north. After all, our food production is not very large. If these refugees continue to go north, I am afraid we will not be able to bear it!"

Xu Wei waved his hand and said: "Continue to accept the victims! The struggle for hegemony depends on people. If all the people in the world flee to the land of Hebei, no matter how large the territory occupied by Yuan Shao and the others will be, they will become weaker and weaker. When the power gap between the two sides reaches the peak At that time, we can calm down a big man in one battle! As for the food problem, don’t worry, we will have a lot of food in the granary soon, and after the autumn harvest, our food shortage situation will be improved!"

Because of the drought this year, a large number of people in the Central Plains fled to Hebei. Xu Wei transported all the victims who took refuge in Dagan to the Liaodong area for reclamation, and more than 200 million people immigrated in the entire Liaodong area.

These victims have solved the problem of labor shortage in Liaodong area. Coupled with abundant supplies, Liaodong Guang has reclaimed 3000 million mu of land this year. These lands are all black land in Liaodong. If there is no accident in Youzhou this year, the entire Liaodong area can be With an extra 500-[-] million shi of grain, it would not be a problem to feed two million victims, and with the development of the black land, the output of the Liaodong granary will be higher and higher. By next year, the grain output of the Liaodong area may be enough More than hundreds of millions of stones, enough to feed [-] million people!

He even felt that these victims were too few. If the people in the entire Central Plains fled to Hebei, although his pressure would be greater this year, the Central Plains would be empty, and there would be no power to stop him from going south.

(End of this chapter)