Destiny Only Han

Chapter 515 Liu Ying: Waiting for the flowers to bloom
"Food? Where is the shortage of food?"

Hearing Liu Bang's words, even Liu Taigong was stunned. He stared at Liu Ying in a daze, waiting for Liu Ying's explanation.

Although he has lived in Xinfeng City for the past few years, he occasionally grows vegetables to exercise and does not work in the farmland as usual, but the farm school has continued with Liu Ying's intentional support in the past two years. Come down, so he, an old farmer, naturally knows something about farming and mulberry in the world.

With the livestock trade with the Huns and Donghu people, coupled with their own breeding, the farmers in these counties and counties under the jurisdiction of the Han Empire basically realized cattle farming, even many poor people who could not afford to buy cattle, Farm cattle can also be leased from the agricultural mutual aid group established under the leadership of the county government. If you don’t want to pay, you can pay off the debt afterwards through subsistence farming or construction of water conservancy roads and other projects.

Therefore, with ox farming, coupled with Quyuan plows, columbine carts, and other iron farm tools, all the farmland that was abandoned due to the war before was reclaimed, but the population at this time was reduced compared to that of the Qin Dynasty. nearly [-]%.

Therefore, except for those places where production has been reduced or no crops have been harvested due to natural disasters, the food that people in many places eat every day is old food from three years ago!
The important thing is that compared with the "most half of the tax" in the Qin Dynasty, Xiao He formulated a national policy of light corvee and light tax to support the people's livelihood. to offset...

The reason why Xiao He is rich and powerful is that he implemented the salt and iron monopoly decades in advance, and the profits obtained from selling salt every year basically offset more than half of the country's expenditure.

After all, there is a lot of heavy physical labor at this time, and heavy-tasting meals and electrolyte supplements are needed. The average monthly salt consumption per capita is more than one catty.

In this way, coupled with the continuous shipment of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper from Whale Island, today's Han Dynasty vaguely looks like a high-welfare country...

Facing the eyes of Lao Liu and Lao Lao Liu, Liu Ying spread her hands and laughed awkwardly:
"Prepare for the rainy day, do you understand the plan for the rainy day? My father once said that if the weather is fine, it must be protected from rain! Nowadays, there is no shortage of food in the past few years. The main reason is that there have been no major wars. Most of the strong laborers are farming at home, and there is The good weather makes the granary overflow! Can this kind of life last forever?"

It can't go on... Liu Ying looked at Liu Bang with a questioning face, and pointed her finger to the north, the meaning behind her words was self-evident.

The seed he planted in the Xiongnu a few years ago called "not worrying about the few but worrying about the inequality" has begun to take root and sprout. It is through official trade with the Huns that he successfully made the Aries King's tribe close to the market rich. .

In this way, other Xiongnu tribes, including Maodun himself, all cared about the fat sheep of King Aries.

Some time ago, Liu Ying heard that a tribe of King Aries was looted and slaughtered, and King Aries went to seek justice from Maodun, but he didn't get justice.

Therefore, King Aries formed an alliance with King Loufan and the Xubu clan who was related to him by marriage, and he no longer took the Xiongnu royal family seriously.

Well, the Xubu family is one of the three noble surnames of the Xiongnu, hereditary right and left Daqiqu, of which the left Qiqu is in charge of government affairs, and the right Qiqu is in charge of war, each with a force of ten thousand cavalry commanders.

Moreover, Liu Ying also heard that since the Battle of Mayi, Mao Dun's health has deteriorated day by day, which has also led to a decline in his prestige among the Huns who advocate bravery. Many Hun nobles began to secretly have blood relatives The prince contacted and tried to get a hand in the position of the Great Chanyu.

After the death of Mao Dun, even if the Xiongnu would not immediately become fragmented, they would at least face a power reshuffle, and civil war was inevitable.

In this way, the Han State had a reason to intervene in the Huns' disputes and stop the war.

Therefore, under this kind of humanitarian aid, no amount of food is enough for the hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops assembled.

After exchanging glances with Liu Ying, although Liu Bang was still a little puzzled, he vaguely guessed something, so he chatted with Liu Taigong with a smile.

At this time, the Xiongnu occupied the Hetao Plain to the south of Yinshan Mountain, and the front of their soldiers pointed directly at the heart of Guanzhong.

And his goal of "a man should be like this" also once attacked the Xiongnu in the north, expanding the territory of the empire to the north of Yinshan Mountain.

Liu Bang thought to himself that he was no worse than the other party. After all, they were considered the same age, and he could still sing and sing every night, while the other party had already slept in the ground...

Therefore, the first battle between the Han and the Hungarians is inevitable!
But the soldiers and horses went first without using food and grass. If they wanted to compete with the Huns, food was naturally the top priority.

The reason why Qin State was able to finally defeat Chu State in the past was that the two big granaries of Guanzhong and Shuzhong supported Wang Jian to hoard heavy troops on the front line, compete with Xiang Yan in national strength, and forcibly consumed Chu State...

This is an unsolvable conspiracy.

Liu Bang thought, if it is true as Liu Ying said, the Nichinan Governor's Mansion has a delta that can grow three crops a year, and the total area is no less than that of the Chengdu Plain. A big granary was built!

In this way, the odds of winning are more in your hands!
After Liu Ying settled Liu Bang, she continued to stand behind Taigong Liu and help him hold his shoulders, but she sighed deeply in her heart. One point he didn't make clear was that the current warmth and humidity would not last for many years.

In seven or eighty years at most, the prosperity of citrus and lychees in Shanglin Garden will be gone forever, replaced by the cold and drought of the Ice Age.

For example, in the fourth year of Yuanguang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the fourth month of summer, the frost killed the grass.

Summer and April in the lunar calendar is equivalent to May in the Gregorian calendar, that is to say, in May in Guanzhong, the season when people in later generations wear popsicles in shorts and vests, and it snows...

It is no coincidence.

In the first year of Yuanshou, in December, there was heavy rain and snow, and the people froze to death...

In the second year of Yuanding, in March, heavy rain and snow...

In the third year of Yuanding, the water and ice in March, the rain and snow in April, the people of more than ten counties in the Kanto eat each other!
In the second year of Yuanfeng, it was very cold, the snow was five feet deep, wild birds and beasts died, cattle and horses curled up like hedgehogs, and three out of ten people in Sanfu froze to death!
During the reign of Emperor Han Yuan, disasters became more frequent.

In March of the first year of Yongguang, falling frost killed mulberry; on September [-], falling frost killed crops, and the world was hungry!

This means that in the first year of Yongguang, there was a frost in March, which cut off the spring sowing, and another frost happened in the autumn harvest, and the whole year's harvest was completely destroyed...

In the second year of Jianzhao, in the winter of November, there was an earthquake in Qichu, heavy rain and snow, five feet deep!

In the first four years of its establishment, it was summer and April, with rain and snow.

In the four years of Yangshuo, it rained and snowed in April, and the sparrows died...

The extreme weather reduced food production, and the reduced food production led to refugees everywhere. Under the panic, the Confucian theory of passing on the country and changing surnames has a folk foundation.

Therefore, Wang Mang usurped the Han.

Well, Zhao Mang would have appeared without Wang Mang. After all, under the theory of interaction between heaven and man, since the emperor is established by heaven, it means that the emperor is the savior who wants to lead everyone to happiness.

But now this series of natural disasters means that the emperor of the Han Dynasty has lost the blessing of God.

Therefore, Wang Mang is actually, in a sense, the first elected emperor of China.

Therefore, the national policies implemented by the democratically elected government must be those with the most popular voices. Therefore, in the eyes of future generations, Wang Mang seems to be a time traveler...

But the crux of the problem is that Wang Mang is not the chosen one.

Therefore, after Wang Mang succeeded to the throne, severe low temperature climate abnormal records became more frequent...

In April of the first year of Tianfeng, meteor frost;

In the second month of Yiyou in the third year of Tianfeng, there was an earthquake, heavy rain and snow, especially in the Kanto region, and the depth was ten feet deep...

In the eighth month of the fourth year of Tianfeng, there was a severe cold, and some officials and horses froze to death;
In the second year of Emperor Dihuang, autumn, frost, and Kanto people eat each other!

It can be said responsibly that during the period of Wang Mang's dictatorship, droughts, frosts, and locust plagues occurred in rounds. "There are ordinary years", that is to say, not only are there no good years, but there are no ordinary years, and they are all disaster years...

Under such circumstances, the people of the Han Dynasty realized that they were wrong, and God still didn't give face to another emperor, which shows that the current emperor is not the one favored by God.

As a result, the Son of Destiny naturally stepped onto the stage of history.

Now that Liu Ying knows what will happen, she will naturally try to make up for it.

He can't be God's home, and it's a certainty that the Ice Age will come, and there's nothing he can do about it.

But what he can do is to build irrigation canals as much as possible in Guanzhong and areas that need to be cultivated to reduce the threat of drought. At the same time, he calls on everyone to raise more chickens, ducks and geese, not only for their own food, but also to a certain extent to curb the occurrence of locust plagues.

After all, according to the research after the founding of New China, most of the locust plagues originated from the lakeside, especially the locust plagues that swept across the Central Plains, which originated from Weishan Lake and other lakes several times.

The reason is that the water level drops during drought, and the original tidal flats are covered with weeds, which is especially suitable for locusts to recuperate and reproduce here.

Well, this is because the rest of the land is farmland, and the soil must be turned up every year for farming, and a lot of insect eggs are turned up from the ground, and they are directly burned to death by the sun.

But the riverbed and lakeside will not, so when the number of locusts increases to a certain level, the plague of locusts is inevitable.

And as long as the drought persists, locust plagues will occur every year.

But droughts and locust plagues can be prevented and overcome, and severe cold and heavy snow are really helpless.

Under such meteorological conditions, even if the black land in the Northeast is developed, it will not help. After all, if it is cold, it is still the coldest there...

Therefore, we need to look to the south, not the Yangtze River Basin and the Pearl River Basin, but further south.

For example, the Red River Delta in Nichinan Dudufu.

The latitude and climate here determine that even in the interglacial period, at least two crops a year can be achieved here. Under the south-to-north grain transfer, even if all the grain in the north is completely harvested, at least people will not starve to death on a large scale .

It's a pity that under a series of coquettish manipulations back then, Dameng gave up this piece of life that might save him...

(End of this chapter)