Daqin Engineers

In fact, it is not just Shen Bing who is worrying about food.

Li Si took the memorandum compiled from the intelligence gathered from various parties to see Ying Zheng in Handan.

At this time, Ying Zheng was just as Shen Bing captured the King of Chu, and Long Xin was happy. He was enjoying the sound of building while drinking wine in the tent, and from time to time he slapped the table with a few praises.

Li Si hurriedly walked into the tent and arched his hands beside the Yingzheng case:

"The minister has something to play."

Ying Zheng was a little unhappy, and replied:

"Why is it so anxious? Wait until the widow listens to this song."

Li Si did not speak or withdrew, just keeping his hands folded.

Ying Zheng originally wanted to ignore it and continue to have fun, but Li Si seemed a little out of place just standing on one side, and after a while, even Ying Zheng lost interest.

"That's it..." Ying Zheng retired in a disappointing manner, and asked Li Si with a thorn in his words: "Is the prime minister going to play more urgently than Shen Bing's attack on Shouchun?"

Li Si replied:

"Although it is no better than Shouchun, it is not far away."

Ying Zheng said "Oh":

"Speaking of it, I would like to see how the prime minister captured another Shouchun."

Li Si certainly knew that Ying Zheng was unhappy, but he was unmoved and said:

"My lord, in the past few months, our army has successively sent Zhao, Wei, and Chu to the three kingdoms. Although invincible, the size has grown too rapidly."

"And Zhao Guo has been waiting for food emergency for years after disasters."

"Wei Guo destroyed more than half of the farmland when Shen Bing flooded Xiangyan."

"In the State of Chu, Xiang Yanjian cleared the wilderness and took away a large number of migrating labor."

"And my Daqin ran out of food due to successive battles..."

Li Si's analysis is right.

The few countries that have just been defeated have all kinds of food problems, even Qin is no exception.

So everything has two sides: it is not good to win too slowly, and it is not good to win too much suddenly.

Among them, Chu is especially the country.

Chu is the only country that is prepared to retreat.

In order not to leave food to the Qin army, the soldiers deliberately destroyed and burned crops along the way, leaving mostly the old and weak who needed food.

Although Shen Bing's clever plan later regained some labor in Ruyin and Shouchun in time, these labors were only a fraction of the migrant population.

Yingzheng waved his hand impatiently and said:

"Didn't I wait to seize large quantities of grain in Ruyin and Shouchun?"

"What's more, it's less than two months before the harvest. Why should the prime minister worry so much?"

Li Si replied:

"My lord, although the two cities of Ruyin and Shouchun have a lot of food, they are only enough for Shouchun and our army."

"Chu has hundreds of thousands of people without food and clothing."

"Although it was less than two months before the harvest, the minister calculated that it would only last two months if all the food we produced was used for the people."

"When……"

There is no need to say more about the next question.

If all the harvested food is only enough for more than two months, how can it be maintained until the next bumper harvest?

When that happens, let alone fighting, the survival of the people will be a problem.

And if people’s lives become a problem, the political situation will inevitably be unstable, so there will be great chaos everywhere...

Ying Zheng did not dare to think further, and his expression gradually became serious. He got up and walked a few times before the case, and then asked:

"So based on the prime minister's opinion, how should I solve it?"

Li Si replied:

"Thanks to the king."

"As far as the minister knows, crops in the north of Yan State cannot survive the winter due to the cold winter, so crops are usually planted in spring and harvested in autumn."

"It's spring at this time. If you can plant Yan Guo's crops in Wei, Chu and other places...you can harvest in a few months."

"At that time, I will have no worries about food."

Even if Ying Zheng allowed it:

"It's a clever plan, so I acted in this way."

"The widow will let King Yan send some food!"

If King Yan listened to this, I'm afraid that another ten thousand grass and mud horses were running past in his heart.

In other words, Yan Wangxi originally aroused public grievances in order to get the food requested by the Qin Army... This time the public grievances were not as easy to settle as usual.

Because this is the food used by the people to save their lives in the winter, the people will of course steal, rob or kill them if they can't live.

However, there are still a small number of invaders who fall through the grass. The winter in Yandi is extremely cold, and it is almost a hunt for death in the wild.

But even this result is not optimistic, because the number of homicides in Yan State this winter is dozens of times more than in previous years.

Most of the looted were wealthy merchants and officials, and there were even several small-scale riots.

Yan Wangxi almost turned the capital upside down and couldn't find many anti-thief.

The reason is that the soldiers of the army are often poor people, many of them are victims themselves, so the officials and bandits become a family...

This may not seem like a major event, but it has already shown that Yan's heart is gone.

There is a saying, "The heart is like a wild horse, but it is easy to let go and hard to take." Once this person's heart disperses, it will be difficult for Yan Wangxi to take it back.

Under this circumstance, Ying Zheng once again asked King Yan to send food, wouldn't it make the situation worse?

But of course, Ying Zheng is not talking about "send", but rather "borrow" very politely.

However, everyone knows that the grain is borrowed but not returned.

But King Yan couldn't help it. If he didn't deliver food, the Qin army would be coming to the city again.

At this time, Yan Wangxi did not dare to offend Qin.

It should be understood that after attacking Yan, the Kingdom of Qin successively defeated the Kingdom of Wei and the Kingdom of Chu... This almost made King Yan's jaw drop in surprise.

On the other hand, he was secretly rejoicing: Fortunately, he had surrendered early, otherwise he would have been captured like King Wei and King Chu.

Among them, King Wei was also chopped off after his surrender... Maybe it was because Yingzheng did not shame King Wei as a fake person.

On the other hand, Yan Wangxi scolded Prince Dan again in his heart:

"This guy is so ignorant, he said that he could defeat the Qin army and help Zhao Guo regain the lost ground by uniting the army."

"Unexpectedly, the Qin army can not only defeat the Yan Dynasty coalition forces but also defeat the Wei and attack Chu."

"He died easily, but he left the widow in a difficult situation and was in a dilemma."

King Yan did not want to think that the reason why Qin Jun was able to attack Wei was entirely because of the large amount of food he provided.

Because of the extreme fear of Qin in his heart, Yan Wangxi did not dare to refuse Ying Zheng's "borrowing food".

And its speed is extremely fast, immediately prepare the first batch of grain and transport it upstream from the Yellow River to Handan...

At this time, the temperature has become warmer in spring and the Yellow River estuary has thawed.

And although the Yellow River has flood seasons in all seasons, spring is the gentlest and the shortest, so spring is most suitable for shipping and construction of water conservancy facilities.

The transportation of wheat seeds is not a problem. Yingzheng directly transported these wheat seeds from the Yellow River to the beams, and then from the Bianshui River to the Shahe River to all parts of Chu.

Starting from Daliang Bianshui, it is downstream, so it does not take long.

The problem on King Yan’s side has been solved, but there are still problems on Li Si’s side:

"Fortunately, Wei Guo said that its people have sufficient labor. As long as they are properly deployed, it is not difficult to overcome the difficulties."

"But Chu Kingdom... just has grain but no labor to cultivate."

"My army is fighting the Chu army on the front line of the Huaihe River, and there is no way to open up all fields..."

After thinking about it, Ying Zheng replied:

"Use the prisoners of the Chu army as laborers."

Li Si shook his head:

"Even so, it is far from the number of farmland."

Ying Zheng said again:

"Let the woman go to Tuntian..."

This may be reasonable. It's the moment of life and death. Why can't a woman farm the land?

However, this is just the wishful thinking of a high-ranking person like Ying Zheng.

In ancient times, women didn't have anything to do at home. They either weave at home or "cooked rice" all day long, otherwise the family would not be able to eat.