Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"This time I heard that we have a new prefect in Lujiang, so I thought about going back to my hometown so that I can find a position under the prefect's command."

Reluctantly explaining to the shopkeeper, Zhang Yan's eyes became a little erratic for a while.

On the contrary, the shopkeeper's eyes brightened immediately after hearing this.

"Oh? So you work under the command of the prefect?"

"Are you an official from the Civil Affairs Bureau?"

He looked in Zhang Yan's direction with some excitement, but the shopkeeper's expression didn't seem to be fake, and he subconsciously moved closer to Zhang Yan's side.

Zhang Yan nodded when he heard the words, and his face became a little red.

"Appointment? Um...yes, appointment."

"Probably works in the Civil Affairs Bureau."

He scratched his cheek in embarrassment, Zhang Yan's words can't be regarded as deception.After all, in the final analysis, the Civil Affairs Department of the entire Wancheng City is under the jurisdiction of the Wancheng Prime Minister, and he, as the "owner" of the Wancheng Kingdom, enjoys everything in the Wancheng City according to law.

Opposite him, the shopkeeper was even more excited when he heard the words.

"This... this young man, can you do me a favor for the old man?"

……

"how?"

Stopping the footsteps that he was about to leave, Zhang Yan didn't expect that after hearing that he was an official of the Wancheng Civil Affairs Department, this person not only didn't feel afraid, but instead pulled his cuffs, looking like he didn't like it. The posture of never letting go if you promise.

Soon, after getting Zhang Yan's consent, he began to talk to himself nervously about the convenience.

"Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just the food we were talking about."

"Young master, since you are working in the Civil Affairs Department, can you please tell Mr. Zhang to open a warehouse this winter and put more grain in order to prevent the price of grain from rising to the point where ordinary people can't afford it?" ?”

With a hint of hope in his eyes, the shopkeeper let go of Zhang Yan's sleeve in embarrassment after he finished speaking.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan pondered for a moment, then nodded towards the store, with a kind smile on his face.

"Well, rations, right? I can give you an answer to this right now. The new eunuch will definitely release rations, and the amount will not be too small."

"It's just that the way he distributes food may be different from the usual Lu prefect."

……

"Uh, the other thing is that the army disturbed the people, I...he will solve it as soon as possible."

"Don't worry about these things, I know him very well!"

Carelessly patted the other party, Zhang Yan opened his mouth and agreed to the matter.

"Well, I did this favor, but you also do me a favor, as if we are helping each other."

"In the future, if someone talks to you about the current prefect, remember to say something nice for him!"

Chapter 13 Barracks Arrangement and the Causes of the Food Crisis

"Well, military training disturbs the people, and there are idle people who can't afford food, right?"

Walking on the road in Wancheng, Zhang Yan was thinking secretly in his heart while walking towards the construction site.

Just now, he just wanted to get a general idea of ​​how the people in Wancheng are living now, but he didn't want to go back and forth, and he actually got a lot of gains:

At the bottom level, a level that he seldom considers usually, there is still such a problem in Wancheng.

However, since the problem has already occurred, it must be resolved.As long as this kind of problem is discovered in advance, it is not difficult for Zhang Yan.

"The first thing is... the military disturbing the people."

After a rough calculation in his mind, Zhang Yan soon made a decision.

When it comes to the army disturbing the people, it is actually quite normal. After all, it is not far from the time when Dong Zhuo was in chaos. Zhang Yan's request for the training of his soldiers is very urgent.

In the same way, the master humiliated his ministers to death, and Zhang Yan, as the master, was anxious to achieve results in military drills. Naturally, Pei Yuanshao and others were also 1 anxious. The frontier army is much bigger.

Under normal circumstances, those cities that specialize in garrisoning troops would set up a semi-permanent military camp outside the city. Not only would they have facilities such as schools and grounds for training, but they would also be far away from residential buildings, which would not affect normal residents at all. Life.

It's just that the previous situation in Lujiang was really bad, so the matter of the military camp became empty talk.

Now, the 5000 people of Pei Yuanshao and others are still stranded in Wancheng, so they get up for training every day before dawn, and there is no way to disturb the people.

But Zhang Yan didn't plan to build a military camp outside Wancheng.

From the perspective of geographical factors, Wancheng is located in the very center of the entire Lujiang River, and there are various princes guarding it in all directions. There is no need to directly set up a direct defense against foreign enemies near Wancheng.

If he really wants to set up a military camp, it should be set up in Qianxian County, which meets Baiyue in the south, or Xiang'an County, which borders Danyang in the east, so that he can mobilize troops in the future to defend the safety of the entire Lujiang River.

This time, Zhang Yan planned to place his first Lujiang army on the buried hill in the south of Lujiang River.

In the past, Qianshan, as the highest mountain in Lujiang, had always been the base camp of the bandits led by Zu Mo.

It's just that when Zhang Yan came this time, he first killed the other bandit leader by chance, and then sent Xu Huang to exterminate the remaining bandits.

After all the bandits on Qianshan were suppressed, Zhang Yan was able to use the previous bandit camp as a basis to build a large camp that could accommodate more than 2 of his soldiers for training and living.

Wait until next year, the population of Lujiang River will gradually skyrocket due to the famine in the surrounding cities, and with enough manpower to form a second army, although Zhang Yan can't be said to be the best in the entire Jiangdong area, at least he can be said to be self-preserving. Yu.

Secretly made up his mind, Zhang Yan planned to wait for Xu Huang's message to come back, then reply to the other party, and dispatch the [-] soldiers who had already undergone preliminary training to the foot of Qianshan Mountain in the south.

The distance between Qianxian County and Wancheng City is not far at all. It only takes about a day for the army to go back and forth, and there will be no embarrassment that the reinforcements will not be returned in time.

After deciding on this matter, Zhang Yan soon turned his attention to the second problem he encountered earlier.

……

"Let's just leave things like this for the army."

"As for the stable food price and idle craftsmen having nothing to do, it's not too difficult."

After roughly thinking about this problem, Zhang Yan quickly found the key node of the problem.

To be honest, is Lujiang short of food?

Of course it is not missing.

Surrounded by the two rivers of Wanshui and Difu, and nourished by the buried hills, although the Lujiang River is not as famous as the world's granary like the counties and counties in the Central Plains of North China, it only supports these hundreds of thousands of residents, and there is absolutely no trace of it. The problem.

There is definitely no shortage of food in Lujiang.

Is it normal that the craftsmen in Lujiang have nothing to do?

That is of course normal.

In the era when there were no wars, craftsmen such as blacksmiths basically relied on selling agricultural tools and making daily necessities such as kitchen knives for a year. Such income was enough to support a craftsman's family. go down.

The blacksmith and others mentioned by the store earlier had nothing to do, and it was just a comparison with those extremely busy farmers.

The income of craftsmen such as blacksmiths in Lujiang is not so low that they cannot afford food.

Since these two points are normal, will the blacksmiths in Lujiang starve to death by this winter?

Don't say it, it really will.

Not only blacksmiths, but all Lujiang people who are engaged in non-agricultural industries will be surprised to find that although they earn the same money as in previous years, many people will not have enough to eat in the face of the soaring food prices.

Sighing slightly, Zhang Yan didn't know how to evaluate this kind of thing.

There is enough food, and the money in the hands of the people has not depreciated, but just because of some small-scale changes in supply and demand, there will be a lot of problems in the food supply of the entire Lujiang River.

If there was no government intervention, or if the imperial court did not open warehouses to release grain during the Qin and Han Dynasties, a small-scale famine would have formed in the Lujiang area due to some man-made actions.

This is why in ancient times, the monarchs of any dynasty strictly controlled the subjects under their command and prevented them from flowing on a large scale.

According to Zhang Yan's understanding, the grain price increase that the old man said is indeed reasonable, but in the final analysis, it is just because Wancheng has more than 2 more mouths to eat this year, while Lujiang's grain output at the same time has not increased. If there is a big change, the supply and demand relationship in the market will be adjusted for a while, which will bring about small price fluctuations.

Perhaps if this little fluctuation, or the 10 new mouths in Lujiang were spread evenly over the tens of thousands of people in Lujiang, not even a single splash would be splashed.

But if these 2 people were simply stuffed into Wancheng, the food consumption in Wancheng would instantly increase by more than [-]% compared to previous years.

Under such circumstances, there will naturally be a short-term shortage of grain in Wancheng.

And this lack of supply is enough to kill.

You know, the people are not Zhang Yan, they can't see the grain reserves of the entire Lujiang River, and they don't know whether Zhang Yan, the prefect, will open a warehouse to release grain because of the short-term food shortage.

What they can most intuitively feel is that the amount of food on the market is getting smaller and smaller, and it is getting harder and harder to buy.

Even some vendors who are responsible for selling grain, they will decisively raise the price of grain in their hands according to the market demand.

At this time, if you were an ordinary person, what would you do?

That, of course, is hoarding food wantonly in case of a rainy day.

Famine, that's how it happens sometimes.

Chapter 14 How to Cope

It's not just the common people. Under such circumstances, the merchants who sell grain in Wancheng often hoard some grain because of the abnormal market fluctuations.

Perhaps in terms of the real food shortage, Lujiang is only short of food rations for about 2 people, but if it is Wancheng, even all the people in Lujiang will stockpile food that exceeds their actual needs...

What was originally a small-scale food shortage will quickly evolve into a large-scale famine, and at the same time, the price of food in Lujiang will also skyrocket.

Perhaps for those groups with higher incomes or self-cultivating farmers, they can at least be guaranteed to have a meal.

But for ordinary people who don't do farming, such food prices will soon make it difficult for them to secure even the most basic rations.

Today's incident is not too serious from the old man's point of view, but if Zhang Yan hadn't discovered it in advance, Lujiang's grain market this year would easily collapse because of it.

This will even greatly affect the credibility of Zhang Yan, who is the prefect of Lujiang.

And if such a thing really happened, then his original plan to organize the people to reclaim wasteland during the winter slack period would naturally become empty talk.

In addition, this man-made famine harms far more than that.

Just as there must be a mine disaster after the mine tide, since the Lujiang famine did not occur because of a real lack of food, once the aristocratic family reaches the second year, the common people will find that the food circulating in the market has not actually happened. Too much of a shift.

At this time, their previous excessive purchase and hoarding of food will naturally cause great harm.

For those self-cultivating farmers, they will find that the grain on the market has suddenly become a little overflowing, and the merchants who were willing to buy grain from them have gradually lowered the price of grain, and even refused to buy the grain in their hands.

Under such circumstances, those people who depended on farming for their livelihood naturally lost their only source of income, and the high-quality food rotted in their own hands.

Perhaps this year, it is the non-agricultural population in Lujiang who do not rely on farming for food to die of starvation.