Just when Zhu Youjian and others were still sleeping that night, the city gate opened and Shandong soldiers rushed in! With the guidance of soldiers from all over the place, almost all key departments conquered them in an instant!

When Zhu Youjian woke up in his sleep, Shandong soldiers were already attacking his bedroom! So he captured it alive without surprise!

When he was taken out of the palace, he saw Wu Yizhou, who had already changed back to his Shandong military uniform, chatting and laughing with the commander who was commanding the battle! He immediately realized that he had been betrayed by Wu Yizhou!

Zhu Youjian immediately cursed loudly: "You traitor! I don't care that you are from a rude background and are extremely honorable to you. How can you betray me!"

Wu Yizhou took two steps forward, shrugged and said, "There is something you said wrong. I have not betrayed you because I have never been loyal to you! Let me formally introduce you, I am a lieutenant general under my command! I have been lurking in Fujian for more than ten years, just waiting to catch you big fish! I just didn't expect that one of them was you!"

Zhu Youjian was as if he was struck by lightning when he heard this! He didn't expect that someone had been planning tonight's affairs more than ten years ago! For a moment, his chest was very upset, and he was weak and sickly, so he couldn't help but vomited blood and died of vomiting blood on the spot!

At this point, another Southern Ming emperor died in a bad life! But this also brought a lot of legends to Qi Qitao and Wu Yizhou! Because among these two people, Qi Qitao killed an emperor, and Wu Yizhou's words made him angry to death, and he was the emperor's killer!

The following things were simpler, because Wu Yizhou had already taken time out all the soldiers and horses from several provinces, and the cities in various places were completely unprepared! Shandong soldiers went south along the main road! All the cities along the road were either tricked by them with Wu Yizhou's handwriting to open the city gate, or they just went down in one go, so they could not be relaxed anymore. They successfully took down all the provinces, including most of Guangxi!

Just as the soldiers were excited and ready to go to the Yunnan-Guizhou area, all the military actions were stopped by Liu Pei! The reason is very simple, there is not enough food!

Now, except for some southwest provinces, Liu Pei is in control of the entire China.

If you win! Then he must shoulder the responsibility of supporting the people under his rule! But this problem is the most difficult to solve!

The north has experienced years of war and is extremely destructive! The grain output is outrageously low! As for the Jiangnan region, these places were originally a land of fish and rice. Due to the prosperity of sea trade, a large number of fertile fields have been replanted with mulberry trees and other cash crops, and the grain output is lower than one year! If Liu Pei had not sold a large amount of low-priced grain, the grain prices in Jiangnan would have soared!

Especially when Liu Pei uses troops every year, the army consumes huge food. In addition, the consumption of disaster victims in various places, the food and wine needed is a huge number! But these foods have to be imported from abroad.

It’s okay to transport grain directly by sea boats in the inland areas. However, in the inland areas, only a small number of areas can transport grain in the inland rivers by ships, and most areas have to transport grain by traditional land.

The long distance and bad road conditions were difficult even if he used a rubber wheel truck! A large amount of food was consumed during transportation, so Liu Pei had accumulated many years of food and was consumed like running water!

In order to maintain combat and training, soldiers could not save food; in order to stabilize the prices in Jiangnan, Liu Pei had to sell a large amount of food; and a large number of disaster victims and prisoners had to consume a large amount of food!

Although Liu Pei has always used labor-for-relief to repair basic water conservancy facilities and roads, it will be the next year and next year to show strength. In short, the food problem has now reached the cordon! So at Fang Degang's strong suggestion, Liu Pei had to suspend all wars!

Liu Pei looked at the grain reserve figures on the books and felt agitation! He couldn't help but think about how the Qing Dynasty solved the grain problem back then? Then he figured out that the simplest method "I Qing Dynasty" adopted, which was massacre!

If there is not enough food to eat, then kill some people. The remaining food is enough to eat, enough to last until the next harvest! Thinking about the huge decline in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Liu Pei knew how successful the "My Qing Dynasty" plan was! But when he arrived at Liu Pei, he could not do this!

Thinking of this, Liu Pei closed the account book

He pushed forward and said, "I won't look anymore. I'll ask you, if we stop a large-scale war and maintain a low-intensity erosion offensive, will our food be enough?"

Several accountants briefly discussed it, and one of them said: "Master, it's not that we are incompetent, but that we really cannot estimate how much material this low-intensity war will consume? You must know that fighting is not only consuming food, but also consuming other materials. And those who transport other materials also have to consume food. So it's difficult to estimate!"

Liu Pei nodded and said, "I understand. Since that's the case, let's stop the war completely! Anyway, we have to digest the territory we just occupied."

Several accountants were relieved to leave when they heard this, but the accountant who had just spoken mustered up the courage to say: "Master, in fact, there are still a lot of food stored in the hands of the wealthy families in the inland areas of the north! If we can make some of the food in their hands, our difficult situation in the inland areas will improve to a certain extent."

Liu Pei smiled bitterly and said, "But in the eyes of those people, food is something that saves life! Even if you give money, they may not be willing to sell it! I can't just rob the soldiers, right?"

The accountant laughed dryly and said, "Well, of course you can't rob it, as it will ruin the reputation of the Grandmaster! But we can change it!"

Fang Degang interrupted and said, "Switch? What should we change?"

The accountant said seriously: "Get meat to exchange! We used to stock up on a large amount of salted fish, bacon, and lunch meat. Although we consumed a lot, there was still some surplus. These things were small in size and high in value, so it was easy to transport them to the inland! You know, although the wealthy families in the north now say that they don't have to worry about food, if they talk about meat, they would have had a long time ago! After all, there is not enough food, so how could they still raise livestock? So they would be happy to exchange these meat for food!"

Liu Pei was overjoyed when he heard this, slammed the table and said, "Good solution! Reward 100 taels of silver!"
Chapter completed!