After years of internal power struggles and the war in the first year of Yanxing that was almost destroyed, especially Guan Yi's rapid improvement in people's livelihood after controlling the civil affairs of Shu Han. The whole country of Shu Han finally gradually unified its understanding.

Anti-war faction: After this battle, Cao Wei had no strength to rescue us in a short period of time. Moreover, Cao Wei was already unable to protect himself at this time. Therefore, we should hope that the Han Dynasty will succeed in the future Northern Expedition. Once Yongliang is taken down, whether it is the Yuan Cong Sect or the Jingzhou Sect, we should quickly go to Yongzhou to harm the people of Guanzhong. In this way, we will be liberated in disguise...

Northern Expedition faction: The Grand Sima’s strategy is right. Rest first and accumulate enough strength. The next Northern Expedition will be a thunder strike! This is much better than the previous small-scale Northern Expedition, which consumes a lot of money and food but does not get any benefits!

In short, the opinions of Shu Han were unified: put away his fists and then fight with all your strength after he had enough money!

And what about Cao Wei, whose life has entered the countdown? There are really a lot of trouble at this time.

In May of the first year of Xianxi (264), General Zhenxi and General Yongzhou, Hu Fen, sent an urgent report from Jincheng County, Liangzhou. It was said that drought occurred in the four counties of Longxi, Tianshui, Nan'an, Guangwei, and Jincheng, Xiping and Wuwei in Liangzhou. In addition to the small part of the wheat fields adjacent to the Yellow River, which were harvested by artificial irrigation, all other wheat fields were completely harvested. The local Han people were not able to pay taxes, but instead needed state relief. At the same time, the fields of Qiang and Di people around these seven counties were also completely harvested. In order to prevent these foreign races from rebelling because they had no food, the court still had to allocate more food to appease these foreign races...

"Hey, I remember, this is the fifth year of the Longxi area in the past ten years, right?"

After receiving Hu Fen's report, Sima Zhao also felt a split headache. In recent years, droughts in western Yongzhou and eastern Liangzhou have become more and more frequent. As an excellent politician, Sima Zhao is very clear about what long-term and frequent droughts mean - as for Zhangye and Dunhuang in western Liangzhou, these counties almost never rain all year round, and there is no problem of drought.

"The King of Jin is not only that. In recent years, the more the Longxi area goes northwest, the less rainfall is. Many grasslands have disappeared. This has led to the continuous migration of Qiang people in the northwest to the southeast. Now, the number of Han people in Liangzhou is roughly estimated to be less than 60% of the total local population. The number of Han people in western Yongzhou has dropped to 40%!"

"What?! Ji Yan, are you mistaken? There are more Qiang people in Liangzhou? Why are there more than 50% of Han people in Liangzhou, but only 40% of Longxi?"

"On the one hand, Liangzhou has a relatively small family power, and the land there is barren, and the output of one person is limited. Therefore, the family hidden the population there is not particularly active. In addition, the Qiang people there are gradually and slowly migrate. There is a long process. In Yongzhou, the land in the Guanzhong Plain is fertile, and the aristocratic families hide the population very much. At the same time, Emperor Wu of Wei conquered Zhang Lu, and moved 200,000 Hanzhong into Guanzhong at one time. Among them, there were nearly 10,000 Di people. In fifty or sixty years, the number of these Di people has expanded to more than 100,000!"

"How can these Di people be born so much?!" Everyone knows the fact that the aristocratic families embezzled the country's population. As the ruler, the Sima family really has to suppress such things. But he has no choice but to be the Sima family is not the legitimate ruler of the country now. In order to usurp the throne, he still needs to continue to turn a blind eye to the behavior of the aristocratic families and acquiesce to the aristocratic families. The aristocratic families also know in their hearts that once the Sima family successfully usurps the throne, it will definitely restrict this large-scale embezzlement of the country's population, so this is the last carnival. Therefore, in recent years, the aristocratic families of Cao Wei have gone crazy and encircled land everywhere, attracting and even forcing Cao Wei's self-cultivated farmers to enter their manors and become serfs.

Therefore, Sima Zhao had no choice but to avoid the important and talk about the high fertility rate of the Di people.

Before Liu Bei entered Yizhou, the wars in Yizhou were mainly divided into two categories: one was the war between the natives of Yizhou who resisted Liu Yan and his son and their Dongzhou faction. The second was the love and killing of Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu's mother was Liu Yan's lover. After Liu Yan and Zhang Lu's mother got together, he quickly neglected his original wife, Liu Zhang's mother, which caused Liu Zhang's mother to die of depression. Moreover, Liu Yan's old man in his sixties and seventies was entangled by a Xu girl who was in her forties and in her 40s, and was quickly sucked dry... So after Liu Zhang came to power, he wiped Zhang Lu's mother and several brothers and relatives who Zhang Lu left in Chengdu. Then the two bitches fell in love and killed each other for more than ten years.

In the past ten years, some of the Di people in the Brazilian county of Yizhou, where Liu and Zhang were at the intersection of Liu and Zhang, part of them fanned Liu Zhang and some fanned Zhang Lu. Later, when Zhang Lu was moved to Chang'an, more than 10,000 Di people who fanned Zhang followed Zhang Lu into the Guanzhong Plain. Because this nation was very united, no one could afford to eat with each other, others would do their best to help. Therefore, there were fewer people among them who became serfs in the manors of aristocratic families than Han people, which caused the population growth rate of this group to be particularly terrifying.

"Well, King Jin, it's urgent to import food to Yongliang. At this moment, Liangzhou is in chaos!"

"Oh, of course I know that Liangzhou is in chaos at this time. But Ji Yan, how much food is left in Luoyang Prefecture's warehouse now?"

"Before I came down, I went to the Duzhi Shangshu. At present, there are still 13 million stones of grain stored in the treasury."

"Why is this so much?!" This is really not pretentious. The size gap between Cao Wei and Shu Han is too large, and the things to face are much more complicated than Shu Han. And compared with the Shu Han, whose main essence is concentrated in the country of Tianfu. The possibility of various agricultural disasters occurring in Cao Wei's vast territory is much higher than that of Shu Han.

For Guan Yi, if there were so much food stored in the treasury, he could go to bed with peace of mind. But for Sima Zhao, this food stored in the treasury has reached the warning line.

"Uh... King Jin. Last year, because our army suffered heavy losses in Yang'an Pass, this pension was paid a lot. At the end of last year, the treasury's stock was reduced to less than 5 million stones. It was not until this year's autumn harvest that it was restored to more than 10 million stones."

"But that's too little. I remember that the granaries in the seven places in Luoyang, Chang'an, Xuchang, Xinye, Shouchun, Yecheng, and Xiapi were stored at least 20 million stones! Not to mention that there were also a small amount of grain stored in warehouses in each county and county."

"King of Jin, this is another thing that my subordinates want to say: this year, except for the four counties such as Longxi and Tianshui, there are no news of disasters in the entire Guanzhong Plain, Youfufeng, Zuofengyi and Jingzhao County. However, the grain collected into the warehouse is 70% less than in previous years. Not only that, in recent months, a lot of the grain produced by Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other major grain-producing states have flowed to Chang'an!"

"Hmm?! What does Zichu want to do? Are you trying to gain enemies?!" Without saying that Chang'an definitely doesn't need so much food. At present, the one who lacks food the most in the world is of course Guan Yi and Guan Zifeng who have a habit of food storage.

"Haha, there is no such thing. King Jin, haven't the general of the Western Expedition recently sold two kinds of strong liquors? Well, it's called Shaodaozi and Tuoboxiang (a very vulgar name)?"

"There is this. Alas, I understand after you say this. It must be Guan Zifeng and Zichu who reached an agreement. Zichu gave him food, and he provided Zichu with this kind of spirit wine. This wine, I didn't say it, that's really good! I also like it... But now the country is so short of food, how can I do such a thing? Guan Zifeng is just a profiteer. I dare to conclude that at most only 30% of the food he took to make wine, and all the others were swallowed!"

(Guan Yi: I'm stupid, you underestimate me, a time traveler. To be honest, only half of the food I got here was used to make wine. I swallowed the rest!)

"King Jin, I think this should be the case. So..."

So what? Arrest Sima Wang and killed? Let’s not talk about the problem that the Sima family never attacked their relatives (historical plane, the Eight Kings Rebellion, that’s enough). Even if Sima Wang is removed, who can take charge of Chang’an?

"Hey~~~" The head started to hurt again, and his chest began to tighten. Sima Zhao took a few steps in a frustration: "Ji Yan, are there any more prestige among the Di people in Guanzhong area now and that they can use their abilities?"

So there is a reason why Pei Xiu was reused by Sima Zhao. Before he came to report on his work, he had already done a lot of homework and made sufficient preparations for the questions his boss might ask.

Therefore, although Sima Zhao's question was almost unrelated to the previous conversation, Pei Xiu still answered very quickly: "Reporting to the King of Jin, the leader of the Di people, Li Mu (the father of Li Te, the founder of Chenghan,), was brave and good at fighting, and was fair in dealing with things. He was deeply loved by the Di people."

"My Han family has all produced some corrupt elements, but there are many heroes on the other side. What if this continues? Forget it, I ordered the treasury to send one million stones of grain to the Longxi area for relief. The matter was handed over to Wei Boyu. Tell him that if it is done well, he will return to Luoyang to restore his position. If it causes civil rebellion, hum! I care about what kind of high-ranking Wei family in Hedong is, and he will be punished for multiple crimes and slaughtered!"

"No! Please don't worry, King Jin, Bo Yu will definitely handle this matter properly!"

"In addition, we will allocate 100,000 stones of grain and 1 million yuan. Ji Yan, you will go there in person. Let's hand it over to Li Mu. I will recruit him as the hunting general of the Eastern Qiang!"

"Abide by the order! The Li family will definitely convince me, Da Jin, and serve you sincerely!"
Chapter completed!