Although the threat from Ma Teng and the others is not great, for Yuan Shao, this battle has made his situation even worse.
Now he can't even help the victims. He actually has to deploy 70,000 troops to fight an inexplicable war. He has wasted millions of dan inexplicably on the meager amount of food. After this battle, Wan Guanzhong will still be there.
Are there any people here?
Can his remaining food withstand the drought that is not yet over?
If Guanzhong was not a dangerous place, he would have just left Guanzhong to Ma Teng and the others to see what they could grab now. These idiots, there is a locust plague in Guanzhong now, and they simply don’t know how to go to Guanzhong to grab food at this time.
So called!
Yuan Shao's tactics against Ma Teng and the others were also very simple. He himself sat at Hangu Pass and blocked all the passes in Guanzhong. All the troops in Guanzhong were concentrated in Chang'an City and did not fight with Ma Teng and the others. The wild areas were left to Ma Teng and the others to plunder.
, see if they can grab a straw!
This tactic was indeed very targeted. Ma Teng and the others originally entered the pass to grab food. However, they walked around the pass and couldn't even find a few pieces of grass that the war horses wanted to eat.
He led a large army to attack Chang'an City, but thousands of people were killed before the city wall could be climbed. Ma Teng and the others were originally a bandit alliance and were unwilling to contribute without seeing any benefits.
Only now did they realize that Guanzhong is now a dead place, but they don't want to leave like this without grabbing anything, so now the two sides are in a stalemate at the foot of Chang'an City.
To Yuan Shao, Ma Teng and the others were just a group of horse thieves and could only be regarded as a scourge. At this time, the drought and locust plague in Guanzhong had helped him complete the task of fortifying the walls and clearing the country. Ma Teng and the others did not want to die, and they would retreat in a month at most.
Where can Yuan Shao find money and food now? If he can't get food anymore, he will lead his soldiers to rob like Ma Teng!
And at this moment, the plan brought by Xu You was simply a beam of light that illuminated his hope for the already anxious Yuan Shao.
That’s right! You can annex the entire Xuzhou noble family to survive this crisis!
So Yuan Shao handed over the war in Guanzhong to Zhang He.
He returned to Luoyang City and summoned all his counselors and heads of noble families from all over the country. They gathered together to discuss how to solve this drought!
After half a month of discussion, they found that there was no other way except to annex the noble families of Xuzhou.
The scope of the drought is getting wider and wider. More than 1 million people have fled to Hebei in the entire Sili and Central Plains. If they don't find a way to solve this situation, they will lose the battle with Lei Gong before it even starts.
They also wanted to help the victims, but they had no food. At this time, there were only two classes left in the Central Plains, the wealthy and ordinary people. They couldn't find a fat pig to kill, but now Yuan Shao told them to kill the wealthy people in Xuzhou.
Treating the gentry as fat pigs is the only way to stabilize the situation.
Everyone thought about it and found that this seemed to be the only way, so Sili and the noble families in the Central Plains silently expelled the noble families in Xuzhou from their official status, so that they would no longer be considered their own.
After this decision was made, Yuan Shao immediately appointed his second son Yuan Xi as the shepherd of Xuzhou, Xu You as the chief shepherd of Xuzhou, and sent Yuan Xi's 50,000 troops to Xuzhou to collect money and grain!
So when Xuzhou's wealthy gentry were still dreaming of selling high and buying low, they didn't know that they had been abandoned by the entire Central Plains gentry.
This time it's their turn to be fat pigs and save the Han Dynasty!
The words are divided into two parts!
In Hebei, this year's winter wheat harvest has just been completed! But the data reported is not very good.
Bingzhou, the hometown of Daqian, has been affected by drought. The fields in many mountainous highlands have all failed to harvest. The cutoff of rivers and streams has rendered water canals useless. As a result, Bingzhou only received about 8,000 shi of wheat from this year's summer harvest, less than half of last year. Based on Bingzhou’s population of 9 million, this food is not enough to last even half a year.
Jizhou has suffered the most serious drought, but because Zhang Baiqi has continued to build water conservancy facilities in the past six months, the grain harvest on land close to water sources can barely be saved. In addition, Jizhou has a vast land and many rivers. Although Jizhou does not grow much winter wheat, But they also harvested 60 million shi. This food was barely enough to feed more than 5 million people in Jizhou for the first half of the year.
It was an unexpected surprise for Youzhou. This drought did not affect Youzhou too much, and even Liaodong and other places did not even know that there was a drought.
It can be said that Xu Wei is lucky. The areas where he has spent a lot of effort to cultivate this year are all in Yuyangchu, areas close to the coast such as Youbeiping County, and wild places like Liaodong. The drought this time has not affected these places. You The state's grain producing areas unexpectedly avoided this once-in-a-century drought.
After more than a year of reclamation, the winter wheat harvest in Liaodong and Youzhou areas actually amounted to 60 million shi! Bingzhou and Jizhou actually asked Youzhou to import grain.
When he received this year's summer harvest data from Jia Xu, Xu Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although this year's drought is serious, nearly 200 million shi of grain have been harvested from the summer harvest alone. If this grain is matched according to the minimum quota, it will be enough for the people of Daqian to last for a year, and the grain harvested in the autumn generally accounts for 60% of the total grain. , plus tens of millions of kilo of beef and mutton, and tens of millions of kilo of fish every year.
In other words, even if there is a severe drought this year, the grain harvest of the entire Daqian should exceed more than 400 million shi and 20 million shi of meat.
Counting the current population of more than 24 million, although there is no savings, it can barely keep everyone fed and well fed.
Jia Xu looked in disbelief when he received this data. This year's drought is a rare occurrence in a century. At least he has never seen such a severe drought in his whole life.
If this happened in Dahan, millions of people would not be able to survive without starving to death. Now Daqian has survived and can barely feed the people across the country. This is simply incredible.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jia Xu believed that even during the period when the Han Dynasty was at its most powerful, millions of people would have to starve to death in order to survive this drought.
Later, he thought that after following Xu Wei everywhere in the past year, there were water conservancy projects everywhere in Daqian. Countries like Daqian that like to build water conservancy projects have never been seen in history books. Even the violent Qin Dynasty back then It's not as good as Daqian now. Almost every county in the Three Continents of Hebei is building canals under the leadership of the county magistrate and governor. If people starve to death despite such efforts, then God is really short-sighted. ah.
Jia Xu had to sigh, it was indeed a new regime with strong disaster resistance, and it could survive such a severe drought safely!
He thought about what had happened to Dahan over the years and sighed: "The current situation in Dahan is not only caused by natural disasters, but man-made disasters are the main reason!"
Also suffering from natural disasters, Daqian can still barely eat enough, but the Han Dynasty across the Yellow River has fled more than 2 million victims. Even if Jia Xu did not go to the Central Plains, he knew that the Central Plains must be full of refugees and hungry people everywhere. , a scene of doomsday!
Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "In power, should we block the Yellow River and prevent refugees from continuing to go north? After all, our food production is not very large. If these refugees continue to go north, I am afraid we will not be able to bear it!"
Xu Wei waved his hands and said: "Continue to receive the victims! Conquering the world depends on people. If all the people in the world flee to Hebei, no matter how large the territory Yuan Shao and his friends occupy, they will become weaker and weaker. When the power gap between the two sides reaches its peak, At that time, we can pacify a big man in one battle! As for the food problem, don’t worry, we will have a large amount of food entering the granary soon, and after the autumn harvest, our food shortage situation will be improved! "
Because this year due to the drought, a large number of people from the Central Plains fled to Hebei. Xu Wei transported all the victims who sought refuge in Dagan to the Liaodong area for settlement, and more than 2 million people immigrated throughout the Liaodong region.
These victims have solved the problem of labor shortage in Liaodong, and with abundant supplies, Liaodong alone has reclaimed 30 million acres of land this year. These lands are all black soil in Liaodong. If no accidents happen in Youzhou this year, the entire Liaodong region With an extra 30 to 50 million kilograms of grain, it is not a problem to feed two million disaster victims. Moreover, with the development of black soil, the output of Liaodong granary will become higher and higher. By next year, the grain output of Liaodong region will be reduced. It can exceed hundreds of millions of stones, enough to feed 5 million people!
He even felt that there were too few victims. If all the people in the Central Plains fled to Hebei, although his pressure would be greater this year, the Central Plains would be deserted, and by then there would be no power to stop him from going south, no matter how far away he was.