The Battle of Beidi County shocked the entire Xiliang. The heroes of Xiliang knew that Lei Gong was powerful, but they did not expect it to be so powerful. 20,000 people fought against 60,000 people, and they actually wiped out the Xiliang coalition forces in one battle. This shocked the entire Xiliang. Xiliang's powerful people feel like the sky is falling! No one can stop Lei Gong Tu from occupying Xiliang!
Later, Han Sui surrendered to Xu Wei, which meant that there was no regular army in Xiliang to resist Daqian's occupation of Xiliang!
Longxi County, Hanyang County, and Wudu County all surrendered under the attack of Wang Lei's right army. It can be said that Wang Lei's right army simply conducted an armed parade and did not experience any war at all. Half of Xiliang was so easily Captured by Daqian!
Although Daqian conquered Xiliang without encountering any big obstacles, this does not mean that the local people of Xiliang welcome Daqian. In fact, the entire Xiliang powerful people are in panic. Although they are remote here, they are It doesn't mean that they don't know what Lei Gong is doing in Hebei, beating local tycoons, dividing their fields, publicly interrogating nobles, and killing gentry. Lei Gong will kill all powerful people like them!
At this time, Xiliang Haoqiang were like ostriches, trembling and hiding in their own fortresses. Although they knew that this would not be of much use, they could not think of any other method!
At this time, Han Sui's letter came into the hands of these powerful family heads, which brought them a glimmer of hope. It seemed that Lei Gong did not want to kill everyone in Xiliang, otherwise Han Sui would not have given them the letter and asked them to come to Linjing. Discuss the stability of Xiliang!
Obviously Lei Gong values the Central Plains more, and Bing does not want to spend too much energy in Xiliang!
After having such thoughts, the powerful people in Xiliang finally felt more at ease. As long as Lei Gong still needs them to stabilize Xiliang, he will not kill them all!
So after receiving Han Sui's letter, the heads of the major families in Xiliang came to Jingcheng with their family elites!
In early October, the entire Han Dynasty began its annual autumn harvest. Although the land in Hebei, north of the Yellow River, was also affected by drought, it had the most complete water conservancy facilities, the most advanced steel farming tools and struvite in the Han Dynasty. With the help of Liaodong, and the development of Liaodong this year, it will have an overall bumper harvest. This year’s autumn harvest alone has imported 20 million shi of grain into the pass. This is after resettling 2 million immigrants from Hebei. Obviously, after two years of development, Liaodong has begun to show its ability to become a The potential of a granary!
Now the whole Daqian no longer criticized the development of Liaodong. Instead, they admired Xu Wei, saying that he was far-sighted and knew that the Han Dynasty was about to suffer from drought. He developed Liaodong and ensured the food security of Daqian.
You must know that without the development of Liaodong, the entire Daqian would have lost more than 50 million shi of food in the past two years, which is almost 5 million rations per year. Without this food, Daqian would never have been able to survive this drought so easily.
It is precisely because of the bumper harvest developed in Liaodong that this year's autumn harvest in Hebei has retained the rations of all tribes for one year, but also left a surplus of 60 million shi of grain. This surplus of grain for the entire Daqian is enough to meet the minimum consumption of the entire tribe for half a year. , this is the best news for Xu Wei, the food reserves have finally begun to grow slowly!
In the south of the Yellow River, the autumn harvest was not satisfactory. Cao Cao learned from Da Qian's policies, dug canals, fertilized the land with guano, and found ways to build fishing boats to catch marine fish. He barely managed to save 70% of the food, but because he had to eat one and a half The state supports an army of hundreds of thousands, and although it retains 70% of its food rations, it can only ensure that he does not have to pay his own expenses to feed the soldiers in his hands.
If it weren't for the comparison with the land of Hebei, Cao Cao would definitely laugh. In such a calamity year, he, Cao Cao, only relied on the territory of one and a half states to support hundreds of thousands of troops. How many people in the entire Han Dynasty were like him? ability.
Yuan Shao in the Central Plains was the worst off. He had no coastal land, so he naturally couldn't get struvite to increase food production, and he couldn't afford struvite. In addition, the places where the drought was severe this time were Guanzhong and Yanzhou. It's all his territory. If Yuzhou hadn't suffered a severe drought, Yuan Shao would have had to eat dirt this year. But even if Yuzhou increased the average grain output, Yuan Shao's territory could only barely maintain 50% of the food rations!
Fortunately, Yuan Shao has a strong foundation. He can barely feed the people of the three states and the army of 200,000 with only 50% of the food. Of course, this is thanks to the support of the Xuzhou clan! Otherwise, even if Yuan Shao can save the people of the three states, he will not be able to keep it in his hands. army!
Among the princes of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei had the best luck. Although he suffered losses from floods, the loss of food was not great. Not to mention that Liu Bei captured Yizhou. All the accumulation of Liu Yan over the past few years was in Liu Bei's hands.
Central Shu is a land of abundance. In the few years after Liu Yan arrived, no natural or man-made disasters occurred, and there was no need to pay taxes to the court. Therefore, the official warehouses in central Shu accumulated mountains of food, enough for Liu Bei to feed the Shu army for three years! It can be said that Liu Bei made a lot of money in this battle!
Thousands of ships of grain were transported down the Yangtze River to Jingzhou to provide relief to the people affected by the disaster!
Liu Bei even provided food from Yizhou to support Yuan Shao. Of course, Liu Bei's support was not in vain. He took away more than 200,000 victims from Yuan Shao and gave Yuan Shao 1 million shi of food. All of these victims were arranged by Liu Bei to farm in Changsha County.
Yuan Shao could only watch as the number of people on his territory became less and less. The battle for world hegemony depended on population, and this drought caused nearly 2 million people to disappear from Yuan Shao's territory! Yuan Shao could only watch as people from all walks of life dug them out. His own foundation was powerless, but Liu Bei was doing well. He poached the people and gave them food and grass. Thunder God didn't even give him a straw!
Of course, these are just the conditions of various princes. This situation is already much better than the original history.
When this drought occurred in history, it was also the time when the Han war was the most intense. All the princes were thinking of ways to fight, and no one cared about the lives of the people. The people of the Han Dynasty suffered heavy losses in this drought! There were nearly 10 million people. Died in natural and man-made disasters, the population of the Han Dynasty decreased rapidly due to drought and fratricidal wars. Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou with only 10,000 soldiers. He could hardly maintain his power and wanted to seek refuge with Yuan Shao.
And now there is a formidable enemy called Lei Gong. Although Yuan Shao and his soldiers have many times more soldiers than in history, and the pressure is greater than in history, they still have to find ways to save the people even if they slaughter all the noble families in Xuzhou.
This is not because their moral character is higher than that of the officials under the Ling Emperor, but because Thunder Lord appears in the Han Dynasty. If they don’t find a way to help the people, the people will turn to Thunder Lord or even help Thunder Lord to fight them!
But for the common people, it was an unexpected blessing that the government provided relief to them. In previous years, even if there were no disasters, hundreds of thousands of Han people would starve to death, but this time, in such a drought year, not a few people starved to death.
The government actually sent food to them and tried to find a way to help them survive, which made the people of the Han Dynasty overjoyed.
In recent years, the officials of the Han Dynasty have become much more reliable than before. They actually care about the life and death of their common people. They are like the masters of Qingtian!
So although this autumn harvest is unsatisfactory, it does not affect the living people's imagination of next year's harvest. After two years of drought, God must give people a way to survive. There should be a bumper harvest next year! The big man's
The official is no longer greedy. He should be able to have a few more meals next year!