After starting the operation, Zhao Yun took Zitong as a starting point and took hundreds of thousands of people from Bashu to the homes of these powerful nobles one by one to ask for food. Faced with so many people, the regular army of the imperial court came to grab food. These powerful nobles were in Wubao was shivering and could only mutter to himself: "How could it be like this!"
Although this scene was often dreamed about by the powerful nobles here after Daqian attacked Hanzhong, they never dreamed that it would be the soldiers and horses of the imperial court who would do this!
"If you don't open the city gate, I will attack the city." Faced with Zhao Yun's threat, the wealthy nobles had no choice but to open the door and let all the food go to Zhao Yun's men, whether they refused or agreed. Move away!
Zhao Yun acted very quickly. In Guanghan County alone, he obtained tens of millions of dan of grain. Then he led the people to transport the grain to Hanzhong one by one to solve Liu Bei's food crisis.
And because transporting grain and grass this time is no longer considered a corvee, and every citizen can get grain, the enthusiasm and efficiency of transportation are also extremely high, and even influenced the rebels in Guanghan.
They saw the people coming down the mountain to help Liu Bei transport food so that they could get food and grass for the winter. Although many people felt sorry for Guan Hai, they still secretly went down the mountain to make a living and joined the team transporting food and grass. Zhao Yun also came No one is refused, no matter they are old, weak, women or children, they can get enough food to survive by relying on their labor according to their level of labor force.
Therefore, under Zhao Yun's method, although no military force was deployed, the power of using food to lure was still huge. The number of people in Guan Hai's hands quickly dropped from more than 100,000 to less than 50,000, and the number continued to decline. , Guan Hai was helpless about such a thing.
But Zhao Yun's actions caused huge shock and even panic in the entire Bashu land. The powerful nobles felt that they had been deceived and betrayed by Liu Bei. Zhao Yun's method completely copied the practice of the Great Qianjun in the Central Plains. They They supported Liu Bei in fighting Da Qian's army to protect their own family, but now it's better that Liu Bei robs them of all their food. If they had known that Liu Bei would do this, they might as well have surrendered to Lei Gong earlier, and maybe they could have left some property. .
The noble families in Guanghan County fled to Chengdu one by one, crying to the court. They asked Yuan Ji angrily: "Are you involved in all this?"
Yuan Ji is the leader of the world's clans, and can even be said to be the hope of the world's clans and nobles. As Liu Bei's second-in-command, he uses this method to obtain food and grass. It can be said that the clans in Shu feel that Yuan Ji has betrayed them. , all the anger was vented on him!
Yuan Ji was also shocked by Zhao Yun's gameplay. He had no idea what was going on and whether Liu Bei knew about it. But he knew that if Zhao Yun's actions were not stopped, the entire Bashu land would become turbulent.
So he went to Guanghan County to find Zhao Yun, stopped his behavior and said: "Zilong, do you know what you are doing? You are trying to make the Han Dynasty subjugate. The Han Dynasty has been able to resist the Great Qianjun in recent years because of its powerful family members. Help from the nobles. What you do is simply causing pain to your loved ones and happiness to your enemies."
Zhao Yun took out Liu Bei's letter and said to Yuan Ji: "Of course I know what I am doing. I reported this matter to the general, and the general agreed. The long history also knows that there is a shortage of food on the front line, and the land of Bashu
You have already collected all the food from the people. The common people no longer have food. Now only the nobles and nobles have food. If you don't think of a way to get their food, can the battle on the front line be continued?
Chang Shi also knows the importance of Hanzhong to Bashu. If Hanzhong is lost, can the land of Bashu be preserved?"
Zhao Yun was also dissatisfied with Yuan Ji, although he knew that it was very difficult for Yuan Ji to collect grain from the Bashu land in the past two years. It can be seen just by looking at him that he has aged more than ten years in the past two years.
But his birth still made it difficult for him to requisition food in Shu fairly. He had already exhausted all the food of the people of Bashu, but the food of the nobles and nobles had not been moved much, and it could even be said that they did not even have to do corvee work.
How many people from the noble families are arranged? You must know that the powerful noble families in Shu are extremely powerful. They control a population of more than one million. As long as these noble families use half of their grain and population to transport grain and grass, the people in Shu will not do the same.
It was so hard that it was even to the point where I couldn’t survive.
It can be said that he did not treat the people and noble families of Bashu fairly and fairly, which is why he ended up in this situation. If he had borrowed food from the noble families earlier, the land of Bashu would not be in turmoil and be destroyed.
Da Qianjun caught the flaw.
But Yuan Ji didn't necessarily think he had done anything wrong. The nobles in Bashu also paid land taxes in accordance with the law and donated a batch of grain to help the court stabilize the situation in Bashu. Lei Gong relied on the people, and the court could only rely on the nobles. It can be said that now
It was difficult for the court to leave the support of the noble families, so he persuaded him earnestly: "But you cannot use this method to obtain food. You should stop your current behavior first, and I will find a way to help the army solve the food problem."
Zhao Yun sneered and said: "Now I have solved this problem. The entire Guanghan County has 10 million hours of food. The only trouble now is to transport this food to Hanzhong. Now the people of Hanguang County are willing to help me transport food to Hanzhong."
, just give them 3 shi of food a month to support their families, and this food can go to Hanzhong in two months at most, solving the army's food problem for half a year!"
But Yun wanted to ask Chang Shi, where is there any place to grow food in Yizhou now? It seems that all the land along Yun's road is barren, and the people are starving to death. The only way to solve this problem now is to find
Food. If Chang Shi doesn’t let Yun Lai find a way to get food, does Chang Shi have a way to get food himself? If he can really protect the people of Bashu, Yun is willing to let Chang Shi do these things!"
Yuan Ji's face turned extremely ugly when Zhao Yun asked him this question. He knew that only the powerful nobles in Sichuan had food in their hands, but he obviously couldn't get food from them.
So Zhao Yun said to Yuan Ji: "The general also knows Chang Shi's dilemma and asked Chang Shi to go to the front line. It happens that the front line also needs Chang Shi's help. Let Yun Lai guard the land of Bashu."
Yuan Ji said helplessly: "Zilong, you really don't worry about the powerful nobles in the Bashu land. They just broke the pot and went directly to Lei Gong. If Yizhou is lost by then, the entire Han Dynasty will be destroyed!"