I was a famous teacher in ancient times

Chapter 735 Hunger
The south was at war with the grassland tribes, and Zhang Min's jurisdiction fell into starvation. As time went by, hunger gave birth to evil thoughts.

In Bozhou, General Liu successfully took over the mine and rescued nearly [-] laborers. When General Liu took over the mine, the mine had been out of food for two days. If it was a few days later, there would be countless bones in the mine.

General Liu brought food, and it can be said that he took the mine without wasting much effort, because the guard barracks also ran out of food, and the enemy soldiers surrendered and became prisoners.

The laborers in the mines are considered lucky, they can go home and reunite with their families, while in other prefectural cities under Zhang Min's jurisdiction, many robberies occurred because of hunger.

Many people fled to the mountains. When the people entered the mountains, they found that there were many people hiding in the mountains. They had fled to the mountains one after another in the past few years.

The Northern Expeditionary Army secretly delivered food to the people. As a large number of people entered the mountain, the news spread again. Finally, in order to save the people, they left the mountain forest where they were hiding and went to Bozhou.

Ziheng is very busy recently. Every time he patrols the forest with soldiers, he will bring back some civilians who fled to Bozhou.

The number of times has increased, and Ziheng will bring more soldiers and rations every time he patrols. Today is the group of people that Ziheng encountered the most, with a team of nearly 200 people. The most interesting thing is that there are still a few enemy soldiers.

Ziheng was very vigilant when he saw the enemy soldiers, and looked at the fleeing civilians. After confirming that there was no threat, he looked at the enemy soldiers again.

A few enemy soldiers were aimed at by arrows, they quickly dropped the knives in their hands, and then squatted down with their heads in their hands.

The old man who was the leader among the people said: "These children are conscripted soldiers from our village. We heard that coming to Bozhou can save their lives. These children defected to send us off."

Ziheng would not take it lightly, and signaled the guards to guard the enemy soldiers, and his eyes looked at the fleeing people again.

Because of the large number of people, it was safer for the fleeing people to travel through the mountains and forests, and they were escorted by swords.

Especially there was a little doll of a few years old in the team. The little doll was so frightened that he was sobbing secretly.

Ziheng took the refugees down the mountain, and there was a vacant village at the foot of the mountain, and then he boiled the military rations he carried into hot soup and distributed them to the refugees.

The nutritious and tasty thick soup, the fleeing people haven't tasted it for a long time, especially the thick soup is salty enough.

The refugees drank voraciously, their bodies needed salt and their weak internal organs needed nutrients.

Ziheng has already held the youngest child in his arms. The child has little flesh, and his eyes are very big because of his thinness. It can be said that it is a miracle that this child is alive.

The child was only four years old, the little girl had stopped crying, and her stomach was bulging from the soup, Ziheng took out fruit jelly and just put it into the child's mouth.

The little girl's eyes widened when she tasted the sweetness.

Ziheng stroked the little girl's dry hair, "This is sugar."

The little girl's father had panic in his eyes, "General, General, the villain's family is humble, and sugar is too expensive."

Not to mention sugar, they all forgot the taste of salt, and at this time they can still take out sugar. The south is indeed rich, and the people feel at ease, and they can survive.

Seeing that the little girl wanted to pick out the candy, Ziheng said, "You are common people and you are not humble. The future will be better. Not only can you eat candy, but you can also eat enough and never be hungry again."

Some of the people secretly wiped their tears. They all dreamed of such a day.

The old man shook his hands, "My lord, will what you said come true?"

Ziheng said solemnly, "When Emperor Yang rules the country, everything I say will come true."

The soldiers of the Northern Expedition were all loyal to Emperor Yang, and the soldiers talked about the changes in the south.

The soldiers that Ziheng led were of special type, they were the first soldiers to follow Yang Xixuan, many of them were from Ruizhou, and they were very proud of their hometown.

The military households in Ruizhou were also the first to be reformed. It can be said that Ruizhou is really a blessing.

Then Ziheng settled the people down first. He left some food for the soldiers to cook soup, and sent soldiers to guard them. Afterwards, someone would bring the food and register the household registration and other information of the fleeing people.

Ziheng just went back, but he didn't leave the little girl behind. He took the little girl away, not because he liked the little girl so much, but because he took the little girl back to show the doctor.

At the same time, the soldiers who surrendered were brought back, and a lot of news was obtained from the mouths of these soldiers.

The Northern Expeditionary Army calmed down after taking the mine. With the outbreak of hunger, not only the people fled to Bozhou, but also many enemy soldiers took advantage of the chaos to flee, all in order to survive.

Bozhou ushered in a large number of deserters, and Bozhou, which had a small population, became lively.

Ming Jiao sighed, "Fortunately, the fourth batch of grain was delivered, otherwise, our grain would be in short supply."

General Liu took a sip of wine to warm himself up, "It should be said that fortunately we won Binzhou, so we have enough safe and secret roads to transport grain."

Now it is impossible to transport grain through Jizhou, and a large number of grassland soldiers and horses are guarding it.

Han Chenhui glanced at the wine on the table. There were a lot of snacks such as dried fish and shrimp. He felt the joy of having enough food and grass. Since he started to stir up wind and rain, he has never been rich. , now he doesn't have to worry about anything, so what if it's snowing heavily, he can still eat snacks and drink wine, happy!
At this time in Jiaozhou, Yang Xixuan was discussing with the minister about the lack of food in the north, whether to continue to send food to the people in Zhang Min's jurisdiction to save lives.

But the food gap is not small, Yang Xixuan needs to meet the military food reserves for next year, and also set aside food to appease the people in the north next year.

Yang Xixuan listened to the discussions of the ministers. The south has indeed had a bumper harvest, and there are still many places where grain is available. Ezhou and Huizhou are tax-free. Most of the people stored their food.

This means that the imperial court has lost the grain of several states. If Yang Xixuan hadn't controlled many states and cities, he would not be able to produce a large amount of grain.

For the sake of the Northern Expedition and to express themselves, the ministers of the court sold a lot of grain to the court at the beginning of autumn. Many ministers could no longer produce more grain, so many ministers objected to continuing to send grain.

Yang Xixuan actually had an idea in his mind, and he waited for all the ministers to stop arguing before saying, "Guanyi's country grows a lot of rice, and I decided to credit him for grain."

Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Qian Zhen, cheered up. The emperor said credit, as long as he didn't pay the money immediately, he agreed with both hands, "The emperor is wise."

Other ministers, "."

The imperial court is not short of money. Although many ports in the south are still under construction, there are really a lot of sea trade taxes.

All the ministers looked at the emperor, is this a white wolf with empty gloves?Or are you used to bullying Guan Yi?
Yang Xixuan said that the food on credit was very fast. He wrote a letter to Guan Yi himself. He had already figured out the situation in Guan Yi. Do less food trading.

(End of this chapter)