Three Kingdoms Swept the World II

Chapter 826 Prelude to Famine
With the passing of the autumn tiger, the weather in the north has gradually turned cold.

Looking down from the blue sky, the huge city of Yedu is not inhabited.

In the past, the number one city in China, where the daily flow of people could exceed one million, was actually not populated!

Although Qin Feng has completely controlled the plague here, the isolation system has been gradually lifted, and people without symptoms can already go out.However, in a society that has undergone more than two months of complete isolation, its life and production are completely at the lowest point in history.There were almost no people on the street. If it weren't for the soldiers on the city defense line and the countless shop shells in the city, it would be like a dead city in ruins.

This comes from, on the one hand, the common people are still worried about the plague, and on the other hand, the shortage of living materials is extreme.If there is no one to sell, there will be no one to buy, and jobs everywhere will therefore be empty.

The once prosperous Yedu, Yedu, the world's largest capital city, has become like this, and other places can be imagined.

In the villages on the outskirts, it was a different scene.The villagers are overwhelmingly infested in the fields with high weeds. They tried their best to weed and pests to save the crops, but with little success.This comes from the weeds competing for the growing space of the crops. Most of the crops did not grow at all, and were infested by insects. Large-scale production reduction is a certainty.

This is a mess.

Farmers have experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they have experienced many famines, they have experience.They are the first to know that there will be no food and famine.

Immediately afterwards, because there was no supply of food and goods in the city for a long time, the people in the city could not buy food, and it was obvious that something serious was about to happen.

"The prime minister said that he would raise the interest rate and return the food, so why not pay it back?" The common people were all dissatisfied and questioned, and they couldn't blame them for worrying about starvation.

Li Zheng and the pavilion chiefs said one after another: "Everyone persist, the food will be available soon."

In fact, if it weren't for the people's families running out of food, the people wouldn't be so anxious to ask Qin Feng for food.But now every family is about to run out of food, young people can still stand up, old people and children can't stand it, and the common people can't help it, so they all go to the government to find an explanation.

The "lizheng" and "pavilion chief" in various places played a huge role at the grassroots level, and Qin Feng's prestige also played a huge role, allowing him to delay some outbreaks.

On September [-]th, Qin Feng convened a meeting of members of the Military Aircraft Department in his official office.

Everyone, including Qin Feng, was worried.

Xun Yu, the Chief Military Adviser for Internal Affairs, had his eyes sunken. He was skinny and bony, with dark circles under his eyes, and said, "My lord, the whole territory is about to enter the stage of full-scale autumn harvest. I'm afraid we can't hide it. Farmers everywhere have been able to predict the famine happened."

He said again: "The villages are better. At least some grain can be harvested in the fields, and they can hold on for a while. But the people in the city have money and can't buy grain, and the food price has not even skyrocketed. This is From, no one sells food at all.”

"The people in the city are about to run out of food."

Food is about to run out, food is about to run out... These four words, like thunder, kept exploding in the minds of Qin Feng and the military advisers.

Qin Feng had to do something, but without food, what could he do?

Without food, people will be chaotic.

Jia Xu came out of the class and said: "My lord, please control the place with the military, and the people everywhere must stay where they are. Now, the epidemic has broken out in various places, and the troops mobilized by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao against us have retreated. As long as half a year passes safely, A bumper summer grain harvest next year will resolve the crisis."

The most fundamental purpose of Jia Xu's idea of ​​arms control is to prevent riots and riots among the people.Another important purpose is to avoid refugees.The concept of refugees, as the name suggests, hungry people will always leave their homeland, because they know that there is no food in their homeland, and they just want to try their luck in other places.

But there is no food in other places. Instead, Hakkas will have conflicts with locals, further causing chaos.

In addition, when the people left their homeland, there would be no one to cultivate the land, and there would be no food for the next season.The refugees have only destructive power and no productivity. This is the most terrifying place.

Jia Xu's suggestion is to hope that the people can stick to their land and wait for the next season's grain output.But people's thoughts are terrible, and refugees will appear. In order to avoid them, they can only be controlled by force.

In fact, Qin Feng knew what Jia Xu said was right, and he could also understand that Jia Xu's bad plan was not aimed at the common people.It's because the situation is the same everywhere, and you can't find food in other places. On the contrary, because of the meeting of people from different lands, there will be certain conflicts.

As for crossing the river to find food, if crossing the river really saved their lives, Qin Feng would never stop the hungry people from crossing the river, even if they would lose a large number of people.But the reality is that all of Jiangnan has become an epidemic area, and the plague is raging.

The fundamental problem was the food. With food, there would be no problems. Qin Feng couldn't find a solution to the food, and his headache was splitting.He subconsciously and instinctively avoided this topic temporarily, and asked, "How is the border blockade going?"

Xu Shu, chief of military affairs, came out in a hurry and said, "My lord, everything is very safe. Generals Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, etc. are personally on the defense line of the Yellow River. The sailors of the two generals Tai Shici and Gan Ning are cruising day and night. The plague will never come. will reappear in our place."

Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, the plague was no less terrifying than the famine.

"My lord..." Tian Feng wanted to speak at this moment.Just now, the seven military advisers from the Military Aircraft Department exchanged eye contact. They agreed with Jia Xu's proposal and hoped that Qin Feng could implement arms control as soon as possible.However, they also know that this is tantamount to repression, and it is difficult for their lord to pass.

Therefore, they hesitated again, but the upright Tian Feng spoke.Tian Feng is from the north, the north is his hometown, and the people are his fellow villagers.Back then, he joined Qin Feng's command for the sake of the people in the North.He knows that although this proposal will have a cruel process, it is actually for the good of the people.

The people became refugees, the fields became barren, and there would be no food for the next season.The famine will grow and develop and have a persistent effect until it kills the vast majority of people, and there will be no chicken crowing for thousands of miles.

Tian Feng wants to speak.

At this time, Longwei General Dian Wei walked in quickly, and said in a loud voice, "My lord, there is news from the border that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's envoys wish to enter the country to meet the lord."

Before the words were finished, Zhang Ping, the foreman of Longwei, walked in and said, "My lord, there is an urgent report at the border. Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Yuan Shu and other princes' envoys are waiting at the border, requesting that they can enter to see the lord."

Qin Feng frowned and said, "What are they doing here to see me?"

Dian Wei said: "They said they came to study water refining technology."

Qin Feng's face darkened, and he said angrily: "These despicable fellows, who have harmed the country and the people, let them learn the truth, but they didn't come to learn, they just drove up the price of medicine. Now they blacked out the food of the Lord, and they still have the face to come to me !"

The military advisers looked at each other, thinking that these princes wanted some face back then, they made it clear that they had harmed the lord, so there is still face to learn from.Now, it seems shameless.

Pang Tong muttered: "I heard that they organized people to study, but they didn't understand it. They must have thought that everything would be fine if they had the production method. They also want to learn by themselves, and it takes a certain level and time. They deserve it."

The military divisions also relieved their anger, and now the princes have swallowed the bitter fruit.

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