Lu Dynasty

Chapter 575 Food Crisis
Liu Biao died, but Liu Bei could only hide in Xinye.The contradictory Sima Hui wanted Zhuge Liang to come out to help Liu Bei, because Sima Hui could see that now is a good time to help Liu Bei occupy a place in the world, but Huang Chengyan and Pang Degong were at odds because of Huang Yueying and Pang Tong running away from home. While Sima Hui was worried about his old friend, he was more helpless in his heart!Fortunately, Cai Mao is relatively useless, and coupled with the neutral attitude of the Kuai family, although Cai Mao controls most of the troops and political power in Jingzhou, he cannot monopolize Jingzhou.At the very least, neither Cao nor I have received an application from Cai Mao for the post of Jingzhou Shepherd, even if it is an application for Liu Cong to take over!As for Cai Mao who wanted to harm Liu Bei, he would have no chance, not to mention that Liu Bei was hiding in Xinye, protected by Wei Yan and Shamoke, and Cai Mao would not dare to touch Liu Bei if he was talking about the relationship between Liu Bei and Jingzhou officials!
Cao was in a stalemate with me at Hulao Pass, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Lu Bu, and Huang Zhong suppressed him to the point of being powerless.But Xuchang is too close to Luoyang. The treacherous and cunning Cao will neither retreat nor attack the city.How could I let Cao easily succeed?It may be difficult for Jushou to defeat Cao, but if he wants to defend Cao, he doesn't have to work too hard. The only thing that gives me a headache is Lu Bu. This kid is always disobedient. If he has half the wisdom of Zhao Yun or half of Zhang Fei If you obey me, I should burn incense to fulfill my vow!
Yuan Shao is the most depressed person among the princes in the world. It's not that he doesn't understand anything. He also knows that if he wants to get food, he must cultivate it on time.But now the foreigners have retreated, and in the war between him and me, he only has the advantage in strength.If Yuan Shao sent his troops back to farm, he doubted whether he could gather millions of troops in the future.One must know that because of the relationship with foreign races, the people of Youji and Youji prefectures complained a lot about Yuan Shao.But if he doesn't let the troops go back to farm, the turn of summer and autumn this year will be his death date!As the saying goes: The emperor does not send hungry soldiers!Yuan Shao is just the local emperor of Jizhou. In this era of eating food and serving as soldiers, if there is no food, there will be no troops to help him fight!In the end, Guo Tu, who was in charge of government affairs in Yecheng, gave Yuan Shao an idea: remove all the old, weak, sick and disabled from the army and let them grow food.If you are worried that these people will not go back, find a piece of land near Bingzhou to cultivate, anyway, Bingzhou also has a large piece of land free!
Guo Tu's strategy is actually Cao and I's farming strategy, but it is not perfect.Yuan Shao thought about it carefully and found it very reasonable.So Yuan Shao picked out those who were older than 50 years old from his army, but unfortunately the number was too small, even if these people worked hard, they would not be able to support Yuan Shao's troops.Reluctantly, Yuan Shao listened to the judge's opinion, and reluctantly released all the people in the army who were over 40 years old and under 20 years old. Only then did he get enough 40 field soldiers to support each other. Yuan Shao felt that this was reasonable. of.However, Yuan Shao's troops were reduced by half at once. He was afraid that he would not be my opponent, so he became a little timid.It's a pity that Yuan Shao didn't know, just because he weeded out the old and the weak, the combat effectiveness of his troops has risen!Since he didn't know, I had no reason to remind him. In the end, Yuan Shao only dared to confront Zhao Yun in Jinyang.Zhao Yun had no intention of defeating Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shaojun's inaction was exactly what Zhao Yun liked.In fact, regardless of modern or ancient wars, the fight is all about technology, weapons, money, food and population. Our army is richer in these resources than Yuan Shao's army, so a protracted war will always be beneficial to our army.

Time passed slowly, and when spring came, the people of Sili began to work hard.Although sweet potatoes are produced in large quantities and the taste is not bad, as Chinese people, everyone still likes to eat some rice noodles.People are like this. When they are not full, they want to be full. When they are full, they want to eat well. After eating well, they want delicacies from mountains and seas. It is difficult to satisfy endless desires.In addition, the large output of sweet potatoes has also led to an increase in the price of rice noodles. The mentality of wanting to eat rice noodles and make money has led many people to replant rice and wheat.Some families even gave up the cultivation of sweet potatoes for the high quality of rice noodles!But if everyone didn't grow sweet potatoes, Sili's food would not be able to feed so many people.Jia Xu, who handles intelligence in Luoyang, saw this problem and reported it to me immediately, but I can't force the common people to grow sweet potatoes.

Looking at the information Jia Xu sent, I couldn't help but feel a little headache.Not to mention troubled times, even in peaceful times, food is a big deal.In the face of the possible food shortage, I was helpless.

I looked at the information and shook my head, you know, I am not a god, I can't make people do what they don't want to do without forcing them!It is indeed a challenge to sell combs to monks, but if you don’t even have a temple for pilgrims, you will be able to cook without rice if you are eloquent!Facing Yuan Shao, who has a large number of people, Cao, who is full of tricks, and Zhuge Liang, a wise sage who is about to come out of the mountain, I am already full of pressure. If Sili is short of food at this time, all my advantages will be lost. The huge population and constant acceptance The vagrants may become my heavy burden, and I may even lose popular support because of this incident and lead to the demise of my power!Originally, I thought I had brought together so many top strategists from the Three Kingdoms, they should have a solution to such a difficult problem!But even Guo Jia has no way to let the people choose to grow sweet potatoes without forcing them.Could it be that I can only order that the people in my territory prohibit the cultivation of rice and wheat?Obviously, this is impossible!After thinking for a long time, I found that the only way to increase the purchase price of sweet potatoes is to drive the production of sweet potatoes with profits.However, apart from the military rations, the imperial court purchased grain for storage. Sweet potatoes were not as easy to store for a long time as rice, flour and rice. If the purchase price of sweet potatoes was increased, it might bring a serious burden to the imperial court.I scratched my head, I really didn't know how to solve this problem, so I left the meeting room in a state of distraught, wanting to take a walk in the pass and take a breath of fresh air, maybe it could help me think of a solution to the problem!

Before I knew it, I walked out of Hulao Pass.Of course, I was going in the direction of Luoyang.I originally wanted to relax, but looking at the people farming outside the pass, I felt even more depressed!Because I can see that all they grow are wheat and rice.In the tens of acres of land, I didn't see a single mu of sweet potatoes. I'm really worried that after the autumn harvest this year, our army will eat human dried meat like Cao Jun!
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