Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 30 The man has gold under his knees

In the blink of an eye, it was the sixth year of King Youmiao of Zhao and 230 BC. Although Ziying was only 11 years old this year, he already looked like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Although he was not as good-looking as Pan An, But it can also be said to be a beautiful boy in Yushu Linfeng.

In this year, if Ziying remembered correctly, there were two major events. One was that Qin State finally exhausted Zhao State's military potential, and blatantly destroyed South Korea, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

The second is that Zhao Guo experienced an extremely serious drought this year, which led to unprecedented disasters. In the face of the disaster, all the relief methods of the Zhao Guo Central Court have failed, and food and grass storage has even failed. Even the supply of the army is stretched, let alone the relief of the victims.

This drought directly exhausted Zhao Guo's last vitality.

From the winter of last year to this spring, there was almost no rain, and the three cities controlled by Ziying were better, because Ziying once again mobilized all the troops and mobilized civilians to carry water from nearby rivers to fight drought and disaster relief. Affected but not to the point of failure, but most of the crops in the rest of the city have basically died of drought.

It seems inevitable that the whole territory of Zhao State will be invaded. Although since last year, under the order of Ziying, the food in the trade has basically been in a situation of only being able to enter and not being able to enter. The grain and grass reserves of the three cities have reached nearly one million hu However, Ziying still ordered the caravans to trade in Qi, Yan, Wei and other unaffected countries to buy and store a large amount of grain at any cost.

Sima Shang and others also gradually noticed the abnormality this year, and changed from ignorance to vigorously supporting Ziying's behavior.

As for why Ziying anticipated this year's drought in advance and made early preparations, Ziying used it as an excuse to deal with it in a dream.

This made Sima Shang believe that Ziying was definitely the one chosen by the previous generation of giants.

In September of this year, Shi Teng led an army in Qin Dynasty to break through South Korea and captured Han Wang'an.It opened the prelude to conquering the six countries.

During this year, Zhao Guo experienced a rare summer and autumn drought. The crops in many places failed for a whole year, and the famine that swept across the country suddenly broke out.

Faced with the famine, the county governments of Zhao State were helpless, because all the grain in stock in the county government had been requisitioned by Handan for military supplies, and the grain depots in various places were empty, and there was no grain to feed the victims.

The whole country of Zhao was suddenly plunged into darkness. The crops were barren and there was no output at all. When the common people ran out of food, they could only eat some wild vegetables. After eating the wild vegetables, they could only eat some leaves, bark, and grass roots. To the mouth to satisfy hunger.

There are large honeycomb-like holes dug by the hungry people everywhere on the ridges and hillsides. Many hungry people eat poisonous weeds and wild vegetables by mistake, have diarrhea and even have bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they still keep eating.

After eating the bark and leaves, the hungry people even used the Guanyin soil as food. Many hungry people swelled to death because they couldn't poop after eating the Guanyin soil, but this still couldn't stop the hungry people from eating the Guanyin soil one after another.If you eat it, you can last for a few more days. If you don’t eat it, you may starve to death today. Even the Avalokitesvara soil, which will only relieve death for a few days, has become a looted item by the hungry people.

Many parents feed the last morsel of food saved to their children, but they starve to death on the spot.What's more, there are even tragedies of cannibalism in many places.

At that time, there was even a song among the hungry people in Zhao State: "The people of Zhao cried, and the people of Qin laughed. If you don't believe it, please see if the seedlings grow in the fields."

In the face of all this, the county magistrates, nobles, and lords of all the cities in Zhao State adopted a strategy of closing the cities tightly to prevent the hungry people from entering, and ignoring the human tragedy outside the cities.

At this time, the three cities to which Ziying belonged were able to resist the drought. Although the harvest of the common people had decreased, but thanks to the extremely low tax rate, the life of the common people was basically not affected, and every household even had a surplus of food.

The area of ​​farmland reclaimed by the army is increasing day by day.In addition to providing for their own needs, they also paid a lot of food and fodder.

Therefore, there is no famine in the territory under Ziying's jurisdiction, and the army rations provided by the garrison are also abundant. Ziying's act of garrisoning food in the previous year was to deal with the current situation.

As an ancient person with the soul of a modern person, if he knew the disaster situation in advance, if he did nothing and watched the hungry people starve to death, then he himself would not forgive himself. To save a hungry person is to save a life.

Hearing the tragedy of the disaster, Ziying immediately set up temporary shelters in the three cities to receive the victims from all over the country and provide them with food and clothing. The hungry people in the surrounding area heard that there was porridge in Raoyang, Wuyuan and Liyang, and they brought their families to eat.

At the same time, he immediately ordered Sima Shang to dispatch soldiers from the army to form forty rescue teams, carrying a large amount of food and preparing to go to the most severely affected areas to rescue the victims.

The day before the rescue team set off, it rained lightly, but this was of no help to the already barren fields. Even if the weather was good, it would take next year for the common people to grow the next season's grain.

Each rescue team consists of fifty soldiers, and the escorts are full of life-saving food. If there are fewer soldiers escorted, they may go out of Raoyang, and before they reach the most severely affected city, they will be looted by hungry people. Light, now the only thing that matters is saving lives first.

A total of [-] soldiers stood under the high platform and were ready to set off. Ziying walked up to the temporary high platform silently after Sima Shang.

Looking at the soldiers who were ready to go, Ziying said with a strong expression: "Soldiers, I am Zhao Ziying, Lord Raoyang. Everyone knows that since the beginning of summer, Zhao's grain harvest has failed, and the entire country has encountered unprecedented disasters. According to the information I got, not only did the starving people in many cities have no food to eat, they even ate up the grass roots and bark. In some particularly serious places, there were even tragedies of cannibalism.

Although my Ziying doesn’t have much ability, I can’t just sit idly by. Every hungry person is just like you and me. They have parents, children, brothers, and sisters, and they are living people just like us!Just imagine if our relatives are suffering these pains, who can bear it, and now they are even starving to death under this bright and bright world. "Ziying said as he remembered the tragic situation of the hungry people in the intelligence, and couldn't help but shed some tears.

In the feudal society, half of the disaster relief materials can be actually distributed to the victims. Although Ziying used the army to distribute the food this time, it is difficult to guarantee that the soldiers will not be greedy for food, or they will not be greedy for food. They are bought at extremely high prices for the rich and hungry.

Thinking of this, Ziying went on to say: "I have called you here today because I want to ask you for one thing. I beg you to really send food to the hungry people and save those who are about to starve to death. please everyone"

Said that Ziying couldn't control his emotions here, tears poured out like rain, then bent his knees and knelt down to the two thousand soldiers below, bowing with both hands.

"I beg everyone, we must deliver the food to the victims!"

After Ziying finished speaking, he stood up, wiped away the tears with both hands, took a long breath, pulled out the Longyuan sword that Gai Nie sent and his eyes glared at the front, as if suddenly changed, and said sharply: "If I know that someone is greedy for food for disaster relief, I, Zhao Ziying, swear, even if you run to the end of the world, I will find you out and tear you to pieces!"

(End of this chapter)