The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 184 Little Glacier Premonition

After years of internal power struggles and the war that almost wiped out the country in the first year of Yanxing, especially after Guan Yi took control of the civil affairs of the Shu Han, the people's livelihood was rapidly improved.The whole country of Shu Han finally gradually unified their understanding.

Anti-war faction: After this battle, Cao Wei has no strength to save us in a short time.Moreover, at this time, Cao Wei was already unable to protect himself.Therefore, we still hope that the future Northern Expedition of the Great Han will be successful.Once Yongliang is taken down, no matter it is the Yuancong faction or the Jingzhou faction, hurry up and go to Yongzhou to harm the people of Guanzhong.In this way, we are also liberated in disguise...

Northern Expedition: Da Sima's strategy is correct.Rest and recuperate first, and accumulate enough strength.The next Northern Expedition will be a thunderbolt!This is much better than the continuous small-scale Northern Expedition in the past, which cost a lot of money and food but didn't get any benefits!
In short, the opinions of the Shu Han were unified: put away your fists, save enough and fight out with all your strength!
And what about Cao Wei whose life is counting down?There are really a lot of troubles at this time.

In May of the first year of Xianxi (264), General Zhenxi and Governor of Yongzhou, Hu Fen, sent an urgent report from Jincheng County, Liangzhou.It is said that the four counties of Longxi, Tianshui, Nan'an, and Guangwei in Yongzhou and the three counties of Jincheng, Xiping, and Wuwei in Liangzhou were hit by drought.Among the cultivated land in the seven counties, except for a small part of the wheat fields adjacent to the Yellow River, which were artificially irrigated and somewhat harvested, the rest of the wheat fields were all completely unharvested.Instead of being unable to pay taxes, the local Han people needed state relief.At the same time, all the fields of the Qiang and Di people around the seven counties were completely destroyed. In order to prevent these aliens from rebelling because they had no food to eat, the imperial court still needed to allocate more food to appease these aliens...

"Hey, I remember, this is the fifth year of drought in the Longxi area in the last ten years, right?"

After receiving Hu Fen's report, Sima Zhao also felt a splitting headache.In recent years, droughts in western Yongzhou and eastern Liangzhou have become more frequent.As an excellent politician, Sima Zhao is very clear about what long-term and frequent droughts mean. As for Zhangye and Dunhuang in the west of Liangzhou, these counties hardly rain all year round, so there is no problem of drought at all.

"King Jin, it's not just that. In recent years, the farther the Longxi area goes to the northwest, the less rainfall. Many grasslands have disappeared. As a result, the Qiang people in the northwest continued to migrate to the southeast. Now the number of Han people in Liangzhou's register is It is roughly estimated that it is less than [-]% of the total local population. The number of Han people in the west of Yongzhou has dropped to [-]%!"

"What?! Ji Yan, did you make a mistake? There are more Qiang people in Liangzhou, right? Why are there more than [-]% Han people in Liangzhou, but only [-]% in Longxi?"

"King Jin, on the one hand, the power of the aristocratic family in Liangzhou is relatively small, and the land there is barren, and one person's output is limited. Therefore, the aristocratic family there is not particularly active in hiding the population. In addition, the Qiang people there migrated gradually and slowly. There is a long process. On the Yongzhou side, the Guanzhong Plain is fertile, and the aristocratic families have a desire to hide their population. At the same time, Emperor Wei Wu conquered Zhanglu in the past and moved 20 people from Hanzhong to Guanzhong at one time. Among them There are nearly 60 Di people. After five or sixty years, the number of these Di people has swelled to more than [-]!"

"How can these Di people be so able to give birth?!" Everyone knew that the aristocratic family embezzled the country's population-as the rulers of the Sima family, they really wanted to suppress this kind of thing.But helplessly, the Sima family is not the legitimate ruler of this country now.In order to usurp the throne, he still needs to continue to turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior of the aristocratic family and acquiesce.And the aristocratic families also knew in their hearts: Once the Sima family succeeded in usurping the throne, they would definitely restrict this large-scale embezzlement of the country's population, so this was the last carnival.Therefore, in recent years, Cao Wei's aristocratic families have gone crazy to enclose land everywhere, attracting and even forcing Cao Wei's owner farmers to enter their manors and become serfs.

Therefore, Sima Zhao had no choice but to avoid the important ones and take the high fertility rate of the Di people as an issue.

Before Liu Bei entered Yizhou, the wars in Yizhou were mainly divided into two categories: one was the war where Yizhou natives rebelled against Liu Yan, his father and son and his Dongzhou faction.The second is the love and killing between Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu's mother is Liu Yan's lover.After Liu Yan and Zhang Lu's mother got mixed up, they quickly left out their original partner - Liu Zhang's mother.As a result, Liu Zhang's mother died of depression.Moreover, Liu Yan, an old man in his 70s and [-]s, was entangled by a forty-year-old Xu Niang who was in the age of a tiger and a wolf, and was quickly sucked dry... So Liu Zhang took Zhang Lu's mother when he came to power. And Zhang Lu's brothers and relatives who stayed in Chengdu were all wiped out.Then the bitch brothers fell in love and killed each other for more than ten years.

For more than ten years, some of the Di people in Basil County, Yizhou, who lived at the junction of Liu and Zhang's powers, were fans of Liu Zhang and some of them were fans of Zhang Lu.Later, when Zhang Lu was relocated to Chang'an, more than 1 Di people from Fanzhang followed Zhang Lu into the Guanzhong Plain.Because this nation is very united, if one family can't afford to eat, the others will try their best to help each other.Therefore, the number of them who became serfs in the manors of aristocratic families was much smaller than that of the Han people, which caused the population growth rate of this group to be particularly terrifying.

"Uh, King Jin, the top priority. We still need to import food to Yongliang. At this moment, Liangzhou can't be messed up!"

"Hey, of course I know that Liangzhou is not in chaos right now. But, Ji Yan, how much food is still in the Luoyang treasury?"

"Before I came here, I made a special trip to Duzhi Shangshu. There are still 300 million shi in the treasury."

"Why so little?!" These words are really not hypocritical.The size gap between Cao Wei and Shu Han is too large, and the things to face are much more complicated than that of Shu Han.And compared with the Shu Han whose main essence is concentrated in the land of abundance.On the vast land of Cao Wei, the possibility of various agricultural disasters is much higher than that of Shu Han.

For Guan Yi, if there is so much food stored in the treasury, he can go to sleep with peace of mind.But for Sima Zhao, this amount of food storage has already reached below the warning line.

"Uh... King Jin. Last year, because our army suffered heavy losses in Yang'an Pass, a lot of pensions were issued. At the end of last year, the grain stock in the government treasury fell below 500 million shi. It was not until this year's autumn harvest that it recovered to 1000 million shi. level above."

"But that's too little. I remember that the granaries in the seven places of Luoyang, Chang'an, Xuchang, Xinye, Shouchun, Yecheng, and Xiapi used to store no less than 2000 million shi of grain! Let alone There are a small amount of grain stored in warehouses in various counties and counties."

"Prince Jin, this is another thing that my subordinates want to say: In the entire Guanzhong Plain this year, except for the four counties of Longxi and Tianshui, there is no news of disaster in Youfufeng, Zuofengyi, and Jingzhao counties. But the confiscated The amount of grain put into storage has decreased by [-]% compared to previous years. Not only that, but in recent months, a lot of the grain produced in major grain-producing states such as Jizhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou has flowed to Chang'an!"

"Huh?! What does Zichu want to do? Join the enemy?!" Needless to say, Chang'an definitely doesn't need so much food. The most food-deficient person in the world is of course Guan Yi, Guan Zifeng, who has a food storage habit.

"Hehe, there is no such thing. King Jin, isn't General Zhengxi selling two kinds of spirits recently? Hmm? They're called Shaodaozi and Toupingxiang (very vulgar names)?"

"There is this. Hey, I understand when you say that. It must be that Guan Zifeng and Zichu reached an agreement. Zichu gave him food, and he provided Zichu with this kind of spirit. The wine, I didn't say it, it was That’s great! The widows also like it very much... But now the country is so short of food, how can it do this kind of thing! Guan Zifeng is a profiteer, and I can be sure that only [-]% of the grain he took from Zichu was used to make wine. Everything else is swallowed!"

(Guan Yi: Stupid, you underestimate me as a time traveler. To tell you the truth, only half of the food I got here is used to make wine. I swallowed the rest!)
"Prince Jin, it should be like this. So..."

So what?Did Sima Wang be arrested and killed?Leaving aside the fact that the Sima family has never done anything to their own relatives (historical plane, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, that's enough), even if Sima Wang is removed, who can go to Chang'an?
"Hey~~~" My head started to hurt again, and my chest also started to feel tight.Sima Zhao hurriedly walked a few steps in annoyance: "Ji Yan, among the Di people in the Guanzhong area, is there anyone with more prestige and ability that can be used?"

So there is a reason why Pei Xiu can be reused by Sima Zhao.Before people came to report on their work, they had already done a lot of homework.Be fully prepared for any questions your boss may ask.

Therefore, although Sima Zhao's question had almost nothing to do with the previous conversation, Pei Xiu still answered very quickly: "I reported to the King of Jin that the Di people had a leader named Li Mu (father of Li Te, the founder of the Cheng Han Dynasty)." , brave and good at fighting, and fair in dealing with things. He won the hearts of Di people."

"My Han family has produced some corrupt elements, while the foreign race has produced heroes in large numbers. How can it go on like this! Forget it, order the treasury to send 100 million shi of grain to the Longxi area for relief, and leave this matter to Wei Boyu Go do it. Tell him, if it is done well, he will return to Luoyang as a natural officer and resume his post. If there is a civil uprising, hum! I don’t care if he is a rich and powerful family in the east of the river, and he will be punished for several crimes.

"No! Please rest assured, King Jin, Bo Yu will definitely handle this matter properly!"

"In addition, a special allocation of 100 shi of grain and [-] million coins, Ji Yan, you go there yourself. Go and hand it over to that Li Mu. This king conscripted him as the hunter of the Eastern Qiang!"

"Observe! The Li family will surely convince Da Jin and serve him wholeheartedly!"

　Well, although many book lovers read the pirated post after it was put on the shelves, the reduction in recommendation votes is expected.But recently, there are so few recommendation tickets that I am a little worried. Dear book friends, let's get some recommendation tickets.

　　


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