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There are still ten days before the food is gone, and Fuyue's heart is always as anxious as fire burning meat, but his face can't reveal a bit, and he patrols step by step every day, and only when he sees that the people in the camp are stable, can he feel a little at ease.

After a few days, the news of the rising water level of the Qin River finally reached the important people of the countries along the route, and the king of Yiguo was the first to realize the seriousness of the situation, and he convened the ministers to discuss. Some of the ministers said that there is no need to worry too much, the Qinjiang River rises every year, but there are few embankments, as long as the maintenance of the embankment is strengthened.

Some say that the water is rising fast, probably because the Qi army is leading the water of the Zhouyan Canal into the Qinjiang River upstream, and it should not be taken lightly.

But as soon as this point of view was spoken, some people immediately refuted, if it was done by the Qi army, why didn't they lead the river into the Qinjiang River at one time, so that the downstream river embankment burst, many countries were flooded, and the country was in chaos, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble for them to attack, why let the water level rise slowly, delaying time would not do them any good, could it be that they like to watch the river water rise to relieve boredom?

After listening to the minister's words, he felt that there was some truth, and he had no idea for a while, so he sent a letter to South Korea to discuss countermeasures with Lu State.

When Han and Lu received Yi Guohou's letter, they also felt that the matter could not be taken lightly, because at this time it was the time when the rice was almost ripe, and there was not much grain in the treasury, and most of it was distributed and borrowed by the peasants who were not in stock.

If the Qi State is determined to make a ruthless move to lead down the flood in the upper reaches, once the river embankment bursts, there will be countless casualties, needless to say, the rice fields that are about to be harvested on both sides of the bank will also be destroyed, and there will be no rice to pay taxes at that time, and the national grain depot will be empty, how will the winter be spent, and what will be sown next year?

Once the situation was serious enough to affect the national tax revenue and the treasury was full, the monarchs of all countries could no longer turn a blind eye, on the one hand, they sent a large number of troops to maintain the embankment of the Qin River, and on the other hand, the monarchs of the three kingdoms jointly wrote a letter to the king of Shu, asking him to open a warehouse and sell grain.

The monarchs of various countries did not expect that the water level of the Qinjiang River was slowly rising, although there was no breach, no casualties, but the panic of the Qi army about grain and grass spread to all parts along the Qinjiang River like a plague.

Originally, it was the Qi army that lacked food, but now it has become that all the southern countries need grain and grass reserves.

The Great Qi State has always looked down on the Shu Kingdom, thinking that they are barbarians in the southwest, and they really have no other skills except to sell some grain and Shu brocade. One year, the king of Shu asked to become a vassal state of Daqi, but was rejected by Zhao Yuan, but sent a holy decree to make the king of Shu a vassal state of the neighboring Yiguo, and everything should be asked for instructions from Yiguo, and Yiguo would report to Luoyang.

The arrogance of the past made Daqi taste the consequences today.

When the king of Shu heard that the Daqi military camp was in urgent need of rice, he didn't say a word, and sold it at ten times the price, and the price was unified across the country.

However, with the rise of the water level of Qinshui, several major pillar countries also came to ask the king of Shu to reduce the price of rice, can the king of Shu agree?

"Of course not!" After reading the letters of the three pillar states, the king of Shu said to the ministers: "The price of rice has already been set, if the low price is given to them, then the Great Qi army will come to the door to buy rice, how should our country reply, won't it provoke the jealousy of Emperor Xiaoya?" ”

So he sent a letter back to the monarchs of the three kingdoms, in which he wrote: "It is not that Shu has the intention to raise the price of rice, last year's drought caused Shu to also suffer, and the rice harvest was forty percent less than in previous years." Shu is deeply sympathetic to the difficulties of various countries, but it is difficult to do what you wish. ”

As soon as this letter arrived in the hands of Yiguo, South Korea, and the monarch of Lu Guoguo, it naturally caused a lot of scolding. Yiguo Hou was so angry that he hammered the book case and said: "When Shu suffered a natural disaster, Yiguo sent troops to help, contributed money and efforts, and the king of Shu was also moved to tears, saying that it was unforgettable to benefit the great grace of the country. It's not been a few years, and it's really chilling to do this way. ”

So he repaired the book to the other two countries again, saying that he would close the trade gateway with Shu together, and the raw silk of the three countries would no longer be sold to Shu, and see what embroidery its Shu brocade would take.

When the news reached the King of Shu, he laughed when he heard it: "Let them go, there is no raw silk this year, and there is still last year's, and if you don't embroider, you won't be able to die." It's them, when they don't have rice to put in the pot, they are naturally willing to pay out of their pockets to beg for the rice of my Shu country. ”

There are still five days left before the food is gone.

Unsuspecting Qi army generals and soldiers shuttled back and forth, their faces neat, and occasionally the sound of laughter came. Every time I see this scene, Fuyue's heart is as uncomfortable as carrying a hedgehog, and cold sweat often oozes out inexplicably on his back.

Zhao Yuan acted as usual every day, as if he was not worried about the grain and grass at all. Every day, the account should be raised, the discussion should be discussed, and even the archery competition with Sun Fen was even compared, which attracted everyone's applause.

Fu Yue looked at it coldly, he couldn't laugh, he thought to himself, can he solve the dilemma in front of him with just one method through Qinjiang? There should be an alternative, right? He often wanted to blurt out these doubts, but he finally held back, because he knew that his father needed unconditional trust and support most at this time.

Back in the tent, Fu Yue looked at the food on the table that had not been touched at all, and thought, "This is the second day my father has not eaten." Looking at Zhao Yuan's calm expression, his cheeks were sunken within a few days, his eyes were black, and he didn't sleep much at night.

Knowing that he couldn't make trouble at this time, Fu Yue silently withdrew from the tent, walked out of the camp by himself, walked up a hill, and thought to himself facing the lower reaches of the Qinjiang River: "Can we really usher in variables these days?" ”

He was also anxious about the country, but today he was waiting for good news.

Early in the morning, an urgent report reached him, and when he opened it, he saw that it read: "Due to the continuous rise of the Qinjiang River, some river embankments are low or in disrepair. The people were very panicked, fearing that if there was a flood this year, they would not be able to harvest the grains, so they spontaneously organized the harvesting of rice that had not yet matured. More and more people joined the early harvest procession, but there were few people on duty on the embankment. ”

Yi Guohou looked at it and said in his heart: "This is a good thing." But he was still a little confused, so he sent the minister in charge of agriculture to ask: "Can the rice be harvested before it is ripe?" Can you eat it after harvesting? ”

The minister replied: "Although it is not fully ripe and does not taste as good as ripe rice, it can satisfy hunger after being processed by the peasants, but this kind of rice cannot be sown." ”

Tuoba Lin nodded, he knew that there was still a lot of rice sown in the treasury, so he continued to ask: "In this case, when there were some small disasters in previous years, why didn't the people harvest rice early?" ”

The minister sighed and said, "The king doesn't know, although this unripe rice can be eaten, the result of the early harvest is that one acre of land will be less than three or four percent. These people's livelihood for a year depends on a few acres of rice in this field, of course, they can harvest more, if they can, they will not harvest early. ”