"Alright, the next one, send the dirt up first, and then dig it up!"

"Yes!"

"That...... Be careful, don't fall off......"

……

In the backyard, next to a well, Gongsun Du shouted from time to time, asking the soldiers to dig the well like and that. Gongsun Du wanted to do it himself, but Zhang Liao and his soldiers did not agree, so he could only shout and shout.

"Master, Xun Beijia, Master Wei, Xi Sacrifice Wine, Guo Junshi and others ask to see." The butler suddenly appeared in the courtyard and shouted.

Gongsun Du's shouting suddenly stopped, and his hand was withdrawn. Gongsun Du knew what their intentions were, but he didn't intend to listen to their advice, looking at the soldiers who did not stop because of his shouting, Gongsun Du's eyes moved, and he replied: "Just bring them here." ”

"Yes, sir."

Xun You and the others came to the courtyard after a while, and when they saw the movement in the courtyard, everyone was slightly stunned, although it was very fast, but it was still noticed by Gongsun Du, who had been paying attention.

"Lord!"

"Hmm!" Gongsun Du turned around and said, "It's very chaotic here, so I won't sit down, just stand and say anything." ”

Xun You and the others understood that their lord had expected their intentions and expressed dissatisfaction, but everyone still bowed down and said, "Yes, lord." ”

After Gongsun Du nodded, Xun Youcai said: "Don't dare to deceive the lord, my subordinates and others are here to ask about those newly arrived captives." ”

"Them?" Gongsun Du snorted slightly and said, "What can they do?" ”

Xun You and the others were all stunned, but they still stubbornly said: "In this situation now, wouldn't it be good to let them do so much work?" ”

"Not good? What's wrong? ”

Gongsun Du said directly: "According to a certain opinion, it is very good." ”

Xun You pondered for a moment and said, "This ...... Will the casualties be too great? ”

"Too many casualties?"

Gongsun Du muttered, looked up at the bright sun, and asked, "How long has it been since it rained?" ”

Xi Zhong pinched his fingers and calculated, and said: "Since the spring rain of the seedlings, there has not been a rain that exceeds the tea time, and it has been a full three months. ”

"That's right, three months!"

Gongsun Du nodded, pointed to the well being dug in the courtyard, and said, "Look at it, this well is the deepest well in this house, but yesterday I could only see a puddle of water, which is not enough to drink a sip." What do you say about other places? ”

Xun You and the others realized, but they still quickly replied: "At present, the weather has reached the hottest time of the year, and the other ......"

"Wrong!"

Gongsun Du rarely interrupted his subordinates directly, and said, "Next month!" ”

Gongsun Du bit these three words very hard, ignoring the surprised looks of Xun You and the others, and continued: "Next month will be the hottest time of the year!" Maybe it will be the driest year in the past 100 years, maybe it's not for sure! ”

"So serious?" Wei You seemed to be unconvinced, and seemed to be asking himself.

Gongsun Du nodded and said, "It hasn't rained for three months, and then look at the scorching sun overhead, as if you want to leave?" So ......"

Gongsun Du paused, pointed to the soldiers who were digging a well in the courtyard, and said, "Do you want these people to die, or do you want those people to die?" ”

Xun You and the others fell silent when they heard this.

After a long time, he bowed down and said, "My lord, it was my subordinates who were reckless." ”

apologized, but Xun You said: "Anyway, there are a lot of them, if they die too much, they will inevitably be attacked by some people, so the subordinates suggest that they try not to start work during the hottest time from noon to afternoon, and at the same time, those doctors in the Tai Hospital, the subordinates hope that they can provide some help." ”

"Okay, yes, that's it."

Gongsun Du thought for a while and agreed, but then said: "In addition, pay attention to those who are dissatisfied with someone, it happens that there is a shortage of food in the army, so that they can help." ”

Everyone suddenly became refreshed and said, "Yes, lord." ”

Immediately, Gongsun Du waved his hand, and everyone dispersed.

The situation in Jizhou is not better than that of Youzhou, but it is much worse, who made Yuan Shao neither make arrangements in advance, nor have prisoners who can be used at will!

Yecheng, Yuan Shao lay on the bed and was silent for a long time.

About a month ago, Guo Tu and the others finally sensed that something was wrong and reported the matter to Yuan Shao. However, no matter what you have to do at this time, it is already late, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and there is no rain falling, whether it is digging a pond or digging a ditch to divert the ditch, what is the use!

Yuan Shao did his best for this, but he persevered for half a month and fell ill.

Compared with Jizhou, Cao Cao in Xuchang is much better, but he also suffers heavy losses, relatively speaking, perhaps even worse.

Jizhou has always been rich, even if it suffered a snowstorm last year, the loss was very large, after this year's drought, the harvest is also very meager, but as long as Yuan Shao is a little ruthless, it is not a problem to get enough grain to tide over the difficulties.

Cao Cao is different, not to mention Yanzhou, the poor and crazy capital, Xuzhou is under the blow of Cao Cao, and now it is only a slight recovery. Looking at Shouchun and other places, they were seriously harmed by Yuan Shu, which is inferior to Xuzhou, and only slightly better than Yanzhou. Fortunately, Cao Cao made arrangements in advance, and although the harvest was low, it was much better than Yuan Shao.

It's just that Cao Cao's foundation is really too thin, and there are still some constraints, which are not as good as Yuan Shao and Gongsun Du's Yiyantang, and after the autumn, food began to be in short supply.

At this time, Cao Cao's face was getting more and more ugly day by day, the famine began to spread, and the ministers of the court began to behave again. In the end, it was Cheng Yu who took action to solve this problem, but no one knew how it was solved, only Cao Cao and Cheng Yu, and eight hundred Cao family disciples. And also......

The biggest impact of this drought may be Jingzhou.

Although Liu Biao has been in Jingzhou for almost ten years, he is an "outsider", at least at that time, everyone thought so, and he was treated like this. If Liu Biao hadn't united the four major families of Cai, Huang, Xiang, and Kuai, I am afraid that he would not have been able to secure the position of the lord of Jingzhou in the end.

Rao is like this, Liu Biao still has to rely on the strength of the four major families in Jingzhou, especially the Cai family, his brother-in-law, and the Kuai family, which he values the most.

Liu Biao does not want to eliminate the influence of these four families all the time, so that he can truly control Jingzhou in his hands. After years of planning, seeing that there was still a year or two at most, when he was about to succeed, first there was a snow disaster, which lost a lot of supplies, and then let the foreign enemy, that is, Sun Ce, increase his strength and increase the external threat. The increase in external threats means that Liu Biao's reliance on the four major families will be deeper, and his plan to control Jingzhou will also be affected.

Later, there was a drought that was rare in a century, which caused heavy losses to Jingzhou. If you want to say that Jingzhou has a dense water network, the impact should not be very great, but it can't stand the large population of Jingzhou, with more than one million household registrations.

There are more than one million households, even if there are only three or five people in each family, it is nearly 10 million people. When drought reduces yields, no matter how little grain and grass is distributed to everyone, a very large amount of grain and grass will be consumed.

In order to maintain his image, Liu Biao had to take out such a large amount of grain and grass.

It's really been planned for many years, and it looks like it's about to happen, but it falls short!

"Heaven is not with me, as I can't help it!"

Liu Biao let out a long sigh, and finally issued an order to open a warehouse for disaster relief. This made Cai Mao and the others laugh secretly, although they didn't know what Liu Biao had done specifically, but the four of them were deeply rooted in Jingzhou, and they were still aware of it.

Now, Cai Mao and others, who are relieved, have also pretended to donate a lot of grain and grass to Liu Biao, which made Liu Biao feel a lot better.

Liu Yan, who is of the same clan as him but has a different sect, does not have this worry. Yizhou, the country of abundance, is much less affected, not to mention, Liu Yan has complete control over Yizhou, and the distribution of grain and grass for disaster relief is not a problem at all.

Therefore, Yizhou, like Jingzhou, although it has influence, it still survived in the end.

In Jiangdong, Sun Ce's foundation is weak, and because of last year's raid of the family and extermination, many families surrendered, but more families completely went to his opposite. After the drought was confirmed, he didn't care about Sun Ce's orders at all, and he didn't say anything about it. Later, when the drought lagged behind, Sun Ce's anger broke out, and he once again picked some of the best birds to start with, and got a lot of grain and grass, so he got through the difficulties, but the situation in Jiangdong was more mysterious.