Originally, the people of Liaodong were just curious about the news, and they were only a little worried, and no one took the initiative to buy it.

As a result, I don't know who started it, but suddenly some people began to buy food in large quantities, saying that they should buy it in large quantities while the price has not yet risen, otherwise they will not be able to buy it later.

One drives two, two drives four, and four drives sixteen.

Soon, the panic buying storm that spread throughout the city and the county began inexplicably.

What's even more terrifying is that this robbery has really gone wrong, and there are really so many grain stores that are sold short, and there is no grain to sell.

The angry crowd broke into the store, beat and smashed, and rushed to the warehouse to see that it was empty, and there were really no bags of rice grain for sale.

It's broken.

Now is the autumn harvest season, and this crop of grain is just harvested, so Liu Yi hurriedly asked Gongsun Kang to collect grain urgently, and took the money to buy grain with those old old-fashioned people who are still growing grain, and bought some, but more people don't sell it, saying that they want to keep it for themselves.

Before Gongsun Kang had time to forcibly levy and do so, the news that the food was out was exposed.

Now it's a bad thing.

As soon as the news spread, everyone rushed to the grain store to see what was going on, and when they saw what was going on, they immediately fell into a panic, looking for grain everywhere to buy, and looking everywhere for those grain merchants who used to sell grain very cheaply, but no one could be found at all.

And then rumors flew all over the place.

There are all kinds of strange news, such as saying that people have run away, saying that people have been arrested, saying that there is a plague in the Central Plains, and everyone is dead, and there is no food to deliver.

This people live on food, and as a result, everyone can't buy food, what do you say?

What to eat when there is no food?

Suddenly, the price of grain skyrocketed, and even grain stores closed their doors and stopped selling grain to the outside world, and people were very panicked because they could not buy a single grain with a large amount of five baht.

After years of changes, the people of Liaodong have become accustomed to the commodity economy model of buying things with money, and the commodity economy is very developed, even comparable to the four major metropolitan areas in the Wei State.

Luoyang metropolitan area, Yecheng metropolitan area, Linzi metropolitan area and Puyang metropolitan area.

This phenomenon of a well-developed commodity economy, even within the Wei state, could only be seen in these metropolitan areas.

False prosperity is desirable, but no one realizes that the basis for supporting the commodity economy is harmonious prosperity, and in troubled times, hard currency is king.

Grain is the hardest hard currency.

Five baht, it's really not worth much.

But Gongsun Du didn't understand, and Gongsun Kang didn't understand either, they wanted to break their heads, and there was only one way to deal with it.

Do everything you can to get food and stabilize the army.

At least the army is the foundation of the warlord's life, Gongsun Du knows this truth, and taught it to Gongsun Kang, so Gongsun Kang also knows that the army is his lifeblood and the pillar of Gongsun regime, so even if the people don't have it, they must let the army eat.

Liu Yi immediately suggested that Gongsun Kang dispatch government forces to search and collect grain in an all-round way, and strictly guard against any traces of Wei army activities in the direction of Liaoze and the coast.

Things have come to this point, and Liu Yi can't help but believe that these things are not a conspiracy of the Wei State.

What a vicious scheme!

Guo Zifeng is actually vicious to this point!

While scolding Guo Peng, Liu Yi tried his best to mobilize his subordinates to search for grain, collect grain, and find things that could be used in place of food in advance and store them in case of emergency.

At the same time, the Liaodong Army also began to be on alert to guard against the movements of the Wei army in the direction of Liaoze.

The armies in Wuxian County, Xiandu County and Liaojia County immediately stood on guard and waited for battle, and Gongsun Kang also asked Gongsun Du for orders and mobilized 3,000 elite troops from Liaodong to support these three counties respectively.

This is a dangerous place, it must be defended, and holding these places can contain the advance of the Wei army, as for the food problem......

At present, there is still some grain to use, although it will not be too much, but fortunately, the amount of food consumed by the more than 30,000 troops in Liaodong is not large.

After the seriously ill Gongsun Du learned about the incident reported by Gongsun Kang, he was stunned for a long time, and then angrily scolded Guo Peng for being a despicable villain, and angrily scolded Guo Peng for being sinister and vicious to a certain extent.

Then he coughed violently, and he couldn't breathe.

"Find a way to collect food, no matter what, the army can't be chaotic, let the army have food, as long as the army is not chaotic, you can prevent Guo Zifeng, a traitor, as for the people, if they are hungry, they will naturally go to the sea to fish and catch shrimp to satisfy their hunger, and those raised cattle, sheep and horses can eat, and no one can die."

Gongsun Du asked Gongsun Kang to grab food even if he wanted to, it didn't matter, he must stabilize the army and let the army know that they had a sufficient supply of food.

If the morale of the army is stabilized, the battle situation can be stabilized, even if the Wei army comes to attack, it is difficult to transport grain across Liaoze, stick to the dangerous place, hold on for a while, and the Wei army will inevitably retreat.

"The army is the most important, the others are secondary, as long as you stick to the dangerous place, when the Wei people are short of food and grass, they will inevitably retreat, the most important thing now is to collect all the food that can be collected, and then prevent the Wei people from attacking, Guo Zifeng is so calculating me, I must definitely send troops!"

Gongsun Du coughed violently again, and Gongsun Kang hurriedly asked the doctor to come in to see.

It was easy to get Gongsun Du to stop coughing, and Gongsun Du was also very tired and speechless, so everything could only be handed over to Gongsun Kang to be responsible.

So Gongsun Du finally handed over his tiger talisman to Gongsun Kang and asked Gongsun Kang to be careful.

Gongsun Kang took over the coveted tiger talisman, but he didn't have the kind of imaginary joy in his heart, and he just felt that it was really fucked up to get what he wanted at this juncture.

He didn't want to face such a crisis at all, but he was driven to the shelves and had to face it.

God, is it really okay to face such a predicament of such an enemy at this time?

Gongsun Kang didn't know if he could do it, but he still did what Gongsun Du said.

Collect food at all costs to ensure the supply of the army, maintain the army's combat effectiveness and will to fight, and put everything else aside.

In short, it is to grab food by arson.

Grab the food in the hands of the army and supply it to the army, and the rest is not important, as for whether the people of Liaodong will starve to death......

Won't they go to the sea to catch fish to eat when they are hungry?

Liu Yi and Yang Yi were very surprised when they learned of Gongsun Kang's decision and immediately came to dissuade them.

"Such a big damage to the hearts of the people of Liaodong, it is easy for the people of Liaodong to rebel, at this time of embarrassment, this is really not the best policy, please think twice!"

"Childe, the people of Liaodong also want to eat, forcibly requisitioning grain, will hurt the people's hearts, extremely resistant, when the rear is unstable, how can you safely resist the enemy in the front?"

Liu Yi and Yang Yi asked Gongsun Kang to think twice, but Gongsun Kang felt that he had already thought twice, so he rejected the suggestion of the two.

"The top priority is to ensure that the army has enough food to eat, and the rest is not important, to fight against the Wei army, it is the army, not Li Shu! And we don't don't pay, we also pay! ”

Gongsun Kang took out the talisman given to him by Gongsun Du, and let everyone know that now it was his Gongsun Kang who had the final say in Liaodong, and Gongsun Du had taken a back seat.

And so a very fierce battle for food began.

Starting from Xiangping County, a large number of surrounding counties have had such grain grabbing incidents, and many soldiers with steel knives went to the fields to find farmers to collect grain, and robbed them of all the grain they stored.

What he said about this operation was very good in name, what did he spend money on food, but in fact he didn't pay a lot of money, basically it was a robbery for nothing.

And not to mention anything else, in this case, the five-baht money is the same as scrap copper, it has no meaning, and the five-baht money that can't buy food is scrap copper, so what if there is more?

Can it still be eaten as a meal?

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