In a flash, more than half a year has passed.

Wang Mang led the army to leave the imperial capital, and after a long journey of more than half a year, he finally arrived at the Qinghai Sea, where the headquarters of the Ji family could be seen from afar.

Qinghai Sea is located on the plateau, with a harsh geographical environment and strong sunlight. In this natural disaster, Qinghai is the top priority.

As soon as Wang Mang's army entered this place, the people here spontaneously greeted each other and celebrated Wang Mang's arrival to lead the army to relieve the disaster.

Although the headquarters of the Ji family is entrenched here, few people here know about it, and the people of the Ji family have always been high-minded, and they don't care much about ordinary people, thinking that they have lost their identity.

In this natural disaster, the Ji family originally had the ability to dispatch the underlying forces to rescue the people affected by the disaster in the Qinghai area, and they also had enough food to ensure that the people in the Qinghai area would not starve to death in the natural disaster. But the Ji family didn't do this, and ignored it completely.

Now that Wang Mang is here, the people here all think that their hard life has finally come to an end.

The people greeted each other so warmly, and Wang Mang couldn't help but reciprocate, and Li felt relieved and happy in his heart.

He gave an order to let his subordinate army stop advancing, vigorously participate in disaster relief in the Qinghai area, repair houses, treat diseases, dig water conservancy facilities, etc., and at the same time send aid and hoard grain from outside to come to the emergency.

However, the natural disasters were huge, Kyushu was completely affected, although Wang Mang had hoarded a lot of food before, but in this nearly a year, those hoarded grains were basically exhausted and there was not much left, so the food he transferred this time was actually not much, only a few hundred thousand deniers.

These hundreds of thousands of denier of grain may be enough for disaster relief in a certain city and county, but if it is for disaster relief in the entire Qinghai territory, it will be a drop in the bucket.

Of course, food is scarce, but it is better than nothing.

And the people here also understand Wang Mang very well, and they all know that Wang Mang has no extra food to allocate to disaster relief. Now Wang Mang can urgently dispatch hundreds of thousands of deniers of grain to come to the disaster relief under the situation that it is difficult for such a clever woman to cook without rice, and they are grateful and praise Wang Mang from the bottom of their hearts.

Wang Mang knew that he didn't have much grain left, and he couldn't let the people affected by the disaster in the entire Kyushu receive relief food to tide over the difficulties, so he couldn't wait to exterminate the Ji family and snatch the Ji family's food hoarding for disaster relief.

At present, the Ji family has not been exterminated, the food has not arrived, and his heart is slightly anxious, time waits for no one, once it is delayed for too long, the people don't know how much they will starve to death.

However, although he really wanted to exterminate the Ji family immediately, this matter also needed time. Because wherever his army passed, he needed to pause and participate in local disaster relief.

On the one hand, it is to exterminate the Ji family, and on the other hand, it is to participate in disaster relief, both of which are very important, and Wang Mang can't handle both things at the same time.

In the process of disaster relief in Qinghai, five or six months passed slowly, and the grain and grass needed by his subordinates had bottomed out during this disaster relief stay.

So far, almost a year has passed since he led the army to leave the imperial capital.

Food is insufficient, disaster relief is unfavorable, Wang Mang has no choice but to call on the people to support themselves, go up the mountain to catch prey, go down the river to catch fish and shrimp, and dig the ground to find kaolin (Guanyin soil) for emergency.

On the Ji family's side, after the high-level officials of the Ji family heard the news that Wang Mang led a million troops to attack their Ji family, they also acted urgently, sent a letter asking for help from the outside world, and dispatched troops to help.

They plan to have a complete life-and-death duel with Wang Mang, and they are not ready to back down and compromise.

Although Ji Daotian, the patriarch of the Ji family, had negotiated with Wang Mang before, and although he had the intention of retreating in his heart, he was not alone in the entire Ji family.

Now that the main battle faction of the Ji family has the upper hand, he can't control the overall trend, so he can only use the patriarch's order to suppress some of the high-ranking members of the Ji family, and prevent them from beating the heavenly drum to call on the children of the Ji family to come to King Qin.

As soon as the heavenly drum moves, the battle between the Ji family and Wang Mang will not be the first family in the world regardless of success or failure, which is Ji Daotian's bottom line.

After Ji Daotian kept this bottom line, he basically couldn't decide other things, and could only wait and watch the clansmen deal with it themselves.

This time, the Ji family felt that their strength had been damaged a lot in the natural disaster, and at the same time, they had consumed a lot of troops in the previous battle with Wang Mang, so they were not absolutely sure that they could resist Wang Mang on their own, so they sent a letter asking for help.

Under the agency of the high-level of the Ji family, a letter of seal was passed in all directions.

The one who received the most orders from the Ji family was Zhuzhou, and the heroes of Zhuzhou had a close relationship with the Ji family.

After the princes of Zhuzhou received the order, they immediately sent a steady stream of troops to Qinghai to help. Among these people, especially Li Zhong, Pitong and others are the most active. Almost all of them moved out of their old books and wanted to fight a life-and-death battle with Wang Mang.

The heroes of Zhuzhou received the edict of King Ji Jiaqin, and the heroes of other regions did not let go of the Ji family.

This time, the Ji family made a bloody capital and destroyed face. In the entire Kyushu region, all those who had some forces, and those who had some grudges with Wang Mang, they all issued invitations, asking these people to quickly lead soldiers and horses to help.

For example, the four-phase sword master of Liaoning, they also received a letter of help from the Ji family, asking the four-phase sword master to immediately lead his troops and horses to help.

After the four-phase sword master received the letter asking for help, the Tianfeng Sword Lord led the troops out because of Wang Ping's poor feelings, so he continued to excuse his illness and let the three people of the Heavenly Thunder Sword Master, the Heavenly Electric Sword Master, and the Heavenly Fire Sword Master lead the troops to help.

Although the power of Liu Xuan and Liu Yan in Jingzhou is not large, and the number of troops is not much, no matter how small the mosquito is for the Ji family, it is meat, and they are all descendants of the royal family, and they have enmity with Wang Mang. Therefore, they also received a letter of help from the Ji family, and the Ji family asked them to send troops to help as well.

Liu Xuan didn't need to say much, he already hated Wang Mang for planning to send troops to help, and now after receiving the letter asking for help, he naturally sent a lot of troops to help the Ji family.

As for Liu Yan, although he didn't want to rush to the aid of the Ji family, under the current situation, he also had to send troops to help, for fear that the Ji family would settle accounts after the autumn.

And Wuyazi also agreed that Liu Yan would send troops to help the Ji family, so that Liu Xiu would unify the world with the remnants of the Ji family in the future.

Wang Mang knew that if Liu Xiu wanted to become emperor in the future, then he would have to rely on the power of the Lord of the Nine Swords and the power of the Twenty-Eight Star Monarch. The Twenty-Eight Star Monarch will not mention it for the time being, just talking about the Lord of the Nine Swords, these nine people holding the Nine Swords almost have the power to change the heavens and the earth, and they are all the bloodline of the Ji family, obeying the orders of the Ji family.

Therefore, another meaning of Wang Mang's attack on the Ji family this time is that he hopes that Liu Yan and Liu Xiu can show their faces in front of the Ji family in this war, win the favor of the high-level leaders of the Ji family, and act well in the future.

He is trying to reconcile the relationship between the two brothers Liu Xiu and the Ji family and improve the historical process. If Liu Xiu and Liu Yan have not contacted the Ji family for a long time, then how can Liu Xiu be able to get the help of the Ji family's masters to pacify the world and continue the luck of the Han Dynasty to become the emperor?

Therefore, Wang Mang's real purpose in crusading against the Ji family has three meanings, one is to grab and hoard grain, one is to announce personal vendetta, and the other is for Liu Xiu.

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