Since November 13, more and more refugees have flocked to Xianyang, which has increased the pressure on Xianyang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

By the 18th, more than 100,000 refugees had been taken in by Xianyang, who had been placed under makeshift cloth sheds in the city by Xianyang officials, and lived on rice porridge donated by Xianyang every day.

At noon on the 18th, Xiang Rong, the Zhongqing of Xianyang, once again took people to inspect the refugee sheds in the city, and sighed secretly when he saw that the refugees were generally blinded and their faces were withered.

Subsequently, Xiang Rong inspected the soup kitchen's porridge shop, and when he saw that the rice porridge was as thin as washing rice water, he was furious in his heart, and immediately summoned the food manager to ask what was going on.

Because Xiang Rong feels that the rice porridge that has been given to him has become thinner and thinner recently.

The grain officer did not dare to conceal it, so he revealed the truth.

It turned out that because of the relationship between these 100,000 refugees, the granary in Xianyang City, the consumption rate of stored grain increased sharply, if it was still distributed as a few days ago, it was likely that it would not survive for a month, and then not only these refugees, but also the princes and nobles of Xianyang would starve to death.

Therefore, Zhisu Neishi secretly ordered a reduction in the amount of relief for refugees, halved twice in a row in the past few days, so that the rice porridge cooked today could not even stand with chopsticks.

Hearing this, Xiang Rong was silent.

In fact, he also understood the embarrassment of the city's food problem, so he couldn't blame anything, and in the end, he just demanded that the rice porridge given to the refugees must not fall down immediately, and that he must only drink a bowl of slightly viscous porridge every day in the winter near the lunar month, which will starve people to death - in fact, refugees who have starved to death and frozen to death have appeared in Xianyang City one after another.

After inspecting the situation of the refugees, Xiang Rong came to the palace of the king of Qin, preparing to report the matter to the king of Qin.

At this time, in the palace of King Qin, Zhisu Neishi was leading several guest secretaries, in front of King Qin and Zuo Shu Changwei Mu, calculating the daily food consumption of Xianyang.

Xiang Pet listened for a while, and then realized that the food level in Xianyang City was more urgent than expected.

After quietly listening to the report of the courtiers, after a moment of silence, the king of Qin ordered the daily food consumption in the palace to be halved, and in addition to this, he also issued a ban on alcohol.

This prohibition contains two points: first, the brewing workshops in Xianyang City are temporarily closed, and no food is allowed to be used for brewing; Second, it was forbidden for the nobles in the city to drink alcohol.

As the saying goes, there is no feast without alcohol, and if drinking alcohol is prohibited, the consumption of unnecessary food will inevitably be reduced.

But everyone understands that this is only a palliative solution.

Because even if you save more, Xianyang's daily food consumption is still huge, and even if you save it, there will be a time to eat it up.

The most fundamental thing is to repel the Wei army and defeat Wei Gongzirun.

Seeing that the officials of Zhisu led those guests to retire, Xiang Rong Sui stepped forward and gave a salute to the King of Qin.

"Xiang Qing, how is the situation of the refugees in the city?" King Qin asked.

"Not optimistic." Xiang Rong shook his head, and told the King of Qin the truth of what he had seen with a solemn expression, and vaguely pointed out in his words that the refugees who had been sheltered in the city were starving to death and freezing to death one after another.

This is also a helpless thing, although the refugees in Xianyang allow those refugees to hide in the city, but the problem is that the houses in the city are not enough to accommodate such a number of refugees, so that the vast majority of refugees just sleep in cloth huts on the streets.

The bitter cold of December is approaching, and how cold it is at night, even if those refugees have a little cold, they can't stop the invasion of the cold.

Just when the king of Qin was silent, Xiang Rong told him another very serious matter: "Great King, there have been several conflicts between the common people in the city in the past two days, and as far as the ministers know, several refugees tried to tear down the firewood house of a private house to make a fire, so there was a conflict with the male owner of the household, and the male owner of the household was beaten to the point of injury that day...... In addition, there are bullies among the refugees, because there is not much soup soup every day, so that the gangsters in the center rob others of food. Among them was a woman with four children......"

Hearing the woman with the four children in Xiang Rong's words, King Qin's face became very bad, because this matter was so big that even he had heard about it.

This happened the day before yesterday, because the relief food given by Xianyang was not enough to fill their stomachs, so that several of the refugees had bad intentions and snatched the bag of rice that the woman had brought with her when she left from Feng Ho.

While the woman was fighting with the gangsters, her eldest son helped his mother, only to be wounded by the gangsters.

After that, when the bag of rice was taken away, the woman held her injured son and howled, saying that even the Wei people had never taken the rations of my mother and son, and a group of refugees nearby were angry and wanted to help the woman recapture the bag of rice, so that the first conflict between refugees broke out in Xianyang City, and the three gangsters who robbed the woman of rice and grain were killed on the spot by the righteous among the refugees.

Although this has always happened among refugees, this time the impact was extremely bad, because the woman said in public that even the Wei people had not taken the rations of my mother and son.

At that time, the guards in Xianyang were ready to arrest the woman in order to disturb the people's hearts, but many refugees around the woman stood up to speak for her, and they all said that Feng Hao's Wei army saw the woman's secret rice bag with their own eyes, but under the woman's cry, the Wei people let her go, and indeed did not rob it.

However, when they arrived in Xianyang, this bag of rice, which even the Wei people did not rob, was almost snatched by the compatriots, which made the atmosphere of the refugees in Xianyang City very bad all of a sudden.

When this matter reached the ears of King Qin, King Qin didn't know what to do: the murderer had been killed on the spot, and the woman who "disturbed the people's hearts" couldn't really be punished, right?

In the end, King Qin defined this incident as Wei Gongzirun's treacherous plan, and his hatred for Wei Gongzirun increased a little.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart what was going on -- a country and a nation would inevitably have some black sheep.

At this time, with a rush of footsteps, a Xianyang official hurriedly rushed into the main hall, and after giving a salute, King Qin said: "King, I just learned the news, three days ago, the Wei general Sima An attacked Meiyang ......."

Hearing this, King Qin's face changed slightly, and he interrupted eagerly: "Meiyang has been captured? ”

"Well, no." The official shook his head and said, "Because Meiyang has learned the news of the entry of the Wei army in advance, the attack of the Wei general Sima An has not succeeded......"

Hearing this, King Qin breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, Meiyang is also a big city with thousands of households, if it is attacked and captured by the Wei general Sima An, and Sima An copies Wei Gongzirun's strategy and drives the Qin people in the city to Xianyang, then the situation in Xianyang will be even more severe in a few days than today.

But as soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, King Qin saw that the official was secretly looking at him without saying anything, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, so he asked in a deep voice, "What else?" ”

I saw that the official hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "King Qiqi, although the Wei general Sima An failed to attack Meiyang, he ...... But he attacked the villages outside the city. According to the news from Meiyang, Sima An evicted the residents of those villages and set fire to the villages......"

King Qin's eyes widened when he heard this, and after half a sound, he hatefully hammered the table in front of him.

Yes, a county town like Meiyang could rely on the city wall to keep the Wei army out of the city, but in the scattered villages, there was little resistance in the face of the Wei army's attack.

But fortunately, since it is a refugee from Meiyang, it may not come to Xianyang, but the problem is that as long as Meiyang accepts refugees, food consumption is bound to become a headache for Meiyang County.

I have to say that on the one hand, the Wei army obtained grain from the Qin people, and then transferred the burden of the Qin people who lost their food to Xianyang and Meiyang, which were Qin cities, which was really a good deal.

"Bastard!"

King Qin slapped the table and scolded angrily, but he didn't know whether it was Wei General Sima An or Wei Gongzirun who was scolded.

At this time, the official saw that King Qin was furious, shrunk his neck, and his voice inevitably lowered a little when reporting the next matter: "In addition, Wei General Sima An also asked people to block the irrigation canals in the Meiyang area with sundries, sparing a few forests missing......"

King Qin was angry, and he didn't know if he had heard this, but after Wei Ying heard this, his face showed a look of shock.

He frowned and asked urgently, "The Wei army is destroying my Great Qin's farmland facilities?" ”

"Yes." The official nodded.

It's broken, it's broken...... I'll just say why Wei Gongzirun put on a defensive posture in Feng Ho, so that's ...... I see......

At this time, Wei Ying suddenly realized.

Since Feng Ho, where Wei Gongzirun is currently garrisoned, is only more than forty miles away from Xianyang, Xianyang will naturally send people to monitor Feng Hao's every move day and night.

But to Xianyang's surprise, only the Wei general Sima An took the initiative in the Wei army, while Wei Gongzirun lived in Fenghao and did not move.

At first, Wei Ying was still a little puzzled, but now he understood that Wei Gongzirun's intention was to wait for work and force Xianyang to send troops to attack Feng Ho - after all, in this cold weather, the besieging side was obviously suffering more than the defending side.

As for how to force him Xianyang to send troops to attack Feng Hao, Wei Ying has seen some clues from the actions of the Wei general Sima An, because the Wei army is wantonly destroying the farmland facilities of the Qin State, if the Wei army is allowed to continue, then once most of the domestic farmland facilities are destroyed by the Wei army, the Qin State may not be able to catch up with the spring planting in the next year.

And if the spring planting is delayed, it is very likely that a large number of people will starve to death in the case of the Qin State, which is currently rapidly depleting the country's grain reserves.

Thinking of this, Wei Ying had the heart to persuade King Qin.

After all, for now, Wei Gongzirun has not yet occupied an absolute advantage, at this time to make peace with the other party, the two sides negotiate a draw, and the military merit system may not collapse, but if it is delayed any longer, the situation will become worse and worse.

As for what is the way out for Qin after he made peace with Wei, Wei Ying didn't care, because the existence of Wei only blocked Qin's goal of setting foot in the Central Plains, but in fact, Qin could still expand to Hetao and Bashu.

However, the question is, will King Qin bow to Wei Gongzirun?

It can be seen from the day when Wei Gongzirun led his troops to Xianyang City that the King of Qin would never compromise on this.

…… In other words, can you only storm Feng Ho?

Wei Yan stroked his beard and thought worriedly.