Now that I can't care about fighting anymore, my stomach seems to be more urgent than fighting. He had already ordered people to be sent to various small countries in the west to collect grain to relieve his urgent needs.

A total of two people, just this morning, rode out of the west gate of Tiandu City, and they were about to enter the west through the passage in the mountains north of Pingliang Prefecture. The two of them rode on horseback, and it would take ten days to get from the capital to the mountainous area without stopping. However, they can't not stop. Both of these men were civilian officials, not military generals. It's unbearable to ride a horse continuously.

If you walk during the day and stop at night, it will take at least half a month to reach the mountainous place. However, by that time, Gaotang's military camp was basically completed.

The stunned man who thought that the Han people would obediently let himself rule, he never expected that there would be a Liu Yong, like a sword hanging over his head. Let him be scared all day long.

And the current situation, for her Dayang Dynasty, can be said to be internal and external troubles. The stunned head hanging over the whole person was big. He couldn't sleep well at night, he hadn't been near a woman for two months.

This kind of life made him feel tired, if he wasn't the emperor of the Great Yang Dynasty, then he would definitely ride back to the desert and gallop on the desert to relieve the super depression in his chest.

However, he can't go, this Great Yang Dynasty has been fought for decades. You can't just leave it like this, so I'm sorry for the Tatar soldiers who have died on the battlefield for decades.

He tried not to let himself think about these things that made him retreat, and he forced himself not to think about the desert where he could roam freely. I just want to think about how I can survive the food crisis in the imperial court right now. Yesterday, someone from the household department came to report that the imperial court's reserve grain can only be eaten for two months.

It's a cordon. Na stunned immediately ordered that the entire imperial court, including the palace's meals, should only be supplied once a day, and the amount should be limited. He immediately ordered people to go to the desert to the north to bring cattle and sheep in place of grain.

Fortunately, the mansions of the various nobles located in Tiandu City are all Tatars, and there is no problem with eating meat every day. This can be regarded as solving the food problem of the imperial court.

However, the problem of the common people cannot be solved. The stunned already knew that now, people had begun to starve to death on the streets of Tiandu City.

The common people left the city one after another to eat wild vegetables and tree bark in the nearby mountains. Anyway, you can eat whatever you can. The soldiers of Tiandu City will not stop it, and if they stop it, they will have to pull corpses outside the city every day.

The situation is very critical, but for that stunned, now he can't take care of the people. Now he can only take care of the nobles in the court, as well as the army.

Now there is no shortage of food for anyone, and there is no shortage of troops. The Han army was eyeing the other side of the Tianjiang River, and there was a possibility of crossing the river at any time.

If there is any commotion in the army, it will definitely distract the morale of the army. And if this is caught by the Han army, the result will be unimaginable.

The army did not have enough food, so he asked people to send them beef and mutton, and he also ordered the generals of various military departments to let them hunt if they could nearby, and grow some vegetables and grains if they could. But he also knew that these soldiers of his were accustomed to hunting and knew nothing about farming.

However, they also have to learn. Let them find some Han Chinese to study. These are the solutions of the micro-army to solve the problem of food. In the eyes of those stunned, that is what kind of chaos, and the army cannot be chaotic. It must not be messed up. His reign can be stable only if the army is stable.

Actually, the stunned idea was right. In this world dominated by the law of the jungle, the army represents muscles, strength. Only when you are strong and have strong arms can you wrestle with your opponent and be invincible for a long time.

And those weak and small countries can only be arbitrarily ravaged by those powerful countries, and they dare not resist at all. Because once you resist, it will indicate the danger of being exterminated. And the ruling strata of these small countries do not want to give up their own ruling interests, so they can only be willing to be subordinate to the powerful countries.

This is the barbaric law of the jungle. This law is even more clear to the Tatars, who hunt in the desert all year round. When you get to the hunting ground, it depends on who has the most power. Therefore, they always have a strong vigilance and cannot let their strength fall behind.

In this way, over time, the Tatars developed the character of a wolf. This kind of character is developed by the law of the jungle. It is diametrically opposed to an agrarian civilization. It is even more contrary to the Han people who pay attention to the ideology of the X family.

The law of the jungle is the law of the strong, and the weak can only be enslaved by the strong. The strong are naturally the masters of this world.

But they also know very well that if their strength fails, they will bow down and never give up their lives for an ideal. He has the deepest understanding of staying in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, although there is no such sentence in their world.

They knew that in the face of powerful beasts, they could only admit defeat, but after admitting defeat, it was time for them to quietly fight back. This is the reason why the Tatars have stood in the desert for thousands of years.

Their successful application of the law of the jungle is the basis for their survival and development.

At this time, the Tatar slaves were thinking about a question, whether to sue for peace with the Huahan Dynasty at this most difficult time, whether it was to cede land or pay tribute, it was acceptable. What he needs now is a truce to develop his economy.

The idea was good, but he didn't dare to do it. It's not that I'm afraid that my own people will oppose it, but I'm afraid that I'll expose my difficulties to the Hua Han Dynasty. At that time, the Hua Han Dynasty will not only not agree to cede land and pay compensation, but will take advantage of this crisis to attack on a large scale. At that point, the gains outweigh the losses.

That's where he hesitated. He didn't discuss it with anyone. These days, I've been thinking about it in my heart. But it's always undecided.

In the end, his mind was inclined not to seek peace, which would be more dangerous. He was right. Although Liu Yong knew that the current economic situation of the Tatar slaves was very difficult, he did not know that it would be difficult to become like this.

However, for that stunned, it was not good news at all, and today he received a report from the desert in the north, saying that there were many cattle and sheep in the desert. Moreover, nearly 10,000 yellow sheep were also caught. Coupled with the herdsmen's raising, it is enough for the imperial court to eat for three years.

It was still very exciting to hear the news. Not to mention three years, as long as we can survive this year, we will be back on track when we can develop agriculture next year.

The current difficulties seem to rely on these cattle and sheep.