July.

There is a great drought in the Central Plains, and the red land is thousands of miles.

The drought has spread to more than ten provinces in Guanzhong and Guandong, and even Jingxiang, Bahan, Jianghuai and other places have been harvested for thousands of miles.

It should have been a joyful harvest after the summer harvest, but now the cracks in the fields that were cracked by drought could be stuffed into fists.

The counties under the rule of Great Qin in the Central Plains are fine, after all, the imperial court has predicted from last year that there will be a major drought this year, and there may be locust plagues, so they responded to the arrangements as early as possible.

All localities have prepared grain early, coupled with the control of grain, the general implementation of quantitative distribution, to prevent panic buying and hoarding, to prevent grain merchants from taking the opportunity to hoard and increase prices, and the imperial court in various places to promote the use of work for relief, taking advantage of the current disaster after the emergence of the people's surplus manpower, so organize the people to build some water conservancy facilities, as well as repair roads and bridges, repair the city, the underground culvert in the city and so on.

Although the people were affected by the disaster, they could still earn wages when they went to work, and they directly paid for their wages with grain, and the old and young wives and children in the family went into battle to catch locusts, and they could exchange for food when they caught more and less.

For the imperial court, it is still possible to deal with a catastrophe with several years of savings, after all, drought is actually much better than floods, and it is better to deal with than plagues. As long as there is food, he is not afraid of drought. Even if the drought is severe and the people have difficulty drinking water, people will leave, and they can even leave the water-scarce places temporarily.

A great drought did not cause a great famine, nor did there be a great exodus.

The people of the counties and counties have stayed at home, and they have no land to cultivate, but they still have projects to do organized by the government, such as building roads, laying bridges, building cities, dams, dams, dams, reservoirs, digging canals, dredging rivers, clearing ponds, and opening culverts, and even renovating cities, building new markets, and so on.

The grain in the warehouses of the imperial court became the strongest currency and the most stable guarantee of the people's hearts during this period.

If it weren't for the cracked fields, one might even think that there was no disaster at all.

However, Jingxiang south of the Han River, Jiangdong and Jiangxi south of the Yangtze River in Huainan are different.

The drought that swept across the country did not escape the land of the three domains, and the largest lake in the west province of Lin Shihongjiang, Poyang Lake, was originally vast and thousands of miles away, but now it has become a prairie.

Jingxiang's Dongting Lake has also shrunk by two-thirds.

In the eastern part of the river, nearly half of the rivers are cut off.

The most fatal thing is Xiao Milling's Nanliang, and a locust plague actually broke out.

In the land of Jingxiang, there are many lakes, and the drought has caused the Dongting Lake area to become a hotbed of locust outbreaks.

Even in a slightly stable environment, the internal struggle among the Southern Liang monarchs and ministers became more and more intense.

The battle between Xiao Mo and his commanders became more and more intense. The generals of the counties are all heavily armed, and they don't pay much attention to Xiao Miao, the emperor, and Xiao Mi is naturally dissatisfied. But at the beginning, except for Dong Jingzhen and Zhang Xiu, who were the prince's generals, they all relied on driving tigers and devouring wolves, and he didn't really have the strength to suppress these generals in his own hands.

So with this except for that, immediately that tail is big again, and it still can't change anything.

In the small court of Southern Liang, there are only more than ten counties left, but there are dozens of large and small military towns, the large unified two counties, and the small unified two counties, in short, they are all recruiting troops and buying horses.

In this situation, there was no Qin Dynasty to attack, so the Southern Liang monarchs and ministers were busy cutting the feudal domain and counter-cutting the feudal domain, and the big wars and small battles continued.

The military leaders are busy recruiting troops and grabbing territory, so how can they have time to rescue the disaster and exterminate the locusts.

Even the Great Qin Imperial Court had already issued an edict to Xiao Mo and others, reminding them to fight drought and exterminate locusts to prevent catastrophes and famines.

But no one paid any attention to it.

Now, the consequences are finally apparent.

In normal years, Nanliang is busy consolidating the territory and recruiting troops because the military leaders of all sizes are busy recruiting troops, resulting in many young people in the army. Most of the grain grown by the people had to be handed over, and there was very little surplus from themselves.

This year, in the counties of Nanliang, the summer harvest is less than two, and the vast majority of the people have no harvest.

At this time, a locust plague broke out again, and even autumn planting was impossible.

The people had no surplus grain savings in their hands, and the military leaders in the county encountered this catastrophe, but they kept the granary more and more and refused to release grain.

The people were hungry and had no choice, so they could only start moving.

In many places, there have even been cases of hungry homeless people attacking the estates of the landlords and wealthy families and looting grain.

In the next step, after the landlords in the countryside are robbed, they may attack the county seat and rob the grain of the official warehouse.

Many displaced people began to move north.

Their purpose was to cross the Han River and go to the border of Daqin to avoid disasters and seek food.

Countless hungry people shouted the slogan of going north to join Qin, dragging their families and children, and helping the old and the young.

However, at this time, whether it was Xiao Mo or the military leaders of various counties, they were not concerned about disaster relief, but they began to intercept the displaced people and prohibit them from crossing the line.

For them, the people are also resources, or precious resources, military replenishment, grain cultivators, and ordnance manufacturers, if the people are gone, then how can they maintain it?

As for the people starving, they don't care.

Hankow.

On the Han River, a building boat is anchored in the middle of the river.

On the boat, Zhang Zhenzhou, the Taishou of Chuyang of Nanliang, and Zhou Faming, the Taishou of Jiangxia, visited Zhai Mohou of Anlu Taishou together.

"Gong Zhai, we all want to change our banner and belong to Daqin!"

Zhai Mohou said, "The time has not yet come." ”

"But we can't hold on."

Zhang Zhenzhou and Zhou Faming sighed together, the disaster is getting more and more serious, and now they can't even replenish the military rations, not to mention the disaster relief.

The victims of the disaster in the county have now developed into thieves and have begun to besiege the county, and the situation is indeed uncontrollable.

The two of them had already been eye-to-eye with Da Qin, and even if Da Qin hadn't always disagreed with their attachment, they would have led their troops to surrender their land to Qin.

Now they are once again proposing to change their flag and return to Qin.

Although Zhai Mohou has been in charge of contacting the two counties, he did not dare to agree.

"Since the beginning of the sage and the three feudal lords, the three feudal lords have been crowned kings of the three feudal domains, for several years, the well water does not interfere with the river water, if you are attached, this hard-won stability will be broken, and the war will start again."

"Gong Zhai, Xiao Milling is now a rebel relation, even if we return to Qin, he will not dare to speak up, and even as long as we take the lead in returning to Qin first, there will inevitably be many counties and counties that will respond to Qin, at that time, as long as the sage makes an edict, Xiao Milling can be summoned to Luoyang, and Nanliang will destroy itself."

"This is not a gain or loss of one city and one place, this is related to the whole game of chess of Great Qin, although the three feudatories often attack each other, but in the face of Great Qin, it is a combination of offense and defense, once something happens in Southern Liang, the other two feudatories will inevitably be involved, and then it will be a change in the overall situation."

Zhang Zhenzhou said helplessly, "If Gong Zhai still refuses to accept our annexation, then we will have to lead the troops and the people to abandon the land and cross the river to annex." ”

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