After years of internal power struggles and the war that almost wiped out the country in the first year of Yanxing, especially the rapid improvement of people's livelihood after Guan Yi took control of the civil affairs of Shu Han. The whole country of Shu and Han finally gradually unified their understanding.

Anti-war faction: Cao Wei has no strength to save us in a short period of time after this battle. Moreover, at this time, Cao Wei was already difficult to protect himself. Therefore, we still hope that the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty will succeed in the future. Once Yongliang is taken, whether it is the Yuancong faction or the Jingzhou faction, hurry up and go to Yongzhou to scourge the people of Guanzhong. In this way, we are also liberated in disguise......

Northern Expedition faction: Da Sima's strategy is right. Rest and recuperate first and accumulate enough strength. The next Northern Expedition will be a thunderous blow! This is much better than the previous small-scale Northern Expedition, which spent a lot of money and food but did not get any benefits!

In short, the opinions of Shu Han are unified: put away your fists, save enough and then go all out!

And what about Cao Wei, whose life has entered the countdown? There are really a lot of troubles at this time.

In May of the first year of Xianxi (264), General Zhenxi and Yongzhou Assassin Hu Fen sent an urgent report from Jincheng County, Liangzhou. It is said that there was a drought in the four counties of Longxi, Tianshui, Nan'an, and Guangwei in Yongzhou, and the three counties of Jincheng, Xiping, and Wuwei in Liangzhou. In the cultivated land of the seven counties, except for a small part of the wheat fields close to the Yellow River, which were artificially irrigated and harvested, all the other wheat fields were not harvested. Far from being unable to pay taxes, Hermes-Epitek is in need of state relief. At the same time, the fields of the Qiang people and Di people around these seven counties were all cut off, in order to prevent these alien races from rebelling because they had no food, so the imperial court still had to allocate more grain to appease these alien races......

"Hey, the widow remembers, this is the fifth year of drought in Longxi in the past ten years, right?"

After receiving Hu Fen's report, Sima Zhao also felt a splitting headache. In recent years, droughts in the western part of Yongzhou and the eastern part of Liangzhou have become more and more frequent. And as a good politician, Sima Zhao knows very well what it means to have a long and frequent drought - as for Zhangye and Dunhuang in the western part of Liangzhou, these counties hardly rain all year round, and there is no problem of drought at all.

"King Jin, that's not all. In recent years, the more the Longxi area goes northwest, the less rainfall it will be. Many grasslands have disappeared. As a result, the Qiang people in the northwest continued to migrate to the southeast, and the number of Han people in the Liangzhou civil register is roughly estimated to be less than 60% of the total local population. The number of Han people in the west of Yongzhou has dropped to forty percent! ”

"What?! Ji Yan, are you mistaken? There are more Qiang people in Liangzhou, right? Why are there more than fifty percent of the Han people in Liangzhou, but only four percent in Longxi? ”

"King Jin, on the one hand, the power of the family in Liangzhou is relatively small, and the land there is barren, and the output of one person is limited. So the hidden population of the family there is not particularly active. In addition, the Qiang people there migrated gradually and slowly. There is a longer process. On the Yongzhou side, the Guanzhong Plain is fertile, and the hidden population of the family is very desired. At the same time, in the past, Emperor Wu of Wei conquered Zhang Lu and moved 200,000 people from Hanzhong into Guanzhong at one time. Among them, there were nearly 10,000 people. In the past fifty or sixty years, the number of these Di people has swelled to more than 100,000! ”

"How can these Di people be so alive?!" Everyone knows that the big family embezzles the country's population - the Sima family, as the ruler, really wants to suppress this kind of thing. But helplessly, the Sima family is not the rightful ruler of this country now. In order to usurp the throne, he also needs to continue to turn a blind eye to this behavior of the family. And the big families also know in their hearts: once the Sima family succeeds in usurping the throne, it will definitely restrict this large-scale embezzlement of the country's population, so this is the last carnival. Therefore, in recent years, Cao Wei's family members have gone crazy to enclose land everywhere, attracting and even forcing Cao Wei's yeoman farmers to enter their estates and become serfs.

Therefore, Sima Zhao can only avoid the important and take the high fertility rate of the Di people to talk about it.

Before Liu Bei entered Yizhou, the wars in Yizhou were mainly divided into two categories: one was the war of the Yizhou natives against Liu Yan's father and son and their Dongzhou faction. The second is that Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu love and kill each other.

Zhang Lu's mother is Liu Yan's lover. After Liu Yan and Zhang Lu's mother got together, they quickly snubbed the original partner, Liu Zhang's mother. As a result, Liu Zhang's mother died of depression. Moreover, Liu Yan, a sixty or seventy-year-old man, was entangled by a in her forties who was in the age of a tiger and wolf, and was quickly sucked dry...... So after Liu Zhang came to power, he wiped Zhang Lu's mother and several brothers and relatives who Zhang Lu left in Chengdu. Then the two brothers fell in love with each other and killed each other for more than ten years.

In the past ten years or so, the people of Pasir County, Yizhou, who lived at the junction of Liu and Zhang's forces, were partly fans of Liu Zhang and some of them were fans of Zhang Lu. Later, when Zhang Lu was migrated to Chang'an, more than 10,000 people followed Zhang Lu into the Guanzhong Plain. Since this nation is very grouped, if anyone can't afford to eat with each other, others will try their best to help. As a result, there were far fewer of them who became serfs on the estates of the great families than the Han Chinese, which made the population growth rate of this group particularly terrifying.

"Uh, King Jin, it's a priority. It is still necessary to import food to Yongliang, at this moment, Liangzhou is in chaos! ”

"Hey, of course the widow knows that Liangzhou is in chaos at this time. But, Ji Yan, how much grain is still in the treasury of Luoyang Mansion now? ”

"Before I came down, I went to Duzhishangshu on a special trip. At present, there are 13 million stone of grain in the treasury. ”

"Why is it so much?!" This is really not hypocritical. The gap between Cao Wei and Shu Han is too big, and the things they have to face are much more complicated than Shu Han. And compared with Shu Han, whose main essence is concentrated in the land of abundance. In the vast territory of Cao Wei, the possibility of various agricultural disasters is much higher than that of Shu Han.

For Guan Yi, if there is so much food in the treasury, he can go to sleep with peace of mind. But for Sima Zhao, this amount of grain has reached below the warning line.

"Uh...... King of Jin. Last year, because our army suffered heavy losses at Yang'an Pass, this bereavement pension was issued a lot. At the end of last year, the stock of grain in the government treasury fell to less than 5 million stones. It was not until after the autumn harvest this year that the level of more than 10 million stone was restored. ”

"But that's too little. The widow remembers that in the past, the granaries of Luoyang, Chang'an, Xuchang, Xinye, Shouchun, Yecheng, and Xiapi stored no less than 20 million stones! Not to mention the small amount of grain stored in the warehouses of various counties and counties. ”

"King Jin, this is another thing that his subordinates want to say: this year, in the entire Guanzhong Plain, except for the four counties of Longxi and Tianshui, there is no news of disasters in Youfufeng, Zuo Fengyi, and Jingzhao County. However, the amount of grain collected and put into the treasury was 70 percent less than in previous years. Not only that, in recent months, Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other major grain-producing states, a lot of their grain has flowed to Chang'an! ”

"Huh?! What does he want to do at the beginning of the year? Rivals?! "I didn't say it, Chang'an definitely doesn't need so much food, and the most scarce food in the world at present is, of course, Guan Yi Guan Zifeng, who has a grain storage habit.

"Hehe, that's not the case. King Jin, wasn't General Zhengxi selling two kinds of spirits recently? Well? It's called burning knives and pervading incense (what a vulgar name)? ”

"There is. Hey, I'll get it when you say that. It must have been Guan Zifeng and Zichu who reached an agreement. Zichu gave him food, and he provided Zichu with this spirit. This wine, I didn't say, that's really good! The widow also likes it...... But now that the country is so short of food, how can it do such a thing! That Guan Zifeng is a profiteer, he looked for the grain that Zichu took, I dare to conclude that at most, only thirty percent of it was used to make wine, and the rest was swallowed! ”

(Guan Yi: Stupid, you underestimate me too much.) To tell you the truth, only half of the grain I get here is used to make wine. I'll swallow the rest! ）

"King Jin, this should be the case when I think about it. So ......"

So what? Did you arrest Sima Wang and kill him? Let's not talk about the problem that the Sima family has never done anything to their relatives (the historical plane, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, then it is enough to do it), even if Sima Wang is removed, who can go to Chang'an?

"Hey~~~" My head started to hurt again, and my chest began to tighten. Sima Zhao hurriedly took a few steps in annoyance: "Ji Yan, are there any people in the Guanzhong area who are more prestigious and capable of being useful?" ”

So there is a reason why Pei Xiu can be reused by Sima Zhao. Before people come to report to work, they have already done a lot of homework. Well prepared for any questions the boss might ask.

Therefore, although Sima Zhao's question had almost nothing to do with the previous conversation, Pei Xiu still answered very quickly: "King Qi Jin, the leader of the Di people is named Li Mu (the father of Li Te, the founder of the Cheng Han Dynasty), who is brave and good at fighting and dealing with things fairly. Won the hearts of the people. ”

"My Han family has some corrupt elements, but there are many heroes on the foreign side. How can it go on like this! After that, he ordered the treasury to send one million stone of grain to the Longxi area for relief, and the matter was handed over to Wei Boyu to handle. Tell him that if he does it well, he will return to Luoyang and be reinstated. If it causes a civil uprising, hum! I don't care what kind of high-ranking family he is in Hedong Wei, he will be punished for several crimes, and he will be slaughtered if he deserves it! ”

"No! Please rest assured that King Jin will definitely handle this matter properly! ”

"In addition, 100,000 stone grain and 1 million yuan have been specially allocated, Ji Yan, you will go in person. Go and hand it over to that Li Mu. This king recruited him as the Dongqiang hunting general! ”

"Yes! It will definitely make the Li family happy and convinced of my Dajin and sincerely repay me! ”