"Your Majesty, the results of our army's battle losses have been counted. In today's battle, the total number of missing and killed was more than 6,700, and more than 10,300 were seriously wounded. ”

"Hey, that's 20,000 people smaller...... Plus more than 10,000 people who removed obstacles in the early stage. Such a fortress, even if it has a million troops, what can it do? ”

Looking at Xun Kai, who was so obviously spreading the emotion of defeat in the seat, Sima Wang didn't even have the strength to reprimand: he was also full of despair.

The difficulty of attacking a multi-edged fortress has increased countless times compared to the straight city wall. A direct assault is definitely not a good option. Although the people of the Sima family are not serious about the lives of other people except for their own relatives. But the soldiers have died a lot, and they still won't be stupid enough to line up for death in the end. Besides, even if the soldiers are obedient, but the soldiers are dead, where will the Sima family go to claim the king?

Therefore, until a reliable siege method is found, the ant annex siege cannot be used.

So, what about the other siege methods? The tunnel is not good, and the trebuchet is not good because the range is not as good as the opponent. Deprived of enemy water? The two cities of the people are on the edge of the Wei River, how to cut off?

At present, it seems that there is only a long siege and starvation of the enemy in the city.

If you want to starve the enemy to death, you first need to ensure one thing: you have more food than the enemy. Now, Guan Yi has more than one million stone grain bases in the city. That's enough for more than 30,000 people to eat for two years. And what about Sima Wang's side? The Chang'an treasury said that there were three million stone grains. But he has more people to support than Guan Yi.

Moreover, what he has to raise with these three million stone grains will soon be more than just the Guanzhong Legion, which is close to 200,000.

……

April 268, Yizhou, Chengdu, Dasima Mansion.

"Qi Qi Changshi, this is His Majesty's itinerary report yesterday."

"Well, I'll see." Uncle Jane, who has always been cynical in the world, must be particularly surprised if people who don't know him see it at this time: he is engrossed, extremely serious and meticulous.

As a traverser, Guan Yi has no illusions about Liu Chan at all. So his surveillance of the emperor did not relax at all. In the past, this work was a daily life, but now, it is a simple daily life.

"Huh? Well~~! Your Majesty met with Chen Xi again yesterday? This official remembers that this is the fourth time His Majesty has met with Chen Xi in the last three months, right? ”

"Yes, a long history. The first time was on December 5 last year, when it was just an ordinary visit by Chen Xi, and it lasted only one breath. The second time it was...... Yesterday was the fourth time in three months, and lasted about a quarter of an hour. ”

"What did you say?"

"The record relayed by the eunuchs beside His Majesty is here. But because the eunuch was illiterate, what he said was not very detailed. And this time only this one eunuch is by His Majesty's side, and there is no way to prove each other. So ......"

"Hmph, this guy is the eldest brother of Da Sima, do you think that this official can't do anything about him? Go, let Hao Cheng issue an order, and then take it to Shangshutai and let Uncle Zhang use the seal, and directly send this guy to Anding County to be the county magistrate. ”

"No! But Changshi, I want to remind you that Anding County is not in the hands of my Han now. ”

"That's what it is! Isn't he very capable? Under the good situation that my Han swept through Longxi, can't he come to a single horse to settle down? ”

"Xia Guan understood. I'll take care of that later. ”

"Hmm." After examining Liu Chan's daily whereabouts report very intently again, he raised his head briefly: "Is there anything unusual on King Zhuti's side?" ”

"Long history, this is the daily report of King Judy that has just been delivered. Due to the travel, this report was ten days ago. ”

"Hey, is the pigeon station in Juti and Chengdu still unstable?"

"Yes, ten pigeons deliver the news, and usually only two or three arrive. Sometimes there isn't even a single one. The people of the Wumeng family speculated that there might be too many birds of prey near the Hengduan Mountains, which caused the carrier pigeons to fly over and take a great risk. Therefore, it is more reliable to transmit manpower. ”

"Okay." For King Juti's daily life, simple is not particularly concerned. After all, from the moment when he did not dare to go out in Chengdu and was despised by the military and civilians of the whole country, Liu Xuan's political life can be said to have ended.

Next, I briefly and very carefully reviewed the comprehensive report of the royal family, and this time the work was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was close to noon.

Raising his hand, he stretched, yawned, and said simply, "Do you have anything special to report over there?" ”

"Looking back at the long history, there is no such thing today."

"Well, so be it. Eat first, and then the official will take a lunch break. Before midnight, I called Ling Xu to come and see me. ”

"No! The next official retires! ”

The so-called Lingxu is Pei Yue's expression. And Pei Yue is the eldest son of Pei Jun, the predecessor of Shu Han.

Pei Jun is the same as Pei Xiu, the current Shangshu of the Jin Empire, from the Wenxi Pei family. The relationship between the two is: Pei Jun's brother is called Pei Qian, and Pei Qian's son is called Pei Xiu. Pei Xiu of the Jin Kingdom called Pei Jun of Shu Han an uncle and called Pei Yue a cousin.

It is said that when Pei Jun was a child, because his brother-in-law was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, he happily followed his brother-in-law and sister to Yizhou to play. As a result, after going there, Liu Yan deliberately sent Zhang Lu to block the traffic between Yizhou and Guanzhong, and there was no way back. I had to stay. It is precisely because of this that there is also the existence of Wenxi Pei's family within Shu Han.

(There is also the existence of the Hanoi Sima clan within Shu Han.) In the early years, because of Liu Yan's relationship, the first generation of the Dongzhou faction was actually the essence from all over the country. ）

Pei Jun died early. His eldest son, Pei Yue, first served as the overseer of the Shu Han Yulin Legion. Later, Guan Yi opened the mansion, and the entire Dongzhou faction was the first to move closer to the Fuxing Society, and Pei Yue entered the Dasima Mansion and became the captain of the agricultural school under Ma Guo's command who was in charge of agriculture.

"My subordinates met Jian Changshi, I don't know if Changshi recruited each other, what errand did he send?"

"Hehehe, Ling Xu is here, sit, please sit." What Jian Wushuang doesn't like the most is the children cultivated by these super families, this etiquette is simply perverted, which makes him very uncomfortable when he has always been bohemian.

But work matters. So Jian Wushuang still had a rare leg together, and put his butt on his heels upright: "Please Lingxu come over this time, I just want to ask, this year's spring ploughing is almost over, right?" ”

"Long history Rongyu, at present, in addition to the four counties of Longxi and the two counties of Liangzhou, among the original twenty-two counties, the three counties of Wudu, Yinping and Wenshan are mainly planted with winter wheat, so there is no problem of spring ploughing. In the remaining 19 counties, the large-scale spring ploughing has all ended. The cultivation of seedlings has already begun. In the middle to late of next month, rice planting will begin. ”

"Good, how much rice field area is expected to be in the nineteen southern counties this year?"

"Uh...... Check it out...... Oh, and the nineteen counties in the south, where rice is expected to be planted, is 19 million mu this year, an increase of 4 million mu from last year. ”

"So much growth? Is it because of the land occupation order? ”

"This is one of them, and the other is that Da Sima moved 50,000 people from Soochow at the end of the previous year. Among them, 40,000 people have entered the national civil register, and these 40,000 people alone have reclaimed no less than 1 million acres of newly cultivated land. ”

"Excellent! In this way, we will be able to have at least 20 million stone grain taxes in July this year, and after deducting all kinds of money, we will have 8 million stone of grain in storage. ”

"Yes, as long as there are no major disasters this year, in theory."

"Hehehe, my Yizhou is the country of abundance in the end, and there are not so many agricultural disasters throughout the country in my Yizhou. Well, how many acres of potato planting have just begun to roll out this year? ”

"Uh...... Long history of forgiveness. Because this product has just been promoted to the whole country, many farmers are skeptical. Although the Diannong Yamen organized many rounds of on-the-spot persuasion with the cooperation of Si Wencao, the effect was not very good. Moreover, the planting of this thing actually conflicts with the time of rice seedling raising, so the energy of farmers everywhere is also very limited...... In March and April this year, a total of 3 million acres of potatoes were planted. ”

"Hehehe, this thing is a little south of my Yizhou, and it can be planted all year round. That is, this year's brother's order was given a little late, otherwise if the planting was started in October last year, the harvest would have been harvested now...... It doesn't matter, plant it this spring, and when the summer harvest is over, the rice should be harvested, and then those people will know how amazing this thing that Da Sima took out! ”

"Hehehe, Xia Guan is also looking forward to this. The lower officials don't know how this thing is produced, but what the lower officials know is that this thing doesn't pick the ground, and it can be planted in any mountainous and sandy area. If it is true that the yield is extremely high, as the long history says. At most, next year, the cultivated area of my Dahan can be doubled! ”

"You'll see. My elder brother said that even if the cultivated land area of Dahan is only the existing 22 counties, as long as the manpower is sufficient, it is not surprising that even if 100 million mu of cultivated land is opened. ”

looked at Pei Yue, who had a mouth so big that he could stuff eggs, smiled briefly, and started another topic: "This time, about 100,000 people were transferred from my country's Northern Expedition, and there is no shortage of labor in spring ploughing in various places, right?" ”

"Fortunately, Da Sima and Da General are people who are sympathetic to the people, and in February of this year, a large number of soldiers and civilians returned to their hometowns. So it's just that in some places the spring plowing time is a little late, and the others are okay. ”

"That's good. Well, by the way, did you go to see Kong Shuo (Wang Ji)? ”

"Xiaguan originally planned to go over when he started cultivating seedlings in February this year, but Wang Zhan said that they are all seedlings now, and he can't see anything, so he can ask Xiaguan to arrive before the harvest in July this year."

"Hey, hey, this Wang Kongshuo is really a child's temper. Is this treasure still going to be hidden? Hey, speaking of which, there are still a lot of deficiencies in this potato, and the official has tried to use potatoes as a staple food for a month in a row, but the result is all kinds of uncomfortable. So this thing can be used for the stomach. I really want everyone in my Han to eat well, and I have to look at Kong Shuo's results! ”