From the end of June to July of the first year of Xingping, most of the prefectures and counties in the world were in drought for months, and then the locusts suddenly rose, eating up all the rice, and the grain shortage that occurred once in a hundred years affected the four prefectures of Yan, Hebei, Henan, and Si, and the border of Kanto, and the grain price skyrocketed a hundred times, with 50,000 yuan per grain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Guanzhong is even more miserable, there have been two earthquakes in June, coupled with drought and locust plagues, the price of grain is higher, ten times that of Kanto, millet is 500,000 yuan, beans and wheat are 200,000 yuan, the people starve to death in pieces, the people of Chang'an City compete for food, and the white bones are accumulated.

Liu Xie, the son of heaven, avoided the main hall to pray for rain, sent a messenger to clean up and examine the prisoners, and ordered the envoy Shi Hou Wen to go out of Taicang rice beans, make porridge for the hungry people, and give porridge to the hungry people, and the hungry people still did not decrease after the day, Liu Xie suspected that the relief was false, so he personally measured the rice beans in front of the throne and tried to make porridge, and learned that Hou Wen's porridge was deducted, so he sent Liu Ai to ask the steward, Shang Shu ordered the following to go to the provincial cabinet of the Forbidden Central Government Office to admit their mistakes, and asked Hou Wen to be arrested for investigation and verification, Liu Xie issued an edict to punish Hou Wen fifty, and re-sent people to put porridge.

But only a few days, Taicang grain and rice is insufficient, the son of heaven Liu Xie urgently, the edict Zuo Fengyi to provide grain, Zuo Fengyi because of the proper response, grain and grass abundant, Zuo Fengyi Cheng Du Yi after receiving the edict, Feixin reported to Zhang Liao, and Zhang Liao allowed to supply 100,000 stone of grain to the imperial court.

At the same time, Cao Cao and Lu Bu in the Puyang battlefield fell into a food crisis at the same time, Yanzhou was already a serious disaster, the autumn harvest was sharply reduced, coupled with the war, the fertile land was barren, the situation was more severe, a large number of people poured into Qingzhou and Jibei, Taishan two counties, Cao Hong, who guarded Dongping, was adjacent to Jibei, but he did not dare to stop it, lest Zhang Liao of Qingzhou make a move.

Lu Bu and Cao Cao held each other in Puyang for more than 100 days, both sides ran out of grain stocks, unable to fight anymore, Cao Cao withdrew from Puyang, Lu Bu was not as good as that, Puyang ran out of food, Lu Bu and Chen Gong, Zhang Miao withdrew from Puyang, hungry all the way to collect grain, but how could it be collected, to Jiyin County Chengshi County, Lu Bu sent people to the city to ask for grain and grass, Chengshi is the accumulation place of the Li clan, very influential in the central part of Yanzhou, a total of more than 13,000 tribes and clans, the leader Li Gan is a close confidant of Cao Cao.

At present, Lu Bu's soldiers are coming to the city, the county is in an uproar, Li Gan's clan Li Shujie out of his own money, kill a few fat cows, carry dozens of stone wine, make 10,000 Hu cakes, go out of the city to reward Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, Lu Bu is overjoyed, and Li Shujie's brother Li Jin attacked Lu Bu's military camp with his soldiers that night, so that Lu Bu's soldiers and horses were in chaos, and then returned to Chengshi County safely.

Lü Bu was furious and wanted to attack the city to retaliate, but was dissuaded by Chen Gong and Zhang Miao, the Li clan was extremely influential in Yanzhou, if the Li clan was attacked, in this sensitive situation, it was easy to arouse the hostility of the Yanzhou clan, pushing them to Cao Cao's side, Lü Bu had no choice but to evacuate and enter Shanyang County.

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After Cao Cao returned to Juancheng with soldiers and horses, he saw that there was no grain and grass in the city, nearly half of the people fled to Qingzhou, and the soldiers all had vegetables, and he went to Fan County and Dong'e, the situation was also very bad, his situation at this time was extremely difficult, most of the counties in Yanzhou were still out of control, lack of food and grass, and almost despair.

On the bank of the Yellow River, Cao Cao looked to the north, his face was a little depressed, and at this time, a horse came running, and immediately a tall and thin old man in his fifties jumped down, but it was Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu came to Cao Cao's side, bowed his hand, and asked unceremoniously: "I heard that the general wants to take refuge in Yuan Shao?" ”

Cao Cao was a little weak-hearted, and said embarrassedly: "It's just that I entrusted my family to Ben Chu and let them live in Yecheng." ”

When he said this, he didn't believe it himself. Two days ago, Yuan Shao came from Jizhou to envoy and asked Cao Cao to send his family to live in Yecheng, in fact, this is a euphemism, what really means to let Cao Cao belong to him and be his little brother.

Cao Cao was struggling at this time, lost his confidence in dominating the world, hesitated, and was about to accept Yuan Shao, but he didn't want Cheng Yu to learn the news and rushed over.

Cheng Yu didn't seem to see Cao Cao's embarrassed expression, and said unceremoniously: "The general is afraid of something?" Otherwise, why not worry deeply! Husband Yuan Shao has the heart to annex the world, but wisdom can't help, and the general can do it himself! With the power of the dragon and tiger, the general can be Han and Peng Xie! Although Yanzhou is ruined today, there are still three cities, and there are no less than 10,000 people who can fight. ”

Obviously, the old man is a little angry, I finally desperately defended the three counties for you, and before you reached the end of the mountain, you went to seek refuge in Yuan Shao, who we all looked down on.

Cao Cao listened to Cheng Yu's words, pondered for a long time, and said, "That's it, just leave it." ”

Cheng Yu breathed a long sigh of relief: "In this way, the general please return to the city, regroup, recuperate, and fight Lu Bu again." ”

Cao Cao sighed: "It's just that there is no food and grass, so what can I do." ”

Cheng Yu squinted his eyes: "I have my own way." ”

After returning to Dong'a, Cheng Yu immediately went around collecting the corpses of starving people, cutting meat to make human jerky, a few days later, the hungry Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were surprised to eat the meat that had not been seen for a long time, although these dried meat had a strange taste, but who could take care of these, just fill their stomachs.

Later, Cheng Yu suggested that Cao Cao go to rob the tomb of King Liang, collect military funds, and buy grain from Yuzhou and other places, so as to carry through the most difficult period.

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Yuan Shu was in Shouchun, expanding soldiers and horses, and was also short of food, so he sent people to Lujiang Taishou Lu Kang to ask for 30,000 stones.

Lu Kang thought that Yuan Shu was rebellious, closed doors and did not associate with him, and renovated the war preparations to meet the enemy, Yuan Shu was furious, and ordered Sun Ce, who got his father's old department in Shouchun, to attack Lujiang, and promised Sun Ce to take Lujiang after capturing Lujiang, and Sun Ce then led his troops south to attack Lujiang.

Xuzhou, Xuzhou Mu Taoqian was slumped by Cao Cao's two attacks on Xuzhou, bedridden, sick and dying, said don't drive the East China Sea Mizhu said: "If Liu Bei is not able to settle in this state." ”

After Tao Qian's death, although Mi Zhu's heart belonged to Zhang Liao, but Kong Rong was also there at that time, he could not disobey Tao Qian's will, so he went to Xiao Pei with Chen Deng to welcome Liu Bei, who was previously praised by Tao Qian as the assassin of Yuzhou, Liu Bei knew that Xuzhou was the place of the four wars, the local forces were complicated, and the soldiers and horses were firmly controlled by Cao Bao, and he was unwilling to be the pastor of Xuzhou, so he suggested that Mi Zhu and Chen Deng go to meet Yuan Shu.

Kong Rong, Mi Zhu and Chen Deng all looked down on Yuan Shu, Liu Bei suggested that they go to meet Zhang Liao, this time the three hesitated, Tao Qian liked Liu Bei, but Liu Bei refused, and it made sense for them to welcome Zhang Liao, so Mi Zhu went to Qingzhou to find Zhang Liao. But when I arrived in Qingzhou, Mi Zhu learned that Zhang Liao was not in Qingzhou at this time.

In Shanyang County, Lu Bu's soldiers and horses were also in short supply of grain and grass, and they were struggling, and most of their pride when they first won Yanzhou was lost, so Lu Bu personally went to Qingzhou to ask Zhang Liao for help, and asked for food and grass.

But when he arrived in Qingzhou, Lu Bu learned that Zhang Liao was not in Qingzhou.