In the second year of Taiping in the Great Liang Dynasty / the late spring of the ninth year of Yuanxing in the Tang Dynasty, there was a great drought in the north, and dozens of states in Henan and Huaibei were all thousands of miles of red land, and the rain was not touched, and the grass and trees were dry.

At that time, there was a hunger everywhere, and thieves swarmed, and then they became more than a dozen shares, which have broken several counties, and several times this emergency, and the local division could not control it, so they begged the town guard to send troops to exterminate it.

So the thieves raged, and the misery became more and more unspeakable, and the exiles became heavier.

Huainan, mountain (south) east drought is slightly better, but it is not immune to the trouble of dry water and shallow river, Baigou, Yongji canal water depth is less than a foot, cao boats and official and private ships are not allowed to go, the grain transportation is difficult, the goods between the north and the south, silting is innumerable,

For the trouble of water source irrigation, so the two sides of the Grand Canal are also full of disputes, there are clans and surnames who beat the dead, all thrown in the river, and many of them block the tributaries, so it is called the blood canal.

On the same day, the Gaomi army built an embankment in Dapoze to intercept the water, diverted the canal to irrigate, and then the downstream water was exhausted.

In one fell swoop, more than 1,000 were killed, more than half of the embankments were dug, and the Gaomi army was restored to the high-density army, which was defeated and defeated, and all the way to Yaozhou, so the guards were shaken and gathered troops to recapture.

Seeing that the situation is raging, it has already affected several town guards, and the war between the two Huai is about to start.

The countermeasure of the Luodu side is to just behead dozens of officials below the capital water supervisor, river engineering patrol, and water department Langguan, and their relatives are all sent to the north to be military slaves to thank the world.

Looking at the stains and blood stains on the steps and steps of the palace, it was a prison river Yushi who was unwilling to accept his fate of beheading, and tried to desperately scream in front of the palace, was sentenced on the spot by the Jinwu guards in front of the palace, and the punishment of hitting the top of the golden gourd was just a little bit of zài feeling.

There are already many such things, from the court to the palace guards and guards, they are all a little familiar with it, as long as it does not involve their own bodies, they can even cross the past from above with a calm heart.

"The disadvantages of river engineering and water conservancy are in one day,"

Standing at the top of the cloud steps called Longwei Road, Yang Si, the secretary of the Northern Dynasty Military Department, sighed softly to the people around him

"It's just a false response."

Since the beginning of the turmoil in the country, the use of troops has been quite numerous, and the money invested by the national dynasty in water conservancy and canals has been exhausted day by day, and the feudal town guards have confronted each other and acted separately, which has further exacerbated this decadent trend.

Now that there is no rain in the spring, this is just another concentrated outbreak of this kind of accumulated arrears on the basis of water conservancy and the feelings of accumulated shortcomings for many years. Killing a few scapegoats who usually use these positions to raise themselves, apart from fooling some scholars and ordinary people, is there any real benefit?

"I'm more worried about the North ......"

The man standing next to him replied

"According to the secret spy of the staff division in the Datong army, the report was ......"

"South of Lushui, this year's snow covers half a foot ......"

"I'm afraid that the Governor's Mansion of Songmo, Jinwei, and Raole will have frequent black disasters......"

Yang Si suddenly fell silent,

The so-called black plague is in some traditional water meadows, because the snow layer accumulated during the winter is too thin, and there is not enough meltwater to nourish the sprouts of those grass roots.

This is undoubtedly bad news for the weak herds on the grasslands who have managed to survive the winter. They don't have enough food to recover and nutrients to enter the summer breeding season, because that would mean a chain reaction, a huge loss of grazing throughout the year.

Compared with the white plague of heavy snow, the temperature dropped sharply, and a large number of people and animals were frozen, he hoped that it was the former, compared to the white plague that immediately caused the extinction of the dead race, the impact and chain reaction of the latter, after all, it will take time to slowly manifest itself.

And because of the loss of the black plague, and the unfavorable beginning of spring, those half-nomadic and half-settled mixed feudal tribes will make decisions and measures to seek to survive the difficult situation and consume the excess population, I don't know.

Although after hundreds of years of division and colonization, most of the pastoral tribes in the grasslands of Saibei either hid in the permafrost and vast forests further north as savages, or were domesticated into nomadic tribes specializing in raising sheep and cattle, and providing war horses and animal products.

However, the horsemanship and fierce legacy honed by the grassland are still there, even if they themselves are a plate of loose sand, but the princes who are responsible for managing them are not fuel-efficient lamps.

Although most of the outside of the Saiwai area is a barren and bitter cold land with a low population, it needs to be cultivated and cultivated for generations, and water conservancy facilities such as canals and irrigation ditches accumulated little by little to change the water and soil in order to become a middle-class field. But compared to those wandering nomads, it is much more secure.

therefore

Since the Taixing Dingxin, it took more than ten generations of management and division of the Tang Dynasty to divide and raise the surnames of the various ethnic groups living in these nominally subordinate places in the past, which were set up along the river and dotted in the vast grasslands with abundant water and grass, fortress defense lines and strongholds in the reclamation area.

So that they no longer become decent border troubles, except for some scattered people who were desperate because of famine and civil strife, in that era of the Tang Dynasty, which was in full swing, they had not heard the border police for hundreds of years.

However, since the Yiwei Rebellion, the authority of the Tang Dynasty and the strength of the imperial court have fallen with the sun, and these feudal princes of the northern Saiyanbian have also begun to become new hidden advantages, and even formed an alliance to participate in the change of the court.

The establishment of the Zhidao Luodu Imperial Court only stopped, and under the general trend and the deterrence of the Western Army, the Chengguang Empire, which originated from the Northern Tang Dynasty, was recognized.

However, with the Zhang family's dedication to national politics, these foreign vassals did not play the banner of the Qing monarch and Kuang Fu Tianzi, but openly and secretly provoked the side to make trouble, and even openly refused to recognize the authority of the Luodu court.

Moreover, in order to distinguish themselves from the Koubian foreigners in history, they made their behavior into a way - to go south to eat.

More than ten years ago, the straight road was coerced by the regent with the Son of Heaven to drive the expedition, and the layout broke the Northern Domain coalition army outside the mountain pass, obviously, the current new generation of population has begun to grow up again,

And so on,

If you can't keep it, the court will have to add a lot of extra expenses. In this way, the goods and dividends obtained from the destruction of Dengzhou Town, and the national economy, which has been relieved, have become tense and difficult again.

As one of the leaders of the main army in the DPRK, how could he not know the stakes, compared to the turmoil caused by the drought in Lianghuai, most of those who are rampant on the road are just hungry and foodless people, after all, they can be wiped out by mercenaries afterwards.

If these northern provinces are divided and successfully "go south to eat", it will be a different situation.

The best result is that the imperial court will divide and disintegrate it with huge profits, so that it will not be able to fight with each other and cannot go south from ancient times, or if there is only a small amount of buckle edges, it can also be sent away lightly;

And the worst possibility is that they join forces to "go south to eat", and then break through the fortress line of Yanbian towns, so that the imperial court will lose a large number of people, goods and materials, even if it costs a lot of money, after driving them out again, it will have to work hard to reconstruct the Yanbian defense line.

And there is one of the most unwilling results, that is, these Saibei princes began to merge with each other, and then gave birth to a behemoth monster with a temporary internal unity, which is also something that the Luodu court did not hesitate to assassinate, buy, divide and disintegrate, and even send troops to fight with all its might.

In an instant, he had multiple plans and plans in his mind.

The chaotic area at the junction of the two rivers seems to have entered summer early.

The sky was cloudless, and under the blazing sun, even the iconic water pool was visibly reduced by a few circles, revealing cracked mudflats and reed roots.

However, the sea market in the mountains behind Liangshan is showing a kind of deformed prosperity.

The news that the official army once again entered the siege not only did not scare away these profit-seekers, but it seemed that they did not know how long this unique situation could last, and desperately tried to get back the capital and profits as much as possible before Liangshan was suppressed by the official army.

In this atmosphere, iron tools from Fusang and grain from Yiju and Silla were delivered to Yangsan almost at any cost, just hoping that they would hold out for a long time.

Chen Yuan, who was sweating profusely, was counting a batch of newly created weapons, and after coming to Liangshan, he found that he had become both long and multi-capable, or the foundation and potential of the past, and the grim environment and busy daily life, to squeeze out a little bit.

Under the great drought and famine, Liangshan, which has food and force, naturally got a lot of soldiers, and has long restored the scale of the old camp and nine capitals, and the three men and horses on the left and right have also been restored and organized, but the weapons are somewhat insufficient.

It's just that he even has some suspicions that these defectors are actually deliberately put in by those officials and soldiers to increase Liangshan's material consumption and burden. It's just that these things are considered by others, and it is not his turn to worry about them.

Because of his neighbor's brother Pengju, who emerged in the attack on the official army, he made great achievements, so he became the general of the left army in Liangshan today, and there are more than 2,000 men and horses under his command, mainly among the small units of the brigade that came to defect, and selected the brave who are better at guns and sticks.

Even Chen Yuan, who was close to him, was also called the little master by the northerners, and he was one of the important positions of the counters in Liangshan. It's an important part of this little hill.

Now the power structure of Liangshan has taken shape, and the old battalion controlled by the leader of Luo Da is the only remaining old team in Liangshan, and it is also the essence of today's Liangshan army, and the horse exploration team that gathers all the cavalry and mobile forces is in the hands of his younger brother, Luo Ke's enemy.

And Liu Qi, the general of the right army, is also the old man of Liangshan, and he is also the only remaining general of Liangshan after the chaos that was kept secret, and his team is mainly from the people who have shrunk back from those peripheral strongholds and vassal forces after the civil strife in Liangshan, which is regarded as the second mountain of Liangshan.

And the third hill is naturally Chen Yuan's Pengju brother, the left army under his command.

The rear army, which is responsible for auxiliary affairs, does not have a general in the real sense, but is composed of several forces, the largest of which is the righteous servants from Yizhou, mainly young people, led by the leader of the righteous congregation, Ping Jiangmen.

It seems to be trained accordingly, and it is quite disciplined, and it is full of a certain military demeanor that is forbidden by order and prohibition.

The second is the old Dengzhou subordinate headed by Ke Shanmeng, they have the largest number of people and the most mixed, but there are not many people who can fight and fight, but most of them are craftsmen, merchants, and boat households.

And the leader of Luo Da relied on the joint efforts of the old battalion and the right army to maintain a certain absolute advantage and control over outsiders and newcomers.