Chapter 764: The Food Problem
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As an economic expert, Ji Ran did a lot of homework, and he followed Zhao Wuxian on the march to read the information of the counties and townships along the way. He has only been in the country of Lu for more than half a month, but he seems to be a Lu country, and after discussing on this occasion, Ji Ran calculated the account for Zhao Wuxian.
"The general has worked hard in Lu for several years, selling porcelain, Lu Min and other things in exchange for food, and many places have been Su Zhi for a year, Qufu, Yuncheng and other places have even Su Zhi for two years. However, the general fought continuously for a year and a half, and every mobilization, assembly, and training consumed a large amount of food, and there was not much left of the warehouses in these areas. Not to mention that Lu Guo's young and strong people were transferred to the army, and the people were already short of labor, and then Lu Guo was recruited by Qi, last year's autumn harvest was affected, and this year's spring ploughing was even delayed. ”
As a result, the grain in Lu is barely enough to eat until the autumn harvest, and many places are afraid of famine before the autumn. In the past few years, the general has suppressed grain prices through average losses, but now it is going to rise wildly, and Lu Guosu will be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars at that time, and the people's hearts will be chaotic! This is not counting the general's army, which is another huge expense, relying on the grain transported to Yuncheng by Taoqiu to maintain military supplies, what should I do after that? ”
He finally came to a conclusion: "In short, if there is an additional burden of 30,000 mouths, the current Lu State simply cannot afford to raise so many prisoners, even if they are allowed to participate in the harvest as gangsters, they have to wait for the autumn harvest in July and August, and now it is the middle of May, and the general must find enough food for 30,000 people to eat for three months, otherwise it will ......"
Ji Ran didn't say any more, but Zhao Wuxian knew the consequences, food is the foundation of all countries, if you can't even eat enough, all fame and hegemony will be impossible.
He touched his chin and said: "I won't stay in Lu for a long time, the western front of the Jin State is in an emergency, Tongyu has been captured by Zhiyao, Han Hu and Le Fuli retreated to the party and the eldest son, I am afraid that they may not be able to hold it at any time, the battle line is moving towards Taihang, and even Wen County is not safe." By June at the latest, my army will return westward, and the food burden of Lu will be lightened. ”
"As for the prisoners' rations...... Zhao Wuxian thought for a moment, "what is the shortage?" ”
Ji Ran turned the abacus, and he couldn't put down this invention: "A human eclipse of one stone and a half corn per month, three months, is about four stones and five buckets, and 30,000 people is 140,000 stones." ”
"You don't have to eat enough, but when you are full, you will have the mind to resist, just one stone a month, 30,000 people...... 100,000 stones? ”
Zhao Wuxian smiled: "I remember that after the defeat of Chaoge, there were more than one million stone of grain in the city, and most of the people ate and chewed in a year, and there were still hundreds of thousands. Now that the transportation of the country has been opened, you can go down the river at any time, and then take the land route to meet the country. ”
"Chaoge can't move the grain." Ji Ran was very resolute.
"Although the general won the war in the east, the battle between the west and the Marquis of Jin, Zhi, Wei and Fan, and Zhongxing was separated by the Taihang, Huo Tai and other mountain systems, and even if the war went well, it would take a year and a half, or even longer. Zhao Han garrisoned a lot, Hanoi had just recovered from the war, and many places did not have grain in stock before the autumn harvest, and they were all counting on Chaoge's warehouse to help, so Chaoge's grain must not be used! What's more, there is more than one shortage of grain needs among the people of Lu, and it is estimated that it will take 300,000 stone to make the grain price of Lu fall and enter the autumn harvest safely. Thousands of miles of millet were lost, and one-third of them were eaten by the people in Lu country, and the gains outweighed the losses. ”
"How should that be......" Zhao Wuxian frowned.
Wei? There is no need to count on Weiguo, when Zhao Wuxian left, Diqiu himself was short of food, and he blamed him for destroying Weiguo too much in recent years.
Cao Guo? Cao Guo also suffered a great chaos, and Zigong also had to bear the food for the Zhao army to return to the division, which was much more important than keeping the Qi prisoners from starving to death.
Song? The Song Kingdom is also difficult, the eldest brother has been complaining all day long, everyone is comfortable in peacetime, but the war is tight, it is said that Nanzi has tightened his belt and taken the lead in reducing meals to support the Zhao family.
A small country in Sishang? Those small states can be squeezed, but some states have a population of only 350,000, and even if they are forced to die, they can't suddenly come up with so much food.
A penny is difficult to defeat a hero, and only 300,000 stone of grain makes it difficult for General Zhao Xiao, who has great martial arts.
Zhao Wuxian thought about it again and again, and finally his eyes lit up, and he patted his head, he was really stupid, he couldn't see Mount Tai!
"There's food here!" Zhao Wuxian walked to the map spread out in the big tent and knocked on the area north of Wenshui and the western foot of Mount Tai, which was the territory of Qi and had a large number of cities.
"As early as two days ago, I sent Yu Xi's commander a thousand horsemen as a vanguard to enter the Qi realm to explore the way, although my army has to rest and return to the Jin State to save the emergency, but I can't let the Qi country open in the south gate, it would be a pity to miss this opportunity, it is better to leave a partial division to go to the south of the Qi country to occupy the city, because the food is the enemy!"
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"The treasury of the supply army is mainly in Dong'e and Pingyin, in addition, Sui, Barrier, Yangzhou, these thousands of rooms have tens of thousands of stone grain ......"
With the Jin and Zheng states initiating, the written law has gradually become popular among the princes, and the Qi state also has a "Kufa" that specifically arranges grain storage. As a prisoner, Gao Wupi was forced to be helpless, and pointed out to Zhao Wuxian where the military rations of Qi were on the map, this area was called the field of Wenyang, which was originally the territory of the Lu State, and was eaten away by the Qi State in two hundred years and became an enemy territory.
Of course, he and Guoxia knew what Zhao Wuxian was going to do, but what could he do with the knife on his neck? What's more, the Qi people have not plundered the granary when they entered Lu, and now they have reported and reported, I only hope that Zhao Wuxian can really abide by the bottom line of his "martial arts", and the damage to the southern border of Qi can be as small as possible.
However, Guoxia and Gao Wupi were destined to be disappointed, because the partial coach that Zhao Wuxian decided to stay behind was Liu Xia, who started from robbing his family......
"Before the first battle of Wenshui, there were still nearly 10,000 people on the eastern front of the Qi army, and they didn't have time to come to converge, I let Liu Xia Guan deal with them, and now these people have been unbearable and retreated to Muling Pass, and I want to rely on 3,000 people to conquer this Xiongguan Pass is only afraid that it is impossible, I will let Liu Xia Guan turn westward, and enter the land of Wenyang through the Jiagu and Long Spoon area, while robbing grain for the Lu State, while attacking the city, as for how much land can be gnawed, it depends on him and Xu Cheng playing."
Xu Cheng's boat master has already become a small success, and he can also Yang Fan go down the Jishui River and go deep into the hinterland of Qi State, creating panic and Qi people going against the current, which is difficult to defend.
Ji Ran was deeply impressed by this strategy, and he said: "Indeed, the Qi army has fallen by nearly half, and it is impossible to organize a large army to resist in a short period of time, which is a great opportunity to recover the inherent territory of the Lu State. However, it is not appropriate for the whole army to attack on a large scale, if the old decay is not bad, the Qi State Office and the country, Gao Erqing's troops will be lost, and there will be great changes in the Qi country! If the external enemy is too strong, the Qi people who look like they are separated will join forces to resist the enemy, and if the attack is not light or serious, the Qi people will fight by themselves. ”
Zhao Wuxian also thinks so, the reason why he detains Guoxia and Gao Wupi and does not let go or kill is to wait for such a situation to complete his oriental layout: "Yes, such a good opportunity, if Chen Qi and Chen Heng's father and son do not move, they will not be Chen." ”
At the same time as sending Yu Xi to enter the Qi realm to explore the way, Zhao Wuxian also deliberately let some Qi prisoners go back, mixed with a lot of fine works, and they will publicize the mistakes of the country and Gao Erqing in Dong'e and Pingyin. Zhao Wuxian hoped that the Chen clan could not hold back and plunge the Qi State into a great chaos for power and profit, and there was no time to affect him to finish the Jin civil war.
Liu Xia and Xu Cheng are swords stabbing at the Qi State, they will bring the taste of war to the Qi people, Ran Qiu is the shield to stabilize the situation in the Lu State, he is responsible for guarding the prisoners, screening and distinguishing them, and transporting them to various places to serve in labor. With these two people here, Lu Guo can have no worries.
After making a plan, the Zhao army prepared to pull out the camp and leave. It is now the fifth day after the Battle of Wenshui, and the interrogation and screening of the good people in Qiren Township are almost carried out, and it is basically clear which ones killed the people and bureaucrats in Xilu.
"Put those thousands of people in solitary confinement, starve them for a day, let them report to each other, who killed someone, who did evil, who is the main culprit, who is the accessory, try to find out. I only gave three days, and on the first day I couldn't find it, so I would draw one out of ten people and kill it, and on the second day, if I couldn't find it, I would draw two out of ten people and kill it, and on the third day, I would slaughter it all! ”
Zhao Wuxian was ruthless, and a wave of mutual reporting blew among the Qi captives, putting everyone in danger, which was the punishment for the collective crime of ordinary soldiers, for a while, in order to survive, the robe turned against him, and the township party broke off his righteousness, and soon found out nearly a thousand people.
Five hundred accomplices were sentenced to corporal punishment, and another five hundred Qi people, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Lu people, were executed in a shocking manner when the Zhao army traveled to Qufu. Every half mile a stake was erected, on which were nailed a Qi man, who had been nailed alive, with their bellies pulled open, their intestines hanging out, and only one arm straightened, pointing in the direction of Siru, the direction in which they had committed their crimes!
Zhao Wuxian did not kill prisoners on a large scale, showing his generosity to the world, but now, in this way, he also showed his temperament of directly repaying grievances, warning everyone that those who offend the people of the Zhao family will be punished! This is much more shocking than a simple Jingguan.
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In late May, Zhao Wuxian and Le Wei returned to Qufu with the Zhao and Song coalition forces, a huge prisoner procession ceremony was held at the north gate, more than half a month ago, the Qi people were still here to show off their might, but now they all passed through the city tower in despair, kneeling in front of a group of Qufu people, bearing the attack of rotten vegetables and stones, as well as the spitting of countless Lu dialects.
Zhao Wuxian fulfilled his promise, and with him in power, Lu was no longer a weak state that could be bullied by others, but a strong country that could fight back against invasion and atrocities!
The unprecedented victory in two hundred years has nothing to do with the monarch of the Lu State. Lu Hou only symbolically showed his side, and then timidly retracted back into the palace, he has been a puppet for several years, indulging in wine to forget this helpless reality, and now his body is not as good as day by day, and he is only afraid that the lamp will run out, Zhang Mengtan believes that it is time to pay attention to finding a new monarch.
Zhang Mengtan said: "Lu Hou has only one son, named 'Jiang', who is only twelve or thirteen this year, and has been made the crown prince. ”
Wuxian thought for a while and said: "Take him out of the Lu Palace, build an East Palace for him alone, and invite a few teachers and masters to tell him more about the benefits of delegating power to the shogunate and ruling the monarch." ”
He suddenly laughed: "Of course, even if the Lu State changes the monarch, it is you, the old man, who is actually in power, and the future Lu State is likely to have a twelve or thirteen-year-old monarch, plus a newly weaned shogun, Meng Tan can take care of it a lot......"
"Ever since I met the lord in the Pan Palace, I knew that I couldn't get rid of my hard work." Zhang Mengtan smiled bitterly and shook his head, and went down to arrange the above matters.
In addition, the reward for merit must also be carried out immediately, originally Ran Qiu, Zhang Mengtan, Yu Xi and others are all large landlords who already have vast food fields and more than 100 servants. After this battle, many of them made meritorious contributions, so the soldiers were promoted to the lower doctors, and the lower doctors were promoted to the doctors, and the fields given to Ran Qiu, Gongyi and others were even as many as 10,000 acres!
Later, Zhao Wuxian had to consider the weight of the heavier reward, and gave Qianshu City as a food town, just as many Donglu doctors were either arrested or defected, and the Hebei region of the Jin State was empty, and the thieves could also lay down the fields of Wenyang after a little time, and the power was constantly expanding, and Zhao Wuxian did not worry about having no land to reward.
Of course, these are all false seals, supplemented by feudalism, and the national policy of centralizing the county system must not be destroyed!
Considering that the titles of Qing, doctor, and scholar are too few, and the room for growth is insufficient, after the civil war of the Jin Kingdom, it is time to carry out restructuring in Jinlu and get a twentieth rank to come out.
After the Lu people have vented enough and cheered enough, Le Hui, who has enjoyed the pleasure of the big victory, will take the Song army back to the Song Kingdom through Di, Xiao Yi and other places, and by the way, scare and scare the princes of Sishang, let them know that the Qi State is over, and Sishang is still the order co-dominated by Lu and Song.
As for Zhao Wuxian, he took Guoxia, Gao Wupi, Gongzi Yangsheng, and those Qi soldiers who connived at the looting and murder of soldiers to return to the west, during which he would pass through Yuncheng, and what awaited them was an unprecedented trial!
Interestingly, a gentleman of the Jin State was angry with the people of the Lu State and tried a group of generals and military officials of the Qi State, but it was a Zheng Guo who served as the "manager" of the trial.
He is the writer of China's first civil criminal law "Bamboo Punishment", and he is also the founder of the study of famous law, his name is Deng Xi...... (To be continued.) )