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The advent of winter also put Liu Meng in a dilemma, the people who moved from Xiliang have arrived in Hedong, and the surrounding displaced people have also moved here in a big way because of Liu Meng's policy, the most intuitive manifestation is that now Hedong can provide Liu Meng with 8,000 points of killing intent every month, which is 2,000 more, but the problem is that there is not enough food for the winter.

Although a lot of grain and grass of the Xiliang Army were captured before, they were divided into two batches by Liu Meng and sent to Chang'an and Hedong respectively, and the inflow of population was too much, even if there is cultivated land, it will only be profitable next year, and now these people still need Liu Meng to open a warehouse and release grain to survive this winter.

"My lord, because of the advent of winter, it is difficult for the displaced people to obtain even grass roots, bark and other things outside, so in recent days, there have been more displaced people pouring into Hedong, although there is still a lot of grain and grass in the city, but according to this situation, it is no longer enough to survive this winter." Guo Jiadao.

Liu Meng doesn't understand political affairs at all, so he is only responsible for the general direction, and the specific matters are all operated by Guo Jialai.

Liu Meng also had a headache, he only wanted to attract the population, but he didn't expect to attract such a large number of displaced people in a short period of time, but the matter has already been done, if he refuses to accept the displaced people at this time, then his reputation will definitely be hit, and it may even cause a civil uprising.

After all, many displaced people came after hearing about Hedong's policy, and they may have exhausted their last rations when they arrived, and when they arrived in Hedong, you told them that they would not accept it, what would these people think? The hungry people can do anything, just like the yellow scarves of previous years.

"Fengxiao, what do you say about buying some grain from the middle clan in Luoyang City?" Liu Meng said.

"Luoyang has been occupied by our army at this time, and if you want to buy some food from those clans, you can do it, but the key is that there is not much money." Guo Jia smiled bitterly.

"Can you buy some of it, so can Feng Xiao have a way to survive this crisis? Now the number of people in our army's jurisdiction has increased greatly, and as long as they survive this winter, these people will be the productive forces of our army. ”

"My lord, Jingzhou is a rich land, and it was almost not affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and its state pastor Liu Biao is also a member of the Han family. Why don't you go to Jingzhou to borrow grain? Guo Jiadao.

"This, I have no friendship with Liu Biaosu, and Feng Xiao also knows the current situation, how can he lend me food?"

"The previous article and sent a secret report. Yan Runan Yuan Shu borrowed grain from Liu Biao but was rejected and secretly hated in his heart, so he raised troops to attack Jingzhou, the two armies won and lost each other, because the winter came before the army was stopped, if the lord led the troops to help each other after the beginning of spring. Thinking about it, Liu Biao will definitely not refuse. Guo Jiadao.

After Liu Meng came to Hedong, he asked Jia Xu to hand over any information to Guo Jia in the future, and Guo Jia sorted it out and then handed it over to him, Guo Jia also deserved Liu Meng's trust.

"The two Yuan brothers are really restless, their brother just took Jizhou not long ago, and his brother wants to take Jingzhou again, is this world really in the pocket of his two brothers?" Liu Meng said.

But then again, the two brothers do have that capital, although Liu Meng slightly hit Yuan Shao's prestige before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the fame of the fourth and third princes cannot be eliminated overnight.

The place where Yuan Shu lived in Huainan was also very rich, and it was not much better than Jingzhou. In terms of the comparison of forces, Liu Meng is not optimistic about Liu Biao, because Liu Biao has too few generals, and Huang Zhong seems to be under his command now, but I am afraid that it must not be reused, otherwise he will not become famous when he is old, anyway, Liu Meng's impression of Liu Biao is that he is a scribe, and it is okay to do poetry and internal affairs, and it seems that fighting is really not what he is good at.

"Then I'll go to Jingzhou in person." Liu Meng clapped his head.

Now Liu Meng's subordinates have no people who can speak well, and Guo Jia and Jia Xu have a lot of affairs and can't leave at all. Thinking about it, only he, the lord, is an idler, and he can also express his sincerity when he goes in person, which can greatly increase the success rate of the alliance.

Ren Xiuer heard that Liu Meng was going to Xiangyang and shouted to follow, saying that she hadn't seen her godmother for a long time. Liu Meng really couldn't pester, so she had to agree, although Ren Xiu'er missed Dian Wei's mother a little in her heart, to a greater extent, she just wanted to get along with Liu Meng more.

Now that the world is chaotic, Liu Meng naturally won't set off alone, and Guo Jia won't allow it, so the two of them took their generals to Xiangyang.

A thousand cavalry is not a small force. Liu Meng took the official road again, and he didn't encounter any blinding thieves along the way.

Although several years have passed since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the damage caused is too great, and the princes from all walks of life are busy fighting against Dong Zhuo, and then they are accumulating their own strength, so they are really not concerned about the suppression of bandits, so the people Liu Meng saw along the way are also quite poor.

But entering the territory of Jingzhou is a completely different scene, although Liu Biao is not good at war, but there is a set of governance, Jingzhou is like a paradise, the people are also worry-free, the face is not full of numbness, but full of satisfaction with life, a happy look.

"Second brother, when will the people under our rule be able to show such a look." Ren Xiuer said with emotion.

In these days in Hedong, what Ren Xiu'er saw the most were the homeless people who came after hearing the news, dressed in rags, yellow and thin, with no look in their eyes, women are all emotional, seeing such a scene made Ren Xiu'er wipe her tears several times.

"Definitely, haven't we been working on it?" Liu Meng said firmly.

It took half a month for the two to come to Xiangyang City, Liu Meng reported his identity to the guard, and entered the city after his report.

Although a thousand soldiers are not small, half of them are women, and Xiangyang is Liu Biao's base camp, so Liu Biao doesn't care about letting them all enter the city.

After entering the city, Liu Meng and others went to the post house to rest under the leadership of the officials sent by Liu Biao.

"Hou Anping can rest here, my lord invites Hou Anping to discuss matters again tomorrow, and someone will come to invite him then." With that, the official left.

Liu Meng is not in a hurry at this time, he is always fighting and killing these days, and he rarely has some leisure time, and he also wants to look around to relax his tense mood, and after letting his subordinates move freely, he took Ren Xiu'er out of the post house.

Xiangyang is indeed very prosperous, although there is no Luoyang's luxury, but it has its own literary atmosphere, and there are many people who come and go like scholars, which may also be because of Liu Biao, a scribe and state pastor.

Liu Meng's trip to Jingzhou this time is not only to borrow grain to form an alliance, but also to take the opportunity to see if he can meet some strategists and generals to take it for his own use, after all, with the expansion of the territory, his manpower is already a little stretched, so he still needs to stay in Xiangyang for a long time, so Liu Meng is not in a hurry to find the mother and others, and took Ren Xiu'er to wander around the city for a while, until noon, he found a restaurant to eat. (To be continued.) )