56. Great drought

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The spring swallow returns to the nest, the grass grows and the warbler flies, but it is another year when Vientiane is renewed.

After the winter in the mountains, after the first year (note), it is now the fourth year of the Han Dynasty.

This was supposed to be the best season of the year, but it hadn't been a month since the spring sowing, and the school was suspended again.

Winter ploughing is not counted, this year's spring sowing was only stopped once, it didn't take long, and it was stopped again, and now in addition to Tian Feng in the school, there are two more Wu masters, of course, it is still Tian Fuzi who speaks the most.

The two masters of the Wu family begged Tian Feng to find Deng Pimple Theory for a while, Tian Fuzi didn't want to get ahead, but he was idle and had nothing to do, and there were indeed a few smart ones among these thieves, so he couldn't hit the board, if it was really wasted, it would be a pity.

Deng Ji didn't expect the school to really cultivate students full of wealth, in his eyes, those are not brave enough to be used, but let the naughty children be literate and reasonable, and when they have the opportunity to put aside the identity of this thief in the future, they can just use it, and the facts in front of him are important, so he rightly rejected Tian Feng.

Tian Fuzi thought that his family was dispensable, but he was rejected by this thief, and he still felt unhappy in his heart, but he couldn't, so he had to go back.

Deng Ji's so-called important thing is to concentrate all his efforts on disaster relief, the last rain after the spring sowing to now, more than 20 days of rain has not fallen, the sky is still clear, for the farmers who rely on the sky for food, this is no bad news.

Winter ploughing only planted more than 20,000 acres of wheat, now there is no shortage of grain in the valley, in order to improve the life in the valley, the spring planted more hemp, but also transplanted a lot of mulberry trees, affected by the plague, the people before the Hou country have no trace, left behind a lot of wild hemp, mulberry trees, these naturally become the industry of thieves, last autumn women picked hemp seeds, this spring just planted not long after, then look at the day by day still no rain arrived.

Wheat is the most afraid of drought, and now it has just been pulled out, and it is green and gratifying, and it is a pity if it is ruined by a great drought.

For this reason, the people of the valley and others had something to do - to carry water to water the ground.

When the temperature is high, watering is only when the plants are killed, and the time can only be in the morning and evening every day, after Deng Ji gave the order, the old and weak people shouted to the livestock, drawing water from the Qingzhang River, and the cattle carried the water for disaster relief.

As the days passed, the drought became more and more severe, and the first thing people do when they get up is to look at the sky, but they can't see the slightest rain, and they can't help but sigh.

The temperature is getting higher and higher, and the soil cannot be crumpled into a ball in the hand, and when the water is splashed on the ground, it will make a "zig" sound, and it will be absorbed by the thirsty land in an instant.

Even the water of the Qingzhang River is gradually decreasing, and it has withdrawn from the original river bank by a large margin.

People are trying their best to save the country, the elderly, women, able-bodied, and young children are all busy, but the water that can be poured down cannot penetrate the land after all, and although the grain planted will not be lost, the reduction in production is absolute.

Changde came over several times and asked to slaughter livestock for rain and beg for rain, but Deng Ji shook his head and refused.

The custom of asking for rain from the dragon king originated in the Tang Dynasty, and now asking for rain is to pray to the mountains and rivers of Sheji, this old man actually asked to ask for a great sage and good teacher, who can still manage this piece? It's no wonder that Deng Ji can agree.

Since the robbery of grain, in order to ensure safety, the valley has not been interrupted by the communication with the outside world, the four years of Zhongping this great drought, not only the marquis country boundary suffered, the Han Empire north of the Yellow River Sili, You, Liang, and, Hebei, Qing have been hit hard.

Natural disasters do not stop, ** rise again.

In May, Sikong Zhang Wen led his troops north to Youzhou, passing through Wei County, and the news of Xiliang's rebellion spread.

It is rumored that at the beginning of the year, Han Sui had killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and others, annexed his subordinates, and the troops amounted to more than 100,000, marched to surround Longxi, and Li Xiangru, the Taishou of Longxi County, surrendered without a fight.

After that, Liangzhou assassin Shi Geng contempt led the troops of the six counties to recruit Han Sui, but appointed the corrupt official Cheng Qiu as the ruler, which caused the dissatisfaction of the people, and the officers and soldiers under his command also rebelled, killing Geng Contempt and Cheng Qiu, Geng's military Sima Ma Teng gathered the officers and soldiers, and Han Sui united, it is said that the two have become brothers, and the joint army plundered the land of Sanfu, threatening the center of the Han family.

This is the first time Deng Ji has heard the celebrity Ma Teng appear after arriving in this world, but the identity of this future warlord is the same as his own family, he is also a thief, and he has changed from an officer to a thief.

Sanfu is in difficulty, the Son of Heaven is naturally nervous, Huangfu Song has been cut down and demoted, and it is Zhang Wen who has to be used, he dealt with Han Sui the year before last, so he was promoted from Sikong to the captain of the Three Princes, so he was sent to quell the rebellion.

How dare the Son of Heaven disobey the edict, just to quell the rebellion, the strength of the Han Jing Division has been insufficient, helpless, Zhang Wen had to offer a plan, to the border county to borrow foreign soldiers to go, to go, this time to the north, he went to Youzhou to borrow Wuhuan cavalry.

Zhang Wen crossed, all the Black Mountain thieves were settled, if this leader did not attack Xiliang and turned to the Black Mountain Thieves, it would be a good disaster, but it didn't take long for the rain to miss the agricultural season, and the officials, people, and thieves didn't have time to sigh out loud, and another shocking news came again.

After Zhang Wen arrived in the north, he borrowed three thousand Wuhuan horsemen, and not long after leaving Youzhou, Zhang Chun, the prime minister of Zhongshan, reversed.

Since then, the news has come one after another, Zhang Chun united with Zhang Ju, the wealthy clan of Yuyang, and Qiu Liju, the lord of Wuhuan, to loot the counties of Guangyang and Yuyang in Youzhou, and when attacking Jixian County, he killed the Wuhuan captain Gongqi Chou, Liu Zheng, the Taishou Liu Zheng of Youbeiping, and the Taishou Yangzhong of Liaodong, and others, gathered more than 100,000 people, and stationed troops in Feiru County, Liaoxi County.

It is rumored that when Zhang Wen borrowed Wuhuan to ride to kill Ma Teng and Han Sui, Zhang Chun once recommended himself to him as a general, wanting to go with him, but Zhang Wen refused, but instead took Gongsun Chan as a general, and he was the two heroes of the North.

No matter how incredible the reason for the rebellion is, it is true that there is another rebel in the world, a wave of unsettled waves and waves, in the midst of the heavy rain, the troubled times are in the ascendant, this decline is a fool can also see that when Deng Ji passed the news to Tian Feng, he couldn't help but lose his soul for a long time.

The news from the north that Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju are so strong that they have overshadowed Zhang Yan's predecessors as anti-thieves, and it is said that Zhang Ju calls himself "the Son of Heaven", and Zhang Chun is called "the great general of the sky" and "the king of stability", what a majestic and evil spirit!

Tai Lieutenant Zhang Wen was ordered to quell the rebellion of Han Sui, and did not dare to return to the army without an order, and after getting the report, he had to let Gongsun Zhan, who had just traveled with him to Bingzhou, lead the cavalry back to quell the rebellion, but poor Gongsun Chan only had 3,000 white horses, but he had to deal with 100,000 people.

Since the war in Youzhou, this is still far away from Deng Ji, but not long after the wheat in the field was harvested in the summer, affected by this year's drought, many displaced people began to appear in various parts of Jizhou, and they were all old and weak from various departments in Montenegro.

Whenever there is a shortage of green and yellow crops and food is insufficient, the Montenegrin departments will drive the useless old and weak out of Taihang, and this year is even worse, seeing that the autumn harvest is bleak, and the thieves want to rob and there is no place to rob, and there is still room to accommodate them.

If it is allowed to continue, it is estimated that there will be another catastrophe in Jizhou, and at this time, Huangfu Song, who is the assassin of Jizhou but has not been in his position for a long time, finally couldn't help but take action.

In addition to Si Li, this year's drought in Xiliang has Ma Teng, Han Sui, and the state has Xiongnu, Montenegro, Youzhou has Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju, Qingzhou is full of Yellow Turban Yu Party, Huangfu Song, the mainstay of the Han Dynasty, wants to rely on his own strength, the rebellion in Jizhou.

His move is very simple, that is, to use his personal connections to borrow 3 million stones of grain from Jingzhou to Jizhou, in addition to disaster relief, he also said that he would mobilize the counties to defend and recruit the displaced people to reclaim the famine.

Jingzhou has always been rich, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion settled for two years, three million stone grain can be obtained, Huangfu Song explained that it was borrowed, and said that the three dukes were used as a guarantee, and the relationship between Wang Rui and him was not bad, and he agreed after getting the letter, and the rest of the county guards were not embarrassed, and they barely made up the grain.

The thieves in the world are no longer invincible, and even the consistent hardliners like Huangfu Song have to change their methods, and what he did is to use grain to attract hundreds of thousands of thieves in the Taihang Mountains to be good and stabilize the situation in Jizhou.

The so-called homeless people are another name for the thieves, with these three million stone grains as the backing, the government changed the previous style of refusing to accept the thieves, and changed the name to recruit peace.

This practice immediately set off an uproar in Taihang, to now, all the grain will be exhausted, at this time, hated last year to steal more than 700,000 stone grain is not one or two, this year Hebei and the two states of the drought, many places have no harvest, robbery, Zhang Yan can not be rescued, get this life-saving news, not only were the old and weak people who were driven out of Taihang have gathered in the surrounding counties, some of the small bands of thieves who are not famous and even below the Qu Shuai, all surrendered.

In addition to the Taihang thieves, the displaced people and disaster victims caused by the turmoil in Youzhou have also poured in, just like Deng Ji, the county officials are ready to place them for winter ploughing, for a while, the population of Jizhou has risen sharply, and the wild is full of vitality, and it is not the desolate scene that Deng Ji and others saw when they first arrived.

Huangfu Song's actions were undoubtedly trying his last strength to save the Han Dynasty, but it was a pity that it was difficult to support it alone, and it didn't take long for the Huns, who were also affected by drought, to make waves in Bingzhou.

In December, the Xiongnu slaughtered each Hu and attacked Xihe County.

Note: Qin takes Mengdong as the first year of the year, that is, the first month of winter, the tenth month of the lunar calendar. In the Han Dynasty, it was changed to the first day of the year, which gradually evolved into today's Spring Festival.