With the passing of the autumn tigers, the weather in the north began to gradually turn colder. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking down from the blue sky, the huge Yedu City is not inhabited.

In the past, the first city in China, which could exceed one million people per day, was unexpectedly uninhabited!

Although the plague has been completely controlled here in Qinfeng, the quarantine system has been gradually lifted, and people without symptoms can already go out. However, after more than two months of total isolation, the life and production of the society are completely at an all-time low. There were hardly any people in the streets, and if it weren't for the soldiers on the city defense line, and the countless shops in the city, it would be like a ruined and dead city.

This comes from the fact that, on the one hand, the people are still worried about the plague, and on the other hand, the lack of living materials is extreme. If there is no selling, there is no buying, and jobs are vacant everywhere.

The once prosperous Yedu, the world's first capital, has become like this, and other places can be imagined.

In the villages on the outskirts, it was a different story. Villagers are invading the fields with tall weeds, and they are fighting to remove weeds and insects to save the crops, but with little success. This is due to the fact that weeds are competing for space for crops to grow, and most of the crops are not growing at all, and they are also attacked by insects, and a large-scale reduction in production is a certainty.

It's a mess now.

The peasants have lived through the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they have experienced many famines, they have experience. They were the first to know that there was going to be no food and that there was going to be famine.

Immediately afterwards, due to the lack of food and goods in the city for a long time, the people in the city could not buy food, and they also saw that something big was going to happen.

"The prime minister said that he would raise interest rates to return the grain, why didn't he pay it back?" The people are dissatisfied and questioning, and they can't be blamed for the people's fear of starvation.

Li Zheng and the pavilion chiefs said one after another: "Everyone hold on a little longer, and the food will be available soon." ”

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the people's families would be out of food, the people would not be so anxious to ask Qin Feng for food. But now that the families are running out of food immediately, the young people can still stand it, the old people and children can't stand it, and the people have no choice, so they all go to the government to find an explanation.

The 'Lizheng' and 'Pavilion Chiefs' in various places have played a huge role at the grassroots level, and Qin Feng's prestige has also played a huge role, allowing him to delay some of the outbreaks.

On 15 September, Qin Feng convened a meeting of members of the Military Aircraft Department at his official office.

Including Qin Feng, everyone was worried.

Xun Yu, the chief military adviser of the interior, had sunken eyes, thin skin and bones, and said with dark circles under his eyes: "My lord, I see that the whole territory is about to enter the stage of a comprehensive autumn harvest. I am afraid that the matter cannot be hidden, and the peasants everywhere have been able to predict the occurrence of famine. ”

He added: "The villages are better, at least they can still harvest some grain in the fields, and they can hold on for a little time." However, the people in the city could not afford to buy food, and even the price of food skyrocketed. This comes from the fact that there is no one to sell food at all. ”

"The people of the city are about to run out of food."

The food is about to run out, the food is about to run out of ......, these four words, like thunder, continue to explode in the minds of Qin Feng and the military advisors.

Qin Feng had to do something, but without food, what could he do?

Without food, people will be in chaos.

Jia Xu came out of the squad and said: "My lord, please take control of the place, and the people everywhere must stay where they are." Now, with the outbreak of the epidemic in various places, the troops mobilized by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao against us have retreated. As long as we safely pass half a year and have a bumper summer grain harvest next year, we will be able to resolve the crisis. ”

The most fundamental purpose of Jia Xu's proposal for military control of the localities is to prevent riots and riots among the people. Another important purpose is to avoid the creation of displaced people. As the name suggests, hungry people will always leave their homeland because they know that there is nothing to eat in their homeland, and they want to try their luck elsewhere.

But there is no food in other places, but the Hakka people will have conflicts with the natives, which will further stimulate the chaos.

In addition, when the people leave their homeland, the land is left to be cultivated, and the next season's food is gone. The displaced people only have destructive power, not productivity, and this is the most terrible place.

Jia Xu's suggestion is that the people can stick to their land and wait for the next season's grain output. But people's minds are terrible, and the homeless people will appear, and in order to avoid it, they can only be forcibly controlled.

In fact, Qin Feng knew that what Jia Xu said was right, and he could also understand that Jia Xu's decision was not aimed at the people. Rather, it is because the situation is the same everywhere, and it is also impossible to find food in other places, but because of the intersection of strangers, it will cause certain conflicts.

As for crossing the river in search of food, if crossing the river could really survive, Qin Feng would never stop the hungry people from crossing the river, even if it would lose a large number of people. But the reality is that Jiangnan has become an epidemic area, and the plague is raging.

The fundamental problem is still food, with food, there is no problem, Qin Feng can't find a way to solve food, and he has a headache. He subconsciously avoided the topic for a while and asked, "How is the blockade of the border going?" ”

Xu Shu, the chief of military affairs, hurriedly came out and said: "My lord, everything is extremely safe, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other generals personally sit on the Yellow River defense line. The sailors of the two generals, Tai Shici and Gan Ning, cruised day and night. The plague will never reappear in our place. ”

Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, the terrible degree of the plague was not under the famine.

"My lord......." At this time, Tian Feng wanted to speak. Just now, the seven military advisors of the Military Aircraft Department made eye contact, and they agreed with Jia Xu's proposal, hoping that Qin Feng could implement military control as soon as possible. However, they also knew that this was tantamount to repression, and it would be difficult for their lord to pass through.

They were hesitating again because of this, but the upright Tian Feng spoke. Tian Feng is a northerner, the north is his hometown, and the people are his fellow villagers. Back then, it was for the sake of the people of the Northland that he threw himself under Qin Feng's command. He knew that although this proposal would have a cruel process, it was actually for the good of the people.

The people became homeless, the fields were barren, and there was no food for the next season. The famine grows and has a lasting effect until it kills the vast majority of people, and then there is no longer a rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

Tian Feng wanted to speak.

At this time, Long Wei's general Dian Wei walked in quickly, he raised his voice, and said: "Lord, there is news from the border that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's envoys want to enter to meet the lord. ”

Before the words fell, Zhang Ping, the foreman of the Dragon Guard, walked in and said, "My lord, there is an urgent report at the border, and the envoys of the princes such as Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu are waiting at the border, asking to be able to enter the country to meet the lord." ”

Qin Feng frowned and said, "What are they doing when they come to see me?" ”

Dian Wei said: "They said they came to learn water refining technology. ”

Qin Feng's face darkened, and he said angrily: "These despicable guys who have brought disaster to the country and the people, when they were asked to learn from their true appearance, they didn't come to learn, they just raised the price of medicine. Now that they have blackened out of their food, they still have the face to come to me! ”

The military advisors looked at each other, and said in their hearts that these princes also had to be more or less face-saving at the beginning, and they made it clear that they were harming the lord, and there was still face to learn from there. Now, it seems to be shameless.

Pang Tong muttered: "I heard that they organized people to study, but I didn't understand it." They must have thought that with a way to make it, everything would be fine. They also want to be self-taught, which also requires a certain level and time. Deserve. ”

The military advisors are also relieved, and now the princes have swallowed the bitter fruit.

(Merry Christmas, jingle bells~.) (To be continued.) )