Is the heavens going to kill me? The desperation in Sun Quan's eyes was even worse.

There are many people affected by the disaster, and there is almost no harvest this year. The surplus in the people's homes was washed away by the flood, and sooner or later the soaking in the water would become moldy.

Hundreds of thousands of Shanyue people. Nearly 100,000 local troops.

But now in the granary of Wu County, there are only more than 100,000 stone of grain left.

The official warehouses in various places have also suffered many losses due to the flooding. In front of Sun Quan may be a vacancy of two or three million stone grain.

How could Sun Quan not despair?

For a while, Sun Quan's face was full of decadence.

At this moment, Lu Su hesitated a little and said to Sun Quan: "Lord, do you remember that Liu Feng spent money to buy 300,000 stone grain from our Jiangdong?" ”

Sun Quan remembers this incident very clearly. At the beginning, they sent Lu Su to Liu Feng and asked for Zhou Yu's eldest son to be released, but later, Liu Feng made it a condition to buy grain from Jiangdong, otherwise he would not release Zhou Yu's eldest son.

Grain is a strategic reserve, Sun Quan was in the middle of the war at that time, and the Shanyue people in Jiangdong made Sun Quan very cautious, but in the end he couldn't stand the temptation of Liu Feng's high price and sold Liu Feng 300,000 stones.

Now it seems that the 300,000 stones are really a big loss.

If you add these 300,000 stones, and then borrow food from Haoqiang and the Shi clan, you can save some food, and you can hold on for a long time.

Thinking of this, Sun Quan's face showed a hideous expression, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This person must have known about this disaster for a long time, and he began to dig deep wells before the drought. survived the drought. Before the floods, he first used a great temptation to let us sell grain, and then in his own place, he started a war to improve the river. So that the flood water can pass through Jiangxia smoothly, and finally all of them pour into Jiangdong. Now Jiang Dong's appearance is at least half caused by him. ”

With the relationship between Jiangdong and Jiangxia, it is natural for both sides to send spies. Jiangxia's vigorous river improvement campaign was clear to Sun Quan.

It was inexplicable at the beginning, but now it is suddenly enlightened.

This guy must have known that the drought was coming, that the flood was coming, and that he was waiting to make a fortune. The grain transaction of 300,000 stone is a typical example.

It seems to be a loss, but it makes a lot of money.

Now that there is no food in Jiangdong, what is the price to pay to buy back the 300,000 stones, or even more grain, from Liu Feng?

Moreover, in the battle of Ganning against Jiangdong, Sun Quan lost Xu Sheng, Zhuge Jin, and Da Qiao. In exchange for humiliating peace, Liu Feng did not attack Jiangdong.

It's embarrassing enough, and now I still have to beg Liu Feng for help. Sun Quan is also a good-looking person.

Therefore, Sun Quan, who had already understood Lu Su's meaning, not only was not happy, but gritted his teeth even more.

Sun Quan's face did not make Lu Su flinch, and now he was in a desperate situation. The grain in Jiangdong can only last for February and March at most.

When winter comes, that's when Koto falls into true despair.

At that time, Jiangdong, which is huge and has countless civil and military elites, will collapse violently.

Therefore, Lu Su continued: "Does the lord remember the battle of Gangneung? At that time, someone pretended to be Jiang Qin, and Zhou Tai attacked Jiangling, and swept away countless grains, and walked away. At that time, Liu Biao thought it was us, but it was actually someone else. And the only person with that kind of water army ability is Jiangxia. It's just that our relationship with Liu Biao was also very stiff at that time, so we didn't come forward to clarify. ”

"Moreover, I heard that in the battle of Wancheng, Liu Feng also harvested a lot of food. Now the grain in the Jiangxia granary should be able to support our Jiangdong. ”

Lu Su's words were hugely attractive to Sun Quan. The reason for the shame just now was that he didn't want to grovel for 300,000 stone grains. Because the sum of 300,000 stones is not enough for Jiangdong to tide over the crisis.

But now, according to Lu Su's words, Liu Feng's grain is enough to support the entire Jiangdong. Sun Quan was naturally moved. In the face of survival, even if you don't want to save face, it is not unacceptable to spend a lot of money to buy food in the past.

But at this moment, Zhang Zhao spoke.

"We have a stiff relationship with Liu Feng, and we don't mind spending a lot of money, but I'm afraid that Liu Feng won't sell it." Zhang Zhao sighed and said.

The current situation is that Liu Feng sits on Baoshan. And Jiangdong is worried about internal and external troubles, so he can only watch with his eyes. If you don't have food, you can only wait for death.

With Liu Feng's strong surname, it is not impossible to watch the people of Jiangdong suffer countless deaths and injuries, and then perish.

No, not a possibility, but a certainty.

Zhang Zhao has never seen Liu Feng, but he has learned about Liu Feng from various channels, Liu Feng angrily came out of Xinye, attacked Huang Zu, fought Zhou Yu, Cao Ren, all of them showed that this person was strong and refused to suffer any loss.

Although Jiangdong has not eaten Liu Feng's cheapness, it has caused a lot of trouble, and it is still a close neighbor. If Liu Feng intends to annex Jiangdong, then.

Liu Feng watched coldly, almost nailed to the iron plate.

"No, according to the intelligence, the scope of this rain should be very large, Jingzhou must have been affected, and I don't know if the situation is serious. But the lack of food is certain. The second is Xinye, Liu Bei has too many troops, and there is a shortage of food and herbs. None of them are stupid, and they must also know that Jiangxia has food. Now they are all like hungry wolves who are too hungry and faint, Liu Feng chooses to trade, if he doesn't trade, I'm afraid he will attack them in groups. Especially in Jiangdong, if we let the soldiers know that the disaster is serious, and only Jiangxia will have food to save millions of people, the soldiers will definitely work hard, and the combat power that will break out, Liu Feng will not want to lose both. Therefore, Liu Feng will definitely choose to trade. It's just that the price, it could be a little higher. "Lu Su didn't know how big the rain was, but it could be seen from the amount of floods coming down upstream that the scope of the impact must be very large.

Therefore, Lu Su took this as a judgment and concluded that various forces were putting pressure on Liu Feng.

Now it seems that Liu Feng is strong, Jiangdong is weak, Xinye is weak, and Jing Chu is weak, but if the three parties are determined to die and fight with Liu Feng, Liu Feng will definitely compromise.

"However, on the Jingchu side, with the presence of Cai Mao, it will become difficult to say." After a moment, Lu Su added.

In other words, the only one who can ally may be Xinye Liu Bei.

"Jingzhou's naval strength is too weak, and Lone never pays attention to it." Sun Quan said disapprerovingly, but then showed a little expectant look, and said, "According to Zijing's explanation, can we put pressure on Liu Feng and threaten to attack Jiangxia at all costs?" And let Liu Feng compromise and lower the price of the transaction to an acceptable range? ”

"You can test it a little, but don't rush too much. Liu Feng's surname is too strong, if you don't agree with each other, you will end up together, and you will be in trouble. Lu Su thought for a while and said.

"Hmm." Sun Quan's expectant expression couldn't help but retract, and he nodded.

Even if Lu Su and Sun Quan wanted to break their heads, they couldn't think that Liu Feng's price was not just high, but extremely high. It was the fruit of the victory of the Shanyue Rebellion, which was only suppressed in recent years to encroach on the history of Jiangdong.

Hundreds of thousands of Shanyue people.

After discussing it for a while, the three of them agreed that under the current situation, it would be more cost-effective to buy grain from Jiangxia, even if the cost was slightly larger.

If the price is really unbearable, then threaten it, put on a posture of despair and want to die together, and intimidate Liu Feng to sell grain.

After the discussion, Sun Quan said to Lu Su: "Zijing, you are familiar with Jiangxia, so please go again." ”

The corners of Lu Su's mouth twitched when he heard this, Jiang Xia is familiar. But Lu Su once swore that he didn't want to see Liu Feng's face.

With Lu Su's surname, under Sun Quan's order, some reluctance actually rose in his heart.

But after all, he is a responsible person, and now Jiangdong is too bleak, and he is really the only one who is familiar with Jiangxia.

If he doesn't go, who will?

Therefore, Lu Su had no choice but to raise his fist and say, "No." ”

"Go and come back quickly, the old man will try to raise food as much as possible, and deal with it first." Zhang Zhao nodded at Lu Su and said.

"Hmm." Lu Su responded.

Immediately, Lu Su hugged his fist at Sun Quan and walked out of the study.

After Lu Su returned to the mansion, he only told his wife. took the heavy responsibility of Jiangdong and went to Jiangxia.

……………… The weather is hot and muggy, and the jungle is vast. These eight words can sum up Jiaozhou.

Originally, there were only 12 states in the Han Dynasty, and at that time, Jiaozhou was also more Jiaozhou, called Baiyue, which was a barbarian land, and the largest force was Sanyue. One of the most famous is the Nanyue Dynasty.

Later, during Emperor Wu's crusade against the Xiongnu, his military force was strong, defeated Baiyue, and set up Jiaozhou.

However, the miasma of Jiaozhou, the alien race, and because it is a barbarian land, has always made the Central Plains people very afraid, and few people have set foot in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, Jiaozhou has always been very backward and closed.

But this situation changed when Shi Xie was making assassination history. Shixie, a very elegant person, is a celebrity, the Central Plains wars are frequent, and it is not only Jingzhou that is stable, but also Jiaozhou.

Therefore, countless scholars defected, and the Central Plains culture they brought greatly enhanced the potential of Jiaozhou.

By now, Jiaozhou has been very prosperous.

It's just that Jiaozhou also has the limited surname of Jiaozhou, the environment is relatively bad, the life of the people is more miserable, and because of the multitude of different races, the power of the Han people rarely steps out of the city.

That is, the land is vast and sparsely populated.

What Liu Feng didn't know was that the scope of this rainstorm also included Jiaozhou. The water system of Jiaozhou is more developed than that of Jiangdong.

There are countless rivers of all sizes. Jiaozhou's grain production is also very low.

Therefore, a flood is not easy for Jiaozhou.

Jiaozhou is Jiaozhi. A very old city.

Because there are few wars in Jiaozhou, the city is not very tall, not very thick, and even half-new and half-old.

There are about 20,000 people in the city, of which the majority are Han Chinese, accounting for about two-thirds, and the rest are all Baiyue aliens.

Under Shixie's rule, the Han people in Jiaozhou got along relatively harmoniously with other races. Together, the current prosperity of Jiaozhou has been framed.

It's just that the people are a little sad. When they greeted each other, they were all sighing, this year's food, hey.

In the center of the city, in the middle of the Assassin's House.

Shi Xie and his younger brother Shi Yi also had sad faces.

Shi Xie was sixty-nine years old, with gray hair and an old face, but his stature was quite tall, not like ordinary old people, and his stature slowly became shorter.

Shi Yi is also sixty years old, and his appearance is vaguely similar to Shi Xie.

Both of them were wearing civilian clothes at the moment, and they both had a sad face.

"Brother, now Jiaozhou is supported by your prestige, so that the Han people and the Yue people can live in harmony, but this can only be preserved when the situation is stable. I am afraid that this year's grain is not good, and those Vietnamese people are unruly, if there is no food relief, I am afraid that a war will be inevitable. Shi Yi sighed and said.

Neither Shi Xie nor Shi Yi are ambitious and relatively gentle people. For war or something, it's the most annoying.

Now seeing the catastrophe coming, it is natural to lament.

"Well, we have to find a way to get some food." Shi Xie nodded and sighed.

After a pause, Shi Xie said again: "Jiaozhou has a small population, and as long as two or three hundred thousand stone of grain, you can tide over the current crisis." I thought that the relationship between my brother and Jiangdong, if I asked for it, I believe it would be possible. ”

"It's just that I heard that Jiangdong has been fighting a war for more than a year, and the consumption must be huge. I'm afraid there isn't much food either. As he spoke, Shi Xie began to worry.

"Whether there is food or not, let's go and ask for help first. I immediately took precious stones, pearls, and gold and went to Koto to ask for food. Shi Yi was more anxious, and immediately got up and said when he heard the words.

"Wait, I'm afraid that's not enough to show our sincerity." Shi Xie stopped Shi Yi.

Shi Yi turned his head and looked at Shi Xie.

"Didn't some alien sacrifice ten elephants to us last time? Let's bring it with us. Shi Xie thought for a while, then looked up at Shi Yidao.

"Elephants?" Shi Yi frowned when he heard this, and said: "Although the elephant is trained, and there is even a special trainer, but that thing can't be eaten, and it has no value at all except for watching and having fun." Take it to Koto, is it useful? ”

Shi Xie smiled slightly when he heard this, and said, "In our Jiaozhou, elephants are very common, but they are not common in the Central Plains. Just have fun. ”

Seeing that Shi Xie insisted, Shi Yi didn't have much to say.

It's just that I'm a little depressed in my heart, because after having elephants, I can't take a boat. You have to go over the mountains and mountains to Koto on foot.

After Shi Yi said goodbye to Shi Xie, he first went to the treasury and withdrew 10,000 gold, all kinds of gems, and a batch of pearls of good quality.

With ten elephants, we set off for Koto. It's just that Shi Yi didn't know that the flood in Jiangdong was worse than that in Jiaozhou, and Sun Quan himself still had to buy grain.

Xiling City, in the study of General Yang Wu's mansion.

Liu Feng sat in the study, handling official business.

Although most of Jiangxia, Changsha, and Jiujiang have survived this flood and are unharmed, some small places are still affected.

The people are faced with a number of situations.

Therefore, Liu Feng did not sit and enjoy, waiting for Sun Quan to come to the door to ask for food. A big deal.

Instead, he was busy sending officials to take the food in Xiling City to various places for disaster relief. to appease the population.

It is the same today, Liu Fengzheng is planning to allocate a batch of grain to the sea. Because Liu Feng suddenly remembered that Taiwan may also be within the scope of the heavy rain.

Therefore, Liu Feng was more worried. Prepare to mobilize grain and grass to pass.

At this moment, a guard came to report: "Lord, Xiakou came to report, saying that Liu Bei was engaged in it, and Mi Zhu had arrived in Xiakou." ”

"Oh?" Liu Feng's eyes flashed with surprise.

(To be continued)