Chapter 97: Grain, Grain

(Thanks to Lingren Silly Bird, Nine Star Blessing General, Kong Ci, Book Friends 100122220343059 several children's shoes for the reward, thank you!) )

Li Jie, who had arranged the tasks of the people, happened to take a team of people to the city tower, and he was very happy to hear that Gao Jianwu was killed, and said with a smile, "Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general, the first battle went down to Liaodong City, and even killed the Liao chief Gao Jianwu, this time it is really a meritorious achievement." I believe that when the good news is passed back to His Majesty, I will change Liaodong Hou to Liaoguo Gong in the future! ”

"Tongxi, Tongxi, this great achievement is the credit of everyone, and General Li is the same as a great achievement. How's it going, is the city cleared? What is the situation at each warehouse? How much grain is there? ”

For Chen Kefu, he is now very concerned about the material situation in Liaodong City. Now 400,000 soldiers and civilians are gathered in Liaodong, but the logistics are completely broken, and there are still about 400,000 stone of grain left in the army, although it looks like a mountain full of several warehouses. But now he has a population of more than 400,000 people, and even if he counts at a minimum of four catties a day, he has to eat more than 1.6 million catties of grain on this day. Folding into a Sui system also consumes 10,000 stone of grain a day, which is more than 400,000 mouths.

Now he can only pin all his hopes on this Liaodong city, it stands to reason that the first fortress in the Far East, the Liao people must have stored a lot of grain, but how much it is, he didn't know before.

Li Jie smiled, "Don't worry, General, I have just taken people to check all the warehouses, but fortunately, all the granaries of the Liao people are located in the inner city." This time our attack started suddenly, the Liao people were not prepared at all, and all the granaries were well preserved. According to the confession of the Goguryeo people we captured, Gao Jianwu originally planned to break out of the city tonight, and the time was more than half an hour after our raid. And Gao Jianwu is also very ruthless, he has already ordered that as soon as they stand out of the city, let the people after the break burn the entire Liaodong City. ”

"After Gao Jianwu went out of the city, Gao Ming, the Liao general who stayed behind, sent hundreds of people to set fire to various places in the city, but fortunately, it rained heavily for several days in these days, and all parts of the city were wet. In addition, our army had already prepared, and although they also burned several houses in the end, they were not burned at all in the critical places. Now that the entire Liaodong City has been controlled by us, there will be no problem. ”

Chen Kefu couldn't help but be afraid for a while, if they really let this Gao Jianwu get their hands on it, it would be useless for them to take this Liaodong City. There was no food, so he had to run on his own.

"General Li, have you counted the materials in the warehouses in the city? How much grain is there? Chen Kefu hurriedly asked, Chen Kefu is not most concerned about the armor and equipment, there are a lot of these inconvenient things in the Sui army camp, and the key is food, which is related to whether they can gain a foothold in Liaodong.

Li Jie smiled and said that the harvest was rich, and took Chen Kefu and others to check the granaries in the inner city. All the granaries in Liaodong City were set up in the inner city, and a big granary was set up in the east, west, north and south cities. The granary occupies a large area, and there are hundreds of warehouses, large and small.

The bags of grain in the warehouse are piled up like mountains, not only corn and wheat, but also rice, barley, soybeans and other grains. Seeing these mountains of grain, Chen Kefu's mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

"How many stone grains are there?"

Li Jie happily pointed to the mountain of grain, "General, this Liaodong City is the national gate of Goguryeo and the first fortress in the Northeast. As a fortress for the Goguryeo people in the northeast, the grain reserves here are absolutely amazing. Every year after the autumn harvest, the Goguryeo people would regularly transport a large part of their grain here, year after year. The grain storage of the four large granaries in Liaodong is also very good, according to the Liao people in the warehouse, there are still more than 40 years of grain in the granary. ”

"Won't the grain of more than forty years ago be bad?" Chen Kefu said with some doubts, Chen Kefu was also quite shocked, this Goguryeo is not a rich country, and it is really amazing that it can store so much grain.

"No, their warehouses are well built and their technology is very good, which is completely comparable to several large granaries in our Great Sui Central Plains, such as Huiluocang. As long as there is grain, not forty years, but a hundred years, it will not be spoiled. According to the general inventory of our people's congress, the four major granaries in the entire inner city of Liaodong have a total of grain reserves that can feed 300,000 people for three years. It seems that the Liao people know that sooner or later there will be a big battle in Liaodong City, and they have long been prepared for this. ”,

"You say that these four warehouses have 300,000 people to eat food for three years? How much is that? How is it possible, how is it possible for a country like Goguryeo, which is a fisher, animal husbandry and farming country, to store so much grain? ”

Li Jie smiled and said, "It's really surprising, but that's exactly what happened. There are nearly 7 million stones of grain in the four warehouses, which is definitely enough for 300,000 people to eat for three years based on the annual food of an adult man of seven stones. ”

Seven million stones? This made Chen Kefu a little unbelievable, and the Great Sui placed four granaries in the Central Plains to reserve grain for the country. The largest Huiluocang has 24 million stone of grain in stock, but the Great Sui has 45 million mouths, and it is a well-developed farming man's family, which is not at all comparable to a small country like Goguryeo.

Chen Kefu glanced at Li Jie carefully, it really didn't seem like he was lying, and said suspiciously, "Then do you know where the Liao people got these grains?" According to their own productive forces, it would be good to have enough for themselves to eat every year, and besides, there would be some famines or something from time to time, and it was impossible to store so much grain in Liaodong, you know, this is not their capital. ”

"I have interrogated many Goguryeo officials who guard the warehouses about these questions, and as far as they know, most of the rest of the grain was not shipped from Goguryeo. And most of them were shipped from the Central Plains. ”

"Central Plains? Impossible, no matter how much grain I have in Dasui, it is impossible to sell so much to a foreigner. ”

"Goguryeo has been established for more than 500 years and has always been located in the Far East, so it can be said that his strength is the strongest in Sanhan and Liaoxi. The combined forces of Baekje and Silla to the south of him could not defeat him. To the north of him, there are Xi, Khitan, Ya, Turkic, Murwei and other ethnic groups. In the early decades, the Central Plains had not yet been unified, the northern and southern dynasties were opposed, and Goguryeo was even more invincible in the Northeast, except for the Turks, he was completely the king of the Northeast. Goguryeo has always been a war-loving race, and has never stopped fighting for hundreds of years since its founding. Basically, there are more wins and fewer defeats, and a lot of loot can be captured every time. ”

"Every time the Goguryeo people defeated Liaodong, all the grain they plundered was piled up in Liaodong City, and the rest of the people, cattle, sheep and horses, were mostly traded with the rest of the tribes and exchanged for grain and equipment, among which the Central Plains has been a trading object for them for many years. That is, in the past ten or twenty years, my Great Sui State has become stronger and stronger, and I gradually stopped doing these transactions with the Goguryeo people. ”

Chen Kefu nodded, "It seems that the Goguryeo people are indeed wolves with clear ambitions and goals. If we don't come to conquer Liao and let him continue like this, it is estimated that it will not take many years for this Liao people to completely become the king of the Northeast, and then it will definitely be a greater threat to our Great Sui than the Steppe Turks. ”

This can't help but remind Chen Kefu of the Khitan in Chinese history, the Khitan also became strong in Liaodong little by little, and finally established Liao, and confronted the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and even once stronger than the Central Plains. This Goguryeo is also an agrarian country, a civilized country very similar to the Central Plains society, unlike the steppe tribes who only know how to plunder.

"General, this Liaodong city is not only the first fortress in the Far East, but also the first trading city of the tribes in Liaodong, the Khitan, Xi, Jin, Turkic, Murwei, and even the Central Plains, the Japanese and other caravans are gathered here, all kinds of cattle, sheep and horses, grain, slaves, silk porcelain, iron and other transactions are carried out here, and the annual transaction volume is very huge. This time, we not only obtained the four granaries of the Goguryeo people in the inner city of Liaodong, but even in the outer city, there were also many granaries of grain merchants, and there were also many grain warehouses where they were stored for trading, and it was found that there were millions of stones. Moreover, in addition to food, there are several equipment warehouses in the city, all kinds of blades and armor, bows, arrows, feathers and arrows are piled up in several warehouses, which are completely enough to equip 200,000 elite soldiers, and those equipment can definitely support an army of 100,000 people for several years. ”

"In this way, there are still many trading warehouses of Khitan and other clans in Liaodong City? In this way, the warehouses of those Khitan and other clans will be temporarily sealed, we have to treat these people differently, now that we are weak, we must be cautious for the time being, don't get the Shishu clan to attack, then we will be in trouble. ”

For Chen Kefu, the current enemy is Goguryeo, and only by going all out can it be possible to defeat the Liao people and gain a foothold here. In this Liaodong and Liaoxi, there are many ethnic groups, and most of them are immediately ethnic groups, although none of them are as strong as the Great Sui, but none of them are easy to mess with. One is not good, which tribe to provoke waves troops to attack, then it will be troublesome. A Goguryeo, he is still a little sure that he can gain a foothold here, but if he provokes one or two enemies at once, then he really doesn't even know that he won't even have time to run.

Chen Kefu pointed to the mountain of grain in front of him and smiled to the people around him, "It seems that God can't see the behavior of the Goguryeo people, and even God has to stand on our side." This Liaodong city basically stores half of the Goguryeo people's national reserve grain, armor and equipment. Now the Goguryeo people have lost all their elite soldiers, secondly, the national reserves have been lost, and thirdly, they have lost the most important fortress in the northeast, Liaodong City, and the important military town of Xincheng. It can be said that Goguryeo's national fortunes have finally come to an end. ”

"General Li, you immediately dispatch Minzhuang, dismantle the base camp outside the city and several military camps outside the four cities, and transport all the materials back to Liaodong City. In addition, all the residents of Liaodong City will be temporarily moved to a separate area, and they must be surrounded and monitored by our people. The whole city is under martial law, no one is allowed to go out of the city, after one or three o'clock in the evening to five in the morning, the drums are sounded, the residents of the city are not allowed to light fires, they are not allowed to go out, if there is any disobedience, there is no forgiveness! ”

Although his orders were a little too harsh, he was about to face the counterattack of the Liao, and he did not dare to joke with his own lives and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. When he survives this time, maybe he will be better to these Liao people by then, but it is definitely not the time to go and talk to those people in the city now.

It's going to be on the shelves the day after tomorrow, and I'm a little nervous, and I hope that the brothers will support me then! Ask for a ticket