The days passed very long, and it was more than a month since Liu He led his army into Luoyang in the third year of Chuping.

During this time, the situation around Luoyang did not fluctuate much. In Yanzhou, east of Tiger Prison Pass, Cao Heizi is working hard to clean up the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and it is said that he has won a great victory, completely driving the chaotic Qingzhou Yellow Turbans out of Yanzhou.

Cao Cao adopted the advice of his advisers after entering Yanzhou last year, and did not use all his strength to attack the Yellow Turban rebels who broke into Yanzhou from Qingzhou at the beginning, but adopted the method of exchanging space for time, and spent more than half a year recruiting and training soldiers, until after August this year, the troops were divided into three routes, and the generals under his command Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren each led the people to launch an all-out extermination of the Yellow Turban Army.

Cao Cao's coalition army first united with the troops of Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, sniped at the eastern suburbs of Shouzhang in Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the two armies launched a fierce battle, the Yellow Turban Army has been in battle for a long time, the soldiers are all strong, and the formation beheaded Bao Xin, Cao Cao took the lead in the rate, inspired the soldiers, and after fierce battles day and night, the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was driven out of Fengzhang.

In September of this year, Cao Cao led his army to pursue the retreating Yellow Turban Army and defeated all the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou in the area of Jibei. The Yellow Turban Army surrendered to Cao Cao, so Cao Heizi captured more than 300,000 soldiers, with a male and female population of nearly one million, and then selected the elite of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to form an army, called "Qingzhou Soldiers". Since then, Cao Cao's power has increased greatly, and he has become the largest warlord south of the Yellow River and east of Hugao Pass

Wang Yun was worried that Cao Cao would be in Yanzhou, so he sent Jingzhao Yin Jin Shang to take over as the pastor of Yanzhou, and Cao Cao easily met Jin Shang on the way, as a result of which Jin Shang fled to Nanyang, where Yuan Shu was located. From then on, the imperial court did not dare to send people to replace Cao Cao, and acquiesced in Cao Cao's status in Yanzhou.

When Cao Heizi was fighting against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban rebels in Yanzhou, Gongsun Zhan was not idle, he threw the main force into the northwest of Qingzhou, and successively occupied Pingyuan County, Jinan State, Le'an State and Qi State, and now he is pressing the territory of Kongrong in Beihai step by step. It is also close to Taishan County, which belongs to Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao was slapped in the middle of the year, temporarily stopped his small movements in Jizhou, and instead invested the main forces in Bingzhou, and now has controlled Taiyuan County, Shangdang County, Xihe County and Yanmen County, and the troops are approaching Shangjun next to Zuo Fengyi.

Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Hanoi who was close to Luoyang, was very peaceful during the year, not only did not have any actions to harass the Luoyang area, but on the contrary, he also guarded the gate to the north of Luoyang, and did not let the Montenegrin army in the territory cross the river and plunder.

Yuan Shu in the south of Luoyang is recruiting troops and horses, and he doesn't know who he wants to fight with next, but Sun Jian, the general under his command, has been stationed in Luyang. It not only deterred Cao Cao in Yanzhou, but also formed a threatening posture against Luoyang.

Luoyang now has Liu He in charge, and the surrounding forces deliberately don't want to get close to him, let alone take the initiative to provoke Liu He. Although the speed of news transmission was slow at this time, the results of Liu He's successive tough battles with Li Dao, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji's coalition forces in Chang'an still spread all over the banks of the Yellow River, north and south of the river, and now as long as he has a normal brain, he will find a way to befriend Liu He, instead of falling out with him for some trivial things.

It's not that Liu He is now invincible all over the world, the main thing is that everyone is busy grabbing territory and consolidating their strength. I can't afford to entangle with a non-stingy one. In the future, there will be no room for development of various forces, and some people will naturally aim at Luoyang, the land of the four wars, and at that time, Liu He may not be facing an enemy.

The pressure from the outside was temporarily relieved, but Liu He's life in Luoyang was not easy. Because of all kinds of problems from within, he was so worried that he was about to pull his hair out.

The first problem Liu He faced was food shortage.

The farmland around Luoyang has suffered serious damage due to years of fighting, and more than 70% of the farmers and tenants who farmed the land have died or fled because of the death. And the remaining laborers are simply not able to support the food problem in the entire Luoyang area.

In addition to the lack of food, Liu He also lacked various daily necessities. There is a shortage of military supplies such as pig iron, leather, cloth, and medicinal herbs, and there is a shortage of skilled craftsmen in various skills. In short, there are all kinds of shortcomings.

Some people will say that Liu He didn't transport back a large amount of wealth, grain and grass from Chang'an, why not use it at this critical time?

Liu He did take sixty percent of the property in the dock from Huangfu Song, but it was mainly gold, silver and jewelry, followed by weapons and armor, and the last was grain and grass. Now Liu He is facing the difficulty that he can't get food even if he has money, and although those gold and silver treasures look dazzling, he can't eat them.

If the grain and grass in Liu He's hands are used to supply his troops, they can last for half a year, but if they are supplied to the people of Luoyang City and nearby counties, they can't last even a month.

The army is the capital of Liu He's life, if it weren't for the fact that this army under his command could fight well, Li Dao and Guo Yan would not agree to Liu He's armistice conditions, the ministers in Chang'an City would not give him so face, and the people of Luoyang would not regard him as a savior and protector.

Therefore, even if he knew that someone would starve to death on the streets by the end of the year, Liu He did not dare to use the limited armaments and food in his hands, because once the food was also eaten, he could only flee to Youzhou.

Liu He racked his brains and couldn't think of a solution to the food crisis, so he had to summon the relevant personnel to the Taifu Mansion to brainstorm.

In the humble conference hall, according to the level of official positions, Zhu Jun sat in the first position, the judge sat opposite Zhu Jun, and Zhao and Wei Qi sat down with Zhu Jun and the judge, and Tian Chou, Li Yan, Chen Yi, Guo Jia and others sat opposite each other in turn, looking orderly, a bit of the taste of the small court in Luoyang.

Liu He sat in the middle of the main seat with a natural face, and said with a worried face: "Judging from the situation reported by the surrounding counties of Luoyang, the problem of food shortage is becoming more and more serious. ”

Zhu Jun has been active in the Luoyang area all the year round, and he is very familiar with the local situation, and he continued Liu He's words and said: "As far as I know, the hundreds of thousands of people around Luoyang originally fled to Jingzhou after the autumn grain was harvested, but it happened that Gongzi led the army west to Chang'an, so that everyone saw the hope of staying and living, but the grain they harvested could not actually feed the more than 300,000 people of the entire Henan Yin, so the current food shortage phenomenon was formed. ”

The judge said with some displeasure: "General Wei is complaining that the prince should not lead the army to Luoyang when he speaks like this?" ”

Zhu Jun was almost choked by a sentence from the trial, and his face showed embarrassment. When he said this, he was not actually aimed at Liu He, but just wanted to tell everyone the main reason for the grain shortage.

Wei Qi hurriedly said: "This food shortage seems to be a serious problem, but if it can be properly solved, it is a good thing for the long-term benefit." Gongzi came here to stabilize the hearts of the people in Luoyang, so that the already sparsely populated Luoyang area retained more than 100,000 laborers, as long as these people are organized to have a variety of food next year, there will be no more such problems in the future. ”

Li Yan's current numerical statistics skills have caught up with Liu He, and he has made statistics on the food shortage in Luoyang counties in the past few days, and said at this time: "What Wei Xiancheng just said is very reasonable, as long as we help the people of Luoyang survive this food shortage, it is possible to improve next year." But what can be done to solve this food shortage? I have a set of statistics here, you might as well listen to it, and you can understand why Childe is so worried! ”

"According to the statistics of the people I sent to Yin, among the 21 counties in Yin, Henan, there are eight counties that are seriously short of grain, including Luoyang, Gucheng, Pingxian, Henan, Yanshi, Wushi, Gongxian, and Chenggao, and six counties including Yangwu, Zhongmu, Xingyang, Kaifeng, Jingxian, and Pingyin, and only the five counties of Yuanwu, Juan County, Xinzheng, Mi County, and Yuanling are barely self-sufficient, and only Xincheng and Liang County have a slight surplus."

"Among them, the eight counties with serious food shortages insist that cannibalism will occur before the end of the month; The six counties that are relatively short of grain can hold on until around Qingming in March next year at most; The five counties, which are barely self-sufficient, can hold out until next year's summer grain harvest; The two counties, which have a slight surplus, can provide some of the food for the 70,000 people near Luoyang. ”

Li Yan's report was very detailed, not only pointing to specific counties, but also grading the food shortage situation in each county, which made everyone in the hall listen very clearly. Everyone recognized Li Yan's form of reporting, and thought that they would learn from Li Yan in the future.

Even smart people like Guo Jia were inspired by Li Yan's report, and felt that Li Yan was indeed unique in some aspects, and he would learn more from Li Yan in the future.

In fact, Li Yanhui's work is all the credit of the good teacher Liu He. Although a certain Liu Qianshi majored in history, he was not too bad in mathematics, especially he understood the great practical significance of mathematics and statistics to the national economy and people's livelihood, and hated all kinds of data fraud, especially some chicken stabbing bureaus, so he kept instilling the concept of learning mathematics to his subordinates from the beginning, and now it seems that it has achieved initial results.

After Li Yan's report, everyone had a concrete concept and finally realized the seriousness of the food shortage problem.

Liu He looked around at everyone and said in a depressed tone: "In the first month of the third year of Jianning, there was a food shortage near Jingshi, which resulted in a tragedy such as the women of Hanoi County and the husbands of Yin in Henan. Now, after 23 years, is such a tragedy going to happen again? I was born in the sixth year of Jianning, and I have never seen the tragedy of human cannibalism, but I know a simple truth, if the people reach the point of changing their children and eating them, the so-called royal law, etiquette, education, morality and other metaphysical things are all fucking bullshit! ”

"If I am hungry now, I will never trust anyone when I may have to cook my parents, wife and children next, I will rise up like the rebel Yellow Turbans everywhere, wherever there is food, I will rush there by any means, and then snatch it from others by any means! Don't call me a dehumane guy in your heart, because I think only living is the greatest humanity! ”

When Liu He said these words, his tone was not intense, and his words were very vulgar, which was similar to when he recited "Autumn Wang" before Taixue, but every word hit everyone's hearts like a sledgehammer. (To be continued......)

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