831 Goguryeo, which is short of food
With the advent of the scorching summer, the land of Liaodong ushered in a rare heat wave in a year, and also ushered in a rare green scenery after being trampled, although the green is not brought by weeds or brought by leaves, there is no crop, but anyway, to be able to cover up the miserable yellow color is the greatest happiness, at least it seems that you can deceive yourself, don't be so uncomfortable, compared to the yellow color, human beings should prefer the tender green that represents vitality.
In the spring of the recovery of all things and the spring of the growth of all things, the land of Liaodong was ravaged by the war, and it did not give birth to the vitality that it should have, but in the summer, when the war was relatively slowed down, there should also be some colors of the human world, compared to the mutual conquest of more than 50 local powerful factions at the beginning, the entire territory of Goguryeo was in a situation of no day without fighting, and now the battle between the three forces has made their rear have a chance to recuperate, which should have been like this......
"Your Majesty, we only have enough food for three months, and the original military cantonment has almost been destroyed, and if we can't get more food, we may starve in the winter." Mr. Li said this to Quan Gai Suwen with a stern face, in fact, if it was not a last resort, he would not be willing to say this.
"General, we only have more than two months of grain reserves, and this is only the army's military rations, many prefectures and counties under our jurisdiction are simply not harvested, and the army still has two months of food, but the people can't even hold up seven days' rations, and they miss the spring ploughing. We won't be able to harvest a grain of grain! This winter, if there is no food, it will be very difficult. Jin Sheng's attendant said worriedly.
"General, we really have no food, at most ten days, the military food will be exhausted, and there is not a grain of grain along the entire Great Wall, and we want to exchange food with the Khitans, but the Khitans have been exterminated by the Tang Army, and we are really isolated. If you don't want to do it. We're really going hungry! Li Yuenan's chief strategist had a bitter face.
The three major forces inevitably encountered a shortage of food, and in comparison, Quangai Suwen still belonged to a better category, and he was more intelligent. From the early days of the turmoil, military cantonments began to be used instead of civilian cantonments to grow grain. Therefore, a considerable part of the area around his territory has a large number of military tuntiandi, and there is still grain grown. Although there have been several wars, there is still food growing in the most fundamental area, so. He still has a little room to maneuver, and when autumn comes, there is still some grain to harvest, and there is still some hope for the people under his rule.
But Jin Sheng is miserable there, it was originally a place where a large number of powerful factions competed, fighting day by day, fighting month by month, you develop me to destroy, you destroy me and destroy, in the end, none of them develop, are destroying, the original foundation is gone, only a few counties in the real one-third of the country still have grain planting, but that little bit of grain is a drop in the bucket, even if you don't eat a mouthful of all the seeds and grain for the next year, it's not enough, not to mention how can you not eat a mouthful?
The land of Liaodong is cold, there is only one chance of wheat ripening a year, and now I miss it, there are not many places in the whole Goguryeo where there is still food, and when Suning is raging, it is specially looking for heaven and earth to wreak havoc, and then there is a warlord scuffle, the peasants are displaced, and all the places where the grain is planted have been destroyed, and the ones that have not been destroyed are gradually swallowed by the weeds because the peasants are gone, and the whole Goguryeo is basically no harvest this year.
If you want to wait until the wheat is ripe next autumn, unless the people of the entire Goguryeo do not eat during the year, but as the so-called people are iron rice is steel and do not eat a meal of hunger, people will starve to death if they do not eat for seven days, according to the personal physique fluctuates slightly, but it is generally like this, it is better for you to let them go without food for a year than to kill them, and the people have no food to eat is secondary, and the army has no food to eat is the main thing, and in the end, even the three kings themselves have no food to eat, which is even more fatal.
Quangae Suwen immediately started the idea of the outside world, the Tang army, or Baekje, Silla should not think about it, and their grievances are too deep to have the slightest chance to talk about things, and the Silla people are eager for the Goguryeo people to starve to death; And what about the Dons? I don't know, this Quangai Suwen really has no bottom in his heart, and the Tang people are also the national enemies of Goguryeo, he captured the king, killed General Jiang, and negotiated with the Tang people to buy food.
Then there is only one choice, and it is also the one that is relatively close to the water here in Quangae Suwen - Baekje Kingdom.
Baekje did not participate in the Battle of Liaodong, which almost swept the entire Korean Peninsula and the land of Liaodong this time, it was like a peach blossom paradise in a troubled era outside of several major forces, and as far as Izumi Gai Suwen knew, Baekje had always had contacts with the Wa Kingdom, and the relationship was not bad, if you could hurry up, maybe you could order grain from Baekje and the Wa Kingdom, and then transport these grains back to your territory by water, without worrying about being plundered, as long as they were not known by the Tang people.
Quangae Suwen himself has no grudge against Baekje, and Baekje has had a very poor relationship with Silla for so many years, and the people of Baekje should not want to see Goguryeo wiped out by Silla, and then Silla turned around and started a war with Baekje to destroy Baekje, so Quangae Suwen felt that doing this business with Baekje should be nine out of ten, and the other two guys might be much more difficult compared to the convenient transportation here.
As Quan Gai Suwen analyzed, Li Yuenan and Jin Sheng were also extremely worried when facing the shortage of food, Jin Sheng was slightly better, and there was still a buffer period of more than two months, plus he announced that he would cut one-third of the food of all people from today, and he took the lead in cutting one-third of his own rations, so when no one was embarrassed to object, he was given another month of buffer time, and he had time to think about how to solve this problem.
However, Li Yuenan was in pain, he only had ten days, even if he ordered the first time to change the big Hu grain to the small Hu grain in order to buy time, but when he was full, he only had less than a month, and this was still the premise that the big guys were not in love, how could he get life-saving food in less than a month. It's a science, a science that is well worth exploring.
Don? Baekje people? Silla people?
The place bordering the Tang people was blocked by Quangai Suwen, and the border with the Baekje people and the Silla people was also cut off, and he didn't try to occupy the Great Wall area in the north at all, and there are now hungry people everywhere, if you send people to order food from there, it will inevitably be robbed by those hungry and chaotic people there, then I don't know how many people are needed to escort the food, as for the Khitan tribe has been killed, and it seems that it is not so easy to find people further north. But going south doesn't work. The only route to the northwest is to go north, to find tribes a little north than the Khitans to exchange food.
As for Kim Seung, he also chose the object of the transaction, the Silla people, although the Silla people have fought with him. However, Jin Sheng was not conspicuous at that time. And he didn't fight directly with the Silla. He was in charge of logistics at the time, and he was different from Izumi Gai Suwen, who had a deep hatred for Silla. The three commanders of the Silla people were all defeated by Quangai Suwen, and the last one had the Eastern Coalition Army in it, but it was mainly Quangai Suwen.
If it was promised to cover Suwen's head and a piece of land with the spring, maybe he could get food aid, and the two sides were only separated by a river, so it would be more convenient to transport food.
The three sides began their respective actions, Quangai Suwen sent people to contact Baekje, Li Yuenan sent people to find tribes that were a little north than the Khitans, and Jin Sheng sent people to cross the river to negotiate with the Silla people, and the three sides were ready to meet the corresponding conditions, Li Yuenan even planned to ask these tribes to send troops to help, these guys in cold places are very capable of fighting, strong combat effectiveness, and strong personalities, and it is definitely a great help to invite them.
And Suning also heard the common movements of the three sides for the first time, the secret agents of the blood drops lurked around these three people, and there were a lot of them, the time was very long, and at the beginning of the establishment of the blood drops, those secret agents were all old people of the blood drops, after solving Goguryeo this time, Suning planned to transfer them to the headquarters to train new people, and these people were probably working hard for this operation, and they were very tired.
For this situation, he had already determined a few months ago that the three forces of Goguryeo would definitely need food one day, and they would definitely not seek the help of the Tang people, because this qiē was caused by the Tang people, and they would not stupidly come to them to sell them grain, judging by the three current situations, the decisions they made were still relatively wise, Li Yuenan went to find the people further north, Jin Sheng went directly to the Silla people, and Quangai Suwen sent a few small boats to find the Baekje people by water.
It's a pity that the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are still not in place, Su Dingfang is said to have led his troops to Yingzhou, a full of 30,000 people, and other soldiers and horses are still sometimes, until the domestic standing new army and the new army of government soldiers are recruited before they can leave the grassland and go to the battlefield in Liaodong, Su Dingfang is just a front army, helping Qin Qiong's shortage of manpower in Yingzhou to support the scene, the two are Weng son-in-law, and Suning is brothers, the best.
To tell the truth, Suning was quite worried about Qin Qiong, as soon as he started the war, he divided his troops into two ways, although he was also dangerous here, but when he didn't know Goguryeo's plans, Qin Qiong and them were even more dangerous, more than 20,000 people fought with 150,000 people in Goguryeo, and now it's good, Qin Qiong unexpectedly fought a big victory, not only recovered the lost land, but also wiped out the Khitan people, it is said that the whole clan was wiped out, and men, women and children did not let go.
Suning doesn't know what happened to Qin Qiong's body, it will be a very harsh winter soon, the cold winter in Liaodong is famous, can Qin Qiong's body bones withstand such a cold situation? Since the beginning of Zhenguan's innovation a few years ago, Suning has strongly promoted cotton planting, believing that cotton clothes are easier to resist the cold than other materials, and the original land of Liaodong is very cold, and it is very difficult to march with the army in winter, but with cotton clothes such as cotton clothes and ear protection gloves, this situation will be alleviated.
After Li Ermajesty sent people to Liaodong for a field trip, Zhang Jian said that he could give it a try, the winter in Liaodong was too cold, and the Sui Dynasty suffered a big loss when the army conquered Goguryeo, and the Tang Dynasty could not also suffer a loss, so Li Ermajesty Xià approved Suning's opinion and began to choose some places to plant cotton, although Li Ermajesty Xià had doubts about Suning's saying that this strange flower that was originally used for viewing could be planted and weaved clothes, but he still did so.
In the second year, the project of making clothes from planted cotton began among the captured foreign female weavers, and unlike the previous weaving, cotton also required a lot of procedures to be made in advance, and then carefully stuffed into the woven other single clothes, which was very different from the previous direct weaving of linen and silk.
But after the woven clothes are worn on the body, the situation is completely different, everyone is reluctant to go outside in the originally very cold winter, but just wear a single coat, and after wrapping a thick cotton coat outside, you can actually walk in the cold outside without feeling cold, this special clothing was reported to Li Erma, Li Ermaxi personally tried it on and expressed great joy - he never thought that this plant, which is currently used by a few people as an ornamental flower, has such an effect.
Suning was rewarded again - ten of the latest cotton coats......
After that, cotton was used as the basic material for military uniforms in autumn and winter, and cotton coats began to be popularized.
Now that we are planning to march in winter, it is time for a series of warm clothing designed by Suning to appear...... (To be continued......)