Fancheng, in the Consulate, is the room that He Huan just crossed over.

Wang Xiu asked He Huan, who was sitting on the throne, "Lord, do you really want to accept that barbarian girl?" ”

"If she wants to, not only her, but all of her men!" He said hocly.

"Never!" Wang Xiu hurriedly dissuaded, and said: "Lord, those people are extremely arrogant, and they are uneducated, barbarians are simply unreasonable, if you accept them, the consequences will be unbearable......"

He Huan interrupted him and said: "There are 2,000 people in Fancheng, and now the granary is empty, with the grain we bring, even if we drink porridge, it can only last for forty days, is this what you told me?" ”

Wang Xiu nodded, and He Hui continued: "Even if you start farming today, the fields in the city are limited, how much can be planted?" How long is it until the harvest? ”

Wang Xiu didn't speak, he knew all these questions.

He Huan said: "If you subdue those barbarians and lead them to cultivate together, not only can they be planted in the city, but also outside the city, and as long as you arrange people to guard them, there will not be too many problems."

But what we are most lacking at the moment is manpower!

Grain reserves are also a big crisis, if you can absorb them, you can use their best hunting skills, when the time comes, rice and meat are combined, and then let the barbarians cooperate with the people to go up the mountain to collect wild vegetables and fruits, and it will not be a problem to spend two or three months. ”

"But after only two or three months, the newly planted grain still cannot ripen, and then the food supply is not enough, and we are still in a food crisis." Wang Xiu said.

"And it's not impossible to farm outside the city, you can let Yue Feng lead the soldiers to guard day and night, so that the harm can also be avoided."

"We only have a hundred soldiers, and the barbarians are thousands when they come, how can we resist? At that time, the grain will not be able to grow, but the loss of the already small number of soldiers will outweigh the losses. He Huan immediately vetoed the proposal.

"And March is enough!" He Huan looked at Wang Xiu and said, "As long as it's March, or even without March, I'll have my own way then!" ”

Through memory, He Hui already knew that the food growth cycle in this world was similar to that of the previous life, which took four to six months.

In the prosperous city, all the grain can ripen in five months.

As long as it is planted in the near future, it has a double-speed effect, and it can be harvested by mid-July.

At that time, there are still more than two months before the autumn harvest, and as long as the time is right, you can even plant another season!

Harvest twice a year, and food will no longer be a problem!

"This ...... But it was a barbarian...... Seeing that the previous proposal had been rejected, Wang Xiu continued to dwell on the problem of barbarians.

"You don't need to say more, you will have your own food, and you will only need to spend the month of March! What we are really missing at the moment is the population! ”

He Huan stood up and walked to the wall, where a large cloth with a map of Yuezhou was hung.

The world has not yet invented paper, and usually writing is made of bamboo or wooden slips, that is, the bamboo or wood pieces are cut very thin, and then smoothly strung together.

For a large map like this, you choose to draw it with a larger cloth.

Pointing to the map, He Huan said: "Fancheng is located here, except for the Putuo River in the north, the other three sides are surrounded by barbarians, a Mumu king is powerless to solve it, if other barbarian tribes come to attack, how to solve it?" ”

"This ......" Wang Xiu was speechless, he didn't know how to answer.

Could it be that you went to Yangcheng to ask for help?

Maybe there is some permission to ask for food, but let them send troops, will they really send reinforcements?

The main thing is that when the time comes, Fancheng will be surrounded everywhere, and it will not be possible to get out at all, let alone ask for reinforcements.

Wang Xiu thought for a moment and said, "Unless all the people are soldiers, there is no way to solve it. But if it is surrounded by most barbarian tribes, two thousand people will not be able to resist it at all, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken. ”

Wang Xiu's own plan was immediately overturned by himself, which simply did not work.

It is impossible for all the people to be soldiers, after all, there are still many old and weak women and children in the prosperous city.

When the real workforce is full, it may be around 1,500.

It's just that those more than 1,000 people still have to maintain the operation of the prosperous city in normal times, and they also have their own things to do, and it is impossible for them to receive militarized training all day long.

He Huan nodded and said, "Yes, unless all the people are soldiers, but it won't work at the moment." In this way, the only way is to absorb the foreign population, we are all abandoned people in Great Xia, and we should first let go of racial prejudices. ”

"This ......" Wang Xiu stopped talking, looking a little weak, and finally could only say helplessly: "The old minister already understands that everything depends on the lord's decision. ”

The matter has come to this point, even Wang Xiu, who has been an official in the imperial court for many years, can't think of any other way.

At present, the only way is how to harmonize, and can only absorb the surrounding barbarians for their own use.

"Good!" He Huan smiled slightly and said, "Regardless of whether those barbarians are obedient or not, you can notify now!"

From tomorrow onwards, we will provide disaster relief in large quantities, and as long as the people are willing to work obediently, we will be responsible for their daily food, do a job, and eat a mouthful of food!

No matter how many of the people obeyed, you will start arranging the cultivation, and all the vacant land in the prosperous city will be reclaimed and planted except for the places that must be used! ”

"The old minister takes the order!" Wang Xiu said respectfully.

Since then, Wang Xiu has retreated, and He Hui is sitting alone in the ruling hall thinking about the problem at hand.

Although King Mumu will consider her own proposal when she leaves, she doesn't know if she really thinks about it, or just casually talking.

If those barbarians can really come, then they will not only be able to farm outside the city, but also build water conservancy and renovate new cities.

It is even possible to build another city wall outside the city, and when the time comes, the inner and outer three layers will be surrounded, and the defense of the prosperous city will be greatly increased!

Compared to the people of the prosperous city, the barbarians have grown up outside, and they know exactly what is around them.

With them on board, there may be other benefits as well.

It wasn't until late in the evening that dinner was brought in.

It's a bowl of white rice with a side dish and a bowl of soup.

The vegetables are picked wild vegetables, and they can be eaten after processing, and they taste a little bitter, but the taste is quite good.

The soup is boiled with a little bit of dried meat and some vegetables.

Looking at this humble dinner, He Huan felt a little helpless.

The dignified prince of a country and the lord of a land have also been reduced to the point of eating such coarse tea and light rice, which is estimated to be no better than those people.

"Food crisis...... Alas! ”

After finishing the meal, He Huan couldn't help but sigh, "It's really big, I just encountered such a thing when I just came, it's a food crisis, it's a lack of population, and there are barbarians outside." ”

In fact, if you want to solve the current crisis, there is another way, and that is to trade, and trade with merchants.

As long as you have money, you can buy food.

But He Huan has no money, and the city is a poor mess.

In addition, there are no ships in Fancheng, so it is impossible to trade with the other side of the Putuo River.

Trading with barbarians simply won't work.

However, the merchants from Yangcheng come once a year, and the time is during the autumn harvest.

They would take a lot of supplies and tools, and then exchange them with the people of the city.

Supplies and tools were exchanged for food, which they then shipped back to sell.

It's just that there are still many months before the merchants of Yangcheng come, and the autumn harvest is in October, and now it is only May.

Therefore, the method of trading is not feasible at the moment.

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casually flipped through a few bamboo slips, and the more He Huan looked at it, the bigger his head became.

Because the original six princes have been abandoned, after coming to Fancheng, they have given up on themselves, never taking care of government affairs, and they don't know what the situation in Fancheng is like now.

People take food as their day, and once there is a big problem with eating, there will be many problems.

In today's prosperous city, the people basically can't eat enough, and in this world, there is no such thing as three meals a day, they are all two meals a day.

But now there is a shortage of food, and I can't eat two meals a day.

There are countless people making trouble on the streets because of hunger, and some people in the already small bustling city are already panicking.

If it weren't for the fact that there would be nowhere to go without the bustling city, it is estimated that there would be a collective escape.

But even so, there are still many violent bloodshed caused by a bite of food from time to time.

Seeing this, He Huan immediately ordered someone to summon Yue Feng.

When he arrived, He Huan began to assign him tasks.

First of all, a part of the 100 soldiers was transferred to form the city management force, which in He Huan's words was the city management brigade.

They were responsible for administering the law and order in the city and putting an end to conflicts among the people.

Now that I have the time to fight, fight, and grab food, it is better to save some effort and start collective farming tomorrow.

Then it is to assign a part of the people to patrol and stand guard on the castle tower to prevent the sudden attack of the barbarians.

The city is not large, divided into four districts by two streets.

Forty people are divided into teams of 10 people, and it is good to patrol and manage four areas.

The remaining sixty people He Huan originally planned to take them all as city tower patrols and standing guards, but Yue Feng said that he didn't obey anything, and just took fifty people away.

The remaining ten people were also the ten people selected by Yue Feng, as He Huan's personal guards, guarding his side.

For this, He Huan didn't say much, the guards were definitely needed.

After all, now that the city is in chaos like this, anything can happen.

I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of just in case, the escort team of ten people is still safe enough to deal with ordinary people.