"General, have you noticed, how long has it been since it rained?"

Pang Yuan frowned tightly, looked at the three-dimensional projection city model in front of him, and asked worriedly.

Lu Bu was looking at the new Luoyang that was gradually taking shape, and was stunned for a moment when he heard Pang Yuan's question, raised his head and thought for a while, shook his head and said, "It seems to be a long time, is it?"

"Probably yes, the drought is coming, we have to be prepared, I'm going to check the rainfall, and the price of food, it's really bad, if the drought comes, I'm afraid we won't be able to do anything, and there will even be a shortage of food.1

"What can I do about this?"

"Let the imperial court issue an edict ordering all localities to pay tribute to grain and grass, and those who do not pay tribute will be ordered to crusade against 1

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, frowning slightly, although the arrogant Lu Bu was a little disdainful of these small actions, but I had to admit that these small actions were really good.

"Okay, a certain family understands, let's confirm the situation first, at least we have to be prepared ourselves, and we must also have arrangements for drought fighting"

"General, this is not our business1

"Ugh. Oh, yes! I forgot about it, so let's go 1

Pang Yuan quickly got what he wanted. The situation is even worse than he imagined, the drought is large-scale, from Mobei to Cochin has not had decent rainfall for a long time, many rivers have dried up, the second crop is basically finished, this winter is okay, next spring, the whole Han will face the most severe food crisis.

Look at the world. Needless to say, Bingzhou is in chaos, and it is not a grain export place in the first place, Liangzhou and Yongzhou can barely be equal, and in the event of a drought, it is lucky to be able to survive.

Hanzhong should also be able to transport grain. Shuzhong has just ended the war, and it is estimated that it is barely flat.

Jingzhou has worked hard to develop production over the years, and with the benefits of the Yangtze River, it should be able to have some surplus, and it is estimated that it can get some grain from Jingzhou.

Jiangdong has only just recovered, and it is impossible to get food from Jiangdong.

Jizhou is also difficult to protect itself. Cao Cao doesn't have to think about it, not to mention that there is no surplus food, even if he has it, he will not give it in vain.

The only ones left are the Inhumans in the south and Youzhou in the north, and the Inhumans in the south are not very large because of the population problem. Moreover, the strategic material of grain must be reluctant to sell at this moment, and the Dingtao Imperial Court can't give any good things to the strangers to exchange. If you want food, you have to buy it with real money, but the price of food can be imagined.

The last hope left is Youzhou, Youzhou's development model is different, they have always developed water conservancy facilities first, and then developed farmland, so the ability to resist drought is relatively much stronger, and Youzhou is close to the sea, and a large part of the food problem is supplemented from marine fishing, plus Youzhou's grain reserve plan has always been, Pang Yuan feels that it should be possible to get some grain from Youzhou, but I'm afraid it will be necessary to use Lu Bu's face.

Moreover, Fang Zhiwen has always claimed to be a profiteer, and Lu Bu may not be able to rely on face alone, as for what conditions he will propose, Pang Yuan does not dare to guess.

"General, it's bad."

"How bad is it?"

"Very bad 1

"Ugh"

"Let's put it this way, I calculated that if we start to control food rationing from now on, then our food stocks will last until January next year, and during this period, we will not be able to start any war, soldiers"

"What about the daily training of the soldiers?"

"I'm afraid it needs to be reduced as well."

"Uh, that's just too bad1

"What's worse is that there is still half a year from January to June of the summer harvest, and if the rain is not abundant next spring, the situation will be"

Lu Bu frowned, holding the hilt of the sword in his right hand, no matter how brave Lu Bu was, there seemed to be no way to solve this kind of thing.

"Can I buy food?"

"My subordinates estimated that Jingzhou could allocate a little, and then buy from Youzhou and Yiren, but the price of grain has begun to skyrocket, where do we have so much spare money to buy grain1

Lu Bu walked around the room anxiously, the armor on his body rattling.

"Money!? Hehe, I can't imagine that a certain family will be stumped by money one day! How about selling some castles to Inhumans? ”

"The imperial court may not agree to this kind of thing, and besides, there are not many cities that we can sell in our hands, so it is not cost-effective to sell at this time."

"Those old stubborns! How about that!? ”

"General, this matter is not only our business, but also the affairs of the courtiers, first report this matter to the court, and then the general will write to Fang Zhiwen to see if he can sell us grain?"

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "There is no problem with this, there is no shame in begging Fang Zhiwen at all, it's just that he is not a good person, I really don't know what conditions he will offer!" In case he wants to exchange it for Fuqing"

"Hehe, no, he has a lot of advisers, and all of them are above his subordinates, speaking of which, he is likely to want a general, and he is an infantry general, it can be seen from his exchange of Le'an for Yu Ban, we have a new general of Yuan Shu, and he is likely to use this condition in exchange."

"This profiteer 1

More importantly, this condition is only a prerequisite for the sale of grain, and grain still has to be bought with money.1

"Where does this money come from? Is it from the local rich people"

"Not 1

Pang Yuan hurriedly stopped, in fact, there is still a place for money. That's what Cao Cao once did, but if this thing was done by Lu Bu. It inevitably smeared this hero, and, moreover, very black!

Lu Bu looked at Pang Yuan's tangled appearance, obviously there was something difficult to decide, and the difficulty in deciding showed that there was still a way, but this method might be more embarrassing.

"There is a way to rejuvenate, although it is said that a certain family may not be as smart as Fuqing. But it can also help you think about it. ”

Pang Yuan raised his head and smiled, hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "Actually, if you want to talk about it, it's not that there is no way to make money at all, and there is more than one. ”

Lu Bu's eyes lit up and he asked, "Oh? There is more than one, and Fuqing is coming quickly. ”

"One way is to sell the population, along with the food panic. There will be a large number of displaced people, we can sell these displaced people to Fang Zhiwen, on the one hand, Fang Zhiwen will not soon become our direct enemy, on the other hand, reducing the population in exchange for food, this in and out can solve the big problem. ”

Lu Bu frowned: "But." These populations are also the potential for our future development, and to sell them is tantamount to breaking our arms to survive, and when the drought passes, the strength of the surrounding princes is not lost, while our population is greatly reduced. The"

"So there's another way, and that's to sell the dead 1

"What? Sell. Sell the dead? ”

Lu Bu was shocked, can a dead person be sold? Could it be those legendary necromancers from the other world who sold them to use as those terrifying skeleton armies?

When Pang Yuan saw Lu Bu's expression, he knew that he was thinking about it.

"General, do you know the business of tomb robbing?"

"Tomb robbing? This kind of thing will cut off the offspring."

"Yes, so forget about this matter, let's sell the population, at most the general will go around to grab the population."

Lu Bu fell silent, his face changing from time to time.

After a long time, Lu Bu gritted his teeth and said: "Since the army of a certain family, there are countless people who have died under the halberd of a certain family, and enough evil has been done, and there is only one daughter in a certain family, maybe because of this, but because of this, I am not afraid of this more 1."

Pang Yuan sighed and said: "The general thinks too much, there are many people who kill more than the general, the general kills people to stop killing, and some people kill people purely for their own ambition and fun, those people are still for generations, why does the general think so?" And even if we do this, we don't have to be burdened by the general, and our subordinates should bear this responsibility if they come up with this idea. ”

"Fuqing, but"

"General, there's nothing wrong with this, you forgot, I'm a stranger, I'm not afraid of evil, hehe."

"But what are you going to do?"

"The general doesn't have to worry about specific things, as long as the general can trust his subordinates."

"This, a certain family is naturally trustworthy Fuqing."

Pang Yuan smiled: "That's okay, the general will give me 10,000 cavalry, and I will take them to various places to march and train, these 10,000 pro-troops must be loyal and reliable, and their mouths must be strict." ”

"A certain family understands that Fuqing is relieved, and this matter has been wronged Fuqing 1

"It's nothing, the general still wrote a letter to Fang Zhiwen, otherwise we may not have a place to buy food if we get the money."

Lu Bu looked at Pang Yuan, who looked relaxed, sighed and said, "So-and-so will write 1."

Miyun's senior management had begun to pay attention to the problem of rain earlier, and began to deal with it earlier, including large-scale measures such as water storage and water diversion, which basically preserved the second crop, but the yield was definitely reduced.

"I don't know how long this will last, but if it continues to be like this by next spring, it will be troublesome."

"We'll know by this winter, and we'll know if it's snowing, and no matter what, it's always right to dig more wells." Zhen Jiang said calmly.

Xun Yu nodded: "The master mother is right, but is it appropriate for the army to reduce some of the grain and grass supply?" ”

Tian Feng smiled: "Yes, we will increase field training and strive to make up for the reduced food supply from the wild monsters." ”

Zhen Jiang nodded and looked at Mi Zhu: "Zizhong, can you increase some production in the fishery area to supplement the shortage of grain?" ”

"There should be no problem, but there is still a lack of personnel."

"Don't worry about this, if the price of food rises, the price of seafood will definitely rise, which will naturally attract more people to the sea."

Seeing that everyone had no problems, Zhen Jiang picked up a piece of letterhead from his hand: "This is Zhiwen's latest letter, Lu Bu is pleading with Zhiwen, hoping that we can sell a large amount of grain to them." ”

"Do they have any money?" Xun Yu asked in surprise.

Zhen Jiang looked at Shi A, Shi A nodded and responded: "No, but you can still get it, I heard that Pang Yuan has been recruiting tomb robbers recently." ”

"Ugh"

Tian Feng shook his head, nodded again, and said, "Pang Yuan is very human!" This emergency solution can be thought of1

Li Xueyin on the side pursed her lips and smiled: "Inhumans can think of it, because they dare to think 1."

Zhen Jiang glanced at Li Xueyin curiously, and asked again, "So, to sell or not to sell?" "To be continued ...