Chapter 649: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron
Jingzhou Liu Biao is not a fuel-efficient lamp, a sentence circulated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, that is, Lian Po is still old and can eat? The elderly give many people the feeling that they are twilight and useless, and the young people who have just debuted do not put the elderly in their eyes, but often the knowledge and bearing of the elderly are incomparable to those of young people. Although Liu Xian was old, but under his order, the big and small families and merchants in Jingzhou took out their own grain stocks to stabilize prices, and in three days, the people of Jingzhou had food to eat, and the riots had decreased.
"Liu Jingsheng, who is worthy of being the head of the Eight Horses - this decisive style has not diminished back then, but is this method really so easy to use?" Every move in Jingzhou is in Jia Xu's calculations, if he doesn't force these stored grains out, what will it make Jingzhou really fall into a desperate situation, and only when he is in a desperate situation can he take Jingzhou in one fell swoop.
"Doctor-Liu Biao, this old guy is really powerful, we are all so tightly blocked, he can take out food from the hands of these clansmen, I think it's not good for us to attack directly? Now we are strong and strong until Jingzhou is not a problem at all, and there are naval forces in the waterway to completely crush Liu Biao, why bother so much? Huang Zhongzhong doesn't understand why Jia Xu did this? In his cognition, to fight for the world is to fight, and if there is no war, how can they seize the world?
"Hansheng - the art of war has the cloud on the military to attack the heart of the top, Jingzhou has always been the land of fish and rice since ancient times, rich can be described as the most in the world, but the family in these places is also deep-rooted, even if we take Jingzhou, they will also be entrenched here, want to transform like Yangzhou It will take a lot of energy, so that other princes will have room for development, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in the north are the great enemies of the lord, we can only take the lead in taking Jingzhou, and cooperate with the lord to connect Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Sili, and the state into a line, so that whether it is eastward or westward, it is to take the lead. Therefore, it is really not appropriate to waste too many troops with Jingzhou, I have a plan to make Jingzhou chaotic without spending a single soldier, why bother to send troops and horses, and consume food and grass. The fun is only beginning now—"
Looking at Jia Xu's gloomy smile, Huang Zhong couldn't help but mourn for Liu Biao, it can be said that he was silent for these clans in Jingzhou, he knew that there was basically nothing for him in the next period of time, it was better to sit and wait to watch the play, such a day was a little comfortable!
Huang Zhong's Xiangyang army lived like a fairy, and Liu Biao's strength in Jingzhou City took out food from the hands of major families to help the hungry, but hundreds of thousands of hungry people couldn't withstand even a few days with gruel, and Liu Qi went out to collect grain and grass almost empty-handed. The traffic arteries leading to Nanjun and Jiangxia County have been destroyed by flash floods to varying degrees, and there is no way to turn over grain and grass in a short period of time, so they can only send additional manpower to urgently repair roads.
Liu Biao wants to detain a lot of people who offend people in prison, so they can only let their families give some grain and grass to offset their crimes, but these are a drop in the bucket in a few days, Liu Biao is also gloomy these days, and the sudden food shortage has never been in Jingzhou for decades, Jingzhou is like spring all year round, and there are many things that can be eaten, but hundreds of thousands of hungry people have eaten up even the bark on the mountain. As early as half a year ago, Jia Xu began to buy grain and grass without a trace, and the grain and grass were transported in and out every day, who would have thought that there would be a grain shortage in Jingzhou?
"Master-the granaries in Jingzhou are almost empty, and now everyone in the world can borrow the grain and grass to read and borrow all the time, but the number of hungry people is increasing, and it is not a good way to continue to play and compact now! What should we do - I don't know if the messengers who went to Nanjun and Jiangxia have returned, I hope Huang Zu can bring back grain and grass to solve the urgent need. "Cai's and Liu Biao are more than 30 years apart, Liu Biao is dying and old, but Cai's is still a beautiful young woman with charm, the young woman's beauty is not terrible, what is terrible is a beautiful young woman who has the ability and scheming. She saw the great disaster in Jingzhou, and now she can call for wind and rain is all brought to her by Liu Biao, and she must consider keeping his position as the first lady of Jingzhou for Liu Biao.
"Madam - it seems that this is a conspiracy against Jingzhou, so many people and horses sent out can't transfer food, for the first time in so many years, I, Liu Jingsheng, am worried about eating, thinking that Jingzhou at the beginning was the most lacking grain and grass. This time, I am afraid that the harm will depend on the help of everyone in the world to tide over the difficulties, at least it will take until the grain matures after three months, but where can I find the grain and grass of hundreds of thousands of people in these three months, and now I can only take those officials who guard the granary first, as for the difficulty of borrowing grain again! Liu Biao knew very well that he had been calculated this time, but he had no ability to know who was behind the scenes, and his enemies were other than Sun Quan. Sun Ce, the rest is Zhou Yu of Yangzhou. It's just that he can't decide who it is - the most difficult thing is how he, the governor of Jingzhou, can borrow grain to tide over the difficulties!
Borrowing grain - it is not difficult to borrow well and borrow again, these words are the friendship between neighbors for the common people. But what is important between the people of the world is interests, and each of them has food that they can't eat for a few years, but Liu Biao, as a parent official, is the first time they send food to face, but they need Liu Biao to express it, and now the hungry people are still very fierce, and the bullet pressure is no longer a solution, many people in the army are people with fathers and mothers, how can they raise butcher knives to their brothers and sisters?
Can't raise the butcher's knife to the hungry people, then only to raise the butcher's knife to the family, with Jia Xu's encouragement, Liu Biao's borrowed grain subordinates became robbing the family to grab grain, and the officers and soldiers grabbed the grain and mingled with the family's guards.
Three days after the turmoil, Liu Biao was no longer able to suppress the turmoil, and the merchants closed their doors one after another, ignoring the fighting outside, and stayed in the high-walled compound in fear. People from all walks of life in the shadows have spread rumors and made trouble, some have taken the lead in making trouble, and so on, Jia Xu is almost sinister in the hearts of the people, and everyone in the world has lost more than half of their family wealth in this turmoil, and there is a mess everywhere.
"The time has come - Hansheng can send troops! This time you can take Jingzhou without much effort, and the old man of Liu Biao's family wants to live—"
The Xiangyang Legion sent 80,000 troops, 80,000 horses and horses were divided into left, middle and right three roads to advance towards Jingzhou, along the way they carried enough grain and grass, Jia Xu hid the purchased grain and grass nearby, and the army could be directly taken out to relieve the hungry people as soon as it arrived. In a word, Liu Biao is finished-