No. 568 Industry (IV)

In 551, Jizhou and Yuzhou suffered a large-scale drought, and grain production was reduced by three percent.

The nature of this major drought is already quite serious. You must know that whether it is in the real world or in this world, Yuzhou is a large state of food and population. Yuzhou's annual grain output is almost twice that of Jizhou, and it is a very important grain base. Now there is a large-scale drought in Yuzhou, and a big hole has appeared in the national food supply system of the Jehosaint Gate Alliance in an instant. Fortunately, the per capita grain output in Yuzhou is higher than the national level, and after the output is reduced by 30 percent, it can still barely ensure the internal demand of Yuzhou counties and counties, and as long as other prefectures and counties shrink their clothes and diet for a while, the food crisis can be controlled.

In 552, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Shuozhou and other four prefectures suffered large-scale drought and flood disasters, and grain production was reduced by 30%; A strong earthquake of about 6.2 magnitude occurred in the northeast of Jidu, about 60 people died and went missing, about 6,700 houses collapsed, and about 19,000 people needed to be urgently relocated.

The Great Tribulation of 552 was even more serious in nature.

Qingzhou is a large populous state, but it is not a large grain producing state, and its per capita grain output is only slightly higher than the national level by 5%. In the face of a major disaster that reduced grain production by 30 percent, Qingzhou suddenly experienced a large food shortage of about 6.8 million people. At the same time, Ashina Tumen, which was ordered to move the Turkic country, made matters worse and deprived the Turks of the dragon qi in the place where they were supposed to be killed, resulting in a major disaster of reduced grain production in the north of Shuozhou. Food cannot fall from the sky, and in the face of absolute natural disasters, all political means seem powerless.

Earthquakes, droughts and floods have quietly pushed the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance to a dead end.

This is by no means the lowest point.

In 553, six prefectures, including Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, and Xizhou, suffered large-scale drought and flood disasters, and all grain production was reduced by 30%. The Absolute Gate's food security red line has officially collapsed, and no food control strategy can alleviate food insecurity.

The food problem has become a dead end for the Holy Gate.

The Ocean Alliance has been fighting against the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance for several years, and deeply understands that the foundation of the Absolute Holy Gate is as high as the sea and deep, and it is extremely difficult to easily defeat Wei Dongsheng on the battlefield. Wang Meng joined forces with Gao Huan and Gao Yang, and decisively sacrificed the Mandate of Heaven to punish and consume the national strength of the Holy Gate.

When the Absolute Gate Alliance collapsed due to famine, it was the day when the Seventh Northern Expedition was officially unsheathed.

Considering that the more mouths there were, the more severe the food problem became, Wang Meng even persuaded Huang Shilong to postpone the offensive of the Seventh Northern Expedition. If the Ocean Alliance drove straight into the hinterland and killed groups of civilians one after another, wouldn't it indirectly alleviate the food pressure on the Absolute Holy Gate? The best plan is to contain the main force of the Absolute Holy Gate on the front line, and then send spies to infiltrate the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance to stir up a rebellion among the hungry people, and destroy the foundation of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance.

In order to implement the grand strategy of the Alliance of Starving to the Dead, Wang Meng sent envoys to patrol the eastern and western fronts to strictly investigate whether any countries had collaborated with the enemy in reselling grain; As soon as the Turkic dragon qi was transferred from Ashina Tumen to Ashina Koro, Wang Meng sent a team of elite soldiers to penetrate directly into the hinterland of Ashina Tumen and his sons Ashina Keluo, Ashina Yandu, Ashina Tuobo and other successors to an island south of Liu Bei's Han Kingdom, so as to isolate the pursuit of the Holy Gate.

In 554, eight prefectures, including Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, Xizhou, Onionzhou, and Xuzhou, were catastrophic.

The Absolute Holy Gate Alliance alone has been unable to solve the food problem by cutting back on food and clothing. In order to alleviate the pressure of food, the Absolute Holy Gate had to take the initiative to expand beyond the western regions of Kyushu, and wagons of young and strong soldiers sailed to Luozhou to reclaim the real world of Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and other places.

It's a pity that armed reclamation takes time.

Moreover, the increase in grain production in these areas will not completely alleviate the food shortage in Kitakyushu.

During this period, the front line repelled a new round of attacks by the maritime coalition forces, and Wei Dongsheng retreated with the army to Gaoping County, Qingzhou for repair. Wei Dongsheng took the opportunity to disguise himself as a commoner and investigate the public situation in the rear at close range. The scene is greeted by a depressed economy, with few pedestrians and a sad face. The only hot thing is the food store, the food supply exceeds the demand, many people hold food stamps in their hands to line up, eager to buy the first time to travel to Qingzhou rations. In addition, in order to reduce the unnecessary consumption of grain, the state has continuously reduced the scale of meat and poultry breeding, and the supply of meat has declined significantly. The fat meat that was disdained in the past has become a treasure in just three or four years, because the fat meat has plenty of oil and water.

The economic downturn has naturally led to nagging.

The people walking on the street angrily accused Gao Yang of evil deeds: "For his own selfishness, tens of millions of people have been affected, Gao Yang deserves to die!" ”

"How can there be such wicked people in the world!"

"Compared with Gao Yang, Sima Yi has become a good person."

"Sima Yi is just a thief at most, he still treats himself as a human being after all, but Gao Yang has long stopped treating himself as a human being. Didn't the newspaper say that Gao Yang's stepmother is a female bear! Gao Yang's father, Gao Huan, is a supporter of the shemale school, preaching that humans are members of animals and should live as equals with bears and dogs. I heard that the Gao Huan Qi Kingdom established by Gao Huan in the northwest of Luozhou, and the Gao Cheng Bohai Kingdom established by Gao Yang's brother Gao Cheng in the south of the Liu Yu Song Kingdom, all accepted the demon clan with tolerance and welcomed all dogs, demons, cats, and demons to enslave humans. This family doesn't think of themselves as human beings at all, how can they care about us? ”

"So, you must defeat Gao Yang!"

"Even if you tighten your belt and starve for a few years, you have to defeat Gao Yang! If Gao Yang is really allowed to enter the north, and a group of dog demons and pig demons will pour into Kyushu, what a dark and desperate future it will be! ”

"yes!"

Despite suffering from a lack of supplies, the people of Qingzhou supported the continuation of the war.

But, this is only the surface of harmony.

In the dark night lights, in an abandoned warehouse, a group of critics quietly gathered: "It took me five days to gnaw a piece of fat, and I can't live this day!" The Mandate of Heaven is the trend of the times, and the Absolute Holy Gate preaches all day long that 'man will conquer heaven' and 'Destiny is not enough to fear', which is originally a group of bold madmen. And now the calamity has come, and it will not be afraid to conquer the heavens without the Holy Gate? ,***,***, they pretend to be hypocrites on top, but they starve us in the end. ”

"Heaven is heaven, destiny is destiny, how can I, the little people, go against the sky?"

"Look at the south, the technology is so backward, who is hungry?"

"Sima Jin to Liu Song, Xiao Qi to Xiao Liang, the people in the south are not still good. The Mandate of Heaven is the Mandate of Heaven, and it is the truth that people should be able to obey the heavens, and Gao Yang should be the emperor, that is, Gao Yang should be the emperor. Even if Gao Yang's reputation is bad, what does it matter, he Gao Yang can't be an emperor for a lifetime? The Mandate of Heaven has been foreshadowed, and thirty-five years later, there will be a true dragon Son of Heaven to unify Kyushu again. The emperor took turns, and the Gao family lost the mandate of heaven, so they naturally changed to a new master. ”

"Gao Yang is certainly guilty, but the main sin is in the Holy Gate. It is the selfishness of the Holy Gate that causes us to starve year after year; It is the Absolute Holy Gate that wants to monopolize the Mandate of Heaven forever, and the world is impermanent with droughts and floods every year. Therefore, welcoming Gao Yang into the northern kingdom is our only way out. ”

Wait a minute.

Under the economic depression, all kinds of treacherous undercurrents are hiding in the shadows.

Wei Dongsheng had no choice.

The arrest of these conspirators will not help at all.

As long as the catastrophe of the Mandate of Heaven gets worse year after year, similar criticisms will only get louder and louder.

But how can we solve the food problem?

Counterattacking Xiao Liang and Sima Jin was not a good way, because the south was not a grain base in the first place. Moreover, in order to strengthen the ties between the maritime alliances, Wang Meng deliberately ignored the agricultural technological innovation of the southern prefectures and counties, resulting in the Xiao Liang State having to import grain from Sun Quan, Wu Guo, Sima Jin Guo, Liu Bei Han State, and Xiao Yanliang State, which was rooted in the southeast of Tianzhu. Southern states and counties have become accustomed to relying on grain imports over the years, and the reckless invasion of the Holy Gate Alliance into the south will only double the food crisis.

In 555, the Rouran Kingdom perished.

In the same year, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, Xizhou, Onionzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou and other Kyushu disasters; A strong earthquake of about 6.5 magnitude occurred northwest of Jidu. At the same time, Wang Meng formed several pirate navies, and with the assistance of the Sea Demon Clan, they attacked and harassed the coastal counties of Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou and other prefectures. In order to strengthen the war of hunger, this group of pirates rarely took the initiative to kill civilians after landing, but burned houses and food on the spot, doing everything possible to aggravate the economic crisis and food crisis of the Holy Gate Alliance.

The Absolute Holy Gate Alliance finally can't hold on!

With the summer harvest of 555 as the demarcation point, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Yuzhou began to rebel one after another. Whether it is the armed suppression of these rebels and starving people, or the direct losses of the rebels and starving people looting the grain depots, and the indirect losses caused by the bombing of railways and highways, the internal crisis of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance has been further exacerbated.

Despair gradually rose among the military and civilians.

Everyone knows that this is by no means the worst outcome.

The Xianbei Western Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba Department will come to an end in 557, and what if the people who respond to the fate of the Western Northland are as ruthless as Gao Yang's father and son? Although the southwest of Yongzhou, Liangzhou, and Shuozhou, which were ordered by the Xianbei Western Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba Department, were not major grain-producing states, they had undoubtedly relieved a lot of burdens for the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance over the years. If the place where the Tuoba Department Xianbei and Western Wei were ordered was also deeply punished by the Mandate of Heaven, the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance would definitely be defeated.

In 556, the Absolute Gate Alliance ushered in the fateful defeat of Pengcheng County.

The reason is very simple, Wang Meng sent pirates to frantically harass the coastal counties, desperately destroying the summer and autumn harvests of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance. The peasants were plunged into famine, the workers were plunged into famine, and in order to survive, they were used by spies to rush to the rear of the fortress of Pengcheng County. In the face of a group of hungry people, the military and police departments in various places were at a loss, unable to effectively exert their combat effectiveness, and hesitated to miss the best opportunity to suppress them. Then, the rebels won, they robbed the garrison of Pengcheng County of the military food reserves, and smashed the military railway line to ensure logistics and transportation.

War is all about logistics. Without logistical supplies, the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance was defeated in a new round of positional warfare and lost the military town of Pengcheng County. Subsequently, the defeated troops had to withdraw to Liang County, Yuzhou and Jinan County, Qingzhou, respectively, to urgently establish a second line of defense.

Xuzhou, the southeast of Yuzhou, and the southeast of Qingzhou fell in an instant, and the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance was like a lonely boat in the wind and rain for a while.