Chapter 27 The Grain Problem
Zhang Jiashi himself did not think that the idea of defensive counterattack was not feasible, but if he wanted to successfully achieve the vitality of the Huns or the will to fight under the solid defense of the northern border, it was only a few aspects of the idea that were not appropriate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info.com
Especially in the current situation, in order to reduce the logistical pressure of the border army, the Qin Empire adopted a certain scale of tuntian strategy.
On this basis, if you want to maintain the strength of Tuntian, then you must need a considerable number of Tuntian personnel to be able to do this.
In this way, there is naturally no major problem in peacetime, but at present, the arrangement of these tuntian personnel has become a very key place.
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To a certain extent, it is true that the personnel of Tuntian can strengthen the defense force of the area, and can even be reorganized as an emergency defense force.
The combat effectiveness of these reorganized new army units may not be guaranteed, but in defensive warfare, even if it is a new recruit to fight out a Hun rider, it is a relatively cost-effective thing.
It's just that this is not the key, and the most critical place for these tuntian personnel is the ration guarantee for these personnel during the wartime.
There is no doubt that in the Qin Empire's border grain dispatch, garrisons were largely prioritized.
As for the ration guarantee for the tuntian personnel, it is more likely that the tuntian will be dispatched at the beginning or during the famine year to ensure the food supply of these tuntian personnel.
At other times, the grain and straw of these tuntian personnel were guaranteed to be more self-sufficient, and a considerable part of them also needed to be handed over to the border counties, and then the border counties mainly used these grains to maintain the supply of the border army.
It can be said that this is a corresponding circular supply system.
The border troops, on the other hand, tried to protect these personnel as much as possible.
However, in times of war, it is very likely that the rations of these tuntian personnel need to be dispatched from the local area or the rear to maintain the supply, which undoubtedly brings certain challenges to the current grain storage system of the Qin Empire.
Zhang Jiashi did not think about dispatching these personnel back to the rear, but first, he could not effectively predict the time when the Hun army would press the border, and secondly, mobilizing these people to the rear would also bring a certain amount of pressure to the local food supply system.
Therefore, in terms of these two aspects, it is not an appropriate arrangement to transfer these tuntian personnel.
While the Qin Empire was under the command of Zhang Jiashi, Zhang Jiashi built some warehouses in some major cities and parts of the south of the Great Wall in order to consolidate and enhance the combat continuity of the border army.
For the overall grain consumption, the role of these warehouses is actually not too large, but in a certain period of time, if these warehouses can be controlled in the hands of the Qin army, the grain in the warehouses can play a key role during this period of time.
But after a while, Zhang Jiashi knew what kind of disaster it would be for the nearby grain shortage areas once it was consumed.
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There are many historical accounts of armies lacking food. And a more intuitive historical term can be said to completely describe the tragic situation of this scene......
And this historical term is the two-legged sheep.
The Song people Zhuang Sui wrote in the "Chicken Rib Edition": "Since the age of Jingkang Bingwu (1126 AD), Jindi Chaohua, in six or seven years, Shandong, Jingxi, Huainan and other roads, Jing Zhen thousands of miles, bucket rice to tens of thousands, and can not be obtained...... The price of human flesh is cheaper than that of dogs, and the fat and strong are only fifteen thousand a piece, and the whole body is violent. Dengzhou Fan Wen led the loyal and righteous people, Shaoxing Gui Chou Sui Pan Sea to Qiantang, there are people who hold to the line and eat. The old thin man said that he was sparing the fire, and the woman was a young man with a soup sheep under his name, and the child was called a rotten bone: and his eyes were two-legged sheep. ”
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Tao Zongyi's "Nancun Dropout Record" said, "The soldiers of the world are Yin, and the army of Huaiyou is fond of cannibalism, and children are the best,...... Or sit between two cylinders, and force the fire outside. or on an iron frame. Or tie their hands and feet, first pour boiling soup with it, but brush it with a bamboo broom to remove the bitter skin. Or put it in a bag and cook it in a giant pot. or the man shall cut off his legs, and the woman shall have his breasts cut off, which is so poisonous that it is indescribable." Human flesh is said to be 'thinking about meat', and eating it makes people want to do it.
Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" Volume 2 Luanyang Xia Lu II records:
Jingcheng is biased to the west, and there are several barren mounds, which will be flattened. After hours, the old servant Shi Xiang pointed and said: It is a descendant of Zhou, and he is also a good person who extends the third generation. At the end of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, there was a big drought locust in Henan and Shandong, and the grass roots and bark were exhausted, and people were used for food. Officials can ban, women and young children, and they are connected to the city, which is called a vegetable person. The butcher buys it like a sheep and a pig. The ancestor of the Zhou family, from the Dongchang traders, to lunch, the butcher said: The meat is exhausted, please stay less. Seeing the two women in the kitchen, they shouted: After staying for a long time, you can take a hoof first. Hurrying out, hearing the trombone, a woman has broken her right arm, like turning to the ground, a woman trembling and colorless, seeing Zhou and wailing, a begging for death, a begging for help. Zhou was moved and paid for redemption. He had no physiology, and he stabbed his heart to death; when he returned home, because he had no children, he took him as a concubine, and gave birth to a boy with red silk on his right arm, which was wrapped around his shoulder blade from under his armpit, like a woman with a broken arm. The third generation of the latter is extinct. It is said that Zhou Ben has no children, and these three lives are a good thing.
"The Legend of Shihu" records: Since the total Baihua, he has been drunk ****, arrogant and unreasonable, or wandering in the field, hanging in the pipe, or leaving the palace minister's house at night, adulterating his wife and concubine. Dress up the beautiful lady of the palace, cut the blood, put it on the plate, and pass it on to the public. And the bhikshunis in the inner nuns who have a beautiful appearance, and kill them with profanity, boil and eat them with beef and mutton, and give them to the right and right, so that they may know their taste.
The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty records: In the third year of the peace of Emperor Xizong, Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan allied forces to attack Chenzhou. Huang Chao's army besieged Chenzhou for more than 300 days. During this period, the land in the Kanto region was uncultivated, and the people were so hungry that they could not stand up. Huang Chao's army used the captured captives as food, and thousands of people were killed in a single day.
It is mentioned in the history books: "The thief has a grinding stone, hundreds of huge stones, and the birth of people is broken in mortars, and they are eaten by bones." "Chung Mo Yan" is the military food supply station of the Huangchao army.
Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was worried about the matter, so he sent Kim Yong Cheng and told Zhang Fang secretly. Fang took it to Kim Yong City, went to the camp, and killed it. Sergeant Fang was also in tears. He once ordered Liu Shenbing, the assassin of Yongzhou, to attack him. More than 10,000 people from the seven counties of Shenhe went to Chang'an. Yu Kui rebelled against the battle and was defeated by the good domain. Frightened, he urgently summoned Zhang Fang.
The history books recorded: "Zhang Fang decided to kill a thousand gold, and the water was dry. It is the prince's slave and maidservant who give the soldiers. Those who do not serve in the first rank, and men over thirteen years old, are all enlisted, and slaves are enslaved to help the soldiers. Public and private are poor, and rice and stone are worth a lot of money. The edict is only a city. Fang plundered more than 10,000 officials, private slaves and maidservants in Luo, and the army lacked food, killing people and eating miscellaneous cattle and horses. ”
In the first month of the second year of Wude, Zhu Cang had 200,000 troops, plundered between the Han River and the Huai River, and the migration of the troops was irregular, and every time he broke through a prefecture and county, he had not eaten up the grain accumulated in the prefecture and county, and then moved again, and when he left the prefecture and county, he burned all the rest of the materials in the prefecture and county; and he did not pay attention to agriculture, so the bones of the people who died of hunger were piled up in ******, and there was a situation of cannibalism.
Zhu Cang's army had nothing to plunder, and there was a lack of food in the army, so Zhu Cang asked the soldiers to cook women and children to eat, and said to his subordinates: "There is no food better than human flesh, as long as there are people in other towns, why worry about starvation!" At that time, the Sui Dynasty's writings Zuo Lang 6 Congdian, Yan Zhitui's son Tongshi Sheren Yan Shuchu, all lived in Nanyang because of the demotion of officials.
At first, Zhu Cang invited them to be his guests, but when Zhu Cang lacked food, he ate both of them. Zhu Cang also requisitioned the women and children of each castle to supply the army as military rations, and the castles betrayed him one after another.
At that time, the local heroes Yang Shilin and Tian Zan in Xianzhou raised troops to attack Zhu Cang, and all states and counties responded one after another. Zhu Cang engaged them in battle at Huaiyuan, and as a result, Zhu Cang was defeated and fled to Jutan with thousands of remnants of his army.
"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu Ji" records: In the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao fought against Tao Qian and Lu Bu in Xuzhou and Puyang, and the war added locust plagues.
In the late Western Jin Dynasty, the Qiang people can be called "cannibal demons".
Historical records record that the Qiang army marches and fights without carrying grain and grass, and plunders Han women as military food, which the Qiang people call "two-legged sheep", which means that they walk on two feet like sheep to drive the ** subordinates and livestock, and the soldiers are slaughtered and cooked at night during the day.
The blood debt of the Qian people to the Han people is too much, and the crown prince Shi Di is even more fingering than his father Shi Hu. If Shi Hu is brutal and absurd, this young man in his twenties can only be explained by perversion. When he was idle and bored in his house, he scurried around with a knife, and when he met his maid, he cut off her head, wiped off the blood, and put it on a plate to make crafts and his subordinates to watch. The most incredible thing is that this demon actually believes in Buddhism, he ordered the Han women he took captive to be nuns, and when he met a beautiful one, he would first mate with her, and then cut off the meat of this unfortunate nun and boiled it with beef and mutton, and gave this food to his subordinates to eat, so that they could guess what raw materials it was made of.
Maybe there is a father and a son, Shi Hu is not a loyal person compared to Shi Di:
Shi Hu indulged in wine and wandering in the palace, and the criminal law lost its permanence and was moody. Shi Hu reported to Shi Hu what he thought could be reported, and Shi Hu said angrily: "How can such a trivial matter be worth reporting!" Sometimes if Shi Di did not report it, Shi Hu said dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you report it!" So he condemned and scolded Shi Di, whipped and beaten with a cane, and was born many times in a month. Shi Di was resentful of this.
Shi Di privately said to Li Yan and the others: "The Son of Heaven's will is difficult to satisfy, I want to do something like the Hun Maodun, what are you doing with me?" Li Yan and the others did not dare to answer.
In July of the third year of Xianxuan, Shi Di claimed that he was ill and ignored political affairs, and secretly led more than 500 palace ministers and civil and military officials to ride horses to Li Yan's mansion to drink, and took the opportunity to say to Li Yan and others: "I want to kill Hejian Gong Shi Xuan in Jizhou, and there is someone who dares not to follow!"
After traveling for several miles, everyone fled in all directions. Li Yan knelt and kowtowed, trying his best to stop, and Shi Di returned in a dazed state. When Shi Di's mother, Zheng Cherry, heard about this, she privately sent people around her to question Shi Di, and Shi Di killed the person sent by her mother in a fit of rage.
The monk Buddha Tucheng said to Shi Hu: "Your Majesty should not go to the East Palace often. ”
Shi Hu was originally going to visit Shi Di's condition, but when he thought of Buddha Tucheng's words, he returned to the palace. Then he widened his eyes and said loudly: "I am the monarch of the world, can't father and son trust each other!"
So he let the female Shangshu who was close to him go to inspect it. Shi Di shouted for her to come forward to talk, and took advantage of the situation to draw his sword and stab. Shi Hu was angry and arrested Li Yan and others for questioning. Li Yan originally told the original story of the incident, Shi Hu killed Li Yan and more than 30 others, imprisoned Shi Di in the East Palace, and soon pardoned his crimes and summoned him in Taiwu East Hall.
Shi Di did not apologize when he saw him, and left in an instant. Shi Hu asked people to say to him: "The prince was summoned to see the queen, how can he leave in a hurry!" Shi Di didn't look back, and went straight out of the palace. Shi Hu was furious and deposed Shi Di as a concubine.
That night, Shi Hu killed Shi Di and his concubine Zhang, as well as 26 men and women, and buried them in a coffin. and killed more than 200 of Shi Di's courtiers, and deposed Shi Di's mother Zheng Cherry as the concubine of the East China Sea.
Under the rule of the Zhao regime established by the Qian, the Han nation, which had established the Xiongqin and Shenghan dynasties, was on the verge of extinction.
By the time Ran Min destroyed Zhao, there were only about 4oo Han people left in the Central Plains, and after Ran Min liberated Yedu, the number of Han women who were captured and plundered reached 200,000. These Han women are domestic animals raised by the Qiang people as "two-legged sheep", and they may be slaughtered and cooked anytime and anywhere.
Although more than 50,000 girls were liberated at this time, they were also homeless and were taken in by Ran Min. Later, Ran Min was defeated by Murong Xianbei, and Yecheng was occupied. These 50,000 girls all fell into the hands of the cannibal demon Murong Xianbei. Murong Xianbei was insulted, and used these 50,000 poor girls who had just escaped from the clutches of the Qiang clan as military rations. Ate clean in one winter. The broken bones of the 50,000 girls outside Yecheng City were piled up into a hill.
When he arrived in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tuoba Xianbei's Tuoba Tao mobilized an army of 300,000 to attack the Song State, but he didn't bring a little grain and grass, and if the plundered food could not meet the needs, it could only be "plundered and eaten". In fact, they did.
During the Sixteen Kingdoms, the former Qin Fujian led his troops to fight and called the enemy soldiers he killed cooked food.
He said to the sergeants: "If you fight in the morning, you will be fed with fat in the evening, and you will not have to worry about starvation." Therefore, after the battle, his subordinates ate human flesh, and then fought after they were full, which was extremely ferocious.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Zongquan often sent his generals to slaughter the people everywhere, and his army did not bring rice and noodles, but salted the killed people and carried them with the army as military rations. Qin Zongquan was called emperor, and the army used human dried meat as food.
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Well, in the face of the above records, Zhang Jiashi himself didn't know whether to give corresponding orders to prevent such a thing from happening.