Chapter 162: The Great Drought in Guanzhong

Studying medicine is undoubtedly a hard job, but Yuan Shan sees the pain and is happy.

The story of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty is not only known to Gao Cheng, but also the intelligent Yuan Shanjian who has been smart since he was a child also knows Gao Cheng's intention to let him study medicine.

almost made it clear to himself that he would never learn from the Nanren in the future, but let him be a doctor and save people and be a Shanyang Gong.

If it was Yuan Shanjian, who had just ascended the throne, he might jump three feet high with excitement.

But after being the Son of Heaven for four or five years, even if he was a puppet Son of Heaven, witnessing the power of the Gao family's father and son, Yuan Shanjian became more and more fascinated by power.

What he wants to do is not Liu Xie, but Liu Ai.

Besides, didn't Liu Xie also try to resist the Cao family.

But it's good news after all.

With Gao Cheng's kindness, he will return to the government in the future and stabilize the situation, maybe he can pass on a bloodline to serve blood.

Thanks to the fact that King Kogao didn't know what Yuan Shanjian was thinking, he would have given him a peach to eat as a reward for his ingenuity.

However, Gao Cheng really didn't have time to pay attention to Yuan Shanjian's careful thoughts.

He has always known the uplifting heart of Yuan Zeonjian.

In addition to dealing with government affairs, after synthesizing the performance of the staff of the General's Mansion in the past period, Gao Cheng finally determined the candidates for Changshi and Zhu Bo.

Cui Ang among the three Cui was appointed as the head of the General's Mansion, and Wen Zisheng also served as the head of the General's Mansion because of his meritorious service to the Southern Liang and his diligent performance on weekdays.

This also disappointed Zhang Shiqi, who has always coveted these two positions.

He consciously concealed this emotion well, but Low Cheng sensed the frustration in the layman's words I had written.

Lao Zhang obviously has a lot of intentions when choosing words and sentences.

With the great low king's thoughtfulness towards the physical and mental weakness of his subordinates, how could he let this go.

deliberately summoned Wan Qianpu over, but it was still the same old thing, and he said that Wan Qianpu's duty to record his words and deeds was more important than that.

He also hinted that in the future, the lower clan will be the Wei dynasty, so he will hand it over to me to revise the history and draw a small cake for Li Xiangzhi.

Wan Qipu was really grateful to Dade and cheered up again.

And Low Huan, who is far away in Li Xiang, has never let go of his attempts at Kansai for a moment.

But history has not changed dramatically until now.

Rou Ran in history proposed to the Eastern Wei Dynasty at the end of last year, and Low Huan named the sister of Changshan Wang Yuanqiu as the envoy and relatives of Princess Lanling.

The friendly relationship with Rouran also made Low Huan dare to lead more than 10,000 cavalry to the front of Guanlong and attack Xiazhou.

In the end, he captured the Xiazhou assassin Shi Hu and relocated 7,000 households of his tribe.

The fall of Xiazhou also brought about a chain reaction, and the Qinzhou Assassin Shi Yuwentai, the Fengzhou Assassin Shi Qigan Baole, the Zuowei General Poba Liu Xie and others took this opportunity to defect to the Kanto.

But now, due to Low Cheng's premature participation, the gap in strength between the Eastern and Western Wei has widened, and Rouran has chosen to form an alliance with the Western Wei.

Even if you don't gain something, you won't lose it.

At that time and space, Low Huan would also risk being blocked by Rouran to go straight to Xiazhou again.

It may not be a chain reaction.

Low Huan's low light in the Eastern and Western Wei Wars, the battle of Xiazhou, also happened again with the passing of the first month of the seventh year of Taichang (536).

Yuwentai and others, who are interested in Kanto, also have to continue to wait for the opportunity.

And that timing didn't make us wait too long.

Time retreated to July, and when the Kanto region was peaceful, Zhang Shiqi encountered a problem.

It was the time when water was needed for spring ploughing, but there was no rain in Guanzhong.

When that continued until early July, no one knew that a spring drought was inevitable.

Even in the summer, there was a lot of relief in that difficult situation.

Even if Zhang Shiqi mobilized the people of Guanxi to dig ditches and build wells and set up water wheels, and exhausted all kinds of methods, it would be difficult to change the fate of Guanzhong this year's drought that was doomed to a poor harvest.

The only question is whether the drought will last long or how devastating it will be.

For Zhang Shiqi, it was a big blow.

Fortunately, difficulties have brought in two allies, Rouran and Gao Huan, who are about to show their ambitions and develop well, in order to share the Kanto region in the future.

A small drought made the land of Kansai, which was already far inferior to the Kanto, even worse.

Zhang Shiqi's doubts about the dangers of the drought, and Low Cheng was able to answer for me: There was hunger in Guanzhong, cannibalism, and fourteen out of 10 people died.

Ever since Low Cheng learned the news of the spring drought in Guanzhong, I knew that the disaster would eventually come as scheduled.

Of course, Low Cheng is willing to transport food to rescue, as long as Zhang Shiqi opens and turns to surrender, I am even willing to sell Low Huan's underwear, and I also want to raise enough food to transport it to Kansai to help the victims.

Li Xiangzhi is willing to surrender, and it will be difficult for our father and son of the low family to repel Kansai for a while.

The identities that are opposed to each other are destined to be able to turn my back and watch the tragedies that will happen to Guan Long in the future.

The depletion of surplus food among the people will be the source of the tragedy.

Time recedes into autumn, above the long drought, Guanzhong is destined to have a harvest.

That made Li Xiangzhi, the assassin of Qinzhou, the assassin of Fengzhou, Gan Baole, the general of the left guard, Liu Xie and others no longer sit still.

sent a letter to Low Huan, asking to return to the east, and before the letter was sent, he immediately led his troops to set off north.

Low Huan originally wanted to appease Yuwentai and the others to stay in Kansai and do internal response for me.

But Yu Wentai and the others hadn't set off yet, and they had to do it, so Low Huan could only order Ah Zhiluo to go south to respond.

In the end, after Zhang Shiqi did not react, he successfully brought Li Xiangzhi and others back to Gaocheng.

It's that Li Xiangzhi reacted quickly, I really don't have the energy to care about this group of seven-seven boys now, maybe it's a good thing that we're gone, it's to worry about trouble.

And for Yuwentai and others, who defected to Qianwai, Low Huan also showed preferential treatment.

Yuwentai was named the Duke of Hexi, and his son, Wan Qiluo, who had met with Low Huan in the letter of the letter, was awarded the title of Commander of Changjun, and Liu Xie was awarded the post of Fujun, and the rest of the more than 800 governors who followed us were not rewarded.

Low Huan hopes to follow our example and call on fewer people in Kansai to defect.

But my calculation was obviously wrong, and almost all of those who were willing to stay in Kansai to tide over that difficult time with Zhang Shiqi at this time were die-hard henchmen.

Then you have to see people's hearts in times of crisis.

Zhang Shiqi also got some comfort in the bad news.

And Low Huan has not finished preparing military funds in Li Xiang, waiting for the outbreak of turmoil in Kansai due to the exhaustion of civilian food stocks, and then send troops to retreat west.

And Low Huan's actions also aroused Zhang Shiqi's vigilance, and I asked Rouran and Gao Huan, mainly Gao Huan for food, and at the same time, I also stepped up the search for civilian grain storage.

When Zhang Shiqi and Low Huan were preparing for a small drought in Guanguan, Low Cheng was also deploying his own deployment.

I'm worried that Zhang Shiqi is crazy hungry and goes to Hengnong to grab grain.

So, Low Cheng sent Dugu Yongye to lead 7,000 Gyeonggi archers to retreat to Hengnong, and Low Cheng specially explained to me to accept the moderation of Wang Sizheng of Hengnong County.

And when Shang Shutai was dealing with military and political matters, Low Cheng learned a good news:

Song Niangzi is not pregnant.

It's a thousand words short, I'll rest first, prepare for the next big battle in the afternoon, and update it in the evening.

(End of chapter)