The first year of Jianxing, winter.

Wuguan, Tongguan's Cao army, after entering the winter, suddenly stopped.

It was really not that Cao Wei suddenly suspended the battle plan, but because the actual conditions really did not allow it.

Yongzhou boundary, after entering November, the temperature plummeted, since the first snow began in mid-November, in less than a month, Yongzhou fell three snow.

After the time entered December, Yongzhou once again snowed heavily, which lasted for ten days, and the amount of snow was even heavier than that in December last year.

The entire Yongzhou territory is basically covered by heavy snow, and the snow is two feet thick when you go out.

This is the power of the Xiaoice period at the end of the Han Dynasty.

In this kind of weather, not to mention the Cao Wei troops in Tongguan and Wuguan, even the soldiers of Dahan County in Yongzhou, they all retracted into the Wu Fort or the barracks, and they couldn't even drill and arm.

And this heavy snowfall not only disrupted Cao Wei's military deployment, but also Yongzhou's deployment for the battle.

Today's Yongzhou Thorn Mansion, the biggest government affairs is not to deal with Cao Wei's possible invasion, but to provide disaster relief.

This year's heavy snow is too big, and almost all parts of Yongzhou have fallen into snow disasters, and the people's ability to resist disasters is really low, almost close to zero.

After decades of war, many of the people's houses are wooden and straw houses, and it is not that there are no mud and tile houses in Guanzhong, but they are basically only people with some family backgrounds can live in.

Last year, many people abandoned their homes and were forced to leave their hometowns to relocate, and although half of them eventually returned to their hometowns, in some places after the war, the houses have long been dilapidated.

Therefore, the people in Guanzhong who have just been resettled basically live in wooden and straw houses, and even some small and medium-sized families can only reluctantly repair them and live in mud houses.

In terms of the warmth of the wood-planked straw house and the mud tile house, people can't bear such a large-scale snowfall.

The mud house is better, at most there are some cracks and air leakage, and the wooden house. It's no different from living in the wild.

In addition, the amount of snowfall is too large, and some of the unsturdy mud houses cannot support the weight of the snow, let alone the wooden houses with straw roofs.

In the entire 46 counties of Guanzhong, each county was hit by snowstorms, and a large number of refugees appeared in each county.

In Fufeng County alone, there are nearly 200,000 Dingkou, and 40,000 people have been affected by the disaster, and their houses have to live on the streets because their houses have collapsed.

Beidi County and Anding County were also seriously affected, and the population of more than 400,000 in Guanzhong was affected, and 100,000 people were affected.

The least affected person has to be Zuo Fengyi County.

It's not that Zuo Fengyi County is too shou Hu Zun to govern the place, it's purely because Zuo Fengyi is now short of Dingkou, and most of the people who stay here are county soldiers and northern soldiers, and these people are not counted in the number of Dingkou.

But again, the most severely affected place is also Zuo Fengyi County.

Most of the Dingkou in Zuo Fengyi County are hidden Dingkou released by the family in order to ransom the land in Yongzhou, and these people were packed and sent to Zuo Fengyi by Zhuge Liang, and then placed in the Mintun camp to prepare for Tuntian.

These hidden Dingkou, but they don't have any assets to be around, they can come to Zuo Fengyi, it is the result of Zhuge Liang sending people to escort them, otherwise with the rations that these people carry with them, let them come to Zuo Fengyi by themselves, then it is estimated that most of them will starve to death if they can't go to Hanzhong.

Therefore, after these people arrived in Yongzhou, Zhang Xi had to send people to organize them to settle down, build houses for them, and prepare various winter materials.

But the problem is that these people arrived in Zuo Fengyi too late, it was almost November, and Zhang Xi didn't expect that this year's winter would be so cold and snowed for so long, and the arrangement for these Tuntian residents was still a relatively traditional wooden plank straw house.

No way, this kind of house is easy and fast to build, Zhang Xi originally thought, as long as he survives this winter, after spring ploughing, and then improves the residential environment for these Tuntian people, who knows, this winter will not be easy.

In fact, in order to cope with this winter, Zhang Xi did have preparations for a long time, but the basis of these preparations was based on the usual winter experience.

Before the beginning of winter, Zhang Xi did issue a thorn order, requiring all counties to prepare for the winter in advance, focusing on hoarding enough grain and grass, and each county repairing the government offices, warehouses, and righteous offices in case of emergency, and at the same time calling on the people to repair their own residences, for which the government can provide certain help.

But. In these years, the appeal of the government stayed in the county seat at most, leaving the county seat and going to the countryside, and the government did not speak as a good envoy to the township.

Moreover, these days, we pay attention to a "people do not lift, officials do not investigate", the government says that whether the people do it or not, it is the people's business, and the government really cannot forcibly interfere.

Therefore, in the entire Yongzhou, the Yongzhou Thorn History Mansion headed by Zhang Xi is indeed seriously underprepared for this snow disaster, but in the same way, the people of Yongzhou are also seriously insufficient to deal with this snow disaster.

Since the continuous snow in mid-November, Zhang Xi has realized that this winter's winter may be even more difficult than last year, and he began to order all prefectures and counties to prepare for disaster relief as early as possible, and at the same time, Zhang Xi also began to mobilize all the resources that can be mobilized to prepare for disaster relief.

For example, Zhang Xi asked all counties to be ready to open warehouses and release grain at any time to relieve the people, and at the same time let the counties clean up the treasury and be ready to accept the affected people at any time.

But in the end, I still underestimated the power of the snow disaster, and when the snow disaster really came, the treasury of the county government and the righteous office could not accommodate so many victims.

For this reason, Zhang Xi had to order the transfer of military tents from the government treasury, distribute them to various counties, and temporarily set up military tents to accommodate the people.

It's true that the military tent is not warm, but it is made of felt cloth, at least it blocks the wind.

It's better than letting people freeze to death in the snow.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xi broke the convention and urgently allocated the place where the army supplied fire and carbon. The fire charcoal is the coal produced in Yueshan County, which belongs to the military management material and cannot be easily allocated to civilian use.

But now, Zhang Xi can't manage so much.

finally became the chief minister of one party, but because of his own incompetence, the people froze to death and starved to death. Zhang Xi's heart is the most unbearable for this.

When he was a general, he led his soldiers to fight, although he also had a burden in his heart, but Zhang Xi didn't care too much.

When a soldier eats food, he naturally has to defend the country and expand the territory, which is the common responsibility of the generals and soldiers, and it is inevitable that there will be casualties.

But the people are different, the people provide taxes to the state, but the state cannot protect the people, and it is absolutely the incompetence of the consuls to let the people freeze to death and starve to death when governing the localities.

For this reason, Zhang Xi had to mobilize all the resources at hand to help the people and victims, and strive to make more people survive.

But. Truth be told, it's true that the preparation was not sufficient.

Whether it is a felt cloth tent or a charcoal in the army, it was originally to supply the soldiers with supplies for the winter, these things were not too much, and I never thought of preparing one for the people.

It's really hard to get a balance out there.

But fortunately, Zhang Xi has two right-hand men at hand.

At this time, Jiang Wan and Chen Yi's co-ordination ability was vividly displayed at this moment.

Under the overall arrangement of these two people, in the early days of the snow disaster in November, they were finally able to barely survive, and the people were resettled to a certain extent, and the number of people who really froze to death in the wild was only a few hundred.

However, when the heavy snow began to fall in December, even Jiang Wan and Chen Yi couldn't stand it.

No matter how strong their coordination ability is, they must have disaster relief materials on hand.

How can disaster relief be arranged without anything?!

For this reason, Zhang Xi had to immediately write to the Son of Heaven and send a letter to Zhuge Liang at the same time.

The Son of Heaven wrote to the Son of Heaven, which was a plea, saying that the Yongzhou Snow Disaster, because of his poor thinking and insufficient preparation, is now not optimistic about the disaster relief situation, resulting in the displacement of the people, and asking the Son of Heaven to punish him.

sent a letter to Zhuge Liang, that is, to ask for help.

There is no requirement for food, in this regard, Zhang Xi has already hoarded a batch in Yongzhou, so there is no shortage for the time being, but the coal in Yueshan County and the felt cloth tent in Shuzhong, you can transport another batch to me, I will use it in a hurry.

When Zhuge Liang received Zhang Xi's letter, he was also shocked.

But Zhuge Liang didn't have the heart to blame Zhang Xi, according to the snow disaster situation described by Zhang Xi, even if he Zhuge Liang was in Yongzhou, it would be impossible to complete such a disaster relief task.

Zhang Xi is indeed a little unprepared, but there is one thing to say, Zhang Xi is really not careless, but this snow disaster is so big and covers a wide range that no one expected.

In any case, the Yongzhou snow disaster must be rescued, and Zhuge Liang immediately ordered Zhang Yi to be responsible for handling this matter, mobilize materials from Shuzhong and Yueshan County, and send people to Yongzhou as soon as possible.

However, there is still a problem.

Now that Yizhou has entered winter, although there is not much snow, it still affects some road conditions, and the transportation efficiency has been limited to a certain extent.

In addition, there was news from Hanzhong, saying that it was also snowing heavily in Hanzhong, although it was not as serious as Yongzhou, but it was also a heavy snow road closure.

The most important thing is that the two mountain roads that can lead to Guanzhong are the two mountain roads that can lead to Guanzhong, because of the serious snow and the steep mountain roads, it is impossible to pass a large number of convoy materials in a short time.

It is possible to venture through the mountain road alone, but there is no such thing as a convoy that can travel on a snowy boardwalk.

To solve this problem, it is necessary to organize soldiers or people to carry out special cleaning of the plank road, but the problem is that it is winter now, and the plank road is long, and cleaning the plank road itself is very time-consuming and laborious, if there is a heavy snow overnight, or simply more unlucky, causing avalanche or landslide, the plank road will be completely destroyed.

Therefore, these relief materials, out of prudence, Zhuge Liang decided to take the Qishan Road and send them to Yongzhou by detour.

It's just that the extra ten days of detour time have to let Zhang Xi find a way to get through it by himself.

And when Zhang Xi received a letter from Zhuge Liang informing him of the news that the relief materials were on Qishan Road, it was already mid-December.

At this time, the heavy snow in Guanzhong was already almost halfway down.

In this case, half of the supplies on hand have been consumed, and it is basically impossible to survive these ten days.

Zhang Xi thought about it, but finally had to make a decision.

The gates of Chang'an City were opened, and people from all over the country were allowed to take refuge in Chang'an.

It's a good idea, but for now, it's the only way.

(End of chapter)