Chapter 40: Qu has easy food

Early the next morning, Qu Gao was woken up by the noise outside the tent, rubbed his sore sideburns, saw the eight swordsmen all standing in front of the bed, and asked, "What's the noise outside?" ”

Jian Yi said: "Qu Lang, you were crowned king last night and ruled Luoyang, and all the officials in Luoyang were waiting for you to give orders outside the tent this morning. ”

"What?" Qu Gao's mind had not yet come to his senses, but he vaguely remembered that Shi Min wanted him to rejuvenate Luoyang last night, and suddenly he glanced at an antique long sword beside the bed, and he was sure. Yes, last night Shi Min made him the king of Luoyang, and personally untied the sword to show him his weight.

This can make Qu Gao panic, he is a martial artist, and he has not read a few sage books, how can he know how to deal with government affairs?

In his frustration, he heard Qu Gao's voice outside the tent and asked, "Is the King of Luoyang awake?" ”

"Yes, too!" Qu Gao got up in a panic and got dressed, no matter what, these people have been waiting outside for a long time, and they will finally see each other.

After a while, fifteen or sixteen officials marched outside the tent, half civil and half military, and when they saw Qu Gao, they paid a visit together. Qu Gao is not used to calling him the king of Luoyang, so he asked everyone to call him Qu Lang, and everyone will report their duties after receiving the order.

It turned out that since Shi Min captured Luoyang, although he killed a number of high-ranking officials, in order to protect Luoyang's livelihood, the officials of various ministries still left a few people, and they were responsible for the operation of various departments in Luoyang, but these people had empty official positions, and the strategies proposed were difficult to implement. In the past, political affairs also needed to be reported to Shi Min, but Shi Min went east and west, and he had to patrol the camp and practice everywhere every day, and he couldn't see anyone at all, even if he met by chance, Shi Min agreed to offer advice, but these officials did not have the manpower to implement, and the other generals of Zhao State never put the demotion in their eyes.

Qu Gao stroked the antique long sword on his waist, and remembered Shi Min's words last night: "This sword is my sword, when I first led the army, I used it to behead thirty-six generals who disobeyed my orders, I named it Thirty-six Chops, and today I gave it to Qu Gao, if there is anyone who disobeys the order, you can cut it all, you don't have to report to me!" It turned out that this sentence was not only to introduce this sword, but also to give Qu Gao a strong momentum, so that he could take over Luoyang smoothly.

Roughly learning about the situation in Luoyang from the mouths of officials from various ministries, Qu Gao also frowned and fell into deep thought.

At present, Luoyang is occupied by the Qiang people, and the soldiers of the Qiang nationality are arrogant and domineering in the city, burning, smashing, looting, and the people are either dead or fleeing, farming and trade cannot be maintained, and the people's livelihood is completely paralyzed. Now that there is no rice in the grain depot, and there are displaced people everywhere inside and outside the city, the first thing to solve is the food problem.

It's a food problem again, and when Qu Gao faced this problem again, the first thing that came to mind was Zhu Yan's strategy of changing food. Luoyang farming has been abandoned, and the cold winter is coming, even if the barren land is reclaimed now, these people will not be able to survive this cold winter and other harvests. At the moment, the only way to solve the urgent need is to change the grain!

However, if you want to implement this policy in Luoyang, it is much more difficult than Xiangyang, which is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and is adjacent to a city with fertile soil and rich products. Luoyang is now the territory of the Qiang nationality, although Yecheng in the north and Chang'an in the west are also famous cities, but the output of grain and rice is far less than that of Jiangnan.

Although the grain and rice in the south of the Yangtze River are rich, if you want to exchange grain with Luoyang, the transportation line is inevitably too long, and it may not be possible to reach it safely through the Huaishang army of General Zu Ti.

After thinking about it again, Qu Gao moved his eyes to Xiangyang again!