Chapter Eighty-Four: Disaster Relief and Governance!
At this time, the city of Ullin.
It's been a month since I took Bashu.
Within a month, Cao Cao recruited a large number of tigers and leopards, and now the number has expanded to 50,000.
In the case of armor weapons, it will only take about ten days to complete all of them.
Originally, there were not enough war horses, but after occupying Hanzhong, Cao Cao was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhang Luxiaoer actually raised a lot of war horses.
After all, due to the topography, Hanzhong is very suitable for raising horses, and it has a unique advantage compared to the county town under Cao Cao.
But this is far from enough, the tiger and leopard cavalry recruited are all the elite in the military camps, but there is still a gap between the elite soldiers that Cao Cao needs.
So, as soon as they entered the camp, they began to train the devil.
During this time, Cao Cao could not be idle, the tiger and leopard were riding in training, and there were troops stationed everywhere.
Now Cao Cao has about 300,000 mobile troops available at his disposal.
Cao Cao first sent all 200,000 to the city near Chibi to prevent Sun Quan and Liu Bei from taking advantage of his northern expedition to backstab.
After all, Wulin is too close to them, unlike Xuchang, which has the advantage of distance.
If you're not careful, you could get them to take advantage of it.
How fierce Jiangdong's archers were, Cao Cao couldn't have been more clear.
Liu Beijun is naturally not a vegetarian, and the combat effectiveness of the Bai Yu soldiers under his command is not inferior to that of the tiger and leopard horseman.
Nowadays, the main battlefields are in the north and south, and the east and west do not need to pay much attention.
After this period of precipitation, the first batch of grain planted by Cao Cao finally matured.
Sure enough, the production of these grains is even more than when they were on a desert island!
After all, Cao Cao chose the most fertile land and cultivated it carefully every day, and the growing environment of these crops was much better than that of Lin Chuan's cultivation.
Cao Cao calculated that the average yield was about 30% higher than that of Lin Chuan's planting.
The highest, even reached fifty percent!
In other words, the average yield of potatoes alone is already close to 20,000!
With such an output, it is not too easy to solve the problem of famine today.
After leaving enough food for the local peasants and storing a warehouse of grain by the way, Cao Cao gave all the remaining grain to the disaster.
Today, among the counties under Cao Cao, there are two areas that are more seriously affected.
The people inside are almost out of food.
But at that time, even though Cao Cao had brought a large amount of supplies from the desert island, it was still difficult to support them.
After all, it is necessary to give priority to the supply of the attacking troops and the defending troops.
Although these people were miserable, Cao Cao still chose to have them evacuate to other county towns first.
Now with the distribution of this food to various places, this problem has been completely solved.
Now, Cao Cao has survived the most difficult stage.
The food keeps up with the supply, and the rest is not so difficult to do whatever it takes.
Nowadays, there is still not enough iron ore and steel for smelting, and there is a shortage of craftsmen.
"Distribute all the grain to the victims, and each of these two counties, send 10,000 soldiers to the farmers, and there must be no mistake."
Cao Cao looked at the reports of the two places and immediately commanded.
Cheng Yu received the order and hurriedly ordered to go down.
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At this time, in the middle of a certain drought county.
After days of starvation, the people are now yellow and thin, looking languishing.
However, they still refused to leave their homeland.
They really can't let go of the inheritance handed down by their ancestors, and if they leave, they will have nothing.
It was this kind of thinking that led to the famine that Cao Cao issued a disaster relief order, and the people could receive subsidies to live in other counties.
But not many people went, not even more than 20%.
The rest of the people even eat the bark of trees every day to survive.
Although Cao Cao sent disaster relief materials from time to time, it was really not enough for these people.
The drought could not be solved, so Cao Cao gave an order to plant grain in the ground.
After all, Cao Cao knew how tenacious these grain seeds were.
The desert island where Lin Chuan is located, the quality of the land is very poor, and most of it is not suitable for planting, but there is still such a high yield.
And it is also a situation that Lin Chuan rarely takes care of.
As long as it is watered, it can grow, and this kind of food is simply a blessing on earth.
Of course, drought or flood may be solved in this way, and with more care, it will surely mature.
But if it's a plague of locusts, there's no way around it.
No matter how good the grain is, it can't resist the gnawing of locusts.
Even the grain on Lin Chuan's side is no exception.
If it weren't for Lin Chuan's special medicine, otherwise, just one locust plague would have caused the entire deserted island to become bare directly.
"Father, when will you go to Xiliang? The kids can't wait! ”
Just as Cao Cao was thinking about how to help the disaster, a young voice came.
This person is none other than Cao Pi and Cao Zihuan.
After Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, was killed in the battle of Wancheng with Dian Wei, Cao Pi has been following Cao Cao to conquer the north and south.
Along the way, there were merits and hard work, so Cao Pi was awarded the title of General of the Five Senses by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.
It's not easy to achieve this at this age.
However, at this time, Cao Cao looked at Cao Pi and always felt angry.
Cao Pi is about the same age as Lin Chuan, but he is extremely modest.
There is no poetry and literature, and there is no style of generals, if it is not clumsy, it is really stupid.
But Lin Chuan said that Cao Pi was his successor, which made Cao Cao even more angry.
With so many sons, Cao Cao's favorite is naturally Cao Zhi and Cao Zijian.
Not for anything else, just because Cao Zhi is most like himself, and he is very literary, and the poems he writes also won Cao Cao's heart.
Although Cao Zhi has no advantages other than that, it is enough to have this.
However, at this time, Cao Cao had completely changed his thinking.
Since Lin Chuan said that Cao Pi is the successor, it means that he must have something extraordinary, maybe he is clumsy.
Moreover, Lin Chuan also said that Cao Pi was close to Sima Yi, and Sima Yi was extremely good at hiding clumsiness.
Thinking about it like this, his son must have something to hide from himself.
"Father, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing that his father didn't respond to him for a long time, Cao Pi suddenly asked Cao Cao in a daze.
"Pi'er, why do you keep thinking about fighting?"
"I have decided to postpone the matter of Xiliang, since you can't be idle, then go to the disaster area to help the people grow food."
Cao Cao waved his hand.
Now Cao Pi was directly dumbfounded:
"Father, the child just wants to fight in all directions, how can this pawn farmer be done by the husband?"
But seeing that Cao Cao's eyes were a little wrong, Cao Pi suddenly swallowed his saliva secretly.
Cao Pi is still very afraid of his father.
"Child...... The child is commanded! ”
"The child will go to the disaster relief with Master Cheng immediately, and please rest assured by his father."