The vast northern land is very difficult.

The drought has started at the end of last year and has continued until this year.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, God is unwilling to rain soon.

Walking in the north, you can see crops that die from drought, dry weeds and saplings everywhere...

The Northern Liang court "actively" resisted drought, but the solutions they could think of were really limited.

When you dig a well, the groundwater is almost dry, and even if you fight twenty battles down, you may not be able to get out of water...

To clear the ditches, you must have enough water in the big river to flow into the small ditches...

All in all, this year is difficult.

Every day, there are many memorials asking the court for disaster relief on the desk of Emperor Liu Baoshun of Northern Liang, which basically come from local officials.

The imperial court had limited financial resources and limited food and grass reserves.

If it is only a local drought, the court can still do its best to provide disaster relief.

But……

At present, there is a drought in the entire northern region, including the capital, where disaster relief is needed everywhere.

Summer harvests have been reduced by more than half.

As expected, the autumn harvest will be reduced by at least two-thirds.

This means that not only is it difficult now, but it will be even more difficult when it is cold in winter.

When the next year, if the drought does not ease and there is not enough food, a large number of self-cultivated farmers will sell land, houses, children and daughters, and will go bankrupt and become slaves, or starve to death.

If it really doesn't work, you can only escape famine and become a socially unstable population.

This means that from this winter to next spring, bandits and bandits will become popular again and social security will be tested.

Natural disasters will be accompanied by man-made disasters in all dynasties.

A serious natural disaster will be a failure to overturn a regime.

For the young Beiliang, the power of Beiliang, the Beiliang, which lacks food and tax support in the wealthy areas of the south, it has begun to bear heavy burdens, and every breath is accompanied by heavy breathing.

Disaster relief is needed everywhere, money and food are needed, and production is stable.

But the weather is not good, and the sun shines on every day, which can make people die of sunshine.

Emperor Liu Baoshun of Beiliang was so worried that his hair was gray and he couldn't sleep all night.

Invite the masters to come to the stage to practice, and pray for the heaven to bring rain.

Spending hundreds of thousands of chunks of money and making it continuous for seven days and seven nights, the master said it would definitely work.

As a result, the seven-day practice ended, and there was still no drop of rain in heaven.

In anger, Liu Baoshun ordered the Imperial City to slaughter the master with one knife.

The master shouted that he was wronged.

Seeing that the head was about to land, the master shouted: "The Liu family will be punished by God!"

"court death!"

With the word "death", the guillotine fell, blood splattered, and the head fell and rolled several times, landing at the feet of Yang Mu, the minister of Dali Temple who was sentenced to prison.

Yang Mu kicked the high man's head away, his eyes filled with bloodthirsty excitement.

Over the years, he has passed through the Dali Temple Shaoqing and killed the generals and made a decision.

He dares to handle cases that others dare not handle.

He dares to arrest people who others dare not arrest.

He will kill someone who others dare not kill!

In just a few years, he went from a baseless defector to Liu Baoshun's first son, killing all those who could be killed. He rose straight and was soon promoted to the Minister of Dali Temple.

Become the top leader of Dali Temple.

He was surrounded by a group of bloodthirsty and harsh people with virtue and virtue.

In recent years, under his governance, Dali Temple has shown a vague momentum of overwhelming the Imperial City Department.

From a serious court office, he was forced to become a spy agency and was burdened with thousands of infamous reputations.

All the words that Hou Xiao Chengli said back then were fulfilled.

In this life, Yang Mu, a tycoon, will never step into the door of aristocratic family, nor will he be accepted by aristocratic family.

He has become the most despicable person in the eyes of the aristocratic family, a thug with inhumanity.

However……

The more the aristocratic family looked down on him, the more humiliated him, and when dealing with the aristocratic family, his methods became more harsh and bloody.

Any aristocratic family that falls into his hands will be miserable. You won’t be skinned and you won’t be able to get out of prison alive.

If the handling is not done properly, the charge of exile will definitely be decapitation.

Even if the matter is done, it may be convicted of being confiscated and the whole family will be destroyed.

Everything depends on his mood.

I'm in a good mood, let you go.

I'm in a bad mood, kill your whole family.

Such a butcher-like figure made everyone in the Northern Liang court feel threatened, avoiding Yang Mu and staying away from him.

Yang Mu spent several years in the Northern Liang court, but he did not make a true friend.

Even those scholars publicly fired him from the group of scholars, refused to admit that he was a scholar, and were ashamed to be with him.

He has lost all the face of scholars.

It then extends to Yan Yunge's head.

Look...

This is the scholar trained by Yan Yunge, what is it!

Yan Yunge's literacy class is the training base for craftsmen.

Yang Mu: Haha!

Yan Yunge: "..."

Nothing to do with her!

...

The situation in Beiliang was not good, so Yan Yunge and Xiao Yi became interested in the Northern Expedition.

It is not the small-scale scene before, but the decisive battles and a comprehensive Northern Expedition.

"Our strength alone is not enough. We also need to contact Youzhou's troops, attack from north to south, and take advantage of their illness to kill him."

Yan Yunge is very decisive. The severe drought in the north is her opportunity, and she doesn’t want to miss it.

Doing this seems to be too cruel for the common people.

However……

She has her reasons.

She said solemnly: "If the northern part is under my rule, even if the whole country is drought, the common people will have the chance to survive and have the chance to eat.

Under Liu Baoshun's rule, as long as the drought continues until next spring, the common people in the north will probably die for two or three out of ten.

The rest are either becoming slaves or becoming bandits. If you want your family to survive, you must live well. Don’t even think about it. It’s impossible!”

Xiao Yi asked her: "Are you ready? Should you take the opportunity to fight the Northern Expedition, or wait a little longer and wait for the next opportunity."

Yan Yunge was very decisive, "Don't wait! Don't come again when you can't miss it! I will contact my father in person, and Yuntong. I hope they will choose to support me."

...

Thousands of miles away, the northern border is an important town.

Wang Yan, the king of Youzhou who was guarding the border, basically never received a penny of salary and food in the Great Wei Dynasty in recent years, but he worked diligently to guard the border and resisted the foreign races' journey southward.

The food and equipment needed to raise soldiers are basically shipped by sea and sent from Pingyang County.

Being taken for granted...

When Yan Yunge pays taxes to the court, he will deduct this part of the expenses.

It doesn't matter that she paid taxes to the court and was also responsible for raising border soldiers.

At most, she deducts her taxes.

Doing so will make you benevolent and righteous.

Even if she was just a minister of the Great Wei Dynasty in name, she did a far better job than those ministers who called him loyal ministers of the Great Wei Dynasty!
To be continued...