Chapter 136: The Hungry People

The territory of the Tiance Tang Dynasty was getting bigger and bigger, and the situation of large east-west spans was getting more and more obvious. Not to mention Beiting and Shuye, which had just been included in the territory, just say that the harvest situation along the Silk Road, the west (Ningyuan, Shule area), the central (Gaochang Yizhou in Kucha) and the east (Lianglangan) was completely different even in the same year.

The harvest in the three years of Tiance was only free from famine in the middle, and the western part was mediocre, while the eastern part of Liang, Lan and Gansu ushered in a small harvest.

Liang, Lan and Ganzhou had the foundation of water conservancy projects left over from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the past two or three years, 80% were restored with the efforts of the Tiance Military Farm Army and built many new small water conservancy projects. While developing agriculture, the government actively promoted refined settlement animal husbandry based on the geographical conditions of Hexi, allowing many foreigners to learn semi-agriculture and semi-animal Husbandry, thus greatly increasing the meat production in eastern Hexi.

Moreover, this area is close to the Central Plains and has received many immigrants in the past three years. In addition, the government has excavated hidden households and fugitive households through various policies, and incorporated foreign households into Han households. By the third year of Tiance, the registered household registrations in Liang, Lan and Ganzhou were 80,000 more than when the Tiance army had just ruled this area.

With such a household registration base and such water conservancy facilities, a large amount of surplus can be obtained even in the ordinary year. At this time, a small bumper year was added. After the autumn harvest, the cooked grain was everywhere and the grain prices fell sharply! Zheng Wei took advantage of the opportunity to collect the surplus grain and fill the warehouses with full warehouses.

In addition to the eastern and western parts of the rivers, Shuofang and Dingnan also had a small harvest. The harvest in Prefectures and Linzhou was also good, but Hedong, which was separated by a river, had a bad harvest. Hedong had a good foundation under the governance of Shi Jingtang. The people south of Taiyuan only lived a hard life and could still be supported, while the people north of Taiyuan would suffer.

Shi Jingtang went out to flee in the autumn and winter of the second year of Tiance. The Khitans placed it near Chilechuan. Before leaving, he almost scraped up all the food stored in the northern part of Jin and the people of the states. At that time, Feng Dao suggested that the Taiyuan Prefecture be transferred to preserve grain to help the people of the six states in northern Jin, and then to transfer the grain stored in Jiang, Jin and Fen to realize the Taiyuan treasury, but was rejected by Li Congke. In the spring of the third year of Tiance, the more than 100,000 poorest farmers could not withstand the first one. At the beginning, Feng Dao hurriedly asked Li Congke to issue an order for the victims to go to neighboring prefectures and counties to eat. In ancient times, with limited transportation capacity, it was much more convenient for the rulers to transport a large amount of grain to go to the disaster area.

However, Li Congke was concerned that once these more than 100,000 people went south, the Khitan and Shi Jingtang might follow him and take the hungry people as the front. He ordered them to cross the river to Linzhou, eat in the prefectures, and ordered the Dingnan Army and Shuofang Army to escort grain to support him. Li Congke's various arrangements in Taiyuan were to prevent Khitan and Shi Jingtang, so he should try his best to maintain the stability of this defense line.

Prefecture and Linzhou are located in the northeast corner of the Hetao region. The local tyrants in this area are led by Zhe and Yang families. Zhe and Yang families have been in the border for a long time, but they have extremely strong centripetal force on the Central Plains dynasty! The general Zhe saw the victims crossing the river from a distance, and asked his father, Zhe Silun, the head of the Zhe family, how to deal with it.

Zhe Silun was very old at this time, but he was not dull. He had served as the governor of Linzhou and prefectures, and was a local leader. He said, "What do you think of the Yang family? What do other families think of it?"

Zhe Congyuan said: "The Yang family has already expressed their opinions that only his father will follow the leader. Other families are timid, but I see their expressions, but I am afraid that the victims will pour in and consume their valleys! Moreover, they believe that the six states in northern Shanxi have encountered man-made disasters, and it is the right thing to eat in southern Shanxi, but when they come to Linzhou, they don't know what the court thinks! Therefore, some people suggest patrol the river."

The word "王江" is extremely vicious here. Although the word "王江" is used, it is actually to *** the Yellow River, so that the hungry people will not cross the shore and watch them starve to death! If the hungry people run west and have no way, they will naturally rush to other places.

At that time, it was the Five Dynasties, and the rich families in various places were divided and self-reliant. Although they were far away from the central government, they did not obey everything. If the prefectures and Linzhou "surveyed the river" for self-protection, the court issued at most an order to rebuke the emperor afterwards, but there might not be any specific punishment.

Zhe Silun snorted coldly and said, "What the court thinks is not something that our little border tribe dares to discuss! Besides, since Your Majesty has issued an order, how can we refute it? Although Linzhou Prefecture is located on the west bank of the Yellow River, it is connected to the muscles and bones of northern Jin. Children marry, and children are close to each other. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin will be hungry and Qin will be hungry, and Jin will be hungry. It has become a tradition. If there is a disaster in northern Jin, Lin will come to Lin and the palace will be eaten. What's wrong with it?"

Zhe Congyuan said: "Then we won't patrol the river?"

Zhe Silun said: "How can we do this kind of thing that will be absent from the children and grandchildren? Besides, if we don't accept it, northern Jin will undoubtedly be in chaos! Now that the Khitan is eyeing it, northern Jin cannot be in chaos!"

Zhe Congyuan was very far-sighted and said, "Although there are many valleys in my Linzhou Prefecture, there are too many disaster victims this time. If you really want to raise them to reach the autumn harvest, you will be very damaged. Besides, now the people who are by the river are still Huan. Shuo is waiting for the people of Xizhou. If we try our best to help, rely on the east, and Weizhuzhou will definitely come again when we hear the news! I am afraid that we will be overwhelmed by the time!"

Zhe Silun said, "Although this is the case, we have to do our best!" He also said, "In the past two years, the harvest of the difficult situation is good. The imperial court has issued an imperial edict to ask them to escort grain to help. While we appease the hungry people, we ask for food."

Zhe Congyuan said: "Zhang Linggong of Shuofang is kind and righteous, and I am the one who is under his command. Yang's son asked them about the great grain, and it was a mixed group of Dangxiang. He has been loyal to his name for decades and has been practical separatist! I am afraid it is very difficult to ask them to escort grain to save our Han people!"

Zhe Silun pondered and said, "Do your best and do your best. If you really can't support it, please ask the court for an order."

After receiving the imperial edict from the Later Tang Dynasty and the letter from Zhe Silun, Zhang Xichong immediately stated that he would try his best to escort grain. After Li Yiyin received the letter, he summoned his retainers to discuss. His uncle Li Rengui said, "It will take a day or two for the Han people to sanitize us. Now they see chaos, we are just on the wall and take the opportunity to get things. How can we really get grain to help? I'm afraid that we will get food here and go back to the barracks and the granary is empty, so the court will take advantage of the opportunity to attack us!"

All the patriarchs said: "Not bad! This is the conspiracy of the court, and you should not be fooled!"

Li Yiyin said, "I don't think so. The disaster in northern Jin is now caused by a man-made disaster, but since the imperial court issued an imperial edict, if we do not respond, we will only give them an excuse to raise an army to attack us!"

Li Rengui said: "That's easy. Let's get dozens of trucks of food and grass to meet the scenery, that's it."

Li Yiyin pondered: "If this is the case, Zhang Xichong, the prefecture and the prefectures and states will inevitably annoy us treacherously!"

Li Rengui smiled and said, "He lets him be angry, so we can only keep Xiazhou safe."

Li Yiyin thought about it and said, "That's not good. But I have a suggestion!" He now comforted the envoys from the prefectures and prefectures, but sent people to rush into Liangzhou to cry to Guo Fen, saying that northern Shanxi was suffering from disasters and hungry people went west to eat. The court ordered the Treasury to take grain to help, but the Treasury land was poor and unable to provide assistance, so he came to borrow grain from Liangzhou, hoping that the wife would be able to help.

When Guo Fen heard this, he hurriedly summoned all the ministers to discuss it. When Yang Dingguo heard this, he immediately said, "Although the Little Tang Dynasty court competed with us, it was still an allied country after all! What's more, the people were injuring! The separatist countries in the Spring and Autumn Period were also in trouble. Since I, Hexi, have the ambition to be the orthodox Tang Dynasty, I should not regard the Jin people as an outsider. Besides, when Li Yiyin encountered such a thing, he would not seek Luoyang and come to Liangzhou. That was implicitly implicit - if we responded to his request, it would invisibly deepen the relationship between the master and the servants of both sides, which would also be beneficial."

His meaning was to provide assistance, and all the ministers also believed that it should be.

Lu Jialing said: "Although that's the case, the northern part of Jin is still Xiao Tang after all. If we want to save it, we will wait for Luoyang to speak first."

Guo Fen pondered: "Liangzhou is thousands of miles away from northern Jin. It is expected that Li Congke will never ask us for his own decent words. After a while, the matter will be delayed in the end. Moreover, if Li Congke publicly refuses, we will not be able to do things. If we want to bargain with Li Congke for this matter and ask Luoyang to speak, now that we are going to save the people in northern Jin, what do we have to do with Li Congke?"

Lu Jialing stopped saying anything, and Guo Fen and Zheng Wei immediately thought of a solution.

It was the spring of the third year of Tiance. The problem of high grain prices in the central part of the Tang Dynasty had not been completely solved. Although there was surplus grain in the eastern part, it did not dare to transport it at this time. Zheng Wei thought about it and made a promise to let the Dingnan Army help as much as possible. After the autumn harvest, Liangzhou would make up for the difficulties in the settling area.

After hearing this, Lu Jialing said, "If this is the case, I'm afraid that Dangxiang people will think we are also arguing with them."

Zheng Wei said: "What do you have to say?"

Lu Jialing said: "When I send some people to supervise them to escort grain. First, we will sort out the accounts clearly and not embezzle them by Dangxiang people. Second, we will do our business seriously, so that Dangxiang people will know that we are honest and need to pay them back."

Zheng Weidao: "Great kindness."

Immediately replied to Li Yiyin. After the envoy from Liangzhou arrived in Xiazhou, Li Rengui and others said: "The Han people are indeed treacherous, they are making such white stripes!"

Li Yiyin said, "That's not the case. If they just refused, they wouldn't have sent anyone to supervise the grain. Marshal Zhang has always been trustworthy, and I don't think he will deduct our food and grass." He disagreed with the consent of Linzhou, the prefecture and the province.

The envoys from Linzhou, the prefecture, saw that the Dangxiang people dragged them and dragged them. They thought they would not be able to hold grain under the orders, but they did not expect that Li Yiyin would borrow a large amount of grain in the end, and even Zhe Congyuan was surprised.

Under the auspices of the Zhe Yang family, the prefectures and Linzhou carried out the assistance of disaster victims effectively. As expected, the people of Yunwei and other states heard that the disaster relief was so enthusiastic about it, and they all rushed here!

By April, the number of victims gathered in Prefecture and Linzhou had exceeded 100,000.

Fortunately, there was Shuofang, and the food in Dingnan was transported in the east. Coupled with the savings of the prefecture and Linzhou itself, we finally survived the most difficult time.

Zheng Wei did not wait for the autumn harvest. After the problem of grain prices in the central region eased, the winter wheat in Liangzhou also happened to be harvested. He immediately allocated grain to transport it to the ground in batches. Li Yiyin was overjoyed and took the new grain into the warehouse. He said to the Xiang patriarch of the Xiang family: "I say that the Tiance Army can keep its promises, how about it?"

The Dangxiang people were also convinced.

Unexpectedly, blessings came unparalleled, and disasters never came alone. In the winter of the second year of Tiance in northern Jin, he suffered man-made disasters, and in the third year of Tiance, he suffered natural disasters. This year, the harvest in northern Jin was poor, and there was a disadvantage here. At the same time, the war in northern Jin last year was also one of the reasons for the loss of farmland.

But the grass in the southern desert area has not grown well in the past two years, so the momentum of Huma's going south has become fierce. The large army is still restrained, but the small army often crosses the declining Great Wall to go south! Even Shi Jingtang sent troops to disguise themselves as Huma and into Lei Gongkou - on the one hand, they plundered food, and on the other hand, they disrupted Li Congke's deployment in northern Shanxi!

This will make the six prefectures in northern Shanxi even worse!

After the autumn harvest, Hexi was full of joy. He tightened his belt around Hebei, and the southeastern part of the river could still support it. As for northern Shanxi, the market was depressed and the countryside was famine.

The people stranded in Linzhou, Fuzhou, had not returned yet. Because they heard that there was food in Fuzhou, more than 100,000 more people rushed westward by the autumn of the third year of Tiance.

This way, let alone the Zhe family, Yang family, and the entire prefecture, Linzhou can no longer support it!

The sound of "surveying the river" in Linzhou, Fuzhou, is getting louder and louder, and it is so strong that Zhe Silun can't suppress it! Zhe Congyuan also knew that once more than 100,000 people cross the river, the entire Fuzhou and Linzhou will be dragged down!

At this time, they could only place their hopes on the court. However, Li Congke's reply asked them to continue to help!

Zhe Congyuan was a little angry! Zhe Silun said in the same way: "How can we raise refugees from the two states in the six states?" He expressed his feelings at the moment. Feng Dao also felt that Lin could not complete this matter in Luoyang alone. However, he understood that Li Congke had other plans for northern Shanxi! He ordered Zhangwu to send grain to the north. If the entire northern Shaanxi came to pick up northern Shanxi, the difficulty should be overcome smoothly. However, after Zhangwu and Baoda received the imperial edict, they all disobeyed, and only got dozens of trucks of miscellaneous grains to the border and tried to do things perfunctorily.

Shuofang has limited ability, and Zhang Xichong has no choice but to do anything. Dangxiang people also think it is a bottomless pit. Li Rengui said: "Now, there are more than 100,000 hungry people in the two states of Lin. If there are more than 100,000, it is probably only 200,000 to 300,000! The situation in northern Shanxi cannot be seen to improve in the year. If they continue to stay, how can we support them?"

Li Yiyin smiled and said, "Although we have exported a lot of food and grass in the past six months, we are not helping us! When we do this good people, we spend other people's money and food, so what are we afraid of!"

Now, an envoy was sent to Liangzhou.

Seeing them coming again, Zheng Wei said: "We have a bumper harvest this year, and the surplus grain is enough to support millions! These 300,000 people are still affordable! But after all, they were in Xiao Tang territory. We crossed the border to help Li Congke raise the people. You can't do such good things too frequently!"

Yang Dingguo glared at him and said, "Ruoyi, you said, will you save me?"

Zheng Wei smiled and said, "Save it is necessary to save it, but we can't let Li Yiyin be this good person like last time. I think we'll send someone to talk to Zhe and Yang families this time."

Lu Jialing glanced at Zheng Wei and said, "Why should I go there in person for this matter?"
Chapter completed!