New Story of Lv Bu

On April 18th, at the hour of the hour, the capital of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang City, inside the Da Sima Mansion, three halls.

Da Sima Lu Bu sat high, San Gong Jiuqing and the related two thousand stone officials sat in the lower head, everyone was listening to Da Sima Hu Cao Zhuan Wang Wei's speech, and everyone's face was full of dignity. This is a regular dynasty, not a great dynasty. What is being discussed is just ordinary things, not military affairs. According to the rule of this dynasty, major military affairs are discussed by the court, and there are strict procedures.

Since the establishment of the state supervision system, military affairs must be decided in front of the Empress Dowager Tang and the eldest son Liu Xi. At least the Empress Dowager Tang cannot object to it. In order to avoid the embarrassing scenes of disagreement between Da Sima and the Empress Dowager Tang, the basic policy is usually determined within the scope of San Gong and Jiu Qing, and then Da Sima enters the palace to meet the Queen Mother, persuade the Queen Mother, and obtain the support of the Queen Mother. Generally speaking, the Empress Dowager Tang nodded in agreement. In this way, the Luoyang court's decree obtained a legal basis.

The protagonists of this meeting are Henan Yin, Da Sima Hu Cao Zhuan Wang Wei, Shao Fu Xun You, Jiang Zuo Master, and Gong Cao Zhuan Lumo. There are three topics for the meeting, that is, the food currently facing the Luoyang court. Problems, poor harvest problems, and receiving hungry people. All in all, in short, these three questions are actually one question, how many people can the court support!

"Let me first talk about the problem of grain failure. Just now, the master maker Lu Mo will talk in detail about the measures taken by Gong Cao Zhuan and how to achieve the purpose of water-saving irrigation. All measures in Gong Cao Zhuan are With good implementation, Hu Cao Zhuan predicts that this year’s grain output in Binzhou is 80% of last year’s, Sili’s is 70%, and Liangzhou’s is three times that of last year. This does not mean that Liangzhou’s grain output is extremely high. It’s because Liangzhou has been fighting the war last year and there are not a few people farming at all. After all, Liangzhou’s grain output has only recovered to 30% of its heyday, and the grain situation is still very severe."

Hu Cao Zhuan and Wang Kui didn't hold any papers in his hand, all the data was very familiar, and he was already thoroughly familiar with these data. It took him a few days with the general master Lu Mo and Shaofu Xunyou to finally calculate these hard-won figures. The use of numerals to manage the court and its operations is still a new thing. In familiarity and adaptation.

"After fourteen years of construction, there are 300,000 hectares of fertile land in Binzhou, all of which are real land. The acres here refer to the large acres promoted since Emperor Wu, not the small acres. Each acre yields Dendrobium millet to ten. , The output of beans can be as high as 40-50%. Even if the yield per mu is ten Huh, the annual grain output is 45 million Huh. This output is the largest in the world."

"However, there are five million people in Binzhou. If you eat all the food, you need twelve Dendrobium a year, and five million people is 60 million Hu. But Binzhou has a well-developed animal husbandry and breeding industry, and the supply of meat, eggs, and vegetables. Very good, each person’s food consumption has dropped to Liuhu each year, and the consumption of animal husbandry and breeding is included here. According to this calculation, the state can save 15 million Hus of food every year. According to the calculation of 80%, This year, there will be a surplus of 6 million dendrobium grains, as well as some poultry eggs."

Speaking of this, Wang Wei’s focus is on Si Li: "Si Li also has 300,000 hectares of fertile land. After Gong Cao Zhu’s transformation, the average yield per mu has increased from Si Hu to Qi Hu. This is already remarkable. Progress has been made. According to the calculation of 70%, it is 22 million Hu. However, Sili has a population of 4 million, and the breeding industry has just been established, and there is no animal husbandry at all. Plus the poultry, eggs and meat transferred from Bingzhou, Each person’s annual food consumption is Qihu. In this way, it is 28 million Hu. If you add the miscellaneous consumption, put some more on the wide area, and add the 6 million Hu of Bingzhou, Sili’s food is only It's barely enough."

"Looking back, let’s talk about Liangzhou. Liangzhou’s fertile fields are only 100,000 hectares. This year is a year of severe drought. Only 80,000 mu can be planted, with an average yield of four dendrobium per mu. This is still exhausting all kinds of tricks. The result. 80,000 mu, the annual grain output is only 4.8 million hu. However, there are 1 million people in Liangzhou. Even if the support of breeding and animal husbandry is included, the cost per person must be nine per year. Hu, this is nine million Hu. The annual food shortage in Liangzhou is 4 million Hu, which is the most troublesome."

"There is also the Western Regions. The rains in the Western Regions this year are very good, but the food is still not self-sufficient. The garrison of 60,000 people, plus the upcoming war with the Guishuang country, plus the loss of thousands of miles of transportation, is expected to cost a hundred. Wanhu grain. Fortunately, Da Sima had prepared this million-stone grain long ago. From Chang'an to the west, in Hanyang, Guzang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, granaries were set up along the way, and they were transferred layer by layer, which reduced costs , And increased transportation capacity. In the long run, this one million dendrobium grain is absolutely necessary. Da Sima once said: It is worthwhile to exchange one million dendrobium grain for 20 years of peace in the West of the Han Dynasty!"

"From the above figures, our food gap this year is 4 million Huh. If we vigorously develop the breeding and animal husbandry industries, we can save another 1.5 million Huh of Dendrobium. These figures are based on If one is fully labored, the elderly and children can be reduced to 60%. According to this method, this year's food production and consumption are basically the same."

"Bingzhou has accumulated 9 million hu over the past years, after deducting the 1 million hu used by the Western Regions, there is still 2 million hu left. As early as the middle of last year, Da Sima sent dozens of people to various places to buy food. It is the money collected from the princes after the Battle of Yanshi. Four million Hus have arrived in Luoyang City of the capital one after another, and another one million Hus are being transported back to Luoyang City one after another. Monarchs, this One million hu of grain is still in danger, and there is a danger of being detained by other princes. After all, this year is a catastrophe year."

Having said that, everyone here understands it. Taiwei Huangfusong spoke first: "Wang Caozhuan, it seems that we have 6 million to 7 million dendrobium in our hands. This is our biggest capital now! These 7 million dendrobium can allow We have taken the entire Youzhou and Jizhou in one fell swoop, or are we using this food to help the millions of hungry people who come here? The old man would like to ask, if we are to help the victims, how many people can we help? How much is relief now? What are the current measures of the court? ?"

Xunyou, the young mansion, is currently in charge of the relief of the hungry. As soon as Taiwei Huangfusong asked him a question, he immediately went out to answer. "Lieutenant Huangfu, relief and relief to the hungry cannot be calculated on the basis of full labor. It is probably a family of six. The old father, mother, young couple, plus two children, will be counted as the full labor of three people. It means that four people go out to work and earn half of the grain and half of the money. Even if two are full of labor, that is, eight grains per person per year, six persons in a family are sixteen grains."

"There are sixteen people in a family of six, and 600,000 people are 1.6 million people. Now Youzhou, Jizhou, and Sili have received 400,000 hungry people. According to the current situation, we can digest at most two million hungry people. It costs 5 million hulk of food. No matter how many people will starve to death. Even so, I suggest that the court immediately order the prohibition of extravagance, strict economy, and take precautions."

As soon as I heard this, the faces of all the people present immediately turned black. I originally thought that they had 6 million hus of grain in their hands, and they would be able to do a good job. However, hungry people from all over the country flocked in, just like a swarm of locusts, they ate up all the food abruptly. How can this be good? Relief, the food is not enough, if you don’t, you have to watch hundreds of thousands of lives starve to death.

"According to the old man's will, the court will issue an edict to announce the number of relief to the hungry people, and persuade the hungry people to go to Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other places to eat. The hungry people who are allowed to enter Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Sili must agree to go to Liangzhou. Reclamation of wasteland, otherwise they will not provide relief. They made money on our land, next spring when the flowers bloom, pat their buttocks and leave. Doesn’t this mean that we have raised the people for the princes? Where is there such a thing in the world? Good thing?" Situ Wang Yun said loudly.

"This is very good!" "Yes! It should be so!" "It should have been done!" The civil and military officials all spoke in support. After a while of chaos, everyone's eyes were fixed on the face of Da Sima Lubu, waiting for him to make the final decision. At this moment, Lu Bu's heart is extremely entangled. He has been undecided whether to win Youzhou and Jizhou or to help the hungry people. He knows the current situation well, and the time is not to be missed. If no soldiers are used at this time, it will be dozens of times more difficult in the future!

Finally, he still wanted to understand that life is at stake and the hungry must be relieved. It doesn't matter if you pack up the princes three or five years later, you can't watch the millions of hungry people starve to death. "My lord, I decided to help the hungry. I can't watch millions of people starve to death. But there is one thing, the relief goes to the relief, to give them a chance to exchange labor for money! The Shaofu must take it out. As an example, how to select people with good skills, how to fight the people, and how to deal with offenders are the key points."

"Skilled craftsmen, scholars, scholars and scholars are ranked first, and they are screened by Yusi and hired according to their talents. They are willing to go to Liangzhou and Xiyu Tuntian for priority resettlement, according to the old method. As for those who are lazy and do not obey the rules, they only know the black sheep who cause trouble. , Must be strictly arrested and sent to the mines of the Xianbei grassland to perform hard labor. Lords, is it feasible to deal with it like this?"

"Feasible!" "We have no objection!" All civil and military officials replied in unison. Everyone understands that Da Sima has made up his mind to not let the victims starve to death, as much as the relief can be. "Oh! The great cause of the Zhongxing Han room has been postponed indefinitely! If you want to slow down, it will take at least three to five years." Sikong kind of sighed and whispered. "Zhong Sikong's words are extremely true! How difficult is it to contend for the hegemony of the world? Can it be done with just one mouth?" Huangfusong sighed.