It was already the late autumn of AD 306.
As early as June, the Western Jin Dynasty had changed the reign name from Yongxing to Guangxi, hoping that God would give the Jin Dynasty a bright future. Unfortunately, the situation in the world had become worse.
In Yizhou, Li Xiong, who occupied the Shu region of Sichuan, had established a country and proclaimed himself emperor. This was the beginning of the establishment of a country that had been separated from one side for decades in history.
The Guanzhong area of Yongzhou was completely ruined a few years ago, and a large number of people fled. The former capital of the Qin and Han Dynasties is now inhabited by Di, Qiang and other barbarians.
In Bingzhou in Shanxi, Taihang, the Jin Dynasty's most serious problem - the Huns and Han Kingdoms - was occupied by the Huns. Liu Yuan had already occupied most of Bingzhou. He crossed the Yellow River several times to attack the surrounding areas of Luoyang. Liu Kun was now the only one in Bingzhou. Guard Jinyang.
The gangsters and thieves in Jizhou have risen in droves, and Sima Ying's old troops such as Gongshifan and Jisang have successively rebelled. However, the Jin Dynasty's army has been unable to wipe out the various rebels. These rebels have turned into rogue bandits and have invaded Jizhou and Yanzhou on both sides of the Yellow River. After the chaos was over, Shi Le, who originally destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty with Wang Mi in history, should have emerged at this time.
Just when Liu Yu returned to Donglai County, Wang Mi subdued many green forest bandits in Dongguan and Chengyang counties, and coerced refugees to conquer cities and territories in the two counties. In just one month, Wang Mi conquered ten cities, large and small. , killing more than a dozen people including the prefects, county magistrates, and generals of the two counties, and even Xuzhou was greatly shocked. The people of the two counties were forced to flee to the south. As many as 100,000 people fled to the south, and many places were deserted.
Not only are the man-made disasters caused by barbarians, refugees, rebels and careerists everywhere, but God no longer seems to care about the people of this land.
Locust plagues and droughts occurred in several states in the Central Plains in the summer. Many people were unable to leave their homeland. The people who had finally survived years of military disasters now had to face the end of no harvest. In order to survive, these people had to travel in groups. They left their homes and became refugees. Among them, the most famous beggar army had already fled from Bingzhou to Jizhou.
In Liu Yu's view, the current situation of the Western Jin Dynasty looked like it was going to be doomed.
I don't have any money or food, because the eight kings have used up all their money due to civil strife.
There are no important soldiers because the eight kings were destroyed by civil strife.
Is it possible to levy taxed grains now? It is not possible, because the states and counties in various places have too much time to take care of themselves. How can they still have the ability to pay taxed grains to the central government? Moreover, people everywhere are so poor that they go out to beg for food and become refugees. Who can we find to collect grains and taxes? Those who really have savings They are all powerful nobles from all over the country, and these people are exempt from tax under the land occupation system of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the people in charge of accounting and collecting taxes in various states and counties are the sons, nephews, nephews, etc. of these powerful nobles.
Now the King of East China Sea, Sima Yue, who is "the king of the left", also knows that there is no chance of rescue in the northern Central Plains, so Sima Yue has begun to arrange for the royal family and nobles to go to Jiangdong to set up outposts, hoping to leave a way out for himself.
Liu Yu had no place to retreat, and several counties connected to Donglai County had long been ruined and fragmented.
On the contrary, Donglai County has become the safest place. Tens of thousands of refugees have flocked to Liu Yu in the past month. Many of these refugees are young and strong, and they are all good soldiers and laborers.
However, the Donglai County area is mountainous and hilly, and the original grain production is not much. Due to natural disasters, this year's production is also very pitiful. Liu Yu used his military force to coerce and force the powerful to take out a lot of stored grain, but he still remained not enough.
Originally, these people in Donglai County were barely able to survive the winter with a full meal. Now tens of thousands of refugees are pouring in. If these people are given another share, they may not be able to survive half of it. winter.
Only then did Liu Yu deeply feel the feeling of being powerless.
He really wants to recruit these refugees into his hands, but the prerequisite is that these refugees must not starve to death, otherwise these refugees will either become angry mobs, or they will wander again, going to Jiangdong or Liaodong. Anyway, there is a person who can eat A place to eat.
In the past month, Liu Yu felt that he was going crazy trying to raise food.
After the autumn harvest, he mobilized his soldiers and people to go hunting in the mountains, and then discovered that almost all the mountains and rivers in Donglai County were the private property of various powerful men.
After finally combining sticks and carrots, people were able to go into the mountains to hunt, but then they discovered that there was a shortage of salt for curing meat.
You must know that Dongnae County is surrounded by the sea on three sides, how can it be short of salt?
After some research, Liu Yu learned that the method of boiling salt was still used in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the sun-dried salt method with time period, high output and low cost had not yet been adopted.
Liu Yu had to summon the salt workers first and teach them to explore and test the salt drying method he proposed.
When the salt-drying method finally succeeded and he obtained better salt than before, Liu Yu discovered that for tens of thousands of people, the harvest from hunting in the mountains was still too little.
According to the efficiency of energy transfer, if these tens of thousands of refugees want to survive this winter, they may need to evolve the ability to eat grass in a very short period of time.
Then, Liu Yu thought of going out to sea to fish. Natural and man-made disasters on the land have reduced food production and starved animals. The fish in the sea will not be affected.
Liu expected that the ecology of the ocean during the Western Jin Dynasty must be very good, and there must be swarms of fish waiting to be caught.
But after Liu Yu asked some veteran pirates in the army, he found that his fishing ability seemed to be very weak. Liu Yu did not have enough fishing boats or sailors, so he wanted to count on a group of novices. If I go fishing to replenish food rations, I'm afraid the success rate is as low as getting the refugees to evolve the ability to eat grass within one month.
All roads were blocked, and Liu Yu was forced to think that if there was no other way, he might have to pursue the ideas of those powerful people. Although he had squeezed them hard, these powerful people still had some wealth.
But in this case, Liu Yu was completely put on the hostile side of the powerful.
In the past, I had finally used the power of the Dongyangli battle, used the prisoners in my hands as bargaining chips, and asked various powerful men to give me their clan nephews as hostages. I also suppressed a few unscrupulous powerful men, and finally managed to get the surrender of all the powerful men now. situation.
If I really touched the bottom line of these powerful people, I'm afraid I would have to face an endless battle.
Liu expected that if there was really no other way, he would have no choice but to rob these powerful people. Who would let you have the food to survive? If not, who would you rob?
Suddenly, Liu Yu had an idea. Why was he always thinking about getting food in Donglai County and surrounding areas? Why didn't he jump out of this circle and rob others?
For example, the Xianbei people in Liaodong, well, these barbarians may not be easy to deal with, and they are not so easy to rob.
By the way, North Korea across the sea is a good place. The northern part of the peninsula at this time should belong to Goguryeo or Buyeo. Anyway, it is a group of small countries and tribes with some fighting ability.
Of course, you have to pick the soft persimmons. How do you think the Samhans at the southern end of the peninsula are good persimmons? After all, they are a nation that has been weak and unwavering for thousands of years. The only thing is that I don’t know if these Samhans at the southern end of the peninsula have any money. Don’t Then he robbed a beggar.
Liu Yu immediately ordered the guards to call over the few former water warriors in the army who had been pirates and water thieves.
Several evil-doing former pirates quickly gave an overview of the situation in the three Koreas at the southern tip of the Bangbang Peninsula.
Basically it's a saying: If people are stupid, if there is plenty of food, grab it quickly.
People are always in need of food, so they have no choice but to grab it.
Oh, no, it should be called Zhengyi.
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