The south was at war with the grassland tribes, and the area under Zhang Min's jurisdiction fell into hunger. As time went by, hunger gave birth to evil thoughts.

In Bozhou, General Liu successfully captured the mine and rescued nearly 20,000 workers. When General Liu captured the mine, the mine had been out of food for two days. If it had been a few days later, there would have been countless more bones in the mine.

General Liu brought the food, and it can be said that he captured the mine without wasting much effort, because the guarding barracks also ran out of food, and the enemy soldiers surrendered and became prisoners as they saw that they could not defeat him.

The laborers in the mines were lucky because they could go home to reunite with their families. However, in other prefectures and cities under Zhang Min's jurisdiction, many robberies occurred due to hunger.

Many people fled to the mountains. When people entered the mountains, they discovered that there were many people hiding in the mountains. They had fled into the mountains one after another in the past few years.

The Northern Expedition secretly delivered food to the people. As a large number of people entered the mountains, the news spread again. Finally, in order to survive, the people left the mountains and forests where they were hiding and headed for Bozhou.

Ziheng has been very busy recently. Every time he patrols the mountains and forests with the soldiers, he will bring back some people who fled to Bozhou.

The more times he visited, Ziheng would bring more military rations with him every time he inspected. Today was the largest group of people Ziheng encountered, a team of nearly two hundred people, and the most interesting thing was that there were still a few enemy soldiers.

Ziheng saw that the enemy soldiers were very vigilant and looked at the fleeing people. After confirming that there was no threat, he looked at the enemy soldiers again.

Several enemy soldiers were targeted by arrows. They neatly dropped the knives in their hands and then squatted down with their heads in their hands.

The leading old man among the people said: "These children are soldiers recruited from our village. We heard that we can survive in Bozhou, but these children defected to send us away."

Zi Heng would not take it lightly and signaled the guards to take care of the enemy soldiers. He looked at the fleeing people again.

Because of the large number of people, this group of fleeing people made it safer to travel through the mountains and forests, and they were escorted by swords. They barely had the strength to go on their way. Zi Heng saw that the faces of a dozen children softened.

Especially there was a little kid of several years old in the team. The little kid was frightened and was sobbing secretly.

Ziheng took the refugees down the mountain, where there was an empty village, and then boiled the military rations he carried into hot soup and distributed them to the refugees.

The soup was nutritious and delicious. The people who had fled had not tasted it for a long time, especially because the soup tasted salty enough.

The refugees wolfed down the food; their bodies needed salt and their weak internal organs needed nutrients.

Ziheng had already held the youngest child in his arms. The child had very little flesh and his eyes were very big because of his thinness. It could be said that it was a miracle that this child was alive.

The child was only four years old. The little girl had stopped crying and her stomach was bulging from the soup. Ziheng took out the fruit gummy and put it in the child's mouth.

The little girl's eyes widened when she tasted the sweet taste.

Zi Heng touched the little girl's dry hair and said, "This is candy."

The little girl's father had fear in his eyes, "General, general, my family is of low status, and candy is too expensive."

Don't talk about sugar, they have forgotten the taste of salt. They can still take out sugar at this time. The south is indeed rich, the people are at ease, and they can survive.

Seeing the little girl trying to dig out the candy, Zi Heng said, "You are common people and are not humble. The days will get better in the future. Not only will you be able to eat candy, but you will also be able to have a full meal and never go hungry again."

Some people among the people secretly wiped away their tears. They had only dreamed of such a day.

The old man shook his hands, "Sir, will what you say come true?"

Zi Heng said in a solemn tone, "When Emperor Yang rules the country, everything I say will come true."

The Northern Expedition soldiers were all die-hard loyalists of Emperor Yang, and the soldiers talked about the changes in the south.

The soldiers Ziheng led were of a special type. They were the first soldiers to follow Yang Xixuan. Many of the soldiers were from Ruizhou. They were very proud of their hometown.

The military households in Ruizhou were also the first to be reformed. It can be said that Ruizhou is really blessed.

Then Ziheng settled the people first. He left some military rations to make soup and sent soldiers to guard them. Later, someone would bring food and register the household registration and other information of the fleeing people.

Zi Heng then went back, but he did not leave the little girl behind. He took the little girl away. It was not that he liked the little girl very much, but he took the little girl back to show the doctor. He was afraid that the little refugee girl would die when he came to see these refugee girls again.

At the same time, the surrendered soldiers were brought back and a lot of information was obtained from the mouths of these soldiers.

The Northern Expeditionary Army calmed down after taking over the mines. As hunger broke out, not only the people fled to Bozhou, but many enemy soldiers also took advantage of the chaos to flee, all in order to survive.

Bozhou welcomed a large number of deserters, and Bozhou, which had a small population, became lively.

Ming Jiao lamented, "Fortunately, the fourth batch of food has been delivered, otherwise, our food would be tight." Lan.

General Liu took a sip of wine to warm himself up, "It should be said that fortunately we captured Binzhou, so we have a safe enough secret road to transport grain."

Now we can't transport food through Yizhou, and a large number of grassland soldiers and horses are guarding it.

Han Chenhui glanced at the wine on the table. There were many kinds of dried fish, dried shrimps and other snacks. He felt the joy of having abundant food and grass. Ever since he started making trouble, he had never been rich. He pulled his hair every day for food and grass.

, now he doesn’t have to worry about anything, no matter how heavy the snow is, he can still eat snacks and drink wine, how happy he is!

At this time in Jiaozhou, Yang Xixuan was discussing with ministers the food shortage in the north and whether to continue sending food to the people under Zhang Min's jurisdiction to save lives.

However, the food gap is not small. Yang Xixuan needs to meet next year's military food reserves and also set aside food to appease the people in the north next year.

Yang Xixuan listened to the discussions among the ministers. The south had indeed had a good harvest, and there were still many places where grain could be used. Several states in Ezhou and Huizhou were exempted from taxes. The people had grain in their hands, but there were not many people who had experienced hunger and sold grain to the court.

Most people stored grain.

This means that the imperial court lacks food from several states. If Yang Xixuan did not control many states and cities, he would not be able to produce a large amount of food.

For the sake of the Northern Expedition and to express themselves, the ministers of the imperial court sold a lot of grain to the imperial court in autumn. Many ministers could no longer afford more grain, so many ministers opposed continuing to send grain.

Yang Xixuan actually had an idea in his mind, and waited until all the ministers stopped arguing before speaking out, "The country in charge of Yi has grown a lot of rice, and I decided to lend grain to him on credit."

Qian Zhen, the Minister of Household Affairs, cheered up. What the emperor said was credit. As long as the money was not paid immediately, he raised his hands and agreed, "Your Majesty is wise."

Other ministers, "..."

The imperial court is not short of money. Although many ports in the south are still under construction, the tax revenue from maritime trade is really high.

The ministers looked at the emperor. Is this a waste of money? Or is he used to bullying Guanyi?

Yang Xixuan said that the food credit was very fast. He wrote a letter to Guanyi personally. He had already figured out the situation of Guanyi. Guanyi was really not short of food, and even had too much food to put it down. Guanyi had no food in the past two years.
Chapter completed!