Li De never emphasized that he knew that sometimes it was not because he was too strong, but because he was all the best. If Li Yuan did not have this ambition, even if he didn't do anything, those forces would sooner or later have a rift with him.

Li Mi was unable to get along in the end, so he made Shan Xiong Xinbai happy for a while. For this reason, he went to find Xu Maogong.

I didn't meet Xu Maogong during the meeting. Li Mi explained that Xu Maogong was busy with official business and had no time.

Shan Xiongxin also suspected it at first, but seeing it is true, Xu Maogong's work is really piled up.

He has more and more work, and his brain hurts when he sees it.

Xu Maogong didn't say anything, and it was not surprising that Li Mi came to find him, because Xu Maogong had been working as a counselor since Erxianzhuang.

He does everything that requires thinking.

"There may be no war for a long time now." Li Mi said.

"Thirty thousand elites have the relationship between Youzhou mercenaries. To pacify those small forces, they can not only obtain a large amount of spoils, but also gain benefits from Youzhou. Why should they stop?" Shan Xiongxin said.

Xu Maogong knew that Shan Xiongxin was because of the strength and confidence of the elite Wagang, but there was no suitable opponent they could choose.

If you are hard, you may destroy your foundation.

"Brother Shan, what you have to do now is wait and prepare for future battles."

Xu Maogong has clearly told Shan Xiongxin that there may not be war in the future, but it needs to be prepared for war.

Although Shan Xiongxin was not sure about the situation after leaving Xu Maogong's house, he could do it directly as Xu Maogong said.

Sure enough, Li Mi did not mention going to the war since then.

During the busy farming season, we are all growing food, where can we waste time?

However, the spring rain has not come yet, and the people everywhere are panicked. The situation in the south is very good. After Situ En arrived in the south, he protected the rubber plantation and started purchasing land to grow grain according to Youzhou's plan.

Because he didn't know how the drought would be, Li De used all his efforts to prevent it.

The spring rain has not come yet, and the situation is worse than expected.

Li Shimin from Penglai City has already begun to purchase grain from the south, and major forces are taking action, but this kind of thing has little impact on small forces.

Their current situation is the same as that of bandits. They are not short of food, because they are too many soldiers and horses under them, and they do not realize that when they cannot grab so much food, the result can be imagined.

Of course, it depends on whether Li Yuan can provide them with so much food.

However, this drought has a great impact on several major forces and is a time to truly compete for the foundation.

The farming of Youzhou forces has been affected. Fortunately, there is a large amount of groundwater that is barely supported, and it is expected that production will be reduced today.

The losses cannot be counted at present, and you need to wait until the food grows before you know it.

The situation is worse than that of other prefectures in Youzhou. The people will use well water to water it, so they can only barely support it.

The production cut is certain, but the people are suffering.

Food prices began to rise in the middle of the month.

In order to raise troops, forces that cooperated with Youzhou issued applications for purchasing grain, but Youzhou did not refuse to use iron ore and real gold.

They are all supplied in batches and do not meet the demand at once.

He wanted to prevent the forces with enough grain from selling Youzhou's grain at a high price, so that Li De would not make wedding clothes for others.

News of the sale of grain in Youzhou has spread.

Li Yuan from Luoyang had to support the forces he had attracted, but in the end, many forces he had acquainted with also bought food from Youzhou.

Li De came here to refuse, but the price of purchasing grain by non-competents who signed a cooperation agreement is much more expensive.

Not only can they not take advantage of the benefits, but they also have to pay a lot of wealth. With food, they can still maintain the status quo.

The food provided by Li Yuan was not only higher, but it could not satisfy them in quantity at all. In order to prevent their power from disintegrating due to the food collapse, they could only purchase enough food.

Most of the money was earned by Youzhou.

The drought situation within the Youzhou forces is relatively serious, but it is very effective to prevent it in advance.

Dozens of steam-powered pumps use groundwater for watering can be much better than manual.

Production reduction is certain. After the current growth of grain, production may be reduced to 70% of the previous year.

However, this is 70% better than the yield of other prefectures' land, because a large part of the land has not used fertilizers from Youzhou.

This is the root cause.

Li De attached great importance to agriculture. Although he was optimistic about the large area of ​​reclamation, in fact, people who were proficient in agriculture had long gathered in Youzhou.

Their job is to conduct grain experiments, and the ultimate goal of various test fields is to cultivate high-yield grain.

It will be effective after several years.

Not only agriculture, but also in the breeding industry, for example, the breeding of excellent pigs has become better and better after several years.

The economic value is getting higher and higher.

I thought Youzhou would not survive this drought, but it disappointed many people who were thinking about it.

The food prices in Youzhou are still stable, and they have not even increased by a penny. The food prices for foreigners have increased a lot, and generally speaking, they are within the scope of affordability of the people.

Taking advantage of this, Youzhou newspapers began to make a big fuss, encouraging the people to settle in Youzhou, and allocate 100 acres of fertile land, and provide work and other benefits if they are willing to settle in.

Through publicity, people affected by the drought began to defect to Youzhou. The middle of the year was the worst case of famine, and many people ignored their own land.

They knew that even if they continued to maintain, they would not be able to satisfy their future lives, and they would not have much left after deducting taxes.

They even have to pay for the food they can't even produce. If they don't have money, they will not end up being a good outcome if they have no money.

Now Youzhou has given a way out and they all want to seize it.

A large number of people migrated to Youzhou, which had an impact on various prefectures.

Li Yuan didn't want to see such a thing happen. Everyone knows that the more people the Youzhou has, the stronger its power, how can this happen?

Many forces purchased food in Youzhou, but the result was that Li Yuan's plan to use extreme methods to fight Youzhou was impossible to achieve.

Li Yuan had to admire Li De not only for his lack of support for the enemy, but also borrowed the drought to attract a large number of people.

What a person Li Yuan is? If he pays attention to Youzhou, then he will be eyeing Chang'an.

Just when all forces were paying attention to the drought, the Li family sent troops from Luoyang to Chang'an.

The King of Kuangshan has always been on guard, but the situation in Chang'an is very bad due to the drought.

The situation in Chang'an has always been due to the small land and the large number of people. As a capital, most of the grain is relied on the transportation of canals and supply from other places.

After all, the King of Kuangshan is still a prince. All he can do is to take charge of Chang'an. Once a drought encounters something like that, you need to have a foundation to deal with it.
Chapter completed!