Ju Su led the remnants of Jizhou to surrender to Liu Bei to Yingchuan. Yang Xiuwei analyzed the information and said: "There was a dispute between the Bingzhou faction and the Liangzhou faction under Liu Bei's account. Last year, Liu Bei intended to support Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, which made the strength of the two factions balance. Now Liu Bei supports Ju Su to form the Jizhou faction, forming a situation of three factions in a squad. Sima Yi has the help of Guo Si, Li Jue, Yang Feng, Xu Huang and other old subordinates in Liangzhou, and the support of the Sima family and the Luoyang faction; Zhuge Liang is in charge.

Originally, he had extremely good friends with Sun Shao, and had support from Liu Bei's old subordinates such as Mi Fang, Taishi Ci, and Zhang Mancheng and other Yellow Turban surrenders. The newly acquired Qingzhou faction was also often included in his control. In addition, Jia Xu and Chen Gong were unwilling to fight with him, so he gradually integrated the Bingzhou faction and Qingzhou faction. Although Ju Su had newly entered Liu Bei's tent, Jizhou people supported him. Liu Bei also had Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's small factions in his hands to restrain these three factions. This shows that Liu Bei was very good at controlling the emperor!"

Liu Xie nodded and smiled and said, "Liu Bei is so sophisticated. Many of us like to fight in an internal struggle wherever we go. Liu Bei can cleverly use this mentality to form a control in the court, so that the three factions can do their best to serve themselves!"

Yang Xiu looked at Liu Xie carefully and said, "Actually, there are factional problems under His Highness!"

Liu Xie patted the armrest of the bench and smiled and said, "You are talking about the current Jingzhou faction and the Jiangdong faction!"

Yang Xiudao: "The dispute between the factions under the tent of Your Highness is not very obvious. His Highness adopts a strategy of military and political separation. In fact, whether in Jiangdong or Jingzhou, the newly reused students are mainly from the two universities, Xiangyang and Shuijing. Therefore, the Jingzhou faction and Jiangdong faction are very divided and there is no strict distinction between them. However, if Your Highness implements such a strategy for a long time, sooner or later, the three major factions of Jiangnan Academy, Xiangyang Academy and Yizhou Academy will appear!"

Liu Xie smiled faintly and said, "This is nothing to do. We Han people have always been like this. There are many gangs and favor each other. As long as we can balance it!"

Yang Xiudao: "It is true that your highness can balance it. Since ancient times, factional disputes within the court have never stopped. The way of the emperor is to control and balance these factions."

Liu Xie waved his hand slightly, signaling the topic to say this, and asked Yang Xiu again: "Are the maps needed for sending troops to the evil Matai and Sanhan, and the sea charts are ready?"

Yang Xiudao: "There are many islands in the area of ​​Xiematai, and no one has visited the Han Dynasty. The specific situation is unknown, but the chart is ready. When trading with the Three South Koreans, Zhiluo Mansion once collected information on sea routes!"

Liu Xie smiled faintly and signaled Yang Xiu to leave, leaving him alone for a while.

After this battle with Zhang Fei, Liu Xie often wondered whether Liu Bei was worthy of being his opponent. The answer was melancholy and it was difficult to answer this question. There is no doubt that Liu Bei would definitely lose, and even if he was undefeated in his own hands, he would also lose in the hands of the weather.

In the near future, the Han Dynasty will enter the second cold period in history. If any territory is not affected by this cold period, the only places are Mobei and Yizhou, Hainan, and large grain-producing states will reduce production on a large scale.

In the winter of the ninth year of Chutai, the weather was very cold, which was a little colder than in previous years. In the early tenth year of Chutai, there was a severe drought in spring and the weather was colder than in previous years, which made Liu Bei panic. At this time, Liu Xie clearly realized that the second cold period in Chinese history had finally arrived.

The second cold period began in the second century AD, and now it is the end of the first century, and the climate has begun to abnormally.

According to later generations, Liu Xie knew that China began to enter the second cold period in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, with the temperature being 2 to 5 degrees Celsius lower than normal. At the same time, typhoid fever broke out in various states in China. The raging war eventually led to a large-scale decline in grain output and population. When Jin unified the north and south, the population of the country was only one-tenth of that of Emperor Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the total was less than five million.

The least affected during the cold period is winter wheat, followed by rice in the southern part of the Yangtze River, and the most affected are millet and spring wheat.

In fact, it was this cold period that lasted more than 300 years that led to the decline of millet culture. Wheat and rice gradually became the main crops in China, and the focus of China's economy gradually moved south. Chinese civilization gradually transitioned from the initial millet culture in the Yellow River Basin to the rice culture in the Yangtze River Basin, and the saying "two lakes ripen, the world is full" began to appear.

The Wuhu area in Chu adopted the rice and wheat ripening system that was highly praised by the government. It should be said that during this cold period, the Chu area was not greatly affected, only the main production areas of millet and grain such as Hanzhong and Nanyang were relatively affected. Fortunately, Liu Xie had already begun to gradually adjust the promotion of winter wheat in Nanyang, Hanzhong, Runan, Huai'an and Shouchun a few years ago. Huai'an and Shouchun had better irrigation conditions and had begun to follow the southern method and adopt the rice and wheat ripening system.

The cold period will lead to a large-scale drought throughout the Han Dynasty. There are no major problems in the five lakes near the Yangtze River, Yizhou, the source of the five lakes, Jiaozhou, affected by the Pacific monsoon, and southern Yangzhou. The problem is the Yellow River Basin. At the most serious records in history, the middle and lower basins of the Yellow River even had a problem of severing flow for more than 20 consecutive years.

Although these cuts were not as severe as the Yellow River cuts in 1997 that I encountered, the impact was huge. After all, some of the cuts were basically in a state of complete drought, and the grain output could almost be counted as zero.

Liu Xie asked Liu Bei thousands of miles away: Liu Bei, what would you do? Jizhou will become your last barrier, but can Jizhou, which mainly produces millet, support the entire north?

The Yangtze River Basin cannot be considered completely unaffected. If it were not for the promotion of rice and wheat ripe rice and rapeseed in advance, and the suppression of farmers in engaging in handicrafts and turning to fishing and animal husbandry as a supplement to agriculture, it would be difficult to deal with so many people in the south.

But the plague is certain that the outbreak of the plague in the north. Large-scale grain production cuts have led to a rapid decline in population, and a large number of people die unnaturally. Plague broke out in the north and large areas of typhoid fever appeared in the south.

Perhaps, typhoid fever can be suppressed in the south, but the plague in the north will definitely spread to the south, and population mobility will be the most terrifying assistant to the plague.

Liu Xie deeply realized that his biggest difficulty had come to his mind. If it was not handled properly, both the north and the south would have to reduce the population on a large scale.

After pondering for a long time, he finally pulled out a purple jade slip, writing: I watched the celestial phenomena alone. In the next ten years, the weather will be cold, and there will be drought and flood, and there will be plagues in the states across the country. In order to protect the country and the people, it is urgent to manage the Luefu. Granary silos should be built widely, grain storage should be stockpiled, and grain and grass should be purchased in full. Although the weather is cold, crops such as winter wheat, rice, soybeans are not greatly affected. Rape planting should be appropriately reduced and cold-resistant vegetables from other Hudi lands are replanted. Zhulifu should increase efforts to select and breed good varieties, and all

Farms should fully promote ox plowing and horse plowing. The Zhiluo Mansion will pay for animal husbandry, ox farming and horses, and it is suitable for sale to the people. Eighty million Chu coins are allocated and the Medical Office of the King of Chu Palace are used to prevent and treat typhoid fever and plagues, so that officials in various places can strictly cooperate with the Medical Office. If a county has an outbreak of plague and cannot be resettled in time and stabilize the disease, the county magistrate will be dismissed. All localities also promote the water towers and sewers used in the construction of Jinling and the reconstruction of Xiangyang, and improve the sanitation conditions in various places.

Another volume was written to the Medical Department, which stated: Hunt for herbs for treating plagues and typhoid fever, and assigned officials to patrol the plagues and typhoid fever epidemics in various places. If there is any sign of outbreak, it must be prevented and treated in a timely manner. All expenses should be provided by Zhiluofu.

After thinking for a moment, I made up my mind to temporarily have a cold war with the north.

One reason is that during the cold period, if the north and the south fight on a large scale, the people will inevitably suffer and the population will decline faster. This is something Liu Xie did not want to see. He wanted to unify the Han Dynasty, but what he wanted was a Han Empire that could conquer the world, not a Han Dynasty with a vast territory but only a population of five million.

Another reason, and the most important reason, Liu Bei still has food and grass now, so there will probably not be much next autumn!

Returning from the Commander's Mansion to the temporary residence of the King of Chu, he saw Cai Yan writing. The thin and lively copybook made Liu Xie stop and appreciate it for a long time.

Cai Yan smiled faintly and said, "Listen to the Xi Zhicai said, you plan to hold a calligraphy party in Xiangyang in the name of my father!"

Liu Xie nodded slightly and said, "Not only is the calligraphy gathering, but also the great scholars, miscellaneous scholars and literary masters from all over the world are invited."

Cai Yan smiled and said, "What are your highness thinking?"

Liu Xie stretched out his hand gently, hugged her from behind, and said to her ear: "To achieve a great event, it is related to whether the great man can rule forever!"

Cai Yan was shocked and trembled slightly in his arms. He wanted to speak but stopped. He leaned quietly, letting himself be completely immersed in Liu Xie's arms and closed his wonderful eyes with satisfaction.

Love is like a fish in the water, and more like a swan swimming on the lake. It blends with each other like soft milk paint. She hugged Cai Yan, who was as white as jade, and Liu Xie fell from the peak of his eyes. At this moment, he began to miss Xiaohe.

If Xiaohe was by her side, she would definitely lower her head to find her roots and suck it hard, like a newly weaned puppy, manic and passionate.

More often, Liu Xie likes Xiao He's naked, full of hope and demanding eyes, rather than Cai Yan's gentleness and satisfaction.

In any case, Cai Yan is a perfect woman, with her appearance, talent, background, and demeanor... all of these are beyond the reach of Xiaohe. The only exception is her control over lust.

Cai Yan's restraint and repression made Liu Xie very dissatisfied. He prefers nudity like Xiao He. He can always experience the greatest pleasure of men when conquering Xiao He.

In the spring of the tenth year of Chutai, a large number of young generals who came out of the Xiangyang Military Academy were trained in the nine Chu army for three or four years, and they were promoted to the position of generals and began to lead the battalion independently. This time, the battalion system did not have independent numbers, but was adjusted in the number of the battle characters, and only numbers were used to distinguish them later.

For example, Hua Ling, the young general whom Wenpin defeated Liu Yao, went to Xiangyang Military Academy for two years with the recommendation of Wenpin. Now he is directly promoted to the general and independently lead the Sixth Battalion of the Northern Army.

Zhang Yu, a young general who was sent to Liu Bei's army by the Military Academy, was also promoted to the general and independently led the Third Battalion of the Northern Army.

Originally, Liu Xie planned to refer to the settings of the Imperial Guards, but Huangfu Song and others advised that each battalion had only 6,000 people, and it was very likely that it would be killed in one battle, so it was inconvenient to supplement it, and it could be expanded to 10,000 people.

When the generals saw Liu Xie at the same time, they all knew that someone would be promoted to the new General of the Northern Expedition Army.

When the opportunity arises, no one wants to fall behind. Zhou Yu, Xu Shu and others have begun to recommend people they think are suitable. Zhou Yu and Xu Shu recommend Lu Meng, Lu Bu, Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao, etc., will recommend Zhao Yun as the one, Xun You, Wei Yan and Yan Xing, and Huo Jun as the one, and there are a lot of generals who recommend themselves.
Chapter completed!