Visit Hu Zhao

At the end of the tenth year of Chutai, Liu Xie finally took time to visit Hu Zhao with his ministers. Before that, Hua Xin, under the instruction of Liu Xie, visited Hu Zhao several times in the name of calligraphy, secretly revealed that the King of Chu wanted to recruit him, but Hu Zhao politely declined.

Due to the constant wars in the Central Plains before, Liu Xie had no time to attend the gathering of celebrities in Xiangyang, and Hu Zhao refused to attend, so the gathering was delayed until the eleventh year of Chutai.

As dawn came, Liu Xie asked Cai Yan to visit Hu Zhao with her newly written "Luo Yu Post" and three thousand volumes of classics printed on high-quality Xiangyang paper.

Although Hu Zhao did not like to make friends with high-ranking officials and nobles, Liu Xie was the King of Chu of Han after all, so he had to accept the greetings and led more than 300 disciples to welcome him at the foot of Luhun Mountain.

Songshan Mountain was towering and it was not convenient to go by car. Liu Xie and his ministers rode their horses along the winding mountain road. Even Cai Yan could only barely ride a gentle white horse, accompanying Liu Xie, and the two of them often whispered in a low voice along the way.

Tong Yuan grew older and could no longer stay with Liu Xie. He asked to return to Xinye to teach the preparations for military bows and shooting lances. Since the ninth year of Chutai, the people responsible for Liu Xie's safety were Wang Yue's Guard Camp, Guo Ci's Chongwei and Wang Xi's brothers, and the personal guard camp of the three brothers of the Tang family.

Because it is not far from Liu Bei's territory, in case of precautions, this time I went to Songshan to visit Hu Zhao. Guo Ci personally led 5,000 people to search for suspicious people in the mountains. Even the Nanwei Camp where Shamoke had been hiding in Songshan for a long time, he deployed defenses throughout Luhun Mountain.

Seeing Hu Zhao leading his disciples to bow to the front, Liu Xie immediately dismounted with Cai Yan and helped Hu Zhao get up personally. Hu Zhao was only 38 years old at this time and was famous all over the world for his calligraphy and talent. Liu Bei's invitation was rejected several times, and two lobbyists from the ninth year of Chutai were secretly killed by Shamoke in Songshan.

Walking up the mountain with Hu Zhao, crossing the mountains and the bluestone paths, and dancing with Qingyi Mountains and the floating and flowing clouds made Liu Xie feel comfortable and quiet, and he couldn't help but envy Hu Zhao's life.

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PS: VIP does not have this content. Let’s talk about Hu Zhao. In order to separate from Zhuge Liang, I will change his character "年文" to Kongming. I’m sorry.

Hu Zhao, a native of Yingchuan (now from Yuzhou City, Henan Province), was named Kongming. He was born in 161 AD and died in 250 AD. He was 20 years older than Zhuge Liang, and died 16 years later than Zhuge Liang, at the age of 89. Hu Zhao lived in seclusion in the mountains for a long time and did not serve in his life. There are few records about his activities, but only from the sporadic records scattered in some historical materials and classics, Hu Zhao's talent and wisdom are definitely not inferior to Zhuge Liang.

Hu Zhao's youth was a period of corruption in the court and the eunuchs who were in power. He read classics and history at a young age, was knowledgeable, and was particularly proficient in classics and history, and was good at calligraphy. When he was young, he was praised by the world for his peerless talent. Because he hated his career, he wanted to avoid endless county and county inspections (one of the methods used by the Eastern Han Dynasty to select officials was that local officials were investigated and "virtuous talents" and appointed as officials), the Duke's Office (Pixun was the intellectuals of the Duke and Ministers and the county magistrates themselves to use the intellectuals of the landlord class as their subordinates), and he lived in Jizhou and was obsessed with classics and historical calligraphy.

In the first year of Chuping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (190 AD), powerful ministers intervened in politics, the Han Dynasty declined, and all the heroes emerged. In order to win the war for territory and expand their power, the princes of various countries recruited talents one after another. Yuan Shao, known as "the family of four generations and three masters, and their disciples and former officials all over the world", heard that Hu Zhao was a celebrity in Yingchuan, with great talent and extraordinary talent, and did not hesitate to surrender and nobleness. He visited many times, asking Hu Zhao to come out of the mountain and assist him in conquering the world. However, because he hated the dangerous career of the officialdom, he "refused to give up" to Yuan Shao. Through several contacts with Yuan Shao, Hu Zhao saw that Yuan Shao was jealous of the talented people. In order to prevent accidents, he quietly fled from Jizhou. As expected, a few days later, Yuan Shao ordered people to arrest Hu Zhao, but Hu Zhao had already hid in the deep mountains and forests like idle clouds and wild cranes.

In the first year of Jian'an (196), Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian to move the capital to Xuchang. After the "Talent-only Order" was issued, a large number of benevolent people and ambitious people in Yingchuan surrendered to Cao Cao. After Cao Cao, who was eager to seek talent, he sent people to ask Hu Zhao to come out of the mountains and officials many times in succession. However, Hu Zhao was unwilling to be an official and "can't afford to be a trustworthy person." Later, Cao Cao was still tired of it and invited him again. The matter was helpless, so Hu Zhao had to meet Cao Cao, and since Chen Hu was a man.

The wild men in Jie Village had no military and national use, and had long been accustomed to the pastoral life of farming, woodcutting and studying. As an official, it was not ours, and we would never obey our orders. We hope the prime minister would forgive him and let him stay in the mountains and forests. Seeing that Hu Zhao was firm in his attitude and could not keep him, Cao Cao had to sigh that "everyone has his own ambitions and his origins are different" and allowed Hu Zhao to return to his hometown. Later, in order to avoid the endless call of heroes from all walks of life, Hu Zhao simply moved to Luhun Mountain (now northeast of Song County, Henan).

At that time, the Luhun Mountain where Hu Zhao lived was stretching for 300 miles, and many poor people who worked from sunrise and rested at sunset. Because of the scatteredness, their children were not able to study. These residents often had conflicts due to trivial matters. Seeing this situation, Hu Zhao opened a library to run a school to teach them to read and read, so that they could understand some simple truths. At the same time, he moved the residents in the mountains and persuaded them with reason and resolved them, and quickly calmed the struggle between these residents. Because Hu Zhao was respectful and educated all over the world, the 300-mile mountains and rivers where he lived gradually eliminated bad phenomena such as infringement and fighting.

Hu Zhao opened a school in Luhun Mountain and was well-known, and many aristocratic families came to study. Among these people, the most famous one was Sima Yi from Cao Wei. Sima Yi was a child of aristocratic family in Wen County, Henan Province. When he heard that Hu Zhao, a famous scholar in Yangdi, opened a school in Luhun Mountain, he went to study. Hu Zhao knew people with wise eyes and knew that Sima Yi was smart, wise, and had great wisdom and strategy. He expected that this person would achieve great achievements in the future, so he tried his best to preach and teach.

Sima Yi was born into a prominent family, and was extremely intelligent. He was of course arrogant. Therefore, he had a grudge against Lu Hun Zhou Sheng. When he learned that Hu Zhao left the school, Zhou Sheng gathered more than 20 companions to assassinate Sima Yi. After Hu Zhao heard about this, he immediately chased Zhou Sheng. After crossing mountains and ridges, he went through hardships, and finally intercepted Zhou Sheng and his party between Mianchi, Wushan. After his mediation, Zhou Sheng gave up his plan to seek revenge. Sima Yi survived from his death, and Hu Zhao made great contributions.

During the Zhengshi period of Cao Fang, King Qi of Wei (240-249), Hu Zhao moved from Luhun Mountain to Yiyang (now Yiyang County, Henan Province). The court officials of the Wei State frequently wrote letters, asking the Emperor of Wei to summon Hu Zhao into the officialdom, but Hu Zhao refused politely. In the second year of Jiaping (250), Emperor Cao Fang of Wei sent a public car to the court again. He heard that Hu Zhao died of illness this year, so he gave up.

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Hu Zhao's Kongming Academy is on the top of Luhun Mountain. There are 362 disciples, most of whom are local people, and the rest are disciples of aristocratic families from all over the country. Among them are the children of the famous Yuan family of Runan. After Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were destroyed, the Yuan family's strength in the Han Dynasty was greatly reduced, but it was still considered a large family. In addition, the Deng family in Nanyang also has many children, including Deng Qi, the brother of Deng Ai, a famous general of Wei during the Three Kingdoms.

Unlike the Deng family in history, after Liu Xie entered Jingzhou very early, there was no war in the Nanyang area. Huangfu Song's long-term presence made the Yellow Turbans, which should have gathered here in history, dare not come in. Nanyang has been stable for more than ten years, and the Deng family of the Nanyang clan did not collapse due to the war.

In any case, when Jingzhou was at its peak, although Liu Xie did not attach importance to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi's talents, he attached great importance to Ma Liang, Jiang Wei, Lu Xun, Deng Ai, Ling Tong, Zhou Xin and others after them. In order to obtain Wen Yuan, he even recruited his father Wen Qin as the county magistrate in the sixth year of Chutai. In order to get Zhong Hui, Liu Xie tried his best to first use calligraphy, painting and calligraphy to meet Zhong Yao's preferences, and then use benevolence, righteousness and orthodox words. Finally, he promised high officials, generous salaries and marquis fiefs, and finally dug Zhong Yao to Chu.

Even Du Yu did not give up after these people. Du Yu's grandfather Du Ji-ben was an official in Luoyang. In the sixth year of Chutai, before Liu Bei closed the market, he had specifically asked Yi Ji to persuade him to become an official in Jingzhou.

The only worry is whether Du Yu will appear in this world after changing history. His father Du Shu is only three years old now.

In short, no matter how many years you are, please dig it up first. Anyway, Du Ji is also a very talented bachelor.

In order to cultivate talents, Liu Xie repeatedly increased investments in Xiangyang, Shuijing, Jiangnan and Yizhou academic institutions, and dispatched nearly 100 doctoral scholars to teach in the four university governments. He even planned to reopen Yingshang Academy in Yingshang in the future. In the selection of teaching books, Liu Xie selected more than 3,000 sets of classics, history, and literature that he could find, Zuo's Spring and Autumn, Legalist classics, military arts, collections of miscellaneous schools, Xiangyang Zhilu, King of Chu Zhilu, Guoshang Plan, Wuhu Ce, etc., and printed a total of 60,000 copies to supplement the library of various academic institutions with Xiangyang paper.

Liu Xie never dared to ignore the investment in education. As long as each institution applies for money and goods, there is never a person who does not approve it. The allowances of scholars and doctors in each institution are equal to those of the prefects of each county, and the allowances of the Daxian are even comparable to Xun Yu and Zhang Zhao. Because of this, Liu Xie has reason to believe that without ten years, talents from Chu will emerge, so many that the north will not know how to deal with it.

Liu Xie did not believe that if he attached such importance to education, the Chu land would not be able to cultivate a new Xun Yu, a new Zhuge Liang, and a new Xu Shulai.

In fact, the more important reason why Liu Xie attached so much to Hu Zhao was that his educational talent was able to cultivate talents like Sima Yi and Deng Ai. Hu Zhao was naturally one of the best educators in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

During the casual conversation, Liu Xie vaguely discovered that although Hu Zhao showed his knowledge of intensive reading of classics and history, he also occasionally revealed the words of benevolence and law in the rule of law, which made Liu Xie very happy.

After entering Kongming Academy, Liu Xie was surprised when he saw that the bookshelf were placed on the top of the bookshelf, especially the many Legal classics, and he vaguely guessed in his heart that the reason why Hu Zhao was not born must be and that his ideas would not be valued.

When asked in detail why Hu Zhao was unwilling to become an official, Hu Zhao said lightly: "Wu Ming and light are ashamed to leave, and he is unwilling to become an official. Staying in the deep mountains to train his disciples is also a joy!"

Liu Xie was dissatisfied and continued to ask questions. Hu Zhao had no choice but to say, "It's different from the world, so I don't seek it in the world!"

Liu Xie took him into his seat and asked his staff to sit down with him. He asked Hu Zhao again: "Do you dare to ask what sir do to Qin Fa?"

Hu Zhao said: "It is too strict and loses the kindness!"

Liu Xie continued to ask: "What is the criminal law in the early Han Dynasty?"

Hu Zhao said: "Compared with Qin's law, although it is slightly lighter, it still does not lose its kindness!"

The aides were about to retort, but Liu Xie coldly signaled that everyone should not be rude. The aides knew that Liu Xie was determined to recruit Hu Zhao, but they did not dare to speak out when they saw that he was not happy.

Liu Xie asked again: "What is the criminal law now?"

Hu Zhao said: "It's even worse than before, and it's not suitable for both weight and weight!"

Liu Xie smiled and said, "What should I do if sir?"

Hu Zhao said: "This is something the emperor and His Highness are considered. Kong Ming is just a commoner. He has never thought about these things and is not qualified to interfere in these things!"

Liu Xie laughed and said, "Sir, a great scholar in the world. You should worry about the world. How can you just ask about these things? I thought the rise and fall of the world. Don't say that the emperor is responsible, the lonely king is responsible, and the ministers under the tent are responsible, even the gentleman and his disciples are responsible!"

Hu Zhao looked at Liu Xie and said, "Then I said it's OK, but I'm afraid it's interrupted. Please let all the ministers avoid it for a while!"

Pang Tong couldn't help it and said, "Since the world is responsible for us, how can we avoid it!"

Hu Zhao knew that he was worried about Liu Xie's safety. After all, he was Sima Yi's mentor, and most of his disciples had a good relationship with Sima Yi, so he said: "Let my disciples take their leave too!"

Liu Xie smiled slightly and said, "Sir, don't be in a hurry. You can use tea to taste the article first, and then ask the sir to have a long talk with Gu Bingzhu!"

Hu Zhao's face was not at all happy, and he said lightly: "That Kong Ming is worse than respectful!"

Liu Xie asked Cai Yan to take the newly written calligraphy calligraphy and the ink stickers of famous calligraphers such as Cai Yi and Zhong Yao. The seats were full of civil officials and scholars. Everyone was fond of calligraphy. They all used in public to appreciate each other. Hu Zhao was in high spirits and wrote the four words "King of the Ming Dynasty in Chu" in public to give them to Liu Xie, King of Chu. Liu Xie also wrote the pen and wrote "As a virtuous person, it is hard to find in the world" to give them to Hu Zhao. Everyone was happy and appreciated for a long time.

Liu Xie's calligraphy intentionally imitated Zhang Zhi's cursive script, with a generous writing style and agile pen tip, which made all the staff praise him. Even Hu Zhao couldn't help but praise him a little, and said bluntly that the King of Chu failed to practice more, and his basic skills were a little lacking.

Chen Qun knew that Liu Xie was diligent in military and political affairs, and it was already amazing to have such calligraphy, so he couldn't help but argue with Hu Zhao.

After all, it was Chen Qun, and his status in Liu Xie's heart was obviously different. Liu Xie was unwilling to stop drinking in public, but just comforted Chen Qun with verbal relief.

After all, Hu Zhao had seen people. Seeing Pang Tong, Yang Xiu and others refuting him just now, Liu Xie pressed him coldly. When Chen Qun was refuting, Liu Xie comforted him with kind words and knew that this person's status was definitely not comparable to those young people just now. He restrained himself slightly and made some concessions with Chen Qun in his words.

Liu Xie led all the ministers to chat with Hu Zhaohai for a long time, and was not in a hurry to get into the topic. He occasionally talked about the situation in the world, and said a few words to turn the topic away, making Hu Zhao and the ministers quite speculative.

At night, Liu Xie did have a night chat with Hu Zhaobing. When talking about the topic during the day, Liu Xie said: "The counselors around the Lord are well-educated and knowledgeable, but none of them are well aware of the Legalism. This is a great regret for the Lord!"

Hu Zhao was overjoyed and said, "Your Highness wants to use the Legalists to govern the world?"

Liu Xie said: "The king of the Lonely King thought that no matter how broad the Tao is, he was also biased. He wanted to report to the emperor to govern the world with the words of Confucianism, Law and Taoism. This is the return of the Han ancestral system. However, the three of them had to be slightly repaired, so that the three families could not repel each other and could use them together. I cherish that there was no such talent in the world!"

Hu Zhao was slightly stunned, barely concealed his inner loss, and smiled faintly: "Why should your highness treat me insincere? The three families checked and balanced, how can ordinary people use the world together? Not to mention the current emperor, even Han Wu, the two ancestor emperors of Guangwu dare not use it. If you dare to govern the world like this, your highness will only be the only one!"

Liu Xie said: "Then the lonely king will implement the art of combining the three families in Chu!"

Hu Zhao said: "This is what Your Highness is short of!"

Liu Xie was surprised and asked, "Where is the lack of the Lone King?"

Hu Zhao said: "Without the aspiration, your highness is so powerful in Chu. If you want to win the world, you will be like to take over. When the princes attacked Dong Zhuo, if your highness swelled, the world could return to him. Later, Liu Bei attacked Yuan Shao, and the capital was empty. If your highness raided, the world could still get it. Now that the north was short of food, your highness would not sell food and the north for the time being. When the north was exhausted, you could control the world. Now selling food and Liu Bei was to stop the way to advance north. In the future, Liu Bei would definitely seize the land of Chu. My disciple Sima Yi saw that your highness only knew how to defend the southern Jingzhou, and did not want to advance the imperial career and surrender to Liu Bei! As Kongming saw, your highness's talent could not only govern the Han Dynasty, but also build achievements for thousands of years. If you only wanted to defend the south, you would sooner or later take Jingyang for others!"

Liu Xie said: "If you don't want to take it, your true brother is still there!"

Hu Zhao laughed and said, "I know that your highness is afraid of the world's words, secondly, your reputation and rebellion, and you are criticized by others. Thirdly, your ministers in the south abandon it. In fact, it is not true. Your Highness is the parent and child of Emperor Ling, and he is also powerful to the King of Chu. Looking at the wealth of the people in Chu, you can know that if your Highness is an emperor, you must be a rare wise king. Secondly, if others do the opposite, you will be a national affairs. Your Highness seizes the throne, which is the family business of the Han Dynasty. With such a great achievement in Chu, your Highness can take it away. Who are the ministers under your tent?

I don’t know your highness’s talent. If your highness is the emperor, this is a blessing for the people. My disciple Sima Yi once told me that those who see the governance of the world and good at governing the world are worse than those of Shao, and those who are good at governing the world are worse than those of Cao, and those who are worse than those of Cao, and those of Cao are worse than those of Cao. However, with the intention of dominating the world, Shao is worse than those of Cao, and those of Cao are worse than those of Cao. However, with the intention of dominating the world, Shao is worse than those of Cao, and those of Cao are worse than those of Cao. Therefore, Sima Yi is willing to join Liu Bei, trying to show his might and build the former Longweier of the Han Dynasty!”

Liu Xie predicted that Hu Zhao was not testing him, but actually named his flaws. He secretly said that he had no ambition to seize the country from Liu Bei and the emperor, and he had no need to serve him, so as to avoid failure in the future and leave a bad reputation. He also laughed and said, "The great wisdom of Kongming can help the Lone King control the world!"

In history, Hu Zhao's disciples Sima Yi and Deng Ai both valued law and discipline, and were both Confucian and law. It can be seen that his teacher Hu Zhao was also deeply aware of the law and Confucianism. Hu Zhao wanted to stay away from the world and hide in the mountains, with a fairy style. He highly praised Lao Tzu in his words. Such great sages were what Liu Xie longed for.

Hu Zhao said: "Since Your Highness is willing to conquer the world, why don't he send troops in three good opportunities?"

Liu Xie said: "If you don't send troops, you can't send troops. The first good opportunity was that the Lone King was young and difficult to control the government. Even if Dong Zhuo was eliminated, it would be difficult to control the imperial career. The second good opportunity was that the Lone King's internal affairs were about to rise, and the land of Chu was not much stronger than the north. Moreover, Cao Cao was across the Ying River. If he attacked Bingzhou, he was afraid that Cao Cao and Liu Bei would join forces, and the Lone King would die and not be buried, so he would not send troops!"

Hu Zhao asked, "What's wrong with today?"

Liu Xie sighed and said, "There is a dilemma if you don't send troops today. One is that although the Lone King seeks the world, he does not want to get a desolate north. Therefore, he temporarily provides relief and will win the army after the people are free of disasters. Secondly, there is still a difficulty. It has been entangled in the Lone King's heart for a long time. Everyone only knows the prosperity of Chu, but they don't know how many crises are hidden behind the prosperity."

Hu Zhao was particularly surprised and said, "The Chu soldiers were sophisticated and had enough food, so how could there be a crisis!"

Liu Xie took a piece of Xiangyang paper, wrote the three words "economics" on it, and asked Hu Zhao: "Can Kongming understand this knowledge?"

Hu Zhao was even more surprised and said, "Kongming read thousands of books and has never encountered this knowledge!"

Liu Xie explained: "This is the name of the Lone King himself, but it is actually the principles and rules of the operation of business, agriculture, industrial and industrial taxes, money, money and goods. It can also be said to be the foundation of the business course taught by Professor Chu Di, it can also be called the financial and economics, or it can be called the finance and economics. It is more extensive and profound than the business course, and even the poor Lone King will be difficult to fully master it in his life!"

Hu Zhao was shocked and said, "I hope to hear the details!"

Liu Xie nodded and wrote "Introduction to Finance and Economics" on paper, saying: "The foundation of finance and economics is called Introduction to Finance and Economics, which can then be extended to agricultural finance, commodity finance, population finance, farm finance, monetary finance, political finance, etc. The several divisions pointed out by the Gu Wang are most related to this crisis."

Liu Xie took the night to talk to Hu Zhao from the basic theory of the introduction to economics. In order to facilitate his understanding, Liu Xie changed the basic definition to the way to satisfy the infinite desires of the world with the least resources, that is, the knowledge of optimizing the allocation and utilization of resources.

From productivity to four major factors, from purchasing power to consumer demand, from inflation to deflation, from production shrinkage to overproduction, Liu Xie talked from night to dawn. Although Hu Zhao listened very much and Liu Xie spoke in detail, Hu Zhao understood it very limitedly. Although he was a great master of the generation, he still could not master the large amount of information that suddenly poured in. However, Hu Zhao still vaguely understood what Liu Xie meant, and there was a relatively difficult overproduction phenomenon in economic development in Chu.

Liu Xie sighed a long time, and he knew in his heart that the main mistake of this economic crisis was actually his own mistake. Going back to the past, it was too dangerous to transform the economic structure. It broke the laws of economic development and led to the leap-forward development of the economy, which finally caused the current crisis.

The only people who could perceive the crisis in the entire Chu area were only state merchants like Xun Yu, Zhang Zhao and Mi Zhu. In terms of agriculture, Chu area introduced the rice and wheat ripening system so early, manually selected good varieties, increased animal husbandry, and increased inter-planting of economic crops. This series of behaviors prematurely promoted the increase in grain, and the consumption method was too single. People did not have the habit of refining and processing grain, and did not have the auxiliary consumption.

Even when it was a cold wave in the dry season, due to the weak disasters in the south and the convenient water conservancy irrigation, the land of Chu Jing, Yang, Xu, Yi, and Hanzhong were all granaries in the world. The grain production in Chu was still as high as 760 million stones last year. In the early days of Emperor Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty had a population of 50 million, and the country produced only 1.1 billion stones of grain, and the Chu area had a population of 23 million. In fact, the output of the year before was higher. According to the total calculation, the agricultural production efficiency of Chu area increased to about 50%, and the exact number was between 50:02 and 03%.

If the grain production in the south in the late period of Emperor Ling was converted, the labor efficiency improvement value was more than 70%, such a transitional improvement would be very terrible.

According to the statistics of Zhiluofu, the average annual grain consumption of individual people is only 21 stone, and the 23 million people consume less than 500 million stones per year. If the grain surplus this year is not very scary, what is terrible is that since the fourth year of Chutai, the entire Chu land has had a large-scale surplus. Zhiluofu used more than 20 billion yuan to balance grain prices every year, and the funds that actually completely control the price of grain are about 90 billion yuan per year. However, taking out such large-scale Chu money every year will further trigger the insufficient gold reserves of Xiangyang Yinzhuang. Liu Xie once ordered Chu money to be distributed to the public strictly based on the actual amount of gold accumulated by Zhiluofu every year, at the exchange rate of exchange for 15,000 yuan of Chu money for one kilogram of gold, so Zhiluofu was unable to completely control the price, resulting in a decline in grain prices.

At the same time, the three prefectures, northern Hebei, Yan and Yong have been producing grain in the past two to four degrees Celsius due to the weather dropping by two to four degrees Celsius compared with previous years. Natural disasters and wars produced only 120 million stones. The total grain output in the whole north is only less than 200 million stones, and the grain vacancy in the whole north is as high as 200 million stones. According to the information of the Military Academy, the total storage capacity of the total grain storage in the north is only 400 million stones. Due to the years of war in Jizhou, Jizhou can store more than 600 grain storages with a total storage capacity of less than 13,000 stones. In fact, the grain reserves in the north are only about 300 million stones. It can be said that it will support this year. If the disaster continues next year, the north will experience a comprehensive shortage of grain in July and August in the second half of the year.
To be continued...