.Chapter 862: Severe Form

By July, Dingzhou was still very cool, but in Ningzhou, Dengzhou and other places it was already very hot. The wanton destruction during the retreat of Ningwang had greatly damaged Ningdeng and other places. The food was almost plundered, and the green seedlings were seriously damaged. Seeing that there was no hope of autumn harvest, this gave Li Sizhi, who had just been transferred to serve as Governor General of Ningdeng, an extremely headache. Chinese website

Food is the most important thing for the people, and Ningdeng is facing this major problem now. Li Qing specially transferred his uncle Li Sizhi from Luzhou to serve as the governor of Ningdeng. He is interested in his uncle's years of experience in local governance. The current severity and severity of this area is not something that ordinary people can deal with.

Even though Li Sizhi is experienced, he is still a little poor when facing this messy stall. There is no other thing now. The first thing is to make the people survive. Otherwise, Ningding area will be in chaos and the hungry people will do anything.

To keep the people alive, there must be food, but where does the food come from?

Yizhou has food, but Yizhou needs to support the battle of tens of thousands of troops of mountain wind, and at the same time it also needs to support the whole province. There is no extra grain in Jinzhou at all. Dingzhou locals can only be self-sufficient. Even if they can squeeze out some from their teeth, facing Ningdeng, it is a drop in the bucket. Moreover, the journey is long and the transportation cost is extremely high.

Despite this, Li Qing ordered the delivery of food to these two places as much as possible. At present, Li Sizhi could only count on Liao and Shenyang. Liao and Shenyang were originally major grain-producing states. During this war, Shunzhou and Weizhou were severely damaged. However, due to Zeng Yifan's death, Zeng Chong and Zeng's clan surrender, the two places had to be preserved in full.

However, although Liaoshen has food, it has to wait until after the autumn harvest. Before the New Year, King Ning's army of hundreds of thousands of troops entered Weizhou, and the military food and materials needed were taken from Liaoshen. Now, even if there is still surplus in Liaoshen, there will not be too much.

When the Zeng family surrendered, for the sake of stabilizing Liaoshen, Li Qing still appointed the Zeng clan as the governor of Liaoshen and Shenshen. Zeng Chong served as the governor of Liaoshen, while Shunzhou and Weizhou were Liu Yuan served as the governor.

At the same time, the governor, but obviously Li Sizhi's status was far higher than the previous two. Li Sizhi wrote a stern letter to Zeng Chong, asking him to raise one million stones of grain at the end of July at the end of July to solve the urgent problem.

What can comfort Li Sizhi at the moment is that although Lu Dalin was a military general, after occupying the Ningdeng area, he immediately noticed the crisis of Ningdeng, stopped all military operations, mobilized all his strength, organized the people to save themselves, and were planted with green seedlings, hoping to harvest more or less after the autumn, reduce pressure, and spare no effort to confiscate the surplus grains of the people, especially the surplus grains of some wealthy families, gathered all the grains and rationed them in the two places. Although after the Ningwang's sweep, there were not much surplus grains, the Ningdeng area was originally rich. Due to time constraints, there were many fish that were missing from the net, and the small amount accumulated, which made Lu Dalin raise millions of stones of grain.

These two measures by Lu Dalin greatly alleviated Li Sizhi's predicament after taking office. Otherwise, when he arrived from Luzhou, the daylily would be cold.

But there are still a lot of problems left to Li Sizhi. Lu Dalin's measures can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. It is okay to slow down the urgent problem for a while, but it is obviously not a policy that can be implemented for a long time. Ning Wang fled, and the officials in the former Ning Deng area were either left by Ning Wang's association, or fled in packages and abandoned their official positions. The entire Ning Deng area was almost anarchic, and the rural areas were better, especially in some big cities, such as Ningzhou City and Dengzhou City. One out of ten officials was left, and all government agencies were shut down, so they could not perform daily management functions. Now the two places can only implement military control.

After Li Sizhi took office, he called on the former officials to return to office quickly, perform their duties, and guarantee them in his personal name, and never pursued the previous crimes of these officials. Li Sizhi's personal guarantee was still somewhat effective. After July, officials returned to the yamen to start the management of the yamen, but this was limited to some lower-level officials, and almost none of the senior officials came back. While calling on the original officials to return to office, Li Sizhi visited some famous literati and retired officials from both places and asked them to come out to do things. It has to be said that Li Sizhi's desire to seek talents still touched many people, and the yamen in Ningdeng began to operate slowly. Assist Li Sizhi to start disaster seeking work in Ningdeng. At the same time, Li Sizhi wrote a letter to Li Qing to inquire, asking Li Qing to quickly send civil servants to Ningdeng area to enrich the yamen in various departments.

However, the civil servant group has always been the shortcoming of Dingzhou. Although Li Qing has been working hard to train civil servants, the effect has not been obvious. Later, he welcomed the King of Zhou. Under the proof of the jade seal of the world, he fought for the orthodox position with the Great Chu Dynasty. This made a little progress. The Qingliushilin also began to differentiate. Many people began to turn to Dingzhou. After more than a year of hard work, the Imperial College, established in Dingzhou, recruited talents, trained officials, and instilled the new policy of Dingzhou. However, the time was too short. Even the professors and students of the Imperial College were only three or four hundred. Gritted their teeth, Li Qing sent them all out to Ningdeng to serve. Some old masters who only wanted to be knowledge and were unwilling to be officials. Li Qing even condescend to visit, whether it was righteousness or coercion and temptation, in short, they persuaded them one by one. For a moment, the Imperial College was deserted and the building was empty. Only some complicated personnel were left in the huge Imperial College.

From the occupation of Ningdeng in May to the late July, the form was finally stabilized. Although there were not enough officials, the various yamen could finally operate. Zeng Chong thought of some ways and actually got Li Sizhi 1.2 million stones of grain from the Liaoshen area and transported it to Ningdeng area by the navy. He actually exceeded the task. With these grains, although it was not enough to be full, he still managed to survive the autumn harvest. However, Li Sizhi lost more than 20 kilograms in these two months, and he was already thin.

The severe economic forms also dragged down military operations. Lu Dalin's tens of thousands of troops stopped moving forward. If there was no war, the soldiers would be able to do one kilogram of grain a day. However, once war started, it was common to consume two kilograms of grain a day. Without food, the war would naturally not be able to fight. After Luoyang occupied Bozhou, it was also eager to stabilize the local form and build a defensive system, and there was no spare energy to launch an attack on the Ningzhou army. Both sides were tacitly informed.

But the situation in Bozhou is much better than that in Ningdeng, because the agreement between Ningwang and Shang Haibo, the final madness of Ningwang did not involve the Bozhou area. The Bozhou taken over by Shang Haibo was intact. Compared with Ningdeng's chaotic war, Bozhou had a considerable advantage.

In terms of military affairs, by July, with Shang Haibo's strong recommendation, Qiu Zhi, who had not neglected many times, became the commander of Bozhou, which made the Dengbo frontline nervous in an instant. Small-scale frictions began to appear.

In view of this form, Lu Dalin personally went to the Dengzhou front line to supervise the entire army to deal with Qiu Zhi's active offensive strategy. Tian Feng was in Ningzhou and commanded the army dominated by Guo Quanfeng's camp, and attacked the remnants of Ningwang in the 100,000 mountains.

In Bozhou, Qiu Zhi finally made a comeback after being hidden by Tianqi for nearly two years. The complex relationship with the Li family is the reason why Qiu Zhi was neglected. However, looking at the years, Qiu Zhi, who has never suffered any major losses under the strong attack of Dingzhou, is one of the few figures in the Luoyang military. So under the insistence of Shang Haibo, Qiu Zhi was sent to Bozhou.

Qiu Zhi is almost seventy years old. In this era, he is already a rare old age, let alone being able to lead the army to fight. The old guys of the same era as him have either retired to Yiyang's family or have gone to the underworld to deal with King Yama, so Qiu Zhi is very proud.

After arriving in Bozhou, Qiu Zhi did two things. The first was to take the initiative to seek war. Pang Jun was defeated at sea, and Dingzhou developed extremely powerful weapons. The information that the information that the enemy had developed was already in Luoyang and sent to the desks of the commanders. After carefully studying the opponent's weapon, Qiu Zhi concluded that in the face of such a fierce attack weapon, no matter how strong the fortress could be defended. Only by taking the initiative to attack and finding flaws with the opponent in the mobile warfare can one find a chance of victory.

The rank of the military officer has found that this weapon was named the Divine Power Cannon, each cannon weighs thousands of kilograms. Such a weight determines his limitations in the war, so there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Secondly, under the instruction of Shang Haibo, Qiu Zhi built a fortress at the mouth of the Lai River in Bozhou. The Lai River ran through several states and flowed through Pingzhou, Suzhou, Xingzhou, and entered the sea from Bozhou. For the Luoyang court without a powerful navy, the Lai River was a sharp sword hanging on its head. Once the Dingzhou navy broke into the Lai River, the thousands of miles of fertile fields in the Central Plains would inevitably become a battlefield.

This is also the reason why Shang Haibo worked tirelessly to Ningzhou after he was bound to be defeated in Ningzhou and tried to snatch Bozhou. If Bozhou falls into the hands of Li Qing of Ningzhou, the advantages of the Luoyang court will be gone.

After Qiu Zhi took office, he selected points and tested the fortresses from many rivers, and finally the fortress that blocked the Lai River was in Qingtan, about fifty miles from the mouth of the sea. Qingtan water flowed rapidly, the river channel was narrow, and the mountains on both sides were lined with mountains on both sides, occupying the high ground on both sides. When building the fortresses on both sides, Qiu Zhi even loaded dozens of ships with only stones on this section of the river and sank to the bottom of the water. At the same time, countless iron was transported from the Central Plains, melted in Bozhou and made iron pillars one by one and planted into the water. From the outside, the water channel was no different from previous years, but in fact, it was already a reef and murderous intent. It was a dream to try to penetrate this water channel.

But Qiu Zhiren did not dare to be careless and fought against Dingzhou. It would not be too much of annoying. Under such a strong fortress, he still stationed 3,000 soldiers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and sent a trusted general to strive to be foolproof.

At the end of July, Qingtan's deployment was completed, and Qiu Zhi's attention turned to the Dengbo front line.
Chapter completed!