Chapter fifty-seven people light wax, ghosts blow lamps
Cao Xiu eloquently told the brothers about their lack of food.
Ten days of food will last sixty days.
Mentioning this, Cao Xiu and the three lieutenants almost went crazy, let alone the soldiers below, let alone those Qingzhou soldiers who had just surrendered.
It can be said that once the food issue is not handled well, both Cao Cao and Yanzhou will be completely "indifferent"!
"food!"
Lu Yu whispered...
Sure enough, the most worrying problem still appeared, but it was a little earlier than he expected.
After all, the sudden increase in the number of Lao Cao's troops is not based on a solid foundation...
Normally, the ancients recruited a large number of soldiers, either relying on their past military careers or actively contacting the clans. On the premise that Lao Cao did not occupy both ends, he recruited hundreds of thousands of soldiers in one wave. Wouldn't it be possible to empty Yanzhou's food supply?
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Lu Yu thought for a while and found that there were many ways to deal with it.
Historically, Xun Yu recommended a ruthless man named Cheng Yu...ah, it seems...the term ruthless man is no longer enough to explain Cheng Yu's deeds. This guy is simply a "wolf killer"!
At this critical moment, he took the initiative to ask for help and took on the important task of raising food, and then... he dried the starving people into dried meat and stuffed it into the meals, and they ate each other... He helped Cao Cao survive this crisis.
Everyone will be happy when there is a bumper harvest in the second year!
Of course, this approach is a bit unhumane. Damn it, you are eating people!
When he thought of this, Lu Yu suddenly felt nauseous, and even his favorite beef no longer tasted good.
He couldn't control others, at least the thousand brothers under his command couldn't eat human flesh.
Have to think of a way.
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"well…"
When mentioning the problem of food shortage, Wei Hong also let out a long sigh.
"I knew about the food shortage in Yanzhou a few days ago. I heard that a county magistrate named Cheng Yu gave Meng De a plan to expose human flesh and eat it. If it hadn't been for the obstruction of Sima Xunyu from another department, Meng De would have already adopted it!
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"Now, it seems that the grain depot in Yanzhou is empty. In order to appease the morale of the army, Meng De will probably mention this matter again. These are troubled times!"
Stories like Yi Zi cannibalizing each other and husband and wife cannibalizing each other are not uncommon in troubled times.
Just hearing it seriously made Lu Yu feel terrified.
"Old Wei, can we buy food now?" Lu Yu asked immediately...
this…
Wei Hong hesitated for a moment. "In various states and counties, there are some merchants who hoard unusually, hoarding a large amount of grain in the grain depot, selling it to various princes at high prices in the black market, and making a lot of money... It's just that prices have skyrocketed, and ordinary copper coins
, five baht money, they no longer like it.”
"Unless they can produce gold, jewels, cloth, or iron or bronze for forging weapons... they will exchange it! But even my guards can't produce so many gold, silver and jewels!"
Bartering for something?
Bartering has already begun in the market, right?
Lu Yu rolled his eyes. Because he was familiar with this period of history, he knew very well that the Han Dynasty's original monetary system was relatively stable.
However, when Dong Zhuo was in chaos, he resmelted all the copper coins and bronze horses in Luoyang City and cast them into copper coins. He also used small coins to replace the original big coins, causing the Han Dynasty's original economic system to completely collapse.
The price of grain in Chang'an even rose to 100,000 yuan per dendrobium. In contrast, in Youzhou under Liu Yu's governance, the economic system did not collapse. One stone of grain only cost 30 yuan, and one dendrobium of grain only cost ten yuan.
For this reason, Gongsun Zan specially hoarded three million grains of dendrobium in Yijing for military supplies.
Of course, the Central Plains is not Youzhou. Although it is not as exaggerated as one hundred thousand dendrobium per hu, it is not as cheap as ten yuan per hu.
The market price of a handful of grain is around 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. Originally, with Wei Hong's financial resources, it was not a big deal to support Lu Yu's team of 1,000 people.
It's just... Nowadays, black market merchants won't play with you for coins, so where can you get gold, silver and jewelry?
Of course, just because others can't do it, doesn't mean Lu Yu can't do it.
As soon as his eyes rolled, he immediately thought of a wonderful method. This was simply... setting up a mill with picked wheat - a business with no capital and huge profit.
"Sister Zhaoji, how about...you go out for a walk first?" Lu Yu suggested..."I will talk with Mr. Wei and a few generals about men."
Well…
Cai Zhaoji was stunned at the topic of men. What she immediately thought of was...
"Brother Lu Yu, we can't do things like robbing families and homes?" Cai Zhaoji frowned...
Lu Yu scratched his head and replied with a smile. "Sister Zhaoji, don't worry, it's definitely not robbing families and homes. People are doing it and God is watching. We won't bully the good!"
"Really?" Cai Zhaoji bit her lip. She didn't believe it, but brother Lu Yu said so. What else could she do, just... go out for a walk?
While talking, Cai Zhaoji and a group of maids left the pavilion. Lu Yu found that there was another maid who was desperately ogling him before leaving.
This charming look is as if to say, "Continue tonight!"
Lu Yu responded with a big eye roll, as if to say, "Definitely next time!"
When she left, she remembered, wasn't this one of the three from last night? She almost didn't recognize it with her clothes on...
"Ahem..."
With a slight cough, Sister Zhaoji had already walked away. Lu Yu signaled for Cao Xiu, three generals, and Wei Hong to come over.
Cao Xiu looked eager to try. "Master Lu, if you really want to rob, it's okay. I will do it in a flawless manner and no one will know that it has anything to do with us!"
Well…
Lu Yu was stunned for a moment. He looked at Cao Xiu meaningfully, Qianliju, Qianliju, the pattern, the pattern is too small!
Yanzhou is already poor. The soldiers don't have enough to eat, and the people don't have enough to eat either. How can we rob a group of poor people? How much money can we rob? The situation is too small!
If you really want to rob, you have to rob those rich people!
Of course, the living wealthy people's influence in Yanzhou is so entangled that they can't move.
The rich man who simply robbed him to death, so-called touching gold, robbing tombs, fighting upside down...
Having said that, before time travel, Lu Yu had watched a lot of related "movies" and "TV series". I have to say that this "Tomb Raiders Notes" thing makes money really fast!
"Ahem..."
Lu Yu coughed again and asked Wei Hong in a low voice. "Old Wei, I want to ask you something. Do we have any mausoleums for princes and nobles in Yanzhou?"
this…
Wei Hong paused. "Why does Mr. Lu ask this?"
Lu Yu replied with a smile: "We are all seniors. If we want to pay our respects, they will definitely bless us."
Oh... Wei Hong knocked on his forehead and then spoke.
"There is a large mausoleum in the western suburbs of Chenliu County. It is said that it is the mausoleum of Zhao Chongguo, a famous general during the Emperor Wu period..."
"No!" Lu Yu waved his hand before Wei Hong finished speaking. "Change."
The military generals who followed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to conquer the Xiongnu were poor and useless. Just look at the tombs of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.
We have to look for corrupt officials, nobles and nobles, they are fat!
…Wei Hong thought for a moment again.
"There is another one. Thirty miles south of Chenliu County, there is a mausoleum. It is the mausoleum of Liu Chang, the second son of King Jing of Zhongshan Liu Sheng and the second king of Zhongshan Kingdom, Liu Chang."
Hiss, King Jing of Zhongshan? Lu Yu felt that these four words were so familiar! Who was he? The words came to his lips, but he didn't remember them.
However, I was the first King Jing of Zhongshan, and my son was the second King of Zhongshan. Lu Yu thought that he must be very fat in his tomb!
As the saying goes, people light wax and ghosts blow out lamps...