Chapter 772

In Guanzhong in late autumn, there was no rain in previous years, and there was no sign of snow.

In the northwest of Guanzhong, the situation of land drying and cracking is more and more serious, especially in some plain areas.

"The weak water is dry downstream." Ji Chang's hand is a memorial collected from the northwest recently. The weak water he said is a large tributary extending from juyanze, a great lake: "the lower reaches of the weak water are dry, and the separated rivers and streams have become dry riverbed."

Juyanze is composed of two lakes. The lake in the north is larger and the lake in the south is smaller. They have existed since the Han people did not set foot on this land. During the Hun period, they were used as a common grazing area for XiuTu, Aries and hunxie.

There has been no rain for a long time, and the amount of snow in two years is very small. The northwest itself is a plateau. People who know geography should understand that the groundwater in the plateau has always been insufficient. If there is no enough rainfall, the water will be evaporated. Once there is a lack of water, it will be a large-scale disaster.

There are two large lakes and one small lake in the northwest.

The two large lakes are juyanze and Mingze, which maintain two large river systems of weak water and dark water respectively. At the same time, the weak water and dark water extend many tributaries, which can be regarded as providing water for the northwest, especially for the irrigation system.

The small lake does not have a serious name. It has been called an oasis for a long time, that is, a lake north of Yumenguan. However, there is a multi Gobi environment north of Yumenguan. Dozens of miles ahead of the lake is a desert. It is understandable that it will be named Lvzhou by the local people.

In the absence of sufficient rainfall, the water levels in juyanze, Mingze and oasis are falling rapidly. The linkage is that the riverbed of the river water supplied by the lake is reduced. There is not enough water supply in the upstream. The downstream must see the bottom of the riverbed. People in the downstream may not be short of water.

In the 10th year of Yuanshuo (AD 351), the drought in Northwest China became more and more serious, and there were signs of drought in Guanzhong and Guandong. The most urgent thing for the Han country was to deal with the inevitable natural disaster, as well as the locust disaster that would inevitably follow after the drought.

"We have a large number of people. For the time being, we have found no sign of locust activities." Ji Chang said that the investigation of locusts is in the direction of the grassland. Since the drought has broken out in the northwest, the rampant locusts will inevitably occur: "no one knows why there are a large number of locusts all of a sudden."

Locusts tend to water and like low-lying areas. Locust disasters are often accompanied by severe drought. They move in groups from arid areas to low-lying areas prone to waterlogging. There are so-called "locusts in extreme drought" and "locusts in prolonged drought". But no one really knows whether there were so many locusts in the past or whether there were so many locusts suddenly after the drought.

"Someone has been ordered to collect locusts." Cai you is somewhat sad. His dignified internal history of controlling millet even presides over the research on how to eat locusts: "fried can really eat, and it is really delicious to dare to eat."

Eat worms? Zhuxia did not have a hobby of eating insects. For example, the silkworm was regarded as a kind of food at the beginning, or the role of silk was found later, so the silkworm avoided the fate of eating at the table.

Southwest China has developed a diversity of eating insects. Guangzhou, Jiaozhou and ningzhou also have a new food culture. Not to mention eating insects, it seems that there is nothing local people dare not eat.

Ji Chang belongs to a member who has eaten fried locusts. His ideas make him sick when eating. His psychological rejection dispels his taste buds. When he thinks of eating locusts, he can't feel delicious.

Cai you also rejected eating insects incomparably. When he saw the faces of his colleagues present, he also knew what the situation was. Subconsciously, he covered his mouth and swallowed his saliva before he continued: "grinding powder has been studied. Although the taste is not good, no one will know what it is unless it is locust powder."

"Cough..." Sang Yu's face was normal. He coughed twice and showed his true thoughts: "Your Majesty has said that this material contains a lot of protein and belongs to nutrition."

"We are ready to catch and kill a large number of locusts once they are found to be rampant." Cai you subconsciously looked left and right, and then said, "after hunting, he will grind flour and provide it to the army."

Cai Youhui subconsciously looked and confirmed that there was really no military person present for fear of being rushed up and beaten.

"Send out the army at the right time, buy from the people... Deal with it, and then provide it to the military." Sang Yu 'ha ha' smiled: "good governance, great good governance."

Ji Chang, with a gloomy face, had a smile on his face. He really didn't want to study the nutrition of locust powder. As long as he had countermeasures.

In response to the outbreak of drought in the northwest, the central government of the Han Dynasty took the measure of organizing people to go to the western regions, followed by a way out of the grassland.

It was because the grassland was also included in the natural disaster stop loss area that ran min led his army out of the grassland to invade xigaoche. The grassland was incomparably empty and deserted, and all the tribes that should be destroyed were finished. There was really nothing to rob when people went to the grassland.

There are no hostile tribes on the grassland. Even if someone is grazing, it is also an official pasture. Is it to dig grass roots to eat?

The drought plagued the center of the Han Dynasty, causing Xie an to send back the good news without much strong attention. All the central leaders, including Liu Yan, were overwhelmed by the disaster. There was really no spare energy to fight in the western regions.

"Open Yemo (West Sea) again?" Sang Yu said with a tired voice: "there is a great plain over there. There is Yemo, a great lake. The drought around is not so serious. Yemo is close to the plateau. There has been no human habitation for a long time. There are many wild animals in the wilderness. Then there is material wealth."

Yemo does not belong to the northwest territory and belongs to the territory of Tuyuhun.

Tuyuhun is now called tuhun. It was founded in 313 AD by a branch of Murong Xianbei in Eastern Liaoning. The reason why this Murong Xianbei moved from Liaodong to the plateau to establish the country is that they were defeated in the Murong civil war. The name of Tuyuhun is because the first generation leader was Murong Tuyuhun.

When Murong Tuyuhun established his country, the country's name was not Tuyuhun, and he was not the king of Tuyuhun himself. After all, Tuyuhun is the name of the Lord of the country. It can't be named the throne with its own name. His first name was Henan king.

Some time ago, Xie an led his troops into Xiqiang mountain, which is located in the southeast of Tuyuhun. Strangely, Tuyuhun did not move from beginning to end. He neither sent troops to fight with the Han Army nor helped the remnants of DI and Qiang who fled from the Central Plains. It was not until xie'an solved those remnants that Tuyuhun sent an envoy to the state of Han.

Tuyuhun's current leader is Ye Yan. His father is TuYan. He is Murong Tuyuhun's grandson. In the period of Murong Tuyuhun and TuYan, the name of the king of Henan was adopted, and ye Yancai was officially known as the king of Tuyuhun.

Ye Yan of the third generation is now very old. Basically, nine out of ten stepped into the grave. That's why he didn't respond in time to the approaching of the Han army. Ye Yan was actually seriously ill during the period of sending an envoy group to the state of Han, and the state was handed over to his eldest son, broken Xi.

The Han state has contacted the Tuguhun mission. The official name given by Tuguhun is claiming to be the state of Muke, and the country's Lord is the king of Henan. The state of Han also found that they spoke Chinese very well. The characters used were also Chinese characters. Even some etiquette were the same as those of Zhuxia. The only difference was dressing.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, no matter what changes have taken place in the clothes of Zhuxia, they will not be left placket clothes, but always right placket clothes. This design of clothes has become a part of the debate between China and foreign countries.

Of course, the name of Muk is false. In yeyan's time, this Murong Department has taken the official name of the country, that is, taking the name of Tuyuhun, grandfather of the contemporary leader yeyan as the country name, and the king's name has also been changed.

Tuyuhun not only reported the false country name, but also concealed his origin. Even if he was stupid, he still used the king of Henan. At first, the Han Kingdom thought it was an inexplicable country. We found some clues from the king's name of the king of Henan.

Murong Tuyuhun's Henan King's name was not self proclaimed, but granted by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty granted many titles to the leaders of the Hu people. For example, Murong Lin was granted the title of king of Yan, Shi Hu was granted the title of king of Zhao, and Li Shi was granted the title of Duke of Shu.

Such a situation will happen. Although Sima's family lost the Central Plains, the prosperity of the Han and Three Kingdoms still has a certain deterrent to the Hu people. At first, although the Hu people beat the Sima family's Jin State on the ground, they still recognized the Sima family's status as zhengshuo. After Murong Lin did not bird the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Hu people did not bird the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

When LV Yi learned that Tuyuhun was using a false country name to send envoys, he was furious and wanted to be imprisoned. Indeed, he imprisoned Tuyuhun's people. At present, those people are still in prison. They don't even have anyone to report back.

Tuyuhun's behavior is an extremely bad deception at present, which is serious enough for the Han state to launch a war to destroy the country in its name, but isn't the Han state devastated by natural disasters?

At the same time, there are many ongoing wars in the Han Dynasty. The biggest war overseas is with the Gupta Dynasty. The northeast is also cleaning up the remnants of Tuoba, Murong and donggaoche, and the west is recovering the western regions.

The obvious thing is that Liu Yan is more aggressive, so many ongoing wars, coupled with the outbreak of natural disasters, how should we take it easy. We really can't fight Tuyuhun with great fanfare.

Since it is impossible to launch the war of annihilation against Tuyuhun, we can't help but take deception seriously. Otherwise, where is the dignity of the country? Sang Yu suggested that Yemo should also be regarded as a place to stop the loss of natural disasters, which is a means for Tuyuhun to deceive the Han state.

"Have you considered their reaction?" Ji Chang has no objection to retaliation against Tuyuhun, which is an extreme political correctness. What he needs to care about is what the Han people will encounter in the past: "Yemo is indeed a fat and beautiful place. Just so, there must be many tribes to inhabit."

Sang Yu laughed softly: "Li Kuang led his troops into the western regions and encountered the repeated victories of the coalition forces of various countries. The Han people who were armed together were young and strong. It was unreasonable that those savages could compete."

The center didn't pay much attention to the war in the western regions, that is, Li Kuang's standing army of a division and 50000 armed young men can easily clean up the western region coalition army, and Xie an didn't bother to annihilate the western region coalition army of Bai longdui as soon as he arrived.

The troops going to the western regions fought so smoothly, how can the center pay attention to it? The associated is to produce a kind of self-confidence that "the big man is indeed invincible in the world", and feel that who wants to clean up needs to consider the cost, and there is no need to worry about whether he can win or not.

"Exactly." This time, LV Yi put aside the differences between the north and the south, and chose to echo sang Yu's words: "their people are fugitives, mixed with the Qiang state. Most of them live in scattered nomads. Yemo plain has rich water and grass, so there must be many livestock."

At present, the territory occupied by Tuyuhun is Qing1 sea, which is not only the land with abundant water and grass next to Hetao, but also an extremely suitable place for grazing.

The ethnic group of Murong Xianbei had only a few thousand people when they migrated to the past, but increased to hundreds of thousands in the past few decades. In addition to swallowing some Qiang tribes, their habitat is of high quality and can provide a stable food source, which is one of the factors contributing to the population explosion.

At present, there is no shortage of war horse cultivation bases in the Han Dynasty. If the great plain of the Qing 1 sea was found in the Western Han Dynasty, it would not want to occupy it directly, so there would be no need to shed blood and spend national strength to fight with the Huns to seize the pasture.

In the following dynasties, as long as they knew the existence of the Qinghai 1 great plain, they basically tried their best to control it. No one dared to easily lose this high-quality horse producing land.

"Since Zishen has the same opinion with Yan..." Ji Chang sighed helplessly before continuing: "I'll tell the emperor together."

It's hard to be a housekeeper in the Han Dynasty. There are constant wars all year round, and the production is basically consumed in various wars. Ji Chang, who is 41 years old, should have been a strong man. His temples are already gray. It seems that some people believe it in his fifties.

"Prime minister." Sang Yu still respected Ji Chang. He said softly, "the grassland is barren and can't be obtained. Only the stop loss in the western regions is insufficient, and the wild is good governance."

Does Ji Chang not know that good governance is one more way out for the people? But he had to consider Tuyuhun's reaction and thought that Tuyuhun must raise the strength of the whole country to resist.

In the final analysis, the Han people go to Yemo with the purpose of robbery. It is bound to make Yemo a land of war. It is unreasonable for Tuyuhun people not to resist when they are robbed.

With Tuyuhun's resistance, there was another front in the state of Han. Dispatching the standing army in the past became an inevitable response, and the scarce resources had to be tilted in the past. Can Ji Chang not be helpless?

"A big man is at the height of the sun, and no one can be the edge." LV Yi also comforted Ji Chang: "the prime minister is relieved. Supporting the war with war will only increase income."

Even if Ji Chang has thousands of words, he can only turn into: "I hope so."