From Propulsion City To Multiverse

The Hexi Corridor, in the city of Zhangye that was just captured.

Army Major Wu Yaowei is one of the first two large, more than 40,000 civilians who have lost food. At this time, they have been starving for four days. During this period, these people can only eat leaves and weeds, plus some food that they desperately hid. Barely survived until now.

He asked Chief of Staff He Shi: Old He, how did the headquarters reply? Our military rations can only support 1,500 people for half a month. These more than 40,000 people can't even last a day.

He Shi, who was watching the radio station, was also very anxious:

It's coming soon. An airship will arrive in Zhangye in two hours. In addition, Dunhuang has seized a large amount of supplies. I suggest transferring the 5th Battalion to Dunhuang to escort a batch of food and dried meat for emergency.

Two hours later, an airship appeared in the sky south of Zhangye City.

The army, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly guided the airship to land in an open space through the walkie-talkie and the stone signs laid on the ground.

This is a Kunpeng 1 airship.

After the airship landed safely, the rear hatch quickly opened.

Inside are emergency food bundled in sacks, a total of 80 tons.

Wu Yaowei quickly organized manpower to transport the 80 tons of emergency food. After all, the task of the airship is very heavy now. If the things are unloaded earlier, the airship can make more trips.

Liangzhuang, on the north side of Zhangye City, is a temporary resettlement site, and there are 2,000 victims in it. At this time, they have been starved to the point where their limbs are weak and their eyes are staring.

I thought I would eat grass and bark again today, but the preacher in charge of maintaining stability sounded the alarm.

Immediately in the camp,

Many villagers who were temporarily appointed as captains hurried to the gate of the camp office.

The preaching officer smiled and said to everyone: You line up in groups, and then organize the people in your group to come and get the biscuits. After eating enough today, we will start repairing the camp tomorrow.

grunt! A thin middle-aged man with one missing front tooth swallowed his saliva: My lord...do you really have food?

The preaching officer pressed his hand: Okay, don't call me an adult, call me a comrade, there is enough food, and I will be full after the distribution, otherwise I won't have the strength to work tomorrow, and I will beat your ass with a wooden stick.

Ha ha……

Everyone laughed a little dryly, but they didn't believe it in their eyes. After all, they had heard too much nonsense from the government.

For example, when enlisting corvee, the imperial court did stipulate that the young and strong should be fed. The problem is how to implement it.

The preaching officer clapped his hands: Group one, hurry back and bring people over.

Yes, the little one will go right away. An old man in a ragged leather jacket hurriedly nodded and ran back.

Then there are other groups.

The preaching officer and a squad of soldiers quickly set up five large iron pots. All the big iron pots were lowered and had an earthen stove, but there was no firewood at the bottom of the stove, but a metal similar to mosquito coils was placed. The pipe, the metal pipe is sunken, and there is a little distance from the bottom of the pot.

Then the soldiers plugged the wires of the metal pipes into a small box. Inside the small box were an energy storage and an energy converter. The power storage capacity of a single machine was 10,000 kWh.

After the soldiers turned on the power switch, the five metal pipes quickly turned red, and the pre-filtered river water in the iron pot began to emit steam.

Although Li Xiaogong threw dead bodies and the like at water sources everywhere, as long as the water was boiled thoroughly, most of the microorganisms would be killed.

As for other chemical poisons, with the crude and inefficient poisons of ancient times, it is okay to poison water wells, but it is whimsical to want to poison rivers.

When the water boiled, a dozen large water tanks found nearby were filled with hot water, and the pottery bowls were scalded with hot water.

Xuan Zhang, the biscuits are here.

Okay, give it out immediately, two yuan for adults and one yuan for children.

Yes.

People queuing up watched eagerly as the sacks were carried over. Each sack weighed 25 kilograms, and a total of 160 bags were distributed to the Liangzhuang resettlement camp.

Seeing the carrying soldiers leave, many people were disappointed. After all, in their eyes, this sack was worth at most one stone of grain, how could 160 stone of grain be enough to eat.

Two thousand people need to eat at least 1 ton of grain to maintain their needs every day. In their opinion, the grain may not even be able to last for 4 days.

As for being full, it is a fantasy.

Sure enough, the world is as black as crows.

A group of people murmured in their hearts, but at least they had something to eat, and they didn't dare to complain or make trouble, they just queued up quietly.

Old man Liang, who was in the front row, saw the preacher take out two square things from the sack, still wrapped in paper.

Take it, eat one piece at noon and one piece in the evening, don't eat it all at once, or you will easily suffer from indigestion.

Thank you, sir! Old man Liang quickly took it.

Then he received another bowl of warm water, and sat on a ruined wall not far away, waiting for his wife, children and people in the same group.

He is quite clever, knowing that the outside is paper, and after peeling off the wrapping paper, there is a rectangular pastry inside, and the weight is quite a lot, about two taels.

Try taking a bite out of the biscuit.

Um? Old man Liang looked at the biscuit in his hand in disbelief, it turned out to be sweet...

He took another bite, put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully.

so sweet! It's as sweet as the honeycomb I dug when I was a child, how many years ago it was! Old man Liang recalled when he was young and ignorant, he and a few friends secretly went to the forest to dig wild bees.

For a moment, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Yeah! What's wrong with you? His son Liang Fengshou asked quickly with the biscuits and bowls.

Old man Liang, who wiped away his tears, shook his head: It's okay, eat quickly, this is a good thing.

Liang Fengshou hadn't opened the paper package yet, so he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that his father was starving and dizzy, and how much better this pancake could be, it was probably made of wheat bran and rice bran.

Sitting on the stone slab, Liang Fengshou opened the paper package, took a bite of the biscuit, and then looked at the biscuit in his hand with the same expression as Old Liang.

Is this sweet? Turning to look at his father again: Yeah, are these pancakes sweet?

Old man Liang had already gnawed more than half of it, and then took a big mouthful of water: Don't talk nonsense, eat quickly!

Uh uh... Liang Fengshou hurriedly cupped it with both hands, not daring to waste a bit.

For ordinary people in this era, not to mention eating white sugar, even brown sugar can't help it. The only sweet food is the lucky wild honey.

Compressed biscuits are not eaten by dogs in later generations, but in this era, they are simply a luxury.

The compressed biscuits of Rengelian are military supplies. The standard specification is 100 grams. The following taste adjustment ingredients are generally fish floss, water chestnut granules, dried banana granules, and dried mulberry granules.

A compressed biscuit has about 400 calories, and three biscuits are enough to meet a person's life needs for a day.

The people who received the compressed biscuits, from disapproval at the beginning to devouring them hungrily, many of them almost choked. Fortunately, warm water was prepared for them.

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And children who have never eaten candy will eat a whole piece of compressed biscuit with their greedy mouths.

It is the adult people who are worried about the food supply in the camp and are reluctant to eat a second compressed biscuit.

In fact, their worries are completely unnecessary. There are 4 tons of compressed biscuits, a total of 40,000 pieces. Even if each person eats 3 compressed biscuits per day, these compressed biscuits are enough to last for 7 days.

On the Dunhuang side to the west of Zhangye City, thanks to the air force's recapture of a large amount of food, plus the quickly pickled horse meat, donkey meat, beef and mutton, it is enough for the population of more than 300,000 people in the Hexi Corridor for a period of time.

After the difficulties in the early stage are over, the food from North China and Jiangnan will continue to flow into Guanzhong, Bashu, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hexi.

In particular, the Guanzhong Plain was opened up quickly, and the grain transported from Luoyang could arrive in less than a week.

At that time, the Air Force's airship will be free to transport food to the remote Hexi.

As for the compressed biscuits, they are only for emergency use, and they are not suitable for long-term consumption.

Although the people like to eat it very much, it is because they have not eaten much sweets in their lives.

In Jiangnan where supplies are relatively abundant, although some people buy compressed biscuits, many of them buy compressed biscuits to satisfy their hunger because they have to work in the field and want convenience.

the next morning.

The camp began to distribute compressed biscuits again, and then let the people eat them.

The preaching officer quickly organized more than 1,300 young men and began to repair the camp. This was originally a village with a population of more than 300, but some houses were set on fire by the Tang army, and many stones and wood remained.

The top priority now is to provide everyone with a shelter from the wind and rain. Although it rarely rains in the Hexi Corridor in later generations, it is not the same now.

Affected by the fact that the zero-degree isotherm was closer to high latitudes, and the vegetation in the north had not been extensively damaged at this time, the annual precipitation in the Hexi Corridor was 50-80% higher than that of later generations.

In case of sudden heavy rains and strong winds, people without shelter can easily die from hypothermia.

In fact, the Hexi Corridor in this era has not completely declined, but the ecology is also not optimistic.

Although there are nearly 30 million mu of arable land, the problem is that only 30% of it is close to the river, and the rest depends on the weather for food and iceberg melt water for irrigation.

According to the distribution of 20 mu of land per capita in the north, 500,000 agricultural population will be allocated here.

However, during the Sui Dynasty, the population of the Hexi Corridor reached millions, which obviously reached the limit of the land.

Now after the war and chaos, and Li Tang's emigration, there are only about 300,000 people left here.

It seems that there is more land that can be redistributed, but the ecology of the Hexi Corridor is already in a precarious state.

The arid and low temperature climate here, coupled with the poor soil, requires at least 30 mu of arable land per capita to ensure that the living standards of farmers can catch up with those in the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, in order to protect the precarious ecology here, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environmental Protection are already evaluating the carrying scale of the agricultural population in the Hexi Corridor.

It is estimated that the area of ​​cultivated land in the entire Hexi Corridor will not exceed 3 million mu in the end, and only about 100,000 people will obtain cultivated land.

In addition, the remaining land, in addition to the undeveloped desert, also has woodland and grassland in the Qilian Mountains and other mountains.

Excavate the desert Gobi Desert, remove some difficult-to-develop mountain ranges, and at the same time draw out the grasslands close to the desert.

In the end, only about 3 million mu of arable land and 120 million mu of grassland remained in the entire Hexi Corridor.

Cultivated land can be allocated to farmers, but grassland cannot be allocated casually, and herdsmen in this era have a large proportion of goats among their livestock.

Goats have a very bad habit of digging roots. They not only eat grass, but also dig grass roots. Once the pasture is allocated to the herdsmen, the herdsmen may raise goats on a large scale for economic benefits, and the fixed pastures are simply not sustainable. plague the goats.

Moreover, Zheng Sen didn't want the herdsmen to disperse freely, which would easily form new nomadic tribes.

It is best to enclose these pastures in the model of a pasture company, and then build some large pastures to attract these herdsmen into the company.

Anyway, many herdsmen are actually slaves of tribal nobles. It would not be a good idea to let them herd independently all of a sudden.

The Hexi Corridor can be roughly divided into 24 pastoral areas, each with 5 million mu of grassland. These pastoral areas are not grazing, but intend to adopt captive breeding and large-scale mechanized production.

Large-scale production of forage is achieved through chemical fertilizers, selection of fine-grained forage, spraying water trucks, forage harvesters, and silage technology.

Let the Hexi Corridor become an area with mechanized animal husbandry as the core instead of farming and nomadic, otherwise the ecology here will have big problems sooner or later.

Including the area of ​​the Loess High Slope, except for the Hetao Plain, other places are not suitable for farming, only plantations and large pastures are suitable there.

If it is forced to be used as farmland, the consequence is that the more reclamation, the more serious the soil erosion, and then enter a vicious circle.

In later generations, the high slopes of the loess became thousands of ravines, and then the land became more and more barren. If it was not determined to return the farmland to forests, the sediment of the Yellow River would not be reduced.

Previously, Tang Feilin planned to convert farmland to forests and grasslands on the entire loess high slope, and turn that area into forest farms, orchards, and pastures, and become the northern barrier of the Guanzhong Plain.

Only when the Hexi Corridor, Loess High Slope, Hetao Plain, and Monan Grassland are properly planned, can the Guanzhong Plain be turned into a land of abundance again.

Otherwise, once the zero-degree isotherm retreats south again, the Guanzhong Plain will soon decline.

With the help of refugees from all over the country, Zheng Sen quickly transferred Tang Feilin to Guanzhong to preside over civil affairs work, launched large-scale infrastructure projects, and used work-for-relief to stabilize refugees.

At the same time, Bai Yulou also mobilized the army from various places, together with a part of the air force, to carry out a large-scale suppression of the resistance forces and bandits entrenched in the dangerous mountains and forests.

In fact, this is also a routine plan of the Human Revolutionary Federation. After occupying an area, there are 4 things that must be done, namely, security for the people, suppression of bandits, infrastructure construction, and liquidation.

As long as these 4 things are completed, the area will basically be completely controlled by the Human Revolutionary League.

The common people were skeptical at the beginning, and then with sufficient food and a fair and friendly environment, they quickly supported the RPLU.

Even if the Tang army can defeat the army of the People's Revolutionary League at this time, it is estimated that they will be resisted by the people.

After all, what the two did was completely different.

In the past few years, Li Tang has never stopped expropriating grain and young men for fighting.

Even in the timeline when there was no Human Revolutionary League, after Li Tang occupied Guanzhong, it was not all smooth sailing. Many peasant uprisings broke out in various places in Guanzhong during the Wude period, but they were all suppressed by force.

After all, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and even afterwards, the term Min, most of the time, refers to village sages rather than clay legs.

In the eyes of many rulers, mud legs are not human beings at all, but production tools, cannon fodder, and private property.

Ordinary people still have a steelyard in their hearts, at least whoever treats them well and who treats them badly will always be remembered in their hearts.

Many people may think that Li Xiaogong's behavior of beggar for the people would be condemned by feudal literati.

In fact, he will not, and even he will be portrayed as a hero. Under the Spring and Autumn style of feudal literati, it will only be recorded like this:

In the third year of Wude, in June, the Kun bandits invaded Guanlong, Bashu, and Jin lands. Xiaogong, king of Zhao County, guarded Chang'an alone. The city of Chang'an was destroyed, Xiaogong died for the country, and the Kun bandits slaughtered the people in Guanzhong wantonly, leaving ten rooms and nine empty houses.

If the People's Revolutionary League is finally turned down by Li Tang's counterattack, then this is the record of Tang history.

The reality is so cruel.

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