I'm The Emperor of All-Heavens

Chapter 594

The capital of the state of Chen.

Wanqiu.

"Grain shortage? There are all kinds of miscellaneous grains everywhere. How can there be such a shortage?"

King Chen looked at Liu Qing in the hall and asked in a puzzled way.

Liu Qing, look at me. I look at you. My eyebrows are wrinkled with sorrow. I can only say in a bitter voice: "king, I have fought for years without production, especially with Cai Guo. I have been fighting since last winter. I missed farming and met with natural disasters. I really can't support it!"

They complain all the time. They will never say that some time ago, because rich businessmen collected miscellaneous grain at high prices, their servants sold a large number of grain and grass. Now they suddenly ran out of grain, so they panicked.

"What about that?"

King Chen spread his hands: "why don't you borrow grain from the state of Chu?"

"Absolutely not!"

Liu Qing said in unison, "king, the state of Chu lent us coarse grain and asked for spiritual grain!"

Chen Guo and Chu Guo have been entangled for a long time.

The state of Chen experienced two times of subjugation and two times of restoration. The second time has a great relationship with the state of Chu. Even the current king of Chu Ping has been king of the state of Chen for five years.

Yes, King Ping of Chu was king of the state of Chen for five years. Later, he returned home and succeeded to the throne and gave up his position. Only then did Chen count as restoring the state of Chu and attached himself to the state of Chu.

After that battle, the state of Chen suffered a great loss of strength and fought against the surrounding countries, including the state of Jiang, in order to plunder wealth and recover losses.

But now, the loss has not been recovered, and there is no food in his family. The state of Chu is willing to borrow food, but the lion opens his mouth.

Cereals are for the people to eat, while spiritual food is for the princes and nobles. If the state of Chu takes the opportunity to exploit, it will touch the interests of the upper class. How can they be willing?

King Chen could see the selfishness of these ministers, and his face sank: "since you refuse to give spiritual food, which state-owned food, don't you hurry to borrow it?"

"Your Majesty, in addition to the three great powers of Jin, Qi and Chu, all the vassal countries are more or less in danger of food shortage, especially Yang and Xu!"

Liu Qing restrained first and then raised: "but from the two countries, we have also found a solution!"

King Chen hurriedly asked, "what can I do?"

Liuqing said, "drive the refugees to the state of Jiang!"

King Chen was stunned: "the kingdom of Jiang? The small country with a fierce war?"

"Your Majesty, just because the state of Jiang won the war a few years ago, Prince Longyang seemed to think that a small place could rise. He invited Kong Qiu of the state of Lu to return home, preached the Confucian way of benevolence and morality, and took advantage of the famine in various countries to accept refugees from all over the world. The two countries of Yang and Xu were going to starve to death, but now they are swarming into the state of Jiang!"

However, King Chen felt a sense of crisis and frowned: "but in this way, the population of state Jiang will increase greatly. If they take this opportunity to increase troops, wouldn't it be a threat to state Chen?"

"Don't worry, king. The refugees are hungry and cold. They're not even as good as ordinary people. It's important to keep fit first and then train. Isn't it a success overnight?"

Liu Qing said with a confident smile, "how long can the state of Jiang keep up with the influx of refugees? I'm afraid there will be no food and grass in a year or two. At that time, we will directly wave our troops to attack, domestic and foreign aggression will be the danger of national subjugation! When the state of Jiang is destroyed and the refugees return, it is equivalent to that they have raised the people for us in vain and passed the difficulties!"

"Reasonable! Reasonable!"

King Chen thought carefully and thought that this was the best way. He nodded and said, "that's it. Confucianism and Taoism will mislead the country. In the future, Kong Qiu and his disciples are not allowed to enter the country of Chen!"

"Yes!"

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"Stop!"

The long grain convoy stopped slowly in front of King Jiang's capital.

"Test!"

At the command of Wenzhong, the officials under his command immediately came forward to inspect the grain. All of them were smart, capable and meticulous.

Today, with the capital city as the center, the state of Jiang is divided into four counties in the southeast and northwest. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured into each county.

This food is for disaster relief.

"Tell Dr. Kong that the labor index of Dongjun has not reached the standard. If the good fields have not been reclaimed within ten days, the next batch of grain and grass will be given priority to those who need them more."

Wen Zhong finished the grain inspection and handed it over to Zilu.

"Yes!"

The road should bow its hands and cheer up.

At first, Kong Qiu gave lectures in the state of Jiang and was appointed a doctor. In fact, he was not optimistic about it.

Jiang Guo is too small and his national strength is too weak. Even if the crown prince has a heart, he will oppose it.

However, Confucius and his disciples soon found that Jiang Guoyuan was far from being as weak as the outside world mistakenly thought. There were a large number of talents and one mind. In addition to being limited by the territory and population and unable to develop vigorously, he actually had all the conditions for his rise.

Therefore, when the crown prince implements Confucian morality, acts as a saint, benevolent monarch and accepts refugees from all directions, the two sides can be said to hit it off immediately.

Of course, refugees do not live in vain, but are given work tasks.

Although the population of Xianwu world is dozens of times that of the secular world, it still appears to be sparsely populated on the vast land.

Jiang is a small country, which must be similar to other countries. In fact, there are large areas of barren land in its country. These refugees reclaim wasteland, build towns and finally settle down.

In fact, Kong Qiu did not agree with this model at the beginning, because work was mandatory. He hoped that the people would feel the benevolence of the emperor and work spontaneously.

However, after Wenzhong's officials singled out many refugees who liked leisure and hated work, and even made trouble, he had nothing to say and made some changes.

Just as Sun Wu has not yet written Sun Tzu's art of war, Confucius and Taoism in kongqiu are constantly improving.

With Dr. Kong's work from morning to night and the busy work of his disciples, the internal affairs ability of Wenzhong has been brought into full play.

Refugees are no longer refugees, but the people of Jiang state. They have cultivated a strong sense of identity and began to take root, marriage and childbirth.

Those with good foundation and strong body were selected to join the army.

Jiang's army is expanding rapidly.

Fifty thousand!

Seventy thousand!

100000!

In just a few years, the population of the state of Jiang tripled and its standing military strength reached 200000.

In contrast, the population of the four neighboring countries has shrunk significantly, and the military strength has also weakened rapidly.

The kings of the four countries couldn't sit still.

They hoped day and night that the grain of the state of Jiang would be eaten up and the benevolent sage would collapse, but the news came back that the army of the state of Jiang had gone to the border.

The palace of the state of Chen.

Boom!

With the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, King Chen shrugged his shoulders and roared hysterically: "before March, the kings of Yang and Xu carried their seals and ribbons, removed their clothes and clothes, and opened the city to surrender. Now the army of state Jiang has also come. It has not been fought in the first World War. Do you want state Chen to die without war?"

Liuqing knelt on the ground, trembling and afraid to move, but heard the noise outside. Someone directly rebelled and spread the news everywhere: "the army of benevolence and righteousness, fall but don't kill, fall but don't kill!"

Wang Chen shook his body and suddenly fell back:

"It's over!"