“What, there is not enough food?”

Yang Feng shouted exaggeratedly.

The trouble he remembered was that the food supply caused by the cessation of sea transportation after the beginning of winter was stopped. Modern Qinhuangdao was indeed not frozen, but it was definitely not in this small ice age. In fact, the Bohai Sea was not just as simple as freezing, but it could be blocked Juehua Island to land. It is conceivable how cold the winter here is. And even if it can be navigated, as the wind direction changes, the southeast wind stops, and sea transportation becomes very difficult. At this time, the ship relies entirely on the wind, and it is better to go from north to south of the Yangtze River to south to south of the Shandong Peninsula. If you pass the Shandong Peninsula and go to Qinhuangdao, you can sail with the northwest wind in winter. In fact, the traffic volume has begun to drop significantly.

What's more, even the fishery has to stop after the sea is frozen.

During this period, those stingers fished but served almost a quarter of the food demand.

“It’s not enough.”

Li Yutian said frankly.

He himself serves as the Minister of Revenue, and is mainly responsible for logistics supply. It is his main responsibility to ensure food security in the industry.

“Isn’t this year a big harvest?”

Yang Feng asked in confusion.

"This year, the immortal seeds that rely on the gift of Taizu have indeed had a great harvest, but Your Majesty, don't forget how many people you transported from the south this year? And how many people from Dengzhou and from the mountains are there? No matter how good the harvest is, it cannot withstand the population soaring at such a speed! What's more, most of these people have no food at all. They all have to rely on government relief, and you also strictly prohibit starving people to death and have to let people eat enough. How much food will they consume on this day! The grain supply in Jiangnan is limited, and you also know that the area controlled by the King of Tang is actually shrinking day by day, just to keep it from being too small.

In fact, no one in Jiangbei, which was under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, has handed over food to Nanjing. Hu, Guangxi and Guizhou have been damaged by wars. Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Yunnan are seriously lacking in food. What they can rely on is Zhejiang, Jiangxi and a small half of Nanzhili. They can barely maintain it. In this case, it is difficult to provide too much. At least I don’t have much stockpiled here. Even if we have what we have harvested here, it is definitely not enough to support the current population of more than one million in Hebei and Liaoxi. Or may Your Majesty ask Taizu to reward them again?"

Li Yutian said.

"We can't just rely on Taizu, we must solve the problem ourselves."

Yang Fengyi said righteously.

"Then I can only go out and grab it."

Shoushou Li said frankly.

"Where to grab it?"

Yang Feng asked.

"It's very simple. It's probably difficult to attack Zhili and attack Beijing, but there should be no problem in attacking Tianjin. The mobs under Yuan Yuzong probably ran away with the blooming bullets. The Tartars were transporting grain from various places in the south through the canal. Let's grab them first."

Li Yutian said.

"But in this case, Dorgon would not have enough food and he would have to plunder the people of Zhili. Forget it, the people of Zhili were hungry and cold, so we would probably starve to death if we were tormented like this!"

Yang Feng said.

If he robbed Dorgon of all his food, the latter would definitely have to strengthen the plunder of the occupied areas to fill the mouths of Beijing. Originally, Beijing was supported by the Jiangnan canal transportation, but now the Jiangnan canal transportation is gone. Tens of thousands of Eight Banners and Mongolian vassals, more than 100,000 green camps, and countless Beijing bureaucrats and their families should use to support it? Dorgon could only strengthen the plunder of Zhili and Shandong. These two places were not wealthy at all. He plundered everything that could be plundered. If it was robbed by the Ming army, he would definitely have to continue plundering. Of course, those gentry would not be hungry, but ordinary people would probably be indispensable.

"That would be difficult."

Shoufu Li said.

"What if you attack Liaodong?"

He continued.

He means we will grab the Northeast Manchu Qing Dynasty controlled area.

"Let's wait!"

Yang Feng said.

It’s not that he has no ability to attack east of the Liaohe River. As long as Guangning takes it down west of the Liaohe River, there will be no Qing army.

But the problem is the consequences of doing so.

This will cause the Ming army to suffer huge casualties. He didn't want to be trapped in Guangning. It is very easy to break through the city wall of Guangning, but the street fighting after the breakthrough is very troublesome. The Qing army and the bannermen will definitely resist and would rather die than surrender. Anyway, they will be dead if they surrender. Not to mention it, it is not difficult for the tens of thousands of bannermen in Guangning to cause 10,000 or 20,000 casualties to the Ming army in the street fighting. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is not as good as that of the Qing army, and there are more than 10,000 main forces of the Qing army there.

In street fighting, whether it is his own combat power or the Ming army's flower bullets, the effects it can have are limited.

But this is something that the Ming army could not bear.

After all, the total strength of the Ming army is only 140,000.

That's why he besieged.

The people in the city were starved to death by siege. According to the observations of this period, the defenders inside had already started to eat people. Anyway, there were a large number of Korean slaves in the city, and the Qing army had no psychological burden to eat them. Of course, they had no psychological burden to eat their own people. But in the end, there were fewer and fewer people. After a period of siege, they would be at the end of the way. At that time, there would be no need to worry about too many casualties when launching a final attack. This is Guangning. Once it crosses the Liaohe River and attacks the core area of ​​the Qing Dynasty east of the Liaohe River, it would definitely be a resistance from the whole people.

That's a big pit.

Yang Feng doesn't think that the Ming army is enough to fill this big pit at the moment.

"If that happens, I have to steal someone else."

Li Yutian said.

Speaking of which, Shoufu Li is now becoming more and more like his fellow villager, and the way to solve problems is always so simple and crude.

“Where else to grab?”

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? There is a group of people behind Yiwulu Mountain."

Li Yutian said.

Yang Feng's eyes lit up immediately.

"I sent an order to support the evildoer, and he helped the evildoer to conspire with the Tartars to attack the enemy. My generals and generals personally attacked him, and had nothing to do with other divisions. If there were any conspirators with the Korqin tribe to rebel, General Yi, General Tianshang, and others would be sent to Lulong to find the Marquis of Pingxi and ask him to transfer 3,000 elite cavalry to come over. This autumn is high and fat, but it is a good season for the grass valley to be destroyed!"

His Majesty the Emperor said with a grin.

He almost forgot about the troops in the southern part of the Mo River. Among the troops that Dorgon entered the pass, there were also a large number of Mongolian princes, including Da Yuer's fourth brother Manzhu Xili. In addition, with the later reinforcements, at least 40,000 Mongolian troops are currently fighting in the pass. It can be said that the young and middle-aged people are almost plundering them, and the rest are all a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people who are staying behind. Although Jierharang repeatedly requested that Korqin, Kharkha, Tumote, Kalaqin and other troops did not send troops to lift the siege of Guangning.

In fact, these bastards hope that Guangning will be taken down by the Ming army.

They were dependent on the Qing Dynasty, not that they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Lin Dankhan had only been dead for ten years. They also did not like Guangning in the hands of the Qing army. One of the important functions of this city was to suppress the troops in the south of the desert. The Ming army seized Guangning, which was no threat to the troops in the south of the desert, because the Ming army could not have time to take care of them, but this city was not a good thing for them in the hands of the Qing army.

But this does not prevent His Majesty from raiding the house.

Especially the hometown of Da Yuer.

Those herders have nothing else, but there are cattle, sheep, livestock. Isn’t it that the Ming Dynasty has insufficient food?

Then let’s eat meat instead!

House search!

Extinguish the family!

Stealing a woman!

Stealing animals!

Emperor Yang instantly felt that his life was full of happiness.

Then his imperial edict was sent to Wu Sangui of Lulong. Governor Wu of course agreed that the young and strong Korqin tribes were all following Dorgon in the pass. Those who stayed behind in his hometown were nothing more than the old, weak, sick and disabled. With the emperor in charge, that was just like cutting melons and vegetables. What did the soldiers like to do most these days? Isn’t it just going out to hunt grass valley? Soon he sent his three thousand slaves to Shanhaiguan, and the emperor personally led the north to return to Guangning. He added two thousand cavalry there, as well as the Jinyiwei cavalry, a total of 5,500 cavalrymen, and rushed towards the Korqin tribe north of Guangning with a fierce momentum.

Then Da Yu'er's relatives were in trouble.

"Burn all, kill them all, grab them all!"

On the grassland of the Korqin Left Wing Front Banner, Hu Shouliang, who had just been promoted to general, waved his Yanling sword and shouted excitedly.

The huge torrent of cavalry in front of him drowns the resistance of hundreds of Korqin cavalry like a tsunami, and then tramples these most loyal subjects of the Qing Dynasty under the horse's hooves, and then submerges the small camp behind them with a majestic aura, knocking them over and chopping them down in the horror of the Korqin people. By the way, someone picks up the woman he likes, and straits in front of the saddle with a smug laugh. As for what he snatches, it's not worth it.

General Hu carefully peeked at His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor...

His Majesty the Emperor is looking into the distance.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, it seemed as if the boundless Korqin grassland was spreading, a silver river flowed slowly, and countless cattle and sheep by the river were leisurely gnawing on the golden grass. The breeze on his face was filled with the green fragrance from the Greater Xing'an Mountains. At this moment, His Majesty the Emperor even had an intoxicating expression on his face. He was probably pursuing his poems and distances there!

General Hu was relieved.

After all, this emperor is really a caring person in the army. This is the real lord and wise monarch!
Chapter completed!