The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 442 Hanzhong Drought
During the period of Emperor Shun, Hanzhong had a population of 26. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although many natural disasters and wars had occurred, there were still many people from Xiliang flowing in, so the population did not change much.

"Three Kingdoms · Book of Wei" records that Zhang Lu's meritorious Cao Yanpu once advised Zhang Lu: "The people of Hanchuan have hundreds of thousands of households, rich soil and strong dangers on all sides; the emperors of Shangkuang are Huan, Wen , second to Dou Rong, without losing wealth..."

One hundred thousand households requires at least a population of 30, and when Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, the population was less than 100 million.In this era, population is wealth, and population is strength. Therefore, in the original book, after Zhang Lu surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao generously granted Zhang Lu the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households, and Zhang Lu's five sons were all Marquis of Thousand Households.

Before that, Cao Cao granted the largest 1600 households to Cao Zhi. At this time, Zhang Liao had about 2000 households, Xun Yu had 1000 households, and Guo Jiacai had [-] households.

With such a large population, if they can sincerely surrender, it will be a great help, but if they cannot convert, it will also be a hidden danger.In the two years since Cao Cao pacified Hanzhong, he had not completely subdued the people in Hanzhong, so it was not smooth in recruiting soldiers and collecting taxes.

Not long ago, in order to collect food and grass, Xia Houyuan led his troops to plunder the Di tribe in Wudu, which intensified the conflict between the Di people and the Cao army.

Zhang Wu still has an advantage in winning the hearts of the people, because he has a system, and his political attributes can improve the hearts of the people under his rule.Zhang Wu now has 55 political attribute points, which is a bit low. Although the people in Hanzhong cannot welcome Zhang Wu, they can make the people in Hanzhong not resist him.

If you want to further win over the hearts of the people, you need to take some further measures.

There will definitely be small tricks such as appeasing the family, exempting taxes for two years, opening warehouses to relieve disaster victims, etc., but the effect is too slow. It will take at least three years to completely win the hearts of the people and transform the 30 people in Hanzhong into their own strength. .

But Zhang Wuke can't wait, he is already 40 years old now, if he starts to attack Liangzhou in three years, and then he has to fight all the way from Guanzhong, Luoyang, Xudu, Yanzhou, Yejun and other places, even if everything goes well, By the time he rules the world, he may be over 50 years old, and his life will soon be over.

Zhang Wu also wanted to live for a few more years after unifying the world, occupy a few more pieces of land for future generations, eliminate a few hidden dangers for the Han nation, and lay some foundations for China to always lead the development of the world.

Therefore, Zhang Wu decided to take a special measure to speed up the popular support of the Hanzhong people.

The people in Hanzhong are basically believers in the Five Dou Rice Sect, which is also a branch of Taoism. This is both a trouble and an opportunity.

As long as the method is used well, religious believers are better at fooling around than ordinary people, and they support the ruler more than ordinary people.

Hanzhong has a subtropical climate, with a mild and humid climate, neither too hot in summer nor too cold in winter, and abundant in rainfall. It is a natural "cornucopia".

It is said that Hanzhong's climate characteristics generally do not lack rain, but since the beginning of summer this year, Hanzhong has continued to be sunny, hot and high temperature, and the rainfall in most areas is less than in previous years. Drought.And the upper reaches of the Han River are gradually drying up, let alone irrigation of farmland, and even drinking water is becoming a problem.

In fact, even in places with a lot of rain and rivers in the south, droughts are common, especially in the ancient era when irrigation technology and water conservancy technology were underdeveloped.

For example, during the severe drought in the south in 2013, most areas south of the Yangtze River in China experienced a historically rare continuous high temperature and less rainy weather, which lasted for a long time, covered a wide range, and the temperature was abnormally high.The extreme maximum temperature and average temperature of some weather stations in most parts of the south of the Yangtze River and the northern part of South China have exceeded the highest record in the same period of history. The number of hot weather days above 38 degrees in the southern region is the most in the past 50 years, and there have been continuous hot weather exceeding 40 degrees.

The high temperature and low rainfall have led to rapid development of drought in southern China. The 13 southern provinces (cities) such as Hunan, Guizhou, and Chongqing suffered from 9737 million mu of arable land, of which 8903 million mu of crops were affected by drought.

In 2016, the Hanzhong Meteorological Observatory issued an orange drought warning signal: the comprehensive meteorological drought index of Lueyang, Ningqiang, Mianxian, Nanzheng, Hantai, Foping, and Xixiang has reached severe drought.

In the summer of Jian'an 18, Hanzhong also suffered from drought, and many careerists who were pro-Cao took the opportunity to incite people's hearts, spreading rumors that Zhang Wu attacked Hanzhong as a rebellious court, so the sky sent a drought to punish him.

Most of the people in Hanzhong are fanatical religious elements. Once rumors spread and are used by those who are interested, there will be turmoil. The Chu army has just occupied Hanzhong, and the Cao army has not gone far. The key is that the leader of the Five Dou Rice Sect is Zhang Lu Still under Cao Cao's command.

This guy Zhang Lu was relatively close to Cao in history. He once said: "I would rather be a slave of Wei Gong than a guest of Liu Bei." Now Zhang Lu doesn't have a good impression of Zhang Wu, because Zhang Wu once cheated over him.

If the people in Hanzhong were provoked to rebel against Zhang Wu's rule, it would be difficult to deal with it. Zhang Wu has always flaunted benevolence and righteousness to the outside world, so he can't kill all the people in Hanzhong Dao, can he?There are not many people in Hanzhong, and these 30 people are a great fortune.

Zhang Wu ordered people to build a high platform outside Nanzheng City, and then ordered people to post notices everywhere to preach to the families of the common people in Hanzhong. God prays for rain.

This time the whole of Hanzhong was shaken. On the one hand, the drought really brought great disaster to the people of Hanzhong. Because Hanzhong has been fighting for the past two years, and Cao Jun raised taxes, the people’s food in their hands was eaten. Almost there.If it doesn't rain again, the crops in the fields will die from drought, and people will starve to death this year.

On the other hand, the people in Hanzhong are all believers. This magic spell to pray for rain is exactly my Taoist fairy magic. This is a miracle that even their "teacher" Zhang Lu has never performed. If the new Chu Hou Zhangwu was able to successfully ask for rain, that is a fairy-like figure.

So, one spread to ten, ten to hundreds, all the great families in Hanzhong and the people around Nanzheng came to watch, they want to see with their own eyes whether this Zhang Wu is talking big and fooling people, or if he really has this ability.

The civil and military officials under Zhang Wu's command have no doubts about this, because they have seen and experienced it with their own eyes. During the Chibi War, it was their lord who used this fairy-like spell to win the war.

Although there are droughts, there are occasional cloudy days, but no rain falls.

When Zhang Wu waited until the cloudy day, he ordered the altar to be set up, and he began to cast spells to pray for rain in front of the civil and military people.

(End of this chapter)