Xunzhou has fertile land and a large area, but its actual population is not very large. Apart from Xunyang City, there are basically no people.

There are few people, so there is naturally not much cultivated land. Except for some particularly fertile land near Xunyang City that has been cultivated, there are basically wastelands in other places and no one goes to cultivate them.

As for the reason, it is very simple. Only the fool came to clear the land without planting it.

The government said that whoever cultivated the property was determined, and there was also a tax reduction policy, but this was only said by the government, not by the local powerful families.

These things are not nodding, and the government will not count if it says it.

So when you have fought your life and finally reclaimed the wasteland and even a crop of grain has not been seized, the land will inexplicably be owned by the powerful families.

Not only did the previous efforts be wasted, but the time and money spent on destruction were not recovered.

How can ordinary people withstand such trouble? Basically, after this trouble, the pioneer will sell himself to a family and turn from being free to becoming a tenant of others.

This is because Mo Zizai's father abolished his lowliness, otherwise he would not even be a tenant, and he would be a servant at most.

Therefore, except for some people who can't survive, most of the people who can come to Xunzhou are renovating land.

However, those aristocratic families were not a good thing for the imperial court.

Because the arable land they reclaimed was at most one acre of acre of land to the court, and the most excessive thing was that this acre was that the court had to exempt them from tax for three years and reduce their taxes by half for five years according to regulations.

After a while, the people still had no land to plant, the court still had no money to harvest, and the wealthy people in the middle were these powerful families, as well as corrupt officials and clerks who colluded with them.

Therefore, although Xunzhou was defeated by the Great Zhou more than 20 years ago, in fact, except for Xunyang City, other places are still a wasteland.

And this is also the reason why Zhenyuan Hou was so decisive before.

Because the cities he gave up were farther from the Great Zhou and fewer people, he only needed to move the people in the city, and then once the army retreated, only empty cities were left for the Three Kingdoms.

After confirming that Mo Zizai really wanted to exchange Xunzhou for food, Tang Weiyi was silent for a moment and carefully measured the pros and cons of this matter in her heart. After a while, she spoke: "Only we know about the natural disasters now. The Three Kingdoms don't care much about food. If they can use Xunzhou to exchange some food for some food when they don't know it, it would be a good idea."

According to Mo Zizai's calculations, once the Little Ice Age enters, natural disasters will occur frequently, and the grain that can be produced at that time may not even be able to support half of the current population.

By then, the things like "great famine, people eat each other" recorded in historical books will no longer be recorded in historical books, but will actually happen in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In order to deal with this situation, the best way is to store a large amount of food, the more you store, the better. It is best to be able to cope with this disaster in the past.

But grain did not appear out of thin air, and the total amount of grain that the Great Zhou could produce was also limited, so Mo Zi instantly thought of the three "good neighbors" in the East that wanted to visit.

The Three Kingdoms fought in the eastern border of the Great Zhou for three years, and all the sixteen prefectures of Youji were taken back by them except Xunzhou and Fanyang. But in fact, they did not gain any substantial benefits except expanding their territory.

When Zhenyuan Hou retreated, not to mention humans, he didn't even leave a dog for them, let alone money or anything else.

So the Three Kingdoms are actually very uncomfortable now. They have not gained the benefits, so they thought of eating up all the two cities in Xunzhou and Fanyang. Then, if the Great Zhou Dynasty has lost its strong city, they can defend it, so they can drive in at will.

At that time, whether they directly destroy the Great Zhou or capture some territory of the Great Zhou, they will be able to make a profit.

However, when they hit this penultimate city, they were a little timid.

Because Zhenyuan Hou was so vicious, since he started defending the city, he had been aware of a country to fight, and the unlucky country he recognized was Zheng State.

Whenever Zheng State attacked the city, Zhenyuan Hou would directly mobilize all the elite troops to fight to the death with Zheng State, and all kinds of weapons were smashed on the head of Zheng State's army as if they were not worth the money.

After several battles, more than half of the 100,000 troops of Zheng State who were deliberately targeted were directly injured and killed. Therefore, the commander of Zheng State knew that this was the open conspiracy of Zhenyuan Hou, he gave up.

If the battle continues, the Zheng army will be gone. Even if the Great Zhou can be conquered, it will have nothing to do with their Zheng State. Even after the Great Zhou is destroyed, it will be impossible for Lu and Wei to swallow their Zheng State backhand.

Therefore, the commander of Zheng State was beaten to death on the grounds that he had suffered too much casualties and refused to send troops. Even if he had to go up to attack the city, he would go through a formality. Every time he retreated the army before he could get close to the city wall.

Zheng State is so perfunctory that although Lu and Wei have opinions, they have no choice but to do anything. After all, Zheng State has already fought half of its army. If they force people to go up and send it, Zheng State may have to withdraw from the Three Kingdoms Alliance directly.

Therefore, there were only two cities left, but the Three Kingdoms could not be defeated.

But at this time, the Great Zhou was empty and internal strife frequently broke out. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Three Kingdoms, which had been suppressed and beaten, so they were definitely unwilling to give up the attack.

But the Three Kingdoms Alliance was unhappy, and no one dared to risk huge losses to get up and eat Xunyang City, so the war fell into a stalemate for a while.

Mo Zizai's idea now is to give up the Xunzhou City that they could not chew, in exchange for a large amount of food to deal with the possible famine in the future.

"But there are still some problems here."

After Tang Weiyi sorted out her thoughts, she began to ask her own questions, "First of all, if the Three Kingdoms are willing to 'buy' Xunyang City, it must be to directly defeat Fanyang."

"If Xunyang gave up and there was only one Fanyang City left, they would definitely not be as stingy as they are now, and they would definitely conquer Fanyang City at any cost."

"So, if you want to 'sell' Xunyang, you must have the ability to keep Fanyang, otherwise it will be a big trouble."

"This is OK." Mo Zizai nodded and said, "Even if he wants to abandon Xunyang, it will be next year. By then, with Yuzhishi there, it should be nothing to block the Three Kingdoms coalition."

"Well, will next year?"

Tang Weiyi thought in her mind that it was July now, and by next year it would be at least five months. With Mo Zizai's accelerator capability, five months were enough to initially cultivate Yuzhiji, so Tang Weiyi nodded, "If it is next year, there is really no problem in defending Fanyang City."

"But besides these, there is another most critical issue."
Chapter completed!