Huang Chao caused a bloody storm in Chang'an, and the sky was about to step on the bones of the ministers.

However, after the killing of the people, life still has to continue. Zhao Zhang, the minister and the secretary of the army, entered the palace and reported to the report: "Only one city in Chang'an, I expect that I will need 6 million stones of food a year. Just supplying Chang'an soldiers alone will require at least 3 million stones, and there are also family members of the army and the people in Chang'an city. Now there are less than 500,000 stones in the warehouse, which can last for up to one month."

Huang Chao frowned, "Searched Chang'an, can you only get this little food?"

Zhao Zhang lowered his head and said nothing. In fact, no matter how empty Chang'an City is, it is impossible for him to have no food. The Qi army soldiers searched and snatched the city for a few months, and the food they found must have been two or three million stones. But in fact, most of the food they snatched was secretly hidden by the soldiers. Most of the food they took out were silk, gold, silver and copper coins, but only a little bit of it was taken out.

"What good strategy do you have to solve?" Huang Chao was not ignorant of this, but although the generals of the Qi army were all his ministers, they all held heavy troops. Even if Huang Chao knew about some things, he would have no choice.

"There is no other way to do this now. We can ask the generals of each army to lead troops out to hunt grass valleys and collect food and grass. The heavy troops gathered in Chang'an were sent to each prefecture and county, one to let them separate prefecture and county, and the other to let them eat the local area and solve the food and grass problems themselves."

"Feable." Huang Chao nodded. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Chang'an, and eating was a huge problem. It would be better to leave his elite troops in Chang'an and send other troops to various prefectures and counties, so that they can take the opportunity to expand their territory, and secondly, they can also solve the food problems in various places.

"Also, the people of Chang'an should let them make their own way, and the court will no longer pull out grain." Zhao Zhang said again.

Huang Chao hesitated for a moment. At present, only Qi Jun had food in Chang'an. If the Qi Jun no longer sold grain and relief grain to the people, then the remaining hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an would probably have to run away. But if you think about it carefully, Qi Jun has no food to eat now, so he has no control over these people, so he nodded and agreed.

Zhao Zhang thought about it and continued: "Another, use gold, silver, money and silk to buy grain from the surrounding vassal states."

"At this time, food is the most expensive, who is willing to sell our food? Besides, even if it is sold, it must be extremely expensive and we don't have much money." In the war years, food is life. This is also one of the important reasons why Li Jing gave the emperor food and money every year, and the emperor favored Li Jing so much. In just a few years, he continued to be promoted to Li Jing. Li Jing was a good player in war and governing the people, but if he hadn't been providing the emperor with a large handful of money and grain, how could he be like today?

Huang Chao occupied Luoyang and Chang'an. He did get a lot of money, but most of them were distributed to his soldiers. Now, the grain prices in Guanzhong and Henan have already risen to tens of thousands of dollars in rice. And often even if you have money, there is no place to buy it, and there is no price.

"Although money and silk are heavy, they are not as useful as food at the moment. No matter how expensive the food is, you can buy it as long as someone sells it. If your Majesty is worried about insufficient money and silk, I have a plan to solve it."

"explain!"

"Have you heard that Cao Cao had conquered the world at the end of the Han Dynasty and had set up the second position of General of the Faqiu, and the second position of Jin Zhengwei?" Zhao Zhang said with a smile.

"Digging the grave?" Huang Chao was a little surprised. No matter what, digging a grave was a bit inauthentic trick. Although Huang Chao had been a salt vendor and a rebel, he was now the lord of a country. When digging a grave, he felt a little lost in his identity.

Zhao Zhang said to the side, "Your Majesty, Wei Wu is also a hero of his generation, but he has not done this."

Huang Chao thought for a long time, and finally nodded: "Okay. But since you want to dig, then dig a big one. Aren't the people in Chang'an City idle? Take them all to dig the tombs. I see, let's just dig the Qianling Mausoleum in Fengtian first. All the other royal tombs in Li's room were also dug. In addition, aren't the famous families in Guanzhong unwilling to serve as an official? Well, just dig all the ancestral tombs of those people."

Qianling is a super tomb, and it is also the only tomb in history where two emperors were buried together. The ones buried here were Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian. Zhao Zhang did not expect that Huang Chao was hesitating just now, but now he didn't make a sound. Not only did he agree to dig the tomb to get gold, but he actually wanted to dig the imperial tomb. Digging the imperial tombs is not counted, but he also had to dig the largest one first, and even the ancestral tombs of famous families, high-ranking families and wealthy businessmen in Guanzhong did not let go of any of them.

Ruthless, indeed ruthless!

Killing people is just a ruthless and extraordinary person, so how can you dig up people’s ancestral graves?

"Well, just send someone to join the vassal states of our Great Qi and let them transport food to Chang'an. Since they are already my ministers, the emperor has something to do, how can the ministers sit and watch!" Huang Chao was unhappy when he thought of those vassal states called "Submission", but in fact he was still holding troops to watch, and his attitude was unstable. If it weren't for the fact that the matter had reached this point, Huang Chao wouldn't have planned to send people to ask for food, but now he can't take care of so many.

On that day, dozens of cavalry and Qi envoys from Chang'an City rushed out of the city and rushed to the towns.

Fengxiang was established in Qizhou in the early Tang Dynasty, and in the first year of Tianbao, it was changed to Fufeng County. In the second year of Zhide, Emperor Suzong was lucky to visit Fufeng County, and in the same year he recovered Chang'an and Luoyang. In December, Fengxiang Prefecture was established, called Xijing, and was collectively called Wujing, along with Chengdu, Jingzhao, Henan and Taiyuan. The Tang system, the place where the emperor stationed was generally renamed as the prefecture, which was one level higher than the prefecture.

In the early De Dynasty, the Xingping Jiedushi was established, and in the early Kangtai period, the Fengxiang Jiedushi was renamed. It belonged to Guannei Road, and was under the jurisdiction of Fengxiang County, and was located in the west of Chang'an. It was also known as the Jiedushi in Jingxi.

Among the towns in Guanzhong, Fengxiang Town has an extremely important position. Not only is the Xijing of Tang Wujing, but it also guards the west of the Jing. In addition, Fengxiang Town also controlled the important gateway southwest of Chang'an, Wuguan. However, not long after, the court divided Jin and Shang prefectures established the Jin Shang Jiedushi to control Wuguan and protect the southwest of Chang'an. The Fengxiang Jiedushi was established in Qi and Long prefectures to protect the west of the Jingdushi. The Qin, He and Wei prefectures were also established in the Tianxiong Army Jiedushi.

Although the territory of Fengxiang Army was divided into three towns, Fengxiang Town, which was close to the west of Chang'an, was still very important.

Fengxiang Town is currently the governor of the army, Zheng Qing, a former prime minister, and a loyal minister who is loyal to Li Tang.

Zheng Qi, whose courtesy name was Taiwen, was born in the Zheng family of Xingyang, and was born in a famous family. His great-grandfather and grandfather both passed the imperial examination. His father Zheng Ya was well-known for his talent and knowledge. He was highly valued by Li Deyu, a famous minister of the late Tang Dynasty, and was regarded as his confidant. Zheng Qi himself was known in history as "beautiful style and charming like jade". He was a beautiful man with outstanding talents and talent than his father. During the Huichang period of Wuzong, it was the golden age when Li Deyu dominated the political arena. Zheng Qi, who was only 18 years old, won the title of Jinshi. He set a record of the youngest Jinshi in the Li Tang Dynasty. He was successful in his youth and had a bright future!

However, the good times did not last long. With the death of Emperor Wuzong, Li Deyu lost power. Zheng Ya and Zheng Qiong were listed as Li Deyu's party by Bai Min, the upstart of Xuanzong Dynasty, and Linghu Xun and others, so they were naturally unlucky. So Zheng Ya was demoted to Xunzhou. Zheng Qiong went to the local area to sit on the bench for more than 20 years. When he arrived at the Yizong Dynasty, he was attracted by his direct minister Liu Zhan and transferred to the central government again. However, he was soon convicted because Liu Zhan bluntly stated that he was implicated and demoted to the distant governor of Wuzhou.

When Emperor Xizong ascended the throne, Zheng Ting, who was already fifty-one years old, was finally transferred to the court and first became the Minister of War. Then he was promoted to the Minister of Personnel, and was appointed as the Minister of Tongpingzhang, and became the Prime Minister.

However, it was not entirely his talent that Zheng Qi was able to become a prime minister. He was able to recover because he had an important ally in the palace, that is, Ximen Sigong, the lieutenant of the right army of Shence, who was the second largest eunuch in the Qianfu court after Tian Lingzi. Ximen Sigong and Zheng Qi had a very good relationship with each other. Zheng Qi and Ximen Sigong were like fathers and sons and called him uncles.

However, although he, like his cousin Lu Xie, relied on the eunuchs in the palace to eventually become prime ministers, only one was Tian Lingzi and the other was Ximen Sigong. Tian Lingzi and Ximen Sigong were eunuchs No. 1 and two in the palace, and Lu Xie and Zheng Ting became the top two prime ministers. Moreover, like the two eunuchs, the two cousins ​​have always been rivals in the officialdom.

However, in the end, Zheng Ting and Lu Xie were dismissed from prime minister at the same time, but Lu Xie's backstage Tian Lingzi became even stronger, so he later returned to prime minister, but Zheng Ting was demoted to Fengxiang and became the governor of Fengxiang.

Now, Lu Xie has become the culprit of Tian Lingzi's responsibility for the Huang Chao rebellion. Finally, when Huang Chao entered Chang'an, he committed suicide at home. However, Zheng Qing was guarding Fengxiang.

However, no matter how Zheng Ting became a prime minister, he could definitely be regarded as an unyielding loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty. Whether he was in the height of the temple or in the distance of the world, he had been doing his best.

After being demoted to Fengxiang Town, Zheng Qiong not only managed Fengxiang Town in an orderly manner in a very short period of time, but also strengthened military affairs and worked hard to train troops to save the country in case of difficulties. When Luoyang was lost, he took the initiative to ask for troops to help the king. In order to inspire morale, he rewarded the army with his family wealth and asked his wife to personally sew military uniforms for the soldiers.

Unfortunately, in the end, Chang'an was still lost, and the emperor still followed Tian Lingzi to hunt west.

After the emperor went west, Zheng Ting summoned the generals to discuss matters, hoping to lead the army to attack the rebels and recover the two capitals.

However, when Fengxiang's army saw that the emperor had run away, who would be willing to counterattack Chang'an?

The marching Sima Li Changyan said straightforwardly: "Now the thief is in full swing, we are not going to stand up hard. It is best to wait until the other vassal states send troops and the army of kings gathers together, and then discuss the plan to recapture the two capitals in detail."

Li Changyan is the Sima of the Fengxiang Army and the head of the Fengxiang Army with the most prestigious army. His words represent the opinions of most Fengxiang generals.

After hearing this, Zheng Ting felt sad and was so angry that he fainted.

As a result, just as he was recuperating, Li Changyan and the military commander Yuan Jinrou met Huang Chao's envoy, accepted Huang Chao's reward, and led the Fengxiang army to join Huang Chao. Zheng Ting was just a little bit, and he couldn't help but vomited blood several times when he heard the news, and his condition worsened.

However, Li Changyan and others are not simple. Although they agreed to surrender to Huang Chao, they were actually just verbally agreed. In fact, for several months, Fengxiang Town has remained the same, and even the banner has not changed. It is obvious that Li Changyan and Fengxiang generals did not really surrender, but they did not want to anger and offend Huang Chao, so they just swayed on both sides of the wall. Even Zheng Ting, who would never surrender, was still living in the Commander's Mansion to recuperate, and no one disturbed him.

After several months of rest, Zheng Ting finally recovered a little. But his spirit was still not good. He cried to his wife and said, "The world is in chaos, and the treacherous heroes are rising. There are vassals and tyrannical powers inside. Now there are traitors and rebellions. The emperor is forced to hunt westwards, and the two capitals of Chang'an of Luoyang and Chang'an are falling. I am a minister of the Tang Dynasty. I cannot safeguard the country and protect the people. I am ashamed of the world and have no face to meet my ancestors after my death!"

Mrs. Zheng said: "All the ministers and soldiers in the world are all worthy of Tang, but no one can save the country?"

Zheng Ting sighed, "Today, there is only one person who can turn the tide after it has fallen and support the building to fall."

"Who can take this big task?"

"Of course, it is the Great Marshal of the World, who is the Great Marshal of the World, who is the commander of the world, and is the Minister of the State Councilor of the World, and is the Great Commander of the Northeast Daxingtai Shangshu Ling, the King of Qin Li Jing!" Zheng Ting said with complexity in his voice.

Before he finished speaking, a man suddenly came out and said, "Old Zheng ordered Gong to rest assured, and I would like to bring good news to Gong Ling." Zheng Ting looked at him, but found that he was the gentleman who had followed him for many years. He couldn't help but say, "What's the good news?"

The staff member took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it forward, "Please read this letter first and you will know it clearly."

Zheng Ting took the letter and opened it. What caught his eye was a beautiful thin gold font. After reading it in a hurry, Zheng Ting's face changed and was full of shock. After reading the name at the end of the letter, he raised his head, his eyes were bright, and he stared at the staff who had been following him for many years. His voice seemed calm, but he could not hide a trace of shock. "I really didn't expect that the gentleman has followed me for many years, but now he is coming with the letter of the King of Qin."

The staff member smiled and said, "I am not sure. I don't know how I feel after reading the letter?"

"Very good, very good. I just want to whistle to the sky, sing and dance the sword to cheer up." Zheng Qie said, "Hahaha, please feel free, madam, prepare wine for me quickly. I really want to have two glasses now."

Mrs. Zheng was a little confused, but when she heard the two talk about the King of Qin just now, she guessed that this matter was probably related to Li Jing. Moreover, her husband was so excited and happy after reading the letter. She hadn't seen each other for many years. Thinking about her husband's previous concerns, she said that only the King of Qin could save the world today. Could it be that the King of Qin sent troops to save the king and wanted to recover the two capitals?

After Zheng Ting laughed loudly, he felt much more relaxed.

After his wife left, Zheng Ting held the hand of the staff and sat down in the study.

He stared at his aide, "Sir, have been following me for more than ten years?"

"It's been eighteen years!" The gray-bearded aide is about the same age as Zheng Ting, both of whom are nearly 60 years old. The two have known each other for many years and are considered old friends.

The aide knew what Zheng Ting meant and said frankly: "Actually, I have also made a few friends recently."

"This friend is from the King of Qin."

"Yes!" the staff nodded, and said nothing.
Chapter completed!