As summer begins in May, the weather on the Huai River gradually becomes hotter. The completion of the first migration and the increasingly stable confrontation between the Chu and Qin armies made the Chu people almost forget the war. Only the rising prices of millet in counties and towns, and the increasingly forming fishing boats along the rivers make people feel a little uneasy and nervous.

The Qin people who were defeated in the Battle of Shashui were preparing for the next battle. The summer water became more and more prosperous, and the Chu army, who could not take advantage of the victory to enter the Shashui camp in March, could only sigh at the wider Daze crossing the water. No one knew when the Qin army would cross the Daze and launch the next offensive. All they could do was to build a long bridge of more than twenty miles to rescue the Zhao army and Wei army in Daliang City, and join the final battle.

In this context, April, May, and June, Xiong Jing did not go to Qifeng but stayed in Yingdu to recuperate. A few days ago, news came from Xinying that Yingnan, Gui Kejia, Si Yu and the other six concubines were pregnant. Although he did not know how to give birth to a boy or a girl, he had no chance of having children at least. In addition, Mi Xuan was also pregnant.

This news made Xiong Jing suffer for several days. If he had known this, why would he favor other women? Shao Si ordered his son to give him, that was to give him son; Shao Si did not give him son to him, that was to give him no son to him, and forced him will have bad consequences. Of course, due to various reasons, these women had married into the Chu Palace the year before yesterday. Although they had been divorced, in people's hearts, they were still his wives and concubines. He should not look at other men to favor them, right?

In addition to the pain, there was another bad thing. Xiong Han, who should have been away from Xinying with his mother, disappeared. The prince wearing his clothes did not take the same boat with Zhao and Li Concubine, so he found it fake until Xinying got off the boat. After torture, he realized that the bear cub had not boarded the boat at all and stayed in Chu State, but he didn't know where he hid or hid in the brigade. But this was not a big deal. No matter where Xiong Han was, he was not in danger. As long as the confidant found him before the battle, it would be fine.

In June, on a cool summer morning, Xiong Jing, who had retreated to his bed, had not sat down yet. Li and Wu were chased after me. There was no politeness, so Wu Wu said as soon as I came in: "Since the Qin people's young mansion has stopped building boats."

"No more boat building?" Xiong Jing was a little surprised, "Why don't you build a boat again?"

"I don't know." Don't let me be responsible for exploring information. Interpreting information is not his business, but the business of the War Department.

"If our army did not fight with the Qin people in the water, the Qin people would not use it to build boats." Li Qi said. "And the Qin people's warships were longer than me, so what's the benefit of rebuilding them? For the current plan, I think the Qin people are thinking about it."

"Making armor?" He suddenly turned from building a boat to building armor, Xiong Jing instantly understood what Li Qi was referring to. "How can I do if the Qin people make armor?"

"It's true that I can't do it." Li Qi sighed.

The Qin Shaofu built no Chu State. No matter what the Qin Shaofu built, it was impossible to stop it. Whether it was the Chu army that was Qixian or the Chu army in Qiang, it was impossible to attack the Xianyang Shaofu. The former had to protect the Chu State, while the latter had no food and clothing in the Qiang land, so he forced the pheasant to order the land reclamation. The land reclamation could not be harvested until autumn. At the turn of spring and summer, they could only rely on hunting and collecting to fill their stomachs. The beasts around the Qiang land were immediately empty.

The Qin land was also a way to plunder Qin, but the Qin State was famine for years, and the Qin people themselves ate bran and taro. The Qin people plundered the Qin people, and the food they plundered was not enough for the soldiers to return. The only people who could plunder were the population, farm tools and livestock. It was through the stolen population, farm tools and livestock, and tens of thousands of Qiang people who expanded their fields and learned to farm and plow the fields with the Qin people.

"When will the Qin people attack me?" Xiong Jing did not continue to talk about the question of making armor, and asked this question.

"In the battle of Shashui, all the Qin people had lost their armor before, and a lot of iron armor made by the Shaofu also lost. If you want to fight again, you should prepare armor." Li Qi analyzed. "It is difficult to use a hundred refinements to make armor, and it must be next year. Astronomical divination knows it, saying that it may be cold and snowing this autumn and winter, which is not conducive to the war. The Qin people attacked me, after the spring of next year."

"Sudden cold and snowfall?" The astronomical strategist of the Grand Sima Mansion was similar to Wu Shi, but like the scientific theories of two thousand years later, Wu Shi also had a systematic and logical explanation of the world. Xiong Jing did not know much about the climate, and he did not think this year was different from previous years.

"However, I don't know why they said this." Li Qi was as puzzled as Xiong Jing, and he didn't know how the astronomical strategists would have a sudden cold and snowfall this autumn and winter. "Even if it was not cold and snow this autumn and winter, the Qin people attacked me and would have to plow next spring. All counties in Qin were short of food and starved to kill countless people. If the Qin people had not seized the food of Qi in Shu last year, the Qin State would have collapsed."

Compared with the weather, food is the most important thing. Qin State lacks food, and Chu State is increasingly short of food. The number of craftsmen in the palace is huge, accounting for one-sixth of the population in the east. Including the Chu army and the powerful boaters who maintained the daily consumption of the Chu army, the most powerful people in the country were unable to engage in production. Large-scale construction of fishing boats has intensified the burden of food. Like later generations, shipbuilding often involves various industries. The result of large-scale shipbuilding is that the population is concentrated in industries again, further reducing the agricultural population.

Copper coins are no longer valuable, but the valuable ones are grain. The wages and prices were measured by how much grain and how many kilograms of Dongzhou Valley were measured very early. Last year, I collected about 60 million stones of millet, about 50 million stones of millet (equivalent to millet), totaling more than 110 million stones. During the war, these grains were barely enough to eat, so I avoided the migration to Penglai to transport grain and fodder, which was a shortage of grain again.

If we fight again this year, the harvest will inevitably drop to 100 million stones or even below 100 million stones. The food is definitely not enough. The 4.5 million commoners who eclipse one and a half stones will consume 81 million stones a year; the soldiers who eclipse two stones to three stones, Lifu and 800,000 craftsmen will consume 24 million stones a year, and the consumption of people alone will exceed 100 million stones.

There are also 300,000 war horses and military horses. Don’t feed them all with essential materials. If you use straw and food together, you will consume more than 16 million stones or even 20 million stones a year. You must carry grain when you avoid Penglai. You must transport millions of stones at a time, and transport them twice more to tens of millions of stones. The resources are limited, and the grain harvest last year is not enough. If the harvest this year is much lower than last year, the Chu State will not be able to support it next summer.

"How many boats can be built before next autumn?" Xiong Jing was silent for a while and asked another question.

"Before next autumn, the mansion can add another 200,000 tons of boats." Li Qi gave a fewer figures than Xiong Jing had imagined. He explained: "This autumn will send another 100,000 craftsmen, and another 100,000 craftsmen from autumn to spring, and another 100,000 in spring next year..."

If you count the whole year, then migration is actually three times. Once in spring, once in autumn, and then in the six months of autumn to spring, sea boats can go to Penglai by the dark tide, and then return by the north wind after arriving. It is estimated that the number of sea boats will reach 300 in winter, with a total tonnage of 120,000, and five round trips will be 600,000 tons.

There were 40,000 craftsmen in the mansion and their family members, and Yin Dao, who wanted to transport them all over the trend. When the craftsmen were transported away, the output of industrial products decreased, and the output of boats naturally decreased.

The tonnage of the boat is roughly clear, so how many people can be transported are also clear. The cumulative tonnage of the four migrations, including next spring, is about two million tons. Including the grain and materials required, two tons can transport one person and one million people can be transported.

As for the population pyramid of Chu, boys and girls under the age of seventeen account for 44% of the total population, and 1.32 million of the three million people in the east are among the three million people. The younger the age, the more the proportion, the more the number, the eight to sixteen years old. In other words, assuming that all boys and girls aged eight to sixteen will be moved, at most, no more than 600,000.

Thinking of Xiong Jing's reassurance, he drove away the most important people. These 600,000 people would be the hope of Chu. When Xiong Jing smiled on his face, Li Qi just finished the migration plan. He and Wubi didn't know what Xiong Jing was laughing at.

"If the Qin people made armor, I could not do anything, I could only let it be made." Xiong Jing concluded. "But the Qin people attacked me next year, and I have moved millions of people to Penglai, and I have no worries."

"Da Ao Yingming, if Da Ao hadn't known the water flowing north from the Great Valley, there would be even fewer people who had moved." Li Qi sincerely praised.

"Don't flatter." Xiong Jing had no joy at all, moved one million people away and left more than four million people. This was really not a happy thing. "It depends on how Wang Jian attacked me now. If he loses again..."
Chapter completed!