The grain in the warehouse is limited, and the demand for grain in the Eastern Expedition is unlimited. As long as the emperor ordered, the grain in the warehouse must be transported to the battlefield. The disasters for two consecutive years have left a large amount of land without harvest. Such a dilemma is one of the reasons why the Jiyin County Government dared not open warehouses to release grain to provide relief to the victims.

For Jiyin County Government, even if the warehouse is opened and grain is released, the food in the warehouse is far from enough because there are too many victims, and the disaster relief will definitely fail. The disaster victims will still die in large quantities and still hate the government. Because the government took all the food to provide disaster relief, there was no grain to be handed over to the national treasury, nor the food supply to the expedition battlefield. In the end, it offended the emperor and the central government and the disaster victims, and it was not pleasing to both ends. The two evils were the least, and the government of course had to use limited food to please the emperor and the central government and safeguard their own interests. As for the interests of the common people, they were naturally sacrificed.

Wei Baoluan abandoned the city and fled. The Jiyin County Government and the bureaucrats fled and handed over Jiyin City. This seemed to be the rebel alliance that had taken advantage of it. However, when the rebel alliance entered Jiyin City and began to take over the military and political affairs of Jiyin County, the joy of victory disappeared. They suddenly found that they had fallen into a trap, a trap that they could not climb out. They had to face hundreds of thousands of victims in the county and millions of victims who were rushing from the front line of the river. They had to go to provide disaster relief and rescue people, otherwise they would be the culprit of this disaster, and would be the target of the crowd of the Central Plains.

The responsibility for this disaster should have been borne by Dongdu and the emperor, local governments and bureaucrats. This two-year disaster, together with the ongoing Eastern Expedition, became a tool for fierce competition among major political groups in China-Turkey. However, no one expected that a group of rebels suddenly broke into this huge political vortex. Although its power was very limited and could not change the current political situation in China-Turkey, it became the third tool for Dongdu's political game. The emergence of this third tool was very beneficial to the shameless behavior of the top rulers of Dongdu's power to cover up their shameless behavior of sacrificing innocent creatures to gain political interests.

The heroes and generals from all walks of life are instinctively afraid of disasters. Although they have sympathy for the victims, they have no desire to save them due to their limited ability. The reason why they stopped moving westward into the Central Plains was based on their clear understanding of the current bad situation. They wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and get a vote, snatch the food, and leave the victims and disasters to the government.

Based on this pessimistic prediction, the Henan people tried their best to prevent the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance from advancing into the Central Plains. The government originally did not want to provide disaster relief. If you kill like this, you will not only not need disaster relief, but you will even shift the responsibility. You can also use the name of suppressing rebellion and suppressing thieves to kill and take the opportunity to destroy local forces in Henan. It can be said that you will kill more than one shot.

Xiao Yi's view occupies a moral height and is beyond reproach, but the rebel alliance is too weak to provide disaster relief, and even less able to save millions of victims from water and fire. If you force it, it will be a siege to shake the tree, overestimate yourself, and seek death. The more serious problem is that if you don't do it, the rebel alliance will not be able to gain a foothold in Ji and He will only retreat, and it will be notorious and lose people's hearts. Not to mention growing and growing, it will be extremely difficult to survive.

What will happen next for the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance, which captured Jiyin and won the first great victory in the Western Expedition to Central Plains?

The sweaty handsome men turned their eyes to Li Fengyun, who still said nothing.

Li Fengyun wore a thin white robe and his long hair was scattered and drooping, covering his face, making it difficult to see his eyes, and even more unable to guess his feelings from his eyes.

Li Fengyun had made a decision. The reason why he hurried westward to the Central Plains after the war in Ningyang was nominally growing and growing, but actually wanted to save people. To save people, he had to attack cities and villages, plunder food, and control the rivers and Tongji Canal waterways. For this reason, he had to lead his soldiers to move forward. The key to his decision, such determination and confidence was that he knew that the Eastern Expedition would end with a disastrous defeat in Middle-earth.

When winter comes, the emperor will return to Dongdu exhausted with both military and political failures, but he cannot accept the failure and cannot compromise with his political opponents to stop reforms. In order to reverse the defeat, he actively promoted the second Eastern Expedition. This decision made him no time to pay attention to and deal with a group of traitors who were used by the political group as a tool for game.

However, now, the emperor, wealthy families, noble bureaucrats, rebel generals, rebel soldiers who rose up, and even the people who were facing the sky with loess and facing the sky, all Zhongtu believe without exception that the Eastern Expedition will surely win. It is precisely based on this optimistic prediction of the future that the Eastern Expedition and the local governments did not take the rebels who raised the flag and rebelled seriously. In the face of the powerful absolute strength of the Military Guards, the Rebels had no power to fight back, so their entire attention was focused on how to deal with the domestic after the victory of the Eastern Expedition ended.

In the face of drastic changes in the political situation, the conservatives in the East Capital must try their best to set up political obstacles in order to fight against the "attack" of the reformists who returned with the power of the Eastern Expedition. Therefore, the rebels who raised the flag to rebel became the best tool for them to engage in political games. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and the tools must be sharp enough to make the best use of them. Therefore, Li Fengyun firmly believes that his strategy of advancing west can be successful, and the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance can not only grow and grow in battle, but also save millions of Henan victims from the fire.

However, this prediction lacks sufficient basis and says it "shocking" and no one believes it. The current situation is very unfavorable to the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance, but it is just good for Li Fengyun to pull all the heroes onto the chariots of the Central Plains, giving him the opportunity to continue to create miracles.

Li Fengyun raised his hand, gently stroked his white hair, revealing his mighty and resolute face, and his eyes filled with fierce murderous aura slowly swept across everyone's face, and finally stopped on Meng Haigong's face.

Meng Haigong couldn't help but become nervous. He "opened the net" under Jiyin City and allowed the nobles and bureaucrats in the city to escape. Although to a certain extent, he helped the rebels to capture the city without bloodshed, he was suspected of being lip service to Li Fengyun's orders. Now Li Fengyun's prestige in the alliance is getting higher and higher. Even if several heroes try their best to expand their strength, they will never be able to win the battle and attack. The brilliant achievements are all cut by real swords and guns, and they can't catch up. If Li Fengyun deliberately wants to annex them, deal with them, and win over a group of attacks, they will not have the power to fight back. So now everyone is very careful, not only to prevent Li Fengyun from killing, but also to prevent brothers from fighting each other.

"General Manager Meng is from Jiyin. He is very familiar with Ji and He frontlines and has the most say in the current situation." Li Fengyun said in a deep voice, "I would like to ask you, from the perspective of the alliance, will we immediately open warehouses and release grain to provide disaster relief?"

Meng Haigong hesitated and said nothing. From his original heart, he wanted to develop and grow, but now he was not full, so how could he care about disaster relief and rescue? But he immediately thought that the strategy of going west to the Central Plains was developed by Li Fengyun, and Li Fengyun had accurately predicted that drought would break out on both sides of the river this year, which was one of the reasons why Li Fengyun insisted on attacking the Central Plains. So before he made this decision, he could not have thought about the passive situation now. It is not difficult to deduce that Li Fengyun had already planned, but he kept hiding it. In other words, Li Fengyun intended to force all kinds of heroes to the dead end, and eventually forced them to follow him to the dark.

Meng Haigong gave a deep tribute to Li Fengyun, "I am from Jiyin. At this critical moment, I have no choice at all. I beg the chief executive to open warehouses and release grains to help disasters and people."

Li Fengyun nodded slightly, his eyes showing admiration.

Everyone immediately noticed his position in Li Fengyun's eyes. Since Li Fengyun was compassionate and wanted to open warehouses, provide food to rescue disasters, and raise the banner of benevolence and righteousness to attract people's hearts, then the Rebel Alliance had no choice but to continue to advance westward, but the opponent's strength was too strong. The closer the Rebel Alliance was to the defense of the Tianqian Pass in the capital, the greater the resistance it encountered. With the strength of the Rebel Alliance, can it last until the end?

"General Manager Han, what do you think of General Manager Meng's suggestions?" Li Fengyun turned to seek Han Jinluo's opinions.

Han Jinluo sneered secretly, you have already expressed your opinion, but asked me in public, how do you ask me to answer? Are you facing tit for tit?

"At present, the disaster in Henan is serious, and some places have even plagues broke out. The victims south of the river have moved south, so that Ji and Hebei are overcrowded, making it very difficult to provide relief." Han Jinluo sighed, "Now we don't have time to retreat, we can only go head-on, but the food in the warehouse is very limited. Opening warehouses and releasing grain is just a drop in the bucket for the current severe disaster, and it does not help alleviate the disaster. On the contrary, once the news of our opening warehouses and releasing grain is spread, more victims will flock to it, the disaster will further deteriorate, and the situation will become more and more unfavorable to us."

Li Fengyun nodded frequently and agreed with Han Jinluo's words, "Can General Manager Han have a solution?"

Han Jinluo's face looked a little ugly. Li Fengyun pressed step by step, obviously because he had strongly opposed Xiao Yi just now, which aroused his dissatisfaction. If he changed his words now, wouldn't he slap himself in the face?

"There are official troops like wolves and tigers in front, and the hungry victims behind us. We are attacked from both sides and are in deep trouble." Han Jinluo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "With the current strength of the alliance, there is no condition for going forward and killing the Central Plains. This is the reason why someone suggested to take a temporary rest in Jiyin."

Li Fengyun smiled and nodded, looking at everyone, "If we follow the advice of General Manager Han, we will stay in Jiyin for the time being. Can we alleviate the disaster and reverse the crisis?"

No one spoke, and Han Jinluo did not dare to give the answer casually.
Chapter completed!