Chapter 258: Strategies for Governing the Country

Wei Yuan knew that Marquis Xiang couldn't produce the grain.

In the Western Jin, only civil servants and nobles could mobilize large quantities of grain due to poor harvests. Even the Eunuch Party couldn't manage it. Transporting large quantities of grain was a huge issue; hence, it was best if grain provisions were mobilized from Ningxi Prefecture.

Fortunately, Wei Yuan had bought all the grain, saleable and non-saleable, from Ningxi Prefecture at twenty times the price. If the remaining grain were to be sold, the soldiers would go hungry.

Military Grain Pills were a treasure, one pill could stave off hunger for three days during battle, and the soldiers could fight continuously without sleep while full of energy. Marquis Xiang brought out ten thousand pills in one go, equivalent to the value of five hundred thousand jin of military provisions.