This year, although the grain harvest in the north failed, and the cold weather affected the grain harvest in Yanyun and even Hebei Road, but there was no fatal impact on the Great Song Dynasty, but the grain production became smaller, and a large amount of grain was to be mobilized from the south to Yanyun.

The cold weather is also a big test for the transportation of grain, although the grain can be preserved in the cold weather, but the manpower and material resources consumed on the road are a headache, fortunately, Zhao Zhen decreed, the train from Tokyo to Beijing is only allowed to transport grain, not allowed to carry passengers, so a wagon of grain day and night to the northern capital of the continuous transport.

Once again, the capacity of the train is on display, it is not a cow or a horse, and it does not need to stop every once in a while to rest, eat forage, and drink water from the stream. As long as there is a supply of coal wagons and water trucks, trains can run on the railway. However, regular maintenance is sufficient.

The train of the Great Song Dynasty has not yet been popularized, and many people have stayed away from him, because there have been several cases of train injuries, Zhao Zhen did not suppress the matter, but dealt with it in a high-profile manner, using the opportunity of this food shortage to promote the role of the train, as well as the harm and loss caused by the deliberate and unintentional destruction of the train!

After seeing the benefits and efficiency brought by the trains, people began to support the emperor one-sidedly, because what they could intuitively feel was that the trains did affect their food prices......

Although the grain in Beijing is enough to eat, but the price has been high, Zhao Zhen in order to calm the price of grain took a lot of pains, the benefits brought by the train can be seen by everyone, and can also be felt, so they are no longer entangled, but soon the price of grain stabilized within the acceptable range of the people, but it was only enough for the people of the Great Song Dynasty to use themselves.

Obviously, it is not appropriate for Western Xia to send people to ask for grain at this time, and it is not appropriate to ask for food, the grain of the imperial court belongs to the grain of the imperial court, and the grain of the merchants is the grain of the merchants, and some merchants will of course sell the grain to the Xixia people at a high price for the sake of profit, but this will affect the grain price of the entire Yanyun land.

The imperial court continued to fill the holes created by the merchants, and the price of grain began to rise again, and the shouts and curses of the people became one after another, criticizing these merchants who still bought grain from the Western Xia, and even began to consciously dispose of other industries of these merchants, so that the profits they obtained in grain were lost elsewhere.

Merchants also need popular support and reputation like the imperial court, if these two things are gone, it will not be far from collapse, Zhao Zhen did not issue an edict to ask merchants not to sell grain to Western Xia, but even so made the merchants begin to tremble.

Because they were afraid that they would be branded as profiteers by the imperial court, spurned by the people, and even despised by the men they hired, many of them had left these businesses and found another way, and the backbone of the Song people had been built by Zhao Zhen very hard.

So these businessmen reluctantly gave up the mouth-watering fat of Xixia, after all, some things are more important than making money, if they lose the business opportunity in the Great Song Dynasty because of earning a sum of money from Xixia, then no business will do such a stupid thing.

In this way, the only victim was the Western Xia, and their food problem was exposed at once, and it became the biggest problem that threatened the national Ding, thus surpassing the threat of thousands of troops.

Grain has always been the most important strategic resource of a country, Zhao Zhen has never ignored the problem of grain since the beginning of his pro-government, and the same is true of the successive dynasties and kings of China, and agricultural politics must always be put in the first place in political affairs.

Zhao Zhen has always understood a truth, the Chinese people are the most hard-working people in the world, as long as they are given a piece of land, and can dig out food from this field, then they can survive, and be content with this simple and unpretentious happiness.

"If a person doesn't even have the right to live, what does he have? There is only one life, and this life will fight for the sake of the family, for survival, and those who don't let them have food and don't let them survive!

This is the root cause of rebellions, uprisings, and uprisings in successive dynasties, and if the people live in peace, who wants to follow those who take the lead in rebellion? Who doesn't know that rebellion kills? Who doesn't know that when you die, there's nothing? But since rebellion is death, and not rebellion is death, why not seek a life from the nine deaths of rebellion? ”

When Zhao Zhen said this to Cai Boyu, Cai Boyu's whole body shuddered...... The body trembled like chaff, the blood on the body was cold, the last bit of blood on the face could not be seen, and he sat on the ground softly without saying a word......

Sancai on the side was no better, although he was still standing in the palace, he was like a fish stranded by the river, panting heavily, as if he had obtained fresh air after drowning.

They can't help it, what the emperor said is too shocking, as an emperor is rebelling, rebellion and outspokenness in this kind of thing made Cai Boyu and Sancai frightened, what is the emperor most afraid of? Of course it's a rebellion!

But instead of worrying, the official family also said such a reasonable and well-founded, slow and logical analysis, how could this make Cai Boyu and Sancai not afraid, they even doubted it...... Did the official family have hysteria?

In their opinion, this kind of thing is very ominous, and Zhao Zhen, as the king of a country, should be even more cautious...... Say something like this in a succinct way.

Zhao Zhen naturally doesn't care, how can a country be ruined because of a sentence analyzed by the emperor? Zhao Zhen didn't believe in this, he believed in what he had seen.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty said cautiously, this is not the emperor's words, I am afraid that it will not be conducive to the ...... of the society."

Zhao Zhen picked up Cai Boyu: "Who said that this is not good for the society?" This is the way of the emperor! Could it be that there is something wrong with what I said? What you heard today is correct, but I can't say it, because like you, many people believe that the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty is not the land, but the emperor......"

Seeing Cai Boyu's trembling eyes, Zhao Zhen stopped talking, afraid that his next words would make him desperate and frightened, Sancai found an excuse to make tea and ran away, Zhao Zhen looked at the tea just in front of him and cried and laughed, he just said the reason for the defeat of the previous dynasties, is it necessary to panic like this?

Of course, this is only in the hands of their own deaths, and some are in the hands of foreign tribes, and the nomads began to move to the south warmer with the worse and worse climate and poor living environment, and the result was a conflict with the Central Plains Dynasty.

The food problem is very easy to solve, Zhao Zhen already has a way, and the rest is how to deal with these foreign enemies......