Zhao Hao's words made the ministers think that Jiangdong could be said to be prosperous because of Taihu Lake. Agriculture can be said to be the premise and foundation on which social and economic development depends, land is the most fundamental means of production, and the expansion of cultivated land is directly related to the development of agriculture. Jingkang Nandu, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Pingjiangfu, Xiuzhou, and Hangzhou, are not only the southward escape route of Gaozong's court, but also the first choice for a large number of immigrants to settle down.

The northeastern part of Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road is the most densely populated, while the Taihu Lake basin is the most densely populated in the Jiangnan region. On the one hand, the influx of large numbers of immigrants has caused a huge demand for cultivated land due to the rapid increase in population, and on the other hand, it has also provided sufficient labor for the expansion of the quantity and quality of cultivated land, and for the highly intensive management of agriculture.

In the middle of the main road, the government advised the cultivation of wasteland in Zhejiang and Zhejiang in the form of empty official letters and supplementary official funds; During the Chunxi period, Xiaozong continued to adopt the policy of releasing seedling tax and rewarded "the households of the two Zhejiang provinces to reclaim the land and mountains and apply labor to reclaim the fields". In the process of cultivating arable land, the farmers in the Taihu Lake basin have made full use of the local geographical conditions, exerted their wisdom and talents, and opened up various ways.

Under the comprehensive effect of various water conservancy projects, the farmland construction in the Taihu Lake basin has benefited greatly, becoming the most dense area of water conservancy fields in the country in the Song Dynasty, the first good area of intensive agriculture, and the unity of time, earth and artificiality. Grain production is the most important content of the agricultural economy in feudal society, and it is also the main criterion for measuring the agricultural level of a region.

In the Song Dynasty, the Taihu Lake basin implemented a two-cropping system, which was crucial to improve the efficiency of utilization and increase the amount of grain produced. There are two cases of this double cropping system. The first is the double-cropping system of rice cropping. The second is the rice-wheat double cropping system. The two-cropping system has greatly increased the grain yield per mu and the total output in the Taihu Lake Basin. The general yield per mu in the Taihu Lake area is about three stones, and a small number of fields can reach five stones, which is in an advanced position in the country and has become the largest grain producing area in the Song Dynasty.

The government attaches great importance to the grain production in this area, the so-called "Su, Chang, Hu, Xiu, anointment, thousands of miles, the country's warehouse is also", the abundance here is also directly related to the country's grain supply, "so the year is smooth, then the grain of rice is wolf, there is more than enough", the price of rice has also fallen sharply; During the war, the Taihu Lake basin was a large collection place for military rations. Especially represented by Pingjiang Mansion, there is a saying that "Suhu is ripe, and the world is full".

In short, the Taihu Lake Basin in the Song and Song dynasties has basically completed the carpet development and reclamation of arable land, and a series of general and timely water conservancy projects have fully contributed to the final completion of water conservancy fields in this area, which have provided the possibility for a high degree of intensive management of local agriculture and made it a model area for intensive agriculture in the country. The important grain production in this region further promoted the development of commercial agriculture, which not only attracted attention among the economic regions of the country at that time, but also created conditions for the overall social and economic prosperity of the Taihu Lake Basin.

The Taihu Lake Basin has always been the center of sericulture in the country during the Song and Song dynasties. Here, silkworms can be raised eight times a year, and "the plain is fertile soil, the mulberry is very prosperous, the silkworm girl is industrious, and she is afraid of hunger and cold", and the time and place are conducive to the development of the mulberry silkworm industry. The summer tax of Hangzhou and its nine counties alone collected more than 95,000 horses of silk, 45,000 horses of silk, 5,000 horses of silk, and 54,000 taels of cotton.

After the Song Dynasty set up Hangzhou, Hangzhou silk was even more prosperous, set up weaving institutions such as the Silk Brocade Institute, the Wensi Institute, the Dyeing Institute, etc., employing thousands of workers and hundreds of looms, the skilled craftsmen of the national silk weaving industry gathered in Hangzhou, and the private machine workshops also made great progress. Hangzhou city presents the sound of the machine, than the household and the people of the people, Luo Qi such as the cloud of the grand occasion, the silk fabrics produced have more than 10 varieties of silk, brocade, silk, Luo, yarn, silk, etc.

Every year, the government issues and buys hundreds of thousands of silks, which shows the prosperity of Hangzhou's folk silk production. The development of the silk industry led to the prosperity of trade, coupled with the promotion of overseas trade by the imperial court, which promoted the Hangzhou silk along the Maritime Silk Road to the Korean Peninsula in the north, to Japan in the east, and to the Nanyang countries in the south, leading to the world.

In the commercial agriculture serving the textile industry, cotton has also been promoted and planted in the Taihu Lake Basin, compared with mulberry silkworms, there is no labor of harvesting, and there is a must-harvest effect; It is irreplaceable and has the advantages of being exempt from the work of being arrested, and the benefits of keeping out the cold. As a traditional textile material, ramie, hemp and jute are also grown in the Taihu Lake Basin, while Suzhou, Hu, Chang and Hangzhou prefectures are also major tea producing areas.

The prosperity of agriculture and processing industry also promoted the development of cities and towns, and the residents' non-staple food mainly relied on commodity trading, and in the Song Dynasty, there were specialized households that supplied non-staple food to the city, and the vegetable households planted and operated dozens of varieties of vegetables, making it an independent branch of commercial agriculture. The Taihu Lake basin on the shore of the pillow river is densely covered with lakes and ponds, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and the geographical conditions of the water towns and rivers have created the economic characteristics of combining farming and fishing, which have created conditions for the local developed aquatic fishing industry and aquaculture industry.

The rapid development of various types of operational agriculture has further adjusted and improved the traditional agricultural structure and even the entire economic structure of the Taihu Lake Basin, increased the intrinsic economic vitality of the region, and promoted the prosperity and progress of local handicrafts and commerce, thereby improving the overall economic level of the region. Eventually, the Taihu Lake basin will become the economic center of Jiangdong, and even have the ability to influence the national economy.

Therefore, several ministers present also knew why the little emperor firmly believed that the Yuan army would come, knowing that the north was about to be turned into pasture by the Mongols, and the grain production was not enough to feed them, and the old Mongolian land still needed a lot of food relief and consumed a lot of food to supply the army. Now that Pingjiang has been occupied, it is not only the granary that has been lost, but also the access to the north. In this way, the entire Jiangbei region will fall into a food shortage, and it is not only a matter of politics, but also of everyone's vital interests.

In addition, after listening to the words of the little emperor, the strategic pattern of the battle for restoration gradually became clear. Since the previous Xing Dynasty was stationed in Qiongzhou overseas, there was no fundamental place, and all the troops could be mobilized to fight in the south of the Yangtze River, and there was no worries. The enemy army is different, they want to control the south of the Yangtze River, and when the troops are scarce, they can only control the important places, so as to achieve the pattern of leading the area from point to point.

But at this moment, the little emperor is comprehensively provoking chaos, so that the various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and the various provinces in the Yuan Dynasty are too busy to take care of themselves, so that they can't sweep the snow in front of the door, let alone help each other. As the main force of the restoration of the country, the forbidden army directly under the Xing Dynasty is undoubtedly the most combative, and the little emperor used this as a knife to cut into the enemy's strategic points, focusing on eliminating the enemy's vital forces, and at the same time achieving the strategic goal of dividing Jiangnan in continuous operations, and then using the Yangtze River as a barrier to divide Jiangnan.

At present, the little emperor has taken the lead in completing the division of Jiangdong by means of a seemingly casual action, eliminating the enemy army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province and basically holding the richest area in the south of the Yangtze River, thus providing a material guarantee for future operations. And as long as it can be designed to annihilate the last remnants of the Yuan Water Army, then it will not be difficult to control the Yangtze River. And with the investment of the last forces in Qiongzhou, they will be like a hammer, annihilating the enemy forces in independent regions one by one......

"Your Majesty, so the purpose of this battle is not only to annihilate the Zhending Army, but the focus is on the remnants of the Yuanshui Army?" Zhang Shijie secretly sighed after hearing this, he has been involved in the formulation of the plan, but he still has not understood the true connotation of the little emperor's plan, and he can't help but feel lost and slightly embarrassed.

"Exactly!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, "You all Aiqing understand that ships are easy to build, but armies are difficult to build. In the past few years, the Yuan Navy has been repeatedly attacked, and the experienced generals and sailors have almost lost everything. The 5,000 households of the Enemy Dragon Bay Naval Army and the 10,000 Households of the Sea Road Grain Transport Prefecture were the last combat-effective units of the Yuan Army in the Jiangnan Naval Army. And the enemy army will not be able to break through the Yangtze River defense line without a naval army, at least it will be difficult for them to compete with our naval army for a few years, and win time for us to stabilize Jiangnan. ”

"Your Majesty's foresight makes the ministers admire, and the ministers sigh to themselves. At present, the enemy chieftain and even the pirates are used in 10,000 households, and it can be seen that there is no one available in their naval army! Zhang Shijie really didn't expect the little emperor to make a lot of moves, not only in terms of strategy, but also in line with the strategy, often in a step at the same time has been optimistic about the next few steps, even more than a dozen steps, he admired but also felt ashamed, his privy envoy was incompetent.

"Don't be humble, I just think a little more!" Zhao Hao saw that his appearance was not very good-looking, and waved his hand with a smile.

"No, if Your Majesty thinks more, our army will be able to seize the opportunity, and it is no wonder that the soldiers respect Your Majesty!" Zhang Shijie sighed lightly.

"I am also very concerned about them, and it is very hard to float on the sea, so I really should go to pay a visit!" Zhao Hao's face darkened.

"Your Majesty can go, it will definitely boost morale!" Zhang Shijie said loudly.

"Your Majesty's golden body, how can you be in danger!" Before Zhao Yu could squeak, Lu Xiufu grabbed it and dissuaded him.

"Yes, yes, how can Your Majesty move lightly!" Zhang Shijie also hurriedly recovered, thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, it's not a way for us to wait all the time, and there is almost no city defense in Pingjiang, and there is no danger to defend, and the canal is narrow, and it is difficult for the naval warships to deploy, if the enemy sets fire to the ship, our army does not even have room for maneuver, but it is easy to fall into our army in passivity!" ”

"Hey, the cardinal is right, I am also thinking about this matter these days, but it is difficult to determine the terrain from the map, and the distance and interval boundaries of these old maps are unknown, if you don't actually survey, you don't dare to draw conclusions, so as not to mislead you generals on the front line." Zhao Yu took a breath of cool air, but said helplessly.

"Your Majesty, this ......" Zhang Shijie's words reached his throat and swallowed back, and he didn't dare to send an invitation and said, "Your Majesty, what should I do with Lin'an?" Do you always surround but not fight? ”

"No, I will transfer the fifth division to attack Lin'an together with the protectors, and now we will start the siege after the battle to encircle and annihilate the Zhending army begins, and the two sides will move at the same time, so that they can't echo each other!" Zhao Yu said.

"Lin'an is the old capital, if you can see it in person, it is really a great luck!" As soon as Zhao Yu spoke, Lu Xiufu stood up excitedly, and said with tears in his eyes.

"Yes, when the city was broken, I thought it would be difficult to return it again, but I was fortunate to have no regrets in this life!" Chen Zhongwei also sighed.

"Returning to the old capital, the whole country will definitely shake, and the government and the opposition will celebrate!" Ma Tingluan was also quite excited, and his old tears were all over the place.

"Hehe, don't be like this, when you return to Bianjing in the next day, Beiding Central Plains, it's not too late to recover Yanyun, and then I will congratulate all the secretaries!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty is majestic and strategic, and the Jiangnan will be recovered in the near future, and the day of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is already waiting to be seen!" Xu Zongren listened to Lian Zhengdao, he believed that when everyone moved to Qiongzhou with the court, he was afraid that no one would have thought that he would be able to force Lin'an today, but the little emperor really came back with them.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to personally lead the army to capture Lin'an, and I will be ashamed!" Zhang Shijie got up and saluted.

"Of course, it would be best if the cardinal commander could preside over the recovery of Lin'an, but I want the land minister to stay and preside over the military and political affairs of Jiangdong, so it is convenient for no important ministers to sit in the town, I am worried that once they have a disagreement, no one will be able to make a decision!" Zhao Yu said with some regret when he heard it.

"This ...... What a pity! Zhang Shijie said with annoyance. Everyone knows that it is an extremely glorious thing to capture the old capital, not only to add fame and fortune, but also to consolidate their position in the court, but at the moment it is obviously no chance.

"Your Majesty wants to personally preside over the capture of Lin'an?" Xu Zongren heard the sound outside the strings and asked urgently.

"Right now, the lower dynasty is divided into two places, if Jiang Shangshu or Liu Tongzhi are alone, I don't need to worry about this matter!" Zhao Yu glanced at everyone, as if he was reluctant to say authentically.

"The minister is incompetent, and he can't share his worries for His Majesty, so that His Majesty will come to the front in person!" Lu Xiufu glanced at each other, and they all saw the helplessness in it, they were all civil servants, it was okay to talk about it, but they really couldn't do it if they had to command in battle, so they reluctantly saluted and asked for sin.

"Your Majesty, the minister still knows a thing or two about attacking cities and plundering land, but the water war is defeated again and again. Therefore, the minister has a reluctant request, His Majesty moved to the sea to sit in the town, and the minister will work on behalf of the minister to capture Lin'an and then return to the capital! Zhang Shijie's eyes turned twice, and he saluted again.

"This ...... Do you think the cardinal's proposal is feasible? Zhao Hao hesitated, and then looked at everyone. And I secretly regret that I have put down such a big incense bait, so I don't worry that you will not take the bait......