The disaster of the Song Dynasty in the summer, the population is gone, maybe more, there is no detailed and accurate census and statistics this year, I can't say, but this means that the grain of more than 80 million people in the autumn harvest will be harvested by the remaining more than 10 million people less than 20 million people, although the food planted in the summer lacks the management of hoeing, fertilizing and watering, etc., but the crops of the autumn harvest such as corn, millet, sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans and so on do not need to be carefully managed, the important thing is that the moisture of this year is very good, it can be called a good year, and it definitely belongs to a good year, so, Vast patches of unmanaged autumn crops can still be called bumper crops.

The people in the northwest did not defect and lost much at that time, and it was not much different from previous years, those people and those lands, as usual, the autumn harvest was completed, the pirates also came, and the population was ....... Everything that was swept away was swept away, and the millions of migrated people of the Fan Han Dynasty harvested and consumed the ownerless crops in the areas they passed.

The rest of the Song Realm did not have the huge team of pirates sweeping to "help" the autumn harvest, and there were more autumn crops to be harvested.

As a result of the catastrophe of the huge loss of population brought about by piracy, the distribution of the population in various regions has become extremely uneven, and it is related to the autumn harvest, and the situation in each region has the same characteristics and is also different.

eastern and coastal areas,

The pirate standard in the interior abandoned the unwanted population and the population who inevitably wanted to speculate at both ends, and under the astonishing wave at that time, the wife and children were forcibly rescued by the defection team and went overseas, and the strong sense of crisis that he was abandoned by the drastic changes of the times and his family prompted the formation of an inevitable panic, and he would inevitably move east with the flow of waves, and occupy the ownerless houses, fields, and property in the east to settle down and start life again, closer to the sea. Just here to observe whether the Great Song Dynasty will be destroyed and lead to the disaster of alien killing, and at the same time pay attention to pirate rumors and policy changes, now he is a person who belongs to the pirates who refuse to accept, and the pirates will transfer too many people this time, and it is impossible to change the policy to accept themselves, but, the pirates will not be busy in the future...... Maybe you have a chance to take over the pirate country like you?

To a certain extent, this effectively fills the gap in the population of the east, and the pressure of autumn harvest is relatively small, for example, one person has to complete the autumn harvest of three or four people.

In contrast, the population distribution in the inner region is becoming less and less, and the pressure to harvest the autumn crops is much greater than in the east, and one person has to complete the work of ten or more people.

Who would be stupid not to have a crop that can be obtained for free?

The people live on food.

It is not of the people, no matter how rich he is, he still has to eat, and he wants to occupy more grain.

Therefore, there is no need for any agitation and publicity, and the spontaneous ones will desperately grab it, and whoever grabs it will be whom.

Either way, the more food you have at home, the better.

Looking at the trend of the Great Song Dynasty, I'm afraid it won't be so smooth in the future, who knows what dangers will be encountered in the future?

Natural and man-made disasters, no matter what happens, will eventually cause food shortages. If the disaster leads to no food, it will be bad, hungry and anxious, even if you want to steam your wife and children and eat to survive the famine, it is impossible for women and children to be snatched away by pirates, the Great Song Dynasty is full of old and young singles, and some women are also official wives and people's wives, old and weak..... All kinds of pirates are not rare, and there are not many such women (to be killed and eaten). Stockpiling more food will give you more resilience to disasters. And now that there is ready-made food that can be grabbed, how dare you let it go? No matter how tired and lazy you are, you can't ...... at this time

As for the government, from the perspective of the ruler, looking at the overall situation, looking farther, and worrying deeper.

In the past, the Song Dynasty, which had a small territory, suffered from too many people, and officials in various places disliked the population for causing too many troubles.......

Now the population has plummeted, and there is no more trouble with the population, it should be as the ruler wants, and there is no need to despise and scold the people in secret, but the officials and lords want to ...... cried: The population of cattle and horses for the Song Dynasty was too small, and the days after that were ...... It's no better.

In terms of the army alone, the Song Dynasty was forced by the pressure from the surrounding areas, and there were still nearly one million troops to support, and the huge consumption of food alone was a big problem.

Fortunately, the two major northwest threats of Western Xia and Hehuang Tubo were wiped out by pirates, and the Western Army, which consumed the most money and grain, was gone, otherwise this military expenditure alone would have killed the Song Dynasty. The pirates swept away the heavy burden of the Western Army and the most difficult force to deal with, and made the Great Song Dynasty miserable, but should the Great Song Dynasty still thank the pirates?

What's the matter with this special mother!

How so?

The most hateful thing is that those people of all colors, who are officials or not officials, are just waiting for the people to provide for them, which is the main item that pirates don't want, and this kind of group of people has not decreased much.

There was too much loss of work, but those who didn't work basically stayed in the Great Song Dynasty, and too few were killed by pirates and traitors at that time, which was really fatal......

In the future, there are too few people who farm the land, and food will inevitably become the most important thing, and if there is another disaster and a poor harvest year, I am afraid that even the officials will have to starve, oops, I dare not think about it.

Then, the white autumn crops in front of you are particularly golden.

It must not be allowed to rot in the ground, and this only chance to store a large amount of food for the future must be lost.

From the imperial court to the local government offices, they attached great importance to the autumn harvest without external pressure and urging, and were unprecedentedly diligent in their administration, mobilizing all forces to seize the harvest, including the army that had no combat mission.

In order to make the army composed of various villains such as ruffians and slackers obey orders and participate in the autumn harvest labor, the officials and lords had to pretend to go down to the fields to demonstrate.......

As for the landlords, gentry, the powerful and powerful, the great Confucians who stubbornly adhered to Confucianism and profited from it, or the scholars who were bent on climbing to the position of officials...... All kinds of unearned people who are not officials but also high-ranking lords, slaves and tenants in the family...... The coolies who worked had fled, and they had occupied countless fields, but this time there was no one to harvest the crops for them to reap the huge profits at their leisure, and no one could be found to do it. They have no treasure of gold or silver to tempt people to help.

And copper money, spend copper money for labor?

No one is rare.

Food is the most important thing. Whoever has more food will be the winner in life in the future. Even the poor man who used to have no land has now become a landlord, and there are so many ownerless crops to grab at will, who has the time to serve the old man.

These old men looked at the ripe crops in their fields, and finally became anxious.

They know better than the people what food is important in the future, and they know the benefits that grain reserves can bring in the future, and the farmers have their own fields, and in the future, I am afraid that no one will have to be tenants to farm for them in exchange for survival, and the large amount of land occupied by their own families is in vain, and they are afraid that they will have to work hard by themselves in the future, and they will have to eat themselves in the future, so they have no choice but to curse the damned pirates, put down the rich and noble and decent shelves, and also put on rags and start to harvest.

They are all kinds of masters, in the past, they had to be carefully served by someone to drink tea, and if they were able to replace them when they went to the toilet, they had ever worked, and they worked hard in the fields, and they could bear the sin of suffering and being so tired.

The hands, face, neck, etc., which are more delicate than a woman's skin. Exposed areas such as arms..... Sharpened by farm tools and scraped by crop leaves and stems as sharp as knives..... Blood blisters, . Bloody ...... Back pain, legs and stomach tendons, not a few meters away from the tired waist as if the waist is broken, hands numbness, arms weakness and legs trembling, all feel that the corn cob is also deliberately against them is so difficult to break down, used to be a slave housekeeper or something to supervise the tenant work, this master occasionally goes to the field to walk around to see the harvest, to see the farmer's humble ugly dirty woman work effortlessly, I don't feel how hard it is, why is it so difficult for this master to do it himself? Why are you so tired?

The high autumn sun is scorching, dizzy, there is a strange smell of nausea in the impermeable cornfield, I want to vomit, my face hurts like pins and needles, sweat beads are dripping, my clothes are already sweaty, and I am stained with sweat on my body, and the sweat soaks the wound, the taste, ouch hey, this is uncomfortable.

Panting violently but always feeling that the breath is not enough to breathe, the body is as heavy as a mountain, the heart is pounding wildly, the heart is flustered and shortness of breath, the eyes are clouded, I just want to have a slave beautiful woman who is attentive and considerate and submissive to help me go home and lie down comfortably, and someone is fragrant and glamorous......

This is the sin that the lowly people should suffer, and it is not what this master should do at all, but he can't help it, and the old masters and young masters can only grit their teeth......

But no matter how much you hate pirates, no matter how much you grind your teeth, it's useless.

The only thing that can be done is that you have to grit your teeth and grab it.

Otherwise, the pirates would have lost their gold and silver treasures, and most of the copper coins in the family were robbed by the defectors or local people at that time...... I can earn them money to buy food, and if I don't work and save food by myself, I am afraid that I will starve to death in the future.

The whole country is generally gritting their teeth and desperately grabbing this situation.

Even those who work in other jobs in the city of Tokyo, who have a sense of superiority, spontaneously go out of the city to grab the ownerless crops during the autumn harvest, and they are not afraid of hard work.

If there is no power guarantee to continue to be stable and unearned in the future, in this autumn harvest season, no matter who has to keep their eyes open, seize this most precious opportunity of the autumn harvest, and make every effort to accumulate more life reserves for the unpredictable years to come. The same is true for anti-thief forces including Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Chao Gai.

Only those who are lazy and don't want to work hard, live one day at a time, or grab what they don't eat, are still idle and waste their lives this autumn.

In order to be able to harvest in time before the beginning of winter, all localities invariably rush to harvest beans, millet seeds, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops that will rot in the ground or freeze and cannot be eaten if they are not harvested in time. Crops like corn cobs are not afraid of freezing, and they will not fall off the ground on their own when they are ripe, and they are slowly harvested at the end. The most important thing is that other crops can be harvested, corn, which can be harvested after winter without delay.

However, compared to those who participated in the harvest, there were too many crops to harvest.

The eastern and coastal areas are better, the urban and rural populations work together, grit their teeth and persevere, and can always harvest the crops in time, and then lie down like dead people to catch their breath. It's not good in other areas, and those people can't be busy even if they're tired, so they can only continue to work in the snow fields in winter.

When the whole country was busy with work, only the two official offices and officers and soldiers of Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou Mansion on the East Hebei Road did not work as in previous years.

These two places are different from others.

Because of the double robbery and massacre of Liao and pirates in the summer, the population was even more drastic, and it was a dangerous border area where the local government was unable to protect the border, and the Song people in other places were reluctant to move to this castle that occupied the ownerless houses and fields to start a new life, which caused the population of the two places to be the smallest.

Cangzhou,

If there is no Cangbei population deliberately scared by Zhao Gonglian, it will be a blank, and the remaining population of Cangzhou will be enough to form a few towns, and it will not be enough to make up a high-class county governance, let alone maintain a state-level administrative region.

Hejian Province is not much better, only those who have been abandoned by pirates are left, and some have moved south, leaving this dangerous and calamitous place of poor existence, and seeking peace and ease elsewhere in places where there is no shortage of land and other ownerless wealth, and where there are more people and more convenience.

The chief consul of Hejian Prefecture, Su Taiwei, was not unwilling to work hard and endure hardships in the autumn harvest, nor was he unwilling to transfer enough troops of 100,000 people to take turns to participate in guarding the border and rushing to harvest, but under the repeated reminders and admonitions of his subordinate officials, he was afraid that he would be unwilling to force the newly formed gang of strongmen to harvest crops and make trouble......

In fact, the subordinate officials and uncles of the Yamen of Hejian Mansion didn't want to work hard in the autumn harvest, so they used the border army as an excuse to shirk it.

Anyway, even if the autumn grain rots in the ground and does not harvest a grain and causes a lack of grain, the imperial court has to fully support the money and grain, and it is impossible to ignore the embarrassment of Hejian Mansion without food and dare to make 100,000 border troops hungry.

This is the main reason why Hejian Province ignores the urgency and pressure of the autumn harvest.

As far as Su Taiwei himself said, he personally demonstrated and led the autumn harvest, and he was dirty and tired, and he was not happy in his heart.

He is a typical Song scholar doctor thinking and virtue, accustomed to high poetry, books, power, wealth, and only use his mouth to instruct the lowly to work, the scholar doctor is the same as the noble daughter, ten fingers do not touch the spring water, do not work, especially do not do this kind of lowly tiring farm work. He came from a good background and had never experienced farm work.

Thinking about taking the lead in working in the field and enduring some hardships means that it is the need to be loyal to the imperial court.

He thinks that it is the behavior of gentlemen, celebrities, and ministers who will be praised for worrying about the country and the people, undoubtedly for the false name that Confucian scholars attach the most importance to, of course, it is mainly to show the court to the emperor, he Su Yuanjing is a loyal minister who is really willing to sacrifice for the Great Song Dynasty, if the above has such a good impression of him, then the benefits will not be .......

But the subordinate officials under him were not willing to endure a little hardship, and they all used the excuse of pushing the autumn harvest to be hard, and Su Yuanjing himself was not willing to put down the shelf and suffer the crime, so he naturally pushed the boat down the river.

This side of Cangzhou.

Zheng Juzhong, a corrupt scholar and doctor, boasted of being elegant and noble, a celebrity and a high-ranking Confucian official, he never thought that the agricultural work of the autumn harvest had anything to do with him.

That is the lowly and lowly work that the lowly officials below should manage and supervise the people to do, how can a high-ranking official and local head like him be allowed to do that kind of heart.

His affairs should be poetry and books, gathering a group of literati and scholars, contemporary celebrities and the most popular green buildings in their youth, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing, chanting poems and poems, singing and singing, showing the poetry and poetry of the doctor and the talent of governing the country, singing a song to serve the country's fighting spirit, proving the great feelings of loyalty and patriotism, shaking his head in half drunk and half awake, unrestrained inspiration, surging talents, like a river, impassioned, graceful, wild and uninhibited, unconventional, celebrity demeanor, touted and worshipped, The beauty is drunk and hateful, and she can't immediately throw herself into the eyes of the self-recommended pillow, ah, emotional, hot-blooded, all kinds of touching heart, the good stories of talented people and famous ministers spread all over the world, and they admire others; Or power and wisdom, military and political affairs, strategizing, confident, clever strategies can determine the future, and only Song Yiguo can do a good job of fixing the country and security......

What autumn harvest is not autumn harvest, what ownerless crops are too many and no one harvests, so he doesn't care about such mundane things.

In fact, I have a more shrewd and sober little account in my heart, and I understand that it is the same as Hejian Mansion, anyway, this is a border pass, and no one in the court can lack this money and food.

Also, what makes these two places indifferent to the autumn harvest at all is:

Zhao Gonglian mobilized 300,000 of the more than 500,000 monks and prisoners in Cangbei to go south to harvest in the autumn and go to the two places.......

Let Cangbei contribute.

The official sat back and waited for Zhao Gonglian to finish harvesting my crops, and then it was reasonable and reasonable to come to the tax grain that should belong to the government....... To the court, the credit is indispensable.