On May 22, the tenth year of the Great Zhou Republic, Kaifeng Fucheng.

The inside and outside of the Qionglin Palace have been cleaned up. When Zhao Huan retreated in a hurry, there was a great chaos in the city of Kaifeng Mansion, after all, there were more than one million soldiers and civilians in the city, and less than 400,000 could follow Zhao Huan to move west. The remaining nearly 800,000 Bianliangzi suddenly fell into anarchy.

800,000 people, although the good people are the majority, but there must be a lot of petty traitors! What's more, Kaifeng Mansion has been trapped by Wu Yiyong's cavalry for a long time, and the eating and drinking of more than one million mouths in the city has long been a problem! Every day, many poor people and outsiders starved to death on the streets - it is really a great miracle in the history of the imperial examination to go to Beijing to take the examination and starve to death.

What order can there be in such a city full of hungry people, without the restraint of government generals, and everywhere with belongings abandoned by nobles who are in a hurry to flee?

So when an infantry division under the command of Wu Yiyong marched into Kaifeng Mansion at a rapid pace, the city was already in chaos. All the official offices, palaces, palaces, public mansions, cidi, official warehouses, and even gorgeous houses, and shops all over the streets and alleys of Kaifeng Mansion have become the objects of robbery by hungry people.

Fighting weapons can be seen everywhere, and firelight and smoke are everywhere. As the residence of the emperor, Qionglin Palace suffered a catastrophe, and came and went to rob it clean! Even the glass on the windows of the palace room was pried away.

When the Republican Army arrived here, there were still a lot of poor and crazy Bianliangzi carrying heavy and large pieces of furniture! These are all good things used by the royal family, how can you make a few when you sell them to the wealthy merchants in Tianjin?

However, the first Zhou people they encountered were not wealthy Tianjin businessmen, but fierce Republican Army soldiers! Wu Yiyong has already given them an order: occupy Kaifeng and impose martial law!

Since there is an order, then what is there to be polite? The Republican Army of the First Division, which entered the city, immediately opened the killing ring under the order of Wu Jue, the commander of the corps.

The captured thief will not be beheaded on the street, but the body will be exposed to the public!

When Wu Yiyong, who led his troops to chase and kill Zhao Huan (who chased in the wrong direction), returned with the prisoners and booty, there was still a pile of stinky corpses on the Xuandemen Square outside Qionglin Palace!

Now the bodies have been moved outside the city for burial, and the square is sprinkled with disinfected lime. It's just that the dark red blood stains that seeped into the green bricks can't be wiped clean, and there are traces of smoke and fire, and they can't be covered up.

The officers and soldiers of the Republican Army rushed to and fro inside and outside the Qionglin Palace, and everyone was extremely excited. They sent troops from Yizhou, swept through Hedong, crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin, went straight to Chenliu, cut off the grain route of Kaifeng Mansion, and then fought for a long time in the siege of the city, and now, finally picked the biggest fruit of victory - Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of the Great Song Empire!

That's a lot of credit along the way! How is it enough to seal a citizen, get a fat manor, and add a large bounty, right?

As a republican, Wu Yiyong did not have any concept of overstepping, but out of the need for defense, he put the camp directly into the Qionglin Palace located in the west of Kaifeng Mansion - the Qionglin Palace supervised by Pan Xiao'an was protected by high walls on all sides, and in the southwest corner of Kaifeng Mansion City, it was a military base that could be attacked and defended with a little transformation.

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"Kaifeng Mansion, which was blown up to the sky by the lady, how did it become a mess?"

Wu Yiyong, who had just finished inspecting all parts of Kaifeng Mansion, kicked off his boots a little boringly, and sat on a somewhat worn rose chair in the Chongzheng Palace, looking a little worried.

Because the officials sent by Tianjin to govern Kaifeng Prefecture are still on the road, Wu Yiyong is now a part-time prefect, and the food and drink of more than 800,000 people have all become a burden on his shoulders.

More than 800,000 people! And that's just the common people, not counting the generals of the six divisions of his Henan Army.

What made Wu Yiyong even more troubled was that because Du Chong dug the Yellow River, the main transportation routes to Kaifeng Mansion were all interrupted!

And Zhao Huan took away most of the stored grain when he went out, and now the more than 800,000 mouths in Kaifeng Mansion are all waiting to be fed, and there is really no food to feed them.

A famine seems inevitable!

"It is said that Kaifeng is good, the most prosperous and rich place in the world! But when I entered Kaifeng, I realized that it was a dilapidated and narrow slum, and hundreds of thousands of people were about to starve to death, and I didn't know what the third head of state could do? ”

When Wu Yiyong muttered, his good brother Wu Yijiu had already received a report from the Henan Army Supervision Division. At about the same time, there were also reports from the Hebei Army Corps (formerly the Hebei West Road Corps), the Jingxi Road Corps (the Zhou army that entered Yanzhou), the Taihang Army (the Zhou Army responsible for besieging Cizhou), and the Jingdong East Road Corps (the troops that landed on the Shandong Peninsula across the sea).

The news reported by the Taihang Legion and the Jingdong East Road Legion is not bad, but the reports of the other three legions are actually mainly bad news!

A lot of land has been knocked down, but the stall has rotted because of the Yellow River breach!

The breach of the Yellow River not only flooded a large amount of fertile land and displaced countless people, but also cut off the main road for transportation in the north, making it impossible for grain from eastern Liaodong to reach Henan in time. Not only did the republican army on the battlefield in Henan fall into supply difficulties, but even the hundreds of thousands of people in Kaifeng Prefecture were about to stop.

"San Lang," in Tianjin North City, in the mansion by the Wujia River, Wu Haogu asked Wu Yijiu, who came to greet him, "Does the ruling government have a way to relieve the hungry people in Kaifeng?" ”

Wu Yijiu, who looked a little tired, said: "The hungry people in Kaifeng are not troublesome, it is nothing more than food for the north...... Hundreds of thousands of people eat and chew grain, and we can still get it. The Jingdong Army reported that it was found that the Donghai Kingdom was using ships to relocate households in Xuzhou and Haizhou. They emptied the city of Xuhai, and we just filled in the households of Kaifeng Mansion. It's just that it's more troublesome to come and go, and it costs a little. ”

The words were relaxed, but Wu Saburo's brows couldn't be opened, obviously preoccupied.

"What about the Yellow River?" Wu Haogu asked, "Just let it go south?" ”

"River workers are indeed a problem!" Wu Yijiu smiled bitterly, "What to do, the child doesn't know, I have to wait for the master of the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Industry to investigate, and then come up with a solution."

But it's a big problem! Du Chong is a thief, he really deserves death! ”

He paused, "And this mess is not ours, Zhao Kai has to bear a little bit, right?" Now he is going to abandon Xuzhou and Haizhou, it seems that Huaibei will give up, and the Huai River will be the boundary in the future...... After the Yellow River seizes the Huai River into the sea, the Huai River will easily flood, and it is one thing to control the Yellow River and the Huai River! You have to coordinate both, right? ”

In fact, the main trouble in controlling Huang and Huai is from the side of Da Zhou.

Because Zhao Kai can retreat to Jiangnan and use Huainan as a buffer zone, he doesn't have to worry too much about flooding.

And Xinzhou can't do without the economic circle of Xuzhou and Haizhou, otherwise there will be only one Tianjin left in Xinzhou's industry and commerce. It is very detrimental to the long-term development of the country!

Therefore, in the following years, the control of Huang and Huai, and the reconstruction of the canal system of the Central Plains became two major matters in front of the new Zhou Republican government.

"Zhao Kai should ascend the throne in Jiangning Mansion...... With more than a dozen states in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangnan as the country, there is no problem with one Eastern Song Dynasty. Wu Haogu suggested, "Why don't we stop the bad battle between us and the Eastern Song Dynasty first?" First find a way to control the Yellow River and the Huai River? ”

"That's what the republican government means." Wu Yijiu sighed, "It seems that it is impossible to dominate the world...... The eldest brother's Henan Army and Ma Kuo's Jingdong East Road Army are all about to run out of food. And Henan and Jingdong are flooding everywhere! The floodplain of the Yellow River is hundreds of miles wide, boundless, and almost becomes a sea.

Displaced people have also risen up, and millions of people have been displaced in Hebei, Henan, and Jingdong alone. These are all our Chinese people, we can't let them starve to death like this......"

After all, the New Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty were the Zhuxia regimes, and one was a republic for the country, and the other was for the people, so they couldn't be too disregarding the people's livelihood, right?

And both countries are colonial empires! Overseas colonies can be opened up to resettle the displaced people in the country, and millions of people cannot be transported, but hundreds of thousands of people still have a way to arrange them.

Therefore, the matter of dominating the world can only be pushed back for the time being.

"Where's the money?" Wu Haogu asked, "Where does the money come from?" It seems that it will cost a lot to relieve and resettle refugees, to control Huang and Huai, and to establish governments and settle knights and soldiers in the newly occupied places, right? Do we still have money? ”

At the mention of money, Wu Yijiu couldn't help but sigh.

"Millions of people are already spending a lot of money on the battlefield, and they are all supported by debt bills." Wu Yijiu said, "If there is no water in the Yellow River, the financial hole can be filled."

But now...... It's a refugee again, and it's a river control again, I don't know how much it will cost? Moreover, Xuzhou and Haizhou were also destroyed, and they could not be restored in ten years.

The government's finances are only the two major sources of finance of Tianjin and Nanyang Province, and it is good to receive 15 million silver coins a year. Overstretched! ”

"There's no way?" Wu Haogu raised the tea bowl, took a sip of Yunwu Mountain Tea, and looked at his son with a smile.

"How can there be no money?" Wu Yijiu smiled, "Land is money!" We fought this battle for most of Hedong, the whole of Hebei, plus Gyeonggi Road, Jingdong East Road, and Jingdong West Road in the Song Dynasty...... What a territory! Clear up, 200 million acres of land are available! Take out 100 million and allocate it to knights and government soldiers, and there are 100 million acres of land to sell! According to the calculation of 5 silver coins per mu, it is 500 million silver coins. With 500 million silver coins, any problem can be solved, right? ”

"500 million silver coins?" Wu Haogu took a breath, "San Lang, you have a bit of a circle in this area, right?" ”

Wu Yijiu snorted: "What if you don't circle it?" Who will pay for the money to govern the river and sort out the Central Plains? Let Tianjin businessmen out? Will the Senate pass? ”

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