The gang of scoundrels who surrounded the women and children dispersed violently.

The mother and son were lucky, but on some other banks, some were not so lucky.

At the critical moment, the court ordered hundreds of thousands of low-level forbidden soldiers and high-class forbidden army soldiers to go out of the city in multiple units to maintain law and order. If you come across a young and strong homeless person who can still be pacified, you can recruit troops on the spot, or point out the location of the resettlement site to the victims.

Looking at this scene, the size of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is estimated to be expanded again.

According to Cai Xiang, who was the third envoy at the time, at the beginning of the Yingzong Dynasty, there were more than 1.18 million forbidden troops and box soldiers in the country, and 48 million copper coins needed to be spent on raising soldiers.

In the fifth year of Song Renzong's Qingli calendar, the total army strength was 1,259,000, including 826,000 in the forbidden army; A few years later, in the early years of Huangyou, the total number of troops had reached 1,410,000, which was also the peak of the Northern Song Dynasty's military strength that can be seen in the history books.

However, everything should not be just looked at numbers, just like the new China of later generations should not look at the paper report of the brick family, it is not credible.

In fact, there was the Song Dynasty, especially in the later period. Inheriting the anti-military generals, the anti-people became the ideology of the previous generations of the Great Song Emperors. As for the main method of dealing with refugees, you may not believe it, that is, a large number of people who can still be used among these refugees are selected and thrown into the forbidden army as the main soldiers.

Of course, it is only an inferior forbidden army soldier, so it is also known as a forbidden army of 800,000. Only half of them were inferior soldiers, and they didn't like to use that kind. This kind of solution to the problem of feeding refugees supported by state finances is no different from the high welfare system of later generations in Europe.

It can be said that the Song Dynasty, as the richest country on earth a thousand years ago, was so capricious.

Of course, there are pros and cons, and the bad thing is that the forbidden soldiers raised in this way are scary with low combat effectiveness, even if they go out to check on their work, there is no superior forbidden army soldier to lead the team, and the inferior soldiers may have run away long ago. Or you will become a bandit and rob others!

So later, in the face of the attack of the Jin army, the overall combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was too much for people to look at, which also had deep-seated reasons.

It was mainly caused by Da Song's own death!

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Soon, a group of refugees who were welcomed by the forbidden army entered Kaifeng City one after another.

Among them, there is a strong man, who is very strong with horizontal eyebrows and vertical eyes, and his tattered clothes reveal the words "loyal to the country" on his tiger's back from time to time. I also entered Kaifeng with a woman holding a small child!

The city of Kaifeng was not flooded, and there were still many people selling food in the city, compared to the influx of refugees. But the people in the city seem to see a business opportunity! The strong man listened to the crying of the son in the woman's arms, stopped counting the few copper coins, and bought some food. The family eats while walking!

The price of food in the city has risen, only doubled.

But it's normal to think about it, there are many refugees, but there are also many rich people who can't run here. In addition, many prescient middle-class people in the Song Dynasty dragged their families to take refuge when the rain stopped a few days ago.

Naturally, these people can't bring things from their homes, but they can bring their possessions.

It's just that so many people poured in from Kaifeng City all at once, and the grain in stock was suddenly in an emergency. Fortunately, there was no disaster in the Yangtze River, and as long as a certain amount of time was given, the grain from the south of the Yangtze River could be transported.

Otherwise, food prices may not just double, but should increase tenfold.

However, the influx of refugees has led to an increase in the number of people in need of food. The court is still under pressure!

To add insult to injury, even in this situation where the whole society is like a powder keg, there are some treacherous grain merchants with deep backgrounds who are still trying to hoard grain and rice, create rumors, and frantically hype ......

I am afraid that the price of food will double, and I am not satisfied. If it weren't for Zhang Shuye and countless gang groups like Gao Yanei and Zhu Zilong, they would have been prepared early. Start with black and white!

Coupled with the Cao family's century-old savings, under the persuasion of Cao Yuting, they were also ready to take it out to help the victims, but they finally suppressed the price of grain and did not continue to rise.

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The disaster is like fire, and the DPRK and China are also anxious. Of course, there are many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they cannot be killed. However, the number of conscientious Qing officials and Qingliu in the Great Song Dynasty has reached a higher level.

In the face of such a rare Yellow Dragon Dance in a hundred years, even Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, who has always been out of tune, has changed the norm. Stick to the front line seriously, and ask about the disaster around the clock.

When he asked whether the flood could be prevented, the ministers were bottomless in their hearts, and Zhao Xiang, who had always been radical, was also speechless. Zhang Shuye and others, who have always been not afraid of heaven and earth, also sighed: "Your Majesty, this matter is very difficult! ”

"When the autumn water comes, a hundred rivers irrigate the river; The stream is so big, and there is no debate between the two Zhuzhu cliffs. I am afraid that it is a great natural disaster at the time of the saints! ”

June to September is the rainy season in northern China, the flooding of the Yellow River is generally in this time period, the precipitation in this season is mostly in the form of heavy rain, often in a few days to more than half of the rain within a year all the rain, in an instant, "a hundred rivers irrigate the river".

But the general scale will not be as large as it is now, and there are only a dozen super-large-scale records of it.

The earliest record appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so Zhuangzi said: "When the autumn water arrives, a hundred rivers irrigate the river." "Of course, the Yellow River has been diverted dozens of times, and the customs of the ancient times have been used in the Song Dynasty.

After listening to Uncle Zhang's answer, Song Huizong Zhao Ji couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh when he heard this: "Is it really God who doesn't bless me Zhao Song?" If there is a mistake, it is all Zheng Zhi's fault, why bother to my people in the Song Dynasty, how unfair! ”

"The official family is merciful, and God will bless it!"

"This is still a natural and man-made disaster, please take care of the dragon's body!"

In ancient times, if there was a natural disaster, because the emperor claimed to be the Son of Heaven, most of the responsibility would be blamed on the emperor. However, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was very knowledgeable in front of him, and he began to self-reflect without being reminded by others, and the hundred officials did not blame him.

Moreover, on the whole, the average performance of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty is still very high. The positive officials who serve the country and the people still account for the majority, and there are many pragmatists, so it is estimated that at this time, it should be useless to ask the emperor to make an edict.

In the previous dynasty, the emperor had no less sins, but there was no use for eggs. Despite the strange power of the gods, everyone believes it. However, it is obvious that natural disasters have always been said to be divine punishment, and it is better to pray to God and worship Buddha than to rely on themselves.

A few days later, a messenger from afar sent another message.

In addition to Kaifeng, the wide impact of the heavy rainy season mentioned in the newspaper is really not covered. The Bianhe River, Jinshui River, Cai River, Wuzhang River, Jianghan Canal, Hangou Langdang, Junyi Canal and many other rivers have all soared.

Not only in Beijing, but also in the Great Song Dynasty, there are reports of river defense emergencies on all roads. A little bit of the calculations show that only a million or so people are already in the midst of the floods.

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