At the same time, Lu Dafang finally received a reply from the imperial court.

It was clearly instructed that two-thirds of the forbidden army under Lü's defense department must return to Beijing quickly, and the remaining one-third would continue to be under his command to escort these hungry people on Hedong Road to Jinghu South Road, and after arriving at their destination, they must be resettled on the spot. Anyway, the place was vast and sparsely populated, and it was not affected by drought in the first year of Yuanyou.

After reading the holy decree, Lu Dafang nodded secretly, and after knowing that the drought in the Central Plains was common, he also agreed with this opinion. In fact, this kind of disposal has another advantage, that is, it can save a lot of food expenses in Bianliang City. Once these hungry people on Hedong Road reach Jinghu South Road, they can eat directly there.

At this time, the imperial court can also spare more energy and food to deal with the drought that will affect the entire Central Plains.

Wen Yanbo and Lü Gongzhu took advantage of this drought to completely drive the entire force of the Fa-changers out of Bianliang City, and most of their officials were relegated to the Jedi in Lingnan. They resettled these hungry people who fled to Luoyang Mansion to Jinghu South Road, although Hedong Road lost a large number of laborers, but at the same time, it also solved the crisis of Hedong Road in the next year or two.

Lu Dafang did have some ability, because last winter, he established a very good reputation among the hungry people, so this time, he only brought a very small number of forbidden troops, and successfully resettled these hungry people to Jinghu South Road. It was also from this that Jinghu Lianglu began to slowly replace the Suchang area and became the most important grain-producing area in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu obviously couldn't last that time.

In the first year of Yuanyou, in the autumn, the drought that affected more than a dozen roads in the Central Plains was finally alleviated to a certain extent. However, the continuous autumn rains at this time could not save the yield of crops in the fields, but also brought great inconvenience to the grain harvesting work in some areas.

In the winter of the same year, in October, the Gyeonggi region began to experience drought again.

In the second year, the drought on the entire Gyeonggi Road lasted until the end of spring, and in such a situation, even if Cai Dao, a traverser, was put in the position of Kaifeng Fuyin, there was nothing to be done.

However, due to the severe drought last year, the Central Plains could not hand in enough grain, and the south has been harvesting, but except for Hangzhou, the starting point of the Grand Canal, and its surrounding Fuzhou counties, it is not cost-effective for grain from other places to be transported into Bianliang City.

Hundreds of miles do not sell wood, thousands of miles do not sell wood.

For example, Jinxi County, Jiangnan West Road, under the leadership of Fang Zhongyong's family, this county has finally become the most prosperous county on Jiangnan West Road.

If you want to transport grain from outside the Grand Canal to Bianliang City, the amount of food consumed along the way alone is astronomical.

However, fortunately, a few years ago, Cai Dao's plan to collect wealth and benefit the people to Song Shenzong began to work in the first year of Yuan You. The people east of Bianliang, especially north of the Yangtze River, near both sides of the Grand Canal, must have been affected by the drought in their homes, but now they have some savings in their families, and this time in the face of drought, even if there is no help from the government, they do not need to flee the famine for the time being.

Of course, for those who were severely affected by the disaster and their families really couldn't survive, Cai Dao also asked his subordinates to secretly come forward and persuade these families to move overseas. In these places, Cai Dao's prestige is unmatched at all, and it is much stronger than in Hedong Road.

The two droughts in the first year of Yuanyou alone added more than 10,000 families of the Great Song Dynasty on Yizhou Island. This number is fifty times more than the number of people Cai Dao migrated from Hedong Road, and it is more than that. You must know that in addition to the children who are still in Taihang Village, those who are willing to believe in the words of the Taihang Village bandits, and the people who are really willing to leave Hedong Road in winter, the total is only a thousand or dozens of people.

Of course, the people who persuaded these people to leave their homeland were not the people of the Seven Color Collars, but those who had been cooperating with Cai Dao on Shuibo Liang Mountain to buy the people's grain.

For example, Song Dacheng, the priest of Yuncheng, had more than 3,000 households just who were transferred from his subordinates to Yizhou Island. Also, Ding Youcai, this guy went to Taihang Village with money because of a tendon, regardless of his life, although he did not rescue Cai Dao, but instead he was a blessing in disguise, and used his connections in Qingzhou to do business with Taihang Village.

For Ding Youcai and Taihangzhai, this is a unique deal. Because, now the entire Taihang Village in the Great Song Dynasty enters the Wucheng Pass of Hedong Road is controlled by Cai Dao. For those small traders and peddlers who passed through the pass, Cai Dao ordered the owners of the village not to embarrass these people, but each caravan was to be siphoned off with 10% of the goods or the equivalent of money.

And for the caravans of the big merchants and the big families, this road is not going to work.

After the discussion, Ding Youcai and Qian were responsible for bringing some special commodities from the roads east of Bianliang City to Taihang Village to sell *** such as Cai Dao's favorite seafood, such as Ejiao in Dong'e County, as well as sugar and tea in Fujian.

In order to prevent those big merchants and the big families who have been monopolizing the commercial transactions between Hedong and Hebei Road from jumping over the wall, Cai Dao chose the location of the transaction quite secretly, and the two of them first used the Cai family's ship to move the goods close to the north bank of the Yellow River in the Tongguan Dynasty, and then the owner of the village in the Zongguan Province transported some of the goods to Xuehua Mountain, and the owner of the old village sent people to sell them to the Hedong Road.

This old village owner has been in Luliang Mountain for decades, and he is the most allowed to do it.

The other part of the goods was transported directly into the Taihang Village, which was supplied to Cai Dao and the children he trained. For example, deep-sea fish, this thing is quite brain-replenishing!

Wen Yanbo and Lu Gong saw that the grain in the treasury was about to bottom out, so the two of them had to ask the empress dowager with a cheeky face, and they wanted to temporarily borrow some food from the inner treasury for emergency.

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Tao nodded in agreement. After all, she is not a Song Shenzong, she needs to store the grain in the inner treasury, and continue to conquer the Western Xia Kingdom.

The crisis is temporarily resolved,

However, in the autumn of the third year of Yuanyou, there was another drought on the roads of the Central Plains.

Among them, the Jingxi and Shaanxi Second Roads are the most serious, and the entire northwest region has also been affected by the drought.

However, this time, the performance of the local people on Jingxi Road and Shaanxi Road is very different.

On the contrary, the entire Northwest Road was affected by Shaanxi Road this time, although they all suffered from drought of varying degrees, but this time, no family chose to flee the famine.

In particular, the Chang'an Prefecture suffered the most from the drought, but because the local government responded in a very timely manner and took very perfect measures, the grain production in the entire Guanzhong area was reduced to a minimum under the drought situation.