The food of more than 30 warships is not a small amount, but for the refugees in the territory controlled by Zhao Shuo, it can only last for a few months. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this is enough for Zhao Shuo.

There is a first, there is a second. For the first time, he helped Li Chao to quell the rebellion and buy grain, but later he stopped the rebellion and became a special purchase of grain.

But among them, Zhao Shuo has a worry, that is, whether such a huge fleet has maintained secrecy during the journey.

If the kind of espionage of the Jin Kingdom also happened in the Great Song Dynasty, it would not be a good thing.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shuo said to Zhang Chujiu. "Is there any new news, about the fleet, to the south."

Zhao Shuo broke the sentence several times, but emphasized the word south. Zhang Chujiu is not stupid, he knows very well what the south refers to.

"Da Song has now designated a series of policies to rest with the people, and all his thoughts are devoted to the issue of appeasing the refugees, so this time, it is quite smooth."

After listening to Zhang Chujiu's words, Zhao Shuo nodded. "Then you send a message to Zhao Cheng, and ask him to unload all the grain to the port of Laizhou, and immediately lead the fleet to the port of Dengzhou."

"Yes!" Zhang Chujiu saluted, turned around and left.

After Zhang Chujiu left, Zhao Shuo muttered to himself. "Let Ju Zheng come back to guard Luoyang, Zhao Cheng led all the big ships to the Li Dynasty to buy grain again, and strive to sweep the Li Dynasty's granary as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night."

Zhao Shuo's general order soon spread to Laizhou, and after Zhao Cheng received the order, although he had not yet figured out what the situation was, he immediately arranged manpower and began to implement Zhao Shuo's general order.

Five days later, all 30 boatloads of sweet potatoes were unloaded at the Laizhou wharf, and then Zhao Cheng led the fleet to set sail to Dengzhou.

After Zhao Cheng left, local officials in Laizhou began to organize local people and garrisons to transport grain to Laizhou warehouses. If the warehouse can't be loaded, look for the nearest prefecture for resettlement.

Zhao Shuo did not plan to distribute these grains to refugees for free, but decided to sell them.

This time, Zhao Shuo paid a lot of price for sending Li Chao, if he sent it for free, Zhao Shuo would have to die.

If you sell it, even if it's cheaper, you can earn back some capital.

While Laizhou officials were carrying sweet potatoes, Zhao Cheng's army arrived in Dengzhou. Ju Zheng had already received Zhao Shuo's order at this time.

Seeing Zhao Cheng coming, after the two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while, Ju Zheng handed over all the warships to Zhao Cheng. Subsequently, he left Dengzhou with the escort and went straight to Luoyang.

At the meeting when Juzheng went straight to Luoyang, Zhao Shuo was thinking about something new, how to transport sweet potatoes from Laizhou to various places.

If it is pulled by car, it obviously takes too long. After thinking about it, Zhao Shuo thought of the waterway.

If it had been transported all the way along the Yellow River, the problem would have been much easier. But in order to transport it from the Yellow River, there is another problem, and that is to control the Yellow River first.

At this time, although the Yellow River had a large sediment deposit, due to the weather, the drought and flood were uncertain, and it was often diverted to flood the surrounding farmland.

Harnessing the Yellow River is a big project, and it is by no means something that can be solved in three days or two days.

Obviously, it is difficult to transport food by water, or rather, it is difficult in a short period of time.

The water route is not possible, and the land route is too slow, and it will take a lot of manpower and material resources.

Zhao Shuo raised his head slightly. "If only there were trains, it would be easy to do."

Speaking of trains, Zhao Shuo had an idea, yes, you can try a train first.

Trams, Harmony, Zhao Shuo can't get them for the time being, but it's still possible to get a steam locomotive.

"Steam engine, steam engine......" After chanting a few times, Zhao Shuo laughed. Just get a steam engine. ”

Although the decision has been made, it is not something that can be done in a short period of time. Therefore, Zhao Shuo had to adopt the most primitive method, loading sweet potatoes from generation to generation, and then transporting them from Laizhou to various places.

In order to restore calm to the controlled territory as soon as possible, Zhao Shuo was the first to transport sweet potatoes to Qidi and the Huai River-north of Dasanguan.

In these places, Zhao Shuo chose a good storefront, and as soon as the sweet potatoes arrived, they began to sell.

In these small shops, according to Zhao Shuo's requirements, there are special masters who are responsible for handing over how to eat sweet potatoes.

Eat it raw, really this time, eat it while it is burned, roasted, and stewed...... I was dazzled by a variety of ways to eat. In addition, the price of sweet potatoes is not expensive, so as soon as it was put on the market, it was immediately respected by people everywhere.

Those who have money have to spend money, and for those who really have no money and are about to starve to death on the streets, the small shops have rescued them in the name of doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, so that the local people have more admiration and respect for the sweet potato shops.

With the gambling competition promoted by Zhao Shuo as the foundation, many people actually have some food in their hands. At this time, coupled with the replenishment of sweet potatoes into the market, it can be said that as long as there are enough sweet potatoes, the refugee problem can be solved.

After surviving this year, next year the whole people will plant sweet potatoes, and the refugee problem will be completely eliminated.

When Juzheng, who was in a hurry, arrived in Luoyang, Zhao Shuo had already returned to Luoyang and Chang'an.

Zhao Shuo ordered that all things in Luoyang should be represented by Ju Zheng with full authority, and Ju Zheng was allowed to recruit troops in the Luoyang area.

At this time, three or four days have passed since the sweet potato trafficking, and in these three or four days, the refugees in various places have begun to stabilize. There is also a lot less gambling that is shouted all day long.

Now with Zhao Shuo's efforts, most of the refugees can be fed, clothed, and starved to death, they are honest people, in order to survive, they began to gamble, now that they can live, then gambling, an activity they already hate, naturally do not participate.

Of course, although they do not participate in gambling activities, the family sits together and fights the landlord, and the fight and escalation will often occur. Only this time, they weren't raising their bets.

The changes in Zhao Shuo's control soon spread out. The rulers of various countries took this news very seriously.

Zhao Shuo got the food, it was still strange food, they didn't care about the strangeness of the food, what they cared about was where Zhao Shuo got the food.

There are refugees in all countries, and now Zhao Shuo has solved this problem, which is a threat to neighboring countries.

After solving the refugee problem, Zhao Shuo can devote himself to economic or military development, and with Zhao Shuo's ingenuity, it will not be long before he will research something new. This is not what neighboring countries want to see.

They were jealous that Zhao Shuo had gotten food, and they were worried that Zhao Shuo would use this to free up his hands to research weapons against them. They couldn't accept this kind of thing, so the countries around Zhao Shuo took action almost at the same time.