The stronghold on the Luzon side is more than ninety percent sure that it can be defended under the attack of the natives, which is great news for Zhao Yanlai, but although the stronghold does not have to worry, there is something that makes him even more headache next, that is, how to deal with the Liuke Kingdom that attacked them in the future?

Originally, with Zhao Yan's plan, when he encountered an attack overseas, he would definitely use thunder to fight back, kill God when he met God, and kill Buddha when he met Buddha, so this Liuke Kingdom dared to attack him, and it was already on Zhao Yan's list of kills, but this Liuke Kingdom was a little special, because the capital of their kingdom was located in the interior of Luzon Island, and the surrounding rainforest, if they wanted to attack them, they could only pass through the rainforest, but the Great Song Dynasty soldiers were not familiar with the rainforest at all, and if they rashly entered the dangerous rainforest, I'm afraid that the other party's capital has been wiped out before it can be done.

Or if the Liuke Kingdom fails to attack the stronghold of Banana Bay, it will definitely retreat in the capital, and if Zhao Yan does not attack the other party, then with the grudge they have formed, the Liuke Kingdom will definitely not give up, and then the Banana Bay stronghold will face the endless harassment of the natives.

Thinking of the above situation, Zhao Yan can't do it if he doesn't want to have a headache, he can't fight if he doesn't want to, and he can't reach the other party if he wants to fight, this situation is really embarrassing, of course, it's not impossible, for example, Zhao Yan is thinking about whether to win over some native kingdoms on Luzon Island, and then use these native kingdoms as thugs to sweep away the enemies on the island for the Great Song Dynasty, of course, there are pros and cons to doing so, the advantage is that the Great Song Dynasty does not have to take action personally, let alone risk entering the tropical jungle, but the disadvantages are obviously obvious, that is, it is possible to raise tigers. When the other kingdoms were destroyed, the kingdoms supported by the Great Song Dynasty would definitely become even stronger, and the Great Song Dynasty would want to dominate Luzon. There will definitely be another conflict with these kingdoms.

Half a month later, the news finally came from Luzon again, the Liuke Kingdom gathered 20,000 troops to attack the stronghold of Banana Bay, but unfortunately this news had already been known by the stronghold, and the evil ghosts and others were also fully prepared, and when the army of the Liuke Kingdom came to attack. However, he was ambushed and killed by evil ghosts, killing and wounding five or six thousand people, and even the native prince who led the army was killed in battle, but this also made the Great Song Dynasty and the Liuke Kingdom form an undying enmity.

Although the king of the Liuke Kingdom suffered the pain of losing his son, he also saw the gap between himself and the Great Song Dynasty from this battle, and there were so many sons that it was nothing to die one, so in the end, he held back the anger in his heart and temporarily gave up his plan to take revenge. Instead, he took advantage of his own strengths, not only forbade his own people to trade with the Great Song Dynasty, but also sent people everywhere to harass and attack the Song people, and for a time there were many casualties among the Song people in Luzon, which made most of them stay in the stronghold and dare not come out.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Yan had no choice but to destroy the Liuke Kingdom as much as possible, otherwise it would bring a heavy blow to his strategy in Luzon. So Zhao Yan could only let Xu Yuan go to Luzon again, but he didn't go to attack the Liuke Kingdom. Instead, Xu Yuan came forward to encircle some native kingdoms, according to the news that Zhao Yan inquired, there are many enemies of the Liuke Kingdom, and among the seven known seven native kingdoms alone, three have a huge conflict of interest with the Liuke Kingdom, so as long as the Great Song is willing to pay some price. These native kingdoms must be very willing to destroy each other for the Great Song Dynasty.

Just after Zhao Yan finished dealing with the affairs of Luzon, he finally didn't have anything big in his hands, so he accompanied a wife and children at home, but he didn't expect that only a few months had passed, but a big thing suddenly appeared in the world.

The drought is coming. Moreover, it is a great drought in the world, and the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, regardless of the north and south, has encountered a great drought that is rare in a century, countless crops have died in the ground, and it can be said that there is no harvest for thousands of miles in the red land, according to the intelligence obtained by Zhao Yan, the grain harvest of the Great Song Dynasty this year is likely to be less than half of that of previous years.

"Food! Grain! There will definitely be a huge food shortage in the imperial court this year, what can I do? Su Shi, who was far away in Qiongzhou, also rushed back to Guangzhou immediately after hearing the news, but now he is at a loss for anything about this matter, you must know that the total grain output has been reduced by half, which means that half of the people in the Great Song Dynasty will not be able to eat, and I don't know how many people will starve to death by then?

Zhao Yan also frowned at this time, he was not only worried about food now, but if he remembered correctly, it seemed that Wang Anshi had boycotted the prime minister for the first time in history, because of this rare drought, originally if it was in normal times, Wang Anshi would have been dismissed Zhao Yan would only be happy, but in the face of this kind of natural disaster, if Wang Anshi was dismissed, it would definitely bring unprecedented shocks to the political situation of the Great Song Dynasty, and it would definitely affect the strength of disaster relief, and the world still doesn't know how many more people will die?

"Your Highness, I heard that the big island in the South Ocean is rich in rice, let's send people to buy more, even if we can't solve this drought, but we will finally do some modest efforts." At this time, Su Shi suddenly stopped and said again, in the face of such a great drought, he could only think of this way.

"Although Nanyang is rich in rice and there is no shortage of grain, those natives are too lazy and don't usually store grain at all, and we rarely buy grain from Nanyang, so if we send people to collect it now, I'm afraid there will be no harvest." Zhao Yan frowned and said, he didn't think it was a good way to go to Nanyang to buy grain.

"Then what should I do, is it possible to watch hundreds of people starve to death in this catastrophe?" Su Shi actually knew that his idea was a little unfeasible, so he sat down with a decadent face at this time.

"Not necessarily, Your Highness, why did you forget that there is another place where a large amount of grain is stored?" At this moment, Zhao Yan suddenly heard a woman's voice from outside the living room, and then a woman wearing a sailor's uniform walked in, it was Xu Yuan's old subordinate Yu Niang, and Zhao Yan also knew that this Yu Niang and Xu Yuan had some unclear relationships.

"Oh? Where is the place where General Qi said that a large amount of grain is stored? Zhao Yan immediately asked, because of the relationship between Yu Niang and Xu Yuan, he didn't feel very good about Yu Niang, plus she was a woman, so she was rarely invited to come to the meeting, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to come this time.

"Your Highness, do you still remember the great thing we did before our Rakshasa Army attached to the Great Song Dynasty?" Yu Niang did not answer Zhao Yan's question directly, but asked rhetorically.

"Attached, what did you do before?" Zhao Yan was also stunned when he heard this, and then his face also showed a contemplative expression, and finally remembered, and immediately spoke, "General Qi, you are talking about the incident of the Rakshasa Death attacking the city?" ”

At the beginning, Zhao Shu was seriously ill, so Zhao Yan informed Xu Yuan to show his strength, in order to get the opportunity to attach, so Xu Yuan led the Rakshasa army to enter the city, and captured most of the cities along the coast of the other party in one fell swoop, and then finally attracted the attention of the Great Song Dynasty, and finally married the princess of Shu, but it was easy to capture the port of Zhancheng, and it was not yet the strength of the Great Song Dynasty to hold there, so in the end, the Rakshasa army only searched the various ports, and then withdrew under the order of the Great Song Dynasty, and by the way, the Great Song Dynasty also sold a favor to the cityAfter all, Champa was also a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Royal Highness is wise, the last general said this is exactly this, Zhancheng has been rich in rice since ancient times, my Great Song Dynasty's rice is at most two crops a year, but there are three or even four rice varieties a year, when our Rakshasa army entered Zhancheng, they found that their port warehouses were full of rice, some rice has been corrupted into soil because it has been stored for too long, but unfortunately we had few people at that time, and we couldn't get back these rices at all, so we could only burn them with fire." When Yu Niang said at the end, she also showed a pity on her face, if she could transport all those rice back, I am afraid that Da Song would not have to worry about this year's food problem.

"It's all burned? You...... You're too ...... What a loser! Su Shi heard this but was distressed, he also remembered that the ancient books had recorded that Zhancheng was rich in rice, and Zhancheng is different from the natives of Nanyang, they are influenced by the Central Plains, they are better at farming, and they also have the habit of storing grain, don't look at the small place of Zhancheng, but their national grain production is very terrifying.

"Hehe, Brother Zizhan is so confused, it has been several years since the Rakshasa army attacked Zhancheng, and now after all these years of recuperation, I'm afraid that the warehouses in Zhancheng must be full of rice again, and now we just need to send a ship to buy it!" Zhao Yan reminded with a smile at this time, he didn't expect that Zhancheng, who usually doesn't pay much attention, would solve this big trouble in front of him, and hoped that the food reserves on the Zhancheng side were abundant enough, after all, the number of people affected by the disaster on the side of the Great Song Dynasty was really a lot.

The drought in the Great Song Dynasty is still spreading, and more and more places have no harvest, thanks to the good harvest in the Great Song Dynasty in the past few years, coupled with the improvement of the economic situation in the Great Song Dynasty, so many people have stored some grain at home, so there has not been a hunger tide in a short period of time, but there are still some places where the victims are really unable to withstand it, and they began to flee to other places.

As the so-called disaster relief is like fighting fires, Zhao Yan immediately organized a large number of fleets to go to Zhancheng to buy grain after knowing that there was food in Zhancheng, and now the entire sea trade is in his control, so it is very easy to requisition some sea ships, and it is worth mentioning that although the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty have a lot of profit desires for this generation, but there are also a considerable number of people who know how to take care of the overall situation, many of them are their own time to buy grain and transport it to the Great Song Dynasty, and even some people personally escort them, for these merchants, Zhao Yan also let people record, There will be even greater returns in the future.

However, what Zhao Yan never expected was that it was very smooth to buy grain in Zhancheng at the beginning, but it didn't take long for the Zhancheng side to suddenly be unable to buy grain, but as far as Zhao Yan knew, the grain reserves in Zhancheng were far more than that. (To be continued......)