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As a metropolis with a population of 1.5 million, the amount of food consumed by Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty every day is indeed an astronomical amount. But in the same way, the amount of grain hoarded in Bianliang City over the years is also an astronomical amount.

-- Bianliang is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is the most elite in the world, surrounded by the vast plains with the longest history of agricultural development in China, and has been an important grain producing place in the world since ancient times. In addition, the government of the Song Dynasty spared no expense to build canals and plan irrigation, so the grain production was quite huge. As an inland water transport hub in the eastern part of the Central Plains, the Great Song Dynasty could also easily access the guò waterway and mobilize grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital.

In this case, even though there is a shortage of food in the Bianliang market, there is still enough food in the warehouse. The grain merchant guild in Kaifeng Prefecture alone hoarded at least two million stone rice and wheat. And in the mansions of those princes and high-ranking officials, wealthy families who hoarded 10,000 stones of rice and grain abounded.

10,000 stone of grain, if you save some food, it is enough for 10,000 people to eat for half a year!

And the total amount of grain stored in Bianliang City at this time is enough for the entire population of the city to eat for at least a year!

But the problem is that whenever there is a national crisis, black-hearted profiteers and ** officials who hoard Juqi will always be indispensable.

-- As a result, it was only a month before the Jin soldiers crossed the river to besiege the city, and the city of Bianliang, which could last for a year, was already full of hunger and purgatory.

“…… Since the siege of the city by the Jin soldiers, the Kaifeng Grain Merchant Guild, which has hoarded a large amount of rice and grain, has the idea of making the price of grain rise to the sky, so as to take the opportunity to scrape a layer of oil from the people of Limin. If you suddenly get a large amount of grain to stabilize the prices of the Jingshi and completely smash their wishful thinking, how do you think they will deal with you? Guo Jing explained to Wang Qiu, "...... I'm an imposter and I don't have what it takes to protect you! ”

“…… They are so openly disrupting and sabotaging the War of Resistance in the city, doesn't Kaifeng Mansion care? Wang Qiu exclaimed in surprise.

“…… Who cares? As a large company that can monopolize the supply of grain, how can the grain merchants in Kaifeng have no background? In this Bianliang City, I don't know how many princes, princesses, prime ministers, and princes are waiting to share some benefits from the grain merchants' guild! ”

“…… Princess, Prime Minister, Princess...... Are they crazy? Wang Qiu couldn't help but gasp, "...... Today is already the tenth day of the first month, and in another half a month at most, after the Jin soldiers break the city on the 25th of this month, even if these ministers and nobles, Jin Zhi Yuye accumulate more property, they will all be robbed of their homes, and even they themselves will be taken away by the Jin soldiers. The male became slaves, oxen, and horses until he died of overwork; Thousands of female prostitutes rode across thousands of people, gave birth to a bunch of wild slaves, and even the queen was forced to dance striptease and sleep in bed...... The tragedy and grievance of Jingkang's shame are not for fun! But what are they doing now? Dig into the already dangerous siege of the city? ”

Looking at the few luxurious official sedan chairs in the distance, Wang Qiu's eyes even showed a trace of pity, "...... Are they dying? What about death? Or are you dying? ”

“…… What's the solution? It's hard to give up good money! Capitalists, for the sake of profit, will even sell the rope to the enemy to hang themselves. And the magnates of the feudal dynasty are also the masters who don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin. ”

Guo Jing shrugged and replied, "...... You may have also heard that when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was faced with an empty treasury and soldiers who had not been paid for several months, so he had to beg the wealthy families in Beijing in every way, but the noble and wealthy families in Beijing still had nothing to pull out and refused to donate their property to labor the army, and finally caused the Ming army to defend the city without food and salary, and collapsed without a fight. As a result, as soon as Li Zicheng entered the city, he put the magnates on the sticks one by one and tortured them, killed a bunch of people on the spot, and immediately tortured 70 million taels of silver...... Aren't these Ming Dynasty nobles unclear that once Li Zicheng's peasant army enters the city, they will immediately raid their homes or even exterminate their clans? But they still did not hesitate to betray the emperor, and did not wait for the opportunity to flee with their family wealth, but cut off their own way of life - not because of luck and insatiable greed?

In the same way, in order to overwhelm the main battle faction in the court, the ministers of the Song Dynasty during the Jingkang period even did not hesitate to forge military orders on the eve of the Jin soldiers crossing the river to the south, and sent the troops of the Qin Kings from all walks of life back to their original places, making the defense of the Beijing division empty, which was even more crazy than the Jin spies, and the goal was only to make the ministers of the main battle faction lose the courage to fight - the national defense forces have been ruined like this, see how you still fight the main war?

As a result, after the Jin soldiers broke through the city, the Jurchens did not give these lords and faction 'heroes' a good look at all, but still robbed them of their property, humiliated their female dependents, and took them to serve as slaves. It's really a trick to the death contest! All kinds of absurd deeds can definitely make people jaw-dropping! ”

Speaking of this, Political Commissar Guo Jing couldn't help but sneer, "...... In fact, if there were really loyal ministers who came to Bianliang from other places with rescue troops, then instead of being grateful and rewarded, he would be hated by the gang leaders and ministers and regarded as enemies! Even the main battle faction will be wary of rescuers! In the last Bianjing offensive and defensive battle, Chongshidao rushed to the rescue from the border of northern Shaanxi with tens of thousands of western troops, but he was killed by the court scholars and doctors he saved! The main reason is that the troops are too strong and difficult to place! With such a precedent, how can the righteous people in the world not be cold-hearted? ”

“…… Oh my God, these guys are so weird! After others were besieged, they were looking forward to the rescuers, but they hated the rescuers to the core? Are they suicide lovers? Moreover, seeing them die like this, why didn't the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty care? ”

Although Nobita was confused about the above esoteric topics, Doraemon still heard some of the doorways and asked so.

“…… Emperor Zhao Heng of Qinzong? Well, his capital is indeed a little more abundant than that of Emperor Chongzhen, and there is still a lot of money and grain in the palace and the treasury, but first he has to supply 70,000 soldiers to defend the city, and there is also the division of King Qin who may arrive at any time, and it is already the limit to be able to set up a cauldron in Kaifeng Mansion to boil some gruel to help the homeless. As for punishing the powerful and noble who hoard grain...... Emperor Qinzong is afraid that he doesn't have this determination at all! ”

Regardless of whether this cat-type machine can be understood or not, Guo Jing continued to explain, "...... What's more, for this siege of Bianliang, food supply is not an important thing, in today's Bianliang City, after all, there are only a few broken households without food for the night, and the ordinary citizens have more or less stored some food before the siege of the Jin soldiers, and then they can't wait for their food to run out, this Bianliang City should be breached! ”

-- The second Bianliang offensive and defensive battle in history, from the first attack of the Jin army on the first day of the leap month to the destruction of the city, lasted less than a month, and the two sides still had a lot of time to confront each other, and the main energy of the Jin soldiers was to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and the real large-scale siege operations were not much...... But that's it, Bianliang City, which has a population of one million, 70,000 defenders, and a mountain of ordnance and grain, has still been breached!

The length of time these 70,000 Song troops held out in Dubianliang was even less than the defense of Constantinople in 1453, when the Eastern Roman Empire was destroyed, when the last Eastern Roman emperor had 9,000 defenders against 100,000 Turks! It's been two months!

It can be seen from this that the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry is so strong, and how incompetent and wasteful the Great Song Forbidden Army is.

And what's even more sad is that the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty during the Jingkang period - to put it mildly, even if you change a few pigs to sit in the court, you are stronger than them!

At least pigs don't know how to die, but people kill themselves!

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ps: Explanation of the confusion of the title of the Northern Song Dynasty: The people of the Song Dynasty officially called Kaifeng Tokyo, but this is the same as Tokyo, Japan. Bianliang, Bianjing and Kaifeng are all commonly used legal titles, and later generations mostly use Kaifeng, while the Song people mostly use Bianliang - everyone knows where the city is.

In fact, the first big city built in Kaifeng was the capital of Wei during the Warring States Period.