Chapter 453: The Food Problem
In general, in such a year as the current one, the rich Great Song Dynasty is not short of food.
What is short of food is such a capital city as Kaifeng, such a special area.
Even the area around Kaifeng City is a plain area, and there are many good fields that can be used for farming; It is a pity that with the touching yield per mu in this period, there is no way to feed the millions of soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City.
Only by relying on the power of the world, through a steady stream of transportation.
It was only in the ancient period a thousand years ago that it supported the operation of such a city, which was the most prosperous city on the entire planet at that time.
The result? Since the Jin soldiers besieged Kaifeng City last year, Cao Yun was completely cut off, and part of the grain in the city fell into the hands of Jin Bing.
The rest of the food has been eaten until now, and it is basically exhausted.
Theoretically speaking, as long as you persist for a period of time, wait for other areas of the Great Song Dynasty to continue to transport grain through Cao Yun, and the food shortage can naturally be solved.
The problem is that Hu Biao is very clear about one thing:
The current imperial court where Empress Maude is located is itself a deformed product of insufficient prestige and compromises from many parties.
In order to be recognized by other regional officials and gentry in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Laojiu was not elected to rebuild a Southern Song Dynasty like the original historical line.
Under the instruction of Hu Biao and others, Emperor Mao made quite a lot of compromises with some experience in later generations.
What will never open Huashigang and other harsh policies, promising that the Great Song Dynasty will never be harmonious, will not pay tribute, will not be a minister, the Son of Heaven will guard the country, and the king will die Sheji, these are only a small part.
It can be regarded as making the emperor's throne not so easy to sit on, so that Zhao Laojiu will die and win the hearts of the people at the same time.
Some of the most critical means were to divide a large part of the power of the imperial court while rewarding the local government, and use it to win the hearts and minds of local officials and gentry.
The results achieved by such an approach are very obvious.
At least the local gentry, who are vested interests, do not support Zhao Laojiu at all and want to start again.
But the consequences are also very serious.
Some of the long-term consequences, such as the possibility of causing the late Tang Dynasty, the scene of secession in various places, Hu Biao and they are not so worried.
As long as they wait for their new army to be trained, after one guy overthrows the Jin people, with great power and a strong army, he will naturally be able to re-subdue the place step by step.
According to some of the methods they left behind, let Empress Maode and Yue Fei and others slowly improve.
The question is that now, in the face of such a weak imperial court, can the local money and grain be handed over as simply as before?
According to the inference of Hu Biao and others, some of them will be handed over, but it is difficult to live with the population of six or seven hundred thousand in Kaifeng City.
The more critical point is that Hu Biao's military training methods are used.
If you want to train an elite army, it is the most basic point to be full, otherwise the soldiers will have a look of food and severe malnutrition, and then they will have to beat a wool.
Therefore, the total amount of food that needs to be consumed will be quite terrifying, and the gap will be huge......
When everyone was a little sad because of the huge pressure on food, the little brother Wolf Qing suddenly thought of something.
After his eyes lit up, his mouth quickly suggested:
"Lao Hu, next I will take the Ministry of Industry to tackle key problems and manufacture equipment for the new army; Whoever you ask to take someone to Xijing, that is, Luoyang, to see, there must be food there. ”
"How?" After hearing the words, Hu Biao immediately came to the spirit.
The others also used their eyes to urge this thing to speak quickly.
Under such circumstances, Wolf Qing began to elaborate on his reasons: "I remember that Luoyang was not broken by the Jin soldiers in this Jin Soldier's attack on the Song Dynasty.
In this way, Hanjiacang in Luoyang City, this place can be looked forward to.
The so-called Hanjiacang is said to be a large-scale grain storage base built during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and it is also said to be built by order of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
But no matter when they built it, the modern plane was in the 71st year of the last century; In a certain underground granary site, more than 500,000 catties of grain have been dug up.
These are still the grains left over from the Tang Dynasty, and after thousands of years, not only can they be eaten, but even a large part of them can be successfully sprouted.
Counting the grain that was dug up many times in hundreds of years before 71 years, it must be that the total amount of grain stored in the Jiacang is more than one million catties.
In addition, Luoyang did not suffer any war at all this time, and he can always get some food back, which should alleviate the big problem.
It is also simple to transport the grain back, and Kaifeng is only more than 400 miles away from Luoyang.
Although the canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is now no longer feasible after some blockages, it can still be easily transported back with some small boats, key places and some slender men. ”
After hearing such a statement, Hu Biao immediately watched it among a group of netizens.
finally looked at the old snake who was smoking a cigarette on the side, and said: "Old snake, how about you bring a windmill, Li San, Fenghuahui, and Fan Zhu, a total of five people to Luoyang?" ”
"No problem~"
"OK~"
The netizens who were named above all knew the importance of the food issue, and immediately said that there was no problem.
However, after giving such a solution as Han Jiacang, the expressions on everyone's faces were only a little lighter, not completely relaxed.
To put it bluntly, it's a simple math problem.
Even the harvest of going to Luoyang this time, counting the grain raised from the Luoyang government, reached an astonishing three million catties; There are so many people in Kaifeng City, and the average is only about four catties.
Civilians dig up some wild vegetables to cook porridge, saving food and eating for a while.
However, those new troops who intend to use it to counterattack the Jin country, in high-intensity training, must eat and drink three dry meals a day.
Based on the actual situation that there is no oil and water in the current meal, only four catties of grain, believe it or not, you can eat a clean one in a day or two?
Fortunately, after being inspired by Wolf Qing, Barong, a history buff, then came up with a good suggestion.
This rookie, who has the official title of the right attendant of the household department, after organizing the language, opened his mouth and proposed: "Lao Hu, I have a solution here."
The salt industry in the Song Dynasty was still monopolized by the government, and such a method of salt introduction also appeared, but all the money collected was silver, which was an important source of wealth for the Song Dynasty.
It's useless to take the money now, it's better to copy the homework of the Ming Dynasty later, and let the merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River directly transport the grain, and don't need money.
According to the amount of grain they surrendered, a specific amount of salt was distributed.
In this way, there may not be too much grain in each batch; However, for the sake of staggering profits, those merchants with hands and eyes will definitely bring grain over in a steady stream. ”
Barong's voice fell, and the team seemed to be inspired, and added a sentence in his mouth:
"Since you can copy the homework of the Ming Dynasty, then the Daqing can also do; Let's start selling officials, some vacant officials, and what kind of ladies have orders, just sell them if you give food.
With the addition of the above food means and sources, it should be able to survive this year's grain harvest.
As for the trouble caused, just wait until you finish off Jin Bing and then slowly wipe your buttocks, nothing big will happen. ”
After hearing this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief; As the team is saying, as long as they have enough food in their hands to get through this period of time.
When they formed a new army, which was mainly gunpowder weapons, and formed an army, all problems were not a problem.
Maybe the process of setting things right is more painful, and it's much better than the original shame of Jingkang.
In the following time, everyone let go of their mood to eat and drink; The main thing is that they know that every day after that they will be tired enough, and today's opportunity is rare.
When the wine was dry, everyone was soon drunk.
Suddenly, Huang Yizhi, who was already a little above, slapped the table hard, and shouted in his mouth:
"Special! It's only been more than a month since the start of this mission.,Why does it feel like a long time has passed.,I want to swipe my phone a little bit.,Look at the twist of the little sister.。 ”
As soon as he heard this, Hu Biao, who was also above, was also interested.
After turning his eyes, he had some ideas in his heart, but he was still a little worried.
For this reason, even if I don't know how much I drank, I still used an impeccable sitting posture, sat there with my back straight and drank with netizens in the concubine, and asked:
"Lady, arrange a black bar A for the brothers, or wipe the glass or something, can the quality be guaranteed?"
"Isn't it just rubbing the edges, it's not difficult~" The concubine's mouth immediately replied, and her tone was quite normal; However, with the eyes under her eye waves, it can be seen that this girl is a little unconvinced.
For Hu Biao's question, some are very unmarried.
As he spoke, he had already walked straight to the back hall.
It's just two or three minutes later, the concubine who reappeared in front of Hu Biao and others has already changed her image.
Specifically, after the hair is pulled up, the hem of a good skirt is torn off and becomes a small skirt.
At the same time, on the white and tender long legs, there is a pair of black socks with letters, and sure enough, as rumored, it is the 'pear family'.
Frankly speaking, after swiping the mobile phone for a long time, in the eyes of the old SP, the concubine's dress is not only kind, but also quite sultry.
But Hu Biao is still a dead duck with a hard mouth, and he said: "What! It's okay~"
What I didn't expect was that the concubine above was also really powerful at the moment, and her voice shouting 'It's just making do' in her mouth opened up directly.
In front of more than 20 people, in the sound of 'bang~', he tore the socks on his legs.
Boy! I don't know from whose throat, there was another 'Gu Dong~' sound of swallowing saliva, and then, after everyone looked at each other for a while, a huge laughter suddenly came out of everyone's mouths.
It was night, and everyone drank and ate meat, and danced, and sang, and bragged, until late in the night.
This is also the most relaxing night for them in this Jingkang shameful mission......
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