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Chapter 453 Food Issues
Generally speaking, in the current year, the wealthy Song Dynasty has no shortage of food.

What is short of food is a capital like Kaifeng, such a special area.

Even if the surrounding area of ​​Kaifeng City is a plain area, there are many good fields that can be used for farming; unfortunately, with the impressive 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, it can be transported through continuous water transportation.

Only in the ancient period 1000 years ago, it supported the operation of such a city that was the most prosperous city on the entire planet at that time.

Results?Since Jin Bing surrounded Kaifeng City last year, the water transportation has been completely cut off, and part of the grain stored in the city has fallen into the hands of Jin Bing.

The rest of the food has been eaten up to now, and it is basically at the end of the mountain.

Theoretically speaking, as long as you persist for a period of time, it will be fine to continue to transport grain to other areas of the Song Dynasty through water transport, and the grain shortage will naturally be resolved.

The problem is, Hu Biao and the others are very clear:
The current imperial court where Empress Maode is located is a deformed product of insufficient prestige and compromised by many parties.

In order to get the approval of officials and gentry in other regions of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Laojiu was not recommended to rebuild a Southern Song Dynasty like the original historical line.

Under the instigation of Hu Biao and the others, Empress Maode made quite a few compromises based on her experience in later generations.

What will never open Hua Shi Gang and other tyrannical regimes, promises that the Song Dynasty will never make peace, pay tribute, or submit to ministers, the emperor will guard the gate of the country, and the king will die in the country, etc., 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 can give up his heart and at the same time win the hearts of the people.

Some of the most critical methods are to distribute a large part of the power of the imperial court while rewarding the localities wantonly, and use them to win the hearts of local officials and gentry.

Such an approach, the effect achieved is very obvious.

At least the local officials and gentry, who are vested interests, do not support Zhao Laojiu at all and think about starting anew.

But the consequences are also very serious.

Some of the long-term consequences, such as the possibility of the late Tang Dynasty, the scenes of separatist regimes in various places, Hu Biao and the others are not very worried.

As long as their new army is trained, after one guy overthrows the Jinren, with great power and a strong army, he will naturally be able to re-subdue the local area step by step.

Then according to some of the methods they left behind, let Queen Maude, Yue Fei and others slowly improve it.

The problem is now, facing such a weak court, can the local money and food be handed over as simply as before?

According to the inference of Hu Biao and others, a part of the handover will still be handed over, but it is difficult to think about the population of 70 to [-] living in Kaifeng City.

The more critical point is to use Hu Biao's military training methods.

If you want to train an elite army, it is the most basic point to have enough food, otherwise the soldiers will look disheveled and severely malnourished, then they will have to play a woolen yarn.

Therefore, the total amount of food that needs to be consumed will be quite terrifying, and the gap is also huge...

When everyone was frowning because of the huge pressure on food, the little brother Lang Qing suddenly thought of something.

After his eyes lit up, his mouth quickly suggested:

"Old Hu, next I will take the Ministry of Industry to tackle key problems and manufacture equipment for the new army; who do you ask to take someone to Xijing, that is, Luoyang to see, there must be food there."

"How to say?" After hearing the words, Hu Biao immediately regained his energy.

The others also used their eyes to urge this guy to speak quickly.

Under such circumstances, Lang Qing began to talk about his reasons in detail: "I remember that Luoyang was not attacked by the Jin soldiers during this time when the Jin soldiers attacked the Song Dynasty.

In this way, Hanjiacang in Luoyang City can be a place to look forward to.

The so-called Hanjiacang is said to be a large-scale grain storage base built during the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and it is also said to be built under the order of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty.

But no matter when it was built, in the 71 on the modern plane; in a certain underground grain depot site, 10,000+ catties of grain were dug out.

These are the grains left over from the Tang Dynasty. Not only can they be eaten after a thousand years, but even a large part of them can successfully germinate.

Counting the grain that was dug up many times over hundreds of years before 71 years ago, the total grain stored in the Hanjia warehouse must be more than one million catties.

In addition, Luoyang has not suffered any war at all this time, and can always get some food back, which should alleviate the big problem.

It is also easy to transport the grain back. Kaifeng is only more than 400 miles away from Luoyang.

Although the canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is now impassable for some large ships due to some blockages, but with some small boats, some key places and some trackers, it can still be easily transported back. "

After hearing such a statement, Hu Biao immediately looked at it among a group of netizens.

Finally, he looked at Old Snake, who was smoking a horn-tube cigarette, and said, "Old Snake, how about taking Fengche, Li San, Fenghuahui, and Fan Zhu with you, a total of five people, to Luoyang?"

"No problem~"

"OK~"

The netizens who were named above all knew the importance of the food problem, and immediately expressed that there was no problem.

However, after giving such a solution as Han Jiacang, the expressions on everyone's faces were only slightly relaxed, but not completely relaxed.

To put it bluntly, this is a simple math problem.

Even the harvest from this trip to Luoyang, including the grain raised from the Luoyang government, reached an astonishing 300 million catties; with so many people in Kaifeng City, the average is only about four catties.

The commoners dig some wild vegetables to cook porridge, and they can eat for a while if they save.

However, those new troops who intend to counterattack the Kingdom of Jin must eat and drink three meals a day during intensive training.

Given the fact that there is not much oil and water in the current food, it is 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 Langqing, Barong, a history lover, also thought of a good suggestion.

This rookie with the official title of the right minister of the household department, after organizing his words, started to propose: "Old Hu, I have a solution here.

The salt industry in the Song Dynasty was still monopolized by the government, and a method such as Yanyin also appeared, but all the money was collected, which was an important source of income for the Song Dynasty court.

It's useless for us to have money now, so we might as well copy the homework of the Ming Dynasty later, and let merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River directly transport grain, without money.

According to the amount of food they turned in, a specific amount of salt was distributed.

In this way, each batch of grain may not be too much; but for the astonishing profits, those businessmen with all-hands-on-the-eyes will definitely transport grain over in a steady stream. "

Barong's voice fell, and Quezheng also seemed to be inspired, and added:
"Since you can copy the homework of the Ming Dynasty, so can the Daqing ones; let's start selling officials, some vacant officials, and what's the order of the wife, and sell them for food.

With the addition of the above means and sources of grain, it should be able to last until this year's grain harvest.

As for the trouble caused, just wait until the golden soldiers are overthrown and then wipe your butt slowly, nothing major 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.

After they form a new army mainly based on gunpowder weapons, all problems will be no problem.

Perhaps the process of setting things right is more painful, but it is better than the original shame of Jingkang.

In the following time, everyone let go of their moods and began to eat and drink; the main reason was that they knew that they would be exhausted every day after that, and today's opportunity was rare.

When the wine was drained, everyone was soon full of alcohol.

Suddenly, Huang Yizhi, who was already a little above him, slapped the table vigorously, and shouted:
"What the hell! It's only been a little over a month since the mission started this time, why does it feel like it's been a long time, and I want to swipe my phone a little bit to see what happened to Miss Sister."

Hearing this, Hu Biao, who was also above him, also became interested.

After turning his eyes, he had some ideas in his heart, but he still felt a little worried.

For this reason, facing the noble concubine who was drinking with netizens with an impeccable sitting posture, even if she didn't know how much she drank, she asked:
"Lady, arrange a black strip A for the brothers, or something like cleaning the glass, can you guarantee the quality?"

"Isn't it just rubbing the edge, it's not difficult~" The imperial concubine answered immediately, her tone was quite normal; but from the rolling eyes in her eyes, it could be seen that this girl was a little bit unconvinced.

For such a question as Hu Biao's, it's a bit unwieldy.

While speaking, he walked straight to the back hall.

But two or three minutes later, the imperial concubine reappeared in front of Hu Biao and others, and her image has changed drastically.

Specifically, after the hair is pulled up, the hem of a good skirt is torn off to become a short skirt.

At the same time, on the white and tender long legs, there was a pair of black socks with letters, as expected, they belonged to the "Pear Family".

Frankly speaking, after swiping the phone for a long time, in the eyes of all the old SPs, the dress of the imperial concubine is not only kind, but also quite seductive.

But Hu Biao is still as stubborn as a dead duck, and said: "So what! It's okay~"

What I didn't expect was that the noble concubine above was also very powerful at the moment, and the voice of "it's still just enough" was directly opened up.

In front of more than [-] people, with a sound of "呲啦~", I tore the socks on my legs.

Good guy!I don't know whose throat, there was another "gudong~" sound of swallowing saliva; and then, after everyone looked at each other for a while, a huge laughter suddenly came from everyone's mouths.

It was night, and everyone drank, ate meat, danced, sang, and bragged together until very late.

This is also the most relaxing night for them in this mission of Jingkang's Shame...

(End of this chapter)