After hearing Wu Haogu's analysis, let alone the "cowardly" Han Zhongyan, even the two capable people, Zhang Shangying and Zhang Shuye, had a refreshing feeling.

Before, everyone only thought about Fuyan or Buyiyan, but never thought about what to feed hundreds of thousands or even more Yanyun City people after Fuyan succeeded.

The Land of Yanyun has been in Liaodu for almost two hundred years! It has long been part of the domestic economic division of labor in Liao. In later generations, Yanyun Land is the industrial and commercial center of Liao. Most of the handicraft products produced by Yanyun and the Song Dynasty goods imported through Yanyun were sold to other parts of the Liao Kingdom and even the Western Regions. The fertile land of Liao Kingdom Tokyo Road is the main grain producing area and the collection site for export raw materials such as furs and medicinal materials. Yanyun, especially Yanjing, used handicraft products to exchange grain, furs, medicinal materials and other materials with the Tokyo Road of Liao Kingdom.

In other words, the land of Yanyun and other places in the Liao Kingdom are economically interdependent! Even to the point where they are inseparable!

If the Song Dynasty wanted to regain Yanyun, not to mention anything else, at least we had to have enough food to feed the Han people in Yanyun area? Otherwise, there would be no food to eat, so who would tell you about national justice?

It is impossible to imagine that the people of Yanyun should feed the people of Liao and seize the Tokyo Road... Since the Tokyo Road cannot be taken, then the only way to use the food of the Song Dynasty to fill the gap.

But was the Song Dynasty capable of mobilizing millions of stones of grain to Yanyun every year? Now, just transporting grain to the Shaanxi army and Kaifeng Prefecture has already caused great headaches for the court. If you want to give Yanyun one million stones... I am afraid no one dares to do it.

Wu Haogu scanned the faces of the three of them and smiled and said, "If there were no million stones of rice and grain per year to be exported to Yan, then what the court would get would not be the land of Yanyun, but the Yuyang drum that would come from the ground at any time!"

It seems that this Yanyun land cannot be restored no matter what!

The same answer came to mind in Han Zhongyan, Zhang Shangying and even Zhang Shuye! Because it is impossible to transport one million stones of grain to Yanyun every year, it would be fine if there was no damn "Sanyi Huihe". At least Hebei East Road is fertile and the treasury is full. But now the Great Plain of Hebei East Road is flooded every year, and the empty treasury can run away. I need other places to provide relief to Yanyun like this?

As for Hebei West Road and Hedong Road, there are mountainous terrain, producing carbonite and porcelain. If you don’t produce much grain, it is impossible to take out a million stones of surplus grain a year.

If you cross the Yellow River south, you won’t expect it. There are big cities such as Kaifeng Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, and Shaanxi’s Western Army. The Central Plains region has to import millions of stones of grain every year to eat, which has already made the canal system overwhelmed.

Not to mention transferring grain from the Central Plains, it is impossible to use the exhausted canal system to transport millions of stones of rice to Yanyun a year.

Wu Haogu sighed, "But if this Yanyun land is restored, our dynasty cannot help but be able to do so! If the palace, as the pillar stone of the Great Liao Dynasty, was defeated by the trumpet in Mobei, then the collapse of the Great Liao Dynasty would have happened for several years. At that time, can our dynasty stop the Yanyun land and watch it fall into the hands of the enemy?

If Yan Yun enters the hands of a newly rising enemy, can I have peace in Song Dynasty? Most of the iron tools of the Liao Kingdom come from Yan Yun! Moreover, Yan Yun still has millions of people, and among them, they are hundreds of thousands of people!

The century-old peace between our Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom was not only exchanged for 500,000 yuan, but was fought by our millions of imperial guards in the Song Dynasty in many bloody battles!”

That's right, the peace between the Song and Liao dynasties was a forced route that both sides took after several bloody battles, and after finding that they had no strength to conquer the other side.

This peaceful route cannot be easily inherited by the powerful enemy who rose from the Liao Dynasty - you, the rich Song Dynasty, are there, and people will promise 500,000 yuan in annual monies without taking a few bites? How can there be such a barbarian who is so easy to talk to?

If you want humiliating peace, you have to fight again!

In other words, once the Liao Kingdom collapsed, there would be a battle in the Song Dynasty.

Since a war is inevitable, there is nothing wrong with regaining Yan Yun when the Liao Kingdom collapses. The problem is just how to regain and how to integrate Yan Yun into the Song Dynasty after the regaining.

Before the Northern Expedition in history, the Song Dynasty court never thought about these problems. In the end, although he had to spend money to bribe the Jurchens, he barely recovered Yan Yunzhi. However, he was still unable to solve the problem of eating and integration in Yan Yunzhi, which resulted in a terrible disaster.

As a bourgeois businessman and dirty official, Wu Haogu was of course considering the problems more comprehensively... So after learning about the industry and commerce of Nanjing Road in Liao Kingdom and the need to import rice and grain from Liaodong, he immediately thought of the food and work problems of hundreds of thousands of Yanyun City people.

Hundreds of thousands of Yan people have no food and no jobs, so it would be strange if they don’t get messy! Even if the Jurchens were not invaded by the Alliance in history, Guo Yaoshi’s cheating product would probably become An Lushan.

"But Jiehe Market cannot produce millions of stones of rice?" Han Zhongyan asked.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Dafu, Jiehe Commercial City is a harbor commercial city!

Now the millions of slates of rice and grain transported from Liaodong to Yanjing are all from Jiehe River to the sea and then to Yanjing. However, due to the shallow water of the inland river, the Liao people can only transport Liaodong rice and grain by small boats, and they often capsize. If Jiehe Market is launched, Jiehe Market will definitely become the transportation center for Liao grain to enter Yan.

Although Jiehe Market still does not produce rice and grain, the grain transport ships, loading and unloading docks, and grain storage warehouses will be built, and Huai grain can be transported from Haizhou to Yan at that time."

In fact, there is still food, but the grain production areas that are capable of exporting a large amount of rice and grain are in Huainan and Jiangnan. To transport millions of stones of rice and grain from the Jianghuai River to Yanjing can only go by water. If you want to take land, you will consume more food on the road than you transport it to Yanjing, and you will also need to recruit a large number of people, which will cost you money and make money.

Water transportation can only rely on sea transportation, because the current canal system can only deal with the consumption of Kaifeng Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Henan Prefecture and the Western Army, and is unable to provide food for Yanyun any longer.

Navigation is a kind of ability that requires long-term accumulation and investment. It is not a day when one day it takes to build a large wooden ship to have a navy and an ocean-going fleet. A century-old navy is definitely an exaggeration, but if the Song Dynasty wants to have a fleet that can transport grain to Yanyun in twenty years - a fleet that can transport grain to Yanyun - it can also transport troops to Liaodong - then it must start from now on, and it is best to take over the transaction of transporting grain to Liao Kingdom. Only in this way can the fleet be maintained and the team is trained.

In the future struggle against Jin, such a powerful maritime force is the most precious force!

Not to mention transporting millions of stones of rice and grain, even if you transport 500,000 stones a year, you still need to maintain a huge fleet of hundreds of sea ships!

Han Zhongyan stroked his beard and repeatedly pondered Wu Haogu's words in his heart. Although he believed that Wu Haogu was a close blessing from the bottom of his heart, he had to admit that this close blessing was still two tricks. At least he found a very tenable reason for building Jiehe Market... In the future, whether it is to destroy Liao or aid Liao, whether it is a war or a bribery, it seems that it is inseparable from Jiehe Market and the huge fleet based on Jiehe Market.

It seems that Jiehe Commercial Market should still be handled!

And this Wu Haogu... although it is a recent blessing, it can still be used.

...

In the south of Daming Prefecture, there is a deep mansion with a lot of atmosphere, which is the ancestral home of the Pan family general. Wu Haogu visited here a year ago and also painted the first oil painting in human history, "Pan Suer's Smile", and also established his position as a master in the history of human painting.

Uh, great artist!

Today, the great artist Wu Haogu once again came to the gate of this newly renovated mansion.

This time, the old place revisited for the lifelong event that seemed to be less popular with his younger brother Wu Haowen. Wu Haogu is of course a new party now, but this does not mean that his younger brother also wants to join the new party. The fact that brothers belong to two parties is not uncommon in the struggle between the old and new parties in the Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi's two brothers, Wang Anli and Wang Anguo, were both old parties who opposed reform!

Moreover, Wu Haogu also knew that after Song Huizong came to power, he changed the policy of his brother Zhezong using the new party and delegating power to Prime Minister Zhang Dun. Instead, he adopted the old method of using both the old and the different arguments to disturb each other - to put it bluntly, he let the ministers in the court bite the dog, and the emperor, as a fisherman, reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Although later generations always commented that Song Huizong would not be an emperor, in fact, his emperor's mind is no worse than other emperors, he just can't fight... In fact, who could fight except Zhao Kuangyin in the Song Dynasty? No one can do it!

In this case, Wu Haogu would naturally not let his younger brother Wu Haowen follow his footsteps and join Cai Jing's disciple. Moreover, he is a close friend of the official businessman, while Wu Haowen is a literati and a hero outside Donghua Gate. The two brothers should take different routes!

So Wu Haogu had long been thinking about finding a wife with an old party background for his younger brother. Therefore, when he was in Kaifeng Prefecture, he discussed with Pan Qiaolian that the Pan family's generals were actually close to the old party, and Pan Qiaolian was also very familiar with the daughters of many old party bosses. Therefore, he recommended several candidates for Wu Haogu, the most suitable one was the daughter of the Han family in Xiangzhou.

That is, Han Qi's granddaughter and great-granddaughter generation, and there are still many people. The Han family is a great clan in Xiangzhou. From his great-grandfather Han Yu to Han Qi's generation, he has been an official in the family and three Jinshi. Han Qi himself has five sons, and the sons have all given birth to a lot of children, so the Han family also has a lot of daughters.

However, Wu Haogu himself couldn't come forward to propose marriage to his younger brother. As soon as he was lucky, the officials and merchants had no face, but Pan Xiaoyan, the patriarch of the Pan family's general, was in Daming Mansion these days. His family's ancestral tomb was flooded again, so he wanted to see if he wanted to move the tomb.
Chapter completed!