Generally speaking, in the current era, the wealthy Song Dynasty is not short of food.
What is short of food is a capital city like Kaifeng, a special area like this.
Even though the area around Kaifeng City is a plain area with many good fields that can be used for farming; unfortunately, with the impressive yield per mu during this period, there is no way to support the millions of soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City.
We can only rely on the power of the world and through a steady stream of water transportation.
Only in the ancient period a thousand years ago, it supported the operation of the most prosperous city on the entire planet at that time.
The result? Since the Jin soldiers surrounded Kaifeng City last year, water transportation was completely cut off, and part of the grain reserves in the city fell into the hands of the Jin soldiers.
The remaining part has been eaten until now, and it is basically exhausted.
Theoretically speaking, as long as we persist for a period of time and wait until other areas of the Song Dynasty continue to transport food through water transportation, the food shortage will naturally be solved.
The problem is, Hu Biao and others know one thing very well:
The current imperial court where Empress Maode resides is itself a deformed product that lacks prestige and is the product of many compromises.
In order to gain recognition from other regional officials and gentry in the Song Dynasty, they would not recommend Zhao Laojiu to rebuild a Southern Song Dynasty as in the original historical line.
Under the instruction of Hu Biao and others, Maode Diji made quite a few compromises based on some experiences of later generations.
What are the harsh policies such as the Hua Shi Gang and the promise that the Song Dynasty will never make peace with each other, not pay tribute, and not become ministers, that the emperor will guard the country, and that the king will die in the country, these are just a small part.
It can be regarded as making the emperor's throne less easy to sit on, allowing Zhao Laojiu to give up and win the hearts of the people at the same time.
The most critical methods were to lavishly grant rewards to local areas and at the same time dedicate a large part of the court's power to win over the hearts and minds of local officials and gentry.
Such an approach has achieved very obvious results.
At least the local officials and gentry who are vested interests currently do not support Zhao Laojiu at all and are thinking about starting over.
But the consequences are also very serious.
Hu Biao and the others were not that worried about some of the long-term consequences, such as the possibility of separatist rule in various places like the late Tang Dynasty.
As long as they wait for their new army to be trained and defeat the Jin people, with huge power and strong army, they will naturally be able to conquer the place again step by step.
Then let Empress Maode, Yue Fei and others slowly improve based on some of the methods they left behind.
The problem is that now, facing such a weak court, can local money and food be handed over as simply as before?
According to the inferences of Hu Biao and others, some of them will still be paid, but it is difficult to survive the current population of 6 to 7 million in Kaifeng City.
The more critical point is that with Hu Biao's military training methods.
If you want to build an elite army, it is the most basic point to have enough food. Otherwise, the soldiers will look disheveled and severely malnourished.
Therefore, the total amount of food that needs to be consumed will be quite terrifying, and the gap will also be huge...
When everyone was looking sad because of the huge pressure on food, Lang Qing suddenly thought of something.
After his eyes lit up, he quickly suggested:
"Lao Hu, next I will take the Ministry of Industry to tackle key problems and manufacture equipment for the new army. Who do you want to take people to Xijing, that is, Luoyang, to see if there is food there?"
"What do you say?" After hearing this, Hu Biao immediately became energetic.
The others also used their eyes to urge this guy to speak quickly.
Under such circumstances, Lang Qing began to elaborate on his reasons: "I remember that Luoyang was not conquered by the Jin soldiers during the Jin soldiers' attack on the Song Dynasty.
In this way, we can look forward to Hanjiacang in Luoyang City.
The so-called Hanjiacang is said to be a large grain storage base built during the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and some are said to have been built under the orders of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
But no matter when it was built, in the modern dimension, in 1971, more than 500,000 kilograms of grain were dug out of a certain underground grain depot ruins.
These are still grains left over from the Tang Dynasty. Not only are they still edible after thousands of years, a large part of them can even successfully sprout.
Counting the grain that was dug out many times over hundreds of years before 1971, the total grain stored in Hanjiacang must be more than one million catties.
In addition, Luoyang did not suffer any war at all this time and could always get some food back, which should alleviate the big problem.
It is also easy to transport grain back. Kaifeng is only more than 400 miles away from Luoyang.
Although the canals dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty are now inaccessible to large ships due to some blockage, they can still be transported back easily with the use of some small boats and some trackers in key places."
After hearing such a statement, Hu Biao immediately started to read it among a group of netizens.
Finally, he looked at Old Snake, who was smoking a cigarette with a loudspeaker, and said: "Old Snake, how about you take Windmill, Li San, Fenghuahui, and Fan Zhu with you and go to Luoyang with a total of five people?"
"No problem~"
"Okay~"
The netizens named above all knew the importance of the food issue, and they all immediately expressed that there was no problem.
However, after a solution like Hanjiacang was given, the expressions on everyone's faces were only slightly more relaxed, but not completely relaxed.
To put it bluntly, this is a simple mathematical problem.
Even the harvest from this trip to Luoyang, including the grain raised from the Luoyang government, reached an astonishing three million kilograms; with so many people in Kaifeng City, the average is only about four kilograms.
The common people dig some wild vegetables and cook them with porridge, so that they can eat sparingly and still eat for a while.
However, those new troops who plan to counterattack the Jin Kingdom must eat and drink well three times a day during high-intensity training.
Based on the actual situation that there is little oil or water in the current meal, and only four kilograms of grain, do you believe that you can eat it in a day or two?
Fortunately, after being inspired by Lang Qing, Barong, a history buff, came up with a good suggestion.
This rookie, who holds the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, organized his speech and then started to propose: "Old Hu, I have a solution here.
The salt industry in the Song Dynasty was still a government monopoly, and a method such as salt introduction also appeared, but the only money collected was money, which was considered an important financial source for the Song Dynasty court.
It's useless for us to hold money now. Why not copy the work of the Ming Dynasty later and let merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River directly transport grain here without any money?
Based on the amount of grain they turn in, a specific amount of salt will be distributed.
In this case, each batch of grain may not be too much; but in order to make astonishing profits, those businessmen with great skills and eyes will definitely ship a steady stream of grain."
Barong's voice finally fell, and Duan Zheng seemed to be inspired, and he also added:
"Since you can copy the work of the Ming Dynasty, then you can also copy the work of the Daqing Dynasty; start selling officials, some vacant officials, as well as wives with imperial orders, etc., just give them food.
With the addition of the above food methods and sources, we should be able to sustain the food harvest this year.
As for the trouble caused, we can just wait until we defeat the Jin soldiers and then wipe the mess slowly, nothing big will happen."
After hearing this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief; just as the captain said, as long as they have enough food in their hands to survive this period of time.
After they formed a new army mainly based on gunpowder weapons, all problems would no longer be a problem.
Maybe the process of setting things right is more painful, but it is much better than the original shame of Jingkang.
In the following time, everyone relaxed and started eating and drinking; mainly because they knew that they would be very tired every day after that, and today's opportunity was rare.
As soon as the wine went dry, everyone started to feel drunk.
Suddenly, Huang Yizhi, who was already a little over the top, slammed the table hard and shouted:
"What the heck! It's only been a little over a month since this mission started. Why does it feel like a long time has passed? I almost want to scroll through my phone to see what happened to Miss Niuniu."
Upon hearing this, Hu Biao, who was also on top, also became interested.
After rolling his eyes, he had some ideas in his mind, but he was still a little uneasy.
For this reason, I asked the imperial concubine who was drinking with netizens while sitting there with an impeccable posture and her back straight, even though she drank an unknown amount.
"Madam, please arrange a black strip A for the brothers, or glass cleaning or something like that. Can the quality be guaranteed?"
"Isn't it just brushing aside, it's not difficult~" the imperial concubine answered immediately, her tone was quite normal; however, from the look in her eyes, it could be seen that the girl was a little unconvinced.
Regarding Hu Biao’s question, it seems a bit uncouth.
As he spoke, he walked straight to the back hall.
But two or three minutes later, the imperial concubine reappeared in front of Hu Biao and others, her image already changed drastically.
Specifically, after the hair is pulled up, a large section of the hem of a good underskirt is torn off to become a short skirt.
At the same time, there is a pair of black socks with letters on the long white legs. It is just like the rumors, they belong to the "Pear Picking Family".
Frankly speaking, after scrolling through my mobile phone for a long time, in the eyes of many veteran SPs, the imperial concubine's outfit is not only friendly, but also quite alluring.
But Hu Biao was still as stubborn as a duck and said: "What the hell! It's okay~"
What I didn't expect was that the imperial concubine above her was also really powerful at this moment, shouting "It's just okay" in her voice, she turned up the volume.
In front of more than twenty people, he tore the socks on his legs with a sound of "呲ala~".
Good guy! I don’t know whose throat it came from, but another sound of swallowing came out. Then, after everyone looked at each other for a while, a huge roar of laughter suddenly came from everyone’s mouths.
It was night, and everyone drank, ate meat, danced, sang, and bragged together until very late.
This was also the most relaxing night they had during this Jingkang Shame mission...
