As a megacity with a population of 1.5 million, Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, consumed an astronomical amount of food every day. yznnBut by the same token, the amount of food stored in Bianliang City over the years is also an astronomical figure.
Bianliang is located in the most elite hinterland of the Central Plains in the world.
It is surrounded by vast plains with the longest history of agricultural development in China.
It has been the world's most important grain-producing area since ancient times.
In addition, the Song Dynasty officials spent huge sums of money to build canals and plan irrigation, so the grain output was quite huge.
As the inland water transport hub in the eastern part of the Central Plains, the Song Dynasty court could also relatively easily mobilize grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital through waterways.
Under this circumstance, even though there is a shortage of food in the Bianliang market, there is still sufficient food in the warehouse.
The Grain Merchant Guild in Kaifeng Prefecture alone has stockpiled at least two million pounds of wheat.
And among the mansions of princes and high-ranking officials, there are many wealthy families who have hoarded tens of thousands of stones of rice and grain.
Ten thousand shi of grain, if you save some food, is enough to feed ten thousand people for the first half of the year.
The total amount of grain stored in Bianliang City at this time is enough to feed the entire city's population for at least a year.
But the problem is that whenever there is a national crisis, there are always unscrupulous profiteers and corrupt officials hoarding money.
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 had enough food to support it for a year, was already full of starvation, which could be called a purgatory.
"Since the siege of the city by the Jin soldiers, the Kaifeng Grain Merchants Guild, which has stockpiled a large amount of rice grain, has been trying to raise the price of grain to the sky, so as to take the opportunity to severely scrape a layer of oil from the people of Li.
If you suddenly get it A large amount of food has stabilized prices in the capital, completely ruining their plans.
What do you think they will do to you?"
Guo Jing explained to Wang Qiu, "I, a fake immortal, have no ability to protect you."
"They are openly causing trouble and sabotaging the war of resistance in the city.
How can the Kaifeng government just ignore them?"
Wang Qiu exclaimed in surprise.
"Who dares to care that as a super large company that can monopolize the grain supply in the capital, how could the Kaifeng Grain Merchants Association not have a backstage?
Just in Bianliang City, there are countless princes, princesses, prime ministers, and princes, waiting eagerly to receive grain.
The trading house will share some of the benefits."
"Are the princes, princesses, prime ministers, princes, etc. crazy?"
Wang Qiu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"Today is already the tenth day of the lunar month.
In another half month at most, when the Jin soldiers break the city on the 25th of this month, , no matter how much property these nobles, nobles, and nobles have accumulated, their homes will all be confiscated and robbed, and even they themselves will be robbed.
They were kidnapped by the Jin soldiers.
The men worked as slaves and worked as cattle and horses until they died of overwork; the women worked as camp prostitutes and were ridden by thousands of people, giving birth to a bunch of little bastard slaves.
Even the queen was forced to do so.
The cruelty and humiliation of doing a striptease and sleeping with Jingkang is not a joke, but what are they doing now to poach the already dangerous defense of the city?"
Looking at the several luxurious official sedans in the distance that were swaying through the city, Wang Qiu's eyes even showed a trace of pity, "Are they seeking death?
Are they seeking death?
Or are they seeking death?"
"What can you do?
It's hard to give up good money.
In order to make profits, capitalists will even sell the ropes to hang themselves to their enemies.
And the dignitaries of the feudal dynasty are also masters who will not shed tears until they see the coffin."
Guo Jing shrugged and replied, "You may have heard that when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen faced an empty treasury and soldiers who had not been paid for several months, so he had to plead with the wealthy families in Beijing in every possible way, but Beijing The noble and wealthy families in the city still had nothing to lose and refused to donate their property and labor.
In the end, the Ming army defending the city was left without food and pay, and they collapsed without a fight.
As a result, Li Zicheng entered the city and killed the dignitaries one by one.
They were tortured with sticks and a bunch of people were killed on the spot, and 70 million taels of silver were immediately looted.
Don't these Ming Dynasty nobles know clearly that once Li Zicheng's peasant army enters the city, they will immediately ransack their homes or even exterminate their clans?
But they still betrayed the emperor without hesitation, and did not wait for an opportunity to take the family property and flee.
Instead, they ruined their own livelihood.
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Isn't it because of luck and greed?
In the same way, in the Jingkang period, the peace ministers of the Song Dynasty, in order to overwhelm the war faction in the court, even forged military orders on the eve of the Jin soldiers crossing the river south, and sent all the troops of Qinwang back to their original positions, leaving the capital defense empty. , simply crazier than the Jin spies.
The goal is just to make the war ministers lose the courage to fight.
The national defense force has been ruined like this.
Let’s see how you can still fight.
As a result, after the Jin soldiers broke through the city, the Jurchens did not look good on these heroes of the Lord and Sect at all.
They still robbed all their property, raped their female relatives, and captured them as slaves.
Ah, one is having more fun trying to die than the other.
They are really participating in a contest of trying to die.
All kinds of absurd deeds will definitely make people stunned."
Speaking of this, Political Commissar Guo Jing couldn't help but sneered, "In fact, if a loyal minister comes to Bianliang with reinforcements from other places, then instead of receiving gratitude and praise, he will be criticized by the gang leaders and factions.
The minister hated the minister so much that he regarded him as an enemy and even the main war faction would do everything possible to attack the reinforcements.
Beware of the last attack and defense of Bianjing.
Zhong Shidao led tens of thousands of Western troops from the border of northern Shaanxi to come to the rescue.
In the end, the imperial gentry he rescued were beaten to death.
The main reason was that the troops were too strong and it was not good for them.
With such a precedent for resettlement, how can the righteous people in the world not feel cold-hearted?"
"Oh my God, the thinking of this group of people is too strange, right?
After being besieged, others were looking forward to the reinforcements, but they hated the reinforcements.
Are they suicide enthusiasts?
Moreover, seeing them seeking death like this, the Song Dynasty Why doesn’t the emperor care about anything?”
Although Nobi Nobita was confused about the above-mentioned profound topics, Doraemon still heard some clues and asked questions like this.
"Emperor Qinzong Zhao Heng'en, his capital is indeed richer than Emperor Chongzhen.
There is still a lot of money and food in the palace and treasury, but first of all, he must supply 70,000 soldiers to defend the city, and King Qin's army may arrive at any time. , being able to set up a big pot to cook some gruel in Kaifeng Mansion to help the refugees is already the limit.
As for punishing those powerful nobles who hoard food, Emperor Qinzong probably has no such determination at all."
Regardless of whether the cat-shaped robot understood or not, Guo Jing continued to explain, "What's more, for this Bianliang siege, food supply is not an important matter.
In today's Bianliang City, families After all, there are only a few ruined households with no food for shelter.
The ordinary citizens had more or less stored some food before the Jin soldiers besieged the city.
Then, Bianliang City should be conquered before their families run out of food."
The second offensive and defensive battle of Bianliang in history lasted less than a month from the first attack on the city by the Jin army on the first day of the eleventh month until the city was defeated.
The two sides still had a lot of time to just confront each other.
The Jin soldiers The main focus was on siege and reinforcements.
There were not many real large-scale siege operations, but even so, Bianliang City, with a population of one million, 70,000 defenders, and mountains of weapons and food, was still breached.
The length of time that these 70,000 Song troops persisted in resisting in the capital Bianliang was not even as long as the defense of Constantinople in 1453, the last chapter of the Eastern Roman Empire's demise.
The last Eastern Roman emperor used 9,000 defenders to fight against a 100,000 Turkish army.
I've been keeping it like this for two months.
It can be seen from this that how powerful the Jurchen cavalry are in combat, and how incompetent and useless the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is.
What is even more tragic is that the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty during the Jingkang period, to put it harshly, even if they had a few pigs sitting in the court, they would still be stronger than them.
At least pigs are not very good at seeking death, but people are capable of seeking death. s: Explanation on the confusion in the title of the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty: People in the Song Dynasty officially called Kaifeng Tokyo, but this is the same as Tokyo in Japan.
Bianliang, Bianjing and Kaifeng are all commonly used legal names.
Later generations mostly use Kaifeng, while Song people mostly use Bianliang.
Everyone knows where the city is.
In fact, the earliest large city built in Kaifeng was Daliang, the capital of the Wei State during the Warring States Period. oshow7: