Hearing Wu Haogu's analysis, not to mention the "cowardly" Han Zhongyan, even Zhang Shangying and Zhang Shuye, two capable people, have a refreshing feeling.

Before, everyone only thought of Fuyan or not Fuyan, but they never thought about what to use to feed hundreds of thousands or even more Yanyun citizens after Fuyan succeeded.

It's been almost two hundred years since the land of Yanyun entered Liaodu! It has long been part of the domestic economic division of the Liao State. In the words of later generations, the land of Yanyun was the industrial and commercial center of the Liao State, and most of the handicraft products produced by Yanyun and the Song Dynasty goods imported through Yanyun were sold to other parts of the Liao State and even the Western Regions. The fertile land of the Liao Province Tokyo Province is the main grain producing area of the Liao Province and the collection place of export raw materials such as leather goods and medicinal materials. And Yanyun, especially Yanjing, used handicrafts to exchange grain, leather goods, medicinal materials and other things with the Liaoguo Tokyo Province.

In other words, the land of Yanyun and the rest of the Liao Kingdom are economically interdependent! Even to the point of being inseparable!

If the Great Song Dynasty wants to recover Yanyun, if nothing else, at least there must be enough food to feed the Han people in the Yanyun area? Otherwise, you won't have anything to eat, who will tell you about national righteousness or something?

And to feed the people of Yanyun and seize the Tokyo Road of Liao, it is unthinkable...... Since Tokyo Dao can't take it, then the only way to fill this gap is to use the Song Dynasty's own grain.

But does the Song Dynasty have the ability to mobilize millions of stone grains to Yanyun every year? Now just transporting grain to the Shaanxi armies and Kaifeng Mansion has already given the imperial court a headache, and Yan Yun will be given another million stones...... I'm afraid that no one will dare to do it.

Wu Haogu glanced at the faces of the three of them, and then said with a smile: "If there is no one million stones of rice grain to be exported to Yan a year, then what the imperial court will get is not the land of Yanyun, but the Yuyang drum that will come at any time!" ”

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

Han Zhongyan, Zhang Shangying, and even Uncle Zhang all had the same answer in their minds! Because it is impossible to send a million stone of grain to the land of Yanyun every year, it is better to say if there is no damn "Sanyi Huihe". At least Hebei East Road is fertile and full of treasury. But now that the Great Plains of Hebei East Road is flooded every year, the empty treasury can run away, and he has to be relieved by other places, and he still supports Yanyun like this?

As for Hebei West Road and Hedong Road, they are all mountainous terrain, producing carbon stone and porcelain, and those who do not produce much grain are simply unable to come up with millions of stone surplus grain a year.

Don't count on crossing the Yellow River further south, there are big cities such as Kaifeng Mansion, Yingtianfu and Henan Mansion, as well as the Western Army in Shaanxi, and the Central Plains region has to import millions of stone grain every year to eat, which has overwhelmed the canal system.

Not to mention the transfer of grain from the Central Plains, it is impossible to use the tired canal system to transport millions of stone rice grains to Yanyun a year.

Wu Haogu sighed, "But whether this land of Yanyun is restored or not is not up to me!" If the Gongfen army, which is the pillar stone of the Great Liao, is defeated by the obstruction in Mobei, then the collapse of the Great Liao will be a matter of several years. When the time comes, will I be able to stop the land of Yanyun and watch it fall into the hands of the captives?

If Yanyun falls into the hands of the newly rising captive, will my Great Song Dynasty still have a peaceful day? Most of the iron tools of the Liao Kingdom came from Yan Yun! Moreover, Yanyun still has millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of Ding Zhuang!

Dafu, the hundred-year peace between my Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom is not just exchanged for 500,000-year-old coins, but it is fought by the millions of forbidden troops of my Great Song Dynasty in repeated bloody battles! ”

That's right, the peace between Song and Liao was a last resort taken by both sides after several bloody battles and found that they did not have the strength to conquer each other.

This peaceful line cannot be easily inherited by the strong captives who rose up on behalf of Liao - you are a rich Song Dynasty who is placed there, will people promise 500,000 yuan of coins without taking a few bites? How can there be such a talkative Hulu?

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

In other words, once the Liao State collapses, the Great Song Dynasty will have a war.

Since World War I is inevitable, there is nothing wrong with recovering Yanyun when the Liao State collapses, the question is just how to recover it, and how to integrate Yanyun into the Great Song Dynasty after the recovery.

Before the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in history, the Great Song Dynasty did not think about these problems at all. In the end, although he relied on spending money to buy the Jurchens, he barely recovered Yan Yunzhi. However, he has never been able to solve the problem of eating and integration in the land of Yanyun, and as a result, it has caused a terrible disaster.

As a bourgeois profiteer and dirty official, Wu Haogu certainly considered the problem more comprehensively...... Therefore, after learning about the industry and commerce of Nanjing Province in Liaoguo and the need to import rice and grain from Liaodong, I immediately thought of the food and work of hundreds of thousands of Yanyun city residents.

Hundreds of thousands of Yan people have no food or work, so it's no wonder if they don't mess up! In history, even if the Jurchens were not invaded by the Alliance, most of Guo Yaoshi's pit goods would have become An Lushan.

"But Jiehe Shang City can't produce millions of stone rice grains?" Han Zhongyan asked.

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "Dafu, Jiehe Commercial Market is a harbor commercial market!"

At present, the millions of stone rice grains transported from Liaodong to Yanjing are all transported from the Jiehe River into the sea and then to Yanjing. However, due to the shallow inland water, the Liao people could only use small boats to ship Liaodong rice grain, and the ship would often capsize. If the Jiehe merchant market rises, the Jiehe merchant market will definitely become the transshipment center of Liao grain into Yan.

Although Jiehe Commercial City still does not produce rice grain, the ships transporting grain, the wharves for loading and unloading, and the warehouses for storing grain will all be built, and the time will be able to transport Huai grain from Haizhou to Yan. ”

In fact, there is still grain, but the grain-producing areas that have the ability to export a large amount of rice grain are in Huainan and Jiangnan, and the only way to transport millions of stone of rice grain from Jianghuai to Yanjing is by water. If you want to go by land, the amount of grain lost on the road will be more than the amount transported to Yanjing, and a large number of people will have to be requisitioned, and the people will lose money and the gains will outweigh the losses.

And water transportation can only rely on sea transportation, because the current canal system is overwhelmed by the consumption of Kaifeng Mansion, Yingtianfu, Henan Mansion and the Western Army, and it is simply unable to supply food to Yanyun.

And navigation is a kind of ability that requires long-term accumulation and investment to have, and it is not a whim to build some large wooden ships to have a navy and an ocean-going fleet. A hundred-year navy or something must be an exaggeration, but if the Great Song Dynasty wants to have a fleet that can transport grain to Yanyun in twenty years—a fleet that can transport grain to Yanyun, and a fleet that can transport troops to Liaodong—then it must be invested from now on, and it is best to win the deal of transporting grain for Liao. This is the only way to keep the fleet alive and to train the team.

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

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

Han Zhongyan stroked his beard and pondered Wu Haogu's words repeatedly in his heart. Although he thought in his heart that Wu Haogu was a close luck, he had to admit that this close luck still had two brushes. At least he found a very valid reason for the construction of the river business market...... In the future, whether it is to destroy Liao or aid Liao, whether it is a war or a purchase, it seems that it will be inseparable from the Jiehe Commercial City and the huge fleet based on the Jiehe Commercial Market.

It seems that this river business market should still be done!

And this martial arts is a good ancient ...... Although it is a close luck, it can still be used.

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In the south of the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, there is a deep house compound with thousands of weather, which is the ancestral home of the Pan family's Jiangmen, Wu Haogu had been here a year ago, and also painted the first oil painting "Pan Suer's Smile" in the history of mankind here, and also established his own unsurpassed grandmaster status in the history of human painting.

Uh, great artist!

Today, the great artist Wu Haogu once again came to the door of this mansion that has been renovated.

This revisit is for the lifelong event that doesn't seem to look down on his younger brother Wu Haowen - Wu Haogu is of course the New Party now, but this does not mean that his younger brother will also 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 own two elder brothers, Wang Anli and Wang Anguo, are both old parties that oppose the change of law!

Moreover, Wu Haogu also knew that after Song Huizong came to power, he changed his brother Zhezong's policy of dedicating the new party and delegating power to the prime minister Zhang Dan, but adopted the old method of using both the old and the new, and mixing different opinions - to put it bluntly, it is to let the courtiers in the court eat dogs, and he, the emperor, will reap the benefits of fishermen.

Although later generations always commented that Song Huizong would not be an emperor, in fact, his imperial skills were no worse than other emperors, and he just couldn't fight...... In fact, the emperor of the Song Dynasty will fight except for Zhao Kuangyin? None of them!

In this case, Wu Haogu naturally would not let his younger brother Wu Haowen follow in his own footsteps and join Cai Jing's disciples. Moreover, he is a businessman who is close to luck, and Wu Haowen is a doctor who takes the right path, a hero outside the Donghua Gate, and the two brothers take different routes!

So Wu Haogu had long been thinking about finding a wife with an old party background for his younger brother, so when he was in Kaifeng Mansion, he discussed with Pan Qiaolian - the Pan family is actually pro-old party, and Pan Qiaolian is also very familiar with the daughters of many old party bosses. Therefore, he recommended several candidates for Wu Haogu, the most suitable of which was the daughter of the Han family in Xiangzhou.

That is, Han Qi's granddaughters and great-granddaughters, and the number is still very large. The Han family is a big family in Xiangzhou, and they have been officials from generation to generation since their great-grandfather Han Xuan, and they are even more of a three-jinshi in Han Qi's generation. And Han Qi himself has five sons, and the sons have all given birth to a lot, so the Han family also has a lot of daughters.

However, it is not possible for Wu Haogu to come forward to ask for his younger brother by himself, he is fortunate that the officials and merchants do not have this face, but Pan Xiaoyan, the patriarch of the Pan family's generals, is in the Daimyo's Mansion these days - his ancestral tomb has been flooded again, and he is looking to see if he wants to move the grave.

Therefore, Pan Qiaolian gave Wu Haogu a letter and asked him to go to Pan Xiaoyan to be a matchmaker.