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As a super metropolis with a population of 150 million, Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, consumed an astronomical amount of food every day.But for the same reason, the amount of food hoarded in Bianliang City over the years is also an astronomical figure.

——Bianliang is located in the hinterland of the most elite Central Plains in the world. It is surrounded by vast plains with the longest history of agricultural development in China. It has been an important grain-producing area in the world since ancient times.In addition, the government of the Song Dynasty spared no expense in building canals and planning irrigation, so the grain output was quite huge.As an inland water transportation hub in the eastern part of the Central Plains, the Song court could also easily mobilize grain and fodder from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital through waterways.

In this case, even though there is a shortage of food in the Bianliang market, there is still sufficient food in the warehouse.The grain merchants' guild in Kaifeng Mansion alone has hoarded at least 200 million stones of rice and wheat.Among the residences of princes and senior officials, rich families hoarding thousands of stones of rice and grain can be found everywhere.

1 shi of grain, if you save some food, will be enough to feed [-] people for the first half of the year!

And the total amount of grain stored in Bianliang City at this time is enough to feed the entire population of the city for at least a year!
But the problem is that whenever a country faces a crisis, there will always be unscrupulous profiteers and corrupt officials hoarding.

——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 could store food for a year, was already full of hunger and death, which could be called purgatory.

"...Since the Jin soldiers besieged the city, the Kaifeng Grain Merchant Guild, which has hoarded a large amount of rice, has the idea of ​​raising the price of grain to the sky, so as to take the opportunity to scrape a layer of oil from the people of the Li people. If you suddenly Bringing a large amount of food to stabilize prices in the capital has completely ruined their wishful thinking, how do you think they will deal with you?" Guo Jing explained to Wang Qiu, "...I, a fake immortal, can't protect you!"

"...they are so openly making trouble in the city to sabotage the War of Resistance, so Kaifeng Mansion just ignores it?" Wang Qiu exclaimed in surprise.

"...Who dares to care? As a super big company that can monopolize the capital's food supply, how could the Kaifeng Grain Merchants Association have no backer? Just in this Bianliang City, there are countless princes, princesses, and prime ministers' homes, eagerly looking forward Waiting to share some benefits from the Grain Merchant Guild!"

"...Prince, princess, prime minister... are they crazy?" Wang Qiu couldn't help taking a breath, "...today is already the tenth day of the lunar new year, and in half a month at most, wait until Jin Bing arrives this month." After breaking down the city on the 25th, no matter how much wealth they have accumulated, these nobles and nobles will all have their homes ransacked, and even themselves will be taken away by the golden soldiers. Until she dies from overwork; women become prostitutes and ride tens of thousands of people across, giving birth to a bunch of wild little slaves, and even the queen is forced to dance striptease and sleep in bed... The tragedy and aggrievedness of Jingkang's shame , It’s not just for fun! But what are they doing now? Digging into the already dangerous defense of the city?”

Looking at a few luxury official sedan chairs swaggering past the city in the distance, there was even a trace of pity in Wang Qiu's eyes, "...Are they trying to die? Are they dying? Or are they dying? ?”

"...What can I do? Good money is hard to give up! Capitalists will even sell the rope to hang themselves to the enemy for profit. And the dignitaries of the feudal dynasty are also the ones who don't see the coffin and don't cry."

Guo Jing shrugged and replied, "...you may have heard that when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen faced an empty treasury and soldiers who hadn't been paid for several months. However, the honorable and wealthy families in Beijing still refused to donate their family property to the army. In the end, the Ming army guarding the city had no food and no pay, and they collapsed without fighting. As a result, Li Zicheng put the dignitaries into the city and tortured them one by one. A bunch of people were killed, and 7000 million taels of silver were immediately stolen... Don't these nobles of the Ming Dynasty know that once Li Zicheng's peasant army enters the city, they will immediately confiscate their homes or even exterminate their clan? But they still have no idea. He betrayed the emperor without hesitation, and he didn't wait for the opportunity to flee with his family's wealth, but ruined his own way of life—isn't it because of luck and greed?

In the same way, in the Jingkang period, in order to overwhelm the main war faction in the court, the ministers of the main peace faction of the Song Dynasty even forged military orders on the eve of the Jin soldiers crossing the south of the river, and sent back the soldiers of the kings from all walks of life to their original places, leaving the defense of the capital empty. , It's even crazier than a golden spy, the goal is just to make the ministers of the main war faction lose the courage to fight - the national defense force has been ruined like this, how can you still take the main battle?

As a result, after the Jinbing broke through the city, the Jurchens did not show any kindness to these "heroes" of the Lord He faction. They still robbed their family property, humiliated their female relatives, and arrested them as slaves—— The emperors and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty are happier than each other!It's really playing tricks contest!All kinds of absurd deeds will definitely make people dumbfounded! "

Speaking of this, Political Commissar Guo Jing couldn't help grinning and sneering, "...In fact, if a loyal minister came to Bianliang with rescuers from other places, instead of being grateful and rewarded, he would be punished by the leader of the gang." The ministers of the peace faction hate it to the bone and regard it as the enemy! Even the main combat faction will be wary of the rescuers! In the last Bianjing offensive and defensive battle, Zhong Shidao led tens of thousands of western troops from the border of northern Shaanxi to rescue him, and the result was The scholar-bureaucrats who were rescued by him were put to death! The main reason is that the troops are too strong and difficult to arrange! With such a precedent, how can the righteous people in the world not be cold-hearted?"

"...Oh my god, the thinking of this group of people is too strange! Others are looking forward to rescue soldiers after being besieged, but they hate rescue soldiers? Could it be that they are suicide lovers? Besides, seeing them like this Why didn’t the Emperor of the Song Dynasty take care of it if he wanted to die?”

Although Nobi Nobita was confused about the above-mentioned esoteric topics, Doraemon still heard some tricks and asked questions like this.

"...Emperor Qinzong Zhao Heng? Well, his capital is indeed a bit richer than that of Emperor Chongzhen. There is still a lot of money and food in the palace and treasury, but first of all, we need to supply [-] soldiers defending the city, and there are still some who may arrive at any time. It is already the limit for the master of Qin Wang to be able to set up a big pot to cook some porridge to help the refugees in Kaifeng Mansion. As for punishing those powerful nobles who hoard food... Emperor Qinzong may not have such determination at all!"

Regardless of whether the cat-shaped robot can understand it or not, Guo Jing continued to explain, "...Moreover, for this siege of Bianliang, food supply is not an important thing. After all, there are only a small number of poor households with no food to live in. The general citizens have more or less stored some food before the golden soldiers besieged the city. After that, they will never wait until their families run out of food. This Bianliang City should be breached Already!"

——The second Bianliang offensive and defensive battle in history, from the first siege of the Jin army on the first day of November to the break of the city, lasted less than a month in total, and the two sides still had a lot of time to just confront each other. The main energy of Jin Bing is to besiege the city and fight for aid. There are not many real large-scale siege operations... But even so, Bianliang City, which has a population of one million, [-] defenders, and piles of weapons and supplies, is still broken. up!
The length of time that the 1453 Song troops persisted in resisting in the capital Bianliang was not even as good as the defense of Constantinople in [-] when the Eastern Roman Empire was destroyed. Turkish army!It's been like this for two months!
It can be seen from this that the fighting power of the Jurchen iron cavalry is so strong, and how incompetent and useless the Imperial Guards of the Great Song Dynasty are.

What is even more tragic is that the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty during the Jingkang period-to put it bluntly, even if they were replaced by a few pigs to sit in the court hall, they were stronger than them!
At least pigs don't really know how to die, but people will seek their own death!
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PS: Explanation on the confusion of the title of the capital in the Northern Song Dynasty: People in the Song Dynasty officially called Kaifeng Tokyo, but this was repeated with Tokyo, Japan.Bianliang, Bianjing, and Kaifeng are all commonly used legal names. Later generations used Kaifeng more, while Song people used Bianliang more-everyone knows where the city is.

In fact, the first big city built in Kaifeng was Daliang, the capital of Wei State in the Warring States Period.