On May 22, the tenth year of the Great Zhou republic, Kaifeng Prefecture City.

The inside and outside the Qionglin Palace had been tidied up. When Zhao Huan retreated in a hurry, there was a chaos in Kaifeng Prefecture. After all, more than one million soldiers and civilians in the city could move west with Zhao Huan. The remaining nearly 800,000 Bianliangzi were immediately in anarchy.

There are 800,000 people. Although the majority of good people are the majority, there must be many treacherous people! Moreover, Kaifeng Prefecture has been trapped by the brave cavalry of Wu Yigong for so many days, and eating and drinking with more than one million mouths in the city has been a problem! Every day, many poor people and foreigners starved to death on the streets - they went to Beijing to take the exam and starved to death, which is really a big strange story in the history of the imperial examination.

What order can there be in such a city where the city is full of hungry people, without the constraints of the government and soldiers, and there are property abandoned by nobles who are eager to escape everywhere?

Therefore, when an infantry division under Wu Yiyong drove into Kaifeng Prefecture at a rapid speed, the city was already in chaos. All the official offices, palaces, royal palaces, public offices, granted titles, official warehouses, and even more gorgeous houses, shops all over the streets and alleys of Kaifeng Prefecture, became the targets of hungry people's robbery.

Fighting and fighting can be seen everywhere, and fire and smoke are everywhere. As the residence of the emperor, Qionglin Palace has suffered a great disaster and has snatched cleansing from the back and forth! Even the glass inlaid on the windows of the palace was pried away.

When the Republican Army drove here, there were still many poor and crazy Bianliangzi carrying heavy large pieces of furniture! These were all good things used by the royal family. How could they make a few more money by selling them to Tianjin's wealthy merchants?

But the first Zhou people they met were not the wealthy Tianjin merchants, but the vicious and vicious soldiers of the Republican army! Wu Yiyong had already issued an order to them: occupy Kaifeng and implement martial law!

Since there was an order, what else can I be polite? The Republican Army, who entered the city, immediately launched a murderous act under the order of the commander of the army commander Wu Jie.

The thief caught is not counted in the street, but the bodies must be exposed to the public!

When Wu Yiyong, who led his troops to chase Zhao Huan (wrongly chased him), returned with the prisoners and spoils, there were still a pile of smelly corpses thrown in Xuandemen Square outside the Qionglin Palace!

Now these corpses have been moved outside the city to be buried, and disinfected lime is sprinkled everywhere on the square. However, the dark red blood stains that seeped into the blue bricks can't be wiped clean, and there are traces of smoke and fire, which can't be covered up.

The officers and soldiers of the Republican Army ran around inside and outside the Qionglin Palace, and everyone was extremely excited. They sent troops from Yizhou, swept across Hedong, crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin, rushed straight to Chenliu, cut off the grain route of Kaifeng Prefecture, and then fought for a long time. Now, they finally picked the largest fruit of victory - Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Song Empire, the wisest capital of the Song Dynasty!

The contributions to the journey have been really great! How come it is enough to be a citizen, get a magnificent manor, and add a large bounty?

As a Republican, Wu Yiyong had no idea of ​​over-the-counter. He just put the camp directly into the Qionglin Palace located in the west of Kaifeng Prefecture City. The Qionglin Palace, built by Pan Xiao'an, is protected by high walls on all sides. It was slightly renovated on the southwest corner of Kaifeng Prefecture City and became a military base that can be attacked and defended.

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"How come Kaifeng Mansion, which was blown up by his wife, has become a mess?"

After just inspecting Kaifeng Prefecture, Wu Yiyong kicked off his boots with a little bored boringly. He sat on a slightly worn rose chair in Chongzheng Hall with a big golden sword, and he looked a little worried.

Because the officials sent by Tianjin to govern Kaifeng Prefecture were still on the way, Wu Yiyong is now a part-time prefect, and the food and drink of more than 800,000 people have become burdens on his shoulders.

More than 800,000 people! These are just ordinary people, not including the generals of the six divisions of his Henan Legion.

What made Wu Yiyong even more trouble was that Du Chong dug the Yellow River and all the main canal transport routes to Kaifeng Prefecture were interrupted!

When Zhao Huan ran away, he took away most of the stored grain. Now there are more than 800,000 mouths in Kaifeng Prefecture, all of them are hungry for feeding. There is really no food to feed them.

A famine seems inevitable!

"Everyone says Kaifeng is the best place in the world, the most prosperous and prosperous place! But after entering Kaifeng, I realized that it was a broken and narrow slum, and there were hundreds of thousands of people who were about to starve to death. I don't know what the third leader could do?"

While Wu Yiyong was muttering, his good brother Wu Yijiu had already received a report from the Henan Army Governor's Army. At about the same time, the reports from the Hebei Army (formerly Hebei West Road Corps), the Jingdong East Road Corps (the Zhou Army entering Yanzhou), the Taihang Army (the Zhou Army responsible for besieging Cizhou), and the Jingdong East Road Corps (the army landing across the sea on the Shandong Peninsula).

The news reported by the Taihang Legion and the Jingdong East Road Legion are pretty good, and the reports of the other three legions are actually mainly based on bad news!

A lot of territory has been built, but the stall has been ruined because of the broken mouth of the Yellow River!

The Yellow River breach not only flooded a large amount of fertile land, causing countless people to be displaced, but also cut off the main canal transport roads in the north, making it impossible for Liaodong to transport grain to Henan in time. Not only did the Republican army on the battlefield in Henan fall into supply difficulties, but hundreds of thousands or millions of people in Kaifeng Prefecture were almost cut off.

"Sanlang," Wu Haogu asked Wu Yijiu, who came to ask for peace in Taipei City, Tianjin, in the big house by the Wujia River. "Is the government responsible for helping the hungry people in Kaifeng?"

Wu Yijiu, who seemed a little tired, said: "The hungry people in Kaifeng are not troublesome, they just travel north to eat and eat grain... We can still take out the food for hundreds of thousands of people. The Jingdong Army reported that it was found that the Donghai Kingdom was relocating the households of Xuzhou and Haizhou by ships. They cleared the city of Xuhai, and we just filled the households of Kaifeng Prefecture. It was just a bit troublesome and it was just a little bit."

He said it easily, but Wu Sanro's brows could not be stretched out, obviously he was worried.

"What should I do with the Yellow River?" Wu Haogu asked, "Just let it take Huainan forward?"

"River engineering is indeed a problem!" Wu Yijiu smiled bitterly, "I don't know what to do specifically. I have to wait until the master of the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Works to investigate and then come up with a solution.

But it's a big trouble! Du Chong is really a thief! "

He paused, "And this mess is not ours, so Zhao Kai has to bear some responsibility, right? Now he is going to abandon Xuzhou and Haizhou. It seems that Huaibei will give up, and it will be the Huaihe River as the boundary in the future... After the Yellow River seizes Huai and enters the sea, the Huaihe River will easily flood. It is the same thing to control Huang and Huai! It has to be coordinated between the two aspects, right?"

In fact, the main problem in treating Huang and Huai is in the Great Zhou side.

Because Zhao Kai can retreat to Jiangnan and treat Huainan as a buffer zone, there is no need to be too much about floods.

And Xinzhou cannot be ignored in the economic circles of Xuzhou and Haizhou, otherwise there will be only Tianjin in the industry and commerce of Xinzhou. This is very unfavorable for the long-term development of the country!

So in the next many years, the governance of Huang and Huai, and the reconstruction of the canal system in the Central Plains became two major events before the New Zhou Republic government.

"Zhao Kai should ascend the throne in Jiangning Prefecture... Joining Jianghuai, with more than a dozen prefectures in Jiangnan as a country, there is no problem with an Eastern Song Dynasty." Wu Haogu suggested, "Why don't we stop the bad battles between us and the Eastern Song Dynasty? Let's find a way to control the Yellow River and the Huai River?"

"The same is true for the Republic's government." Wu Yijiu sighed, "It seems that it is impossible to unify the world... My brother's Henan Legion and Ma Kuo's Jingdong East Road Legion are almost out of food. Moreover, in Henan, Jingdong is flooding everywhere! The Yellow River span is hundreds of miles wide, and it is almost a sea.

The refugees also rose up. Millions of people in Hebei, Henan and Jingdong alone were displaced. These are all our people in China, so they cannot be allowed to starve to death like this..."

After all, the New Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty were the Xia regimes, and one was a republic and the other was a united country. We could not ignore the people's livelihood too much, right?

Moreover, both countries are colonial empires! They can open up overseas colonies to resettle domestic refugees. Millions of people cannot be transported, but hundreds of thousands of people still have ways to arrange them.

Therefore, the matter of unifying the world can only be pushed back for the time being.

"Where is the money?" Wu Haogu asked, "Where does the money come from? Relief and resettlement of refugees, control Huang, and control Huai, and establish governments in new occupation areas, and resettle knights and soldiers. It seems that it will cost a lot? Do we still have money?"

When Wu Yijiu mentioned money, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Millions of people are already spending a lot of money on the battlefield, and they are all supported by debts." Wu Yijiu said, "If there was no flood in the Yellow River, the financial holes could be filled.

But now... it is a refugee and a river management. I don’t know how much it will cost? Moreover, Xuzhou and Haizhou have also been destroyed and cannot be restored in less than ten years.

The government's finances are only two major sources of wealth, namely Tianjin and Nanyang Province. It would be great to receive 15 million silver coins a year. It's so tight!"

"There is no other way?" Wu Haogu raised the tea bowl, took a sip of Yunwu Mountain Tea, and looked at his son with a smile.

"How could there be no money?" Wu Yiji smiled, "Land is money! Our war has won most of Hedong, the entire Hebei, plus the Song Dynasty's Jingji Road, Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road... What a big territory! After a meter clearance, there are 200 million mu of land! Take out 100 million to allocate it to the knights and the soldiers, and there are 100 million mu of land to be sold! According to the 500 million mu of silver coins per mu, it is 500 million silver coins. With 500 million silver coins, all problems can be solved, right?"

"500 million silver coins?" Wu Haogu took a breath, "Sanlang, you have a little too many circles in this area?"
Chapter completed!