In any case, Wanyan Zongpan is now busy with things. There is a huge turmoil in the western border, and the military power of Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Wushu has been increased. Wanyan Zongpan has to spend a considerable amount of energy to suppress them.

However, what Zhao Huan did not expect was that the matter of establishing three major trade centers was not pushed back.

A month later, Jin Dynasty minister Han Qi first visited Youzhou, and on the junction of Yanyun and Dajin, he met with Zhong Shizhong, the governor of the war zone, and Li Guang, the governor of Youzhou, about the construction of a commercial city between Yanyun and Dajin.

At this time, the Political Affairs Hall had already conveyed a message to Yan Yun a month ago.

In the Song Dynasty, Li Guang sent someone to meet with the people sent by Han Qixian, and the two sides began to discuss specific matters.

Zhao Huan didn't ask any more questions about this matter, and left it to the people below to execute it.

He is more concerned about another question now: With the current grain output, how many people are still hungry?

In fact, Zhao Huan has been paying attention to this issue in recent years.

Food is the most important thing for people, and eating is the top priority.

In the past two years, fortifications have become more and more frequent, and the court not only needs to pay wages, but also provide food and drink.

Money is a trivial matter. Now Zhao Huan is rich, but he is just a physical worker. His demand for meat has increased significantly. This is basic common sense.

Meat is also standard on construction sites.

Therefore, it has also driven the development of the private pig farming industry. Some people not only farmed but also started raising pigs at home. People from the court will regularly collect pigs and settle for them according to market prices.

Not only that, the yield of fish has also increased, which has also driven the development of fisheries in the south.

Moreover, in order to stabilize the supply of goods, the imperial court also intends to support several large merchants in pig farming and fishing to cooperate with the imperial court for a long time, while some small merchants serve as a supplement for the future and cooperate continuously.

From the year before last year to now, the pig farming and fishing industry in the Song Dynasty have developed rapidly, becoming a major industry second only to agriculture and planting.

However, due to the war, this phenomenon is rare in Hebei and Hedong, and the northwest area is also very barren.

However, in order to increase the administrative intensity of the new territory, the road to the north is urgent.

This headache problem has been developed and restricted the development of the north. The villagers on the construction site work hard every day, but because the food cannot guarantee sufficient nutrition, the time spent passing through the road of length is far higher than that in the south.

This is an uneven development.

It will take several years to wait until the north is in a state of chaos to recover.

In this world, time cost is the most expensive cost.

Due to the delay in time, any uncertain crisis may occur.

Regarding this issue, Tang Ke asked to transport pork from the south to the north.

However, because the road has not yet been formed and the transportation conditions are poor, the pork can easily rot halfway.

Tang Ke felt that the people could sell ice cubes collected in winter to the court, and the use of these ice cubes should ensure the quality of the meat.

This proposal was quickly refuted by the Zhou Dynasty, the three officials envoys. This was simply an unreasonable act of burning money. After calculation, the cost of roads per meter would increase at least ten times.

Xu Churen believed that you should not be impatient. Because of war in the north, the foundation is poor, and it is impossible to require it to be as fast as the south, and it should be treated differently.

The force of seedlings to grow will only cause all seedlings in the fields to be necrotic.

This matter was debated endlessly in the court, and there was no better solution for a while.

Zhao Huan also knew that the basic road equipment was incomplete and there was almost no refrigeration technology. Even in later generations, cold chain logistics was only vigorously developed after 2010, let alone in the Song Dynasty.

Everything has to follow the logic of business.

The speed in the north is slower and can only be slower. If you don’t play well, you may collapse.

I thought it would be fine to let the north develop according to its free law. At most, Zhao Huan was patient and tolerated, so he would not have to fight anymore, so that the people could rest and recuperate.

But I didn't expect that reality was so cruel, but Zhao Huan didn't let him sleep well.

As June begins, as the temperature rises, continuous heavy to heavy rainstorms occur in the Yellow River area.

Moreover, this year, the water level of the Yellow River is higher than every year before.

It was only mid-June that it had already rushed to the shore, and the water trend continued to rise.

The Yellow River was originally the mother river of Chinese civilization, but in history, by the Song Dynasty, it became a veritable "harm river".

In the history of the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded almost every two to three years.

Once the flooding occurs, it mainly causes damage to the middle and lower reaches, and the damage is no less than the blow caused by the war.

Let’s talk about the tendency of the Yellow River breaking in Guogu, Guantao County, eighty years ago (1051), and the Yellow River flowed southward.

At this time, the Hebei Transport Author Li Zhongchang proposed to block the Shanghubei River and restore the Henglong old road.

As a result, the night when the Yellow River water was led into Henglong Road, the water flow could not be released and the water broke down again. Thousands of miles of Hebei were covered with oceans, and countless people were killed and injured.

Nine years later, the Yellow River broke at the Sixth Dao of Wei County, and the Yellow River diverted into the sea, flowing north to Tianjin and east to Wudi, Shandong.

Faced with such a mess, the scholars and officials formed two opinions.

One faction advocates continuing to flow northward and strengthening the river channel; the other faction advocates flowing eastward into the sea.

At this time, the rivers in the east flow were mostly silted, but the latter's reason for opposing the north flow was that the Yellow River flowed into the territory of Liao, and the Liao army might go up against the Yellow River and go directly to Bianliang, which was unsafe.

Moreover, the north flow could not allow the Yellow River to achieve its purpose of "restraining Liao".

So although it is not feasible, these scholars and officials who were worried about the country still forced the Yellow River to flow east without hesitation. The result was that they broke down every time they flow east, resulting in the unearthed land in Hebei and the people were living in poverty.

The civil strife in the north has only been more than a year, and agriculture has just shown signs of recovery. If there is another flood, it will undoubtedly add to the insult.

These days, Zhao Huan has been unable to sleep every night.

Natural disasters are a very headache. Even if he traveled through the era he lived before and went forward for twenty years, the Yangtze River Basin was tortured by floods.

After the exact news came, Zhao Huan immediately found Zhong Shidao and asked Zhong Shidao and Li Gang to start mobilizing the army, rushed to the front line at full speed, and controlled the water level of the Yellow River.

In the next few days, from the Central War Zone to the local wing army, 800,000 soldiers and civilians were mobilized one after another.

For several days, the headlines of the Song Dynasty newspaper were all about the Yellow River.

For this purpose, some people in the people took the lead and specially formed a commune, which called on the people of Tokyo to donate money in order to mobilize more forces to control the Yellow River.

In this way, an unprecedented flood war broke out in the Song Dynasty.

From Zhengzhou in the middle to Hedong Road in the lower reaches, almost all of them are in the possible disaster.

Even including Tokyo City, the capital!

In fact, this was already a very serious crisis, and the court listed it as the same level as the Jin thieves heading south.

As the court continues to promote it, the people continue to pay attention.

Every day, countless soldiers rushed to their respective Yellow River after taking the oath.

This is like being on the battlefield, and many people may go but never return.
Chapter completed!