Although the war was short-lived, the pain it caused to the people was profound and heart-wrenching; the old days were suddenly changed beyond recognition, and it was extremely difficult to return to normal - not to mention the hundreds of thousands of war refugees.

There are 150,000 to 150,000 urban households in Jiangning City, with a population of 7 to 800,000. The daily consumption of rice, charcoal and other materials is astronomical.

In the past few days, the Huaidong Army has controlled Jiangning City. Lin Fu ordered the establishment of more than 60 porridge restaurants inside and outside the city. Every day, three thousand stones of rice were squeezed out of the Huaidong Army's supplies to feed the hungry people. However, Jiangning City was under control.

In just three or four days after the recovery, food prices rose rapidly to the point where brown rice cost ten taels of silver per stone.

Jiangning City also consumes a lot of coal in the cold winter. Although Huaidong was prepared before this, there are very few people and officials in the world who can properly manage a city with a population of one million.

Although Huaidong's material supply has to ensure the supply of nearly 100,000 troops entering the outskirts of Jiangning, there are still some leftovers that can be squeezed out to supply Jiangning City - Lin Fu ordered the Huaidong Army to hold on for a few days, and then Jiangning Mansion will

Take over this matter.

There are millions of hungry people and refugees in Jiangning City. If we relax for a moment, hundreds or even thousands of people may die.

Zhang Yubo directly took over this mess, and only then did he understand more deeply the difficulties involved and the ruthlessness of the She family.

There are tens of thousands of households in Jiangning City, with a population of 7 to 800,000. A considerable proportion of the basic materials necessary for daily life are supplied by the counties under Jiangning and the surrounding prefectures and counties such as Huizhou, Chizhou, and Danyang.

There was a shortage of rice grains, so most supplies were supplied from Jinghu, Xiangtan and other places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The counties around Taihu Lake, a land of plenty, have been severely damaged by the war. Secondly, these places have long been transformed from traditional food exporting areas into silk weaving industries. Take Haiyu County as an example, nearly half of the land is planted with mulberry and cotton, and the population

The density is so high that a large amount of grain must be imported from other counties to maintain demand.

This war lasted only a short time, but the counties south of Jiangning, including Huizhou and Chizhou, were severely damaged. After the fall of Jiangzhou, the Yangtze River to the west of Chizhou and Luzhou was completely cut off.

Don't expect that rice from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Jinghu, Xiangtan and other places will flow into Jiangning.

All of a sudden, the more than one million people in Jiangning city immediately formed a huge food gap that was difficult to fill. If this gap cannot be filled, and if it is not filled well, the situation in Jiangning will be difficult to say stable, and the Jianghuai defense line will be affected due to the

The shortage of money and food creates loopholes, making it difficult for Jiang Ning to continue to pursue the She family.

In the ninth year of Chongguan, the Yan rebels broke through the pass and invaded south, dug embankments and destroyed river water transport, and crippled Yannan, Shandong, Zhongzhou and other places. If the Dongyang system had not worked hard to develop the Tianjin-Hai grain road, more than two million stones would be transported to the north every year.

Mi Liang, the situation in Yanjing cannot be delayed for four or five years. The dangerous situation Jiangning is currently facing is no worse than that of Yanjing in the ninth year of Chongguan.

In the ninth year of Chongguan, Yannan was severely devastated, but the situation in the counties of Gyeonggi was better. Another reason was that the northern wealthy people had the habit of storing grain. After the Tianjin-Sea grain road was opened, the food crisis was alleviated. The price of rice has not been rising for a long time.

The surrender was due to Zhang Xie and other officials controlling the situation behind the scenes.

The commodity economy in the Jianghuai region is more developed, and large households are more focused on making profits from silk, salt and iron. Another reason is that Jianghuai, Zhejiang and other places have experienced long-term wars, which has kept the price of rice in Jianghuai at a high level for many years. In fact, it has also made various governments

The county's private grain reserves have been reduced to the extreme.

Zhang Yubo could understand to some extent why Lin Fu was eager to recommend him to Quanzhi Jiangning Mansion. He thought to himself that Lin Fu was anxious to throw the burden out - a tree wants bark and a person wants face. No matter how domineering the tyrant is, he will not

Maybe they completely ignored leaving their names in the history books. Even under the suppression of the army, the hungry people in Jiangning City could not cause big troubles, but if it were anyone else, who would be willing to shoulder the eternal crime of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people starving to death on their own shoulders?

The most urgent thing before Zhang Yubo was not the reorganization of the government army, nor the recruitment of subordinate officials, but also raising food relief and reducing food prices.

Zhang Yubo entered the Jiangning government office at noon. In the afternoon, Lin Mengde sent someone over to ask Zhang Yubo to take over the more than 60 porridge restaurants temporarily set up by the Huaidong Army in the city.

It's not that Lin Mengde deliberately made things difficult. In addition to the Changshan Army massing to the west of Jiangning, the movement was to block Yue Lengqiu to the west of the Qiupu River. Lin Fu also ordered Zhou Tong to lead the Chongcheng Army to recapture Huizhou and retake it.
Chapter completed!