Even without the border military settlements, the Yanji Plain is actually one of the four major plains in the Central Plains, alongside the Lianghu Plain, the Jianghuai Plain, and the Hehuai Plain. The Yanji Plain extends to the Yellow River in the south, Yanshan Mountain in the north, Taihang Mountain in the west, and Bohai Sea in the east.

, the arable land reaches hundreds of millions of acres. The imperial family is in Gyeonggi, and the imperial estate surrounded by Yan Ji is as much as three to four million acres.

In addition to the Yellow River, there are many water systems originating from the Taihang Mountains and flowing into the Bohai Sea, which bring extremely convenient irrigation conditions to Yanji and support a population of nearly ten million at most.

Tens of millions of people and hundreds of millions of acres of land were not enough to support an imperial capital. It was no longer a question of whether the northern land was short of food, but that the Yue Dynasty was so heavy that it was difficult to return in the later stages.

In addition to the border troops, even the imperial capital's population of more than one million requires support from the outside world, which is beyond the capacity of the Yanji Plain.

The number of households in Jiangning city once reached 150,000 or 60,000. In addition to the wealthy officials and gentry from Jianghuai and Jianghuai who gathered in Jiangning, there were also a large number of poor people who depended on them.

This abnormal urban population structure is constantly sucking blood from the surrounding Jianghuai Plain, and a large amount of resources are wasted in Jiangning City.

Therefore, after the Jiangning War, Lin Fu, on the one hand, transported households in Jiangning City to workshops, industries, mining and other industries, and on the other hand, he moved the urban poor to eastern Fujian and Yizhou for farming. In fact, he wanted to reduce Jiangning City's use of the resources of the Jianghuai Plain.

Only through excessive occupation can more resources be used to support the army to compete with Yanhu.

"Before, it was difficult to return, but when the Yanlu invaded the border, Yannan and Lubei were crippled, and the Yellow River burst its banks and the canals were washed away, the situation in the north was on the verge of collapse," Yue Lengqiu said, "

It has to be said that Chong Guogong was really smart, and the Tianjin-Hai Grain Road was able to rise. By this time, the population of Yanjing had dropped sharply due to the grain shortage, which actually reduced the total number of Nancao to less than 3 million shi, which was barely enough.

Maintain. It's a pity that the Yanlu have been in power for a long time, and the late emperor lacked enough patience in western Liaoning..."

Tang Xitai thought to himself: Did Yue Lengqiu think better after the fact, or did he realize at the time that the battle in Western Liaoning was too hasty and would lead to defeat?

If it was the latter, Yue Lengqiu's scheming was really ruthless, Huaidong shouldn't be able to tolerate him? But thinking about it carefully, if Yue Lengqiu had seen through everything earlier, he wouldn't have told him frankly at this time.

Yue Lengqiu seemed unable to see what Tang Xitai was thinking. He followed the sound of the wheels and continued: "When the Beidi collapsed, the population of Yanjing had dropped sharply to 500,000, which was less than eight years ago.

Half of the previous Yanlu captured Yanjing. Except for about 30,000 soldiers who stayed behind with Zhang Xie and surrendered to the enemy, all the other troops in the capital collapsed. Before the collapse of the north, the imperial court had to bear the responsibility of feeding more than a million people in Yanjing.

But when Yanlu stole Yanjing, most of these pressures had actually been resolved..."

"In the past few years, the Yan captives have encircled and divided the land in Datong, Liaoji, Xuanfu, Jidong, Yannan and other places, and reorganized the military household system. In this way, the Yan captives raised four to five million soldiers, which is the capital of Beijing.

In addition to food and supplies, the camp army no longer needs to bear additional military pay. Even if there is military pay, it is just looting..."

"...Although there are countless surrenders, and they are shameless to accept the salaries of the Yan captives, from the captive king down, the captives are still frugal, and the surrendered ministers dare not be ineffective, which actually greatly reduces the consumption. When Zhang Xie did not rebel, he supported his family.

There are more than a thousand slaves, but at this time, the number of the traitors is less than a hundred. When the imperial court was in Yanjing at its highest, the inner court supported nearly 60,000 servants, while the Yanlu palace only had 2,000 people. This more and less, it is quite enough to call Yan

The captives have more than 100,000 troops and horses. The actual population of Yanjing City at this time, including the garrison, is only more than 200,000..."

On the surface, it seems that the salary of the surrendered ministers has not been reduced by the Yanlu, but in fact, there is a huge difference between whether they are honest or not.

Zhang Xie supported his family with more than a thousand slaves. In addition to salaries, a large part of it relied on corrupt bosses, which actually consumed the central government's finances. If the officials and ministers were honest, the central government's financial consumption would be much less.

"All of the above made it insufficient for the imperial court to raise Yanjing Ji when it established its capital in Yanjing, and had to draw grain from Henan, Shandong and Jianghuai. However, the Yan captives went south and occupied Yanjing. Although Henan, Shandong and other places were all ruined,
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