Disaster situation?

This seems to be a little unfamiliar to the Tang Dynasty today, because since Chen Shuozhen's uprising, he has rarely heard of any major disasters. It has always been a good weather and life in the world.

But if you are a little superstitious, there was actually this sign at the beginning of this year.

I remember that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I didn’t even say a happy New Year, but bad news came from the South China Sea. After that, Yang Feixue gave birth and almost lost her life.

It seems that since this year, this bad news has not stopped.

Han Yi sighed on the first day of the Lunar New Year that this year is a turbulent autumn, but the result is that he really hit the nail on the head.

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Ministry of Revenue.

"You're here."

Zhang Daxiang, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly stood up when she saw Han Yi.

“What the hell is going on?”

"Our Ministry of Revenue has just received news that many prefectures and counties in Henan and Hebei have only had a few light rains since late spring. Although the drought is not very obvious, the harvest this year is definitely a lack of harvest. The specific amount of losses will be lost, and it is still not yet certain."

Han Yi said: "I want specific information, which prefectures and counties are there, and how many people are involved."

"This is a list of disaster-stricken prefectures and counties." Zhang Daxiang handed a piece of information to Han Yi and said: "There are no specific information about how many people are involved, but I estimate that it should involve 200,000 households."

Han Yi said in surprise: "So many?"

Zhang Daxiang said: "Because Henan and Hebei have a large population."

Henan and Hebei are the Yellow River Basin, the origin of Central Plains culture, and of course the population is very concentrated.

Han Yi asked again: "What is the situation in the local food storage?"

Zhang Daxiang said: "According to the data at the end of last year, there are some grain stored in all the prefectures and counties over the past two years, but not much, because most of the grain in Chang'an has come from taxes from Henan and Hebei."

Just then, an official walked in, "Report to the Shangshu Ling, the Queen sent someone to ask Shangshu Ling to go to the Zhengshi Hall immediately."

"So fast." Han Yi frowned slightly.

Zhang Daxiang reminded: "I have been waiting for you for a long time."

"Yes, I came back from outside the city." Han Yi smiled bitterly and said, "You go and prepare the household registration, land and tax information for the affected area."

......

When they arrived at the Political Affairs Hall, all the ministers were here. After all, he rushed back from outside the city and spent a lot of time on the road, but each of them was wearing casual clothes. It was a holiday in Japan. This happened suddenly and they didn't have time to change their clothes.

"See the Queen."

"Sit down!"

After Han Yi sat down, Wu Meiniang asked Han Yi: "Do you know about the disaster in Henan and Hebei?"

Han Yi said: "I just heard of it."

Wu Meiniang said: "According to the current news, the disaster is not very serious, but if it continues to rain, the consequences may become very serious. We must prepare for the future and prevent the disaster from spreading further."

Zheng Shanxing immediately said: "This natural disaster is difficult to stop. The court should immediately issue an order to reduce taxes in the disaster area, reduce the burden on the local people, appease the hearts of the people, and do not cause local panic. At the same time, let the government prepare to open the granary and provide relief to the people at any time."

Han Yi said: "It is necessary to issue tax exemptions and appease the people's hearts, but according to the information of the Ministry of Revenue, government relief alone cannot help those people overcome difficulties. I think there must be some surplus food in the people's homes, which can support them for some time. The court cannot panic about this. It should quickly order the special envoys to go there and understand the disaster situation so that the court can prescribe the right medicine and prevent local landlords and officials from making huge profits."

Wu Meiniang nodded and said, "Who will I send you?"

Zheng Shanxing said, "Let me go."

Mr. Lu said, "I will go with Mr. Zheng, and I can bring some herbs there."

Wu Meiniang nodded slightly because they were both top gentry in Shandong and had more prestige there. It was indeed more appropriate to go there. She said seriously: "A flood in Qingxi County last time triggered Chen Shuozhen's rebellion. The losses caused by the turmoil were much more than the losses caused by natural disasters. Henan and Hebei are the center of our Central Plains. If these two places are in chaos, the consequences will be much greater than that of Chen Shuozhen's rebellion, and even caused chaos in the world. Although the disaster is not very serious at present, you must face it carefully. Not only do you have to try every means to prevent the spread of the disaster, but also prevent the occurrence of man-made disasters. If there is any situation, send a quick horse back immediately."

"I obey the order."

Wu Meiniang said again: "Just in case, we must make the surrounding prefectures and counties prepare food and be ready to send food to the disaster area at any time."

Since there is not a lot of information obtained at present, and in ancient times, disaster relief was only a few tricks, and there were not many things to talk about. It would be very good to be able to do our best and leave our destiny. Once a disaster occurs, it is very normal to die. Don’t die too much.

After the meeting, Han Yi immediately returned to the Ministry of Revenue.

And Zhang Daxiang has already found all the information for Han Yi.

"Shangshuling, do you think this matter will be imprisoned with the queen?"

When Han Yi just picked up the information and was about to read it, Zhang Daxiang suddenly said this.

Han Yi was so angry that he said, "What nonsense are you talking about? The queen doesn't have such great ability. She may not be able to keep it from raining?"

Zhang Daxiang shook her head and said, "You can't say that."

Han Yi smiled and said, "What should I say?"

"This natural disaster is mostly caused by the ruler's lack of virtue." Zhang Daxiang said: "When His Majesty presided over government affairs, there were almost no natural disasters across the country. But when the Queen was presiding over government affairs, there were constant disasters. The last crisis was purely because of the Queen. Now the Queen has just come out to preside over government affairs, but another crisis has occurred. Is this really a coincidence? I don't believe it yet."

Although he doesn't say anything, he actually hates Wu Meiniang very much, because he comes from the Guanlong Group and is naturally hostile to Wu Meiniang. In his political philosophy, he is very unhappy with Wu Meiniang.

“Bad talk.”

Han Yi glared at him angrily, then frowned and said, "Who said that this natural disaster was caused by the ruler's imperfection?"

Zhang Daxiang said: "Since ancient times, everyone has thought so!"

Han Yi frowned and said, "Are you serious?"

Zhang Daxiang was a little surprised and said, "You don't know this? If you don't believe it, go out and ask, anyone will say that."

Han Yi really doesn't know that there is such a statement.

But in fact, this is not difficult to understand, because many dynasties were destroyed by natural disasters, but natural disasters were just a fuse and were eventually overthrown. This emperor paid attention to the destiny of heaven, which represents the heaven. Whoever wants to change the day another day must first deny this concept. Of course, those who rebel will blame the natural disaster on the rulers, so that his rebellion can be said to be a way for heaven.

Han Yi frowned. After a while, he suddenly said, "Send someone to Luoyang and Bianzhou to see how much food there is in the area?"

Zhang Daxiang said: "There should be a lot of food there, but most of them belong to merchants. Because since the last salary reform, the salaries of officials have been unified into currency, and the court's demand for food has been reduced. In addition, the previous crisis has caused great damage to the canal generation's prefectures and counties. All prefectures and counties need to be restored, as well as construction colleges and roads. In that crisis, Henan and Hebei did not suffer much damage. Therefore, the food of the court in the past two years has mainly come from Henan, Hebei and other places."

Han Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Then you send someone to investigate, whoever the food belongs to."

"yes."

This is really a human calculation that is worse than the heavenly calculation. In Han Yi's opinion, these two years are the time when the Tang Dynasty is taking off, but he cannot count natural disasters. However, once natural disasters occur in ancient times, it is very terrible. There is no way to predict the consequences, and any situation may occur.

This is also a major blow to the new policy. When Han Yi promoted the new policy, he explained several times that commerce-oriented policies can cause natural disasters in the region. If the disaster really occurs today, if it cannot be stopped, the new policy will be questioned by everyone.

But the problem is that this time is so wonderful. If there were natural disasters in Yangzhou, Bozhou, and Bianzhou, as long as it was not the kind of disaster that broke out in most of the Central Plains, then food could still be supplied, because this generation of regions was active. The problem is that Henan and Hebei were still in a self-sufficient small peasant society and would not be commercialized. Han Yi's policy center has always been in the south of the Yangtze River, and it has not yet been the northern region, and there is no reason to commercialize them. Han Yi did not mean that the states and counties were forcibly commercialized. He was playing conspiracies and tricks to guide the Tang Dynasty to this path. Henan and Hebei would not have the ability to recover and supply to commercialize.

This is particularly a headache for Han Yi.

Not only him, but the policies of the entire court also changed immediately. All policies related to the new policy were stopped first and all personnel were put into disaster relief.

Because Henan and Hebei are really too important for the Central Plains dynasty. They can be said to be the heart of the Central Plains. Once there is turmoil, it may affect the whole country. This is very terrible.

Fortunately, the disaster is not very serious at present, not as terrifying as the severe drought in Guanzhong. Everyone is confident that they can alleviate the crisis. However, just as the court was doing their best, rumors suddenly spread among the people.

As Zhang Daxiang said, today's people generally believe that natural disasters are because the ruler is unethical, so the old genius uses this to punish the ruler, but the object of everyone's discussion is not Li Zhi, but Wu Meiniang.

In the hearts of the people, Li Zhi was still a very kind and kind monarch who was loved by everyone. It happened that during this period, Li Zhi was recuperating and Wu Meiniang officially came forward to preside over the government affairs. It was a coincidence that all this was the culprit of the previous crisis, Wu Meiniang, which was a foregone conclusion. In addition, Wu Meiniang was another woman.

What’s even more terrifying is that this is what intellectuals think. This statement was proposed by intellectuals, and rumors are also spreading in the court.

The little reputation that Wu Meiniang finally built before was immediately in danger. If it was not done well, it would even ruin her political career.
Chapter completed!