The first year of Tiansheng is not very good, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hebei and other four provinces at the same time there was a major drought, these four provinces since March after two spring rains for more than three months without a drop of rain, that is to say, the summer when the rain is most needed, these four provinces are almost not a drop of water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Such a serious drought has almost suffered a devastating blow to the crops in these four provinces, except for a certain harvest of winter wheat and corn, others such as rice and spring wheat are almost no harvest, although the court has been vigorously urging the opening of canals and drainage in various places over the years, and the channel project has done a good job, but it can not withstand such a big drought.

In the face of such a great drought, many rivers have been shelved and exposed, no matter how good the channel is, it is useless to have no water to lead, and the areas with good winter wheat and corn harvests are all counties and towns with good channels, and some townships and counties, because the emperor is far away, the supervision is not so in place, and the channel is blocked, and the harvest is basically negligible.

After more than 100 days of drought, in late July, it rained heavily for many days, causing small-scale floods in many places, fortunately, the court gave strength, since the drought exceeded a month and a half, it attracted the attention of the court, and when the drought lasted for two months, the court had sent all kinds of Qincha to the state capital where the situation was serious.

While preparing disaster relief materials, while building dams for flood control, it is the various preparations of the court dynasty that are in place, so as to ensure that in such a serious situation, there is neither the phenomenon of disaster people fleeing famine, the phenomenon of soaring prices, nor the evil consequences of the plague after the disaster, after this catastrophe has passed, although the Manchu officials have taken off their skins, and the treasury has been emptied by thirty percent, but it has earned a supreme reputation for the new emperor who has just been on the throne for a year.

As far as the people of the world are concerned, whether an emperor is good or not mainly depends on whether you can let the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment, and if you want to let the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment, in addition to factors such as the tax and legal system and other factors, there is also the handling method and strength of the court in the face of sudden disasters.

The people of the world are satisfied with the new emperor, and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are also more than praise for the new emperor, but the party Zhao Zhen does not have much joy and pride, he will be looking at the treasury account book sent by the household in his hand and sighing, this disaster has come down, although the civil order has stabilized, the court has taken off a layer of skin.

The four provinces had a large-scale drought at the same time, not to mention the tax revenue of the four provinces, and the court also had to allocate a large amount of money and grain, spend countless manpower and material resources to revitalize the disaster and comfort the people, and deal with a series of defensive measures such as the flood that may occur after the drought, all these expenses added up to almost an astronomical amount, plus the consumption of the great war from the third year of Tianxi to the first year of Qianxing, the materials accumulated by the Great Song Dynasty treasury over the years were almost half consumed.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhao Zhen deeply understood the meaning of what Xiao Nan told him two years ago, and he remembered that his sister said to him like this at that time: "Xiaozhen, the position of king is very difficult to do, it represents not only the supreme honor, but also the supreme responsibility......"

Yes, responsibility, he has only been in power for a year, and he has fully felt the weight of the word responsibility, and now the people and officials praise him for the wisdom of the monarch, but he himself looks at the account book in his hand and feels inexplicably frightened, the Great Song Dynasty has only passively fought a war in the past 30 years, and there has been no particularly big disaster in the country.

In the peaceful and prosperous era of more than 30 years, the things accumulated in the treasury only supported a war that lasted for more than half a year and a natural disaster that occurred in the four provinces at the same time...... When his mind fell here, Zhao Zhen couldn't help but shudder......

Don't talk about Zhao Zhen's heart, but say Qingfu Town, Qingfu Town is the hardest hit area this year, here from March 20, until mid-July, a full 110 days, a drop of rain has not fallen, although Qingfu Town is surrounded by the Yi River, Ru River, and Baihe River in the middle, the water source problem is unique compared to other places.

But no matter how blessed the water source is, it can't hold a drop of water throughout the summer, there is no rain for 110 days, and the riverbed of many river sections is exposed, and there is nothing that can be done to irrigate the crops with these rivers, except for the winter wheat and corn harvest, other rice, sweet potatoes, etc. are almost no harvest.

Compared with the miserable situation of less than one percent of the harvest in many other states and counties, the overall harvest of Qingfu Town has decreased by about 70 percent, that is, they still have about 30 percent of the harvest, and the population of the entire Qingfu Town is about 100,000. (When Xiao Nan first came, the population of this town was nearly 70,000, Xiao Nan has been here for 18 years, with the increasing prosperity of Qingfu Town, there are many outsiders brought over, coupled with the increase in the local population, now there are about 100,000.) ）

A large agricultural town with a population of 100,000, the grain production has decreased by nearly seventy percent, which is bound to make many people have no food, Xiao Nan and his wife are now the richest households in Qingfu Town, and have a special relationship with Zhao Zhen, there is a large-scale drought in many places across the country this year, Zhao Zhen must be anxious, they can't help, but the problem of Qingfu Town must always be solved.

"Jing Xuan, regarding the disaster in this town, I plan to discuss it with the mayor and the gentry in the town, and see if we can solve the disaster in this town by ourselves, what do you think?" When it was nearly July, Xiao Nan and Jiang Jingxuan discussed the matter.

"Go, this is what we should do, our Qingfu Town occupies the right time and place, not to mention Song County, Luoyang is the number one wealthy town, life is good, the responsibility should naturally be borne more, there are so many places affected by the disaster this year, the court has to use money everywhere, we can't help, this little thing in our own town, naturally we should deal with it ourselves." Jiang Jingxuan is also a person with meritorious fame, and his visual vision is different from that of ordinary people, so he naturally has no opinion on this.

With the influence of Xiao Nan and his wife in Qingfu Town now, they took the lead in doing this, and the gentry of Qingfu Town responded one after another, and Xiao Nan and his wife promised all the hired farmers who rented their fields that they would not receive any rent this year, and at the same time donated fifty quintals of grain. (After Xiao Nan came to this world, he had experienced a natural disaster before, and since then, he has stored an extra year's worth of food at home every year.) ）

In addition to food, he donated 8,000 taels of silver, Qingfu Town is a fairly wealthy town, there are many gentry in the town, among which there are five or six families whose family property is above Xiao Nan and his wife, and there are about ten families with similar family property, which is slightly worse than them, but there are also twenty or thirty families in the middle-class landlord class.

With Xiao Nan and his wife taking the lead, in just a few days, the gentry of the town donated a total of 100,000 taels of silver, plus 2,000 quintals of grain, these silver taels were managed by the mayor of the town and all the donated gentry, and everyone jointly counted the disaster situation in each village, and then distributed it uniformly according to their actual difficulties......

Qingfu Town has a total population of only 100,000, of which about 30,000 people with good conditions can withstand this year's disaster and do not need relief, and the remaining 70,000 people have some grain in their hands, and the grain in their hands plus this year's meager harvest and the money and grain donated by the gentry of the town are enough to solve the town's difficulties.

That is to say, although Qingfu Town was severely affected, but with the generosity of the local gentry and the joint efforts of the people of the town, they solved the dilemma without using one or two silver and a grain from the court......