Chapter 12: It's Cold (The School Bus Overturns and Becomes the 28th League of the Book)
However, even after taking blood ginseng and the queen's thousand-year-old ginseng, Yun Tian's body still could not heal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info is still lingering on the sickbed.
This year, the snow is not stopping, and on the twenty-fifth day of the first month, it is still more than the next one.
At this time of the year, it has begun to warm up, but today it is unusually cold.
It is precisely for this reason that Yun Tian's body has never been able to get better.
On this day, Xi Ze sent the supervisor of Qin Tianjian to Chengguang Hall and asked, "You Qin Tianjian have always been sensitive to celestial phenomena, according to your opinion, how long will it snow?" ā
The supervisor replied truthfully: "I'm afraid it will be another month before the weather gets warmer!" ā
When Xi Ze heard this, his eyebrows furrowed: "It's going to be cold for so long?" ā
The supervisor was a little compassionate, a little helpless, nodded and said: "This year is the coldest year in the past 20 years, in previous years, the spring will gradually warm up, but this year's spring cold is very bad, it is a little colder than winter!" The main reason is that the wind and snow do not stop, people and animals are unbearable, many farmers' livestock are frozen to death, there are no crops on the ground, I heard, there are disaster victims everywhere, the situation is very serious! ā
Xi Ze sighed long and said: "Yes, there are disasters everywhere, even in the rich places of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are also a large number of disaster victims, and this is what the court has been talking about these days!" I was also worried, so I sent you to ask about the weather, but I didn't expect the news to be so bad that it would be cold for so long! If this continues, there will be no way to sow seeds in the spring! ā
The supervisor said helplessly: "Weichen is incompetent, this land is frozen, and it can't be turned at all, where can I still sow seeds?" Even if the seeds are sown, the temperature is too low to germinate and emerge! This year's harvest may be worrying! ā
When Xi Ze heard this, he took a deep breath and said: "This is a natural disaster, I can't blame you, you go back and observe the celestial phenomena more, once there is a change, you will immediately come to report to me, without delay, and at the same time, you must also think more about relief strategies!" ā
Jian Zheng arched his hand and said: "Yes, Weichen obeys the order!" ā
Not long after the prison was retired, Sixi walked in again and said, "Your Majesty, Xia Xiang begs to see you!" ā
Xi Ze put down the fold in his hand and said, "Xuan! ā
Soon, Xia Wanfeng walked in and arched his hand: "Meet the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!" ā
Xi Ze raised his hand and said, "No courtesy!" ā
"Emperor Xie!"
Xi Ze looked at Xia Wanfeng, frowned and said: "The situation in various places is very grim now, and today the court has selected the people who will go to the place where the disaster is serious to provide relief, but you also have to urge the household department to allocate money, be sure to do it properly!" ā
Xia Wanfeng frowned and said: "Last year, because of the epidemic, the treasury was empty, and the household department did not collect much tax at the end of the year, and now I am afraid that it will not be able to spend much silver taels!" ā
Xi Ze said angrily: "One or two are poor with me, where did all the taxes collected before go?" ā
Seeing this, Xia Wanfeng hurriedly said: "The emperor is angry, the matter of silver, Weichen will definitely find a way to solve it!" It's just that some officials have suggested that the tax should be ......"
Xi Ze interrupted angrily: "On such a cold day, many livestock have frozen to death, and the people have nothing to eat, wouldn't it be no different from a tyrant if I increase their taxes?" How will the people judge me, and if anyone still raises this matter, drag it out and beat it up first! ā
Xia Wanfeng sighed and said: "Weichen didn't mean that, but at the end of last year, due to the drag of the epidemic, many people's taxes were not paid according to the amount, and the amount of grain and silver submitted by various places was insufficient, so the household department is urging the following to pay off these insufficient taxes!" ā
Xi Ze took a deep breath and said: "Go and tell the household, there is no need to urge, if you don't pay it off, I will exempt him, and I will make up for it when the harvest comes next year, now is an extraordinary period, the matter of silver, you can find another way, so many disaster victims are waiting for me to help, tell them to stop beating their ideas on the people, it really doesn't work, I will reduce the amount of money by two layers!" ā
When Xia Wanfeng heard this, her eyebrows furrowed: "Weichen has no opinions, and he will definitely pass on the emperor's will, but if the salary is suddenly reduced by two layers, I am afraid that the magnates will complain!" ā
Xi Ze closed his eyes and said: "You are the prime minister, you will share this matter of appeasing the hundred officials, I believe that your eloquence will definitely be able to convince the people below!" Besides, from now on, I will reduce myself and the use of each palace to half, with me taking the lead in the front, what else do I have to say! Xi Ze opened his eyes faintly, stared at Xia Wanfeng, and said word by word, "Wanfeng, you have to remember that in any case, the treasury cannot be exhausted, and there must be an old bottom, this is the bottom line!" ā
Xia Wanfeng was stunned when she heard this, and hurriedly said: "Yes, Weichen understands!" Weichen will definitely think of a way to solve the problem of silver, please rest assured! ā
"Let's use the tax collected at the end of last year to help the emergency!" Xi Ze nodded with great satisfaction, and said: "Wan Feng, have you calculated the time, the ten-year peace treaty signed with Xiao Guo has already expired, I originally planned to have a tough battle with Xiao Guo after it expires, but now, I don't have to think about it!" ā
Xia Wanfeng was stunned when she heard this, calculated a little, and said: "Speaking of Xiao Guo, the news from the north is very bad!" ā
Xi Ze raised his eyebrows: "What, King Xiao has the intention of invading south?" ā
Xia Wanfeng shook his head and said: "It's not a southern invasion, the weather is still so cold after the New Year this year, to everyone's surprise, not only our country was affected, but other countries were also affected, generally speaking, everyone is in the winter to buy a good carbon fire at home for the winter, and when the spring weather is not so cold, there is no need for carbon fire, but this spring is colder than winter, no one has such a foresight, and now I want to buy carbon fire, but no one comes to sell it, carbon fire is in short supply, and it has risen to sky-high prices, Ordinary people can't afford it at all, and even ordinary black charcoal is very rare, and it has risen to 200 taels and one quintal, so many people everywhere are freezing to death on the streets, which is more unbearable than starvation! There are many people in the north who are hungry and cold, Xiao is even colder, it is said that many cattle and sheep froze to death, the royal family of Xiao State does not have a good carbon fire for heating, their land boundary is mostly grassland, even if there are mountains are snow-capped mountains, there are not many trees, so King Xiao sent people to the mountains on the border of Cangzhou to cut down trees, and has transported away a lot of trees to make carbon fire! ā
When Xi Ze heard this, he was angry: "What did you say? King Xiao sent people to cut down trees on the mountains of Cangzhou? Is my territory what he wants? In this matter, isn't Mu Chengjiang not a rumor at all? Why didn't it stop? ā