Great Song Changsha Palace.

There are happy events again.

Duanfei Niangniang Le Wu gave birth to a prince for the emperor and named Zhao Tai.

Although Zhao Dongting has been working hard for the affairs of the navigation teams on various continents recently, this successive happy events also makes him often have a smile on his face.

Zhao Tai Zhao Tai, Zhao Dongting gave this name to the child of Le Wusheng, which has the intention of implying the peace of the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, there is also the intention of praying for the smooth sailing teams of various continents.

After all these days of operation, the navigation teams of all continents have also been almost formed.

In addition to the 40 large ships in the Australian navigation fleet, the African, South American, and European navigation fleets all have as many as 80 large ships.

The North American sailing team, which had been formed long ago, had 100 large ships.

Speaking of which, that's not a huge amount. But in fact, this is almost Zhao Dongting's dedication to the Song Dynasty.

At the same time as the formation of the navy, he was also under a lot of pressure.

There are more than 400 large ships on five continents. With so many ships, it is already possible to form a navy of nearly 100,000 people.

There were five sailing teams, and the total number of people was 50,000.

And this is just the "advance army" that Zhao Dongting intends to initially open up the situation in various states.

In order to develop the economy of the Great Song Dynasty and expand its influence in this world, Zhao Dongting can be said to have good intentions.

North American Ambassador Wu Sanhai, African Ambassador Li Fanghua, European Ambassador Lin Chong, Australian Ambassador Yu Linglong, and then recently had a whim and wanted to go to sea, so they were appointed by Zhao Dongting as the ambassador of South America, but he deliberately sent two stable young and strong ministers as his deputy. This one was all carefully considered by Zhao Dongting and secretly observed.

Except for Wu Amiao, who is a little unreliable, Li Fanghua, Lin Chong and Yu Linglong serve as navigation ambassadors, which is not considered a high burden.

It's been nearly two months.

At this time, it was close to the end of the year.

It's freezing.

Only this year's winter has just arrived, and it is quite cold.

This made Zhao Dongting and the ministers of the court a little worried.

Since Zhao Dongting ascended the throne, the weather has never been so strange as this year.

The dry season lasted for a very long time, and there were almost no droughts. Now, this winter is coming quite fast.

If it weren't for Zhao Dongting's efforts to develop people's livelihood in recent years, every family would have more or less surplus food, and I am afraid that there would have been displaced people at this time.

Zhao Dongting originally focused on the navigation teams of various continents, but at this time, he did not dare to ignore this rather abnormal climate.

Inside the Imperial Study.

There is a ground dragon spread in the ground, so it looks quite warm.

Outside, however, it was snowy.

The snow had been falling for a few days, and now there were many places in the palace where the snow was up to half a person's waist.

Zhao Dongting is naturally not the kind of person who doesn't know the sufferings of the people, looking at the music that has been reported from all over the place, his brows have always been deeply furrowed.

This cold snap came rapidly and swept through the five roads of Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, and Jinghu South Road.

The territory of the five roads is cold and abnormal.

And this is already half of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although none of the envoys of the festival said that there was a risk of food shortage, if the climate continued like this, it would be difficult to say.

No one knows how long this cold snap will last.

Even if it continues to be so cold, even if the people have surplus food at home, they will freeze to death.

Don't talk about the rest of the places, Zhao Dongting, who lives in the palace, knows that the price of charcoal in Changsha City has been rising wildly these days.

Even so, demand is far from outstripping supply.

The process of making charcoal is quite complicated and time-consuming, and if it goes on like this, Changsha City is afraid that even if there is money, it will not be able to buy charcoal.

When I opened the window, a cold breeze blew in. Zhao Dongting rubbed his hands and said to Li Goudan next to him: "Dogan, go and invite a few adults from the Ministry of State Affairs to come over." ”

Li Goudan, who was wiping on the side, hurriedly agreed, and went to the imperial study to order.

Zhao Dongting closed the window and continued to review the recital.

With his cultivation, he is not afraid of the cold, but not everyone in the world has such a cultivation as him.

At this moment, he was even worried about whether the weather would cause someone to freeze to death if the weather continued to be cold.

This is certainly not what he wants to see.

As the emperor, he expanded his territory and developed people's livelihood, so that the people could be fed and clothed.

Now that Da Song is thriving, but in the face of such a natural disaster, there are frozen bones on the road, so what is it?

"Shhh

When Li Goudan walked in again, his little face was a little red, completely frozen, he rubbed his hands, stomped his feet, and couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, it's really cold this day." ”

Zhao Dongting raised his head, nodded and said, "It's cold......"

He had never experienced such cold since he traveled to the Great Song Dynasty, and even in his previous life, he had never experienced it. It's all scared of minus degrees.

In the previous life, when there was air conditioning, as long as the temperature was below zero, it would make people feel cold. Zhao Dongting really didn't know how the people of the Great Song Dynasty were struggling at home.

If he doesn't do some measures, I'm afraid it may be too late.

In the past, Lu Xiufu, Chen Wenlong and others went to the imperial study.

They are all old, and they are all red from the cold.

This made Zhao Dongting feel a little guilty in his heart.

He hurriedly asked Li Goudan to make tea, and said: "It's really hard for you to let Aiqing come over in such a cold weather." ”

Lu Xiufu and the others just shook their heads.

Immediately, Lu Xiufu was a little worried and said: "Your Majesty, even if you don't announce your visit to us, we will come to see you." ”

"It's because of the weather, isn't it?"

Zhao Dongting sighed softly, "I've just seen the music in various places, and the weather this year is indeed extremely abnormal. The imperial court should have prepared immediately, this should have been something I should have thought of a long time ago, but I didn't pay attention to it before, but I was negligent. If the people are made to suffer because of this, it is my fault, and it is the fault of the court. ”

Lu Xiufu frowned, "Then the emperor, do you have a good plan?" ”

It's not that he hasn't discussed this matter with Chen Wenlong and others, but obviously, there is no good way to deal with it.

Under the conditions of this era, it was extremely difficult to resist natural disasters.

Floods can also be prevented by opening up rivers and so on. But in the face of drought, ice and so on, you can really just stare and watch.

In the past dynasties, such things were not rare.

In times of drought, it is not uncommon for the road to starve. Then it was not unheard of to cause a plague, and even to cause the deaths of millions of people.

During the ice disaster, the whole place was barren, and people often starved to death and froze to death, which was also rare.

Although such an abnormal climate is rare, as long as it occurs, it will be a disaster for the whole world.

Throughout the years since the Great Song Dynasty moved its capital to Jiankang, there has never been an experience of successfully resisting natural disasters.

Zhao Dongting listened to Lu Hideo's question, raised his eyebrows slightly, and only asked, "How did you resist such natural disasters in the past?" ”

Lu Xiufu replied: "When the minister was still young, such a catastrophe also occurred, and this incident is still recorded in the history books. That year, the climate was as cold as this year, and there were people who starved to death and froze to death, and countless displaced people went to the major cities to seek refuge from the disaster. At that time, the Holy Lord asked each state to set up a place for the people, and concentrated charcoal and other materials in the whole city so that the people in the place could not be frozen to death. But in the end, this matter was still not settled. ”

"No more?"

Zhao Dongting hadn't read this historical fact, and said in surprise: "Why can't it be done?" ”

Lu Xiufu said with a wry smile: "At that time, it was said that there were millions of displaced people, and where could they afford to be raised by the security houses set up by those state capitals. Not only is charcoal and other things completely unavailable, but there is also no food and other things to eat. In the end, the state capitals had no choice but to settle their own destiny and let those displaced people find their own way out. It is rumored that some state officials even went to pray for this, but they were not hung by the heavens. When the natural disasters finally passed, there were resentments in various places, and the people did not have enough food and clothing, and countless people became bandits. ”

Zhao Dongting groaned deeply, "Such a thing must not occur under my rule. ”

He suddenly realized that the current Da Song was really fragile. At least, in the face of natural disasters.