Although the Gao clan of Qi is politically mediocre, who has made their foundation good, and has been ruined by several mentally ill emperors for decades, the national strength is still the strongest among the three kingdoms of Zhou, Qi and Chen!

In addition, in recent years, the state of Qi, which occupies the entire Central Plains, has accumulated a large amount of food and population, formed a standing army of more than 100,000, and has a large number of military talents such as Hu Luguang, Gao Changgong, Duan Shao, etc., which gives the state of Qi the ability to deal with the intrusion of Zhou and Chen at the same time.

In a month's time, Gao Changgong has personally led 30,000 troops to the south and stationed in Xuzhou, and sent the general Changsun Hongluo to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to Xuyi to reinforce Qinjun, Liyang, Guangling and other important towns along the river at any time!

Moreover, the 5,000 cavalry vanguard of the Qi army rushed to Qinjun, an important town on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and built a large number of warships to build a water village by the river, and also added a large number of water barrier wooden fences on the Yangtze River into Qinjun to prevent the other party from breaking into Qinjun!

For a while, the situation on both sides of the Yangtze River became tense in an instant, but the war could not break out all at once!

Because people are not as good as heaven, a typhoon disrupted the deployment of Chen: the typhoon landed from Haiyan and hit the entire East China region head-on, and this area is the political, economic, population and food center of Chen, which was swept by the typhoon, causing serious losses to the entire Chen.

Emperor Chen Xu was looking at the urgent reports sent from all over the country, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became: they were all reporting the situation of the typhoon, which was summed up in two words, tragic! The population has suffered heavy casualties and economic losses!

Among them, the most serious is Xu Jingcheng's Wuxing County, the entire county has more than 200,000 people affected by the disaster waiting to be rescued, except for Haiyan County, the population casualties are not large, other coastal counties in Wuxing County have been devastated: the typhoon passed, houses collapsed and flooded, countless casualties, a mess, mourning all over the wilderness.

Some counties originally had a population of several thousand, but overnight, there were less than 1,000 people left! And everything has been washed away by the torrential rain and floods, there is no food to wear, and these people who survived the typhoon do not know how much is left!

For disaster relief, we must immediately open a warehouse and release grain for disaster relief, otherwise we will starve all over the wilderness, and even the hungry victims will flee from their hometowns and flee in all directions, becoming displaced people to grab food, and finally it will develop into a rebellion!

"Your Majesty, now that Wuxing County has been hit hard by the typhoon, we must immediately raise money and allocate food for disaster relief, so as not to cause a civil uprising, but in the past two years, the country's finances have been put on preparing for the Northern Expedition, and there is no extra money in other places to support disaster relief, so we can only embezzle the funds of the Northern Expedition!" Cai Jingli, the head of the household, said softly.

He is Chen Xu's confidant, of course he knows what Chen Xu of the Northern Expedition is most concerned about, and Cai Jingli doesn't want to drag the emperor back at this time, but now he is suddenly hit by a typhoon, and the situation is critical, which makes the emperor's money bag in a dilemma.

"Your Majesty, now that the Northern Expedition is almost ready, if it is suddenly stopped, it may cause instability in the army's morale, and the consequences will be unimaginable! Moreover, the State of Qi has sent reinforcements south, we should take advantage of their unstable foothold, attack decisively, and kill them by surprise, otherwise we will attack when they are ready, and we will definitely fall into a bitter battle! Wu Mingche, the governor of the Northern Expedition, immediately retorted that as the governor of the Northern Expedition, of course, he was afraid of suddenly stopping the Northern Expedition.

"General Wu, you only think about making meritorious contributions on the battlefield, but you don't think that the soldiers of the Northern Expedition will also have to eat in the future, this time it is the Wuzhou area that suffers from the storm, this is the granary of our Chen State! Jiaxing has the reputation of 'one year old or Minoru then several counties forget hunger', but this time it was hit head-on by the wind disaster, the farmland has become Zeguo, the seedlings on the field have just been tasseled, and they are all drowned in the field, this year must be a poor harvest, now just the victims have no food to eat, next year may be everyone has no food! Cai Jingli also has his troubles.

"Now, we can transfer food from other places that haven't been affected by the wind!" Wu Mingche argued.

"In order to prepare for this Northern Expedition, we have increased taxes in various places, and also levied more than half of the grain in various places, but the reserves can only maintain the expenses of 100,000 troops for half a year, I thought that there would be a good harvest this year, even if the Northern Expedition was fought until next year, it could still be supported, who would have thought that at this critical moment, there would be such a big storm!" Cai Jingli also retorted.

"The Northern Expedition to capture Huainan is our first step in recovering the Central Plains, how can we give up halfway so easily!" Wu Mingche is still fighting.

"That's not half-, it's just postponed to next year, or General Wu promises to take Huainan within half a year? The State of Qi sent the general Gao Changgong south to defend against our Northern Expedition! Cai Jingli did not back down.

"Don't fight! Let's disperse, let me think about it again, when the Northern Expedition can be discussed again, but the most important thing at the moment is to solve the disaster relief matter, so many victims are homeless! You go back and think of another way, retreat! Seeing the fierce debate among the ministers, the distraught Chen Xu had no intention of going to court.

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"Report to the emperor, Chen Boxi, the king of Xin'an County, and Zu Yuan, the boss of the General Commercial Bank, asked for an audience, saying that there is a disaster relief method dedicated to the emperor!" The eunuch said to Chen Xu, who was at a loss.

"General Comptoir? How to Disaster Relief? Announce it, announce their audience! "Chen Xu really came to the spirit.

Soon, the eunuch brought Chen Boxi and Zu Yuan into the imperial study, and knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Xu: "Meet the emperor!" ”

"Hurry up and tell me what you have to do to help you!" Chen Xu hurriedly asked.

"Back to the emperor, this disaster relief method is to hire disaster victims as migrant workers, build a large number of civil works and hold more large-scale activities!" Zu Yuan said straight to the point.

"The storm has already caused us a lot of losses, and we are still spending a lot of money on construction and large-scale activities, will it be more wasteful? It's better to pick up these silver taels for disaster relief! Chen Xu was a little deflated.

"After the typhoon, our general trading bank sent several disaster relief fleets to Wuxing County for disaster relief, and saw that there was mourning everywhere, and the people lacked food and clothing! And according to Captain Xiao Yao, who once led the people of Haiyan County to fight against the typhoon, he described the tragic situation after the typhoon, there were ruins everywhere and they urgently needed to be rebuilt, and these victims only wanted food and clothing, and did not think about asking for wages! Therefore, Xiao Xiaowei suggested to the grass people that the general commercial bank should build more workshops, recruit disaster victims as workers, and spend the disaster relief money on expanding production, so that the disaster victims will have food to eat, and the workshop can make money, killing two birds with one stone! ”

Therefore, the grass people dared to suggest to the emperor that the imperial court could also operate in the same way, ordering the government and temples in various places to hire these disaster victims and displaced people, and build a large number of buildings, which also cost so much silver, but it can benefit both sides! The government temple can build a new house without spending money, and the victims will not make trouble because they don't have anything to eat! Zu Yuan told Xiao Yao's method as it was.

"Hmmm! It makes sense to say that! Sure enough, it's a businessman! Chen Xu clapped his hands and said.

"Hurry up and summon the Household Department Scholar, the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Rites to enter the palace, and let them discuss whether this method is feasible! You, the ancestor Yuan, really offered me a clever plan, and after solving the current disaster, I will definitely reward you with the general firm, as well as this Xiao Shilang! Haha, I've heard his name a few times in the past two days, and I can't wait to meet this wizard! Chen Xu's mood became happy again.