"Report, Luoyang urgent. Luoyang has suffered a great drought, and since the beginning of spring, there has not been a drop of rain, and almost all the crops have died in the land. ”

"Reported, heavy rain in Fuyang and other places for several days, the river estuary bursts, large areas of farmland are damaged, and there is almost no harvest, and a large number of refugees have been begging all the way to Chang'an."

Recently, Li Er's report made His Majesty Li Er anxious and at a loss.

What is the most important thing to care about as a qualified emperor?

It is undoubtedly the suffering of the people.

For this matter, His Majesty Li Er had to summon Prime Minister Fang Xuanling and several Shangshu and Imperial Historians and other important ministers many times to carefully discuss the reconstruction and support strategies for the disaster area.

The result is nothing more than measures such as reducing or canceling taxes, opening warehouses and setting up relief points.

But it's nice to say, but it's easy to say. It's just too hard to really do.

As far as the state capitals and counties that are currently affected by the disaster, which one can still have inventory in the granary?

Expecting His Majesty Li Er to let the household department allocate it?

Last year, His Majesty Li Er still owed thousands of loads of military rations to the military department, and I didn't see the big men in the barracks, screaming with hunger all day long.

The only thing that made His Majesty Li Er happy was that Lin Ran's shops had provided him with a lot of money in the past few months, so that he could make up for the arrears of the Ministry of War last year.

After all, at present, stabilizing the morale of the military is a little more important than stabilizing the morale of the people.

Luo Yi's rebellion is a lesson from the past, His Majesty Li Er doesn't want a second Luo Yi to let himself live a life of fear.

Seeing that this year's catastrophe year is a foregone conclusion, the major families with five surnames and seven hopes began to buy grain on a large scale.

This is what they have always used as a method.

That's how a profitable business snowballed.

When the price of grain was not high in the disaster year, and then when the market was extremely scarce, several major families joined forces to raise the price of grain.

A penny is collected for at least ten pennies, not counting the weight of the doped stones and impurities in it.

Of course, His Majesty Li Er would not know about all this.

The families will not be stupid enough for their descendants to come forward to buy food, but just send some housekeepers and the like to push them to the table, so that they can complete the development plan of the family.

Compared with the disasters coming from various places, there is a rumor that makes His Majesty Li Er feel extremely angry at some point, and it has begun to spread in private.

That is, some people are rumored that this flood and drought are related to His Majesty Li Er's Xuanwumen incident, saying that it is God's punishment for his Second Majesty Li Er.

This rumor made His Majesty Li Er extremely frightened······

You must know that the Xuanwumen incident has always been an eternal pain in the heart of His Majesty Li Er.

His Majesty Li Er asked the Hundred Cavalry Division to secretly investigate where this rumor came from, but he didn't have a clue.

Hou San went to the market to buy dozens of geese, loaded a whole carriage and pulled them back to the camp.

Lin Ran spent a few days working hard to complete the three hundred quills ordered by his master, of course, most of them did not need him to do it himself this time.

With Zhang Zheng, who can be trusted, Lin Ran feels that he can be worry-free and relaxed.

The craft of making quills was taught to Zhang Zheng, who never thought that Zhang Zheng was also a very smart person, and he would get the essence of the production process in less than an hour, which made Lin Ran overjoyed.

After explaining everything to Zhang Zheng, Lin Ran had a lot of time to teach the children and soldiers.

The paper that Hou San bought from Chang'an City had arrived, and when Hou San said the price of the paper, Rao is Lin Ran was now a wealthy person, and he was also surprised.

And I felt a deep pain in my flesh, what is this money used for?

The problem is that the paper is so rough that Lin Ran can't bear to look at it directly.

Isn't it fragrant to spend so much money and buy meat to eat it?

Isn't it fragrant to build houses for the wives of villagers and soldiers?

So Lin Ran decided to make his own paper, and greatly improved the quality of this paper.

Sure enough, not long after Zhang Zheng finished making 300 quills, a man on a fast horse came.

He carefully reported his name and the name of Teacher Lin Ran, saying that he was entrusted by Wu Shilang to come to collect 300 quills and bring the money he had purchased.

For this money, Lin Ran was not polite, and accepted it all.

The prisoners of Guozijian are all rich masters, and Lin Ran certainly welcomes them to continue to sponsor.

If you don't make money, what the hell is that······

Of course, Lin Ran also depends on whose money he makes.

Lin Ran politely asked Zhang Zheng to hand over all the three hundred quills to the comer.

And he also asked him to bring a bag of tea and a few bottles of self-brewed high-grade wine to the teacher and the master, the master is good wine, which is also what Lin Ran heard the teacher mention, so he kept it in his heart.

In order to improve the papermaking technology, Lin Ran really put a lot of effort into it.

After many personal trials, it finally succeeded.

It also made Lin Ran deeply understand that failure is success, it ~mom~'s classic saying.

Seeing the first pure white paper unfolded in his hand, Lin Ran's face bloomed with an incomparably bright smile.

This improvement will surely promote the further expansion of the application of paper, the reduction of costs and the reduction of prices, which can benefit the students of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a great blessing for the literati and ink writers who like to dance and write.

With such paper, Lin Ran had a bolder idea.

Once the idea is realized, it will have a sensational effect no less than the potatoes and sweet potatoes that are about to be born buried in the ground and those delicious peanuts.

He was waiting, waiting for Miss Li Le's arrival, counting the days, it had been more than a month since Miss Li Le left last time.

Lin Ran didn't know how to suddenly find out that he was a little eager to see her as soon as possible.

When Wu Puguang and the newly arrived Wannian County Commander Zhu Chao completed the careful handover and went to the ministry to report, Kong Yingda's face showed a loving smile from the heart.

"Thank you, teacher, for taking the trouble to transfer the student back to Chang'an."

Wu Puguang sincerely thanked him, and even Wang Yan, who followed behind him, paid a salute.

"Miss Wang is so tormenting the old man, Puguang is my student, how can the old man care, this time to be honest, thanks to your student Lin Ran, the teacher can transfer you back to Chang'an City from Wannian County."

Kong Yingda said truthfully.

"Teacher, what does it have to do with my student?" Wu Puguang asked suspiciously.

"It's all the quill pens made by your students, so that the old man can get a bad breath and at the same time, he can smoothly transfer you back to Chang'an City, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone."

Master Kong Yingda replied proudly.