Changan.

Yang Hao looked at the official document sent from Shen County, and his brows furrowed into Sichuan characters.

Shen County suffered a very serious natural disaster half a month ago, and Qi Defense resisted the invasion of floods, but could not prevent the ferocious hail.

According to the report of the Shen County Order, nearly half of the villages and towns are within the scope of the disaster, affecting nearly tens of thousands of people, and the preliminary estimate of the agricultural loss of the entire county has reached more than 50%, and this disaster will cause many families to lose their crops this year.

This is the most serious natural disaster encountered by the State of Qi since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For this reason, Yang Hao urgently convened a court meeting to discuss disaster relief.

Although it was only one county and only tens of thousands of people, the difficulty of disaster relief was even more difficult than that of a city in later generations.

In order to transport the grain and grass for disaster relief to the disaster area, the loss on the road is astronomical.

With Qi Guo's current savings, if he wants to do this, it can even be said that it is not much easier than fighting a war.

However, this disaster Yang Hao must be saved, if he is not saved, it will greatly damage the prestige that the imperial court has built up so hard.

Today's Qi State is calm on the surface, but secretly it is not peaceful, and some ambitious guys always want to make some moves and subvert their rule.

If they were allowed to take this opportunity to raise the banner of rebellion, the judgment would be more costly, and it would also have extremely bad effects.

Yang Hao would never allow this to happen.

Under this premise, the court meeting was convened very quickly, and the voices opposing the disaster relief did not dare to be voiced at all.

What the officials can do at this time is to cooperate with Yang Hao to complete the disaster relief plan.

Now that winter is still a few months away, Qi must dare to send all the supplies to the disaster area before winter arrives, so as to ensure that the victims can survive the difficult winter.

Although Qi Guo's response to the disaster was relatively fast, if everything went well, Qi Guo would have just spent some money.

But Yang Hao was still very unhappy, at the critical moment when he was about to kill the Miao people, this thief actually gave himself eye medicine.

Anger is anger, Yang Hao still maintains enough sanity.

This incident also reminded him that with the increase in the land area, there will definitely be more natural disasters in the future.

Hail can only be regarded as a small disaster, and drought and locust plague are the worst things that can make a dynasty smell and change its face.

Although there is abundant rain in this era, the possibility of drought is very small, but if it happens, it will be a terrible event that can threaten the foundation of the Qi country.

Yang Hao had to take precautions.

The land with perfect planting conditions only occupies less than half of the arable land in Qi State, and the rest is still dependent on the sky for food, and the resistance to natural disasters can be said to be pitifully low.

Yang Hao also wants to turn all agriculture into irrigated land, but this idea is basically unrealizable.

Therefore, he can only find a breakthrough in other directions to improve Qi's ability to face natural disasters.

He thought of several ways, one of which was to speed up the construction of roads in the Qi Kingdom, as long as there were smooth roads, the imperial court could also respond quickly in the event of a disaster.

The second is to look for high-yielding, drought-tolerant crops and change the country's dependence on grains.

And this also strengthened Yang Hao's determination to annex the Miao forces.

Because the south is different from the north, it rarely encounters drought, and the south is the main producing area of rice, combined with their own understanding of rice, as long as they conquer the south and carry out the promotion and planting of rice, it will greatly improve the eating habits of the Qi country.

As a result, the resistance to natural disasters has also increased a lot.

It's just that in Yang Hao's heart, although rice is good, it is not the first choice, corn and potatoes, these two high-yield crops, are life-saving gods.

It's not very tasty, but it's full.

As long as they can live, who cares if the food is good or not.

However, if you want to obtain these two crops, you must cross the vast Pacific Ocean and reach the American continent, which is a great test of the current Qi country's navigation ability.

It's an impossible task in a short period of time.

Yang Hao only hated why he didn't learn more in his previous life, if he could have more knowledge reserves, why would he be constrained in doing things.

casually draw a blueprint of a warship in the sail era, and arriving in the Americas is not the same as playing, especially with the support of the state, the congenital conditions are much better than those of the Europeans in later generations.

Unfortunately, he himself is just a scumbag, and it took nearly ten years of research to get a ship that almost fell apart after a month of sailing, and he was about to reach the limit of his IQ.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there were not enough people under him, especially in the natural sciences, which were too scarce.

After thinking about it, Yang Hao suddenly felt that there were too many disadvantages in imitating the feudal dynasty of later generations.

Although he invented the epoch-making system of the imperial examination, this system can only give ordinary people a rising step, and there are officials who govern the country, but in the long run, it is very likely to repeat the mistakes of later feudal dynasties.

Yang Hao felt that this matter was inappropriate, very inappropriate.

And now, with his vigorous promotion of basic education, in more than ten years, there have been many intellectuals in Qi State, and these intellectuals have already shown signs of studying just to be officials.

This is a bad phenomenon.

He thought he should do something to change that mindset.

He thought of District Fifty-One.

As the most mysterious department of Qi State, it is the most developed place of Qi Science and Technology.

However, this scale is too small, and it is difficult to fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient scientific and technological talents.

The idea of forming a Royal Academy of Sciences came to his mind.

As soon as this idea appeared, Yang Hao felt that this matter was feasible.

The number of people in this year's imperial examination is as small as four or five hundred, and so many people are the best candidates selected from all over the country.

It's just that very few of them can successfully pass the exam, and those who are eliminated can only return home and continue to study hard.

This is a great waste of talents, especially in this era of wild places everywhere, literacy and hyphenation are already a talent, let alone these candidates.

Therefore, Yang Hao decided to reform the imperial examination.

In line with the idea of making the best use of things, there is a jujube or a jujube, as long as there are no people among these candidates, this time he is ready to catch all these candidates.

In the past, the imperial examination only arranged corresponding positions according to the level of performance, but these were only for the court officials.

This time, he decided to subdivide it, and the examination point for preparing to become an official is policy, and for those who want to engage in scientific research, the focus of the examination is on natural science.

"Malegobi, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that a lot of money will be thrown down, and something can't come out."

Yang Hao's face was a little hideous.