In the winter of the first year of Hongwu, the snow seemed to be much heavier than last year.

As the saying goes, snow is a good year, but it's not a good thing that the snow is too heavy.

At the end of February of the first year of Hongwu, the heavy snow fell non-stop, and the entire Central Plains seemed to be covered with thick snow, which had reached the point where vehicles could not pass.

More than a dozen houses in Chang'an City have collapsed due to heavy snowfall, but fortunately, no casualties have been caused under the rescue of the garrison.

The people affected by the disaster were properly resettled, and the collapsed houses began to be rebuilt under the organization of the Daqi government.

The government's organization of disaster relief can be described as an unprecedented thing in this era, and Yang Hao's instinctive move inadvertently increased the centripetal force of the people of Qi by a few points.

The Qi court not only rescued the Qi people who obtained citizenship, but also the lowest level of the people who were still working as coolies, Yang Hao did not forget them.

Under the influence of such a white plague, without the intervention of the imperial court, it would not be easy for these people who lacked food and clothing to survive.

But if all the relief materials are taken by the imperial court, the pressure on the imperial court is extremely great.

Yang Hao had no choice but to personally write an official document calling for donations, which was read out by officials from various ministries among citizens.

As for how many things can be donated, Yang Hao doesn't have too much hope.

After all, the citizens of this Qi country have only solved the problem of food and clothing, and it is not easy to let the same poor people come up with things and help those who have nothing to do with them.

But the facts made Yang Hao a little surprised, after the fundraising initiative spread, the residents of Chang'an City were extremely enthusiastic, and each family took out their own rations and handed them over to the fundraising officials.

A few catties of rice, a few tattered clothes, although the things are inconspicuous, but at this time they are really life-saving things.

The reaction of the people surprised Yang Hao, thinking that the officials had misunderstood their meaning and forcibly expropriated the people.

For this reason, Yang Hao deliberately asked his guards to go to the people to investigate, but the results of the investigation made Yang Hao extremely emotional.

The officials did not show any persecution to the people, and the willingness of the people to give their own rations was a complete endorsement of the regime.

In particular, his disaster relief actions gave the people hope that they could live under the rule of such a loving and merciful king, which they could never have imagined.

Now that the imperial court is in difficulty, he also has some surplus food in his hands, and he may be able to save a life if he has some leftover, and the most important thing is that the officials of Yang Hao and Daqi's generation have made the people trust them very much, and they are not worried that they will be greedy for their donations.

The simplicity and sincerity of the people made Yang Hao personally realize Mencius's words, the king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as a wolf.

If the king is sincere to the people, how can he not be supported?

The attitude of the people made Yang Hao feel at ease, Shuo Xiang's rebellion stimulated him not dissipated, and there was often a persecution paranoia in his heart.

But now he knew that even if someone wanted to overthrow him, these tens of thousands of people in the Qi Kingdom would not follow them with a hot head.

The righteousness was already in his own hands, and he understood that the people of the Qi country had recognized the country and the system.

The people's aspirations, and he has the name of Yu Shun Miao's descendant, the time and place are favorable, and he has occupied one of them, which makes him strengthen his confidence in dominating the world.

It is difficult to fight the world, and it is even more difficult to defend the world.

Yang Hao felt that his strategy of building a high wall and accumulating grain to slowly become the king was right, if there was no accumulation in the early stage, only caring about grabbing land, he estimated that he was no different from those barbarians in the north for thousands of years.

Although the people of Qi donated not much, they added up to a very considerable amount, and Yang Hao, as the emperor, had to set an example.

directly reduced the use of thirty percent in the palace, and the officials naturally did not dare to lag behind when they saw this, and they donated money and materials one after another, and the whole country of Qi tightened their clothes and food to spend this rare white disaster together.

With these materials, coupled with the relief of the imperial court, although those low-level people were still suffering, there were no large-scale casualties.

Even if they didn't survive, the Qi State Government did not drag the corpses to any ravine at will, but built graves decently so that these people had a place to bury.

The laborers at the bottom of these things are all leaning on their eyes, once they were very suspicious of Daqi's commitment to them, but now they are beginning to believe that as long as they work hard for a year, they can really get their own land like those Qi people.

Compared with their lives, the life of the Qi people is extremely rich, if they can really live like the Qi people, why not be a slave for a year.

And the Qi people don't kill them at will, although they are tired, but they are much happier than those real slaves.

The number of people who resisted the Great Qi in the labor force was decreasing at a rapid rate, and the overseers were amazed to see that this man was much more efficient than before.

What used to take four or five days to complete is now perfectly completed in less than a day, and there are far fewer tools destroyed.

Even those who destroyed the tools were spontaneously pulled out by the laborers before the overseers found out, and were ostracized and despised by everyone.

This white disaster not only affected the Qi country, but the entire Central Plains except for the warm areas in the south, which was miserable.

The thick snow made hunting and gathering more difficult, and the tribes of the north did not know how many of them disappeared into human history.

Corpses strewn across the field, starvation is not enough to describe the terrible catastrophe of this winter.

Even for those big clans, the cattle and sheep on the pasture were killed and injured countless times, which greatly weakened the strength of these clans.

The tribes that could not survive took risks and began to plunder the weaker tribes, and the arrival of natural disasters made the ancient ancestors have no resistance at all, and a white disaster made the rich Central Plains become a hell on earth.

Weaker clans migrated to the warmer south, and the state of Qi was a must for some tribes in the north to pass through when they moved south.

The arrival of the fleeing tribe made the northern border of Qi country full of smoke, and when Yang Hao received the battle report delivered by the fast horse, the entire Qi country was suddenly like a great enemy.

These hungry refugees are sometimes more terrible than the formed enemy army, and if they do not survive, no one can predict how crazy these people will be.

Yang Hao urgently ordered to immediately send troops to the northern border to reinforce them, if these refugees were divided into some and accepted the incorporation, it would be fine if they dared to plunder the Qi country.

Yang Hao didn't mind waving the butcher's knife in his hand, the most important thing for Qi State now was stability, and he didn't allow anyone to do anything to destroy the good situation that he had worked so hard to manage.