Since the beginning of the year, Li Xuan has been turning into a workaholic, and at the beginning it caused a lot of people to worry, and it also caused those ministers to be tired enough, and even the harem had some complaints.

But after a long time, everyone gradually got used to Li Xuan's high-intensity and efficient way of working.

Now that Li Xuan has relaxed all of a sudden, the people around him immediately feel unaccustomed!

On the first day, a group of ministers were also relieved, and continued to work at such a high intensity, they estimated that they were not old and decrepit, so they were very happy to get off work early and go home to play that day.

But the next day, things were a little different, first of all, their biological clock, which had lasted for months, would wake them up at five or six o'clock.

And then?

And then I just can't sleep!

Accustomed to getting up early and then going to work in the yamen, they don't have to go so early this time, they are not used to it!

Some people choose to stay in a daze and wait for the dawn, while some people simply get up after the black, and after freshening up, they keep looking at the sky and waiting for the arrival of work time.

At this point, many officials get up early in the morning, and then have been waiting for the arrival of work time, and when the time comes, they immediately can't wait to go out to work.

As a result, when they came to the yamen, they found that they were not the first to come, and there were already many people inside!

When Qian Mengjiu walked into the imperial study, he found that he was still the latest to come, and immediately said, "Why did you come so early!" ”

The answers of a group of people are different, but they all have the same meaning: I can't sleep and get up, and after I get up, I'm idle anyway, so I came to work in the yamen first!

Hearing this answer, Qian Mengjiute was speechless!

But he didn't speak, because he himself was like this, and although he came a little late, he was still at home early in the morning.

This person is used to suffering and suffering, and he is really not used to enjoying pure happiness all of a sudden!

These ministers outside are not used to it, but Li Xuan is not, he sleeps quite well, and last night he took the time to watch several 'palace dances' in a row.

What is a court dance? The dances that the thigh era danced, you can't see it outside, you can't see it outside, you can only see it in the court, isn't it a palace dance!

In addition, everyone in the palace also noticed Li Xuan's changes, Empress Dowager Bai saw Li Xuan for several days in a row, and finally noticed that something was abnormal, she hadn't seen Li Xuan come over to say hello for ten days and half a month, why did she come every day recently!

Immediately asked, is something wrong?

In this regard, Li Xuan was a little speechless, and I felt that I came over to ask for peace and made Empress Dowager Bai worried!

Immediately, I explained a few words, saying that I have nothing to do, I just want to slow down the pace of work when I am tired!

But even so, Empress Dowager Bai was still not at ease, thinking that it was the ministers outside who bullied her son, or did something to upset her son.

The next day, he called Liu Bagou over, and he didn't ask, he scolded him directly, saying that you, the ministers of the court, don't be blind if you have nothing to do, and the old lady's son is upset and unwilling to go to the court, and you will do things honestly, otherwise, don't blame the old lady for sending an aunt to smoke you.

Liu Bagou looked confused!

But although Liu Bagou is the minister on duty in the imperial study, and the scholar is also the secretary of the ministry, he is powerful and prominent outside, and is called the de facto cabinet chief assistant of the Tang Dynasty, but in front of the Empress Dowager Bai, he is as well-behaved as a Mianyang.

No way, the combat effectiveness of the old mother under the command of the Empress Dowager Bai is too strong, as early as when he was in Huangzhushan, Liu Bagou has already seen the fierce combat effectiveness of the old mother under the command of the day queen many times, many times, Liu Bagou has only one feeling: invincible!

Then I will comfort myself: I am a gentleman, and I do not have the general knowledge of a woman!

Some of the small turmoil caused by Li Xuan's slowing down of the pace of work quickly dissipated, and everyone was just not used to it in the first few days, but after a few days, they got used to it, and they returned to their normal working state in the past.

However, even if they return to normal working conditions, they are actually quite busy, according to the relevant regulations, although it is said that the official work hours of the officials of the Tang Dynasty are from 8 am to 5 pm, and there is a lunch break for eating at noon.

But in fact, when the Tang Dynasty was first established, many affairs were busy, even if they didn't work overtime, but they were busy from morning to afternoon work, it was quite tiring, not to mention, Li Xuan didn't work overtime, it didn't mean that they didn't work overtime.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty continued to work for much longer than the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

In June, the temperature is getting higher day by day, and the weather is unpredictable, with the sun shining in the morning but a downpour in the afternoon.

In the stormy weather, it also caused a lot of trouble to the production work of the Tang Dynasty, and even caused great losses to people and property.

On the 8th day of June, the Gaozhou Prefecture sent an urgent report of 500 li, saying that the prefecture had been hit by a violent storm, that many ships had capsized and sunk in the port, that many houses had been damaged, that farmland had been flooded, and that no less than 200 people had been killed or injured.

Immediately, the areas near Gaozhou Prefecture, including the southern coastal areas of Zhaoqing Prefecture and Leizhou Prefecture, were also reported one after another, and the local area was hit by violent storms and rains, the river water swelled, farmland was flooded, and many houses were damaged.

After receiving the report, Li Xuan did not delay at all, this storm and rain is not an ordinary wind and rain, but a super-large-scale typhoon, even in Zhaoqing!

Two days ago, Zhaoqing was hit by a violent storm, and the water level of the Xijiang River rose rapidly!

The Tang Dynasty is located in the Liangguang region, and the coastal area of Guangdong faces a lot of typhoons every year, that is quite a lot, last year Guangzhou was hit by a very violent typhoon, but at that time Guangzhou City was still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty has little to do with it.

But even the coastal areas of Guangdong, which are accustomed to typhoons, were shocked by the typhoon that hit the western part of Guangdong this time.

Immediately, Li Xuan convened all cabinet ministries and instructed that disaster relief work should be done well, relief grain should be immediately transported to the disaster-stricken areas, and personnel should be dispatched to help the disaster-stricken areas restore normal life and production as soon as possible.

In ancient times, the people's ability to withstand disasters was quite low, and the heavy rainfall brought by this typhoon will cause the water level to rise rapidly in various places, and then inundate the farmland, and after a heavy rainfall, it will bring a reduction in the yield of the fields, and even plague and so on.

And it is very important that it is summer, and it is not long before the summer harvest, and now these ripening grains have been flooded, which will inevitably lead to local food shortages and even famine!

If it is an ordinary small-scale disaster, the local government can deal with it on its own, but this time it has affected almost the entire western coastal area of Guangdong, and even penetrated inland.

Soon, the Tang Dynasty reacted to this typhoon disaster:

Including ordering several strategic reserve granaries of the local government to immediately open warehouses to release grain to relieve the people who have no food and clothing!

In addition, grain from other parts of Guangdong and Guangxi was urgently transferred to the affected areas to provide relief to the victims and curb the rise in local food prices.

Then, according to Li Xuan's instructions, it was forcibly stipulated that the local grain merchants should not take this opportunity to sell or raise the price of grain, and the price of grain was limited to twice that of previous years, and exceeded this price, in order to seek rebellion!

At the same time, Li Xuan issued an order on the same day, announcing the exemption of the agricultural tax of the current year in several counties that were more seriously affected by the disaster, but this kind of exemption from the agricultural tax of the current year is not a one-size-fits-all exemption, directly exempting the agricultural tax of the entire local county, but only exempting the agricultural tax of the victims who have been actually injured in the disaster.

Now that the power of the Tang Dynasty has been directly established at the village level, the grasp of the grassroots situation is still relatively accurate.

These measures were immediately transmitted to the affected areas through the speed of 500 miles of fast horses, and at the same time, cabinet officials such as the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture directly sent senior officials several times that of the squire to the local area to preside over the disaster relief!

And these are just administrative means!

Li Xuan also did not forget that after the natural disaster, it is the most likely period to cause social turmoil and even rebellion, so in fact, when the cabinet meeting was held, he had already sent troops to the second mixed regiment and the sixth infantry division of the army, and immediately sent troops to the affected areas to strictly prevent civil unrest!

When the government was still in a hurry to start the disaster relief, an infantry battalion under the Second Mixed Regiment stationed in the Leizhou Prefecture was already marching lightly and hurriedly to Huazhou, the most severely affected in Gaozhou Prefecture.

However, their task is not to go to disaster relief, this kind of thing is not good for them, and because they are lightly armed and marching, they do not carry any food and other disaster relief materials, they have only one task, that is, to bomb the place and prevent any civil unrest from appearing.

Not only Gaozhou, but also several disaster-stricken areas in nearby prefectures and counties, the military also urgently dispatched troops to it, and the troops who were originally stationed there were even more vigilant and directly entered a state of combat readiness!

As an emperor who started as a rebel, Li Xuan naturally maintained the most severe and high-pressure attitude towards any possible rebellion under his rule, simply put, he strictly guarded against it in advance, and once a rebellion appeared, he would suppress it with lightning speed!

Speaking of which, the attitude of the Tang Dynasty towards the rebellion under its rule is similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, which is resolutely suppressed and will not be tolerated!

Of course, the current transfer of the military is just a precautionary move, and the local area has just been affected by the disaster for a few days, and there will not be immediate turmoil, but Li Xuan has to prevent it!