"Especially the situation in Hexi Kyushu is the most unbearable, to save it or not to save it?" Zhao Huan threw out the question.

The courtiers looked left and right, Li Mixun arched out and said: "Your Majesty, it's not that we can't save it, it's that the Great Song Dynasty can't save the Western Dynasty, we don't have rice to save them, the warm winter is drought, and the rain has not fallen until now, and the grain that is often closed in various places is waiting for spring ploughing." At this time, we could not get anything back from our aid to the Western Dynasty, and the national dynasty was in danger of overturning. ”

Lu Zai saw that someone was up, and he also stood up and said with a little embarrassment: "Official, the minister thinks what Li Shaoqing said is extremely true. The Great Song Dynasty couldn't save the Western Dynasty, and the grain of the household department had a fixed amount, even if the Great Song Dynasty squeezed a little ration from all walks of life and gave it to the Western Dynasty, in the end it was just a repetition of the old things in Ezhou, fattening the Western Xia royal family, nobles, relatives and the Liang family. It is not beneficial to the people of the Western Dynasty. ”

The price of grain in Ezhou soared, and there was no grain available for Chang Ping, and the grain merchants and nobles jointly raised the price, and the price of rice was raised from six yuan to more than 160 yuan per bucket of rice, and the miserable situation of the people was not able to make a living, Zhao Huan was very impressed by this matter.

As Lu Zai said, even if Da Song deducted a little of his own food, was merciful and compassionate, and the result of cutting meat and feeding the eagle could not be implemented on the heads of the people.

Zhao Huan nodded, put the notebook on the table, glanced at Li Gang, and asked, "Does Li Xiang have anything to add?" ”

Li Gang pondered for a moment and said: "Qingtang, Qinfeng Road, Yongxing Military Road and Hedong Road should be prepared for refugees to rush to the customs, and there is still a period of time to ban merchants who go to the Western Dynasty or pass through the Western Dynasty to the Western Regions. Especially the merchants in the Western Regions, let them detour to Qinghe Zhenzhou to Datong. The Song people who were engaged in business and visiting relatives in Western Xia should also be notified to return to the Song Dynasty, and if necessary, Huang Yanjie could also be recalled. ”

"If the locust plague starts, these merchants and Song people will inevitably suffer."

"Then it won't be saved. Li Xiang, you sent a note to Zhulu and ordered them to be ready for battle. The household department cooperated with Li Xiang's work and summoned Song Min from Western Xia back. Chen Zimei, your Ministry of Commerce launched a campaign in the mansions on these roads, posted notices, and spread the word of mouth that merchants should not pass by Xixia. "Zhao Huan drew a big difference on the notebook, and he didn't send it.

In Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty was unable to rescue, and the Great Song Dynasty suffered from floods and water plagues one after another, and it was really impossible to make up food.

Even if it's a hard scrap of grain, isn't it more cost-effective to give it to Huanglong Mansion than to give it to Western Xia?

The Xiaoice era, or the climate disaster in which the temperature was two degrees lower in a hundred years, is the plague, drought, locust plague, and flood brought about by the changeable climate, and Zhao Huan really underestimated the severe pressure brought by this Xiaoice era.

"If it's okay, then let's disperse." Zhao Huan stood up and motioned for everyone to disperse.

"Retreat." Zhao Ying shouted loudly, and the ministers rushed out of the Wende Palace.

Zhao Huan looked at Chen Zimei with a smile on his face, grabbed Li Mixun, the head of the household, and said something, and Li Gang was still standing on the side playing a round field.

The household department can't make the yellow book of the world in one day, and the fat shortage of the sea grain division is attached to the Ministry of Commerce for one day.

"Zhao Ying, you go to Concubine Cao Xian and tell Concubine Cao Xian about today's court discussion." Zhao Huan coldly assigned Zhao Ying a task.

Zhao Ying took two steps, suddenly frowned, rubbed his stomach and said, "Sun Li, you can go for a trip." My stomach hurts, and I'm in a hurry to get out of Gong, ouch, my belly! ”

Zhao Ying disappeared on the Wende Hall with his characteristic speed, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Sun Li stared at the location of the door, and looked at the Great Song Emperor with an inquiring look.

Zhao Huan shook his head helplessly, and motioned to Sun Li to take a trip, this matter was to hand a knife to Cao Xian's heart, especially Zhao Ying, who was familiar with Zhao Huan's action path, and knew that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty had never favored Cao Xian, and after this incident, the possibility of Cao Xian being left out became higher and higher.

Zhao Huan leaned back in his chair and looked at the distress in front of him, it was not that he didn't want to be saved, but he really couldn't save it. There is no doubt that Da Song was a big landowner, but the landlord's family had no surplus grain.

If Western Xia really belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan wouldn't mind calling on the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty to tighten their belts and rush to help, but unfortunately not.

In the first year of the Tang Dynasty's mid-term peace from the Tang Dynasty, Li Sigong was appointed as the envoy of the Dingyan Army to seek self-reliance, and he had already deviated from Germany. It has been nearly 200 years now. In fact, the Western Xia calculated the time of their regime from Li Sigong.

As for Li Gang's prohibition of businessmen and warnings to visit relatives and return to Song, in Zhao Huan's opinion, it is not an overreaction.

The current people in Western Xia, in Li Gang's eyes, are all futures dead.

Even if they are still alive, in Li Gang's eyes, they are undoubtedly dead.

Because of the Western Xia, the end of the Yongxing Army Road is too big to fall, and it has always been a yin thunder in the Great Song Dynasty, and it may explode with a bang at any time.

In Li Gang's eyes, the existence of Western Xia is the fundamental original sin of the great Song Dynasty's unrestful northwest, the Great Song Dynasty was busy playing with the Jin people, and had no time to liquidate them, they still licked their faces and went to the door to ask for help, Li Gang's words did not contain any insulting language, and he had already shown the cultivation of a scholar.

In any era, in the face of a catastrophe, its people and regime will involuntarily choose to embrace nationalism.

Especially in times of calamity, when survival is at stake, nationalism will rise rapidly in an unstoppable situation.

When everyone was not expecting it, he suddenly turned into an uncontrollable evil dragon and devoured everything.

The Great Song Dynasty faced the national disaster in the first year of Jingkang, and the wounds have not healed until now, even if the Han children who were planned from the north were still rejected by the Song people in the Great Song Dynasty.

Would the Tangut embrace narrow-mindedness, national movements, and nationalism?

In fact, in the face of catastrophes, embracing the national movement is a necessary process for almost every country, especially small countries, which will hold the word nation in their hands as a life-saving straw, otherwise they would have become a footnote to history because of their lack of martial virtues.

Nationalism is a neutral word, and it is also an important cohesive tool in the face of catastrophes and military disasters.

But as nationalism grows, it becomes supranationalism, and by then it will be too late.

So, will Western Xia be xenophobic? The answer is yes.

From the perspective of the Song people, it seems that the Western Xia is targeting the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact, from the perspective of the Khitans, the Western Xia is also targeting the Khitans, and from the perspective of the countries of the Western Regions, the Western Xia is also targeting the people of the Western Regions.

This is a kind of xenophobia that does not distinguish between each other, the noble and the low, in order to ensure the continuation of one's own survival. The result of not unifying with the outside world is internal strife, and it is inevitable that the country will not become a country.

The Dangxiang and Han'er of Western Xia were two huge groups, and their conflict was almost a foregone conclusion in this locust plague.