Seeing that he couldn't answer, Yuwen Rong said with a smile: "Junior brother thinks that when the heavy snow first falls, the imperial court should make a judgment as early as possible, open the warehouse and release grain as soon as possible, and give the people food and clothing ....... ”

"What if the snow isn't heavy? Can the people support themselves? Another person stood up, and it was Yang Jiong, who had been known as a prodigy since he was a child.

"Not a lot of snow? If the snow is not heavy, the imperial court can take back the grain sent out after the snow has melted. As for whether the people can support themselves, in the opinion of the younger brother, this does not affect the release of grain by the imperial court. Yu Wenrong glanced at Yang Jiong and said.

Li Hong listened to these people's discussions outside, Yang Jiong and Wang Bo were both in this school, and both of them also had some idealistic feelings. They are amazingly gifted in poetry and poetry, but the pedantry and overly idealistic views of the literati have also begun to emerge in them at this moment.

"There is no possibility of recovering the grain distributed by the imperial court, if this is done, won't the people be empty of joy, and won't the imperial court go through the motions? Give more and give less? How long does it snow? Who knows? This is all God's arrangement, and it is not something that can be resolved as Brother Yuwen said. Wang Bo and Yang Jiong are like-minded, and they often discuss poetry together in the past two years, and they have established a good friendship.

"Li Hong has seen Mr." Li Hong listened to it at the door, although there was no substantive suggestion for the things discussed, but Yu Wenrong's suggestion was the prototype of a necessary mechanism.

Just like when Cheng Zhijie was in charge of the Western Turks, because Wang Wendu was jealous of Su Dingfang's military exploits, he falsely passed on the holy decree and seized military power, so that the whole army missed the best opportunity to defeat the Western Turks. In the end, Cheng Zhijie was implicated to reduce his official position and avoid death. And Wang Wendu was also executed after returning to the court.

Taking this incident as an example, it can only be proved that this is not the fault of any one person, but that the existing system is not sound enough, and in the course of the war, there is a joke that the holy decree is passed to the deputy chief governor, not to the chief governor.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." More than 50 people in the room hurriedly got up and saluted.

Li Hong waved his hand, then smiled and sat down on another chair next to Shangguan Yi, looked at Yu Wenrong and asked, "Go on, I want to hear your final solution." ”

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince." Yu Wenrong bowed and saluted, and then said: "After speaking of this, in fact, basically my point of view has been expressed, that is, advance in advance, open the warehouse to release grain, send cloth and firewood when the heavy snow first falls, so as to ensure that the loss of the heavy snow to the people is minimized." If the snow is small and the time is short, it is completely possible to recover some of it, or even let the people use it to offset the goods. ”

Li Hong smiled quietly and continued to ask Yu Wenrong: "Do you remember when the rain first fell this year, I asked you to measure the water level of Yong'an Canal and Longshou Canal?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the students remember, and every time it rains this year, the students have taken notes, even the Qujiang Pond, and the students have measured its water level after the rain." Yu Wenrong said.

Li Hong nodded, got up from the chair, turned around and walked to the glass-made writing board behind him, picked up the chalk placed on the edge of the writing board, and after a little thought, he wrote the ranking of seven colors on the writing board: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Li Hong turned to look at Yu Wenrong and said, "Report all the water levels you measured." ”

As Yu Wenrong reported a water level, Li Hong marked the number of the water level under a specific color, and after the seven water levels of different sizes were reported, Li Hong also arranged the marked water levels under the seven colors in order of high and low.

Then he turned around and looked at the unexplained expressions of the students, and even Shangguan Yi showed a look of incomprehension, not knowing what Li Hong was going to do.

Li Hong threw down the chalk in his hand, clapped his hands and said: "What we lack is not a method, but a system. If you don't have a perfect system, no matter how feasible your method is, no matter how smoothly you can solve the difficulties of the people's floods and snowstorms, everything will be in vain without the premise of a perfect system. Because all methods will always be more difficult than methods to implement. Only after a system is established, the methods that we can conceive can be implemented, and in this process, the methods will have various weaknesses exposed, but as long as they are guaranteed by the big system, everything will become simple and effective. ”

After Li Hong finished speaking, he looked at everyone's thoughtful expressions, slowed down for a while, and continued when everyone had almost digested it: "So, this is the system I am talking about. ”

Li Hong walked to the writing board again, pointed to the red orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple below, marking the water level from low to high, and pointed to the first water level and said: "Yong'an Canal, Longshou Canal, Qujiang Pond, are completely enough for us to roughly analyze the size of the rain, with the change of the water level, we can correspond to which color he is under, and we can also have an insight into this flood in advance, what kind of corresponding consequences this rain will cause to the people." There is a premise, that is, we need to use which color of the watermark is the standard. ”

"Don't understand? Convoluted? Li Hong looked at them and explained: "The water level is red, so naturally there is no need for the imperial court to help the people, and as the water level rises in turn, the color on it will also change relatively." We take cyan as the warning line, for example, when the water level reaches cyan, does it mean that the rainfall is too heavy and the people can no longer save themselves, so is it possible to start the so-called rescue system? ”

"Rain can be measured by rivers, but what about snow? What should we do about the heavy snowfall? No matter how much he has digested, Yu Wenrong can't wait to continue to absorb more inspiration.

"Snow is the same, if not simpler. A bamboo pole is enough to make things happen, and the population of Duogi County in the Guanzhong region is also centered on Chang'an and Luoyang. We only need to set up a bamboo pole in the open space, and with the size of the snowfall, how much the bamboo pole will be submerged, isn't it a very clear reminder? Li Hong said with a wink.

Everyone suddenly realized, and suddenly the school hall exploded like a hornet's nest, and everyone talked about it, and everyone began to discuss.

After a long time, the sound of discussion gradually subsided, and the faces of many students were filled with excitement.

At this moment, a student who was about fifteen or sixteen years old stood up and asked solemnly, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the student has a question for you." ”

"Say."

"All of this you said needs to be based on the system you just mentioned, students think about it, even if we can measure the size of the rain and resist according to the cordon, but if this system is not available in the imperial court, wouldn't we be here like Zhao Kuo talking on paper?"

Liang Xiaoren's question is very acute, pointing to the most important link, that is, who will push it, if the court does not push it, these will be useless.

The whole school could be heard, and Li Hong's face did not show the frightened anger in the hearts of the students, on the contrary, he gave Liang Xiaoren a thumbs up to show his appreciation, and then paced back and forth in the middle of the school, and said slowly: "The system is one thing, the time it takes for the imperial court to establish a system, but it is not like us, as long as it is discussed and implemented, are you sure that after the discussion just now, your ideas have matured?" ”

Yu Wenrong stood up and said, "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, if the kind of system you mentioned can be established, the short discussion we just had just now is enough to deal with the annual famine, so that the people will no longer be uprooted and displaced because of the famine. ”

Li Hong walked up to Yu Wenrong, a wicked smile gradually appeared at the corner of his mouth, this smile is too familiar, whether it is Yu Wenrong, Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, and Liang Xiaoren just now, they all felt a chill in their back at the same time, could it be that they missed something?

"I have always warned you that the height determines the comprehensiveness of your view of the problem, and the angle determines the correctness of your implementation method. Unfortunately, you still haven't lived up to my standards. In one year, you will leave the Chongwen Pavilion, you are the first batch of students to enter the Chongwen Pavilion, if you are at this level, the face of the East Palace will be lost by you. No matter who of you, after leaving the Chongwen Pavilion, do you prepare for the imperial examination of the imperial court, or choose the position I provide to you, no, I will not ask for you, it will not meet the requirements. The evil smile on the corner of Li Hong's mouth became even stronger, and he walked to Shangguan Yi's side again.

Shangguan Yi was also puzzled, these students had already thought it through, why was the prince still dissatisfied?

"Dare to ask the prince, their ministers feel that they have already considered everything, why are you still not satisfied?" Shangguan Yi did not ask as a gentleman at this moment, but as a minister.

Obviously, he is also quite concerned about this question about how to survive the famine of the people, so he will ask as a minister.

"A small bamboo pole and a crooked river can make you see the size of the flood and snow disaster, but do you really think that it is a natural disaster, just the lack of food and clothing of the people, and the displacement? Rain and snow are all over the sky and the roads are closed, how do you get these into the hands of the people? And how can we ensure that the people have enough money to spend when they receive the food and clothing you have sent? After the great plague there will be a plague, have you considered this? Where do the disaster relief workers come from, and where do all the food and clothing come from? What happens when people become homeless? When the people in the flood and snow disasters are unable to do anything, how to resettle the people who are relieved? What about children, women, the elderly, and people with reduced mobility? ”

Li Hong's eyes swept over everyone, and he continued to say slowly: "No matter what kind of natural disaster, if we want to fight it with manpower, what we have to do is to deal with a severe war, sometimes it is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive than war, and there will be more casualties!" This is by no means only food and clothing can be solved, there are many problems that need to be solved. But thank you very much Yu Wenrong for this hypothesis, I decided, Mr. Shangguan, to treat this as a topic for this month. A month later, I couldn't come up with a feasible plan, so I stood outside Jiafu Gate, carrying a sign that said 'I'm a fool' for two hours. ”

Seeing that there was silence below, obviously willing to accept this fresh topic, the evil smile on the corner of Li Hong's mouth gradually faded, and he said again: "I'm not afraid that there is a problem, but I'm afraid that we won't notice what the problem is?" There are those who are interested in poetry, those who specialize in pharmacology, and those like Yu Wenrong and Liang Xiaoren, who have been staring at the Daming Palace under construction, but are you sure you can take charge alone? Daming Palace gives you two a wall, with what you have learned now, I don't think that under that wall can stand safely. ”