The government in the above-mentioned areas should not expect these corrupt officials to give any relief to the victims outside the city.

Now, the biggest problem is that even whether the people in the city can survive is a very big problem.

The situation is so urgent, Zhao Xu naturally wants to ask the five prime ministers. However, Lu Dafang is still quite capable in the local area, and he does not only have the ability to tear down the west wall and make up the east wall. However, conservative ministers have a common problem that they will neither open source nor withhold.

To put it in layman's terms, they can't increase the income of the imperial court at all, and the two lines of revenue and expenditure that have been stabilized by Wang Anshi's reform have now been completely destroyed by these people.

However, the lack of food reserves in the national treasury to cope with the bad situation is not only due to natural disasters, but more importantly, man-made disasters. You must know that the 'Shuo Rat Project' that Cai Dao asked the seven-color collar to secretly preside over did not touch non-coastal areas.

In other words, several places affected by the disaster, such as Hebei East Road and Huainan East Road, are indeed the local granaries emptied by the Shuo Rat Project. However, the three roads of Jingxi Road, Hebei West Road and Huainan West Road, the seven-color collar did not participate.

What's more, in ancient times, once a major natural disaster occurred in various places, the local fields would naturally usher in a large-scale land annexation. Civil service homes are not subject to taxes. As a result, the Great Song Dynasty had fewer and fewer fields to collect taxes under the condition that the territory remained unchanged. Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty had always been supported by commercial taxes before, so the finances of the imperial court were not completely lost.

However, since the conservative minister came to power, even this part of the income has been rapidly draining.

After all, the conservatives of this era were not the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, and the literati were still relatively disciplined, and most of the civil official families may be big landlords, but many of them disdain to do business. But those civil official families and military generals are no longer on the list.

The Han family in Xiangzhou, the Lu family in Shouzhou, and the Pan family, the Cao family, the Gao family, the Xiang family in Bianliang City, etc., which one is not a super-rich businessman. The reason why Ding Youcai was able to become the number one wealthy businessman in the north was not his personal ability at all, if it were not for Cai Dao's secret guidance and support, it would be good for him, a huge richman, to be able to keep his family business.

At this point, Ding Youcai's talent and ability to do business are not comparable to money at all, and in Cai Dao's opinion, he is not even as good as Jinbao, the son of money. However, at one point, Cai Dao was very relieved of Ding Youcai.

It is this person who is unusually faithful and grateful.

At the beginning, Cai Dao bought the backlog of grain in his hands at a fair price, which was just fair, but this Ding Youcai actually dared to take the risk and go to Taihang Village with money to redeem himself. This courage and this grateful heart made Cai Dao, a traverser, have to be moved and surprised.

This is also an extremely important reason why Cai Dao vigorously supports Ding Youcai.

Therefore, Zhao Xu should not expect the conservative ministers to come up with any countermeasures at this time.

And Lu Huiqing, Xing Shu and Yang Wei, who were given high hopes by the little emperor, all disappointed him.

The suggestion given by Lu Huiqing was to send competent people to Jinghu South Road and find ways to transfer the grain from this place to Beijing. In today's situation, the grain brought in from the Grand Canal alone cannot stabilize the situation at all. Moreover, the middle reaches of the Grand Canal are on both sides of the Huai River, and the capacity of the Grand Canal will definitely be greatly affected in a short period of time due to the impact of the flood.

His suggestion is indeed the most suitable and soundest suggestion at the moment.

However, the so-called distant water cannot quench the thirst of the near, which is the current situation.

The other areas affected by the disaster are good to say, although the Huainan Road has been affected, but these two places have always been the land of fish and rice, and they can also grow grain in two seasons a year, so they have also accumulated food for famine relief, and they are close to the Yangtze River, and it is easier for them to get help from the south than Bianliang City.

It is true that there is a shortage of food on Jingxi Road, but the local people can completely flee to the surrounding areas of Bianliang City, and the imperial court will naturally not abandon them here.

However, what about Hebei Zhulu?

You must know that the situation in Zhulu in Hebei is quite bad now.

In the last years of Yuanfeng, Hebei Zhulu was repeatedly affected by famine, Baojia rebellion, drought, flood and snow disaster during the Yuanyou period also frequently patronized this disaster-ridden area. In addition, Cai Dao has been secretly transferring these two landless poor people. This makes the two roads themselves more empty. Today, the landlords of these two roads, like their counterparts on Hedong Road, also have to face a very serious problem.

No matter how much land they have in their hands, and how many cattle they plough, it will be of no avail. This is because there is a great shortage of tenants on these two roads. The Baojia rebellion, the people fleeing the famine, the people who were secretly transported away by Cai Dao, and the poor people who died in the previous natural disasters have greatly weakened the strength of the Great Song Dynasty in Hebei Zhulu.

Xing Shu is known as wise, but he is good at conspiracy and trickery, and the success rate is not high, expecting him to come up with any shocking strategy to govern the country and save the world, it is simply tantamount to asking for fish from the wood.

Lu Huiqing and Xingshu, if these two were not deliberately promoted by Zhao Xu. Lu Huiqing has no possibility of entering the center again. And the qualifications of Xing Shu are too low, and Zhao Xu himself knows that the reason why he promoted this villain to the position is only because at the beginning, he was the only one who took the initiative to stand up for Concubine Zhu De.

In fact, everyone else knew in their hearts that at the beginning, the reason why Xing Shu did this was not for Concubine Zhu De, but to use this opportunity to try to please the little emperor and his biological mother, and also to make a good impression on himself in front of the two saints.

Thinking about the consequences after this turmoil, Xing Shu did not insist too much at that time, and there was no one who really responded to him, and he himself was demoted out of Beijing, but he was not demoted to Lingnan. In the end, it was Concubine Zhu De who was affected alone, so that the virtuous Empress Dowager Gao Tao has been looking for Concubine Zhu De's stubble. This is still because of the forgiveness of the punishment to make the powerful relationship between Concubine Zhu De and Gao Taotao and Empress Dowager Xiang clear. The root cause is also that Gao Tao is afraid that Concubine Zhu De will rob herself and the Empress Dowager Xiang of the power she is optimistic about.

At the beginning of August, the heavy rain still did not stop, the rumors in Beijing became more and more evil, and public opinion became more and more unfavorable to Zhao Xu, the emperor.

Because, a villain like Lu Huiqing, who has a very strong desire for power, became prime minister, not to mention the conservative ministers and princes and nobles in Beijing, and even those ministers who returned from Lingnan also expressed their indignation.

Therefore, the five prime ministers couldn't think of a coping strategy to solve the crisis in Hebei Zhulu for a while, and Zhao Xu was angry and dismissed all five of them, and Lu Huiqing was directly demoted out of the capital again.

Helplessly, at Yang Wei's suggestion, Zhao Xu once again secretly sent a messenger to Baiyun Temple, ostensibly to go to Baiyun Temple to worship God. In fact, the three ministers who hid in the Baiyun Temple to watch the scenery returned to Beijing with Cai Dao.

Moreover, Zhao Xu sent three very heavy Qincha this time.