In the twenty-second year of the Marquis of Jin, summer and June. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This year is very strange, when the corn is not yellow, the corn ears have just grown, and it will not rain anymore. The sky over Jizhou is clear, and occasionally a few white clouds float in, but not a drop of water falls. In this way, a month passed, and although it was cloudy for a few days, it was sunny again in two days.

On the outskirts of Yecheng, Ximen Leopard's ancestors and uncles could only watch as the water in the ditch became less than one day a day, the ears of millet drooped, and in the end, a large piece of millet drooped their heads, and the millet stalks were also in an unhealthy state of lack of water. The elderly people in the township think that this is a great thing.

"In this green and yellow season, if the drought continues, how will we live in the future?"

The old people remembered the drought in their hometown, which was called a miserable one, the drought lasted for many years, the farmland was full of grain, the hunger was full, and the grain in the city was sold at sky-high prices. At the same time, the Zhuqing was indifferent to the disaster, and the taxes of the Marquis of Jin were mentioned again and again, and the labor for the construction of the Yuqi Palace and the Tongqi Palace was not reduced at all......

Although some officials asked them to store proper grain last year, the grain stored in the cellar was not much, and it barely lasted for a few months. For a while, no one dared to cook corn, they all boiled porridge to drink, even the porridge became thinner and thinner, hoping that it could be boiled until the next season when the corn was harvested.

After a few days like this, when Ximen Leopard was growing his body, he was suddenly so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, and he didn't even have the strength to go to the school.

It was only after his father returned from Yecheng that this situation was stopped.

"Didn't you just harvest the wheat? No matter how hard it is, you can't let the old and the young go hungry! “

Ximen Leopard's father has successfully become the pavilion chief, he is full of trust in the Zhao family's official mansion, and the old people in the township are alarmist, saying that if they don't save a little more, they can only dig wild vegetables to live next year, but he said very optimistically: "Why worry so much, there is no endless road, Zhao Shangqing will not care about our life and death." ”

Someone said in disbelief: "Although I saw that the grain from all over the country was transported to Changping by the average delivery officials a few years ago, and the township chief said that he would distribute grain to the various villages, no one saw any grain coming, so I didn't ......dare to believe it."

Simon Leopard's father said with a smile: "I was about to tell the second and third sons a good news, when I came, I saw that the positions were being closed and sending out grain, dozens of cars a day!" The price of food in the city has not risen! ”

After mentioning everyone's confidence, he appealed loudly to the neighbors in the township: "Zhao Shangqing issued a notice and said, 'Heaven and earth are unkind, the people are miserable, how can I, as the parents of the people, sit idly by'? “

Sure enough, three days later, according to the disaster situation in their township, several truckloads of grain came over from the county, stabilizing the grain price in the local market. The pavilions also began to set up cylinders, and soon, the water from the Zhanghe River was irrigated to the fields by itself, and everyone did not have to go to fetch water under the scorching sun every day.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that they had more confidence to survive this drought, but what they didn't know was that Zhao Wuxian and his party were passing by outside the township pavilion in a light car......

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The sun was very poisonous, the weather was sultry, and among the village pavilions on the outskirts of Yecheng, the officials of the Zhao family who were dark-clothed and wide-sleeved stayed for a short time, and their scarves and clothes were soaked with sweat, but they didn't dare to open their chests like farmers and shake their fans to cool down, because Zhao Shangqing was still standing in the ground frowning and worrying about the people with the sun.

Zhao Wuxian squatted on the edge of a millet field, grabbed a handful of dry soil, touched the millet seedlings hanging low, and looked worriedly at the distant field.

He is now so impressed by Chang Hong's Tianwen that he is so impressed, and he is glad that he went to the Zhou Room to snatch him over, thinking that it was just a signboard pension, but who expected it to be a treasure.

As predicted by Chang Hong in the Tianguan of the Xue Palace, the great drought in Jizhou came as scheduled, and there had been no rain near Yecheng for two months, the originally moist land dried up, and some shallow streams even cut off.

This is a huge blow to agriculture, but fortunately, the winter wheat is close to maturity, and it is harvested into the granary of the government treasury before the drought causes losses, so most of the affected are millet and soybean.

He beckoned Ji Ran, who was standing not far away, to come over and asked, "Sir, what is the price of grain in Yecheng now?" “

Ji Ran is the history of the governance of Su, in charge of Zhao's agricultural economy, leveling and equalizing the loss of iron smelting, salt industry and coinage, etc., can be regarded as Zhao's "plan", Zhao's economy, basically based on his "Ji Ran Seven Strategies" as the theoretical basis of operation, for the price of grain in various places, the warehouse is real, naturally familiar with the heart.

"The winter wheat was harvested and put into storage ahead of schedule, and it was transported by the average loss official to the counties that did not grow wheat, which solved the urgent need, and no one died of starvation in this green and yellow season. In addition, last year's grain stockpiles that were stored in the standing liquidation warehouse entered the market, and merchants who sold grain at high prices were also cracked down on and arrested by the equalizers, and grain prices were maintained within an acceptable range. The people of Yecheng eat less every day, but their hearts are still stable, and they still have the strength to do farm work. “

Zhao Wuxian breathed a sigh of relief, "That's fine, I left Yecheng for half a year, thanks to Mr. Governing properly, I don't know if there is a countermeasure now." “

Ji Ran said eloquently: "Guan Yiwu is the ancestor of Jixue, he once said when he governed the Qi country for the Duke of Huan, those who are good at serving the country must first eliminate their five evils. The so-called five pests are water, drought, wind, fog, hail and frost, plague, and insect plague. These five evils are very serious, and those who have families and countries do not deal with them properly, and at least the farmland declines and the population moves away. If it is serious, the country will be in chaos, thieves will be rampant, and even the country will be destroyed! Now that the drought has become a fact, what Zhao needs to do now is how to relieve the disaster. ”

He is an expert in this area, and since the first signs of drought in May, he has drawn up a disaster response package. Needless to say, the pre-disaster prevention is that the Zhao clan has been preparing for more than half a year, and the Changping warehouse is full of grain scavenged from various places and other states, which can ensure that the Zhao counties will not fall into the predicament of running out of grain before the autumn harvest next year.

In addition to grain reserves, the construction of water conservancy and the improvement of the agricultural irrigation system are also important means of drought prevention. This is the old experience, according to Ji Ran, the Zhou Dynasty had a vacant position, and its responsibilities include "repairing the embankment beams, passing the ditch, walking the water, and securing the water, and deciding the congestion in time. It can be seen that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou people who were proficient in agriculture realized this.

Therefore, the 12 canal weirs built by the Zhao family, as well as the water conservancy network in several townships around Yecheng, are also conducive to solving the drought problem.

When the water is dry, the 12 low weirs along the Zhangshui can also block the flow of water and supply enough water to the channel, and the water in these ditches flows into the fields of the 12 townships around Yecheng through the action of the cylinder car and the waterwheel, so that the 100,000 mu of farmland in Yedi can be irrigated, so that there will be no harvest because there is no rain.

In the past few days, Zhao Wuxian and the others have gone around several surrounding townships, and most places are still green and yellow, and it should be no problem to hold on until the autumn harvest in July and August.

Only the ditches are not involved, and the water shortage in the higher hilly areas is severe, and the people in these places naturally cannot be left alone, so Ji Ran suggested digging wells to get water and organizing some people to irrigate the land, which is a stupid method, but it is also a last resort.

But the problem is that the drought affected a wide area, across the east and west of Taihang, not only Yecheng was affected, but also the seven counties of the Zhao family, Handan, Hejian, Hanoi, Taiyuan, and the eldest son were affected to varying degrees, only the counties west of Luliang Mountain, Shang County, and Dai County escaped, but those places were sparsely populated and the grain production was very low, and the Zhao family could not count on them to feed back.

Even the Han family, the Wei family, and even the Wei and Qi countries were also affected, and natural disasters have no borders.

Therefore, while stabilizing Yecheng, Zhao Wuxian also had to provide relief to the disaster-stricken areas where water conservancy and irrigation were underdeveloped.

These things can be followed by the experience of predecessors, and Ji Ran moved out of the classics, the "Twelve Articles of Waste Administration" summarized by the Great Situ of the Zhou Dynasty, including the distribution of relief materials, light punishment, probation, opening up the mountains, stopping the collection of commercial taxes, worshiping ghosts and gods, reducing ceremonial activities, eliminating thieves, etc., and the disaster relief of thousands of years in later generations is basically not within this scope.

But Zhao Wuxian only restricts the "worship of ghosts and gods". Every disaster year, it is the time of religious flooding, although this era except for Nanzi's Tiandaoism, has not yet become a climate religion, but the Yellow Turban Rebellion is terrible, but he has to guard against it, he doesn't want to see the Zhangshui coast, with the revival of the bad habit of sacrificing to the god of Hebo water with living people, and he doesn't want anyone to rebel under the guise of "Zhao's chaos and morality, and a catastrophe from heaven".

"I won't bow my head to the obscene shrines everywhere because of this drought." Zhao Wuxian's attitude was resolute.

After returning to Yecheng, he issued a letter to the officials and all the people under the rule of Zhao to fight the drought.

"Man will conquer heaven!"

(To be continued.) )