This slogan is also shouted to educated officials and the soldiers of the Linzhang Academy Palace, and to the people, even if they shout to break their throats, it is useless, and after decades of scientific education in later generations, the old man and the old lady should be superstitious or superstitious, because the Chinese have always preferred to believe in what they have or not, to see God and worship God and Buddha to worship Buddha, and if they find it useless, they will abandon it as if they were in a disservice. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But the people can be confused, but the officials responsible for disaster relief and disaster relief can't be confused, if there is an official under the rule of the Zhao family who does not actively deal with the disaster, but prays to God and worships ghosts all day long, what awaits them is not a reward, but a dismissal and investigation.

Do you put your hopes in the ethereal ghosts and gods, or do you trust their lords in their ability to turn the tide and work miracles?

If it does, the hypocritical old gods will collapse and a new monarchy will be established.

Therefore, although not everyone agrees with Zhao Wuxian's theory, Zhao's disaster relief cause is still carried out in an orderly manner based on this basis.

"The counties of Handan County are injured by the drought, and this year's rent is exempted to Su Minli." This is a tax exemption reduction.

"There was a great drought in the eldest son county, and the government gave the people all kinds of tools for fields and houses, fake ploughs, oxen, seeds, and food." This is the official intervention, lending grain, seeds, and cattle and farming tools, hoping to help the people survive the famine and avoid private usury.

Hanoi County, which is close to the Yellow River and was less affected, had to bear the heavy responsibility of transporting grain for disaster relief, and the grain stored in the Changping warehouse was released one after another to maintain grain prices and avoid the collapse of the citizens of the city. The grain transferred by Zhao Wuxian from Ludi also entered Hanoi through the Wei Canal, and it was inevitable that a part of it would be given to Weiqing Zhao Yi along the way, and now Zhao Wei's family is no different from a county in Zhao's administrative system.

In addition to the normal relief, there are also "additional relief" measures in the vicinity of Yecheng, which is highly organized, that is, additional relief measures according to the disaster situation. In addition, the Zhao family also advocated the township to help themselves, and the people used Shiwuli as a unit to help themselves, as a supplementary form of government relief.

In addition to the active government actions, Zhao's practice of protecting vegetation, improving crops, and improving farming techniques in Hebei in the past few years has also shown miraculous results in the drought! This is something that Zhao Wuxian never expected......

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If you fly thousands of meters and look down on the North China Plain, you will find that the great plain, which was cut down in later generations, and only a single crop is left, and now there are dense forests everywhere. The forest belt extends from the Bairen people in Dongyang to the south, covering most of Handan, Hejian and Yecheng, and the reason for this is that Hebei has been developed for less than a hundred years, so the vegetation remains intact. Only Hanoi County, which was developed earlier, has a larger proportion of farmland, but it is close to a large river and has abundant water.

Guan Zhong once said, "A ten-year plan is nothing like a tree", and the ancestors of the Spring and Autumn Period have realized a certain connection between the protection of forests and flood and drought disasters. In the past few years, Zhao Wuxian has banned large-scale deforestation, and a certain amount of green space has been maintained around Yecheng, and vegetation has been maintained along the Zhangshui water, which can conserve water and soil and prevent drought. On the other hand, the Zhao clan also lifted the ban on the mountains, and the peasants picked up hunting bows, entered the forest to catch birds and beasts, and collected fruits, Xanthus and other wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

On the other hand, the ecological damage is serious, and some hills have been cut down to the bare east of the Weishi River, especially around Xinjiang, Gujiang, Quwo and Anyi, because of the single ecology, soil erosion is more serious than that of Hebei, so the drought is becoming more and more rampant.

The Daida method popularized by the Zhao family also has great advantages in drought.

Under the guidance of the agricultural officials, the farmers of the Zhao family divided the cultivated land into intersecting ridges and ridges, and the seeds were sown at the bottom of the rice to preserve moisture, and the seedlings grew in the rice and could maintain a certain amount of water. Every time the cultivator hoes the weed, the soil on the ridge is hoeed into the middle together with the grass, and in the summer, the soil on the ridge is flattened, and the ridges are in line, which plays the role of drought resistance and wind resistance. This method of cultivation made the millet seedlings in the Zhao clan's territory wilt, but they did not die.

"No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles, no trickle, no rivers and seas, what I did ten years ago has had an effect today, which is really unexpected."

When Zhao Wuxian received Fan Chi's report on this matter, he also felt the destinedness in the dark, and the only regret was the lack of drought-resistant crops.

In addition to the traditional grains, Zhao also introduced Rongshu from Yanguo, which is a high-yielding and drought-tolerant crop, which is commonly mixed with wheat, corn and sorghum to make full use of its nitrogen-fixing properties to increase crop yields. When the drought came, the other crops withered, but the mushroom continued to thrive.

However, only Rong Shu is not enough, Zhao Wuxian is eager for more drought-resistant crops, but it is a pity that the cultivation and selection of crops will take decades or even hundreds of years to be effective, and he is not in a hurry. He even came up with the idea of drought-tolerant, soil-resilient alfalfa, but unfortunately there was no direct communication between the Central Plains and the Western Regions. Even the Qin people, who had a great influence in Xirong, the farthest known to the west were only the "Yuzhi people" who traded jade in the Hexi area, and Zhao Wuxian guessed that this was the "Dayue Clan" in later generations.

If you want to pass through hundreds of barbarian tribes in Xiqiang, cross the quicksand and reach Dawan west of the Green Ridge, it is simply difficult to go to the blue sky, this is not something that Zhao Wuxian can consider now, what method did King Zhou Mu use to reach Kunlun back then?

In short, the Zhao clan did not bother to please the ghosts and gods, but carried out the attempt of manpower to control the disaster to the extreme, and when the people of Hedong of the Wei clan were hungry, the people of Hebei of the Zhao clan were able to maintain a rough diet.

In July, the three-month drought finally came to an end.

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"Haotian is merciful, let the rain master rain!"

Wei's, Anyi, the sky is cloudy, feeling the moist wind on the eve of the rain, Wei Manduo is full of tears.

He and his son worked together, Wei Ju was stationed in Hexi to defend against the continuous temptation of the Qin people, and Wei Manduo stayed in Hedong, trying to solve the drought that made them anxious.

"This is the result of our efforts to cultivate virtue and devout devotion to God." He swore to his ministers and the people that although in his heart, Wei Mando did not believe in the rewards and punishments of ghosts and gods, but Wei was overstretched to deal with the Qin State alone, and could not organize an effective disaster resistance, so Wei Mando could only rely on the foolish people and pin their hopes on the ghosts and gods, so that no one would take risks and become thieves.

Now, his performance is not over.

"This is Haotian rewarding Wei's piety, this is Wei's blessing!"

"As for those who disrespect God, those who specialize in state affairs, they will continue to be punished! And the people will suffer under his rule. ”

Wei Mando hissed exhausted, pointing at Sang and condemning Huaidi. He believes that Wei will be so difficult in the drought that he can almost not support the low voice to borrow grain from Zhao, because last year Zhao used merchants to buy autumn grain from neighboring countries at high prices, and hoarded them in the so-called "regular liquidation".

"Zhao Wuxian must have known that there was a disaster this year, but he didn't give us any hints......" He gritted his teeth in the rain, swearing that he would never forget the loss.

It's a pity that the Wei family is very weak and tired now, and he has to continue to rely on the support of the Zhao family to wrestle with the Qin State in the quagmire of Hexi, even if he has hatred in his heart, he can't show it, he can only curse silently, the Zhao family had better suffer from drought every year.

The autumn rain fell in large drops, moistening the parched land, and the thousands of farmers of the Wei family wept with joy.

By the salt pond, the daughter of the salt family leaned against the door, looking at the melon vines and crops that were stretched again under the moisture of the rain, and also breathed a long sigh of relief.

And she will not be forced to remarry because the family rations are not enough.

For five years, she has been widowed for five years, and when she just escaped from Jiangdu, her father kept forcing her to remarry, but the Yan girl gritted her teeth and refused. Because although the war is over, her husband's body has never been found, most of his colleagues have been killed or wounded, and the few people she has painstakingly searched for are also unknown, whether they were killed or disappeared and fled abroad. No one can tell. So for his life and death, the Yan girl has always had a glimmer of hope.

She always felt that one day in the future, he would suddenly stand in front of her, just as they had done on the day when they were happy with each other......

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To Wei Manduo's disappointment, this heavy rain was because the warm and humid air flow blew Taihang things again, not because of his "piety", "Ghost and God Ze" did not favor the Zhao clan's territory, which did not cause a lot of trouble, also ushered in the autumn rain, and this timely rain caused a boiling in Yecheng.

"Yubi Gongtian, then my private!"

When Simon Leopard watched his grandfather and uncle, as well as his father and mother, running into the rain to revel, singing ancient hymns and praises, he realized that maybe he no longer had to drink porridge and eat pickles pickled with wild vegetables every day......

The rain didn't last long, and soon, the dry north wind blew again, but a little rain was enough to make the crops in the fields grow strong and survive, and the farmers were all looking forward to the autumn harvest in a month, at least they still had a harvest, right? It's better than nothing.

However, just as the whole territory of Jizhou, millions of people in Zhao Wei and Han thought they had escaped. In the Huotai Mountain area in the south of Taiyuan County, Yi Dun, who was in charge of the trade between Taiyuan and Shangjun and Daidi, stopped his convoy, and he, like everyone else, was looking overhead in horror, a huge cloud covering the sky and the sun, and was riding the north wind to sweep away to the south.

They flock in groups, not knowing how many tens of millions, cover dozens of miles of territory......

They vibrate their wings and make loud and terrifying sounds......

Wherever they passed, there was no left in the wilderness, and not a single grass was left......

They are the most terrifying killers of antiquity, the scourge of agricultural nations......

"It's a mantis!"

Yidun watched the insect swarm roaring south, grabbed his entourage, and said, "Quick, take a fast horse to Yecheng and inform Shangqing that the plague is coming!" ”

(To be continued.) )