There was no sunlight in the sky, but the air was unusually humid and muggy, and Hao Ren felt as if he was in a huge steamer, so hot that he was distraught. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hao Ren crossed the river by boat, followed Anqing to get rich and returned to Luzhou, now the land east of Anqing, is the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, the burned rice fields can be seen everywhere along the way, the black is endless, the resentful people cry out to the sky and grab the land, block the road and shout injustice.

"Your Majesty, Liao Yongan, who was beaten and killed, ordered my rice field to be burned, how can we live as a family?" An old woman knelt in front of Hao Ren's horse and sued Liao Yongan.

Hao Ren was riding on horseback, his whole body was soaked with sweat, he covered his eyes and looked at the sky, wanting to see the hour, but there was no shadow of the sun in the sky, it was such an abnormal sauna day that caused the spike neck plague epidemic.

An inhuman sin is a natural disaster!

Hao Ren turned over and got off the horse, pulled the old woman on the ground up, took out an ear of rice and asked, "Are your crops also sick from this disease?" ”

The old woman nodded, feeling flattered, but the anger in her heart did not disappear: "Although the crops are infected with this disease, how can they see that there is no harvest after autumn?" The crops have been cut, so how can our family, old and young, survive the autumn harvest! ”

"Auntie, it is my order to burn the diseased crops! You see, it is this thing that causes the crops to be sick, and this thing can survive in the soil for three years, and if they are not burned, they will continue to live in the soil, and they will continue to cause this disease to the rice in the future, and it is such a hot and humid day that causes the epidemic of rice blast! Hao Ren smiled and explained patiently in a serious tone.

The old woman refused to listen to Hao Ren's explanation, as for the pathogen and the source of infection, the old woman said that she did not care: "Your Majesty, there is such a catastrophe, there is no harvest of summer grain, let us live like this!" ”

"I am the emperor, you are the people under my rule, I have the obligation to solve the problem of food and clothing for you, now there is still some time to the summer harvest, the people's grain storage should be able to wait until after the summer harvest, as for the food supply problem after the summer harvest, I will naturally coordinate with the auxiliary ministers to solve it, you just need to do a good job of replanting your own fields!" Hao Ren continued to explain.

Hao Ren waved his hand and left two bags of military rations with the army to the old woman, which was considered to have taken care of the old woman's group, and the army continued to hurry.

Along the way, there were many people who blocked the road like an old woman and shouted grievances, Hao Ren also felt irritable in his heart, the rice blast epidemic was not caused by him, what does it have to do with him? Such a waste of military rations seems to be worthy of Baixin.

However, Hao Ren deeply understood a truth, it takes a lot of effort to achieve the holy name, and the destruction of the reputation is only overnight. Even if it's just an unintentional word, it can cause your image to plummet. You must cherish your own reputation, and you can't ruin your image as close to the people because of irritability and anger, let alone appear to be high and forget your lowly nature.

As soon as the old woman and her party were sent away, the army marched for several miles, and Anqing persuaded the peasant envoy to stop him again, saying that it was not good for him to do things, which disturbed the holy driving Yunyun, and Hao Ren did not punish him, but only encouraged him, which was regarded as forgiving the mistake of persuading the peasant envoy.

Eating is a big problem for the people, and it is not just by persuading the peasant envoy to suppress it, and persuading the peasant envoy not to kill the old woman on the road before she can stop the road and cry out for grievances, even if it is a benevolence of the peasant envoy. If Hao Ren kills the peasant envoys, the way for the people to seek redress in the future will be cut off, and the officials below would rather risk secretly killing the wrongdoers than allow the people's grievances to reach heaven.

In this way, the people's hope of redressing grievances is blocked, and the officials force the people to rebel, and Hao Ren will be hollowed out by officials at all levels, resulting in complete isolation from his own people and losing the support of the people.

"Your Majesty, you're back!" Several auxiliary ministers in Beijing were worried to welcome Hao Ren into the city outside the city gate, and Liao Yongan, the first assistant, said: "Rice blast is still prevalent, and the summer grain output will be reduced by at least one-third at this time. Now the people of Luzhou are panicking, the people have begun to hoard grain, the price of grain has increased tenfold, how to solve the problem of food shortage, please Your Majesty! ”

"Lord Yu Que!" Hao Ren commanded under the city gate.

"The minister is here!" Yu Que went out of class and hugged his fists.

"I have appointed you as a consolation envoy to the north, and I will go to Xuzhou, Bozhou, and Mengcheng on my behalf to inspect and see how the wheat production there is! Let the Northland produce as much food as possible to supply the South! Hao Ren ordered.

"Command!" Yu Que hugged his fists.

"Lord Mu Youcai!" Hao Ren said again.

"The minister is here!" Mu Youcai came out of class and hugged his fists.

"Order Lord Mobley, who is in charge of business, to tell those merchants under his command that those who buy goods from the workshop will all use grain as payment, and that the merchants from all over the country will return to the Song Land, and bring no other goods, only grain!" Hao Ren said.

"Command!" Mu Youcai hugged his fists.

"Master Shan Hu, the chief apprentice of the chariot soldiers!" Hao Ren nodded again.

"Order your troops to quickly transport the grain from Shouzhou to Luzhou to stabilize prices!" Hao Ren ordered.

"Your Majesty!" Tu Danhu did not receive the order, but advised: "Shouzhou Tun grain, is the grain and grass hoarded for the Northern Expedition in the future, now that the grain is scarce, do you really want to sell it to Baixin cheaply?" If there is no food in the treasury, the soldiers are not a joke when they are hungry! ”

Tu Dan Hu is Hao Ren's Su Wei Qianhu from a thousand households, he has always spoken directly, never hidden, and what Tu Dan Hu said is indeed the truth, if the army lacks food, the army mutinies, and even directly mutiny, resulting in bloodshed.

"Even if Lord Tushan does it, I will transport the grain to the Luzhou Treasury and I will have my own plans in the future!" Hao Ren named.

"No!" Tu Dan Hu clenched his fists and led the way.

"Chen Da, the head of the guard, send someone to Pingjiang and invite Mr. Shen Wansan to come to Luzhou to meet with me!"

"No!" Chen Da clenched his fists and said.

"Lord Liao Yongan, you draft a holy decree on my behalf, in the year of the catastrophe, from the emperor to the people, even if the family has surplus food, you must save food, and ban winemaking for the time being!" Hao Ren said helplessly.

"Command!" Liao Yongan hugged his fists.

"In such a catastrophic year, I am ready to worship heaven and earth and pray for the blessings of the people, Lord Cai Ziying, this matter will be handed over to you!" Hao Ren said again.

Cai Ziying has always been distracted, missing the old lord Wang Baobao, but now she was suddenly named, and in a hurry, she only said: "Hey?? Command! ”

"Your Majesty, haven't you always believed in ghosts and gods? Worship heaven and earth, if you can really make the country and the people safe, then there will be no end to the community! Liao Yongan advised.

"I don't believe you, but some people do, so do it!"

Hao Ren knows that worshipping heaven and earth can't solve the problem, and to solve the problem, you have to rely on wisdom. And worshipping heaven and earth is to make a show for those who believe, and it can be regarded as a way to appease the people.

Hao Ren did a lot of ways to deal with the famine, and in the end, which cloud rained, Hao Ren himself couldn't say. (To be continued.) )