Since the beginning of spring in the first year of Yongnian, only one light rain has fallen in the entire Central Plains, and there was little snow last winter, so that Yan Guo realized that drought and locust plagues in the Central Plains this year will be inevitable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If the drought occurred in Guanzhong, Liaodong and other areas with developed water resources, Wei Shuo would not feel anxious. However, the disaster was about to break out in the Central Plains that had just been recovered, so the Yan Kingdom had to devote itself to intense drought relief efforts.

Droughts are often accompanied by locust plagues, and the two major disasters were a huge disaster in ancient times, and if not handled properly, they can lead to a major event such as a change of dynasty.

When the snow melted at the beginning of spring, the Cabinet cooperated with the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Households, and the local government to hire a large number of people to rush to repair the Central Plains water conservancy facilities, and even temporarily halted the Grand Canal project.

In addition, in order to prevent people from taking advantage of natural disasters to make profits, Wei Shuo specially wrote that in various parts of the Central Plains, not only greatly reduced the taxes borne by the local people, but also strictly prohibited the sale of land during natural disasters.

In addition, in order to help the victims tide over the difficulties, the bank will also provide low-interest loans to the victims.

In the end, workshops in various places began to urgently make drought-fighting equipment such as water trucks and transported them to all parts of the Central Plains by straight roads.

At the same time, under the instruction of Wei Shuo, the newspaper began to vigorously publicize, and for a time the news that the Central Plains was about to suffer from locust plagues and droughts spread all over the world.

Although this caused a lot of chaos, due to the government's proper handling, the people learned that the government was ready to do its best to provide disaster relief, and after the initial panic, it gradually stabilized.

In fact, many times natural disasters are far less destructive than those brought by natural disasters, and Wei Shuo is more afraid of the hidden dangers of man-made disasters than the harm caused by natural disasters.

However, just when the Yan Kingdom was engaged in a fiery struggle against disasters and locusts, some old celebrities in various places were unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history, and actually took the opportunity to spread rumors.

These old celebrities held high the banner of heaven and man's induction, attributing the cause of the outbreak of natural disasters to the 'chaotic government' of Yan Kingdom and the 'tyranny' of King Yan, claiming that it was in this way that heaven would descend on the people of the Central Plains.

Many old celebrities also wrote in tears to 'advise' Wei Shuo, asking King Yan to listen to the will of the people, depose the new policy, and issue his own documents to return to tradition.

If the children of famous scholars in the Central Plains and Hebei still hope to be reused by Wei Shuo with their performance, then the Jiangzuo family will not be so polite, and they directly point the finger at Wei Shuo. Under the pretext that there were no locust plagues in the Central Plains under the rule of the brutal Qihu, but after the recovery of the Yan Kingdom, the drought and locust plagues were menacing, which fully demonstrated that God wanted to punish 'someone'.

The old celebrities directly ignored the efforts made by the people of Yan Kingdom for disaster relief, and also ignored Wei Shuo to take the lead in donating money.

In short, they only considered natural disasters to represent the will of heaven and the unpopular rule of Liaodong.

This rumor was even more menacing than a natural disaster, which made Wei Shuo and Yan Guo extremely angry.

Since the Central Plains and Hebei were initially determined, Wei Shuo has never visited the so-called celebrities and hermits, which is completely out of the expectations of the famous people of the family who are waiting to be sold at a price.

In the eyes of some celebrities, Wei Shuo at least has to take out Uncle Liu's style, and only by visiting the thatched house can he show his sincerity.

However, everyone didn't know that in the past ten years, with the vigorous promotion of education in Liaodong, Wei Shuo has enough talent reserves, and he no longer needs to go to great lengths to attract talents like he does in front of him.

Unexpectedly, Wei Shuo's 'indifference' stirred up the sensitive nerves in the hearts of some famous people, and just on the occasion of this natural disaster, they all wanted to teach Wei Shuo a lesson, so that Wei Shuo knew how powerful they were, and then invited them back with the 'Eight Lifting Sedan Chairs'.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is said that we should not waste time sitting here at the critical moment of drought relief and disaster relief, but at present, public opinion in the outside world is raging, and there is a great tendency to vow not to give up until the goal is achieved."

"Moreover, public opinion from the outside world has gradually affected the disaster relief action, so we can't afford to be careless."

"The lord's concern is very reasonable, I originally thought that the outside world would be noisy for a few days, but I didn't want anyone to want to fish in troubled waters."

"At present, the group of celebrities in Jiangzuo are holding high the banner of heaven and man's induction, and attributing the drought that has broken out and the locust plague that is about to break out on the head of the lord, which is really a big rebellion."

"There are also some bullshit celebrities who have asked the people of Yan to give up all disaster relief plans, claiming that as long as they sincerely repent in the face of drought and locust plagues, they can be forgiven by God and avoid disasters."

Listening to Mo Han's complaints, Yan Guo's face, including Wei Shuo, was not very good-looking. In fact, Wei Shuo does not prohibit outsiders from criticizing the 'government and politics', but the remarks of the old celebrities have affected the stability of the Central Plains, and this cannot be tolerated by him.

"If those celebrities just complain casually, Liaodong won't do anything to them, after all, Yan Guo has always advertised that he does not sinner. However, they were all children of well-known local families, and some of their remarks had a lot of influence among the people. ”

"I heard that many people have been bewitched, and they are full of negative emotions about the disaster relief operations organized by Yan Guo, and even some local officials have become panicked!"

"What do you think about this?"

"My lord, the minister thinks that Yan Guo should mobilize the power of public opinion and launch a counterattack against them." Mo Han cut the railway.

"And in detail!"

"No!" Mo Han said eloquently when he heard this: "The minister suggested that the chiefs, doctors, and professors of the universities in Yan Kingdom should publish articles in the newspaper hall to defeat the other party from the root, otherwise even if we strongly subdue the other party through administrative means this time, there will be people who will jump out to fan the yin wind and light the yin fire in the future." ”

"Yes, Shirong is very good, since it is a matter of public opinion, it can only be solved by the power of public opinion. The use of administrative means only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and can solve the problem for a while, but it cannot solve the problem at the root. ”

Wei Shuo expressed strong support for Mo Han's suggestion, he stood up and waved his hands excitedly: "Yan Guo has been raising scholars in various universities for more than ten years, and it is time for them to shed their blood for Yan Guo. I believe that Liu Gong, Huangfu Fang Hui, Zhu Zuoche, Dong Jingdao and other great Confucians and celebrities are no worse than them. ”

Soon, under the instruction of Wei Shuo, doctors and celebrities from various universities in Yan Kingdom published articles in newspapers and periodicals, praising how the Liaodong government organized the people to fight drought and control locusts.

Under the public opinion of Yan State, there have been great disasters and disasters in all dynasties, and only the wise will take the initiative to take their due responsibility and lead the people to resist disasters. There are even many articles that unceremoniously reprimand Jiangdong celebrities and old celebrities for ignoring the lives of the people, vainly talking about the will of heaven, and shirking responsibility, which is the real man-made disaster.

Knowing that the literati of the Yan Kingdom were so strong-worded, the famous scholars of Jiangdong were very angry, and they launched a fierce debate with the literati of the Yan State under the organization of the people with hearts, and continued to promote the theory of heaven and man induction.

However, Wei Shuo still underestimated the influence of traditional theories, since Dong Zhongshu established the theory of heaven and man induction, this set of theories has been accepted by successive dynasties, how easy is it to defeat the other party?

Thanks to the fact that Yan Guo controls a large number of newspapers, this can make Yan Guo invincible in this debate. Soon Jiang Zuo Mingshi realized this, but they did not give in, and still debated with the literati of Yan through various channels.

Wei Shuo was a little sorry that he failed to defeat the traditional scholars in public opinion, but he believed that when the locust control was successful in the summer, public opinion would be completely on the side of Yan Guo. At that time, it was time for the Yan State to launch a fatal blow against the traditional scholars, thereby weakening the influence of the traditional scholars in Liaodong.

At the same time, the exposition of the religion played a huge role at this time, under the influence of the head of the sect, the heavenly master, the Taoist leader, and the real person, the people of the sect in various places were almost not affected by the traditional public opinion, but firmly stood on the side of the Yan State.

The people of the church believe that this is not a warning from heaven to the Yan Kingdom, on the contrary, this is a punishment from the Great Heavenly Venerable for the people of the Central Plains who do not believe in the religion.

In addition, the exposition of the teachings is so disturbed, and the public opinion dispute about natural disasters in the world has completely entered the stage of stalemate. In addition to some idle celebrities who are still paying attention, the ordinary people of the Central Plains are already burning their eyebrows and are doing their best to save themselves under the organization of the government, where do they still have the energy to pay attention to what caused natural disasters?

Although it has experienced a lot of twists and turns, the various disaster relief plans implemented by Yan Guo are still carried out in an orderly manner. From this point of view, Wei Shuo is quite gratified. (To be continued.) )