Chapter 203: The Emperor's Good Friend
The situation has been alleviated, and relief does not mean that no one froze to death or starved to death.
Instead, the disaster situation will be controlled within a tolerable range, and there will be no major uprisings of displaced people or major peasant uprisings, and there will still be many people who freeze to death and starve to death along the way.
It's not that disaster relief is not effective, it's not that corruption is rampant, but that the reality is like this.
In this era, the transportation is inconvenient, there are no trains, cars, and when the snow is all over the ground, the relief materials can only reach some hard-hit areas, some major prefectures and counties, and some light-disaster areas, or some villages with inconvenient transportation, are naturally ignored; In addition, some disaster areas belong to the areas occupied by the Jin army, and even if Zhao Pu wants to help the victims, the Jin army may not agree.
The area affected this time is too large, involving most of the area north of the Yangtze River. In Hedong, Shaanxi and other places, it often snows, and the people are also used to snowy days, and the disaster is not too serious; In the Lianghuai area, it may not be able to encounter a heavy snowfall for decades, and now it has encountered a snow disaster all of a sudden, and there are no cold prevention measures at all, and the disaster is extremely serious.
"Natural disasters and man-made disasters are all superimposed!" Zhao Pu complained secretly in his heart. A heavy snowfall hit the people who had been traumatized by the war again. And he can only try to do a good job, try his best to help, and survive this hard time, as for how many people he can save in the end, it all depends on luck.
"Spring is a snow disaster, summer is bound to be a drought, the climate is abnormal!"
God is too faceless.
After Zhao Pu complained, he could only continue to bury his head in disaster relief.
Disaster breeds hope, and disaster is also a good time for leaders to put on a show.
Zhao Pu is self-aware, he has never engaged in military affairs, he is a halfway monk, and his political strategy is also half a bucket of water. became this emperor, not because of how good he was, but because the members of the imperial family were arrested, and he was the only one left, he was not the emperor, who was qualified to be the emperor?
As the saying goes, knowing that it is not a companion, it is urgent and accompanied.
Congenitally deficient, you can only spend more hard work on the day after tomorrow, and go to the hard-hit areas for disaster relief, and be on the front line of disaster relief, which can be regarded as an alternative kind of compassion for the people!
Walking in various states and counties in Yangzhou, Zhao Pu inspected the collapsed houses and the road dredging at the same time.
The land of Lianghuai belongs to the land of wealth and the economically developed land of the Great Song Dynasty. However, only a very small number of people are rich, and the majority of the people are still struggling on the poverty line, and a large number of people have lost their land and become displaced people, and finally enter the towns, where they are lucky enough to find a job, and those who are unlucky can only be unemployed vagrants, which has become a factor of social instability.
While walking, while observing, the seemingly prosperous Yangzhou also has a large number of slums and houses that are not sheltered from the wind and snow.
It seems that Yangzhou Road's GDP is very high, but the Engel number is not good, and the Gini coefficient is on the verge of danger.
This is the Great Song Dynasty, on the one hand, the government and wealthy merchants are extremely wealthy, living a life of drunken dreams and death, and on the other hand, those poor people are living an extremely hard life.
The imperial court also has many actions to help the poor, but it is just a symptom but not a cure, just like smoking opium, taking a sip and feeling fluttering, but after the power of the medicine, the reality is still bleak.
First Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun rebelled, then Fang La and Song Jiang rebelled, and then Zhong Xiang and Yang Mi rebelled. This is only famous, the scale is large, the number is in the tens of thousands, affecting more than a dozen states, it is the Song army that used elite troops to encircle and suppress.
More peasant uprisings were as numerous as cattle hairs, with no ideas or beliefs, and the officials and soldiers ran when they came, and the officials and soldiers came back when they ran, and the number of people was no more than a thousand, and the number was a few dozen. There is no need to use elite troops at all, nor does it need to use second-rate van troops, only regimental training is needed, and the local armed forces can be wiped out. Throughout the Song Dynasty, the peasant uprising was very unsuccessful.
wants to be an official, kill people and set fires to be recruited, Song Jiang is not an exception in this era, but a commonality. Rebellion, most of them are temporary righteous indignation, after the mood is calm, they think about Zhao'an, as for rebelling to become the emperor, or becoming a secession regime, it is something that has never been thought of at all.
At this moment, Zhao Pu felt a faint sense of luck.
"It's finally not getting worse yet!"
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After a month's inspection, Zhao Pu returned to Yangzhou again.
"Your Majesty, the Jin Army has withdrawn!"
"The Jin army has retreated!" After hearing the news, Zhao Pu was only slightly surprised, and his mood calmed down.
Everything was expected!
Fighting a war is logistics, fighting is a national wealth. If a country has strong national strength and sufficient materials, it can fight for a long time; If a country's national strength is weak and its materials are lacking, it can only fight for a short time. The Jin army is strong, but the national strength is too fragile, relying on plunder, relying on the sixteen states of Youyun, it can only support the consumption of a year's conquest.
In this year's campaign, although the Jin army made great achievements, it consumed huge materials; and went deep into the enemy's territory, suffering from heavy transportation and material supply; The strong walls and clear fields made it difficult for the Jin army to support the war with war; In addition, Wang Yan was in the rear, and he was vigorously active, which also made it difficult for the Jin army to sleep and eat, and the rear was unstable.
And this heavy snowfall, of course, brought disaster to the Great Song Dynasty, but also put the Jin army in a predicament.
In such a snowy weather, it was impossible to continue to attack the Great Song Dynasty and continue to invade the south. At this moment, you can only retreat from the army, and if you don't retreat, you will starve to death and freeze to death!
"The official family is the Son of Heaven, and he is the king of the Tao, and now God is also helping us, this snow is comparable to an army of 100,000, and the Jin army is blocked by the heavy snow, and it is difficult to attack, and our dynasty can be saved!"
"How fortunate is the country? How fortunate is Da Song? God bless the Great Song Dynasty, the country is preserved, and I am safe! ”
"The heavy snow came too timely, without this heavy snowfall, how long can Yangzhou be saved!"
When Zhao Pu went to court, he immediately heard the congratulatory voices of the ministers, all celebrating the heavy snow in the sky and the retreat of the Jin army. In the eyes of the ministers, the heavy snow that fell from the sky hindered the advance of the Jin army and made the Jin army retreat, which was the help of God and the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty.
Not only in the court, but also in Yangzhou, Xiangfan and other places, the emperor Shengming felt that heaven and earth, was blessed by God, fell heavy snow, forced back the Jin army.
This statement gradually became popular, and Zhao Pu also became a saint.
In the era of celestial induction and feudal superstition, this saying spread rapidly.
Zhao Pu was dumbfounded, there was a feeling of crying and laughing, he had always been worried that someone would take advantage of the heavy snow to make waves in the court, or that he was not virtuous, so that the peace faction would raise its head again; There have also been concerns that the inappropriate disaster relief will lead to large-scale peasant riots. Now it's good, it's snowing heavily, and it's God helping him to repel the Jin army.
Dong Zhongshu is really a good friend of the emperor!
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