After the snow, the continuous white snow decorates the world, the jade leaves, the pink jade bricks, the bright color, it is really a gratifying scene of the snow harvest year. During the New Year, every household in the imperial city is immersed in the joy of the New Year, although they have felt that this winter is unexpectedly cold, they still feel that this year's winter snow is particularly beautiful.

However, a few days later, bad news came from the northern border: the herdsmen of Beiyan were unusually cold due to the sudden drop in weather. A large number of cattle, sheep and livestock were frozen to death, many herdsmen relied on the weather for food, and their livelihoods were lost heavily in a year. In the past few days, on the border between Northern Yan and Southern Zhou, Jiangbei City, there have been dozens of cases of Northern Yan hungry people raiding the border villages of Southern Zhou to snatch grain, grass and food. Border friction between the two countries has intensified, and there is a fear of war.

The rare large-scale, long-term low temperature and sudden ice and snow in the field caused serious disasters to Beiyan and Nanzhou, and also brought inconvenience and serious losses to people. Tens of thousands of people were affected by the disaster, tens of thousands of houses were crushed by ice and snow, 10,000 hectares of crops were affected, and hundreds of thousands of livestock died in Beiyan.

In the territory of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, although domestic animals were kept indoors, they also had an impact. The cold snap in the south, which has been rare for hundreds of years, has caused heavy losses to unprepared vegetable farmers, and there is no harvest. In just a few days, the price of vegetables in the imperial city has multiplied several times. Because the New Year is approaching, it happens to be in time for every household to buy vegetables and meat, and the people are unprepared and complaining.

Gradually, the joyful New Year's flavor on the streets of the Imperial City has been covered with sorrow. The people were most concerned, and the greeting on their lips became.

"Huh....... Lao Zhang, has your family bought the meat and vegetables for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? ”

"Alas....... The price is expensive, and it is also a Chinese New Year's Eve meal. It seems that this year's winter will depend on pickles and millet porridge. ”

"My family too, how can I spend this year~"

"Have you heard? Guanyin Temple on the outskirts of the city, Land Temple has recently come to a lot of homeless people........."

"Is the news real? Where did the homeless people come from in the Imperial City? ”

"Listening to my family, they are all vegetable farmers and tenant farmers in a few nearby villages, pitiful...... All the vegetables in the field froze to death overnight, and Ben was counting on selling them for a good price to support his family before the year. ”

"I don't believe you when you open your mouth. Even if a year's livelihood is lost, it won't end up in a wandering temple~"

"Cut, what do you know! Vegetable farmers have no silver savings, so they count on the vegetables they sold a year ago to survive the winter. The food is gone, there is not even the money to burn charcoal, and there is incense in the temple to worship, which is much safer and warmer than the earthen house that may collapse at any time. ”

"What then? If the victims gather more and more, and the little incense in the temple is not enough for them to eat, will they come to the city to rob us? ”

"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, it shouldn't be.........."

"It's not certain, people die for money, birds die for food..........."

"It makes sense, everyone should be more careful and close the door tightly........."

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General's Mansion, the Ye family's mansion.

"Mother, people are rumoring that there are victims in Beiyan on the border who have robbed the rations of our people, and there is a fear that there will be a war, is it true?"

"Alas.... Your dad has been busy with this for the past few days. Seeing that more and more victims from all over the world have gathered around the Imperial City, I am afraid that ......."

"But they have nothing to eat, and if they are not allowed to enter the city, they will starve to death..........."

"Your father has been in the palace for the past few days to discuss this matter. The hussar general was in charge of guarding the imperial city, advocating the closure of the city gates and the defense of Kyoto to prevent looting and rioting due to the increase in the number of victims; Your father is in charge of the military department, and he has no jurisdiction over the city gates. In recent days, he has been running around with several courtiers and friends, lobbying together to ask the families of powerful and wealthy businessmen to donate silver taels and build a tent to help porridge. ”

Seeing that there are more and more homeless people, the powerful and wealthy businessmen gradually realized the seriousness of the matter from their initial reluctance and began to donate.