Xia Houren didn't understand this, "Looking at their words and deeds, they believe in the general and Guo Pu very much, why are they unwilling to listen to the general's orders?"

Li Zheng said: "The general and Guo Shenxian don't know how to farm, they believe that it will rain heavily, but they also believe that they will have a harvest when they plant wheat and rice."

Tao Wu suddenly asked Li Zheng, "Do you grow wheat and rice at home?"

Li Zheng: "I have planted some, but it has been reduced by half compared to previous years, and I plan to set aside land to grow sorghum and millet." Tao Wu frowned, "I know why the general asked the two of us to come to this countryside, and I also understand why she let Zu Ti and the others set off for the banks of the Yellow River early, if the people here in Luoyang don't listen to persuasion, let alone stay far away from Luoyang

place."

"There is a warning of natural disasters in the imperial court, if there is no warning......" Tao Wu looked at Xiahou Ren.

Xiahou Ren frowned: "But this also shows that the warning is useless to these foolish people, and the price of grain has risen for nothing...... Li Zheng on the side was unhappy, and shouted: "How can you call us foolish people? How can we be stupid? No one can say for sure what will happen in the future, this world is so big, Guo Shenxian didn't say that the rain can fall on us in Luoyang, in case of us

wheat and rice will be harvested?" "Besides, although there are those who do not listen to persuasion, there are also those who listen to persuasion, and there are seventy-two households under my hand, and there are seventy-two households that listen to persuasion

Scolded all of us for a hundred households?"

Li Zheng continued to output, spraying saliva on the faces of Xiahouren and Tao Wu, and the two of them were caught off guard, unable to defend, and couldn't refute it, so they could only apologize repeatedly.

Zu Ti arranged for Zhao Shen to be on the coast of Sizhou, and he returned to Jizhou, and Zhao Hanzhang ordered Zhao Ming, Zhao Ju and Zhao Kuan to do a good job in disaster prevention work in the lower reaches of the coast of Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

In the absence of a catastrophe, food prices rose first and then in this atmosphere.

The people who had surplus grain at home still wanted to sell it at a high price when the harvest was scarce and make a lot of money, so that when the winter wheat was received at the end of April, they would not be short of grain from May.

However, listening to the continuous sound of natural disasters, the people who had surplus grain at home did not dare to sell it, and even began to reduce their grain consumption.

Those who can eat dry change to eat thick, and those who can eat thick change to eat thin, and those who can only eat thin begin to pick a large number of wild vegetables to eat when the spring flowers are blooming.

In March, Luoyang did not see rain, but the sun was shining, the weather began to warm up, and the wild was full of blooming wildflowers.

When it rained in the valley, there was a light rain in Luoyang, which fell at noon and stopped in the evening.

The court and the central government began to talk a lot, and the people also looked up at the sky with a confused face, "This is going to be a drought, and it rains for half a day in the valley, and when it comes to mangzhong, can we have water to farm?"

Although they were confused, those who believed in Zhao Hanzhang still chose to plant sorghum and millet, both of which were seeds that were sown directly after ploughing.

Those who did not believe in it also began to irrigate and breed rice seedlings, and only waited for the beginning of summer to start planting seedlings.

Occasionally, they went to see the winter wheat in the field, and after the rains, the wheat began to head hard, but this spring there was some drought and some ground water was insufficient, so the ears were pumped very hard.

The farmers had no choice but to irrigate.

Fortunately, the one next to the ditch can be put into the field, and the one that is particularly far away from the ditch can only carry water for irrigation.

After working for several days, all the wheat fields were irrigated, and everyone was very happy to see the wheat seedlings swaying in the wind. There was not a drop of rain after the rain in the valley, only the sun was shining, and some of the ground began to dry up, and a farmer looked up at the big sun in the sky and said, "If it doesn't rain again, I don't know if there will be floods this year, but there will be a drought."

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The neighbors on the side should be.

Only Li Zheng looked at the sky sadly, if Guo Shenxian was not mistaken, God was holding back his big move?

At this moment, Li Zheng was expecting Guo Pu to miscalculate.

But the rainstorm came unexpectedly.

The first to rain was Xin Cai.

Xincai is far away from the Yellow River, although there is a heavy rain on the head, but no

People associate it with the heavy rain of the Yellow River defense.

However, it continued to rain for three days, because the rain was too heavy and half of the county seat was flooded, Xincai County Commander's intuition was wrong, and he hurriedly reported to Zhao Ming.

Zhao Ming was uneasy, and while sending people to support Xin Cai, he reported to the imperial court.

The telegram was a little faster than the wind, the imperial court received the telegram first, and then it began to rain in Luoyang, in the morning it was a gentle drizzle, and by noon, the rain showed no signs of stopping, but began to heavily.

The people looked at the rain and only regretted, "I watered it for the first two days, if I knew that it would rain so soon, I should have waited two more days, and my shoulders were swollen when I carried water."

However, at night, the rain did not stop, and the raindrops were as big as soybeans, crackling and smashing on the roofs and the ground.

Now no one spoke and ridiculed, inside and outside Luoyang, whether it was the courtiers or the common people, they all looked at the dark night sky worriedly and couldn't speak, and their hearts began to feel cold.

Zhao Hanzhang also stood under the porch watching the rain, her face was as dark as ink, she would rather be scolded for her decision-making mistakes than do this.

Fu Tinghan put on a cloak for her, and also looked at the rain outside the corridor, and said, "This rain should be able to stop tomorrow, Guo Pu and I measured the wind speed, and the rain should reach Mengjin now."

Zhao Hanzhang sighed, for this kind of natural disaster, they can't stop it, what they can do is to reduce the losses it brings.

The next day, the rain began to lighten, Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan went to the court in their robes, and the ministers followed silently, and none of them dared to ask for leave.

In this atmosphere, the little emperor didn't dare to doze off secretly, so he could only sit and listen to their discussions. At this time, although the courtiers were busy and uncomfortable, they were still relaxed, the flood, they had just experienced a locust plague that was rare in a hundred years the year before last, and they were fighting at the same time as fighting the disaster, so they didn't survive it, and this time it was just a small idea

Thought.

But as the rainy area became larger and longer, the courtiers realized that the flood that could be arranged by Zhao Hanzhang in advance seemed to be a little different.

In April, there was still a heavy rain in Luoyang from time to time, there was no sunshine, the wheat that had just been tasseled almost stopped growing, the water in the field flooded the wheat roots, and many wheat were sick.

The farmers did not give up, carrying hoes to drain the water in the rain, the water was discharged into the ditch, and the rain gradually stopped, and it was cloudy for two days, and when everyone thought that the sunny day was coming, it began to rain again in Luoyang......

However, the situation in Luoyang is good among many places, and in some places, it has been raining constantly. The court also began to rain, Zhao Hanzhang dropped a letter, and said angrily: "Ji County, the county of a county, in just ten days, the price of grain soared to three hundred and thirty-three Wen, even the locust plague and war the year before last only reached three hundred and fifty-two

Text, what's the matter, pinching the 15 percent line to rise, today 333, tomorrow should be quoted 383?"

The ministers bowed their heads and were silent.

"Yuan Li!"

Yuan Li came out of the ranks, "The last will be."

"You go to Ji County in person, and I promise you to do it cheaply."

Yuan Li raised his head, the scar jumped on his face, suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "The last general will take the order!"

Even Ji Yuan couldn't help but tighten his heart, knowing that he would have to die, he sighed, and was about to come out and ask Zhao Hanzhang to give Yuan Li some more restraints, and quickly entered the hall with a document, kneeling down and saying: "General, Jiankang is in a hurry, Shouchun and Jiankang have been raining heavily for five consecutive days, Jiangnan, Jiangnan floods and epidemics

Seriously, the fertile land was destroyed." Zhao Hanzhang and the courtiers were stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that there would also be heavy rain in Jiangnan, this is the rhythm of rain for half of China.