Xiaoman's fullness refers to the surplus of rain, which is when the rivers and fields are impounded.

In general, the rain at this time is not enough, and there is little overflow, after all, in addition to the rivers that can hold water, the land can also absorb a lot of water resources.

You know, there's a dark river underground.

So it was raining heavily in Jiangnan at this time, and Director Wang didn't take it to heart at first, although the rain was a bit heavy.

But after five days of heavy rain, he was a little worried, especially the rain in the north was also very heavy, so he immediately sent a telegram to Luoyang.

Zhao Hanzhang could only order him to carefully prevent disasters, keep an eye on grain prices, and do a good job of pacifying the people.

During the heavy rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the rain in Luoyang stopped for a while, and there were two days of sunshine for a short time, and Zhao Hanzhang personally went to the countryside to go to the fields.

A lot of winter wheat planted last autumn and winter was flooded, and farmers are draining the flood to save it.

But the sorghum sown last month, because it is drought-resistant, it was planted in a slightly higher place, before it was a finger long, at this time although the ridge is also waterlogged, but it penetrates quickly, and as soon as the sun shines, it will be spiritual, in the sun, it still looks tender and tender.

Zhao Hanzhang exhaled and asked Li Zheng, who followed left and right, "Do you grow a lot of this sorghum?" ”

Li Zheng said happily: "The average family grows about seven acres. ”

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "Although the yield of sorghum is not high, seven acres is enough for the people to live." ”

Li Zheng worried: "But the tax is not enough, I don't know if it will be sunny on this day, and on the eleventh day it will be mango planting, if the flood stops, then we can plant rice, and also, we can also plant some wheat and corn." ”

Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and said: "When I go back, I will ask Guo Shaoqing, and when the time comes, the weather will be published in the newspaper, and I will also let the yamen notify you and others." ”

Li Zheng hurriedly responded.

Zhao Hanzhang ran back to find Guo Pu.

Guo Pu and Fu Tinghan are calculating the amount of rainfall and the capacity of rivers in various places against the number of rainfall drops reported in various places.

Hearing Zhao Hanzhang ask about the weather, Guo Pu walked outside, looked up at the sky, pinched his fingers and calculated, and said: "Tomorrow will be fine, the day after tomorrow will be fine, and the rest will not ask me, I don't know if it is sunny or rainy." ”

Zhao Hanzhang: "Is this calculated out?" ”

Guo Pu glanced at her and said, "It's not difficult, it's not difficult, what Ting Han is calculating is difficult." ”

Fu Tinghan shook his head and said: "I don't think it's difficult for me to calculate, it's more difficult for you to pinch your fingers." ”

Zhao Hanzhang stepped forward, "What, can the Yellow River contain this rain?" ”

"At present, the problem is not big, now it has just entered the summer, the Yellow River is still in the flooding period, it is the largest river in China, the capacity is no problem, the problem is that the rain is too large, and the loess seepage capacity is poor, and soft, heavy rain will wash a large amount of sediment into the Yellow River." Fu Tinghan said: "Fortunately, we dredged the Yellow River, otherwise even if the Yellow River could absorb this water, it would have washed out of the riverbed and flooded the fertile fields of the village. ”

"However, after the heavy rain this year, most of the dredging work will return to the original point, and we will have to dredge again at the end of the year."

Zhao Hanzhang circled in place, "When the time comes, I can keep Rentian at this time." ”

She said: "The mango seeds are coming, I still want them to catch a wave of sowing, otherwise, if they miss the mango seeds, only soybeans can be planted in the field, and I have no hope for this year's summer harvest." ”

The courtiers also had this idea, so the next thing was to drain the flood and to cultivate.

Ming pre-went to the front line to fight the flood, Zhao Hanzhang took a look at the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and sent many people to the field to persuade the farmers to teach agriculture, and even the generals did not let go.

Except for some of the generals who fought with Zhao Hanzhang, most of them were big and coarse, but rough people also had rough methods.

They went straight back to the barracks, drew a few hundred soldiers, and scattered them into the fields, letting them help the people plow the fields and sow seeds.

When the sun was shining, they worked hard in the fields with bitter faces, and when it rained, they happily ran to the eaves with the villagers to hide from the rain.

Seeing their half-grown teenagers' unworried appearance, the generals shook their whips and scolded angrily, "What are you happy about, what are you happy about, I think you are lazy and undersmoked, next time let me hear your laughter, I will whip you to death!" ”

The villagers on the side hurriedly stopped them and said good things for them, "It's a pleasure to work, and the general can't let the children cry, right?" ”

"Look at what you said, the children came to help, and they were reprimanded, and I couldn't wait for it."

The military general immediately said: "If you don't want to go, let's plant more, then you can grow more sorghum and millet." ”

"It's too late to plant sorghum at this time, right?"

"It's time, it's time," the military general said: "We asked the people of Sinong Temple before we came, and it was too late to plant anything in the ten days before and after the mango planting." ”

When the villagers heard this, they saw their eyes blazing, so they could only nod their heads, "Okay." ”

It's just that you need to pick more seeds.

As soon as the seeds were chosen, there was less food stored at home, and when the mango planting passed, many people had no food at home.

In previous years, winter wheat can be harvested at this time, and even if there is no harvest, there will not be no grain at all, but this year's winter wheat ......

Although the rain no longer rains continuously, it comes every once in a while, and it has continued until now, the winter wheat does not have enough sunlight, the ears are not pumped well, and after the heavy rain, many wheat are sick, and few can be harvested.

Most people's winter wheat is not harvested.

As a result, because the price of grain that had not been paid attention to for a long time rose sharply, Di Bao reported the next day that Yuan Li had arrested three families in Ji County who maliciously raised grain prices, and not only copied all the property of the three families, but also killed the first person on the spot, and the rest of the men of the three families were all conscripted for military service.

Of course, Di Bao will report this matter because someone impeached Yuan Li for abusing lynching and bypassing the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to judge the case.

Zhao Hanzhang handed over the impeachment letter to Zhao Yunxin and directly published it in the newspaper.

In order to illustrate Yuan Li's evil, the imperial history counted his mistakes, but the details of Yuan Li's raid of the three families were described in an immersive way, and the punishment he used, the misery of the three tortured people, and the innocence of the implicated people were also written in detail, so as to arouse Zhao Hanzhang's pity.

It really aroused Zhao Hanzhang's pity, so she handed over the article to Di Bao for publication, and then demoted him from the chief official of the Prosecutor's Department to the adjutant, and punished him to inspect the counties and counties, inquire about the hoarding of illegal businessmen in various places, and make meritorious contributions to the crime.

Then he ordered the county government of Ji County to redistribute the Koufentian and Yongye fields to the three families whose property had been confiscated, and to halve the sentences of their male soldiers for military service.

As soon as the article was published, the common people were not afraid of Yuan Li, but instead complained for him, and discussed one after another: "Such a profiteer who makes a fortune in the country should be killed, General Yuan did not do anything wrong, why did this imperial history impeach General Yuan?" ”

"It's still the general's soft-heartedness, and he even gave them the land, if you want me to say that the whole family should be in the army."

"God-damn profiteer, the price of this grain has risen to thirty-eight wen a bucket, and the family can't afford to eat food."

"You can buy it from the whole village, one stone at a time, so it's cheaper."

"I asked the price, but it wasn't much cheaper, and it was three hundred and seventy-five wen to buy one stone."

"I see this momentum, food prices have to rise."

To the surprise of the people of Luoyang, the price of grain not only did not rise the next day, but also decreased by a penny.

And as the newspaper spread out layer by layer, local grain prices also fell.

The common people were overjoyed that the price of grain had risen to an end and was about to fall, but only the officials of the court and some scholars saw it, and this was because some people were afraid.

The impeachment letter published by Zhao Hanzhang is ostensibly reprimanding Yuan Li, but in fact it is threatening those who hoard Juqi and raise food prices.

The price of grain in Luoyang briefly paused for two days on the thirty-four, and then began to rise quietly to thirty-five.

The people sighed, glanced at the meager copper plate at home, resisted the urge to buy grain, and began to lead their families to pick wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain on the edge of the field.

As soon as a large number of people picking wild vegetables and leaves appeared outside the city, Zhao Hanzhang immediately knew about it, she called Tinghe and Chengbo, and said: "Inform all places that the grain we have accumulated can be sold out, the price is limited, a bucket of grain is twenty-two Wen, and one person can only buy one bucket at a time." ”

Listen to the lotus and Cheng Bo.

Tinghe mainly stayed in Luoyang, and Cheng Bo went to the surrounding counties to inspect, of course, the news was not sent by people, but by a telegram, and Cheng Bo went out after the news.

After instructing to listen to the lotus, Zhao Hanzhang found Ji Yuan and Chang Ning and other ministers, and said, "The disaster relief grain of the imperial court can be distributed." ”

Chang Ning, who had already proposed to distribute relief food, breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to arrange it.

They have already been prepared, the charter has been set a long time ago, and the manpower is ready-made, Taixue and students from various schools.

Disaster relief grain does not need to be shipped in cash, when it was purchased before, Chang Ning calculated it and put it into storage on the spot, and the household department sent people to count it and send soldiers to guard it.

At this time, they only need to send a telegram, and Ming Pre, Zu Ti, Zhao Shen, and others who are in the disaster area with the radio can send a telegram to hand over to the grain depot and organize local disaster relief.

Overnight, scattered disaster relief officials were provided with the location of the grain depot and the amount of food, as well as a detailed disaster plan.

Xun Fan is sad about the difficulties of people's livelihood, "After a disaster, another disaster came, only last year was a little smoother, why is it so difficult for the people to survive?" ”

Yu Hong, who was sitting with him, sighed and was about to speak, when a small official rushed over with a piece of paper, "County guard, just now General Zu sent a letter from the camp, saying that the disaster relief food has arrived, let us go tomorrow to receive it and prepare for disaster relief." ”

Yu Hong and Xun Fan were in high spirits, and immediately took the paper to look at it, and saw that the grain depot was in the county government, and couldn't help but be surprised, "I know that this warehouse is requisitioned by the garrison, but I don't know that it is used to store grain." ”

After speaking, he frowned, "Since the imperial court has grain stored here, why didn't it send relief grain earlier?" ”

Xun Fan thought quickly, "At this time, the grain has just been sown for ten days, and it is only a small seedling, if you want to harvest, it will take at least three months, if you give relief grain early, what will you do in the next three months?" ”

"Yuan Li killed chickens and monkeys, and copied three families and failed to stop the rise in grain prices, if the imperial court finished sending the grain in hand early, wouldn't it be necessary to watch the grain merchants do whatever they wanted in the next three months?" Xun Fan pinched the paper and said: "The general endured the infamy, in order to let more people live." ”

Before, the price of grain soared, but the people did not reach the time when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, because the treasury was empty, and there were rumors that the imperial court did not provide relief grain, and no people dared to eat more and store grain, even when the farm was busy, it was only maintained in a state of not starving to death.

This allowed them to spend March and April in one go, and then after the mango planting, it was close to the summer solstice, and the winter wheat in the field was harvested.

Those who were lightly affected by the disaster had their own food at home, and those who were severely affected also showed that they were picking wild vegetables and leaves outside, and they knew who to send food to if they wanted to provide disaster relief.

Yu Hong sighed: "She really calculated every step and everyone." ”

Xun Fan said softly: "There are many people who have this wisdom, but there are few people who have this wisdom and are in a high position, and can endure the admonition and abuse of the courtiers. ”

It has been raining since mid-March, and it has been raining intermittently for three months.

In the past three months, official documents asking the imperial court for disaster relief, letters from officials from various places asking for disaster relief food, and impeachment scolding Zhao Hanzhang for acting recklessly and using the disaster to eliminate dissidents have been piled up on her desk.

But as if she couldn't feel the anxiety and anger of the courtiers, she handled government affairs as usual, and then forced them to go out to relieve the flood and provide disaster relief, sending people around to arrest the wealthy grain merchants, fine, and even confiscate them......

In the eyes of the courtiers, in three months, she obviously fined so much money and grain, copied so much money, and every time she asked for food for disaster relief, she was empty in the treasury.

This inevitably makes people suspect that she embezzled the money, and was just stingy and guarding, and was unwilling to give disaster relief money.

If Ji Yuan and Chang Ning hadn't known her intentions, they would have been so suspicious.

After all, her grandfather is Zhao Changyu, and she has the blood of being stingy and stingy.

The imperial court began to provide disaster relief on a large scale, and the people who could not receive the relief food were dissatisfied and worried, so a new grain shop was opened on the street, and as soon as the door was opened, it was 22 wen and one bucket, and each person was limited to one bucket.

They immediately couldn't care about being sad, and immediately ran home to get the money, and brought the whole family with them, and one of them took a cloth bag and pretended not to know it to buy it.

After one person finished buying, he turned around and lined up at the back of the line, wanting to buy it again, but the guy who collected the money had a very powerful eye, and as soon as he saw the person, he said: "Why are you here again, this is the second time, and there are so many people in your family, one person and one bucket, this is all bought seven or eight buckets, right?" That's enough for your family for a month. ”

"Nonsense, I'm alone in my family."

"Don't think that I can't see if you don't talk to each other, you and those two little ladies look like they came out of a mold, dare to say that they are not mother and daughter?" The man persuaded: "Let's go, let's go, don't worry, I have a lot of food in stock, and I'll buy it tomorrow." ”

"You really have so much food in stock, why do you want to limit your purchase?"

"The purchase restriction is for your own good, otherwise a grain merchant will come and buy it all in one go, and then sell it to you at a higher price, will you cry or not?" The guy said, "Do you know who our owner is?" ”

The people lining up to buy food shook their heads together.

The man said proudly: "Our owner is the mother of the general!" Madame took pity on the people, so she spent all her family property to buy grain, and sold it to you at a low price, rest assured, the grain in our granary is piled up to the roof, enough for the people of your county to eat for half a year. ”

"Really?"

"The general's mother's business, can that be fake?" If it weren't for Cheng Bo who said that he couldn't hang the girl's name, he would have pulled out the girl's banner a long time ago.

Two chapters together into one chapter, see you tomorrow