"Your Majesty, in the morning, Lantian County sent someone to report that it snowed heavily last night, and hundreds of houses in several Zhuangzi in the eastern suburbs of Lantian County were collapsed by heavy snow, and more than a dozen people were killed and injured.

In addition, the Jingyang County Commander also sent people to report that hundreds of people in the county had been left homeless, but there were no casualties, as well as Weinan, Sanyuan, and Liquan...... There are also different areas of damage......"

Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and quietly listened to the imperial prime minister Fang Xuanling report a long list of disaster-stricken place names and numbers, most of which came from Zhou County, Chang'an.

The ministers in the Taiji Palace, every time they heard Fang Xuanling report an additional place name, the melancholy on their faces became a little more.

These are all suburban counties of Chang'an, and they can brave the heavy snow to send people to Chang'an.

What about the farther away, is the scope of the disaster wider, and the number of dead and wounded is higher?

The heavy snow not only closed the road, but also sealed the source of the Tang monarchs.

After Fang Xuanling finished the disaster and returned to the court officials, Li Shimin asked lightly.

"Everyone, let's talk about it, what to do, how to deal with this disaster?"

The ministers listened to Li Shimin's question, and discussed countermeasures with each other, and suddenly a noisy sound sounded in the hall.

Looking at the ministers in the main hall talking to each other, listening to their buzzing conversation like flies, Li Shimin frowned slightly.

"Silence."

Wang De, the great eunuch standing on the side, roared, and the hall instantly fell silent.

Seeing that no one could come up with any effective plan, the other imperial prime minister, Changsun Wuji, shook his head, then took a step to the center of the hall and said to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that the most important thing at the moment is to open up the road from Chang'an to various places and restore the news channel of Chang'an.

Otherwise, the Manchu ministers will be blind to the disasters in various places, and it will be difficult to come up with an effective and feasible countermeasure. ”

After the eldest grandson Wuji finished speaking, he heard several voices reply in unison: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

Li Shimin looked at his eldest brother Sun Wuji, who was standing in the middle of the main hall, and also felt that what he said made sense.

But now the question is, how can we open the road before the snow knows how long it will fall?

It's not impossible to use people to open the road, but if the snow keeps going, the road cleared in the last second will be covered by heavy snow in the next second, and it is useless.

Li Shimin thought for a while, and asked the eldest grandson Wuji: "How to open the road?" ”

Since the eldest grandson Wuji came out to speak, he had already made a draft in his heart, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, now that the wind and snow are non-stop, it is naturally an impossible thing to clean up the official road.

However, the minister listened to the guards on the way to the court, and the Wei River outside the city had frozen.

Most of my Datang cities are gathered on both sides of the river, and maybe I can make a fuss on the river.

If the ice on the river is strong enough, there is no way to transport supplies on a large scale, but it should be feasible to use it as a road to carry the message.

What does Your Majesty think? ”

After the eldest grandson Wuji finished playing, Li Shimin pondered.

This method should be feasible, as the eldest grandson Wuji said, the slightly larger cities of the Tang Dynasty are basically gathered on the riverside.

And as long as it is a river in the north, it will eventually converge into the big river.

If all these rivers were frozen, and the rivers were frozen strong enough, they could indeed form a huge network of roads.

It is extremely difficult to walk on ice, but no matter how bad it is, at least it can restore the news channels in various parts of Datang, so that the monarchs and ministers of Chang'an will not get nothing here.

And the eldest grandson Wuji saw that Li Shimin did not speak for a long time, so he retreated into the ranks of civil officials.

He is the prime minister of the empire, and he is only responsible for making ideas, but whether he adopts it or not is Li Shimin's business.

Besides, there is probably no better way than this way now.

Li Shimin woke up from his contemplation and asked the other ministers, "What about the others, there is nothing to say?" ”

Hearing Li Shimin's question again, the civil and military ministers below glanced at each other, but no one spoke.

Fang Xuanling stood at the head of the civil officials, silent on Li Shimin's question, and seemed to be thinking about the feasibility of the eldest grandson Wuji's words.

Seeing that no one was talking, Li Shimin set his eyes on Fang Xuanling. "Xuan Ling, what do you think?"

Hearing Li Shimin call his name, Fang Xuanling took a step forward and replied: "The old minister thinks that he still has to send someone to see if the river is frozen first, if so, it is naturally the best, no, I should think of other countermeasures." ”

Fang Xuanling's words are actually to express his agreement with the words of the eldest grandson Wuji.

Because he has always been outstanding for his good intentions, there is no better way at this time.

Seeing Fang Xuanling's statement, Li Shimin nodded: "In this way, I will follow what the auxiliary machine said." ”

After Fang Xuanling retreated, Li Shimin instructed Wang De: "Send a team of flying cavalry soldiers to see the current situation of the Weihe River, and then report back quickly." ”

Wang De nodded yes and took the order.

Just when Li Shimin and the civil and military ministers in the court were waiting for the soldiers to report the specific situation of the river freezing.

Zhang Zheng, who was far away in Fenglingdu, Puzhou, also started the idea of the Wei River.

However, Zhang Zheng's side is much more difficult, because what the Tang monarchs and ministers want is to use the river to transmit news.

Zhang Zheng still had to find a way to bring the more than 1,000 people under his command, nearly 1,500 war horses, and forty or fifty carriages back to Chang'an from the Weihe River.

The river is frozen, and there is no problem for people to walk, it is nothing more than a few more falls, and the difficulty is the weight of the horses and vehicles in the team.

The horses' hooves were not stable on the ice, and the wagons could not move on the ice.

Not far from Fenglingdu, Zhang Zheng summoned Li Chengqian, Duan Heng, Chen Yu, Liu San, Chang Yan, Li Wucun, Qiu Shisan and other key members of the team to eat hot pot in their tents.

Li Wucun and Qiu Shisan, who were waiting for the largest amount of food, put down their chopsticks, and Zhang Zheng's eyes scanned everyone and said.

"The freeze of the river is strong enough for people to walk, but we can't throw away the horses and baggage, so let's talk about it, what can be done."

"Is it feasible to wrap the horse's hooves in sackcloth?"

Chen Yu was the first to speak, and proposed a method that he thought was feasible.

"Tried, no."

It was a common saying that answered Chen Yu, and he had already asked the sergeant to try Chen Yu's method in the early morning.

The result was not very good, the war horse not only walked unsteadily, but also broke a leg, and the horse meat that several people ate in hot pot today came from the war horse that fell to death.

"I have a way to transport the supplies and baggage, but I have no way of running out of carriages."

At this moment, Li Wucun said leisurely that he had a way, which immediately attracted the attention of others in the big tent.

Li Chengqian was the first to ask, "What way?" ”