The roaring flood swept away everything, and I don't know how many fertile fields were submerged in it, and countless people were displaced.

Looking down from the sky, on the plain of Guanzhong, groups of people swarmed by.

People passed through the county in groups, and from time to time people fell to the ground, this scene is hard to believe that this is Guanzhong.

Among these fleeing people, there were also many small landlords who were once the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty, and they were ruthless, and when the land was swept away by the flood, everything that their ancestors had fought for for generations was instantly empty!

"Go to the county, there is grain in the treasury."

"Go to the county, where there are military supplies."

The voices of countless people sounded in the land of Guanzhong, losing everything, helpless and relying on the imperial court, only the county city has food, and it can't starve to death here.

The terrible thing about the flood than the great drought is that the great drought is a gradual process, and the imperial court can still roughly control the personnel and spread them out as much as possible, but the flood is a sudden disaster, and people will avoid the places where the flood passes.

The result is the current gathering.

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"Has the prime minister been here?"

It wasn't until the second day that Liu Yang recovered from fatigue and left the palace, and the eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to report the previous events.

Liu Yang was shocked, he didn't expect the prime minister to come in the heavy rain, and when he heard the news of the big water in Guanzhong, he only felt that his eyes were black for a while, which was what he had been worried about.

Liu Yang was originally very annoyed by the behavior of several eunuchs who did not report, but as several eunuchs expected, Long Qing said a few words, and the emperor passed the matter.

As for the prime minister's behavior, he also lightly exposed it, and treated it as if it had not happened.

The flood in Guanzhong caused a huge disaster and dealt a major blow to the order of production and life in the Guanzhong Plain.

Such a huge disaster, for the imperial court living in Guanzhong, is even a crisis that may subvert the society.

And this is not the first time that Guanzhong has been affected by disasters, and people's hearts are already very impetuous.

If disaster relief is not timely, it will soon turn into chaos!

Then it was not the people who ate the grain, but the soldiers who ate the grain and then killed people.

An edict was soon sent from the palace, and the emperor made his attitude clear, responding positively to the court's standard approach to natural disasters for the first time.

"I have heard that in ancient times, when the monarch was virtuous and virtuous, and the courtiers were loyal and talented, the world would be stable, the yin and yang would be in harmony, the wind and rain would always be smooth, and the sun and the moon would appear in the right place.

When there is evil in the country, there will be calamity.

I have heard that the heavens are not willing to destroy the dynasty that has come from the Heavens, so they will send demons down to warn the king and ministers.

This is what King Su said: 'The country is about to perish, and there will be demons.' ’

This is for the king's ministers to reflect respectfully.

Now that there is a flood in Guanzhong, isn't this a warning from heaven to send down demons?

All the ministers must not slack off, and must find out the cause of the disaster.

When Lingyou was in the first year, there was a heavy snowfall in Liaodong, there was an earthquake in Guanzhong, and even the ancestors' mausoleums were leaking, which made me tremble, in the second year of Lingyou, the big river in Guandong broke, and the harvest in Guanzhong was not good, and when Lingyou was in the third year, there was a locust plague in Yuzhou, and now there was a flood in Guanzhong.

This is the Mandate of Heaven of the Han Dynasty reminding me, and I am very worried.

Years of famine, the savings of the Xuancheng years are being consumed, and I heard that the people outside Chang'an have vegetables on their faces, how sad it is.

I hoped that there would be a good harvest in Guanzhong, so that the people in Guanzhong could solve their hunger, but the flood washed away the farmland and cut off the harvest of the people.

Ministers, is there anything you can do about it?

If there is, don't hide it, just tell me in person, and the monarchs and ministers can be honest with each other, so that they can cheer up the society of the Han Dynasty.

I am here to tell you that my servant, Long Qing, has proposed to me, 'I should send envoys to the various counties of Guanzhong.

Condolences to the people affected by the floods, to visit the elderly, widows and lonely people.

Open the treasury of the royal family, mountains, forests, lakes and rivers, let the people go freely to fish, hunt, pick fruits, etc., and give the fertile but vacant land to the poor to cultivate. ’

I thought that the opinion of the dragon servant was right, I was the father of the people, and it was the fault of the emperor that they could not live.

I need such a proposal, and you can do the same.

I also thought that all the counties affected by the disaster in Guanzhong should be exempted from taxes for these two years, so that they could know that the court had not forgotten them.

I have heard that the scholars have some misunderstandings about my close attendants, which is not conducive to harmony.

King Su said in "The Way of the King" that 'there is harmony between the ministers and the ministers, and everything in the world is not worried', and now my close servants and courtiers are not in harmony, isn't this a sad thing for the monarch's father?

It can't be like that in the future!

Just follow these and announce it, so that everyone in the world knows what I mean. ”

Liu Yang's meaning is obvious, the reason why there are so many disasters now is that there must be a demon born, there may be a problem with me, who is the emperor, and you ministers can't run either, they are all grasshoppers in the same boat.

Natural disasters are beyond our control, but it is possible to deal with the consequences of natural disasters, and if we can't do this, then we should get out.

The emperor's edict, on the one hand, was promulgated by the official government of the imperial court, and on the other hand, it was promulgated directly through embroidered clothes, and it was promulgated directly to the place where the displaced people gathered, and the effect achieved was still very good.

At least it immediately calmed the emotions of many displaced people, and diverted the attention of the people from the royal family.

Recruiting the poor into the land of the royal family to cultivate, this is actually a bit similar to the orphans of Yulin, and there is a so-called imperial village in later generations, which is actually a relationship of personal dependence.

The identity of these people changed from the common people of the Han Dynasty to the emperor's private tenant farmers, and they could go directly to the emperor's inner treasury without going through the imperial court taxes.

Even if we don't talk about the political benefits of the close relationship with the royal family, the difference in taxes alone is exciting, because there are no middlemen such as officials to exploit them, even if the tax is several times heavier, the final result is still that the imperial village pays light taxes, and there is no casual showdown.

This is the reason why many people would rather become tenants of wealthy families and become "non-existent people" than make up households and become commoners of the imperial court.

The problem of the prestige of the royal family was solved, but there was a problem with the court's handling of the flood, because the court was actually losing its ability to deal with the flood after successive natural disasters.

As stated in the emperor's edict, the continuous natural disasters made the faces of the people look discolored, and in fact it was precisely because of the lack of food in the imperial court.

The treasury of the imperial court always had to leave a part of the reserve grain, especially the military quartermaster warehouse.

In case there is a rebellion in the Kanto region, and the barbarians on all sides invade, and as a result, the imperial court has no food to prepare for the expedition, then it really should die.

Natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years, and the days of Siyi are also not good, especially after the heavy snow in Liaodong, those Donghu tribes who once surrendered to the Han Dynasty have fought fiercely with the Han from time to time.

They have the idea of grabbing things if they can, and consuming the population if they can't grab things, which can be described as fearless of death, which makes Hanting's side quite miserable.

On the one hand, it is the life of the people, and on the other hand, it is the life of the court, there is no right or wrong, then the only thing that can be done is the fierce fire!

The imperial court selected the good family sons in those counties, especially the good family sons who were originally born in the army and had participated in the conscription, and then severely cracked down on the remaining non-imperial united front objects, such as ruffians and other objects that were regarded as hidden dangers by the imperial court.

The land of Guanzhong, which had just experienced a flood, soon ushered in a wave of blood, and the army sent by the imperial court did not hesitate to suppress it, and the resistance of the people was very fierce, but after all, it was too weak, and it was quickly defeated by the armored court soldiers.

After the formed outcasts were broken up, they soon gathered and roared among the mountains and forests in Guanzhong, and became a long-standing profession - thieves!

Commonly known as bandits!

There are not many bandit organizations in Guanzhong, and in the land of Kanto, because of the previous natural disasters and the serious situation of Haoqiang's land annexation, there are too many thieves in the mountains.

There are hundreds of people, and even tens of thousands, some of whom do not produce and only make a living by plundering, while others cultivate on small plots of land in the mountains, as if they were an independent kingdom.

The Han court is very secretive about these people, because it will remind people that in the past, Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, also led a group of people who could not survive in exile in the mountains.

In the end, he led those ordinary people out of the mountains and raised troops and destroyed the Qin Dynasty!

Will it be the second Qin Dynasty now?

People of insight have seen the ills of the world, but they also believe that there is no chaos in the world at the end of the Qin Dynasty today, "When Emperor Liu Dan, there were millions of displaced people in the eastern part of the country, and the Han Dynasty was still not dead at that time. ”

This is the fluctuation of the human heart.

There were enthusiastic scholars who tried to solve this problem, and then soon returned to the land annexation, the contradiction between population and land.

The ancients were only limited by history, and there was no difference in wisdom at all, and the disadvantages of land annexation were very clear, and scholars of various schools began to clamor for solving the problem of land annexation.

There are even radical scholars who directly said: "The poor are not allowed to live, the omen of Qin's death, the tyranny of the emperor is done by one person, the land annexation, the world does it!"

The disaster of the emperor, filial piety can be prospered! Who can save the world's woes? ”

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Guanzhong is sluggish, the people are sharp, and they sigh: ""Poem" says: All the people have mourning and crawling to save them.

Why did Tianhan face each other with swords. ”

He sent an envoy to ask him, and the county minister's subordinate said: "The people are tyrannical, and the people are unbearable, so the sword soldiers are innovative."

Now Your Majesty is forgiving, and he has tried his best to do his best, but he still cannot live, which is the death of heaven, not the sin of the state. ”

On the silent, between the counties of Guanzhong, thieves swarmed, just like in Kanto. ——"Hanshu Mourning Emperor Benji"

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