Chapter 116: Natural and Man-made Disasters
Su Ying knew about the fire in the General's Mansion sixteen years ago, the relationship between Zuo Chengyi and Cheng Guogong, and the true identities of Shen Jinbao and Shen Mo.
Although Zuo Chengyi didn't tell her how he knew about these things, she believed what he said.
Because only by believing what he said can she explain her various doubts, including why Shen Jinbao suddenly committed suicide.
Of course, she also knew that the Shen family and his wife were rescued by Zuo Chengyi and secretly taken to the capital to hide.
As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
It is estimated that no one would have thought that the Shen family and his wife would actually go to the capital.
When all doubts were eliminated and the situation suddenly became clearer, Su Ying became more and more uneasy.
Zuo Chengyi, what are you going to do? Conspiracy?
If you don't rebel and live so carefully, you will be assassinated by the emperor.
If you rebel, you can still find a way to survive if it succeeds, but what if it fails? Will it implicate Shen Mu, or even the Nine Clans?
In a village, they are all related to each other, even if they don't have the same surname, when it comes to the nine clans, I'm afraid few people can escape.
Maybe it's because of this that Shen Jinbao would rather commit suicide than let people find out his true identity, right?
But Shen Mo's identity is here, since Zuo Chengyi knows it, she also knows it, who knows which day, everyone will know?
It seems that I can't do it if I don't think about it.
This year is the most worrying year since Su Ying's two lifetimes.
Unexpectedly, there are more worrying things waiting for her after the year.
After the year, the whole New Year and February were sunny, the weather was fine, warm as spring, and the seedlings in the crops also grew wildly in advance due to the warm weather.
Su Ying didn't know how to farm, and when she saw the seedlings growing faster than in previous years, she thought it was a sign of a bumper harvest.
But Zhang Laosi was worried, "The seedlings grow taller in advance, and if they are suddenly cold, they may reduce the yield due to frostbite." β
When things go wrong, there must be demons.
Even if it doesn't suddenly get cold, it's not good for the seedlings to grow like this.
Su Ying knew that Zhang Lao was a professional, but no matter how professional he was, he couldn't fight against God.
Even in the developed later generations where she lives, farming still depends on the sky, not to mention the backward present.
Afraid of what comes.
In March, when the weather should have been warm, a rare heavy snowfall fell at the same time for half a week, crushing the calf-high wheat seedlings.
The peasants are desperate to rescue them, but what awaits them is despair.
For a while, disasters broke out in various places, and excerpts from the imperial court for help were also sent to the capital in a steady stream.
Some places were hit by disasters last year, and this year's snowstorm, which has affected half a week, has caused even more misery among the local people, and rumors of people dying of hunger continue to spread.
It's just that the news was blocked by the imperial court and local officials, and later there were too many victims, and those who fled the famine even fled with their families in order to find a way to survive.
At this point, the imperial court can't stop the panic news even if it kills.
The Qi County Order has let people convey the news to every corner of Yunling County, and the villages and towns under its rule have also passed the news to the past, so that everyone can consciously organize daily patrols with the village as a unit, and once the displaced people are found, they must be handed over to the county government for disposal.
Not to mention in the county seat, all adult males have to go to the county government to enthrone the throne and make a register, and every day 200 people are drawn, and they are issued with clubs and weapons, and they take turns patrolling the county seat.
The more this happens, the more likely it is to riot.
Once the refugees and displaced people pour in, it will cause disaster for local law and order.
Qi County's move was just to try his best to prevent it.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters make people panic.
Su Ying had just received a silent letter, which said very vaguely, 'Everything is fine', and she knew that he should have found his father.
This letter of peace made her feel a lot more at ease.
It's just that the letter also said that after Shen Mo arranged everything in the capital, he would return to Yunling County alone, and asked her not to worry about it.
How could she not be concerned?
From the capital to Yunling County, all the way are badly affected places, what if there is a riot?
She wrote a letter to Shen Mo, asking him to stay in the capital for the time being, and it would not be too late to come back when the situation stabilized.
But when she went to the post station to send letters, she found that people no longer accepted letters from ordinary people, because it was impossible to send them to the capital if they did.
This is not the wartime of the Beacon Fire for March, it has already reached the point where the family letter is worth 10,000 dollars.
I'm afraid that if I send her a letter again, I will definitely not be able to send it.
And Shen Mo wrote this letter, seeing that it said that after seeing an 'acquaintance' during the Lantern Festival, he sent it to her non-stop.
By the end of March, two and a half months had passed, and the letter had only reached her, which showed how inefficient the delivery of the letter was.
Come on, she doesn't have to send letters.
Maybe they're already on their way back.
The supermarket, which had already been renovated, was delayed due to the sudden disaster.
If there is no food to eat, who has the heart to go to the supermarket to buy something?
Now almost everything is unsalable, and only grain is the most scarce.
Rich people began to stock up on grain, even if they had no money, they had to borrow some grain, even if one day the crops were really out of harvest, and they would not be able to buy grain if they had money.
Su Ying and many cooperative businesses also held an urgent conference.
At that time, when her business was starting, she used potatoes as a stepping stone to cooperate with these people.
Now, after more than a year, these merchants have already planted the potatoes they have received in their own fields, and they have reaped a bumper harvest.
I thought that in addition to taking out some of the seeds, the others would be like Su Ying and open a snack shop to make a lot of money.
Now it's good that the people have bought high-priced grain with all the money in their hands, so how can they have spare money to buy their potato snacks?
It's really better to count people than to be counted by heaven.
However, this is also the reason why Su Ying summoned them over for a meeting.
"Listen to me." She signaled everyone not to be restless, cleared her throat, and continued: "There have been several heavy snowfalls in March, and the reduction in grain production is already a good result, and I have more news here, and the grain harvest is ...... out."
The wheat planted in winter was almost completely wiped out, and after the season, there was no chance to replant.
There were no natural disasters in Yunling County last year, and now every household should still have some surplus grain, and the most difficult time has not yet come.
When there is no grain to harvest when the wheat should be harvested, it is the most difficult time.
"It's impossible to get farmers to replant wheat, but now is a good time to plant potatoes. You should have a lot of potatoes in your hands, since the potato snacks can't be made, it's better to use them all for seeding, plant them quickly, and harvest them before the corn is sown, so that you can also make up for the loss as much as possible. β
"Thisβ" The partners looked at each other, wondering if this would work.