It's already night, and Huang Qiong is also nervous when she receives the summons, could it be that something happened again?

Hurried to the Zhongde Palace, but Liu Zhi had not yet arrived, Huang Qiong waited for a while, only to see the royal car coming unhurriedly.

Liu Zhi walked out of the car with his eyebrows stretched, and the stone in Huang Qiong's heart fell, it seems that it should be a good thing.

The two walked into the study, and Huang Qiong bowed down to say goodbye, "I don't know what is important for Your Majesty to summon the old minister overnight?" ”

"Captain, let's take a look at this first."

Liu Zhi didn't explain either, and handed him Yang Jian's secret report.

After only two lines, Huang Qiong congratulated Liu Zhi, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Qingzhou is a great victory, and the thieves will die soon." ”

After he finished reading it in one go, Liu Zhi asked, "Qingzhou and Yanzhou and other places, after the rebellion, there is a mess, and the disaster relief and reconstruction is imminent, what is the best plan for Taiwei?" ”

This is a very serious problem, and if it is not properly solved as soon as possible, it is difficult to say whether the follow-up thieves will resurge.

After getting along with the monarch and the minister for so long, Huang Qiong naturally knew that the conventional disaster relief and resettlement methods would definitely not satisfy Liu Zhi, and some constructive methods must be proposed.

After thinking for a moment, Huang Qiong replied cautiously.

"In the opinion of the ministers, it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the local government first, but anyone who has secretly communicated with thieves must be uprooted and severely punished.

Otherwise, all disaster relief matters will be useless. ”

Liu Zhi nodded with satisfaction, Huang Qiong's thoughts coincided with him.

"What the Taiwei said is that an emergency court meeting will be held tomorrow to discuss this matter and see how to deal with it."

In fact, he wants to take this opportunity to solve those corrupt officials and corrupt officials together, what are the poor afraid of, what are they most afraid of is that these moths of the country will be hollowed out from the roots.

The official structure of the Han Dynasty is too large and bloated, and there are too many idlers, which causes many problems, corruption, and government decrees.

It's time to take things one step at a time.

This Zhao Jie rebellion was actually a good thing for him, and he originally planned to spend several years grasping the military power in his hands little by little.

As a result, a rebellion directly accelerated the process, and now all the military power of the Jingshi has been controlled by him, so many of the previous reform plans can be implemented.

"Your Majesty, the capital has been in order recently, should we issue an edict to restart the big exam?"

The first big exam of the Han Empire was ill-fated, and he survived many difficulties before, but when it was time to go to Beijing to catch the exam, he encountered the rebellion of the Beijing Division, which was postponed again and again.

Fortunately, Taiwei Huang Qiong has been persevering in following up, and the ranking of the state test has already been released, except for a few counties with serious banditry, the rest are quite normal.

The original date of the big exam was mid-October, and now the edict should be too late, but the big deal is to push it back to the end of October, and the worst is to start the exam at the beginning of winter.

Anyway, you can't give up halfway.

"There is no need to discuss this matter, I will issue an edict early tomorrow morning to temporarily postpone the examination date to the end of October, and ask all states and counties to assist candidates to go to Beijing as soon as possible."

This is due to the fact that some poor students have no money to take the bus, and the time is urgent, and when they come to the capital on foot, they don't know what year and month it will be.

It is better to make unified arrangements by the imperial court, so as to ensure that it will be held as scheduled.

Seeing that His Majesty's determination is so great, Huang Qiong is also in high spirits, "Your Majesty's courage is extraordinary, and the ministers are also pleased with the students of the world." ”

"This matter is so decided, but Shangshutai Cangcao's side, I still hope that the Taiwei will help in many ways to raise disaster relief food as soon as possible."

Reciprocated the favor, Huang Qiong naturally agreed, although Cangcao was drawn out of the Taiwei Mansion, there were still many connections with that side.

On weekdays, the relationship between Taiweifu and Shangshutai is very delicate, and both sides are a little unaccustomed to each other, and they are embarrassed by each other, which has almost become a habit.

However, this time the matter is big, since the emperor has spoken, Huang Qiong will also ask his subordinates to cooperate as much as possible, and will never allow those who have no vision to come.

After all, when the two sides have the same interests, they will also abandon their prejudices and work together.

The two chatted about some details again, and Liu Zhi arranged for someone to send him back to the Taiwei Mansion.

In the Zhongde Palace, Liu Zhi was not sleepy, the imperial power was initially decided, he should think about how to improve productivity and solve the food problem as soon as possible.

Other structural reforms cannot be accomplished overnight, but can only be carried out step by step.

In order to increase productivity, it is necessary to improve production tools, promote scientific and advanced farming concepts, and optimize the selection and improvement of varieties.

Previously, he had drawn the drawings of the Quyuan plough from memory, and asked Shaofu to build more than a dozen of them, and handed them over to the royal manor on the outskirts of Beijing for trial.

After all, he has not used it personally, and his memory of some details is vague, and only in use can he find defects and constantly improve them.

Before the rebellion, he had written down many recallable cultivation methods.

For example, seed selection, deep ploughing, manure, intercropping, crop rotation, grafting, pollination and other methods that modern people are very familiar with.

In fact, he has never farmed, so it is impossible to understand the detailed method, but to provide a concept for them to practice and study according to this framework.

Of course, the first round of experimental plots was selected at their royal estate, and this year's autumn crops are all planted according to the new method.

However, in Liu Zhi's cognition, even if the planting method is mature and fully promoted to the whole country, it is impossible to truly solve the current situation of food shortage.

After all, many modern high-yield crops, such as corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., are native to South America, and were only introduced to China from Europe in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

These crops are commonplace in modern times, with high yields and can be used as staple foods to fill the stomach, especially sweet potatoes, which can still obtain high yields in the barren mountainous terrain.

In his previous life, he often heard the older generation say when he was a child that during natural disasters, he relied on sweet potatoes to save countless lives.

In addition, pumpkins, peanuts, sunflowers, tomatoes, green beans, etc., which are common to modern people, have also been transmitted in later generations.

Without these things, it is almost impossible to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Sending people across the ocean to South America in search of seeds, with the current seafaring technology, is simply a fantasy.

Alas, it's hard!

Fortunately, Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions brought in many foreign varieties, such as walnuts, broad beans, sesame seeds, grapes, pomegranates, coriander, carrots, cucumbers, garlic, etc., all of which were introduced during this period.

Among them, the only variety that can be used as an auxiliary food is broad bean, which has not been taken seriously so far, and it seems that it should be popularized as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, there is another species that should have been introduced along the Silk Road, and that is cotton.

However, there was a difference between cotton at that time and the current variety, and it should have originated in ancient India, although cotton had nothing to do with filling the stomach, but it was the most important textile raw material in later generations.

It's just that, why has he not seen the shadow of cotton so far, and has not found any trace of cotton cloth?