Since the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, there have always been serious military disasters, and there are often people who rebel, or some border people who do not obey discipline and gather people to make trouble.

After being beaten by Zhu Yuanzhang, he will stop for a while.

Then, there will be a rebellion.

However, the natural disasters of the Ming Dynasty were much more serious than the military disasters.

Basically, floods, droughts, hailstorms, winds, earthquakes, locust plagues, plagues, ...... Each of these disasters will kill and injure tens of thousands of people.

In Daming, it almost happens every year, and some even come together often.

As for Peiping Province, disasters are frequent.

The old people of Peiping Mansion have a deep understanding.

Nowadays, these village elders and elders in Beiping Mansion have experienced famine after famine, and the people are struggling to make a living, and they are starving everywhere.

It is precisely because of the experience that they are worried.

Although there is food at home, they do not panic.

But droughts are often followed by hailstorms and plagues, which can kill people!

O iniquity!

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Of course, for these disasters, Zhu Di, Guo An and others, although they said it very easily, deep down, they still attached great importance to it.

After all, after a disaster, Beiping Mansion finally prospered, and it was going to be a big loss of vitality.

And their Yanwang Mansion will also suffer heavy losses.

Zhu Di said with a gloomy face: "Guo Qing, if there is really a big drought, is there a good solution?" ”

A trace of helplessness flashed in Guo An's eyes, "Your Highness, the great drought is a natural disaster, and my Yanwang Mansion can't carry out artificial rainfall yet."

In this way, you can only minimize some losses! ”

Zhu Di hurriedly asked, "How to reduce?" ”

Guo An replied: "Your Highness, I can only order the caravan under the Yan Wangfu, as well as Shen Zhuang and them, to buy more grain from the south and come to Beiping Mansion to store it."

If there is a real drought in Beiping Province and there is a shortage of food, the price of grain in Beiping Province will not rise......

In addition, my Yanwang Mansion needs to organize the people of all prefectures and counties to dig ditches again, and try to water all the acres of fields in all prefectures and counties that pass through my Beiping Mansion, so as not to let the grain in those prefectures and counties dry up. ”

"However, the amount of watering also needs to be strictly controlled to prevent the water level of the canal from dropping so badly that the canal cannot be navigated!"

"Your Royal Highness, now that I want to build a social science for those people in Yanwangfu, we must also speed up the construction, the more disasters occur, the more we need to give the people of Beiping Mansion a lucrative job...... In this way, they will not panic when they have money in their hands! ”

These are ordinary disaster prevention policies.

However, this will be placed in Peiping Province, which is the most common.

"Yes!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Just do what Guo Qing said!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhu Fu and Guo An both nodded slightly.

"Guo Qing, I don't know what the artificial rain you just talked about? But what about setting up an altar and asking for rain? ”

Suddenly, Zhu Di remembered something and asked with curiosity on his face.

Guo An arched his hand slightly and explained: "Your Highness is wise, artificial rain and asking for rain roughly mean the same thing!"

However, praying for rain is an act of asking for rain from heaven when people are helpless in the face of drought since ancient times.

And artificial rainfall is people use tools to make it rain in the sky! ”

"The rain is the work of God, and people can still use tools to make it rain from God?"

Hearing Guo An's words, Zhu Di and Zhu Fu were suddenly surprised.

Guo An smiled lightly, looked at Zhu Di, and asked, "Your Highness, do you think there is a god of thunder and lightning in this world?" ”

"This ......"

Zhu Di was slightly stunned, "People often say that there are gods in the world, but these things are just nonsense." ”

"Your Highness is wise!"

Guo An nodded slightly and continued: "According to Wei Chen's observations, there are no immortals in the world.

And rainfall is only the operation of all things in heaven and earth.

For example, the clouds in the sky are actually when the sun is drying, and the water on the earth is dried into tiny droplets, which gather in the sky to form clouds.

Then, the clouds gathered more and more, and they gathered to a certain extent, and when the wind blew them, the little droplets of water rained down from the sky! ”

"Are the clouds in the sky changed from the waters of the earth?"

It was the first time Zhu Di heard this kind of rhetoric, which was more like a strange theory, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Exactly!"

Guo An nodded slowly, "It's just that those craftsmen under my Yanwang Mansion haven't studied these deeply, and they can't artificially rain down." ”

Zhu Fu looked incredulous, "According to Guo Changshi's meaning, in the future, the craftsmen of my Yanwang Mansion can rain out of thin air?" ”

"It's nature!"

Guo An replied seriously, "Wind, rain, thunder and lightning are natural phenomena, as long as you study the truth, you will definitely control it!" ”

"In this way, Guo Qing can really make my Yan Wangfu have the ability to control the wind, rain, thunder and lightning?"

Zhu Di believed Guo An's words a little, and he was a little eager to try.

"Your Highness, these sciences are not immortal arts!"

Guo An is colorful.

"Yes, it's science, science!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Guo Qing, I don't know when the craftsmen in the mansion will be able to control this science?" Not to mention anything else, as long as I control the artificial rainfall and the ability to control the wind, let my Beiping Mansion, and even the entire Daming, be free from droughts, floods, and wind disasters! ”

The corners of Guo An's mouth twitched slightly, and he said slowly: "Please also ask Your Highness to forgive me, and Weichen doesn't know when those craftsmen will be able to study these sciences thoroughly!" ”

Zhu Fu pursed his lips, he felt a little that Guo An was already a little stunned when he studied those craftsman's learning, how could he control the immortal magic method of wind, rain, thunder and lightning with manpower?

As for Zhu Di, he has great trust in Guo An, and he nodded with a straight face.

……

Half a month later.

In the whole of Beiping Mansion, there is still not a drop of rain, and it is getting drier and drier.

In the sky over Peiping Province, some shallow clouds sometimes drift over.

It's just that these clouds just flash in the sky over Beiping Mansion,

Peiping Province has already shown the appearance of drought.

The land is dry, and the leaves of the rice grain droop.

All the people of Pei Binh Province have also accepted the situation of this year's drought.

So, without the orders of King Yan's mansion, all the people directly began to dig ditches spontaneously again.

Water their respective paddy fields.

It's just that there are only a few rivers flowing through Beiping Province, and they are not big rivers with sufficient water.

In less than a few days.

The hydrology of those rivers has dropped a lot.

The hydrology of the lower canal has declined, and the riverbed is faintly visible, and large ships are not feasible.

Even, among some villages, there are large-scale group fights because of watering.

All of a sudden, the prefecture and county yamen of the entire Beiping Prefecture began to be busy.

In the end, Yu Rentian, the prefect of Beiping Prefecture, could only humble his face and came to Yanwang's Mansion to see Zhu Di and Guo An.

"In the past few days, there have been more than 20 villages in various prefectures and counties in Beiping Prefecture fighting for water?"

After listening to Yu Rentian's report, Zhu Di's eyes widened directly.

"Can a person die?"

Yu Rentian's eyelids trembled, and he hurriedly replied: "Returning to His Royal Highness, no one was killed!" ”

"That's fine!"

Zhu Di breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Rentian hurriedly said: "Your Highness, under the drought, these people will inevitably fight in order to keep the food in their fields.

Weichen is worried that if these people continue to fight, they will fight with real fire, and maybe they will really kill people!

At that point, it's hard to dissuade! ”

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, and then stared at Yu Rentian tightly and asked, "Why don't you hurry up and dissuade these parents and officials?" ”

Yu Rentian smiled helplessly and said: "Your Highness's forgiveness, it's not that Weichen and other state and county officials don't stop it, it's really that the food in those fields is the lifeblood of those people, and under this drought, only by watering those rivers can they barely survive."

Whoever does not let those people water the fields, even if they water less, will still affect the lifeblood of those people, and the people who are already red-eyed will not listen to persuasion at all! ”

"Even if the governors of various prefectures and counties went to dissuade them, those people put away their farming tools and went home.

However, on the second day, they got together again and started fighting! ”

Zhu Di had a calm face and asked: "Since there is no way to persuade you, why don't you go to the Command Department and the Political Envoy Department of Shangdu and send troops to inspect all the time, but come to find out why we are?" ”

Yu Rentian hurriedly sneered: "Back to His Royal Highness King Yan, Weichen is here to ask His Highness for help.

In the minds of the people of Beiping Mansion, His Royal Highness King Yan has the highest prestige.

Even if Weichen and the others stayed in those villages all the time, they couldn't stop those people from fighting for watering.

However, if His Royal Highness King Yan goes out, or Guo Changshi goes, those people will definitely not dare to disobey His Royal Highness and Guo Changshi! ”

"Do you want Guo Qing to dissuade those people?"

Zhu Di's brows furrowed.

"Your Highness is wise!"

Yu Rentian hurriedly looked at Zhu Di with an expectant face.

"Your Highness Mingjian, now in the entire Beiping Mansion, only His Highness and Guo Changshi can persuade those red-eyed people!"

"I don't know what Guo Qing means?"

Zhu Di asked Guo An on the side.

He is self-aware, although the Yu Rentian in front of him is good, but he is actually here for Guo An.

However, it is true that in Beiping Mansion, Guo An does not seem to have done much to be close to the people, but he has won the trust and closeness of those people.

Guo An sighed slightly, on this hot day, he really didn't want to run around.

However, Beiping Mansion finally developed, so that those gentry and village elders did not bully the people much.

Now, instead, they are starting to unite and bully people from other neighboring villages, and they have to fight in groups, which must be stopped.

Otherwise, the entire Beiping Mansion will be in chaos.

"Your Highness, Weichen is willing to go!"

"Very good!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Let's send another team of Yanshan guards to guard Guo Qing!" ”

"Thank you, His Royal Highness King Yan, thank you Guo Changshi!"

Yu Rentian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly got up, and bowed to Guo An with a happy face.

"Governor Yu doesn't need to be so polite!"

Guo An bowed slightly to Yu Rentian, and then said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, Weichen only needs a carriage and two guards, so there is no need to bother Yanshan Guard!" ”

Yu Rentian also hurriedly said: "Your Highness, rest assured, various states and counties will also send officials to protect Guo Changshi!" ”

Guo An said lightly: "This time it's just to dissuade the people, not to suppress it, and there is no need for any guard!" ”

Yu Rentian's face was stunned, and then his face was full of sneers and he stopped talking.

And Zhu Di didn't say much, just squinted his eyes and looked outside the hall, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, Yu Rentian finally noticed something, saluted Zhu Di with a respectful face, and slowly retired under Zhu Di's big hand waving at will.

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(End of chapter)