After learning about Sheng Shiyu's plan to grow crops, the three little ones planted garlic sprouts and green onions and other green leafy vegetables in their own greenhouse instead.

When you grow up, you can sell it to your own shop, and you can exchange it for a lot of money.

While the three little guys are busy making money, they don't forget to continue to coquettish Li Qiao Taozhu, how can they be willing to leave such a cute, lively, smart and well-behaved baby?

If you want to go out for so long, you won't miss them, right?

Woooooooo

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were made to cry and laugh by their coquettishness anytime and anywhere, and Tao Zhu was shaken first.

He is indeed reluctant to see the three little guys, if he doesn't see them for four months or even half a year, then he has to worry about looking at Shengjing all day long.

Ahem, the three little guys are young anyway, even if they add luggage, they just occupy two cabins......

However, he didn't mention this to Li Qiao, so as not to embarrass Li Qiao.

This year's bike race will be held as usual.

Although Sheng Shiyu is overage, the rules are set by Li Qiao, and he sets the age of participation within thirteen years old according to Sheng Shiyu's daily performance.

As he thought, Sheng Shiyu won the first place again.

This time, the youngest grandson of the Yan family was able to participate, but he won second.

After a while, he became happy again, and jumped up to Li Qiao to ask when he would get his latest bike.

Because the news of Li Qiao's research on car tires with eucommia gum has been spread, he is looking forward to it.

At the beginning of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, there was a light snow in Shengjing, the snow was very small, and the sun disappeared after half a day.

Five days later, Sheng Hong received news of a sudden heavy snowfall in Yuanhe Province.

The snow was very heavy, it fell for two days and two nights, and the snow was already two or three meters thick, higher than the house, and it was a once-in-a-century blizzard.

At present, the entire province of Yuanhe Province is busy clearing snow to save itself, and some counties in Jibei Province, Hu'an Province, Beihu Province, and Xishan Province, which are adjacent to Yuanhe Province, have organized people to enter Yuanhe Province to help clear snow.

After Sheng Hong received the report, he was used to seeing the big scene, and his mood was heavy for several days.

Winter wheat has just been planted, and such a heavy snow will definitely freeze or crush the wheat seedlings that have not yet been drilled out of the ground or have just been drilled out of the ground.

The wheat of a province is white!

Not to mention the casualties caused by the collapse of houses.

In the entire Yuan River Province, Ha Sai Province was the richest, and the loss of silver money could be afforded.

However, the strength of the other provinces in the original river province was far inferior to that of the Hexi province, and the imperial court had to organize the disaster.

Alas.

Li Qiao Taozhu and others were also worried.

On the night of learning the news, everyone in the Li family, except for the children, had some insomnia.

Especially Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, in addition to worrying, they also have doubts.

Gao Zhiyuan didn't say that there was such a big snow in Yuanhe Province in the winter of the seventeenth year of Shengping!

The two of them lay on their sides facing each other in the quilt, their eyebrows were furrowed, and they were silent for a moment, Tao Zhu said with a little uncertainty: "Could it be that there was no snow at all in the previous life?" ”

"Definitely. If there was this snow, Gao Zhiyuan would have been thinking about it a long time ago, and he had always wanted to exchange natural disasters for credit. ”

Li Qiao's expression was solemn.

Gao Zhiyuan's booklet only mentioned that there was a snow in the nineteenth year of Shengping, when Gao Zhiyuan's mother and son were almost frozen to death, so they ran to Tao Zhu to borrow some food and cotton clothes, but Tao Zhu let the dog bite and ran away from the two.

And Gao Zhiyuan followed up and wrote about the great drought in the twentieth year of Shengping, since the two of them were not frozen to death and starved to death in the nineteenth year of Shengping, it means that the heavy snow in the nineteenth year of Shengping did not cause a snow disaster.

But where did this year's snowstorm come from?

Gao Zhiyuan didn't mention it, which shows that there was no such heavy snow in his previous life.

"Forget it, I don't want to, even if things in this life are different from the previous life, but it's nothing more than all kinds of natural disasters together, I don't believe God can play any new tricks."

Sighing lightly, Li Qiao stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Tao Zhu's wrinkled eyebrows: "Don't worry, the saint has already recruited a nearby doctor to help, and the medicine, cotton clothes, coal, etc. have also been delivered, we can only wait for news." ”

Tao Zhu pursed his lips when he heard this, and hummed softly.

Yes, now we can only wait for news from Yuanhe Province.

But......

He grabbed Li Qiao's hand in the center of his eyebrows: "This time we donated 100,000 taels of silver, although our family is thick, we can't afford to donate like this a few times a year." Why don't you make soap? ”

"Soap?"

Li Qiao was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a few seconds, and then hummed: "Okay." ”

According to what Gao Zhiyuan wrote, there will be a major drought in Pingcheng in the 20th year of Shengping, and the drought will be so dry that the crops will not be harvested, and the pottery and bamboo will come forward to give porridge.

In this life, the possibility of a major drought in Pingcheng is relatively small, but if it still happens, then he will have to continue to donate silver.

After all, it is his and Tao Zhu's hometown, and he can't donate too little.

I really have to move out of the soap to make money.

When Li Qiao was "doing experiments" step by step, on the other side, the latest news of the snow disaster in Yuanhe Province continued to come to Shengjing.

Although it snowed heavily throughout the province of Ha Sai, the center of the blizzard was Ha Sai Province, where the snow was half a meter thicker than elsewhere.

But fortunately, the people in the entire Hexi Mansion have seen a big scene, and everyone did not panic in the locust plague last time, and everyone still did not panic this time.

At that time, the snow was falling non-stop, and in order to prevent the snow from crushing the houses and causing casualties, people regularly went up to the roof to clear the snow.

Moreover, the people of Hexi Mansion are relatively wealthy, and many families like Sanliu Village have built blue brick and large tile houses, which are relatively strong.

Therefore, there were no casualties in Hexi Province.

The house is also solid.

But the crops in the fields must have been destroyed.

At present, the Tian Governor of Hexi Prefecture has sent the local garrison of Hexi Prefecture to clear the snow.

As for other places, it is worse than Hexi Province, although the people continue to go to the roof to clear the snow, but there are still many houses that have been crushed, and the number of dead and injured is not small.

Fortunately, the local officials kept in mind that Governor Shi was directly demoted from the governor of three provinces to the prefect of one province, and they arranged for men to clean the official roads for 12 hours a day when the heavy snow began, so as not to block the roads and cut off the connection with other places.

The official road was not sealed, and after the snow stopped, people were sent to go deep into the towns and villages to count the number of injured and arrange for doctors.

But there are too few doctors, so the treatment of the wounded is relatively slow.

The crushed houses are also counted, and compensation is made according to the household, and the specific amount of silver to be compensated depends on the silver on the books of the local government.

The distribution of seeds, including the distribution of seeds, must also be carried out according to the capacity of local finances.

These measures are quite effective and can reassure the people, although it is a once-in-a-century snowstorm, but the people's mood is quite stable.

Also, Li Qiao asked Zhuang Fengshou to buy cotton before, but he didn't think about where to use the cotton at that time, so he hoarded it first.

In the past three years, he has purchased a lot of cotton, and occasionally distributed it to the poor who have no clothes to spend the winter by Zhuang Fengshou, and most of the rest is still there.

He wrote a letter to Zhuang Fengshou, who had returned to Pingcheng, asking Zhuang Fengshou to donate all the cotton to other provinces in Yuanhe Province, and local officials would distribute it to the affected people.

……

In short, under the various measures of local officials actively relieving disasters + court appropriations + private fundraising, the heavy snow in Yuanhe Province did not cause public resentment, and the people still relied on the imperial court.

This result made Sheng Hong's mood feel better.

It's good that there is no chaos.

He was glad again, fortunately he forced out a lot of capable and practical officials, which saved him a lot of heart.

Otherwise, he would have tossed and turned.

Looking at the situation in the past few years, if Dasheng didn't have his strange policy, how many displaced people would there be?

When he came up with a strange question, his father was not very supportive of him, he felt that it was a bit of a child's play, and he forced the world to read too much.

Scholars are already super tired from reading the Four Books, Five Classics, Three History, and Three Biography on weekdays, and they have to bother to learn how to deal with disasters and judge cases, which is too exhausting.

But as it turned out, he was right about his bizarre policy.

Human potential is forced.

Many scholars in the world have met his requirements.

As long as the local parents and officials do not make mistakes in this kind of natural disaster that affects the people of a place, then the great prosperity of the country will be stable.

On weekdays, local officials just accept some bribes and create some unjust, false and wrongful cases, which will not cause big public resentment.

He's so wise.

After praising himself, he was saddened again in the face of a much empty treasury.

Within a year, first there was a typhoon in Zhehai Province, and now it is a heavy snow in Yuanhe Province, although he can raise donations, but fundraising accounts for a small head, and the big head is from the state treasury.

No matter how full the treasury is, it can't withstand such a toss.

I'm going to have to save some money.

After thinking about it for two days, Sheng Hong made a new decision: next year's southern tour, the fleet will not exceed 100 ships.

There are fewer nobles and officials accompanying them, fewer forbidden troops, and fewer miscellaneous servants, and even a lot of savings can be saved by carrying transport ships.

A little less here, a little less there, add it up, and that's a lot of food for him.

Moreover, in the past few years, natural disasters have continued, but he, the emperor, has gone to play with great fanfare, which may cause public anger.

He has to keep a low profile, just like Sheng Jun, with less manpower, and he is simple and obedient.

Sheng Hong's decision made Li Qiao cry and laugh.

He really didn't expect Sheng Hong to save money in this regard.

But since Sheng Hong did this, everyone had to obey obediently.

Seeing this, the second prince found Sheng Hong again and wanted to go south with him.

Sheng Hong's third question, the second prince won the Yuanhe Province.

But in order to show that he is really not interested in the throne, the second prince has been actively rotting, and this time the snow disaster in Yuanhe Province, the second prince only donated 10,000 taels of silver.

Now Sheng Hong has cut the number of ships in order to save money, and the second prince said that if he is allowed to accompany him, he can bear half of the cost of the ships.