The next morning, the snow finally stopped, but the weather was getting colder.

It's cold before frost, cold after snow, it's always been like this.

Today's situation is particularly bad, and generally speaking, if it clears after the snow, the weather tends to improve quickly, and it is not far from the snow melting. But if it is still cloudy after the snow, and the sky is full of dark clouds and low pressure It seems that there will be another snow at any time, then it will probably be cloudy and rainy, at least three or five days, don't expect to be able to warm up, and even drag on for ten days and half a month.

"Alas, this weather is really bad!" When Pan Long went downstairs, he heard a traveler sighing: "If the weather is cloudy and there are two more snowfalls, this year's wheat will be miserable!"

"Don't talk about wheat, no matter how it goes, even rice will become a problem. Another traveler sighed, "It's almost time to plant rice!"

Pan Long shook his head and sighed.

Among natural and man-made disasters, man-made disasters can often be avoided, but natural disasters are the most helpless. In a situation like this large-scale cold wave, even the Immortal Buddha is helpless.

Not to mention this world, even if it is a world where humans have built cities on Mars in the previous life, once the Siberian cold wave breaks out, except for those areas that have relied on integrated agricultural buildings to complete the supply of food and vegetables, most of the places that still maintain field cultivation will inevitably reduce food production.

Of course, the world's global economic integration, big data networks monitor production and consumption in various places at any time, with constantly updated mathematical models and efficient logistics networks, no matter how natural disasters are, they can't cut off the supply of people's daily life - I remember one year of drought, Pan Long ate pork sent from the moon. Pigs in microgravity grow very quickly, but the meat is a little loose and can't withstand stewing......

In fact, the logistics capacity of the Kyushu world is not necessarily lost to the previous life. It's a pity that the world's strong and "high-tech" are often used to compete fiercely and rarely fall into civilian use.

Even for the imperial court disaster relief, in addition to the legend that 3,000 sets of storage equipment were used to transport Kyushu grain and grass to relieve the disaster area in the era of Emperor Jiazi, only the most important medicines and the like could use these efficient logistics.

In fact, as long as the supply is sufficient, even Pan Long alone can rely on his own transportation capacity to maintain the food needed for the lives of at least 100,000 people - ordinary people, one person can cook porridge with one pound of rice a day, so as not to starve to death. If there is a three-pound, there is no problem in working in the fields. And among the 100,000 people, not all of them are young and strong, and it should be enough to transport 200,000 catties of rice grain a day.

With this level of transportation capacity, I don't know how troublesome it would be if it were to be transported by truck. But if you use imitation Shanhaijing to transport, you can transport a month's or two portions at a time.

And the speed of transportation is not a problem, Kyushu once had a predecessor of the great master wrote a poem "30,000 miles a day, the morning and the sun". It means that he can walk 30,000 miles in a day, and in the morning at sunrise he begins to walk eastward, and returns in a circle around the vast land, and the sun has not yet set.

Is this bragging? Pan Long is not sure. But at least in his own words, of course 30,000 li a day can't work, but more than 10,000 miles a day can still do—nothing more than twelve hours, about 850 miles per hour.

This speed is honestly not a lot, but if the length and time unit of this world can be converted to another world, then this is about 442 kilometers per hour - that is, about 122 meters per second.

It is almost impossible for an arrow fired by an ordinary strongbow to reach such a speed. The bolts fired by a strong crossbow are capable of maintaining such high speed for a short period of time, but they will also slow down due to air resistance.

To put it simply...... If it lasted day and night, Pan Long could be as fast as a bolt that had just been shot from a powerful crossbow. This speed doesn't cause much pressure on him.

And if he really has to fight for his life...... He hasn't tried it yet, but Teacher Bi Lingkong once said that among the real grandmasters, there are many people who can be faster than their voices.

...... But without food, what is the use of a "transport plane" no matter how fast?

How much grain did the Imperial Court still have to prepare for disasters? If there really was a poor harvest or even a famine that swept through half of Great Xia, would the Imperial Court be able to come up with enough food to provide disaster relief?

Pan Long had no confidence at all.

As far as he has seen and heard in the rivers and lakes over the years, there is actually no inventory in the granaries of the Great Xia Imperial Court. More than one granary was simply empty, the kind that even rats could starve to death.

If there really is any natural or man-made disaster, there will really not be many places where you can open a warehouse and put grain at that time.

Of course, most of the places he has traveled over the years are also not very prosperous areas. In particular, the various parts of Yunzhou were not large grain-producing provinces in the first place, and even often needed to transfer grain from other places. It is not surprising that the granary is empty.

It's just that I don't know what the situation of Jingyang Erzhou, which is known for its wealth and is known as the "granary of the world", is the situation?

Pan Long secretly decided that on the way to Guangling City next, he would stop by to take a look at the reserves of various granaries in Yangzhou.

After settling the cost of food and lodging, he walked out of the inn and was about to leave Hengyang City, when he suddenly heard a somewhat familiar voice.

This voice was the scholar who was talking about it yesterday evening, but it was different from yesterday's voice with a bit of alcohol, and his voice seemed serious at this moment, with a bit of a gentleman's taste.

Pan Long curiously followed the sound and came to the outside of a small school. In the school, seven or eight children were reading under the guidance of the scholar, but what they were reading was not the official Mongolian school textbook of Great Xia, but a prose about being a person.

The name of this article is "Diligent Self-cultivation, Thrift to Cultivate Virtue", the author is unknown, only known to be an article of the Mohist school in the Warring States Period - Mohists reject fame and fortune, and the book has never been called "ink", leaving no author.

At that time, Confucianism emphasized virtue and Mohist emphasized law, both of which were famous schools in the world. It's a pity that after the establishment of Great Xia, the two schools of Confucianism and Mo were swept away, and the articles of the two factions naturally could not enter the official textbooks of Great Xia, and gradually lost a lot.

Pan Long didn't expect that he would see a reader who used Mohist articles as teaching materials in this small Hengyang City, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.

He sneaked into the school, but saw that there were many articles on the bookshelf next to him, many of which were such as "Great Love Without Borders", "The Theory of Selecting Talents", and "Standing by Frugality...... This type of essay expounds the ideas of the Mohist school.

This scholar is a rare disciple of the Mo family!

Pan Long didn't bother them, left the school, found a restaurant that had just opened nearby, ordered a breakfast, and asked the shopkeeper about the school.

When I asked, I found out that this scholar named Mr. Cunzhen was still quite famous!

This person's surname is Liu Mingduan, the word is Zhengzheng, he is a genius in Hengyang, he has been through two imperial examinations, and he was admitted to the Baigong Ingenuity Department and the Operations Research and Arithmetic Department respectively, and he is a double material.

After the second move, Liu Duan became an official, and pointed out the shortcomings of many policies of the imperial court, but was denounced as "less and no more" and "slow and reckless". In a fit of rage, he resigned and went home, opened a school, called himself "Cunzhen", and declared that he would teach children to learn the truth, tell the truth, and be a sincere person.

He is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he is also a well-known figure in Hengyang City.

"Alas, Mr. Cunzhen often said that the change of the law of the prince of Luonan was too hasty, and he was afraid that it would backfire. As we listened, we felt that he had a point. The shopkeeper finally sighed and whispered, "I don't know if there will really be any disaster!"

Scourge?

Pan Long looked at the gloomy sky outside and couldn't help but sigh as well.