Datang: Get Xiang Yu's divine power at the beginning

Chapter 369 Drought
At this moment, he suddenly thought that there seemed to be a plague of locusts that corresponded to droughts in history!
Drought, flood, and locust plague are called the three natural disasters in ancient times, because the ancient society was based on farming and relied heavily on agriculture, and these three disasters would cause devastating damage to crops.

"Besides drought, are there any other natural disasters?"

Li Chengdao asked.

Li Shimin was taken aback when he heard this, a little puzzled.

"Not at present, why do you ask such a question, Your Majesty?"

At this time Li Chengdao said with a sigh.

"Oh, there is no best!"

"If it's just a drought, our court will work hard and believe that we will be able to overcome this difficulty, even if there are still microbes with us!"

Hearing Li Chengdao's words, Li Shimin thought of something and trembled all over.

"Your Majesty, the worms you are talking about are locusts?"

Li Chengdao nodded and said.

"Yes!"

"Although these locusts are small, if they strike overwhelmingly, it will be a disaster for Datang!"

Listening to Li Chengdao's description, Li Shimin seemed to have a scene of locusts flying all over the sky in his mind. He imagined the locusts passing by overwhelmingly, leaving nothing but desolation.

But then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, there is only drought and no news of locust plagues. Fortunately, it is okay. For now, let's find a way to deal with the drought!"

Unexpectedly, Li Chengdao said something at this time.

"Not necessarily."

Li Shimin was stunned again.

Why does it feel like His Majesty knows something.

At this time Li Chengdao sighed and said.

"That's all, the soldiers come to cover up the water and soil, let's talk about the drought first."

"You Wang, tell me first, what good way do you have to deal with the drought?"

After hearing this, Li Shimin pondered for a while, and then said.

"To tell you the truth, your majesty, after getting the news of the drought, after thinking about it, there is no good way."

"The only thing I can think of is that the imperial court will open warehouses to release food to relieve the victims; there is also a way to find ways to resettle the refugees and stabilize the turmoil."

"These two emergency measures are the only ones I can think of at the moment. There is no other way, so I need your Majesty to come to the Holy Word!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Li Chengdao nodded.

The two methods he mentioned are indeed the most commonly used methods in ancient times to deal with the drought that has occurred.

Because the root cause of the drought is actually the lack of food, so the first thing we can do is to open warehouses to release food to relieve the victims.

Then, due to the lack of food, the common people could not survive, and refugees appeared. If the common people did not have enough food and clothing, they would have resentment against the court, so there would be bandits, and then there would be rebellions.

However, these two methods of Li Shimin are currently somewhat difficult to implement.

So he went on.

"Your Majesty, although these two methods are conventional methods to deal with drought, they are currently somewhat difficult to implement."

"First of all, because the Tang Dynasty was not established for a long time, and in the past few years it was even more light and thin, so the imperial court did not have a lot of food, and the local governments did not have much surplus food. Such a large-scale drought, if you want to rely entirely on the imperial court Relief, I am afraid it is far from enough!"

"Secondly, the drought in the two Dao must be on a large scale, and there are a lot of refugees. We have no place to settle so many refugees! Even if the imperial court is recruited into the army, first of all, we can't afford the military salary, and the military rations Another big problem!"

"Your Majesty, do you have a good solution?"

Li Chengdao smiled slightly and said.

"If you don't have any food, why don't you just borrow some money?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin was taken aback again.

"Borrow? Who can I borrow from?"

Li Chengdao smiled slyly and said.

"Which of those aristocratic families doesn't have food in their hands?"

"Isn't everyone talking about a family made of iron and a dynasty of flowing water? They have been storing food since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. How can they be richer than the national treasury?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin suddenly realized.

"Yes, they must have food in their hands!"

"If they take out their food to help the victims, it should be enough!"

But then he seemed to think of something again, and his expression darkened.

"But Your Majesty, last time we targeted them so much, it may not be easy to borrow food from them now!"

"We can't grab it by force, right? If it spreads like this, it will definitely damage your Majesty's majesty! It will also cause turmoil, which is not conducive to the stability of the situation!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Li Chengdao looked at him and smiled mysteriously.

"Have I said that I want to rob them of food? I'm not a robber!"

This made Li Shimin even more puzzled.

"Your Majesty, then...?"

Li Chengdao said.

"I want them to obediently deliver all the food!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes widened suddenly.

"This is impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

He was so shocked that he couldn't help shouting.

He had an unbelievable look on his face.

"Your Majesty, you may not be able to borrow from them. How could they give us food?!"

Li Chengdao smiled.

"You King don't need to yell, I have my own poisonous plan!"

Upon hearing this, for some reason, Li Shimin seemed to really believe that the aristocratic family would personally deliver the food, because every time Li Chengdao made such an expression, something incredible would always happen.

Li Chengdao continued.

"These Shandong gentry are the moths of the Tang Dynasty. They eat away at the foundation of my Tang Dynasty. Although I have hit their status in the court, there are actually many of them in the local area. It stands to reason that they are the ones who suffered the disaster this time. In my hometown, they are the ones who control the local area behind the scenes, so they should donate food voluntarily!"

"What? They only want power, but they don't want to fulfill some obligations. I think they want to eat ass!"

"You Wang, you can send someone to contact them first to see if they are willing to borrow food. If so, I can consider being gentle with them. If they don't know people, then don't blame me for being cruel!"

Li Shimin saluted when he heard the words.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Just as he was about to step back, a voice suddenly sounded from outside the hall.

"Xing Guogong and Cai Guogong are asking to see His Majesty!"

Li Shimin couldn't help being taken aback, what are they doing here, could the disaster worsen again?
Li Chengdao: "Let them in!"

Then Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui walked in and saluted Li Chengdao and Li Shimin.

"Chenfang Xuanling has met His Majesty, and has seen You Wang!"

"Chen Du Ruhui has met His Majesty, and met the King You!"

Li Chengdao nodded.

"What happened to the two mistresses?"

At this time Fang Xuanling said.

"It's not good, Your Majesty, I just received news that not only the drought in Henan Province and Hebei Province is severe, but now there are also small-scale locust plagues, which makes the crops that have not grown a few roots even more fruitless!"

what? !

Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this, and looked at Li Chengdao in disbelief.

My dear, it turns out that what His Majesty said is true!

Your Majesty is really clever!
Li Chengdao, on the other hand, looked calm. He had thought of this just now and was mentally prepared.

(End of this chapter)