Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

Since May, there has been heavy rain in Luoyang, the capital city, and the water in Luoyang has overflowed by more than one foot. The fields and cottages in the counties in the capital city have been flooded, and the people have been displaced.In June, there was a severe drought in Henan Province, and the disaster spread to six or seven prefectures. In July and autumn, floods occurred in more than [-] states in Henan Province, Hedong Province, and Jianghuai Province, and more than [-] people were drowned.

Reports of disasters from all over the world kept spreading to the East Palace, and the prince was very busy with it.

In the usual way, disaster relief would be done by opening a charity warehouse, but there has not been such a large natural disaster for many years, and there have been corruption incidents in the righteous warehouse that is not allowed to be used for other purposes, so that the grain storage of the righteous warehouse is only half of the registered grain storage.The emperor on the hospital bed was furious when he found out, and ordered the prince to deal with it severely.

The Sinong Temple and Taifu Temple, which are in charge of grain storage in various granaries, must be held accountable by the crown prince. Zhang Tingxuan is also very nervous. Such a thing happened not long after he took office. Although it was a mess left by the previous Shaoqing, but He also has to find a way to solve it.

At this time, the saying that God punished the emperor spread among the people, just because the emperor chose a wrong person as the prince, and deliberately sent natural disasters to punish and warn the emperor.At the same time, officials in the court were also taking this opportunity to attack dissidents, and the court became very chaotic for a while.

The crown prince found out that it was King Jia who was playing tricks, but he was worried that if this matter spread to the emperor's ears, the emperor would have such thoughts, and his position as crown prince would be unstable.So he convened all his officials overnight to discuss countermeasures.

The ministers believed that according to the usual practice, it is to issue an edict for disaster relief, and at the same time issue an edict for sinning oneself, and then perform prayer ceremonies.Some also think that the royal family should start with reducing the cost of food and clothing, so that the people can see the heart of the court to care for the people.

It's just that the prince can't issue an imperial edict, otherwise he will admit that his position as prince is not recognized by heaven.At the same time, the food shortage in Yicang had to be solved.While he was worrying, Zhang Tingxuan played up and said: "Your Highness, I discovered that there are two kinds of things called potatoes and yams. The yield is high, tens of stones per mu, twenty times better than that of seed valleys."

The prince said: "Please tell me in detail!"

Zhang Tingxuan had been prepared for a long time. He handed over the summary he had written, and the prince read it while listening to him.It turned out that Zhang He ordered someone to bring those potatoes and sweet potatoes to him, along with instructions. After receiving them, he began to try planting them in his own vegetable garden. There were fewer potatoes, but many sweet potatoes could be grown.

Because the planting was late, the potatoes didn't grow well until June, and then there were disaster reports from all over the place, and he was too busy to go home.Not long ago, a letter from his family told him that even the sweet potatoes had grown well, and he remembered this with joy, and Dang even sorted out his thoughts and told the prince about this discovery.

The prince wondered: "Things from the south of the Yangtze River can be fed in Gyeonggi?"

Zhang Tingxuan said with a smile: "Yes, it can be seen that this thing is not only in the capital and south of the Yangtze River, but also in all parts of the world. I also found that the sweet potato can be boiled or ground into powder. It tastes like kudzu when eaten raw, like honey when cooked, and tastes like water chestnuts! The world is widely planted to prepare for famine years!"

After such natural disasters occur in various places, the harvest in the coming year must be poor. The rich family originally collected a lot of rent, and they bought it at a low price and tried their best to hoard it, waiting for the opportunity to make huge profits.However, the households below the middle-level households do not have much grain storage, so they have to buy some coarse grains at a high price to feed their stomachs, and some households even have to sell their sons and daughters to save enough money.

For this reason, if there are such cheap crops that are easy to grow and abundant, the problem of food shortage can be solved.Besides, the people are basically a family of five, and if they give birth to extra children, they will choose to drown. If the problem of food and clothing is solved, the number of households in various places will increase explosively, which is beneficial to the court's taxation Increase.

The prince believed that Zhang Tingxuan's consideration was very reasonable, so he ordered the widespread planting in various places, and the local government persuaded it to grow.

Since June and July, floods have also occurred in the Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers. It is also a headache for Shi Qing to face such a big challenge when he first took office.Fortunately, he thought of Qinghe rice, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. On the one hand, he asked people to open warehouses for disaster relief, or organized families of high-ranking officials and gentry in Jiangzhou to help the people; on the other hand, he persuaded the people to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.

It's just that many officials' families or rice merchants would take this opportunity to increase the price of rice, or hoard it and not sell it. Shi Qing found that the situation in Jiangzhou was much more complicated than what he saw in Fuzhou.

Although Fuzhou has rainfall from late June to July, the situation is better than that of Raozhou and Jiangzhou, which can only be regarded as a minor disaster.But even so, it is a great disaster for many low-class households.What's more, the people on both sides of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River who couldn't bear the famine and went south, appeared in Fuzhou, and the government roughly calculated that there were 3 to [-] people.

The sky was gloomy, and if Zhang He hadn't been able to see the exact time at noon from the system weather conditions, she would have thought it was night.The heavy rain poured down, and it fell for several days and nights without stopping. Zhang He found out from the system that the next three days would still be heavy rain, and he was very worried.

Since she once again complained about the weather conditions of the system, it seems to have automatically upgraded to become able to predict the weather conditions for the next three days, with Beijing time attached.And Zhang He just found a good weather before the arrival of these three days, so that the hired workers quickly dug up all the sweet potatoes in the ten mu field.

Because it is planted in spring and affected by the climate, its yield per mu is nearly 7000 kilograms more than that of early winter potatoes.The output of ten mu is more than 2 kilograms. In addition to the usual reserves, more than [-] kilograms of potatoes are piled up in her family's grain depot and vacant house.

Xia Jiniang also had an ominous premonition, she said: "The water is about to overflow the seedlings, and the harvest cost of late crops will be lost. If it doesn't stop raining, it may be less than [-]%." According to the degree of the flood, the water is only It can only be regarded as a minor flood if the water overflows the fields without damaging the houses and houses. If the water overflows the houses and destroys the houses, it will be a major disaster, and no one can escape.

Fortunately, when Zhang He expanded the mansion, he also paid attention to the problem of drainage. The rainwater that fell in the courtyard flowed to Qinghe along the culvert, but her crabapple branches and leaves were knocked down a lot by the rain.

Zhang He said: "Fortunately, sweet potatoes are resistant to drought and waterlogging. Even if the late harvest is not good, we still have sweet potatoes."

"Erlang can think about it."

Zhang He didn't mention to Xia Jiniang that her system warehouse not only contained sweet potatoes, potatoes, and rice, but also soybeans, peas, and radishes.She originally just wanted to save seeds and reduce others' suspicion, but she didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

"The rain in Fuzhou is so heavy, I don't know what happened on both sides of the Jianghuai River."

Zhang He shook her head. She knew that there would be floods of varying degrees in the Jianghuai area every year. After all, even the many water conservancy projects in later generations could not prevent floods, let alone today.In addition to the banks of the Jianghuai River, the banks of the Yellow River, and Hunan, there are also fears of floods. As for the Lingnan Road and Jiangnan East Road along the coast, typhoon damage is indispensable.

Xia Jiniang estimated the time, and heard the cry of the little peanut in the room, she said to Zhang He: "Erlang, go and see if the wet nurse has brought milk."

Zhang He said: "Isn't today's delivery delivered yet?"

"No, it's much later than usual. I thought I miscalculated the time, but Peanut was crying. When she's hungry, she's always on time than us." Xia Jiniang said as she returned to the house.

Zhang He had no choice but to grab the oil-paper umbrella from the corner of the wall and ran across the veranda to the door. He looked outside for a while, but he didn't see anyone.She went back and said, "Get some custard or mashed potatoes for the peanuts first, otherwise I don't know when it will be delivered."

Xia Jiniang also muttered: "But what happened?"

A little later, someone came to the wet nurse's house, and the old woman said to Xia Ji Niang with an apologetic face: "The family is struggling to eat, and the milk produced recently has been a little less, it's hard to get this little... ..."

Xia Jiniang looked at the half of the bowl mixed with rainwater, and asked, "Don't we give a lot of food every month, why do we still have to eat hard?"

In order to ensure that the little peanut can drink nutritious milk, Zhang He will give five buckets of rice every month in addition to money, and five buckets of rice can feed two people for a month.Why is it insufficient, Xia Jiniang is unwilling to think deeply.

The old woman's face was sullen: "There is a shortage of food in the family, and there is not much food for a family of five..."

Xia Jiniang thought that sure enough, the family shared the rice they gave to the nurse, so the nurse didn't eat much food.She asked again: "Can't the wages be used to buy grain?"

The old woman said: "Where do you go to buy food? It's like Li Xunguan's family. One stone of rice has already risen to two yuan, not to mention the price of rice in the city!"

Xia Jiniang was secretly surprised, she thought for a while, went back and brought some buckets of rice to her, and said: "You can take this milk back, this rice is also for her to eat, I hope it won't be like this when I come here tomorrow."

The old lady was overjoyed, thanked her quickly and left with her milk.She was reluctant to throw it away, Zhang He's child Jingui refused to drink it, but her grandson could still drink it!

Xia Jiniang went back and talked about the matter with Zhang He, and said, "Erlang, do we need to find out what's going on outside?"

"Let's wait until the rain stops in two days before going out. What if such a heavy rain is accidentally washed away?" Zhang He said.

Although it was raining heavily, the hired workers still went to the fields every day to help dredge the accumulated water into the ditches, and the government also came to organize the dredging of the river and do disaster prevention work.

Through these officials, Zhang He learned that since the drought in April and May, many people in the Lianghuai area had migrated southward one after another. In addition to the floods in the Jianghuai area, more people went south to Fuzhou.Tong Liyu has already issued the "Persuading Selling List", urging some government households and rich people to open warehouses to help sell.

Zhang He asked strangely: "Shouldn't there be a lot of food in the warehouse?"

The official said: "Since the government forced the common people to plant Qinghe rice, the grain in the granary has been greatly reduced for loan. In order to prevent it from getting moldy, the government sold a part of it. The remaining part was also entrusted to the court when the Jianghuai flooded. The imperial edict sent some grain to the relief, so that when a small disaster occurred in Fuzhou and a large number of refugees flooded into Fuzhou City, the food in the warehouse was insufficient.”

What is even more exaggerated is that some rich people and official households took advantage of this small disaster to raise the price of rice. The Changping warehouse set up by the imperial court to curb the price of rice was also exploited by speculative rice merchants and rich people.Moreover, the government's persuasion to open warehouses for relief was just to sell rice at a low price for relief, not to let them do relief for free.

Out of humanitarian concern, Zhang He and Xia Jiniang decided to donate more than 1 kilograms of sweet potatoes to the government so that they can solve the food shortage problem of some lower-class households and refugees.As the days passed, more and more people came to Zhang He to buy grain.

Xia Jiniang collects twenty stone rice every year to prepare for the famine. She doesn't want to increase the price of rice to sell, so she sells it at the usual price.The villagers of Qinghe Village came to them to buy rice one after another after hearing the news, and each of them bought a stone.

Zhang He and Xia Jiniang thought it was weird, but after some investigation, they found out that some of these people had followed the orders of Li Xun and other high-ranking households to buy. Naturally, the purpose was to buy up all her rice, so that others had to buy from them. rice.There are also some people who have the same idea and plan to buy more rice from Zhang He, and then transport it to the village and sell it at a high price.

For this reason, Zhang He stipulated that all third-class households and above will not sell, and fourth- and fifth-class households can only buy five liters a day.Assuming that a strong man has three meals a day, it is only one liter of rice a day, and five liters is exactly the daily ration of a family of five.

After the news spread, not only the villagers of Qinghe Village, but even the villagers of nearby villages braved the rain to buy rice.Xia Jiniang originally calculated that the twenty shi rice would be enough to sell in addition to the life-saving food she kept for her own food, but when she looked into the grain box, she found that there seemed to be no shortage of rice.

Xia Jiniang took a deep breath and somehow thought of Zhang He.But she knew that her guess was unbelievable, so she didn't think about it any further.

And Zhang He seemed to know enough is enough, and stopped secretly putting rice into the grain box. Soon, Xia Jiniang found that the number of rice was normal, and she seemed to have misread everything before.

When the rice ran out, Xia Jiniang substituted sweet potatoes for rice and sold them at the price of two sweet potatoes for one penny.The price of a liter of rice is five to seven cash, and now it has risen to more than ten or twenty cash, but the price of sweet potatoes is five times lower than the price of rice!

Two sweet potatoes are enough for an adult to eat, and a family of five can only spend ten yuan a day. They are naturally very happy and rush to buy sweet potatoes first.At this time, they realized that sweet potatoes and potatoes are the real life-saving food, and they no longer dared to think that sweet potatoes and potatoes are not the main objects of the two taxes and despise them.

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