Great Zhou Empress

In an agricultural society, people depend on the sky for food. No matter how much water conservancy is built, if the year is not good, disasters will still occur.

This year is not so good.

In summer, the weather is hot and drought occurs in many places, and some are still major agricultural production areas.

Xue Zhijing even went to inspect the place in person in a train and carriage. It was really a thousand miles away, and the dry cracks on the ground could fit an adult's fist.

The surrounding wells have been drilled for dozens of meters and no water can be found. All the grain planted in spring has dried up. One can imagine what it will be like in autumn.

At that time, Xue Zhijing arranged for officials from all over the country to open warehouses to release food, and at the same time arranged for the victims to be resettled in other places, so they must live in places with water.

As a result, I didn't expect that in winter, there was a blizzard.This year's winter is colder than previous years. The southernmost city of Guangzhou is covered with snowflakes. Although it turns into rain when it falls, in previous years, the Guangzhou area only needs to wear two clothes to survive the winter.

Not to mention the Jiangnan area, many? The lake has frozen, and the Jiangnan area does not often store charcoal fires for winter heating, but this year it is urgently needed, and charcoal fires are starting to be in short supply.The people at the bottom neither had enough money nor enough channels to buy charcoal fires for heating, and many people died of frostbite.

What's even more frightening is that many died due to food shortages caused by summer drought and frostbite caused by winter cold? Plague appeared sporadically in some places.

Fortunately, a few years ago, a large-scale plague appeared in the last years of the Dacheng period of the former dynasty. At this time, the officials still remembered it and took measures quickly, but the effect was not as good because of the cold climate.

Xue Zhijing hardly took a break this year, and had to hold meetings with his courtiers every day to discuss how to deal with it, and occasionally went to inspect places in person to determine how to allocate resources to solve the corresponding problems.

At the same time, because of the snowstorm, the Liao Kingdom in the northern grassland was even more difficult.

The Liao Kingdom has let the little emperor Xiao Derui be in charge. The main job of Xiao Liege in the past few years is to take care of the three children. She has a hot personality and can't be idle. The two older children are very similar to her personality. , the youngest one is just walking, and will run with her.

However, there was a snowstorm in Liao, and she had to go back to help Xiao Derui occasionally.

In the past, when the two countries did not form an alliance, most of the Liao Kingdom would go south to invade at such a time. After all, it is always good to grab a hand if you can't survive. Now only Dazhou can provide assistance to it.

Xue Zhijing suggested that some nomadic tribes in the northern grasslands should be moved to the towns along the southern route, so that it would be warmer, and at the same time, Da Zhou would continuously subsidize a large amount of food for them.

For this reason, Dazhou is also buying grain from the Nanyang region, and it is very convenient to have sea merchants.

Xue Zhijing set up a confidential secretariat, not for the purpose of supervising the cabinet, but purely for her to handle various documents and so on.

One of the secretaries was very special. Her name was Lin Yan, and she was disabled in a wheelchair.

Lin Yan was a new Jinshi this spring. Xue Zhijing had noticed her when she was taking the imperial examination. After all, taking the exam in a wheelchair would really attract more attention.

Lin Yan's leg was broken when she was very young, so she has been used to sitting in a wheelchair all these years. According to her, when she was young, the family once told her about a marriage? But later she found that although the other party looked It's normal, but it's actually a fool. Before the official marriage procedure, the other party was made a joke by the brothers at home, made him fall into the water, and died later.

After that, she gave up the idea of ​​getting married and concentrated on studying. She thought that she could be a lady for a young lady in the future. Later, when she got the imperial examination, she devoted herself to the imperial examination. Passed the exam.

When God closes a door, there will always be a window. Lin Yan is like this. He is physically disabled, but his mind is very good. This year, during the disaster relief process in various places, Lin Yan provided a lot of feasible suggestions. If it weren't for her frailty, Xue Zhijing felt that she could be reserved as the prime minister.

Tonight was another sleepless night, Xue Zhijing and Lin Yan had been dealing with government affairs in the study until late at night, the surrounding candles were burned out and replaced with a new batch, the two were still discussing the plan there.

The palace attendants around asked if they wanted some supper for the two of them, and Xue Zhijing remembered that it was already midnight, so she asked Lin Yan, "Lin Qing, do you need a rest?"

"It's okay, Your Majesty, the government is urgent, let's continue discussing."

Xue Zhijing asked someone to prepare some supper and bring it over, but while eating, Xue Zhijing found that Lin Yan seemed to be tired and fainted for a while.

Xue Zhijing likes to take care of people. She knows that Lin Yan is weak, but she is just holding on to deal with government affairs. She took the initiative to say, "I'm tired too, let's rest today."

There are many empty rooms in the palace. Sometimes Xue Zhijing will leave his courtiers to live in. She doesn't mind whether the courtiers are male or female. For her, living in such a big palace is different from living in it. There is no difference in place.But some idlers outside always like to make up something? If His Majesty the Emperor likes to be unique, men and women are not taboo, she will treat it as an idler and gossip, let him go.

Back in the bedroom, Xiao Liege had already fallen asleep, she was still sleeping on her stomach, Xue Zhijing was dumbfounded seeing the half of her face exposed on her stomach.

Xue Zhijing smiled and went to the bathroom.

She was too tired today, so she didn't take a shower. She washed her hands and face in the bathroom, changed into pajamas and came out.

Cautiously went to the bed, lifted the quilt and went in.

The quilt was very warm, and it was all warmed by Xiao Liege's body temperature. Xiao Liege was like a small stove, constantly emitting heat outward.

Xue Zhijing wanted to hug her, but was worried that his cold hands would freeze her, so he didn't dare to move.

However, the action of her going to bed still woke up Xiao Liege, or maybe he was half awake from a dream.

Xiao Liege muttered, "Are you back?"

Xue Zhijing turned his body sideways and said, "Well, did I wake you up?"

Xiao Liege pushed himself into Xue Zhijing's arms like a big bug, and found a comfortable position to lie down, ignoring the chill in her arms.

Xue Zhijing smiled? Laughed?, went over and kissed her on the forehead, and then hugged her.

Xiao Liege was still muttering in her arms, "It's so late, I've had several dreams, one is that you were talking to someone, and then I called you, but you didn't listen, I shouted at you by the neck, You still don’t listen, how angry.”

Xue Zhijing laughed happily, "It's just a dream, and sometimes people can't control themselves in dreams."

"That's your fault." Xiao Liege put his hand on Xue Zhijing's waist, and poked her waist limply with his fingers.

Xue Zhijing lowered his head, kissed Xiao Liege's nose, and then sucked Xiao Liege's lips all the way down.

Xiao Liege was in a defenseless state at this time, and his lips were soft, allowing Xue Zhijing to kiss him.

"Bad." Xiao Liege pushed Xue Zhijing weakly, "I'm so sleepy, I fell asleep."

Only then did Xue Zhijing let her go, but feeling his hands warmed up, he hugged Xiao Liege even tighter.

Woke up early the next day and it started snowing.

Xue Zhijing didn't even want to get up, she slept too late last night, and didn't have enough sleep in the morning, but Xiao Liege had already woken up, she rolled over from Xue Zhijing's side, put on some clothes and opened the curtain to go out to see. Then he jumped back excitedly, "Jing, it's snowing, get up, let's go play."

Xue Zhijing sighed, and hugged Xiao Liege's hand into his arms as a pillow, "I can't play anymore, it's snowing again, and I have to provide disaster relief, hey, God, why can't I order a good year."

Speaking of this, Xiao Liege also became depressed, "I should also ask Xiao Derui, how is the Liao Kingdom?"

Xue Zhijing did countless psychological constructions for himself, and finally got up from the warm bed.

She went to the bathroom to take a shower, and finally felt refreshed, and she didn't know how long this mental head could last.

When going out to eat, Xue Zhijing specially asked Lin Yan who had already started working to eat with him.

Lin Yan is also a daughter raised by someone from a wealthy family, and she is very particular about etiquette. In fact, sitting in a wheelchair like her is not easy to tidy up her appearance, but she behaves like a normal person, which is enough to show her respect for How high are your requirements.

Xiao Liege doesn't like Lin Yan very much, and she can't say why? Maybe it's because Xue Zhijing always takes good care of her.

But Xiao Liege has also learned over the years, don't show it too much when you feel uncomfortable, after all Xue Zhijing has to face so many people, how can she stop her from not seeing people?And most of the time, Xue Zhijing likes Junchen Xiangyi, maybe this is Xue Zhijing's Junchen Xiangyi.

However, Xiao Liege always secretly looked at Xue Zhijing.

Xue Zhijing smiled and greeted Lin Yan to drink milk.

Xue Zhijing was concerned about whether Lin Yan was used to the jerky on the table.

Xue Zhijing asked Lin Yan if she needed another bowl of porridge that she had just finished.

Lin Yan is gentle and elegant, but not too weak. Xiao Liege thought about it hard. It is probably like a weak green plant growing from the gap in the cliff. It looks fragile, but it has an inner Unique tenacity.

The Xiaojing of her house is a green pine rooted in the earth. It is tall and tough at first glance, completely different from Lin Yan.

As for her, Xiao Liege, if it was a plant, it should be a plant covered with thorns that could pierce the skin.

But why does she still not like Lin Yan very much? No, she doesn't like the way Xue Zhijing looks at Lin Yan, it's too caring and a lot of appreciation.

Appreciate it?

Now the plague is serious, in order to avoid possible infection, the eldest brother Xue Mo and the second child Xiao Hezhen are all kept in the palace, and the female officials in the palace help them with their primary school lessons until the spring is warm and the flowers bloom.

Xiao Liege sat at the side of the classroom and listened to the two children reading the text, his thoughts had already drifted to an unknown direction.

She couldn't bear it anymore, so she slipped away from the classroom and went to Xue Zhijing's study to meet her.

Although the weather was cold, Xue Zhijing still opened a window for ventilation. Xiao Liege just walked out of that window, and saw Xue Zhijing standing in front of the large-scale map of Dazhou Gemyu. It was Lin Yan sitting in a wheelchair.

The two seemed to be talking about information from a new place, and when they were about to consider how to deal with it, Xue Zhijing said that he wanted to play a game with Lin Yan, and each of them wrote a word in their palms, and then showed it to the other , see? Is it the same meaning.

When Xiao Liege saw that Xue Zhijing and Lin Yan had the same word in their palms, and when they smiled at each other, they were in a bad mood.