Chapter 323

Chang'an, palace.

After reading the memorial from Qingzhou, Xiao Wenxuan immediately summoned Fiji.

In the imperial library, the ministers were silent for a long time.

"Your Majesty, I have also received some news about Jizhou. As the king of Qi said, last year, there was a drought in the area of Jizhou in Bingzhou, but it still hasn't rained. Now, the families of the people in King Yong's fiefdom have run out of surplus food, which is unbearable."

"Bingzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou again. If it hadn't been for the chaos in these three places decades ago, the imperial court wouldn't have been hurt by the rebellion. Now the natural disaster is coming, what should we do?" Xiao Wenxuan's eyes are full of worry.

He still remembers that he was the second prince of the state of Dayu at that time, and he was ordered to fight against the rebellion in the three places. At that time, the rebels were very powerful and had the potential to destroy the country.

In order to pacify the rebellion, the imperial army fought a bloody battle. During this period, there were countless wars. It took three years to kill Zhang Dong, the leader of the rebel army. However, for this reason, the imperial army lost six out of ten and suffered heavy losses.

However, it was because of this rebellion that he gained military power and won the battle for the throne.

Fiji looked at Xiao Wenxuan, "now there is no other way but to allocate food for disaster relief, but there is not much food for the imperial court. Your majesty should issue an order to raise food for your vassal kings, especially the vassal kings of Chu, Wei, Shu, Yan and Runan."

"That's the only way to do it, but I'm afraid it's hopeless." Xiao Wenxuan sighed. These vassal kings are very responsible. How can they raise food for disaster relief.

He knew very well that in times of crisis, these vassal kings would only protect themselves.

With a sigh, Xiao Wenxuan said to Fiji, "you immediately draw up a will and send it to the vassal kings. In addition, the king of Qi sent a method to control locusts. Although this method is somewhat different, it is a method now."

Fijian nodded. King Qi's way is to eat locusts. This is indeed a strange idea, but it's better for the victims than to starve to death.

Slowly out of the Royal study, Fiji out of the palace, directly back home.

The fiefdom of the king of Qi had just improved in the past two years. Unexpectedly, it was such a disaster. It was not as good as people's wishes. Now he was worried about Xiao Ming's fate.

I hope he can make it this time.

Thinking of this, he suddenly sighed.

"Daddy, why do you sigh?" At this time, a soft voice sounded, but Fei yue'er and Xiao Huan came over.

Some things in Fiji have always been true to Fei yue'er. He said: "the emperor has just summoned me. He said that there are signs of drought and locust disasters in Bingzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou. I'm afraid there will be civil unrest in these three places again."

"Qingzhou?" Fei Yue son Wu wears a mouth to startle, "is just green state last year not still good weather?"

"Among the three places, Qingzhou was the least affected. It's just that Jizhou was in chaos, and Qingzhou would not be better off. The rioters have always plundered the rich and well-off places." Fiji speaks with worry.

Xiaohuan exclaimed, "ah, it's dangerous for miss to marry into Qingzhou at this time."

"Xiaohuan can't talk nonsense. Since the engagement has been made, the king of Qi and I are one and should have been in trouble. That's the truth that we can only enjoy happiness and not suffer losses." Fei Yue Er frowned.

Fijian looks at Fei yue'er with satisfaction. This is Fei's daughter.

"If the barbarians of Qi are not afraid, how can they be afraid of some mobs? The emperor is worried that the barbarians will take advantage of the opportunity to fight again. King Yong and King Liang are not the kings of Qi."

Fei yue'er nodded slowly. The king of Yong was fierce and resourceless. He always didn't listen to others' advice, but it was troublesome.

As if he didn't want to talk about it again, Fijian said, "yue'er, I think you look ruddy these days, and your body seems to have recovered. In this case, you and Xiaohuan can go out and have a look."

"Thank you, Dad." Fei Yue son excites a way.

Then Fijian and Fei yue'er talked about the method of the king of Qi governing locusts, which made Fei yue'er feel more and more strange about Xiao Ming's strange ideas.

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In Qingzhou, when Xiao Ming learned of the civil unrest in Jizhou, he stepped up the fight against drought. It was only in early May that a light rain suddenly relieved Xiao Ming.

At the same time, Pang Yukun and many people in the fiefdom were relieved.

At least it means that severe drought does not seem to happen in the six states.

"Although it's raining, we can't take it lightly. We should speed up the construction of the reservoir in the field and the digging of the ditch to save the losses as much as possible."

In the governor's office, Xiao Ming gave orders to officials from six states.

In order to avoid excessive losses, he personally supervised the drought and disaster prevention. These days, Li Kaiyuan sold a large number of chickens and ducks to the people for breeding.

At the same time, Pang Yukun also went down to the people and organized production teams in various states and counties to fight against drought. In the newspaper, Xiao Ming also gave the order of fighting against drought for all the people.

Now there is a light rain, which shows that the disaster situation in Qingzhou will not be very serious. Although the grain production in this season will be reduced, the livelihood of the people should not be mentioned.And he had enough food for the army.

However, the fire at the gate of the city has affected the fish in the pond. He has been making the secret guards pay attention to the situation in Yongzhou.

Now the imperial court has allocated food for disaster relief in Yongzhou and collected food from other vassal kings. However, according to his understanding, as he expected, just as he collected food in the Cangzhou war at that time, the imperial court's purpose did not have much effect.

The vassal kings only sent out 30000 stones for this and 50000 stones for that.

They wanted to see the court's jokes, but this was not what Xiao Ming hated most.

Because according to the information from secret guards, only 10% of the relief grain was in the hands of the people, and 90% of the grain was exploited by Chang'an and Jizhou officials. Li Kaiyuan even bought the relief grain from Jizhou in the market.

"The officials of the state of Dayu were so corrupt that they could not be overthrown in a moment."

Pang Yukun lamented that there was relief grain in Li Kaiyuan's grain purchase, leaving Xiao Ming a desolate back.

In the next few days, Pang Yukun went crazy to deal with government affairs. In the fields, he could be seen from time to time.

Xiao Ming was also shocked by this incident. He didn't expect that the official's exploitation of relief food in the textbook was really happening now. He also understood why the people would turn against it in every major disaster.

With a bitter sigh, Xiao Ming could only place all his hopes on his own fiefdom. This decadent Dynasty, like an old man with a bad wind, began to breathe of death.

After the last interest exchange with the Cao family, the Cao family fulfilled their promise, and Yue Yun returned to Dengzhou with three galleons.

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