There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 1052

[Chapter 1052, Drought]

in March, Xiliang.

As the earth warmed up, Daohua took Daozi and the twins to Daoxiang Village to inspect the spring plowing.

Daohua doesn’t want to raise the three children so that they can’t work hard and don’t know the five grains. She hopes to let them understand the hardships of life through contact with the farmers.

After several years of operation, the barren wasteland around Daoxiang Village has developed. With the migration of a large number of people, the surrounding area has now developed into a small town called Daoxiang Town.

After arriving at Zhuangzi, after Daohua said that he could move freely, Daozi hurriedly went to find his friends. Of course, he did not forget his younger brothers and sisters.

Under Daohua’s intentional or unconscious training, Daozi has now consciously played the role of an older brother, and never forgets to take care of her younger siblings wherever she goes.

After Sanxiao left, Zhuangtou took the initiative to report to Daohua the situation of this year’s spring plowing, and then talked about his worries.

“Princess, the weather this year is a bit abnormal. It stands to reason that in March in Xiliang, even if we no longer wear cotton wool trousers, we should wear two more coats.

” When I was young, I only had to wear unlined clothes.”

“This year’s weather is too hot, I’m worried.”

Daohua frowned: “What are you worried about?”

Zhuangtou: “I’m worried that this year may There is less water than in previous years, so I feel that this year the field should be more drought-resistant potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other grains.”

Daohua thought of the heavy snow that Xiliang’s prefectures encountered last year, and there is a saying that after the snowstorm, there must be The severe drought, now that Zhuangtou specifically mentioned it, he immediately paid attention to it.

“As for the sowing, I will do as you said, and grow some drought-resistant grain.”

Zhuangtou nodded and wrote it down.

After Zhuangtou left, Daohua thought about it, got up and went to the field, checked the planting progress, and chatted with the old man in the field by the way.

Elderly people are always more sensitive to disasters. As soon as Daohua opened her mouth, the old people started talking in a hurry.

“Last year it snowed a lot on our side. In the past few years, everyone’s life has been better. The houses have been strengthened, and there are more or less grains at home. There are fewer people who died of freezing and starvation.”

“After the beginning of spring this year, Old man, I have noticed that the weather is not right, maybe there will be another drought.” The

old man’s opinions are all unified, and they all think that there may be a drought this year.

Daohua felt that this matter was very important, so she stayed in Zhuangzi for a day, and then brought Daozi and the twins back to the palace, and she had to tell Xiao Yeyang about this matter as soon as possible.

If there is a possibility of drought, we must prepare early.

Among other things, the spring plowing has just begun, so the common people can grow more drought-tolerant grains.

On the day she returned to the palace, Xiao Yeyang came back from the Yamen, and Daohua hurriedly told him about the bad weather this year.

After Xiao Yeyang heard this, he didn’t show any surprise. Obviously, he knew this a long time ago, and he also told Daohua that some provinces hadn’t rained since the first month.

Daohua’s complexion changed: “Will there really be a drought?”

Xiao Yeyang nodded solemnly: “According to the current situation, there are already signs of such a situation, I just hope that the scope of the drought will not be too wide .”

After saying that, he paused.

“Do you still remember the previous envoy of Wu Bu in Ninglu?” Daohua

nodded, “Why don’t you remember, that person is a member of Wu Dudu’s tribe, when we first arrived in Xiliang, we asked someone to borrow food. Wasn’t he transferred back to the capital a few years ago?”

Xiao Yeyang: “He has been transferred back to the capital, and the one who took over his position is a good friend of his, the current political envoy holding the name card of the Wu family , A letter came to me yesterday asking for my help.”

Daohua raised her eyebrows: “Looking for a loan from you?”

Xiao Yeyang shook his head: “It’s not borrowing grain, but grain seeds. I was able to know so quickly that there might be a drought in other provinces because he told me.”

“Look at the Wu family On the surface, I have to lend him a batch, but not too much.”

“If there is a drought, it may not have a great impact on Xiliang. The grains we promote here are relatively drought-tolerant and will not appear. It’s hard to say in other provinces about the failure of the harvest.”

“At that time, Uncle Huang may ask me for grain seeds, so I have to reserve a batch.”

Daohua sighed: “The high-yield grain seeds are still There are too few, I hope that one day, I can spread the four seasons of grain throughout the whole summer.”

Xiao Yeyang patted Daohua’s hand: “You have done a good job, think about Xiliang in the past , although people in Xiliang are not well-fed, at least the situation of hunger has improved significantly.”

“Nowadays, there are almost no empty granaries built by the government. After the autumn harvest every year, my favorite thing to do is to go to the I’ve been inspecting granaries everywhere.”

“Xiliang is vast and sparsely populated, and when all the wasteland is utilized, Xiliang might become our big summer granary.”

Daohua smiled: “If that’s the case, But that would be great.” After saying that, he paused, “There are still too few people in Xiliang.”

Xiao Yeyang said with a smile: “I can’t rush this, now that life is better, the population will naturally increase.”

Time slipped away little by little, and the drought in various places became more and more obvious and serious.

The capital, the imperial palace.

The emperor looked at the documents about the drought in various places piled up on the imperial case, and his face became serious.

It’s almost July, and the drought in Ninglu, Fenjin, and Qin’an provinces is still going on, and many places haven’t had a drop of rain since the beginning of the year.

This drought is the most serious since he took the throne.

Soon, Yang Shoufu, six ministers, and several princes came to the government hall.

Yang Shoufu was the first to speak: “Your Majesty, this drought has affected several provinces, and disaster relief must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.” The

Emperor: “I called you here today to discuss disaster relief. You all talk about your own Let’s see.” The

eldest prince looked at the crowd, and took the lead: “Father, Ninglu and other places have experienced drought, of course relief supplies must be prepared, but in my humble opinion, the most important thing is to give these places Only in this way can we really help the people survive the drought.”

Seeing the emperor nodding his head in agreement, the eldest prince was overjoyed, and continued his efforts: “Father, Xiliang has developed pretty well these years. This year’s drought has actually affected Xiliang, but Xiliang did not submit any papers.”

“The main reason for this is that the grain grown in Xiliang is drought-resistant.”

“Father, son I request an order, willing to expropriate drought-resistant grain seeds from Xiliang to alleviate the drought in Ninglu provinces.”

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers present couldn’t help but look at the eldest prince.

Now who doesn’t know, Prince Ping’s mansion is not on good terms with the First Prince, the First Prince proposed to go to Xiliang at this time, probably because he wanted to go there and suppress King Weiyuan.

Taking the achievements made by others to build up his own achievements, and rushing forward to step on others’ faces, this move of the First Prince is really ruthless.

The emperor was noncommittal and continued to ask other ministers for their opinions.

After all the ministers had finished expressing their opinions, an eunuch entered the hall holding a booklet in both hands: “Your Majesty, King Weiyuan of Xiliang has just sent the booklet.” The

emperor took the booklet, and after reading it, he smiled and looked at The eldest prince: “You don’t need to go

to Xiliang. Yeyang sent a note saying that the people of Xiliang are willing to donate 100,000 shi grain seeds to the disaster-stricken provinces.” A few days ago, he lowered his status to ask his younger brothers not to fight with him, but he didn’t expect Xiao Yeyang to do this!

Not only did he not expect it, but neither did the others.

The main reason is that Xiliang’s starting point is too low. Even if it has developed well in these years, it has nothing to do with the rich provincial government.

Who knew that Xiao Yeyang would produce such a large batch of grain seeds under such a severe drought in the north.

Before everyone was surprised, the emperor spoke again: “Yeyang also said that Xiliang is a vast land and sparsely populated. If Ninglu and other provinces are unable to help the people, they can move a group to Xiliang.” After saying

this, Yang Shoufu I couldn’t help it anymore: “Your Majesty, can Xiliang support so many people now?” The

Emperor thought of the news reported by Jin Lingwei, and there was some surprise on his brows. Ye Yang dared to relocate the population in a drought year. Potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are too high-yield.

(end of this chapter)