After Ji Boying finished talking about the recent political affairs, Ji Tang just made a brief evaluation and went straight to the point, asking everyone present for their opinions on Tianxue Bujie.
The courtiers also started talking, and they must have discussed the recent heavy snowfall more than once.
"It's snowing heavily. God bless the week. It seems like it's been snowing for more than ten days, but I think it will stop in a few days. This snow should be an auspicious snow."
"I heard that Qin Tian Jian has been observing the sky at night for the past few days and has seen the true meaning of the end of snowfall. Why not ask the officials of Qin Tian Jian to explain it?"
"It's just snowing a little more than usual today. This snowfall won't have any impact on us, so there's no need to worry."
"Has there ever been such heavy snow in the past years? Don't forget, the Imperial City is protected by the Imperial Master's formation. The snow is already as big as goose feathers. Have you ever left the Imperial City to see it?"
"Brother Chen is right. I went out to see the city. The snow outside the city has long been like a large swath of falling catkins, blocking people from seeing the sky clearly. This level of snow is almost demonic and should not be underestimated. ah."
"I heard that it's not just snowing throughout the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, it's snowing crazily in the entire Ancient Emperor's Heaven, and even the entire Nine Heavens of Middle Earth is in danger of snow disasters."
"No matter how heavy the snow is, it won't bother us. But everyone, there are so many Li people in the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty. How can they withstand this heavy snow and cold?"
"This snow is too strange and must be taken seriously."
"..."
All ministers expressed their opinions one after another.
Prince Ji Boying frowned and did not express an opinion.
Zhao Wujiang didn't say anything.
There were also some princes and ministers who did not express their views on this matter.
Most people in high positions know more about this heavy snow than most courtiers.
"Okay..." Ji Tang looked down at the ministers and threw a memorial to the prince:
"Prince, come and read it."
Ji Boying took the memorial respectfully and slowly unfolded it.
He already knew the contents of the memorial, so he glanced at it roughly. He was just shocked for a moment, but without much surprise, he said in a deep voice:
"On the sixth day of the lunar month of winter, in the fifty-third year of Tianyou's reign, all the thirteen states of the Immortal Dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty were invaded by cold snow.
Among them, people in Yunzhou, Jingzhou, Wutong Prefecture, Baici Prefecture, and Fangcao Prefecture were the hardest hit.
The number of people who froze to death is currently uncountable, but according to preliminary calculations, it has reached tens of millions...
More than 3,000 water conservancy facilities were damaged by freezing...
Fertile fields and crops...
Cutting down mountain trees...
...
Those who participated in the statistics of the above numbers were the state pastors of the thirteen prefectures and the county governors under their jurisdiction.
..."
After Prince Ji Boying finished reading, he looked ugly.
The courtiers also kept exclamating and whispering.
The losses reported by Zhou Zhang completely exceeded the losses of the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty for hundreds or even thousands of years under normal circumstances.
Especially the people who froze to death.
Obviously, the governors of the Thirteen Prefectures did not dare to tell the truth, but it was only a conservative estimate that there were tens of millions of people.
What kind of concept is this? Even in the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty with such a vast territory and such a large population, tens of millions of people would starve to death thousands of miles away.
This is only the beginning, because although the winter snow is cold, the people have already passed the autumn harvest and have food to eat and firewood to keep warm.
But if the snow continues to fall for a while, the firewood accumulated in people's hands will be gone, the trees available for felling in the mountains and forests will be gone, the food crops will freeze and the next year's harvest will be gone, and then there will be a famine.
Snow disaster coupled with famine, the number of people killed and injured will be countless.
Although the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty was a cultivating dynasty, it was a force based on countless common people, and countless strong men were born out of ordinary people.
One or two hundred people, one or two thousand, ten or twenty thousand people were injured, maybe it doesn't matter.
But if it hurts tens of millions of people, it is a natural disaster.
If the Immortal Dynasty does not care about it, the impact may be extremely far-reaching and it will be a disaster.
