After learning about Sheng Shiyu's crop planting plan, the three little guys instead planted garlic seedlings, green onions and other easy-to-grow green leafy vegetables in their own greenhouse.
When you grow up, you can sell it to your own shop and get a lot of money.
While the three little guys were busy making money, they did not forget to continue to act coquettishly towards Li Qiao Tao Zhu. How could they be willing to leave behind such a cute, lively, smart and well-behaved little baby?
You've been away for so long, why don't you miss them?
Woohoo.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were dumbfounded by their coquettish behavior anytime and anywhere. Tao Zhu was shaken first.
He really couldn't let go of the three little guys. If he didn't see them for four months or even half a year, he would have to look at Shengjing from a distance all day long.
Well, the three little guys are young anyway, so even if they add luggage, they can occupy two cabins...
However, he did not mention this to Li Qiao, so as not to embarrass Li Qiao.
This year's bike race will go ahead as usual.
Although Sheng Shiyu is overage, the rules were set by Li Qiao. Based on Sheng Shiyu's daily performance, he set the participating age within thirteen years.
Just as he thought, Sheng Shiyu won first place again.
This time the grandson of the Yan family was able to compete, but he came second again.
After fuming for a while, he became happy again and jumped up to Li Qiao to ask when he would get the latest bicycle.
Because the news about Li Qiao using Eucommia gum to study car tires had already spread, he was looking forward to it.
At the beginning of November of the lunar calendar, there was a light snowfall in Shengjing. The snow was so small that the sun disappeared within half a day.
Five days later, Sheng Hong received news of a sudden heavy snowfall in Yuanhe Province.
The snow was very heavy, and it lasted for two days and two nights. The snow was already two to three meters thick, which was higher than the house. It was a heavy snowstorm that occurred once in a century.
Now the entire province of Yuanhe Province is busy clearing snow to save itself. Some counties in Jibei Province, Hui'an Province, Beihu Province and Xishan Province, which are adjacent to Yuanhe Province, have organized manpower to go into Yuanhe Province to help clear snow.
After Sheng Hong received the report, he was used to big scenes and felt heavy for several days.
Winter wheat has just been planted, and such heavy snow will definitely freeze or crush the wheat seedlings that have not yet emerged from the ground or have just emerged from the ground.
The wheat in a province has been grown white!
Not to mention the casualties caused by houses being crushed.
In the entire Yuanhe Province, Hexi Prefecture is the richest and can bear the loss of money.
However, other prefectures in the original He Province were far less powerful than Hexi Prefecture, so the court had to organize disasters.
well.
Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and the others were also worried.
The night they learned the news, everyone in the Li family, except the children, had some insomnia.
Especially Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, both of them were worried and confused.
Gao Zhiyuan didn't say that there was such heavy snow in Yuanhe Province in the winter of the 17th year of Shengping!
The two of them were lying face to face on the quilt, both frowning. After a moment of silence, Tao Zhu said with some uncertainty: "Could it be that there was no such snow in the previous life?"
"Definitely. If there had been this snow, Gao Zhiyuan would have been thinking about it. He has always wanted to take credit for the natural disaster."
Li Qiao looked solemn.
Gao Zhiyuan's pamphlet only mentioned that there was a snowfall in the 19th year of Shengping. At that time, Gao Zhiyuan and his wife almost froze to death, so they ran to Tao Zhu to borrow some food and cotton-padded clothes, but Tao Zhu let a dog bite him and ran away. These two people.
Moreover, Gao Zhiyuan followed up by writing about the severe drought in the 20th year of Shengping. Since the couple did not freeze to death and starve to death in the 19th year of Shengping, it means that the heavy snow in the 19th year of Shengping did not cause a snow disaster.
But where did this year's heavy snowstorm come from?
Gao Zhiyuan didn't mention it, which means there was no such heavy snow in his previous life.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Even if things in this life are different from the previous life, it's just all kinds of natural disasters coming together. I don't believe God can play any new tricks."
Sighing softly, Li Qiao stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Tao Zhu's furrowed eyebrows: "Don't worry, the Lord has recruited nearby doctors to help, and medicines, cotton clothes, coal, etc. have also been sent there. Let's We can only wait for news.”
Tao Zhu pursed his lips when he heard this and hummed softly.
Yes, now we can only wait for news from Yuanhe Province.
but……
He grabbed Li Qiao's hand that was placed between his eyebrows: "This time we donated one hundred thousand taels of silver. Although our family is rich, we can't afford to donate several times a year. How about you make soap?"
"Soap?"
Li Qiao was stunned, hesitated for a few seconds, and then said, "Okay."
According to what Gao Zhiyuan wrote, there would be a severe drought in Pingcheng in the 20th year of Shengping. The drought would cause no crops to be harvested and pottery bamboo would come out to provide porridge.
The possibility of a major drought in Pingcheng in this life is relatively small, but if it still happens, he will have to continue donating money.
After all, it was his and Tao Zhu's hometown, so he couldn't donate too little.
I really need to move out of soap to make money.
While Li Qiao was "experimenting" step by step, on the other side, the latest news about the snow disaster in Yuanhe Province continued to spread to Shengjing.
Although there was a heavy snowfall in the entire Yuanhe Province, the center of the snowstorm was Hexi Prefecture. The snow in Hexi Prefecture was half a meter thicker than elsewhere.
But fortunately, the entire Hexi Prefecture has seen big scenes. No one panicked during the last locust plague, and no one panicked this time.
It was snowing heavily at that time. In order to prevent the snow from crushing the houses and causing casualties, people regularly went to the roofs to clear the snow.
Moreover, the people in Hexi Prefecture are relatively wealthy. Many houses, like those in Sanliu Village, are built with large blue bricks and tiles, which are relatively sturdy.
Therefore, there were no casualties in Hexi Mansion.
The house is also strong.
But the crops in the fields were definitely ruined.
At present, the prefect of Hexi Prefecture has sent the Red Turban Army, a local garrison in Hexi Prefecture, to clear the snow.
As for other places, it was worse than Hexi Prefecture. Although people continued to go to the roofs to clear snow, many houses were still crushed, and the number of casualties was not small.
Fortunately, the local officials remembered that Governor Shi was directly demoted from the governor of three provinces to the prefect of one prefecture. When the heavy snow first began to fall, they arranged for manpower to clean the official roads twelve hours a day to prevent the roads from being blocked and communicating with other places. contact is interrupted.
The official road was not blocked. After the snow stopped, people were sent to various towns and villages to count the number of wounded and arrange doctors.
But there were too few doctors, so treatment of the wounded was slow.
The crushed houses were also counted, and compensation was provided on a per-household basis. The exact amount of compensation depends on the amount of money on the books of the local government.
Including distributing seeds, it must also be done according to local financial capabilities.
These measures are quite effective and can appease the people. Although it is a once-in-a-century snowstorm, the people's mood is still relatively stable.
Also, Li Qiao asked Zhuang Fengsheng to purchase cotton before, but he didn't think about where to use the cotton at that time, so he stocked it up first.
In the past three years, he has purchased a lot of cotton, and Zhuang Fengshou occasionally distributes it to the poor who have no clothes to survive the winter. Most of the remaining cotton is still there.
He wrote to Zhuang Fengshou, who had returned to Pingcheng, and asked Zhuang Fengshou to donate all the cotton to other prefectures in Yuanhe Province, and local officials would distribute it to the people affected by the disaster.
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In short, thanks to various measures including active disaster relief by local officials, appropriations from the court, and private donations, the heavy snowfall in Yuanhe Province did not cause public resentment, and the people still relied on the court.
This result made Sheng Hong feel better.
As long as there's no trouble.
He was very happy again. Fortunately, he had forced out many officials who could do practical things, which saved him a lot of worry.
Otherwise, he would be tossing and turning right now.
Looking at the situation in the past few years, if Dasheng had not had his strange policies, how many refugees would there have been?
When he came up with a strange question, his father didn't support him very much. He thought it was a bit ridiculous and it was too much to force the world's scholars.
Scholars are already very tired from studying the Four Books, Five Classics, Three Histories and Three Biography. They also have to study how to deal with disasters and judge cases. This is too energy-consuming.
But facts have proven that his policy on strange topics is right.
Human potential is forced out.
Many scholars in the world have met his requirements.
As long as the local officials do not make mistakes in dealing with this kind of natural disaster that affects the people in the same place, the great prosperity will be stable.
On weekdays, local officials just accept some bribes and make some unjust, false, and wrongful convictions, but that won't cause big public dissatisfaction.
He is so wise.
After praising himself, he became worried again when faced with the empty treasury.
Within a year, first there was a typhoon in Zhehai Province, and now there was heavy snowfall in Yuanhe Province. Although he could raise donations, the majority came from the national treasury.
No matter how full the national treasury is, it cannot withstand such torture.
Gotta save some money.
After thinking for two days, Sheng Hong made a new decision: next year's southern patrol will have no more than a hundred ships in the fleet.
There will be fewer nobles and officials accompanying them, fewer imperial troops, and fewer handymen. Even the transport ships can be saved a lot.
A little less here, a little less there, and all together, that would leave him with a lot of rations.
Moreover, in the past few years, natural disasters have continued, but he, the emperor, went out to play with great fanfare, which might arouse public outrage.
He had to keep a low profile, just like Sheng Jun, with fewer people and a simpler vehicle.
Sheng Hong's decision made Li Qiao dumbfounded.
He really didn't expect Sheng Hong to save money in this aspect.
But since Sheng Hong did this, everyone had no choice but to obey.
When the second prince saw this, he approached Sheng Hong again and wanted to accompany him south.
In Sheng Hong's third question, the second prince won the prize of Yuanhe Province.
But in order to show that he really has no interest in the throne, the second prince has been actively showing off. During the snowstorm in Yuanhe Province, the second prince only donated 10,000 taels of silver.
Now Sheng Hong has reduced the number of ships in order to save money, and the second prince said that if he is allowed to accompany him, he can bear half of the cost of the ships.
