Chapter 311 Drought

"But since I didn't notice it, he must have been very well behaved and didn't cause any trouble."

Otherwise, she would have noticed.

"Yeah." Song Jingyun nodded, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curve, "The King of Yue knows how to restrain his sharpness."

The trends in the back house are usually consistent with the trends in the officialdom.

The Crown Princess of Yue was able to do this because she was restricted by the Yue Palace.

Jiang Michia understood this truth, but was also curious, "Is something going to happen?"

"About that, but it's still early and there's still time." Song Jingyun said with a smile, "If we prepare properly, everything will be fine."

"This matter is of great importance and cannot be disclosed to the outside world." Song Jingyun warned.

"I understand." Jiang Michia said.

Keeping your mouth shut is the most important thing, and Jiang Michia knows the powerful relationship between it.

In July, it was extremely hot and muggy in the hot summer weather.

Since the arrival of the dog days, not a single rain has fallen. The sun is like a fireball, scorching the entire earth every day, as if it wants to dry out the entire earth before it stops.

Continuous heat and drought have wilted many summer crops, and farmers have had to start diverting water from ditches and wells to irrigate their fields.

Soon, the water in the ditches became less and less, and the water level in the capital became deeper and deeper, but the various crops in the fields became increasingly wilted.

In some places, riverbeds have even bottomed out, and there is no water for irrigating farmland. People are beginning to worry about drinking water.

Some places have also begun to leave their homes and flee to other places due to drought...

Suddenly, refugees fled in all directions and the place was unstable.

The imperial court began to allocate funds for disaster relief, and the prince sent capable ministers to take charge of the matter to rescue the victims and maintain stability among the people.

However, the scope of the disaster was quite large, and the amount of money and food allocated was far from enough. The prince began to summon court officials and called on famous families to donate money and materials to jointly provide disaster relief.

At this time, Jiang Junli was the first to stand up, and without hesitation handed over all the boxes of jewelry that he had dug out from Guanghua Garden to use as disaster relief expenses for the court.

They even took out all the food from the grain stores in other places of the Jiang family and set up porridge sheds to help the victims.

With Jiang Junli as an example, other aristocratic families naturally refused to lag behind and stepped forward one after another.

The rich contributed money, the powerful contributed, and everyone worked together to survive this disaster.

However, while His Royal Highness and everyone were doing their best to resist the drought, rumors spread quietly in the capital.

"There haven't been any floods or droughts in many years. What happened this year? The drought is so severe. Could it be that God wants to punish us people?"

"We ordinary people have never done anything wrong. God punished us for whatever we did without any reason. What's wrong is that some people did some heinous things. God couldn't stand it, so he got angry."

"According to what you say, God is going to punish him. What is the purpose of punishing the common people?"

"Don't you understand this? Who makes God angry when they make mistakes?"

"You mean, God doesn't like the current emperor?"

"That's for sure, but the emperor has not been involved in affairs for many years, and the prince is now responsible for all affairs of the court. It seems that the father and son have made God unhappy, so God is angry!"