Ancestor Bless: I built a thousand-year-old family

Chapter 532: Natural Disasters Have Evil Orders!
The roaring flood destroyed everything, and countless good fields were submerged in it, and countless people were displaced.

Looking down from the sky, on the plain in Guanzhong, crowds of people flocked past.

The people passed by the counties in groups, and some people fell to the ground from time to time. This scene makes it hard to believe that this is Guanzhong.

Among these fleeing people, there are also many small landlords who used to be the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty. They are merciless. When the land is swept away by the flood, everything that their ancestors have struggled for for generations is instantly emptied!
"Go to the county, there is food in the treasury."

"Go to the county, where there are military supplies."

The voices of countless people resounded on the land of Guanzhong. They lost everything and had no one to rely on. They could only rely on the imperial court. Only the cities of counties and counties had food, so they couldn't just starve to death here.

Floods are more terrifying than severe droughts. Severe droughts are a gradual process. The court can still roughly control the personnel and disperse them as much as possible. However, floods are sudden disasters, and people will avoid the places where the floods pass.

Finally, the current gathering situation is formed.

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"The prime minister has been here?"

It was not until the second day that Liu Yang recovered from his fatigue and left the palace. The eunuch hurried forward to report the previous incident.

Liu Yang was startled, he didn't expect the prime minister to come here in the heavy rain, when he heard the news that Guanzhong was really flooded, he felt blackness in front of his eyes, which was what he was always worried about.

Liu Yang was very annoyed at the behavior of the eunuchs who did not report, but just as the eunuchs expected, with a few words from Long Qing, the emperor let the matter go.

As for the prime minister's behavior, he also lightly exposed it as if it didn't happen.

The flood in Guanzhong caused a huge disaster and dealt a major blow to the order of production and life in the Guanzhong Plain.

Such a huge disaster, for the imperial court living in Guanzhong, is even a crisis that may overthrow the country.

And this is not the first time Guanzhong has been affected by a disaster, and people's hearts are already very impetuous.

If the disaster relief is not timely, the disaster relief will soon turn into chaos!
At that time, it was not people who ate food, but soldiers who ate food and then killed people.

A decree was sent out from the palace soon, and the emperor clearly expressed his attitude, and for the first time responded positively to the court's standard approach to natural disasters.

"I heard that in ancient times, when the monarch was wise and virtuous, and the ministers were loyal and talented, the world would be stable, yin and yang were in harmony, the weather was always smooth, and the sun and the moon appeared in their proper positions.

When there are monsters in the country, disasters will happen.

I heard that the heavens do not want to destroy the dynasty whose destiny has come, so they will send down evil spirits to warn the king and ministers.

This is what Su Wang said, "The country is about to perish, and there will be evildoers." '

This is for the respectful reflection of the king and his ministers.

Now that there is a flood in Guanzhong, isn't this a warning from the heavens?
You ministers must not slack off, we must find out the cause of the disaster.

In the first year of Lingyou, a blizzard fell in Liaodong, an earthquake occurred in Guanzhong, and even the ancestral mausoleum leaked. At that time, there was a plague of locusts in Yuzhou, and now there is a flood in Guanzhong.

This is the fate of the big man reminding me, I am very worried.

Years of famines, Xuancheng's savings are being consumed. I heard that the faces of the people outside Chang'an are disheveled. How sad it is.

I hoped for a good harvest in Guanzhong, so that the people in Guanzhong could solve their hunger, but the floods destroyed the farmland and cut off the people's harvest.

Ministers, what can you do about this?

If there is, don't hide it, just tell me face to face, and the monarch and ministers can be honest with each other, so that the society of the great man can be cheered up.

I am here to tell you all your ministers that my servant Longqing proposed to me, 'I should send envoys to the various counties in Guanzhong.

Go to condolences to the people who have been hit by the flood, and visit the elderly and the widowed and lonely.

Open the treasury, mountains, forests and lakes belonging to the royal family, let the people freely go fishing, hunting, picking fruits, etc., and hand over the fertile but vacant land to the poor for farming. '

I think Long Shizhong's opinion is right, I am the father of the people, it is the emperor's fault that they can't survive.

I need such a proposal, and all ministers can also make it.

I thought that all counties in Guanzhong that suffered disasters should be exempted from taxes for the past two years to let them know that the court has not forgotten them.

I heard that scholars have misunderstood my servants, which is not conducive to harmonious relations.

Su Wang said in "The Way of Kings" that "the ministers of the thigh and arm are in harmony, and everything in the world is not worrying." Now my close servants and ministers are not in harmony. Isn't this something that makes the father sad?
This can no longer be the case!
I will announce it according to these, so that everyone in the world will know what I mean. "

Liu Yang's meaning is obvious. The reason why there are so many disasters now must be the birth of evildoers. There may be something wrong with me as the emperor.

Natural disasters are beyond our control, but it is possible to deal with the consequences of natural disasters. If this cannot be done, then it is time to get out.

The emperor's decree was promulgated by the imperial government on the one hand, and directly promulgated by the embroidered clothes on the other hand, and it was promulgated directly in the places where the refugees gathered. The effect achieved is still very good.

At least immediately appease the emotions of many refugees, diverting the people's attention away from the royal family.

Encouraging the poor to farm in the royal land is actually a bit like Habayashi's orphan. Later generations have the so-called Huangzhuang, which is actually a relationship of personal attachment.

The identity of these common people has changed from Han commoners to the emperor's private tenant farmers, and they can directly enter the emperor's internal treasury instead of taking royal taxes.

Even without mentioning any political benefits brought about by the close relationship with the royal family, the difference in taxation alone is exciting, because there are no middlemen like officials to exploit, even if the tax is several times heavier, the final result Huangzhuang is still taxed lightly, and there is no corvee for a showdown at will.

This is the reason why many common people would rather become tenants of the wealthy family and become a "non-existent person" than to become a commoner of the imperial court.

The problem of royal prestige was solved, but there was a problem with the court's handling of the flood, because the court was about to lose its ability to deal with the flood after continuous natural disasters.

As stated in the emperor's imperial edict, the continuous natural disasters made the people's faces look pale. In fact, it was precisely because the court did not have enough food.

The imperial treasury always has to keep a part of the food, especially the military supply warehouse.

If there is a rebellion in the Kanto and the barbarians from all sides invade, and the court has no food to prepare for the army, then it really deserves to die.

Natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years, and Siyi's life is also difficult, especially after the heavy snowfall in Liaodong, those Donghu tribes who once surrendered to the Han will fight fiercely with the Han from time to time.

They hold the idea of ​​grabbing things if they can, and consuming people if they can't grab them. It can be said that they are not afraid of death, which makes Hanting quite miserable.

One side is the life of the people, and the other is the life of the court, there is no right or wrong, the only thing that can be done is a fierce fire battle!

The imperial court selected the good families in those counties, especially those who were born in the army and had participated in the conscription, and then severely cracked down on the remaining non-imperial united front targets, such as local ruffians, which were regarded as hidden dangers by the imperial court.

The land of Guanzhong, which had just experienced the flood, soon ushered in a wave of blood. The army sent by the imperial court suppressed it without hesitation. rout.

After the established refugee organization was broken up, they quickly gathered and screamed among the mountains and forests in Guanzhong, and became a long-standing profession-thief!
Commonly known as bandits!

There are not too many bandit organizations in Guanzhong. In the Kanto region, because of the previous natural disasters and the serious land annexation by the powerful, there are too many bandits in the mountains.

There are hundreds of people at least, and even tens of thousands of people. Some of these people do not do production, but only make a living by plundering, and some farm on small pieces of land in the mountains, just like an independent kingdom.

The Han court kept secret about these people, because it would remind people that in the past, Emperor Gao, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, also led a group of people who could not survive to exile in the mountains.

In the end, he led those ordinary people out of the mountains to rise up and overthrow the Qin Dynasty!

Will now be the second Qin Dynasty?

People of insight have seen the ills of the world, but they also believe that the world today does not have the chaos of the end of Qin Dynasty. "At the time of Emperor Li Dan, there were millions of refugees in the Kanto. , but if you look closely, it’s not very much.”

This is the floating of people's hearts.

There are enthusiastic scholars trying to solve this problem, and then quickly return to land annexation, the contradiction between population and land.

The ancients were only limited by history, and there was no difference in wisdom. The disadvantages of land annexation were very clear, and scholars of various schools began to clamor to solve the problem of land annexation.

Some radical scholars even said directly: "The poor are not allowed to live, the omen of Qin's demise, the tyranny of the emperor was done by one person, the land was annexed, and the world did it!
Filial Emperor's misfortune, Xiaoxuan can be prosperous!Who can save the disaster in the world? "

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Guanzhong is weak, and the people are sharp knives, sighing and saying: "The "Poetry" says: All the people are mourning and crawling to save them.

Why did Tianhan face each other with swords and soldiers. "

An envoy was sent to ask about it, and the county officials and officials came in and said: "Jie and Zhou are tyrannical, and the people are unbearable, so they use swords and soldiers to reform.

Now Your Majesty is benevolent and has done his best, but he still cannot live. This is the death of heaven, not the country's crime. "

In Shangmoran, among the counties in Guanzhong, there are many bandits and robbers, just like Guandong. ——"Hanshu·Mourning the Emperor"

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