The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1256
Changsha Palace of the Great Song Dynasty.

There is another happy event.

Concubine Duan concubine Yue Wu gave birth to a prince for the emperor, named Zhao Tai.

Although it can be said that Zhao Dongting has been working hard for the sailing teams of various continents recently, the succession of happy events always put a smile on his face.

Zhao Tai, Zhao Tai, and Zhao Dongting chose this name for the child born to Yue Wu, which means that the country of the Song Dynasty will be peaceful and the people will be safe.At the same time, it also has the intention of praying for the sailing teams from all continents to go to sea smoothly.

After these days of management, the sailing teams of all continents are almost formed.

Except for the voyages to Australia that had only [-] large ships, the African, South American, and European voyages all had as many as [-] large ships.

And the North American sailing team formed long ago even has hundreds of large ships.

Speaking of which, this is not such a huge amount.But in fact, this is almost what Zhao Dongting devoted all of Song's power to.

He was also under a lot of pressure to form the nautical team while forming the navy.

There are a total of more than [-] large ships on the five continents.With so many ships, a navy of nearly [-] people can already be formed.

The five sailing teams have a combined number of [-].

And this is just the "advanced army" that Zhao Dongting intends to initially open up the situation in the states.

In order to develop the Song Dynasty's economy and expand its influence in the world, Zhao Dongting has worked hard.

North American ambassador Wu Sanhai, African ambassador Li Fanghua, European ambassador Lin Chong, and Australian ambassador Yu Linglong, and recently they had a sudden whim and shamelessly wanted to go to sea, so they were appointed as South American ambassadors by Zhao Dongting, but they deliberately sent two stable young officials Wu Amiao, his deputy.All of these were carefully considered by Zhao Dongting and observed secretly.

Except for Wu Amiao who is a little unreliable, Li Fanghua, Lin Chong and Yu Linglong are the nautical ambassadors, which is not a high burden.

In the blink of an eye, nearly two months passed.

It's almost the end of the year.

It was freezing cold.

It's just that this year's winter was quite violent when it first arrived, and it was much colder than before.

This made Zhao Dongting and the officials in the court a little worried.

Since Zhao Dongting ascended the throne, the weather has never been so weird this year.

The dry season lasts so long that almost no drought happened.Now, this winter is coming quite quickly again.

If it wasn't for Zhao Dongting's efforts to develop people's livelihood these years, every family would have more or less food surplus, at this time, there might have been refugees.

Zhao Dongting originally focused on the sailing teams of the various continents, but at this moment, he did not dare to ignore this rather abnormal weather.

Inside the imperial study.

There are earth dragons laid on the ground, so it looks quite warm.

But outside it was snowy.

It has been snowing for a few days, and now the snow in many places in the palace can reach half a person's waist.

Zhao Dongting was naturally not the kind of person who didn't know the sufferings of the people, and his brows were always deeply frowned when he watched the memorials passed down from various places.

This cold current came so fast that it swept through the five roads of Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, and Jingnan South Road.

The Wulu territory is extremely cold.

And this is already half of the Song Dynasty.

Although the Jiedu envoys from all walks of life did not say in the memorials that there was a risk of food shortage, it would be hard to say if the weather continued like this.

No one knows how long this cold snap will last.

Even if it continues to be so cold, even if the people have surplus food in their homes, they will freeze to death even if they freeze.

Leaving aside other places, Zhao Dongting, who lives in the palace, knows that the price of charcoal in Changsha City has skyrocketed these days.

Even so, it is still far from being in short supply.

The process of making charcoal is quite complicated and time-consuming. If this continues, even if you have money, you will not be able to buy charcoal in Changsha.

Open the window, and a cold wind blows in.Zhao Dongting rubbed his hands, and said to Li Goudan next to him, "Goudan, go and invite some adults from the Ministry of State to come over."

Li Goudan, who was wiping at the side, hurriedly agreed, and went to order outside the imperial study.

Zhao Dongting closed the window and continued to review the memorial.

With his cultivation base, he is not afraid of the cold, but not everyone in the world has his cultivation base.

At this moment, he even had some worries, if the weather continued to be cold, would it cause some people to freeze to death.

Of course it wasn't what he wanted to see.

As an emperor, he expanded the territory and developed the people's livelihood in order for the people to have enough food and clothing.

Now that Da Song is thriving, but in the face of such a natural disaster, the road is frozen to death, so what?
"hiss!"

When Li Goudan walked in again, his little face was flushed red, completely frozen, he rubbed his hands, stomped his feet, and couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, it's really cold today."

Zhao Dongting raised his head, nodded and said, "It's cold..."

He has never experienced such a cold since he traveled to the Great Song Dynasty, not even in his previous life.It was a few degrees below zero.

In the previous life, when there was an air conditioner, as long as the temperature dropped below zero, it would make people feel cold.Zhao Dongting really didn't know how the people of Song Dynasty suffered at home.

If he doesn't take any measures, it may be too late.

Some time later, Lu Xiufu, Chen Wenlong and others went to the imperial study.

They were all old, and all of them were flushed with cold.

This made Zhao Dongting feel a little guilty.

He hurriedly asked Li Goudan to make tea, and said: "It's such a cold weather, it's really hard for you all to come here."

Lu Xiufu and the others just shook their heads.

Immediately, Lu Xiufu was quite worried and said: "Your Majesty, even if you don't announce to see us, we will come to ask to see you."

"Is it because of the weather?"

Zhao Dongting sighed softly, "I have just read the memorials from various places. The weather this year is indeed extremely abnormal. The court should make preparations immediately. This should have been something I should have thought of long ago. I didn’t pay attention to it, but I was negligent. If the people suffer because of this, it is my fault, and it is the fault of the court.”

Lu Xiufu frowned, "Then, do you have a good idea, Your Majesty?"

It's not that he hasn't discussed this matter with Chen Wenlong and others, but obviously, there is no good way to deal with it.

Under the conditions of this era, it is extremely difficult to resist natural disasters.

Floods can still be prevented by opening up river courses and so on.But in the face of droughts, ice disasters, etc., it really can only stare blankly.

In the past dynasties, such things were not rare.

During droughts, it is not uncommon for Lu to starve to death.Then it caused a plague, and even caused the death of tens of millions of people. It is not unheard of.

During the ice disaster, various places are barren, and people often die of starvation and freezing, which is also rare.

Although such abnormal weather is rare, as long as it occurs, it will be a disaster for the whole world.

Throughout the years since the Song Dynasty moved its capital to Jiankang, there has never been a successful experience of resisting natural disasters.

Listening to Lu Xiufu's question, Zhao Dongting slightly raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you resist such natural disasters in the past?"

Lu Xiufu clasped his hands and replied: "When I was still young, such a catastrophe also happened, and this incident is still recorded in the history books. It was also extremely cold that year like this year, and people starved to death, The people who froze to death, countless refugees went to the major cities in order to avoid disasters. At that time, the holy majesty ordered the states to set up safe houses, and collected charcoal and other things in the whole city, so that the people in the safe houses could not be frozen to death. But This matter, in the end, is still nothing.”

"It's over?"

Zhao Dongting hadn't seen this historical fact, and asked in surprise, "Why didn't it go away?"

Lu Xiufu smiled wryly and said: "At that time, there were said to be millions of refugees. The Anmin Institute established by those state capitals could not afford to support them. Not only were there no supplies of charcoal and other items, but food and other items were also not enough at all. Food. In the end, all the state capitals had no choice but to settle down to their destiny, and let those refugees find their own way out. It is rumored that some state government officials even prayed for this, but they were not received by heaven. Etc. The natural disasters have finally passed, and people's grievances are everywhere, the people don't have enough to eat, they don't have enough clothes, and countless people have become bandits."

Zhao Dongting pondered deeply, "Such a thing must never happen under my rule."

He suddenly realized that Da Song was really fragile now.At least, this is the case in the face of natural disasters.

(End of this chapter)