The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 146
Fortunately, they met their masters, who led them to grow sweet potatoes and make money. Their life was much better than other places, but how many people still have no food in this world.

"Do you know Avalokitesvara?" Su Tang asked Yingyue who was chattering beside her.

"What is that? Is it the mud we stepped on?" Yingyue tilted her head and asked.

"It's a kind of white soil. Some people are so hungry that they will find that kind of soil to eat to satisfy their hunger. It's okay to eat less.
When they could only eat Avalokitesvara soil every day, they couldn't get out if they ate too much, and each of them suffocated their stomachs as if they were pregnant in October, and finally they were suffocated to death by the Avalokitesvara soil in their stomachs. " Su Tang said.

Yingyue almost doubted her own ears when she heard it, and asked Su Tang with wide eyes, "How can you eat the soil? They know they will be suffocated by the soil, so why do they want to eat it?"

"Because I'm hungry, people are extremely hungry, and they are irrational. They stuff everything into their stomachs with red eyes." An old man walked beside them.

Hearing the content of their chat, he interjected, "I experienced a drought when I was young. I was only a teenager at that time. As the village owner said, it is really a thousand miles away, let alone wild vegetables.

They can't even find a root of green grass, so people gnaw on the bark. After the bark is finished, they eat Guanyin soil. They know that if they eat too much, they will die, but they still want to eat it. They always feel that one more day of life is their hope. "

"Didn't the court release food for disaster relief whenever there was a disaster? How could it be as miserable as you said?" Yingyue was startled when she heard that, and asked the old man next to her.

When she was in the palace, she often heard that wherever there was a drought or flood, people would be sent to relieve the disaster.

"We ordinary people don't know whether the relief food is not disaster relief food. I only know that the severe drought lasted for nearly half a year. People began to flee to places where there was food. In the end, people were so hungry that they lost their humanity. In the middle of the night, they were often smelled of barbecue. Wake up,
When the people smelled the meat, they cried one by one with sullen heads, and they kept crying, one infected the other, and the crying could be connected together. "The old uncle kept wiping away his tears when he recalled those years.

"Where did the meat come from? Didn't the dry ones eat Guanyin soil? How come there is still meat to eat?" Yingyue blinked suspiciously, and Su Tang shook her head helplessly on one side. Yingyue grew up without worrying about food and clothing. How can you know the suffering in the world.

"Yeah, at that time, where could I find meat to eat? The only meat that couldn't be eaten was human flesh. There were piles of dead people on the side of the road. You could eat as much as you wanted." The old uncle's voice was full of vicissitudes, as if thinking about it now That scene still haunts me.

Speaking of human flesh, Yingyue watched the old uncle's stomach tumbling, that scene was quite scary just thinking about it.

Seeing that Yingyue and Su Tang were looking at him, the old uncle quickly explained, "Don't look at me, I don't eat human flesh. At that time, there were rich people who were afraid of being robbed on the way to escape, so they recruited a large number of people to protect their safety and security. Food, take care of the food, I was chosen, so I didn't starve to death,
However, when the food for the wealthy households was slowly exhausted, they suffered a lot later, and they were considered to be in a place with mountains and rivers. "

The old uncle looked at Su Tang for a while, "Master, there is something I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Tell me." Su Tang motioned.

"I went shopping in the city two days ago, and I heard businessmen from the south chatting on the street, saying that the weather in the south is a bit different,
He said that the wind blows there all day long, during the day and at night, and that it always thunders but never rains. It reminds me of two proverbs handed down from the severe drought decades ago, saying that the sky is dry and the night wind blows, He also said that thunder in the drought is a precursor to a severe drought. "

Su Tang was clever, and looked at the old man's serious question, "Really?"

Yanyang City is located in the east of Leng'an, bordering the Kingdom of Chenyang to the north, and the interior of Leng'an to the west. In the direction of the imperial city, it borders on the Kingdom of Xizhao to the south.

If what he said is true, if there is a drought in the south, I don't know whether it is in the territory of Xizhao Kingdom or Leng'an Kingdom, and how large the area of ​​the drought will be, will it affect Yanyang City.

A minor disaster or a major disaster, if it is a major disaster, Su Tang is helpless, the matter of disaster relief has to be resolved by the court, and she can't take care of every little Yanyang city.

It's just that post-disaster epidemics and drought will reduce the area of ​​rivers and lakes, and the exposed low-lying land will provide suitable places for locusts to lay eggs.

In addition, locusts reproduce rapidly, and locust plagues are particularly prone to occur after droughts. It is said that locusts cross the border without leaving any grass, which makes her have to be cautious.

The old man grimaced, "I also hope it's fake, but the businessman said on the street that the weather over there was too similar to that before the drought when I was a child, and I was afraid, so I wanted to find a chance Tell the village master, it’s best if it’s fake, and if it’s real, you should be prepared.”

"I see, I will take care of what you said." Su Tang said.

It would be best if there were no disasters. If there was a drought, even if it was only for a few months, the grain would not be harvested for a season, and the people would starve to death.

Under the heavy taxation, they have no surplus food at all, only enough for the family to eat. Once there is no harvest in the field, they will soon have to starve.

If the drought continued for two years, judging from her situation with Leng Anguo's treasury, she would probably be powerless for disaster relief.

In the end, the victims in the south can only be left to fend for themselves, and the fleeing of the victims will definitely cause turmoil.

Although the old man's one-sided words can't be defined randomly, but this kind of thing is not afraid of [-], just in case, once it happens, thousands of lives will be lost.

Su Tang went back and hurriedly wrote a letter for Lu He to send to Liu Zhonglin, asking him to inquire more and more carefully from the businessmen from the south. If the situation is true, she should make preparations earlier.

Now that Leng'an has domestic and foreign troubles, if there is another catastrophe, it will be a big trouble. I hope she is making a big fuss, and there is only a lack of rain recently, or a small drought.

Su Tang waited anxiously for two days, and finally got a response from Liu Zhonglin, saying that there was indeed a lack of rain in the south recently, some small rivers had dried up, and the water level of the big rivers had dropped.

But it's not a complete lack of rain, and there will be showers from time to time. It's quite far away from us, and it may not affect our side.

Drought is not a sudden disaster. It starts with symptoms and continues to be short of water but not completely without water.

It may last for a few months or even a year or two. This situation is not serious, and it may rain suddenly someday.

It is also possible that the rain will gradually disappear, and the land will be dry and cracked, and no grass will grow.

But no matter how severe the drought in the south is, no matter whether it will affect this side or not, Su Tang decided to lead the people to plant a large amount of crops.

In this era when food is never enough, food in hand is more useful than money in hand.

(End of this chapter)