Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 111 The Earth Dragon Turned Over

The aunt was doing nothing every day, and Liu Tao remembered the topic of grandma asking for a girl to serve her several times, so she said to grandma: "Grandma, didn't you say that you also need a little girl to serve you? Look at me." How about uncle, she is stronger than a little girl and her family is reliable, so I will follow you from now on... I will give her a tael of silver a month!" Of course grandma disagreed, but the topic of wanting a girl stopped there out of her mouth.

The messenger from Liangshan Port brought letters, and Luo Luo sent back an order for six pirate suitcases from Montenegro Port, each priced at [-] gold coins.Considering that the order will continue to increase in the future, Jin Yan drew up the size of the skeleton lining of the suitcase, and took it away with the samples of the sewing machine parts, so that overseas masters can customize it.

The weather in late February suddenly became much hotter than in previous years, almost the same as in mid-March in previous years. Minor earthquakes were frequent in the west of the capital. Peaches and plums are in full bloom in a large area of ​​five hundred miles away, and azaleas all over the mountain are also blooming like clouds. These peaches, plums and azaleas bloom nearly a month earlier than usual.

Jin Yang privately said to Liu Tao: "This is not a good omen. The peaches and plums bloom before the season, which violates the phenological law of the four seasons. If something goes wrong, it must be a demon. Is there something important happening in the country?"

Liu Tao did not have this knowledge, she said with a smile: "I remember an ancient legend, a certain arbitrary queen, on her birthday in winter, ordered all the flowers in the imperial garden to bloom on her birthday. , Those who disobey will be punished, except for the peony who is disobedient, all the other flowers are blooming...Is it possible that a queen is about to be born in the Daqian Kingdom, and the dynasty will change?"

Jin Li suddenly opened the door and looked outside the house, but there was no one outside.He turned his head and said to Liu Tao: "Little Taoer, be careful not to let the trouble come out of your mouth. It is impossible for the imperial court to be unaware of the large quantities of food we sent to Qinglang Country. Why didn't they come forward to stop it immediately? Why did the First Prince Ever since I looked for him with Brother Su's letter, he has never come to the mansion again? I gave gifts to the eldest prince years ago, but his things were accepted by others. He just shrugged off his busy schedule and refused to see me. You Do you think this is normal?"

"Brother Jin Yang, what you said makes sense. I think the Fourth Princess doesn't come to our mansion very often?"

"Therefore, we should be cautious in our words and deeds, so as not to let people with good intentions get caught. Having more money is not necessarily a good thing!"

Later, Jin Hao told everyone about the matter, strictly speaking about the topic of the court, and those who violated it would be expelled from the Jin Mansion.

On February 27th, the weather became even hotter. Geckos ran around outside the house, snakes and insects walked outside the yard and in the garden, and the black dragon and several paparazzi barked all night, disturbing people's minds.

At dawn the next day, the mountain shook suddenly, the earth shook like chaff, the light in the sky flickered, and the whole family woke up from their sleep and ran into the yard.

Jin Hao understood that after such a long period of gestation, the huge energy stored in the ground was finally released. The opening of those peaches and plums that violated the phenology was actually caused by the violent activity of underground magma, which led to the rise in ground temperature.They checked the damage in the mansion, only two houses were crooked, and a courtyard wall collapsed about [-] steps away, but no casualties were caused.The piers outside the mansion were all newly built, and none of them collapsed, and some of them were only mildly cracked.

On the third day, Liangshan Port Lu Run sent a messenger to send news that a mild tsunami occurred in Liangshan Port, and the houses and dock warehouses in the low-lying areas of the port were extensively damaged. Some dock ships were hit ashore as long as they were on the front of the tide Most of the houses on the street collapsed, and hundreds of people were lost. The exact number is still being investigated.

Because the own wharf is at the corner of the entrance and exit of the port, and the warehouse is also because of the higher terrain, there is no big loss.The ships stored in Yazui Port and obtained from pirates did not suffer any loss due to the narrow entrance and exit of the port.

The most severely damaged property of the Jin family was in Yantian. More than one-third of the small river wharf was damaged by the impact of the high tide. One of the three small boats was damaged by the impact, and the whereabouts of two are unknown.The ditch where the two took pleasure in collecting seawater accumulated a large amount of sea sand and shells, and it was difficult to recover in ten and a half months.The most severely damaged were the seven crystallization pools by the sea, and six low-lying houses, which could not resume production in a short time...

Jin Yang went to Yantian the next day to inspect the disaster situation. Seven people in Yanchi suffered the most serious losses, and the waves have basically calmed down.There were five on this side of the creek, two on the other side were scrapped, and the other five were also damaged to varying degrees, accounting for nearly two-thirds.

Jin Yang saw that these pools were too close to the sea, and the next time there was a tsunami, it would still be unstoppable.He didn't let them continue to rebuild, and even moved the house to the higher level.

The saltworks near the saltfields are all close to the sea, so they suffered even greater losses, and some even suffered casualties and disappearances... This shows that the power of nature cannot be stopped by manpower.

The loss of the imperial court was even greater. Seven hundred miles northwest of Beijing, the earth turned upside down, the mountains took off their pants (a large-scale landslide), hundreds of thousands of houses were overturned, and the rivers and lakes cracked and burst. Millions of people, countless casualties.The drought in Northwest China was already severe last year, but this time it is even worse.The disaster area is still close to the Xi Fan Kingdom, and a large area of ​​the Xi Fan Kingdom was also affected by the disaster. Their land is long and narrow, and the victims have difficulty walking to their capital and mountain roads.

Jin Yang begged to see the eldest prince, and expressed his willingness to give 1 taels of silver to help the victims. In addition, let the fast boat go to the Heishui River to intercept the grain transport ship to the Northland. It is urgent to deal with the urgent needs of the country.After the food was counted by the officials at the own dock, it was directly loaded into the car and sent to the northwest of Beijing for emergency treatment. This time it was a selfless dedication.After unloading and then going to the south to load the grain, it is time to collect the money from the court.

Unexpectedly, the captain Xie Ji sent someone to pick up the silver and bring news, this time the officials followed the boat to buy grain again.Jin Zhe felt a "thump" in his heart, and guessed that the officials had obtained the order of the eldest prince or the court, so he told the visitor: "Even if you take the silver taels to collect grain, if you collect enough for a boat, you must listen to the officials. As for the money, just unload the goods."

He and Liu Tao said privately: "It seems that the imperial court is eyeing our family, let's talk about it when the disaster is over."

Refugees from the northwest flooded into the capital one after another with their children. Fuzong ordered the opening of granaries and eight porridge shops at the four gates of the capital to relieve the refugees, and mobilized grain from granaries across the country.As soon as the governments in the south saw the large amount of grain purchased by the Jin government, they sold a large amount of old grain in stock, hoping to make up for it with new grain next year, and there would be no surplus for the farmers' own use. Therefore, within five or six hundred miles, there were no Food can be allocated.When Shangguan asked about it, he said that the Jinfu had taken it away. Although it was understandable to clear the storehouse for new grain, and there was still silver, it was not considered corruption, but it exposed the Jinfu to the sun.

Captain Xie Ji reported back the news and said: "Due to the huge demand for grain, the price of grain in the south has also risen sharply. In addition, the grain in the south granary has been sold to Jinfu in large quantities, which is worth millions of catties. A large number, it is estimated that this news has been reported to the imperial court."

The two felt the seriousness of the matter, and Jin Yan said to Liu Tao: "We should take the initiative to attack. If we don't take proactive measures, it will be bad if we are passive."

"Then take the initiative to find the First Prince."

When they went to meet the eldest prince, the eldest prince let his servants block their drive and avoid him. After several times, the two of them felt that the matter was more serious than they had estimated.

At this time, more refugees flooded in from the capital, including many refugees from the Western Feudal Kingdom. Because the porridge shops were too few and the quality of the porridge was poor, the refugees often crowded and trampled and clashed with the aborigines. .

The refugees couldn't get enough to eat. In order to get food, they ran around begging from house to house, and even stole people's courtyards and houses.Dock guys lose things when they can't see them.Especially food, he snatched your food and stuffed it into his mouth, you kicked him hard from behind, he still held the food and swallowed it, as if he hit someone else.

Jin Yan told Zhao Zhong: "There are too many refugees now, so there is a lot of room for selection. You secretly look at those who have a private school background, those who are kind-hearted and strong, and who are not too ugly to choose a group of young boys and girls. Let them do odd jobs at the dock first, and then let them enter the mansion as internal employees after further screening."

Facing the current crisis, Jin Yan Liutao didn't want to sit still and could only behave well in front of the court.Jin Hao contacted Lu Run and asked him to tell Fan Tong that whenever two overseas Chidou ships arrive at Hong Kong, one of the Chidou ships will be sent to the capital, or two ships will be shipped from the capital city, and two ships will be shipped from Yajing Port. .

At the same time, I contacted Captain Kobe of Venus and asked them to bring in red beans from overseas. Depending on the wind direction, if they can go to Yajing Port, they will go north to Yajing Port to unload, and if they can come to Jinfu Wharf, they will come to Jinfu Wharf to unload.It is definitely not as profitable as pouring other goods in this way, but Jin Li agreed to them; all the shortfalls will be made up by Jinfu.If you don't want gold and silver, you can go to Yantian to buy equivalent salt directly, and the price is also discounted.

The Jin Mansion also opened a porridge shop outside its own store in the capital at the right time, and opened three outside the south gate. Together, more than 100 large pots were cooking porridge at the same time, which greatly relieved the pressure on the refugees in the capital. The imperial court solved the problem, so there was no great turmoil in the capital because of the refugees.

At the time of the national crisis, Fuzong was concerned about the refugee issue. Nearly a quarter of the country's population was affected by the disaster. In addition to the influx of refugees from the Western Feudal Kingdom, the number was too large.In the porridge shop in the capital, he got up in the morning and put in [-] to [-] catties of grain, and there was nothing left to eat at night. The treasury was empty, and he was very anxious.He worries about the stability of the country and the feeding of the refugees every day, even to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. In addition, he is old and in poor health, and his health is deteriorating.

In the first midnight of one night, I discussed with the eldest prince and several close officials about the next step to step up the strategy of raising food all over the country, and then it was reported that the two ships of Jinfu with a total of 12 catties of red beans arrived at the Jinfu wharf, and they will be ready tomorrow. Transported into various porridge shops, 12 catties solved the urgent need of the court's red beans.Hearing that the follow-up red beans from Jinfu were still shipped overseas soon, Fuzong fell into a deep sleep as soon as he let go of the things he had been worrying about all along.In the second half of the night, when the cloudy air was at its heaviest and the people on duty around him were dozing off, he quietly drove west. When someone found out, the body was completely cold.

(End of this chapter)