Chapter 51 Snow Disaster
Two feet thick snow is not only beautiful, but also extremely destructive.
If the preparation is not sufficient, the snow will not only block the road, but will also put considerable pressure on the house. Perhaps as long as half the weight, the roof of the thatched house can be broken, and the tiled house is not worthy of pride. The heavy snow layer still has a chance to win.
In catastrophic weather, all people's houses are being tested, and most people will eventually become losers.
The worst thing is that Shaonan in normal years is not a region with heavy snow, so the snowflakes that sprinkle during the New Year holidays cause the most terrible thing - snow disaster.
The village houses outside the city were more damaged, but their experience over the years has enabled them to learn to save themselves. At this time, even the stingy aristocrats would open their manor and put them into homeless refugees.
Citizens in the city will have more problems. Most of them rely on the food transported from the city to live, rely on the firewood supplied outside the city to keep warm, and the road is blocked due to heavy snow. In addition, many grain and rice shops closed due to the New Year holiday, the lives of countless people will suddenly become problems. If the houses collapse again, most of them have to stay in temples and other public institutions, and Dajue Temple in the west of the city is one of them.
However, those who have not experienced the test of snow disasters have the straw sheds temporarily built according to their usual experiences, which are completely unable to withstand the heavy pressure of the snow layer.
Just a quarter of an hour ago, a straw hut failed. 40 people were buried in the snow. By the time they were dug out, more than 20 people had been frozen.
The soaring rice prices and the soaring heating costs - thinking of his situation in recent days, people who were eager to vent their anger immediately pointed their finger at the prefect's office. A large group of citizens, carrying the so-called onlookers, rushed a team of a small number of yamen runners to pieces...
In fact, the government did not do anything in vain. At least a few days ago, Cheng Yunan started his normal office. He also received a notice and directed the disaster relief activities to proceed slowly, but their speed was obviously not satisfactory to the disaster victims. Especially when several avenues outside Shaonan City were blocked due to heavy snow, the prefecture that lost its supplies could do even less.
Listening to the loud shouts outside, Cheng Jinzhou suddenly became anxious. The Cheng family mansion was not far from the yamen. If something happened, disaster might not happen alone.
At this time, the advantages of the small courtyard were reflected. Although there were people who made trouble while taking advantage of the chaos, few people came to such a poor residential area. Cheng Jinzhou rushed out of the door and ordered: "Mengda prepares the horse, let's go back."
"Your horse can't run." Liu Kuang calmly grabbed Cheng Jinzhou and looked ahead and said, "Look at the situation before talking."
This is almost the riot of citizens. The first word that popped up in Cheng Jinzhou's mind was "Bastil", followed by a string of heads cut off during the French Revolution, including the poor Lavoisier, the smartest chemist in human history.
Thinking of this, Cheng Jinzhou calmed down, grabbed Liu Kuang's sleeve with his back hand and said, "Hisser Liu Kuang, do you have a solution?"
"The Cheng family has its own astrology warlock, it doesn't matter." Liu Kuang patted Cheng Jinzhou's hand and comforted him.
He did not take the situation seriously. The political situation of the Daxia Dynasty was still stable, but after all, it has been established for hundreds of years and has always been inevitable for some emergencies.
It is personal to Cheng Jinzhou, which is easy to think of bad aspects. The urban riots he knows, let alone a few mortar-like astral warlocks, even if the bayonets aggravate the cannon, the emperor was still caught. But it was useless to urge him. Seeing that Liu Kuang was not concerned about his own affairs, perhaps even if he really rebelled, he would leave.
This attitude made Cheng Jinzhou extremely disappointed. When he saw true feelings in times of crisis, the astral warlocks were not as noble as he imagined and were enthusiastic about public welfare. They were also glamorous on the outside but dark on the inside.
More than a dozen knights guarding the outer courtyard were all worn, but except for two or three people who had added heart protection glasses, the others were still mainly cotton armor. However, most of their servants were wearing cowhide armor to prevent ordinary knife chopping. However, the weather was too cold and they kept jumping, and they looked far less stable than the knights.
Cheng Jinzhou wanted to jump on his horse and leave, but he knew that his role was too limited. He looked at the situation outside, then looked at Liu Kuang, and finally said: "I agree to contribute to your land measurement..."
"It is a promising position to work in the Transportation Office," Liu Kuang still looked old and pedantic, but bargaining at such an urgent moment gives people a worldly feeling.
Xiao Cheng looked at the other two and said with emotion: "You have already obtained some formulas I made. I can simplify these formulas, but it is absolutely impossible to get me to join the Transportation Service. I still have unfinished my studies..."
Of course, he didn't really care about his studies, but what he really cared about was the success and failure of reforms. Most of the reforms in history were failures. Even if he had the luck of being successful, as the legitimate son of a noble family, he might not have lost much.
Liu Kuang obviously saw what he was thinking and said directly: "You are Liu Bin's son-in-law. Success and failure are inseparable from the relationship."
"It's different to the Cheng family." Cheng Jinzhou couldn't help but tell the truth. The Cheng family tree was deeply rooted and would not encounter any misfortune because of a legitimate son's failed marriage, but it would be different if the legitimate son took the initiative to join. If everything went well, it would be better, but from the worst perspective, if Cheng Jinzhou was implicated just because of the relationship between the father-in-law and son-in-law, at most he would lose his public office, lose his title, and lose his fame. But if he was implicated because of joining the Transshipment Office, the Cheng family might have cut off relations with him in order to avoid being uprooted. At that time, it was really called "Daily Responsible" and "Daily Not Working"...
In the absence of any benefit, how could Cheng Jinzhou rashly rush into a revolutionary team, especially when he knew that the team had little hope. In fact, from another perspective, Cheng Jinzhou had a ring in his hand and a good mathematical foundation, so why bother seeking wealth in danger? Since ancient times, those who resolutely rebeled were still hungry.
Liu Kuang frowned and stared at Cheng Jinzhou. Although he was already a star warlock, he was just a selfless person on the surface and always looked at the Liu family in private. Regardless of whether there were any other voices in the family, when the Liu family in Hexi decided to take a risk by relying on reforming the land, the entire relative was tied to the warship. At this moment, it would be better to have an extra paddler.
Finally, Wang Linghe made a smooth move and said, "Let's go out and have a look. It's better to have a killing spirit during the New Year."
The latter sentence was said to the knights.
A group of knights shouted and got on the horse, surrounding the four astrology warlocks together with Cheng Jinzhou. Shiyan and Shimo were not so lucky. They could only mingle with the servants of Liu Kuang and others, and were guarded by two or three knight servants. If there was a riot, it would be almost useless.
Meng Da Meng Er stayed next to Cheng Jinzhou. The four knight entourages pulled out three-foot-long wooden sticks in advance and shouted and rushed forward. Judging from their posture, they actually wanted to disperse the team.
Cheng Jinzhou had no time to stop him, so he could only pray that he did not believe that a small team of thirty people would have any impact on such a chaos.
However, at this point, he was wrong.
The spontaneous resistance of the victims was more like an irregular parade. After all, the mob was a minority, especially when Lu Xufei was in the sky, the people who made up the numbers ran back home directly. Just as Cheng Jinzhou believed in the power of the people, the comrades of the Daxia Dynasty believed in the power of the astral warlocks.
Looking from bottom to top, the second-level star warlock Lu Xu is very majestic.
Cheng Jinzhou was tense and could not see a smile. Others only thought he was worried about comfort at home, but no one expected that Cheng was still missing the ice water in his head.
The road ahead is still easy to walk. When groups of grass-roots people saw genuine knights wearing furious horses and heart-protecting glasses on their chests, they would mostly choose to avoid them wisely. Occasionally, people who were beaten by wooden sticks would resist. Often, they would retreat when they saw astrology warlocks present. Cheng Jinzhou, who had been worried about blood, gradually became relaxed.
After passing the city square, the roads began to be crowded. Without enough space to evacuate the flow of people, it was difficult for the knights to go up and go to ensure speed. Liu Kuang decided decisively: "Knight stays, let's fly in."
What he said about us is naturally astrology warlock.
Cheng Jinzhou is not even a first-class star warlock, and there is no need to expect to fly. Wang Linghe pulled him and the two of them swung up. If possible, most astral warlocks would be tattooed with planetary arrays, but the types are different - it is difficult for people to refuse this refreshing and direct sense of speed and convenience.
Several people were only two or three blocks away from the prefect's office. After arriving, they found that not only the prefect, but also the surrounding government offices were surrounded by tens of thousands of people. More people rushed from all directions, and the New Year was destroyed.
"Where is your father?" Liu Kuang seemed to have some skills and pointed at him from afar.
When Cheng Jinzhou was confirmed, several people had already flew over the official office. Then Cheng Yunan shouted there: "We will definitely consider your request carefully. You will go back first..."
For decades or hundreds of years, the way officials handle problems has not changed.
"We want to eat, we want a house, we want to eat, we want a house..." The crowd began to shout from somewhere.
Chapter completed!