August in Chang'an is not as crisp and clear as day, on the contrary, it is hotter.
Yunchu thought this might be due to the El Niño climate, but he had no evidence to prove this.
In fact, everyone has discovered the anomalies in the climate. Last winter was much colder than previous winters, especially because it snowed very frequently, and it snowed heavily all at once. The light snow that Yun Chu liked did not show any effect at all in last winter.
Chang'an was originally a city with four distinct seasons, but something has gone wrong in the past few years. Winter has just passed, and summer has arrived violently, so that spring is extremely short.
The summer is hot but there is no rain, which has a great impact on Chang'an's farming. Fortunately, there is a dense water network near Chang'an. The water from the Qinling Mountains mercifully irrigates the plain.
The situation on the dry plateaus far away from the water network is not very optimistic. The huge amount of evaporation has dried up the few water sources on the dry plateaus, and it is a certain fact that the autumn grain harvest will be impossible.
This time, 14 prefectures and counties on the drought plateau were affected, including Tongzhou, Suidao, Fengxian, Hancheng, Heyang, Fuping, Yongshou, Binxian, Changwu, Xunyi, and Chunhua, with a total of 300,000 victims.
From Yunchu's perspective, these prefectures and counties all belong to the Weibei Dry Plateau.
The failure of autumn grain harvest in the dry plateau of Weibei has nothing to do with Chang'an City. Unfortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, it was a instinct for people to leave their homes and go to rich places to eat.
Therefore, the area near the prosperous Chang'an Plain has become the place that disaster victims most desire to go.
Originally there was nothing to say without this, but because Chang'an was the imperial capital, the government did not allow people to move to Chang'an on a large scale.
Countless painful lessons from the past have shown that when refugees arrive in Gyeonggi, they often have a huge impact on the government, and may even be overthrown.
The soldiers of the Sixteenth Guards led by Xue Rengui have blocked the possibility of the people in the Weibei Dry Plateau moving to Chang'an.
Therefore, when the people on the dry plateau of Weibei were dragging their children with their daughters in the wilderness and begging the government soldiers to allow them to go to Chang'an to eat, Xue Rengui in Chang'an City sat on the edge of the iceberg in Yunchu's office and wanted to speak several times.
Stop again.
Yun Chu didn't know what Xue Rengui was in trouble for. It was his army that blocked the victims from the Weibei Plateau from reaching Chang'an. It wasn't Yun Chu who didn't care. For now, even if they followed the procedures, they couldn't get in front of him.
Yun Chu held a small red clay teapot and sipped the tea slowly. He knew why Xue Rengui came here this time, and he was ready to agree to Xue Rengui's request to help the victims.
However, if Xue Rengui didn't tell him, he would never take the initiative to mention it.
The order here is very important. If Yun Chu takes the initiative to bring it up, in the eyes of some people, it means that he is planning something evil. If Xue Rengui takes the initiative, it means that he, Xue Rengui, is planning to do something evil.
During the time when Chang'an Liu Rengui was called by the emperor to Luoyang for questioning, the two deputy Liu Rengui needed to make decisions in Chang'an.
Disaster victims are always the most difficult thing for officials. If they can handle it well, there will be no merit. If they don't handle it well, they will be beheaded.
The victims of the disaster may be grateful, but this kind of gratitude, like that of thousands of Buddhas, is poisonous to officials.
Not to mention that the victims of the Weibei Dry Plateau do not belong to Chang'an. Cross-border relief efforts for the victims and sheltering the refugees do not seem to be signs of rallying the people and preparing for rebellion.
Furthermore, providing relief to the victims will inevitably harm the interests of the local people. No matter how wealthy Chang'an City is, the people of Chang'an will not agree to use the food that should belong to Chang'an to provide relief to the victims.
It's not that Chang'an is cruel. In the past many years, Chang'an City has allocated countless grains to other countries. As a result, the people in Chang'an City have not received any tangible rewards.
Yun Chu was an official in Chang'an. No matter how paranoid and selfish the Chang'an people were, he could only stand on the side of the Chang'an people. At least on the surface, he wanted to let the Chang'an people know that the official who managed them was not a prodigal son.
If Yun Chu wants the gratitude of the victims for a little fame, what awaits them will be the fate of being spurned by the local people.
Yun Chu is managing the actual affairs of Chang'an, so of course Chang'an City has a surplus of grain, and there is a lot of it, not to mention the grain in the official warehouse and Changping warehouse. Yun Chu will definitely go to the official warehouse every half month.
Checked once.
The main function of Chang'an's official warehouse is to supply the army and the government's needs. If you want to use it, you need the emperor's word.
As for the role of Changpingcang, which is to prevent the fluctuation of food prices in Chang'an City, and also to prevent the people from having no food to eat in the disaster years in Chang'an, Yun Chu can make some decisions and even embezzle a little bit. Unfortunately, he wants to do it on a large scale.
Unexpected use of the food in Changpingcang will definitely alarm the people of Chang'an, and will definitely cause a large-scale mass incident.
The remaining grain can only be used from the Chang'an market. If Yunchu is willing to sacrifice Chang'an City's astonishingly profitable brewing industry every year, he can save hundreds of thousands of tons of grain.
Moreover, Yunchu was also planning to do this. The people on the Weibei Plateau were hungry, and the city of Chang'an, which was just around the corner, was drunk and reveling.
This will bring long-lasting hatred to Chang'an and is not conducive to local unity.
Therefore, Yunchu had been waiting for Xue Rengui to speak first. After all, the first person to talk to Chang'an City was Liu Rengui, the second person to talk to was Xue Rengui, and the third person to talk to was Yun Chu.
"It has been eleven days since a certain family's memorial was sent to Luoyang. So far, not a single word has been sent back. Three days ago, a certain family sent a memorial to His Majesty again, but there was no news.
Xue Rengui drank a lot of tea in Yunchu on an empty stomach. When he got up, his stomach made a rumble, just like a big animal that had just finished drinking.
However, his bearded face was full of pain and showed signs of constipation.
Yun Chu put down the small teapot, tapped his knuckles on the table twice and said, "As long as the Grand Governor gives the order, the people of Chang'an City will definitely be mobilized to deal with this famine together."
Xue Rengui once again picked up the new tea brought by the servants, took a sip impatiently and said: "Liu Rengui is in Luoyang, he never farts no matter what, and there is no reply to my letter to him.
Judging from the current situation, the victims on the Weibei Plateau are still moving closer to Chang'an, and the soldiers and horses under a certain family can stop them for a while, but not for a lifetime."
Yun Chu said slowly and calmly: "The famine has just begun. The victims of the Weibei Plateau can still support themselves. We have to make early decisions and make early arrangements. The pressure on the government is still small. If we continue to hesitate like this, something unspeakable may happen."
Xue Rengui hesitated again and again, then opened his mouth with difficulty and said: "Can you allocate a batch of food to a certain family first, deal with the immediate matter first, and then continue to wait for news from the court?"
Yun Chu shook his head as expected: "Unless the victims enter Chang'an, I will not transport even a grain of food out.
You also know that the imperial court is currently having a large-scale investigation team arrive in Chang'an, and I am the main target of the investigation. At this time, please don't cause trouble for me."
Xue Rengui sighed and left the Wannian County Government Office in frustration. After all, he was unwilling to let his career be damaged for the sake of those victims.
Just after Xue Rengui left, the rice from Wannian County was in great use. The rice manager quietly entered Yunchu's room and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this is a time of crisis. You must not transport the grain out of Chang'an."
Chang'an, Chang'an food, can only be eaten in Chang'an."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Master Mi is right. Those people in the court have set their sights on Chang'an. Until now, they still haven't figured out the real purpose of these people coming to Chang'an. Do you have any news?"
Master Mi touched the thick beard on his mouth and continued in a low voice: "Xiaguan has a distant uncle who has taken up the post of imperial censor in Dongtai. He was among the team that came to Chang'an this time. According to what uncle Tang said, all
All major affairs are in the hands of Dongtai Shilang Li Jingxuan. He has not yet told the other censors about the specific official business he came to Chang'an.
However, even if he doesn't say it now, he will definitely say it when he comes to Chang'an, and by then, we will know everything."
Yunchu clasped his fists in a rare gesture of thanks and said, "In this way, you will have Laomi as the chief registrant."
Mi Da narrowed his eyes with a smile and said: "Since you are here to do harm to our Wannian County, my subordinates will naturally work diligently."
Seeing Mi Dayong leaving quietly and closing the door respectfully, Yun Chu was very satisfied with the new chief clerk.
In fact, from the time he came to Wannian County, the first chief clerk was not a good person. After him, all the chief clerks were good subordinates.
The previous Chief Secretary Liu went to Nanchong County, Guozhou as a senior official of the Prose Bureau and was directly promoted from a lower-ranking official to a real mid-level official, jumping to the fourth rank.
At the threshold of officialdom, he is also the top choice in the assessment of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Cleaning Department of Officials. Considering that he is less than fifty years old, he still has a lot of potential to achieve.
Chief Secretary Liu is considered to be the best among all the former chief secretaries in Wannian County. The worst chief secretary has reached the level of a fifth-rank official, serving as an important official in a state or county, and the worst one has been a county magistrate.
Wannian County has an iron-clad county magistrate and a smooth registrar. No matter who comes to Wannian County to serve as the registrar, as long as his head is clear, he will have a good future in two or three years.
The emperor originally planned to give Yun Chu a title, and the seal of the Duke of Lantian County was engraved, but at the end of the day, it turned out to be a deputy guard on the fourth rank of Chang'an City, which was worthless to Yun Chu.
Moreover, this promotion was not due to the emperor's favor, but was a natural result of Yun Chu'ao's experience.
The victims were a disaster for other states and counties, but not a very bad result for Chang'an.
As long as the people of the Tang Dynasty can dig out a bite of food from the fields, they will never go to the city to work as waiters. I don't know what they think. Working as a craftsman in Chang'an for a year can earn far more money than
There is a lot of land to farm, but even so, it is still not easy for various workshops and shops in Chang'an to find a hard-working and willing worker.
Now, the victims have arrived. From the perspective of Yunchu, a city manager, the victims do not have many choices. This time, they should be able to select enough labor from the 300,000 victims to be used by various workshops and shops in Chang'an.
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A good city manager will not bring too much emotion into his work. If he does, he will go into misunderstandings.
The so-called disaster crisis means that they need to find opportunities to develop the city from the crisis and turn disaster into motivation.
