Watching Xiao Han get into the shed, Liu Hongji outside just hesitated for a moment and then followed him in.
"You come here...eh?"
When Liu Hongji entered the shed, before he could clearly see the scene inside, he felt a heat mixed with moist soil rushing towards his face, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"Did you light the stove in here?" Liu Hongji took two deep breaths to adjust his breathing and looked around in confusion and asked.
"Light the stove in here? Are you afraid of dying quickly?" Xiao Han, who came in first, rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, and gave Liu Hongji an annoyed look when he heard this.
"Then why is it so hot here?" Liu Hongji looked around in surprise and found no sign of a stove in the shed.
But the strange thing is here!
Even though the stove was not turned on, the temperature inside was still so high that it even made him feel like he was in midsummer. His face and body began to sweat constantly.
"Hmph, let me tell you, you don't understand either. This is called solar energy!" Xiao Han rolled his eyes and said disdainfully.
After hearing this, Liu Hongji nodded in agreement: "Is it too itchy? There is indeed some itching on my body..."
Xiao Han sweated when he heard this, and looked at Liu Hongji, who was still wearing a cloak in the greenhouse and dressed up like the reincarnation of a black bear spirit, and asked: "Uh... you are itchy, could it be because of the bearskin cloak?"
Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked down at his clothes, and then suddenly realized: "Eh? It seems like hey!"
There is no way to discuss science with people like Liu Hongji, because in addition to making yourself unhappy, it is also easy to make yourself angry to death!
Therefore, after Xiao Han sent his daughter to dig and play on the other side, he decisively turned around and asked Liu Hongji straight to the point: "Tell me, why are you here with me?"
"I'm coming to find you..."
When Liu Hongji, who was busy untying his cloak, heard this, he remembered the purpose of his visit. He immediately slapped his head and said in annoyance: "I almost forgot! You don't know yet, but there is a message from Lao Cheng, saying that Shandong...
Refugees have already appeared in Hebei and other places! This battle should be impossible to win?"
"Refugee?" Xiao Han didn't notice the second half of Liu Hongji's words, because he was already stunned when he heard the word.
Ever since he sent away the plague god Zou Ma Zhou, Xiao Han was afraid of causing trouble and stayed at home these days without seeing anyone, so he really didn't hear the news.
However, even after hearing this now, he still felt a little incredible.
Because refugees mostly refer to people who cannot survive in their hometowns! And in this time when the local atmosphere is extremely strong, as long as there is a little way to survive, people will not leave their homes and go to live in another place.
So what happened to turn the common people into refugees? Could it be that someone is rebelling again?
"What's going on?" Xiao Han's face became serious, he frowned and looked at Liu Hongji and asked.
Liu Hongji, on the other hand, was a little frustrated and couldn't help but sigh: "What else can happen? I can't live anymore! Just a few days ago, there was a cold spring in Chang'an, you know!"
"I know!" Xiao Han nodded when he heard this. He knew that Liu Hongji was talking about the strong cold air a few days ago.
Originally, by this time, the weather had begun to show signs of getting warmer, and the snow had begun to melt.
But that late spring cold hit, and immediately plunged the land that had just recovered into a severe cold again.
"It's that late spring cold!"
When Liu Hongji saw Xiao Han nodding, he also sighed heavily and said: "I thought it only happened in Chang'an, but it was only after Cheng Yaojin and the others received a letter that they realized that the situation encountered in Shandong and Hebei was more than ten times worse than what we have here!
As you know, it has been cold this year, and the crops in the fields have not broken through the ice and snow so far! Many people were frozen to death, and less than half of them were still alive!
It's a good time now, but the few remaining crops have been ruined by this late spring cold!
The people now had no hope at all, knowing that they would starve to death if they waited any longer, so they began to rush in small groups from Shandong and Hebei to Henan, Guanzhong, Jiangnan and other places!"
"Is this what Lao Cheng said?" Xiao Han waited for Liu Hongji to finish speaking, then took a big breath in silence, and then spit it out faintly after a while.
He believes this is true!
Because in today's society, except for some wealthy counties in the south and cheating products like Xiaojiazhuangzi, farmers in most other places are still in a state of extreme poverty!
He already knew this when he first established the Xiao Family Village!
It's ironic to say that most of those farmers who work hard all year round don't have enough food left at home to sustain the whole family for a month!
A family like this has almost zero resistance to disasters! Any disaster is enough to completely plunge them into despair, so what Cheng Yaojin said is entirely possible.
And what Liu Hongji said next also verified this point.
"It's indeed a letter from Lao Cheng! However, the local emergency documents have also arrived!"
"Then what does your majesty mean? What does the court mean?" Although from any aspect, this matter was out of Xiao Han's hands, he still couldn't help but ask.
"Open the granaries and release grain to help the people!" Liu Hongji lowered his head and gave a wry smile.
He had been hanging out in the market for a long time before, but he didn't know that the so-called opening of warehouses and releasing food was just a matter of words.
Because at any time, the last thing the government wants to do is to open warehouses to release grain and help migrants.
Of course, this does not mean that all officials are evil-minded and do nothing to save people! In fact, opening warehouses to release food is definitely not as simple as some people think!
First of all, if you want to open a warehouse to store grain, you must have a warehouse and grain, right?
But with the current agricultural situation, except for the southern region where three-crop rice is grown, most other states and counties cannot even collect taxes every year. Where can there be surplus food to help the refugees from outside?
Moreover, even if you have food, the food in the official warehouses in various places does not only belong to the emperor! It also belongs to the local people. Using their food to relieve a group of people they do not even know, how many people can be willing to do so?
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Secondly, even if you have food, you are still willing to give it to the refugees, which also blocks the mouths of the people.
But once the news is revealed, believe it or not, all the refugees who know the news will gather here soon?
At that time, not to mention whether the food in your warehouse is enough to feed the overwhelming number of refugees, even if you manage those refugees, it will be enough to make a local official a head or two big!
Therefore, every time there was a local disaster, the imperial court asked the officials along the way to open warehouses to release grain, but most of what they got was perfunctory.
If it weren't for a grain of rice, boil a pot of soup and make the soup taste like water
Or he would give alms in a hurry for half a day, and then when he saw people coming around, he would immediately put away the porridge pot and run away.
