Chapter 151 This is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster
A sudden heavy rain broke the tranquility of the Tang Dynasty and broke many of Li Xuan's plans.
What was his original plan?
That is to keep a low profile as much as possible, concentrate on development in Huangzhushan, and at most occasionally bring in some people from the mountain, especially craftsmen, and then focus on research and development of high technology, and wait until one day to develop the flintlock gun, and wait one day to improve its performance.
After superior artillery was developed, it was time to consider how to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
As for now and even for a long time in the future, what he has to do is to try to avoid attracting the attention of the Ming court's senior officials and avoid attracting the Ming court's army to attack.
In short, it is to hide and play by yourself and entertain yourself!
But now, Li Xuan realized that his idea could no longer be realized, because this heavy rain directly destroyed nearly 40% of the farmland in Huangzhu Mountain. In other words, during this summer's harvest, the food they could harvest would be higher than expected.
A full 40% less.
This also means that of the more than 3,700 people in Huangzhu Mountain, at least a thousand people will not be able to obtain enough food.
Not only Li Xuan himself knew about this situation, almost everyone in the Tang Dynasty knew that they would not be able to harvest enough food this summer and would face starvation or even mass starvation in the second half of the year.
For many days after the heavy rain, although people up and down Huangzhu Mountain were cleaning up flooded farmland and re-reinforcement of dams, people's faces had lost their former tranquility, and many people began to discuss how to spend this time.
Difficulties.
Without the big bosses having to say anything, many bandits and even ordinary people, old and weak, began to talk about coming out to grab a piece of it.
At the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, in the meeting hall of the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty.
"Liu Aiqing, has the silt in the flooded farmland been cleared? Have the dams been reinforced?" Although Li Xuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was asking questions, his eyes were not looking at Liu Bagou.
Looking straight ahead, I don't know what I'm looking at or what I'm thinking.
Liu Bagou raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan. Seeing that he was in a state of confusion, his expression immediately changed slightly. He took a step forward and then fell to his knees with a snap: "I will be punished by death!"
Liu Bagou's sudden behavior startled many people in the meeting hall. Butcher Chen looked at him and was already muttering in his heart, this Liu Bagou must be stupid again. All these scholars are stupid in reading.
I lost my mind and did these messy things every three days.
Capital crime? What kind of capital crime? This nonsense made Butcher Chen very puzzled.
Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren also looked at Liu Bagou who was kneeling on the ground as if they were looking at fools. They thought to themselves, why did Liu Bagou become so stupid again? His Majesty asked you politely whether the mud has been cleaned up and whether the dam has been reinforced.
I didn’t ask you directly whether you knew your guilt.
Why did you, Liu Bagou, say such a thing all of a sudden?
The opinions of others were naturally ignored by Liu Bagou. He was a scholar and the chief minister of the Tang Dynasty, and he didn't bother to care about what these rude warriors thought!
In his eyes, he could only see Li Xuan who was sitting on the dragon chair as if he was in a trance. Although he was in the meeting hall, he looked like he had gone somewhere without knowing where he was.
This is the young master he wants to help wholeheartedly, and this is his sign to realize his ideals and values!
Although he was kneeling, he still looked at Li Xuan and continued: "The dam broke a few days ago, and large areas of farmland were destroyed. Thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty have no food to eat after this summer, and the Tang Dynasty is in a food shortage.
In this crisis, as the first and second-in-command, I failed to fight the flood and failed to rescue, and I deserve death for my crime!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head, and then laid his whole body on the ground: "Your Majesty, please behead the guilty minister and abandon him to the market!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the meeting hall looked shocked. Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and other generals looked dumbfounded. They had seen stupid people, but never such stupid people. They actually begged the emperor to kill him.
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However, the expressions of several civil servants behind Liu Bagou, especially Wang Wenhua and Qian Mengjiu, were different from those of the generals. At this time, Wang Wenhua remembered that after the heavy rain returned to the flood control system a few days ago and flooded a large area of the world, Li Xuan was
Sighing and returning to the palace, he seemed to mutter on the way: "The trouble lies with God!"
Moreover, Li Xuan looked dazed when he went to court in the past few days, which gave Wang Wenhua a very bad premonition. Now that he saw Liu Bagou's actions, Wang Wenhua knew that Liu Bagou and himself were worried
It's the same thing.
That is because the young emperor who is afraid of himself thinks that this heavy rain is God punishing them, otherwise he would not have said such words that the disaster is God's fault.
Once the young emperor develops this kind of mentality, I am afraid he will become disheartened and may even lose hope completely. In that case, their valley dynasty will be disbanded in a matter of minutes.
If we say that last year, Li Xuan was just a sign for the Shangou Dynasty, with or without him there was not much difference. However, almost a year later, the young emperor has proved with his actions that he is
The Tang Dynasty is indispensable.
Without Li Xuan, it would have been impossible for the Guards and muskets to appear. It would also be impossible for them to repel the Ming army many times in the future. I am afraid that they would have been completely destroyed in the recent Ming army's attack.
If Li Xuan becomes disheartened and ignores world affairs or simply disbands the Tang Dynasty and everyone does their own thing, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty will be completely destroyed.
Even if this is not the case, according to the history of such natural disasters in the past dynasties, the emperor would often issue an edict to punish himself.
This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed by Liu Bagou, and it is also what Wang Wenhua does not want to see.
In the past half year, Wang Wenhua has found new hope in life in the Tang Dynasty. Although the Tang Dynasty is small, he is the second-ranked civil servant among thousands of people. This is much better than what he used to do in a small mountain village.
Being a private school teacher is much more prestigious.
So he followed closely behind Liu Bagou, knelt down with a bang, and kowtowed directly: "The fault of the heavy rain this time is not the fault of the sky, but the fault of the ministers and others. This is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster.
It's not good, please forgive me!"
Looking at the actions of Liu Bagou and Wang Wenhua, Fang Dongquan and the others were speechless. They couldn't understand why these two people suddenly became like this. Since they couldn't understand, they just pretended to be invisible and stood aside.
Just watch a show.
If you get involved rashly, you will easily be buried by the two evil-minded bastards Liu Bagou and Wang Wenhua!
At this time, Li Xuan also looked away from the door, looking down at Liu Bagou and Wang Wenhua who were kneeling on the ground, and then waved his hand lightly: "Everyone, get up!"
At the same time, he looked around at everyone, thinking about how to tell these ministers his plan.
I don’t know if the plan I have come up with in the past few days will scare them!