The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Logically speaking, in normal years, April, May and June are indeed the hottest times in midsummer.
But where in the past has it been as hot as this year?
Millet is a crop that has always been resistant to drought, but this year, a large number of millet seedlings died of drought in Henan, Hebei and other places, affecting the entire Han Dynasty.
Under such a hot summer, except for the Yellow River, which is still flowing, many rivers have begun to gradually dry up. Even if there is still water, as long as the source is not a snowy mountain, it will be difficult to maintain a large water flow.
There were not many water conservancy facilities built in that era, and there were no reservoirs or dams. Therefore, once the rivers began to dry up, it would be a fatal disaster for the people. Many fields on both sides of the rivers could not be planted, and food began to be lost.
Range reduction.
While Qingzhou was reorganizing its armaments and preparing to start a war with Jizhou Yuan Shao, it was also actively engaged in drought relief and disaster relief. In recent years, due to its relative stability, Qingzhou has seen the influx of many refugees from various places, and the large number of workers has led to a sharp increase in the unemployment rate.
In this situation, Chen Mu already had a plan to deal with it. That is to use the income from the sea salt industry that has been monopolized for many years to hire these unemployed refugees, open up wasteland and build canals, build reservoirs, cultivate fields, etc.
Roosevelt's New Deal, knowledge in junior high school textbooks. Work-for-relief is far superior to the direct distribution of relief grains by the state, and is beneficial to both the people and the government.
However, doing this before was definitely a loss-making business, because not only do we have to feed these people, but we also have to pay them wages. And these people are building infrastructure, and it is difficult to recover the cost in a short time. It is equivalent to spending money now to provide for the future.
Make considerations.
But once the famine comes, the significance of this becomes apparent. Since the upper reaches of the Yellow River belongs to the snowy mountain zone, the hotter the weather, the melting of the snowy mountains and the emergence of abundant groundwater, there is no problem of flow interruption, and the water flow remains stable. With the Yellow River as the
Fulcrum to divert water for irrigation to ensure Qingzhou’s harvest this year.
The situation in Jizhou is actually not bad. After all, there are too many rivers originating from the Taihang Mountains. Even if the drought spreads, there will only be a certain reduction in production, which is about 60 to 70% of normal years. Although the production has been reduced by about 30 to 40%, but in the past
Jizhou's foundation will not have much impact.
The really tragic thing is Henan, that is, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other places. Historical records say that during this drought, Cao Cao was at war with Yuan Shu. After a disaster, Cao Cao's army almost collapsed. Thanks to Cao Cao's quick wit, he killed the grain transport officer, which stabilized the situation.
Survive the situation.
Now Yuzhou is Sun Jian's sphere of influence. It has been in constant war before. There are countless mountain bandits and bandits everywhere, and there are also many Yellow Turban troops. In addition, Yuan Shu has invaded many times, which makes the situation very bad and difficult to maintain.
Cao Cao's situation was similar. He originally hoped to use Huainan, Huaibei and other places as granaries, but in the end Huainan was not captured, and Huaibei was taken away by Lu Bu.
The imperial court granted Lu Bu the title of Xuzhou Mu, which made Lu Bu's existence justifiable. On the surface, Cao Cao, who claimed to be serving the Luoyang imperial court, could no longer attack Lu Bu and had to withdraw his troops and stop fighting.
After losing the granaries in Xiapi, Guangling and other places, and encountering the Little Ice Age, a rare event in a thousand years, severe drought, Cao Cao also had problems with his grain reserves.
But before such a severe natural disaster, everyone can only sweep the snow in front of their own homes, and no one has the ability to care about the frost on other people's tiles.
Regarding the people under his own rule in Qingzhou, since Chen Mu had already had a response plan, he naturally had various ways to solve the problem. Linzi's financial allocation, coupled with the officials trained by Taishan Academy in various places, carried out the disaster relief in an orderly manner according to the disaster relief plan, and the disaster would not be let go
Continue to expand.
After all, Qingzhou actually had a population of just over five million at this time. In later generations, the population of many prefecture-level cities was larger than the population of the entire state. A small population meant better governance, and sufficient infrastructure was enough to ensure the transition from disasters.
In Pingyuan Country, the moat diverted from the Yellow River slowly flows into the city, forming an inner city river. In a high-gate mansion in the west of the city, Chen Mu walked out of the living room after taking a nap.
There was an east wind in the small building last night. There were purple bamboos planted in the garden downstairs. I don’t know if they were not taken care of properly or were exposed to the scorching sun. They all looked like eggplants wilted by frost. There was still a man in clothes standing in the forest.
A gorgeous, upright young man with a handsome and resolute face is leaning over and looking somewhere with his head lowered.
"Afeng, what are you doing here?"
Chen Mu asked strangely.
Liu Bei's eldest son Liu Feng, who is twelve years old this year, previously studied at Taishan Academy, but because of his excellent grades, he just graduated last month, so he is not studying in school at this time.
It is already May, and both the academy and the palace are on field holiday.
The field leave in the Han Dynasty generally only lasted about 20 days. Except for students who lived far away from home, the vacation was not long. However, Taishan Academy and Taishan Academy extended the leave by one month. The field leave was two months and the clothing leave was one.
Half a month.
Because these two holidays are equivalent to the winter and summer vacations in later generations, and nearly half of Taishan Academy is students studying from other places. In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient. In order to take care of them, the holidays can only be longer.
Liu Feng graduated from the academy and will officially enter Taishan Academy to study. The next term at Taishan Academy will not start until July, so Liu Feng is currently in summer vacation.
The old lady and Mrs. Li had always doted on him. Liu Bei was afraid that Liu Feng would become a dandy, so he asked him to come to Pingyuan to be taught by Chen Mu.
It is worth mentioning that now Liu Bei does not have only one wife like Chen Mu. In addition to Mrs. Li, he also has several other wives, but there is nothing wrong with Mrs. Mi and Mrs. Gan.
And from a genetic point of view, the Liu Feng and Liu Chan in history have nothing to do with the current Liu Feng and Liu Houfu.
Chen Mu currently has only one son, Chen Xiyu. In addition to Liu Feng and Liu Hou's two legitimate sons, Liu Bei also has several concubines and concubines. After giving birth to his eldest son Liu Feng in the second year of Zhongping, the total number of children has reached seven or eight, which is unprecedented in history.
With all the ups and downs in life, the blessings of the descendants are quite smooth.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As the eldest son of Liu Bei, Liu Feng has attracted much attention. Since he was a child, he has not only been taught by Chen Mu personally, but also must abide by the rules set by Liu Bei in every word and deed.
If you don't do what you want, you will be punished, so the environment in which you grow up can be described as quite oppressive.
It would be okay if he had a character like Liu Chan, but unfortunately Liu Feng is a child with his own ideas. On the surface, he is submissive to his father, but in fact he has reached the period of youth rebellion and began to secretly fight against his father, intentionally or unintentionally.
This kind of confrontation among adolescent children is actually very childish. It's just that they don't study hard and spend their study time on other things every day. Anyway, Liu Bei's time with him is too short, so it is difficult to supervise him.
Chen Mu had already figured out Liu Feng's character a long time ago, so he did not forcefully regulate Liu Feng through paternalistic education like his father, but instead educated him in an interest-guided way.
During daily classes at Taishan Academy, Liu Feng would also follow Liu Feng's advice and see what knowledge he liked and what he wanted to do, and then encourage him to do it.
Even if he encounters the dogmatic punishments of other teachers in the academy, they will help him get out of it. As long as it is not a matter of principle, he will be punished if he makes mistakes and rewarded if he makes merits. A lot of persuasive guidance can always put this child on the right track.
The education now is very good. Liu Feng and Liu Bei maintain a Chinese-style father-son relationship. On the contrary, he is very close to Chen Mu, his fourth uncle. He does not want to tell his parents some of his inner thoughts, and would rather talk to Chen Mu. This is very important for him.
It’s also a good thing for your growth.
After all, if students are not taught in accordance with their aptitude, there is no guarantee that the future heir of Liu Bei will be psychologically distorted, which will cause trouble for Chen Mu.
"Fourth uncle..."
Hearing Chen Mu's voice behind him, Liu Feng turned his head, his eyes slightly dull and said: "Xiao Lu is dead."
Chen Mu walked over and saw that under the bamboo forest, a new purple bamboo that had sprouted up this spring had died in the garden before it had grown up.
This purple bamboo appeared when Liu Feng came. Liu Feng was very interested in ecology recently and often watered the garden. He especially liked this purple bamboo and named it Xiaolu. But now it is dead.
.
"Do you know why it died?"
Chen Mu touched Liu Feng's head.
Liu Feng shook his head: "I don't know."
"Because today's weather is too hot, Hsinchu is afraid of cold and drought, and cannot be exposed to the sun for too long."
Chen Mu told him: "There is a severe drought in the world now. There is a shortage of water everywhere. It is dying of drought."
Liu Feng asked in confusion: "But I water its roots every day, so I can obviously keep it well."
"But you ignored those old bamboos."
Chen Mu pointed to the lush bamboos next to him and said with a smile: "The roots of old bamboos spread far further than new bamboos. Maybe under our feet, they are all the roots of old bamboos. Most of the water you pour will be absorbed by the old bamboos."
It absorbs light."
"Can this still happen?"
Liu Feng murmured to himself: "Isn't Hsinchu their child? Why do you want to rob its water?"
"Whether it is humans, animals or plants, they are all surviving. People live just to survive. Whether it is to live better or simply to live, this is their instinct."
Chen Mu put his hands behind his back, looked at Liu Feng in front of him, then looked at the dead purple bamboo, and said lightly.
Survival of the fittest, the law of nature.
If the underground water supply is sufficient, the young bamboos will naturally not die, but now that there is drought everywhere, water will become a nutrient needed by all plants.
The root system of old bamboo is much more developed than that of Hsinchu, and it naturally absorbs more water than Hsinchu. So Hsinchu is like this. People water it every day, and it seems to have enough water, but it still dies of drought.
alive.
It is the instinct of all life!
Whether it is old bamboo or new bamboo, it is constantly absorbing water.
The same is true for people.
In this world of great strife, people are dying every day.
The elderly and young children often become victims of disasters, and only a few survive.
If you don't work hard to live and don't step on other people's corpses to live, then your body will only be stepped on by others.
The world is so cruel.
Liu Feng just stared at the bamboo blankly.
Chen Mu said nothing.
There are some things that it is better to let him see with his own eyes than to tell him.
He still has a long way to go, and maybe he will see a brand new world in the future.
but.
Who can tell what will happen in the future?
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After handling some government affairs, the Military Intelligence Department sent the latest intelligence.
In the hall, Chen Mu was looking at the documents. Yan Zhong and Hou Xu were sitting on both sides. After he finished reading, he said, "It seems that Gongsun Zan is out of danger for the time being."
"I didn't expect that the emperor of Luoyang would have such great appeal. With just one edict, more than 100,000 barbarians would rush forward regardless of their own safety."
Yan Zhong sighed. When he was in Xiliang, except for Duan Xi, he could rarely see anyone with such prestige in the hearts of the frontier Hu people.
Chen Mu smiled and said: "The emperor worked hard in Youzhou for many years in his early years. He was good at dancing and formed friendships with the barbarian leaders from all over the world. Now that he is the emperor, those barbarian leaders should know how to make use of this friendship as long as they are not stupid.
"
"Although this emperor helped us in Youzhou, he held us back in Luoyang."
Hou Xu said: "A few days ago, Cao Cao and Sun Ce wrote to Duke Ming, saying that there was a severe drought in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and they hoped that we could help support some grain and grass. However, Si Ming refused on the grounds that they were preparing for a decisive battle with Yuan Shao and had no extra grain and grass. They
I wrote to the imperial court asking for disaster relief."
Chen Mu pondered: "It seems that our kind emperor has agreed to provide disaster relief?"
"Um."
Hou Xu nodded: "General Zhao has been working hard to collect grain in Hanoi for many years and has accumulated nearly 10 million hu of grain and grass. In addition to leaving 3 million hu of dendrobium as military rations, there are also grains stored in Yingchuan, Henan and other places, and transported to Yanzhou and Yuzhou for disaster relief.
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Chen Mu frowned and said, "Is it old food or new food?"
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Hou Xudao: "Basically, it's all the grain from the year before and the year before that. The new grain from last year and this year has not been moved."
Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "That's good, Chen Liang can't be stored for long, so it's suitable for disaster relief."
When they first withdrew from Guanzhong to Luoyang, the Baibo Army had more than 200,000 troops, of whom there were only tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and most of the others were family members of soldiers, old, weak, sick and disabled.
Under the auspices of Chen Mu, Guan Yu conducted a withdrawal of the Baibo Army. In fact, it was not a withdrawal. It meant that the elites were retained, the old and weak were eliminated, and they were allowed to farm in Hanoi, Henan and other places. In addition, during Dong Zhuo's chaos,
People who fled from various places came to Sili one after another, and in one year, they could get millions of grains and grass.
As mentioned before, Sili is a seven-county kingdom including Chang'an, but now the Luoyang court only controls half of it. Only Hongnong County, Hanoi County, Henan Yin County, plus Yingchuan County are also controlled by the court.
, there is probably only so much scope that Liu Yu can govern.
These four places are equivalent to Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Jiaozuo, Xinxiang, Xuchang, Hebi and other places in later generations. Henan people should know that these places have a large amount of vast fields and have been one of the birthplaces of the Yellow River Basin since ancient times.
Historically, Cao Cao farmed in Xuchang, Henan and other places, which greatly alleviated the food crisis. Therefore, Luoyang no longer needs Qingzhou to provide grain and grass transportation and can be self-sufficient.
But now that Liu Yu has used a lot of grain for disaster relief, the grain reserves in Luoyang will be much less.
Seeing that the war with Yuan Shao is about to begin, how can we run out of food and grass?
Fortunately, Liu Yu was still sensible and did not use last year's and this year's grain. Instead, he used the old grain from the year before and the year before that was about to rot.
In ancient times, the technical means for storing grain were limited. Generally, unhulled rice, millet, and wheat were stored in underground warehouses for a period of time, and then dried regularly. After three or four years, the limit was reached.
Therefore, if these old grains are not eaten up, a lot of them will be wasted. It would be appropriate if they were used for disaster relief.
On this point, the princes of the imperial court were quite thoughtful.
If Liu Yu had a fever and took the new grains to provide disaster relief, Chen Mu would probably be angry to death.
And there was nothing he could do about it.
Because unlike Liu Xie who was controlled by Cao Cao, Liu Yu did not have any autonomy.
Liu Yu had power, and Guan Yu and the others could not disobey the orders he issued. Liu Bei and Guan Yu were originally loyal to the Han Dynasty and could not disobey the emperor's orders.
Secondly, the reputation they accumulated came from supporting the Han Dynasty. Once they disobey orders, they will be scolded as Han traitors like Cao Cao. If they lose all their reputation, they will lose more than they gain.
So sometimes, they used Liu Yu and when Liu Yu caused trouble, they couldn't do anything about Liu Yu.
This is a double-edged sword, it depends on how to grasp it.
Fortunately, this issue is innocuous. New food is more needed to fight a war. Because the military environment is not as good as the granary environment and it is difficult to store food, so new food is better than old food.
Sili had a good harvest last year and stored a lot of grain. As long as the new grain was not given away, there would be no big problem.
"it's time."
Chen Mu suddenly stood up and stretched, looked at Yan Zhonghou Xu and said, "Where is brother now?"
Hou Xu said: "Ming Gong went to Fuxiang for patrol this morning."
"When are you coming back?"
"I'll be back in the afternoon."
"Um."
Chen Mu said: "Notify me, and we will convene a meeting immediately when my eldest brother comes back."
"Okay, I'll make arrangements now."
Hou Xu went out.
After he left, Yan Zhong looked at Chen Mu and said, "Are you really planning to fight Yuan Shao? Now is not a good time."
Now is really not a good time.
In other words, before Yuan Shao's death, there had never been a good opportunity to attack Jizhou. The Battle of Guandu was initiated by Yuan Shao. Even if Yuan Shao was defeated and retreated to Jizhou, Cao Cao would wait for Yuan Shao's death two years later and take advantage of Yuan Shao's death.
When there was internal strife in the family, it took three or four years to calm down the entire north.
Therefore, if we really talk about it, with the current strength of Qingzhou, if we fight against Yuan Shao, we will probably only be able to win 50-50. Even if there are many back-up men, the outcome of the war is unpredictable, not to mention Jizhou's strong strength.
However, Chen Mu's face was extremely serious, he looked into the distance silently, and said lightly: "Time is not waiting for me."
There are many things I want to do in the future.
Unify the world.
Industrial Revolution.
The electrical age.
The entire process of human civilization is stored in his head.
But he is already thirty years old this year.
Even if you can live to be eighty years old, human civilization has taken three to four hundred years to progress. It cannot be achieved in thirty to fifty years, nor can it be promoted by one person.
If he doesn't work hard to unify the world as soon as possible, in what year and month will he be able to see a steam train? See the electrical age?
Maybe he won't be able to see the electrical age, but at least he should leave behind a seed of the industrial revolution before he dies.
If he can't even do this, then what's the point of his rebirth?
After all, it is another reincarnation, except that three families once returned to the Jin Dynasty, and now there is another Han Dynasty.
What is the difference between it and the feudal society that followed for more than a thousand years?