MTL - Wei and Jin Cooks-Chapter 757 severe disaster

  First, Youzhou and Jizhou, Wang Jun and Liu Kun went back after the battle, both of them happily held a big banquet, and celebrated the expansion of the territory with the generals and staff.

   Wang Jun’s celebration lasted for a month, with singing, dancing and music changing every day. He mainly took this opportunity to meet the officials of Youzhou and Qingzhou, and to show them and his staff his brilliance and strength.

   Only by making them agree with him can he go one step further. It would be even better if they mentioned that they would establish themselves as king in the future.

  So even if it was spring plowing, he didn't pay much attention to this.

   Spring plowing, farmers plant the land every year, do they know what to plant and how to plant it? No matter how bad it is, there are county magistrates, so why should he, the governor, worry about it?

So he didn't care about spring plowing. Even if an official reported that the weather was abnormal this year, the snowfall since winter was about 30% less than in previous years, and since spring, there was only one spring rain, he didn't think much about it. Let officials follow the rules.

  Following routine, officials can only ask county magistrates to prepare for drought.

  The order was issued, and it was too late when the magistrates of the counties recovered from Wang Jun's celebration banquet, put aside their praises, and started preparing to organize people to prevent drought.

  The farmers have already plowed the land and planted wheat. It is too late to replace them with more drought-resistant corn, beans, and sorghum. All they can do is organize people to dig wells and ditches...

  It may be that some places are poorly organized, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but instead occupies the labor and time for watering the land, and the people complain a lot.

  After there was no rain for 70 consecutive days in Youzhou, this kind of resentment broke out together with the fear of natural disasters, and people in Youzhou began to attack the county government for fighting for water;

  The situation in Jizhou is not much better than that in Youzhou.

  Wang Jun is celebrating for a month, delaying the golden age, but Liu Kun is different. Singing, singing and singing are routine operations. For him, every day is a banquet.

   After conquering half of Jizhou, he asked people to build a channel for news transmission, but it was not urgent. He always did things casually and did not rush the people under him.

  So Jizhou's news was delivered very slowly, but fortunately he started to deal with it as soon as he received the news.

After thinking about it, he also started to have people dig wells and ditches to ensure the irrigation of the farmland, but the news came and went, and Jizhou was only recovered, and the coordination among the officials was not very high. Do not listen to his orders.

   Moreover, the bandits were rampant everywhere, and Liu Kun didn't send anyone to deal with them at all. Therefore, he gave an order in Jinyang, but the counties and counties in Jizhou did their own things and did not obey his orders.

  Squires and officials everywhere felt that it would be a waste of manpower to overhaul water conservancy at this time, so they only sent people to find places to dig wells.

   There are not many people who can dig wells, and even fewer people who can find water sources. There is no effective organization, and it also consumes a lot of manpower, but it still can't get things done.

  They found that when the rain was low this year, the wheat seeds had already been planted. When they were digging wells everywhere, they missed the time to plant corn and beans...

  Youzhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou mostly grow spring wheat, because winter is too cold, and winter wheat is not suitable here.

  Wheat is more drought tolerant than rice, but far less sorghum, millet, and beans.

  Zhao Hanzhang remembered this major natural disaster in history and had been preparing for it since the year before last.

   Every year, there is the task of dredging ditches and building water conservancy channels, sending people to organize several teams of well-drilling experts, and combining capable people and strangers who can find water sources.

  After conquering Luoyang last year, she even asked Fu Tinghan to recruit people who know how to find water sources and watch the weather in the name of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

  These people followed the well-drilling team to search for water sources and dig wells, regardless of gains or losses. All the money, food and travel expenses were paid by Zhao Hanzhang. She also gave them a high monthly salary and promised that their children would be able to study and work in schools and workshops in the future.

   It can be said that the treatment is generous.

Last year, Zhao Hanzhang liked to chat with Xia Houyan and Zhang Xie, and invited them to watch the sky at night. He also asked Zhao Zhongyu to consult the officials of the imperial court Qin Tianjian. When he met Fu Zhi at the beginning of the year, he also asked about the sky. Old farmers, the answer they got was that there would be a drought this year.

  So Zhao Hanzhang wrote a letter to remind Liu Kun long before the spring plowing, asking him to prepare more drought-resistant grains and prepare for drought in advance.

   But at that time, Liu Kun was dealing with Liu Cong and Wang Jun's flanking attacks in Jinyang. Even survival was a problem. How could he care about the spring plowing in a few months?

  When the war was over, Zhao Hanzhang wrote again to remind him, and asked him if he had prepared grain, and if it was not enough, she could subsidize some.

  Liu Kun readily accepted it, but he distributed the grain he received to the people of Jinyang. Therefore, northern Jizhou, which was the hardest hit, was not prepared at all, and naturally there was no material support.

However, the situation in the land occupied by Zu Ti in the south is better. First, it has two more spring rains than some places in the north; Zhao Hanzhang also supported him with many drought-resistant grains, and he planted them all with his eyes on the people.

  This year they have reduced the number of acres planted with spring wheat and increased the number of acres with drought-resistant crops such as beans, corn and sorghum.

  Similarly because of the suspension of spring plowing, Shi Le, who competed with Zu Ti for the territory, immediately bought a batch of bean seeds after seeing their operations, and asked the people under his command to chase after them.

"Last winter was very cold, but there were only five snowfalls, two of which were very small and melted in one night. Since the beginning of spring, there has been less rain and snow," Shi Le said: "Zhao Hanzhang has a capable person Yishiduo, she must have seen that there will be a drought early, so she asked Zuti to reduce the wheat planting early. We can't get back the wheat that has been planted, but we can replant beans. If the drought is so severe, we can also Guarantee."

  The officials below should go down, and they also pay great attention to the watering of the people.

  Zu Ti happened to occupy their upper reaches, and they thought he would cut off the water. Unexpectedly, Zu Ti not only did not take the initiative to cut off the water, but also came forward to mediate the water disputes between the upstream and the downstream, and persuaded the people upstream to turn on the water so that the downstream could also irrigate.

  The official reported the matter, Shi Le was heartbroken, and said with some jealousy: "Zhao Hanzhang has such a person, it is like a tiger with wings."

  Shi Le sent two generals, both of whom were defeated by Zu Ti. It is natural to see that all the armaments in Zu Ti's army came from Zhao's army.

  The Zhao family’s army has excellent weapons, the most humane of which are its long spears and broadswords. Shi Le was born as a bandit, and the weapons in the early stage were basically plundered. Liu Yuan gave some of them later, which were also very ordinary.

  Now he collects taxes by himself and builds weapons by himself, but the talents under his men are not as good as Zhao Hanzhang, and the weapons he makes are far inferior to those of Zhao's army.

  Zhao’s army was able to defeat the brave Shile army and the Xiongnu army several times. Zhao Hanzhang’s command was part of the reason, and his weapons and equipment were also part of the reason.

  So the front line reported that almost everyone in the Zu Ti army could have a weapon from the Zhao family army, so he knew it was the nail buried by Zhao Hanzhang.

   Now, I'm afraid only Jinting doesn't know about it?

  Shi Le sneered, and planned to tell him and Gou Xi the "good news" when the Emperor of Jin State offered sacrifices to heaven during the summer solstice. The scene would definitely be more interesting then.