With a good official, the common people still have a way to live. If the local officials are fatuous and greedy for money, then the victims will have to ask for more blessings if they want to survive. How cruel is it to change children and eat them? However, that is a bloody fact that happened in history.
So Su Nuannuan is more concerned about this kind of thing than court officials like Duan Tingxuan and Long Pingzhang. Sure enough, after hearing her words, the young master and Lord Long were taken aback for a moment, and then the two of them straightened their faces, and the young master said in a deep voice: "Nuan Nuan is right, but it makes me feel ashamed. Then let's abandon it." Get out of the carriage and ride directly on the horse."
Long Pingzhang hesitated and said: "I don't care, but Madam Sister-in-law and Xiu'er..."
Before finishing speaking, Su Nuannuan said, "I'm fine. Although I don't know how to ride a horse, I can dress up as a man and ride with Ting Xuan."
Chu Xiu also said firmly: "When I was five years old, my hometown was also hit by a disaster. During that drought, my mother argued with someone over a piece of cake, was injured, and finally died. Brother A Niu, I can also pretend to be Wear men's clothes and ride with you."
"Okay, then do this." Duan Tingxuan made a decisive decision, even though he was worried about the victims because of Su Nuannuan's words, but thinking of being able to gallop with his beloved, the young master still couldn't help but feel a little bit of joy in his heart.
This time, there were continuous heavy rains in southern Liaoning, and many areas were affected. After Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan arrived, they found that the disaster was worse than they thought, so they immediately got busy. They didn't even have time to go to Niutou dozens of miles away. Shan visited Ping Guogong and his wife, and only inquired that it was safe there, so he no longer cared about it, but started running around the government and the people directly.
"The officials here are quite capable. After all, the outside of the customs has always been regarded as a barren land. Although the emperor plans to open a shipping department in Jinzhou, after all, it will be two or three years later. Therefore, the officials who were assigned here before, Most of them are Jinshi candidates who have no connections. Such people rely on their own hard work all their lives, and most of them are capable officials with responsibility and brains, otherwise the situation will be even worse."
Long Pingzhang and Chu Xiu sat outside the Jinzhou government office, looking at the people kneeling or sitting in the streets with disheveled faces, and when Chu Xiu complained that the officials were not effective in disaster relief, he explained something.
"Then why are there so many victims? They haven't opened a warehouse to release food?" Chuxiu was still angry. Her mother died because of the food. So she is extra sensitive to this issue.
"What kind of granary are you opening? The civilian granaries have already been used up. What you are using now is military rations. How much grain do you think you can store in this barren land? And here are mostly nomads outside the pass. They seldom farm land. Taxes and rations are not enough. At this moment, it is maintained with military rations, and it can still wait for the relief food from the court. Even if people will surely die, the matter can be kept under control. If the military rations are fully opened, the people will only care about their eyes. If you take grain or even loot it, more people will die. Xiu’er, you don’t understand, this granary is everyone’s hope now. If hope exists, things can still be done.”
On the other side, Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan were also sitting on the steps. But the two discussed another issue. After all, Su Nuannuan has more knowledge than Chu Xiu, and has a better grasp of the mentality of the people. So she won't complain about the local government, but what makes her strange is: in her memory, the Northeast Plain is a very famous granary. Why does Duan Tingxuan say that the food here is not even self-sufficient
For his wife's question, the young master naturally wants to explain patiently and lovingly, but the problem is: he really doesn't know that the Northeast Plain is a granary.
So he humbly asked: "Why did Nuan Nuan say this? I have never heard of the rich land here in the Northeast. How could it become a granary? Five or six hundred years ago, the world's granary was Suzhou and Hangzhou, until three hundred years ago A few years ago, Lingnan was finally developed, so there was a saying of "Huguang is familiar with the world", but I don't know this... since when did Liaodong have the saying of Northeast granary?"
Su Nuannuan traveled all over the country in her previous life, but this does not mean that her geographical achievements will be very good. In fact, she only knows that the three major plains in the northeast are famous grain-producing areas, especially the Sanjiang Plain and Songnen Plain. Where should these places refer? What if she gave all this knowledge to the geography teacher
Seeing that she was silent, Duan Tingxuan said in a deep voice: "In recent years, most people in the south have replanted mulberry trees in their land, so that every year the country collects more and more money, but the food is getting less and less. The emperor once wanted to It is a pity that there were many resistances to the policy of forcing those big landlord families in the south to change to mulberry and grain. Later, with the sea ban, a Tai student who traveled to Ryukyu, Luzon and other places the year before last wrote a memorial, saying that the land there is rich and extensive. , because the sun is abundant and the weather is warm, the crops can even be ripened three times. So the emperor turned his attention to the south. Do you still remember that I told Ting Ye last year that he would not have to worry about money? I plan to save enough money , and immediately sent some capable people to places like Luzon and Ryukyu to buy a large amount of land. You also said that those places have a lot of fruits and crops, and there is also a kind of rubber, which is particularly powerful. If you can get it, you can even promote it in the future. development of the whole world."
Hearing Duan Tingxuan talk about this, Su Nuannuan just realized that since Duan Tingxuan knew her identity, she had unknowingly told the other party so many things he didn't know.
Without any further hesitation, Yin took her husband's hand and said softly, "Since you've said this, it's made me sober. My biggest secret has been known to you, so what else can I say? It's just I don't know much about the situation in the Northeast, so I just ask you, do you know about the Songhua River?"
"Songhua River? Are you talking about... the Duck River? When I was young, I heard from my teacher that there is a Duck River in the extreme north. The largest river, also called Songhua River by the locals, is this what you are talking about?"
"Yes, yes, it should be this." Su Nuannuan was excited, and she tightened her grip on Duan Tingxuan: "Then you must know Heilongjiang, right?" Thank God, although it is two time and space, the geographical history has changed Not too much, otherwise she would really be confused.
However, her joy was soon extinguished by the young master's pot of cold water, and the young master asked in a dazed manner, "Heilongjiang? What is that? Is it another name for Songhua River?"
"Oh, I bought cake." Su Nuannuan stuck her head on her knees, but a word popped up in her mind immediately, she raised her head quickly, grabbed Duan Tingxuan and shouted: "Do you know that slave Gandusi?" Do you know? Jurchen's territory, Jurchen still belongs to our leader, Dayin?"