1257. Cold current and natural disaster

The Changsha Palace of the Song Dynasty.

There is another happy event.

Concubine Duan Lewu gave birth to a prince for the emperor and named him Zhao Tai.

Although Zhao Dongting has been working hard for the sailing teams in various continents in recent times, these successive happy events often make him smile.

Zhao Tai and Zhao Tai and Zhao Dongting gave the name of the child born by Lewu, which means peace and prosperity in the Song Dynasty. At the same time, they also have the intention of praying for the sailing teams from all continents to go to sea smoothly.

After these days of arrangements, the sailing teams in each continent have been almost formed.

Except for the only 40 large ships on the voyage teams on missions in Australia, there are as many as 80 large ships in Africa, South America and Europe.

The North American Navigation Team, which had been formed earlier, had a hundred large ships.

Speaking of which, this is not a huge number. But in fact, this is almost done by Zhao Dongting to devote the power of the Song Dynasty.

He was under great pressure to form a naval team while forming a naval team.

There are more than 400 large ships in the five continents. So many ships can already form nearly 100,000 naval forces.

The five sailing teams have a total of 50,000 people.

And this is just Zhao Dongting's "advance army" that intends to initially open up the situation in various states.

In order to develop the economy of the Song Dynasty and expand its influence in this world, Zhao Dongting has made good intentions.

North American Ambassador Wu Sanhai, African Ambassador Li Fanghua, European Ambassador Lin Chong, Australian Ambassador Yu Linglong, and recently he had a sudden idea and wanted to go out to sea. He was appointed as South American ambassador by Zhao Dongting, but he deliberately sent two steady young and strong ministers as his deputy Wu Amiao. These were all considered and observed in secret by Zhao Dongting.

Except for Wu Amiao's a little unreliable, Li Fanghua, Lin Chong and Yu Linglong as the navigator are not considered as carrying high burdens.

Nearly two months passed in a blink of an eye.

It is almost the end of the year.

It was cold and cold.

This year's winter just arrived, and it was much colder than before.

This made Zhao Dongting and the ministers in the court a little worried.

Since Zhao Dongting ascended the throne, the weather has never been as strange as this year.

The dry season lasts for a very long time, and there is almost no drought. Now, this winter is coming quite rapidly again.

If Zhao Dongting had not been working hard to develop people's livelihood over the years, every family would have more or less surplus food, then I would probably have had refugees.

Zhao Dongting originally focused on sailing teams in various continents, but at this time, he did not dare to ignore this rather unusual climate.

In the imperial study room.

There are ground dragons spread underground, which makes them look quite warm.

But outside the house was covered with snow.

It has been snowing for a few days, and now there are many snow in the palace that can reach half of the waist.

Zhao Dongting was naturally not the kind of person who did not know the sufferings of the people. Looking at the memorials delivered from all over the country, his brows were still frowning.

This cold current came rapidly, and it actually swept across the five roads of Fujian Road, Jiangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, and Jinghu South Road.

The area of ​​the five routes was extremely cold.

And this is already half of the Song Dynasty.

Although the governors of all walks of life did not say in their memorials that there was a risk of food shortage, it would be difficult to say if the climate continues like this.

No one knows how long this cold current will last.

Even if the people have surplus food at home, they will be frozen to death even if they are frozen.

Not to mention the rest of the places, Zhao Dongting, who lives in the palace, knew that the price of charcoal in Changsha City has been soaring these days.

Even so, the supply is far from being in short supply.

The charcoal production process is quite complicated and takes time. If this continues, Changsha City may not be able to buy charcoal even if you have money.

When he opened the window, a cold wind blew in. Zhao Dongting rubbed his hands and said to Li Goudan next to him: "Goudan, go and invite several adults from the Ministry of State for coming."

Li Goudan, who was wiping beside him, quickly agreed and went outside the imperial study to give instructions.

Zhao Dongting closed the window and continued to review the memorials.

With his cultivation level, he is not afraid of the cold, but not everyone in the world has his cultivation level.

At this moment, he was even worried. If the weather continued to be cold, would it cause someone to freeze to death?

Of course this is not what he wants to see.

He became the emperor, expanded territory and developed people's livelihood so that the people could eat and wear warmth.

Now that Song Dynasty is looking at the prosperity, it is causing the road to freeze to death in the face of such a natural disaster. What is that?

"hiss!"

When Li Goudan came in again, his little face turned red and completely frozen. He rubbed his hands and stomped his feet, and couldn't help but say, "Master, it's so cold this day."

Zhao Dongting raised his head, nodded and said, "It's cold..."

After traveling to the Song Dynasty, he had never experienced such coldness, and even in his previous life. He was afraid of it several degrees below zero.

In my previous life, when there was air conditioner, the temperature would make people feel cold as long as it reached below zero. Zhao Dongting really didn’t know how the people of the Song Dynasty endured hard at home.

If he doesn't take any measures, he may be too late.

A little while ago, Lu Xiufu, Chen Wenlong and others went to the imperial study room.

They are all old and all are red with cold faces.

This made Zhao Dongting feel a little guilty.

He hurriedly asked Li Goudan to make tea and said, "It's so hard for you to come in such a cold weather."

Lu Xiufu and others just shook their heads.

Then Lu Xiufu said with some concern: "Your Majesty, even if you don't announce your opinion, we will come to see you."

"It's because of this weather?"

Zhao Dongting sighed softly, "I have just read the memorials from all over the country. The weather this year is indeed extremely abnormal. The court should make preparations immediately. This should be something I should have thought of long ago, but it was just negligence. If the people suffer because of this, it would be my fault, the court's fault."

Lu Xiufu frowned, "Your Majesty, do you have any good ideas?"

It’s not that he had discussed this matter with Chen Wenlong and others, but obviously, there was no good way to deal with it.

With the conditions of this era, it is extremely difficult to resist natural disasters.

Floods can be prevented by opening up rivers, etc., but in the face of droughts, ice disasters, etc., we can only stare at them.

In the past dynasties, there were quite a few such things.

During drought, it is common to have hunger on the road. Then it causes plague and even causes deaths of tens of millions of people.

During the ice disaster, there are deserted everywhere, and people often starve to death and freeze to death, which is also rare and ordinary.

Although such an unusual climate is rare, as long as it appears, it will be a disaster for the whole world.

Looking at the years since the Song Dynasty moved its capital to Jiankang, we have never had the experience of successfully resisting natural disasters.

Zhao Dongting listened to Lu Xiufu's question, raised his eyebrows gently and asked: "How did he resist such natural disasters in the past?"

Lu Xiufu bowed and replied: "When I was still young, such a disaster occurred. This incident is still recorded in historical books. That year, as cold as this year, people starved to death and freeze to death among the people. Countless refugees went to major cities to avoid disasters. At that time, the emperor asked the states to set up charcoal and other items in the city to prevent the people in the sanctuary stations from being frozen to death. But this matter was finally left alone."

"Not left?"

Zhao Dongting had never seen this historical fact and said in surprise: "Why is it going to be settled?"

Lu Xiufu smiled bitterly and said, "At that time, there were millions of refugees, and this was not something that could be afforded by the people's garrison set up by the prefectures. Not only were there no charcoal and other goods at all, but there was no food or food. In the end, the prefectures had no choice but to settle their destiny and let the refugees find a way out. It is said that some officials of the prefectures even went to pray for this, but they were not under the curtains of the heavens. After the natural disasters finally passed, there were resentment from all over the place, and the people were unable to eat enough or wear warm clothes, and countless bandits became bandits."

Zhao Dongting pondered deeply, "Things like this must never happen under my rule."
Chapter completed!