In the capital, the palace, and the imperial study room.

"There has been more than a year of drought in southern Henan, northern Hebei, and other prefectures. The official warehouses in various places are almost exhausted."

Zhao Qing sat on the dragon throne with a very ugly face.

Since the half-step saint Xu Shu left, the whole of Da Zhao seemed to be in a curse.

At first, there was only a drought in the whole palace, and Zhao Qing didn't care.

After the censor checked, he opened the warehouse and released grain, and the tax reduction and exemption were still stable.

But gradually, the entire prefectures of Dazhao began to experience droughts one after another...

Things began to become troublesome, and now... even refugees have begun to appear everywhere, rushing towards other wealthy prefectures.

But the most serious thing is not this. The most serious thing is that not only droughts have begun to occur in Chang'an and other places, but also rebels have begun to appear.

This is a major event that shakes the foundation of the country!

"Liu Erniu and other bandits in Tongzhou, named Hei Lian, came to the world to gather bandits to occupy the mountains! The fifteen counties of Tongzhou, eight counties were occupied by them!..."

"Li Qiu, a southern Fujian Prefecture, gathered 100,000 thieves and occupied six counties!"

With the reports from the ministers below, Zhao Qing's face became increasingly ugly.

At this moment, someone came out with his fists and said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty! These are all external diseases. The most troublesome thing now is that the food and fodder in the capital are gradually coming to the bottom!"

When Zhao Qing heard this, his face suddenly became gloomy.

The capital is the leader of all virtues in the world. If the capital lacks food, what a big deal that will happen!

"Tell me clearly! What's going on?! Aren't there eight places in the capital closed?! How could there be a shortage of food?!"

But when the minister smiled bitterly, he said, it turned out that Jibei Prefecture could no longer bear the loss of income for more than a year.

The capital's own grain production is limited, and almost all the food and fodder are guaranteed by the governments' blood transfusions to the capital.

For this reason, Emperor Gaozu of Zhao set up eight warehouses of grain, but this severe drought lasted for a year and a half.

This is unprecedented, which leads to almost all food shortages in the whole country.

The reason why there was no chaos in the Jibei Prefecture, which was so close, was that the food and fodder in the capital supported the past.

Everyone thought that after the autumn grain harvest was raised, they could barely support it.

How could I know that the drought is still continuing? This caused the capital's food and fodder should be at most until winter. If there is no autumn grain sent...

"Didn't I remember that Qiantang Mansion has sent a lot of summer grain?! They all eaten up?!"

Several ministers looked at each other, but saw the Minister of War slowly standing up and sighing.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten your border salary with Beidi..."

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Qing stopped talking.

He wanted the Blood Soul Pill, but it was hard to take action in Da Zhao.

So at that time, they acquiesced to set out from the border and go to Beidi to kill people and refine alchemy.

However, the army needs food and wages to drive out. No one can use money to eat or eat horses and chew, and they can empty the food!

If it weren't for this encounter with Beidi, the capital's food and fodder would have been barely supported until next year.

"Your Majesty! Now I have only the only way to stop the food and salary of Beidi first."

But the Minister of Revenue stood up at this time and bowed to Zhao Qing: "Qiantang Prefecture's autumn grain has been shipped. According to the report of the prefect of Qiantang Prefecture He Zirong, Qiantang Prefecture's magistrate, this time Qiantang Prefecture can transport 300,000 kilograms of grain and fodder!"

"As long as the food and wages of Beidi are stopped, the capital can at least last until the beginning of next spring."

When Zhao Qing heard this, his face suddenly turned a little gloomy and unstable.

Blood Soul Pill is a good thing, and Zhao Qing now feels like he is back to his eighteen years old.

It was because of the three Blood Soul Pills per month that he gave up this Blood Soul Pills... it was even more uncomfortable than killing him.

Especially when King Liang met in private, he said that this blood soul pill can not only prolong life, but also last forever under regular consumption!

Since ancient times, which king, prince, general and minister have been able to withstand the temptation of immortality?!

"The other prefectures have almost no tax on food and fodder. How can Qiantang Prefecture provide food and fodder twice?!"

Zhao Qing changed the subject directly, and the ministers below couldn't help but sigh when they heard this.

It seems that Your Majesty is determined to carry out Beidi's plan, and it is useless to say more at this time.

"It is reported that the Fairy Bibo in West Lake is very effective, and Qiantang Mansion was also feeling something in the early stage of the drought. Later, He Zirong led the officials and gentry of Qiantang Mansion to worship, and it actually rained heavily to relieve the drought..."

"The Qiantang Prefecture of the Imperial Heavenly Prison has established Xu Xian, and has cooperated with He Zirong to build more water trucks and ditches, so Qiantang Prefecture can be slightly protected during severe drought..."

Zhao Qing was silent on the dragon throne for a while, and then ordered the drafting.

Let Qiantang Prefecture leave three months to store grain, and send all the remaining grain and fodder to the capital.

"I will change the year name when Imperial Heaven Supervisor!"

Zhao Qing quickly issued another order, but saw him breathe: "Change the year name 'Xian Sheng'!"

The ministers below were shocked when they heard this, but no one dared to say a word when they looked at Zhao Qing's face...

Qiantang Mansion, next to Jinshan Temple.

He Zirong stared blankly at Xu Xian's instructions to change terraced fields. He was stunned when he looked at the hillside that could not be farmed, but was now transformed into sections of terraced fields.

"Hanwen! This is really... awesome and magical!"

Qiantang Prefecture has many plains and many kinds of mulberry trees.

So there is almost no experience in terraced fields here, but Xu Xian has experience in later generations.

He even had several agricultural poverty alleviation projects, and the small terraced fields were not a big problem for him.

As for manpower... it is not a problem. Since he cleaned up the young master and the others, the monsters in Qiantang Mansion were instantly obeyed.

Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing refined a lot of transformation pills overnight, and then sent a group of monsters here after transforming into shapes.

With He Zirong's relationship, it's no problem for these monsters to register the Xu family's household registration.

When He Zirong sighed, Xu Xian was also sighing.

Monsters are good! Where can people have the strength of monsters? Look at this terrace. If someone comes to work, it will take at least three or five thousand people to work for three months before they can barely get rid of it.

But these monsters break mountains and crack rocks and level the ground, so don’t be too easy to use.

For example, the tall and strong man who is now raking pears is a bison spirit.

This guy was flattening the ground with a bang, and one person could beat more than a hundred men.

There is also the wild boar spirit, and when it comes to work, it completely defeats a lot of people.

"The senior brother doesn't know anything. When Chinese Wen was reading the "Travel Notes" left by the teacher, he recorded the method of terraces!"

Xu Xian smiled at He Zirong and said, "It's a pity to see this mountain being deserted! If terraces are built, you can avoid increasing food."

"Hanwen! Fortunately, I heard your proposal before and built a lot of water truck ditches. I paid off the river channel, otherwise this time..."

He Zirong said, sighing and took out a secret order from his sleeve and handed it to Xu Xian.
Chapter completed!