Today, Zhao Huan was tossing his steam locomotive in the palace, which was specially built for the Emperor by the Royal Academy of Sciences.

The workmanship is much better than all previous versions. Although it is still very slow and sometimes it shakes, it can barely run.

Zhao Huan sat on it and wandered around the open space of the palace.

At this moment, it seemed like I had returned to the time travel.

It's like sitting in a car sightseeing.

Before we knew it, Zhao Huan had been in the Song Dynasty for almost six years.

He also completed a counterattack against the Jin Dynasty, and also swept away the stubborn and old forces in China, and has carried out a series of reforms to social structure, cultural education, and science and technology.

Today, the Song Dynasty is preparing to take off on his trajectory.

In another four years, the court will solve the problem of half of the population of the Song Dynasty, and his achievements will reach the peak of the ancient dynasty.

Food is the most important thing for people. What the common people in ancient times lacked the most was actually food. The problem of eating was that was a big problem.

Thinking about it, he still feels quite accomplished.

As May was already in the middle of the day, the leaves on the trees began to become dense.

This year's Yellow River is very quiet and has not been tossed.

Zhao Huan felt that this year should be the most stable and peaceful year he had been in the Song Dynasty.

He had already made plans and turned around and wanted to promote literature and art in Tokyo.

In fact, the literature and art of the Song Dynasty were the pinnacle of ancient China.

However, Zhao Huan plans to promote it among the people, and the people also need cultural and spiritual entertainment.

This is also worth doing.

However, reality quickly slapped Zhao Huan. In late May, Jiangling Prefecture reported a worrying news: There has been no rain on the Jianghan Plain for half a year!

The Jianghan Plain is a granary in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It not only has vast and fertile fertile fields, but also crisscrossing lakes.

But because it has not rained for half a year, the crisscrossing lakes on Jinghu North Road, known as the Thousand Lakes Road, are now almost dry.

The seedlings sown in spring have all been killed!

Even many fish in the pond were thirsty!

What’s even more terrifying is that this year’s Jinghu North Road is likely to be famine!

When Zhao Huan learned the news, he felt that God was simply joking with him.

He was just proud of himself and then came like this.

Last year, Hebei and Jingdong Road were affected by disasters, and some of the food was transferred from Jinghu North Road.

In terms of food, the Central Plains dependence on the south will last for several years before it can be slowly digested.

But this year, a drought occurred on Jinghu North Road!

Zhao Huan said in his heart that agricultural civilization cannot afford to hurt, and relying on the gods to make a living is not a solution.

It’s shameless to randomly attack natural disasters!

It is a hundred times more shameless than Liu Yanzong and Qin Hui combined!

Xu Churen gave a solution and immediately transferred grain from Jinghu South Road, while increasing the transportation of grain in the southwest.

Because the southwest is mountainous, rivers and transportation efficiency are very low, we can only use the grain from Jinghu South Road to respond to the emergency.

The grain from Jiangnan West Road and Liangzhe Road must be prepared for the Central Plains, otherwise many people will starve to death this year.

The only thing that can fill the grain gap now is to increase the grain transfer from Guangnan West Road and Jiaozhou Road.

This is to regulate grain from a macro level, and the emperor also gave Xu Churen the death order, that the price of grain in Jiangling Prefecture is not allowed to rise.

The supply and demand of the market are destroyed, and not raising prices is contrary to market laws.

However, under the will of the court, Keynes's free market law can only be used as a reference. In special periods, forced macro-control is required.

For example, this time Xu Churen knew very well that if any bastard in Jiangling Mansion dared to abide by market rules at this critical moment, he would be killed by a thousand kills.

Not only that, in order to further alleviate the possible food crisis, the Political Affairs Hall was forced to order that all officials' food supply and welfare will be cut by half this year.

In order to leave the officials of the Song Dynasty speechless, the emperor personally issued an order: the royal family canceled the monthly grain supply.

As soon as this news came out, almost all members of the royal family could not sit still.

For example, King Ji Zhao Xu ran to Zhao Huan happily and said that the monthly grain of the royal family could not be cancelled, because it was a rule set by Taizu. The children of the royal family were all worthy of the Taimiao, so how could the monthly grain be cancelled?

He cried and asked about Taizu and Taizong to tell the story, but the emperor scolded him and went out in a mess.

Zhao Zhongcong, the official in charge of managing the royal family, was called by Zhao Huan to discuss in detail. Since then, the royal family has canceled the monthly grain.

Zhao Huan almost took the opportunity to cancel the money he gave to the royal family every month. In his eyes, those royal families who were eating, drinking and waiting to die were all borers from the Song Dynasty.

In mid-June, while the court was preparing for a possible drought, a news came from Luoyang City: Zhao Ze, a son of the royal family, was starved to death!

This news was very common to Tokyo and the palace, causing shock to the court.

It was said that the court was shocked, but in fact, the emperor was not shocked after hearing that Zhao Zezheng died, but instead showed a cold light in his eyes.

In the court the next day, Zhao Zhongcong mentioned the abolition of the cancellation of the monthly grain of the royal family.

Immediately afterwards, some ministers also expressed their opinions on the matter. In short, the monthly food must not be cancelled, otherwise it will cause death.

Now that someone is killed, it will damage the royal face.

For the sake of the Tian family's face, the ministers agreed to restore the monthly food of the royal family.

Of course, there were also some oppositions, and the ministers led by Liu Yanzong firmly opposed the restoration of the royal family's monthly food.

For this reason, the two factions fought in the court with red faces.

Not only that, the morning court in the next few days has been arguing about this matter.

Both sides began to look for their respective benefits from all aspects of recovery and prohibition.

For example, the Agree Sect believes that members of the royal family look better after eating, and the royal family is more respectful.

The opposition believes that all the members of the royal family are rich and do not lack the monthly food at all.

Zhao Huan sat on it, watching both sides spitting on the stars.

The fifth day later, when the ministers were still chattering about this matter.

One person was escorted to the court, and this person was Zhang Ru, the governor of Luoyang.

"The criminal Zhang Ru bowed to the emperor!"

The ministers finally calmed down and were puzzled. Why was this guy taken to the capital if he was not on a job in Luoyang? Didn’t he hear that he had committed any crime?

Zhang Ru buried her head on the ground and dared not move.

"Zhang Ru, tell me what you did and let me invite you to Tokyo!"

The emperor has rarely spoken in the court these days. Now he speaks with his voice full of majesty.

"The criminals conspired to murder the royal family and deserved to die!"

As soon as he said this, the ministers were even more confused.

Zhang Ru then said everything about the past and after.

It turned out that Zhao Zezheng did not starve to death, but Zhang Ru deliberately plotted murder.

The real intention is to let the court take back the government orders on abolishing the monthly grain of the royal family. Once they are taken back, the government orders for officials to reduce the monthly grain of the monthly grain will soon be questioned.

This is a series of counterattacks.

No one wants to cut their food by half every month, even if they rot in the house, it is theirs.

Zhao Huan glanced at the minister below, then waved his hand: "Go to the Heavenly Prison first."

Zhang Ru did not resist either.

After Zhang Ru was taken down, the quarrel over this matter was meaningless.

The emperor left in disappointment, and he turned around and went to the Heavenly Prison.

Zhang Ru was waiting for the emperor in the heavenly prison, and he knew that the emperor would come.

Because the emperor knew that this was not something he dared to do as a magistrate, and there must be a behind-the-scenes envoy in the court.

"See Your Majesty."

Zhao Huan asked everyone to go out first, and he and Zhang Ru chatted alone.

"Who else have you told the identity of the person behind the scenes?"

"Report to your Majesty, I have not told anyone."

Zhao Huan nodded: "I understand your feelings too. After all, no one is willing to reduce their monthly food."

Zhang Ru cried bitterly and said, "That's all your Majesty. Your Majesty's words, I dare not complain."

"Your Majesty, I am just following the order..."
To be continued...