Children's fun is always simpler than adults and easier to satisfy.

The second type of snowboard was stepped on with both feet, which caused everyone who had tried it to fall several times. Several people didn't dare to do so and could only go back and take a small wooden boat.

But unexpectedly, the little princess and the naughty child persevered and played well in one afternoon, and fell in love with this kind of game.

The adult snowboard in Liu Mingqi's hand was also snatched by Xiong Dabao, and she was having a good time alone.

In this case, there was no way to go back that night. Yulinwei and Qianniuwei had to find a nearby village and live in the house of the largest landlord in the village.

As for the big landlord's family, of course, he could only live in another place temporarily.

As a result, when they entered the house, the little guys complained that they were sore. It was not until Liu Mingqi asked them to take a bath that they fell asleep sweetly.

They were so tired on the first day, but they woke up the next day and played happily for more than a day before leaving reluctantly.

Originally, Emperor Jinghe asked them to go back early the next morning, but the group arrived in the capital in the evening.

When sending the little princess and the naughty child back to the palace, Liu Mingqi thought that she wanted to accept the emperor's accusation, but unexpectedly, when he went to the imperial study, he saw a bunch of people inside.

The emperor and they were talking loudly, looking extremely busy.

Liu Mingqi was not interested in court affairs. Since he had a smooth commute and the emperor had no time, he was happy to go home to rest.

But as soon as he came out from here, he saw Xiong Dabao, who had returned with him, walking towards the Imperial Study Room with a serious expression.

"Brother Bao, don't you rest?"

"No, Zhang Qin has been on duty for most of the day, I have to go and change him." Xiong Dabao said more, "Oh, it's bad now. Blizzards have started in six provinces in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Xikang, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has been going on for more than ten days. It seems that there has not stopped at all. God is really too cruel!"

It was not until he left wrong that Liu Mingqi realized.

Isn’t this what Boss Su told me before?

When she rushed back from Jiangnan, her last stop before entering the Gyeonggi area was Anhui, saying that it was snowing heavily in Anhui.

At that time, I thought it was the spreading effect of the blizzard in the Gyeonggi area, and it would be great if I waited for a while to warm it up.

Unexpectedly, it was snowing continuously, and there was no sign of stopping.

Among the six provinces, Anhui's disaster is nothing. It is one of the Jiangnan region. It has rich land and people. The people's wealth is not much, but the savings are still a lot. It belongs to one of the most middle-class people in Dakang.

Sichuan is quite good, with a vast basin plain in the middle, which not only feeds most of the Sichuan people, but also supports the two provinces next to Guizhou and Xikang.

The southwest has always been relatively stable, and the most important reason is that Sichuan's food is used to stabilize the surrounding area.

Jiangxi is naturally worse than Anhui and Sichuan, but there are many rivers here, and Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Dakang, has no problem with self-sufficiency on weekdays, and is also one of the production areas that often export rice and grain.

But the remaining three provinces are really hard to compete.

In the western part of the Sichuan Basin, Xikang Province is not only a small part of it is flat, but most of it is mountains and hills. It is one of the poorest provinces in Dakang.

But to the east is the rich Sichuan, to the west is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and to the south is Nanzhao. The terrain is very dangerous, and it is impossible for you to not stay.

Otherwise, once the grassland tribes rushed down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and occupied Sichuan along the way, the threat to the entire empire would be too great.

Go east and follow the Yangtze River to reach the two lakes, or even the south of the Yangtze River.

Going north, you will directly kill to the rich Guanzhong Plain, which will directly threaten the Imperial Capital City not far away.

If they fail, they can seal up Sichuan and develop themselves greatly with the rich resources and land of the Sichuan Basin. One day they will become a major concern of the empire.

So even if we give Xikang Province a large amount of food subsidies every year, the court had to do so.

But Xikang Province is not the most miserable.

It is already poor, and when the snow comes, it is just a little poorer.

The remaining Hunan and Hubei are the two most miserable provinces this year.

Especially in Hubei, it also had an additional Yunmengze flood in April this year, which lasted for more than a month.

The next one was the locust plague in August, which lasted for more than a month.

Now, there is a blizzard covered with overwhelming snow.

I'm afraid that disasters above the middle scale will be rare in history, right?

If you only spend more than ten days, it would be fine like the capital city, but the key is that these places are most afraid of more than ten days. What if they are more than twenty days, or even more than thirty days?

That's bad!

Because Hunan and Hubei have only survived the locust plague, where can we have any resources to deal with the blizzard?

They have completely lost their ability to resist risks and are even more vulnerable than Xikang Province.

This is probably what Emperor Jinghe and the imperial court are worried about.

Liu Mingqi also thought about what they were discussing loudly now - disaster relief.

no way.

Although you may feel a headache when you look at this word, you must not do it.

It is impossible that I will not go to disaster relief after doing it once or twice.

Without disaster relief at one time, there may be more than tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties.

So even if there have been several disaster relief this year, which has caused a lot of losses to the national treasury and internal treasury, we still have to allocate money and grain to supply the disaster area.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated in two or three days, officials in many places might have started to seal off their vacations, but when they encounter this, they can only work overtime and get busy again.

The busyness of the emperor and ministers is just a microcosm. In many days in the future, countless officials and people will be even busier.

Now I'm afraid what the emperor is most looking forward to is good news during the Chinese New Year. It's time to stop after the Blizzard has been going on for more than ten days!

...

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad.

The Dakang court was frowning here, but the missions on the grassland were very happy.

Of course, they didn't show off outside, they were all secretly having fun in the inn.

For example, the two largest missions, the important figures of Xi Qiang and Shi Wei, gathered together again.

"The news has been confirmed. This disaster is likely to exceed the locust plague." Han Legu said the information he received, "The worst is the southern region, namely the four places in Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan Xikang."

"Has Hunan and Hubei been cursed?" Qile laughed, "Three major disasters a year are unprecedented."

Yelu Anxiang was also laughing, "Yes, the Lianghu area was originally a famous fish and rice town in Dakang. Now it's better, even if it's three to five years, it won't be able to recover your vitality."

Wei Quwangma nodded.

In fact, the importance of the Two Lakes region is not only because they are a hometown of fish and rice, but because they are close to the Gyeonggi area and the Imperial Palace.

Even if there is the canal transport of the Grand Canal, the tax and grain transported to the court in Jiangnan have more than one-third of the loss.

But the two lakes are different. Even if it is transported here through the official road, you can reach the Gyeonggi area in two days and two nights, and you can see the walls of the Imperial Palace in three days.

How much loss can there be?

Moreover, this time efficiency is not comparable to that of the canal transportation.

Another point is that the northwest of the two lakes are the three northwest provinces, which are the places that face the greatest pressure on the Western Qiang.

On weekdays, half of the grain in the three northwest provinces is provided by the two lakes.

Now that the Two Lakes region has suffered such a big blow, the tight food in the northwest will inevitably bring about turmoil in the army and will definitely bring benefits to the Western Qiang strategy.

Maybe there is no effect in a year, but what if it is the case for two or three consecutive years?

Although Jiangnan is rich in the world, it is impossible to supply so many places of food. It is not a fairyland, so it is impossible to plant anything that can be ten times or hundreds of times the grain output.

The Western Qiang is so poor.

If you can get more wealth and population in Dakang, you will inevitably go to the next level and truly become a hegemon.

Seeing Wei Quwangma's thoughtful look, Han Legu also smiled slightly in his heart.

Everyone is an old fox, otherwise they would not have been sent to Dakang for envoy.

On the surface, the two lakes and Sichuan were hit hard, but the Western Qiang was cheaper.

But if the Western Qiang really sees the opportunity to send troops, it will definitely be difficult to fight with Dakang.

Why?

You will know just by looking at the terrain.

The three northwest provinces came directly into the Gyeonggi area and directly into the Imperial Palace.

Most of the essence of Dakang's Nine Guards is in this area, just two or three days away from the northwest provinces.

Even if the border troops were beaten to retreat step by step if they were not strong enough, wouldn’t they be joking about the Nine Guards of the Imperial Guards of more than 200,000 elite troops?

The deeper the Western Qiang people went, the more they were not good for them.

Dakang's life was not easy. After all, it had reached the Gyeonggi area of ​​the empire, and there was great pressure on both military and political aspects.

Since they were exhausted by the Western Qiang, wouldn’t it be much easier if Shi Wei pulled out some nails in the Northeast at that time, such as Jinzhou and even the Shanhaiguan defense line?

For many years, Shi Wei has been blocked by these stubborn defense lines. I don’t know how much blood and life the Warriors have been paid, but these passages have not been opened.

If you really can achieve your dream, Shi Wei will face the rich Shandong directly. If you go down a little further, you will be the Jiangnan you have always dreamed of!

As long as you plunder the wealth, talents, equipment, etc. of Jiangnan, Shi Wei's strength will increase significantly.

More importantly, with the Shanhaiguan defense line, the entire Dakang Baofei Land became Shiwei's horse farm, and you can come whenever you want.

The people of Xiqiang who work hard but won’t get any benefits at that time will be the people of Xiwei!!

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It’s not that I forgot, but that I got up late on the weekend, and I have only finished two chapters now~~~
Chapter completed!