Guo Jin, who has been upgraded to become a grandfather, also felt a little relaxed about this.

With this happy thing, it may be able to dilute Guo Peng's long-standing depression, which is also beneficial to his health.

A few days ago, Guo Peng was sick for a while because he was too sad, which made Guo Jin very nervous. Fortunately, he was cured soon.

People from the large clinic repeatedly praised Guo Peng for his strong health, saying that he would definitely live for a hundred years.

However, Guo Peng disliked the people in the large clinic very much, and did not have a good face to them, so he quickly drove them away. After Cheng Yu's death, Guo Peng disliked the people in the large clinic very much.

Having said that, Guo Peng's health is still acceptable.

Guo Jin can therefore devote himself to government affairs, and while promoting monetary reform, he can think about whether to change the situation of salt and iron monopoly.

After Cheng Yu's death, Guo Peng completely lost his interest in politics. He did not make any comments on Guo Jin's request for help, and let him solve it himself.

As for the school department, it takes a long time to implement every job, and Guo Peng does not need to keep an eye on it all the time.

He now shifted his interest to the agricultural department, especially the agricultural tools and fertilizer research and development departments, and he went to these places from time to time, which made the officials of these two departments always nervous and didn't know what the Emperor was going to do here.

Guo Jin was also a little confused, not knowing why Guo Peng ran to these places every day.

Guo Peng pointed at Guo Jin's brain with an expression of [you don't understand at all].

"You, even if you play with your power, you will tell you that no matter how much you play with power, you will not be able to compare with the benefits these things can bring to you. This is the most important thing! You not only need to make everyone full, but also have more and more surplus in the food."

Guo Jin didn't understand why Guo Peng said this, and many court officials didn't understand. It was a whim that it was not taken seriously.

But soon they realized that they had made a huge mistake.

The winter of the ninth year of Xingyuan was particularly cold, and the cold wave came earlier than in previous years, so that grain production in some areas near the north was affected.

After the autumn harvest, some counties and counties in northern Hebei reported this to the court, which attracted the attention of Zhuge Jin, the Minister of Agriculture.

After thinking about it, he was a little worried and reported to Guo Jin, saying that grain production would decrease and grain prices in northern Hebei might fluctuate. If necessary, hope that warehousing could be used to stabilize grain prices.

Guo Jin was busy with the final advancement of monetary reform, so he issued an order to let Zhuge Jin do it on camera.

Zhuge Jin then made a series of preparations.

By the end of November, the weather was even colder. On the first day of December, the governor of Xuzhou reported a very surprising news to the court - the Huaihe River Frost.

Not only the Huai River, but some tributaries near the Huai River have also frozen one after another, and some sections of the Grand Canal have frozen, and the ice layer is relatively strong, which has affected some official ships and commercial ships.

The governor of Xuzhou is organizing manpower and material resources to break the frozen river surface to ensure smooth passage of official and commercial ships.

When the news came, the senior officials of the Luoyang court were surprised.

The Huai River is located in the Huai River region and has always been warm and humid. It is common for northern rivers to freeze, but they have never heard of the Huai River before.

Why did it suddenly freeze on the Huai River?

After hearing about this, Guo Jin had to put down his monetary reform work and held a state meeting to discuss this unusual phenomenon.

After the ministers met, they discussed the matter with each other and felt something was wrong. In previous years, the northern rivers were frozen, and it was even colder, that is, some rivers in the Central Plains were frozen. I had never heard of the news of the Huai River, but now the Huai River is frozen.

Some officials suddenly had the idea of ​​responding to the heavens and man, and looked at the bad-looking emperor Guo Jin, wanting to say something, but hesitated for a while and did not dare to say it.

Let's wait and see first.

This wait and see reminded Zhuge Jin of some things.

He remembered the great debate between the imperial court over the three and four years of Yande more than ten years ago.

"Your Majesty, the Huai River is frozen, and the grain production in some prefectures and counties in Hebei this year is reduced. I think this is not accidental."

Zhuge Jin stood up and spoke first.

Guo Jin frowned.

"You mean, this situation will not end here, not just this year, but..."

"It may be like this every year in the next few years."

Zhuge Jin looked around his stunned colleagues and said, "Do you remember the edict issued by the Supreme Emperor when he ordered the then chief minister of the cabinet to study the construction of the Grand Canal in June of the second year of Yande?"

According to Zhuge Jin's statement, a considerable number of the ministers remembered the Grand Canal dispute that was very fiercely debated.

Guo Jin also remembered it.

Back then, Guo Peng said that the Grand Canal was started, and all the ministers thought it was a waste of money and it was not necessary.

Guo Peng insisted on doing this. He believed that the weather was getting colder. In less than a few years, the cold would affect the grain production in Northern China, leading to a large-scale grain production cut.

If there is no reliable channel to transport southern grain to the north, the population base in the north will inevitably lead to shortage of food and even famine.

Generally, road transportation volume is limited and the loss is relatively large, which is not enough to support the huge grain shortage in the north, so it is necessary to build a reliable waterway.

The huge transportation capacity of the waterway will be used to complete the major project of grain transport in the south and north, ensuring that there will be no large-scale famine in the north.

At that time, the court officials thought that Guo Peng was whimsical and had great resistance.

However, Guo Peng disagreed with all his opinions and demanded that the implementation be implemented. With his power, he forced the imperial court to start the construction of the Grand Canal. Therefore, in the fifth year of Yande, the Grand Canal was officially started.

The start of the Grand Canal not only did work for the transportation of grain in the south and the north, but also facilitated the migration of the population of the Central Plains to the Jiangnan region.

However, the most fundamental problem is to facilitate the transportation of grain in the south and the north, in order to fight climate change.

Guo Peng once said something at a court meeting.

Zhuge Jin, who happened to participate in this meeting that year, remembers.

"At the beginning, the Supreme Emperor once said that one day the Huai River is frozen, and you will know what the purpose of this canal is."

Then the entire State Council fell into silence for a while.

About one stick of incense, Emperor Guo Jin sighed deeply.

"The Supreme Emperor saw today twenty years ago."

The elites of the Wei Empire were speechless and all felt shocked and incredible.

The Wei Empire actually had this day when the Huai River was frozen.

There was nothing to say, Guo Jin immediately announced at the State Council that everyone would do three things.

First, before the climate crisis completely broke out, use the Grand Canal to transport as much excess grain from the south as possible to the north, transport it to Hebei, and to Youzhou, Bingzhou, Pingzhou, Pingzhou.

Second, these areas should establish more grain warehouses widely and store as much grain as possible to prepare for large-scale grain production reductions. The storage of grain in these areas can come in handy.

Third, accelerate the transfer of population in Hebei and Central Plains to Jiangnan and Lingnan areas, increase efforts, set standards, and use higher-strength preferential policies to persuade them.

After the work is arranged, someone needs to execute it.

In order to better promote these work, Guo Jin defined Nanshufang as a centralized office that specializes in these three matters, and mobilized elite officials from various departments to grant Nanshufang the status of attending the school and walking in Nanshufang.

In order to coordinate all aspects of work, Guo Jin turned his attention to the older generation of officials with extremely strong abilities.

In the end, he once again selected the old minister Guo Jia as the leader of a group of Nanshufang attendants and awarded the position of a temporary worker as the president of Nanshufang.

He is specifically responsible for handling relevant government affairs and provides special reports to Guo Jin.

In order to ensure the situation of division of civil and military affairs, Guo Jin also took away his position as a staff officer, allowing him to hold a secondary auxiliary position in the cabinet, and transferred from a military staff officer to a civilian position.

Then, it was naturally awarded the temporary position of the president of Nanshufang.

Guo Jia didn't know what happened at first, but when he learned about it, he was stunned on the spot.

Because he also asked Guo Peng why he did such a waste of money and money. Guo Peng said that when the Huaihe River freezes one day, you will know why I did this.

Now that the Huai River is frozen, Guo Jia knows why.

But until now...

Is Guo Peng really a human being?

The problems buried in my heart for many years broke out once, and Guo Jia really doubted whether Guo Peng was human.

Of course, there is definitely more than one Guo Jia who has such doubts. Many ministers with some qualifications will basically feel surprised when they think of the big debate back then.

Guo Peng prepared for them twenty years in advance for what they had never taken seriously.

When the crisis came, a Grand Canal ran across the north and south, becoming an important lifeline for the Wei Empire to fight against this climate crisis.

Guo Peng didn't even give them a discussion about whether this matter was an opportunity to warn God.

If no one knew about this, it would be said that this was a warning from God and the response of God, but...

The Supreme Emperor talked about this matter twenty years in advance. Is this also a warning from God?

Is the emperor really the emperor?

The elites who knew the celestial sense of the celestial beings suddenly felt that the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng, who had not shown up for a long time, had become even more mysterious.

But his preparations came in handy.

After a short period of panic, the entire court quickly clarified the way to deal with this matter, set up corresponding handling offices, and began to respond to the crisis.

And all this is because they have the Grand Canal that runs across the north and south.
Chapter completed!