The month of July is supposed to be the harvest season.
However, in the fields throughout Shu, due to lack of water, the rice grains were not filled, and almost all the millet growing on the ears were very flat.
In fact, not only Shu, but also Jiangnan and other places have suffered droughts to varying degrees.
After a severe drought, there will be a severe flood.
Just when the harvest was in October, it began to rain heavily, as if someone had poked a hole in the sky, and the rain poured down hard.
The people, who were originally happy that it finally rained, discovered with horror that if the rain didn't stop, what would happen to the rice in the fields?
If it doesn't rain, at least they can go to the fields to collect the withered rice, and there will always be some food.
No matter how bad things are, with the chaff and wild vegetables, you won't starve to death.
But now, the heavy rain has been falling, and the rice in the field has long bent over in the ground that is already full of water.
If the rain doesn't stop for a day, the rice in the fields will not be recovered.
If it rains for a few more days, what use will the rice soaked in rain have?
God won't let these people live!
For a time, rice prices across the country skyrocketed, and even ordinary wealthy households felt distressed buying such high-priced rice.
On the other hand, for those fans of the Shi family, the prices have not changed much.
This caused the Shi family's shop to be surrounded by people, just to grab a handful of their fans.
Even if the fans in Shi's store are sold out on the same day, they will still be open the next day and the shelves will be full of fans.
Unlike other rice and grain shops that mark every piece of grain with a high price, and once sold, it is gone the next day.
This makes everyone very scared.
However, Shi's shop gave them some peace of mind.
Although I can't eat rice, I can at least eat vermicelli. It will still fill my stomach anyway, not to mention the vermicelli is delicious.
It's so difficult in the south of the Yangtze River, let alone a poor place like southern Shu.
Although Princess An and Zhou Tianci put Prince An under house arrest, they took over the entire palace of Prince An.
But there is another Liu family in Shunan City.
The two sides were fighting vigorously in the ring, but unexpectedly, something clicked, and a natural disaster occurred.
All of a sudden, people affected by the disaster from all over southern Shu poured into Shunan City one after another.
Shunan City is only a little better than other places. With so many people coming, how can they get so much food to eat?
When Magistrate Liu heard the news about the refugees, his hair almost turned gray in panic, and he ordered that outsiders were strictly prohibited from entering the city.
Although this stopped some refugees, it also made the refugees extremely disappointed with the officials.
As the ranks of refugees grow larger, so do the feelings of uneasiness.
Now coupled with Magistrate Liu's actions, it suddenly seemed to ignite the last fire in the hearts of the refugees.
Anyway, they were destined to die. These refugees rushed directly through the checkpoint of Shunan City, and then swept all the way into the official office of Liu Zhifu.
How did Governor Liu know that these refugees were so bold and dared to attack the government office?
By the time he found out, it was too late.
The refugees rushed into the government office, grabbed Magistrate Liu, and slashed him with a kitchen knife.
Then he rushed into the back house behind the government office and abducted all the wives and concubines of Magistrate Liu, including the Liu family who had reconciled with Zhou Tianci.
Originally, Magistrate Liu was looking for a son from a rich family to fill Mrs. Liu's house. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu was embroidering wedding clothes in her yard, and something like this happened.
Prince An's Mansion was originally visited by the refugees, but after the guards in Prince An's Mansion were replaced by Princess An and Zhou Tianci, they were very different from the useless guards before.
These refugees were at the gate of Prince An's Mansion, so naturally they didn't get any benefits.
In the entire Shunan City, there is not just Prince An's Mansion.
When the refugees saw that Prince An's Mansion was so difficult to eat, they naturally became timid and ran to other people's homes to grab things.
When the refugees roared in, they roared away again, leaving only a battered city and the looted government warehouses.
Without waiting for Prince An's Mansion to come forward, He Zhizhou took the robbed wealthy households in the city to Prince An's Mansion and asked Prince An to come forward and take charge of the overall situation.
After all, everyone has heard that King An has asked the eldest son to be crowned prince.
Prince An is ill and unable to handle affairs. In addition, Magistrate Liu is now dead and his family members have been kidnapped. Naturally, the only way to frighten the ghosts and monsters living everywhere is to ask the eldest son of Prince An to come forward.
Zhou Tianci refused again and again, but He Zhizhou knelt down to Zhou Tianci in front of all the wealthy households in the city and expressed his willingness to follow the eldest son.
of ordinary people's lives.
The wealthy people following He Zhizhou looked at each other in disbelief, and then they also knelt down and begged Zhou Tianci to save their lives.
As soon as Zhou Tianci took over the affairs of the government office, the first thing he did was naturally open the granary of Prince An's Mansion and provide porridge to the refugees who were still wandering outside Shunan City.
Of course, Zhou Tianci is not a fool.
Since Prince An's Mansion had shed blood and brought out food, the wealthy households who came to seek refuge in the palace could only tearfully donate some of their food reserves.
Although these grains are only a drop in the bucket, they can still last for a while.
As long as he is given enough time, he will definitely be able to get relief food from the imperial court.
But words are easy to say, but money is hard to make!
What's more, he was an emperor who was regarded as a thorn in the side of everyone in Prince An's palace.
Even if he knew that there was a disaster in southern Shu, but no one dared to take care of it, he didn't feel at all that it was wrong to do so.
In the emperor's view, the people in southern Shu belonged to King An.
Since Shunan is the territory of King An, as the prince, he naturally has to deal with the things that happen in his territory.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that if King An didn't handle it well, he could have done the same thing as Marquis Xuanping and had legitimate reasons to take away King An's identity and give his legitimate son the title of a marquis.
Having made plans for things in southern Shu, the emperor's eyes fell on the thick stack of folding papers next to him, which were all about Jiangnan, the land of plenty.
Jiangnan suffered the heaviest wind and rain. When the rain finally stopped, all the rice fell to the ground and soaked in the water.
It is conceivable that if Jiangnan is also short of food, other places across the country may now be digging up tree roots and eating tree bark.
The most important thing is that a sacred stone came out of Jiangnan, and there was an article about punishment and guilt written on the stone.
There was a lot of discussion in the court, and they wanted the emperor to write a letter of sin against himself.
After all, if we go back a few years, such a strange thing has never happened.
Of course, no such catastrophe has ever occurred.
The common people, who are homeless and in this situation, can only find the emperor to take the blame.