The five-year-old day of Yonghui seems particularly abnormal.

There were a series of great changes in the court. First, Fang Yiai's rebellion case implicated a large group of royal princes, princesses, princesses, princesses and heroes, and then there was a huge change in the center.

Under the emperor's personal attention, the central government passed the emperor's order with difficulty, and a new generation of the central prime minister team of the Tang Dynasty was born, with eleven prime ministers.

Anyone who is familiar with the court has discovered that in the past, the old ministers led by Changsun Wuji and others, were in power, but now they are a little confused.

The court changed into heaven, and the weather in Guanzhong was also extremely abnormal from previous years.

It was already March, but it hadn't rained a lot since the New Year.

There is no rain in Guanzhong, and the rivers have stopped flowing. The drought alarm has been sounded. Experienced people are worried about the possibility of a severe drought this year.

Blue Creek.

The Lan River, which originated from the Qinling Mountains, is about to break down. The Lan River, which was originally more than ten feet wide, is now only a small stream of flow in the middle of the stream bed.

The land is cracked and many wells can no longer produce water.

The village protection canal in front of Lijiazhuang Village has lost its former agility.

The two acres of fish pond in front of the village have not yet been filled with water. Not only is the water not more than at the beginning of the year, but it is less. Now there is only the area in the center of the pond, and the water storage area of ​​the fish pond has shrunk by two-thirds.

A thousand cows have been bought back.

Lanxi's cooperative was also established, and all the 800 escort households of Princess Yuse joined the cooperative, and each company happily registered and took the cows back.

But what makes everyone happy is that although there are cows this year, there are fewer ones in the field.

Li Xiao grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it with his hands, and it was broken into dust, with no trace of hand on his hands.

"This place cannot grow rice this year. It can't even be wheat, so you can only plant some millet." An old crop sighed.

This is the best land in Lanxi Township and one of Li Xiao’s high-quality assets. It is located on the river beach beside Lanxi. It was originally not short of water. It could even be directly diverted to irrigate, and it could be planted with few high-priced rice in the pass, achieving extremely high returns.

But this year the paddy fields have become dry land, with deep cracks like a big thirsty mouth.

The drought has become increasingly serious, and this year's spring plowing has been severely affected.

Although there are no disaster victims yet, this year's spring plowing will not be achieved and there will be no harvest in summer. The disaster victims will be sure of it.

"The Blue Stream will soon be cut off."

The experienced old man worried that such a severe drought and lack of water in various places, in order to ensure a little harvest, the people near each section of Lanxi will definitely start to intercept the stream water and block the dam and build weirs.

People upstream block the water, and people downstream must rob the water.

A war to grab water is inevitable.

"There will be a severe drought every three or five years. Every time the severe drought is due to water grabbing, it will cause village fights, or even clan fights, and several lives will be killed every time."

The old man said that the last drought was five years ago, the year when Emperor Taizong passed away.

That year, dozens of water robbery broke out in many villages near Lanxi River, killing more than a dozen people in total. Even for this, the county magistrates at that time were demoted.

The atmosphere in the village has begun to become tense.

There is a nervous atmosphere everywhere in Lanxi Township. Everyone is looking forward to it raining, but those with a little experience know that it is unlikely that it will rain in a short period of time.

A war to grab water is inevitable and is about to break out.

He just bought a thousand cows and pulled up a cooperative. He wanted to do a big fight, but faced such a situation, and Li Xiao was helpless.

If the drought is severe this year, not only will the thousands of acres of land in his own country be confiscated, but the tens of thousands of acres of land he managed for the princess will not be harvested.

This seriously hit Li Xiao's enthusiasm.

Repairing water trucks and drilling wells, these measures are OK to deal with minor droughts. Real droughts cannot be used. The wells will dry up and there will be no water in the stream.

No matter how drought-tolerant millet is, it is impossible to have no water.

A batch of millet seeds have been selected in the space, but now there is no water, so there will be no harvest if sowing it.

"If it doesn't rain, you'll miss the season."

If you miss sowing, there will be no harvest in one season.

Li Xiao also ran into the fields every day these days, but it was useless.

Dabiao came back from the street and told Li Xiao something bad news.

"The price of grain in the grain shop on Lanxi Street has begun to rise, and it has increased a lot, and it seems that it will continue to rise."

The restaurants managed by Dabiao buy groceries and grain every day, and they pay great attention to the price of grain.

"Well, it is inevitable that the price of grain will increase. I came back from Chang'an yesterday and heard that the price of grain in Chang'an has also increased. Not only did we have severe drought in Lantian, but the entire Guanlong and even Longyou also had severe drought, and even Shannan also had severe drought."

There are droughts in Guanlong and Shannan, which accounts for one-third of the Tang Dynasty.

This is indeed a severe drought.

"There is still some money in the store now, why don't they all buy grain and stock up?" Da Biao asked.

Dabiao has suffered from the suffering of famine. Before the great disaster in Jiangnan, Dabiao's hometown was eaten up by the victims. Then the hungry people began to become refugees, and then became robbers and bandits, robbing wherever they went.

Dabiao, who had a little wealth in his family, had to be swept up and became a rioter, and finally joined Chen Shuozhen's rebel army. In fact, it was not a real rebellion, but just to make a living and not to starve to death.

The disaster area where there is no food to eat is the most terrible. No matter how etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame exist, if you change your child, you can eat people.

Li Xiao nodded.

"Take out all the money in the store to buy grain, buy as much as you can. Also, remember not to buy only fine grains, buy more corn, sorghum, soybeans, etc. In the event of a famine, what you can eat can save your life."

"I know, I will buy it quietly and then hide the food so that I can't leak it."

During a famine, having food in your hands is sometimes not necessarily a good thing. If other victims know it, it may be a disaster. At that time, countless hungry people will come, and those hungry people who are crazy can do everything.

This summer, many people will probably die, even in the capital, and under the feet of the emperor, people will still die in the drought.

Not to mention the people of Lantian, even the people in Chang'an City could only follow the emperor's carriage and go all the way from Guanzhong to Luoyang to eat during the disaster.

The emperor and ministers and powerful people will have food supply when they arrive in Henan, but the people who go to Henan can only eat Henan.

The so-called eating in Henan is just a nice saying, and a more blunt saying is that the court allows the people to leave their hometowns and then go to Henan to beg for food.

As for whether you can get a meal, it depends on your personal ability. If you can't get it, you will starve to death. It's so cruel.

"Why go to Jiangnan to avoid it in advance? I heard that it will be fine this year when Jiangnan arrives." Da Biao put forward an idea. Guanlong, Shannan has a severe drought, but Jiangnan has not heard of drought. Although Jiangnan is not as good as Guannei, it is a water town country after all. As long as it does not happen to encounter a major flood, it is better than the famine in the pass.

And after all, they are from Jiangnan. When they left their hometown and fled into Guanzhong, although they have settled down now, they still think about their hometown. Even if there are no relatives at home, they still have ancestral graves.

Leaving?

Li Xiao never thought about it.

Although he is not a real Guannei, he has been living here for so long and has feelings for everything here.

On the other hand, it is not certain that there will be a famine this year. Besides, in the Jiangnan area, who are they unfamiliar with the land, so who did they look for?

Long-distance travel these days is not a comfortable thing.

The Li family also has industries and industries here, so can they just be left behind?

As the days pass by day, the disaster seems to be unrelieved.

As many people expected, in order to preserve some harvest and sow seeds, villagers from all sections of Lanxi began to organize manpower to repair dams that were not large enough streams.

The stream that was blocked was carried to the ground with my hands and shoulders, and sprinkled into the cracked land. Although it was attracted by sprinkling it, it would at least give everyone some psychological comfort, hoping that the seeds in the ground could last until it rained.

"If this continues, you can't go through the old path."

Li Xiao shook his head.

It doesn’t rain, and that little stream will sooner or later dry up. How much can it be watered by manpower?

It is even more worth losing your life for the sake of water fight.

It's already a natural disaster, so don't make things worse.

"There is no way, who can stop it."

"We have to try it," said Li Xiao. "In this way, tomorrow we will send someone to issue a notice in the name of the cooperative to ask each household to come to Lijiazhuang for a meeting. This matter must be discussed. Even if you use water, it must be arranged reasonably. You cannot fight or hurt lives."

"Everyone may not listen."

"I just lent the cow to them. I believe there will be some face now. As long as everyone is willing to come, you can sit down and discuss it carefully."

After returning home, Li Xiao went to visit his wife, attached himself to her increasingly bulging belly, listening to the movements of the fetus, and then returned to the study and started writing and scratching.

He wrote some ideas and clauses about using the name of a cooperative to organize villagers to fight disasters and relieve droughts.

In fact, there is still some water now. I am afraid that everyone will panic and want to grab the little water. They all have to block the dam and repair the weirs. The downstream people are fighting to smash the dam and grab the water. When the chaos comes, it will be difficult to control.

If you can control this panic and allocate the water source reasonably, then you will have a chance to complete the spring sowing with wells and water trucks.

Once the seeds are laid, you can water them once and last longer.

Unless God really doesn't give food and it doesn't rain, everyone still has some chances.
Chapter completed!