Although he was caught off guard by the sudden heavy snow, Zhao Huan did not lose his mind like the ministers in the court.

Compared with the frequency of natural disasters that occurred almost a year during the Chongzhen period, the snow in the fifth year of Jingkang is obviously a bit inconvenient.

The guards guarding the palace were the first vanguard troops to receive the order. In addition to the guards of the palace, the other imperial guards received the order to clear a road from the palace to the garrison outside the city at all costs within two hours.

At all costs, these six words have a sense of burning and dying. Especially the requirements for these six words were written by Zhao Huan on the imperial edict.

Then, the troops responsible for guarding Bianjing City received the order from Zhao Huan - the First Army of the Forbidden Army implemented military control over Bianjing City, and the Second Army and the Third Army were respectively responsible for distributing food and firewood to the people inside and outside the city. The First Army of the Xiang Army was sent to cut trees and chop firewood, the Second Army of the Xiang Army, and the Third Army were responsible for cleaning up the snow in Bianjing City.

As for the yamen runners in Kaifeng Prefecture, they were assigned the duties of leading the way and patrolling the streets.

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"There's almost no food."

Carefully put some rice in a ladle, Gu Dacheng's wife whispered: "There are heavy snow outside these days, and there is no place to buy food, so I can only save some money first."

Gu Dacheng muffled his head and said, turning around and picking up the broom, saying, "I'll sweep the snow in the yard, and when the snow stops, I'll go buy food."

Gu Dacheng's wife shook her head and said, "Don't panic when buying grain. Now the city is closed with heavy snow, and the price of grain on the streets of Bianjing City will definitely increase. It's better to wait for a while to close the warehouse and put the grain before buying it."

Gu Dacheng was stunned and asked, "How did you know that you would release grain when you close the warehouse?"

Gu Dacheng's wife chuckled softly and said, "The official family made a permanent settlement last year, and this year it happened to be the heavy snow. If the warehouse is not opened and grain is released, where can the official family be placed? Please wait for peace of mind. As long as there is no grain in the Changquan warehouse, the release of grain is inevitable."

Gu Dacheng nodded, then left the room after nodding, and thoughtfully swept up the snow in the yard.

Gu Dacheng knew very well that his brain was stupid and not as good as the wife in the family. Although his wife was the daughter of a butcher, this woman was smart and had much more calculating than her sour scholar who didn't even pass the exam several times.

If I hadn't always let myself kneel on the washboard, it would have been even more perfect.

Gu Dacheng thought this in his heart, and unconsciously used more three points of his strength, as if he wanted to treat the snow as his wife's butt - if you ask me to kneel on the washboard, I will hit you on the butt!

Pulling, twitching, and swinging brooms back and forth rolled up the snow on the ground, slowly piled into a small pile. Gu Dacheng sighed helplessly. The snow was just swept yesterday afternoon, and now it has piled up so much again. I don’t know when it will be the first one.

However, before Gu Dacheng could come up with a clue, there was a noise of people shouting and neighing from a horse from afar outside the yard.

Gu Dacheng felt a move in his heart, walked quickly to the door, reached out and opened the yard gate.

On the street outside the yard, the snow had been pressed to a very solid pressure because of the snow for several days, and it did not flow back into the yard because of Gu Dacheng's action of opening the door.

Gu Dacheng said intimately, and then turned his eyes to the street. The snow on the street had already passed through his knees and was about to reach the height of the base of his thighs. However, there were already standing on the street with shovels and brooms in hand, and white steam was leaping on his head as if he had become a collective immortal. The soldiers of the corps were behind the soldiers, and there were also carriages and even donkey carts passing by.

Gu Dacheng's eyes suddenly became hot.

In summer, Gu Dacheng heard that because the Yellow River flooded again, many rivers near Bianjing had flooded, and the people around him were also affected by disasters. At that time, it was the disaster that the imperial guards and the wing army went to rescue.

In order to help the people, hundreds of soldiers from the Imperial Army and the Fang Army disappeared, without seeing anyone in their lives or without seeing corpses.

In order to rescue the people, without having time to search for ships, the imperial guards and Qiu Ba of the wing army even jumped into the water and carried pieces of wooden boards on their shoulders as the floating bridge for the people to cross the river!

Gu Dacheng always thought this was a rumor—

The lives of the people are fate, but the lives of the military masters are not fate? If we really say that the price of the court recruiting, training, and equiping a military master is much more valuable than the lives of ordinary people!

But now, they are here to save themselves...

"Madam! Madam! The Imperial Guard is here!"

Gu Dacheng suddenly threw down his broom, turned his head and ran into the room: "The imperial guards have begun to clean up the snow!"

Gu Dacheng's wife nodded and said with a smile: "Since the imperial guards have begun to clean up the snow, it is estimated that Chang Ping's warehouse should be almost ready to release grain. Maybe, before Chang Ping's warehouse can release grain, the grain price in Bian Jing City should be restored."

Gu Dacheng nodded. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a shout from outside the yard: "Is Mr. Gu at home? Come out and get the food and splitting materials!"

Gu Dacheng and his wife stared at each other for a while, then returned to the gate of the yard with a confused look on their faces. However, they saw that the snow at their door had been almost cleaned up, and there were two soldiers in the wings standing behind the Kaifeng government yamen runners.

When the Kaifeng government yamen runner saw Gu Dacheng coming out, he moved aside. The two soldiers in the yamen runners who were originally following him and stood up. One of them bowed to Gu Dacheng and said, "Good Lord Gu, this is five kilograms of grain and twenty kilograms of chopped materials that the official sent. Please accept it and sign and seal it here to prove that you have received these things."

Gu Dacheng looked at the two cloth bags held by the soldiers in the wing, and then pressed his handprint on a booklet with a confused look on his face.

“No need to buy food.”

After the yamen runners and soldiers of the wing army left, Gu Dacheng hurried back to the house and said to his wife: "The official family sent food and chopped materials. Also, I asked the police in Kaifeng Mansion that it was snowing all day long, and these things were distributed for a day, and when did they stop?"

Gu Dacheng's wife nodded with a smile and said, "Isn't this very good?"

Gu Dacheng also nodded and said, "Just now, the servants in Kaifeng Prefecture knew that I was a scholar, so they asked me if I could help the soldiers of the Xiang army lead the way and if I could help them distribute things to the people. I decided that I would go, not only to go, but also to find an errand in Kaifeng Prefecture."

"The official is kind to us, but we cannot be grateful and not repay our kindness."
Chapter completed!