Since the exclusive Confucianism came up with the "sensation between heaven and man", the country’s weather has been directly linked to the character of the ruler. Even if a place in the palace is struck by lightning, it is definitely the ruler’s fault. What kind of activity caused the dissatisfaction of God. If a disaster occurs, the first thought of the people is definitely that the ruler has done something bad to affect them.

Dong Zhongshu's "sensation between heaven and man" is to restrain the imperial power. The starting point is naturally excellent, that is, after the imperial power and the babble of gods and gods are connected, Zhu Xia civilization has moved into the abyss of reincarnation.

Anyway, the ruler is not good. If you die and change to another ruler, God may not be angry anymore. Similar thoughts have dominated Zhu Xia for nearly two thousand years. Really not many people think that climate is a change of nature, and even developed a "five virtue cycle" to explain the change of dynasties.

Throughout the history of Zhu Xia, every large-scale natural disaster must bring about a disaster, even if the authorities are effective in providing disaster relief, disasters cannot be avoided. At that time, if the imperial court had good national strength and the army had not completely corrupted and lost its combat effectiveness, the ruling class would naturally be able to sustain it, but the country would also be greatly injured by the disaster, laying the groundwork for foreigners to attack the country.

There is only one dynasty that has the best performance in the face of natural disasters in all dynasties, and that is the dynasty known as the Weak Song.

The Xiangjun system was established in the Song Dynasty and the local people were forcibly incorporated into the Xiangjun system when disasters occurred. It was not for real training to become combatable soldiers. In fact, it was controlled by the Xiangjun system regardless of men and women, young and old, to avoid natural disasters. A large number of people have been displaced and turned into refugees.

The destruction of the Central Plains dynasty basically started from the rapid increase in the number of refugees. A large number of people who lost their family and business wandered aimlessly. During the wandering process, they destroyed one place after another, causing one place after another. With the erosion of the land, it is difficult to guarantee the order of the country, and even if there is an ambitious call, it will immediately be a beacon.

The Xiangjun system of the Song Dynasty effectively reduced the phenomenon of refugees when natural disasters occurred. Once entering the Xiangjun, there was a possibility of regaining free people. One of Song's reasons.

"The big Han does not restrict population movement, and the mountains and rivers are opened up in the disaster year." Sang Yu felt that he was not alarmist: "We should prevent the (Han) Emperor Ai from happening."

Said Emperor Ai was the last Han emperor of the Western Han Dynasty before Wang Mang established the new dynasty. At that time, natural disasters were frequent, and the land annexation was very severe at that time, which caused the country's people to be turbulent and the refugees were too scary, which was the demise of the Western Han Dynasty. Give a heavy hammer.

"Dahan recruiting workers is indeed an effective way to prevent the refugees from overdoing, but it is difficult to prevent them all." Cai You did not think that the old things of the Han Ai Emperor would happen, but some words have to say: "The state is not privately annexing the land. But... most people don't have much land."

Liu Yan was stunned.

Isn't it? The Han state followed the Qin Empire's old road. Most of the land was attributed to the state, and the private sale of land was not allowed. This effectively prevented land mergers, but the people really didn't have much land.

"Enlisted in the army, you will be granted land, and you have not lost the Juntian of Queen Lu." Xu Zheng said that in the early Han Dynasty, Lu Zhi used to restore the national strength to restore the national strength. It was a policy of rewarding fields according to the knighthood: I have enlisted in the army and have already guaranteed to own at least one hundred acres. What else do you want?"

Lu Zhi's land equalization was to restore the economy in the early Han Dynasty, and the main target was the nobles, and at the same time, it also allowed the private sector to buy and sell land. In the period of Emperor Wenwen and Emperor Hanjing, he did many free grants of land, that is, no longer looked at whether there is no knighthood, it is possible to obtain land with a human head, and cultivate most of the land, thus creating Wenjing. The rule, but also undermined the title system.

It is difficult to say whether it is good or bad to allow land to be bought and sold privately, but if land can be bought and sold privately, land mergers will inevitably occur, and people who lose their land will generally become refugees.

"The Han Dynasty is not as big as the Xian Han, but there are very few people." Sang Yu glanced at Liu Yan with a thoughtful look, and continued: "If you have soil, you should have a product."

In order to avoid the phenomenon of refugees under natural disasters, the Han country has been conscripting and recruiting people to build national projects. It has to a large extent recruited the young people from the private sector. The young people are within the scope of control. The strong, the old and the weak, women and children can't go anywhere, even if the real chaos occurs, they will be easily suppressed. This is one of the measures taken by the authorities to deal with natural disasters and prevent civil unrest.

The Daqi National Project in the year of natural disasters is another effective measure. After all, the national project is to provide food and drink, and non-serving groups still have wages.

The state’s money for hiring labor did not start in the present-day Han. In fact, it has been very popular in the pre-Qin era, but most of them are small in scale, and they have not been recorded by historians.

In the end, why should an extremely common thing be cautiously promoted? Only rare things, especially good things to encourage others to follow suit, will be hyped. It can be seen that the more you promote the spirit, the less that spirit is definitely lacking.

"Naturally, a lot of land can be granted." Xu Zheng sneered: "The gratuitous acquisition is ruining the hearts of the people, why don't you start more wars?"

Sang Yu immediately covered his forehead. Behind him was a soul wandering beyond the sky, so he didn't intend to say anything more.

"In the disaster year, we will use troops abroad..." Ji Chang had to say, "If the Taiwei can guarantee that he can obtain food for the outside world, why not?"

Xu moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything.

The starting point of the Han army's outward campaign was to obtain food. The attack on the Gupta Dynasty did not go smoothly as expected. For nearly a year, it still stayed on the front side of the sea war, but it was because the advancement of the Gupta Dynasty established diplomatic relations with a considerable number of countries.

After Assanyo's great war, the Pingman Captain had captured quite a few Gupta nobles, and those nobles were willing to use gold to redeem their lives and freedom.

Under the auspices of Huan Wen, the job of releasing prisoners of war was done quite smoothly, but the request to use food instead of gold was not approved by the Gupta dynasty, and the subsequent release of prisoners of war was suspended.

It can be seen that the Gupta dynasty is not stupid. They are all determined to fight the Han country. They are definitely not happy that the Han army can get food nearby. They would rather pay more gold than a grain.

Unable to obtain food from the Gupta dynasty, the Han country could only open another channel.

At present, Han ships have arrived in Persia and Egypt, and they have not only obtained the permission of Rome and Sasanian to buy grain from the government, but also from the private sector. Grain obtained from the two countries continues to be "passed" back to the mainland. There are two batches of relatively large transactions. Although the food shortage situation has not been eased much, the stable access to food from abroad is a reassurance.

Egypt has been a granary for a long time. It was the result of the ancient Egyptians' efforts for nearly a thousand years.

The agricultural technology of ancient Egypt is quite good, and then the area of ​​Egypt is also unique for farming, with multiple vertical and horizontal water systems, and with a complete irrigation system, can it become a good grain-producing area?

The Romans have relied on Egyptian food for hundreds of years, and Egypt has never let the Romans down. The food fleet transported from Egypt to the provinces of Rome via the Mediterranean is endless throughout the year, and the total amount exceeds that provided by Gaul and Spain. Amount.

Rome is currently falling apart. In fact, the Egyptian region is not in the hands of Constantius. The Han state's ability to buy food from Egypt was the result of negotiations between Constantius and his brothers. The Han country only purchases food from Egypt, and it does not matter how the two divided Roman forces distribute their profits.

The Persian Sassanids were geographically close to Han, and they also agreed to Han to purchase grain, but in fact the Sassanids did not officially provide a large amount of grain to sell to Han.

The current Sassanid dynasty is actually not getting better. Civil disturbances break out frequently in various places, and the Sassanian military itself lacks food. Fortunately, the political system of the Persians was very complicated. The lack of food in the dynasty's treasury did not mean that the people did not have enough food. Especially the big nobles were not short of food at all.

Being able to obtain food imports from Rome and Persia, and even the Indochina Peninsula has been supplying it, really greatly improving the internal environment of Han.

If the Han Dynasty did not have access to food from the outside in the previous dynasties, there would be really not many measures that can be taken in the face of the disaster year. It may only be to allow the disaster area to fend for itself and wait for the people in the disaster area to survive. Send troops to suppress.

The war caused by natural disasters was either suppressed by the authorities, or the authorities were changed. The mountains and rivers were broken and returned to stability, and time was taken to heal the pain. There are quite a few examples of this, right?

With external access to food, the Prime Minister’s Office has been maintaining the amount of food available on the market in various places. As long as it can provide food on the market steadily, and not to talk about maintaining the original low food price, unless the price of food is outrageously expensive, the year of the disaster Turning down and doubled is actually still within the acceptable range.

In fact, as long as the people can survive, not so many people will want to struggle with the country's violent machine, let alone the authorities.

"However, it's not enough." Liu Yan just learned that there had been four consecutive days of heavy rain in the northwest, followed by a light rain for nearly half a month: "That rain was far from enough to relieve the drought."

It was only an unexpected rain that played a role that Liu Yan did not expect. According to the joint report by Xie Ai and Li Kuang, the northwest was originally dark and turbulent, and the public sentiment was fierce. There was also a lot of chaos in the dark. The party is ready to get up. As a result, there was a rain, and the people immediately walked out of the argument that God did not allow Han to rule the Northwest. In line with the many official measures, the chaotic parties immediately slumped.

Liu Yan has enough knowledge of the characteristics of Zhu Xia civilization, but he still underestimates the argument that "the people's heart is the heart of heaven".

In fact, "the people's heart is the heart of the sky" is more appropriate. The harvest of the farming nation depends on the face of God to eat. When the weather is good, the ruler will be fooling around. The people will be very docile if they can eat. But once God does not give face, the ruler is working hard day and night to let the people live a good life. Because of the lack of progress in the relationship between human and material resources, the people will not care whether the ruler is doing things.

How many emperors who haven't done anything good in their entire lives sit firmly on the throne, and how many emperors who are diligent and want to do good things are busy working hard or failing to save their empire from extinction?

Liu Yan knew that this time a large-scale drought was a hurdle for him, and that was why he insisted on smoothing out the surrounding alien races, regardless of public opinion.

When there are natural disasters, and then there are actual threats from outside aliens, the country was busy responding to natural disasters, and may not be able to cope with them. If the aliens are killed again, the country’s overthrow will be in that moment. Liu Yan absolutely does not allow such things to happen. .

"It's raining in the northwest, but Guanzhong, Central Plains, and Northern Xinjiang..." Ji Chang didn't finish speaking. After a short while, he sighed and said, "Maybe there should be new measures to stabilize and invigorate the people?"

Xu Zheng asked: "The new measures the Prime Minister said, is it not equalizing the land for free, right?"

Ji Chang didn't dare to say it even if he had that heart, but he really thought that a round of free granting of grace to the people would effectively win the hearts of the people.

At the time of the disaster year, it is absolutely necessary to maintain the stability of the people’s hearts. There is nothing better than granting land as a means of buying, but Ji Chang really dare not mention it. Whoever dares to propose granting land free of charge will be taken by the military. Shred.

Sang Yu, Cai You, Lu Yi and others are silently looking at each other at this moment. Their responsibilities determine one point. They must be worried that civil disturbances will break out. Once civil disturbances really occur, the next few years... even Longer, I really don't want to mention any internal affairs construction.

Liu Yan actually understands that equalization of land is definitely a big killer. It is a matter naturally determined by the farming nation~lightnovelpub.net~ After the new courts of the past dynasties sit in the world, could it not be that equalizing the land to win the hearts of the people, soon Let the people's minds stabilize.

As for the farming people, if there is a piece of land under its name, people will settle down, and it can even be said that they will be tied to the land for a lifetime. The country is also happy that the people do not have too much thoughts, it is best to go from birth to death, anyway, just don't leave that land.

Liu Yan's refusal to equalize the land is to ensure that the military meritorious service does not collapse, but he also needs to think about the characteristics of the farming nation. Recently, he has been constantly thinking about the best of both worlds.

"What are those people making noise recently?" Liu Yan's question made the ministers a little unresponsive. He was referring to those cultural people: "The prime minister can make it possible to discuss the changes of the land in the past dynasties."

Ji Chang was shocked at first, and then overjoyed, completely disregarding the sullen faces of the military who reacted at the same time, and loudly responded, "No!"

Liu Yan glanced at the full-faced military ministers, and said, "You can go and listen."

The military naturally didn't dare to shake Liu Yan's face, only to fulfill his orders. rw