Poor family mother and son

When Chu Qing arrived on the island, what she felt was freedom and joy. Although there were some shadows about the "sluggish phenomenon", it did not affect her mood.

Because Xiaobao and everyone are safe and living well, this is more important than anything else.

She planned to stay for a while longer, to get to know the island well, and also to feel what the phenomenon of "sluggishness" was, and see if she could find the reason.

As for the loss of Ganzhou Saltworks, Chu Qing's people are all on the island, and with a son who has everything to do, he doesn't have to worry so much.

Besides, what if she rushes to Ganzhou?Can she drive away the "eight winds"?
Xiaobao was very happy to hear that the Linyang County Salt Farm was not affected by the "eight winds" due to its geographical location, and simply advised Chuqing to celebrate the New Year here, not just "stay a few more days".

Anyway, the salt field in Linyang County can make money by itself, and the ones in Ganzhou Prefecture are basically owned by the emperor.

He even gave a very important reason: "Mother, we all think that this island is very rich and shouldn't live a hard life, but those natives live in poverty, why don't you just leave it to find out the reason?"

When I was a child, I always felt that wherever my mother was, that was my home; not here at Chuqing, her plan was that wherever her son was, she would build a home there!
So Chu Qing agreed: "Okay, with a vast land and few people, how can you still not get enough to eat? It shouldn't be."

Chu Qing has a clear purpose this time: to go to the mountains to see.

From the perspective of the Chu family, it is easy to get enough food on the island. Fishing, hunting, planting sweet potatoes, etc., can fill their stomachs. It's just that they miss the days of eating rice and noodles. After all, they grew up inland.

Chu Qing wants to find a place suitable for farming and solve the food problem.

For several days, no "sluggishness" phenomenon occurred, and people even joked: "The boss is out, and ghosts and gods go around."

Chu Qing led the team to explore the terrain happily and fulfillingly every day, but Daxuan fell into dire straits.

The "Eight Winds" landed from Changguang Mansion and swept all the way to the southeast. Therefore, Changguang Mansion, Haizhou, and Ganzhou Mansions became the only way for the "Eight Winds".

But the route of a typhoon is not as simple as drawing a line on paper with a pencil. A typhoon is a strong cyclone storm, and it will cause a huge area of ​​disaster when it passes by.

The "eight winds" crossed the border, and the sea area of ​​the coastal state capital was full of huge waves and the tide level soared.

In Changguang Mansion, where the "Eight Winds" first landed, [-] households buried fish bellies almost overnight.

Haizhou, the smallest state capital protruding from the southernmost point of Daxuan into a pointed shape, has drowned 8 people, [-]% of whom were prisoners who were exiled here and their descendants, and the total population of Haizhou is less than [-].

What Ganzhou Prefecture lost was not only a sea salt field, because it was separated from Xuanweifu by high mountains, the "Eight Winds" were blocked from circling, and then invaded the inland of Ganzhou Prefecture.

Taking advantage of the momentum of the tide and the power of the wind, the wind washed away thousands of feet of seawall and drowned more than [-] people. Not to mention the disappearance of the salt field and the shipyard.

Not only that, the violent storms caused by the "eight winds" also caused sand and trees to be blown up in the inland state capitals, roof tiles were flying, and huts were damaged.

Mountainous floods, mudslides, and landslides have been caused in many areas, and the embankments of small and medium-sized rivers have all been destroyed. Urban and rural floods and waterlogging are serious.

Regardless of whether it is urban or rural, the streets have turned into oceans, with dead fish, shrimps and chickens floating on them, fallen trees, broken bridges, people injured by roof tiles in every house, and walls destroyed by storms in every house.

The unprecedented "hot business" of the medical center has made it difficult for all the doctors sitting in the hall-too many patients and insufficient medicinal materials, but the heavy rain has blocked the traffic for days and cannot purchase.

Reports from various places did not fly to Kyoto like snowflakes, because roads in many places were blocked by mudslides or submerged in waterlogging.

What Zhuo Yao thought at the beginning that the emperor would give Chu Qing a decree to save the saltworks soon did not happen.

When the memorial finally reached Kyoto, the emperor did not even have a process for him to accept it gradually, because the memorial that was blocked by roads for a long time arrived almost within the same day.

In this way, it seems that the southern half of Daxuan suddenly said that it can't be done.

In the past, the style of "reporting big disasters and concealing major disasters" disappeared without a trace, and all localities reported truthfully.

The memorial can be blocked, but the power of the "eight winds" cannot be blocked. When the southern memorial finally reached Kyoto, most of the northern regions began to experience strong winds, cooling down and snowfall.

Like the influence of the "eight winds", the price of rice soared from south to north, from [-] yuan per bucket of rice to [-] yuan within ten days, repeating the price of rice during the locust plague that year.

Only this time, no one tried to stabilize food prices, even if there were people who wanted to do it, they couldn't do it, because the whole country was hit by the disaster, and the northern grain storage could not provide strong support for the south.

If Chu Qing could see the disasters in the coastal areas with her own eyes, she might understand why the aborigines on her island lived in concentrated areas in the mountains, guarding the sea with so much seafood to eat but living a hard life.

With the current productivity, even without the "eight winds", no one in Daxuan can live by the sea for a long time.

The natives of the islands do not have enough production tools to build boats and houses on the sandy land, so they cannot go to sea to fish, so they have to fish reluctantly. This must be a collective action in the village, not the ability of each family.

Therefore, their fishery is not sea fishing, but river fishing in mountainous areas.

The inspector censor really thanked Huang Zhong at this time, if Huang Zhong hadn't been forced to leave New Lunzhou early, maybe he would take a boat cruise along the coast from Linyang County again.

After all, he came out with a task assigned by the emperor.

If that's the case, if you encounter the "eight winds" directly at sea, even if you have nine lives, you may not be able to save half of them.

But he didn't go too far. He went to Xuanwei Mansion next to New Lunzhou. The situation of the comfort mansion, the inspector censor also needs to touch it.

This time I can't leave.

Among the reports received by the emperor from various places, some were reported by the Xunyan Yushi. Others reported about the disaster, and the Xunyan Yushi also reported.

However, Xunyan Yushi's description is more detailed and detailed, such as pigs climbing walls, sheep climbing houses, dead fish hanging on branches...

Because he couldn't walk, the roads were all blocked, he hoped that through his detailed description, he could inspire the emperor to find a way to bring him back to the capital.

A series of vivid descriptions made the emperor feel the tragedy of the people as if he had seen it himself.

Where there are mountains, there are valleys, and the places surrounded by mountains must be basins. The east side of Xuanwei Mansion is close to Xinlunzhou, and the mountains are long. , Storms, flooding, swallowing countless villages.

The pigs that could climb the walls and the sheep that went to the houses were all flooded in the basin, and the water level did not exceed the roof.