The climate of Daqin is similar to that of China in another time and space, basically belonging to the subtropical and temperate zones.
Most areas belong to the warm temperate and mid-temperate zones.
In the Gyeonggi region, agricultural harvests are basically from late August to late September.
It's only July now. Even if there is a drought this year, there shouldn't be so many refugees now, right?
Liu Muzhi and others couldn't help but frown slightly at this.
Kou Zhunren, on the other hand, knew a little more about this than they did, and upon hearing this, he smiled wryly and said, “Your Majesty knows the whole story.
Although it is only July now, for ordinary farmers, it is already the time of shortage of food. If there is no famine, most self-cultivating farmers will need to borrow food to survive at this time.
But once such a disaster occurs, the rich and powerful will naturally be unwilling to lend money.
Those who have some means will certainly not flee famine before the autumn harvest, but those who really have no other options will not be able to have the autumn harvest.
At this time, many people have no choice but to give up and cut the crops that have not yet grown and eat them.
After eating, they naturally had no choice but to flee."
When Zhao Xin and others heard this, they finally understood, and the North Study Room fell silent again.
Kou Zhunren was silent for a moment, then he couldn't help but frown and said, "However, in the past, at this time, the powerful and wealthy families would take this opportunity to recruit people.
Or they would pretend to provide some relief to win over the people's hearts, so there would not usually be so many refugees, and not all of them would run to the capital.
It's really unusual that so many refugees have gathered in the capital so quickly this time."
Hearing his words, everyone's heart skipped a beat, and they immediately understood what was going on.
"It seems like someone is deliberately fanning the flames behind the scenes!"
Wang Xuance immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I implore you to send envoys to investigate everywhere to find out who is behind this!"
Cao Xiong, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but change his expression slightly when he heard this. He smiled cautiously and said, "Your Majesty, it would be better if I could send the guards from the East Depot to investigate this matter. Why bother the Embroidered Uniform Envoy?"
Wang Xuance raised his eyebrows when he heard this, but he didn't say anything.
Instead, Zhao Xin glanced at Cao Xiong coldly, and the latter quickly stepped back, lowered his head and dared not speak again.
Zhao Xin then said in a cold voice: "Whether or not to investigate, apart from those wealthy families, there will be no one else.
Then we can ask Huatian to send someone to investigate."
Naturally, everyone had no objection to this.
Even Wang Xuance only mentioned this briefly.
It's just a small matter, so there's no need for him to fight for power with anyone.
Although Cao Xiong smiled bitterly in his heart, he had long lost the confidence and courage to fight against Yu Huatian.
All I can say is, if Cao is born, how can there be rain?
Zhao Xin didn't dwell too much on this issue.
Because at this point, as he said, it doesn't matter whether to investigate or not.
They are just people from wealthy and aristocratic families. As for which family they are from and who they are, it doesn’t matter much to him.
"Let's continue talking about the refugees. I have a rule here. What do you think?"
He took out two pages of the manuscript and handed them to Cao Xiong, saying, "Pass it on."
Cao Xiong did not dare to delay and took it quickly. He glanced at the content on it but did not dare to read it carefully.
However, he knew that these were the results of the sleepless work of His Majesty, the Queen, and Concubine Ming over the past two days.
So he held it very carefully in his hand.
Even when handing it over to Liu Muzhi and others, he specifically instructed them, "Please be careful, gentlemen. Your Majesty and the two ladies spent two sleepless days writing these. Please do not damage them."
Upon hearing this, several people did not dare to delay and hurriedly took it carefully.
Only then did I realize that the emperor's so-called retreat these past two days was actually for these reasons.
The regulations that the emperor mentioned must be related to this.
"It turns out that we have misunderstood Your Majesty. Your so-called seclusion was actually a strategy to govern the refugees..."
Thinking of this, Liu Muzhi and others suddenly felt ashamed.
They were all famous officials.
However, in such matters, I cannot share your worries, but instead make Your Majesty work hard.
Instead, they began to suspect that the emperor was ignoring state affairs.
I feel so guilty.
When they looked at the contents on the page again, they were all stunned at first, and then shocked.
The reason is that the content on this page is not a strategy for governing refugees.
They were naturally surprised because they saw the value of the content above.
The emperor only allowed Cao Xiong to pass down two pages, but the contents of these two pages were different.
One article is titled "The Thirteenth Chapter is Completed - Paper Materials".
You can tell at first glance that this is about papermaking, but this content only involves the raw materials for papermaking and does not involve specific processes.
The title of another article is "Lacquerware Shan - White Porcelain".
Then the words "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" are written on the edges of both pages.
Everyone understood instantly that these should be two chapters from a book called "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature".
Although it is not complete, it is not difficult to see from the perspective of a few people that it must contain relevant content and its value.
However, everyone's performance was slightly different. Kou Zhunren, Liu Muzhi and Wang Xuance were undoubtedly more serious.
Yu Qian, on the other hand, was a little careless and confused.
The most excited person was naturally Qiao Sanniang. As a businessman, although she didn't know whether this thing had anything to do with the resettlement of refugees, she instantly saw its economic benefits.
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