Chapter 6525 Natural Disaster

Chapter 6525 Natural Disaster
When Liu Bei received the secret report, Fa Zheng had already started to eliminate the hidden dangers one by one by comparing the internal archives. The first and second generation secret nails could be left alone, but the fourth generation secret nails had to be removed first.

"So you are now looking up records of veterans captured around the seventh year of Yuanfeng?" Chen Xi asked curiously as he looked at Fa Zheng who was busy.

"This is the fastest way to screen. There may be some who slip through the net, but with our management level, even if some veterans are captured and not discovered, their number will not be too large." Fa Zheng was flipping through the sealed files at hand while recording the number of people involved in each state and county.

"Yes, the fourth-generation secret nail has the ability to discover traces of other secret nails, and also has a certain logical thinking ability. When it finds that the situation is not good, it may actively activate other secret nails, so it is better to remove them as soon as possible." Chen Xi flipped through the sealed files twice and could more or less understand Fa Zheng's thinking. Secret nails of other levels lack such functions. Although the third generation also has this function, its judgment and logical thinking abilities are very limited.

"The number of fourth-generation ones won't be large. We have previously removed two fourth-generation secret nails for analysis. The difficulty of its architecture is not low. Too many functions cannot change the difficulty of its use even with architectural optimization." Fa Zheng explained as he flipped through the sealed files.

"So that's why there are five generations of dual consciousness with a completely different structure from the previous ones." Chen Xi touched his chin and spoke with some speculation. Fa Zheng nodded when he heard it. He also made the same judgment. Some things are too advanced, which is not good. For example, if the arcane nails are all second generation, to be honest, the Han Dynasty will never be able to detect them.

Even if social moral problems really emerged later, it would be difficult to pin the blame on the Kushans, and the only way to find the problem was within ourselves.

"Then you handle this first. If there is any need for personnel, go directly to the Weiwei. If the Weiwei is short of manpower, apply to Her Royal Highness the Princess." Chen Xi waved his hand at Fa Zheng and said, "The rest is up to you. Suppress this matter first. If it causes some social unrest, release the news of the regeneration of the severed limbs directly to boost the confidence of the veterans."

Fa Zheng nodded when he heard this. He had the same idea. However, according to Fa Zheng's estimation, the number of the fourth-generation secret nails would not exceed a hundred. However, after looking through the sealed files, from the sixth year of Yuanfeng to the seventh year of Yuanfeng, the number of people involved far exceeded a hundred, so they had to be investigated one by one.

"Are you busy today?" Fa Zheng looked at Chen Xi strangely. It was rare to see Chen Xi so busy.

Unlike the past when the Gan and Shi families had to ask the government for some funding, the current situation of the Han Dynasty is pretty good, and government funding is still sufficient. Moreover, during the five-year plan, there was a special fund for things like astronomy and calendars that were related to making a living, so there was no such thing as asking for money specifically. As a result, every time the Gan and Shi families appeared, there was either a great famine or abnormal climate.

"Ah, they're coming to find you, then you're doomed!" Fa Zheng's hands paused as he flipped through the files, and then he looked helpless. There was nothing to say, this was the fact. The Gan family and the Shi family would not normally come to find Chen Xi, but if they came to find Chen Xi, it would definitely not be a good thing.

After all, people need to eat, farming is the great cause in the agricultural era, and making food is a serious job.

Therefore, there are several ways to make a living from the position of Grand Historian. Those who brag about their connection with heaven and earth should be prepared to lose their heads at any time. Those who record history should be prepared to be messed with by others. Those who study astrology and calendar and are in charge of farming, as long as you don't take the initiative to mess with others, others will never mess with you.

Just hearing that Gan Bao and Shi Tao, the new young head of the family, were coming together, made Chen Xi's head spin. No matter how the war on the front line was fought, Chen Xi didn't care. He could keep calm even if he lost. But if a natural disaster in the rear affected tens of millions of people, Chen Xi would be in a state of panic.

This is also the reason why the Gan family and the Shi family can always get some money from other families when they have no money for research. Even if they don't want to give it, they think that the other party is doing a serious business and it is meaningful to them. In addition, they have indeed benefited from the other party's technical benefits, so giving some help is never a problem.

"Anyway, I'm going to go to the Government Affairs Office to meet those two first. You just continue to work." Chen Xi sighed and said, "I hope it's not something too serious."

In this case, the two families naturally don't care much about many things. They feel constrained by the State Council? What a joke! Coming here is like coming home. I love it here.

There is nothing wrong with killing a few disgusting idiots, as long as their brains are not too seriously corrupted. The emperor will not kill those who actually provide him with food for no reason.

For those who are in charge of astronomy, doing some stuff like communicating with nature is just for fun. If it really depends on your ability and skills, then it's simple. It depends on when to farm, when is the best time to farm, and how to farm in accordance with the weather to produce more food. These are the real skills to make a living.

In the agricultural era of the third century, if there was a major famine or abnormal climate, people would really die, and not just one or two people, but thousands and thousands. To be honest, compared with the things said by the Gan and Shi families, what the Kushans did was nothing.

So compared to what Fa Zheng is dealing with now, Chen Xi took a quick look and made sure that Fa Zheng already had a plan and could leave smoothly. The sudden emergence of the Gan family and the Shi family made Chen Xi more troubled. To be honest, Chen Xi now hoped that the Gan family and the Shi family had used up their funds and needed Chen Xi to approve a few hundred million yuan in funds for them so that they could get out of here quickly.

"Well, the Gan family sent someone to notify me, and I'm a little worried." Chen Xi sighed and said, other things didn't matter, but when astrology and calendar families like the Gan family and the Shi family came to find Chen Xi, Chen Xi was really troubled, because nothing good had ever happened since these two families came to find Chen Xi.

But the problem is that it is impossible for the Gan and Shi families to directly bring the heads of the families over for such a small matter.

After all, this is really a technical job. A big part of the reason why Europe's farming industry did not take off is that people did not understand when was the right time to farm. This is something that looks metaphysical, but is actually very scientific.

There is no way. Rank is rank, importance is importance. The Gan and Shi families have been studying astronomy and calendar since they were still of the Ji surname. In the ancient environment where people relied on the weather for their livelihood, a family that can let you know in advance when to farm so that you can generally produce more grain, let you know in advance what the harvest will be like this year, and let you prepare for various climate disasters, to be honest, is really your father.

The problem is, even if it is a bad thing, being notified of the bad thing in advance is better than receiving the news when the disaster is about to happen. So when the Gan family and the Shi family came to find Chen Xi, Chen Xi was more or less numb. On the one hand, he was glad that the situation could still be saved, but on the other hand, he felt that God was going to have another attack.

During the previous snowstorm in the country, if the Gan and Shi families had made a slight mistake in their judgment and failed to make the correct judgment a few days before the snowstorm, it would not have been a matter of a few thousand deaths for the Han Dynasty, but tens of thousands of people would have frozen to death or starved to death in the south. They would have been the kind that could not be rescued.

At the State Council, Gan Bao and Shi Tao were eating the snacks sent by Yuan Yin, drinking tea, and looking around, without any sense of being small officials meeting important people.

Trying to do some divine communication or something like that is just for fun, and if you mess up you might get dragged out and chopped off. But if you can express your opinions on farming and add a few entries to the agricultural calendar, then as long as you don't shout nonsense, even if the dynasty changes, this position will still be yours.

The main job of the Gan and Shi families is astrology and calendar. Every year they record the hydrological data from various places, conduct comparative studies, infer the upcoming climate, and release farming information in advance. They are serious technical experts.

"Brother, do you have any daughters of marriageable age at home, the kind that are good at studying? Please marry a few to our Yuan family." Yuan Yin poured tea and water for Gan Bao and Shi Tao, and served snacks. After being busy for a while, he revealed his true thoughts. He had no other intention, but to get him a few wives quickly. The Yuan family now needs technical personnel, and the environment in Eastern Europe really needs professional personnel for research.

"I didn't even say anything about your Yuan family. What's wrong? You have detained four technicians from our two families." Gan Bao said very tiredly. In his opinion, the Yuan family was really shameless. Four of the five researchers sent by their two families to study the local hydrology and climate did not come back and were resettled on the spot. Can't you have some bottom line? Are you testing our descendants like this?

"Each of us takes what we need, each of us takes what we need, if there is anything else, marry a few more, the land in Eastern Europe is too big, and we don't understand the situation when we go there, and we have never seen many weather conditions, which are worth studying." Yuan Yin said very tiredly. This is not a joke, but the Yuan family really needs a lot of big men who are proficient in climatology, astronomy, and geology to make a good calculation for them.

Some things may not seem obvious, but they are really fatal. Let me give you the simplest example. In Sizhao City, where the Yuan family is now, because the three elders of the Yuan family begged and pleaded with the Gan family and the Shi family, they got five professional climate, calendar and astronomy personnel. They spent several years on research. Now, according to the calendar and weather table made by this group of people, the areas around Sizhao City can grow not only one crop of wheat a year, but also some vegetables.

Even though it is just an extra round of vegetables, or some quick-growing plants, this is already a huge difference. It also effectively avoids bad weather, allowing the wheat to grow better and the yield to increase slightly. Even though this increase is only 10%, the area is large, and that is calculated by warehouse.

However, the Yuan family can only guarantee this level of success in the vicinity of Sizhao City. In other places, due to climate issues, they can only plant when they feel it is almost done. If they are lucky, they can harvest before the weather gets cold. If they are unlucky, then the Slavs' work this year will be almost in vain.

This is also the reason why the Yuan family tried their best to keep several professional and technical personnel. The general environment in Eastern Europe is different from that east of the Urals, and the area is so large that if it is to be fully developed in the future, it will probably take decades of research by a group of climatologists and astronomers to form a professional agricultural calendar.

The lunar calendar of the Han Dynasty, although simple in appearance, was truly a culmination of great achievements. It was completely different from the later calendars that were only used to tell the date. The calendars of those days were really used to guide agricultural production and daily routines, and were almost one of the technical manifestations of a country's agricultural production.

As long as the Yuan family is still sane and wants to develop Eastern Europe well, they must find a group of people to spend decades comparing Eastern Europe's hydrological data, climate characteristics, hot and cold rainy seasons, etc. to come up with a corresponding calendar, and it must also be connected with the Han Dynasty's calendar.

Originally, the Yuan family wanted to copy Rome, but the farming level of Rome was terrible. There were a lot of astronomy masters, but these astronomy masters only specialized in astrology and astronomy, and did not combine climate and hydrology to develop agricultural calendars, which was a waste of the application of such high-end technology.

In the eyes of the Han Dynasty, if you don't use these technologies that can be used for farming in farming, then you have a problem with your brain. The Roman farming technology, which was considered to be a problem with their brains, could obviously be improved by the calendar. If nothing else, just determine a suitable farming time to ensure two seasons a year, or three seasons in two years. Even if the output is still very low due to problems with the farming technology, at least it can be much higher than it is now.

As a result, Rome still hasn't come up with this thing, which Yuan believes is the first thing one should do when arriving in a new place.

How can we farm without this kind of thing? Rely on the sky? The sky is unreliable!
As for spending decades or two or three generations to conduct relevant research, from a national perspective, this is a necessary investment.

However, the problem now is that the Yuan family has no one. Climatology and astronomy are monopolized technical knowledge these days. Even if the Yuan family has many students and former officials all over the world, they will still feel overwhelmed when faced with such purely technical knowledge. Even if you want to create one from scratch, it will be difficult.

Do you really think that the accumulation of more than a thousand years by the Gan and Shi families is a joke? The accumulation of hydrological and climate data alone is enough to squeeze to death other families who want to enter this track.

So just admit it, your two families are noble and awesome, just lend me some people, but the kind that you won’t return.

Whenever any of the major aristocratic families went out to establish a country, they would eventually choose to marry a daughter of the Gan family or the Shi family. Even the Yong family, who were shut in at home, were like this. There was no other way. Without other things, they would not die, but without this thing, they would really die. After all, it was an agricultural society, and it all depended on God's will.

In the past, the Gan and Shi families didn't think much of it and just married if they wanted, since they had enough family members anyway. But after all the major families moved away, there weren't many people left in the Gan and Shi families, and there weren't enough people to work. It was not easy to train someone who understood astronomy and climate in those days, so these two families gradually accumulated these things through what they saw and heard.

Therefore, as time went on, the Gan and Shi families were less willing to lend manpower out, because most of the time they would never return it. After all, when there are few people, one more person can really improve efficiency.

As the territory of the Han Dynasty expanded, the Gan and Shi families had more climate and hydrology to study, and more manpower was needed. This was a vicious circle, so until now the attitude of the two families is that they will ignore anyone except the official, and let them do whatever they want.

So when Chen Xi came over from Fa Zheng's side, what he saw was Yuan Yin busy serving tea and water to two old men who were about his age.

"Lord Chen." Gan Bao and Shi Tao quickly stood up and saluted when they saw Chen Xi.

Chen Xi returned a half-bow and motioned for the two to sit down. He then drove out all the extra trash before looking at the two and asking, "You two have come together. It seems that something big has happened again. Tell me. I was mentally prepared when I came here. Whether it is a drought or a flood, I am mentally prepared."

"Can I have money?" Shi Tao asked tentatively.

Chen Xi raised his eyebrows. Damn, the best news this year was not the disastrous weather somewhere, but the need for money. Money is good!
"Stop joking!" Gan Bao glared at Shi Tao unhappily, which immediately extinguished Chen Xi's happiness. How could he come here to ask for money? If he wanted money, he could just send the boys at home to get it. If that didn't work, he could just cheat other wealthy families, and they would give him some money.

Even if those families knew that these people were just here to defraud some money, they would not pursue it specifically, after all, they are really eating their rice.

"Uh, just kidding. The funding is still sufficient." Shi Tao restrained his expression and sat upright.

"Tell me, what kind of disastrous weather is this?" Chen Xi sighed. Most of his work could be done perfunctorily, but when it came to the things reported by these two companies, he really couldn't be perfunctory. If he could know about it in advance, he would start preparing in advance.

"It's a locust plague." Shi Tao explained.

Chen Xi showed no expression when he heard this. He was mentally prepared for this. Due to the severe drought last winter, Chen Xi realized the possibility of a locust plague this year. Although heavy snow fell later and eliminated the locust plague to a certain extent, Chen Xi did not think that the locusts could be completely eliminated.

"You reported this last year, and I also issued a warning document, and the counties carried out locust eradication. Even if there is a locust plague, it should not be too serious." Chen Xi said with some speculation, "Is there something else that I don't know about?"

At the end of last year, Chen Xi did issue a notice asking all localities to dig up the land where locust eggs might be found during the winter. Even if there is a locust plague this year, local bureaucrats have made preparations in advance. Unless they do not take the matter seriously, it will not be a big problem.

"Well, how should I put it? It's not a local locust plague, but a locust plague in Africa. However, the scale is too large, and the personnel we have deployed there believe that there is a possibility of it rushing over here." Gan Bao said very tiredly. How should I put it about the locust plague in East Africa? The personnel sent by his own company sent back the relevant images. Gan Bao had only one feeling, he wanted to die. The scale was unimaginable, it was nonsense!
　There are more to come. I'll try my best today and see if I can get 20,000 more.
　　(End of this chapter)