In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth year of King Youmiao of Zhao and 230 BC. Although Ziying was only eleven years old this year, she looked like a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old. Although she was not as good as Pan An, she could also be said to be a beautiful boy in Yushu.

If Ziying remembers correctly this year, two major events happened. One of them was that Qin finally exhausted the military potential of Zhao and blatantly destroyed South Korea, one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period.

The second is that the Zhao State experienced an extremely severe drought this year, which caused unprecedented results. In the face of the disaster, all the relief measures of the Zhao State Central Court had failed, and the food and grass storage was even short of supplying the army, let alone relief to the victims.

This drought directly exhausted the last bit of Zhao's vitality.

From last winter to this spring, there was almost no rain. The three cities controlled by Ziying were better, because Ziying once again used all the troops and mobilized civilians to carry water from nearby rivers to fight drought relief. Although it also had an impact, it would not be completely harvested, but most of the crops in the other cities had already died of drought.

It seems inevitable that the entire Zhao State will be in trouble. Although, since last year, under the order of Ziying in trade, the grain was basically in a state of only entering and not leaving, and the grain reserves of the three cities have been nearly one million hu of hu. However, Ziying still ordered the caravans to trade in undisastered countries such as Qi, Yan and Wei, to collect and store large amounts of grain at any cost.

Sima Shang and others also gradually realized this year's abnormality, and changed from incomprehension to strongly supporting Ziying's behavior.

As for why Ziying predicted the drought this year in advance and then prepared early, Ziying dealt with it on the grounds that she dreamed of it.

This made Sima Shang even more determined that Ziying was definitely the one chosen by the previous generation of giants.

In September of this year, Shi Teng, a domestic Qin family, led his army to capture Han Wang An, and opened the prelude to the attack on the six kingdoms.

During this year, Zhao State experienced a rare drought in summer and autumn. The crops in many places had no harvest for a whole year, and the famine that swept across the country suddenly broke out.

Faced with the famine, the county governments of Zhao State were somewhat powerless, because the grain in each county had been requisitioned as military supplies by Handan, and the grain warehouses in various places were empty and could not take out a grain of food to provide relief to the victims.

The entire Zhao State suddenly fell into an extremely dark place, and the crops were desolate and there was no yield at all. After eating the food, the people could only eat some wild vegetables. After eating the wild vegetables, they could only eat some leaves, bark, grass roots, and everything they could eat was stuffed into their mouths to satisfy their hunger.

The hillsides of the fields are full of large holes like honeycombs dug by hungry people. Many hungry people accidentally eat poisonous weeds, wild vegetable sausages, and even bleeding from their mouths and noses. They still eat them constantly.

After eating the bark and leaves, the hungry people even used Guanyin soil as food. Many hungry people swelled to death because they could not get out of shit after eating Guanyin soil, but this still could not stop the hungry people from eating Guanyin soil one after another. If you eat it, you might starve to death today. Even the Guanyin soil, which will only relieve death for a few days, has become a stolen thing for the hungry people.

Many parents feed the last bit of food they saved to their children, but they starve to death on the spot. Even so, there are even tragedies of people who cannibalize themselves in many places.

At that time, a song even circulated among the hungry people of Zhao State: "The Zhao people cried and the Qin people laughed. If you don't believe it, please see if the seedlings grow in the fields."

Faced with all this, the county magistrates, nobles and vassals of various cities in Zhao State adopted a strategy to close the city and prevent hungry people from entering and ignore the tragic situation outside the city.

At this time, due to the effective drought resistance, the harvest of the people has decreased due to the extremely low tax rate, and the lives of the people are basically not affected, and every household even has surplus grain.

The military cultivated military farms and the area was increasing. In addition to supplying their own needs, they also paid a large amount of food and fodder.

Therefore, there was no famine in Ziying's jurisdiction, and the military food supply was also abundant. Ziying's attempt to store grain from the previous year was to deal with the current situation.

As an ancient man with the soul of modern people, if he did nothing and watched the hungry people starve to death when he knew the disaster in advance, he would not forgive himself. Although his personal power seemed extremely weak before the natural disaster, saving one more hungry people would be to save a life.

Upon hearing the tragic disaster, Ziying immediately set up temporary resettlement residences in the three cities, accepting victims from all over the country, and providing food and clothing. When hungry people around him heard that there was porridge distributed in Wuyuan, Raoyang, and they took their families to eat.

At the same time, Sima Shang was ordered to draw sergeants from the army to form forty rescue teams, and carry a large amount of food to prepare to go to several areas with the worst disaster to relieve the victims.

The rescue team set off and it rained lightly the day before yesterday, but this was of no use to the fields that had no harvest. Even if the weather was good, the people would have to grow the next season's food.

Each rescue team is composed of fifty soldiers, and the escorts are full of life-saving food. If the few soldiers escorts are escorted, they may leave the Raoyang territory. Before they reach the most severely affected city, they will be robbed by the hungry people. Now, they can only save their lives first.

Two thousand soldiers stood under the platform and prepared to set off. Ziying, in front of Sima Shang, then silently walked onto the temporary platform.

Looking at the soldiers who were ready to go, Ziying said with a strong expression: "Sirs, I am Zhao Ziying, the king of Raoyang. Everyone knows that since the beginning of the summer, Zhao's grain harvest has failed, and the entire country has encountered unprecedented situations. According to the news I have received, many hungry people in cities not only have no food to eat, but have even eaten up all the grassroots and barks. In some particularly serious places, there have even been tragedy of people eating up people.

Although I, Ziying, don’t have much ability, I can’t sit still and watch it. Every hungry person is like you and me, with parents, children, brothers, and sisters, and they are all living people like us! Just imagine if our relatives were suffering, who could bear it, and now they even starve to death in this bright world." Ziying said as she thought of the tragic situation of the hungry people in the intelligence, and couldn’t help but shed tears.

In feudal society, half of the disaster relief supplies can be truly distributed to the victims. Although Ziying used the army to distribute food this time, it was difficult to ensure that the soldiers would not be greedy for food or buy it to the rich hungry people at extremely high prices.

Thinking of this, Ziying continued, "I'm summoning you here today to ask everyone for something. I'm asking everyone to truly deliver the food to the hungry people and save those victims who are about to starve to death. I'm asking everyone."

When Ziying said this, she couldn't control her emotions, tears gushed out like rain, and then she bent her knees and knelt down to the two thousand soldiers below, bowed and bowed with both hands.

"Please everyone, we must deliver the food to the victims!"

After Ziying said that, she stood up, wiped away the tears from her hands, let out a long breath, pulled out the Longyuan Sword that Gai Nie sent to him, and glared at the front with his eyes as if he had suddenly changed someone else and said fiercely: "If I know someone is greedy for food for disaster relief, I, Zhao Ziying, even if you run to the end of the world, I will pull you out and tear you into pieces!"
Chapter completed!