"So, the most pressing issue at this moment is how to get through the natural disaster."
"One can only say that the hardest thing to deal with in history is not inevitability, but a certain kind of randomness…"
In history, this natural disaster had become a critical factor that interrupted Wang Wenchuan's reforms.
It's quite a tragic tale, really.
Just a few years after the new laws were implemented, a severe drought swept across the country. This drought created a vast number of refugees and gave the old factions an excuse to attack the new laws. The Emperor was worried every day, thinking that this was a warning from heaven opposing the new laws.
And Zhang Renxia's map of refugees became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Even in his memorials, he emphatically claimed that the severe drought was all because of Wang Wenchuan's new laws, and that if the Emperor abolished the new laws, it would surely rain within ten days.
