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Explanation: In pre-modern societies, there is a tendency to assign the cause of natural disasters to the displeasure of supernatural forces with the behavior of mortals. When a disaster was widespread enough, it would often lead to the ruler losing legitimacy and being overthrown.
In Imperial China, this was known as "The Mandate of Heaven", but you see variations of this general line of thinking in nearly every pre-modern society, from Greece to Egypt to India to Germany.
Hell with that.
Home the Emperor responsible. He should have invested in the necessary institutions during the fat times to prepare downturns.
Damn straight he lost the Mandate of Heaven and the people should hold him appropriately accountable.
I don't think food could be preserved as well back than and as effective as it can now + The food yield from a single farmer isn't enough to have significant rations.
Food storage is like the whole point of agriculture.