Chapter 57 The weak Zhang Guozhu

This document was specially taken back by Yun Zhao, and it was only a general outline and a brief introduction in Han Xiufen's lengthy document.

According to Yun Zhao's calculations, after Han Xiufen closed the Strait of Malacca, Daming seemed to have doubled the amount of land.

Although there are more forests in these lands, as long as it is flat, it must be fertile land.

In addition, the climate is warm there, and plants grow wildly there, not only do plants like this tropical climate, but even the fish and shrimp in the sea are larger than those in the northern seas.

For now, because of the ease of survival, the cost of migrating to the South Seas is minimal.

And Han Xiufen almost told all the bigwigs in the country in the most urgent tone that migrating to Nanyang must be the most correct national policy, as soon as possible and not later, as long as the Ming people lay a foundation there for a hundred years, where the grain output will definitely surpass the Ming Dynasty.

This is actually true, the land in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and the Central Plains has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the land has long been overwhelmed, and rotation farming operations should be carried out appropriately under the conditions available.

However, Han Xiufen's large-scale immigration was shot at Zhang Guozhu.

Without him, it is still a problem of inequality between the rich and the poor.

In Zhang Guozhu's view, Nanyang is a newly opened land of the empire, and if there is a large-scale migration from the country, there will be a terrible result - split!

Nanyang is too far away, and the emperor of the mountain is far away from being easy to rule, and it is better for a Han Xiufen to be over there, at least for her loyalty, no one in the dynasty doubts it.

However, rebellions are often beyond the control of a single person, and if the majority of the people there are dissatisfied with using their production to support the country, division becomes the only option.

Then, the empire sent a large number of troops there to quell the rebellion, and then ...... Where will the people be more dissatisfied with the imperial court...... Then, there is no then.

The most important place in Zhang Guozhu's eyes is undoubtedly the Ming Dynasty, even if Nanyang has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Guozhu's subconscious, it is still the colony of the Ming Dynasty, not the real Ming land.

Even if a three-masted fast sailing ship is smooth, it will take two months to go to Malacca, and such a far place is the edge of the sky for Zhang Guozhu and many domestic officials.

No matter how good the things on the horizon are, they are not as good as the things in front of them, and this is the opinion of most Ming officials, who are very interested in robbery, and are very interested in controlling the Strait of Malacca and collecting taxes, but they are not interested in completely governing it.

Yun Zhao remained silent about this matter, did not raise objections, nor expressed support for it, he was eager to see what kind of ending this matter would end up with.

After the Han Xiufen clique was actively lobbying for the congress, and the Zhang Guozhu clique also made it clear that it did not support immigration, some officials came forward to reprimand Han Xiufen for interfering in politics as a soldier and not doing his job, of course, they took the initiative to ignore the fact that Han Xiufen was not only the commander of the First Fleet, but also the civilian governor of Nanyang.

While the two sides were chattering and engaged in a war of words, a rare heavy rain flood suddenly came.

Heavy rain in the middle reaches of the Yellow River covers more than 20 counties in Henan, including Songxian, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gongxian, Shaanxi, Yuanqu, Jiyuan, Mengxian, Boai, Wuzhi, Xiuwu and Qinyang, as well as Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian and Jiangchuan in Shanxi Province in the middle and lower reaches of the Fenhe River.

The central area of the rainstorm is located in the area from Longmen Town to Song County in Yihe, from Baima Temple in Luohe River to Changshui, and from Sanmenxia to Yuanqu.

Since Yun Zhao took Henan and Shandong, the place where he poured his heart and soul the most was Hegong!

No matter which official is in charge of the state along the Yellow River, Yun Zhao must talk to him about river work!

Therefore, after the Lantian officials took office as local officials along the Yellow River, they did put the river workers in the heart of their work.

Whether it was the special envoy sent by Yun Zhao, the officials sent by the Ministry of Supervision, or the inspection officials sent by Zhang Guozhu, they all reported that the work along the Yellow River had been brought under control, and that the embankments in many places had more than doubled in height, and in some places, there was not only one embankment, but they even built a second or even a third embankment, so that some officials proudly said that the embankment of the Yellow River was impregnable.

The embankments they built did stand up to the scrutiny of officials.

Two days after the rainstorm, Yun Zhao issued an order to order the state capital in the rainstorm area to inspect the river works, not to slack off, and to plug the gap at all costs if a crisis is discovered.

After the torrential rain turned into heavy rain and it rained for the fifth day in a row, Yun Zhao learned that there were two gaps in the Yellow River, and these two gaps were blocked by the officials with the people, and saw that the heavy rain still showed no signs of stopping, so he issued an urgent order of 100,000 people, ordering Zhang Guozhu to lead the Guanzhong regiment to train and set off, to help the local officials must move the people in the territory out of the low-lying areas, to protect the lives of the people first, and to abandon the village and city when necessary.

At the same time, he ordered Henan and Shanxi regiments to train their regiments and march to the disaster area under the starry night.

On the seventh day, when the torrential rain fell on Guanzhong, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000 people, ordering the officials of the Huangzhou Prefecture to abandon the protection of the Yellow River embankment and turn all their strength to the migrating people, and not to leave a single person behind.

At the same time, he personally led most of the troops of the Yunyang Army stationed in Tongguan to advance to the disaster area in the starry night.

After seeing the turbid Yellow River in Tongguan, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000 people to evacuate all the people along the Yellow Border, and he no longer expected the supposedly impregnable dikes to protect the people.

Yun Zhao sent a letter to Guguan, and the bad news had already arrived......

Yanshi, Gongyi, Qinyang, Wuzhi, Xiuwu and other counties were flooded, and 52 prefectures and counties in Henan were affected, and there were 15 rupture passes in Xingze, Yangwu, Xiangfu and Lanyang.

Among them, the Zhongmu Yang Bridge broke at the beginning of the width of 16 zhang, with the violent impact of the torrent, soon collapsed to more than 260 zhang wide, Zhongmu County and nearby villages and towns suddenly became Zeguo.

After the Yellow River broke at Zhongmu Yangqiao, the main stream went straight to the Jialu River, entered the Huai River by the Vortex River, and flooded countless houses in Kaifeng, Chenzhou, Shangqiu, Yingzhou, Sizhou and other places in Henan, hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the victims cried for days.

When Yun Zhao arrived in Zhongmu, looking at the turbid waves, his heart was cold, he couldn't tell where was the main river and where was the breach, looking at it, it was like being in the sea.

When he and Zhang Guozhu, whose hair was messy and his eyes were red like rabbits, this strong man like a stone, when Yun Zhao reprimanded everyone to meet alone, he couldn't cry silently.

"Once in a thousand years, Your Majesty, once in a thousand years, the Yellow River water rises sharply two zhang, the Yi River, Luoshui, Qin River and the main stream rise at the same time, the amount of water is ten times that of previous years, when the water flow is the highest, it does not pass half of the grottoes in Longmen.

Your Majesty......"

Yun Zhao had completely quieted down at this time, quietly waiting for Zhang Guozhu to vent all the grief in his heart.

After a long time, Zhang Guozhu finally calmed down, and after washing his face, he said to Yun Zhao: "Your Majesty, there are more than 1.7 million people affected by the disaster, and the preliminary statistics are more than 13,000 deaths, this number is not the final number, and it will be counted once in three days, I am afraid that the death toll will double." ”

Yun Zhao turned his back and said lightly: "The rain has stopped, so let's start plugging the gap." ”

Zhang Guozhu said: "It's already being done, Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to deal with those officials at this time." ”

Yun Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "Who will I deal with?" Just the officials above the rank of chief that I have personally cultivated have lost nine, and there are even more than 80 officials like the chief of the lieutenant, who do you want me to deal with?

This is a natural disaster, if I don't clearly know that the thief is useless, otherwise, I will also issue an edict against myself. ”

Zhang Guozhu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, it's not your fault, we have been very careful, and the local officials have indeed made great efforts, if it weren't for Your Majesty's previous warning, the death toll would definitely not be only more than 20,000 people, at least more than 500,000 people." ”

Yun Zhao laughed miserably and said, "Is it our victory that we didn't die enough for 500,000 people?" Guozhu, don't say anything, the top priority is to quickly plug the gap and let the Yellow River return to its original course. ”

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen agreed with what Han Xiufen said and migrated the people of China to Nanyang. ”

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu strangely and said, "How did you change?" ”

Zhang Guozhu said: "Your Majesty will come out and see." ”

Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu left the tent together and came to the riverbank, Zhang Guozhu pointed to the trees in the water that were completely covered with cobwebs, and said, "Your Majesty, those are spider trees. ”

Then he pointed to the verdant trees without the slightest cobwebs and said, "Your Majesty, it's a snake tree." ”

He pointed to the rats scurrying under his feet and said, "It is estimated that all the rats in the disaster area are here." ”

"What about the people?"

"It's all at a high place, and the team drills are using a raft to pick them up one by one from the high place, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten days......"

Zhang Guozhu didn't say anything else, but Yun Zhao knew from Zhang Guozhu's words how difficult it was to treat the disaster.

"That's why you agreed with Han Xiufen to move the people to a better land to live?"

Zhang Guozhu lit a cigarette and took a puff and said: "The people here are living too hard, it's time to live some brisk lives." ”

Yun Zhao took a cigarette from Zhang Guozhu's mouth, took two puffs and said, "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Guozhu suddenly opened his arms and said: "Our land is big enough to allow the people to leave the dangerous place and live in a better place, as for this Yellow River, let him go." ”

Yun Zhao patted Zhang Guozhu on the shoulder and said, "I've known you for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen you as a coward, why, do you want to escape?" ”

Zhang Guozhu took the cigarette from Yun Zhao's mouth again, took two puffs and said, "This can only be said here by you, don't say it." ”

Yun Zhao laughed dryly and said, "Go to work, I believe you can take these people to bring the Yellow River back to its original path." ”

This document was specially taken back by Yun Zhao, and it was only a general outline and a brief introduction in Han Xiufen's lengthy document.

According to Yun Zhao's calculations, after Han Xiufen closed the Strait of Malacca, Daming seemed to have doubled the amount of land.

Although there are more forests in these lands, as long as it is flat, it must be fertile land.

In addition, the climate is warm there, and plants grow wildly there, not only do plants like this tropical climate, but even the fish and shrimp in the sea are larger than those in the northern seas.

For now, because of the ease of survival, the cost of migrating to the South Seas is minimal.

And Han Xiufen almost told all the bigwigs in the country in the most urgent tone that migrating to Nanyang must be the most correct national policy, as soon as possible and not later, as long as the Ming people lay a foundation there for a hundred years, where the grain output will definitely surpass the Ming Dynasty.

This is actually true, the land in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and the Central Plains has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the land has long been overwhelmed, and rotation farming operations should be carried out appropriately under the conditions available.

However, Han Xiufen's large-scale immigration was shot at Zhang Guozhu.

Without him, it is still a problem of inequality between the rich and the poor.

In Zhang Guozhu's view, Nanyang is a newly opened land of the empire, and if there is a large-scale migration from the country, there will be a terrible result - split!

Nanyang is too far away, and the emperor of the mountain is far away from being easy to rule, and it is better for a Han Xiufen to be over there, at least for her loyalty, no one in the dynasty doubts it.

However, rebellions are often beyond the control of a single person, and if the majority of the people there are dissatisfied with using their production to support the country, division becomes the only option.

Then, the empire sent a large number of troops there to quell the rebellion, and then ...... Where will the people be more dissatisfied with the imperial court...... Then, there is no then.

The most important place in Zhang Guozhu's eyes is undoubtedly the Ming Dynasty, even if Nanyang has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Guozhu's subconscious, it is still the colony of the Ming Dynasty, not the real Ming land.

Even if a three-masted fast sailing ship is smooth, it will take two months to go to Malacca, and such a far place is the edge of the sky for Zhang Guozhu and many domestic officials.

No matter how good the things on the horizon are, they are not as good as the things in front of them, and this is the opinion of most Ming officials, who are very interested in robbery, and are very interested in controlling the Strait of Malacca and collecting taxes, but they are not interested in completely governing it.

Yun Zhao remained silent about this matter, did not raise objections, nor expressed support for it, he was eager to see what kind of ending this matter would end up with.

After the Han Xiufen clique was actively lobbying for the congress, and the Zhang Guozhu clique also made it clear that it did not support immigration, some officials came forward to reprimand Han Xiufen for interfering in politics as a soldier and not doing his job, of course, they took the initiative to ignore the fact that Han Xiufen was not only the commander of the First Fleet, but also the civilian governor of Nanyang.

While the two sides were chattering and engaged in a war of words, a rare heavy rain flood suddenly came.

Heavy rain in the middle reaches of the Yellow River covers more than 20 counties in Henan, including Songxian, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gongxian, Shaanxi, Yuanqu, Jiyuan, Mengxian, Boai, Wuzhi, Xiuwu and Qinyang, as well as Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian and Jiangchuan in Shanxi Province in the middle and lower reaches of the Fenhe River.

The central area of the rainstorm is located in the area from Longmen Town to Song County in Yihe, from Baima Temple in Luohe River to Changshui, and from Sanmenxia to Yuanqu.

Since Yun Zhao took Henan and Shandong, the place where he poured his heart and soul the most was Hegong!

No matter which official is in charge of the state along the Yellow River, Yun Zhao must talk to him about river work!

Therefore, after the Lantian officials took office as local officials along the Yellow River, they did put the river workers in the heart of their work.

Whether it was the special envoy sent by Yun Zhao, the officials sent by the Ministry of Supervision, or the inspection officials sent by Zhang Guozhu, they all reported that the work along the Yellow River had been brought under control, and that the embankments in many places had more than doubled in height, and in some places, there was not only one embankment, but they even built a second or even a third embankment, so that some officials proudly said that the embankment of the Yellow River was impregnable.

The embankments they built did stand up to the scrutiny of officials.

Two days after the rainstorm, Yun Zhao issued an order to order the state capital in the rainstorm area to inspect the river works, not to slack off, and to plug the gap at all costs if a crisis is discovered.

After the torrential rain turned into heavy rain and it rained for the fifth day in a row, Yun Zhao learned that there were two gaps in the Yellow River, and these two gaps were blocked by the officials with the people, and saw that the heavy rain still showed no signs of stopping, so he issued an urgent order of 100,000 people, ordering Zhang Guozhu to lead the Guanzhong regiment to train and set off, to help the local officials must move the people in the territory out of the low-lying areas, to protect the lives of the people first, and to abandon the village and city when necessary.

At the same time, he ordered Henan and Shanxi regiments to train their regiments and march to the disaster area under the starry night.

On the seventh day, when the torrential rain fell on Guanzhong, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000 people, ordering the officials of the Huangzhou Prefecture to abandon the protection of the Yellow River embankment and turn all their strength to the migrating people, and not to leave a single person behind.

At the same time, he personally led most of the troops of the Yunyang Army stationed in Tongguan to advance to the disaster area in the starry night.

After seeing the turbid Yellow River in Tongguan, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000 people to evacuate all the people along the Yellow Border, and he no longer expected the supposedly impregnable dikes to protect the people.

Yun Zhao sent a letter to Guguan, and the bad news had already arrived......

Yanshi, Gongyi, Qinyang, Wuzhi, Xiuwu and other counties were flooded, and 52 prefectures and counties in Henan were affected, and there were 15 rupture passes in Xingze, Yangwu, Xiangfu and Lanyang.

Among them, the Zhongmu Yang Bridge broke at the beginning of the width of 16 zhang, with the violent impact of the torrent, soon collapsed to more than 260 zhang wide, Zhongmu County and nearby villages and towns suddenly became Zeguo.

After the Yellow River broke at Zhongmu Yangqiao, the main stream went straight to the Jialu River, entered the Huai River by the Vortex River, and flooded countless houses in Kaifeng, Chenzhou, Shangqiu, Yingzhou, Sizhou and other places in Henan, hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the victims cried for days.

When Yun Zhao arrived in Zhongmu, looking at the turbid waves, his heart was cold, he couldn't tell where was the main river and where was the breach, looking at it, it was like being in the sea.

When he and Zhang Guozhu, whose hair was messy and his eyes were red like rabbits, this strong man like a stone, when Yun Zhao reprimanded everyone to meet alone, he couldn't cry silently.

"Once in a thousand years, Your Majesty, once in a thousand years, the Yellow River water rises sharply two zhang, the Yi River, Luoshui, Qin River and the main stream rise at the same time, the amount of water is ten times that of previous years, when the water flow is the highest, it does not pass half of the grottoes in Longmen.

Your Majesty......"

Yun Zhao had completely quieted down at this time, quietly waiting for Zhang Guozhu to vent all the grief in his heart.

After a long time, Zhang Guozhu finally calmed down, and after washing his face, he said to Yun Zhao: "Your Majesty, there are more than 1.7 million people affected by the disaster, and the preliminary statistics are more than 13,000 deaths, this number is not the final number, and it will be counted once in three days, I am afraid that the death toll will double." ”

Yun Zhao turned his back and said lightly: "The rain has stopped, so let's start plugging the gap." ”

Zhang Guozhu said: "It's already being done, Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to deal with those officials at this time." ”

Yun Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "Who will I deal with?" Just the officials above the rank of chief that I have personally cultivated have lost nine, and there are even more than 80 officials like the chief of the lieutenant, who do you want me to deal with?

This is a natural disaster, if I don't clearly know that the thief is useless, otherwise, I will also issue an edict against myself. ”

Zhang Guozhu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, it's not your fault, we have been very careful, and the local officials have indeed made great efforts, if it weren't for Your Majesty's previous warning, the death toll would definitely not be only more than 20,000 people, at least more than 500,000 people." ”

Yun Zhao laughed miserably and said, "Is it our victory that we didn't die enough for 500,000 people?" Guozhu, don't say anything, the top priority is to quickly plug the gap and let the Yellow River return to its original course. ”

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen agreed with what Han Xiufen said and migrated the people of China to Nanyang. ”

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu strangely and said, "How did you change?" ”

Zhang Guozhu said: "Your Majesty will come out and see." ”

Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu left the tent together and came to the riverbank, Zhang Guozhu pointed to the trees in the water that were completely covered with cobwebs, and said, "Your Majesty, those are spider trees. ”

Then he pointed to the verdant trees without the slightest cobwebs and said, "Your Majesty, it's a snake tree." ”

He pointed to the rats scurrying under his feet and said, "It is estimated that all the rats in the disaster area are here." ”

"What about the people?"

"It's all at a high place, and the team drills are using a raft to pick them up one by one from the high place, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten days......"

Zhang Guozhu didn't say anything else, but Yun Zhao knew from Zhang Guozhu's words how difficult it was to treat the disaster.

"That's why you agreed with Han Xiufen to move the people to a better land to live?"

Zhang Guozhu lit a cigarette and took a puff and said: "The people here are living too hard, it's time to live some brisk lives." ”

Yun Zhao took a cigarette from Zhang Guozhu's mouth, took two puffs and said, "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Guozhu suddenly opened his arms and said: "Our land is big enough to allow the people to leave the dangerous place and live in a better place, as for this Yellow River, let him go." ”

Yun Zhao patted Zhang Guozhu on the shoulder and said, "I've known you for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen you as a coward, why, do you want to escape?" ”

Zhang Guozhu took the cigarette from Yun Zhao's mouth again, took two puffs and said, "This can only be said here by you, don't say it." ”

Yun Zhao laughed dryly and said, "Go to work, I believe you can take these people to bring the Yellow River back to its original path." ”