Chapter 1 The Great Earthquake in the World

Since the thirty-fourth year of orthodoxy, Han Yong has ascended to the throne and become the new first assistant. There were not too many waves within the Ming court.

Zhu Qizhen and Han Yongjunchen reached an agreement. And the hundred officials have also unified their thinking in this cleanup, even if there are individual noises, it is not enough to hinder the overall situation.

Therefore, from the beginning of the 34th year of orthodoxy, Han Yong took the two capitals as the center and implemented the new law one by one.

Han Yong's wrist is tough, and if he doesn't agree, he will go. The attack is much more ruthless than Zhu Qizhen.

It is precisely this kind of toughness that has made the new law, no matter how difficult it is, turn it into a reality little by little.

However, even so, Zhu Qizhen's life was not easy.

Because it seems that after a few years of good life in the Ming Dynasty, God can't see it.

Let's not talk about floods, droughts, and locust plagues.

After all, Zhu Qizhen has been strengthening water conservancy projects, and this kind of water conservancy projects, coupled with the use of steam engines, with Beijing as the center, are laid little by little throughout the north.

Most of the time it is used for watering the ground.

Fought hard against the disaster of flood and drought.

As for the locust plague, it has a very close relationship with the drought, as long as the drought can be effectively controlled, then the locust plague can be reduced a lot, plus after the reform of the officials, the Ming Dynasty's ability to control the countryside has been greatly increased, and it has also improved a lot of ability in expelling locusts and culling locusts.

Tai Hospital has also recruited many students over the years, and it also has experience in fighting many epidemics.

All in all, the approach may not be entirely useful. But there's always a way.

But there is one thing that Zhu Qizhen can't help.

And this has happened a lot over the years.

In the first month of the thirty-fifth year of orthodoxy, there was an earthquake in Henan. In May, there was an earthquake in Ningxia, followed by another earthquake in the same month. In August, there was an earthquake in Gaolei, Guangdong. In November, there was an earthquake in Gaozhou.

In February of the 36th year of orthodoxy, there was an earthquake in Xiangyang, and another earthquake occurred in the same month. In September, there was an earthquake in Liangzhou.

In July, the 37th year of orthodoxy, the Ningxia earthquake, and in August, the Ningxia earthquake.

In the first month of the 38th year of Orthodoxy, the Taiyuan earthquake, the February Ningxia earthquake, the May Ningxia earthquake, the July Taiyuan earthquake, and the September Gwangju earthquake.

The Fuzhou earthquake in the first month of the 39th year of orthodoxy, the Heqing earthquake in Guangdong in March, and the Heqing earthquake on the 15th in September.

In June of the 40th year of orthodoxy, there was an earthquake in Lanzhou.

In the 41st year of orthodoxy, the Taiyuan earthquake in April and the Jingshi earthquake in October.

And the most serious is this year, that is, the forty-second year of orthodoxy, after the beginning of spring, there will be an earthquake in Lintao in February, an earthquake in Gongchang, and an earthquake in Zhuxian in March. Earthquake in Hezhou, Shaanxi.

The most serious was the Gansu earthquake in April. Ganzhou, Gongchang, Yulin, and Liangzhou were shocked at the same time. Even Beijing felt the tremors, and this was not an earthquake in one place.

Rather, it was the entire Northwest earthquake.

Zhu Qizhen can see from the text of the document reported below

Severity.

Mountains collapsed, the ground cracked water, cities toppled, and animals were killed and injured.

This made Zhu Qizhen a little unbearable.

Some subtle earthquakes in modern times will be recorded, really look at the earthquake records, I don't know how many times a year, but in ancient times it was different, all reports were major earthquakes, at least there were casualties of people and animals.

In the past few years, I don't know if it is the reason for the frequent earthquakes, and the climate is not too good, but the best year in the past few years is a normal year.

For example, the 37th year of orthodoxy is a rare year of great drought, and it does not have to be much better than the 34th year of orthodoxy.

As for the various disasters in other years, I don't know much.

This situation is also directly reflected in the finances.

The Ming Dynasty's grain tax of 40 million stones a year has not been collected for so many years, and the most time, the grain tax of 10 million stones has been reduced or exempted at one time, and almost all disaster areas have been exempted from grain tax for one year.

In addition, the food used for disaster relief that year.

The finances, which had been slowly recovering after the Battle of the Western Regions, suddenly fell into a tight situation again. Under such circumstances, Han Yong finally won a victory over Zhu Qizhen.

Zunhua Iron Works was spun off from Shaofu. A special Ministry of Engineering Langzhong was appointed to be in charge of the Zunhua Iron Works.

On the one hand, he is still under the leadership of the Shaofu and obeys the command of the Shaofu, but on the other hand, the annual balance of several million taels of the Zunhua Iron Works has to be handed over to the household department.

slashed at the Shaofu's financial resources.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen has no choice.

He always has to take responsibility for the whole world.

However, even so, it still can't change the bad situation of Daming's finances.

Especially since the earthquake in April, the Taicang silver treasury of the imperial court, as well as the granary of Luoyang, which is located in Xi'an, have been swept away.

And the earthquake erupted in an instant. The impact of the earthquake was long-lasting.

It is not the various water conservancy facilities built by Yu Qian in the northwest. It is only before Wang Yonghe Zhishi, the northwest gallop road that was finally completed. After this road arrives in Xi'an, it goes northwest along the Jinghe River valley, and after reaching Guyuan, it goes north along the Huluchuan River to Ningxia. Then from Ningxia along the side wall, in the north of the Great and Small Song Mountains all the way to Liangzhou, and then to Ganzhou. The end point is Suzhou.

As for the further northwest, don't think about it.

This section of the road from Liangzhou, Ningxia, is already a side of wind and sand and vegetation, and in many places, after a night, the road is gone, and it is submerged under the sand.

It's barely built.

As for further west from Suzhou, out of Jiayuguan, it is a long yellow sand.

It's not hard to build a gallop here, it's hard to keep it afloat. At least the Ming Dynasty has not yet had such an ability.

To be able to build here is already a great use of the innate ones

The terrain, even so, is difficult to get through in many places.

An earthquake paralyzed the entire northwest of the country, and it is estimated that it will take at least a year or two to recover.

The water conservancy system and transportation system in the northwest are like this, and the dilapidated industries in the northwest have made matters worse, and even affected the strategic security of the Western Regions.

Although the Battle of the Western Regions was in the 35th year of orthodoxy, it ended with Wang Yue breaking the army under the city of Ili. But that doesn't mean that peace in the Western Regions has arrived.

On the contrary, after the tile spur felt the weakness of the Ming power in the Western Regions, the harassment of the Ming dynasty by the tile spur never stopped.

And the vast area of the Western Regions.

Even Wang Yue couldn't effectively stop such behavior. Although a few times a year, Wang Yue will report one or two good news. Decapitation dozens, or hundreds.

However, there has not been much change in the strategic form of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions.

Although Zhu Qizhen wants to change this passive beating situation, what should he do?

Another expedition to Central Asia.

But if you only exhaust the power of the world, you will be defeated again. If the troops are not stationed in Central Asia, it will not be long before the Watts will be close to the border again.

If troops are stationed in Central Asia, then the logistics line of the Ming Dynasty will only be weaker.

In addition, Zhu Qizhen's focus has shifted to changing the law.

Whether he wants to or not, Zhu Qizhen can only accept this reality.

The current situation is already quite good.

Therefore, the border defense line of the Northwest Office, with Ili as the center, is in a state of combat all year round. And the most important logistics line is this northwest gallop road, although in Suzhou, can only be used camels or horses to transport logistics materials, but even so.

It also reduced the consumption of military rations in the northwest by several percent.

This is the impact of the earthquake on other aspects. Not to mention the impact on the ground. I don't know how many people were buried in the rubble.

Even some armies are inevitable.

With the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, these people buried under the soil could not be rescued at all. However, the houses of this era were generally wooden and not too tall. The people were stoned to death, and not many died buried underneath. More died in the aftermath of the catastrophe.

Food is cut off, and order is completely lost in such a cruel situation.

Although Zhu Qizhen couldn't see it, he could imagine it.

Although the rule of the Ming court was not perfect, and there were even some unsatisfactory points, the worst order was better than no order.

The earthquake in the northwest is like a big rock, which will deeply shake the order of the Ming court. It seems that the stable order of the imperial court for several years has also blocked the way of many people.

Thinking about it for a long time, and thinking about it for a long time.