Chapter 169: Flying Locusts

After Li Bing's heart is transformed.

And the severity of this Jingcha has been further improved, from the very beginning, he killed a national prince to supervise the sacrificial wine, and the servant of the ministry, these two positions are certainly not as noble as the six Shangshu and the cabinet elders, but among the hundred officials, they can be regarded as the backbone.

But that's just the beginning.

This storm, after clearing all the ministries, rushed directly towards the Hanlin Academy.

When the Hanlin Academy was in charge of Peng, he was also the first to bear it.

However, this turmoil is still within the system. Another storm is already brewing in Shandong.

Shandong, Jinan. Yellow River embankment.

The embankment of the Yellow River built by Yu Qian is like two city walls, towering on both sides of the Yellow River, but now its enemies have not appeared.

The surging Yellow River was originally only a line of Yingying, and the retreating Yellow River water flowed down the Yellow River beach that was more than ten miles wide.

Although the Yellow River is cut off, it is unlikely. However, it has been divided into several rivers, and in the Yellow River embankment, they are divided and merged, and it seems that the Yellow River channel is divided into small islands.

In the seemingly calm river, looking carefully at the bottom of the soil, there are eggs moving, and locust larvae emerge from under the soil, one by one, flapping their wings to the air above the land.

After the third lunar month, these locusts begin to gather in large areas

If in the past, the local government used to bring the people to kill the larvae of locusts, but now this form has completely changed. The scattered locusts are afraid of people, but when they come together, these locusts are afraid of people.

The dry weather gives them the best time to reproduce. Large patches of locusts flew out from each other, from Shandong, Hebei, and even Liaodong and Shaanxi.

For a time, the whole of northern China was transmitting a voice.

It is the sound of countless locusts flapping their wings. There is also the sound of locusts gnawing on vegetation, rustling, rustling, as if it were snow, but under such snow, neither crops nor trees can leave a trace of life.

This is the biggest locust plague that Zhu Qizhen has encountered after the big locust plague after Zhu Qizhen's pro-government.

Even this time even Hebei was not spared.

In the overhaul of water conservancy in Hebei, the natural environment conducive to the reproduction of locusts has been greatly reduced, and the occurrence of locust plague has been effectively curbed.

Even if there is a plague of locusts.

Most of them are locusts that flew over from Shandong and Henan.

Generally appears in the southern counties, Baoding, Shuntianfu are few.

None of them.

Zhu Qizhen attaches more importance to Hebei than other identities, and attaches more importance to Shuntianfu, that is, Beijing, than other prefectures and counties in Hebei.

Therefore, among the various water conservancy projects in Hebei, the water system treatment near Shuntianfu should be more important than the water system treatment in other places.

It's not that after the successful construction of water conservancy in Hebei, there will be no locust plagues, but most of them will not occur near Beijing.

Now, that doesn't work anymore.

The reason is simple.

This time there was a big drought, and even the water conservancy system built by Yu Qian could not support it. All three lakes have a large amount of shrinkage, exposing quite a bit of land.

Of course.

It's not just a matter of hydraulic engineering.

It is also necessary to understand geological evolution.

Generally speaking, the land in Hebei is just the crust below, or the sediment accumulation of the land, which shows a fact, that is, the land in Hebei is slowly getting higher.

This situation has also made Hebei's lakes, wetlands and other landforms less and less, coupled with the impact of human activities, which is an inevitability.

The water conservancy project built by Yu Qian was certainly a great feat at that time.

However, a water conservancy project can ensure that there will be no problems for more than 20 years, which is already quite good.

Not all of the water conservancy projects are in Dujiangyan.

This time, there were locust plagues in many places in Hebei, such as Baoding and Hejian, which were mixed with locust plagues in other places. Even in the Forbidden City, there are many more locusts.

had to send eunuchs and palace maids to capture and expel them.

Just when these eunuchs and palace maids were struggling to drive out these little things that had invaded the Forbidden City, they were separated by several walls.

Zhu Qizhen convened a meeting of the emperor to discuss how to face such a serious situation.

Liu Dingzhi coughed and said, "Your Majesty, the current situation, Jingcha --------"

Zhu Qizhen was slightly silent, and then said categorically: "Transferring people from the yamen that has been reviewed, or simply recruiting officials, this matter cannot be abandoned halfway. ”

Zhu Qizhen naturally knew how much pressure there was on Jingcha's matter.

At the beginning, Zhu Qizhen got down the wine of the country's priests, the servants of the ministry, and among the officialdom, many people were in danger. encountered the current situation again, and many people persuaded Zhu Qizhen to change his course with the help of the saying of heaven and man's induction.

How could Zhu Qizhen give in.

Zhu Qizhen actually knows that now the Ming Dynasty is suffering from internal and external troubles, and speaking of which, it is best for the court to unite sincerely to tide over the difficulties.

But Zhu Qizhen knows better.

In the best case, it would not normally happen.

Zhu Qizhen gave in this time, and many things were wasted.

Therefore, whether Zhu Qizhen is stubborn or stubborn, anyway, he is not allowed to waver in the slightest in the implementation of the law change, even if it is because of what he is doing now, he cannot let all the energy of the Ming Dynasty be invested in disaster relief and disaster relief, so that more people will die.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't take care of it.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen also had a heart of unbearability, paused slightly, and said: "Let's check it out first, as for the external inspection, let's wait and talk." ”

Zhu Qizhen understands very well that even if there is a little chaos in the capital, he can still bear it, because the real front line of disaster relief has never been these Beijing officials in the capital.

It's the local state and county officials outside.

The ones who really do things are them.

It is impossible to do an external inspection immediately.

Liu Dingzhi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your Majesty is wise. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How are the preparations for disaster relief? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "The minister has already talked to the household servant, this time the imperial court can take out 10 million stones for disaster relief and transport them from various warehouses separately, and there is no need to rely on Jingcang completely." ”

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath and said secretly in his heart: "It's really a blessing and a disaster. ”

Many times, the bad news either doesn't come, or as soon as it comes, a lot of it comes together, which makes Zhu Qizhen overwhelmed. Rush.

In all cases, only worse and not worst.

Zhu Qizhen has to thank Zhu Qizhen for the warehouse system established by Zhu Qizhen at this moment.

It did not contribute to the implementation of a whip law, but instead contributed to disaster relief, after all, the local warehouse system, that is, the reserve warehouse system of the Hongwu era, is long gone.

In many TV dramas, when there is a famine, officials do not ask for orders to open warehouses to release grain, but sometimes there must be warehouses and grain.

"The provinces affected this time, the most serious are Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi."

"The minister has ordered Chidao to be temporarily taken over by the Ministry of Households, and all grain and grass will be transported."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, this time the people will be safe and sound."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Who is the cabinet candidate? ”

Zhu Qizhen never asked much about the specific regulations, not how Zhu Qizhen believed in the cabinet, but that many ministers knew much more about the specific affairs of disaster relief than Zhu Qizhen.

For example, Han Yong, he started with disaster relief.

It's an expert.

Zhu Qizhen didn't just ask, but the specific people still had to ask.

Liu Dingzhi said: "Ma Wensheng, the governor of Hebei, was originally the first in governance, but his qualifications were too shallow, and he wanted to be transferred to the governor of Shaanxi. Now let him stay in charge of disaster relief affairs. ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, thinking that it was okay.

Ma Wensheng is not too strong in the DPRK and China. If you really want to say it, he is Li Xian's township party, and he can be regarded as the person selected by Li Xian.

However, it was not because of Li Xian that Zhu Qizhen noticed it.

After all, Li Xian is no longer there.

Many political creatures, as soon as they leave the political dueling arena, their bodies immediately fail, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't know if Li Xian is such a person.

But Li Xian is only in his early sixties, and after resigning, his health will not be able to do well for two years.

People are still cold when they leave, not to mention that people are gone?