After the Lantern Festival in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the government offices in various parts of the Ming Dynasty began to resume their daily work.

This year's New Year is really down-to-earth, unlike last year, when the thieves on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year attacked Anqing, so that all the officials of Nanzhili hurriedly ended their holidays in advance and nervously put themselves into a state of preparation and defense.

Under the blows of the Tianwu army, there was no rogue in the territory of Nanzhili, and even the bandits who occupied the mountains all the year round in the territory were swept away.

In addition, Zhu Cihong set up a Jinyi guard inspection team to inspect and supervise officials in various places, and carried out a thorough raid on the officials who overcharged taxes and dared to take bribes from the palace.

Not only did there be no starvation to death, but even the homeless people and beggars were almost gone, and those beggars and homeless people had already been dragged to the reclamation by the government as soon as they arrived in Fengyang Mansion, and some of the homeless people were pulled into the almshouse by the government as soon as they arrived in Fengyang Mansion.

If someone eats for two days and is unwilling to run, he will be put in prison and starve for two days.

Zhu Cihong's meaning is very clear, if he wants to survive, he works by himself, and he opens his mouth to wait for food and stretches out his hand to ask for this kind of person, Daming doesn't need it!

Although the situation in Fengyang Province and other places is very good, but the drought in various parts of Daming is getting more and more serious, since June last year, there has been no rain in Jinggi, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi in Daming, and after the great drought, the locusts in the sky are born out of the sky, and everywhere they pass, there is no green in the fields.

Henan, which borders Fengyang Mansion, is more serious, coupled with the corruption of local officials and the exploitation and oppression of gentry and landlords, the price of rice has skyrocketed, and the people are miserable, so they can only cut bark and wood chips mixed into the chaff and eat together.

What's more, feeding on Guanyin soil, for a time the land was red for thousands of miles, starvation was everywhere, and many people were ready to move, just waiting for someone to lead the rebellion.

Nanzhili was also affected by drought and locust plague, but fortunately, Fengyang Province and other places have been large-scale digging ditches and using water wheels for irrigation, the drought has little impact, although the locust plague is less, but it has also caused a lot of losses to the tun households.

Yang Tinglin put forward a suggestion to let people catch locusts, which surprised everyone, and a prisoner of Nanjing Guozijian immediately objected, and said that locusts are heavenly insects, which represent God's punishment of the world, and eating them is disrespectful to God!

For this prisoner of Nanjing Guozijian, Zhu Cihong directly asked him to get out, and issued an order that he would never be hired, cutting off his career.

When encountering natural disasters, it is said that it is the meaning of God, and if you do not act, this kind of person can do things as a function? I don't know how many people have been mistaken when I become an official, this kind of person is either stupid in reading, or really stupid, and must not be used.

Zhu Cihong agreed with Yang Tinglin's suggestion to eat locusts, and historical records record that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, took the lead in eating locusts in the second year of Zhenguan, which reduced the locust plague a lot.

Zhu Cihong ordered locusts to be caught in various places and sold to the government, so that the government could fry them to make dishes and distribute them to some people to taste.

Where did many people dare to eat when they saw this, Zhu Cihong had no choice but to let people use bamboo skewers to skewer a row of barbecue, and then he pinched his nose and took the lead in picking up a string of roasted locusts.

Zhu Cihong knows that locusts are rich in protein, and it is beneficial and harmless to eat occasionally, not only to supplement nutrition, but also to treat tetanus, infantile convulsions, fever, asthma, swelling, cormorant plague, chilblains, bronchitis and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but he should not eat more.

Even the crown prince and the officials ate it, and the people still had nothing to worry about, and many people began to follow suit.

Some businessmen even privately purchased locusts and resold them to restaurants and restaurants for profit, but the government not only ignored them, but also maintained a state of encouragement, which further aroused the enthusiasm of the people in various parts of Nanzhili to catch locusts.

In addition to frying, stir-frying, and roasting, some restaurants also introduce pickled locusts....... In this way, countless locusts were transformed into delicious dishes, and the number of locusts in various parts of Nanzhili decreased dramatically until they disappeared.

In order to cope with the disaster, Zhu Cihong reduced the rent of the tun households to one bucket per mu of rent, and then divided the land and exempted the land for three years in places such as Huizhou Prefecture where water resources were scarce and seriously affected, so as to attract the people to go to reclaim the land.

By the way, Zhu Cihong transferred some captives who had shaved their heads and accepted the transformation to reclaim the wasteland.

After the beginning of spring, Zhu Cihong personally led the officials to the fields to plant trees, encouraged afforestation, and designated the day as Arbor Day, requiring that trees be planted on Arbor Day every year in the future to prevent drought.

Zhu Cihong felt that he was very busy every day now, and he was thinking about building a Juxian Building and recruiting talents, one was to recruit some strategists to give advice, and the other was to hand things over to the people below to do and cultivate his own civil service team.

Although the 1,000 prisoners of the Nanjing Guozijian had already been working in various prefectures, Zhu Cihong felt that these people were not talking about any wise men for the time being, and he heard that these prisoners who had just left the Guozijian were pointing out the country one by one on the way to Fengyang, and they were very arrogant.

After these prisoners arrived in Fengyang, Zhu Cihong ordered that the prisoners should not talk empty and speak with their abilities, and put these 1,000 prisoners to the grassroots level for training, such as going to various places to assist Yang Tinglin in his work in Tuntian, or assisting a state government official to manage a state and a frontline, and climb up with his ability.

Now that the military cantonment department has been perfected, the logistics department is planning to be established, and Zhu Cihong is also planning to set up a special tax collection department to take back all the local tax collection rights.......

Every day, a large number of victims pour into Fengyang Mansion, and since the end of the year, more than 100,000 Henan victims have entered Fengyang Mansion, which has brought a lot of pressure to Fengyang Mansion.

Fortunately, Yang Tinglin has outstanding ability, and when the victims began to pour into Fengyang Mansion, he had already built a nursing home and began to resettle the victims.

The land in Fengyang Mansion is not enough, so it is arranged to the surrounding provinces, and now there is a lot of abandoned land, although it has been recovered to the government, and there are many people who have reclaimed it, but the personnel are still insufficient.

With the increasing number of tun households to feed, Zhu Cihong has almost bottomed out some of the silver money and grain deposits obtained by raiding the house, but fortunately, the tuntian of Fengyang Mansion has been on the right track, not only throwing off a big burden, but also providing a steady stream of food from the government.

Through this year's spring ploughing, when the summer harvest comes, Zhu Cihong's land in the hands of the Seven Prefectures will be self-sufficient and bring a large amount of grain to the government.

Zhu Cihong also had Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" printed on how to effectively farm the land, and organized an agricultural guidance group, through study and training, to let these instructors go to the countryside to guide and teach the people how to effectively farm and increase grain production.

After completing the disaster prevention and relief work, Zhu Cihong began to plan to completely solve Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues entrenched in Jiangnan, and return a peaceful world to several provinces in Jiangnan.