Chapter 3 Eating Guanzhong

Zhu Qizhen is very grateful to Li Shi, so he naturally gave money back to his hometown and rewarded him with double salaries, which is the so-called doubling of pensions. And it's quadruple.

You must know that the treatment of Zhishi officials in the Ming Dynasty is half of what they paid, that is, half of what they paid when they were officials.

As for why Zhu Qizhen accepted Li Shi's love, because Li Shi blocked Qiu Jun's way.

In the face of Han Yong's strength, Zhu Qizhen retreated step by step, but in fact, he placed a lot of his own people in the cabinet.

Ensure control over the government.

It is also a warning to Han Yong.

If Han Yong wholeheartedly implements the new law, many things can be tolerated by Zhu Qizhen. But if Han Yong has other ideas, Zhu Qizhen will let Han Yong sit in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet and not sit for a day.

So, now the cabinet has been, Han Yong, Zhu Yi, Xu Youzhen, Li Bing, Xiang Zhong, Shang Shi, Qiu Jun.

In this cabinet, at least four people, namely Zhu Yi, Xu Youzhen, Shang Chen, and Qiu Jun, are all under the control of Zhu Qizhen.

The matter is urgent, and Zhu Qizhen has no meaning to talk nonsense. asked directly: "Han Qing, how is the situation in Shaanxi?" ”

Han Yong said: "Shaanxi Governor Yu Zijun reported, and now has inspected Gansu, Ningxia, Yulin, Lanzhou and other places, this earthquake, the impact is very great, the water flow is broken, the city is bad, there is a section of the side wall, the whole has sunk more than three feet. I also saw a crack three feet wide and more than ten miles long, and many places were cut off. I am afraid that this year's wheat harvest will not be good. ”

"Before the wheat is ripe, many people have swallowed the green seedlings."

"An estimated million people have been displaced across Guanzhong in Gansu, Ningxia."

"Yu Zijun has already managed to appease, but there is a lack of medical treatment, although he admonishes the local gentry, but it is also a drop in the bucket."

Han Yong also emerged in disaster relief. He was very familiar with disaster relief affairs, he sighed and said, "Yu Zijun can be regarded as a capable official, but this matter is too urgent." Not prepared at all. ”

Zhu Qizhen also understands that this is what makes earthquakes different from other disasters.

Whether it is a drought or a flood, there is a prelude before it begins. Only the earthquake came. The government was not prepared at all.

Almost overnight, millions more people were killed.

In this case, with the administrative efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, even if the king of heaven is coming, he must also be blind.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The others can be released, how much grain is there in the local area?" ”

Han Yong said: "Gansu, Ningxia, Yulin, Guyuan and other places are not places that produce grain, but they all depend on the imperial court to transport grain, although after the public construction of water conservancy, the local grain production has increased. ”

"But also barely self-sufficient. Now it's April, and when the harvest is scarce, there is not much food, and a lot of food has been damaged in the earthquake. The people had no rations,

Some of the grain in the warehouses at all levels was looted, and some were empty. ”

Zhu Qizhen snorted coldly, he understood too well that the cats below were tired.

If you just look at the book information, Daming warehouses at all levels are richly stored, but when you really want to encounter major events, for example, there are many warehouses that are problematic.

This is already routine.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What to do with these people? ”

Han Yong naturally knew that what Zhu Qizhen was asking was the person who embezzled the grain in the warehouse.

Han Yong said: "Yu Zijun, he has already cut these people first and then played a prelude, and he has put these people at the city gate to calm people's hearts. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay, this Yu Zijun is also decisive. ”

The power to review the death penalty of the Ming Dynasty lies in the Criminal Department, and even requires Zhu Qizhen's imperial approval, and the people are still like this. Not to mention the imperial court officials. At the time of the founding of the country, even Xu Da did not dare to kill his subordinate generals if he made a mistake, and he wanted to send him to Nanjing for disposal.

It can be said that whether it is a general or an official, any official who greets and beheads him is overstepping his authority, unless he has the emperor's order. It has the right to cut first and then play.

However, in practice, there are many such things that are cut first and then played.

But this is not to say that there is no need to take political risks.

Zhu Qizhen said that Yu Zijun was decisive because of this.

Han Yong said: "It's just that even if Yu Zijun is decisive, it won't help. The local food is insufficient, and Yu Zijun estimates that the local food can only last for more than a month. ”

"And within a month, it will be difficult to resume production."

Zhu Qizhen said: "How big is the food gap? Is Jingcang enough? What did Yang Ding say? ”

Yang Ding is now a household secretary.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, a first assistant is naturally a set of teams.

The household department was Liu Dingzhi's basic plate before, and although Yang Ding was born in the household department, he was actually a little excluded. It's just that Liu Dingzhi died suddenly.

Han Yong ascended to the throne.

With such a major part of the household department, how could Han Yong not stretch out his hand? Han Yong helped Yang Ding to the position of the head of the household, so that the household department became Han Yong's territory.

Han Yong said: "Although disaster relief has continued over the years, on the whole, the total reserve of all the granaries of the imperial court has not been less than 2,300 stones. It's enough for disaster relief. ”

"The problem is that all the galloping roads are broken, and the grain can't be transported."

In fact, the grain reserves of the Ming court were declining year by year.

Previously, the Jingcang had a reserve of 20 million stones, but now the total reserve of all warehouses is only 23 million stones.

And the construction of the road has not been interrupted in recent years. However, the construction of the railway is very short, only from Zunhua to Beijing, and from Beijing to Tianjin.

Without him, the road is cheap, and the railway is too expensive.

And although the carrying capacity of the railway has gone up, it is not faster than the gallop, and it is out of order

Frequent. One accidentally broke on the railway.

This is again an inconvenient place.

Chidao is not without faults. But if there is a breakdown, the carriage can be driven off the gallop without delaying the passage behind, but not on the railway.

Once it breaks, the entire route has to be stopped.

For this reason, for a long time, Chidao and the railway still existed side by side in Daming.

Wang Yonghe completed the Xuzhou to Suzhou Chi Road before Zhishi, and also completed the two Beijing Chi Road, of course, this Chi Road did not extend to the south of the Yangtze River, but only to the north of the Yangtze River as the end point.

As a result, most of the grain transportation in the Ming Dynasty was either transported by sea or by chi. Although the canal was not abandoned, it was more used by the people.

This is also the reason why the canal banknote performance has been eye-catching in recent years.

As a result, the grain transportation of the Ming Dynasty, especially the grain transportation in the northwest, has formed a dependence on this galloping road. At this moment, the gallop was broken, and they forgot how to transport food.

For a time, it was impossible to complete the emergency transportation of grain to the disaster area.

Zhu Qizhen frowned slightly and was about to speak. Han Yong immediately added: "Yu Zijun has already proposed a solution, which is to lead the people south to eat. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard the phrase "eat when he went south", the first thing he thought of was the boundless tide of displaced people. and the events caused by the tide of displaced people.

The homeless are pitiful, but neither are the homeless.

The people who are struggling on the line of life and death will lose all their rationality, and in order to survive, they will not compromise the means, in order to be able to eat a mouthful of food, they can break through all the bottom lines.

For the homeless people who are so miserable that they eat their children, they have long since stopped taking their own lives and other people's lives seriously.

While acknowledging the compassion of the displaced people, we must also admit that the presence of a large number of displaced people in areas that can still be maintained is a bargaining chip to break the final order.

It is likely that the displacement will snowball, and many people will become displaced not because of natural disasters, but man-made disasters.

Half of them are the government's inaction, and the other half are these displaced people.

In many cases, when the imperial court provides disaster relief, it has to seal the border, and would rather let the displaced people starve to death than let them run around, which is based on this consideration.

Therefore, the first thing that Zhu Qizhen thought of at this moment was the risk.

Han Yong understands this better than Zhu Qizhen, Han Yong said: "The minister has seen Yu Zijun's recitals, and there are also desirable ones, and Gansu, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Yulin are the places where the elite soldiers in the northwest come out. I am afraid that once there is a change, it will be out of control. ”

"The lesser of two evils."

Zhu Qizhen immediately understood in his heart that although the Ming Dynasty now occupies the grassland, in terms of folk customs, Jiubian has always been a place where elite soldiers come out.

This kind of fierce folk customs will not dissipate immediately.

If the imperial court blocks it, it is likely that it will not be able to do so.