Chapter 213: Yang Ho is being made
Wei Liangchen's words came from the heart, it was not that he was unwilling to help these people, but it was really difficult for him to ask him to go to the City God Temple to worship God and ask for rain.
If he doesn't ask for rain, won't he lose face as a scholar in this hall?
Liangchen had just arrived in the morning, and this place belonged to the Quang Ninh Zhongzuo Guard, known as Niu Anbao, and was a small town inhabited by only a few hundred people.
Since August, there has been a lack of rain in the land of Liaodong, and the Ningjin area is better, after Jinzhou, Guangning and Jinzhou, Gaizhou and other places in the south, it can really be said that the rain does not fall.
If it doesn't rain, people can live, but the crops in the field can't. The crops in the field could not survive, and in the coming year, the people of Liaodong were afraid that they would have to eat high-priced rice, and then sell their wives and daughters, and they were separated.
The difficulties of rice prices and transportation in Liaodong are really in the eyes of Liangchen.
When he came from Jinzhou, he also saw many local officials along the way with the gentry and the people to worship God and ask for rain, but unfortunately, their hearts were sincere, but after a few days, there was still no rain.
Liangchen was faintly worried, because he knew very well that the bad change in the weather would not be a matter of one or two years, nor would it be sudden, but would last for decades.
This means that the disaster in Liaodong will be more serious next year and the year after.
In a place of long-term disaster, the people's strength will naturally be exhausted, and if there is a major war, erosion is a natural thing.
The rise of Jianzhou and its ability to be supported in Liaodong did not depend on the diligent cultivation of the children of the Eight Banners and the fight with God, but on the slaughter of three million Han people in Liaodong to survive.
The three million Han people, the savings of their ancestors, and the pitiful amount of food gathered together, which ensured that the children of the Eight Banners would not starve to death, and that they had the ability to continue to plunder.
However, even if he knows, the good ministers are now powerless, and the so-called people are soft-spoken. Second, this large-scale severe natural disaster cannot be reversed by human beings at the moment.
Take the lack of water as an example, if in the future, tens of thousands of construction machinery will not take long to dig a Grand Canal, now, even if hundreds of thousands of lives are filled, it will not be possible.
It has always been a time to control water and repair rivers, whether it is a prosperous era or a troubled era, it is full of corpses.
It was not only the Sui Dynasty that was killed by the river pickers, but also the pseudo-yuan.
Liangchen will not be hot-headed, and he will give Wanli a book of ten thousand words, and persuade him to build water conservancy in Liaodong.
Because, it can't be done.
To put it mildly, even Wanli realized that the natural disaster had a fatal impact on his country, so he agreed to start large-scale construction of water conservancy and excavation of rivers in eastern Liaodong to alleviate the disaster.
In that case, I'm afraid that the Ming Dynasty will die faster.
There is no need for Nurhachi's seven hatreds, and the Liao people can have three major hatreds first.
When he was in Jinzhou, Liangchen heard that Xiong Tingbi wrote to the imperial court, saying that there were many idle fields in Liaodi, and asked for the establishment of tuntian, and every year 80,000 soldiers were used to use three points of manpower to cultivate the tuntian. In this way, the burden of the people in Liao can be reduced, and second, the Liao army can be self-reliant.
If you want to cultivate fields, you must first build water conservancy.
No water, no fields.
Xiong Tingbi also apparently realized that the disaster would affect the Ming Dynasty's rule in Liaodong, and instead of writing a letter requesting the requisition of civilian power, he requested the transfer of garrisons to Tuntian.
The reason why this is so may be the same as Wei Liangchen thought, knowing that the "big work" is in Liaodong at the moment, it is impossible to implement it.
Wanli approved Xiong Tingbi's recital, and issued an edict to Liaodong to supervise it. However, what Liangchen saw in Jinzhou was that the civil and military officials were not enthusiastic about it, and it seemed that they were engaged in a few guards, and the rest of the places were not moved.
You don't need to think of a brain, how can those military leaders in Liaodong tolerate their own soldiers to settle the fields for the imperial court, and then the collected grain will be distributed by the imperial court.
You don't need to tuntian, it's good now, even if the people starve to death, there will always be imperial food for soldiers. Besides, his soldiers are not idle now, they are also farming. It's just that he farms for himself, not for the court.
Xiong Tingbi proceeded from the overall situation and wanted to run Tuntian.
The generals of Liaodong proceeded from themselves and resolutely did not do it.
Anyway, do you dare to take a look at the court without allocating money and grain?
Since ancient times, no emperor sent hungry soldiers.
Xiong Tingbi, if you want to do something, it's difficult. After all, it's just a seven-rank patrol. His power is only to inspect and impeach, and it is those Liaodong officials who want to do practical things.
After Cao Zhuangyi was "forced" by Ye Hedongge and did that shameful thing, Liangchen set off for Jinzhou.
His final destination this time is Fushun, but before that, he has to go to Shuangshantai. Although Gao Huai fell, the tax soldier Flying Tiger Army he created has always been remembered by Liangchen.
If possible, Liangchen intends to keep this Flying Tiger Army, although Wanli sent Zhang Ye, the tax supervisor of Tongwan, to take over the tax envoy of Liaodong Mine, even if this Flying Tiger Army is retained, it is under the command of Zhang Ye, and he Wei Liangchen has nothing to do with it.
However, Li Yongzhen believes that Zhang Ye will not keep this tax army, because although this Zhang Gonggong is also a member of the mine supervisor and tax envoy, his relationship with the foreign dynasty is not as incompatible as Gao Huai, but is very close to the foreign dynasty like Chen Ju, the eunuch of the palm print of the celebrant eunuch. Otherwise, the foreign dynasty would not tolerate him setting up a checkpoint tax in Tongzhou.
Therefore, Li Yongzhen believes that now Zhang Ye is in charge of the tax supervision of the Liaodong Mine as a "firefighter", and although the military mutiny at the gate has subsided and Gao Huai has been locked up, many things have not yet been done.
If Zhang Ye is still like Gao Huai, reusing the people he left behind and continuing to do what he did before, it will inevitably lead to new contradictions, and thus regenerate the military mutiny.
Therefore, Li Yongzhen reminded Wei Liangchen that Zhang Ye would definitely abolish the personnel of Gao Huai in the past with great fanfare, and the Flying Tiger Army was now the public enemy of Liaodong, and Zhang Ye would definitely not keep it.
This makes Liangchen decide to intervene, his father is not kissed, his mother is not hurt, the Flying Tiger Army is now like an abandoned orphan, everyone does not want him, if he wants it, and can give the Flying Tiger Army a proper arrangement, this orphan's heart can be tied to himself.
Liangchen has already thought about it, as long as Zhang Hu is willing to follow him, he will tell Wanli to transform the Flying Tiger Army from a tax soldier to a mine soldier - a mine protection team.
It is definitely not possible to let the Flying Tiger Army act as a minion of tax collection again, but it is feasible to arrange to be a miner in various mines in Liaodong.
The officials in Jinzhou were not bad, and they recognized Wei Liangchen's identity as a scholar and gave him some convenience. And when Liangchen arrived in Jinzhou, Li Rumei, the chief military officer of Liaodong, sent a small flag officer named Shen Lian to wait for him, saying that he wanted to escort him to Fushun.
When talking to Shen Lian, the other party inadvertently revealed a news that the envoy sent by the imperial court to supervise the arrears of money and grain had been released.
This person is none other than Yang Hao, the commander of the Battle of Salhu ten years later.
It is said that Wanli intended to re-enthrone Yang Hao as the governor of Liaodong,