Although Yang He was the governor of Shaanxi, the orders he issued infringed on the power of Shaanxi Xuezheng and allowed those prisoners and students who lived in the county town to go to the field of the displaced people to investigate, which undoubtedly aroused the dissatisfaction of many Shaanxi gentry.

However, this is a great opportunity for those rural children who have limited knowledge. Although their skills in writing Baguwen are limited, they still have the ability to ask villagers to fill in a few data according to the format of the investigation report issued by the governor's yamen.

Some old boys who have not been admitted to the student program for half their lives praised the new policy issued by Yang He. For the first time, the voices of the common people overwhelmed the criticism of the new governor by the bureaucracy and gentry.

Yang He also convened the more prominent gentry and celebrities in Xi'an and other parts of the country to form a relief committee to discuss how to reduce the disaster in Shaanxi.

These gentry were all famous families in Shaanxi, and their land owned accounted for about one-tenth of the land in Shaanxi.

For them, local stability is in their best interest. Because of the local civil uprising, the first to be attacked must be their manor outside the county seat.

Even if someone escapes by luck for a while, the land in his hometown is basically wasted. Therefore, in previous years, they were also the most active in helping the victims of the disaster in their hometown, in order to seek peace.

However, their spontaneous actions were still effective in dealing with small disasters in one place and another, and in the face of such a major drought that affected the whole of Shaanxi, their little food for the relief of the victims immediately became a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, these Shaanxi gentry still very much agreed with the imperial court sending Yang He to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and intervene in advance of the drought that had not yet completely broken out.

However, when this relief society was established, these gentry did not agree with the two policies of the imperial court for disaster relief.

One is the policy of unified grain purchase and marketing, which prohibits grain merchants without licenses from purchasing grain in Shaanxi. All grain merchants who sell grain in Shaanxi must declare their grain stocks in advance and sell them at the price set by the government, and they must not close their doors without authorization.

The other is that in all areas where the imperial court has reduced or exempted the land tax, the local lords are not allowed to collect this year's land rent. In addition, before next year's summer harvest, we will stop urging farmers to borrow money, and from this month until next year's autumn harvest, we will freeze the interest on loans.

These two policies caused the interests of the Shaanxi gentry to suffer a lot of losses, and the opposition was very loud.

However, with the continuous reports of the disaster from all over the country, and Yang He's order to make the contents of each relief meeting public, there are fewer and fewer voices who dare to openly oppose the meeting.

And with the continuous flow of grain from Henan into Shaanxi, the gentry in Shaanxi discovered that this time the imperial court said that it was going to provide disaster relief, not to fool people. Compared with them, it was the Henan people who suffered the most from the disaster, which made some of the gentry change their original stance against the unified purchase and sale of grain.

However, Yang He resolutely pursued these policies despite the opposition of these gentry, and even included several clans in Shaanxi, which led to this Hunan official becoming a thorn in the side of many Shaanxi gentry.

In particular, Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui in the Han Dynasty, took the lead in gathering a group of Shaanxi officials and gentry to impeach Yang He for insulting the clan, plundering people's property, colluding with Jinyiwei, and framing students.

In fact, the real reason is that this year's wind and rain in Hanzhong are smooth, and the grain harvest is very good. This Buddha and money-loving King Rui wanted to take advantage of the drought in other parts of Shaanxi to make a lot of money, but he was broken by this policy of unified grain purchase and marketing.

After mid-July, the drought in all parts of Shaanxi basically returned. Due to the participation of children and students from all over the country in the investigation, the governor's yamen received far more detailed information about the disaster than the county government offices.

The northern plateau region is the most serious area in Shaanxi this year, followed by the mountainous areas of Gansu in the west, and finally the Guanzhong Plain. The Hanzhong Basin and the Qinba Mountains were not affected.

The Gannan area is completely due to the destruction of vegetation and the poor natural conditions, and the population is small. Therefore, although it is said that it was affected, the number of people affected is not large.

In the plateau area of northern Shaanxi, it is mainly due to the drought and lack of rain, which leads to the failure of a large area of fields, which is completely a natural disaster.

As for the Guanzhong Plain, on the one hand, the drought and lack of rain have led to the reduction of Weishui, and on the other hand, the water conservancy of the Guanzhong Plain has not been maintained for many years, and many canals have been silted. It can be said that it is half a natural disaster and half **.

After gathering enough information about the disaster, Yang He quickly devised a disaster relief plan. In the disaster-stricken areas, local county officials, gentry, children, and students were organized in the form of townships, li, and villages.

The people in the most severely affected areas of the first and second grades, taking advantage of the time when there is no food shortage,

Mobilize them to move to other areas as whole villages. The so-called other areas refer to the newly established Sanmenxia County and Chongqing in Sichuan.

The former was a land and water exchange point from Henan to Shaanxi, while the latter was the land of the victims of the Tusi Rebellion that the local wealthy clans cleared out when the emperor sent people to inspect Sichuan.

In areas less severely affected, the young and middle-aged labor force is organized into an army model, and some of them work at home to save themselves and defend their hometowns, women and children. The other part was allocated to various localities for infrastructure construction in accordance with the instructions of the governor's yamen.

In the province, there are well drilling operations in the northern Shaanxi Plateau and Gannan areas, and transportation road construction and water conservancy construction in various parts of Shaanxi. Outside the province: Shaanxi-Henan road construction, Shanxi railway construction.

Yang He's cash-for-work plan, especially the maintenance of water conservancy facilities on the Guanzhong Plain, was the most supported by the public. Many gentry who were enthusiastic about water conservancy recommended themselves to preside over these maintenance work.

Yang He just smiled at this and said: "This time, I entered Shaanxi with this official, as well as two water conservancy engineers from the Ministry of Industry and a survey team.

I don't know much about water conservancy matters, so you can give them your own plan for review, and if your plan is feasible, then you will be invited to participate in the development of the water conservancy design plan..."

The actions of Yang He, the new governor of Shaanxi, have finally stabilized the social order, which had been deteriorating due to the severe drought.

Some of the victims who had planned to flee the famine decided to wait a little longer to see what the government's so-called self-help situation was. The displaced people, who had fled their homes, began to follow the orders of the local government and assembled in the areas designated by the governor.

With the hope of being relieved, the displaced people began to assemble in several areas in an orderly and fixed manner. In these areas, officials sent by the governor's yamen organized and gathered the displaced people according to their origins in the prefecture, county, township, and li.

As a result, the originally scattered and disorderly ranks of displaced people have become a more orderly society. The number of vicious cases that used to occur among displaced people and in areas through which displaced people have passed has begun to decrease dramatically.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, under Yang He's instructions, Wang Guoxing transferred most of the soldiers in the barracks out of Xi'an City to maintain law and order in several displaced places near Xi'an, and finally eliminated the possibility of a mutiny.

When these displaced people are organized, the burden on the local government is greatly reduced in terms of population epidemic prevention and social order stability.

But there were also some more nimble officials and gentry who were worried about these organized exiles.

In the past, when the displaced people were scattered throughout the Guanzhong Plain, although the local law and order would drop sharply, the displaced people were displaced after all, and hundreds or thousands of displaced people who were not organized could be driven away at will by only a small group of officers and soldiers.

But when these displaced people were organized according to Yang He's advice, not only did the number of each camp exceed thousands, but they were no longer scattered in a mess, and with the help of the government, they all elected their own leaders.

Such a form is already close to the army. It may not be as good as the Ming army, but for some small counties that only catch fast, this is a large army that cannot be resisted.

They are now able to obey the orders of the government entirely because Yang He can still transfer grain from other places, but if the grain cannot be transferred to Shaanxi, this army of displaced people organized by the government itself will erupt with even greater destructive power than before.

Under this concern, the number of gentry who were willing to cooperate with the governor's yamen and dismantle the camp of the displaced people around them as soon as possible began to increase.

When Zhang Xianzhong escorted the messenger into the Guanzhong Plain, he suddenly found that the number of displaced people on the road began to decrease. The closer they got to the city of Xi'an, the calmer the scene they saw on the road became.

He subconsciously felt that there didn't seem to be any traps in this mission, could it be that Shi Fan was showing favor to him.

Zhang Xianzhong entered Xi'an City with a puzzled thought, and handed over the task to the eunuch's mansion.

After a team of people had a beautiful meal in the eunuch's mansion, Zhang Xianzhong prepared to take his subordinates to the Xi'an barracks to report, and then planned to return to Yulin as soon as possible.

However, he was soon stopped by a servant, saying that the brocade clothes hundred households who were now in charge of the palace invited him to see him.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had already relaxed, suddenly became vigilant, he had read a book for a few days when he was young, and the Water Margin was still over, and the story of Lin Chong's mistake in the White Tiger Festival Hall was still known.

Zhang Xianzhong followed the servant into the inner courtyard slowly, but he didn't dare to leave behind the servant. His vigilance was obviously superfluous, and after Lin Yuanrong asked him about some of his past experiences in the flower hall, he spoke to him.

"Gonggong Pang's letter said that you and your subordinates will obey my orders after arriving in Xi'an, do you know?"

Zhang Xianzhong was a little surprised, but he quickly reacted, and he couldn't help but disagree with such a personnel transfer. It turned out that Shi Fan let him go on a business trip to kick him out of Yulinwei.

When Zhang Xianzhong was still thinking in his mind, he had already replied: "Since Gong Pang has an order, then it is all up to the orders of the hundred households." ”

Lin Yuanrong nodded at him, Gonggong Pang actually refused to come back, but this is equivalent to the credit for eliminating the Xi'an Mutiny by himself.

And the team of people sent back by Pang Gonggong made up for the shortage of Jinyiwei.

"Since you are willing to do things for the Jinyi Guard, then you team don't have to go to the barracks to report anymore. I will tell Mr. Wang that from now on, you will be the people of my Jinyi Wei Shaanxi Branch.

I'll have someone arrange your residence in a while, you are still their general flag, is there a problem? ”

Although Zhang Xianzhong was ordered to lead this team, he was just a small banner, since Lin Yuanrong misunderstood and promoted him by one level, he was naturally willing.