Chapter 537: Carriages and Disaster Relief

In the platform, the ministers are discussing, it is not that they have never seen the sand table before, and they know what the sand table deduction is all about, but now that they have been affected by the disaster, they also use this sand table to deduce, which is still surprising, without him, it is too intuitive.

"Bihu Department continues." After Yang Reform finished explaining, he said to Bi Ziyan again.

"The minister obeys ......the order," Bi Ziyan immediately bowed down and replied.

“…… In this regard, the household department concluded that this year's drought will present the following elements: first: the disaster area is extremely large, affecting several provinces in the north of China, and it is widely distributed; Second, the distribution of affected people may be sporadic; Third, what can be determined now is that grain production will definitely be reduced, and it is not known to what extent, maybe it will only be a little reduced, maybe it will be a large reduction, or it may be a complete harvest...... Bi Ziyan explained.

“…… Between the above points that can be determined, and there are too many unknowns, and disaster relief is necessary, and it must be advanced, which involves a problem, how to provide disaster relief, how to effectively provide disaster relief, how to target disaster relief, and how to do the most with the least amount of money......"

Having said that, there have been many ministers who have begun to nod their heads constantly, and today's incident is just a beginning, and many people already know what the emperor means, so they began to nod constantly.

Bi Ziyan began to continuously analyze the situation of this year's disaster and the ways to deal with it, as well as why it should be done in this way, and the benefits of doing it in this way, which naturally led to the problem of the post delivery carriage and the public carriage.

“…… If a serious disaster comes, a large number of people need to be transferred, then a county, a state, a government, a province of public carriages gathered together, dedicated to transporting a county, a state, and even a province of the affected people, this way, has the advantages of transferring the victims of the disaster flexibly and quickly, and has the characteristics of less money, can be an excellent solution to the problem of natural disasters in our dynasty this year, and only this way, It will be applicable to the situation and characteristics of drought in our future ......" Bi Ziyan briefly talked about the situation of natural disasters, and brought out the things that everyone knows, the topic of post carriages and public carriages. In his words, he even said that the post carriage and the public carriage were the magic weapons of disaster relief, and he was the only one.

The ministers listened to Bi Ziyan's explanation and nodded incessantly, this matter was also expected by everyone.

"Okay, Bi Qing's family also said how to deal with the drought situation this year, if you have any questions, just ask." Yang Gengai asked everyone very democratically, and I hope that everyone will ask if they don't understand and express their own opinions.

The ministers began to talk again, and after a while someone came forward.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask, how does this post carriage and public carriage work, and how does it provide disaster relief, I wonder if Your Majesty can explain it in detail?" Someone asked.

The ministers nodded, the post carriage, the matter of the public carriage, they already knew in their hearts, now talking about this matter, it is nothing more than a process, to determine the specific things, the emperor asked everyone to ask, everyone also cooperated to ask a few questions, and the minister really thought that the emperor was discussing with everyone, if everyone did not agree with the emperor would take back this idea, therefore, the questions asked, are also very cooperative, after all, this matter is going to be messed up, that is, it is blocking the financial road of many people, as the saying goes, the financial road of people, such as killing parents, therefore, there is no long-sighted person who really came out to stop this.

"Liu Mao and Liu Qing's house are there? You are familiar with this matter, so let's talk about it. Yang Gai said.

When the ministers heard this, they nodded again, looking like this, it seems that it is indeed as rumored, the emperor is going to hand over this matter to Liu Mao......

"The minister is here." Liu Mao's official was too small, so he could only stand in the corner, and when he heard the emperor's question, he immediately stood up and agreed.

“…… Well, you answer the question. Yang Gai said.

"Your Majesty, the operation of the postal carriage, in fact, is quite similar to the previous delivery station of my dynasty, my previous delivery station, also responsible for transporting grain, grass and materials, but then gradually abandoned, now it is unusable, now this postal carriage, is on this basis to increase the function of transporting people, this is mainly to deal with the scattered affected people, this group of people, as Lord Bi said, may be the kind of people who have some small property, and are unwilling to immigrate, natural disasters reduce production, and the family can only barely make ends meet on the original incomeIf a natural disaster reduces production, it will be impossible to survive, if one person's food can be saved, the whole family will live, and the post carriage is mainly to deal with these scattered disaster-stricken people......"

“…… In this year's situation, a certain county has no harvest, and the state government and the political envoy can mobilize the horse-drawn carriages of nearby prefectures, counties, governments, and provincial capitals to quickly transfer the victims, thereby reducing the time for relief and reducing the money and food needed for relief...... "Liu Mao explained the role of the post carriage and the public carriage attentively and seriously.

Everyone who listened nodded, to be honest, everyone has been familiar with this thing for a long time, and now it is a review.

"Your Majesty, this gathering of a county, a state, a government, a province of public carriages, this sounds really a very beautiful thing, indeed as Lord Bi said, timely, flexible, and fast, and does not cost the court any money, the local government can even organize on its own, the minister wants to ask, this county, a state, a government, a province, really when it is necessary to transport the victims, how many carriages can be mobilized? The minister said, "The four-wheeled carriage ......," another minister asked.

"Liu Mao and Liu Qing's family, you can answer." Yang Reform saw that someone was asking, and continued to hand over this topic to Liu Mao, this matter can be regarded as a public matter, and Yang Reform didn't want to bother to talk more.

"Your Majesty, according to the situation of the minister's operation of post carriages and public carriages these days, such as a big city like Jingshi, it needs at least 2,000 public carriages, and the post delivery carriage because the Beijing division is more special, so there may not be as many as the Beijing division, it is almost negligible, and the minister will count it with public carriages, and there are 2,000 cars in a big city like Beijing, then there are two capitals and thirteen provinces, these are similar to the Beijing division, or a little less, and the public carriages needed should also be between 1,000 and 2,000, which is the minister's preliminary estimate, If the prefecture and the state city are much smaller, the prosperity is not the same, the minister estimates, but also between three hundred and one thousand, take the middle number, there should be five hundred taels, the state, the county may be very few, negligible, this is a preliminary estimate, such as Shandong, if a county has a bad harvest, the prefecture-level yamen mobilizes carriages to transport the victims, then at least 500 public carriages can be mobilized, and at least 5,000 victims can be transported at a time, that is, if it is a county, the general disaster that occurs, once, If you mobilize the support of other provinces through the Shandong Political Envoy, you can easily mobilize thousands, or thousands of carriages, and you can transport tens of thousands of people at a time, even if a county is affected by a major disaster, resulting in the emergence of a large number of victims, as long as the political envoy timely mobilizes the public carriage, the victims can be transferred in a very short time, and there is no need to let the victims suffer locally...... "Liu Mao now often twists the gong himself and goes to the street to knock, The thick-skinned one, talking eloquently in front of the ministers, without the slightest pressure, is extremely decent, this point, but many people who are familiar with Liu Mao are surprised, Shibei three days, when impressive, this can be used to describe Liu Mao, this calm, but rare.

“…… Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask, how should these victims who were transferred from the state and county be dealt with? Another minister asked.

Yang Gengai motioned for Liu Mao to answer.

"Back to Your Majesty, the disaster victims transferred from the state and county, such as the Shandong Political Envoy Division, can be collectively transferred to the Grand Canal, and then resettle the victims through the Si Nong Division, or go by sea, arranged by the Si Nong Division, and other political envoys, such as Shanxi and Henan, are also roughly the same, by this land post delivery carriage, the Gonggong carriage weaves a large net for relief and transporting the victims, and then there is another large net woven by the Si Nong Division through the waterways of the world, these two large nets are enough to cover most of our courts, Your Majesty's people, When you can enjoy Your Majesty's ......promise not to abandon and not to give up," Liu Mao replied steadily and confidently.

"Papapa...... Yang Gai clapped his hands to show encouragement, this Liu Mao is becoming more and more stable, his work is becoming more and more reliable, and his speech is also organized.

The ministers listened, they couldn't stop nodding, the emperor's idea, is really good, the scale is quite grand, with the post carriage, the public carriage will connect the prefectures and counties of the world, weaving a big net, this big net, usually transports the official documents of the imperial court, transports passengers for a living, does not cost the silver of the imperial court, once a certain place occurs a bad harvest, there is a large number of victims, then immediately mobilize the power of this large net for relief, for transshipment, can be in a very short period of time after the disaster, the disaster will be transferred to the empty, If it is connected to the network of millions of immigrants in the Si Nongsi, and the net of relief is all over every corner of the Ming Dynasty, it is not out of line, the emperor's sentence "do not abandon, do not give up" is not a lie, but it is also true. ,

"Is there a problem with that Qing family? It can be brought up together. Yang Gengai asked again, things were as expected, relatively smooth and uneventful.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister dares to ask, it is indeed a good thing to be equipped with a four-wheeled carriage, is this really Your Majesty's money? What then? In the future, when the carriage is going to be replaced, will His Majesty still pay for the money? Another minister asked.

"This question, let me answer it, now the matter is urgent, the drought will be highlighted in May and June, it is estimated that there will be people who will not survive, to escape the famine, at this time we have to prepare the post wagon, ready to pick up people, in July and August, the harvest will gradually become clear, it is estimated that the people fleeing the famine will break out, therefore, in these months, try to arrange the carriage in place, since the matter is urgent, I will not care so much, everything is to save my people first, when I give out the money, as for the future to replace the carriage, It's too early to talk about this at this time, but I can respond and give some ......subsidies," Yang said.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers unanimously praised that the emperor was still very generous, and he would give out the silver when he said it.

"Does that guy still have a problem?" Yang asked Gengai.

The ministers looked at each other, and they had asked everything that should be asked, and they had all said what they should have said.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a question, I don't know whether to ask it or not." Bi Ziyan stood up again and asked.

"Oh, what's the matter with Bi Qing's family, just ask." Yang Gai said.

"Your Majesty, it is benevolent to deliver horse-drawn carriages to help the victims, but how to solve this household registration problem? If there are local disaster victims who cannot survive and want to go to the city to work or do business, what should they do? Count it as a household, or a merchant, or as an artisan household? This is not the same as immigration, and in addition, should the coachmen of this post carriage and public carriage be a civilian household or a military household? Bi Ziyan asked.

As soon as this question came out, it was a little surprising, and this problem can involve more issues, such as household registration, such as taxes, such as some unspoken rules that limit the people to a certain range, or national policies. The ministers began to talk.

"Well, let's do it, everything is based on the lives of the people, everything is focused on relieving the people affected by the disaster, since the local area can't afford to support so many people, it is natural that people can't be restrained in the place, let the people starve to death, this is very cruel, if there are people who can't survive, they are willing to go to the city to work, do business, the local government should be released, the problem of household registration, still depends on the wishes of the disaster victims, those who are willing to keep their original place of origin, still retain, if they are willing to enter the business, artisans, do not block, the issue of taxation, will not be mentioned for the time being, now, Everything should be focused on disaster relief, and these issues should be put aside for the time being, and we will talk about it later...... "Yang Reform did not wait for the ministers to discuss, so he set the tone.

Originally, the emperor would ask everyone, but he didn't expect it to be a holy judgment, which was a bit surprising.

“…… As for the coachman's business, although the post is under the ......control of the military department, it is still separated, the post carriage still follows the previous rules, in the past, the post man was what he was from, as for the public carriage, it is not necessary, the coachman is mostly a civilian household, forcibly turning others into military households, I am afraid that others will not want to, so I will put it aside, what was the coachman's nationality before, what is the nationality now, now the matter is urgent, there are still a few months to flee, and now it is still involved in this matter, it is really putting the cart before the horse, I said, Everything should be based on the lives of the victims...... "Yang Reform quickly set the tone.

This is also the reason why Yang reform has been delayed for a long time, in addition to collecting more information and experience takes time, there is the problem of household registration, has always been a problem, now the Ming Dynasty's household registration has been managed very strictly, the basic policy is to limit the flow of the people, in order to limit the people to the local area as the first priority, accompanied by household registration is tax, tax, servitude, these things, in peacetime, to want the people to move on a large scale, into the city to work and do business, it is very difficult, and only under large-scale natural disasters, it is possibleHowever, even if there is a natural disaster and the people can move on a large scale, the household registration problem involving the people is still a big problem, and it is still a shackle on the people, and if you want to obtain a large number of labor and industrialization, this problem must be solved.

How to solve it, this problem, the involvement is really big, it may be necessary to change the basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty, not all at once can be changed, not all at once can be changed, today's Yang reform does not have a very good, very mature and reliable way, but also can only be put aside for the time being, ignore it, wait for the future to see the situation, first get people to the factory, and wait for the factory's profits to exceed the land, with a group of capitalists, this matter may be much easier, now, Yang Reform really does not want to fight with the inertia of the entire Ming Dynasty alone, so tired. ,

"Obey the order!" Bi Ziyan replied then, the other ministers haven't come back to their senses, this matter has been decided, some ministers pouted, they wanted to say something, but they thought about it, and they didn't say it, this household registration problem, but it's really hard to say, once you say it, the involvement must be huge, the more you talk about it, the more you talk about it, the emperor will put these problems aside for the time being, and first make every effort to relieve the victims, but it is also a last resort.

"Then let's do it, the post carriage should be arranged first, and the public carriage should also be followed up in time, I will place an order for the carriage yard today, everything should be arranged in place before July, Liu Mao, this matter, I will leave it to you, you go to do this in the name of the Qincha, so as to facilitate the action......" Yang Reform said.

"Command!" Liu Mao couldn't wait to reply, now, his heart can be regarded as in his stomach, this errand that is a bit similar to migrant disaster relief finally fell on his head justifiably, and it is still a messenger.

"This matter also has something to do with the immigrants, and it may be necessary to contact the Department of Agriculture, and if there is a large number ......of people who need to resettle, we should contact the Department of Agriculture in advance and let them make arrangements," Yang said.

"The minister understands......" Liu Mao agreed.

"In addition, this matter is by no means something you can do alone, it involves several provinces, and it may require a lot of manpower, so I allow you to mobilize some manpower in various ministries, and in addition, you can also transfer a group of historical students from the Guozijian to help you, so that you don't have time to doppelganger...... Yang Gai announced again.

As soon as these words came out, the necks of the ministers were a little higher, this Liu Mao, now he is suddenly in the house, in the future, he wants to get a waiter, get a book to do, it is really not a difficult thing, today I picked up such a big bargain, I don't know which life is the blessing of cultivation, the various ministries mobilized manpower, and the Guozijian called the history of the life, this treatment, can be directly on par with Xu Guangqi, many people are secretly jealous, however, everyone also knows that it is useless to oppose this matter, the emperor originally planned to use Liu Mao, and now he wants to take this errand, Can the emperor agree? Besides, Liu Mao is also a Jinshi, and he is also in charge of things, and he has been in charge of this stall, and the emperor appointed him as a Qincha, and there is nothing wrong with it, it is a very normal appointment, and because of the matter of the carriage departure center, many people have reached some agreements with Liu Mao, but no one has come out to object.

"Thanksgiving!" Liu Mao was a little excited at this time, the emperor really didn't let him down, and the authority given to him was also quite heavy, following the emperor was really promising, the emperor was really a reputable person, and he was in vain beating gongs and drums on the street. RO！ ~！

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