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Chapter 41 Disaster Relief (Revision)

Zhao Changji, who was at the bottom of the Nanyang Military Palace food chain, had a great time in the north.

Jiang Yuelin had no better way, so he could only listen to Zhao Shizhen's separation of the people first. The guards' flag army dozens and hundreds of people took them to the surrounding guards and set them out to feed porridge everywhere. The progress was much faster than he imagined. More than 20,000 people were separated in just half a day.

After several rogues who were unwilling to leave the gate and tried to lead the people to clamor, even if the other people were a little indignant, they would not think so many porridge sheds under the jurisdiction of each thousand households.

Zhao Changji inherited the people-oriented idea of ​​Chen Mu and asked Jiang Yuelin to order the guards to ask the flag army to build houses for the people, build bonfires, and donate porridge sheds. Who would care about the righteous indignation aroused for others?

When the letter was sent to the capital and sent back, Zhang Juzheng naturally had no choice but to escort Zhao Shizhen the silver and act cheaply on the way, he also focused on not being ruthless when he should do it.

The middle-aged god is much more cruel than the scholar Zhao Shizhen. At such a critical moment, whoever dares to incite the people to inflict chaos will be the enemy of the chief minister of the empire.

Xu Jue is interesting. He can't be interested in this kind of thing. No matter how alarmist Zhao Shizhen said in the letter, it's useless.

The man sent a thousand households in charge of the inspection. In just one sentence, Zhao Shizhen sent a letter to the Nanyang Military Mansion and borrowed Chen Shuai's house for half a month during the New Year next year.

Zhao Shizhen first thought that he could not make a decision for Chen Mu, and then he thought about the taste. Although Chen Mu's mansion in the capital was rented out empty every year during the Chinese New Year, and sometimes the market for lanterns is 100 taels a day, Xu Jue may not really want to borrow Chen Mu's house.

He wanted to tell himself that he was not Chen Shuai, but just a staff member of Chen Shuai, and he was not worthy of writing a letter to ask him for his work.

No matter what his purpose is, as long as he sends someone, Zhao Shizhen will not feel wronged at all. If things can be done well, is his face in the capital important?

It doesn’t matter at all, our foundation is in Southeast Asia!

I can't come to the capital several times in my life, and I want to do what I do.

As soon as the victims left, the road opened, and the thousand households of Jinyi were going to go first. Dozens of horsemen and Jinyiwei and the middle officials went out. They did not do anything else. They looked for the county magistrate's visit. Those who could make the county magistrate's black account would first get the county magistrate's black account. Those who made the county magistrate's black account would go to check the county's grain merchants.

In one or two days, all the post offices along the way prepared food. There must be a porridge shed every ten miles, passing through Xuanfu and heading straight to Datong.

When Zhao Shizhen arrived in Datong, he accompanied him, in addition to 130,000 taels of silver, there were more than 70,000 stones of grain.

The extras were all the results of the search. Not only Zhao Shizhen was searching, but Wu Dui, the governor of the Xuanfu, was also doing the same thing as him. Zhao Shizhen's side-by-side happened to help Wu Dui.

After all, even if Wu Dui is the governor, he does not have the Jinyiwei.

Compared to the governor, many people are actually much more afraid of the Jinyiwei General Banner, especially when the General Banner is in charge of inspection.

When Zhao Shizhen entered Xuanfu, Wu Dui issued a transfer order, and Jiang Yuelin began to order the flag army to escort along the way, at least a few hundred or a thousand people returned to the countryside one after another, and a porridge shed every ten miles could calm the people's hearts.

At first, Zhao Shizhen had a little distorted thoughts, thinking about whether the disaster in Shanxi could be caused by a disaster to Xinming. Since they have left their hometowns, why not go further?

As Chen Mu said, Xinming can accommodate a population far exceeding the two or three thousand people under Yang Zhaolong's current command, and thousands of people are not visible when placed on Xinming Island.

However, he did not expect how capable these serious literati from Jinshi were in politics and natural disasters?

"Hahaha! Chang Ji is worthy of being a staff member of the General Manager Chen. You have done the most difficult thing in disaster relief!"

Next to the porridge shed, Wu Dui, who was accompanying officials, laughed heartily. He came to Zhao Shizhen's escort team and said, "The disaster relief is only for people and households to be reviewed. Now the people of each county have been divided by Changji. The following matters will be left to me and Mr. Fan Xi, the governor of Datong."

The Xuanfu Datong has been connected into one area, Datong is blocked to the west, and the people are refugees to the east, setting up checkpoints on the road, checking Dingkou. In Wu Dui's words, this disaster has been widely affected, and a county cannot support people, so refugees need to be allowed to eat.

Once you come and go, you can give Datong counties enough time to prepare for disaster relief.

"Datong yesterday sent someone to send a message. The county governments there are ready to receive refugees, the poorer people in the local area, and the poorer people provide relief money. These people who are forced to leave their hometowns are the poorest and provide relief rice."

"The governments of various counties borrowed money from large households and grain merchants to buy rice. The food prices in the counties have subsided. There is no need to use the expedient method like Changji. The large households of grain merchants are also common people."

In fact, in Wu Dui's view, Zhao Shizhen did not have a systematic method of disaster relief, and only used cruel means to do extraordinary things. He even purposefully captured and lured grain merchants to break the law and forced the harvest - this is absolutely lazy policy.

"Now the imperial court has allocated disaster relief silver, and once the land of Xuanfu in Datong can build water conservancy, and borrow cattle seeds to help the people provide relief, and the rest is not a big deal." Wu Dui was exhausted these days. He visited the counties under his command and shook his head and said, "During the disaster, Xuanda has issued a law to prohibit the extinction of fishing, robbery and theft, hindering the market, raising prices, slaughtering plowing oxen, and stimulating people to become monks and nuns."

"The army soldiers in various places are dispatched, and prisoners in various counties are released to cook porridge and coffins. The poor who recover from illness need to tommy, the sick poor need medicine, the dying poor need thick porridge, and abandoned children need to adopt them. This disaster can pass!"

When Zhao Shizhen heard Wu Dui carefully explain the disaster relief measures in a variety of categories, he immediately bowed and thanked him. He knew very well why Wu Dui told him this.

Wu Dui was teaching him how to provide disaster relief as a provincial governor. He did not use his extraordinary means, but a more "orthodox and scientific" disaster relief method. He did not aimlessly allocate funds from the court to spread silver, nor did he ignore the disaster-stricken areas, but tried to use these silver to the places where they should be used at the minimum cost of the government.

"Students are taught, thank you Mr. Huanzhou!"

Zhao Shizhen thanked Wu Dui, and felt a lot of emotion. Compared with the northern disaster relief, Chen Mu encountered a typhoon in Luzon in his early years, and the methods of responding to the disaster were stupid. The court sent Jinshi to Luzon to become the prefect of Luzon before it improved. However, when they were in Luzon, they did not pay attention to how those Jinshi prefects provided disaster relief.

But Zhao Shizhen is a little good. He inherited the fine traditions of the Nanyang Military Palace. When he was idle, he compiled records of the disaster relief methods mentioned by Wu Dui and sent people to send him to Minduluo Island.

Chen Mu is best at sorting out all this, and after making a book, it is a case, and others only need to follow it.

"When it comes to the construction of water conservancy, the Nanyang Military Palace had a new hand-pressure water pump a few days ago, and the Ge Lao Mansion had a composition. I think the Xuanfu Military Arts Bureau can be tried and developed to solve the urgent problem. In addition, there are steamers, and there are wool spinning factories in Xuanda. There are also convenient manufacturing of the Military Arts Bureau, and the profit of coal filling can shine brightly."

Zhao Shizhen did not forget that the earliest large-scale employing factory in the Ming Dynasty, besides Guangdong, was Xuanfu where Chen Mu once worked!

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