Chapter 57 The Weak Zhang Guozhu

This document was specially obtained by Yun Zhao, and it is just the general outline and brief introduction of Han Xiufen's lengthy documents.

According to Yun Zhao's calculations, after Han Xiufen closed the Strait of Malacca, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have doubled its territory.

Although there are more forests on these lands, as long as they are flat land, they must be fertile land.

In addition, the climate is warm and the plants are growing wildly there. Not only plants like this tropical climate, but even the fish and shrimp in the sea are larger than those in the northern seas.

As of now, because survival is easy, the cost of immigration to Southeast Asia is minimal.

Han Xiufen told all the bigwigs in the country in the most urgent tone that migrating to Southeast Asia must be the most correct national policy, as soon as possible, and as long as the Ming people lay a foundation for a hundred years, where the grain output will definitely surpass the Ming Dynasty.

This is true. The land in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and Central Plains has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the land has long been overwhelmed. Rotary farming should be carried out properly if conditions permit.

However, Han Xiufen's memorial on large-scale immigration was shot dead in Zhang Guozhu.

Nothing else is still a problem of inequality between the rich and the poor.

In Zhang Guozhu's view, Nanyang is a newly opened land by the empire. If large-scale immigration is carried out from the country, there will be a terrible result - division!

The South Ocean is too far away, and the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so it is better for Han Xiufen to be there, at least no one in the dynasty is doubting her loyalty.

However, rebellion is often not something that one person can control. If most of them are dissatisfied with using their output to support the country, division becomes the only choice.

Then, the empire sent a large number of troops to suppress the rebellion there, and then... the people who were even more dissatisfied with the court... and then, there was nothing.

The most important part in Zhang Guozhu's eyes is undoubtedly the land of the Ming Dynasty. Even though Nanyang has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Guozhu's subconscious mind is still a colony of the Ming Dynasty, not the real land of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if a three-masted fast sailboat is smooth, it will take two months to walk through Malacca. Such a faraway place is the horizon for Zhang Guozhu and many domestic officials.

No matter how good the things in the sky are, they are not as good as the things in front of them. This is what most Ming officials think. They are very interested in robbing and are very interested in controlling the tax collection of the Strait of Malacca. As for the thorough governance, they lack interest in it.

Yun Zhao remained silent about this matter, did not raise any objections or express his support. He wanted to see what the event would end up like.

Han Xiufen Group is actively lobbying for the congress. After Zhang Guozhu Group expressed its attitude of not supporting immigration, officials came forward to denounce Han Xiufen for interfering in politics as a soldier, which was not doing his job properly. Of course, they took the initiative to ignore the fact that Han Xiufen was a civilian in addition to being the commander of the First Fleet and was also the governor of the South China Sea.

Just as the two sides were chattering and fighting verbal, a rare and severe rainstorm suddenly arrived.

The middle reaches of the Yellow River are raining heavily and converging. The heavy rain covers more than 20 counties including Songxian, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gongxian, Shanxian, Yuanqu, Jiyuan, Mengxian, Boai, Wuzhi, Xiuwu, Qinyang, and Shanxi Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian, Jiangchuan, and more than 20 counties in Henan Province, including Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian, and Jiangchuan, among the middle and lower reaches of the Fen River.

The central area of ​​the heavy rain is located in the areas of Longmen Town, Yihe to Songxian, Luohe to Baima Temple to Changshui, Sanmenxia to Yuanqu.

Since Yun Zhao took over Henan and Shandong, the place where he devoted the most effort here is Hegong!

No matter which official takes office as the prefecture along the Yellow River, Yun Zhao will definitely talk to him about river engineering!

Therefore, after Lantian officials took office as local officials in the Yellow River, they indeed put river workers in their focus.

Whether it was the special envoy sent by Yun Zhao, the officials sent by the Supervision Department, or the inspectors sent by Zhang Guozhu, they reported that the work along the Yellow River had been managed, and the embankments in many places had been more than doubled. In some places, there was not only one embankment, but they even built a second or even a third embankment, so some officials proudly said that the embankment of the Yellow River is as solid as a soup.

The river bank they built did withstand the inspection by officials.

Two days after the heavy rain, Yun Zhao issued an order to inspect river workers in the heavy rain area without slacking off. If a crisis is discovered, the gap will be blocked at all costs.

After the heavy rain turned into heavy rain, Yun Zhao learned that two gaps had appeared in the Yellow River, and these two gaps were blocked by officials and the people, seeing that the heavy rain still showed no signs of stopping, he issued an urgent order of 100,000, ordering Zhang Guozhu to lead the Guanzhong delegation to set off to help local officials move the people in their territories out of low-lying areas, with the first priority in protecting the lives of the people. If necessary, they can give up villages and cities.

At the same time, he ordered the Henan and Shanxi regiments to march towards the disaster area at night.

On the seventh day, when heavy rains hit Guanzhong, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000, ordering officials along the Huangzhou Prefecture to give up protecting the Yellow River embankment and turn all their strength to migrating the people, and make sure not to miss a single person.

At the same time, he personally led most of the Yunyang Army stationed in Tongguan to advance towards the disaster area at night.

After seeing the turbid waves of the Yellow River in Tongguan, Yun Zhao once again issued an urgent order of 100,000 to withdraw all the people along the Yellow border. He no longer expects those dams that claim to be solid can protect the people.

As soon as Yun Zhao left Hangu Pass, bad news had already arrived...

Yanshi, Gongyi, Qinyang, Wuzhi, Xiuwu and other counties were flooded. Fifteen prefectures and counties in Henan were affected. Fifteen places were broken in Xingze, Yangwu, Xiangfu and Lanyang.

Among them, the Zhongmu Yangqiao breaks at the beginning of the break, and with the violent impact of the rapids, it quickly collapsed to more than 260 meters wide. The Zhongmu County and nearby villages and towns suddenly became a country of Ze.

After the Yellow River in Zhongmu Yangqiao broke, the mainstream went straight to the Jialu River, and entered the Huai River from the Wo River. Along the way, it flooded countless residential houses in Kaifeng, Chenzhou, Shangqiu, Anhui Yingzhou, Sizhou and other places in Henan Province, hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the disaster victims cried all the way.

When Yun Zhao arrived in Zhongmu, he felt cold when he looked at the turbid waves and the breach. He could no longer tell where was the main river and where was the breach. Looking around, it seemed like it was in the sea.

When he and Zhang Guozhu, whose hair was messy and whose eyes were red like a rabbit, were this strong man as strong as a stone. When Yun Zhao repelled everyone to meet alone, he cried in a panic.

"Once a thousand years, Your Majesty, it's a thousand years. The Yellow River has surged by two feet sharply. The Yi River, Luo River, Qin River and its main stream have risen at the same time. The water volume is ten times that of previous years. When the water flow is at its highest, it has passed half of the caves in Longmen.

His Majesty……"

Yun Zhao had completely calmed down at this time, and quietly waited for Zhang Guozhu to vent all the grief in his heart.

After a long time, Zhang Guozhu finally calmed down. After washing his face, he said to Yun Zhao: "Your Majesty, there are more than 1.7 million people suffering from disasters. The preliminary count is more than 13,000 deaths. This number is not the last number. It will be counted once in three days. I am afraid the number of deaths will double."

Yun Zhao turned his back and said lightly: "The rain has stopped, so start to block the gap."

Zhang Guozhu said: "It's already done. Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to deal with those officials at this time."

Yun Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "Who will I deal with? Just the officials above the village chief trained by me personally have lost nine, and more than 80 officials of the village chief are missing. Who will you ask me to deal with?

This is a natural disaster. If I didn’t know clearly that God is useless, otherwise I would have issued an edict to blame myself.”

Zhang Guozhu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, this is not your fault. We have been very careful. Local officials have indeed put in their efforts. Without His Majesty's previous warning, the death toll would definitely not be only more than 20,000, and at least more than 500,000 people would die."

Yun Zhao smiled and said with a slight smile: "Is it our victory if there is no death to be enough for 500,000 people? Guozhu, don't say anything. The most urgent thing is to block the gap quickly and let the Yellow River return to the old way."

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, I agree with what Han Xiufen said, migrate the people in China to Nanyang."

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu strangely and said, "How did you change?"

Zhang Guozhu said: "Your Majesty will know when you come out and take a look."

Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu left the tent together and came to the river bank. Zhang Guozhu pointed to the trees in the water that were completely covered with spider webs and said, "Your Majesty, that are spider trees."

He pointed to the green trees without any spider webs and said, "Your Majesty, that's a snake tree."

He pointed to the rats running around at his feet and said, "The mice in the disaster area are probably all here."

"Where are the people?"

"It's all on the high ground. The group trainers are using rafts to pick them up from the high ground one by one. It's estimated that it will take more than ten days..."

Zhang Guozhu didn't say anything else, but Yun Zhao knew from Zhang Guozhu's words how difficult it is to treat the post-disaster.

"Is this why you agree that Han Xiufen will migrate the people to a better land to live?"

Zhang Guozhu lit a cigarette and took a sip and said, "The people here are living too hard, it's time to live some light days."

Yun Zhao took a cigarette from Zhang Guozhu's mouth, took two sips and said, "What do you think?"

Zhang Guozhu suddenly opened his arms and said, "Our country is large enough to allow the people to leave dangerous places to live in a better place. As for this Yellow River, let him go."

Yun Zhao patted Zhang Guozhu on the shoulder and said, "It's the first time I have seen you as a coward. Why do you want to escape?"

Zhang Guozhu took the cigarette from Yun Zhao's mouth again, took two sips hard and said, "You can only say this to you, don't say it out loud."

Yun Zhao laughed dryly and said, "Go to work, I believe you can bring these people to the Yellow River back to the old way."

This document was specially obtained by Yun Zhao, and it is just the general outline and brief introduction of Han Xiufen's lengthy documents.

According to Yun Zhao's calculations, after Han Xiufen closed the Strait of Malacca, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have doubled its territory.

Although there are more forests on these lands, as long as they are flat land, they must be fertile land.

In addition, the climate is warm and the plants are growing wildly there. Not only plants like this tropical climate, but even the fish and shrimp in the sea are larger than those in the northern seas.

As of now, because survival is easy, the cost of immigration to Southeast Asia is minimal.

Han Xiufen told all the bigwigs in the country in the most urgent tone that migrating to Southeast Asia must be the most correct national policy, as soon as possible, and as long as the Ming people lay a foundation for a hundred years, where the grain output will definitely surpass the Ming Dynasty.

This is true. The land in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, and Central Plains has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the land has long been overwhelmed. Rotary farming should be carried out properly if conditions permit.

However, Han Xiufen's memorial on large-scale immigration was shot dead in Zhang Guozhu.

Nothing else is still a problem of inequality between the rich and the poor.

In Zhang Guozhu's view, Nanyang is a newly opened land by the empire. If large-scale immigration is carried out from the country, there will be a terrible result - division!

The South Ocean is too far away, and the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so it is better for Han Xiufen to be there, at least no one in the dynasty is doubting her loyalty.

However, rebellion is often not something that one person can control. If most of them are dissatisfied with using their output to support the country, division becomes the only choice.

Then, the empire sent a large number of troops to suppress the rebellion there, and then... the people who were even more dissatisfied with the court... and then, there was nothing.

The most important part in Zhang Guozhu's eyes is undoubtedly the land of the Ming Dynasty. Even though Nanyang has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Guozhu's subconscious mind is still a colony of the Ming Dynasty, not the real land of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if a three-masted fast sailboat is smooth, it will take two months to walk through Malacca. Such a faraway place is the horizon for Zhang Guozhu and many domestic officials.

No matter how good the things in the sky are, they are not as good as the things in front of them. This is what most Ming officials think. They are very interested in robbing and are very interested in controlling the tax collection of the Strait of Malacca. As for the thorough governance, they lack interest in it.

Yun Zhao remained silent about this matter, did not raise any objections or express his support. He wanted to see what the event would end up like.

Han Xiufen Group is actively lobbying for the congress. After Zhang Guozhu Group expressed its attitude of not supporting immigration, officials came forward to denounce Han Xiufen for interfering in politics as a soldier, which was not doing his job properly. Of course, they took the initiative to ignore the fact that Han Xiufen was a civilian in addition to being the commander of the First Fleet and was also the governor of the South China Sea.

Just as the two sides were chattering and fighting verbal, a rare and severe rainstorm suddenly arrived.

The middle reaches of the Yellow River are raining heavily and converging. The heavy rain covers more than 20 counties including Songxian, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gongxian, Shanxian, Yuanqu, Jiyuan, Mengxian, Boai, Wuzhi, Xiuwu, Qinyang, and Shanxi Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian, Jiangchuan, and more than 20 counties in Henan Province, including Fenyang, Jiexiu, Xiaoyi, Linfen, Xiangling, Yueyang, Yuxiang, Xiaxian, and Jiangchuan, among the middle and lower reaches of the Fen River.

The central area of ​​the heavy rain is located in the areas of Longmen Town, Yihe to Songxian, Luohe to Baima Temple to Changshui, Sanmenxia to Yuanqu.

Since Yun Zhao took over Henan and Shandong, the place where he devoted the most effort here is Hegong!

No matter which official takes office as the prefecture along the Yellow River, Yun Zhao will definitely talk to him about river engineering!
To be continued...