Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 369
Advising a governor, if he wants the other party to at least listen to him, the only thing he can rely on is the identity of Gao Gong's nephew, other identities are useless, let alone the scholar who just got it, even the crown prince does not have it practical meaning.

Only "Gao Gong's nephew" can Su Yonglu at least be able to listen to him patiently.

Gao Wushi thought to himself that he was not a military genius, and asked him to give advice on military deployment, not to mention Su Yonglu, even he himself did not have much confidence, so he did not intend to make many suggestions on military operations.

What he is good at, in the final analysis, is politics.At least for the maintenance of stability, he had more or less contact with it in his previous life, and he was relatively confident in doing this.

The high-practical proposal is divided into several parts. The first is to explain to Su Yonglu: These refugees and rebellious troops are not even called "armies" at all. Help people to grab a wave of food and clothing to make a living.

Su Yonglu basically agreed with this point of view, but he didn't say anything. After all, anyone who is not a fool can see this truth-these refugees and rebellious troops are not clamoring to become kings and emperors and change dynasties.

After explaining this problem, Gao Wushi began to get to the point. He told Su Yonglu that since these people did not intend to cause chaos, the government did not necessarily have to kill them all.

Su Yonglu frowned and said that it wasn't that he didn't want to appease, the key was that these people came directly to Guide Mansion, and as the governor of a province, he had to finally recruit, at least on the premise that they couldn't let them mess up and rule the place, otherwise Where is the majesty of the court?
In addition, Su Yonglu also said that the bigger problem here is that recruiting requires resettlement, and the court has no money for resettlement, and Henan does not have the ability to do so—this is not hundreds of thousands of people, but hundreds of thousands, or even It's not good that there are millions of people, and the imperial court can't spend so much money to appease them, let alone Henan?

After all, Su Yonglu is an ally of Gaodang, rounded up, he is a member of Gaodang, so he is not out of touch with Gao Yushi, a little guy who will become an important figure in the next generation of Gaodang, and sincerely tells Gao Yushi that he I have already checked the Henan treasury, and at best I can gather four to five million taels of silver for appeasement.

This little money is not enough!
Just imagine, four or five million taels of silver is averaged, is it enough for each refugee to get one tael of silver?Even if it’s better to share a tael of silver, and even assuming that there will be no fluctuations in the price of grain in Henan, the tael of silver can be saved and saved, which is enough for a month.

You know, they are refugees, they have nothing, relying on a few taels of money to eat this month, will they continue to drink and smoke next month?

Therefore, it is basically useless to directly spend money to recruit, unless the money that Henan can take out in one go is not 50 million taels, but 500 million taels.

This is nonsense, the court can't afford so much money, not to mention Henan and the Netherlands are about the same.

Although Gao Yushi knew the family background of the Henan treasury for the first time, it was not important, anyway, it was about the same as he estimated, and it was not enough anyway.

So he was not shocked, let alone panicked, but just asked Su Yonglu very calmly, what kind of major work is being done or planned to be done in Henan right now?
Dagong refers to large projects. Of course, generally speaking, what can be called Dagong is basically ordered by the imperial court.

Of course, Henan has Dagong, which is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. It would be difficult to think of Dagong without Dagong.

Su Yonglu, the governor of Henan, what is his full name?
The governor of Henan and other places is also in charge of the river and admiral military affairs.

The governor of Henan and other places is the official job of the "Henan governor", whose main responsibility is to supervise local officials as the capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Well, from Gao Yushi's point of view, this position is equivalent to the secretary of a certain place in the Red Dynasty.

Supervising military affairs is a part-time job that governors everywhere have. As the name suggests, they are also in charge of local military affairs. The reason why the governors of the Ming Dynasty were called "military gates", but the governors of the Qing Dynasty did not have this term is because of this—Ming Dynasty The governor of the Qing Dynasty also served as the admiral of the province himself, while the governor of the Qing Dynasty generally did not concurrently serve as the admiral, and the admiral was appointed separately, usually by a general.

The point where Gao Wuzhen is making up his mind now lies in the other of his two part-time jobs: concurrently managing the river.

Water control has always been a very important task in ancient China, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception.There is no need to give more examples of its importance. It can be seen from the fact that "concurrently managing the river" can be compared with "admiral military affairs", and even placed before the admiral military affairs.

Needless to say, the importance of a job that can be handled by the governor of a province in person?Since it's so important, of course it's not just a matter of name, there must be serious and important things to do.

The big thing is the big river project.

The river is not just the Yellow River, but it does mainly refer to the Yellow River. After all, in ancient China, the rivers in the south were generally relatively honest, and the Yellow River was the most dishonest.

The Yellow River is full of harm, but only benefits.Let's not talk about the benefits, anyway, the loop is lost, and it is estimated that he will have to wait for him to get back to power when he is pragmatic. Now the focus is on harm.

They are already "hundreds of harms", and of course they have to be governed, so the imperial court has set up a large number of related official positions.From He Cao, the head of the river who specializes in governing the Yellow River, the censor of Youdu and Prime Minister He Cao, to the local officials who "also manage the river", and various local military equipment and political participation, "also manage the river" and "water conservancy", and even In places such as Pizhou, which has been bursting its dikes recently, and even set up special positions such as "Huai'an Prefecture River Channel Co-knowledge", it can be said that all of them start from this idea.

Due to its location, Henan has always been the focus of the imperial court-the Central Plains cannot be chaotic!Therefore, Mr. He is often stationed in Henan, and will only go to supervise in person when there is a serious breach of the embankment.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatically suggested that Su Yonglu please immediately contact Pan Jixun, the new head of the river, to suspend the collection of labor corvees for this year, and at the same time change the direct recruiting to "relief with work" and "care with work".

To put it simply, it is to arrange these rebellious refugees to dredge the river and replace those civilians or military households who were originally conscripted to serve in corvee.

Gao Yushi explained to Su Yonglu that there are at least three benefits of doing so:

The first is that there are so many people in civil disorder, and Henan, a place in the heart of the Central Plains, is already densely populated, and it is almost impossible for the land to be unowned. How can it be settled?Leaving so many landless and moneyless refugees, there will be chaos sooner or later with nothing to do, and they must be given something to do.

The second is that Mr. He has several major projects to be started. The collection of corvee is to employ people, and the replacement of labor is also to employ people. However, the collection of corvee will also lead to the embezzlement of private labor and increase the burden on the people. The refugees who go down go up to the top, and the officials and the people are both convenient.

The third is that these refugees can't live anymore. Regardless of whether they had land or not, they are poor and empty now anyway. They have nothing left but a small life.Using corvée also has to take care of the food, and even now many times you have to pay more or less wages, but with these refugees, as long as they take care of the food, even the wages are saved, and it is more convenient for the government and the people, why not do it?
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