Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 677 Fanwai (25) Old Times
"Everyone has worked hard, let's work harder, finish the accounts early, leave work and go home early, and give everyone a day off!"

"it is good!!!"

In the afternoon, when a man with a tin trumpet stood in the yamen and shouted, many officials in the yamen who were making plans responded with smiles, and there was a harmonious atmosphere.

This place is Juxian County, Shandong Province, and the place where they work is the county government of Juxian County.

Since it is already midsummer in June, before the autumn harvest, the county governments in various places need to calculate the amount of money and food in Changping warehouses and county treasuries, and they cannot be sloppy.

Therefore, today's Juxian county government has counted people from ten days ago to today, which also means that no one has taken a bath in the past ten days.

But if nothing else happened, they should be able to count the things in the Changping warehouse and the county treasury today. As long as they finished counting, they would be able to relax for a month or two.

"After ordering today, I have to go to the vegetable market to buy some meat and vegetables to go home. Fortunately, I can rest tomorrow."

"Yeah, I've been busy these days until midnight, living in the yamen every day, and I don't have time to go home. I'm sure I'll be nagged by my family when I go back, hehe..."

During the interval between planning to settle accounts, the two officials talked about family affairs with a smile, and Fang Tingjun, the county magistrate, also watched the scene before him with a smile.

Most of the officials in Ju County are officials who have graduated for less than three years. They have not been fully dyed by the big dye vat of officialdom, and they work very hard, which makes Fang Tingjun very happy.

Although he is a county magistrate, Fang Tingjun's family situation is not optimistic.

When he was still young, his father was seriously ill. Although Huimin Pharmacy did not ask for fees for consultation and medicine, his mother took his father to Beijing in order to get better treatment.

Although travel expenses and accommodation expenses were expensive, the father's life was saved, but the family owed a lot of money, and the father was unable to go to the field, which put the burden of the family on the mother.

Fang Tingjun was sensible early and helped his mother in farming when he was still young.

Thanks to the free tuition of Daming students, Fang Tingjun had the opportunity to study, and then joined Enke, and was promoted to his current position after three years.

But despite this, his family still has hundreds of taels of debt.

Although as a county magistrate, as long as he knows a little bit, countless merchants will come to give money, but he remembers his parents' teachings and resolutely does not accept any bribes.

Anyway, with his salary, he can pay off the debt in another year at most, and the family's life will be easier by then.

Thinking of this, the smile on Fang Tingjun's face grew even wider.

"County magistrate, this is the file of the Jiazi library."

"Okay, let it go."

Fang Tingjun smiled kindly at the official who sent the document, and then reached out to pick up the document.

However, before he picked up the file, he suddenly felt the table and chairs shake.

"Are the tables and chairs broken?"

Before Fang Tingjun felt it carefully, he felt that the shaking had passed.

He looked down at the table and chairs, but no matter how he swung them, the tables and chairs remained motionless, which made him suspicious for a while.

However, due to the heavy government affairs, he didn't take it to heart, only thinking that he felt wrong.

"It's probably because I'm too tired these days, it looks like I have to rest well after today..."

Fang Tingjun shook his head with a wry smile, then reached out and tried to pick up the document on the table.

'Om...'

Suddenly, the tables and chairs shook again, and this shaking made the window at the door visibly rattle.

Such a change made all the people sitting in their seats subconsciously stand up, but the shaking feeling quickly disappeared.

Everyone looked at each other, Fang Ting frowned tightly, and Song Wence, the county magistrate next to him, also asked suspiciously when he saw this: "Is there an earthquake?"

"There were earthquakes in previous years, but they were not as light. They passed so quickly..." an official next to him responded.

"Could it be an earthquake?" The person next to him raised his head hesitantly while talking, he stared at the beams, but couldn't see anything unusual.

"I'm sitting on a wooden stool, and there's nothing soft on the stool, so it feels very obvious." A yamen servant sitting at the door spoke and described in detail:

"The shaking sense of direction is particularly sharp, east-west direction, absolutely right! It must be an earthquake!"

"It doesn't matter that much, let's go out with the documents first." Fang Ting was not afraid of [-] but just in case, so he urged everyone to leave the yamen.

Everyone who heard the words packed up the documents immediately, and no one wanted to damage the documents that they had counted in the past ten days.

Fang Tingjun was also in the line to pack up the papers. When he reached out to take a summary, he suddenly felt a very strong shaking, and the person next to him was almost knocked down by the strong shaking.

"earthquake!"

"Hurry up to the street!"

"Strike the bell! Strike the alarm bell!"

For a while, most people in the yamen felt it, and everyone was in a mess. Some people ran away holding the documents, and some people yelled to ring the bell to remind the people.

"Dang...dang...dang..."

The violent bell rang at the gate of the yamen, but without the yamen's reminder, many people also felt the strong shock, and the shock became stronger and stronger.

"There's an earthquake, everyone evacuate quickly!"

Song Wence, the county magistrate at Menmenkou, shouted while ringing the bell, and the streets were already in chaos at this moment.

Opposite the county government office is a restaurant, which is full of people rushing out at the moment, many people even jumped directly from the second floor.

Fang Ting, who had just walked out of the yamen, saw this scene with his heart hanging in his throat, and he hurried forward to maintain order:
"Everyone, don't panic, let the elderly and children go first, we can't..." Before he could finish speaking, Fang Tingjun was knocked down by someone and fell heavily on the ground.

He wanted to get up, but the ground shook so badly, and the crowd around him were still trying their best to squeeze him, so he couldn't get up at all.

"Magistrate Fang!"

County Chancellor Song Wence found the fallen Fang Tingjun, stopped ringing the bell immediately, and hurriedly led people to rush over, thus avoiding a tragedy.

However, before he could help Fang Tingjun up, he saw the surrounding buildings shaking violently, the ground undulating like waves, bricks and concrete flying down, hitting many people.

Everyone at this moment fell to the ground on the street, bouncing on the ground like a ball.

Fangting lying on the ground could clearly hear the sound of the earthquake, as if it was right next to his ear, from west to east, very clearly.

This feeling, as if there were more than a dozen tractors around him, vibrating constantly, made people even get over the irritability, and directly felt the terror.

Accompanied by this sound, Fang Tingjun only felt himself being jolted up, the houses on the left and right were shaking, and the sky and the ground were also shaking.

In an instant, Fang Tingjun only felt dizzy.

The dust from the collapsed house obscured his vision, and he could only feel the surroundings shaking in the thick dust, and the ground was surging like waves.

In such an environment, he could only understand the surrounding situation by the sound and direction of the collapsed house.

The "rumbling" sound of houses collapsing continued to be heard, and there were cries for help and screams amidst the thick smoke.

Fang Tingjun crawled forward desperately, the left side of his head seemed to be injured, and he couldn't feel it.

Bricks and tiles kept hitting him, but he didn't feel any pain.

In the end, there were so many bricks, tiles and rubble on his body that he finally couldn't move.

He just lay there in the thick smoke, powerless to resist...

On June [-], a major earthquake broke out in Shandong. This strong earthquake affected most of the eastern part of Daming and the eastern sea area, throughout the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the north and south.

The area with strong tremors is vast, starting from southern Liaoning in the north, Taiyuan in Shanxi in the west, Xiangfan in Hubei in the west, Ji'an in Jiangxi in the south, and the Korean Peninsula in the east across the sea. Even Yingzhou was felt.

The earthquake affected more than ten provinces and more than [-] counties including Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Liao, and even houses in northern North Korea collapsed.

Shandong and Nanzhili were the most severely affected, with more than [-] people killed and more than [-] million people affected by the earthquake.

Pu Songling, a student of Yingtian University, also recorded the occurrence of the earthquake in detail in his "Liuquan Pen Notes":

"Apocalypse 48, June [-]th, there was a huge earthquake. Yu Shi was in the laboratory, and suddenly heard a thunderous sound, coming from the southeast and heading northwest. Everyone was astonished and could not understand the reason."

"The teacher asked everyone to squat under the tables, but they saw the tables shaking, the utensils overturned, and the beams and rafters of the roof were folded and made noises. I looked at my classmates and turned pale. After a long time, I knew the earthquake, and all the diseases tended to come out."

"Out of the laboratory, I saw pavilions and houses, falling back up, the sound of walls falling and houses collapsing, and the sound of sons and daughters singing, it was like a roar. People were dizzy and couldn't stand up, sitting on the ground and turning around everywhere."

"After an hour or so, it's time to settle down. Looking at the street, men and women gather naked and talk to each other, forgetting that they have no clothes on."

"Looking at Qixia, the mountains are cracked, the Qinhuai River is sinking into dark caves, dead bodies are everywhere, and the surrounding villages are filled with a stench. I'm terrified..."

Pu Songling's "Liuquan Brush Notes" records the most authentic side, and there are countless such records.

According to the judgment of scholars who studied later, the magnitude of the earthquake should have reached 8.5...

On June 2000, Zhu Ciran, the supervisor of the state, issued another [-] million taels of national debt for disaster relief, and ordered the cabinet to assist Governor Jin Xuan in disaster relief matters.

The impact of the Shandong earthquake is not only economical and political, but also the armies in the west that have been confronting the three countries can no longer maintain the confrontation.

Continuing the confrontation will cost more money, so on July [-]th, Emperor Zhu Youxiao ordered Li Dingguo to severely damage the main force of the Mughals.

It was already the fifth day of August when the news reached Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo, who knew the emperor's intention, did not hesitate, and immediately joined forces with Qi Wulong to attack Mughal.

On the first day of September, Li Dingguo commanded [-] cavalry to attack the Khyber Pass, and Qi Wulong restrained [-] cavalry from the Shu Kingdom to the southeast of the Mughals.

Qi Wulong and Li Dingguo had already negotiated how to attack the Mughals in their correspondence, and if they wanted to trade off each other, they could only destroy the means of production of the enemy country.

Therefore, they did not mainly attack cities and land, but mainly destroyed market towns and villages.

In the face of the Ming army's offensive, Aurangzeb strictly forbade the army to fight the Ming army in the field, but stuck to the city and cleared the field.

However, the Mughal city is limited after all, and it is impossible to accommodate all the people.

In this battle, Li Dingguo and Qi Wulong led their cavalry deep into the hinterland of the Mughals, destroying their production and seizing their supplies.

Throughout the war, the Mughal army was very restrained. At the same time, Persia and Ottoman also sent troops to rescue the Mughals.

However, before the first [-] Persian troops arrived in Kandahar, they were surrounded and wiped out by Wu Sangui's [-] cavalry. The general who led the army saw that the Ming army still had soldiers and horses in the river area, and stopped for a while.

At the same time, the Ottoman army under the leadership of Mehmed IV fought against Erzhe in the Quba area.

However, before they could get a result of the battle, on the tenth day of the winter month, the Ming army withdrew voluntarily after two and a half months deep in the Mughal hinterland.

On the [-]th of the winter month, Li Dingguo and Qi Wulong returned to their pre-war camps. Li Dingguo sent Wu Sangui to lead [-] cavalry to support Mongolia.

On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, after the news that the Ming army sent troops from the western province of Taixi to support Mongolia, Mohammed IV had to lead the army to retreat, and the siege of Kuba was lifted.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the memorials of Li Dingguo and Qi Wulong clearly stated the captures of this battle.

There are more than 230 taels of gold, more than [-] million taels of silver, more than [-] boxes of other jewelry and antiques, a total of [-] rare camels, horses, mules, cattle, donkeys and sheep, and countless grains.

After distributing rewards and silver to the soldiers who participated in the war, the value of gold, silver, money and food handed in by the two armies was about 240 million taels, and Zhu Ciran, the supervisor of the state, rewarded 62 taels of Indian servants as vassal states.

Due to the decline in the scale of the war, the war treasury bonds issued earlier were not used, so Zhu Ciran, the supervisor of the state, invested the treasury bonds in the post-disaster construction after the earthquake in Shandong.

On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, except for the remaining troops, the troops in Hezhong and Ganges withdrew in turn, and the fighting stopped.

On the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, the French army captured the Barcelona area, and Spain dispatched [-] troops from North Kunlun to support it.

On February 49th in the 78th year of Tianqi, Hong Chengchou, the chief assistant of the cabinet, died in the private residence of the capital at the age of [-].

On the [-]th, the emperor ordered his son Hong Shiming to attack the Marquis of Nan'an, and the rest of the princes were granted the title of fourth-rank Zhongshun doctor.

On the [-]th, Jin Xuan, the second assistant of the cabinet, was promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yan Yinshao, a scholar of the Wenhuadian University, was promoted to the second assistant.

On March 77th, Yang Wenyue, Marquis of Nanchong, died at home at the age of [-]. The emperor bestowed gifts on the prince of the county, sacrificed him as a system, posthumously named Wenzhen, and posthumously named Ba Guogong, and his son Yang Bingwen succeeded as Marquis of Nanchong.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Zhang Huang, the governor of the state of Qi, made a statement, and Wu Aheng, the Marquis of Fangcheng, died in the barracks on the second day of the fourth lunar month. The emperor heard the words, and bestowed gifts on the king of the county. Hou.

On June [-]th, Zhang Huang, Minister of the State of Qi, said: "Princess Qi passed away at midnight on the second day of May, and the king wept bitterly."

That night, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who had been ill in bed for many days, got up and wrote a letter to comfort Qi Wang Zhu Youjian, and chose "Xiaowen" as the posthumous title for Qi Wangfei Yuan Xipin.

On June [-], the Tiange in the Harawen Mountains was completed. Emperor Zhu Youxue took a car to check it out. He was overjoyed to see it.

On the first day of July, Jin Fu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, said that the autumn rains had caused disasters recently, and the northeast side of the Lugou Bridge was damaged by water for [-] feet. I would like to ask whether to use cement to repair it according to the ancient method.

Hearing this, the emperor personally went to Lugou Bridge to inspect the 400-year-old bridge, and then drew the restoration drawings and drafted the regulations. He allocated 3000 taels of silver to restore it according to the ancient method.

On July [-]th, the Spanish army recaptured the Barcelona area, and the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I mediated for Spain.

On the second day of August, Britain, Holland, and Switzerland intervened in the Legacy War. The two sides signed the Treaty of Aachen. The Pyrenees region was acquired by France, and the war ended.

In September, European countries imitated the countries of the Great Ming Suzerainty System and successively established the "London Gazette", "Paris Gazette", "Madrid Gazette", "Vienna Gazette"...

In October, Huanglong, Marquis of Liaodong in Qi State, and Cao Wenzhao, Marquis of Weiyuan passed away successively.

Huanglong pursued him as Duke of Liao, and his son Huang Mu succeeded as Marquis of Eastern Liao.

Cao Wenzhao made Zhao Guogong after him, and his son Cao Yaojiao attacked Weiyuanhou.

In the winter month, Huang Fei, the captain of the navy, resigned from office, Zheng Chenggong, the chief of the navy, was promoted to the governor of the navy, and Shi Lang, the chief of the navy, was promoted to the chief of the navy.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Ouyang Jian, the governor of Yunnan Province, went to Shushu for an earthquake in central Yunnan, and the earthquake in Tonghai, Eshan, Jianshui, Yuxi, Shiping and other counties killed and injured more than [-] people.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, the prince issued an order to exempt five counties from taxes for three years.

In the 50th year of the Apocalypse, Sun Kewang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, played in front of the hall during the Zhengdan court meeting. It was said that the population of the country exceeded 17 million, and the cultivated land exceeded [-] billion mu.

The emperor was overjoyed and decreed to exempt the whole country from agricultural tax for one year.

In February, Qi State, Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commissioner, and Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner respectively performed.

As of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month last year, Qi State had more than 430 million people and more than [-] million mu of arable land.

The Sidang clans of India have 340 million citizens, more than 120 million natives, and more than [-] million mu of arable land.

The Kunlun vassals have more than 620 citizens, more than [-] million slaves, and more than [-] million mu of arable land.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Yu Jackie Chan, said: "The suzerain vassal of the country has 20 million people and [-] million arable land. It has flourished in ancient and modern times..."

In March, Du Yinxi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Sun Kewang, Minister of the Ministry of Households, joined the cabinet. Chen Tingjing, Minister of the Ministry of Households, was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Households, and Zhou Peigong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, Emperor Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt unwell. It was said that Empress Zhang Yan, Prince Zhu Ciran, grandson Zhu Heyin, eldest son Zhu Yixuan, and grandson Zhu Hexi entered the palace.

Before the sick bed, Zhu Youxiao grabbed Zhu Hexuan's hand, and explained to Zhu Ciran and others on the left and right:
"The emperor ruled the world, shared the interests of the four seas for profit, and took the heart of the world as his heart..."

"Now I am sixty-six years old, reigning fifty, rich all over the world, with dozens of descendants..."

"With the help of the king of Qi, the four sides will surrender, and the people of the world will be happy, and my blessings will be abundant. Even if there are unforeseen concerns, I will be calm."

"Today, the edict is established, the crown prince Ci Ran succeeds to the throne, and the crown prince He Yin is established as the crown prince. I hope that Er and other descendants will work hard and put the people first..."

After all, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Hexuan, who was being held by him, with tears in his eyes:

"It's a pity that my younger brother is not here. After you return to Qi, you should be filial to your elders."

Zhu Hexuan wept and nodded, and Zhu Youxiao looked at the people around him again: "The Guo Dynasty and the Qi State have been friendly for generations, and I owe the King of Qi a lot..."

After speaking, Zhu Youxiao ordered the crowd to disperse. In the next few days, Zhu Youxiao summoned the cabinet, the six ministries, and the governors of the five armies to enter the palace one after another to explain everything.

In the 50th year of the Apocalypse, at the third quarter of the eighth lunar month, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Apocalypse, died in the Qianqing Palace at the age of 66...

(End of this chapter)