Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 680 Fanwai (28) Wagtail in the original

"Help me! There are still people alive here!"

"Help!"

In the early morning, in the ruined capital, millions of soldiers and civilians participating in disaster relief are gathering at this moment.

After investigation, the earthquake originated from the Yanshan earthquake zone, and the earthquake affected ten provinces including Shaanxi and Hexi in the west, Liaodong in the north, and Zhili in the south.

In order to relieve the disaster, Ming Dynasty mobilized 60 troops, soldiers, horses, government servants, and nearly 300 million civilians in the north, which cost a lot.

From the first day of September to the end of September, more than [-] people were rescued, more than [-] were killed, and as many as one million were injured.

On the tenth day of September, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministries of Industry agreed on the amount of money to be paid to those who were unable to repair collapsed houses and those who could not bury the dead.

For the collapsed houses, the imperial court provided money to build them, and for those who died due to the earthquake and were still alive, the imperial court gave each person ten taels of post-disaster compensation.

However, after the memorial was played, Emperor Zhu Ciran felt that the number was still small, so he increased the number from ten taels per person to 30 taels per person.

At the same time, he was particularly concerned about the disaster situation of the families of soldiers and their houses who were outside the border.

On September 20, Emperor Zhu Ciran ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to distribute [-] taels of appeasement silver to the affected families who joined the army.

On September [-]th, Emperor Zhu Ciran sent Prince Zhu Heyin to lead a hundred officials to offer sacrifices to the Temple of Heaven.

On September [-], aftershocks continued, Emperor Zhu Ciran personally led the kings, civil and military officials to the Temple of Heaven to pray.

On September [-], Emperor Zhu Ciran decreed that the affected provinces would be exempted from taxes and taxes for one year.

It seems that various effects have played a role. The earthquake with constant aftershocks began to subside, and Daming can devote himself to the post-disaster reconstruction.

On the first day of October, the Ming Dynasty issued 5000 million taels of national debt for disaster relief, and local people and feudal vassals extended a helping hand.

As soon as the news of the earthquake came out, the Indian vassals and the state of Qi, which were close to Daming and had a railway, sent their sons to Nanjing to wait for the call.

Therefore, at the beginning of the issuance of national bonds, all princes subscribed for national bonds one after another.

Among them, the state of Qi subscribed for 500 million taels, the feudal clans of India subscribed for a total of 500 million taels, the feudal clans of Kunlun subscribed for 400 million taels, and Yongguo and Dingguo subscribed for 50 taels.

In addition, vassal states such as Korea, Siam, and Nanzhang also subscribed for a total of 300 million taels.

With the help of the feudal vassals alone, 5000 million taels of the 750 million national bonds were subscribed, and the people in the provinces that had not been hit by the earthquake followed closely and subscribed for the remaining national bonds.

For the post-disaster reconstruction work in Northern Zhili, Daming lasted from September of the ninth year of Qiansheng to May of the tenth year of Qiansheng, and solved the livelihood problems of most families through work-for-relief.

On June [-]th, the food problem caused by the Daming Earthquake appeared ten months later. Food prices in cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Libens kept rising until October.

On the first day of July, Guo Zhuang, the governor of Yunnan Province, made a request to exempt several prefectures and counties in Yunnan that suffered from drought, and the emperor approved it.

On August [-]th, the French Minister of Finance once again suggested that Louis XIV limit the influx of overseas grain, but Louis XIV refused again because he was planning a bigger war.

At the same time, the ruling William III of the Netherlands also actively cooperated diplomatically, planning to attack the hegemony of Louis XIV of France.

In September, war broke out between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Louis XIV saw an opportunity and decided to take this opportunity to expand French influence in the German region.

In October, the French invasion forced the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Saxony and the Palatine Kingdom to form an alliance, hoping to prevent French expansion in the German region.

In the twelfth lunar month, the local people rebelled again in the mountainous area in the northwest of Luchuan.

In the first month of the 11th year of Qiansheng, the 70-year-old Qi Wang Zhu Youjian was bedridden, but he recovered after diagnosis and treatment.

On February [-]th, Emperor Zhu Ciran ordered Prince Zhu Heyin and his grandson Zhu Yixuan to go to Qi State, and also gave King Qi [-] boxes of treasures and [-] branches of wild ginseng.

On February 5000th, Xia Wanchun, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the State of Qi, went to the Shu and said, "At the end of last year, there were [-] million people in this country, [-] million mu of arable land, and the world is happy."

On March [-]th, Crown Prince Zhu Heyin and grandson Zhu Yixuan arrived in Xijing City. They entered Qi Palace with their guards and worshiped Qi King Zhu Youjian as their descendants.

On the first day of April, Shuofang Hou Cao Bianjiao died in his mansion at the age of 78.

On the second day of April, Mi Zhibo Li Zicheng died in his residence at the age of 76.

On the third day of April, Crown Prince Zhu Heyin reported the matter to the emperor.

On April [-], at [-]:[-] a.m., the capital was shaken again. The sound was like thunder, knocking down more than [-] houses and killing or injuring more than [-] people.

On April 29th, starting from You o'clock in the afternoon, the capital was shaken four times in a row, the houses were shaken, and the officials and people once again evacuated and slept in the open. Until May [-]th, the aftershocks have not subsided.

On May [-], Emperor Zhu Ciran learned of the death of Cao Bianjiao and Li Zicheng, and posthumously named Cao Bianjiao Duke of Cao, Li Zi became Marquis of Yan'an, and their heirs did not surrender.

In June, Dingguo, Yongguo, and Ruiguo joined forces with Mongolian Ezhe to attack Ottoman with an allied force of [-].

Since the main force of the Ottomans was on the western front at this moment, the eastern front was retreating steadily, and the southern Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Egypt were lost one after another.

On the tenth day of September, the coalition forces stopped marching and signed the "Teranhei Peace Treaty" with Ottomans, recognizing the coalition forces' sovereignty over the seized land.

On September [-], Mongolia and Dingguo reached an agreement to cede the Dnieper River region to Dingguo, and Mongolia obtained the southern Caucasus.

In October, Xu Wanggu, a bachelor of geology from Xijing University in Qi State, arrived in Nanjing to start a course of geology at Nanjing University.

On the fifth day of the first winter month, Jin Xuan, the chief minister of the cabinet, died in office at the age of 72. The emperor decreed that he should stay out of court for three days, and posthumously named him Song Guogong, posthumously titled Wenzheng.

His eldest son, Jin Cen, the prefect of Jinshan in Qi State, attacked Yongpinghou.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, the emperor ordered someone to draw a portrait of Jin Xuan, who was the tenth from left to the left of Emperor Wu, the ancestor of Tiange, after Sun Chengzong, the emperor's teacher.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Yan Yinshao, the second assistant, was promoted to the first assistant, Sun Kewang was promoted to the second assistant, Yan Yingyuan, the censor of Youqin capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, entered the cabinet, and Wang Yu, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, succeeded him.

In the first month of the 12th year of Qiansheng, many cabinet ministers went to official positions, and the emperor approved them one by one, and selected capable ministers from six ministers to join the cabinet.

In February, Da Ming Pao published the names of the new cabinet ministers and the six ministries:

[Cabinet Chief Assistant Yan Yinshao, Cabinet Second Assistant Sun Kewang, Cabinet Minister Li Dingguo of Wuying Palace, Cabinet Minister Yan Yingyuan of Wenhua Palace, Cabinet Minister Yu Chenglong of Huagai Palace, Cabinet Minister Chen Tingjing of Jinshen Palace, and Cabinet Minister Guo Zhuangtu of Wenyuan Pavilion. 】

[Shangshu Wang Dang, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Guo Xiu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Gu Yanwu, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Li Guangdi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Yao Qisheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, Jin Fu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry]

On the second day of March, Du Yinxi, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, died of illness at the age of 82. His posthumous title was "Wencheng".

The emperor's actions let many people probably know the place he reserved for himself.

The seventh pavilion of Tiange, that is, in the eyes of the emperor, his achievements are second only to Taizu, Chengzu, Shizu, and Xianzong.

It can be said that the emperor is relatively modest. After all, judging from the achievements of Xianzong, even if he flattered him, he could not catch up with him, but he did not move Xianzong to the seventh floor, but he ranked seventh.

On the fifth day of March, Gu Yanwu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, died in the mansion, with the posthumous title of "Wenzhong", and his servant Zhang Ying succeeded him as Shangshu.

On the fifth day of April, the slave rebellion of the Kunlun vassals was finally put down after repeated suppression and encirclement.

According to the records of the officials of the Kunlun Supervisory Department, the number of rebels killed in this rebellion was as high as one million. The war severely damaged the inland economy of the Kunlun clans, and only the coast was spared.

After this slave change, the number of slaves in the Kunlun Eight Feudal Kingdoms plummeted to less than 300 million.

At the same time, because Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal needed a large number of slaves to develop colonies in North Kunlun, the price of slaves rose.

The decline in the number of slaves made the feudal vassals have to pay high prices to hire and buy slaves captured by the slave hunting team.

Before the slave change, the price of a Kunlun slave was only one tael of silver, but after the slave change it was raised to five taels of silver.

At this time, the annual income of an ordinary household in Daming was no more than 30 taels, that of Qi State was 42 taels, that of the Indian vassals was about 20 taels, and that of the Kunlun vassals was 15 taels.

The high price of slaves made the feudal lords angry, but someone soon came up with a solution.

In June, Yiguo sold 50 Kunlun slaves at a price of [-] taels, and then organized an army to advance inland.

Facts have proved that as long as war can benefit a country, the whole country will not feel war-weary.

In just three months, Yi Wang Zhu Yihao led an army of less than 16 to capture [-] Kunlun slaves and sold them to Spain, which lacked labor.

This expedition allowed him to harvest 80 taels of goods, and Zhu Yihao turned around and sold the goods to the Ottoman Empire, and then made millions of profits.

For this money, Zhu Yihao did not use it to enjoy the blessings, but Zhu Ciran, the emperor of Shangshu, said that the people of Yiguo had not exceeded one million so far, and asked the emperor to relax the immigration policy.

I have to say that Zhu Yihao picked a good opportunity.

Years of supervising the country and ruling the country made the emperor Zhu Ciran's health go from bad to worse, and at this time the government affairs were handled by Zhu Heyin, the prince of the country supervising the country.

Therefore, while receiving the memorial, considering the post-disaster situation after the domestic earthquake, Zhu Heyin decisively relaxed the immigration policy.

Shi Xiaolian, the governor of Yiguo, who was waiting in Songjiang mansion, heard the news, and immediately wrote a letter to the relocation department, "Please immigrate [-] people", and got approval very quickly.

When the news came back to the country, King Yi Zhu Yihao couldn't believe it, so he didn't have time to rest, and immediately led the army to go deep into the inland.

The news of the Migration Department could not be concealed. Only one month later, all the vassals knew about the loose immigration policy of the Ming Dynasty, so they sold their own Kunlun slaves one after another, and sent troops deep into the interior.

After all, compared to Kunlun slaves, they want Han immigrants with various skills.

Right now, it has been 12 years of Qiansheng, Ming Dynasty has had compulsory education for all for nearly 50 years, and the common people in China have graduated from middle school at least.

In contrast, many people in the various feudal domains are only at the elementary school level, so such high-quality immigrants will naturally not be let go by the various feudal domains.

As soon as the news of the Ming Dynasty's loose immigration policy spread, not only the Kunlun feudal clans were beaten up, but also the Indian feudal clans next door were also full of energy.

Many local people who were not producing but begging in the streets were arrested by them and sold directly to North Kunlun.

After that, perhaps because he felt that this was too slow, King Zhu Lunkui of Zhou joined forces with the seven northern feudal clans to launch an offensive against the Mughals.

Although Aurangzeb responded quickly and led an army to support the border in time, more than [-] natives were still looted.

According to the records of the officials of the Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner, in only 12 years of Qiansheng, the feudal lords sent millions of slaves from all over the country to North Kunlun, but less than one-third of them arrived alive.

The officials watched helplessly as the price of slaves plummeted from five taels back to one tael, and finally even dropped to [-] taels.

This situation did not end until March of the 13th year of Qiansheng, when Emperor Zhu Ciran recovered from his illness and returned to power and tightened the immigration policy.

But even so, the Migration Department has approved more than 260 million immigration iron cards.

It is worth mentioning that Qi State did not take advantage of the loose policy to rob people from the feudal vassals, but did not fight or rob.

Qi State's attitude towards the migration of Ming people to Qi State is up to the people. The reason comes from King Qi's sentence, "If he comes, I will accept him. If he doesn't come, there is no need to force him. People are good but not many."

With regard to immigrants, Qi State and Daming have the same attitude. If the people take the initiative to report the local relocation, the local government will agree, and then report at the end of the month.

After the documents of the immigrants from each province were submitted to the Relocation Department every month, the Relocation Department handed over with the officials of Qi Wangfu in Baiwangfang to determine the amount of relocation money.

Among them, due to the rise of Qi's national power, Qi did not continue to occupy the policy, but increased the migration silver from one tael to two taels in the 40th year of the apocalypse.

Since then, in the 50th year of Apocalypse and the tenth year of Qiansheng, Qi State raised the price twice, and now one immigrant from Qi State is no longer one tael, but four taels.

But even if the state of Qi is like this, there are not a few people in the Ming Dynasty who migrate to Qi state every year.

In only 12 years of Qiansheng, the number of people who migrated from Daming to Qi reached 75, and Qi also handed over 320 million taels of migration silver for this.

However, Daming's attitude towards the migration of silver is relatively loose, and it can be replaced with national debt.

In the 12 years of Qiansheng, Daming issued a total of 3000 million taels of national debt, of which less than [-] million taels were held by domestic people, but Daming would recycle them every year.

For the remaining 3000 million taels, the national debt held by the Indian vassals is only 3000 million, the Kunlun vassals hold 600 million, North Korea and other foreign vassals have more than 6000 million taels, and the remaining [-] million debts of both countries are Owned by Qi State.

Therefore, in other words, if the national debt held by the Qi State is replaced by immigration, Ming needs to relocate more than 500 million people from the Qi State.

Fortunately, Qi State has no complaints about Daming's national debt. Basically, whenever Daming encounters difficulties, Qi State will help.

For example, the Great Earthquake in the capital is a good example, so the relationship between Qi and Daming can be maintained in a good way.

It's just that in the final analysis, Qi State is always a newly rising country, and a large amount of national debt is in hand, which is not a temptation...

"Six thousand seven hundred and twenty sixty-four thousand three hundred taels..."

"Grandfather, father, if you buy these national debts extravagantly, the boy will quit his job."

On the fifth day of March in the 13th year of Qiansheng, in the Chengyun Hall of the Qi Palace, when a man in his early thirties and wearing a yellow round collar robe rubbed his eyebrows and put a memorial in the hall.

Sitting in front of him was a bearded man who was less than fifty years old and was eating melon seeds.

Although he is nearly fifty years old, if this person does not look at the beard, he seems to be only 36 seven years old.

No one would have guessed that such a seemingly young person is now in his forties.

"Sooner or later, you will be the owner of this house. If you don't like it, you can sell it in the future. Why do you have to lose your temper?"

Zhu Cihong seemed to be talking about other people's affairs, which made Zhu Hexuan turn his head to look at the door dumbfounded: "Grandfather!"

"Huh?" Hearing someone calling him, Zhu Youjian, who was sitting on the recliner at the entrance of Chengyun Palace, turned his head to look and then quickly looked away.

At this time, his hair was already gray and his whole body was very thin, but his aura was still so calm and majestic, like an old tiger.

"This family is not easy to manage. I am deaf, so you should discuss it yourself..."

Seemingly knowing that his grandson would roll around, Zhu Youjian got up slowly, and then walked towards the steps of the palace with the support of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old female official next to him.

"Grandpa!"

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was about to leave, Zhu Hexuan yelled helplessly, but Zhu Youjian didn't look back.

Helpless, he could only turn his head full of resentment, and look at his father Zhu Cihong.

But facing his eyes full of resentment, Zhu Cihong turned away guiltily, and began to read while coughing while holding a memorial.

Not long after, Zhu Youjian, who had already walked to His Highness Chengyun, seemed to hear Zhu Hexuan's roar. He snickered for a moment, and then was hit on the leg by a kid head-on.

"Great-grandfather!"

As he was getting older, it took several seconds for Zhu Youjian to react and lower his head after being bumped.

At this moment, a doll with a handsome face and a silly smile was hugging his leg.

Zhu Youjian thought about it, but he couldn't remember which doll it was, so he could only smile and lower his head and ask, "Which doll are you from?"

When the child heard it, he immediately jumped back two steps in joy, put his waist in, shook his head and replied: "I am the great-grandson of King Qi, the direct grandson of the son of Qi, and the disciple of the grandson of Qi, so is Zhu Yiming from the Zhu family!"

"Oh...it's my doll." Zhu Youjian remembered that this was his doll in Tokyo.

He lowered his body, touched Zhu Yiming's head, and smiled apologetically:
"Great-grandfather took you to play when you were young. It's all because your father took you to Tokyo City. Great-grandfather didn't even recognize you. How did you recognize me?"

"Mother and father said that the oldest person in the palace is great-grandfather, and said that I look a lot like great-grandfather." Zhu Yiming took Zhu Youjian's hand and walked with him to the door of Chengyun.

The two walked very slowly, and Zhu Youjian took his hand and asked with a smile: "There are many officials in Xijing, and some are divided into Tokyo City. How do you see Tokyo City and Xijing City?"

"It's not as prosperous as Xijing, but I have more playmates in Tokyo, and I'd rather play in Tokyo." Zhu Yiming replied happily, and looked up to Zhu Youjian with admiration:

"My playmates all said, great-grandfather, you are a great hero, but they didn't believe me when I said I was your great-grandson."

"Next time your great-grandfather goes to Tokyo, can you also go to our school?"

"Hehe..." Zhu Youjian smiled, and walked with Zhu Yiming to the horse path of Suzaku Gate in Miyagi.

He took Zhu Yiming's hand to the Suzaku Gate, and then replied: "I'm old, I can't go that far now."

"Oh..." Zhu Yiming's face was full of disappointment, he lowered his head and was depressed, and was led by Zhu Youjian to the entrance of the city gate of Zhuquemen.

Seeing this, the female officer who followed closely behind her hurriedly brought out a stool from the city gate building and let the two of them sit down.

Sitting here, they could clearly see the scene on the Xijing Square in front of Suzaku Gate, but it was already dusk, and there were only scattered people who came to play in the square covering an area of ​​[-] acres.

Zhu Youjian was sitting on a chair, only the figures of ordinary people playing around in the square could be seen in his cloudy eyes.

Zhu Yiming propped his chin with both hands, looked straight at Zhu Youjian, and looked at the square from time to time.

On the square, the flag of Ming Dynasty was fluttering in the wind on the flagpole, and it was buzzing.

After a while, it seemed that after dinner, many people began to appear in the square with their children and grandchildren.

The elders are smiling, the children are playing and playing, and the small merchants push carts and sell pastries and hot tea.

Young men and women walked side by side, holding paper umbrellas and chatting, laughing endlessly, so lively...

After a while, he asked puzzledly, "Great-grandfather, what are you looking at?"

"I don't know..." Zhu Youjian's voice suddenly weakened a lot, as if he had taken a lot of strength, but instead of leaning on the chair, he got up slowly, stretched out his hand, and signaled Zhu Yiming to follow.

Zhu Yiming jumped off the chair, stretched out his hand to hold Zhu Youjian, and they walked down the city gate tower step by step, then walked up the Sanlong Bridge, and walked towards Chengyun Gate.

"Great-grandfather, the teachers at school say you are a great hero. Do you think Ming'er can become a hero like you?"

"A great hero is also an ordinary person. As long as Ming'er dares to think and act, then Ming'er can also be a great hero..."

"Then how exactly?"

"I can't tell you this, you can take a good look at the people around you in the future..."

"people around me?"

"Hehe, you'll understand later..."

The great-grandfather and grandson walked into the corridor, and the sunset glow shone on the two of them, a little twilight, but more vigorous.

It was Zhu Yiming's ignorant voice that echoed in his ears.

Zhu Youjian stopped in his tracks, and Zhu Yiming, who was holding his hand, raised his head in confusion, but only saw Zhu Youjian looking sideways behind him.

He followed his gaze and only saw a bird he had never seen before:
"Great-grandfather, what kind of bird is that? Why haven't I seen it?"

Zhu Yiming looked at the bird with interest, but Zhu Youjian showed a peaceful smile on his face: "Wagtail..."

"Wagtail?" Hearing this unfamiliar name, Zhu Yiming let go of Zhu Youjian's hand, and ran out like a little leopard.

He chased after the wagtail at the entrance of the corridor, but the wagtail fluttered its wings, as if teasing a child.

When Zhu Yiming got tired of jumping around, it fluttered its wings and flew to Zhu Youjian's shoulder in an instant, tilting its head to meet Zhu Youjian's eyes.

"You came to pick me up..."

　The Book of Poetry "Tang Di": "Chang Di's Hua, E is not Wei Wei, Wagtail is in the original, brothers are in dire need."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)