The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In seven days, Chen Wang inspected the five thousand households under the jurisdiction of Hanzhongwei.

To be precise, there should be three thousand households and two thousand households that have been destroyed.

Because there are two thousand households that have been destroyed in the war.

In Hanzhongwei, there are only three Qianhusuo in the front, middle and right.

Almost everything in the two Qianhusuo on the left and the back was destroyed, leaving only hills and ruins everywhere.

Over the past few years of war, they have been continuously recruited and dispatched.

Until now, Hanzhongwei has actually become the Hanzhong Thousand Households.

From the perspective of the above, the ordinary guards in the local area are nothing more than a pile of consumables and cannon fodder.

Lu Shi and Zhang Yuan didn't break through a few big cities, and the wealthy and gentry in Hanzhong and Baocheng still owned a lot of land and had a lot of power
In fact, sometimes, you can also look at the Ming army in the same way as looking at rogues.

In the order of the Ming army, the guards and militiamen are equivalent to hungry soldiers, while ordinary battalion soldiers are infantry and horse troops, and the servants of each general are fine cavalry.

There is not much difference between the two.

Chen Wang knelt by the water, staring at the Han River rushing eastward in front of him.

The ninth year of Chongzhen was considered a good year for Ming Dynasty.

Although Jiannu broke into the Great Wall, surrounded the capital closely, and ravaged all over the country.

However, the death of Gao Yingxiang made the protracted civil uprising in the pass begin to subside. .

Countless rogues surrendered, and the tide of civil upheavals disappeared for a time.

But the ninth year of Chongzhen was not a good year for Hanzhong Mansion.

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong entered Hanzhong Mansion one after another, and the flames of war ignited almost half of Hanzhong Mansion.

What made things worse was the famine.

Hanzhong Mansion was also affected by the drought in Shaanxi, and drought occurred in a large area.

The water level of Hanshui has dropped to the lowest level in more than ten years.

"Although there are no military or man-made disasters this year, the overall harvest is not high."

Wang Yuankang stood behind Chen Wang, looked at the Han River flowing in front of him, and couldn't help sighing.

He followed Chen Wang through three guards all the way, traveled hundreds of miles, and almost understood Chen Wang's temperament, and he was no longer as trembling as he was in the guards before, daring not to say a word.

When patrolling the guard post, Chen Wang even went down to the field to observe the crops, question the old farmers and the craftsmen, his attitude was extremely gentle, not as domineering as when he was in the official office.

Wang Yuankang's gaze slowly swept across the fields by the water.

Although the rogues also broke into the Hanzhong Mansion this year, most of them wreaked havoc near Xing'an Prefecture, and later invaded the Hanyin and Shiquan areas.

But the minions of the rogue bandits only extended to Xixiang and Yangxian at most, and did not reach the periphery of Hanzhong Mansion.

The most serious impact on the harvest in the field this year is the sudden drought.

The streams in many places have stopped flowing, and if you want to get water, you can only go to a very far place to get water.

In other words, these farmlands around the Han River can still be properly irrigated, and the river will not dry up like northern Shaanxi. Let alone crops, even humans and animals have no water to drink.

Each pile is a disaster, and each piece is helpless.

"I heard that there is another plague of locusts in the north, and those places that are not affected by the drought are not going well..."

Wang Yuankang shook his head worriedly and sighed.

He is in charge of farming and military inspection in the guard, and he also knows what kind of life the people below are living.

"This year, I really don't know when it will be the first..."

Chen Wang bent down and took a little soil from under his body. There had been no rain in the past few days, and the soil in these places along the river bank had become extremely dry.

Chen Wang knew the answer to Wang Yuankang's question.

After more than ten years, shortly after the Qing soldiers entered the pass, the temperature in the north began to gradually rise, and the frequency and intensity of famines were greatly reduced...

"There is time for lamentation and time for prayer. It is better to think about how to solve the problem."

Chen Wang put down the soil in his hands, then patted his hands together, and after slapping the remaining soil in his hands to the ground, he stood up from the ground.

From the 13th year of Chongzhen to the [-]th year of Chongzhen, during these four years, the area of ​​drought will gradually expand to the entire North China region.

Then the drought will reach its peak in the 13th year of Chongzhen, and the Fen River in Shanxi will be cut off. In Linfen, there will be endless haze in summer, and large-scale sandstorms will sweep almost half of the north.

Many rivers in the northern Zhili region have dried up, and most prefectures and counties in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan have experienced locust plagues and epidemics accompanied by drought.

And the most serious thing is that the drought-affected areas began to shift to Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and even Sichuan provinces, all of which began to be affected by the drought.

The people eat all the grass and trees, and they leave their wives and the dead to sleep with each other...

"If you look carefully at where the drought in the Northland is distributed every year, you will find one thing."

Chen Wang glanced at the Han River running eastward in front of him, then turned around to look at Wang Yuankang, and said.

"The drought in the Northland has lasted for nearly ten years now, and not only does it show no sign of letting up, but it is still gradually moving south."

In this era, Hanzhong Mansion is actually not a real paradise of peace.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen, there was a summer drought in Hanzhong, and autumn locusts and seedlings were all exhausted, and there was a great hunger.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought, people ate each other, and all vegetation was exhausted.

Even if the field is harvested this year, it is already past the season for planting.

It is necessary to wait for the spring of the second year, which is the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, before sowing the seeds.

Thankfully, there are still two years to go before the drought in Hanzhong Prefecture reaches its peak.

Although there was a drought in Hanzhong Prefecture this year, it was not serious.

Although the harvest of crops in various parts of Hanzhong Prefecture has decreased a little, the reduction in production is not much, and there is no such thing as a lack of harvest like in northern Shaanxi.

Wang Yuankang's face was slightly condensed, his first reaction was that Chen Wang was worrying about nothing, and he subconsciously vetoed it.

"How can this be..."

It's just that Wang Yuankang's expression froze before he could say the word "possible ability". He remembered one thing.

Just at the beginning of this year, Nanyang Prefecture in Henan Province suffered a severe drought. The situation was far more severe than here, and many places had almost no crops.

Nanyang Mansion is not far from Hanzhong Mansion, and the drought has even spread to the Yunxiang area...

A feeling of panic suddenly surged from the bottom of Wang Yuankang's heart.

Drought is indeed moving south, year after year, gradually moving south.

The change in Wang Yuankang's expression did not escape Chen Wang's eyes. Chen Wang knew that Wang Yuankang remembered his words in his heart.

To be honest, most of the military academies in Hanzhongwei are full of wine and food, but Wang Yuankang cannot be counted in this case.

During the inspections in the past few days, Wang Yuankang knew almost everything about the conditions of the fields and guards in various places.

Every time Chen Wang asked questions, Wang Yuankang could answer them.

It's not like the conductor Tan Yingfeng asked three questions and didn't know, and he hesitated and didn't know how to answer.

Li Shiqi, the commander and acquaintance, is mediocre, and the only merit that is worthy of praise is the courage to lead his servants into battle.

It's okay to be a hundred-president in the army, but it's obviously not enough to be a commander.

The other commander, Yang Mingcai, also has no ability, and spends most of his time fishing in troubled waters, muddling along behind Tan Yingfeng.

"Except for the main army, all the guards in Hanzhong Mansion who are assisting in the defense of the cities, and the rest of the people who are pretending to be numbers are all repelled."

Chen Wang stepped on the horse, pulled the reins, watched Wang Yuankang condescendingly, and ordered.

Zhang Xianzhong and other ministries are now aggressively heading east, while Li Zicheng is trapped in Gongchang Mansion. Although the course of history has changed a lot because of his arrival, Hanzhong Mansion is safe for at least this year.

Disbanding all those people who make up the money can save a lot of money and food, and temporarily alleviate Hanzhongwei's current difficult financial problems.

"The threat of rogue bandits is increasing day by day. The two Qianhu houses on the back and the right have been destroyed. There is an urgent need for reconstruction. I will help deal with this part of the matter."

Chen Wang held the horsewhip in his hand, and after learning about Han Zhongwei's specific situation, he already had a plan in mind.

"Go back and tell Tan Yingfeng that everything in the three Thousand Household Offices in the front, center and left is temporarily implemented according to the old rules, and they are still under their control."

There are a lot of mess in the Hanzhong mansion at the moment, and the interior of Hanzhongwei is also messy.

The scope of the field has been fixed and it is difficult to change it. If you want to acquire a large number of fields around places such as Hanzhong, Nanzheng, and Baocheng, it is tantamount to dreaming and pulling teeth.

Most of the fields in these places have been carved up by the rich and powerful gentry in the area, how can they allow other people to intervene.

It was when King Rui became a vassal and Wangzhuang first set up to collect fields, the officials who executed it took a lot of effort to remove a lot of fields from it.

Chen Wang wasn't going to confront the local wealthy gentry and noble officials right now.

Now he is just an ordinary deputy commander in chief. He has some power and status in the army, but he is nothing more than a small shrimp in the court.

In the past few years on the Nine Sides, in the past few years in the Pass, in what year did the local government not kill or injure a few deputy generals, and die a bunch of guerrilla generals?
Chen Wang's mind is very clear, he knows that there are some things that Sun Chuanting can do, but he is absolutely impossible to do.

Moreover, Sun Chuanting in history, as the governor, held a lot of power in his hands, and he had the prestige of a big victory and rebellion.

It also took a full year to barely complete the additional courses for the Four Guards in Xi'an and the re-recruitment of sergeants.

Then he offended most of the rich and powerful gentry in Xi'an Mansion because of this incident, and finally encountered large-scale attacks in the court, so he was unjustly imprisoned.

Chen Wang didn't want to be reduced to the same fate as Sun Chuanting.

"I will send people to check the farmland at the end of October, and take over the camp and military inspection."

Han Zhongwei's former center and left three guards have a limited field and a limited number of people, and the interests of them have already been divided, and the whole body will be affected by one move.

It is not impossible to sort out and solve it thoroughly, but it is completely worth the candle.

Time is running out, and now that everything is in full swing, there are only two years for peaceful development.

Chen Wang didn't want to waste time in too many unnecessary places.

Anyway, Hanzhongwei's back and right Qianhusuo no longer exist.

It is much easier to just break and then erect, and start a new stove than to repair the original foundation, and there are fewer constraints.