My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 432 Relief for the victims
Laizhou is adjacent to Qingzhou, and like Tianjin, both are located in the Bohai Bay, and the distance between the two is not far across the sea.

Zhu Zhanhe originally wanted to go directly to Qingzhou, but since he came to Tianjin, he took the sea route and took a boat from Tianjin to Laizhou, and then rushed to Qingzhou via Laizhou.

As for Zhu Zhanqi and others, they still need to deal with some matters. They will leave Tianjin and wait in Laizhou in a few days. At that time, Zhu Zhanqi will recruit their ships to transport the first batch of immigrants to Tianzhu.

Of course, Zhu Zhanqi's fleet is only part of the conscripted fleet, mainly the official ships of the imperial court.

And for these confiscated ships, the compensation from the imperial court is also very generous. For example, they can carry a certain amount of goods with them, and the goods are tax-free. Returning to Daming is also tax-free.

Don't underestimate taxes. Ever since Zhu Zhanhe established customs at various ports, Ming's tariffs have accounted for a large proportion. After all, maritime trade has huge profits, and the imperial court naturally has to collect heavy taxes.

Zhu Zhanhe came to Qingzhou again, and immediately sent someone to Xiishipeng village to leave a letter, asking to meet Tang Sai'er.

However, according to the person who sent the letter, Xiishipeng Village was still empty. After Zhu Zhanhe released Tang Saier last time, he didn't know where Tang Saier was hiding, so now he could only wait for him to contact him.

So Zhu Zhanhe took advantage of this time to release food in Qingzhou for disaster relief.

Regarding the chaos in Shandong, although Zhu Di was annoyed, he did not dare to mess around. Although the officials involved were damned, now is not the time to deal with them, because the situation in Shandong has reached the point where even a single spark may detonate. Therefore, the status quo can only be maintained now, and even those officials cannot be moved.

So Zhu Zhanhe came to Qingzhou this time, on the surface, there was only one thing, and that was to help the victims. Zhu Di even mobilized a batch of grain from the south, which arrived in Laizhou a few days ago, and then transported it to Qingzhou by land.

Although this batch of food is far from enough to relieve all the victims, it can at least ease the situation in Shandong to a certain extent.

Following Zhu Zhanhe's distribution of food for disaster relief, not only the disaster victims in Qingzhou rushed to the capital city, but even the refugees from other prefectures also rushed to Qingzhou after hearing the news.

Faced with so many refugees, the officials in Qingzhou were also terrified. If they were in the past, they would have closed the city gates, or even sent troops to drive out the refugees, because the influx of so many refugees would not only affect the local public security, but even tens of thousands of people. If the first-rate people make a disturbance, even bigger disturbances will likely erupt.

But now that Zhu Zhanhe is in charge, no matter how flustered these officials are, they dare not show it.

Zhu Zhanhe took over the garrison in Qingzhou. As for the original commander Gao Feng, he was dismissed because he was too incompetent.

With the military power in his hands, Zhu Zhanhe began to resettle the refugees who came, and there must be no room for them in Qingzhou City, so Zhu Zhanhe asked people to vacate the barracks outside the city.

Speaking of it, I would like to thank that Gao Feng. He had previously reported a higher number of soldiers in order to eat empty wages. He also built military camps for this, but in fact the real number of troops has shrunk greatly, causing many military camps to Empty, even if it is a barracks with garrisons, most of the barracks inside are empty.

Now these barracks have just been vacated for the refugees to live in. At the same time, in order to facilitate management, Zhu Zhanhe also asked people to register the refugees, which can be regarded as preparations for future immigration.

That afternoon, Zhu Zhanhe came outside the city again and personally supervised the soldiers serving porridge for the people.

When the congee-handling sergeant had just transported the porridge to the porridge shed, before the gongs and drums were sounded, the hungry refugees all surrounded them with a "hula".

However, these disaster victims have already gained experience. Although you fight for each other, it is still orderly in chaos. After all, the soldiers around are not vegetarians.

There is no way, when people are hungry, they can do anything. If punishment is not imposed, these refugees cannot be controlled at all.

When the refugees lined up, the sergeant in charge of maintaining order began to let people go. The refugees in front formed a team of five, and each went forward to serve porridge, and then called the next group.

Everything was in order, Zhu Zhanhe nodded in satisfaction when he saw this.

Recently, more and more refugees are rushing to Qingzhou. The current count alone has exceeded 5 people. At the same time, there are still more refugees on the way. The population of Qingzhou City is even larger.

"let me go!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden commotion nearby.

Zhu Zhanhe turned his head to look, and saw a seven or eight-year-old child being caught by the guards beside him, but he kept struggling, his little black and red face was full of stubbornness.

"what happened?"

Zhu Zhanhe immediately asked.

"Shizi, this little guy suddenly rushed over from the side. We must not let him get close to Shizi, so we stopped him."

The head of the guard immediately stepped forward to report.

"It's just a child, let him go."

Zhu Zhanhe didn't care about waving his hands, it's normal for children to run around, so he didn't take it to heart at all.

But at this moment, the child shouted loudly: "I want to see a man surnamed Zhu!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Zhanhe was taken aback, he must be the only one surnamed Zhu, so he immediately ordered: "Bring him here!"

The guard agreed, and quickly brought the child in front of Zhu Zhanhe. He purposely showed a kind smile and asked, "What do you want to see with the surname Zhu?"

"Is your surname Zhu?"

The little guy asked indifferently.

"Yes, my surname is Zhu. What do you want to see me for?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked patiently again.

"Someone handed me a letter, saying that I must give it to a person surnamed Zhu!"

As the child spoke, he took out a crumpled letter from his arms.

Zhu Zhanhe reached out to take the letter, but he didn't expect the child to accept the letter and said: "The person who gave me the letter said that if I give the letter to a person surnamed Zhu, he will definitely treat me to roast chicken." .”

Zhu Zhanhe was taken aback for a moment, then he laughed and said, "Okay, you give me the letter, and I'll have someone take you to eat roast chicken right away!"

"No, you have to cook the chicken for me first, or I'll eat the letter!"

This little guy was very vigilant, and even threatened Zhu Zhanhe with a letter.

This made Zhu Zhanhe a little dumbfounded, so he had to ask someone to buy a roast chicken immediately, and then exchanged the letter from the little guy.

There was no information on the envelope. When Zhu Zhanhe opened the letter, a few lines of beautiful small characters came into view. Looking at the signature below, it was Tang Sai'er.

The content of the letter was also very simple. Tang Saier agreed on a time and place to meet Zhu Zhanhe again.

(End of this chapter)