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Chapter 464 Disaster Relief
Zhao Changji, who was at the bottom of the food chain in the Nanyang Military Mansion, had a great time in the north.

Jiang Yuelin had no better way, he could only listen to Zhao Shizhen's advice to separate the people first, and dozens of hundreds of people from the Wei Xia Banner Army went to the surrounding guards, and set aside places to distribute porridge everywhere. The progress was faster than he imagined. More than [-] people were separated in just half a day.

Locked up a few scoundrels who refused to leave the customs and tried to lead the people to make a noise. Even if the other people were a little outraged, they would not want to bring so many porridge sheds to the areas under the jurisdiction of thousands of households.

Zhao Changji inherited Chen Mu's people-oriented thought, and asked Jiang Yuelin to order the guards to order the banner army to collect wood to build huts, bonfires, and gruel sheds for the people. Who would care about the righteous indignation caused by others.

Sending the letter to the capital and sending it back, Zhang Juzheng was naturally duty-bound. He not only gave Zhao Shizhen the right to act cheaply on the way to escort the banker, so that he could talk about big things and small things, but also specially emphasized in the letter that he should not be soft when he should do something.

The middle-aged god is much more ruthless than the scholar Zhao Shizhen. At such a critical moment, whoever dares to stir up civil chaos is the life and death enemy of the chief assistant of the empire.

Xu Jue was interesting, he was not interested in this kind of thing, no matter how alarmist Zhao Shizhen said in the letter, it was useless.

They sent a Jinyi Qianhu who was in charge of inspections, and asked Zhao Shizhen to send a letter to the Nanyang Military Mansion with just one sentence, and asked Chen Shuai's house to be used by Chen Shuai's house for half a month in the Lantern Festival next year.

Zhao Shizhen thought at first that he could not make decisions for Chen Mu, and then he thought about the taste. Although Chen Mu's mansion in the capital is rented out every New Year's Eve, and the lamp market sometimes costs a hundred taels a day, but Xu Jue may not be real. I want to borrow Chen Mu's house.

He wanted to tell himself that he was not Chen Shuai, but Chen Shuai's staff, and he was not worthy of writing a letter to ask him to do something.

Regardless of his purpose, as long as he sends people here, Zhao Shizhen will not feel wronged at all, and if things can be done well, does his face in the capital matter?

It doesn't matter at all, our roots are in Nanyang!

I can't come to the capital a few times in my life, thinking about what those people are doing.

As soon as the victims left and the road was opened, thousands of Jinyi households went first, dozens of Jinyi guards and middle officials spilled out, and nothing else, looking for the county magistrates to come to the door, and those who can free up the county magistrate's black account first get the county magistrate's black account If the county magistrate finds out the black account, he will check the county's grain merchants.

In one or two days, all the counties and posts along the way will prepare food, and there will be porridge sheds every ten miles, passing through Xuanfu all the way to Datong.

When Zhao Shizhen arrived in Datong, in addition to 13 taels of silver, he also had more than [-] shi of grain.

What was left was the proceeds of confiscation, not only Zhao Shizhen's confiscation, but Wu Dui, the governor of Xuanfu, was also doing the same thing with him. Zhao Shizhen's heresy happened to help Wu Dui a lot.

After all, even if Wu Dui was the governor, he didn't have Jin Yiwei.

Compared with the governor, many people are actually much more afraid of the Jinyiwei General Banner, especially when the General Banner is in charge of inspections.

When Zhao Shizhen entered the Xuanfu, Wu Dui sent an order, and Jiang Yuelin ordered the flag army to escort them along the way. The people, ranging from hundreds to thousands, returned to the village one after another. A porridge shed every ten miles can also calm the hearts of the people.

At first, Zhao Shizhen was a little perverted, thinking about whether some victims of the disaster in Shanxi could go to Xinming. Since they have already left their homes, why not go further.

As far as Chen Mu said, the population that Xinming can accommodate is far more than the 3000 to [-] people under Yang Zhaolong's hands today, and it is not obvious that thousands of people are placed on Xinming Island.

But he didn't expect how capable these literati with serious Jinshi backgrounds are in politics, natural disaster?

"Hahaha! Chang Ji is worthy of being the staff of Chen Shuai's subordinates. The most difficult task of disaster relief has been done by you!"

Beside the porridge shed road, Wu Dui, accompanied by officials, let out a hearty laugh. He came to Zhao Shizhen's silver deposit team and said: "The only difficulty in disaster relief is to get people and examine households. Now the people in all counties have been divided by Changji." Let me leave the rest of the matter to the old man and the governor of Datong, Mr. Fan Xi."

Xuanfu Datong has been connected together, Datong is blocked to the west, and the people become refugees to the east. They set up checkpoints on the road and interrogate Dingkou. In Wu Dui's words, the disaster has spread so widely that a county cannot support people. , Need to let the refugees go to eat.

One back and forth will give the counties of Datong enough time to prepare for disaster relief.

"Yesterday, Datong sent an urgent message that the county government over there is ready to receive refugees. The poorer people in the local area will give out loans, and the poorer people will give out money. These people who are forced to leave their hometowns are the poorest. Rice relief .”

"The county government borrowed money from big households and grain merchants to buy rice. The grain prices in the disaster-stricken counties have subsided. There is no need to act expediently like Changji. The large grain merchants are also ordinary people."

In fact, in Wu Dui's view, Zhao Shizhen did not have a systematic disaster relief method, but only used brutal means to do extraordinary things, and even purposefully broke down and arrested grain merchants to break the law and forcibly expropriate grain—this is absolutely lazy administration.

"Nowadays, as soon as the disaster relief money from the imperial court arrives, the land of Datong Xuanfu can build water conservancy projects and loan cattle to help the people, and the rest will not be a big deal." The county, shaking his head, said: "During the disaster, Xuanda has issued a decree, prohibiting the common people from fishing, robbing and stealing, obstructing the market, raising prices, prohibiting the slaughter of cattle, and prohibiting people from becoming monks and nuns."

"Army and soldiers from all over the country are dispatched, prisoners in all counties are released to cook porridge to make coffins, poor people who are sick need soup, poor people who are sick need medicine, poor people who are dying need thick porridge, and abandoned children need adoption. This catastrophe , can pass!"

Zhao Shizhen listened to Wu Dui's careful classification of disaster relief methods, and immediately thanked him. He knew why Wu Dui said these things to him.

Wu Dui was teaching him how to provide disaster relief as a governor of a province, not with his extraordinary means, but with a more "orthodox and scientific" disaster relief method, neither by the imperial court aimlessly allocating money, nor by treating the disaster-affected areas indiscriminately. Don't ask, but try to use the silver where it should be used at the least cost to the government.

"Students are taught, thank you, Mr. Huanzhou!"

Zhao Shizhen thanked Wu Dui, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart. Compared with the disaster relief in the north, when Chen Mu encountered a typhoon in Luzon in his early years, his response methods were stupid. It was only after the imperial court sent Jinshi to Luzon to serve as the prefect that things got better. However, When they were in Luzon, they didn't pay attention to how the Jinshi prefects did disaster relief.

But Zhao Shizhen has a good point. Inheriting the fine tradition of the Nanyang military government, he compiled a record of Wu Dui's disaster relief measures when he was free, and sent someone to send it to Mindulo Island.

Chen Mu is the best at organizing all these things. After writing a book, it will be formulated as a rule, and others only need to follow it.

"Sir, when it comes to building water conservancy, the Nanyang Military Mansion recently installed a hand-pumped water pump, and the Ge Lao mansion has a composition plan. I think that the Xuanfu Military Weapons Bureau can be trial-built, and it may solve the urgent need. In addition, there is a steam machine. In Xuanda, wool spinning factories are widely set up, and the Ordnance Bureau is more convenient to manufacture, and the coal is abundant, so it can shine brightly."

Zhao Shizhen did not forget that the earliest large-scale employment factory in Ming Dynasty, apart from Guangdong, was the Xuanfu where Chen Mu once worked!

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)