Chapter 56 Summary of the Disaster

However, before that, there is one thing that always has to come to an end, and that is the water situation in the south.

If it is said that this year began with a drought in the north and a flood in the south, it was not right at the turn of summer and autumn, because the disaster situation in the south was wave after wave.

Especially along the Yangtze River, there have been at least three major flood peaks.

This is only what Zhu Qizhen knows.

For no other reason, these three flood peaks have affected many places on both sides of the Yangtze River. It is not that there are only these three flood peaks in the Yangtze River this year, but that these three floods are the most powerful.

Li Xian was in front of Zhu Qizhen, and his lips were a little chapped.

In the past six months, Li Xian has been the busiest person.

The disaster reports of all parties seemed to have flown and fell into the hands of Li Xian, and Zhu Qizhen even said that all the votes for disaster relief would be approved by Zhu Qizhen.

Let Li Xian have the urge to die for his confidant.

So for so many days, Li Xian has been busy every day. First of all, he has to distinguish between who is telling the truth and who is telling a lie.

Whose recital is true and false, and whose recital is false and true.

It is true that the disaster situation on both sides of the Yangtze River and Huai River is serious, but no matter how serious it is, it is not a flood that rushes from west to east, and it is inevitable that some places will be lightly affected and some places will be severely affected.

But everyone knows that crying children have milk. Now this time there is a catastrophe in the world, if you don't cry, others will cry, and the court will save other places first.

This is where Li Xian's ability lies.

He has been in the Ministry of Officials all the year round, and he can say that he is more familiar with the files of many magistrates than the other party, and he does not dare to say anything about the conduct of each magistrate, but he also ignores them.

Just by virtue of the twists and turns, he can figure out the situation, and then compare the information of the Jinyi Weidong Factory, which has been reported by other local officials, and he can judge the matter ten out of ten.

This determines that the speed and frequency of the imperial court's appropriation will naturally be prioritized first and then light. He presided over the cabinet and coordinated with the four parties, and although the disaster was serious this time, generally speaking, there was still no moth.

I don't dare to say that there is no one in it, but at least it has not evolved from a large-scale natural disaster to a large-scale man-made disaster, of course, there have been a few incidents, but the common people will not rebel as long as they can eat enough, and even have a local county order, leading a few officials, and this rebellion will be quelled.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen completely let go in this matter.

Zhu Qizhen knew very well that even if he was the emperor for another thirty years, he would definitely not know as much about the officials in the world as Li Xian. This is also the reason why Li Xian is a capable official.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's ambitions, just selecting talents and self-restraint, he would probably be able to leave the reputation of a generation of saints in the future.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen and Li Xian are destined to be political opponents.

Li Xian said in a heavy tone: "Your Majesty, this year's drought in the north and flood in the south, Shuntian, Zhending, Baoding, Guangping, Hejian, Jinan, Denglai, Gansu, great drought, even if Hebei has developed water conservancy, this year's people are just able to make a living. ”

"As for the floods in the south, Tongzhou, Lu'an, Longping, Taoyuan, Hanshan, Dangtu, Wuhu, Fanchang, Xuancheng, Taixing, Yizhen, Quanjiao, Huaining, Tongcheng, Qianshan, Taihu, Susong, Guichi, Shanghai, Huating, Yixing, Jiading, Xiushui, Jiashan, Longyang, Yuanjiang, Gong'an, Yicheng, Jiayu, Jingshan, Jianli, Nanzhang, Jiangling, Jun, Yu, Deng, Taikang, Xiangcheng, Zhecheng, Luyi, Yangwu, Xinzheng, Wuyang, Lushan, Neixiang, Zhenping, Nanyang, Xinye, Miyang, Anyang, Tangyin, Hanoi, Xiuwu, Wen, Meng, Dengfeng, and other places, all of which will be exempted from taxes in the summer and autumn this year. Even to return the disaster relief, each of them has to provide disaster relief----"

Zhu Qizhen listened to the names of places, and his eyes couldn't help jumping.

First, I was hurt by the severity of this disaster.

It can be said that it is impossible for that flood not to kill people, and how many innocent people will die in the flood that spreads all over so many places.

Second, Zhu Qizhen was also impatient to find out about the distribution of disaster relief funds, at most the amount sent by the cabinet, so that Dongchang and Jinyiwei could verify one or two.

Generally speaking, Li Xian's vision is still good, and there will be no large-scale misappropriation of disaster relief funds.

But even though Li Xian is a capable minister, it is difficult to be in charge of such a big stall, and Zhu Qizhen is sure that some of the accounts are problematic.

But auditing was not the emperor's job.

All he had to do was listen to a summary.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. only needs to report a number to me?" ”

Li Xian said: "The plan is to help more than 12 million people, a total of 10 million stone is needed for disaster relief, this year's floods are frequent, summer and autumn are wrong, we must let the people have food rations to live until May next year." ”

"Ten million stone is a must?"

Zhu Qizhen said: "In this way, in the whole country, only Fujian, Shanxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces have not been affected? ”

Li Xian said: "It must be said that it is only two Guangzhou, Yunnan taxes have been drawn to the southern expeditionary army, and Shanxi money and grain have been drawn to Gansu. Only Sichuan and Fujian have money and grain to hand in. ”

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart.

As for Guizhou, Li Xianxia ignored it.

It is not that there is no grain output in Guizhou, but most of the grain in Guizhou belongs to Tusi, and the imperial court cannot transfer grain. As for Sichuan, of course, it is a large grain-producing province, but in the face of this situation, it is also slow to deal with emergencies, and Fujian does not have much arable land, even if there are more Yizhou Prefectures, this is the case.

Zhu Qizhen said: "How much grain can be left in Jingcang this year. ”

Li Xian said: "Your Majesty, Jingcang can probably leave 13 million stones, and it seems that Haidong Province can also transfer some grain. ”

The change of the Korean state to Haidong Province has been completed, and Zhu Qizhen, especially in these imperial examinations, has named a number of Korean nationals, no, Haidong Jinshi.

It can also be regarded as the heart of a Korean scholar.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is still worried that Haidong Province is not peaceful, and it has been implemented all these years that Haidong Province's taxes are stored locally, and they are not transferred to Beijing.

For expenses in Haidong Province.

It's just that I'm worried that the oppression in Haidong Province is too great and something is wrong.

Therefore, over the past few years, Haidong Province has also accumulated about one or two million stone of grain.

Except for some support for Kaixi, most of them remained. Enough for a while.

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart that the Beijing warehouse system he set up has two major warehouse groups in Beijing and Tianjin, and a total of 20 million stone grain can be stored.

Zhu Qizhen felt that it was enough.

After all, even if you use soldiers, you may not be able to consume 20 million stone of grain in one go, but you never thought that disaster relief is possible.

Not all the food used for disaster relief was paid by Jingcang, after all, the local government also had a granary, in fact, when the first wave of disasters was encountered, the local government began to release grain at the same time, and then there was grain transported from all over Beijing.

However, Jingcang is not running at a high level of 20 million stones all the year round, so it took out millions of stones in one breath, and it was suddenly empty. And the most serious problem is that almost all the money and food have been waived this year.

That is, there will be no additions to Jingcang this year.

Even if it is replenished, it will be after May next year, depending on how the year will be next year.

It's really a food reserve, and there will never be enough.

Rising food prices this year have become inevitable.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen didn't care about what the Koreans thought, and said: "In this case, the grain from Haidong Province will be transferred to the Beijing Division, and by the way, ask if there is any surplus grain in Liaodong?" It was also requisitioned and transferred into the customs. ”

Nowadays, Liaodong is rapidly being inlandized, and many guards in Liaodong have moved to the Songhua River Valley, and many people who do not want to be soldiers, and the army that does not want to migrate, have settled down as people.

Liaodong does not need to support the army, grain production is also rich, plus in recent years, the northeast, Haixi have been vigorously reclaimed, in this matter, Jiang Yuan has done quite well.

This time, it is the first time that Zhu Qizhen has transferred grain from the northeast to Guannei, and it will not be the last time, and the grain producing areas in the northeast may not be able to evolve into the appearance of later generations, but for Beijing, it is also another favorable supplement in addition to the grain producing areas of the North China Plain.

Zhu Qizhen also emphasized: "No matter how much grain the imperial court can use, I will not allow the price of grain in Beijing to exceed 500 wen and one stone. ”