Chapter 140: The Yellow River Breaks

Zhu Qizhen's sigh in the twelfth year of orthodoxy is still applicable in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy.

Twelve years of Orthodoxy, a lot has happened.

For example, Guo Xuan, Marquis of Wuding, died, and Duke Dingguo died. Cabinet University Shi Ma Yu also passed away. caught Zhu Qizhen a little off guard.

A new generation replaces the old.

A new generation of Qianguo Gong entered martial arts. It seems that he will be able to inherit the title of Duke of Qianguo within a few years.

But it's all trifles.

The real big thing is the weather.

At the end of the twelfth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen and Zhou Chen asked for money and grain, and last year alone, the total amount of grain exempted was more than 5 million stones, and the grain tax reduced and exempted in Jiangnan alone, Huguang and Guangxi was more than 2 million stones.

If not, although Hebei was affected by the disaster, because of the perfect water conservancy project, it was a normal year, and Hebei grain continued to enter the granary of Beijing and Tianjin. Otherwise, the granary system established by Zhu Qizhen that can store 20 million stones of grain and grass will be empty.

For Beijing, it is simply dangerous.

Throughout the twelve years of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen survived.

Because of the great drought in Hebei, Zhu Qizhen can still empathize, after all, Shuntianfu is also in Hebei, Zhu Qizhen as long as the micro-service out of the city, or even without the micro-service, go to Tianshou Mountain to worship the ancestors, go to Nanhaizi to hunt, you can see the change in the drought situation.

He has a direct understanding of this.

But now it is different, Henan, Shandong, Lianghuai, Huguang, and even Jiangnan and Taihu Lake, these places are too far away from him.

Just looking at the performances in various places, Zhu Qizhen fell into deep doubts.

He suspected that every letter was not telling the truth.

He suspected that the people below were whitewashing the peace, and he also suspected that the people below were under the pretext of suffering a disaster, and then opened their mouths to the lion of the court. In short, there is a concern that the lack of timely disaster relief will make it difficult for local people to continue. I am also worried that the people below will be corrupt and pervert the law and squander the capital he has saved.

He has been restrained and restrained.

Because he has always wanted to send Jinyiwei out on a large scale to investigate the case and check whether there are any problems in various places.

But his sanity told him that this was not the time to investigate the case.

After all, there are actually thousands of households in Jinyiwei, as another source of Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen also looks at it against the local officials.

Most of them are different.

Some discrepancies are normal.

After all, even if it is the same thing, from different angles, the things that are written are sometimes not right. If everything is the same, Zhu Qizhen will have to worry that the local Jinyi guard and the local officials have already colluded.

But there are some things that are clearly not normal.

Zhu Qizhen could only hold it down and let Cao Nai deal with it.

Because once Zhu Qizhen sends out the brocade guards, these brocade guards will definitely carry them

Measuring their intentions, they will definitely not backfire, and they have to take down a few officials?

Otherwise, they felt that they would not be able to give an account to Zhu Qizhen.

But the most important thing in the current situation is disaster relief.

The magistrates were the hub of the imperial court, and it was easy to cut off. It will take time to rebuild. And today, under the disaster, the people are waiting to be fed.

It's not about right and wrong, it's about letting the people live.

As for taking Zhu Qizhen's money, Zhu Qizhen naturally would not let them go, but settling accounts after the autumn is the only method used by the emperor.

At this time, Zhu Qizhen understood more and more the words of an old man, even if he was the Ninth Five-Year Honor, but what he could govern was only Beijing City.

As for the rest of the place, it is simply a matter of mishap and can only be managed through a rigid bureaucratic system. To easily shake this stiff and rancid bureaucracy is to give yourself a stab.

It's just that twelve years of orthodoxy have been so difficult.

In the thirteenth year of entering orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen still hasn't seen a day of good weather.

As soon as the first month enters, there is a spring drought in the north, and locusts in Shandong resurge. Zhu Qizhen immediately sent a minister to Shandong to urge the governor of Shandong to exterminate the locusts at all costs and prevent the locusts from spreading.

Even the armies of the guards in Shandong were used.

In the end, the locusts in Shandong were confined to Shandong and did not spread.

The grain in the north in May has been preserved, and I dare not say that there is a bumper harvest, at least there are no grains and no harvest.

But Zhu Qizhen never expected that this was just an appetizer, the real dish was behind, and the Yellow River, which seemed to continue its infinite power, began to swear its power to the world.

In March, the Ningxia River was decided.

This is something Zhu Qizhen never expected.

Ningxia, as the upper reaches of the Yellow River, has a small sediment content, and Zhu Qizhen did not expect that the Yellow River in Ningxia was actually restless. Moreover, Ningxia Dusi is an important grain producing area in Northwest China.

As soon as there was a flood here, Zhu Qizhen had to find a way to allocate grain from Shaanxi to Ningxia.

Although Ningxia is known as plugging the south of the Yangtze River, it is not always Jiangnan, and Ningxia's grain output is not high, but the problem is that Ningxia is under the border wall, and the grain he produces does not need to be transported.

However, this is a key border area, and no matter how much it costs, it cannot be abandoned.

After Zhu Qizhen got detailed information, he learned that the Ningxia River was the so-called Lingxun, also known as the Ice Flood, and the Yellow River formed a zigzag here in Ningxia.

Because of the latitude, the upper reaches of the Yellow River have melted, but the lower reaches have not melted, and it is still a glacier, and the water from the upper reaches flows down, because the glacier has blocked the river, and naturally it has broken in all directions.

Even now, people still blow up the ice in the Yellow River every year to prevent this.

Just when Zhu Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief, other news came, and Zhu Qizhen knew that the Ningxia River Decisive was just a greeting from the Yellow River to him in advance, and the rest was the beginning of the real test. 、

In May, the whole of Henan was in a state of busyness, because of the rain in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, which certainly relieved the drought in the north, but the banks of the Yellow River had to face waves of floods.

In May, the South Bank River breaks.

Zhao Xin, the governor of Henan, personally took a boat to inspect the gap, sank dozens of boats, and mobilized several county people to finally block the gap in the Yellow River.

But even so, the Kaifeng area is full of oceans.

Zhu Qizhen urgently allocated 1 million taels in Beijing, on the one hand, to reward the soldiers and civilians for harnessing the river, and on the other hand, to use it as a fund for river control, reiterating that no matter what happens, it is necessary to protect the safety of the people on both sides of the strait.

In the face of the Yellow River, anyone feels that manpower is sometimes poor, and from May to June, Zhu Qizhen faced several dangers. Every time it is thrilling, Zhu Qizhen has already appointed the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Yonghe to inspect the river affairs, manage all the river affairs, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Fengyang County, all at his disposal.

Zhu Qizhen also had no choice.

All he can do is select the best and the best, and then delegate power.

He originally wanted to use it for Qian, but Yu Qian was worried again, but Zhu Qizhen was helpless, he had already won the love once last year, if he won the love again this time, it would be a little too impersonal.

Fortunately, this is not the late Ming Dynasty, if it is the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen wants to win the love, and he has to make a storm in the court. Generally speaking, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ding Wei system was not so perfect.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen gave him a leave of absence for three months and asked him to go home for the funeral. and posthumously sealed Yu Qian's parents. It can also be regarded as mourning.

Between the urgency, Yu Qian was far away in Qiantang, and Zhu Qizhen could only throw Wang Yonghe proposed by Cao Nai, and if he wanted to be recommended by Shoufu, he always had to have some ability.

Moreover, it is enough to use the manpower and material resources of the four provinces to rebuild the Yellow River, and it should be possible to do just to protect the embankment.

This is today's situation, and it also makes Zhu Qizhen understand one thing.

That is, the embankment of the Yellow River built in the 28th year of Hongwu, and now, it is really unsupportable. If the Yellow River gives Zhu Qizhen this one every year, Zhu Qizhen will not have to do anything else.

"It's time for the Yellow River to be rebuilt." Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart.

It's just that when he thought of the huge expenses of repairing the Yellow River, he was also eyeing it, Zhu Qizhen only felt that he had set up a feast, but two guests came.

I really don't know what to do.

After entering June, the lights of the Qianqing Palace were extinguished every night, and Zhu Qizhen stipulated that the water situation of the Yellow River should be reported once a day, which was analogous to the military situation, and Zhu Qizhen could only fall asleep after reading it.

Just when Zhu Qizhen felt that this was foolproof, he was woken up in the middle of the night and said, "Your Majesty, the Yellow River has burst." ”