Wendeng Prefecture Governor Bai Yunhang's eyes were red, and his mouth was full of bubbles.

As soon as he saw Liu Yu, he immediately made a big gift.

Seeing that there were no other people around, a common confidant was not slacking off, so he handed over a heavy brocade bag in his hand directly.

"Lord Liu, this is a hundred taels of gold. It's not a bribe to an adult, it's really just a way to express gratitude to an adult. ”

Liu Yu weighed the gold, his heart said that a hundred taels is really a little less, human affection is priceless, why do you need this hundred taels of gold?

casually threw the gold back to Bai Yunhang, and said with a smile: "I don't eat and don't accept gifts, as I said before." And as I said, this little gold is too little, and if it were a hundred times more, I would have taken it. ”

"Hehehe...... The adults laughed. ”

After laughing awkwardly, Liu Yu said: "I understand this matter, for you, Lord Bai, to protect your future." For me, I want next year's grain, 15 catties per mu of land, and send people to various villages to collect the goods, isn't it too much? ”

"Not too much, not too much! If you can really live the people of a state, and the adults personally send people to collect no additional distribution, and no officials will collect more, and you will receive more than 15 catties per mu, I think everyone is happy. ”

I mean the truth.

As soon as the disaster year arrived this year, Liu Yu went to see Bai Yunhang and talked about disaster relief.

There are too many places that Liu Yu can't manage, but he doesn't want Wendeng to mess up, and he needs Wendeng to provide food, clothing, housing and transportation here in the future.

In the future, Weihai will gather 20,000 or 30,000 people, some of whom will eat imperial grain, and the other part will run some shipyards and arsenals, and Wendeng must ensure that they can be fed by these people.

At that time, he told Bai Yunhang three things.

First things first, plough cattle.

When the famine year comes, the ploughing cattle die first.

When people are hungry, they must survive first. We all know that if there is no cattle in farming next year, it will be a hundred times harder, and a cow will cost more than a dozen taels of silver, which will take several families to accumulate for a long time, but when they are extremely hungry, who will think about what will happen in a year?

Therefore, Liu Yu directly borrowed 14,000 stone of grain from Bai Yunhang, and according to the price of a cow temporarily exchanging seven stone of grain, he first collected the cow that had no grain in the family but had a ploughing cow in three or five households, and turned it into official property.

The invoice is used as evidence, and when the disaster year passes, let the original owner redeem the cattle. The wear and tear during this period is, of course, borne by the original owner.

Among them, the grain fed is from Chang Ping, or Baiyunhang recruits people to serve as laborers to cut wheat grass. Liu Yu doesn't care.

And clearly told Bai Yunhang that if the entire Jiaodong was affected, only he Wendeng Prefecture handled it well, not only did not flee the famine on a large scale but also retained hundreds of cultivated cattle, then can this state herd for a long time?

I'm afraid that I will be a Beijing official for a few years.

The second thing is that the regular closing position can only be managed to the state and county, not the countryside. Not to mention whether the people in the village can buy it at a reasonable price, who can travel dozens of miles to the city to buy the food they eat that day? How to eat? What about the elderly and children at home?

Therefore, Liu Yu contributed a sum of money and food, and Bai Yunhang recruited some people who had no food to eat and were ready to flee the famine and ask for food, and then recruited a group of laborers to follow the grain transportation.

As long as you dare to gamble, before the will of the imperial court to open a warehouse for relief comes down, the 20,000 stone grain that Chang closed and the 70,000 stone grain lent by Liu Yu will be scattered to several counties and villages under the rule of Wendeng Prefecture.

Whether this grain will be increased in the future, or whether it is to ask the imperial court to sell the quota of "prisoners", if there is a catastrophe, the imperial court will issue a policy.

Prefectures and counties may not be able to cause chaos, but villages must be chaotic first, and they must transport these grains to each county and village before each household runs out of food.

Ensure that there will be no large-scale flight from famine and starvation.

The normal grain shortage is from May, because the wheat harvest in May, if there is no large-scale escape before the wheat harvest, then as long as the mood of the people is stabilized and people really see the grain, there will be no problem before May.

If the weather improves in the second half of the year, it will need to be supported until September.

If the weather hasn't improved in September, then it's useless to say anything, Liu Yu can't save it, just wait for the famine and cannibalism, and then report it, the previous investment is in vain.

Wendeng Prefecture basically needs relief of 3,780,000 yuan, which is calculated according to 400,000 yuan.

Liu Yu's loans, plus the donations of Chang Ping, Yicang, and wealthy households, can squeeze out a total of 1230,000 stones, an average of 50 catties of grain per person.

It lasted for three months, and by July and August, if the imperial court's brain was not so sluggish, the summer grain in the south should be able to be relieved as soon as it was harvested.

Half a pound of grain per person per day will definitely not be enough, but mixed with wild vegetables and leaves, it will not starve to death too much - provided that it starts to rain in the second half of the year, otherwise there will be no leaves.

The third thing is disaster relief food.

Preparing for disaster relief in advance will allow most people to ensure that the seeds of summer food are left.

If it rains after the May wheat harvest, it's fine, but if it doesn't, think about it too.

Since Bai Yunhang has served as a county magistrate in Fujian, he should have seen sweet potatoes. This thing doesn't need to think too much about the solar terms, the most important thing is that sweet potato leaves can also be eaten, unlike wheat that must be ripe to eat, as long as it is expanded, it can be eaten, and if there is something to eat, at least you will not starve to death.

In addition to sweet potatoes, carrots and mung beans are all disaster relief.

Although the yield of potatoes is large, it is not suitable for replanting, and the stem of the potato is not edible like the stem of the sweet potato, and the key to the disaster resistance of the sweet potato is the sweet potato leaves, at least to ensure that they do not die of hunger.

Let Baiyunhang recruit a group of people to learn the planting technology of sweet potatoes and prepare for popularization.

Liu Yu was responsible for transporting a batch of sweet potatoes, carrot seeds, and mung beans to the south.

Once the summer planting season is missed, it is necessary to organize the people to plant these relief crops.

If these three points are done well, in the comparison of surrounding states and counties, Baiyunhang will stand out.

The court is not blind, and such a capable official will naturally use it. Moreover, Bai Yunhang is trying to figure out the intention of making a lesson plan in Fujian, no matter what his true intentions are, there must be people in the DPRK and China who support him.

After saying these three points, Bai Yunhang was also very grateful, and his sober mind also made him carefully ask Liu Yu what he wanted.

Liu Yu's request is also very simple.

Next year, 15 catties of grain will be levied per mu of land, and seven catties of summer grain and eight catties of autumn grain will be collected in return.

He would send troops to the villages to levy them, but this matter had to be explained to the people in advance and confirmed that the people agreed.

However, it cannot be said that it is received, but that the people are grateful and take the initiative to give it to the army.

Wendeng Prefecture has two or three million acres of land, so it can receive more than 300,000 stone of grain.

Especially after the catastrophe, the imperial court will inevitably be exempted from the disaster for at least one to two years, if the climate improves, there is no middleman to make the difference, and the harvest of fifteen catties of grain per mu of land is not much.

In this way, at least for a few years, those who do not eat the imperial grain will not have to worry about the food problem.

The recruited victims only need to be fed with food within three years.

After three years, after the period of gratitude, when it is time to give the silver incentives, the value created should be enough to pay them the silver salary.

There was a rain the other day, and it doesn't look like the weather is so dry.

Bai Yunhang couldn't wait to find Liu Yu and asked Liu Yu if he had gotten sweet potatoes, mung beans, and carrot seeds.

He has collected some of them himself, but the number is far from being available for statewide promotion.

Now the talents of the counties have been summoned by him and asked to learn how to grow sweet potatoes, and there is also an introduction to planting sweet potatoes in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration".

It's just that after the war in Jiaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population has decreased sharply, and the contradiction between man and land has been greatly alleviated, and there are not too many sweet potatoes planted.

There are more in the south, and more in Fujian, but it needs a slow process to spread to the north.

Bai Yunhang is not the kind of person who is dedicated to serving the people, and even he smiled at the words of the sage in his heart, but he just made a lesson plan in Fujian in order to cater to his wishes.

Now that I hear that there is a unique opportunity to be promoted from the state pastor to the Beijing official, where can I still sleep?

We should really do our best and serve the people wholeheartedly: corruption must be engaged, but it must be timed. At this time, it is natural to make every effort to provide disaster relief, especially when there has been a large-scale escape from the famine in Linxian County, and its own side can basically maintain stability.

Now the last few months are left, as long as sweet potatoes, mung beans and carrots can be promoted on a large scale to save this famine, the opportunity for promotion is in front of you.

How can you not be in a hurry?

Liu Yu was actually anxious.

The ship that went south has not yet returned, and this year, after running the Japanese trade, it sent the ship to the south to buy sweet potatoes and seeds.

This is related to whether the grain that he invested in Wendeng Prefecture can be increased by three or five times next year, which is equivalent to 100,000 stones.

It is also related to your own personal investment, whether you can soar in the future.

I have secretly observed these days, Bai Yunhang has the ability, and he really dares to start.

At least Bai Yunhang dared to bet.

According to the usual practice, if the disaster is not scored, it cannot be used for relief in violation of the regulations.

The imperial court has always been slow to react.

As for the illegal request for relief, it is not without reason: if the local magistrate has too much autonomy, he will "provide disaster relief" almost every year, and enrich himself in the name of disaster relief.

Moreover, the grain that is often closed can only be at a fair price, and once it is given out, it will not be collected in the future...... Or if the court asks for relief with a regular liquidation, but you have no food, that's a big deal.

Bai Yunhang dared to let go of the regular liquidation at the end of April and dispersed to the surrounding counties and townships to stabilize the people's hearts and let the people see the grain.

In May, it was confirmed that there was no harvest of summer wheat, and immediately organized people to boil porridge, and set the quota every day, striving to last until September.

Before May, he set up a donation bureau, led by local gongsheng and prison students.

Persuade and plead with the gentry and wealthy households, understand the righteousness, affection, generosity, donation, or help money, or help rice and noodles.

Of course, it is not very useful.

If the disaster is serious, the imperial court will definitely be gracious and allow the donation of grain in exchange for prison qualifications.

When the time comes, you will donate again, not only to be famous, but also to get real profits, and to obtain the qualification of a prisoner.

Now donate, isn't that a fool?

It can't be said that everyone is like this, this donation bureau finally raised 400 taels of silver and 120 stone of grain, which is better than nothing.

Later, a cattle bureau was set up, and according to Liu Yu, it began to collect cattle to prevent them from being killed and eaten meat, and it was also convenient for them to be put into cattle cultivation once the weather improved.

The Mercy Church, the Salesian Church, and the Burial Bureau, whether they are useful or not, at least the institutions should be established first.

also selected local Xiucai, supervisors, Gongsheng and other hosts, begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother, and paid some money himself, plus Liu Yu himself bought some children, and finally made it like that.

Originally, Fujian's affairs, even if he thought of speculation, still made Liu Yu think that this was a "Confucian Paladin" or a "Confucian heretical judge".

However, now it seems that he is a capable officer, and he is not such an old-fashioned person who has revealed the meaning of several exchanges, intentionally or unintentionally.

Obviously, speculation was the main driving force in Fujian.

In any case, the current affairs in Wendeng Prefecture are not only the future of Bai Yunhang, nor is it just Liu Yu's harvest next year, and the two are temporarily tied together because of their interests.

Bai Yunhang's mouth was full of bubbles, and Liu Yu was also impatient in his heart, hoping that the southern fleet would bring good news quickly.

With such a big thing, there are still many uses for the fleet.

To transport people to Vladivostok, you need to use a boat.

Transporting goods to Japan to earn money, "sending charcoal in the snow" for trade cards, and surviving the most difficult year of income and expenditure, the most unbalanced and the largest expenditure, still need a ship.

If the trade route to Japan is broken this year...... Or if he doesn't lick more Nagasaki trade cards this year, Liu Yu can disband the navy and the recruited craftsmen, and just toss the new army of 10,000 people.