Chapter 123: Drought

I didn't check it before because it was useful.

After all, many times, the imperial court still needs salt merchants.

But now it's different, Zhou Chen's method is to break this plate in one fell swoop and reshuffle the cards. The previous salt merchants are no longer useful.

Since it's useless, it's a good time to kill pigs. Especially when the imperial court was short of money.

Zhu Qizhen's heart was suddenly moved, and he glanced at Yang Pu. immediately knew that it was estimated that Yang Pu wanted to kill these pigs, not for a day or two. And even if it is not for the sake of killing pigs, most of the officials of the imperial court in the salt farms in various places have interests involved, rather than letting Zhou Chen make something happen when he implements the new law, it is better to let it be cleaned up on a large scale now.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Just where to start? ”

Yang Pu said: "If the old minister is not mistaken, it seems that there is a case in the Criminal Department, which is a salt merchant's property analysis case. There are quite a few people involved. It's just the right place to start. ”

Zhu Qizhen did not pay attention to the case of property analysis and did not analyze the property case.

Anyway, it has only been a few decades since the opening of China and France, and many salt merchants are not as good as the salt of the times in later generations, and they are real nouveau riche.

This kind of nouveau riche, there are many things.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay, it's just this one thing, who is responsible." ”

Yang Pu said: "The minister thinks that Liu Qiu is responsible, Liu Gonggang is upright, and he will never show favoritism." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay. That's it, Mr. Yi. ”

Zhu Qizhen also put away Zhou Chen's inscription, he knew that this was not the time to announce it to the public, probably when Liu Qiu walked through the two Huai and cleaned up the local area, which was the time when the new salt law was implemented.

Before that, Zhu Qizhen must carefully scrutinize and find out if there are any problems.

Yang Pu reported to Zhu Qizhen some disasters in the north, and the disaster situation in the north was no better than last year, and from winter to now, there has not been a drop of rain.

Locusts breed in large numbers.

is also a minister sent by the imperial court, and he is still relatively effective.

After all, Yang Shiqi still has the wisdom of people, and most of the personnel he selected may have such and such problems, but their abilities are really good.

The central government sent a large number of ministers to the front line to suppress the locusts. Although there have been outbreaks of locusts in various places, they have also been suppressed, at least not into the situation where the locusts attacked the city at the beginning.

In Hebei, in particular, many fields have been irrigated, even if the drought is severe. Overall, the situation is good, but the situation in Shandong and Henan is a little worse.

There is no way around it.

The imperial court invested a lot of resources in Hebei, and it was impossible to give the same resources to Henan and Shandong. Not to mention anything else, Yu Qian is a capable minister, but Zhu Qi has one in charge of Shandong and Henan.

Zhu Qizhen could only let the two places move the displaced people to Hebei.

After all, Hebei has a large water conservancy, and there are many newly silted fields

Earth. It is enough to arrange a lot of displaced people. Moreover, in this case, water conservancy is greatly developed. Zhu Qizhen understood.

There is great power in numbers, and in this day and age it is the truth.

Because the most common driving force in this era is not animal power, but manpower.

During the first industrial revolution, national strength was coal and iron production, and after the second industrial revolution, national strength was power generation, but before the industrial revolution.

National strength is food and population.

Hebei water conservancy projects are just construction, or future maintenance, all require a lot of manpower, not to mention, these canals, in the winter to dredging.

In this era, it can only be dug up little by little by people.

In fact, the matter of migrating people from Henan and Shandong to fill Hebei has been done recently. Hebei Daxing water conservancy, there is food on the construction site, and many displaced people have come from Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong.

That's what I stuttered.

Although Yu Qian's Qingzhang work is contained in the construction of water conservancy, it has not ended at the moment, but Zhu Qizhen believes that the Ming Dynasty will definitely give him a great surprise in the future.

After Yang Pu finished talking about all this, Yang Pu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, Yang Ji has been beheaded the day before yesterday." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he sighed slightly in his heart and said, "I know." ”

In fact, according to the imperial court system, it is generally asked and beheaded after the autumn, and no one is killed in the spring, but Yang Ji's case does not need anything else. We must be strict, serious, and fast.

This is also a whitewashing of Yang Shiqi and the imperial court.

It can't be said that Yang Shiqi sheltered his son, or the court connived at Shoufu to protect his son.

It can only be that Yang Ji deceived his father and the court. At this moment, the East Window incident happened, and it was natural to deal with it heavily.

It's just that how receptive is Yang Shiqi to this kind of whitewashing? Zhu Qizhen didn't know either.

How can others understand the pain of losing a child in old age.

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "It's time to let Yang Shiqi return to his hometown." ”

It was useless for Yang Shiqi to stay in Jingshi.

After all, Yang Pu has been in control of the court for more than a month. The work went smoothly, and it turned out that many times people thought that they would not be able to function without anyone, which was a delusion.

No matter who it is, the earth will function normally.

Moreover, leaving Yang Shiqi in Beijing, Yang Shiqi himself was embarrassed, and Yang Pu was estimated to be embarrassed.

After Zhu Qizhen discussed the matter with Yang Pu, he pondered for a while, and still sent someone to pass Yang Shiqi to meet him.

Yang Shiqi's home. The courtyard is no different from the ordinary. But in a small courtyard at home, the courtyard is full of blank paper.

They are like snow, and when the wind blows, they swagger together with the whiteness of the face, as if they have come to the world of ice and snow. Coupled with the paper man and paper horse on the side, an eerie atmosphere came to his face.

Yang Shiqi was in this courtyard, looking at Yang Ji's coffin. has been as quiet as water, even dismissed

Yang Shiqi, who didn't let him have too many expressions on his face, is now facing his son's corpse alone, but he is always in tears.

Especially when he saw a red line on his son's neck, he stretched out his trembling hand and stretched it out. Immediately, as if it was an electric shock, it was immediately taken back.

Yang Ji's body was sewn together.

According to the rules of ordinary families, it is impossible for a person who is executed for such a crime to have a decent funeral. And Yang Shiqi is still there, which can be regarded as a horizontal death.

You will not be allowed to enter the grave of your ancestors.

Yang Shiqi could only hold a funeral for his son in his own yard.

Yang Shiqi cried while gritting his teeth and said, "Rebel, why are you disobedient." When a sentence came out, I couldn't stop crying.

Crackling tears fell on the coffin.

Yang Shiqi kept saying that when his son is dead, when his son is dead. But can it really be?

After a while, Yang Shiqi stopped his tears, came out of the mourning hall tremblingly, and said to the servant, "Nail." "Yang Ji actually has children, but they are all in his hometown in Jiangxi, and Yang Ji was caught all the way to Beijing by Jinyiwei. It doesn't matter what stops.

Yang Shiqi secretly said in his heart: "I think Your Majesty should allow me to return to my hometown." ”

Yang Shiqi has been on the book four or five times, and he is a beggar bone.

Yang Shiqi's judgment of the imperial court is very accurate, and Yang Pu has passed the chaotic period after Yang Shiqi stepped down. Regained control of the ship of Daming.

Of course, there was one person who inserted his tentacles deeper into the court. That is the emperor of the day.

Yang Shiqi estimated that he was already the most powerful cabinet chief assistant, and the power of the cabinet chief assistant in the future of the unification dynasty would only be inferior to one another.

After all, the emperor grew up.

Yang Shiqi saw it very accurately, and almost after he cleaned up his son's funeral, he heard from the housekeeper that someone from the palace was coming.

Yang Shiqi didn't know what it was like for a while.

For more than 20 years before him, entering the palace was commonplace, and there were even special things, as well as staying in the palace, such as after Xuanzong's death.

But now it is likely that this will be the last time he will enter the palace.

Yang Shiqi said: "Let me change my clothes." ”

This time, Yang Shiqi did not let the maid serve, but put on the red official robe on the boat with one hand and one foot, put on the official hat, pedaled the official boots, took a self-portrait in the mirror, and the dim bronze mirror made the old and dizzy Yang Shiqi see clearly.

He saw in a trance that a few decades ago, he had just put on a seven-grade green robe, and he was in his prime and full of spirit at that time.

It's just that the years are ruthless, and the country urges people to grow old.

Yang Shiqi came out of the room, the housekeeper had already prepared a sedan chair, and Yang Shiqi said, "No need, I'll ride a horse today." ”

Because only by riding a horse can you take a look at the Forbidden City, where he has lived for more than 20 years. He may never come back to the Forbidden City.