Chapter 175: Fourteen Years of Orthodoxy

There was heavy snow in the city of Beijing.

Although it was a good year for Ruixue, Zhu Qizhen was not happy at all.

There is snow in Beijing though. But for the more southerly places, this is not the case, especially in Shandong Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Mansion, Yanzhou Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Daimyo's Mansion, these prefectures, the situation of the disaster last year was reported.

Zhu Qizhen saw it, it was simply miserable.

Zhu Qizhen used to think that the flood of the Yellow River was running in a straight line to the East China Sea, but now he found that the Yellow River sailors chose the best route after rushing left and right on the plain on this day.

In the county seat, in the capital city, it's a little better. The city walls of the county town can at least block the flood, and at least will not raze the entire county to the ground.

And those villages that are outside, it is likely that the entire village has disappeared forever.

I don't know if it's in the smoke of the East China Sea, or under a certain piece of silt.

The casualties are incalculable, and many places have become almost white ground. With such a big loss, within a few years, these prefectures and counties may not be able to recover.

Zhu Qizhen sighed, and wrote to exempt these five prefectures from taxes for three years.

Although after Zhou Chen served as the first assistant, he tried every means to raise funds for Zhu Qizhen. Almost all the treasury was emptied, and many governors found that they had no money in the treasury

There are almost rats running in the storeroom.

This large amount of money was invested in Zhu Qizhen.

Especially this winter, Zhu Qizhen began to frequently review the Beijing camp.

For a while, there were seventy-two guards in the Beijing camp, and the frequency of drills increased a lot. And reward the soldiers, all for money.

And when it really starts, Zhu Qizhen doesn't know how fast this money will be spent. Although he took the number of Taizong's northern expedition to the right, he couldn't match it.

The reason is very simple, in the records of Emperor Taizong, there are many places where it is written how many tens of thousands of ingots were used. Even millions of ingots, anyway, in the later period of Taizong, the price of banknotes fell down day by day.

For Zhu Qizhen, this data has no reference value at all.

Therefore, today's Zhu Qizhen has become a miser, and there is only one policy for each locality, if you want policies, you want preferential treatment, you can do it, but you need to allocate funds, I'm sorry that you don't.

For the victims in this place, Zhu Qizhen can only use tax exemption for three years, which is an advance payment method to deal with it.

Although he knows that what many people want is not tax exemption in three years, but a mouthful of food now. But Zhu Qizhen didn't.

He can only ignore.

It seems that God's disaster in Shandong is not over yet, just in the first month, that is, now, Zhang Ji reported that a large number of locusts were found in Shandong, and it seems that there will be a locust plague from Shandong this spring.

Zhu Qizhen could only give an order to Yu Qian, Zhang Ji should pay attention to precautions, and as for the rest, there would be no more. You must know that the Yellow River Dagong still occupies Henan, Shandong, and Hebei Weisuo troops.

Zhu Qizhen still wants to come back.

What disappointed Zhu Qizhen even more was the Yellow River Dagong, and Yu Qian pleaded guilty.

Because the place where the Yellow River passes is muddy, there are several miles, or even dozens of miles, of the Yellow River flood area on both sides of the Yellow River, and the road is tortuous and difficult to navigate.

Yu Qian tried his best to requisition the people and transport building materials, but the progress was slow. And after the winter, the weather is cold and the earth moves, and the people lack iron tools in their hands.

Although the imperial court pulled out a batch and requisitioned it from all over the country, the progress was still very slow.

So before next year's summer flood, it is likely that it will not be completed.

If you want to complete it, you can only send more people.

Zhu Qizhen also had no choice. How to send more manpower, if there is no such thing as a tile spur, he can pick out one or two hundred thousand Beijing troops to go south, the number may not be much, but they are all strong.

The labor efficiency is much faster than that of ordinary people.

And you can't send people, or add money.

Now that there is neither, Zhu Qizhen doesn't know what to do? In the secret decree he gave to Yu Qian, it was written that it must be completed before the flood season, at least complete the remote embankment, and temporarily fix the Yellow River.

If it really doesn't work, seal the gap in Baliu Village.

In the end, this order was simply Zhu Qizhen slapping himself in the mouth. caused serious losses to Zhu Qizhen's political prestige, but now Zhu Qizhen can't take care of it.

After all, if the Yellow River is not built between summer and flood, the embankment is not built.

What will the Yellow River look like when it flows out of this new channel again?

Is it smooth and smooth, and the road is smooth? It's just like last year. It is no longer the old river breach, but the new river breach, especially downstream.

In this way, Zhu Qizhen is really sorry for the people of Shandong.

The situation of the Yellow River Dagong could not make Zhu Qizhen happy. Zhu Qizhen put this matter down, and then looked at the news from other aspects, the news of Mobei has been cut off for many people. The dark pile of Jinyi Wei seems to have disappeared overnight.

Facing hundreds of miles of Hanhai, Zhu Qizhen had no choice. I can only look at the preparations in various places on the nine sides, and the names and resumes of the guards at each pass.

I hope I know what to do.

It's like a candidate who is about to take the exam, knowing that it is useless to do this, but Zhu Qizhen still can't help but look at it over and over again.

"Your Majesty." Fan Hong said softly: "Scholar Wang asks to see you." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Pass it on." ”

Approaching the wax moon, Wang Ji was late. From Yunnan to Beijing, he walked for more than two months.

Zhu Qizhen was still angry, feeling that the battle on the front line was as urgent as a spark, but you walked unhurriedly behind, but from the moment you saw Wang Ji, the anger in Zhu Qizhen's heart instantly disappeared.

Because Wang Ji is old.

When Wang Ji was the governor of Yungui, although he was more than sixty years old, he still had political ambitions in his heart at that time, so he tried his best to make himself look energetic, although he was sixty years old, he seemed to be several years younger.

But in Yunnan, Wang Ji didn't have this idea.

He thought that he would stay in Yunnan until he died, and his whole person became lazy and old. But just forget about Wang Ji, Yungui's little thing, even if he comes to do it leisurely, there will be no mistakes.

After all, he is the replacement left by Yang Rong, and he is a great talent for the position of Zaifu.

Now his hair was like snow, and not a single black hair was gone.

Zhu Qizhen only knew at this moment. No one will wait for you all the time. Ambition is difficult to pay, and heroes are easy to grow old, but it is the norm.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen was a little worried about whether he chose Wang Ji wrongly.

It turns out that although Wang Ji is old.

But there is no problem at all in holding military power.

After Wang Ji came, the first thing was to rectify the military department and promote a group of talents vigorously and resolutely. Changed the military department Shangshu and replaced it with Yu Xiang. He is Wang Ji's old department, although he has talents, but he is not outstanding, if there are really any characteristics, it is to listen to Wang Ji's words, which reduces the internal friction of the cabinet and the military department.

If it were a peaceful period, there would not have been too many cases of such a thing in Zhu Qizhen. Hu Hu is an old minister, and it doesn't matter if he occupies the Ministry of Rites, he is using Zhou Chen, and he is allowed to entrench himself in the household department for the time being, but if all the ministries are subordinate to the cabinet, the cabinet is really a political hall.

There is a relationship between the ministers and the cabinet.

Now, Zhu Qizhen will wait until after the war to make adjustments.

Wang Ji has Yang Rong's shadow again, although more than ten years later, the people left by Yang Rong have all stood aside, but most of them are still there. After Wang Ji activated these people, the speed of operation of the military department was accelerated.

All kinds of information, the following report, after Wang Ji's hand sorted out, when Zhu Qizhen looked at it again, he found that it was clear at a glance, it was like watching the text in the palm of his hand.

At this moment, he suddenly missed Yang Rong.

Yang Rong's disciples are like this, and what kind of ability is Yang Rong himself.

Although Zhu Qizhen and Yang Rong got along, the Empress Dowager was in power, and the Ming Dynasty did not have much war. Yang Rong's keen insight into the war cannot be seen.

It's really a national disaster.

Wang Ji knew that time was tight. Almost all the time in the cabinet. I rarely show up, and I come here at this time, but I don't know what I'm here for.

After Wang Ji came in to salute, his voice was like a bell, and he said, "The old minister came to march into the army?" ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately leaned forward and asked, "Sir, but what information do you have?" ”

Wang Ji said: "The old minister doesn't have any information, but in the current situation, if the tile spur wants to go south, it is only a few roads. ”