Chapter 3 The Year of Disaster

When the time entered the eighteenth year of orthodoxy, that is, this year, the situation faced by Zhu Qizhen was not good at all. It's even worse.

In the first half of the year, Zhu Qizhen was cleaning up the mess for last year's disaster.

From January to May, with Xuzhou as the center, Huai'an, Fengyang, Henan, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Laizhou were all caught in heavy rain.

In June and July, it has been reported that the Fengyang area of Xuzhou is a vast ocean. In particular, the Huai River is flooded. Flooded a lot of places.

In the new channel of the Yellow River, the river water is almost flush with the embankments on both banks. Under Yu Qian's layer upon layer of reinforcement, he finally held on, otherwise the Yellow River and the Huai River would attack together, and the situation would be several times worse than now.

But even so, when the imperial court sent Shi Wang Hong to relieve the disaster, a total of more than one million displaced people were resettled.

As for how many people died in the flood, it is a question that is willing to be pondered.

Immediately, all kinds of disaster relief hollowed out the last bit of confidence in Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen had to admit one thing, if he tried to make a foreign fortune, he would not be able to support the war with the tile spurs.

Maybe after surviving this year, it will become smooth.

Perhaps, the next few years will be very difficult.

The meteorologically half-century Xiaoice Age was not so easy to survive.

And now the fact that he is the emperor first makes him feel that he has lost the first hand.

If you want to do this thing first, this shows that the tile spur has sorted out the inside.

So will the Tile Spurs start a new round of southward movement?

It has been nearly twenty years since he came to this era, and the memories of his previous life are blurred, even if they are not blurred, Zhu Qizhen will not think much about it.

Because he knows very well that his current orthodox dynasty is very different from history.

Then the fate of the tile spur will also be different, and no one knows what choice he will make first.

In the past few years, even if the financial constraints, will be Beijing as the center of the three passes, has been built other side walls, although the real Ming Great Wall has not yet appeared, but in the critical area, has begun to build the Great Wall up to ten miles, or more than twenty miles, in order to block the tile spur may go south.

He also put a lot of effort into the military system. I only think that the army can fight, but without money, I can't do anything.

He suddenly had an idea in his heart, and said secretly: "I already feel extremely difficult in this position, but I don't know how my younger brother survived history." ”

He didn't know that Emperor Daizong was more difficult than him now.

First of all, although there was the Battle of Maoerzhuang in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, there were two battles with the Battle of Montenegro and Zhu Qizhen

The treasury was empty, and the finances were extremely tight.

But there is a premise, that is, Zhu Qizhen makes money within the normal financial system, even if it is very embarrassing to sell officials and sell degrees. It is also an act that does not undermine the financial structure.

However, the situation after the battle of Tumubao that year, it is not a lie to say that there is a situation of collapse in the world.

First of all, at that time, Ye Liuzong in Fujian was already dead, Deng Maoqi was still there, the rebellion in Guizhou intensified, Wang Ji presided over the counterinsurgency for several years, and the Miao rebellion in Guangxi formed the Datengxia Rebellion that was not pacified until the Chenghua period. Pirates raged along the coast of Guangdong, killing many officials and conquering the county seat.

This is still the South.

After the Battle of Beijing, the Tile Spur has been stationed on the Guillotine Mountain. And where is Guillotine Mountain? It's just around the corner of Yanghe.

It is also the fact that the Tile Spur army has not retreated, from the fourteenth year of orthodoxy to about October of the following year, during this period, there were as many as four or five battles under the city of Datong.

The envoy openly said that the fourteen cities outside the Guan, Gu was trapped for me, and he wanted to cede the land on behalf of the emperor, but the emperor categorically refused, and the ministers were shaken, only the emperor and Yu Qian would never negotiate peace.

The first army only withdrew in the first year of Jingtai in history, and in the second year of Jingtai, the Jingying army also established a Tucheng garrison outside the nine gates of Beijing.

Although preparing for war, and began to collect some of the bones of the defense of Beijing.

There is another detail, that is, the defense of Beijing, in which a large number of militias participated. From Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, a total of more than 90,000 militia recruited to Beijing, although many of them arrived at the army of King Qin after the Battle of Beijing, but the local Hebei people at least 10,000 or more militia participated in the defense of Beijing.

Then Jingtai three or four, the river broke Shawan repeated repeatedly, a total of four or five times, the method of repairing the river, repeatedly postponed, until Jingtai seven years can be regarded as a stop.

In this way, the Quartet used troops to control the river in a big way, and then there were natural and man-made disasters.

Emperor Daizong was even tighter to cope with the huge expenses, reducing the amount of money in the palace again and again, releasing the eunuch palace cooks and so on.

In addition to these, Emperor Daizong also had to face a large number of ministers who did not agree with him, because many ministers felt that Emperor Daizong should abdicate. for he was not in the right place.

Under such a situation, Emperor Daizong brought the Ming Dynasty back to normal little by little, and even fought a few small victories with the tile spurs. It can be seen that Emperor Daizong's ability, he is definitely one of the several underestimated emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the untimely death of Emperor Daizong may not have been due to tiredness.

It is not an easy task to deal with the general eruption of various social contradictions caused by the edge of the civil fort.

Zhu Qizhen is still thinking about the Northern Expedition, that is because what Zhu Qizhen has done before has eased a lot of contradictions, and the opening of the sea has certainly brought income to the Ming Dynasty, but it has turned many pirates into a legal sea

Business.

There is a general Huang under the command of Wang Ying, the chief military officer of the maritime transport, who should have been a big pirate leader in the South China Sea, but when the imperial court opened the sea, he joined it and was very rich.

But in this day and age, businessmen alone have no future.

He couldn't go through the road of civil official imperial examinations, so because he was good at naval warfare, he took the way of someone in the customs and went to Wang Ying's door, and was very much used by Wang Ying.

As for the turbulence in Guizhou, Wang Ji has been the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou for several years, and he has not been pressed by the three expeditions to Luchuan, but now it is still stable. In the war of the fourteen years of orthodoxy, the Ming court can say that it has not lost.

Although it didn't win either.

In such a situation, many careerists dare not take the lead.

As for the chaos in Guangxi, it has not ended, and Liu Pu has always been in Guangxi.

Historically, it was because after the defense of Beijing, troops were transferred everywhere, and Liu Pu's department was transferred to Beijing, and the Miao people in Guangxi lost their suppression, so they became bigger.

Although now for some reason, these Miao people have also been involved, but with Liu Pu, they can suppress them and prevent them from going out of the mountain.

That's the disease of scabies.

Moreover, Wang Zhen's expropriation and expropriation, coupled with some extraordinary measures taken by Daizong to solve the financial crisis, caused great pressure on the people and a large number of displaced people.

Here in Zhu Qi Town, it does not exist.

The main output places in the south are Fujian and Jiangxi, and Fujian has opened a hole and has a newly built Yizhou Mansion. I don't dare to say how many people will be in the future, but I think it can alleviate the contradiction between people and land in Fujian, plus there are many people who open the sea and go overseas in various places.

There is also a sharp drop in the price of salt.

He Wenyuan returned to Beijing to take charge of the household department directly, because of the great attack he made in the salt policy, the implementation of the salt law, and the price of salt plummeted. It can be said that the current salt price is 80% tax, but even so, this salt price is a fraction of the original salt price.

Not to mention the export of a large amount of salt, it has become the most popular bulk cargo of Daming.

The position of the salt administration in the Ming Dynasty's finances is getting heavier and heavier, not to mention the continuous disasters in the past few years, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth years of orthodoxy, and the talent collected has long been smashed in the disaster relief.

The only thing the imperial court could rely on was the salt tax.

This is why He Wenyuan was promoted to the Ministry of Books.

If Emperor Daizong in history saw Zhu Qizhen's current situation, he would have died of envy.

Zhu Qizhen faced the current situation, frowning, and didn't know where to find a breakthrough to break the deadlock of passivity against the tile spurs.

And this problem is too big, so big that Zhu Qizhen didn't know where to start for a while in the face of this situation. Of course, financial problems are the root cause, but military problems still fall on military issues.