The Anliu government helped to return to the hometown and persuaded the farmers to achieve proper customs

While Zhong Huamin and Zhang Yiyuan were waiting, the contemporary famous doctors Zhang Shouren, Yang Jishi and his disciples and Xu Chunfu's one-piece house doctor association rushed one after another. Zhong Huamin was overjoyed and hurriedly went out to greet him. When he saw Yang Jishi, he said: "I have heard the name of Imperial Doctor Yang for a long time, it is really admirable that you are so old that you rushed to the disaster area, but I am worried about the safety of Imperial Doctor Yang." Yang Jishi replied: "The doctor does not avoid disasters and dangers, and the old man is indeed old, but the disciples brought by the old man today have learned the old man's acupuncture and moxibustion methods, which can be of great use." ”

Zhang Yiyuan said: "I have long heard that Imperial Doctor Yang is good at acupuncture and moxibustion, pays attention to the combination of pulse and evidence, examines the evidence and seeks the cause, and the method of acupuncture and medicine is extremely outstanding, and I think the disciple must be the same." Zhong Huamin said to Zhang Shouren: "It is a great honor for Mr. Zhang to be here in this hospital, Mr. Zhang is proficient in pharmacology, and the eighteen arhats developed by him are especially suitable for typhoid fever and gastrointestinal diseases, and are famous at home. The victims of the disaster are saved, and Henan is saved. Zhang Shouren said: "After the catastrophe, the epidemic will inevitably occur, and there will inevitably be panic in various places, and I am willing to help in the selection of good doctors." Zhong Huamin thanked him.

And the Yiyi Tang Zhairen Medical Association also said: "The medical association gathers hundreds of famous doctors at home, heard about the disaster in Henan, and came to treat the victims, and is willing to serve you dogs and horses." Zhong Huamin replied: "Since its establishment, the Yiyi Tang Zhairen Medical Association has strict requirements for medical skills and medical ethics, and it has gathered famous doctors from various provinces to help them, so that the victims can no longer worry about it." Subsequently, wealthy businessmen from Nanzhili and Zhejiang were entrusted by the cabinet Wang Xijue, Zhao Zhigao, and Zhang Wei to donate huge sums of money and transport medicine to Henan. Zhong Huamin and Zhang Yiyuan both thanked them one by one.

When everything was ready, Zhong Huamin and Zhang Yiyuan used the rebuilt Huimin Pharmacy and Charity Pharmacy to help the victims, and allocated medicinal materials according to the prescriptions and sent them to various places. Entrusting Zhang Shouren, Yang Jishi and the Yiyi Tang Zhairen Medical Association to select good doctors and lead them respectively, more than 20 people were selected from large counties and more than 10 people from small counties. And once again asked the imperial court to allow Henan to recuperate after the disaster.

During the treatment of the victims, Zhong Huamin and Zhang Yiyuan convened a meeting, and Zhong Huamin said: "According to the declarations of various prefectures and counties, 13,120 patients have been treated. Elder Yang told the hospital that after a long illness, his spirit would be hurt. If the tree is replanted, its roots will be damaged, and if you want to restore the vitality, the spirit will gradually finish, and it will not be achieved overnight. It is necessary to recuperate for several years before it can be restored. This has been written by the Faculty and the Metropolitan Hall, and you should keep it in mind. ”

Governor Zhang Yiyuan said: "In the past, in order to curry favor with local wealthy families or accept bribes, some state and county officials reported the well-ripened fields to the disaster fields to apply for assistance, and robbed the victims of relief money and food. Withholding the money, exploiting the victims, disliking the poor and loving the rich, and giving all the public reserves to the people who eat in the market and the heads of the rich families. And the villagers and neighbors have not seen a grain of grain and rice all day long. There is no forgiveness for sin! These people have all been found out one by one, and the Fa is rectified on the spot, and I hope that you will strictly order you to take it as a warning. ”

Zhong Huamin said again: "People's hearts have desires, and when they see profit, they forget their righteousness, and the imperial court's million silver taels are for the relief of the people of Zhongzhou." And the distribution officials coveted it and wanted to get involved. Or smuggling or mixing sand, or doing fake smuggling, all kinds of tricks. How can layers of corruption calm down the disaster? The legal net is tight, but he still does not hesitate to risk his life, and I advise you not to lose a big one because of a small one. "The officers are commanded.

Governor Zhang Yiyuan continued: "Next, we need to prepare to redeem my wife and children, and the displaced people will resume their businesses. Zhongzhou cuts people and eats meat, and relatives can't protect each other. Trying to survive, selling others cheaply, sending wives and daughters to drift away from a foreign land, it is not a young kindness, but it is helpless. Now that the disaster situation has gradually stabilized, the company immediately did its best to redeem it, checked the details of the sale, and paid for the redemption of his children to return to his father, his younger siblings to his brother, and his wife to his husband. In addition, the bones of the deceased will be buried in various villages, and they need to be buried in the soil for peace, and they will not be allowed to be left in the wilderness, which will calm the hearts of the people. Whoever covers a corpse, gives three points of silver for food and food, and two points for silver on the mat, and the righteous mounds in each township follow suit. "The political envoy received the order.

Zhong Huamin said: "After the famine, the survivors were left behind, and the small people were ignorant. If it is accepted, after deliberation, it will either take the food of a family for several months, or the food of a few days, or the death of several families. At present, disaster relief is a matter of urgency, and must not be easily distracted, and all prefectures, prefectures, and counties are ordered to follow the old practice to stop ordinary lawsuits, and if those involved in major rebellions and disorders are involved, they must be tried and decided quickly, but they must not sit together. Some of the victims were captured because they were forced to take risks to make ends meet, and they were released without serious problems. "The sentence is ordered according to the procurator.

The procurator said: "In the year of the famine, many victims fell into the grass, and some of them were just forced to return to their hometowns to atone for their sins. Others took the opportunity to gather the victims, gather in the mountains and forests, haunt the valleys, and rob homes and houses, which was very rampant. These people have become an obstacle to disaster relief, will these thieves be exterminated or appeased? ”

Zhong Huamin said: "After all, it is forced by hunger and cold to do this, this hospital is willing to go through the villages to talk to the prime minister, so that he knows the real situation of the disaster relief now, and if it can be disbanded immediately, it can also contribute to the disaster relief." If you are obsessed, you will be eliminated immediately, and then I will ask Tisi to send someone to protect me. ”

The envoy said: "The relief envoy can rest assured, and the people in the Tisi can be sent, and everything is under orders." I will also inform the capital of the army to prepare for the disaster, in addition to assisting in the disaster relief, this time to deal with the bandits also in case of emergency. Later, Zhong Huamin led the officials from Kaifeng to Runing, Nanyang and other places to personally persuade them to abandon evil and follow good.

Zhong Huamin issued a proclamation: "The Son of Heaven is very sad for you, restless in sleep, and lavish a lot of money. The special hospital is here to save in many ways. The people of all places have their own conscience, but they are forced by hunger and cold, and they are helpless. You wait for the legend that the Holy Son of Heaven has nine folds of compassion, sending officials to give relief, and we are waiting for the small people, how can I be blessed? There will be those who will weep and burn incense to bless the Son of Heaven. And the method of scattering silver in the porridge factory, you will hear it, and it will stop until the wheat is cooked. If you are obsessed with it, you have your own law, and how can you regret it? Today, when we turn misfortune into blessing, the place of enlightenment is the land of paradise, and the place of confusion is hell. From the beginning to the end, he turned hell into a happy land, and he must think of his grandfather before and his children and grandchildren later, protect his life, and don't regret it later. Zhong Huamin personally came forward to teach, and most of the bandits had a sense of it, and they put down their weapons and returned to their homeland.

Through medical treatment, redemption of children, burial of bones, scattering of theft and prohibition of lawsuits, etc., the disaster situation has gradually stabilized, and every time Zhong Huamin visits the porridge factory, although the displaced people have received relief, they still cry day and night, and some homeless people cry to Zhong Huamin that they have left their hometowns and begged for food, and although they have relief, they are willing to return home, but they are penniless, and they are worried about starving to death along the way. had no choice but to continue to live outside and entrench in the porridge factory.

Zhong Huamin learned from this that the victims in various places were very willing to return to their hometowns but there were no travel expenses, so the government began to check the displaced people, subsidize the return to the township, and subsidize the travel expenses according to the distance of the place. A total of 23,000 displaced people were returned.

Zhong Huamin and the political envoys inspected the prefectures and counties, and although the relief was timely and the displaced people resumed their businesses, there was a great lack of arable tools, so that the wilderness was barren. So he asked the political envoy what should be done? The political envoy said: "According to the usual practice, after the disaster, each household will be given two head of cattle, the amount of seeds will be given, and the fields of the hospital will be inspected and cultivated, and the grain difference will be exempted for five years. But now the cost of two cattle per household is too high, and in the year of famine, many cattle were slaughtered by hungry people, and it was difficult to ration them accordingly. Only the barren land could be surveyed strictly, the seeds were measured, and the cattle were uniformly distributed according to the number of fields. ”

Zhong Huamin said: "This method is very good, and it can solve this dilemma." For example, if there are 100 cattle in a county, 1,000 cattle can be obtained after decades of life. In order to avoid the illegal killing of cattle, the government needs to register every year and keep the people forever. Widespread multiplication makes people have arable tools, and every household has no land that can be cultivated. The envoy replied: "It is in this way that farming can gradually resume in all parts of the country, and the disaster will be calmed down in the near future." So the government did so, so that the peasants who were surrounded by their families could re-cultivate the fields for the time being.

At the same time, the government began to implement cash-for-work to rebuild academies, rebuild towns, dredge rivers, build embankments, and other projects to recruit people, so that each person can get three liters of grain per day, which can not only rebuild after the disaster, but also not lose the livelihood of the people, and benefit both public and private.

One day, Zhong Huamin and the political envoy were leading people to inspect Yucheng County, and the local villagers invited them to taste mulberries. Zhong Huamin asked: "Since there are mulberries here, there must be mulberry trees, and if there are mulberry trees, silk can be produced." Why don't you see mulberry trees and silk? The local villagers replied: "Mulberry trees are rarely planted in the local area, and silkworm farmers only sell silkworm cocoons instead of spinning silk." ”

Zhong Huamin asked: "Do you know what kind of use this silk can be used for?" Do you know how many silver taels you can sell? The fellow replied, "The villain doesn't know much, but I have heard that this silk can weave silk, and it is a very expensive cloth." I haven't seen much in this country, what does this official mean by that? ”

Zhong Huamin asked again: "The villagers know a lot, so why is there no spinning takeaway in the township?" The villager said: "Originally, the villagers were farming and some small business on weekdays, so how could they have time to plant mulberry and raise silkworms." The political envoy asked, "Then Yucheng County has just been distributing relief grain?" "The fellow said yes.

Zhong Huamin later said to the political envoy: "Some county officials and local people still only focus on saving food for disaster relief, and are not in a hurry to resume production. Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty once said that the holy king is on top and the people are frozen, and they can not plow and eat, weave and clothe, in order to open up their materials. The magistrates of all prefectures and counties should be ordered to plant 100 mulberry plants and 1,000 mulberry plants on 10 acres if there is one acre of land. If there are more mulberry, there will be more silkworms, and if there are more silkworms, there will be more silk, and there will be more silk. As for the cultivation of cereals, jujubes, pears, persimmons, chestnuts, etc. can also be planted, so that people should spare no effort and the land will be profitable. ”

The political envoy said: "What the relief envoy said is extremely true, food is the people's sky, and relief is given because of famine. If farming is abandoned because of relief, there will be no famine. Zhong Huamin then asked the political envoy to order the governors of the prefectures and counties to go deep into the rural fields to guide agricultural production, in addition to planting wheat, beans, and millet, and also to enrich agricultural products in suitable soil for mulberry and fruit trees, so as to produce and sell them.

In order to encourage the people to engage in farmland cultivation and urban and rural construction as soon as possible after the disaster, and restore order. Zhong Huamin specially organized manpower to work day and night to compile the popular "Nine Songs of Persuading Farmers" and sent it to various places to spread and sing, so that everyone in the province knew about it. The infection of Quannong Jiuge is very strong, and for a time the province has been more than half familiar with it, and the post-disaster recovery matters are becoming more and more vigorous.

Nine songs of persuading farmers: One said, the people can be rich, the customs can be popular, I will work first, and I will persuade the farmers. Everyone comes together to listen, just as parents persuade children. Second, when the rain is moist, the water is full, the festival is coming, and the ploughing is in time. The east is hard work, and the western suburbs have a good harvest in the end. Third, it is not aggressive, exempt from punishment, do not dispute, and save money. There is a field outside the door that must be planted early, and nothing in the county is frequent. Fourth, he said, he is willing to farm, he has food to eat, he is not poor, he is not a thief, please see the thief and ask the futile flow, and regret not working hard in the field. Five said, don't indulge in alcohol, don't be greedy for flowers, don't gamble, don't lose your family, the world's losers are gone, just for the original thought. Sixth, work hard, Gu Maicheng, do taxes early, and be exempt from Cui levy. If you don't see the tolerance to come to the alley, why do you need to go to the court. Seven said, the five grains are ripe, the vegetables are fragrant, the rate of the wife, the father and mother. Elder brother and younger brother are happy together, and filial piety has always been above. Eight said, the court supervises the ploughing, reads in the evening, teaches the children and grandchildren, and becomes a beautiful custom. Mo Xiao Rural Tian Shelang, since ancient times, the princess came out of the white house. Nine said, family music, everyone is enough, climb the spring platform, adjust the jade candle. Happy to meet Yao Shunji Tang Yu, Li Min Qi He Taiping Song.

During his inspection, Zhong Huamin also found that kapok was widely planted in various parts of Henan, but private cloth had to be purchased from vendors. Zhong Huamin asked the old woman in the village: "Auntie, there are so many kapok seeds, why don't you have to give it all to the traders for weaving at home?" The old woman said: "It takes too much time to weave cloth at home, and there are many housework, so I want to count it directly to the vendors." ”

Zhong Huamin persuaded: "Auntie, it's a big loss in this way, there are a lot of kapok, Auntie, you should settle the account like this, your family of women textile, you can get two pieces of cloth in three or two months, and the textile can be more than enough for a few mouths in a few months, and the remaining cloth can be exchanged for rice for money." Although textiles are hard and time-consuming, they are also self-sufficient, beneficial and harmless, and do not have to go through the vendors every time. ”

The old woman said: "There is Master Laodu who is bothered, but my family is only afraid of what others will say." In addition, the women in the family are not skilled in weaving, and they can't catch up. Zhong Huamin said: "The mother's worries are understood by this court, this court will issue an order to order all women in all households in the province to start hand-weaving, so that it is not your family to do this, after the catastrophe, you should try to supplement the family resources, not to mention that men and women weave, it is normal." Her husband and his father urged him to supervise the weaving. ”

The old woman said: "The government has an order, how dare you disobey, but there is no need to urge the weaving, we just try to weave." Zhong Huamin said: "This is not that the government has to do this, but for the consideration of each family, hoping to let the big guys know the interests here, the government only hopes that each family can have sufficient family resources as soon as possible, and can persist until the harvest is harvested." During this period, it was protected from exploitation by officials and traders. ”

Zhong Huamin saw that the old woman was still hesitant, so he ordered the local government to go to the countryside every time to persuade farmers, and to supervise the women's textile situation, and those who weave more will reward their husbands, and those who do not weave will reprimand their husbands. And publicize the deeds of those who benefit from textiles, spread them, and inspire households to rush to textiles with benefits.

A month later, the disaster in Henan had begun to come to an end, and the governor Zhang Yiyuan said to Zhong Huamin: "In the disaster year, the people rebelled against etiquette and religion out of survival, and it was difficult to recover for a while. In addition to the laws and regulations, we still need guidance, and I have been thinking hard for many days, and I have come to sum it up. Zhong Huamin deeply agrees: "During the disaster relief period, I also found that weddings and funerals in the Central Plains are extremely extravagant in daily life, and it is extremely necessary to take advantage of this to correct customs, restrain words and deeds, and promote frugality." The two men agreed that the law of redactable etiquette should be propagated and strictly enforced, and the custom of correction had been achieved.

Later Zhong Huamin wrote "The Four Rites" to supervise the strict implementation of the "Four Rites" in all localities to maintain the style and etiquette. Zhong Huamin wrote in the recital: "When ministers hear the way of financial management, they are not only born, but also able to save money." The customs of Zhongzhou are extravagant. Welcome the gods and uncover the debts. Set up a feast for guests, and pour out the bag and ridicule the shirt. The tall hall and the vast building, thinking about the picture behind him. Delicious food and fresh clothes, but take into account the current plan. There were more taverns than shops, and gambling was better than agricultural workers. and calamity, the chaff is not tired, this is only extravagant and violates etiquette. Gaili is forbidden to be invisible, and the law is imposed on oneself. Since the crown and the marriage ceremony are abolished, humanity has no beginning; Self-mourning and sacrificial rites are wasted, and humanity has no end. The luxury of the people is like water going down, and they don't guard against it with courtesy, and they don't stop it. If you want to ban the last stream, you should first be true. The four rites of crowning, marriage, funeral, and sacrifice, which are suitable for the present, are the four rites. Ordered the chief secretary to distribute the secretary and tell the people. The crown wedding takes its gift, that is, the crown, the, the hairpin, and the skirt cloth can also be. The funeral sacrifice is taken as a gift, that is, the house, the cemetery, the vegetable soup, and the melon sacrifice can also be. Those who have honors will be rewarded; It has those who exceed the courtesy, and the ring of Dong. Together, we will save the habit of pouring and return to the pure and elegant wind. Mencius said: When you eat it, use it as a courtesy, and wealth cannot be used. I wish the emperor to be the first in the world, and to be thrifty in the world, then to educate and practice and the customs are beautiful, and the style of luxury will be reformed. ”

Within half a year, the disaster situation in Henan has been relatively calm, and the people are rejoicing, and Zhang Yiyuan, the governor of Henan, came to congratulate Zhong Huamin: "Thanks to the relief envoy who presided over the disaster relief, otherwise even if I hold the law of the Ming Dynasty and strictly follow the order, it will be difficult to calm this disaster." Zhong Huamin said with a smile: "Dutang has the people in mind, there is no mistake in handling affairs, the inspectors are meticulous and have long talents, but they are just the beginning of the feudal territory, and they still need to be experienced." ”

Later, Zhang Yiyuan asked in detail how the disaster could be so huge? Zhong Huamin said: "First of all, there must be a delay in reporting the disaster, and some officials are reluctant to report the disaster immediately because of the consideration of their lives, and try to cover up and suppress it. In order to avoid affecting the promotion of officials, senior officials often collude with lower-level officials, conceal and do not report or use the big to reduce the small. So although the court wanted to be kind to the people, the people got nothing. The people suffered and the court knew nothing. Taxes and grain are still being collected at the local level. In addition, there is corruption and incompetence on weekdays, sudden disasters, inability to provide disaster relief, and inaction. After the court found out, the people had already suffered greatly. This is a matter worthy of deep reflection and self-reflection by all provinces. Zhang Yiyuan felt deeply reasonable.

During the disaster relief period, Zhong Huamin did his best to supervise all departments, and everyone did their best, and the people benefited. Under many measures, the victims of disasters in a province can live. The people all praise Zhong Huamin's merits, and Zhong Huamin is too often Shaoqing because of his merits.