Although he understood that Xu Honggang's main purpose was to lure him away from Suzhou, Yang Xin rushed to Xuzhou alone......

Xu Honggang is not exaggerating.

At this time, the city of Xuzhou has been completely swallowed up by the surging Yellow River.

Yang Xin, standing on the Kuishan Tower, looked at the whole area of yellow, only a few mountains were like isolated islands, and the torrent surging out from the breach of the Kuishan embankment easily broke down the southeast, which should have been the city wall at the water gate, and then submerged the entire Xuzhou City. Even after four days, Yang Xin can still see the dead bodies piled up at the bottom of the mountain, and the breach of the Kuishan embankment has been washed into a gap hundreds of meters wide, and the water of the Yellow River continues to gush out, forming a diffuse fan of death from Xuzhou to Hongze Lake.

"Several major rivers along the way burst their banks and were washed away by the influx of the Yellow River."

Lu Zhaoxiong sighed.

He was the governor of Caoyun, directly responsible, and arrived in Xuzhou by boat the day before yesterday, Xuzhou was destroyed, and the household department and magistrates who escaped were mainly crowded on the hill outside the south gate.

That is, Mt. Tobe.

But at this time, it is called Nanshan.

"The flood broke the embankment at night, and the city wall poured in from the southeast water gate, and the people in the city were caught off guard, and it is still unknown how many people were drowned in the flood in the city, and everything in Xuzhou was gone, leaving only the victims who took refuge on the hills.

However, most of the Cao Yun troops in Xuzhou escaped.

Before, Lao Yu led the Jiangbei Army to attack the Red Turban Army and drew them over, and 3,000 Caoyun troops were stationed in Taixing.

They escaped.

Yang Dudu, the old man did have some conflicts with Yang Dudu, but at this moment, the only way to ask Dudu to save these hundreds of thousands of people, not only Xuzhou, but also downstream from Pizhou to Suzhou and even as far as Sizhou, everything is gone. The countryside was razed, the cities were washed away, the crops were flooded, the food was lost, and the breaches could not be stopped, and the people in the area could no longer farm.

This year, Daming is really a lot of disasters, the north and south of Beijing are earthquakes, the south of the Yangtze River flood, a few days ago Baoding to Shandong and the earthquake, now the flood in the south of the Yangtze River has not passed, this Huaibei is over again.

God bless me! ”

He said.

"Didn't Yang incur a natural disaster?"

Yang Xin said.

"There is no need to mention those, we all know it."

Lu Zhaoxiong said with a wry smile.

"Can Caoyun still be maintained?"

Yang Xin asked.

"It's okay for now."

Lu Zhaoxiong said.

It would be much easier for Cao Yun to maintain, and now the price of grain in the north is almost uncontrollable, and if Cao Yun is cut off again, it will really jump up in an instant.

"It's unrealistic to block the breach, you can't plug the breach in winter, but it's useless to block it, the sediment of the Yellow River will be deposited in the entire inundation area next, and it is estimated that even if the water is gone, the city of Xuzhou will be buried by silt. The city of Xuzhou can only be rebuilt, and the people cannot leave because of the transportation here, but the victims of other inundated areas can move as much as possible, and the sediment and silted land cannot grow crops, and they can no longer live even if there is no water. ”

Yang Xin said.

This is the greatest danger to the Yellow River.

After the Yellow River bursts, a large area of sediment will be formed in the inundated area of the river, which is not a soil with enough humus.

All the fertile fields were buried underneath.

It is impossible for ordinary people to dig up the sediment, which can be several meters thick.

Therefore, the flooded areas of the Yellow River will invariably become chaotic areas of poverty and hunger, and these places were originally the core areas of the Central Plains civilization, because the fertile fields are under the sediment layer that has been silted up again and again after flooding. These layers of sediment can only be used to grow sorghum, so why should the people who are destined to not be able to feed themselves if they leave these like this? Not to mention that the next drought was also the hardest hit area, at that time all the production in this area was extinct, and the whole area was hungry to the point of cannibalism, so why not move them out?

All sent to Taiwan.

"Migration, it's not that simple."

Lu Zhaoxiong shook his head and said.

"It's very simple, you ask the counties to immediately count the people affected by the disaster, especially those whose homes have been completely destroyed, this matter does not need to be handled by the imperial court, I will arrange for people to hire them, hire them to reclaim the famine. As long as all the people I hire sign the contract, I will pay them immediately after signing the contract, but they must go with the whole family, and my Yang family will always support them until they are sent to the wasteland and the resettlement is completed. ”

Yang Xin said.

He was ready to move to North Korea.

Not in Taiwan.

The climate in Taiwan is too different from here, and the mortality rate of immigrants in this area was too high in the past, but it doesn't matter if you go to North Korea, they will be as suitable as in your own hometown.

It's a good model, just brag about North Korea's benefits to the victims.

Besides, the Jeonju area is also really good.

However, this will take a long time, after all, the war in Korea will have to be resolved, but before that, all those victims can be sent to the Fengyang Tun Reclamation Area, and a canning factory along the Yangtze River will have to be built, and even a batch will go to Zhoushan, where the canning factory has already started production. Then it is to dig iron ore, because then you must smelt iron by yourself, tinplate cans are consumed more and more, and it is not possible to smelt iron by yourself, and it happens that the iron ore in Ma'anshan also needs to be developed, and this mine alone needs a large number of workers, so it may not be the turn to go to North Korea to reclaim the wasteland.

Lu Zhaoxiong didn't say anything more.

This is indeed much easier to do, the population of this area is far inferior to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are only four or five counties affected by the disaster, although it adds up to more than one million people, it is impossible for the imperial court not to help, after all, there is a lot of luck here.

All he feared was the rebellion of the hungry people and the looting of the grain transported to the north.

But it would have been simple for Yang Xin to take the hungry people away.

Yang Xin took away all the most severely affected people in the form of hired labor, and the rest of the victims were slightly lighter, and the imperial court gave some silver relief, and they could almost survive. In the end, there is a canal to support it, and there will be no shortage of food supplies, but only silver is to buy, as long as there is silver, the grain on the canal will continue to be delivered.

"How much grain is there in Huai'an?"

Yang Xin asked suddenly.

"Huai'an is all grain, which cannot be moved without a holy decree, and as for the private merchants, there is not much grain, almost all of them are shipped to Jiangnan."

Lu Zhaoxiong said vigilantly.

The grain must not be moved.

However, there is indeed not much food available in Huai'an, after all, there is still the Jiangnan disaster area, which is like a whirlpool, sucking half of the Ming Dynasty's grain into it, and the total population of that disaster area is not less than 10 million. The official population of Suzhou Prefecture alone is more than 2 million, and in fact, these people are from Suzhou City, and the population of the entire Suzhou Prefecture is probably no less than 5 million. In addition, Changzhou and Songjiang, which were also affected, and even some Zhenjiang, Huzhou and Jiaxing, had an absolutely 10 million affected population, and the food of these people easily sucked up the surrounding grain.

The Huainan area was originally mainly supplied with grain to the south of the Yangtze River.

It's really hard to have too much surplus food in Huai'an.

"I'll get you 100,000 stones, prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for me, and I'll lend you 100,000 stones."

Yang Xin said.

Borrow from whom?

To his old friend, of course!

Yan Shenggong is four hundred miles away, of course he is looking for him with this grain depot, although Yan Shenggong has been scolded by Shilin as if he disappeared over the years, but the wealth of the Kong family can increase day by day, and the Apocalypse rewards him from time to time, such as the last Six Arts Assessment, and then the Apocalypse rewarded him with a python robe.

Poor Kong Yinzhi didn't know that he hadn't escaped Yang Xin's clutches for four hundred miles.

As for whether he agrees or not......

He will definitely agree, he is Yang Dudu's best friend.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Xin left Xuzhou.

However, he did not return to Suzhou, but went directly to his Fengyang Tun Reclamation District, where he gathered 5,000 militiamen and drove small boats north to pick up the victims in Huaibei. For the next half month, he did just that, carrying boatloads of refugees he had contracted to take from the hill where they had sheltered from the floods, some of whom were already half starving. However, at this time, there is not much surplus grain in Fengyang, although the summer harvest here is completed this year and the harvest is good, but all the surplus grain sold to him in those grain stations is transferred to Jiangnan.

Fortunately, this is very easy to solve, and you can buy it from Huguang.

This is in charge of Wang Wanqing.

She just took this opportunity to test the relationship with her father.

Of course, going home is not a no-no.

If she dares to go home, it is estimated that she will not want to come out again in this life, now that her reputation has been ruined, she has been circulated outside like a demon woman, including all kinds of jokes between her and Yang Dudu, which are also widely circulated in the folk tabloids.

However, many people also regard her as a benefactor.

After all, she and Long Xiaozu were responsible for earthquake relief in the entire Jiangbei before.

In short, she can't get married.

When she went home, she was forcibly stuffed into a nunnery or Taoist temple by her father, probably the former, her grandfather was Li Zhen's apprentice and also believed in Buddhism, and her family had a close relationship with those masters in Huangzhou Mansion, so I believe that a certain nunnery has reserved a place for her.

And when Yang Xin hired the victims, Tianqi also issued an order to issue a salt tax of 100,000 taels nearby, and use these salt taxes to relieve the victims in Xuzhou and the surrounding areas.

As for the rescue of North Korea......

Is North Korea or Gangnam important?

Hold on, when will the situation in the two disaster areas stabilize and then go, Li Liang will continue to support himself first, the apocalypse is not stupid, North Korea is a matter of life and death, but if Jiangnan is in chaos or Xuzhou is in chaos, it will make the capital hungry.

At this time in Liaodong, a big war has begun.

Liaodong passed through Sun Chuanting, personally led the middle route army with Cao Wenzhao, Sun Yuanhua, and Zhang Shenwu as the core to attack Salhu, and took Zu Dashou as the south road out of Yahu Pass, and took the Kaiyuan general soldier Zhao to lead the education department and Yehe cavalry to the north to go out of Guangshun Pass, and the troops were divided into three routes to attack Hetuala.

After six full years of defense, the Ming finally regained the initiative in Liaodong and changed from a defender to an attacker.

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