In fact, the damage caused by this earthquake to Nanzhili is completely huge.

Three days later.

"Twenty percent of the houses in Nanjing have collapsed or can no longer live, and more than 1,000 people have been found dead, and it is estimated that more than 1,000 people have been crushed in the rubble, and more than 10,000 people have been injured.

Yangzhou reported that the city wall collapsed more than 300 battlements.

In addition, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Changzhou, Taiping and Suzhou all reported earthquakes, of which Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and other places reported a large number of houses collapsed, Changzhou reported many earthquakes on the ground, a temple and pagoda collapsed, the farthest report at present came from Dongtai, the ancestral hall of Wang Gen in the city was collapsed. ”

Secretary Wang said.

It's a pity that she is now completely called by Yang Xin as a coolie, and has to honestly play the role of a secretary under his obscenity, and then exchange for pocket money.

As a punishment for her for causing the Wuchang incident, her family cut off her financial support, and so far the report of Yang Dudu in Huangzhou Mansion abducting a woman from a good family has not been revoked, so if she wants to continue to be happy outside, she can only hug Yang Dudu's thigh, and then wait for her matter to be completely over.

"This disaster relief is urgent, you and Xiaozu took 2,000 soldiers to Yangzhou, let the Zheng family hurry up and pay the silver, and then use the silver to relieve the disaster on the spot, set up a porridge factory for those victims to eat, and the food is on the spot at the market price before the earthquake, who dares not to sell it and let Xiaozu solve it." Those whose houses collapsed and were homeless, one household was given two taels of silver, the injured were gathered together for free treatment, doctors were transferred from Zhuangzi in Fengyang, and one or two burial expenses were given to the dead, and the two of you were responsible for the entire Jiangbei Yangzhou and Taizhou.

Don't be afraid to spend money.

It is important that all the victims are properly resettled.

At this time, it is winter, and this cotton clothes, quilts, and cotton shoes cannot be missing. ”

Yang Xin said.

Yang Dudu has already carried Shang Fang's sword to set up an earthquake relief headquarters with him as the core......

The main thing is that the big people in Nanjing were served in a pot.

Nanjing's six Shangshu Shilang, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, were all Dacheng Hall at that time, originally the weeping temple was only spontaneous by the people, and the official was actually the official sacrifice to Confucius, which was not limited anyway, it happened that the people of the Confucian family in Quzhou went to Nanjing, and everyone gathered to worship Confucius, and first solved the legality of this matter.

Then let Liu Zongzhou and those people do things outside under the banner of the people.

As a result, an earthquake struck suddenly.

A group of old guys rushed out of the Dacheng Hall in a panic, and were directly smashed by the falling tiles overhead, because they were all crowded inside, and they also caused a certain degree of stampede.

Chen Daoheng, the secretary of the Counselor's Aircraft Maintenance Department, was smashed on his head by a tile, and he is still wrapped in it!

Yang Dudu told him that he didn't want to be infected with tetanus, so he stayed honestly, and most of the other civil officials were also injured, and even Dong Qichang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, broke his leg in the stampede, it was obvious that Master Dong's physique was a little poor, and his calcium was also a little lacking. So at this critical juncture, Yang Dudu can't take care of it so much, anyway, he has Shang Fang's sword and an army, and this kind of earthquake relief will belong to him, and those civil officials are happy to have someone to take this responsibility for themselves.

The main thing, of course, is that he has silver.

Except for him, who could not mobilize a large amount of money in the short term.

"However, judging from the reports that have been received, roughly within a range of 200 miles around Nanjing, they have suffered obvious losses, and the losses to the east are serious, but they are slightly lighter to the west, and they are serious to the south, and Quzhou has been affected as far as possible, and it is lighter to the north, and only Fengyang has reported a slight earthquake."

Wang Wanqing said.

"It's not simple, the Yangtze River provides a certain degree of buffer."

Yang Xin said.

"Isn't this really a punishment from heaven?"

Wang Wanqing asked uncertainly.

Now it is rumored outside that God can't see Yang Xin's evil deeds, and specially earthquakes to warn the emperor that if the emperor doesn't change his course and punish these eunuchs and traitors, earthquakes will continue to occur in the future.

As for why the warning from heaven did not simply slash Yang Xin to death with a thunderbolt, but smashed the loyal ministers in the Confucian Temple to bloody heads......

Maybe they didn't defeat this traitor, right?

Definitely, yes.

As loyal ministers, they could not expel the eunuchs from the court, so the heavens were angry and punished them in this way.

"Earthquakes are just ordinary disasters, what does it have to do with the heavens? Which dynasty did not have an earthquake in the Ming Dynasty? The Huaxian earthquake almost destroyed Guanzhong! What generation has not had an earthquake? Tang Taizong was not broken, if it was really a warning from heaven, wouldn't it be that the emperors of all dynasties were all traitors? And how to explain those who really fainted and traitorous ministers did not have an earthquake? ”

Yang Xin said.

"The governor, the branch of Changzhou sent someone to report, saying that the local rumor is that the governor framed Zhongliang and provoked the wrath of the heavens, a large number of victims besieged the defenders, the Wu family was broken, and the defenders fled into Henglin Fort, but the victims surrounded Henglin Fort!"

The shopkeeper ran in anxiously and said.

"Oh yes, they're endless!"

Yang Dudu said angrily.

"What do they think Lao Tzu has a good temper? If you don't force Lao Tzu to get them, you immediately go and tell Huaiyuanhou that I want to buy the grain stored by their families, and I will give them silver according to the price of grain before the earthquake, but during this period, whoever dares to take the opportunity to raise the price, then Yang will take the victims to their house for dinner. directly said to the Marquis of Huaiyuan, these nobles have lived happily for so many years, and it is time for some blood to come out at this time, whoever dares to take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, I will let the victims go to his house to eat a big family."

Then he said.

"Governor, there are still some official warehouses, and the earthquake is not a flood, the victims are just houses that have collapsed, and there are more injuries."

The shopkeeper said.

He's still very much in love with silver.

Yang Dudu can't make ends meet this year, although they are all lent to the imperial court, but it is also true that the silver is spent like flowing water, although the Yang family is also a big business, but it can't support this kind of flowering, and the silver treasury of the Nanjing branch alone will be scattered out of more than one million this year.

"How many of these families have no overnight food?"

Yang Xin said.

"Uh, the little one is going to find Huaiyuanhou."

The shopkeeper said.

It is true that the earthquake is not a flood, but the poor people in the city have no overnight food, so they rely on working every day to earn money to buy rice.

The official warehouse does have it, but ......

But Yang Dudu wanted the Nanjing Xungui Regiment to bleed.

In fact, the main thing is to force them not to dare to take the opportunity to raise prices and make a fortune.

Chang Yinxu shouldn't have any problems there, this person is still more knowledgeable, and besides, Yang Dudu is not robbing them, it is nothing more than giving them less silver, and not letting them take the opportunity to make a windfall. But if he didn't agree, then Yang Dudu really brought the disaster victims to the door, saying that the city is now completely controlled by him, and more than 10,000 original local soldiers are stationed. What can the Nanjing Xungui Regiment do, dare to be disobedient and destroy the door, but afterwards it is nothing more than the victims grabbing food, and a certain Xungui hoarding Juqi caused public indignation, and Yang Dudu did not have time to rescue it for a while.

In short, Nanjing is not a big deal, and the real trouble is outside Nanjing.

The next day, Henglimburg.

"Ma's, that's all there is to it!"

Jinyi Wei Henglin Fort was guarded, and Li Zhong, the brigade commander of the Dangkou Army, looked outside speechlessly.

He was actually a small bastion here, the same as the one in the new city, only more rudimentary.

Even the outer wall is not even covered with bricks, it is simply a thick rammed earth wall, there is no triangular fort, and there is also no heavy artillery, but there are four small Hongyi cannons on each of the four edges, which are actually six-pounder cannons, and the garrison of five hundred Dangkou troops is an improved version of the turtledove gun, which is actually Yang Xin's self-made Sur style. This small fortress is the core of Jinyiwei in this area, mainly responsible for collecting those militia rents, transporting these rents to the Yangtze River to load the sea ships carrying grain to the north, and also part of the seaborne grain undertaken by the Yang family's fleet, which is also transferred by them.

The next step is to move to sea, not because of anything else, but because the Nanwang Ridge section of the canal will be regularly cut off in the next drought.

The other is to provide force when Jinyi Wei comes over and arrests people in this area.

But they are official officers and soldiers.

It is also the only one that maintains the establishment at present.

It was also a thorn in the eye of the surrounding gentry who hated it, and they even refused to provide them with any supplies, and they didn't sell them when they spent money to buy them, but these five hundred defenders had those militiamen in Wuxi, and they didn't need to buy from the gentry at all, who could provide them with everything they needed.

It is clear that the gentry wanted to take advantage of the earthquake and the wrath of Yang Dudu to encourage the common people to revolt and destroy the fortress......

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary people.

But there are bandits on Taihu Lake, there are many pirates in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and there are even bandits in the mountains on the south bank of Taihu Lake, and those gentry also have thugs in their homes every day, and it is also an armed force of tens of thousands of people, and then under the banner of disaster victims, they first break through the Henglin and then sweep the militia.

However, first of all, we had to instigate the people to revolt to solve the problem of the Wu family, Wu Liang and several important members of the Wu family were all sealed in the Wu family because of Wu Rousi's involvement.

In the end, they succeeded.

In the face of the tens of thousands of people who were stirred up by the rumors, the Jinyi guard in charge of sealing the Wu family immediately retreated with his three hundred Miao soldiers and hid in the nearest Henglin Fort.

Then the rabble, also under the banner of the victims, laid siege to Henglimburg.

But alas......

They underestimated the fort's defenses.

"Let's go, go back and keep drinking!"

Li Zhong said to Xu An, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei who escaped from Changzhou.

And on the slope of the outer perimeter of Henglin Fort, there are hundreds of dead bodies scattered together, those rabble who have no cannons at all, at most cold weapons and crossbows, attacking here is simply suicide, even if there are no bricks, a fortress like this is not something they can break

"The Governor is here!"

Xu An telescope said.

In the midst of the routed rabble, a strange figure was swimming against the current at an alarming speed.

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