Chapter 353: Infrastructure (1)

Through this food turmoil, which eventually caused drastic changes in the banking market, Zhu Youxiao completely recognized the limitations of people's thinking in this era, including the limitations of his own risk control. For this reason, Zhu Youxiao decided to intensify infrastructure construction again.

Zhu Youxiao has always believed that by increasing the prosperity of the country and the people, the ability to resist natural disasters will definitely become stronger and stronger, but there is still a lot of turmoil in this large-scale natural disaster, especially the phenomenon of speculative hoarding of grain, so that Zhu Youxiao has palpitations, if it is not for some simple financial knowledge of later generations and the strong strength of the Ming Royal Trading Bank, it is likely that the Ming Dynasty will have unbearable consequences.

In history, natural disasters have continued to occur since the year of Chongzhen, and large-scale droughts and floods have occurred non-stop, resulting in the displacement of people in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Hebei, while the economy of Jiangnan is completely controlled by the hands of big businessmen. In the end, it came to the end of the country.

Now the ninth year of the Apocalypse is the second year of Chongzhen in history, that is, the time of the outbreak of the uprising of the displaced people in history, this year is to rely on the strong royal financial resources to safely survive the crisis, will you always rely on such measures to solve similar problems in the future?

Zhu Youxiao believes that this is absolutely impossible, not every emperor's descendants will have their own advanced ideas in the future, and their appearance is an accident, so it is necessary to form a system of methods to resist natural disasters, even if the implementation is not perfect, there will be no turmoil in the crisis of the country's foundation.

Zhu Youxiao thought that in order to be able to resist natural disasters in the future and minimize the crisis brought about by natural disasters, it is necessary to establish an organization, which will be led by the household department, and use the strength of the state to provide relief to the victims and avoid the phenomenon of large-scale displacement.

Therefore, at Zhu Youxiao's suggestion, the household department set up a post of disaster relief governor and set up an emergency yamen, so that in the event of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, and earthquakes, materials from various localities can be mobilized at any time to carry out timely and honest relief.

At the same time, the household department has also set up relief granaries in various localities, which are stocked with grain that can guarantee the local residents for half a year, and with this half year's grain, plus the grain in the people's own homes, it is not a problem to cope with natural disasters without a harvest for a year under normal circumstances.

Natural disasters are common in the vast Daming, especially now in the Xiaoice era, in the next few years, except for the three years of Chongzhen The weather is relatively normal, there are always large and small natural disasters in other years, and the areas involved are large and small, and Henan and Shaanxi are the places where disasters occur most frequently, Zhu Youxiao focused on strengthening the infrastructure construction in these two areas.

Yuan Yingtai has been quite effective in the desert management of Shaanxi and Gansu, and has built dozens of large artificial rivers in the Hetao area, diverting the water source of the Yellow River to the depths of the desert, so that the desert on both sides of the Yellow River has begun to become fertile land, especially in the inner sleeve area, after several years of careful management, it has now become a fertile soil, and the new food crops have always been successful here, and the grain produced here has been able to meet the needs of the population of Shaanxi, Gansu and the vast Mongolian population.

With the continuous improvement of the management of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the migration of people has decreased, and the Yellow River, which has been muddy in the past, is now starting to become clearer, and soil erosion has been well controlled.

In addition to the Yellow River, there are also the Wei River and the Jing River in Shaanxi, which are also rivers that often occur in floods, Yuan Yingtai re-rested the old Zhengguo Canal again, widened the channel, strengthened the ditch bank, and assisted in the construction of countless small auxiliary ditches, so that the Jing River can become easier to control, and the irrigation area is several times larger than the original.

As for the Wei River, there has always been a clear distinction between Jing and Wei, which shows that the history of the Wei River is turbid. It can be seen that the Wei River, as one of the tributaries of the Yellow River, has become one of the reasons for the turbidity of the Yellow River.

The Wei River is the largest tributary of the Yellow River and the mother river of the people of Shaanxi. The Wei River written by the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen carries the infinite feelings of the homeland garden, "The Wei River flows eastward, when will it reach Yongzhou." With two lines of tears, send them to the old garden" ("See Weishui Si Qinchuan"). The Weihe River basin is rich in natural treasures, outstanding people, and thirteen dynasties have built their capitals here in history, giving birth to the splendid pre-Qin culture and the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties of cultural governance and martial arts.

In the past, the scenery of "eight rivers around Chang'an" is beautiful, and these eight rivers refer to the eight rivers of Wei, Jing, Feng, waterlogging, waterlogging, waterlogging, Zhu, Chan and Ba, which flow around Xi'an City, describing the great beauty of the forest garden in the Han Dynasty, and then there is a description of "eight rivers around Chang'an".

Now, after Yuan Yingtai's continuous governance, Chang'an began to restore the style of ancient times, the residents of the upper reaches of the Wei River migrated to other places in large numbers, the population to the natural environment was reduced to a minimum, artificial forests were formed on both sides of the Wei River, the amount of soil erosion was reduced, and the Wei River naturally became clearer.

After thousands of years of continuous farming, after the Tang Dynasty, the water and soil of the Guanzhong Plain can no longer afford the huge number of people, the land has become more and more barren, and the demand of nature has exceeded the self-recovery ability of nature, which is the main reason for the continuous deterioration of the environment, so since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the status of Chang'an has been declining, and no dynasty has built a capital here.

Zhu Youxiao's population migration plan, is intended to reduce the number of population in Shaanxi, reduce the population development of the demand for nature, Yuan Yingtai's governance of the Yellow River, Jing River, Wei River Basin, is carried out in this context, so the governance is very strong, but also very smooth, Shaanxi began to restore the style of ancient times, the land in the common planting of soybean crops, straw return to the field, under the method of fertile, but also for the people to provide enough edible vegetable oil, improve people's living conditions.

For Yuan Yingtai's achievements, Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate to praise, Yuan Yingtai's achievements in Shaanxi and Gansu water conservancy construction are extraordinary, which naturally makes Shaanxi and Gansu's ability to resist natural disasters become stronger, and it is estimated that there will be no large-scale natural disasters in Shaanxi and Gansu in the future, and this place can be regarded as reassuring Zhu Youxiao.

Of course, in addition to the early leaders who let Zhu Youxiao get rid of the leaders of the uprising of the displaced people in Shaanxi and Gansu, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Hao Shaoqi and others, who later became the leaders of the new generation, have long been subdued by Zhu Youxiao, and Li Hongji, who was renamed Li Zicheng, has now become the Marquis of Dashun and has no chance to come back to rebel.

The history of the uprising of the displaced people in Shaanxi and Gansu has been strangled in the bud by Zhu Youxiao, and the historical conditions for the uprising of the displaced people have completely disappeared, which is a great credit for Zhu Youxiao to cross to the Ming Dynasty, and the greater credit is that the environmental governance of the Shaanxi and Gansu regions is a millennium plan for the benefit of the country and the people, with the continuous change of the environment, the population here may increase again, Zhu Youxiao asked the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu to formulate a population development plan to encourage population flow and migration, ensure the number of people here, and maintain the natural environment here. Avoid the recurrence of environmental damage tragedies in the future.