Li Zhi looked at the heavy rain in Nanjing and thought thoughtfully. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, it is the rainy season of March, and it rains almost every few days in Jiangnan. This rain is of course a good thing, good for agriculture. It is precisely because of the abundant rain that the yield of rice per mu in the south of the Yangtze River is much higher than that of wheat in the north. So even in such a dim late Ming Dynasty, the people of Jiangnan barely had enough food and clothing, and there was never a major upheaval.

But the rain is a great test of the city's drainage. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the finances were chaotic, and the municipal facilities of the cities were often paralyzed. Even in cities south of the Yangtze River, the drainage system cannot be compared with Fanjiazhuang and Tianjin under Li Zhi's rule. When it rains heavily, garbage flows down the drains and ditches in the city, and the city is often flooded with sewage and the ground is full of sewage.

When the rainy season and the height of summer are combined, this stagnant water and the scorching heat can form a breeding ground for plagues, especially the plague. During the Chongzhen period, there were many plagues, which is a portrayal of this poor sanitary conditions.

The plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty began to break out in Shanxi, and the "Great Plague" of Chongzhen was ten years old,...... The dead in the city rested for thirteen years, and the summer plague was fifteen years,...... The Great Plague, 16 years, Minoru, the plague of the county town in July. ”

Due to the poor sanitary conditions in Beizhili, the plague from Shanxi was soon introduced to Gyeonggi. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there were major epidemics in Shunde Mansion, Hejian Mansion and Daimyo Mansion, and it was an epidemic of virulent infectious diseases, "plague infection, people died eight or nine". In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Daimyo Mansion "The plague was rampant, five or six out of ten people died, and the year was fierce".

From the sixteenth to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the plague in Beijing was a serious mess in municipal construction. "The epidemic in Beijing, the number of deaths is tens of thousands." According to later estimates, the plague killed a quarter of the capital's population.

The only one in Gyeonggi that was not hit by the plague was Tianjin, run by Li Zhi. In Tianjin's cities, Li Zhi has vigorously developed municipal sanitation in recent years, and dozens of prefectures and counties in Tianjin have good appearance and sanitary conditions, withstanding the impact of the plague. In the countryside, Tianjin's population has been migrating to Taiwan in recent years, clearing the wilderness, and the population density in the densest parts of the countryside has also been decreasing, which also reduces the possibility of plague outbreaks.

Standing on the two-story observation deck, Li Zhi looked outside the yamen of the military headquarters, and felt that although Nanjing's municipal facilities were old, they were barely functioning. Although there is garbage on the streets, there is a lot of accumulation, and some people still clean it up. Although there is a lot of water on the road, because there are many rivers in the city, the water goes to the lower places, and there will be no large pools of diseases in the low-lying areas.

The situation in the south of the Yangtze River is always better than that in the north.

Not only does rain create pools of sinks that breed plague, but it is also a natural nemesis of firearms in this era. On rainy days, the gunpowder is damp and may not be fired. If they encounter an enemy on a rainy day, the Tiger Army will have to rely on steel knives and armor to fight hand-to-hand.

There is little rain in the north, and you can run away if it rains for an hour, and the probability of hand-to-hand combat is not large. But in the south, the heavy rain sometimes falls for half a day, and it is really possible to force the Tiger Ben army to go up and fight hand-to-hand.

The further south you go, the more rain you get. Li Zhi secretly said that he should develop some waterproof equipment, otherwise he may encounter big problems when attacking the south in the future.

After thinking about it, Li Zhi no longer looked at the rain in the city, and thought about the problem of the gentry. He turned his head to look at Han Jinxin and asked, "Mr. Han, how much silver have we copied so far?" ”

Han Jinxin replied: "Grandpa Guo, the gentry in Huizhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion and other places have all run away, and only six mansions including Luzhou Mansion have successfully captured the gentry. And when we had counted them all, we had eight million taels of silver, two hundred and thirty thousand taels of gold, and four million taels of all kinds of goods. In total, there are about 15 million taels of income. ”

Li Zhi's raid on Nanzhili was a one-time military operation, and it was impossible to occupy Jiangnan for a long time. The rule of the Jiangnan gentry was deep-based, and although the Tiger Benjun tried to sell the houses and fields obtained from the raids, potential buyers feared that the gentry would make a comeback after Li Zhi left, and no one dared to buy them. What Li Zhi harvested this time could only be cash money.

However, Jiangnan is indeed rich, although he only succeeded in capturing the gentry of six prefectures, Li Zhi also copied out more than 10 million taels of goods, which can be regarded as a full return.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "It's almost, as soon as the Son of Heaven talks about Huai'an, we will almost go back to Tianjin." ”

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On April 10, in the morning of the Emperor's Palace, Gong Dingyu stood in the middle of the main hall in the middle of the military department, crying silently.

"Changshu Qian Qianyi is a man of great talent, Bo Hai is forward-looking, the country's Zhengan, a model scholar, I don't want to die at the hands of Li Thief in one day. I've been looking forward to it..."

Zhang Guanghang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, saw Gong Dingyu crying bitterly for Qian Qianyi, and couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward and scolded: "Qian Qianyi colluded with the Tatar Qing Dynasty and united Dongnu to attack the Duke of Jin Guogong in the north and south, and he has been beaten as a national thief. The head of the prince of Jinguo, Qian Qianyi, is obedient to the people. Gong Dingyu, you mourn for the traitor Qian Qianyi, what is your intention? ”

Gong Dingyu was immersed in his own grief, and he didn't hear Zhang Guanghang's angry rebuke at all, but just stood there and cried: "When Gong Qian is gone this time, Jiangnan Shilin will lose its leader. When a person dies, the minister asked the Son of Heaven to issue a holy decree to exempt Qian Qianyi from the guilt, find someone to collect his body, and find a good place to bury it. ”

Zhang Guanghang saw that Gong Dingyu didn't care about himself, and he was a little angry.

"When he was young, he was a prodigal son, in middle age he was a fraudster who sabotaged the imperial examination, in his later years he was a traitor who colluded with the Qing Dynasty, when he lived in the countryside, he was a local tyrant and a bad gentry, and he was a corrupt official in the court. Such a person was beheaded by the Duke of Jinguo, and everyone in the world celebrated it, how can there be a statement that the case is overturned? ”

Hearing Zhang Guanghang's undisguised curse, the civil officials in the court all glared at Zhang Guanghang. If it weren't for the fact that there was a Jinyi Wei Han general in this court to maintain order, I am afraid that the Donglin party would go up to beat Zhang Guanghang.

The right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Du Yu Shi Wen Kaiting, suddenly stepped forward and said, "The minister has something to say!" ”

"Say!"

"Shaanxi has been in drought for many years, and there is no harvest. Rice fat is thousands of miles away, and people cannibalize each other. Sun Chuanting, please exempt Shaanxi for one year..."

However, where does the Donglin Party care about the drought in Shaanxi, Wen Kaiting's words are regarded as deliberately diverting the topic. Before Wen Kaiting finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Duo, the first assistant to the cabinet: "The case of Qian Qianyi's fraud in the imperial examination has many doubts, and it is a subordinate means of the eunuch Wen Tiren to frame my Donglin Party. Zhang Guanghang, you are holding Wen Tiren's chicken feathers as an arrow, do you want to build a eunuch party again? ”

Hearing Wang Duo attacking Wen Tiren as a eunuch, Zhu Youzhen suddenly shouted angrily: "Enough!" ”

When Wen Tiren was the first assistant, the imperial court could still control the situation in the world. At that time, all the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River obeyed Zhu Youzhen's holy decree, and now Zhu Youzhen feels that he can only manage the north and Zhili.

"I can't say anything about it, so let's talk about it here today."

Pavilion elder Fan Jingwen suddenly jumped out and said, "Stay on the Holy Side!" The minister asked the Son of Heaven to give an order to let Li Zhi hand over the silver goods he had obtained from his home in Nanzhili! ”

Zhu Youzhen was stunned when he heard this, and took a breath. He didn't answer Wang Duo after all, and waved his hand and said, "Retreat from the dynasty!" ”