The population migration of the four provinces and one capital is a huge project, and all aspects must be considered, otherwise there will be a big mess.

First of all, it is necessary to do a good job in the statistics of the people who have moved out, although there is no grass in the disaster area, there are always people who are unwilling to leave, such as the rich businessmen in the county capital, they have money and food, even if there is a great drought for a hundred years, they will not worry about food and drink, these people are naturally unwilling to leave; Another example is those powerful families, which are also the masters who have a lot of money that they can't spend in their lifetimes, and if you ask them to move out, it is not to save them, but to take their lives. The people who really can't survive are ordinary civilians and military households, who have no other source of income than farming, and if they don't have a harvest, they will face starvation.

Then, the place where the victims are resettled must also be prepared, and the people must know where they are moving, and when they arrive at the place, they must have food and land to plant, otherwise they will not starve to death if they move out.

Zhu Cijiong is not a god, he just likes to pretend to be a god, and he can't think about so many things alone, so he has to gather all the senior members of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry and discuss slowly on the map.

In the face of the emperor's whimsy, everyone was stunned, this is the migration of tens of millions of people! Daming has said many times that he wants to move the capital, but the result is not moved, and the move to the capital will involve millions of people at most, and it can't be done, this time tens of millions of people will be moved, how can they not be surprised.

Of course, surprise is surprise, but there is no one who sings the opposite. Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, are both Zhu Cijiong's cronies, Wang Zheng, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, is also his cronies, and Li Tianjing, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, was also promoted by Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang, and they also belong to his cronies, and these people will not object.

As for Yang He, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, he had just returned from Shaanxi, and he knew how bitter the victims were, so he was definitely in favor of migration. The last one is Wen Tiren, the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites, this thing is a sycophant, he knows the meaning of the leader all day long, and thinks about how to shoot better, such a person will naturally not go against the tune.

After a few days of discussion, the plan was finally preliminarily decided, and the Ministry of Rites was mainly responsible for the mobilization and statistics of the migrant population, of which Xu Guangqi was in charge of Beizhili, Yang He was in charge of Shaanxi and Sichuan, and Wen Tiren was in charge of Shanxi and Henan. The Ministry of Industry was mainly responsible for the resettlement of the migrant population, with Bi Maokang in charge of collecting land, Wang Zheng in charge of building simple houses, and Li Tianjing in charge of arranging the planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The location of the resettlement of the victims has also been determined, and the victims of the North Zhili do not need to move to other places, and the Shuntianfu, Hejian and Yongpyeong provinces are all close to the sea and have not suffered from drought, so it is enough to directly relocate the victims of several state capitals in the west of Beizhili to the three provinces in the east. Victims from Shanxi and Henan were sent to Shandong, and from Shaanxi and Sichuan to Huguang.

In addition, the state capitals that accept refugees have to vacate more than 100,000 acres of arable land for the disaster victims to cultivate, and this problem is not very difficult to solve, because potatoes and sweet potatoes do not have high geological requirements, and mountains and wasteland can be used, and the state capitals can easily cope with it.

After the court meeting organized by Zhu Cijiong ended, an unprecedented migration slowly kicked off.

The Ministry of Rites began to organize officials to publicize the situation in the affected areas of the four provinces and one capital: because the drought was severe and it was unknown how many years it would last, the imperial court decided to relocate all civilians in the disaster areas to provinces with abundant rain. All the commoners could choose to go or not, and the court who was willing to go provided simple housing and enough food to satisfy their hunger; The imperial court, which is unwilling to go, will not provide any more disaster relief materials and will be left to fend for itself!

As soon as the news came out, the entire Daming was shocked.

Don't joke and say: Does this little emperor know how to count? That's tens of millions, not thousands!

The magnates in the disaster area said: There is a good show to watch now, the little emperor is afraid that he doesn't know how many people there are, alas, he is still young and ignorant!

The rich businessmen in the disaster area said: Let's go, let's go, let's go, staring at us with green eyes all day long, maybe when we will become robbers and thieves.

The landlord in the disaster area said: Is this little emperor having convulsions? What if we move to our land elsewhere, how can we live without rent!

Civilians in the disaster area say: Really? Can you really eat enough? As long as we can eat enough, let's move to Liaodong!

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No matter what others say, Zhu Cijiong is determined to move big this time, who dares to jump out and go against the tune, he doesn't mind letting Jinyiwei tell them that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are all murderers without blinking! There are only more than 2,000 officials above the fifth rank in Beijing, and there are more than 20 million victims, and everyone knows how to choose between more than 2,000 and more than 20 million.

Maybe there was no organizer after Qian Qianyi was sent away, maybe the officials of the imperial court were afraid of being sent to Shaanxi by the little emperor to suppress the thieves, maybe everyone thought that migration was the only way, in short, no one jumped out to oppose this unprecedented migration plan, and all work was carried out in an orderly manner.

March was the potato sowing season, and after Bi Maokang had collected the cultivated land, Li Tianjing led Zeng Zhaode to run around, organizing and teaching the peasants in Beizhili, Shandong, and Huguang to sow potatoes in the fields and store grain for the victims.

Zhu Cijiong was really ruthless this time, and each of them was equipped with a thousand brocade guards, and issued a holy decree, whoever dared not cooperate with their work in the prefects and prefectures in various places immediately dragged it down and cut it, and changed it to someone who was willing to cooperate, and saw who dared to make a moth!

The prefects and governors everywhere are not fools, who dares to take their own necks to try that the embroidered spring blade is not sharp! Therefore, the preparations went very smoothly, potatoes were sown in March, and the statistics of the victims in April were basically completed, and nearly 20 million people were willing to relocate! In May, simple houses were built in various places, and by June, an unprecedented migration had finally begun.

The great migration of 20 million people, that scene, standing on the ground, you can't see it, anyway, there are people everywhere, I don't know how many.

If you look at it from the air, you will know how spectacular it is, the official road is densely packed with queues that stretch for miles, more than a dozen miles or even dozens of miles, and the migrating victims form countless long queues, slowly moving towards the resettlement site under the guidance of local officials, and the whole north is like a sudden wave of countless ants, and there are dense black spots everywhere.

Although it is a nearby migration, the journey is not ordinarily far, the fastest has to walk for more than ten days, and the slowest one month can be reached!

This time, Zhu Cijiong advanced 10 million taels from the treasury just for eating and drinking along the way, plus the construction of various resettlement points and the mobilization of troops in the areas occupied by the peasant rebel army, the entire treasury was basically emptied.

Of course, even if he really becomes a poor egg, Zhu Cijiong will do it, 20 million taels of silver can save 20 million civilians, does this kind of thing still need to be considered?