Not long after Zhengde left Shuangyu Port, the imperial court rewarded Zhou Chong for their total annihilation of the Portuguese this time, which was discussed by the cabinet before Zhengde left, among which Zhou Chong was naturally the first merit, not only rewarded a large amount of property, but also was named Jinghaibo, which can be described as a step to the sky.

After the news of Zhou Chong's being named an earl came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation, and many people were jealous and envious, such as Shen Ying, who stayed in Malacca, when he heard that Zhou Chong was named an earl at a young age, he didn't have to sigh, and he wanted to fight for his own life, and he was only exchanged for the title of an earl after the last time, but Zhou Chong was only a battle, and he was immediately knighted, which is simply more popular than people, but he also saw that his majesty is now favored by Zhou Chong, and he is even more determined to follow Zhou Chong.

Of course, in addition to Zhou Chong's reward, Shen Ying and Qu Lie and others also have their own rewards, the addition of officials, the promotion of knights, and the soldiers who have made military achievements have not been forgotten by the imperial court, after all, the chief officer of this army is Zhou Chong, and the military department does not dare to do anything about their military exploits.

In addition to the reward for the soldiers, the imperial court has another reward for Zhou Zhong and his army, that is, the official name of Zhou Chong's naval division is "Four Sea Division", but most people like to call it the four navies, with this formal army establishment, the entire four navies have become a permanent army in the Ming army system, just like the Beijing camp, do not have to worry about being disbanded after the war.

Not long after Zhou Chong's reward came down, Zhengde, who returned to the capital, once again issued a holy decree to Zhou Chong, changing Zhou Chong's official position from the governor of the four seas to the governor of the four seas, although only one word changed. But the meaning is very different. Admiralty is a military position. Nominally, he can only manage the army, but the governor is a civilian, not only managing the government affairs of one party, but also managing military affairs, which can be said to be a grasp of military and political power.

As a Governor. Naturally, it is necessary to have its own jurisdiction, such as the trilateral governor established a few years ago, that is, the military affairs and political affairs of the prime minister Shaanxi, Gansu, Yansui, and Ningxia, but compared to Zhou Chong, the governor is a bit miserable, because he has only one Shuangyu Port and a Malacca Port under his rule, of course, this is the area under his actual jurisdiction, but nominally, he, the governor of the four seas, is in charge of the entire Nanyang region, of course, most of the Nanyang is not under his jurisdiction.

In other words, although Zhou Zhong has the official position of the governor of the four seas. But the land under his rule needs to be expanded by himself, as far as he can manage. It depends on how far he can expand, if he can occupy the entire Nanyang, then he, the governor of the four seas, may become the governor of the Nanyang.

The reason why Zhengde changed Zhou Chong from the governor to the governor was to prepare for the relocation of the victims, Zhou Chong was named the governor, and Nanyang was his jurisdiction, so that the entire Nanyang was nominally included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so that it was easier to say something when the disaster victims were moved, after all, they were all the land of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no need to worry about being abandoned by the Ming Dynasty.

Outside the city of Luoyang, Henan Province, here was originally a wide farmland, but now it has become the boundless Zeguo, some time ago the army is slowly retreating, revealing the black land below, the wheat planted on the original land has long been gone, the rest are some messy debris, even in the black mud, you can see cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, and even human corpses, but these corpses are exposed to the sun, one by one is several times larger, exuding a disgusting stench.

The government has organized people to bury these corpses, after all, these corpses are likely to cause a plague, but because of the limited time, the corpses on the ground are still everywhere, and it is estimated that if it is not a month, don't think about cleaning it up.

After the flood, there were not only corpses, but also a vast number of victims, who survived by escaping to the high ground when the flood came, but after the flood, the fields they planted had been washed away, and the food they had saved so hard was gone, so to speak, they had almost nothing but the clothes on their bodies.

In this case, these victims invariably marched to Luoyang City, after all, everyone knows that whenever there is a flood, they can only pin all their hopes on the imperial court, according to the convention, there should be porridge sheds outside Luoyang City to relieve the victims, although those porridge can be used as a mirror, but it is also made of food, in case of which big family is kind, maybe you can also grab a life-saving steamed bun.

It is precisely because of this that a large number of victims soon gathered outside Luoyang City, looking at the city wall with numb expressions, neither noisy nor noisy. However, the more this is the case, the more the government does not dare to ignore it, after all, so many disaster victims gathered together, in case of a civil uprising, the career of the local officials will be over, plus the disaster victims outside the city are all people under their rule, at this time they can't do it, so soon a porridge shed was opened outside the city, and the porridge was put regularly every morning and evening, and at the same time they quickly asked the court for help, otherwise it would not last long just by relying on the grain stored in the city.

The dog stood in the queue to receive the porridge, looking at the long dragon in front of him with an anxious face, holding the two youngest sisters in both hands, the lame father led the only sheep left in the family, the gray-haired old lady pulled the two younger brothers, and the remaining sister was led by the mother-in-law who had just married him, and the family held a broken bowl in their hands, and slowly moved forward with the team, waiting for the porridge shed in front of them to give themselves porridge.

The dog is sixteen years old this year, is the eldest of the family, don't look at the age, but is already the pillar of the family, the dog's father fell and injured his leg when he built a house for Mr. Wang's house the year before last, and the doctor said that it hurt the bone, it must not be cured, and the dog's family has no money to treat. Fortunately, Mr. Wang's family is a scholar, and he gave the dog father a sum of money as compensation, and this line let the dog father tell the dog about the family last year, that is, the mother-in-law Cao'er who stood next to him, just got married at the beginning of this year.

The dog family has more land and less land, but the family of nine is only five acres of land, and they are all barren wasteland, relying on this field alone, the whole family has already starved to death, usually they are renting the field of the same village Wang Lao's family, although they have to pay a lot of rent every year, but the grain and wild vegetables dug in the mountains are not starving.

It's a pity that all this was ruined by this year's flood, the whole village was washed away by the flood, and the grain that was beaten down in the first half of the year was all gone, and what was worse was that the fields were also destroyed, and the grain planted in the summer was just long chopsticks, and it was washed away by the flood and became a white ground, and even many people died in the flood, fortunately, his yard was relatively high, and the family climbed to the big elm tree at home to escape, as for the house, all the houses were soaked in the river, and there was nothing left.

Thinking that a good home is gone, the dog can't help but feel sad, people always have to live, the family is gone, no one is still there, much stronger than those who were washed away by the flood, so the dog and the father discussed it, and immediately took the whole family to Luoyang, although only porridge can be drunk here, but it is better than staying in the hometown and starving to death.

The team to receive the porridge walked very slowly, because there were many victims, and it took time to boil porridge in the porridge shed, and there was a certain amount every day, if it was used up on the day, then the remaining victims could only starve, the dog looked at the length of the line, and then looked at the sky, and estimated that their family should be able to receive porridge today.

The dog's family was lucky, when it was their turn to receive the porridge, it happened to be the last pot of porridge in this porridge shed, and when the dog arrived, there was only one pot left, but the dog was very happy to see the bottom of the pot, because the rice in the porridge fell under the soup, and now the rest of the pot is rice grains.

The one who divided the porridge was a big black fat man, who took a big wooden spoon to serve the porridge to the dog's family, and just finished serving the bottom of the pot, and immediately knocked the big iron pot with a spoon and shouted: "It's all gone, today's porridge is gone, I want to drink porridge and come back in the evening!" ”

As soon as they heard that the porridge was gone, the victims in the queue behind them immediately shouted, after all, they had worked hard to queue for such a long time, but they were gone before it was their turn, which made the victims naturally very reluctant. It's a pity that no matter how much they shout, it's useless, the fat man who divides the porridge puts away the iron pot, and there are people from the yamen next to him, these people don't dare to make trouble at all, and they can only quiet down after shouting a few words, but these people in line did not disperse, but still maintained the formation of exclusion, because they had no place to live, it was better to stay in front of the porridge shed and wait until the evening to give porridge, and then they could receive the porridge as soon as possible.

Compared with those who were struggling to queue up for the victims, the lucky dog family immediately ran to the porridge shed to form a circle after receiving the porridge, squatted on the ground and began to drink the porridge.

The two younger brothers of the dog are already eleven or twelve years old, the children of the poor family are sensible, after they drank half a bowl of porridge by themselves, they divided the remaining thick rice into three sisters, the dog's father and mother and the dog and his wife also drank half a bowl, and the remaining thick rice was sucked up by them to make the soup, and then wrapped it in a cloth to make a rice ball, and kept it for everyone to eat at night, after all, looking at the current situation, they are likely not to receive the porridge tonight, and now they can only go hungry at night after eating.

The dog mother carefully hid the rice balls, and then the family returned to the back of the porridge queue to continue to line up, no disaster victims dared to cut the line, because the people of the yamen were there watching, whoever cut the queue would be dragged out for a while, and sometimes other disaster victims would also do it, after all, cutting the queue at this time was simply robbing other people's lives. (To be continued......)