"Very good, very good, Master Xu, such an arrangement, the time is well connected, so as not to delay things...... Yang Reform praised, said this, Yang Reform broke out in a cold sweat, only to remember, this ancient transportation and communication, that is a piece of scum, far from the 21st century can be called, transferred trains, with the plane as convenient, this Yanjing's disaster relief holy decree to the south has to be a small month, the south to raise grain is another month, grain to Shaanxi, another month, these three months have passed, If we want the people of Shaanxi to eat relief food and not rebel ......, we must at least make preparations in advance in April. At that time, although he knew that Shaanxi would be drought, although he also knew that Shaanxi wanted disaster relief, but he never thought that he would have to go to disaster relief two or three months in advance.

What made Yang Reform even more shocked into a cold sweat was that Yang Reform himself had taken this lunar calendar as the Gregorian calendar, was accustomed to the Gregorian calendar time, and was still using the time and months of the Gregorian calendar to calculate the grain production cycle of the lunar calendar. Yang Reform remembered that this ancient use of the lunar calendar, that is to say, today's May, the Dragon Boat Festival has just passed, if you use the Gregorian calendar of the 21st century to calculate, it is already mid-June, according to Yang Reform's understanding, this summer vacation is the season of harvesting grain, it should be around July, at that time, those places will be affected by disasters to know, will start disaster relief, if according to Yang Reform to the Gregorian calendar as the lunar calendar, Yang Reform thought that the harvest of grain in July, in fact, the lunar calendar began to harvest grain in June, If the relief only starts in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it will obviously delay the time of this disaster relief by a month, and then the disaster relief will be too late.

Yang reformed in his heart, remorseful, he talked about disaster relief every day, and thought of ways for disaster relief every day, but he didn't expect that this most basic disaster relief time was confused, if it wasn't for someone mentioning this disaster relief in advance today, I was afraid that I would have done this disaster relief step by step, and I would have done it until June and July, if I didn't provide disaster relief until that time, God knows...... "What's next?" What's next? Yang Gai was shocked into a cold sweat, he was really confused about this.

“…… Returning to Your Majesty, next, the minister thought that it was not enough to give relief and work for relief, but also to move the people of Shaanxi out, which was the right way. Xu Guangqi went on to talk about his plan.

"Migrating out? Where to migrate? Yang Gai felt curious, this disaster was affected and moved out, yes, this piece of land in Shaanxi can't support so many people, and there is no other way for many people than to relocate. But where does this migrate? It doesn't mean moving to Taiwan, right? It's a good place, three crops a year, and the land is fertile, but Zheng Zhilong hasn't been dealt with yet, how to move? Definitely not! People don't give me the face to be an emperor at all!

“…… Returning to Your Majesty, yes, migration, this countermeasure of the minister is complementary to the previous two, transport disaster relief grain along the river, and when you come back, you can transport people out by boat, this transportation along the river is faster than this land route, it is necessary to save time and food......" Xu Guangqi did not directly answer where to move, but explained the benefits of this migration.

"Migrating down the river? Where are they moving to? Shaanxi is going to move out, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands, or millions of households! How can that place be so easy for so many people? "Yang Reform wondered, this Taiwan has not been done at all, and it is impossible to relocate? I am preparing to move the population to Taiwan, but Zheng Zhilong has just come into contact with him, and he is still recruiting Zheng Zhilong into Beijing. You can't let those ordinary people go to Jiangnan to farm, right? If that's the case, the people in the south of the Yangtze River won't fight with the people in Shaanxi.

“…… Returning to His Majesty, the minister's plan was to enclose the lake and create fields for hundreds of thousands of households to live in. Xu Guangqi only said his plan now, and when he said this, he paused, as if to let the monarch and ministers have a process of acceptance.

Surrounding the lake? Yang Reform wondered, where to surround the lake? "Master Xu, this, where is the lake? That lake can provide shelter for hundreds of thousands of people? "The lake in Yang Reform's mind is a little bigger than the courtyard pond, and with a population of millions, there will not even be a single water bead left in this lake.

Not only Yang Reform wondered, but above the court, other people also wondered, it is relatively simple to transport it to Jiangnan along the river, and it is not bragging to take a boat for a thousand miles, but where is there still a place in Jiangnan for so many people to farm? What can be farmed, people have already cultivated it, and are still waiting for you to go over and farm? are ready to see what Xu Guangqi says.

Xu Guangqi may feel that his method is too whimsical, and after a pause, he replied: "Wai Dongting Lake......" After speaking, Xu Guangqi shut up, this method is indeed whimsical, after speaking, he will not say it, and he is ready to let the monarch and ministers have a time to adapt.

Yes!! Yang Reform was stunned, surrounding Dongting Lake? This idea is even more whimsical than that of a traverser! Is Dongting Lake so easy to enclose? How deep is Dongting Lake, can you surround it?

Not only the emperor was surprised, but the ministers were also surprised! Unexpectedly, this Xu Zixian's courage and courage are so big, dare to say that he is surrounded by Dongting Lake, what a big courage he has!

"Master Xu, are you sure it's around Dongting Lake?" Yang Gai asked weakly, Yang Gai was very skeptical, whether he had heard it wrong.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is indeed around Dongting Lake." When Xu Guangqi said this, he was calm and relaxed, as if this thing must be done.

Yang reformed that dizzy, what's going on? Will this work?

"Master Xu, can this work?" Yang Reform was dizzy, and could only see how Xu Guangqi explained, Yang Reform secretly blamed himself for not grasping the time and not communicating well with Xu Guangqi, otherwise, he would not be so passive and incomprehensible.

"Back to Your Majesty, the encirclement of the lake to create fields, is not the first time that the minister has proposed it today, it has existed in ancient times, not only Dongting Lake, this Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, etc., are all in the list of reclamation, large-scale reclamation, and even can be pushed as far as the Song Dynasty, in order to resist the southward movement of the Yuan army, once built a courtyard field in the north and south of the Jingjiang River, and reclaimed nearly 200,000 tilts of fertile land, so the minister thought that this matter of encircling the lake was promising." Xu Guangqi said slightly.

Above the court, many people fell into deep thought, and after listening to Xu Guangqi's words, many people nodded, this matter of encircling the lake, indeed, has been recorded in many books, and some people feel that this is indeed a feasible thing.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Xu Shaobao said is reasonable, this lake has been around since ancient times, thinking that Dongting Lake is vast, there are eight hundred miles of Dongting said, if you can enclose a part of it as fertile land and accommodate millions of immigrants, it is not difficult, and it can be regarded as a great good deed for the benefit of the people! The minister agreed. "A minister was the first to come out and approve of Xu Guangqi's plan.

Yang Gai is still lamenting the feat of encircling Dongting Lake. I am still surprised by Xu Guangqi's open-minded, exuding surname, and amazing thinking!

Xu Guangqi continued: "...... Your Majesty, this Dongting Lake has always had 800 miles of Dongting said, the minister has consulted a lot of documents, found that there are some places in this Dongting Lake, the water is only a few feet deep, a little more than a foot deep, this can be completely built around the courtyard, transformed into a courtyard, this courtyard is not only fertile, but also not lack of water, if you are not afraid of this embankment, this is completely the land of fish and rice! I think if this immigrant knew that he was moving them to the land of fish and rice, he would probably be happy to ,...... These 800 miles of Dongting is a land with abundant water and grass, and a lot of fish and rice, not to mention the relocation of millions of immigrants, even if it is millions, it is more than enough......," Xu Guangqi explained his plan.

Yang Gai was almost moved by Xu Guangqi's plan to enclose the lake and create fields, if it is really as Xu Guangqi said, the fields that come out of the lake are fertile fields, and there is no shortage of water, and it is to create a land of fish and rice, the immigrants will definitely be easy to accept, and the resistance of the immigrants will be very low, which is convenient for immigration. It can accommodate millions of immigrants, then there is no problem at all if you immigrate here, you don't have to wait until you get Zheng Zhilong, immigrate to Taiwan, that time is not in time, but it is also entangled, what is this Dongting Lake for, Yang Reform is still a little impressed, the middle school textbook said, this is the place where the Yangtze River is discharged, this encloses Dongting Lake, what should the Yangtze River do? Environmentalists won't trouble themselves in the future, right?

"Master Xu, this Dongting Lake was formed by the flood discharge of the Yangtze River when it was flooded, and this large-scale enclosure will not affect the flood discharge of the Yangtze River, right?" Yang Reform is worried about this again. But before the words were finished, I felt that I was a superfluous blind heart, and now that the people are rebelling, I still can't handle it, and I still have the mind to care about whether the Yangtze River has no place to discharge floods? The peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not occur in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the north.

The emperor's words made Xu Guangqi very puzzled, what does this Yangtze River flood discharge have to do with encircling a little courtyard dam? Isn't that what people did before? It is not our Ming Dynasty that initiated a large-scale encirclement of the lake.

Yang Reform was very helpless, he shouldn't have said this, it was superfluous: "Master Xu, this, just if I didn't say it, for the time being, regardless of what kind of flood discharge, let's talk about this lake, how to do it." "Yang Reform is determined to surround the lake first, as for the future flood and flood discharge, let's talk about it later, at this moment, it is still to immigrate and prevent the people from rebelling as the most important thing.

Xu Guangqi didn't think about the flood discharge, and said, "...... Your Majesty, the minister thought that the people in the disaster-stricken places in Shaanxi could not just eat relief, and this natural disaster, His Majesty predicted that it would last for several years, so the minister came up with this method of immigration, taking the waterway, through the Yellow River, to the canal, and then turning to the Yangtze River, sending the immigrants to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, and then organizing the people to surround the lake, and the land obtained could be distributed to the victims. Xu Guangqi briefly said his thoughts.

Yang Reform nodded, this, that's right, this natural disaster is by no means a matter of one or two years, if you lie in Shaanxi every year and wait for your own relief food, I'm afraid that I don't have the ability, millions of relief grains sent to Shaanxi every year, I don't have the financial resources, this Xu Guangqi is right, send it to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake to enclose the lake to make fields, and then cultivate it yourself, this is the right way! Otherwise, after several years of natural disasters, I am afraid that I have tens of millions of family properties, and I will also feed them poor.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how about this method? Let's discuss. Yang Gai thought this method was very good, and was ready to ask others what they meant.

Shoufu Shi Fenglai was the first to say: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter has made a great difference, thinking that I also migrated to Shanxi and other places in the past, and now I do this again, it is really a good governance of millions of living people!" Your Majesty, this is a great good policy! It is a matter of great merit...... "Shoufu Shi Fenglai devoted himself to the emperor, and when he saw the emperor's right-hand man proposing to enclose the lake and make fields, he immediately advocated for this matter.

"In my early years, I still had to move millions of immigrants?" Yang reformed the shortcomings of this little white, and immediately showed it? I'm curious, there are more than a million immigrants in this Ming Dynasty? Immigration is not easy! It's the most complicated. If this is the case, it seems that there are traces of me immigrating now. Inadvertently, I asked.

Fortunately, the ministers don't care too much, this emperor is young, and he is not ashamed to ask, it is nothing, speaking of which, it is still a good character. Although this is a bit of a trivial question.

Shoufu Shi Fenglai said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is, that is the Taizu Hongwu period of my dynasty, at that time, Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered from war, the land is sparsely populated, and Shanxi is less and more people, so the imperial court ordered the landless people in Shanxi to move to Shandong, Hebei and other places, which lasted for decades, with a population of one million, and it is a large migration of the population in history, and only in my dynasty will there be such a move to love the people......." ”

Shi Fenglai can be the first assistant, and he also has a few brushes, so he immediately briefly talked about this immigration.

"And this?" Yang Reform is very curious, this ancient immigration is not simple! You have to rely on two feet to get out, a thousand miles, you have to walk step by step! This grain is even more inconvenient to transport, and the price is probably expensive. However, this is also a good thing, there is a precedent in front of it, and now, if you do it yourself, you only need to follow the precedent, and this resistance is much less.

"Well, this is indeed a great thing, and now, Master Xu has also proposed to immigrate millions, or even millions, then Shi Aiqing, tell me, what old rules can you follow?" Yang Reform's favor for this Shi Fenglai has risen. This Shousuke is not useless!

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, the policy given by the imperial court at that time was: to seek your own land to cultivate, exempt from servitude for three years, and still give 20 ingots to prepare farm tools." Shi Fenglai replied to the emperor's words very briefly.

Yang Gengai couldn't help but glance at this Shi Fenglai a few times, he could memorize things that had been recorded for such a long time, and he could be regarded as having some ability, if he wanted to be himself, he would never remember so many things and memorize the data so clearly.

"In this way, now, as Master Xu said, you only need to take the waterway, move the people to the south, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, let the people surround the lake by themselves, cultivate by themselves, and give each household a little silver, this immigration, even if it is done?" When Yang Reform heard this, his heart was moved, this method is good, if under ideal conditions, all the people in Shaanxi will be moved to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, I am afraid that the peasant uprising in Shaanxi will end! What are you revolting when there is no one? You can free your hands and put the wild boar skin right, and you don't have to worry about the fire at home.

"Your Majesty, things are by no means so simple. Now, this is the beginning of a natural disaster, I don't know how many people have been affected, and I don't know how many people need to be relocated, this is just 20 taels of silver per household, I'm afraid it's a lot of money, this along the way has to be relieved, eaten, and have to be sent by garrisons around the country to prevent riots, which has to transport people to the south, and the freight is even more expensive, and there will be fields to cultivate after the lake in the south, which is afraid that it will take more than a year, and the people will have a harvest, this, Your Majesty, I don't think it can be solved by a few simple words! This has to be considered in the long run...... "Shi Feng came to see the emperor and thought too simply, so he reminded the emperor that this seems to be a very beautiful place for millions of immigrants, and it is worth showing off, but in fact, the rights and wrongs in this are not known, and I don't know how many stumbles.

Yang Gai was reminded by Shi Fenglai and realized that this immigration has never been a simple matter.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, ...... millions of immigrants, Yang Reform felt ashamed! I was stunned by this proposition of my own. I think of the Three Gorges resettlement in those years, even with the financial, material, and human resources of the 21 st century, I don't know how difficult it is to do this, and it took more than ten years to come to an end, and they often go to the central stage to pay close attention to it, and there are even more corrupt people blowing wind and rain in it, which shows how important and difficult this matter is,...... What's more, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, where corruption was several times more serious, he wanted to immigrate,...... It's not that simple! When Yang Reform thought of this, he realized that his wish was good, but unfortunately, the reality was always cruel, and Yang Reform shuddered when he thought of the countless rats who were ready to eat on the immigration money with their bloody mouths open.

What should I do? Who will carry out the migration route, the migration policy, the mobilization and organization of the migration? How can the relocated funds not be embezzled and misappropriated? How do you guarantee that there are no accidents? There are even health problems caused by large-scale migration, which are even more troublesome, and once there is a large-scale epidemic outbreak, it is unimaginable...... The ministers were talking below, and the emperor sat on the throne, his thoughts drifting to how to emigrate.

Immigration, in theory, is good, but it is not simple, it is not easy, things are by no means as planned, as imagined, there are thousands of problems, and there are many difficulties.

(To be continued)