Flying locusts in June, covering the sky and the sun. Snow flies in June, and summer is cold.

Zhu Youxiao and the ministers of the court and the central government all understood that if they did not provide disaster relief now, they would not suffer from famine when they were young and yellow in the coming year.

"The locust plague can be especially controlled, this June snow is a sign of yin and yang loss, Yan'an Mansion is now snowing in June, maybe there will be a big drought in a few years." A courtier spoke.

"Ridiculous, today's Zi Shengming, how can Yin and Yang lose their degrees."

In the early dynasty, it didn't take long for me to get to this problem. This loss of yin and yang is only an academic point of view, which literati in these years have not learned the basic theory of yin and yang and the five elements?

Yin and Yang themselves are balanced, and now that the snow is flying in June, it is true that there will be a major drought in the future.

Although the ministers all agreed with this statement in their hearts, they did not agree with it on their lips.

Zhu Youxiao saw a group of Han Emperor Party officials arguing over this point of view, and hurriedly stopped, saying: "You Aiqing don't have to argue, the abnormal phenomena in the sky are not unique to me and my Ming Dynasty, Europa and the Wa Kingdom have both existed in recent years. However, the loss of yin and yang is indeed not alarmist. The imperial court should still prepare early, so as not to be in a hurry in the future. ”

Obviously, this view of yin and yang loss is indeed not alarmist. Zhu Youxiao, as a traverser, clearly knew that in the first year of Chongzhen's ascension to the throne, there was a very serious drought in Yan'an Mansion, so that the bark of the grass roots and trees was eaten up, and at the same time, starvation was everywhere, and a terrible phenomenon of cannibalism occurred.

"Your Majesty, the flying locusts and flying snow this time both occurred after the summer harvest, and the people have a lot of grain after the summer harvest. The time left for the imperial court for disaster relief is relatively sufficient, but the imperial court should still formulate a disaster relief policy as soon as possible. Shen Yan never made any nonsense. Instead, it pulled the topic back.

"How much grain does the imperial court's strategic grain reserves in Shandong and Shaanxi have now?" Zhu Youxiao immediately asked.

Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, immediately came out and replied: "Return to Your Majesty." The Shaanxi Strategic Reserve Grain Depot now has 500,000 stones of wheat. Among them, there are 300,000 stone of grain in Xi'an, 200,000 stone of grain in Yan'an, 600,000 stone of wheat in Shandong's strategic reserve of grain, 300,000 stone in Jinan Prefecture, and 300,000 stone in Denglai area. ”

"The cabinet will immediately draw up a plan for cash-for-work and open warehouses to release grain as soon as possible." Zhu Youxiao made the first countermeasure to ensure that no one starved to death, and at the same time continued to order: "Another 300,000 stone of grain will be transported to northern Shaanxi." ”

"Your Majesty."

On the same day, the cabinet came up with a cash-for-work plan. With regard to the locust plague in Jinan Prefecture, measures were taken to exchange locusts for food. Encourage the people to catch locusts. At the same time, the government organized the control of locusts, and those who participated were given rations.

In northern Shaanxi, the government organized the people to go north to the Hetao to build water conservancy facilities to develop irrigation agriculture in the Hetao, and all the people involved were given rations and some wages.

At the same time, it was ordered to abolish the establishment of the border army in Yansui Town, and transfer a part of the military households to Hetao for land reclamation, with each household given 50 mu of land, and part of it transferred to Jilin and Heilongjiang for reclamation, according to the different areas of land reclamation. The land allocated ranged from 200 to 300 acres.

The border army of Yansui Town is definitely a super time bomb, especially when natural disasters begin to occur frequently in northern Shaanxi. Zhu Youxiao was already eager to dismantle the border army in Yansui Town.

The abolition of the old-style army was also Zhu Youxiao's means of military centralization.

If we want Shaanxi to be in chaos, there will be no peasant uprising. Then the most important thing is to settle these border troops first, give them land, so that they can eat and live a stable life.

A few days later, Zhu Youxiao issued another decree, ordering Yan'an Prefecture to increase immigration publicity. For those who are willing to emigrate in northern Shaanxi, the government will provide them with food expenses for carriages and horses along the way, and at the same time, each person will be given an immigration subsidy of 3 yuan.

At this time, the treasury can be said to be very full, because the assets of the salt merchants have been sold one after another, and the cash of about 36 million yuan confiscated has not been touched.

The emigration subsidy will be fully funded by the national treasury.

At the same time, the border army immigrants in Yansui Town reclaimed the land, and each household was subsidized with a head of cattle, a number of farm tools, and ten yuan in silver. After all, it is a military household and belongs to the bottom of the imperial court system. Since the founding of the country, military households have been hereditary. For generations, the Ming Dynasty fought on the border, and the immigration treatment given by the imperial court was naturally better than that of ordinary people.

In addition, it is also to completely avoid the possibility of mutiny.

Under the emperor's generosity, when the immigration policy spread to Yansui Town, the military households in Yansui Town were a sensation. Almost every household is looking forward to this policy.

After the dismantling of Yansui Town, they will no longer be military households, they will no longer have to undertake the task of defending the border, and the military attaché will no longer be able to control them, and it will be impossible to continue to squeeze them.

Immigrating to Liaodong can also obtain land, and there is a strong subsidy from the imperial court, as long as you are willing to concentrate on farming, you can have no worries about food and clothing. Which ordinary military household doesn't want to live such a good life, which also makes the next Yansui Town dismantling smooth.

The Central Army was also quickly transferred to the Hetao and northern Shaanxi regions, taking over the border defense task of Yansui Town. The hundreds of thousands of border troops in Yansui Town soon began to emigrate, and the government specially provided a large number of carriages for them, and arranged food and lodging along the way. Military households who emigrated from the border one after another emigrated outside the border.

The June snow in northern Shaanxi continued, and soon a month passed, and the snow had been falling for two months, although sometimes intermittently, but the autumn seedlings in the field were basically frozen to death. In northern Shaanxi on a June day, everyone is a big cotton jacket.

In this short period of one month, most of the military households are already on the way to emigrate, and the military households under them will also be scheduled to leave in half a month.

At the same time, there were also more than 200,000 people in northern Shaanxi who were preparing to emigrate, and after these people arrived in Liaodong, they mainly went to Liaodong to work as workers, and no land was allocated to them.

But even if you go to work as a worker, life is much better than in northern Shaanxi. And after they gain a firm foothold in Liaodong, if they want land, they can also go to Heilongjiang and other places to reclaim land.

The population of immigrants in northern Shaanxi has reached more than 600,000, and after these people immigrate to Northeast China, they will greatly supplement the labor force in Northeast China.

Because the autumn harvest was wiped out, almost all the rural laborers in northern Shaanxi left the villages and went to work on the construction sites of the government.

Various construction projects have also started one after another, and the military has a defense project for the Hetao to build, and at the same time, there are water conservancy facilities to be built in the Hetao area.

It didn't take long for Zhu Youxiao to issue another holy decree and allocate funds from the state treasury to build a strategic highway from northern Shaanxi to Shaanxi.

After this strategic highway was built to Xi'an, it was extended to the north and ran through northern Shaanxi and Hetao. The first is to continue to extend westward through Gansu.

Improving transportation is an important measure for disaster relief, which can deliver relief materials to affected areas more quickly and at low cost. At the same time, it can also greatly improve the central government's ability to control the localities.

At the same time, it is also conducive to the transportation of goods, and can expand the export market of the royal consortium.

It can be said that the fifth year of the Apocalypse is a year of continuous centralization of power and continuous firefighting by Zhu Youxiao. Yansui Town has been successfully dismantled, four towns have been abolished in the Nine Sides, and the border troops in the remaining five towns will also be abolished one after another within two years.

This year, we are also making every effort to develop the Northeast region, hoping that the Northeast region can become an important support for the Ming Dynasty to survive the crisis in the future.

In just two quarters, about 3 million people have migrated to Tohoku. As a result, the population of Northeast China has grown to more than 8 million people, and it is expected to exceed 10 million by the end of the year.

The Northeast region is full of construction sites, and a large number of workers are busy on the construction sites. With so many people flocking to the Northeast, it is clear that there is not enough food to be produced locally. However, grain was transferred to Liaodong, and a large number of fish were caught in the Hokkaido fishing grounds with this Zhendong Province, and began to supply them to the Northeast and Kannai regions, so that the imperial court successfully fed the population who left the land and invested in construction.

"Your Majesty, the Navy reports that there has been a successful exploration of the northwestern part of the Americas, and they have explored upstream along the estuary and have indeed found a lot of salmon, as well as a lot of otters."

Lu Xiangsheng reported the military affairs of the Supreme Command to the emperor, and at this time, Lu Xiangsheng served in the Supreme Command, and his main job was to help the emperor deal with military affairs.

"Let the Navy protect the migration of related businesses to the area to exploit these resources." Zhu Youxiao instructed.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"In addition, the Navy's exploration fleet successfully discovered Australia after continuing southward through the South Seas, and the Navy reported that the Australian Aboriginal life was extremely primitive, and even slash-and-burn farming was not possible."

"For the time being, there is no need to immigrate to Australia, we will swallow Nanyang for the time being. The navy was ordered to concentrate its exploration forces on the islands of the South Seas, and to concentrate on attacking the Dutch colonists, so as to expel the Dutch from the South Seas as soon as possible. Zhu Youxiao continued: "In addition, since the Spaniards have been successfully expelled from the South Seas region by us, let the navy first establish trade relations with the countries of the Indochina Peninsula to expand the scale of maritime trade. ”

While developing the Northeast region, Zhu Youxiao will naturally not relax his strategy in Nanyang.

At this time, the Supreme Command, under the instructions of Zhu Youxiao, also determined the strategy of expanding southward, which was very simple, that is, to expel the Spaniards and Dutch from Nanyang first, so as to basically roll European forces out of Nanyang.

The only Portuguese who are not yet within the range of the attack are relatively weak in their colonial ability, and they are also more obedient and obedient, so there is no need to rush away for the time being.

While driving out the Europeans, they first launched a colonial war against the islands in the South Seas, and immigrated Han Chinese to the South Seas to reclaim land and develop resources.

In the Indochina Peninsula, where the productive forces are higher, the policy of trade, development, and colonization is adopted.

That is, to establish trade relations first, and then force the countries of the Indochina Peninsula to reduce trade tax rates by force, and at the same time allow Ming merchants to invest in the Indochina Peninsula, and focus on the development of agricultural resources in the Indochina Peninsula through commercial investment, so as to obtain a commercial grain supply base.

When the time comes, we will fight which one is restless, and gradually turn the Indochina Peninsula into a raw material supply source and a dumping ground for commodities in the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )