Chapter 65 Post-War Resettlement
In Shaanxi Province, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao and all the officials in Shaanxi were so busy that they were overwhelmed, and although all the people's army was defeated, there were too many displaced people and they needed to be resettled.
Historically, the Chongzhen faction army to clean up the people's army is also based on the clean-up, supplemented by pacification, but it failed, the reasons are so many that the fingers can not be counted, the officials and troops of the clean-up army have suffered defeats, all the state capitals and counties in the territory have been stirred into a pot of porridge by the war, the situation is rotten, there is not enough food to appease a large number of displaced people, and the resettlement method is not right, the more the people's army is suppressed, the corruption and various inaction of the local officials, the measures of the court are not effective, etc., and finally failed.
Zhu Jian's method is also based on purging and suppression, supplemented by pacification, however, as a traverser, he has his predecessors without various advantages, Sun Chengzong and Sun Ziting's Xi'an Army, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, and Cao Wenzhao's troops are all considered to be strong and strong, the weapons and equipment are quite sophisticated, the four people govern the army quite strictly, and the combat power and military discipline are stronger than the Ming army units in the original history, and they win every battle, there is no good merit, and there are no serious disturbances to the people, Shaanxi has not been broken, and the major cities and some small counties are basically controlled by the Ming army. The People's Army has also failed to infiltrate Shanxi, Sichuan, and other territories, causing greater and more serious harm, and in general, the situation is not erosive.
Zhu Jian also knew that the warlords of the Ming Dynasty had self-respect for their own troops, and frantically expanded their armies, such as the army in the hands of the great warlord Zuo Liangyu, which was as high as more than 200,000 people, and the military salary and logistics were difficult to support, and then plundered the people, which was more ferocious than the robbers, forcing the people to surrender to the people's army, and even many officers and soldiers defected to the past.
Moreover, although the warlords in various places have played the banner of 100,000 and 200,000 troops, in fact, there are more than 10,000 soldiers who are really available, and they are basically eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers to make a fortune, and the combat power is so bad that even the civilian army can't beat it, let alone fighting with the fierce Jin Army Iron Cavalry, which is basically a one-touch collapse, Zhu Jian, who knows the doorway inside, issued an order to strictly control the number of armies, like Cao Wenzhao and Sun Ziting's department, the number of soldiers is limited to less than 5,000 people, Sun Chengzong's main force Xi'an Army and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, The number of soldiers is also limited to 10,000 and 8,000 respectively.
It is impossible to put an end to the fact that the officers eat empty salaries, but as long as the number of vacancies is not much, he also acquiesces, each army has a supervising army eunuch, Zhu Jian is still not at ease, and adds Jinyi Wei and Dongchang personnel supervision, if it is found that the vacancies of soldiers are serious, the first thing to investigate is the responsibility of the eunuchs and Jinyi guards and Dongchang personnel for poor supervision, followed by the military chief, so that the eunuchs and iron-clad guards and supervisors of the East Factory are forced to bend the law for personal gain.
These are only secondary factors, the focus is on how to properly resettle a large number of displaced people, they are all suffering from natural and man-made disasters, dragging their children and daughters to leave their hometowns to find a bite to eat, you have to let them have food, so that they will not be desperate to erect a flag to create a rebellion.
Zhu Jian's capital is N times more than his predecessor, and he is more generous than his predecessor in some aspects, and he is not stingy in some places or things that should be thrown into a lot of money, tightening his trouser belt, with tears in his eyes, and smashing it with white flowers and silver, just the cost of buying food can make him feel pain for several years.
A large amount of grain was transported to Shaanxi and other hard-hit areas, and although the displaced people could not be fed, the relief efforts were greater than in any previous year, at least no people starved to death.
When the transportation of grain for disaster relief is not enough, the resettlement work is also the top priority, the previous disaster relief has not carried out systematic and effective resettlement work, Zhu Jian personally wrote the "Disaster Relief and Resettlement Outline" issued to the state capitals and counties, enforced, the officials are not in good hands, directly get rid of it, change the ability of the person on top, want to be an official more people to go, you don't work hard, a black complaint up, the black yarn hat directly thrown away.
Zhu Jian not only reorganized Jinyiwei and reopened the East Factory, but also gave the factory N more power, in addition to the functions of reconnaissance and other functions set up in various places, and even had the function of inspectors like the Inspectorate, although there was no real power of the inspectors, but the report letter was secretly handed to Jinyiwei, and the efficiency of the processing was even faster than that handed to the lords of Shangguan or the Inspectorate, and the effect was better, because the secret folds of Jinyiwei could be directly sent to the heavens, and the Son of Heaven could quickly deal with them.
According to the stipulations of the "Outline for Disaster Relief and Resettlement," special camps should be set up in the disaster-stricken areas, which are divided into two camps, temporary camps and resettlement camps, and the temporary camps are divided into men's and women's camps.
After drinking gruel, regardless of men and women, young and old, they must enter the special large bathhouse to clean, the bathhouse is divided into male and female bathhouses, no peeing and poop everywhere, you have to go to the specially set up men's and women's toilets for convenience, children are not good, domestic garbage can not be littered, the hygiene rules are enforced, violators are punished, or fined 0 income for labor, or fined rice porridge halved, if you don't want to be hungry, you have to obediently abide by it.
After the temporary resettlement of the displaced people, and then according to the population of each family to move to the resettlement camp, single people can only stay in the temporary camp, and if you want to eat enough, or earn a little money, you have to carry out some corresponding work under the arrangement of the government, such as craftsmen, carpenters, masons, etc., but those who have a skill are given priority to get work arrangements, get the most wages, and those who do not have any skills can only do manual work, the wages are less, but the rice porridge that can be divided according to the work score card corresponds to more than one bowl and two bowls, and the women are responsible for the sanitation and cleaning of the camp. Washing clothes, boiling porridge and cooking are easy tasks.
With the rice porridge that fills the stomach, although they can't eat enough, they won't starve to death, and the panic of the homeless people will gradually settle down, the order is good, all kinds of shops in the city are open normally, and the work will naturally increase, and the homeless people can also find some money-making work to do, and there is a glimmer of hope in their hearts, who will risk losing their heads to put up a flag against the light?
Of course, all this public order needs to be vigorously maintained by the army and the local arresters, and the slightest sign of trouble must be dealt with quickly, and the common people are still very simple, as long as they have food to eat and fields to plant, they will not actually make trouble.
After all, this kind of resettlement is only temporary, and it is not enough for the people to really settle down, and it is necessary to organize the displaced people to cut down trees and build houses, reclaim wasteland and farmland, and in hard-hit areas such as Shaanxi, they must issue a decree to reduce taxes for two or three years, so that the people have hope in their hearts, and their hearts are more stable, who is willing to do the thing of killing their heads and losing their heads?
Zhu Jian even considered some practices of the collective farms in later generations, and the government funded the supply of farm tools, seeds, and cattle for work, so as to quickly settle down the displaced people and help them get rid of their misery as soon as possible, at least they could ensure that they had food, but the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty, the ineffective governance of local officials, and corruption doomed these to be just a beautiful dream.
In addition to issuing orders to enforce various measures for the resettlement of displaced people, Zhu Jian also intensified the supervision and control of local officials, and officials of the Supervision Yuan and Jinyi Health Centers in various localities were mobilized to strictly supervise them.
These measures alone were not enough, those landlords and profiteers had accumulated a large amount of grain in their hands, and Zhu Jian felt uncomfortable if he did not take out a part of it from their mouths to relieve the displaced people.