For most of the people, things such as Jianyu and Yi Rebellion seem to have nothing to do with them.

All they can clearly feel is the changes around them.

For example, the people of Shanxi and Beizhili, nearly a quarter of them were allocated to the fields, and at the same time, they also felt the sense of security enhanced by the stationing of soldiers and horses.

More importantly, after the soldiers and horses were stationed, after the abolition of some military garrisons, there were fewer officials who set up cards to eat tariffs.

Even some of the arrests in the city were much more low-key, because the battalions stationed outside the city would often come to the city to buy things.

In addition, more importantly, because of the presence of the battalion soldiers, it seems that the requirement to be conscripted is rare.

When some roads were damaged and the battalion generals saw them, they would communicate with the local county officials, and the county government would pay the money and the battalion soldiers would repair the roads.

Such an army is relatively rare, and the reason is Zhu Youzhen's personal requirements for the soldiers and horses under his command.

The troops stationed in the city must repair some local roads, bridges, canals and other objects every year, so as to improve the image of the Ming people on the past officials and soldiers.

This is the case in Shanxi, Beizhili, and Liaodong.

However, compared with Shanxi and Beizhili, the people of Liaodong feel more about the emperor's imperial store.

The opening of the imperial store and the practice of selling grain below market prices to reduce the cost of living of the people have undoubtedly won the hearts and minds of many Liao people.

The prices of grain, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, coal and other materials in the imperial store are much lower than the market prices in Liaodong.

Not only that, but the garrisons east of the Liao River would recruit people in the name of the emperor, rather than conscription.

Although he was only paid 10 yuan a day, he was not tired of doing the work, but he was just repairing roads, building canals, or cutting down trees to clear the land.

In short, in Liaodong, Shanxi, and Beizhili, where the imperial power has the highest control, the happiness of the people is naturally the fastest, followed by the places where virtuous ministers and good generals are arranged.

For example, Shandong is a typical ......

"At the beginning of man, nature is good and ......"

In a rural area in Yuncheng, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong, the children in the private school recite the catchy "Three Character Classic", but if you look closely, the number of children in the private school is only more than a dozen, which is completely inconsistent with the scale of the township of thousands of people.

If you look closely, on the low hill not far from the private school, some children with wooden shelves on their backs and some dry firewood on the shelves are sitting on the ground, looking at the children who are reading and writing in the private school from a distance, and their eyes are full of envy.

Compared to the children in private schools, who can afford to wear new clothes, most of these children who work on the farm are old clothes, and there are patches on their clothes, and they have rags cut from a variety of colors.

But even the brightest rags will turn to ashes after a year or two of farm work.

This is how a dozen children dressed in dusty and coarse linen clothes sit and look at the private school in the distance.

After a long time, the sky slowly darkened, and dusk appeared in the sky, and they did not care about envy, so they hurriedly got up and separated, and walked home with firewood on their backs.

Gou Wazi is one of them, his father and mother are tenants of Liu Ju's family in the township, renting three acres of dry land, the income is very embarrassing, the whole family of six people, crammed into two adobe houses, even the land is Liu Ju's family.

"What are you doing, dog? Pick up firewood for so long! ”

"Mother, it's hard to find firewood today, I've been looking for it for a long time!"

From afar, when the dog baby saw the mother washing clothes by the river, he immediately responded loudly.

"If you have received a thousand cuts, come and bring the food home, and tell your father to go home and prepare for dinner."

The woman was hammering and washing her clothes, and at the same time she yelled at the dog, who didn't want to be scolded, so she could only pick up the wooden basin.

He glanced down at the vegetables in the pot, leeks and cabbage, and a wild vegetable that he couldn't say.

"Go ahead."

"Huh!" Hearing the mother's words, the dog ran to the house with firewood on her back and a vegetable basin.

At the same age of twelve, he lives like a little adult, and every day when he opens his eyes, he has to run for his family.

In the early years, when the rules of the imperial court were strict, the county officials in each county also needed to let the ten-year-old children in the county go to the official school, and they could have a bowl of white porridge and pickles at noon every day.

But then I don't know why, it seems to say that the north lost the war, and then the official school was closed, and the dog baby could only go home.

With firewood on his back and vegetables on his back, he walked to a low hill that was not too good, and shouted at several figures who were working under the low hill:

"Grandpa, Dad, my mother said that I went home for dinner."

"Huh!" Hearing the voice of the dog, several figures in the field who were busy with spring planting straightened their backs.

A man in his fifties, a man in his thirties, and two fourteen or fifteen-year-olds.

The four of them were planting in the field, and after hearing the words of the dog baby, they waved their hands and motioned for the dog to go home first.

The dog baby was very obedient and didn't say anything, just carried firewood and vegetables and went home.

Their home is two small adobe houses with roofs made of straw and straw harvested last fall, and a cooking area is outside a mud house.

The dog baby put down the firewood and vegetables, turned the firewood into a pyre, and then pulled out some wood from the pyre that had dried enough next to it, plus the dry branches and hay he had collected, and piled it up in the fire.

He went back to the house for a while, and finally carried a bucket of water, two clay pots the size of a fist, and a fire fold pinned to his waist, and staggered out.

The bucket of water shook as he walked, splashing on him, but he had no complaints.

He skillfully placed the two clay pots beside the stove, carefully placed them, and then crouched down and lit them with a fire breaker.

After a busy tea time, the fire was successfully lit, and at this time his mother also walked back with the washed clothes.

She handed the tub full of clothes to the dog and said, "Take the clothes to dry." ”

"Huh!" When the dog baby heard this, he took the wooden basin and dried his clothes.

His mother took out the cauldron from the house, then picked up a clay pot next to it, opened the stopper, carefully poured five or six drops of oil, scraped it with a wooden spatula, and after giving the bottom of the pot some oil, she shouted to the dog:

"Dog, get a few eggs from the coop."

When the dog baby who had just hung up his clothes heard this, he hurriedly ran to the chicken coop locked in the side house, looked at the more than 30 chickens in the house, and pulled out all the eggs with a wooden shovel.

"One...... Two...... Three...... There are only four of them today......"

Looking at the plate with only four eggs, the dog baby was frustrated.

Those chickens are the treasures they have to sell for money to pay taxes during the summer and autumn taxes, and the only meat that can really be eaten is these eggs.

Four eggs, the whole family of six people eat, naturally not much.

But there was no way, he took the eggs to the water tank, got some water to wash them, and finally went out of the house and stood next to his mother with the eggs.

When his mother saw the eggs coming, she immediately put the cauldron on the stove, and the cabbage, leeks, and wild vegetables next to it had already been cut.

Put the eggs in the pot, then add the leeks, and a plate of leek eggs is ready.

At this time, the dog's father, his grandfather, and his brothers also returned.

The group washed their hands, moved the table out, and after putting the bowl on the table, the three dishes were also prepared and served on the table.

As for their staple food, it is leftovers from noon, mixed with some water and boiled.

In this way, each person is only five taels of staple food.

Soon, a large family began to eat, and at the dinner table, the dog's grandfather also spoke:

"I heard that the governor has changed, and he has changed an adult surnamed Yuan, this Governor Yuan is going to take the official school in Shandong, and it is estimated that someone will call the dog baby to go to school in a few days."

"Dad, the family is nervous, and it is difficult for the dog to pay for the books to go to school." The mother of the dog baby had a sad face.

"Alas...... The imperial court now hears that it likes to take the sea, and I don't know if the Cao Gong workers who are going to ship this year will still have an old man like me. Grandpa sighed when he heard the nervousness at home.

"Dad, don't think about it, it's okay if you don't have a Caogong, I heard that the shipyard in Tianjin needs a lot of labor, 30 yuan a day, which is better than Caogong." As the dog's father spoke, he took a piece of leek egg to Grandpa.

The dog baby listened quietly to the words of the adults, and the sensible had been eating wild vegetables, and his mother saw it, and gave him a few leek eggs quickly.

In their eyes, such a life can be regarded as a peaceful and prosperous world.

Of course, if the men in the family go out to work more this year, then they can still earn a lot of money after a few months of slack.

Therefore, the father of the dog baby also spoke:

"Dad, I want you and Huifen and the dog baby to be busy at home this year, and I will take the tiger baby and the wolf baby to Tianjin to earn some money."

"Otherwise, these 30 or so chickens in the family this year will not be able to pay the autumn tax."

"Hmm...... It's good. Mu Ne's grandfather nodded, and the mother of the dog baby was concerned: "How long will it take?" ”

"When the fifteenth farm is over, I will take people to set off, sell ten chickens to make a gift money for Li Juren, and ask him to help guide the way, and the rest of the money will be used as the road fare." The dog's father said thoughtfully.

"Less, right?" The dog baby is concerned, and the man is saying:

"If you can't pay the summer tax, so be it."

"If there is no problem with Lifu's salary, and he comes back before the autumn harvest, our third master should earn back more than a dozen taels of silver, and then we can also make a house at home, and find a marriage for the tiger baby and the wolf baby, and the dog baby can also go to Shangguan School, and the autumn tax for the coming year can also be settled."

Hearing that his eldest brother and second brother would be able to marry after the autumn harvest, the dog baby looked at the two brothers enviously, and they also smiled embarrassedly with red faces.

The time of one meal determines the direction of the family for the rest of the year, after washing the dishes and pots, sweeping the floor and putting away the table, a group of people returned to the house, and the sky was completely dark.

The room was darkened, and only the room of the dog's father and mother was lit, but the sound of "crunching" wood spinning sounded in the house.

The dog baby knew that it was his mother weaving, in order to subsidize the family more before the summer tax.

Maybe it was because he was too tired from work, and the grandfather and two brothers who were lying next to him fell asleep not long after, but the dog couldn't sleep.

He stayed up until his mother blew out the candles and went to bed, and he still had his eyes open, thinking about the children who were studying in private schools during the day.

"Buzz ......"

Suddenly, the dog baby heard the buzzing sound, and thought it was tinnitus, but the next second, the chickens in the chicken coop began to bark, flapping their wings, and it was very noisy.

Before the dog baby sat up, the wooden door of the house suddenly clanged, and the sound was very loud, which startled the dog baby.

Just when the dog thought that someone was slamming the door with a prank, he suddenly felt a sound from the adobe wall that he couldn't speak.

"What's going on? What's wrong? ”

The vision and movement made the sleeping people wake up one after another, but the dog baby didn't know why, and suddenly he was blinded.

At this moment, his mind was blank, and he didn't have any ideas, until the grandfather next to him yelled: "Run!" The earth dragon has turned over! ”

Grandpa shouted, while grabbing the dog baby next to him, the tiger baby ran out, after the dog baby reacted, grabbed his second brother, the four grandfathers and grandsons ran out of the wooden house with a roll, and his father and mother also ran out with a roll.

Not only them, but the entire people of Mahu Township ran out of Canada crying and howling.

The strong tremor continued, and then the earth began to explode, the heavens and the earth were shaking, and the dog baby's family hugged a big tree at the door, and they didn't dare to let go.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the tremor is getting stronger and stronger, and the sky is constantly shining, making people afraid to look at it directly.

In the course of the night, the sound of "boom" continued, and every house was shaken down, and the dog baby's family was no exception.

His mother cried and said that she wanted to release the chickens in the chicken coop, but his father grabbed him and scolded him for "not dying".

Such a scene was played out throughout Mahu Township, and it was not until the sky gradually brightened that the strong tremor finally stopped.

The dog baby's family let go of the tree at the door, only to find that a crack one foot wide and hundreds of steps long had appeared at the door of the house, and it was impossible to see the edge at a glance.

The whole of Mahu Township seemed to have been destroyed, all the walls, houses, roads, and canals were shattered, and a large number of cracks appeared on the surface.

The fields are full of people, clothed, undressed, wrapped in quilts, sitting under the trees in a daze, crying in the arms of family and friends, and the dogs and babies are embarrassed.

Walking and walking, the dog baby saw some of her friends sitting under the tree in a daze, after the dog baby passed, she lifted her clothes to show the dog baby, and the back was trampled on a piece of blue and purple, which was particularly scary.

At last he cried and said that his father and mother had fallen into the crack of the ground when he fled.

The dog baby glanced at the crack in the ground, which was more than four feet wide, and I was afraid that it was hopeless......

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"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"

On the seventh day of the second month of the second year of the Apocalypse, when the Chang Dynasty began, the faces of many ministers became ugly with the news of the urgency of Shandong's eight hundred miles.

"Entering the class~~~"

With the opening of Honglu Temple, the Han general waved the whip, Baiguanshan shouted long live, and at the same time, Zhu Youxiao also walked on the high platform and sat on the dragon chair.

What is rare is that Zhu Youzhen also came to participate in the court meeting, and the organization of this court meeting is undoubtedly a handling of the earthquake.

"Flat!"

Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth with a dark face, and after he spoke, after the hundred officials thanked him, Ye Xianggao, the first assistant of the cabinet, stepped forward and handed out the song with both hands:

"Long live, last night Yanzhou Mansion, Jinan Mansion, Dongchang Mansion and other places encountered a ground dragon turnover, and Jining Prefecture had a land dragon turnover that has not been seen in a century."

"The earthquake in Yuncheng sounded like thunder, the ground cracked and springs surged, the chickens and dogs barked, and the walls and houses collapsed."

"More than half of the pheasants in the Juye city wall have collapsed, and the Confucian Temple and the buildings are all broken.

"The earthquake in Licheng was like thunder, and the house shook the ground."

"Caozhou, Chengwu, Caoxian, Puzhou, Chaocheng, Jinxiang, and Yutai all had a big earthquake."

"This time the earth dragon turned over, affecting Yanzhou Dong'e, Pingyin, Dongpingzhou, Wenshang, Dingtao ......"

"Jinan Licheng, Jiyang, Qidong, Zouping, Yangxin, Zichuan, Xintai ......"

"Liaocheng, Xinxian, Guantao, Dongchang Prefecture, Qinghe, Jize Township, Feixiang, Cheng'an ...... Guangping Prefecture"

"In addition, Luoyang, Yanshi, Henan Prefecture, Qixian County, Weishi, Guide Prefecture, Shangqiu, Suizhou, Luyi, Yangwu and more than 30 prefectures and counties in Xuzhou, Xiao County, Pei County, Feng County, etc.

"Officials from all over the country rushed to deliver letters, millions of people were affected by the disaster, hundreds of thousands of houses collapsed, and countless city walls ......"

After the words of "......" were finished, the entire court suddenly lost its voice.

Millions of people have been affected on an unprecedented scale.

Although the earth dragon can still dig out food from the ruins to eat after turning over, the collapsed houses cannot be restored.

In the words of later generations, the losses caused by this major earthquake may be as high as tens of millions of taels......

In Zhu Youzhen's memory, he is not familiar with this earthquake, perhaps in the context of the end of the Ming Dynasty, such a major earthquake is not as good as the upcoming drought, but for Zhu Youzhen, this is a difficult problem that needs to be solved.

"The royal brother and the courtiers thought that they should use the exemption and grain transfer, and the disaster relief to quell the disaster of the three provinces."

Zhu Youzhen stood up and took the lead in responding, and such a response was actually very comprehensive, especially the point of grain transfer.

However, after the idea of disaster relief through work was raised, the officials frowned, but still did not refute it.

Zhu Youzhen's advice is good, this is everyone's cognition, even Zhu Youxiao thinks that his younger brother's advice is good, and no one should refute it, but after all, he still underestimated some people's brain circuits.

"Hooray! Chen Wanyan impeached the King of Qi for causing chaos in the dynasty, and this time the earth dragon turned over is a warning from heaven! ”

Thou shalt be thy maid also...... Zhu Youzhen scolded secretly, and turned his head to see which cerebral palsy came to impeach him.

As soon as he turned around, he saw a new face.

When he was still wondering who this was, he saw Yang Lian's ugly expression, and now he knew that this guy should be a member of the Donglin Party with a mouth like Gao Panlong.

"Hooray! Last year, the king of Qi sent troops to the south, and Lingbi broke the Yellow River. This year, the king of Qi sent troops to escort Qian Liang south, and the earth dragon turned over, isn't this situation a warning from heaven? ”

Ten thousand words are righteous and righteous, and the righteous and awe-inspiring appearance really makes Zhu Youzhen happy.

was said by Wan Yanyang, and he almost felt that he was targeted by God.

"The history of the Ten Thousand Emperors is exaggerated, how can the things that are common in natural disasters and man-made disasters be counted on the head of King Qi?"

There is no way, Yang Lian took the initiative to stand up and take on the firepower, and his standing up immediately made some officials in the Donglin Party uncomfortable.

You Yang Lian is also Qingliu, and now Qingliu is impeaching the vassal king of the troubled dynasty, if you don't help, forget it, and still help the vassal king speak?

"Long live, if what the minister said is wrong, he is willing to be punished!"

Wan Yanyang stood up, looking like he was a loyal minister, which can be said to disgust Zhu Youxiao.

Because, Zhu Youxiao immediately said with a black face:

"If according to what Wan Yushi said, then when the Yellow River broke last year, I remember that Wan Yushi had passed by the Yellow River, and in the first month of this year, Wan Yushi inspected Henan, Shandong and other places."

"According to this, isn't it the history of the Ten Thousand Emperors that the heavens warned? And the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor are just cleaning up the mess for the Ten Thousand Imperial History? ”

"Hooray! The ministers are loyal to the country, why does the heavens warn the ministers? Wan Yanyang knelt down, with a sad face, as if Zhu Youxiao was about to behead him.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

"Then in that case, why do you say that Heaven is a warning to King Qi?" Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, grabbed his sleeve and got up while saying:

"Right now, the people of the three provinces are suffering from the disaster, and you don't think about how to provide disaster relief, but you are framing good ministers here, what is the reason?"

"Where is General Han?!"

Zhu Youxiao shouted, and immediately the Han generals on both sides of the gate of the Wenhua Hall trotted in.

Zhu Youxiao pointed to Wan Yanyang, who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a gloomy face:

"Since Wan Yu Shi said that it was a warning from heaven, then please ask Wan Yu Shi to apologize on my behalf!"

"Send Wan Yushi to the Altar of Mountains and Rivers, and apologize to God for three days!"

"Hooray! The minister ...... "Wan Yanyang suddenly became anxious when he heard it, isn't it to kneel for three days and three nights to apologize for three days?" It's going to be dead.

However, before he could say his words, a Han general covered his mouth with his hand.

"Alas...... It's insulting......"

Looking at the small movements of the Han general, the Wenchen next to him shook his head, but he also knew that if he let this guy continue, it is estimated that he would not want to continue the court meeting today.

In this way, Wan Yanyang was taken down, and Zhu Youzhen also felt a lot more happy.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao also spoke:

"The plan offered by the King of Qi is good, and the will of the Emperor is passed on, and the affected areas will be exempted from taxes for one year, and the summer taxes in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places will be used locally."

"300,000 taels of silver were allocated for internal funds, and 800,000 stones of grain were allocated in Taicang for disaster relief."

"The local government Yin must investigate clearly, how many people were killed and injured this time when the earth dragon turned over."

"Long live the Shengming......" Hearing that the emperor was willing to pay for the silver, the officials sang one after another, but one person in the crowd frowned.

This person is Zhu Youzhen, and the reason why he frowned was that the disaster relief funds were too small.

Although it is an exaggeration to say that millions of people were affected, there should always be hundreds of thousands, especially in Dongchang and Yanzhou, which were the epicenters of the earthquake.

300,000 taels or 800,000 stones, plus the summer tax of the four provinces, will not exceed 800,000 taels of silver and 2 million stones of grain at most.

At present, I don't know how many acres of land the earth dragon has injured by turning over, if the injury is less, then without affecting the spring planting, these money and grain can still last until the autumn harvest.

But if it hurts too much, this little money and food can't do much at all.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen sighed in his heart, and then did not speak immediately, but found his imperial brother after the dispersal of the dynasty and said to him:

"Brother, is there less money and food for disaster relief? The Imperial Horse Supervisor can give another 500,000 taels. ”

"It doesn't take that much, does it? There is still a lot of local money and grain in the three provinces. Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised that his younger brother attached so much importance to disaster relief.

However, for his words, Zhu Youzhen could only shake his head and say:

"It's still less, how about another 500,000 taels of silver in the name of the Imperial Horse Supervisor?"

500,000 taels, buying grain from Huguang and Jiangxi, enough to buy 1.45 million stones, enough for millions of people to eat for a month or two, plus the original money and grain, enough to last until after the autumn harvest.

If it is not enough at that time, then the Imperial Horse Supervisor will also collect the autumn tax and continue to provide disaster relief.

"Since my brother said so, let's give another 500,000 taels of silver, which happens to be escorted by Leopard Taowei."

Zhu Youxiao saw that his younger brother insisted, so he could only shake his head helplessly, and Zhu Youxiao said a few words of greeting after listening, and then left the place.

But Zhu Youxiao looked at the back of his younger brother leaving, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian, who was next to him, immediately asked, "Is Long Live worrying about disaster relief?" ”

"It's not ......" Zhu Youxiao responded, turned around and got on the step, and then said:

"My brother is still too weak......"

Zhu Youxiao said this not because he was dissatisfied, but because he felt that Zhu Youzhen was too close and weak to the people.

The way of kings taught in the Book of Shang Jun is that the people are tired and weak.

On the other hand, Zhu Youzhen, what he wants is for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

But if the people live and work in peace and contentment, and are idle, then they are prone to chaos.

Zhu Youxiao was dissatisfied with this, but it was not that he felt that he couldn't suppress the people, but that he felt that his younger brother's character might suffer a big loss in the future.

"Let's go."

Zhu Youxiao sat down and spoke, and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly asked people to carry the chariot towards the Qianqing Palace.

It's just that after walking around, Zhu Youxiao still turned his head and glanced at Zhu Youzhen's back uneasily, and then sighed......