The rooster cries and the dog barks, this is the sound of the countryside, and this kind of rural sound was Zhu Youxiao's favorite sound when he walked out of the capital.

It's just that on the way back after seven days of hunting in Nanyuan, he didn't have the joy he was when he came, but looked out of the glass window of the four-wheeled carriage.

Looking out of the carriage, both sides of the official road are covered with dry and yellow grass, and the official road is also dusty.

On both sides of the road are cracked farmland, and on the edge of the farmland are more than a dozen people constantly stepping on waterwheels.

The waterwheel pumps up the water from the river bed and a large amount of silt and pours it into the field, and the cracked field is filled with green and yellow ears of rice.

The spring drought lasted for a long time and spread widely, affecting the people's spring planting and crop growth.

It has not rained for 97 days in Beizhili, and the 136 small rivers and streams and 234 embankments in the territory have dried up, and there is still water, and only the rivers that can be said to be named are left.

"If it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid that most areas of Beizhili will have no grain harvest this year......"

When Zhu Youxiao looked at the scene outside the car, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting next to him, said this silently.

As soon as this sentence came out, Zhu Youxiao immediately turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, and said with a sad face:

"Does my brother have any arrangements?"

"Natural disasters are like this, and we can only do our best." Zhu Youzhen sighed and said:

"The younger brother has ordered Bi Ziyan of the household department to go to Huguang, Jiangxi and other places to buy grain after the autumn harvest in September."

"In addition, the Changping position of the old port and the Changping position of Ryukyu and Liangguang are also being transferred northward from province to province."

"This year, the local government's standing position has more than 9 million stone of grain, and if it is transferred north one by one, the grain price in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Beizhili can be stabilized at 400 wen and one stone."

"How long will it last?" Zhu Youxiao asked with a little worry, and Zhu Youzhen said after a moment of contemplation:

"How long it lasts depends on the local people......"

"If the people rush the grain, Chang Ping 9 million stone grain can only hold out until October."

"However, Bi Ziyan allocated 2 million taels of silver to Huguang and Jiangxi, and after the autumn harvest, the price of grain in these places was roughly 300 wen per stone, and 2 million taels could buy more than 6 million stone of grain."

"Coupled with the grain of Shandong and other places this year, as well as the fields in various places, the imperial court may be able to collect 30 million stone grain."

"Imperial Horse ......" Zhu Youxiao wanted to ask the Imperial Horse Supervisor's military tuntian, but after thinking about it, most of the imperial horse supervisor's military tuntian is gathered in the north, and now the four northern provinces are suffering from drought, I am afraid that this year's imperial horse supervisor will ......

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor's annual income this year is probably less than 30 million stone ......," Zhu Youzhen said silently.

In other words, the field endowment in the seventh year of the Apocalypse is more than 10 million stones lower than that in the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

The two brothers were speechless, but after a long time, Zhu Youzhen said:

"The planting area of sweet potatoes, potatoes and other things is not small, and they are all cultivated as disaster relief grain, with a cultivated area of 30 million mu."

"Although there is a severe drought this year, only more than 7 million mu have been affected, and more than 22 million mu have survived."

"With the yield of sweet potatoes, if there is really not enough food in the four provinces, you can use rice and sweet potatoes to cook sweet potato porridge, and only need to use 10 million stone rice with 10,000 stone sweet potatoes, so that more than 30 million people can survive the spring planting and the autumn harvest of the next year."

Although Zhu Youzhen said this, his mood was still heavy.

He knew very well that the key to this catastrophe was not them, but the people themselves.

After a few years of cultivating the people's livelihood, the people's grain storage is bound to be an astronomical amount.

It is impossible for Daming to use all his strength to relieve the disaster at the beginning, that will only fall into a dead circle and drag Daming directly to death.

What should be done is to let the people use their own food to resist natural disasters first, and after a year or two to gather food from all over the world, and then start to work for relief.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty has two years to make some adjustments to the situation, such as Jianyu in the northeast and Annam in the southwest......

In short, the people in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhili have to move one after another......

Similarly, under natural disasters, it is also a good time to check the black households.

Count the black households and move them to the south, such as Annan and Sanxuan Liuwei......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen spoke:

"There has been a long drought in the interior, and there is a great cold outside the border, although the cold will reduce grain production, but as long as there is enough land, people can still survive."

"The younger brother is ready to start moving troops against Jianyu after the autumn harvest."

"The army that needs to be dispatched in this battle is the 220,000 troops of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion and the Shangzhi Governor's Office.

"After the battle, the people will be placed to cultivate in Nuergan and other places, and 90,000 people will be sent to the Zhizhi, and if the troops are sent from Beizhili, at least 360,000 people will need to be transferred."

"The Governor's Office of the Eastern Army sent 120,000 troops, sending troops from all over Liaodong, and the people were mainly Liaomin."

Zhu Youzhen is using war for relief, and this method is often difficult to work, because waging a war requires the consumption of money and food.

If the war is waged and people from afar are transferred, the cost of the war will be raised to an exaggerated figure.

Just like the 90,000 people in Shangzhi, if you transfer people from Liaodong and go out from Liaodong, you will recruit up to 270,000 people.

However, he chose to be transferred from Shanxi, Beizhili and other places.

Without a strong finance, it would be impossible to carry out this kind of war, and Zhu Youzhen's self-confidence comes from the "three divisions".

Salt Wine Tea ......

The taxes of these three divisions are enough to supply this sweeping battle, and in the battle of Annam in the south, Zhu Youzhen does not have to worry about it at all.

Hong Chengchou even knows better than Zhu Youzhen how the means of rushing seedlings and expanding the industry are operated.

You must know that the old port is short of people at present, and all kinds of mineral deposits and reclamation need to use a large number of people.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, next year's situation should be a major drought in the north and south that will affect several provinces.

At that time, the north will move to the northeast, and the south will move to the old port and Annam.

Zhu Youzhen has already thought about where to go for the victims, and the migrant ships of several major shipyards have also formed a scale in the past few years, and all the ships can be used to relocate millions of people to the south at one time.

In other words, everything is ready, and now it is waiting to be implemented.

"The feudal lords have returned to the capital one after another, and the fleets going to the West will arrive at the port of Tianjin on the ninth day of the third month."

Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth suddenly, but the conversation changed sharply, and he discussed the matter of the feudal domains.

He looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting next to him, with a hint of incomprehensible thought in his eyes:

"What does my brother think about overseas vassals? And how are you going to do it......"

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he unhurriedly took out an aluminum wine jug from his arms, opened it and took a sip before saying:

"First greet the fleet that goes to the West, and then let the feudal lords live in Beijing and walk around for ten days."

"Ten days later, the 12 battalions of soldiers and horses who had prepared to go south were transferred from the Governor's Office of the Southern Army to go south to take over the old port, and ordered the remaining six guards of the navy to prepare for battle."

"After the feudal lords have discussed, what do you need? When it is necessary to move as many people as you need, the money is to be collected first. ”

"The six guards of the navy will set off from Tianzhu first, and they will be defeated in the domain."

"At that time, the matter of Jiaozhi will almost be settled, and the children of the clans of the clans who participated in the battle of Jiaozhi will be able to go to the domain to change the defense together with the Gongwei battalion of the Southern Military Governor's Mansion and the remaining six guards and horses of the navy."

"The vassals were relocated, and the navy moved its base to the Cham area in the south of Cochin, and built three sub-bases in Palembang, Nanhai, and Xiaoxiyang Supervision Division."

"The Lesser Western Inspectorate maintains the strength of the three Gongwei Battalions and the Sanwei Navy all year round, supervises the feudal domains, and works with the naval fleet of Palembang to maintain the shipping lanes of the Lesser Western Ocean and protect the migration of the people."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhu Youxiao, and said:

"At present, there are more than 14,600 cargo ships in the city and Huangdian, and more than 2,300 civilian merchant ships."

"These ships can carry one or two hundred people in small ones, and nearly a thousand people in large ones."

"Mobilize all ships to move millions of people from the Daming coast to the sea every year."

"There are nearly 10,000 criminals in the Ming Criminal Department every year, and these nearly 10,000 people are transferred to the feudal clans, which is the income of 100,000 taels of silver."

"As long as the disaster victims and the hungry people are guaranteed to be distributed by the vassals to cultivate arable land and plough cattle, more and more people will be relocated."

"My brother is worried that the strength of the feudal domains is comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact this is not possible."

"Why do you say that?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, while Zhu Youzhen said easily:

"When the feudal lords arrived in Tianzhu, they were the local young people, and they needed a steady stream of blood transfusions from the Ming Dynasty to take root."

"Instead of thinking about how to restrict them, we should think about how to make them expand and expand, and control them to prevent conflicts from erupting within them."

"The simplest is three aspects, one is to recover the Uszzang, from the north to the south."

"One is to recover the three declarations and six comforts, and suppress the feudal domains from east to west."

"The last, and most important, is to oversee the vassals from the sea."

"Of course, the most important thing is to leave a port for each of their domains to go to sea."

Zhu Youzhen knows very well what the port means.

Under the high pressure of the Ming Dynasty as a suzerain, the internal strife of the feudal domains will be suppressed, and the market demand for suppression will be followed by contact with Western colonizers and Western colonial methods and effects.

The attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the outside world, or the attitude of the Han people towards the outside world, is that "those who are not as big as me are barbarians".

Thinking that the vassal would be better for the barbarians than for the Han Chinese? This kind of thing could not have happened in the Ming Dynasty.

The humiliation left by the Song and Yuan dynasties made the officials of the Ming Dynasty reluctant to admit that the alien race was nobler than themselves, even if their faces were swollen.

This can be said to be a kind of inferiority complex that was humiliated by the resurgence of foreign culture, which is why the Ming Dynasty was able to play so bloody and resist foreign culture.

When the surroundings were full of other races, the feudal clans would only find a way to create a class and unite the displaced people.

This is the same as the defensive heart of the small clan Ling Da clan in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen is not worried at all.

As long as there are ports, Han Chinese, and a large number of aliens to drive, the contradictions between the feudal domains will turn into foreign affairs.

Moreover, whether the vassals could destroy the Mughals during Zhu Youzhen's lifetime is still a little doubtful.

Although the matter of mercury thunderate has been recognized, the firing gun can also slowly form a production line after the mercury thunderate and steam engine come out.

But there is such a thing as a firing gun, and it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to use it for the feudal clans, except for his Qi clan.

The Ming Dynasty must maintain technological iterations with the feudal domains in order to subdue the feudal domains.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao was also pondering when he heard this.

He thought about his younger brother's thoughts, and only felt that although it was a bit troublesome, it was indeed a good deal to be able to use this reason to drive the feudal clans away, "cut the feudal domains" in disguise, and obtain a large amount of land and silver.

"You can do this matter, pay attention to the proportions, and grasp the feudal domains."

Zhu Youxiao still chose to believe in his younger brother, after all, since his younger brother supported him to sit on the throne, his intuition has not been missed.

Although there are often some flaws in some things, they are still flawed in the end.

"Brother, rest assured, it's ......" Zhu Youzhen responded with a smile, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

The horse-drawn carriage with laughter drove across the official road, leaving a trail of dust that slowly fell into the cracked farmland on both sides of the road......

"In the land of the four provinces, except for the drought in Luoyang, only the rest of the places have been cut off from water sources, and His Royal Highness the King of Qi has already made arrangements for this matter, first adjusting the regular position to move north to stabilize grain prices and appease the people."

When Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen returned to the capital, in the Wenhua Palace, Gu Bingqian, the first assistant of the cabinet, sat in his position and talked eloquently.

Under his position, the party ministers sat aside, and more than 40 people watched their noses and hearts.

As far as the parties are concerned, this great drought will not affect them in any way.

The three parties of Zhejiang, Xuankun and Zhejiang, led by Yao Zongwen, were more concerned about the upcoming liquor tax, while the Qi party and the Chu party had actually been crippled, and the drought could not take their turn, so naturally there was no reason to get involved.

However, Han Yi, Sun Chengzong, Zuo Guangdou and others from the Donglin family frowned, and Han Yi even said:

"Although the northward transfer of Changping is good, but the number is insufficient, there are more than 30 million people in the north, and the more than 9 million Shi Changping grain in the imperial court can last?"

"This matter, His Royal Highness has his own arrangements......" Gu Bingqian frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with Han Yi's questioning.

"Your Highness is a human, not a god!" Han Yi looked at Gu Bingqian, who only knew execution, and said in disgust:

"If His Highness is a god and does everything right, then what do you need the cabinet and hundreds of officials to do?"

"There's no need to be so angry......" It seemed that Han Yi had said too much, and Sun Chengzong hurriedly said:

"There are all the officials in the court, and it is impossible to always let His Highness give advice alone, so it will be too tiring......"

"You can still discuss with hundreds of officials, maybe there can be a better way." Zuo Guangdou couldn't help but speak.

Gu Bingqian was a little jealous of the relationship between Sun Chengzong and Zuo Guangdou and Zhu Youzhen, so he didn't get angry, but suppressed his anger and said:

"The three divisions will start to collect taxes in the autumn harvest, and the imperial court will have sufficient financial resources at that time, so it will naturally be able to survive this drought."

Gu Bingqian's voice fell, and everyone looked at Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department who was sitting on the side, and Bi Ziyan also frowned slightly, feeling that after the financial concentration, the burden of the household department was heavier.

However, in his position, Bi Ziyan did not evade, but gave a hundred officials to answer:

"The tax revenue of the three divisions and the municipal shipping department should be able to ensure the food ...... of the people"

Seeing that Bi Ziyan said so, Han Yi was no longer entangled, and Gu Bingqian also took out a note:

"Jingluo Hong Chengchou has sent a note, the Western Army Governor's Office, the Eastern Army Governor's Office, and the Navy Governor's Mansion have begun to recruit people to open up the road from Sichuan to Yunnan and Huguang to Guangxi."

"Hong Chengchou rejected the power given by the imperial court to him to allocate Sichuan, Huguang taxes and silver fields, and believed that the imperial court needed this money and grain more than him."

"......" Listening to Gu Bingqian's words, the more everyone listened, the more wrong they became.

They thought that Gu Bingqian wanted to say that Hong Chengchou was hard, but they didn't want him to say that Hong Chengchou was sympathetic to the court.

The officials are sympathetic to the imperial court, but this is still a rare picture in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Gu Bingqian took out this kind of thing suddenly, and it seemed that he wanted to use Hong Chengchou's incident to show that the Qi Wang Party was for the country and the people......

"Hmph......" Many officials sneered in their hearts, and Gu Bingqian continued:

"At present, His Royal Highness means that after the autumn harvest, he will first move a group of people to the three mansions of Taining......"

As he spoke, he glanced at the reaction of the Donglin Party, after all, the three prefectures of Taining were now governed by Yuan Keli and a group of degraded Donglin officials.

However, what disappointed him was that Han Yi and the others did not react violently.

It's just that it doesn't matter, he released this news so that Donglin can get the benefits and not make things happen in the following matter.

Therefore, when he saw that no one was responding, he took out a note, pushed it to the table, and said:

"This is the follow-up ...... of Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory investigating Sanniang Eucalyptus"

As soon as the words "Three Ladies and Eucalyptus" came out, many people frowned, among which the officials of the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun and Kunming were the mainstay.

They all thought that Sanniang Zi Eucalyptus had stayed at the level of thousands of officials and hundreds of thousands of officials last year.

But I don't want to think that now Gu Bingqian has brought up the three ladies again, and the reason why Yao Zongwen and the others frowned after hearing this eucalyptus is also very simple.

Among the hundreds of thousands of officials, nearly one-third of them are members of their five parties.

Donglin was barely implicated, while the rest were mostly other small parties and non-partisan factions.

Now that they suddenly say that there is a follow-up to this eucalyptus, it is no wonder that they are nervous.

"Hehe......" Gu Bingqian, who was aware of the demeanor of the five parties, chuckled in his heart, but said with a serious face on the surface:

"This eucalyptus is not so simple, among the smugglers, there are even many names of senior officials who have retired."

"After the joint investigation of Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory, the follow-up list of Eucalyptus involved in this ...... was summarized"

"This follow-up affected a total of 2,483 officials, countless officials, and 327 generals."

Gu Bingqian paused, and then continued: "At present, the three divisions are still needed to jointly interrogate these suspected officials, what do you think?" ”

"......" After Gu Bingqian finished speaking, the parties did not open their mouths and answer in an endless stream like the previous party struggle, but they all fell silent.

Obviously, they saw that Zhu Youzhen still had a lot of black material about Sanniangzi Eucalyptus on his hands.

In other words, no matter whether there is black material or not, as long as there is the third lady, what crime he wants to cover is up to him.

The year before, the year before, and the year now......

Zhu Youjian organized a big eucalyptus in the spring and summer and dismissed officials and officials, and fools could see that they were paving the way for Enke's Yanshan students.

A three-lady eucalyptus is almost comparable to the three eucalyptus of Hongwu.

Who knows how long Zhu Youzhen will play with this eucalyptus? So they had to find a way to strangle the sprouts.

It's just that under what excuse to strangle the sprouts, this is very debatable......

After a long time, it was Tang Binyin who spoke first:

"The three ladies have spread widely, there are too many officials to clean up, and the officials who were cleaned up last year have not made up for it this year."

"If you want to do it again, it will make people panic when the time comes, the yamen of the state capitals will lack officials, and the decrees of the imperial court will not work, then the gains will outweigh the losses."

"Indeed......" Gu Tianjun also estimated and said:

"This eucalyptus, maybe it can be put on hold for a year, or it can be tried slowly, and when this year's Enke is finalized, don't pursue it anymore, who knows if there are any mistakes and injustices?"

Tang Binyin and Gu Tianjun put forward a cryptic argument that they could accept the Qi Wang Party's installation of officials.

But the current situation is that the Qi Wang Party has not filled up some vacant official positions and began to continue to attack them, which is inevitably a little ugly.

However, for people like Gu Bingqian, he doesn't care if he looks ugly or not, what he cares about is whether he can get through the decree arranged by Zhu Youzhen.

"You can't say that, let the corrupt officials and corrupt officials get out, will the people still dare to trust the court? Does anyone dare to report it? ”

An imperial historian of the Qi Wang Party stood up and said without humility or arrogance, very much Gu Bingqian's heart.

"Is that going to make people panic?" Yao Zongwen frowned angrily, and Gu Bingqian saw Yao Zongwen step down, and immediately said:

"You ......"

"It's not good for the imperial examination to make people panic."

Suddenly, Cui Chengxiu, who had been sitting, spoke, obviously he didn't want to watch the five parties being disabled.

If the five parties are disabled, the Qi Wang Party will be the only one, and when the time comes, he will have to rely on the Qi Wang Party's snort to do things.

Moreover, the eunuchs did not catch a few of the official positions that were knocked out of the five parties.

Rather than making the Qi Wang Party popular, it is better to maintain the current situation first.

"You can check it, but you have to check it carefully, check it slowly," Han Yi also opened his mouth suddenly, which made the corners ......of Gu Bingqian's eyes twitch slightly.

Obviously, the current Qi Wang Party has become a lost party, and when Gu Bingqian saw this, he also knew that he would not be able to get through the three ladies today.

It depends on the owner to beat the dog, and under the pressure of the group, he can move out of Zhu Youzhen, but that would be to let the owner end.

This kind of trivial matter needs to be moved out of Zhu Youzhen, so he Gu Bingqian is in the heart of His Royal Highness King Qi, I am afraid that his status will decline, so he chose a roundabout way:

"This eucalyptus can be checked slowly, but the triage of the three divisions is too troublesome, and the officials below the sixth grade, I think it will be tried by Dali Temple alone."

"How can this ......" Yao Zongwen wanted to speak, but he saw Tang Binyin's eyes signaling, and immediately closed his mouth.

"This matter, put it on hold for the time being, and leave it to tomorrow to discuss it later."

"Seconded ......"

"Seconded ......"

Tang Bin opened his mouth suddenly, and the party officials also echoed when they heard this.

Obviously, they didn't move out of the way, and Gu Bingqian saw that nearly half of the more than forty officials in the hall seconded the proposal, so he could only squint his eyes and announce the dissolution.

After the discussion was dismissed, the officials of the five parties echoed Cui Chengxiu, and Gu Bingqian called the people of the Qi Wang Party.

Sandwiched between the two, Zuo Guangdou and Sun Chengzong glanced at each other, helpless......