"Hand on! There are still people alive here! ”

"Help!"

In the early morning, in the ruins of the capital, millions of soldiers and civilians are gathering to participate in the disaster relief.

After investigation, the earthquake originated from the Yanshan earthquake zone, and the earthquake affected ten provinces including Shaanxi and Hexi in the west, Liaodong in the north, and Zhili in the south and south.

In order to provide disaster relief, the Ming Dynasty mobilized 600,000 troops, soldiers and horses in the north, as well as nearly 3 million people, which cost a lot.

From the first day of September to the end of September, more than 600,000 people were rescued, more than 100,000 were killed, and more than 1 million were injured.

On the 10th day of the first month of September, the Ministry of Household and Industry agreed on the amount of silver to be given to those who were unable to repair collapsed houses and those who could not be buried in coffins.

For the collapsed houses, the imperial court paid money to build them, and for those who died because of the earthquake and still had a living, the imperial court gave each person ten taels of post-disaster compensation.

However, after the recital, Emperor Zhu Ciran thought that the number was still small, so he raised the number from ten taels per person to thirty taels per person.

At the same time, he was particularly concerned about the damage to the families of soldiers and their homes who had been displaced by the border areas.

On September 12, Emperor Zhu Ci issued an edict to the household department, asking him to distribute 20 taels of consolation silver to the families whose families had joined the army and were affected by the disaster.

On September 15, Emperor Zhu Ciran sent the crown prince Zhu Heyin to lead a hundred officials to worship the Temple of Heaven.

On September 18, when the aftershocks did not stop, Emperor Zhu Ciran personally led the kings, civil and military officials to the Temple of Heaven to pray.

On September 20, Emperor Zhu Ciran decreed that the affected provinces would be exempted from taxes for one year.

It seems that all kinds of effects have played a role, and the earthquake that had been constantly aftershocking has begun to subside, and Daming can also devote himself to post-disaster reconstruction.

On the first day of October, the Ming Dynasty issued 50 million taels of disaster relief bonds, and the local people and feudal lords extended a helping hand.

As early as after the news of the earthquake broke, the Indian vassals and Qi kingdoms near the Ming Dynasty and the railways sent their sons to Nanjing to wait for the summons.

Therefore, at the beginning of the issuance of treasury bonds, the princes of the world subscribed to treasury bonds one after another.

Among them, Qi State subscribed 15 million taels, the Indian Vassals subscribed a total of 5 million taels, the Kunlun Domains subscribed 4 million taels, and Yongguo and Dingguo subscribed 500,000 taels.

In addition, vassal states such as Korea, Siam, and Nanzhang also subscribed a total of 3 million taels.

With the help of the feudal lords alone, 27.5 million taels of 50 million taels of treasury bonds were subscribed, and the people of the provinces, who had not been hit by earthquakes, followed suit and subscribed for the remaining treasury bonds.

For the post-disaster reconstruction work in Beizhili, the Ming Dynasty lasted from September of the ninth year of Qiansheng to May of the tenth year of Qiansheng, and solved the livelihood problems of most families in the form of work-for-relief.

On June 15, the food problem caused by the earthquake in Daming appeared ten months later, and food prices in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Ribens and other cities continued to rise until October.

On the first day of July, Guo Zhuangtu, the political envoy of Yunnan, wanted to exempt several prefectures and counties in Yunnan from paying taxes, and the emperor approved it.

On 15 August, the French Chancellor of the Exchequer again advised Louis XIV to limit the influx of grain from abroad, but Louis XIV again refused because he was planning a bigger war.

At the same time, Wilhelm III, the ruling Dutch ruler, was also diplomatically active in conspiring against the hegemony of Louis XIV of France.

In September, war broke out between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and Louis XIV saw an opportunity to expand his French influence in Germany.

In October, the French invasion forced an alliance between the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Saxony, and the Kingdom of Palatine in the hope of halting French expansion in Germany.

In Layue, the people in the northwest mountainous area of Luchuan rebelled again, and Mu Cheng, the general soldier of Luchuan, led his troops to suppress it, beheaded 30,000, and the emperor gave the earl of Lijiang.

In the first month of the 11th year of Qiansheng, Zhu You, the 70-year-old King of Qi, was sick in bed, but recovered after diagnosis and treatment.

On February 12, Emperor Zhu Ci ordered the crown prince Zhu Heyin to go to Qi with his grandson Zhu Yixuan, and gave the king of Qi 30 boxes of treasures and 500 wild ginseng.

On February 15, Xia Wanchun, the head of the household department of Qi State, said that "at the end of last year, the country had 50 million people, 600 million mu of cultivated land, and the world was happy." ”

On March 20, the crown prince Zhu Heyin and the crown grandson Zhu Yixuan arrived in Xijing City, and the two entered the palace of Qi with their escorts, and worshiped Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, as their juniors.

On the first day of April, Shuofang Marquis Cao Bianjiao died in his house at the age of 78.

On the second day of the fourth month, Mi Zhi Bo Li Zicheng died in the house at the age of 76.

On the third day of the fourth month, the crown prince Zhu Heyin reported the matter to the emperor.

On 18 April, at 2:30 a.m., there was another major earthquake in Beijing, with a sound like thunder, destroying more than 100 houses and killing and injuring more than 30 people.

On 29 April, from mid-afternoon, there were four consecutive earthquakes in Beijing, the houses shook, and the officials and people once again withdrew from sleeping in the open until 18 May, and the aftershocks had not yet subsided.

On May 20, Emperor Zhu Ciran learned of the death of Cao Bianjiao and Li Zicheng, and posthumously crowned Cao Bianjiao as the Duke of Cao Guo, and Li Zi became the Marquis of Yan'an.

In June, Dingguo, Yongguo, and Ruiguo joined forces with the Mongol Ezhe, and launched a flank attack on the Ottomans with an allied army of 90,000.

Since the main Ottoman forces were all on the Western Front at this moment, the Eastern Front was defeated one after another, and parts of the southern Caucasus, the Arabian Peninsula, and Egypt were lost one after another.

On the 10th day of September, the coalition forces stopped their march and signed the Peace Treaty of Tehrand with the Ottomans, recognizing the sovereignty of the coalition forces over the seized lands.

On September 20, Mongolia reached an agreement with Dingguo to cede the Dnieper region to the given state, and Mongolia received the southern Caucasus.

In October, Xu Wanggu, a bachelor of geology from Xijing University in Qi, arrived in Nanjing and started geology at Nanjing University.

On the fifth day of the first month of winter, Kim Xuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, died in office at the age of 72.

His eldest son, Jin Cen, the prefect of Jinshan of Qi State, attacked the Marquis of Yongping.

On the sixth day of the first month, the emperor ordered someone to paint a portrait of Jin Xuan, and the emperor of Tiange Shizuwu was the tenth to the left, only after the emperor's teacher Sun Chengzong.

On the seventh day of the first month, the second assistant Yan Yinshao was promoted to the first assistant, Sun Kewang was promoted to the second assistant, and Yan Yingyuan, the right servant of the Imperial Procuratorate, entered the cabinet, and Wang Liang, the servant of the Criminal Department, succeeded him.

In the first month of the twelfth year of Qiansheng, many cabinet ministers were sparse, and the emperor approved them one by one, and selected capable ministers from the six books to enter the cabinet.

In February, Daming Pao published a list of the new cabinet ministers and the six ministries and teams:

[Cabinet First Auxiliary Yan Yinshao, Cabinet Second Auxiliary Sun Kewang, Wuying Palace Cabinet Minister Li Dingguo, Wenhua Palace Cabinet Minister Yan Yingyuan, Huagai Palace Cabinet Minister Yu Chenglong, Jinshen Palace Cabinet Minister Chen Tingjing, Wenyuan Pavilion Minister Guo Zhuangtu. 】

[Wang Tang, the secretary of the household department, Guo Xiu, the secretary of the ministry, Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Li Guangdi, the secretary of the criminal department, Yao Qisheng, the secretary of the military department, and Jin Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry]

On the second day of the first month of March, the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court died of illness at the age of eighty-two, nicknamed "Wencheng", and deserved to enjoy the seventh place on the left of the seventh floor of the Heavenly Pavilion.

The Emperor's actions gave many people a rough idea of the place he had left for himself.

The Seventh Pavilion of the Heavenly Pavilion, that is, in the emperor's opinion, his merits are second only to Taizu, Chengzu, Shizu, and Xianzong.

It can be said that the emperor is relatively modest, after all, in terms of Xianzong's merits, even a horse can't catch up with him, but he didn't move Xianzong to the seventh layer, but he himself was ranked seventh.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, Gu Yanwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, died in the house, nicknamed "Wenzhong", and Zhang Ying, the waiter, succeeded him as Shangshu.

On the fifth day of the fourth month, the slave rebellion of the Kunlun Domains was finally pacified after repeated suppression and encirclement and suppression.

According to officials from the Kunlun Supervisory Mission, the number of rebels killed in the rebellion was as high as one million, and the war severely damaged the inland economy of the Kunlun domains, with only the coastal areas sparing.

After this slave rebellion, the number of slaves in the Kunlun Eight Domains plummeted to less than three million.

At the same time, the price of slaves rose because Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal needed a large number of slaves to develop colonies in North Kunlun.

The decline in the number of slaves forced the feudal clans to pay high prices for slaves captured by slave catchers.

Before the slave change, the price of a Kunlun slave was only one tael of silver, but after the slave change, it was increased to five taels of silver.

At this time, the annual income of an ordinary family in the Ming Dynasty was only 30 taels, 42 taels in Qi, about 2 taels in India, and 15 taels in Kunlun.

The high price of slaves annoyed the vassals, but someone soon figured out a solution.

In June, Yiguo sold 100,000 Kunlun slaves for 500,000 taels, and then organized an army to advance inland.

Facts have proved that as long as war benefits one country, the whole country will not become war-weary.

In just three months, Yiwang Zhu Yihao led an army of less than 20,000 to capture 160,000 Kunlun slaves and sell them to the three Spanish countries, which lacked labor.

This expedition allowed him to harvest 800,000 taels of silver, and Zhu Yihao turned around and sold the goods to the Ottoman Empire, and then made a huge profit of one million.

For this silver, Zhu Yihao did not use it to enjoy happiness, but to go to Emperor Zhu Ciran, saying that the people of the country have not exceeded one million so far, and asked the emperor to relax the immigration policy.

I have to say that Zhu Yiho picked a good opportunity.

The perennial prison career and ruling career made Emperor Zhu Ciran's health deteriorate, and the government at this time was handled by Zhu Heyin, the crown prince of the prison state.

Therefore, while receiving the advice, taking into account the post-disaster situation after the earthquake in China, Zhu Heyin decisively relaxed the immigration policy.

Shi Xiaoyong, the governor of Yiguo who was waiting in Songjiang Prefecture, learned the news and immediately wrote a document to the Migration Department "Please immigrate 100,000", which was quickly approved.

When the news came back to China, Yiwang Zhu Yihao himself couldn't believe it, so he didn't have time to rest, and immediately led the army to continue inland.

The news of the Migration Division could not be hidden, and only a month later, the feudal domains learned about the liberal immigration policy of the Ming Dynasty, so they sold their Kunlun slaves one after another, and sent large armies deep into the interior.

After all, compared to Kunlun Nu, what they want more are Han immigrants with various skills.

At present, it is the twelfth year of the Qiansheng, and the Ming Dynasty has been fully educated for nearly 50 years, and the people in the country have graduated from middle school, not to mention the level of middle school graduation.

In contrast, many of the people in the feudal domains were only at the elementary school level, so it was natural that such high-quality immigrants would not be let go by the feudal domains.

As soon as the news of the Ming Dynasty's relaxed immigration policy spread, not only the Kunlun feudal clans were beaten, but also the Indian feudal clans next door were also riveted.

Many people who were not producing and begging in the streets and alleys were arrested by them and sold directly to North Kunlun.

Later, perhaps thinking that this was too slow, Zhu Lunkui, the king of Zhou, united with the seven northern feudal domains and launched an offensive against the Mughals.

Although Aurangzeb reacted quickly and led a large army to support the border pass in time, more than 200,000 natives were still plundered.

According to the records of officials of the Kunlun Supervision Mission, in the twelfth year of the reign of Qiansheng alone, the feudal domains sent millions of slaves from all over the country to Northern Kunlun, but less than one-third of them made it alive.

The officials watched as the price of slaves plummeted from five taels per tael to one tael, and finally even to eight hundred wen.

This situation was not announced until March of the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, when Emperor Zhu Ciran recovered from illness and returned to take charge of the government and tightened the immigration policy.

However, even so, the Migration Department has approved more than 2.6 million immigrants.

It is worth mentioning that the State of Qi did not take advantage of the relaxed policy to compete with the feudal domains, but did not fight or grab.

The attitude of the Qi State towards the relocation of the Ming people to the Qi State is decided by the people, and the reason comes from the sentence of the King of Qi: "If he comes, I will accept it, and if he does not come, there is no need to force it, and there are not many people." ”

For immigration, Qi and Daming have the same attitude, and if the people take the initiative to report the local migration, the local government will agree, and then report it at the end of the month.

After the documents of the immigrants from each province are handed over to the Migration Department every month, the Migration Department hands over with the officials of the Qi Wangfu in Baiwangfang to determine the amount of migration silver.

Among them, due to the rise of Qi's national strength, Qi did not continue to occupy the policy, but increased the migration silver from one tael to two taels in the fortieth year of the Apocalypse.

After the fifty years of the Apocalypse, and the tenth year of Qiansheng, the Qi State took the initiative to raise the price twice, and now the Qi State immigrant is no longer one tael, but four taels.

But even if this is the case in the Qi country, the population of the Ming Dynasty who migrates to the Qi country every year is not a few.

In the twelfth year of Qiansheng alone, the population of the Ming Dynasty migrating to Qi reached 750,000, and Qi also handed over 3.2 million taels of migration silver for this purpose.

However, Daming's attitude towards migrating silver is relatively relaxed, and it can be replaced with treasury bonds.

In the twelfth year of Qiansheng, the Ming Dynasty issued a total of 230 million taels of national bonds, of which less than 100 million taels were held by the domestic people, but the Ming Dynasty would recover them every year.

Of the remaining 130 million taels of debt, only 30 million were held by the Indian vassals, 16 million by the Kunlun vassals, more than 18 million taels by the Korean and other foreign vassals, and the remaining 60 million taels of national bonds were held by the Qi state.

Therefore, in other words, if the national debt held by Qi is replaced by immigration, the Ming Dynasty needs to relocate more than 15 million people to Qi State.

Fortunately, Qi has no complaints about Daming's national debt, and basically as long as Daming is in trouble, Qi will help.

For example, the Jingshi earthquake is a good example, so the relationship between Qi and Ming can be maintained well.

It's just that in the final analysis, Qi has always been a newly rising country, and a large amount of national debt is in hand, which avoids being a temptation......

"Sixty seven million two hundred seventy four thousand three hundred ......"

"Grandpa, Dad, if you buy this treasury bond in a big way, the kid will have to quit."

On the fifth day of the third month of the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, in the carrying hall of the Qi Palace, when a man in his early thirties and wearing a yellow round-necked robe rubbed his eyebrows and put a book in the hall.

Sitting in front of him was a beautiful man who was eating melon seeds and was less than fifty years old.

Although he was nearly fifty years old, if he did not look at his beard, he seemed to be only thirty-six or seventeen years old.

No one could have imagined that such a person who didn't look very old would be nine out of forty now.

"Sooner or later, you will be in charge of this family, if you are not happy, you will sell it in the future, why do you have such a big temper?"

Zhu Cihong seemed to be talking about other people's affairs, which made Zhu Heyun cry and laugh and turned his head to look at the door: "Grandpa! ”

"Huh?" Hearing someone call him, Zhu Youzhen, who was on the recliner at the entrance of the palace, turned his head and glanced at it, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.

At this time, he was already gray-haired, and his whole person was very thin, but his momentum was still so unangry and arrogant, like an old tiger.

"This family is not good, I am an old man, you can discuss it yourself......"

As if knowing that his grandson would roll around, Zhu Youzhen got up slowly, and then walked towards the palace steps with the support of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old female official next to him.

"Grandpa!"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was leaving, Zhu Hezhen shouted helplessly, but Zhu Youzhen didn't see him turn back.

Helpless, he could only turn his head with a grudge on his face and look at his father Zhu Cihong.

It's just that in the face of his resentful gaze, Zhu Cihong turned sideways with a weak heart, coughed and began to read it with a book.

After a while, Zhu Youzhen, who had already walked to carry His Royal Highness, seemed to hear Zhu Heyi's roar, he snickered for a moment, and then was hit on the leg by a kid head-on.

"Great-grandfather!"

is old, Zhu Youzhen only reacted and lowered his head a few seconds after being hit.

At this moment, a delicate-looking doll with a silly smile is holding his leg.

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, but he didn't remember which doll this was, so he could only smile and bow his head and ask, "Which doll are you?" ”

When the child heard this, he immediately jumped back two steps happily, inserted his waist, and replied with a shaking head: "I am the great-grandson of King Qi, the grandson of Qi Shizi, and the disciple of Qi Taisun, Zhu Yiming of the Zhu family!" ”

"Oooh...... It's my doll. Zhu Youzhen thought about it, this is the doll that he put in Tokyo City.

He lowered his body, touched Zhu Yiming's head, and smiled with a hint of apology:

"Great-grandfather took you to play when you were a child, and it's all because your father took you to Tokyo City, and your great-grandfather didn't recognize you, how did you recognize me?"

"My mother and father said that the oldest person in the palace is my great-grandfather, and they said that I look very similar to my great-grandfather." Zhu Yiming took Zhu Youzhen's hand and walked towards the carrier door with him.

The two of them slowed down very slowly, and Zhu Youzhen took his hand and asked with a smile: "There are many officials in Xijing, and some are divided to Tokyo City, what do you think of Tokyo City and Xijing City?" ”

"It's not as prosperous as Xijing, but I have more playmates in Tokyo, and I'm more happy to play in Tokyo." Zhu Yiming replied happily, and also looked up at Zhu Youzhen with adoration:

"My playmates all say, great-grandfather, you are a big hero, I say I am your great-grandson, and they don't believe me."

"Next time great-grandfather, you go to Tokyo City, can you also go to our school?"

"Hehe......" Zhu Youzhen smiled and walked with Zhu Yiming to the horse road of Miyagi Suzaku Gate.

He took Zhu Yiming's hand and went to the Vermilion Bird Gate, and then replied: "I'm old, and I can't go that far now." ”

"Oh......" Zhu Yiming's face was full of disappointment, he lowered his head and was sullen, and was led by Zhu Youzhen to the entrance of the Vermilion Bird Gate.

Seeing this, the female official who followed closely behind her hurriedly took someone out of the stool from the city gate tower and let the two sit down.

Sitting here, they can clearly see the scene on the Xijing Square in front of the Suzaku Gate, but it is already dusk, and there are only scattered people who come to play in the square covering an area of 1,000 acres.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the chair, and in his cloudy eyes, there were only the figures of people playing in the square.

Zhu Yiming supported his chin with both hands, looked directly at Zhu Youzhen, and looked at the square from time to time.

On the square, the flag of the Ming Dynasty fluttered in the wind on the flagpole, and the hunting sounded.

After a while, it seemed like after dinner, many people began to appear in the square with their children and grandchildren.

Smiling elders, toddlers playing, and vendors selling hot pastries and tea.

Young men and women walked side by side, holding paper umbrellas and chatting, laughing endlessly......

After a moment, he asked puzzledly, "Great-grandfather, what are you looking at?" ”

"I don't know ......" Zhu Youzhen's voice suddenly weakened a lot, and he seemed to have been drained of a lot of strength, but he didn't lean back on the chair, but slowly got up, stretched out his hand, and motioned for Zhu Yiming to follow.

Zhu Yiming jumped off the chair, stretched out his hand to hold Zhu Youzhen, and they walked down the city gate tower step by step, and then walked on the Sanlong Bridge and walked towards the carrier gate.

"Great-grandfather, the teachers in the school say that you are a big hero, do you say that Ming'er can also become a big hero like you?"

"Big heroes are also ordinary people, as long as Ming'er dares to think and dare to do, then Ming'er can also be a big hero......"

"So how do you do that?"

"I can't tell you this, you can take a good look at the people around you in the future......"

"Someone around?"

"Hehe, you'll understand later......"

The great-grandfather and grandson walked into the road, and the glow of the sunset sprinkled on the two, a little twilight, but more vigorous.

What echoed in his ears was Zhu Yiming's ignorant voice.

Zhu Youzhen stopped, and Zhu Yiming, who was holding his hand, looked up in ignorance, but only saw Zhu Youzhen looking sideways behind him.

He followed his gaze and saw only one bird he had never seen:

"Great-grandfather, what kind of bird is that? Why haven't I seen it? ”

Zhu Yiming looked at the bird and became interested, but Zhu Youzhen showed a peaceful smile on his face: "Wagtail ......"

"Wagtail?" Hearing this unheard name, Zhu Yiming let go of Zhu Youzhen's hand and ran out like a little leopard.

He chased after the wagtail at the crossing, but the wagtail fluttered its wings as if it were teasing a child.

When Zhu Yiming was tired of jumping around, it flapped its wings, and flew to Zhu Youzhen's shoulder in an instant, tilting its head to look at Zhu Youzhen.

"You're coming to pick me up......"

The poem "Tang Tang": "Chang Di's flower, E is not Weiwei, the wagtail is in the original, and the brothers are in trouble." ”

(End of chapter)