The drought in the north and the cold of this winter have made life extremely difficult, although a sleet has moistened the earth's throat, but the crops in the field have died of drought and no harvest, and most of the ordinary people who rely on farming have become victims this winter.

And since the past few months, they have sold almost everything they can sell in exchange for some food, and when the snow is falling, they are directly dumbfounded, and many people are just squeezed into a ball after a ball.

In the corners of the county city walls, in the ruined temples outside the city, in the dilapidated villages that are almost unpopular......

Wang Tingxiang, as a cabinet elder and the commander-in-chief of this disaster relief, felt heavy in his heart after he went to various places to check the famine.

As a result, he also changed his original view of the imperial court's money and human trafficking.

In Luoyang, Henan, Governor Wang Xian accompanied Wang Tingxiang to secretly visit the actual situation of setting up porridge sheds in the local area.

"Although the imperial court allocated relief food, it could not withstand the large number of people, after the ice and snow thawed, the roads were muddy, once the disaster relief grain could not be delivered, the situation was bound to be even worse."

Speaking of which, Wang Xian is really sad.

Generally speaking, disasters will be concentrated in one province or several counties within a province, but the drought in Zhengde in the past 20 years is indeed more serious.

The snow was falling, and everywhere you looked, it was white.

The disheveled victims lined up to receive porridge in the wind and snow, and the emaciated people gathered like ants.

It's all a mouth to be fed.

"Fortunately, there is Weigang (Wang Xianzi) to implement good governance, otherwise I am afraid that there will be countless human tragedies." Wang Tingxiang stepped forward, and outside the porridge shed were piles of grain and sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes will be a little more.

In this way, the rice porridge is accompanied by sweet potato porridge, at least the porridge and rice are not too thin, and the stomach is like water when you drink it.

Wang Tingxiang turned around again and said: "The matter of transporting the population to Tailu and Lu will be officially ordered by the cabinet after the Lantern Festival at the latest. If it goes well, maybe sooner. The Central Plains region is densely populated, and once God does not appreciate his face, he will be a million victims. At the same time, there is still a lot of wasteland in those two places. ”

Wang Xian became interested, "The imperial court has really made up its mind?" ”

"Hmm. You have to say hello to the prefect and the prefect first, so as not to be caught off guard when things come. ”

In December of the twentieth year of Zhengde, the first signboard of the Great Migration was first raised in the Tongzhou area of Jingshi.

The opportunity to make money is the first thing that the bureaucracy smells first, and a few children of the official family go to the Shaofu Enterprise Division to set up a transportation company first, and then obtain qualification certification through connections.

And they also have capital, even if they borrow money, they get 5 boats first.

Because the imperial court is pushing this matter, it has a green light all the way.

They then found a few dogs to spread the word among the victims, giving them rice, meat, and even a portrait of the place where the migrants went.

It's a lot harder to get than money and boats, at least you have to know someone over there.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible in such a short time.

After all, it's only been 2 months since it was proposed.

In fact, from the perspective of modern people, this matter is not very good, because people are clearly priced. The decree received by the governor's offices of Taiwan and Lu must be to make payments according to head, age, and health.

In any case, it must be healthy young and strong labor, and the price is the most expensive.

With a little bit of disease, it's difficult,

First, the process of transportation is easy to resist, and even if it is resisted, the price is low.

From the point of view of profit, the transporter will screen when it comes to 'receiving'.

In this process, a person, how much money, will definitely be quantified. Otherwise, the business will not be able to continue.

But in this day and age, human trafficking is widespread, and the sale of children and daughters is not a legend.

In fact, a more thorough calculation of interests should be captured, forcibly transported, and people treated like cattle and slaves. Because the normal transportation of people is too expensive, the cost of consumption on the road, ships and personnel, is not 20 taels, and the businessman is estimated to have no profit.

But 20 taels is the price of a high-class war horse, enough for an ordinary person's annual ration.

To transport 300,000 people, this is five or six million taels of silver, which was put twenty years ago, and after doing this, the imperial court had to have several other things to stop and not move.

But this time Zhu Houzhao did not choose a more cost-effective method, there were too many sequelae, not only that, but he also gave the 'package price' of the whole family's migration

Because these people used to ask them to cultivate the land, this thing is a technical job. Just find a young person, that's not okay.

There is an old saying that if there is an old man in the family, there is a treasure.

To farm the land, you must know how to look at the sky, and you should be particular about what you do in what season, and these things are determined by the experience of older people. Or maybe it's a treasure?

In addition, the family is more stable in one place, but don't spend a lot of money on people to get people over, only to make some money and come back.

It's all in the details.

On the whole, it is almost impossible for a hungry person to refuse as long as he is given food.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know the feeling of hunger, but the victims would gnaw on the bark of trees, eat Guanyin soil, sell their daughters, and then eat their children.

It's all reached this point, how hard will it be to let him leave his hometown and go to another place?

In fact, the victims themselves will flee, isn't it because they can't survive?

Therefore, the signboard in Tongzhou has just been played, and its popularity is even beyond the expectations of the parties themselves.

Several young people who initiated the initiation were naturally happy when they heard about it, their fathers all had official and half-position positions in the court, and the news came from the court, so naturally there would be no fake.

They even knew that the imperial court had already shipped some of the official silver to Taiwan and Luzon.

"Let's take a look!" The leader is the son of Zhang Chi, the servant of the household department of the court, Zhang Yu.

The three friends behind him are also about the same status.

The imperial court actually restricts the children of officials from doing business, but this matter has been let out, and there are not many opportunities to make money, so it is natural to seize it.

By the time they had set up a simple shed at the gate of Tongzhou City to avoid the heavy snow, the registration and screening work had already begun, and there were people from the county government to maintain order.

There are no slogans, and the common people are illiterate and can't understand them.

But there was a guy who kept holding pictures to promote and shouted loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, our Ming Dynasty has won the battle in Luzon and occupied a piece of the boss's land!" If you can't go on, you will follow the imperial court, and the emperor has already ordered to prepare seeds and farm tools there to support our people in reclaiming the famine. ”

Over the past 20 years, the Son of Heaven has done justice many times.

Therefore, the emperor has a good reputation among the people, and even a child has been taught since he was a child that the Son of Heaven loves his people.

After all, sweet potatoes, zhangdi, exemption from forced labor and other things come one after another, even if there is no deliberate publicity, the common people can experience it themselves,

Not to mention, in the Tongzhou area, Zhu Houzhao also vigorously promoted the abolition of animal husbandry, so that the common people were liberated from the hard work of raising horses.

"Come on, come on! I give food and keep it to the place! ”

The victims of the disaster were so hungry that their eyes were empty, and they didn't know if they understood or not, but they would answer whatever they asked when they got to him.

Zhang Yu was listening from the sidelines.

"What's your name? Where do you live? How many people? ”

The middle-aged man replied, "The villain Lu Quandi, a family of four, is from Luzhuang, Tongzhou County. ”

"Would you rather go to Taiwan or Luzon?"

"If the villain goes to Luzon, there should be more families in that place, and there will be a response when the time comes."

"Eh, you ......" The man holding the pen wanted to say something, but he held back and nodded around a corner, "You are right, there are probably many people surnamed Lu in that place." ”

"Hey. That...... What about this ......" The man's eyes kept sweeping to a tent behind him.

"Go, go. Look at your baby is hungry and skinny, you should have come earlier. ”

"It's early, and the doctor has been lining up for a long time. Anyway, thank you, thank you. ”

Saying this, Lu Quandi pulled a child in each hand, and called out happily and timidly, "Let's go, let's get food." ”

The tent where the food is distributed has a small courtyard attached to it.

After checking the body, registering, pressing the handprints, and receiving the food, go to the small courtyard to eat by yourself.

You can't go at this point.

It is impossible for you to eat white food, and it is supervised by a special person.

For people like Zhang Yu, this is a sum of money.

As for what kind of food the merchants provided, the rule of the imperial court was that they could not eat the dead.

In the final analysis, under these conditions, the goal of providing big fish and meat is also very ambitious, and steamed buns, rice, and sweet potatoes are all good.

But if you want to say that something is bad and eats people badly, then it will definitely affect the 'price' at that time.

The good and bad businessmen themselves will tell.

What Lu Quandi received was four steamed buns, plus a bowl of sweet potato porridge for him and his wife.

When you enter the yard, you are also divided into categories, and families like this are in the same category, and they are the 'price' highest.

When I walked inside, I found that there were actually more than a dozen families.

"Brother Lu!"

"Old Song?" Lu Quandi was also pleasantly surprised, this was his fellow countryman, "And sister-in-law, ...... you are too?" ”

Two mud-legged rednecks don't pay attention to finding a random place to sit.

The Song family was better after eating a bowl of hot porridge, but at this time they could only laugh miserably and say: "Life can't go on, so it's the only way to go." ”

The daughter-in-law of the Lu family followed silently, and his children were munching on steamed buns, especially her daughter, who had a pair of big watery eyes, and when she was gnawing, she saw a little girl looking at her on the other side.

Probably unbearable, she also grabbed a piece and gave it to her.

"Old Song, do you know what's going on? Send out the food, and then transport us to that far place. Will it be ......"

"No, Brother Lu, you don't know if you haven't been out of the countryside in the past few years. I've heard people say that the imperial court really hit Luzon. ”

Lu Quandi's face was still full of anxiety, he was forced to have no choice, if he didn't eat it, he wouldn't be able to hold on, otherwise he wouldn't have jumped into this 'fire pit', "Anyway, let's take one step at a time." ”

"Where did Brother Lu go?"

"Luzon."

This old Song stood up, "I chose Taiwan, I want to be closer." I'm going to ask if I can change it, so we'll be better together. You eat first. ”

"Okay."

Not long after, Lao Song came back, and when he met the eyes of several people, he said excitedly, "It's changed." The imperial court didn't seem to mind so much about going to Taiwan or Luzon. ”

"Really? That's great! ”

While chatting, another young man came in from outside, "Listen up, see what I have in my hand, this is called a map." Taiwan is close to the mainland, just opposite Fujian, and it will take more than 20 days to arrive. Luzon is in the south of Taiwan, and it takes thirty days to walk. Taiwan is large and Luzon is small. Taiwan is all our Ming, there are no barbarians, but the land has to be cultivated by itself. As for Luzon, the imperial court has just been defeated, there are barbarians, but there are also advantages, the first is that there are fewer people and more land, each family is based on the standard of 100 acres, and some barbarians can be allowed to farm, they are very cheap......"

Including Lu Quandi, everyone listened very carefully.

In fact, it is very detailed, but it sounds too good, and some of these suffering people will be skeptical.

"If there are barbarians, will there be a war?!" I don't know if anyone asked.

The introducer said: "Don't worry, when you get to Nanyang, you will go sideways, the emperor has issued an order, move my Ming people, and the Ming will destroy his country!" ”

(End of chapter)