The winter of 1795 crept in.

The whole northern kingdom was frozen at this time.

Under the bitter cold.

Immigration work in the Northeast also had to be suspended.

Good thing before winter arrives.

The Ming Dynasty had just transported a large amount of rice to the northern cities by sea.

Displaced people from all over the country were also organized to work on the Yellow River's dikes.

The Chinese have been doing this work for thousands of years.

Maybe it has been done since the time when Dayu controlled the water - so now the elevation of the riverbed of the Yellow River is higher than all the buildings in the entire Luoyang urban area.

After the sediment of the Yellow River passed through the Loess Plateau and entered the Central Plains, it was deposited as the water flow slowed down.

And in order to serve this old mother who is not so good-tempered and loses her temper at every turn.

As long as China is in the era of great unification, it will inevitably organize the management of the Yellow River and raise and strengthen the embankments.

Therefore, those displaced people in the Central Plains who lost everything in the war now do not have to worry about having nothing to do, and they can buy rice to feed their families on the Yellow River and receive their wages to support their families - in order to be able to feed so many victims, the Ming court issued an additional 8 million Ming yuan treasury bonds, hired more than 700,000 people, and ruled the Yellow River in Henan and Shandong provinces in sections.

The practice of raising the levees is only a palliative rather than a cure.

But now where is there any way to cure the root cause of the Ming Dynasty - let alone now, even if it is in the future, I dare not say that there is a way to cure the problem of the Yellow River.

Now the Ming Dynasty has hired more than 700,000 victims to work for relief.

This period was the only thing that could be compared to the war against Russia in the newspapers.

Of course, the focus of the report also revolves around His Majesty the Emperor's diligence and love for the people, sleepless nights, the urgency of the victims, thinking about what the victims think, personally borrowing money from the bigwigs in the south, borrowing eight million as soon as they made a move, the queen mother and several concubines in the harem also pawned jewelry, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was only four years old, also donated his own New Year's money and the like - in short, the emperor's whole family was very concerned about the northern disaster victims.

In the newspapers.

The image of the Zhu family's royal family can simply move closer to the direction of the saint.

But it's different from the image in the newspaper.

Emperor Zhu actually didn't care much about the victims in the Central Plains at all - the Ming court just paid money, and now the Ming court implements the system of "the government goes to the countryside and shows talent as officials".

This bureaucratic system is considered to be poked to the bottom from top to bottom.

Scatter a lot of money.

This new, now well-functioning bureaucracy will be able to do the job of helping the victims – corruption is certainly indispensable, but for a bureaucracy, corruption is hard to avoid, but as long as the fiscal system does not collapse, the bureaucracy can continue to rotate.

Don't talk about the current Ming Dynasty.

As for how many strange emperors in the former Ming Dynasty didn't care about the government at all, as long as they could still collect taxes from the local government, wouldn't this bureaucratic system also work well.

The death of the former Ming Dynasty began with the war in the north leading to the complete collapse of the financial system of the Ming court

At this moment, Zhu Daohua, the great tomorrow, is sitting in the Qinzheng Hall of the Old Summer Palace in the northern capital.

The other civil and military officials were divided into two rows, and they were also sitting on the side, and the officials of the emperor's chamberlain were distributing documents to the officials, and everyone was holding the documents and frowning.

People like Luo Fangbo and Gu Song, who are a little older, also use reading glasses produced by Jiangning Glasses Factory.

Although it was icy and snowy outside the main hall.

But inside the main hall it was quite warm.

His Royal Highness has set up a fire channel, and there are copper pipes around the wall in the main hall, and hot water vapor comes out, which warms the entire hall at the same time, and also makes the air in the hall a lot moister--Zhu Daohua, the son of the great tomorrow, and most of the important ministers on his hand are from Guangdong and Hunan, and they are not very accustomed to the dryness of the northern winter.

In the newspapers, there is a lot of information about the disaster in the north.

But inside this hall.

The news you read is not about the disaster in the north.

Rather, it was the news of the war against Russia, and a sudden news from Japan.

The news of the complete victory in the war against Russia has reached the northern capital.

With less fighting, more cavalry, its own casualties were 407, 3,976 enemies were killed, 2,892 were captured, and the wounded were not counted.

In addition, the Russian army fell behind in the process of escaping and disappeared in the Gobi steppe.

In this battle, the Russian army dispatched 20,000, and only more than 10,000 returned.

It's definitely an unprecedented victory.

However, soon, the Russian army took the initiative to contact the top brass of the Ming army.

And the Crown Prince of the Russian Empire, Paul. Petrovich also wrote a letter to Emperor Zhu.

The letter was written in French.

Emperor Zhu was shocked when he saw it.

In the letter, the historical Tsar Petrovich, who was killed by his own son's coup d'état, actually stated in the letter that he wanted to negotiate with the Ming Empire, and in the letter he assured the end of the expansion of the Russian Empire in the East.

And he is only the crown prince of Tsarist Russia, can he make such a guarantee?

The other piece of news was quite sudden.

First of all, the New Spanish Fleet, which had not been in the ascendancy, suddenly appeared in the Ryukyus, and fought a fierce battle with the Japanese Satsuma Domain, which occupied the Ryukyus, and finally occupied the Ryukyu Island.

Although the royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom is now running up and down in the middle capital, hoping to regain the Ming domain, and asking the Ming to expel the Japanese Satsuma domain.

But the current Emperor Zhu does not attach importance to the false name of the clan.

Compared to maintaining good relations with Japan.

It is obviously not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty to fight with a powerful Japanese vassal for the sake of a Ryukyus - if the Ming wants to open up North America, Japan's ports are the most important springboard.

Although the relationship between the Edo shogunate and the local feudal lords was not very harmonious.

However, the eldest daughter of Shimazu Shigehiro, the former feudal lord of Satsuma, Konoe Kouko, married the Tokugawa family, the head of the Tokugawa family, and Shigehiro Shimazu, who was only 50 years old this year, had great influence over the Edo shogunate.

Therefore, the Ryukyu royal family knelt in front of the Zhongdu Palace three times and five times, and was kindly persuaded to return by the Ming officials.

Japan is a very special country in the current international order of the East.

On the one hand.

Japan did not submit to the Ming Dynasty.

The head of the country is theoretically still the 119th Emperor and Emperor Ninkoka, who is called "Emperor".

But the actual power of the state was in the hands of the shogunate.

Meanwhile.

The Edo shogunate was deeply influenced and supported by the Ming court, and was almost regarded by many powerful feudal lords as "not the emperor's ministers, but the eagle dogs of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Even through the Tokugawa Mitsuhime of the Tokugawa Concubine, the Ming court was able to recruit samurai from Japan for foreign wars.

Especially after the completion of the conquest of Borneo.

Daimeiko has decided to continue expanding the Japanese samurai corps.

It has expanded from the current 30,000 to 60,000.

The targets of the campaign also began to be on the islands of Java, Guinea, and even further south on the Australian mainland.

After all.

For the great tomorrow.

The cost of using the regular army of the Ming army is somewhat large, and the cost is somewhat high.

And these Japanese samurai are on the contrary much more qualified. Cannon fodder for colonial pioneering.

What's more, Zhu Daohua, the great son of tomorrow, still has a little careful thinking in his heart about consuming the lives of the Japanese elite.

And now.

Spain's New Spanish fleet suddenly appeared in the Ryukyus after disappearing for almost a year.

As a result, the already delicate tripartite relationship between Ming, Japan, and the Ryukyus has undergone some major changes.

Did Emperor Zhu really have no ambitions for the Ryukyus and let Satsuma occupy the Ryukyus?

(End of chapter)