First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 418
Zhu Biao, a member of the government office in Pingliang, is discussing with Zhang Fan how to arrange for the victims. The relief food has been suppressed for so long, causing too many people to starve to death. With the population decreasing, the food supply becomes more and more abundant.

Therefore, we are fully capable of supplying more food to the victims, but we can't let them lie down and wait for the next meal. Shaanxi and Gansu are in drought all year round, and it is impossible for the imperial court to mobilize a large amount of food every year for disaster relief. This year is fine, and the frontier is not big. In a large-scale war, Zhu Biao risked his face and borrowed food, but what if there was a natural disaster and a war in the future?

So let's take some precautionary measures now. It's rare that labor and food are still sufficient. It happens to use work instead of food. The court will provide food and pay some wages appropriately.

The silver in Zhu Biao’s hands is now full of several warehouses. If the money is not spent, it is no different from a stone. Only when money is in circulation can it generate value and restore hope for the future to the victims who have been squeezed out.

For disaster relief, the imperial court can only guarantee that the victims will not starve to death, but if they want to eat and wear warm clothes, then go to work. Naturally, they can spend the wages they want. People are ignorant, but the pursuit of a better life is instinctive. The imperial court gave the way, and naturally there were people who worked hard.

Zhang Fan said softly: "Building water conservancy, opening canals, lowering taxes, increasing savings, giving land and houses, using utensils, and surviving drought, these are all the means of combating drought in the past dynasties."

Zhu Biao nodded and said: "Since the labor force is sufficient, you might as well repair the water conservancy. I have already ordered the imperial court to send officials who are proficient in water conservancy as soon as possible. You should also inform other governments to organize disaster relief work. Whatever you do is good. Just don't sit idle."

Zhang Fan took the order to leave, while Chen Bingxian and others began to adjust the price of salt and grain in the prefectural city. Blind disaster relief is useless, and the prefectural capital must be put on the right track again.

Chen Rongyan is still calculating the confiscated land deeds, there are too many, the shopkeepers of Zhang and Chen's two families are busy, and the silver is easy to calculate. Those real estates are not easy to calculate, and the same size of land is also scored as a fertile field. Good land and poor land, shops and houses also depend on their location, all of which need to be seen in person to calculate the value.

Of course, these things are of no use to Zhu Biao. He will leave the farmland to the government office, and after the disaster passes, return it to the common people with a preferential support policy for them to cultivate and support their families.

Judging from the current situation, most of the gentry and common people in Shaanxi and Gansu have been extorted by the officials at exorbitant prices for food. Those who have not been extorted are their accomplices. Hold up the shop.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and all walks of life need to redistribute benefits. Zhu Biao’s daily official duties are countless. Fortunately, he is also experienced in local government affairs. In addition to his special status, many policies can be issued directly without going through the court. You can just report it in the future .

At this time, Xuanninghou Cao Liangchen and Dongpinghou Hanzheng had also escorted General Zhaoyi, General He Chengdingyuan, Wang Liu back to Pingliang Mansion. The two founding Marquis Wu came out, and the mere Qingyang Guards naturally did not dare to resist, and their subordinates were implicated. There are also hundreds of generals and lieutenants.

If it weren't for Zhu Biao's early order not to pursue the issue of the soldiers below, it would be normal for this number to double. The court laws are actually much stricter on the military commander's side than on the civil servant's side.

Just when Zhu Biao was about to order severe punishment, his father suddenly sent an imperial decree, and Zhu Biao quickly led someone to set up an incense case to receive the decree. The general content was to order the prince to escort all the officials involved in the case to Beijing. Baiguan.

Zhu Biao naturally accepted the order, and he naturally understood his father's good intentions. There are too many officials involved in the case. More than [-] people have been recruited, and the follow-up may not be less than this number.

Nearly [-] lives were all executed by Zhu Biao's order, then Zhu Biao's killing name would probably not be less than that of his father, after all, Lao Zhu had never executed a prisoner in one go.

This is not a good reputation. After all, Zhu Biao is too young, and he is not yet a young man with a weak crown. Even if he is a famous teacher, if so many people are executed suddenly, he will be demonized, and it will be extremely unfavorable to civil and military officials. After all, the people who died were the same as them, they were officials ordered by the imperial court, and it is inevitable that the death of a rabbit and fox will hurt others.

But Lao Zhu was different. He was the founding emperor who broke out from the sea of ​​corpses and blood. His majesty and murderous aura was understandable, and the civil and military officials didn't dare to say anything.

One by one, Zhu Biao doesn't care too much about his own reputation, but he is not so stubborn that he wants to disrupt his father's plan. As far as the country is concerned, it really needs a gentle prince. official heart.

So Zhu Biao executed only one Fang Liangpin in the end. After all, this guy's life is not long. It would be too cheap to let him die in the prison car, and there is no need to call anyone to watch the sentence, and he will be dragged directly to a place full of maggots. On the execution platform of the fly, cut in half with a knife, the majesty of Pingliang's magistrate poured out feces and urine, wailed a few times and then died of pain, he was really afraid of pain.

After that, Cao Liangchen was ordered to escort the prisoners back to Beijing. To be honest, these people needed a lot of food when they went to the capital, but after all, they were only prisoners, so they wouldn’t be given much food. As long as the main prisoner didn’t starve to death, that’s enough. Many people will starve to death on the road, which can be regarded as a metric for a metric.

I don't know about the other prefectures, but even though the food supply in Pingliang Mansion is improved, many people still die every day. The messy things they ate to survive a while ago are now starting to get excited.

There are also rotten corpses in the dark corners of the city spreading diseases through huge mosquitoes and flies. The so-called catastrophe must be followed by a catastrophe. This is also a problem that must be overcome as soon as possible.

Fortunately, regardless of the drought, the doctor will not starve to death. Now there is an imperial doctor leading the epidemic, and the victims are eating a big pot of rice, so they just take the medicine together.

Naturally, Zhu Biao couldn't go out, and stayed in the government office all day to take charge of the overall situation. Due to the large gap in officials, it was very difficult to implement many policies. It was easy to get the victims to line up for dinner, but it was much more difficult to get them to do other things. , The responsible officials all complained.

Zhu Biao is clear about this, and he did not criticize the officials below too much. He has led the relocation of Fengyang people. Looking at you stupidly like a goose.

It's not necessarily that I really don't understand, but even if no one moves, I only know how to go with the flow. If everyone doesn't move, I won't move either. Anyway, with so many people, the whip can't fall on me.

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(End of this chapter)