please make me king

Chapter 1111

"This year, there is a severe drought in Jingbian, thousands of miles of barren land, and nine out of ten people will die of hunger. People eat each other!"

"Yaozhou is drought, there was no snow last winter, no rain this winter, the wheat seedlings are all dead, and the plague is also serious."

"Lanzhou is hungry this summer, Di and He are both desolate, and many people died of starvation!"

Lu Weiqi reported to Zhang Shun word by word with a serious face, "There are also Yan'an and other places. King Shun has seen it with his own eyes, so I will stop talking."

Jingbian is the Jingbian camp affiliated to Yulin Township, not far from the Ningsai camp where Du Wenhuan's family was killed by Shen Yiyuan.

As for Yaozhou, Zhang Shun had carefully inspected it before, but he did not expect the situation to be so severe.

"Jingbian and Yaozhou are fine." Zhang Shun sighed, "I have ordered Yaozhou and Tongguan County to be the front line for receiving and resettling refugees, and Song Qijiao and Shi Changsheng will be in charge of this matter."

"However, sir has to draft an order for me, specifically emphasizing the disaster relief and re-cultivation in Yaozhou."

"The sweet potatoes and old farmers sent by Zhang Shenyan have arrived. Send them to Yaozhou, Yan'an and other places as soon as possible."

"Give me corn in the fields, sweet potatoes in the corners of the ravines, and alfalfa and alfalfa seeds on the mountains. Relief from famines and disasters must be the top priority!"

The yield of corn is only more than [-] catties per mu, but compared with crops such as wheat and highland barley, it is particularly drought-tolerant and can guarantee a basic harvest in times of drought.

According to the experience of planting sweet potatoes in Heluo this year, in addition to being large in quantity and growing fast, sweet potatoes also have the characteristic of not being afraid of locusts, which can also make up for the shortage of staple food.

As for alfalfa and alfalfa, although they are not for people to eat, they are at least much better than gnawing bark and eating Avalokitesvara soil.

Being able to save lives at critical times is the greatest form of good governance.

"Your Highness King Shun, it's okay to order the planting of corn and sweet potatoes, but asking the common people to grow alfalfa and grass to eat is not easy to hear!" Lu Weiqi hesitated and reminded.

For example, a simple example, if there is a sentence in the history books, "The king of Qin ruled the land of Qin, Yan'an and Yaozhou suffered a great famine, and the people ate alfalfa and fluffy grass." "It sounds good.

Zhang Shun was so angry that he was half dead, he couldn't help but opened his mouth and reprimanded: "A man walks in the world, but he has a clear conscience, how can he disregard the lives of the people because of his fame and gain!"

"By the way, when you help me draft the order later, ask Song Qijiao why he didn't report the drought to me when I was in Yaozhou!"

This group of people does not seek merit, but seeks no faults. Are they really planning to change their names and continue to serve as "papermakers" under my command?
"Your servant understands!" Lu Weiqi couldn't help but Nuo Nuo when he heard the words.

"The one in Jingbian ordered Lu Xiangsheng to mobilize some food from Yulin for relief!" Zhang Shun frowned and said.

"Lanzhou, Hezhou, and Didao, let Zhang Yingchang, the Lintao commander-in-chief, mobilize part of the military rations to provide relief as soon as possible."

"First, some of the shortfall will be transferred from Qinzhou, which has more farmland, and the rest will be made up from the new grain collection!"

"Then Zhang Yingchang has played, Hezhou is mixed with Han and Han, and it is located at the junction of Xia and Yi. The chieftains of the various tribes have not accepted, so I don't know how to respond?" Lu Weiqi took out a booklet from his sleeve and quickly handed it to Zhang Shundao .

"Oh?" Zhang Shun opened the door and glanced roughly, and immediately understood what was going on.

It turned out that there were two routes leading to Tibet in this era. One was through Long'an Mansion in Sichuan, passing through the Songpan Military and Civilian Commander's Department and heading west to the original Duogandu Commander's Station.

The other way is to go to Lintao Mansion, pass through Hezhou, Guide Shouyuqianhusuo, and go south along the Yellow River valley to enter the former Duogandu Command and Envoy Station.

This Hezhou is the gateway for Shaanxi to enter Tibet, and it is also an important node for the tea-horse trade.

In history, one of the three major organizations in the management of Tibet in the Yuan Dynasty—the Marshal’s Mansion of Tubo and other places to comfort and envoy Sidu was established here. "Either surrender to the old position in the Yuan Dynasty, or lead the troops to their orders."

Now that the rebel army has occupied Hezhou, but because Zhang Shun didn't lead the army to threaten them, these people pretended to be deaf and dumb, and continued to take the official positions of Ming Dynasty from afar, without submitting to them.

"We'll discuss this matter later, let's talk about disaster relief!" Zhang Shun thought for a while, and couldn't help bringing the topic back.

This is a big matter, not only involving the land of Hehuang, but also the control of Gansu and the issue of the Han nationality in the border areas.

These two hidden dangers must be completely resolved in one fell swoop with the backing of military force and the people who are familiar with the people's sentiments of the Han people.

"What about the distribution of food relief in Hezhou?" Lu Weiqi asked involuntarily.

Since the relationship between the enemy and the enemy cannot be determined now, it is naturally impossible to formulate corresponding countermeasures.

"Relief is of course helping our own people. Daming's chieftain has suffered a disaster, so what does it have to do with me?" Zhang Shun couldn't help sneering.

As the saying goes, "fear power and not be virtuous", now that the rebels don't have enough food for themselves, how can I have the leisure to take care of them?
"This doesn't seem very benevolent, and it's not conducive to win over Fanren." Lu Weiqi couldn't help reminding.

"No need!" Zhang Shun waved his hands and said, "Benevolence is bestowed on oneself, power is bestowed on the enemy, the difference between inside and outside!"

"Benevolence is bestowed on the enemy, and power is bestowed on oneself, which is called cruelty on the inside and cruelty on the outside, not the virtue of a king!"

My name is King Shun, not the Holy Mother, why are you so excited!
Well, you are the monarch, you call the shots!

Lu Weiqi shook his head helplessly, and couldn't help asking for instructions: "Originally, it was planned that Xi'an Prefecture would collect more than [-] million shi of grain and grain, but the actual collection of grain and tax was more than [-] shi, and grain of [-] shi , plus Zhang Sanbai’s purchase of [-] shi, the actual income is [-] million shi.”

"There are [-] to [-] stones in the grain and tax. Either they do not match the fish scale book, or the farmers have fled and cannot be collected."

"There are [-] shi left in the grain, and some have issued IOUs, and the autumn harvest will make up for it; some refuse to pay, and they need to be confiscated one by one."

"Now Yulin Town needs to pay [-] shi for military pay by the end of the year, Yan'an Prefecture needs [-] shi for disaster relief, and other military pay needs [-] shi."

"Lanzhou, Hezhou, and Didao counties also need [-] to [-] shi for disaster relief, and various transportation, the journey consumes [-] shi."

"Officials distribute more than [-] shi in salary, but in fact they will lose [-] shi by the end of the year."

"As for military training, armor, weapons and equipment, etc., all the rebels have to spend money on."

"Since King Shun entered the customs, a total of more than [-] million taels of property from Qin Fan, Han Fan, and Qing Fan have been confiscated successively. Among them, the property of Su Fan has been left at the disposal of Gansu Governor Zhang Yingchen, and has never been reported."

"Among them, [-] taels were spent on grain purchases, [-] taels from Wang Zheng and Zhang Dudu for building armor and weapons, and nearly [-] taels were spent on daily training."

"Thirty thousand taels of money rewarded by the rebels have been used successively, and now there are only seven hundred thousand taels left."

"If the requisition of autumn grain is unsatisfactory, I am afraid that although there are many soldiers and horses in the rebel army, they will be trapped in Shaanxi!"

What do you mean?
In fact, Lu Weiqi was telling Zhang Shun euphemistically that Shaanxi can't support so many soldiers, you should quickly think of a way.

This year's survival is due to the confiscation of the properties of the princes' mansions, and the subsidy of [-] grains of silver, which barely makes ends meet.

But what about after the new year?Soldiers and people are waiting to be fed, officials and generals are waiting for their salaries, how can we increase income and reduce expenditure?
Agricultural societies are very different from later industrial societies.

Grain is harvested in a year, and there is a fixed number of acres in the world. No matter how you encourage and stimulate, the actual output has an upper limit.

Originally, due to natural and man-made disasters, this upper limit has been reduced to a terrible low point.

As a result, in the past two years, after Zhang Shun's chaotic war and the "grain war" of chaotic purchases, the world's food prices have completely let themselves go.

Now not only the price of food in Houjin and the capital has skyrocketed, but even the purchase of food by the rebel army has also been affected to a certain extent.

If there is no other way, I am afraid that next year the hungry people in Shaanxi will rise up to rebel against the rule of the rebels.

"It's okay!" Zhang Shun waved his hands and said, "Now the farmland in Xi'an Mansion has almost been cleaned up, let Xu Quan do the execution!"

"I am going to transfer Zhang Bojing and Li Zicheng to Yan'an, Qingyang and Suide to clean up the farmland."

"These three places cover almost [-] hectares, and almost [-] stones of grain can be expropriated, which is almost enough for Yulin."

"In addition, there are quite a lot of farmland in Ningxia and Guyuan towns, and they can all be cleaned up one by one!"

"I still don't believe that such a big Shaanxi can support [-] elite soldiers!"

(End of this chapter)