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Chapter 540 All credit is Kangxi's

This winter is very cold.

Not long after the beginning of winter, more than ten consecutive days of blizzards covered the entire capital.

Among the people, the grassroots have their own survival rules, and they bought a lot of white radishes and sweet potatoes early on, as supplies for winter.

When there is a heavy snowstorm, the biggest problem is not travel or shopping, but the heavy snow that crushes the roof.

Houses of this era, no matter what structure they are in, have wooden beams.

Thatched houses, loess houses, and wooden houses that have been in disrepair for a long time have poor pressure resistance of the girders.

As a result, overnight, a large number of houses in the outer city collapsed, at least thousands of them.

The grassroots in the capital suffered a disaster, and Tang Bing, the Governor of Shuntian, was duty-bound.He hurried to the palace to ask for an order to transfer grain from the household department of Tongzhou to the disaster relief.

Yu Zhu was in charge of the public security power in the capital, and it became the top priority to prevent traitors and hooligans from taking advantage of the fire.

Speaking of which, since Yuzhu took the post of commander of the infantry, he has participated in the disaster relief work in winter almost every year, and he is already an old driver of disaster relief.

However, the scale of this year's snow disaster is more than ten times that of previous years.

Speaking of disaster relief, Yuzhu naturally has a unique trick.

Yuzhu went into the palace to find the old emperor, and suggested: "My lord, tens of thousands of disaster victims are gathered in the capital. If they are not properly resettled in time, there may be a civil disturbance."

If you want to rescue the disaster smoothly, you must say what the old emperor fears most.

As the emperor of the Bannermen, what the old emperor was most worried about was that the Han people rebelled, causing wars everywhere.

"You are the commander of the infantry that should be in charge. Tell me, what is your best strategy?" Even if Yuzhu didn't remind him, Kangxi knew the seriousness of the matter.

Tang Bing has always been timid, and his disaster relief method is unusually traditional. He transferred grain from the Changping warehouse of the household department and set up porridge sheds to relieve the victims.

The method proposed by Yuzhu is very distinctive.

The tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster were contracted by the chiefs of each workshop and scattered to live in designated wealthy families. The accommodation and food expenses were subsidized by the emperor's internal treasury.

Because, in the treasury of the Ministry of Households, there are so poor that they can run away from mice. Where can there be so much money for disaster relief?

Judging from previous precedents, Kangxi was still happy to spend some money in order to gain the name of the sage when he did not threaten the imperial power.

"Sure. It's just that I'm afraid that unscrupulous people will take the opportunity to buy people's hearts." The old emperor is always on guard, and ambitious bad guys take the opportunity to invite people's hearts.

Yuzhu had expected it a long time ago, the old emperor must be worried about giving people the chance to be Wang Mang or Cao Cao.

"Old man, there are quite a lot of male servants in our palace. I think it's very appropriate for you to let them distribute money and food on your behalf." Yuzhu understood the old emperor's mind very well, and he had every reason to believe that what he proposed Suggestion, the old emperor will definitely listen to it.

"Well, when the servants of the inner court go out of the palace, they are afraid that there will be objections in the court." The old emperor hesitated.

Yuzhu reminded in a low voice: "Let Wang Chaoqing and the others distribute welfare to the disaster victims on behalf of Shengjun, this is a great charity."

Instigated by Yu Zhu, the old emperor immediately made up his mind, "Okay, it's up to you."

The emperor sent someone to personally relieve the disaster, and he took care of it so considerately.

Even if the local officials were bad, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was good.

Well, a good emperor can look forward to it, as long as he doesn't starve to death, don't rebel!
The kindness of the sage king shines on the earth, this is the biggest temptation that Yuzhu used to fool Kangxi.

Not to mention anything else, just because of the huge temptation of reputation, the old emperor will definitely fall into the pit, and he will never be able to climb out.

According to Yuzhu's suggestion, each victim was given two taels of silver and fifty liters of rice every month.

Yuzhu made it very clear that the entire disaster relief strategy can be truly effective only if the shelters not only do not lose money, but also make a small profit.

Everyone has compassion.

However, forcing ordinary people to spend a few months' income to support irrelevant outsiders, apart from talking about morality, I believe that most people in this era cannot really agree.

After all, the grass people's family really didn't have much food left over.

"Well, you always talk about it, who gets up early without benefit? Well, that's the reason." After the old emperor figured it out, he couldn't help but feel very happy.

The old emperor felt relieved, and he was extraordinarily generous in his actions. He allocated 200 million taels of silver and 100 million stones of grain to Yuzhu for disaster relief.

After Yuzhu received the decree, he immediately left the palace and mobilized troops to maintain the law and order in the outer city and deter Xiaoxiao, and to make the disaster relief work more smooth.

According to Yuzhu's arrangement, the family is the unit, and the head of each workshop is responsible for arranging to live in relatively spacious and relatively affluent families.

These families are in charge of their meals, and all expenditures will be distributed by the imperial court as subsidies for disaster relief according to the registered list.

In front of hundreds of workshop chiefs, Yu Zhu emphasized one point.

"Listen up, everyone. I will put the ugly words first. Whatever the host family eats, the victims will follow suit. The host family must not eat white rice. They eat dross, which will seriously damage the name of the benevolence of the Holy One. , do you understand?"

"Hey." Yuzhu's threat, no workshop head dared to take it as a deaf ear, everyone took it down.

More people is more powerful!
The victims were first gathered in the various barracks of the Eight Banners Infantry Yamen, and then followed the various square chiefs to the temporary residence.

Under Yuzhu's personal auspices, the victims were properly resettled within almost a day.

The food and housing problems of the victims were all solved, which also solved the problem of the Han people's uprising that the old emperor was most worried about.

After the first step was accomplished, according to the requirements in the decree, Tang Bing, Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, issued a corvee collection order.

There is only one order for corvée collection. All civilians who have participated in disaster relief, as long as they have worked for one month, they can get six months of corvée for two years.Moreover, when they are out of corvee, the government will take care of the food, but there is no wages.

At this juncture, large-scale expropriation of corvees to participate in disaster relief is a clever way to concentrate the power of society and target poverty alleviation.

In the past, when working in corvee, all the money and food was spent by the peasants themselves, and the government didn't pay a penny.

As a result, only [-] men were recruited, but [-] strong men came.

What a joke, eating the imperial court's meal, just working for one month, can be worth two years and six months of corvee, this is a big pie that is hard to find even with a lantern.

In the past, all strong men were obliged to serve in corvee for the government.

This kind of corvee is three months a year, and the specific time is designated by the government.Moreover, bringing food, silver and bedding rolls with you is tantamount to spending your own money and food to work for the government voluntarily.

Taking advantage of the human nature of being unprofitable but not early, Yuzhu quickly mobilized [-] peasants to help the grassroots who were hit by the snowstorm to rush to build new houses.

Work on the construction site was in full swing, and someone actually publicly impeached Yuzhu.

The old emperor shook the impeachment note in his hand, threw it on the ground casually, and said indifferently: "If you can be a servant, why don't you talk to someone who knows how to talk?"

Yuzhu smiled, but said nothing.

Hehe, boy, he had already expected that someone would attack him and try to win people's hearts.

That's why Yuzhu suggested that the old emperor send the eunuchs in the palace to distribute money and food for disaster relief from door to door.

The eunuchs in the palace, no matter how big or small, all know what to say and what to say, and they are especially good at talking about people and talking nonsense when they see people.

Let the eunuchs fool the grassroots, one fool at a time, that's right.

In this era, the eunuchs in the palace came out, and they were the propagandists of the old emperor.

Even a fool would know that the eunuchs in the palace could only speak well of the old emperor, but could not praise Yuzhu.

Years of temple experience allowed Yuzhu to successfully avoid the tiankeng.

About being impeached today, if Yuzhu had thought less of it and let the soldiers of the infantry yamen distribute the relief money and food, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of the old emperor.

People in the temple, don't have a mind, don't want to stand firm, this is the truth!
In history, Fan Zhongyan actually boasted in front of Song Renzong that a gentleman has a party, but a villain has no party.

Immediately afterwards, Ouyang Xiu went to the book "Party Talk", talking about how a gentleman can be friends with the party.

As a result, of course, the Qingli New Deal was over, and Fan Zhongyan was demoted from Beijing.

Whether it is the emperor of the Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, or the emperor of the Tartar Qing Dynasty, it is the most basic emperor's mentality not to let the ministers join forces to conspire against me.

To put it bluntly, any dictatorship of foreign relatives, eunuchs, or power ministers is essentially a check and balance technique where the imperial power is not manifested, which leads to conflicting opinions, and there is a big problem.

In this sense, the so-called dictatorship of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was actually nothing more than the spring and autumn brushwork of scholars slandering the Ming emperor.

The reason is actually very simple, whether it is Liu Jin or Wei Zhongxian, the emperor can kill with one word!
In the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs who mastered the Shence Army were truly powerful existences above the imperial power.

Due to the abnormally abundant manpower for disaster relief, within just half a month, the collapsed houses of the victims were refurbished.

The old emperor suddenly became interested and led Yuzhu to inspect the surrounding area.

Along the way, almost everyone I met was praising Emperor Kangxi.

"Oh, without the emperor, our whole family, young and old, would starve to death."

"Yes, today's Emperor Kangxi is a rare benevolent monarch."

"That's right, the Holy King is here, the blessing of all people."

More than [-]% of grassroots people in this era are illiterate.These ordinary people have not received the modern education of the nation-state, how do they know what a family and country are, and how can they resist foreign invasion?
To put it bluntly, as long as the emperor in power treats the grassroots a little bit better, he will be praised.

"To tell you the truth, the main room of my house is dedicated to the Immortal's throne, and I pray to heaven every day, hoping that the emperor will live forever." This person may have read a little, and spoke with a bit of elegance.

Kangxi immediately became interested and followed him to his house.

When he arrived at the scene, Kangxi took a look, and sure enough, he was not talking nonsense, his fairy tablet was really offered for incense.

The spontaneous flattery of grassroots is better than anyone's deliberate flattery.

The old emperor was overjoyed, and after returning to the palace, he immediately said, "Call Zhang Tingyu."

(End of this chapter)