Red House Shoufu

Chapter 199
After three years of filial piety, Lin Shu was not idle.While teaching his younger sister Daiyu, he consulted history books and recalled the memories of his previous life.

He compiled the Qingli New Deal in the Song Dynasty, the Wang Anshi Reform, and the Zhang Juzheng Reform in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty into a book, and even sorted out some of the land reform of the later Taizu.

Now that the Great Chu has been established for less than a hundred years, the situation of land annexation has become so serious. On the surface, it seems that the national power is strong, and the people of the world are obedient, but in fact it is suppressed by a powerful army.

Because the land of Gyeonggi is under the feet of the emperor, noble gentry dare not be too presumptuous.Local land annexation has long been extremely prosperous.

For example, in Suzhou, even if the Lin family is not keen on buying land, the Lin family is proud of the research field, and people always come to contribute with land deeds.

In Jiangnan, the land tax is too high, while in Henan, it is natural and man-made disasters.Lin Shu wrote down all the reasons and listed examples one by one.

Finally, the reform strategies from ancient times to the present are summarized, and three different methods are summarized for the emperor's reference.

Alas, after all, he is just a small imperial official with no experience in serving in the local area. Even if he has the memory of his previous life as a golden finger, it is just empty talk and empty talk.

Whether it can meet the actual situation of Dachu, the best way is to make suggestions by yourself, and then let the emperor and the big bosses in the cabinet make the choice.

How powerful are the noble gentry?Which one of Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng did not end in failure?Lin Shu knew that if he wanted to reform successfully, unless he had the absolute trust and support of the emperor, otherwise, it would be good to be demoted to the ends of the earth like Fan Zhongyan, and to die in exile.

Since he is just a small Hanlin official now, it is better to put forward his own suggestions first, so that he can look after him and prepare for the future.

Secondly, the emperor can also be allowed to explore the way, and it is best to lower the tone of the reform law first.By the way, attack the forces opposing the reform, and reduce the pressure for your own reform in the future.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Master, this subordinate is back!"

It's Fuquan!
Lin Shu strode to the door and opened it.I saw Fuquan and several Lin family guards kneeling at the door, kowtowing heavily to him.

"The subordinate put the uncle in a crisis, failed the entrustment of the master at the end of his life, and asked the uncle to come down!"

Lin Shu quickly helped him up, seeing his thin and dusty face, he knew that he had just rushed back to Fucheng.

"You are... oh, you all get up quickly. I'm afraid you have suffered a lot on this journey, so go down to freshen up, have a good meal and rest."

Lin Shu said to the servant next to him: "Go and ask the kitchen to prepare some wine and vegetables, boil hot water, and let the doctor prepare some soup and medicine. Don't get sick."

"The villain will arrange it now."

When the servant walked away, Lin Shu said to everyone: "It's the auspicious talisman that I let the brothers go. I can't blame you for the matter of Fucheng. Fuquan stays behind, you guys go to rest quickly..."

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The servant brought water, Fuquan simply washed up, and while eating, told Lin Shu about the trip to Xiangfu.

It turned out that after Fuquan and his party left Daming Mansion, they realized that the flooding in the entire Henan province was extremely serious.It can be said that the fields were flooded and the cities were flooded.

Because the waterway was blocked, they could only stop and go, and finally arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, but saw an astonishing scene.

The entire Kaifeng Prefecture is full of homeless refugees. Although the government provides disaster relief, it is a drop in the bucket, and it is impossible to take care of tens of thousands or even more than 10,000 refugees.

After entering the Kaifeng mansion, he heard that the crown prince Shaobao and the Wuyingdian University scholar Zhang Li and Zhang Gelao were in the Kaifeng mansion, so Fuquan immediately went to see him.

After Zhang Li read Lin Shu's appeal letter, he explained the situation in Henan with a wry smile.

Now that there are frequent floods, the Chief Envoy of Henan has a serious shortage of food, and [-]% of the relief food brought by the court before has disappeared.

When the victims came to the city of Kaifeng, where there was no place to drink hot porridge or shelter from the wind and rain, the anger accumulated over the years due to the oppression of the wealthy gentry broke out completely.

In just half a month, there were more than a dozen riots.The chief envoy and the officials of the various prefectures in Henan couldn't control the situation at all, so they could only invite Zhang Li out who was celebrating his old mother's birthday.

After Zhang Li took command of the Kaifeng Mansion, with the help of his eldest brother, the British Duke Zhang Yue, he forcibly "borrowed" food from the rich family of Kaifeng Mansion.Opening warehouses to release grain and cooking porridge to relieve the disaster, this eased the situation.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a large number of refugees from Henan Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, and Weihui Mansion flooded into Kaifeng City.

In just two or three days, the number of victims in the city of Kaifeng reached tens of thousands.And the soldiers and horses in Zhang Yue's hands, plus the Kaifeng government guards, are only one hundred thousand soldiers, and they are still stationed in many places.

At this time, as long as someone ignites a spark, a raging fire can be ignited among the restless, hungry and cold victims.

In the end, Fuquan took Zhang Li's reply and hurried to Daming Mansion, but met merchants going south on the way, and only then did he know that Daming Mansion had just experienced an extremely dangerous disaster.

Lin Shu opened Zhang Li's letter, and the content of the letter was very simple. First, it mentioned that Zhang Li was short of soldiers, horses, food and grass, and had already gone to the capital to ask for help.

Second, tell Lin Shu that there is a pair of black hands in Henan that are promoting the development of the situation. He has not found any specific information so far, so Lin Shu should be careful.

Another thing is to tell Lin Shu that his elder brother has dispatched 2000 people from Zhangde Prefecture, who were less affected by the disaster, to go to Daming Mansion to obey Lin Shu's dispatch.

As for the food, no, let’s find a way by ourselves.It even mentioned at the end of the letter that if excess food is raised, give him some support.

Lin Shu frowned and thought deeply, how similar the situation of Kaifeng Mansion was to that of Daming Mansion.Drive the disaster victims to one place, take the opportunity to stir up trouble, and those hiding in the dark will choose the opportunity to make trouble.

Compared with the less than [-] White Lotus Sect in Daming Mansion, Kaifeng City at this time is more like the real target of the black hand behind it.

"Fuquan, you eat first, go back and rest after eating." Lin Shu told Fuquan, then picked up a pen and started writing letters.

He wrote down the whole situation of the Daming Mansion's disaster relief and the White Lotus Sect's chaos in detail, and at the same time he also wrote down his own guesses.

Although there are a large number of soldiers and horses in Kaifeng City, no one can say for sure how many of the more than 10,000 victims are real victims.

If it is not done well, there will be a shocking event of [-] rebels besieging Kaifeng, which will make the Henan people who were struggling to survive due to natural disasters even less hopeful of survival.

When Lin Shu finished writing the letter, Fuquan had already finished his meal and went back to rest.Lin Shu sealed the letter and was going to find Tan Mingming to arrange for someone reliable to send it to Kaifeng.Just when he opened the door, he saw Xu Jingsi walking towards him.

Seeing Xu Jingsi's face was serious, he clasped his fists and said, "Scholar Lin, the capital has just received a message that Prince Yizhong was assassinated, and he is now unconscious. There are rumors that the assassin shouted to kill the thief for you, and then took poison to kill himself!"

　I got a news today that the composition topic of the national college entrance examination paper turned out to be "Dream of Red Mansions" as the material. Hey, I read it, it is too difficult.Poor candidates this year, math is not mentioned, even Chinese is so volume.

　　[I will update here first today. Harvesting wheat is too tiring. Go to sleep and update tomorrow. 】

　　
　
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