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Chapter 433: Take all of Henan and patrol the south

At the end of March in the second year of Qianyuan, the Yi army captured Henan Prefecture, thus occupying all the territory under the jurisdiction of the former Ming Dynasty Chief Envoy of Henan.

At the beginning of April, Liu Sheng made a royal tour to the south.

He went to Gu'an, Baoding, Qingyuan, Qingdu, Zhending, Xingtai, Yongnian, Daming, Anyang, Ji County, Hanoi and Luoyang.

The places where they stayed were basically the administrative offices of the new state capital after the spring of the Wei army, or the important cities of the state capital.

The arrival of Liu Sheng led the bodyguard regiment and three brigades of the Guards (the Huben Guards and the Shengjie Guards each left one brigade to guard the capital and the border), which not only demonstrated the true elite military might of the Yi army to the people in these newly acquired lands. , also expressed his importance to these places.

At the same time, Liu Sheng gained a more realistic understanding of these places and provided some targeted guidance on civil affairs, so that people's livelihood and economy could recover as soon as possible, and he also gained a wave of public support.

Then Liu Sheng went from Luoyang to Zhengzhou.

Because nearly half of Kaifeng was submerged in sediment, even if the flood receded, it would be difficult to recover. Therefore, Dayei changed the government of Kaifeng to Zhengzhou. As for the provincial government, it is tentatively decided to be in Xuzhou.

In Zhengzhou, Liu Sheng met Ge Wenyou, the prefect of Kaifeng who had been in office for one year.

Although Liu Sheng's appearance has not changed much, the pressure on Ge Wenyou is now greater.

Today, Damei controls all the territory of the original Ming Dynasty except Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and Liao, and has twice defeated the Jiannu.

After all, Damei's power was previously limited to the south of the Yellow River, and it was unable to conquer all the southern provinces, so it could only be regarded as having the potential to dominate the world.

Because Damei was established only two years ago, many rules, regulations, laws and regulations are still in use from the Ming Dynasty.

For example, when some local governments register people, the most important data is the number of adults, followed by the total population including women and children.

The so-called Cheng Ding, according to the "Da Ming Law", is a man who is over sixteen years old.

As for the total registered population, it is estimated to be at most hundreds of thousands.

If nothing else, Damei will definitely dominate the world.

This data can only be said to be average.

Ge Wenyou knew that Liu Sheng did not like officials to talk rhetorically, but liked to hear specific data and things, so he continued: "Take Zhengzhou as an example. Because it was designated as a prefectural government, the population recovered quickly. Currently, registration There are more than 70,000 registered adults, and Zhengzhou City has a population of more than 50,000."

After reviewing the manuscript in his mind, he said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, except for the Xiangfu and other places that were hit by the disaster last year, as well as the Yuanwu, Yangwu, and Yanjin north of the Yellow River that were just acquired by Dawei, the people's livelihood and livelihood of other prefectures and counties in Kaifeng Prefecture The economy is slowly recovering."

After entering Zhengzhou City and arriving at the government office, Liu Sheng asked, "How has the people's livelihood and economic situation in Kaifeng Prefecture been in the past year?"

As for women and children, they can only be counted as mouths, not sons.

However, considering that Zhengzhou has suffered from repeated wars and years of drought, locust plagues, and plagues, resulting in serious population loss, it is not bad to be able to recover to this number of people within one year.

Facing such a founding emperor, it was impossible for him to be without pressure.

Although Zhengzhou is a prefecture under the jurisdiction of the province, the area it governs is not small. In one year, there are only more than 70,000 registered adults, and the number of households is estimated to be only about 50,000, or even less.

Ge Wenyou probably thought this data was too shabby, and then began to explain.

"Last year, many places in Kaifeng Prefecture suffered from drought. Fortunately, the states and counties had followed His Majesty's instructions to use work as relief, built more ditches, and dug more wells. The food grown was not reduced too much due to the drought. The locust plague after the drought was also Not too big.

However, droughts and locust plagues make it difficult to harvest food, which ultimately has a negative impact on people's livelihood and economic recovery in various places. Liu Sheng nodded slightly after hearing this.

In fact, in the first year of Qianyuan (the fifteenth year of Chongzhen), not only Kaifeng Prefecture suffered from droughts and locust plagues, but also the entire Henan Province, as well as Hubei Province, Huainan Province, Shandong Province, Beizhili, etc., suffered major or minor droughts, Locust plague.

Some areas north of the Yellow River that had not yet been ruled by the Yi army were ravaged by plague, and the people were wiped out.

As for the places under the rule of the Yi army, they can at most reduce the negative impact of drought, actively fight drought, prevent locust plagues and plagues, so that the people will suffer less losses.

It is difficult to eliminate the main negative impact of drought with Da'ei's current strength.

Liu Sheng had learned about disasters in various places through memorials. After listening to Ge Wenyou's speech, he said: "There is no mercy for natural disasters, and we cannot ignore the people affected by the disaster.

Depending on the situation this year, if the disaster in Kaifeng Prefecture is serious, we will continue to send some of the affected people to Tianmu Mountain.

Although it is hard to open up wasteland there, as long as the people are willing to work hard, there is always a way to survive and their lives can get better as soon as possible. "

Hearing that Liu Sheng wanted to relocate some of the disaster-stricken people, Ge Wenyou was actually reluctant - if the local area wanted to restore people's livelihood and economy, it must have a sufficient population. If the population is too small, even if it has great abilities, people's livelihood will not be restored quickly.

But he did not dare to object.

Because even with the support of the imperial court, he could not guarantee that none of the people under his rule would die due to disasters.

In addition, he also knew that relocating disaster-stricken people was now an important national policy in Da'ei.

Not only in Kaifeng Prefecture, but also in disaster-stricken prefectures in other provinces such as Henan, some victims were moved to Tianmu Mountain after the beginning of spring.

After two or three years in Touhuang, he had heard something about the things happening in Tianmu Mountain.

It is said that there is a new world discovered by Liu Sheng under the guidance of God. Although it is a wilderness, the land is fertile and the products are rich, and it can feed tens of millions of people.

The year before last, Damei had to provide some food there to support land reclamation. But last year, there was no need to supply food. Instead, a lot of salt, seafood, furs and other supplies were shipped out from there.

There are even rumors that many gold mines have been discovered there, and it is easy to make a fortune there.

Nowadays, a very small number of well-informed and thoughtful people have tried to become refugees to see if they can be selected into the migration team to go to the new world beyond Tianmu Mountain.

Therefore, Ge Wenyou believed Liu Sheng's statement that the world on the other side of Tianmu Mountain could help people survive and even improve their lives quickly.

This way he would have even less reason to object to the migration.

He could only think about how to manage an area and achieve outstanding political achievements when the population was insufficient.

When Liu Sheng led the Guards to Kaifeng Prefecture for disaster relief last year, he instructed him that it would be a good method to settle the people into farming in places that are less susceptible to disasters. He has done this in the past year, and it can be said that he has been very effective in restoring people's livelihood and the economy.

But that alone was not enough. He had to come up with other ways to speed up the people's livelihood and economic development of the entire Kaifeng Prefecture...

Liu Sheng was unaware of Ge Wenyou's series of psychological activities. After spending a day with him in Zhengzhou, he went south to Xuzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Here, he met Liang Bing, the current governor of Henan.

(End of this chapter)