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Chapter 434 Situation in Henan

Last year, Liu Sheng led the pro-guard troops north to Kaifeng Prefecture to expel the intruders and rescue the victims. At the same time, he also killed all the remaining civil and military officials of the original Ming Dynasty in Kaifeng Prefecture.

And after investigation and interrogation, everyone from Zhou Wang Zhu Gongqi to Wang Xie, the magistrate of Xiangfu County, was convicted and punished.

There are two people here who are the least guilty because they firmly deny the breach of the embankment. They are Liang Bing, the former Ming Dynasty Zuo Buzong Envoy, and Wang Xie, the former magistrate of Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty.

Both were sentenced to three months of hard labor.

And because both of them performed well during the hard labor period, they both ended the hard labor period early and were demoted.

Wang Xie was still appointed as the magistrate of Xiangfu County - this was definitely a good position and a good job before Kaifeng City sank into the mud. But now that the city of Kaifeng is mired in mud and there is no one left alive, it is difficult for Xiangfu to be the magistrate of the county.

However, according to what Liu Sheng learned from Ge Wenyou, although today's Xiangfu does not even have a "county seat", and there is no way to talk about a county government, Wang Xie has worked hard to restore Xiangfu County (Kaifeng) since he took office. People’s livelihood is a concern.

In just half a year since he took office, the registered population of Xiangfu County has reached nearly 10,000.

This data sounds very shabby, but considering that Xiangfu was originally submerged by floods, and many fields were buried by sand like Kaifeng City, we know how difficult it is for Wang Xie to achieve this.

Although Wang Xie had outstanding political achievements, Liu Sheng specifically ordered not to let the Government Affairs Council transfer him, but planned to let him serve as magistrate of Xiangfu County for at least four years.

"Mr. Liang has been in office for several months, so he should have some knowledge of the situation in every state capital in Henan, right?"

Although Liang Bing is seventy-one years old, his energy and energy have become better and better since his death.

Because Xiangfu needs more capable and hard-working officers like Wang Xie.

Now his hair is gray, but his eyes are bright and his face is rosy. He looks like he can work for at least another four or five years.

Liang Bing had previously served as the Ming Dynasty's left governor of Henan for several years. He was later sentenced to three months of hard labor (actually doing light work). He traveled to many places and learned about the situation in some places.

Liu Sheng sighed: "I entered Kaifeng Prefecture from Henan Prefecture, so I have some understanding of the situation there.

Since Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang and occupied Henan Prefecture, the surviving people either fled or became thieves and then joined Li Chuang's army.

As for the previous governor of Henan and even Hubei, Li Changwen had always served concurrently, which was obviously not suitable. Later, there were more candidate officials in Damei, and these two governor positions were relieved from Li Changwen's shoulders.

During the Ming Dynasty, Liang Bing had always been a good official. He not only made political achievements in various places, but also did many policies to benefit the people, especially the poor. Liu Sheng naturally respects such an old and good official.

As for Liang Bing, he was appointed as the political envoy to Zuobu in Henan after joining Wei. He went to Nanjing to deeply understand and learn the various administrative rules and regulations of Dawei.

Therefore, after listening to Liu Sheng's inquiry, he nodded and said: "I understand somewhat, but Henan Mansion has just been returned to me, Dawei. I haven't had time to go and inspect it yet. I don't know how the situation there has changed from before."

In the spring of this year, he was appointed governor of Henan.

"Mr. Liang, please get up quickly."

At the gate of the city, Liu Sheng only exchanged a few words with Liang Bing. When they arrived at the lobby of the governor's office in Xuzhou City, he had an in-depth conversation with Liang Bing about the governance of Henan.

"See Your Majesty."

However, Li Chuang also lacked food and ignored some of the troops and soldiers' families in the periphery. Therefore, many people died of starvation that year.

However, after Li Zicheng became king in Ziyang, he carried out some management of Henan Prefecture.

Unfortunately, the natural disaster was so severe that the officials appointed by Li Chuang were powerless. They could do very little, and even less were effective. Therefore, many people still starved to death and fled in the past year. Nowadays, the words "ten rooms and nine empty spaces" in Henan Mansion are not enough to describe it, but Cao Cao's poem is more suitable - the bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles. There are more than a hundred living people, but those who think about it will have their hearts broken. "

In fact, Liu Sheng felt that using Cao Cao's poem to describe the scene in Henan Mansion was too light.

The people of Henan Prefecture are afraid that not even one in a hundred can survive!

At that time, he was walking all the way to Luoyang. Everything he saw was weeds, and there were swarms of jackals and wild dogs, and they even dared to spy near the army.

Liu Sheng felt like he was in an ancient version of the wasteland world, extremely desolate.

Perhaps Henan Prefecture did not originally have so few people, but when Li Zicheng realized that Henan Prefecture was difficult to hold, he ordered Li Guo to forcibly move the few people to Xi'an Prefecture.

Villages in remote areas that were unwilling to migrate were mercilessly destroyed by the Shun army, and the people were either kidnapped or fled into the mountains.

In short, Li Zicheng's operations in Henan Prefecture were similar to some of his operations when he fled from Xi'an to the south and passed through Nanyang. It fully demonstrated the cruelty of war in the feudal era and the cold-blooded ruthlessness of those in power towards the people.

Therefore, although Da'ei obtained Henan Prefecture, the population it could obtain might not even be 100,000...

After hearing what Liu Sheng said about the situation in Henan Prefecture, Liang Bing was also very emotional, and then suggested: "Since there are no ordinary people in Henan Prefecture, it can only be used for farming."

Liu Sheng nodded, "That's the only way."

Then the two started chatting about other state capitals in Henan.

Ruzhou, which is adjacent to Henan Prefecture, was completely captured by the Yi army earlier, so the population loss was not very serious.

As for the three prefectures of Nanyang, Runing, and Yiyang, they were the earliest territories of Damei, and Runing was the place of Longxing. They are all developing very well now - even Nanyang was ravaged by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, and the Ming army. , has also regained a lot of vitality after absorbing refugees from Henan Prefecture and other places.

Not to mention Runing and Yiyang, they are now important grain producing areas and tax revenue centers in Dalei.

As for Kaifeng Mansion, it can only be said that it is just okay, at least it no longer needs money and food relief from the Da'ei court.

The Huaiqing, Weihui, and Zhangde prefectures north of the Yellow River were all captured by the Yi army in March, and the local government offices were not well established, so there was no way to govern them.

Therefore, even if the situation of these three prefectures is better than that of Henan Prefecture, I am afraid it will not be much better, and it is definitely not optimistic.

At the end of the conversation, both Liu Sheng and Liang Bing believed that in the next few years, except for Nanyang, Runing, and Yiyang in the south, other prefectures in Henan Province need to focus on recuperation.

At the same time, we need to actively prepare for droughts and locust plagues to prevent the people living here from suffering another catastrophic disaster.

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Liu Sheng also stayed in Xuzhou for a day before leaving.

Still heading south, but the destination is Wuyang.

More than two years ago, he personally led troops to attack this place and obtained a lot of iron ore and craftsmen from Wuyang, which was regarded as the first pot of gold for the rise of the Wei tribe.

Now that he is leading the personal guards here again, it can be regarded as a return visit to his old place.

Of course, Liu Sheng came here not to reminisce about the past, but to inspect the iron mines, iron factories, and armory factories in Wuyang.

(End of this chapter)