Daming Military Empire

Chapter 60 Resettlement of Disaster Victims
The population migration of four provinces and one capital is a huge project, and all aspects must be considered carefully, otherwise there will be big troubles.

First of all, it is necessary to do a good job of counting the number of people who have moved out. Although there is no grass in the disaster area, there are always people who are unwilling to leave. For example, wealthy businessmen in prefectures and counties have plenty of money and food. Even if there is another 100 years of severe drought, they will not worry about food and drink. Those who are unwilling to leave; another example is those rich and powerful families, who have a lot of money and can't spend it in a few lifetimes. If you ask them to move away, it is not to save them, but to kill them.Those who really can't survive are ordinary civilians and military households. They have no other source of income except farming. Once there is no harvest, they will face starvation.

Then, the place where the victims will be resettled must be prepared. You can’t just ignore the decree of relocation. The victims must know where they are going to move, and they must have food and land when they arrive. Otherwise, they will move out to work. Well, it's not the same as starving to death.

Zhu Cijiong is not a god, he just likes to pretend to be a god, and he can't think about so many things alone, so he has to gather all the officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, and discuss slowly with the map.

Faced with the emperor's whimsical idea, everyone was dumbfounded. This is the migration of tens of millions of people!Daming had said many times that he wanted to move the capital, but in the end it didn't work out, and the move would only involve a million people at most, and nothing could happen. How could they not be surprised that tens of millions of people were going to be moved this time.

Of course, surprises are surprises, and there is not a single person who sings a naysayer.Xu Guangqi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Bi Maokang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, are both Zhu Cijiong's confidantes. Wang Zheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, is also his confidant. will not object.

As for Yang He, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, he has just returned from Shaanxi. He knows how hard the victims are, so he is absolutely in favor of relocation.The last one is Wen Tiren, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites. This guy is a sycophant. He knows what the leader means all day long and thinks about how to make better shots. Naturally, such a person will not sing the opposite tune.

After a few days of discussion, everyone finally finalized the plan. The Ministry of Rites is mainly responsible for the mobilization and statistics of the immigrant population. Among them, Xu Guangqi is in charge of Beizhili, Yang He is in charge of Shaanxi and Sichuan, and Wen Tiren is in charge of Shanxi and Henan.The Ministry of Industry is mainly responsible for the resettlement of the migrant population. Among them, Bi Maokang is responsible for collecting land, Wang Zheng is responsible for building simple houses, and Li Tianjing is responsible for arranging the planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The place to resettle the victims has also been determined. The victims in Beizhili do not need to move to other places. Shuntian Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture are all close to the sea and have not suffered from drought. Just move to the three prefectures in the east.The victims in Shanxi and Henan were taken to Shandong, and the victims in Shaanxi and Sichuan were taken to Huguang.

In addition, the state capitals that receive refugees have to free up more than [-] mu of arable land for the victims to cultivate. This problem is not difficult to solve, because potatoes and sweet potatoes do not have high geological requirements, and mountainous and wasteland are fine, but the state capitals can Take it easy.

After the court meeting organized by Zhu Cijiong ended, an unprecedented migration slowly kicked off.

The Ministry of Rites began to organize officials to publicize in the disaster-stricken areas of four provinces and one capital: due to the severe drought and it was unknown how many years it would last, the imperial court decided to move all civilians in the disaster-stricken areas to provinces with abundant rain.All civilians can choose to go, or they can choose not to go. The courts who are willing to go will provide simple houses and enough food to satisfy their hunger;

As soon as the news came out, the whole Daming was shocked.

He said without joking: Does the little emperor know how to count?That's tens of millions of people, not thousands of people!

The dignitaries in the disaster-stricken area said: This is a good show. I am afraid that the little emperor does not know how many people there are. Alas, he is still young and ignorant!
The wealthy businessmen in the disaster area said: let’s go, let’s go, let’s all go, staring at us with green eyes all day long, maybe we will become robbers and rebels at any time.

The landlord in the disaster area said: Is this little emperor having a convulsion?What should we do with our land if we move to another place? How will we live without land rent in the future!

The civilians in the disaster area said: Really?Can you really get full?As long as we can eat enough, let us move to Liaodong!
No matter what others say, Zhu Cijiong is determined to make a big move this time. Who dares to jump out and sing a different tune? He doesn't mind letting Jin Yiwei tell them that the emperors of Ming Dynasty are all murderers without blinking an eye!Only more than 2000 officials above the fifth rank in Beijing were killed, and the victims were more than 2000 million. Everyone knows how to choose between 2000 million and 2000 million.

Maybe Qian Qianyi lost the organizer after he was sent away, maybe the officials of the court were afraid of being sent to Shaanxi by the little emperor to suppress the bandits, maybe everyone thought that relocation was the only way, in short, this unprecedented migration plan No one jumped out to object, and all the work was proceeding in an orderly manner.

March happened to be the season for sowing potatoes. After Bi Maokang collected the cultivated land, Li Tianjing led Zeng Zhaode to travel around, organizing and teaching farmers in Beizhili, Shandong, and Huguang to sow potatoes in the fields to store food for the victims. Wang Zheng also Started to organize craftsmen from all over the world to build proposed houses.

Zhu Cijiong really went ruthless this time, and assigned them each a thousand Jinyiwei, and issued an imperial edict, whoever dares not cooperate with their work, will be dragged down and cut down immediately, and someone else who is willing to cooperate will go up and see who Dare to be a moth!

The prefects and prefects everywhere are not fools, who dare to use their own necks to test whether the Xiuchun blade is sharp!So the preparations went smoothly. Potatoes were sown all over the country in March, and the statistics of the victims in April were basically completed. Nearly 2000 million people were willing to relocate!In May, simple houses were built one after another in various places. By June, an unprecedented large-scale migration finally started.

The mass migration of 2000 million people, that scene cannot be seen standing on the ground. Anyway, there are people everywhere, and I don’t know how many there are.

If you look at it from the air, you will know how spectacular it is. On the official road, densely packed teams stretching for several miles, tens of miles or even tens of miles can be seen everywhere. The migrating victims formed countless long queues, slowly heading towards the The resettlement site moved, and the entire north seemed to have suddenly set off countless ant swarms, densely packed with black spots everywhere.

Although it is a nearby migration, the journey is not usually long. The fastest one takes more than ten days, and the slowest one can reach it in one month. It is not bad!
This time, just for eating and drinking along the way, Zhu Cijiong has advanced 1000 million taels from the treasury. In addition to the construction of various resettlement sites and the mobilization of troops in the areas occupied by the peasant uprising army, the entire treasury has basically been emptied. If he doesn't come up, he will become a pauper!

Of course, Zhu Cijiong would do it even if he really became a pauper. 2000 million taels of silver can save 2000 million civilians. Does this kind of thing need to be considered?
(End of this chapter)