Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 333 Disaster Relief Discussion
Huang Laifu pointed out in this signed article that natural disasters are just a normal phenomenon of nature. Disasters often occur in regular dynasties, even when famous sage kings and ministers famous in history books were in power, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

Disasters are not terrible, the most important thing is timely and effective disaster relief in order to reduce the losses of the people.Not only that, daily diligence and prevention are also very important, so that even if a disaster strikes, it is not impossible to achieve the results achieved in the prime of life.

Huang Laifu unceremoniously cited his own example. He was farming in many places in the two towns of Datong, Shanxi. Because he usually pays attention to the construction of water conservancy, although the severe drought is the same as that in northern Daming, he has achieved great results in summer grain and autumn grain. A good harvest is not lost in the prime of life.Not only that, due to the effective measures taken, there was no refugee wave in the territory as in other places, and the plague after the disaster did not appear.

Not only that, but in the area attached to Gyeonggi Province, although it was also a catastrophe, Sangong Huangzhuang, which was developed and operated according to the Wuzhaibao model, has also achieved good results. Every mu of land has two stones of grain harvested, which is similar to that of the nearby people. The stark contrast of almost no harvest for households is surprising.

Over the years, the various livestock farms, orchards, vegetable gardens, supermarkets, glass factories, etc. jointly operated by Huang Laifu and the imperial family have made a lot of money. Dumbfounded, speechless.

Huang Laifu refuted the so-called disaster as God's warning to the emperor to open mines with iron-like facts, and believed that all the officials who used disasters to attack the emperor had ulterior motives, and all kinds of purposes were for their own personal fame.Huang Laifu believes that if these officials are really serving the country and the people, they should put their minds on disaster relief and daily government affairs, instead of attacking this and that for personal gain. If they are really diligent and concerned about people's livelihood, they will There will be no more refugees.

Huang Laifu's article naturally made countless civil servants go into a rage. This article sharply tore away their true moral face. Many people wanted to refute it, but found themselves speechless.No, they claim to be loyal ministers of the country, and they are dedicated to serving the country and the people, but why are there no crops in the territory, and the refugees are everywhere?
It was also ravaged by the disaster, but the harvest in Shanxi was the same, the people were not displaced, and the plague after the disaster did not appear.On the contrary, because it is easy to survive in Shanxi, large-scale refugees have entered Shanxi to seek food.This situation makes people surprised and confused. Why is Huang Laifu, a warrior, doing better than those literati who claim to be the most important talents in the country?Is it really because he really cares about state affairs, and those literati are just trying to make a name for themselves?
Huang Laifu's article was widely circulated. Many officials and literati who read the article felt their faces were burning.Of course, there are also civil servants who refute Huang Laifu's article, but in the face of the facts, their refutations are all so weak.It seems to confirm that they are just making excuses for self-interest or to cover up their incompetence.

Of course, Huang Laifu's article is so blatant, and he denounced all those who attacked Emperor Wanli's mining and taxation policy as selfishness, and he must have offended many people, and many of them were heavyweights. After all, this natural disaster, Even Shen Yiguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Li Dai, the minister of the Ministry of officials, took the opportunity to attack the mining tax.

But now Huang Laifu doesn't care how these civil servants react. Considering his current status and influence, no matter how low-key he is, he has long been a public enemy in the minds of civil servants. Neither low-key nor high-profile can change this fact.Besides, with Huang Laifu's current status as a warrior, his promotion has already been directly decided by the emperor, and he does not need to go through the assessment of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War. I just need to hug the emperor's thigh tightly. How those civil officials react is important to me ?
Different from the civil officials' reactions of shame and anger, Emperor Wanli was overjoyed to see Huang Laifu's article in support of himself. He even called Huang Laifu's father, Huang Sihao, and others into the palace for a banquet, and rewarded them with many things. The meaning of grace made people's eyes shine.This also made the officials even more dissatisfied with Huang Laifu.

Huang Laifu's article made the entire Daming official circles uproar, but he didn't care about it after posting the article. For him, instead of entangled in verbal disputes with these officials, he might as well do something more important. For example, the current disaster relief.

In the second half of the 29th year of Wanli, refugees from the northern part of the Ming Dynasty poured into various places in a mighty manner, mainly in three directions.One is the land of the capital, the other is the Jiangnan area, and the other is the land outside Shanxi and the Great Wall.Among them, the largest wave of refugees went to Shanxi and beyond the Great Wall.

Thanks to Huang Laifu's propaganda over the years, the development of Shanxi in recent years has already attracted everyone's attention. The natural disaster is still a bumper harvest, which is incredible.There is also the vigorous five-year plan of the two towns in Shanxi, which requires a huge amount of labor, and they can survive here, especially when they go to the outside of the Great Wall to obtain land, and they can be tax-free for the first three years, which is even more attractive.

The stream of people with families and mouths, full of hope, came to the two towns of Datong in Shanxi Province and the places beyond the Great Wall.Some of them were attracted by the two towns, and some of them continued to go beyond the Great Wall.With the arrival of the refugees, one after another huge resettlement sites were established in the two towns.

When they arrive here, they not only live in a hut, but also have porridge to drink every day. More importantly, the refugees will undergo strict sanitation and disinfection in exchange for new clothes distributed to ensure that there will be no outbreak of infectious diseases.After seven days of observation at the resettlement site, they will be organized to go to various places to settle and work and start a new life.It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Relief with work is the kingly way. Huang Laifu does not raise lazy people.

These refugees are only a small part of the two towns. After all, there are many residents in the two towns and there is not much land. It is reasonable to send them outside the Great Wall. After all, there are endless land resources and need large population.

According to the statistics of the Immigration Bureau, only from the second half of the 29th year of Wanli to the spring of the second year, there were as many as one million refugees from the Ming Dynasty sent outside the Great Wall, and countless new towns and farms were established outside the Great Wall.Since Huang Laifu started operating beyond the Great Wall in the 21st year of Wanli, the total number of Ming Han people who went to the Great Wall was no more than a million. This natural disaster also provided Huang Laifu with sufficient human resources for his layout outside the Great Wall.

While Huang Laifu was busy organizing refugees to immigrate beyond the Great Wall, of course he would not fail to pay attention to those refugees who were still in the interior. While Emperor Wanli was distributing food to relieve the victims, a large number of food teams also went from Shanxi and beyond the Great Wall to Gyeonggi. All the officials paid attention to the outside of the Great Wall.

As early as a few years ago, when the outside of the Great Wall began to transport grain to the interior of the Ming Dynasty, many people had already changed their impression of the place as a bird. people's attention.The chief assistant of the cabinet, Shen Yiguan, even suggested to Emperor Wanli to set up prefectures and counties in many places outside the Great Wall.

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The large-scale disaster in the 29th year of Wanli did not calm down until the end of the year. This time, Huang Laifu's local governance and disaster relief capabilities once again attracted everyone's attention. When the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty was miserable, Huang Laifu's two towns It is a bumper harvest in the farmland, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. This cannot but arouse people's thinking about what is the reason.

And because of Huang Laifu's achievements in governance and his support for himself, Emperor Wanli became more and more satisfied with Huang Laifu. Especially in August this year, Huang Laifu mobilized people from all walks of life in Ming Dynasty to donate enthusiastically. Let the refugees praise the emperor, which makes Wanli even more happy.

Therefore, when Huang Laifu asked Emperor Wanli to set up a disaster emergency prevention system in various parts of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wanli of course agreed immediately.Right now, Ming Dynasty already has a national system of Mining Bureau and Taxation Bureau. It is not difficult to follow the example of these two bureaus to set up a disaster prevention bureau again.Of course, the target of the bureau's reference is naturally the disaster-related departments established by Huang Laifu in the two towns.

The officials naturally had a lot of criticisms about this disaster prevention bureau, but with the support of Emperor Wanli, the bureau was successfully established.In fact, in the following years of disasters in the Ming Dynasty, such as the great floods in the north and south in the 31st year of Wanli, the major floods in the capital in the 32nd year of Wanli, and the major earthquakes in Guangdong and Fujian in the 33rd year of Wanli, they all played an important role. .

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Soon in the uproar, the 29th year of Wanli passed, and the 30th year of Wanli (1602) came.

In the spring of this year, some farms in Wuzhaibao had a new type of cultivated crop: potatoes!
As early as the 23rd year of Wanli, Huang Laifu's servant Azhi brought back peanuts, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, tobacco and other high-yielding crop seeds from the south.Over the years, the Ministry of Agriculture of Wuzhaibao has been researching and cultivating these seeds, hoping to breed some excellent varieties and spread them all over the world.

A few years have passed, and peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes, tobacco and other crop varieties suitable for surviving in hot places have not yet been cultivated in Wuzhaibao. Some farms started planting.

When the news spread, Huang Laifu was overjoyed. Others didn't know the magical effect of this potato, but Huang Laifu knew about it. If this potato is popularized on a large scale, he really doesn't know how many people will be able to live.

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When Huang Laifu was ecstatic about Tudou, the capital, thousands of miles away, was still full of uproar, and all kinds of disputes among officials were endless.

All kinds of disputes are an old phenomenon in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a lot of trouble every time something happens.However, this year, there seems to be some new ideas in the officialdom of the capital, and several other different things have appeared.In last year's officialdom in the capital, although attacks on Huang Laifu and Emperor Wanli's mining and taxation discussions continued, the audience got tired of it after a long time, and the attackers got tired of it, and because of the slap in the face of Huang Laifu's article, they attacked Emperor Wanli The number of articles with Huang Laifu has decreased a lot this year, but another phenomenon of so-called "clear discussion" and courtiers fighting against each other has suddenly appeared.

The so-called Qing discussion was caused by the Donglin Party. As early as the 22nd year of Wanli, Gu Xiancheng, a doctor in the Ministry of officials, was dismissed from his post as a civilian, and gave lectures at Donglin Academy in Wuxi. Because there were many people who agreed with him from afar, Donglin was famous. Known as the Donglin Party.

Although most of these Donglin Party members are in the opposition, they like to make comments and criticize officials, and they are known as Qingyi.The scope of discussions of the Donglin party members is very wide, ranging from major national affairs to small officials' preferences, they cannot escape their discussions.

The traditional Chinese official circles are very concerned about the opinions of scholars among the people, especially because there are so many scholars in the Yinghe Donglin Party members, the clear discussions of these Donglin Party members seem to represent the public opinion of Ming Dynasty. In the past few years, it has influenced getting bigger.Especially since this year, the power of Qing Yi has been feared even in the temple.

Historically, the power of the Donglin party members has indeed grown stronger and stronger, often those who are praised by the Qing will be praised by all people, while those who are criticized by the Qing will be stagnant in official career and rarely promoted.In the end, Qingyi even became a huge force that influenced the promotion of officials or affected their wealth and life. Even the imperial court employed people based on their Qingyi, regardless of their true talents.In the end, this kind of clear discussion naturally and inevitably became a tool for party struggle and emotional struggle, which accelerated the demise of Ming Dynasty.

At present, although the power of the Donglin party members has just started to clean up, they have already shown their power. Naturally, because these Donglin party members wantonly criticized the officials in the court, it naturally caused dissatisfaction among many people, so they echoed up and down, The courtiers formed cronies to attack Donglin, which is the so-called Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang three parties attacking Donglin.

For a moment, the two sides attacked back and forth, creating a miasma of smoke.

Huang Laifu just watched these so-called courtiers and cliques attack with cold eyes, quietly busy with his own affairs.

(End of this chapter)