Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 248 I see how many heads he has grown!
Xia Yi is not very famous in later generations, and many people may not have heard of this name.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, Xiayi was actually an important town. There were many Eight Banners soldiers and Green Battalion troops stationed in the county. At the same time, a large amount of farmland was requisitioned as horse farms in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, so most of the villages in Xiayi were It is named after "XX Camp" or "XX Factory".

I believe anyone with a normal mind can relate to what kind of a bird the Qing Dynasty was to the common people in Tangkou of the Central Plains. Life is more difficult.

What's even worse is that there are always floods here in Xia Yi.

For example, the Xiayi flood that Qian was deaf for 22 years.

Two children, worth 480 Wen, equivalent to the price of a roast duck in Beijing at that time.

Starving and dying everywhere, selling children and daughters, and changing children for food are just lines of cold words literally.

Even after Zhu Jinsong became the emperor of Ming Dynasty, Xiayi's situation improved, but the people's living pressure was relieved, but Xiayi was still hit by disasters every now and then, and a lot of manpower and material resources had to be used each time. Solve the disaster.

The ten years of the Holy Emperor as the folks said was Zhu Jinsong's tenth year as the emperor, and Xiayi was once again flooded.

This is also the reason why Zhu Jinsong came to Xiayi on his way to the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhang Dequan followed Zhu Jinsong, from time to time he wanted to reach out to help Zhu Jinsong, and he kept muttering: "My lord, be careful, this place is too muddy."

Zhu Jinsong didn't appreciate it. Instead, he walked forward and said, "If it's muddy, make it muddy. When the roads are all asphalt, you won't be able to get muddy even if you want."

Speaking of this, Zhu Jinsong asked again without looking back: "There are floods here in Xiayi every now and then, and your local government hasn't thought of a solution?"

Xin Chengping, the county magistrate of Xiayi who was following Zhu Jinsong, was taken aback immediately, and then began to cry: "Your Majesty, you can't wrong this humble minister!"

"It's not that Weichen has thought of a solution, but the Yellow River passes through our Xiayi. Apart from constantly strengthening the dam, Weichen really has nothing to do."

"If you really want to talk about it, you should send someone to dissect that poisonous scholar Li Chui - if it weren't for him, there wouldn't be Sanyi back to the river, and our Xiayi wouldn't be here for more than 600 years. Always disaster."

"Besides, isn't this the fault of those Jianlu? According to the statistics, since the Jianlu entered the pass, the Yellow River has been breached every six months on average. But every time the embankment burst, the Jianlu Even if it’s all about mending the holes, we don’t pay attention to river control at all, and as time goes by, the originally tight embankment has become less tight.”

"If you hadn't paid more attention to water conservancy after you ascended the throne, the embankment would have been even worse, and there would have been more storms."

Zhu Jinsong snorted and said, "Okay, don't just stay here and complain to me. If complaining is useful, then I can hug you more than you—does it mean that there is no other way except to strengthen the embankment?"

Xin Chengping thought about it and said: "Going back to Your Majesty, it doesn't mean that there is nothing we can do."

"In the final analysis, this problem still lies with the Yellow River. If the flood in Xiayi is to be cured, the safest way is to rebuild the river embankment, widen the river channel, and strengthen the control of siltation and sand control. Only by taking such a multi-pronged approach can a radical cure be possible. "

"However, adding back the river course and widening the embankment will take up a lot of farmland, and secondly, the wider the river course and the slower the water flow, the more difficult it will be to control sand."

"I have also thought about whether it is possible to guide some tributaries to come out, but if I think about it carefully, the water flow will slow down if the tributaries are drawn out, and the sediment will not wash away. The final result will be more floods."

Only then did Zhu Jinsong nod his head, and told Zhang Dequan: "Write it down, let the Ministry of Industry send someone to see how to solve the problem of the river course, and just relying on continuous reinforcement of the embankment is not a solution."

After Zhang Dequan bowed down to answer, Zhu Jinsong suddenly stopped, pointed to the hazy figure in the distance and said: "Go, go and have a look."

At this time, the sky has just lighted up, and it is still a little hazy. Normally, it is not time to get up, let alone after the flood, so many people gathered suddenly, it is possible that something went wrong ?
After walking to the place where the crowd gathered, Zhu Jinsong unceremoniously squeezed into the crowd and looked around with the crowd, as if he was also a member of the crowd.

It wasn't until a long while later that a voice came from the end of the crowd: "Come! Come!"

As the shouts fell, someone lit firecrackers, and there was a smell of gunpowder smoke and broken red paper. With the sound of crackling firecrackers, they ran around, and the sound of gongs and drums also sounded.

Zhu Jinsong laughed at that moment.

This is not a coincidence, if someone is getting a wife, then go there and bring a few yuan of money, and then have a big feast, and the breakfast and lunch will be settled together, just right!

It is a pity that Zhu Jinsong waited for a long time but did not wait for the bridal sedan chair to appear. After a few trumpeters passed by, it turned out to be garrison soldiers wearing military uniforms. I knew where to move out a table full of wine bowls, and then moved out several tanks of wine, opened the mud seal and started pouring bowls of wine.

This is not someone marrying a daughter-in-law at all, but the garrison who participated in the rescue and disaster relief is about to leave quietly, but they still can't escape the siege and interception of these ordinary people, and they are blocked again!

Two village elders stood tremblingly in the middle of the road, blocking the battalion commander and supervisor, and then a young man followed with a wine table.

"I didn't stop you from leaving today, and I didn't have anything else. Just a few eggs and home-brewed wine are not valuable rare things. After drinking the wine and accepting the eggs, we will Let you go there."

The old rules, don't accept things, it's ok, but the eggs have to be accepted, and if you want to leave, it's ok, but you have to drink the wine.

The leading battalion commanders were all dismissed.

These seventy and eighty-year-old villagers, you can't push or say, even if the county magistrate comes, he has to accompany them with a smile, not to mention beating or scolding, basically the same.

Besides, if someone blocks the road to toast, can you not drink it?

In desperation, the battalion commander had no choice but to stretch out his hands to pick up the wine bowl. However, his hands, which were particularly stable for holding a gun and a knife, were trembling slightly when he picked up the wine bowl.

The soldiers who followed the battalion commander were not too strong. Many soldiers' hands were still trembling slightly. The gauze wrapped on some soldiers' hands was even stained red with blood. tattered,.

These are not only seen by Zhu Jinsong, but also by the people around them. Many people simply peeled the hard-boiled eggs, stuffed them directly into the mouths of the soldiers, and picked up the wine. The bowl is sent to the mouth.

The old man unceremoniously put the wine bowl to the mouth of the battalion commander: "Look at you, you were so energetic when you were carrying sandbags and stones, why can't you hold a bowl now?"

Zhu Jinsong looked at the scene in his eyes, couldn't help but shook his head with a smile—you said he was a big old man, but he had to be so arrogant, and you said you just pissed him off, but why did you shed tears? Ah You.

But next to him was Zhang Dequan, who was short-sighted.

Zhang Dequan quietly handed over the handkerchief, and said in a low voice, "My lord?"

Zhu Jinsong took the handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes, then snorted coldly and said, "The wind and sand in Xiayi is too big."

Xin Chengping also went to Zhu Jinsong's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty does not know, the wind and sand in Xiayi is indeed heavy, and there have been many wind disasters in previous years. I thought it was because the trees were cut down too much, so I did it." It will become like this, and Weichen has been persuading the people of Xiayi to plant trees."

Zhu Jinsong snorted again: "You are right, you should plant trees and afforestation, we can't cut down all the trees in our generation, so that future generations will not have to cut down."

After watching for a while, Zhu Jinsong simply took Zhang Dequan and Xin Chengping and slipped out of the crowd. When everyone else was pushing forward with eggs in their mouths, Zhu Jinsong and his group didn't push forward. affect the image.

After leaving the crowd, Zhu Jinsong asked, "Is this flood a disaster?"

Xin Chengping shook his head and replied: "Your Majesty, the flood this time is not very serious. Compared with previous floods, it can even be said to be very light. It is so light that even the local chronicles will not record it. The impact on the lives of the people cannot be ignored. Not at all, but only slightly.”

Zhu Jinsong hummed, and walked towards the direction of the river embankment, and said, "Very little, that means there is still an impact, it can't be said that there is no one at all, right?"

Xin Chengping said: "Your Majesty has learned from this. After this flood, this year's harvest will definitely be affected, but there is plenty of food in the warehouses in the county and the countryside, and the common people will definitely not be hungry."

"In addition, it is probably that those workshops will inevitably be affected, and it is unavoidable to suspend work for a few days. However, the imperial court has a policy against this situation. For those workshops that are affected, a certain amount will be reduced Taxation, after all, will not affect the livelihood of the people."

Zhu Jinsong hummed, nodded, and then took the lead to walk up the embankment.

Although the river water has receded at this time, the river water is still turbid, like yellow soup, and the embankment is even more muddy, and one can only move forward slowly with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Zhu Jinsong was quite satisfied in his heart.

Xin Chengping was promoted step by step from the farmers' association, from the village farmers' association to the township farmers' association to the county farmers' association, until now the county magistrate. It's not so easy to cultivate, and in many cases, you can only make do with it.

Fortunately, these officials who were slowly promoted from the peasant associations were different from those officials who took the imperial examination or donated during the Qing Dynasty.

If it wasn't like this, Zhu Jinsong wouldn't have brought a guard and Zhang Dequan to follow Xin Chengping, the county magistrate, to the embankment.

After turning around the embankment, Zhu Jinsong let out a long breath and said, "Okay, I've delayed your Xinzhi County for so long, and I don't know how much business it will take for you. Let's go back to the county seat."

Hearing what Zhu Jinsong said, Xin Chengping also heaved a long sigh of relief, thinking that you know how to return to the city, and if you keep procrastinating like this, the backlog of official duties may not exhaust the county magistrate to death!
Just not far from Xiayi County, Zhu Jinsong asked inexplicably: "Have you found out everything?"

Ke Zhiming, who came out of nowhere, bowed and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, we have already found out that Xu Yaozong, the magistrate of Yongcheng County, has embezzled more than 300 taels of silver, and the rest has his own calligraphy, paintings, antiques and other things. Unable to count at the moment."

Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly and said, "Let's go, let's meet the county magistrate. I really want to see how many heads he has grown!"

(End of this chapter)