Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 397
The fleet successfully returned with a full load. Under the intense vigilance of Lin Sen and the others, their respective cargoes were delivered. Of course, the caravan has already been on standby here, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Until the caravan was ready to leave, Feng An didn't make any other noises. It seemed that they had reached a tacit understanding.

The profits from the spice trade are enough to satisfy him, and he won't oppress the veterans too much.

In this way, the situation in Lingnan as a whole is really improving, and Lin Sen can rest assured for the time being.

At this time, Li Shimin's imperial decree arrived unexpectedly.

Along with the imperial decree, there is also a famous guy who will become Lin Sen's successor.

During the summer vacation, a large-scale flood occurred between the Huaihe River and the Haihe River. This is the second year in a row that this has happened. Most of these more than 40 states are in the later generations of Shandong and Henan, including Lin Sen’s hometown in his previous life. Where it is located in Yizhou.

Last year, there was just a flood here, and Wei Zheng was sent from Chang'an City to comfort him.

It is not only to coordinate with local officials to do a good job in the resettlement and rescue of the victims, but also to appease the many aristocratic families and dignitaries here.For example, Cheng Yaojin's hometown was hit by a disaster.

Opening warehouses to release food, using work as relief and other methods, almost emptied the Changping warehouse here, and finally minimized the damage as much as possible. At least not many people died of starvation.

However, there was another disaster this year, which caused a particularly headache. The local reserves obviously couldn't support such continuous consumption.

The place that was hit by the disaster was definitely a densely populated area in the Tang Dynasty.

In order to satisfy the appetites of so many people without large-scale attrition, the demand for this material is extremely huge.

Moreover, this is a place with so many years of historical and cultural accumulation, and it also involves so many aristocratic families, as well as the hometowns of nobles, so we must spare no effort to do a good job in disaster relief.

It takes a long process to mobilize food from other places before it can be sent to the disaster area. The area affected by the disaster is so large, and it is still one of the original main food producing areas. It is really difficult to mobilize enough supplies.

Especially places like the estuary of the Huaihe River have always been the hardest-hit areas. After the disaster, it has become extremely difficult for outsiders to enter these places. Either the water is too large, or all the roads have completely turned into mud It can be said that it is difficult for grain trucks to move an inch.

When they trek across mountains and rivers to enter these hard-hit areas, not to mention whether the food can still be eaten, anyway, the victims in the disaster-stricken areas are probably already hungry enough, and some unbearable things may even happen.

No one wants the original hometown of Confucius and Mencius to turn into a purgatory on earth, with some ugly scenes of human nature staged.

At this time, Li Shimin remembered some ideas that Lin Sen had talked about when discussing with him before he set off, such as "South-to-North Grain Transfer".

There is a saying in later generations that "Huguang is ripe, and the world is full", which is closely related to the south-to-north transportation of grain and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

However, the south-to-north grain diversion that Lin Sen envisioned at the beginning is still not the same. Historically, it should give full play to the role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to achieve the purpose of transportation between the north and the south, and strengthen economic and military ties and exchanges between the north and the south. .

Of course, Lin Sen also has the same goal, but the route he takes is not the same. He still hopes to take advantage of the sea transportation.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is already busy enough, and the power entanglements in it are too complicated for Lin Sen to get involved or want to get involved.

But if you go by sea, the speed is actually quite guaranteed. All the way north along the coast, with the help of warm currents, it is not too convenient.

Especially in this disaster relief, the precious food can be sent to the hardest-hit areas where it is most needed.

Moreover, sea transportation requires much less manpower, and the time is short, and the food consumed on the road will be much less, and the efficiency of transportation has also been greatly improved.

As for the source of food, it is easier to handle. Why did Lin Sen encourage Feng An to start planting those super rice as soon as he came to Lingnan?In fact, it is also preparing for this time.

It’s easy to do three crops a year in Yazhou, and it’s definitely not difficult to get two crops a year in Guangfu, and it’s promoted by Feng An, the well-known "King of Lingnan". Big.

While Lin Sen made a fortune from it, it also made Feng An more concerned about the rice, and now he has successfully completed the large-scale coverage of these super rice.

The output of these rice paddies alone should be a very scary figure. It should be more than enough to complete this disaster relief, at least for those hardest hit areas.

After all, the various grains and fruits produced by Lingnan itself are very rich, and these grains should be consumed very little.

Coupled with the mobilization of various materials from the surrounding area, it is enough to stabilize the situation in the disaster area.

And the order given by the imperial decree was also very clear, asking Lin Sen to gather as much food as possible and deliver it to the hardest-hit area as soon as possible.

Lin Sen conveyed the meaning of the imperial decree to all the leading figures in Lingnan, and asked everyone to mobilize quickly.

Those who have food will ship food, those who have ships will ship, and those who have a boat will start, and when the container is full, it will be the right thing to send the food to the hardest-hit areas as soon as possible.

Lin Sen's Ping An and the three ships of Jixiang Ruyi were of course also included in the conscripts. The ships with the strongest transport capacity simply pulled up the mountains of rice piled up in the barracks and headed towards Dengzhou. went.

The other nobles also put aside the matter of transporting spices for the time being, and used all the sea ships under their command to transport supplies.

For example, Jeju, Cheng Yaojin's hometown, was also the hardest-hit area, and the other nobles didn't mean to stand idly by.

Feng An was even more grandiose. Not only did the sons who were involved in transporting the spices go north with the boats full of grain, but all the sea boats under his command that could sail long distances were also filled with rice and followed in a mighty manner. .

The three new flagships headed by the Ping An ship were the most loaded, but they were the fastest, so they came to the front as expected.

Lin Sen also packed his things this time, and went north with the Ping An.

To his surprise, he didn't need to stay in Panyu after taking over the job of mobilizing and delivering relief supplies.

He thought that he would have to work there for one or two terms before he could be transferred, and he was already prepared for a long-term struggle.

Unexpectedly, the spice fleet here had just completed a collective operation, and his mission ended like this.

Perhaps Li Shimin felt that the current situation could be regarded as the completion of the plan handed over to Lin Sen, or he felt that Lin Sen's ability to build a relatively stable structure like the current one was already the limit.

And with Feng An's cooperation, there is no need for Lin Sen, a super strong man, to stay here to maintain a deterrent of force. It is more suitable for Guangfu, which has already set its general direction, to be replaced by a guy who is gentle and martial.

Therefore, Lin Sen's successor chose a famous general who is not well-known at present, but can be said to be famous forever, and is also Lin Sen's friend.

Of course it wasn't Su Dingfang who was still studying Li Jing's art of war, but Liu Rengui, a famous general who fought against the Japanese later on!

(End of this chapter)