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Chapter 217
"Very good, very good, Master Xu, this kind of arrangement, the timing is very well connected, and it will not delay things..." Yang Reform praised, and when he said this, Yang Reform broke out in a cold sweat, only then remembered that this ancient Transportation and communication are a piece of shit. It is far from being as convenient as making phone calls, adjusting trains, and flying in the 21st century. It takes a few months for Beijing’s disaster relief decree to reach the south, and it takes another month for the south to raise food. Shaanxi, it will take another month, and these three months have passed. If the people in Shaanxi want to eat relief food and not rebel... at least an imperial edict must be issued in advance in April to prepare.At that time, Yang Reform, although he knew that Shaanxi would suffer from drought and that Shaanxi would need disaster relief, never imagined that he would have to go there two or three months in advance. I thought about it, the transportation in this ancient time is really bad. If the disaster relief starts in June, then the common people in Shaanxi will not be able to eat the relief food until at least August and September. At that time, I am afraid that they will have rebelled.

What made Yang Reform even more startled was that he had used the lunar calendar as the Gregorian calendar, got used to the Gregorian calendar time, and was still using the Gregorian calendar to calculate the lunar calendar's grain production cycle.Yang Reform remembered that in ancient times, the lunar calendar was used to record events. That is to say, in May today, the Dragon Boat Festival has just passed. If calculated by the Gregorian calendar of the 21st century, it is already mid-June. Summer vacation is the season for harvesting grain, which should be around July. At that time, those places will only know about the disasters and start disaster relief. If Yang Reform uses the Gregorian calendar as the lunar calendar, Yang Reform thinks that grain will be harvested in July , in fact, the harvesting of grain starts in June of the lunar calendar. If the relief is started in July of the lunar calendar, it will obviously delay the time of the disaster relief by one month. It will be too late for disaster relief at that time.

In Yang Reform's heart, he was filled with remorse. He talked about disaster relief every day, and tried to find a way for disaster relief every day, but he didn't expect to confuse the most basic disaster relief time. I will carry out the disaster relief work step by step until June and July. If the disaster relief is not done until then, God knows...

"What's next? What are the next measures?" Yang Reform broke out in a cold sweat. He was really confused about this matter.

"...Reporting to Your Majesty, next, I think that relief and work-for-relief alone are not enough, and the people in Shaanxi must be relocated. This is the right way." Xu Guangqi continued to talk about his plan.

"Move out? Where to move?" Yang Reform felt curious. It is true that he moved out after a disaster. The land in Shaanxi cannot support so many people. There is no other way for so many people except to move.Where does this migrate though?Doesn't it mean to move to Taiwan?It's a good place, with three crops a year, and the land is fertile. However, Zheng Zhilong hasn't been settled yet, how to move?Definitely not!People don't give me the face of being an emperor at all!
"...Reporting to Your Majesty, yes, relocation, this minister's countermeasure is complementary to the previous two, transporting relief food along the river, and returning people can be transported by boat, this transporting along the river, It is faster than this land route, and it saves time and food..." Xu Guangqi did not directly answer where to migrate, but explained the benefits of this migration.

"Move out along the river? Where will they go? There may be as many as hundreds of thousands or even millions of households in Shaanxi who are going to be relocated! How can there be so many people in that place?" Yang Reform wondered. Well, this Taiwan is not settled at all, it is impossible to relocate?I am planning to relocate the population to Taiwan, but Zheng Zhilong has only just come into contact with him, and he is still recruiting Zheng Zhilong to Beijing. He has not talked about it yet, how to resettle him?We can't let those common people go to the south of the Yangtze River to farm, right?If so, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will not fight with the people in Shaanxi.

"...Reporting to Your Majesty, the minister's plan is to reclaim land around the lake for hundreds of thousands of households to live in." Xu Guangqi only spoke out his plan now, and when he said this, he paused, as if to let the monarch and his ministers have a better life. acceptance process.

Around the lake?Yang Reform wondered, where is the lake surrounded? "Master Xu, here, where is the lake surrounded? Can that lake house hundreds of thousands of people?" The lake in Yang Reform's mind is a little bigger than Yuantang. With a population of one million, this lake is probably a drop of water. None will remain.

Not only Yang Reform was puzzled, but other people in the court also wondered that it is relatively simple to transport along the river to Jiangnan. It is not bragging to travel a thousand miles by boat, but where is there any place in Jiangnan for so many people to farm? ?Those that can be cultivated have been cultivated long ago, and they are still waiting for you to cultivate them?They were all ready to see what Xu Guangqi had to say.

Perhaps Xu Guangqi felt that his method was too whimsical, so he paused for a moment before replying: "Waiting Dongting Lake..." After finishing speaking, Xu Guangqi shut up. This method is indeed a bit whimsical. , Prepare to let the monarch and his subjects have a time to adapt.

what! !Yang Reform was stunned, surrounding Dongting Lake?This idea is even more whimsical than the time traveler himself!Is Dongting Lake so easy to surround?How big and deep is Dongting Lake, can you surround it?
Not only the emperor was surprised, but the ministers were also taken aback!Unexpectedly, this Xu Zixian is so courageous and courageous, dare to talk about surrounding Dongting Lake, how bold it is!

"Master Xu, are you sure it's Dongting Lake?" Yang Reform asked weakly. Yang Reform was very suspicious, whether he had heard it wrong.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is indeed to encircle Dongting Lake." When Xu Guangqi said this, he was calm, as if this matter would definitely happen.

Yang Reform was dizzy, what happened?Can this work?

"Master Xu, can this work?" Yang Reform was dazed and could only see how Xu Guangqi explained it. Yang Reform secretly blamed himself for not grasping the time and communicating with Xu Guangqi properly, otherwise, It's not that I am so passive and puzzled.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is not the first time that I proposed to reclaim land from lakes today. It has existed since ancient times. Not only Dongting Lake, but also Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, etc., are all included in the reclamation. Large-scale reclamation can even be pushed as far as the Song Dynasty. Back then, in order to resist the Yuan army going south, we built courtyards in the north and south of the Jingjiang River, and reclaimed nearly 20 square meters of fertile land, so I think that this matter of enclosing the lake has great potential." Xu Guangqi said slightly.

In the court hall, many people fell into deep thought. After listening to Xu Guangqi's words, many people nodded. The matter of surrounding the lake is indeed an ancient one, and it has been recorded in many books. Some people think that this is indeed true. doable thing.

"Your Majesty, I think what Xu Shaobao said is reasonable. The surrounding lake has existed since ancient times. Thinking about Dongting Lake, which is vast and vast, it is said that there are eight hundred miles of Dongting. If a part of it can be surrounded as fertile land to accommodate millions of immigrants, it is not a bad idea." It is a difficult thing, but it is also a great act of kindness for the benefit of the people! The minister agrees." A minister was the first to come out and agree with Xu Guangqi's plan.

Yang Reform is still lamenting the feat of encircling Dongting Lake.I am still amazed by Xu Guangqi's openness, radiance, and amazing thinking!

Xu Guangqi continued: "...Your Majesty, it has always been said that Dongting Lake is eight hundred miles away. After consulting many documents, I found that in some places in Dongting Lake, the water is only a few feet deep, a little less than ten feet deep. You can build a courtyard with soil and transform it into a courtyard. This courtyard is not only fertile, but also not short of water. If you are not afraid of the embankment collapse, this is a land of fish and rice! I think the immigrants would be very happy if they knew that they were moved to the land of fish and rice. ,...The eight hundred miles of Dongting is a land rich in water and grass, rich in fish and rice, let alone relocating millions of immigrants, there may be millions of them, it is more than enough..." Xu Guangqi explained his plan.

Yang Reform was almost moved by Xu Guangqi's plan to reclaim land by enclosing the lake. If, as Xu Guangqi said, the fields produced by enclosing the lake are fertile land without water shortage, and will create a land of fish and rice, immigrants will definitely accept it easily. The resistance will be very low and it will be easy to immigrate.It can accommodate millions of immigrants, so immigrating here is no problem at all. You don’t have to wait until you have settled Zheng Zhilong and immigrated to Taiwan. The time is really too late, but it’s also entangled. What is this Dongting Lake for? Yang Reform is still a bit Impressively, it was mentioned in middle school textbooks that this is the place where the Yangtze River floods. This surrounds Dongting Lake, so what if the Yangtze River floods?Environmentalists in the future won't make trouble for themselves, will they?
"Master Xu, this Dongting Lake was formed by flood discharge from the Yangtze River. This large-scale courtyard will not affect the flood discharge from the Yangtze River, right?" Yang Reform was worried about this again.But before I finished speaking, I felt that I was unnecessary to worry about it. Now that the common people are rebelling, I still can't handle it. Is there no place for the Yangtze River to discharge the flood?The peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not happen in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the north. I should get rid of the common people in the north first.

The emperor's words made Xu Guangqi very puzzled. What is the relationship between the flood discharge of the Yangtze River and the dam around the courtyard?Didn't the predecessors do this?It's not that our Ming Dynasty pioneered large-scale lake encirclement.

Yang Reform was very helpless, he shouldn't have said this, it was superfluous: "Master Xu, let's pretend I didn't say anything about this, let's not talk about the flood discharge for now, let's talk about the lake encirclement and how to operate it in detail. "Yang Reform is determined to encircle the lake first. As for the flood and flood discharge in the future, let's talk about it later. Right now, immigration and preventing the common people from rebelling are the most important things.

Xu Guangqi didn't think about the flood discharge anymore, and said: "... Your Majesty, I think that the people in the disaster-stricken areas of Shaanxi can't just eat relief. Your Majesty predicts that this natural disaster will last for several years, so , I came up with this method of emigration, taking the waterway, passing through the Yellow River, to the canal, and then to the Yangtze River, sending the immigrants to Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, and then organizing the people to encircle the lake, and the land obtained can be distributed to the victims. In this way, the natural disasters in Shaanxi that have lasted for several years are the right way to solve it." Xu Guangqi briefly expressed his thoughts.

Yang Reform nodded, this is correct, this natural disaster is by no means a one-year or two-year event, if you lie in Shaanxi every year waiting for your relief food, I am afraid that you will not be able to do it, millions of dollars a year, go up Sending tens of millions of relief food to Shaanxi, I don’t have the financial resources. What Xu Guangqi said is right, sending it to Dongting Lake and Taihu Lake to reclaim fields around the lake, and then cultivate it by myself. This is the right way!Otherwise, after several years of natural disasters, I am afraid that I have tens of millions of family property, and I will make them poor.

"Everyone, how about this method? Let's discuss it." Yang Reform thinks this method is very good, and is going to ask other people what they think.

Chief Assistant Shi Fenglai was the first to say: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I think this is a great achievement. I think that when I was in court, I also moved millions of immigrants from Shanxi and other places. Now that I do this again, it is really good governance with millions of people alive." Ah! Your Majesty, this policy is a great good policy! It is a matter of great merit..." Shi Fenglai, the chief assistant, wholeheartedly joined the emperor, and when he saw the emperor's right-hand man proposed to encircle the lake to reclaim land, he immediately advocated for it.

"In the early years of my dynasty, there was still the matter of relocating millions of immigrants?" The shortcomings of Yang Reform, a rookie, were immediately revealed?I'm curious, there were more than one million immigrants in the Ming Dynasty?Immigration is not easy!The most complicated.If there is such a thing, if I emigrate now, it seems that there are traces to be found.Inadvertently, he asked the export.

Fortunately, the officials didn't care too much. The emperor was young, and it was nothing to be ashamed to ask. Speaking of it, he still had excellent moral character.Although this question is a bit silly.

The chief assistant Shi Fenglai said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, indeed, it happened during the Hongwu period of my dynasty Taizu. At that time, Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered from wars, and the land was sparsely populated, while Shanxi had less land and more people. Therefore, The imperial court ordered the landless people in Shanxi to move to Shandong, Hebei and other places. It took decades and a population of millions.

Shi Fenglai was able to become the chief assistant because he had a few talents, so he immediately talked briefly about the emigration.

"And this?" Yang Reform was very curious, this ancient immigrant is not simple!You have to walk out on two feet, a thousand miles, you have to walk step by step!This food is even more inconvenient to transport, and the price may be expensive.However, this is also a good thing. There are precedents for this matter. Now, if you do it yourself, you only need to follow the precedent, and the resistance is much smaller.

"Well, this is indeed a remarkable thing. Now, Master Xu also proposes to immigrate millions, or even millions. Then Shi Aiqing, tell me, is there any old practice to follow?" Yang Reform's favor for Shi Fenglai rose up.This chief assistant is not useless!

"Reporting to Your Majesty, yes, the policy given by the imperial court at that time was: find unowned land to cultivate, exempt from tax and labor for three years, and still give households [-] ingots to prepare farm tools." Shi Fenglai answered the emperor's words very briefly.

Yang Reform couldn't help looking at Shi Fenglai a few times. He could memorize such a long-term record, which is considered a bit of skill. If you want to do it yourself, it is impossible for you to remember so many things and memorize the data so clearly.

"In this way, now, as Master Xu said, it is only necessary to take the water and move the people to the south, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake and other places, let the people surround the lake by themselves, cultivate the land by themselves, and give each household some money. Even if it’s done?” Hearing this, Yang Reform was greatly moved. This is a good idea. If ideally, all the people in Shaanxi are moved to places like Dongting Lake and Taihu Lake, they are afraid that the peasants in Shaanxi will revolt. , This is the end!Why are you rebelling when there is no one left?I can free my hand and put it right with the wild boar skin, so I don't have to worry about the fire at home.

"My Majesty, the matter is by no means so simple. Now, this is the beginning of a natural disaster. I don't know how many people were affected by the disaster, let alone how many people need to be relocated. This is just 20 taels of silver for each household. I'm afraid it's a lot of money. Along the way, relief and food have to be provided, and troops stationed in various places have to be sent to prevent riots. People have to be transported to the south, and the freight is even more expensive. There will be fields to plow. I am afraid that it will take more than a year for the people to have a harvest. This, Your Majesty, feels that it cannot be resolved with a few simple words! This needs a long-term plan..." Shi Feng came to see the emperor's thinking was too simple, so , Reminding the emperor, this seems to be a very beautiful immigrant with millions of people, and it is worth showing off.

Yang Reform was reminded by Shi Fenglai before he came to his senses that immigration has never been an easy task.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, millions of immigrants... Yang Reform felt ashamed!I was overwhelmed by my own proposition.I think of the Three Gorges immigration back then. Even with the financial, material and human resources of the 21st century, I don’t know how difficult it is to do it. It took more than ten years to come to an end, and I often paid great attention to it on CCTV. There are even more corrupt people blowing wind and rain inside, which shows how important and difficult this matter is,...not to mention that in the late Ming Dynasty, when corruption was several times more serious, if you want to immigrate,...it is not that simple!Thinking of this, Yang Reform realizes that his wish is good, but unfortunately, the reality is always very cruel. When Yang Reform thinks of the countless rats who are ready to feast on the immigration money, he shudders .

What should I do?Migration route, migration policy, migration mobilization and organization, who will implement it?How can the transfer funds not be embezzled and embezzled?How to ensure that no accidents happen?There are even health problems caused by large-scale migration, which is even more troublesome. Once a large-scale epidemic breaks out, it will be unimaginable...

The officials were discussing below, while the emperor was sitting on the throne, his thoughts drifted to how to immigrate.

Immigration is good in theory, but it is not simple or easy. Things are not as planned or as beautiful as imagined.

(End of this chapter)